A&M Student Group Rebukes Perry on In-State Tuition

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Updated, 7:15 p.m.: A group of University of Texas students have issued their own statement condemning the Texas Aggie Conservatives' condemnation of Gov. Rick Perry and the state's practice of allowing in-state tuition for some undocumented students.

"There is nothing conservative about their petition," said Ainee Athar, a UT student and member of the University Leadership Initiative, a student group that promotes the DREAM ACT. "This is a mean-spirited action that seeks to punish young people who are doing everything they can to succeed, despite countless obstacles."




The student organization, Texas Aggie Conservatives, criticizes Perry for allowing taxpayer dollars to support illegal immigrants. The Aggie Conservatives will be collecting signatures for the petition on campus over the next week.

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1. Texas sure has a high number of a-holes

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Justin Pulliam, an Aggie Conservatives officer who authored the 2010 Texas A&M Student Senate Bill opposing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, says that the award's original online citation noted it was to be given “in honor of students who tirelessly advocate for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act” and that the department subsequently changed it after he publicly called attention to it.

Dianne Kraft, a diversity education and curriculum specialist in the university's multicultural services department, disputed that the award was given in honor of work supporting the federal DREAM Act.

“That was never the award's title. Ever. The Aggie Conservatives misrepresent the facts," she said. "A person that happened to be a DREAMer got an undergrad award — but she got it because she was a very high achieving student. It was up on our website for like an hour, and we took it down because it was a misnomer. One of our staff got it wrong."

Mean-spirited doesn't even cut it on this one. They're haters plain and simple. A "very high achieving student" gets an award that she deserved. That should be it. But these conservatives have to try to bring her down because she supports the DREAM act as legislation.

Assholes! :puke: