THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976
Page 7
—-^Dean says minorities hesitant
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A&M’s past image discouraging
By TIM SAGER
Most minority students are hesit-
tabout coming to A&M because of
lie university’s reputation for rigor-
iusacademic discipline and a linger
ing image of A&M as an all-male,
ivhite officer factory, said Edwin H.
iooper, dean of admissions at Texas
A&M.
“There is an exaggeration in the
minds of minority people about how
difficult this school is academically,”
Cooper said, “and we still have a
reputation of being an all-male,
primarily white institution with a
strong military background. There is
a certain amount of hesitation about
what A&M has been in the past.”
Cooper said that the social factor is
also an important consideration for
many minority students, especially
blacks, who are thinking of coming to
A&M: “They like to be around their
own kind.
While the University follows De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) guidelines for ad
mitting students without regard for
race, creed or color, the school has
no distinct program for recruiting
minority students.
The University sends recruiting
teams to high schools throughout the
state to recruit promising students
mack enrollment discussed
By TIM SAGER
When several black students at
I A&M were asked to discuss their
(views on the university’s low black
enrollment, the following points
were most frequently emphasized:
i/High school counselors do not en
courage minority students to attend
A&M, instead steering them toward
junior colleges, trade schools or pre
dominantly black colleges.
V Most people are reluctant to at
tend a school where they comprise
such a small minority of the student
population.
•^A&M still retains the image of a
“farm school” in the minds of many
high school students around the
state.
VThere is little opportunity for
socializing with other blacks in the
College Station community, as op-
ay after
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Black enrollment at A&M
lowest of schools surveyed
Texas A&M University is the only
Imajor state supported school in
[Texas with a black student enroll-
Iraentofless than 1 per cent.
Last fall A&M had an enrollment
if 25,243 students. Of these, 112
[(0.44%) were black and 50 of the 112
were on full-time athletic scholar
ships. Only 34 black females were
enrolled.
Prairie View A&M University, a
formerly all-black school located
near Hempstead, Tex., now has an
enrollment of 5,499, of which 845
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Schools contacted tor this survey
reported the following enrollment
figures for last year:
SCHOOL
Prairie View
Houston
T.C.U.
Arkansas
Rice
S.M.U.
Baylor
Texas
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
The figures give
TOTAL ENROLLMENT
5,-199
31,118
6,018
12,000
3,648
9,643
8,628
42,598
22,580
25,243
s estimates were provided b;
BIACK STUDENTS
4,654
2,300
282
400 (est.)
100 (est.)
200
157
707
346
112
the schools in question.
PERCENTAGE
84.6
7.4
4.7
3.3
2.7
Lebanon to vote,
doesn’t stop killing
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Only occa
sional sniper fire punctuated the
newtruce in Beirut today, but police
reported heavy artillery exchanges
in the suburbs, the mountain towns
to the east and in northern and east
ern Lebanon.
The combined casualty toll during
the night was 39 killed and 64
wounded, a police spokesman said.
But in Beirut the count was only
three killed and four wounded by
snipers early today, and two killed
Wednesday.
Despite the lull in the city, there
was growing speculation that the
presidential election scheduled
Saturday would be postponed again.
Palestinian troops from Syria set
up a buffer zone between the Christ
ian and Moslem sectors of Beirut
Wednesday after ,a ge J asf-fire v . ar
ranged by the Syrian-Lebanese-
Palestinian truce commission.
But Interior Minister Camille
Chamoun, who controls the second-
largest private Christian army, said
he did not expect parliament to meet
for the election until security condi
tions improved.
A broadcast by the right-wing
Christian Phalange party said its
leader, Pierre Gemayel, might send
a delegation to Syria to seek clarifica
tion of the deadlock between presi
dential candidates Raymond Edde
and Elias Sarkis.
Sea law talks near finish
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —
The third session of the U. N. Law of
the Sea conference is headed for an
inconclusive finish tomorrow with
agreement still lacking on the key
issues of the 200-mile economic zone
and mining the sea floor.
A bloc of nonaligned nations prop
osed that the conference resume
next January. The United States
urged a summer meeting, warning
that failure to agree by the end of the
year could doom the 150-nation ef
fort to write a comprehensive treaty
of rules for the world’s oceans.
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(15.37%) is white.
According to the 1970 U.S. cen
sus, almost 13% of the state’s popula
tion is black. At none of the schools
surveyed does this percentage ap
pear in enrollment figures. The
school either has under 10% or over
80% black enrollment.
posed to a metropolitan area such as
Houston.
V Black students are conditioned to
think it is easier for them to succeed
at a black school.
None of the students interviewed
said that they had ever encoun
tered overt racism at A&M, but most
agreed that blacks attending A&M
should be prepared to endure subtle
expressions of prejudice fr om their
fellow students.
Most blacks come to A&M be
cause they wish to major in a subject
that could not be found in schools
with large black populations or be
cause the department at A&M is
greatly superior.
The university should more ac
tively recruit minority students in
areas outside athletics.
Prairie View does not draw that
many blacks away from A&M. The
students at Prairie View would prob
ably go to a school in Houston before
coming to A&M.
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The conference’s general commit
tee scheduled a meeting today to
discuss the future schedule.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kis
singer has said the United States
cannot wait much longer to start
mining the deep seabed. And Presi
dent Ford recently signed a new law
to establish a 200-mile American
fishery zone effective next March 1.
Nonaligned delegates argued that
a summer session would conflict
with too many other international
conferences. They also claimed they
would not have time to prepare.
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but no special effort is made to re
cruit black students on these visits.
Letters are sent to all the high
schools in the state giving the times
that the A&M visitation teams will
be in their area. The high school offi
cials then decide if they want the
A&M team on their campus.
“Many of the smaller minority
schools in the small towns are not
involved in this program,” Cooper
said. “On the same hand, there are
hundreds and hundreds of predo
minantly white schools that are not
involved in this program either. ’
Cooper feels that special admis
sion requirements for minority stu
dents would not be fair to others who
wanted to attend A&M.
One member of the admissions
staff does, however, work with pre
dominantly minority schools
through the high schools’ coun
selors. The University has also
worked through the Black Aware
ness and CAMAC organizations on
campus to encourage minority stu
dents to attend A&M.
“We feel that the best way to re
cruit regardless of race or color is for
young people who are already hapjjy
with A&M to talk with their own
people,” Cooper said. “Our efforts
have been to recruit students regard
less of who they are on the basis of
those who can succeed academically
here.”
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