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about one or two organizations,
it’s about all of us.”
Coventry, a senior agricul
tural development major and
Corps of Cadets chaplain, plans
to communicate with and reach
out to the student body by
spending time with students at
meals and devoting one day a
month to meet with student
organizations, such as the
International Students’
Association.
“Who are we?” he said. “We
are the ones from small town
East Texas like me, Caracas,
Venezuela, India, Pakistan,
Houston and Dallas. We’re
everybody.”
In reference to the pro
posed top 20 percent plan,
Coventry expressed concern
with the idea of admitting any
student based on only one cri
terion but said the plan could
accomplish the desired goal
of having a more diverse stu
dent population.
Coventry suggests using a
greater number of criterion
when implementing the top 20
plan, to avoid excluding quali
fied students applying from a
large high school with higher
test score averages.
“Maybe that’s going to
exclude them, and I’m not sure
that’s good for diversity,” he said.
Candidate Lara Pringle, a
senior finance major and
Student Senate committee
chair, said education is the best
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diversity.
“Educating students on the
students that we have here, their
background and the countries
they come from, (is impor
tant),” she said.
Making sure that
International Week is more pub
licized and encouraging student
involvement in the event is a
great opportunity for diversity,
Pringle said, as well as planning
to utilize students’ neo email
accounts to inform students of
upcoming events and programs
concerning diversity issues.
Pringle plans to move the stu
dent government's outreach pro
grams from the campus organi
zations and focus more on stu
dents who are normally less
involved. She hopes to create
open forums held monthly to
address varying topics of stu
dent interest in an effort to
obtain a wider range of student
body feedback and input.
Pringle said the top 20 plan is
positive in its effort to increase
minority enrollment and provide
students from the targeted
schools with more opportunities
for admittance to A&M.
Funding and recruiting are
key to the success of the pro
posed plan, Pringle said, and
admittance is only half the
answer to this problem.
“[We need to] use the Aggie
Recruitment Committee to go
down into the schools and actu
ally tell them about Texas A&M
and the changes that we want to
see,” Pringle said.
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