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Rodriguez said the SGA
Diversity committee is a man
agement team that oversees
the culture of student govern
ment and an educational
group.
“I want to dispel the myth
that diversity is a tightrope
that we walk — the tightrope
of political correctness,” he
"We’re not on a crusade
to change beliefs. We don’t
focus just on differences. (We)
also focus on similarities.”
He also answered questions
m the senators about the
committee’s involvement in
Coming Out Week.
The diversity committee
co-sponsored a program with
Gender Issues Education
office, Rodriguez said, to start
discussion about gay, les-
an, bisexual and transgen-
dered Issues. Sixteen people
attended the Oct. 6 discussion,
after the GLBT individu
als in the audience introduced
themselves, there was some
discussion about GLBT
issues.
Kerri Ward, speaker pro-
tempore and a sophomore
business major, said students
who have approached her have
voiced their concerns about
spending their fees on promot-
a lifestyle during Coming
Week that they morally
disagree with.
“Students who have come
to me have said they don’t
want it,” Ward said. “Think
about your constituency.”
Sen. William Dugat, a
freshman geology major, said
he noticed there were no fund
raising efforts on the part of
the Diversity committee dur-
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The line-item budget also
listed no fund-raising events
planned for the current year.
After Rules and
Regulations Committee Chair
Jessie Miller moved to pass
the budget in its entirety.
External Affairs Chair John
Mathews amended Miller’s
motion to accept the budget
without the $8,500 for
Diversity.
After the motion was sec
onded, an hour of debate
ensued.
Sen. Jeff Graham, a junior
management major, asked why
the Diversity group could not
be self-sufficient.
Sen. Will Hailey, a fresh
man political science major,
said it was not a government’s
job to make sure the student^
are thinking the right way.
“Spending money on
Coming Out Week raises ques
tions for me,” he said.
Sen. Will McAdams, Corps
Commander and a senior polit
ical science major, said that if
the Senate cut Diversity, it
would send a message to the
University administration.
“The University adminis
tration is pushing this all over
the place. It’s going to be sup
ported one way or another,”
McAdams said. “We’ve had
four weeks of just a bloodbath
in our organization (about
Diversity).”
Mathews said he was suspi
cious of Diversity’s intent
because it seemed to be turn
ing into a committee of indoc
trination.
Former Student Senator and
current Executive Director for
Experiential Education
Narietha Carter said that for
the Senate to reject Diversity’s
budget would send a horrible
Friday, October 10, 2003
message to high school stu
dents.
“How would you feel if you
saw that the Texas A&M
Student Senate rejected
Diversity in a Houston
Chronicle headline?” she
asked. “ University President
Robert M. Gates has given
complete reverence to diversi
ty. We’ve given him complete
trust in molding this
University, and we’ve gained
so many accolades (for
Diversity) in SGA.”
She said diversity is educa
tion.
“If we go out in the real
world with stereotypical
views, the real world will shut
the door on us,” Carter said.
The amendment to cut the
Diversity budget failed, and
another amendment to reduce
the budget from $8,500 to
$3,000, also failed.
The budget finally passed
in its entirety, by a margin of
27 to 21, voted on by secret
ballot.
At the end of the night.
Ward, Graham, Hailey and
Sen. Scott Smith introduced a
bill stating that the Senate sup
ported all efforts to make all
SGA committee line-item
budgets available to any
inquiring individual.
Ward said the bill was
intended to let students know
that senators were doing their
best to be accountable to con
stituents, and would require
action.
“The Senate will do every
thing in its power to release
the information to the public,”
Ward said once the bill passed.
The bill was tabled, ending
debate for the night, and leav
ing the bill to be taken up
again at the next Senate meet
ing on Oct. 22.
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