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Editor
Aggieland 2016
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six hours (4 if a graduate student) must have been taken for
that semester;
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Law, and Society);
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through university coursework or equivalent experience;
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THE TEXAS A&M STUDENT MEDIA BOARD
INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR
Editor-in-Chief
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The Independent Student Voice of Texas A&M since 1893
Fall 2015-Spring 2016
(The fall and spring editor will oversee print and digital editions,
and serve Aug. 16,2015, through May14,2016)
Qualifications for editor-in-chief of The Battalion are:
REQUIRED
• Be a Texas A&M student in good standing with the University and
enrolled in at least six credit hours (4 if a graduate student) during
the term of office (unless fewer credits are required to graduate);
• Have at least a 2.25 cumulative grade point ratio (3.25 if a graduate
student) and at least a 2.25 grade point ratio (3.25 if a graduate
student) in the semester immediately prior to the appointment, the
semester of appointment and semester during the term of office. In
order for this provision to be met, at least six hours (4 if a graduate
student) must have been taken for that semester.
PREFERRED
• Have completed JOUR 301 or COMM 307 (Mass Communication,
Law, and Society) or equivalent;
• Have at least one year experience in a responsible editorial position
on The Battalion or comparable daily college newspaper,
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Have at least one year editorial experience on a commercial
newspaper,
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Have completed at least 12 hours in journalism, including JOUR 203
(Media Writing I) and JOUR 303 (Media Writing II)
or JOUR 304 (Editing for the Mass Media), or equivalent.
Application forms should be picked up and returned to
Sandi Jones, Student Media business coordinator, in Suite
L406 of the MSC. Deadline for submitting application:
5 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
OPINION
The Battalion I 4.1.15
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30 years after a gay rights ruling changed A&M, one
of the case's chief advocates examines the impact
Marco Roberts, Class of 1986, was
president of Gay Student Services,
now LGBTQ Aggies, when its
U.S. Supreme Court case — Gay
Student Services vs. Texas A&M —
was decided on April 1, 1985.
hirty years ago from this April,
I stood facing Rudder fountain
on a beautiful spring day, with a
microphone at my lips, talk
ing about free speech for the student
organization I led, and that for years had
been denied the speech rights that came
with formal university recognition. As I
spoke, the news spread on campus of the
Supreme Court decision that decided
the fate of my organization’s future, and
that of free speech at Texas A&M. Gay
Student Services vs. Texas A&M Uni
versity was now settled law.
In 1985, at Texas A&M there were
almost no openly gay people. But, to
be an officer of GSS, it was a require
ment, in order to comply with the rules
to which we expected we would be
eventually subject under Texas A&M.
For me, because of the court case, it also
required being on television (the closest
thing to the Internet then) quite fre
quently. I promise you, no one fought
me for that limelight. In a campus of
38,000 people, and a metro of around
90,000, I was “the gay,” with all the
consequences you might imagine that
entailed. Aggies in school today might
not realize just how much the campus
was roiled by the controversy of GSS on
campus.
Still, it may surprise you to know
that while I was the leader of GSS,
though I did encounter a few angry
religious fundamentalists now and then,
most Christians who engaged me were
cordial to me in their opposition to what
I stood for. And, those who treated me
with the highest respect and cordiality
were, if you can believe it, members of
the Corps of Cadets. The really angry
and strident opposition that began to
cut at me almost daily, and intimidated
my closest allies, came from within my
own organization. The internal radical
opposition was so relentless I finally of
fered my resignation the very day GSS
first met on campus. But, something
unexpected happened: Two-thirds of
the membership signed a petition asking
me to stay as the president of GSS, and
so I did. I inadvertently led the whole
group to re-assess what it really wanted.
I learned two huge lessons: 1) hardlin
ers by default have a louder voice; and
2) no one has a monopoly on virtue by
virtue of who they are.
It may also surprise you to know that
in the years since, I have been called
by members of what is now called the
GBLTQA community (just how long is
that acronym going to get?) terms like
“gay Nazi” and “self-loather,” and been
told I am “afraid to be openly gay” (of
course, by those ignorant of my back
ground). You see, I refuse to go along
with the idea that anyone who opposes
gay marriage is automatically a monster,
or that people should be forced from
their jobs because they gave money to a
legal organization that opposes gay mar
riage, or that mom and pop shops should
be forced to participate in gay weddings
or face thousands of dollars in fines or
have their businesses shut down.
On this last point, it is important to
keep the distinction between public
accommodations, as clearly defined in
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, such as the
proverbial lunch counter or emergency
services, and those that are specific to
an event or effort that directly endorse
or advance a very specific cause or
belief. In the former, as in renting a
car or selling groceries, the rendering
of a service or product requires neither
knowledge of one’s beliefs nor participa
tion in them, and they are included in
the definition of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964. But, in the latter, services like
printing flyers for the KKK, or baking
a cake that says “NO Gay Marriage”
for the Family Research Council, both
knowledge and active advance of those
beliefs is required, and are not services
previously understood in law as “public
accommodations.”
It is the difference between having
the right to buy an existing product,
and having the right to compel others
to make one according to one’s wishes.
Maybe it is time to expand what we
mean by “public accommodations”; but
if so, let’s do so with a rigorous debate,
free of intimidation, so we are all clear
on the long-term consequences. Un
fortunately, religious conservatives are
over-reacting with ill-advised new laws
that actually hurt their cause in the long
run (as happened in Arizona, is happen
ing in Indiana, and is about to happen
in Texas with SJR10), because their
arguments are tailored to religious ob
jections, instead of addressing the more
broad-based and fundamental questions I
just mentioned.
This is not about being pro or against
gays. It is about the fundamental concept
of the freedom of speech, the most
fundamental of all political rights; and
the right of each citizen to not be forced
into labor that directly contradicts their
own beliefs — our own opinions of
those beliefs irrelevant.
I once went to a local printer to get
pamphlets printed for GSS. The printer
declined the job, saying their beliefs did
not allow them to print them. I went to
a different printer and got my pamphlets.
They looked great.
Many of my GLBT compatriots tell
me that those who oppose gay marriage
are trying to “hurt us” and thus have
“no right” to their views. Well I say
that no one has a right to come into the
public space and demand fundamen
tal change to everyone’s laws without
arguing their case and subjecting it to
debate. That was how we advanced gay
rights, and how in the last 150 years we
have achieved a new ascending national
consensus of what American liberty and
civic equality should mean.
To this day I remember those fellow
Aggies who told me personally that they
totally opposed what I believed, but
would stand up for my right to say it —
and they did. I intend to forever return
the favor.
Marco Roberts, Class of 1986
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pioneer
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hope
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reamers
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capital
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molasses
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computer whiz
stripe
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Mountains
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