Texas A&M confused with Florida A&M
Times have dramatically changed at Texas A&M. It seems that no one wants to be associated with the word 'Texas.
Texas A&M, in College Station, TX, finds itself in a tough spot trying to recruit out-of-state students. Admissions counselor Megan McGrath said the university tried to go with a marketing campaign in which they dropped the "Texas" and just tried to push the "A&M" moniker, but she said that turned out to be just as problematic.
"People started wondering if we were from Florida A&M, and we were right back to being associated with those Bush idiots." said McIntosh.
RN did you get a flyer about a Prayer vigil around the erteranl flame on 2 july @ 6:30 a.m.?
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that's a great pic of the quad...
ReplyDeleteSMH at the Bush associations...
I guess that administration officer is upset of the Bush's support of the bigger Texas university (University of Texas) and their decision not to build the Presidential library in College Station.
ReplyDeleteJust had a CastHell flashback in an article from 2000 at www.splc.org regarding student free speech:
ReplyDeleteAt Miami Dade Community College's North Campus, almost the entire 3,500-paper press run of the campus newspaper was confiscated by the college president -- who said he was upset over spelling and grammatical errors in the paper.
Yanira Sotolongo-Cuzan, editor of The Falcon Times, said she felt the president's attempt to silence the paper may have been motivated by an article that criticized the schoolís lack of handicap access as well as a story that humorously attacked the Miami, Fla., school's lack of organization on the first day of classes.
Castell Bryant, president of the North Campus branch, demanded that the newspaper staff reprint the issue with corrections. Sotolongo-Cuzan said she told Bryant that he had no right to demand anything.
Sotolongo-Cuzan said she met with the district president for the college, who subsequently forced Bryant to return the papers. In addition, school officials and student editors met to discuss problems with the newspaper, ultimately deciding to revamp the journalism program and update The Timesí newsroom.
"We came to the conclusion that the journalism program is very weak and that it needs to be totally restructured from an academic standpoint," Sotolongo-Cuzan said. "We are re-evaluating everything within the program to see how we can strengthen it."
The Falcon Times received a $2,000 budget for immediate supplies, and the newsroom will be getting all new journalism equipment, Sotolongo-Cuzan said, adding that she did not think the paper or the program would have been updated if the confiscation had not been brought to officialsí attention. She said she thinks it opened their eyes to the journalism programís problems at the college.
This is so much BS. The idea that a college would have a hard time recruiting because an unpopular president claims Texas as his home state. This is laughable.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia and Georgia Tech did not have a problem with recruiting when the disaster of a president from their home state was in office. (carter)
Carter was no where near as hated as Bush is while he was in office. BTW, what was so disastrous about Jimmy Carter's administration?
ReplyDeleteNice to see that the brand name Florida A&M is still very popular. You say "A&M", they may get excited and think you mean FAMU.
ReplyDeleteDamn, damn, damn. Folks used to want to be associated with FAMU, but not now. We can't give away our school's name, although ol' Cassie tried her mightiest to do just that.
ReplyDeleteCarter disasters:
ReplyDeleteEconomy - gas lines
Foreign Policy - hostages
for starters
This article is a spoof. See the following link http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i20391 .
ReplyDeleteThink about it, what college official could say that and still have a job?
plenty officials. look what castell did, and girlFriend's still drawing a check.
ReplyDelete10:29 I'm thinking you don't understand what policy is. There was not a Carter policy that led to the taking of hostages and for the life of me I don't recall gas lines during the Carter administration.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the ESSO fuel tanker just decided to bypass the town you lived in.