Campus Reform: Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University will probably never be able to top the far-left Angela Davis, who spoke at last year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast. But the university has gotten close with Harry Belafonte as this year's MLK Breakfast speaker.

While some may know Belafonte only as a famous singer, songwriter, and actor, he has a long history as a vocal anti-American leftist activist. In fact, according to historian Ronald Radosh:

Mr. Belafonte’s public performances as a singer began when he appeared before communist-front youth groups on behalf of Henry Wallace and his 1948 presidential candidacy of the communist-created and dominated “Progressive Party.” Wallace, himself a pawn of the communists, used his campaign to oppose Harry Truman’s tough policy against the Soviets, and to gather support for the USSR’s foreign policy as one of “peace.” Considering the great communist bass-baritone Paul Robeson to be his “mentor,” Mr. Belafonte sought from the start to follow Robeson’s path as an opponent of America and a supporter of its communist enemies. Mr. Belafonte’s left-wing activism was largely ignored, but he was consistent throughout the past decades.

In the early 1960s, Belafonte was a founding member and generous sponsor of the far-left Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which increasingly was not very non-violent at all. He paid for all the expenses of a trip to Guinea for SNCC to learn communist revolutionary tactics.

Early yesterday morning, Steven Schroeder and Justin Pulliam of the Texas Aggie Conservatives (TAC) were on Fox & Friends to discuss their latest conservative initiative on campus: a petition to Governor Perry to end in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. The group decided to do the petition after learning about Texas A&M's open promotion of the DREAM Act through an official award and a speaker event.

Click here to watch the video of the students getting their message out on Fox!

TAC began the petition last Friday afternoon, taking their petition to students on campus. On that day alone, with a few hours, the group got over 200 student signatures. The number is now about 500 and growing.

With the guidance and training of CampusReform.org staff by phone and email, the Texas Aggie Conservatives drafted an effective press release, distributed it to various media outlets, and developed effective talking points for TV and radio interviews.

Here's a sampling of the media coverage: KBTX (local TV), Texas Tribune, The Eagle (local newspaper), Your Houston News, and KUT (Austin radio), Huffington Post, and Time.

On Friday, September 16, 2011 Texas A&M University hosted Professor Michael Olivas, a University of Houston professor, to promote the DREAM Act and in-state tuition for undocumented students.  The lecture, “Dreams Deferred: Deferred Action, Discretion, and the Vexing Case(s) of DREAM Act Students,” was part of the Enhancing Diversity Seminar Series, hosted by the Office of the Vice Presi

Editor's Note: This blog was written by a current student. 

Texas A&M, like most universities, institutionally and financially supports the left on campus. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center is a perfect example.

This center has an annual budget of $100,000 with $60,000 coming directly from mandatory student fees. University Centers often promote one-sided leftist political agendas. The GLBT is no exception.