DREAM Act: Undocumented Immigrant Running for Texas A & M Student Body President

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Sunday February 26, 2012 · 9:01 AM PST

2012/02/26 · 09:01

Jose Zelaya is running for student body president at Texas A & M University (TAMU). He is a graduate student at TAMU who purports to be the worlds fastest crocheter. He is also, according to an story by Vimal Patel in the Sunday, Febuary 26, 2012 Bryan/College Station Eagle an undocumented immigrant, subject to deportation.

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Saturday October 17, 2009 · 8:44 AM PDT

2009/10/17 · 08:44

President Obama appeared Friday, October 16, 2009 at the Texas A & M University ("TAMU") campus, sharing a stage with former President George H.W. Bush and Department of Defense Secretary (and former TAMU President) Robert Gates. The topic of President Obama’s 22 minute speech was volunteerism.

Although Former President Bush expressed his view that Obama’s appearance was non-partisan, around 1000 protesters appeared near the event. This was substantially less than the 5000 expected. Most were not from the area. TAMU student’s however showed a surprising sense of irony and humor regarding these protesters.

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Friday December 12, 2008 · 1:07 PM PST

2008/12/12 · 13:07

Today, December 12, 2008, President George W. Bush delivered the commencement address to graduates at Texas A & M University ("TAMU"). The Associated Press described the address as "reflective". Among the topics President Bush touched upon in final commencement address as President were comments that "[P]opularity is a fleeting as the Texas wind" and that the true test of character as being whether you can you can look yourself in the mirror at night.

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Sunday December 07, 2008 · 6:53 AM PST

2008/12/07 · 06:53

Has Jim Crow finally been put down? Not here in Texas I am afraid. The Jim Crow legacy continues to live here in the Lone Star State. It hides in plain sight in our most public of buildings and our most public of laws.

The old cliche holds that a picture is worth a thousand words. More then, lurks below the fold.

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 6:48 AM PST

2008/11/23 · 06:48

They publicly threw eggs at photographs of then Democratic Nominee Barack Obama. They blacklist academics at an institution of higher education. Their faculty advisor resigns. Conservatives, teach your children well. The movement of fear mongering, it seems, is exceeding expectations at Texas A & M University ("TAMU"). Ashamed, the faculty advisor of the TAMU Young Conservatives of Texas ("YCT") has resigned according to a story reported in the Sunday edition of the Bryan/College Station Eagle.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 9:47 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 09:47

THE EXAMINING ROOM was small but comfortable. The two hour trip to the clinic and the wait were both familiar to my wife and I. Our four year old was on the floor flipping his hands in the repetitive behavior pattern familiar to parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. A harried looking physician walked into the room with a medical resident in tow and hurriedly asked:

"Your son has treated here before, right?"

My wife and I looked at one another, wordlessly exchanging the identical thought:

"There must be a better way."

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/10/20 · 09:58

YESTERDAY my neighbor and her young granddaughter stopped by our home to visit. My grandmother always used that term - "visit" - to describe in her soft drawl the Sunday act of coming to another's home. The granddaughter wandered about most of the afternoon commenting on all things that came to her notice. This precious child's name is Destiny. Ambivalence always arrives with her. I am the smaller for it, but I cannot help feeling jealous. Destiny has something my four year old child does not. While Destiny sprays out sentences like a three year old Gatling gun, my four year old son has never spoken a word.

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