A&M should focus on merit

In response Bunmi Ishola's Sept. 29 article, "Research shows A&M still low on black enrollment:"

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Posted: 9/30/05

I hope the day will come soon when state sponsored schools will not use race as a pedestal for enrollment. Why not admit people based on criteria they have control over, like merit, grades and service?

Using A&M's logic that race matters, making the environment friendlier for blacks is simultaneously making it less welcoming for whites. Would it not make more sense to have a school focus on academics and not spend all of its time being apologetic for the institution of slavery that ended 140 years ago.

Kenneth Mihalik
Class of 2002