Issue date: 6/24/09 Section: Opinion

Texas A&M University prides itself on building leaders and fortifying each and every student to prepare them for life after college. This University focuses heavily on the needs of the general student body, trying to leave no student behind. However, being the large major institution that it is, it is literally impossible to reach each and every individual personally. That is where student leaders and organizations come into play. A majority of these student organizations serve to listen to the needs of the groups that they reach in order to voice them to the rest of campus. As of fall 2008, there were more than 38,000 undergraduate students here at Texas A&M. Of them, only a little over 1,000 were African-Americans. The Black Student Alliance Council serves as that bridge between the African-American Aggies and the student body as a whole. We are there to serve, enhance and unify the African-American students, as it might be easy for them to get lost in the shuffle of college life. We also serve to make the campus aware of the achievements, accomplishments and everyday actions of African-American student leaders and organizations. Although we are mainly a political council, we work to serve the other black student organizations. We are an alliance because we work together with other organizations to edify and better the black community of students. Yes, we are African-American students, but more importantly, we are Aggies.

Laporcha Carter is a junior nutritional science major.

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