Administrators at Texas A&M this week settled a lawsuit filed by conservative students by agreeing to pay $1000 in damages and revise discriminatory funding policies for student organizations.
The university agreed to make the payment to the Texas Aggie Conservatives (TAC) after the group filed a lawsuit in December 2011 alleging administrators had improperly refused to provide funding to help cover the costs for a speaking event for noted conservative Star Parker.
Texas A&M administrators claimed at the time they could not fund the event because it violated the program’s policy not to give funding to “Social and Political” student groups. The conservative students contended, however, that the university often supplied funds to liberal student groups hosting events on social and political issues.
