Uh, what Supermac34 said. In addition, I do think the Corps is stupid. There have been many great and honerable men who have come out of the Corps, but the structure itself is stupid. When you attend Officer Candidate School for the Marines, they don't do that bullcrap friggin doggone bull crap (the lack of cussing is a joke for all you millitary people who get it). The Marines kick your ass, and is much tougher than the Corps, but they don't do that hazing crap. And it is hazing. Kicking ass to make you tougher has a purpose. Hazing doesn't. I'm happy here at A&M. That's all that matters to me. I'm sure I would've been happy at UT. All y'all Longhorns who hate A&M so much..whatever, I think that's just stupid.
I know it's fashionable to bash Aggies here, but I don't really care. I'd bet that there are a number of Aggies on this board who just don't go around identifying themselves as such. I'm an Aggie grad student, but I went to UT as an undergrad. My sister graduated an Aggie, and is now in the MBA program at UT. The majority of the students on each campus aren't that different. I personally don't see what is so abhorrent about being an Aggie. Unlike the caricature painted by many Longhorns on this board, the campus is not full of homosexual redneck militia members with the IQs of squirrels. And I don't understand how this hazing incident has anything to do with not wanting to be an Aggie. I know for a fact that hazing occurred at UT while I was there, does that stop anyone from wanting to be a 'horn? The Corp is basically the equivalent of a fraternity in my eyes. Might as well say, "This is why I don't want to be in the military..." It makes about as much sense to me.
Well, in that case, your entire fight song is stupid. Is there any such thing as an Aggie who doesn't identify his or herself as such? No, it stops them from wanting to be a frat rat. There's a difference here, which I'm surprised to have to point out: every campus has fraternities. Not every campus has an ROTC program that gets as much attention or is as symbolically representative of the school as Texas A&M. Don't let the Corps turds hear you say that. Look what they do to their friends-- what do you think they'd do to someone who implies A&M's just like Texas?
Whether it's accurate or not is almost irrelavent. It's the perception that people know. I have friends from different parts of the country that live or have lived in Texas and they all hold this perception of A&M based on what they've seen, not what a Longhorn has told them.
Uh, BK, the "Corps turds" wouldn't do anything. I roomed with a former cadet for a couple of semesters and his cadet friends weren't nearly as intolerant as you seem to hope. Sorry to disappoint you. As you said above, fraternity hazing prevents people from wanting to be a frat rat. Likewise, Corp hazing prevents people from wanting to be a Cadet. You can be an Aggie without being a Cadet. There's no requirement to be in the Corp upon admission to A&M. I'm not sure what to make of your first comment that I quoted.
Yes, I've heard the jokes. I even submitted one to the student paper when I was at UT (What do you do when an Aggie throws you a hand grenade? pull out the pin and throw it back.). I just didn't think people took them seriously.
1) I would've left the stadium. 2) I wouldn't have brandished a heavy object at a bunch of 13 year olds in GAP and Harry Potter T-shirts. But thats all irrelevant, because I don't cheer for a team that loses to Tech.
The sad thing was, McKinney actually went after an atm student. The man is lethal with a pair of binoculars. I wouldn't go to atm because it's campus wasn't diverse. I love UT. I'm a fiscal-conservative and a social-liberal. So, call me what you want, but I love the fact that UT is so diverse. You get one of everything there. Also, I don't hate atm. I really could careless. Now, as for OU......
Have you looked at A&M's diversity numbers compared to other major universities? The numbers don't lie. The school doesn't represent Texas.
Yo Kagy, I do think the fight song is dumb. I've thought that from day 1 here. Personally, I like the "Spirit of Aggie Land" much better. I think you've read enough of my posts over the years to know how I feel about the football crazy dumbasses here. But you're reasoning is wrong. You have some knowledge of A&M, but I think 1, your knowledge is old, and 2, your knowledge is limited. Things have changed a lot in the 4 years i've been here; some fore the better and some for the worse. The corps in ways is like a frat, but yes, they do have a significance. But it is very easy to have a whole college career here now and have little to no contact/awareness of the corps.
So the corp represents the entire student body at A&M? Although none have come out and said that, it is very easily implied. So I guess all the cocky, condescending, stereotyping longhorns on this board represent the entire student body at Texas I guess. I was just saying that for effect b/c we all know that isn't true as everyone should know that the corp does not represent all of A&M. If u want to attack aggies, attack those who deserve it...in this case the corp, not the normal student body which several here are a part of. Afterall most aggies are normal students like you and we can come up w/ unsubstantiated bull crap as well that attacks things that don't deserve it.
Yeah, recently the Aggies always seem to have a problem with Tech. ...another thing some Texas Tech fans like to do is throw batteries at Aggie football players.
