[breckinloggins]

I am a former student and graduate of this department at Texas A&M. I just called The Association and informed them that I consider this completely unacceptable and will not consider donations to the university unless this policy is reversed.

I would encourage fellow like-minded Aggies to do the same.

Drs Austin and McDermott are surely spinning in their graves right now.

[fuzzfactor]

I would say that the most respectable universities are traditionally institutions of higher learning.

It's always been possible for any of them to decline into lesser institutions of not-as-much-higher-learning as they started out with.

Wouldn't leadership integrity and actual scholarship make the big difference between those that are able to strive higher each generation compared to those who strive lower?

Who is it that wants to aggressively devalue Aggie degrees that have already been earned, especially in the eyes of the world, along with any to be granted in the future anyway?

It's not only "The Eyes of Texas" that are upon this.

[1659447091]

> It's not only "The Eyes of Texas" that are upon this.

Referencing the University of Texas (Austin) school song in a reply to an Aggie, them fightin' words

More related, with A&M generally being traditionally conservative* and also being a research university that values higher learning -- yet still a public school -- they are going run up on these issues given the current state of "conservative" (maga) politics. UT is getting the same pressure, but being a traditionally liberal leaning school with a rich history of protest leading to change, they are able to resist a bit more -- which I always respected (except for Thanksgiving rivalry games) -- but even they are slowly caving-in. Texas use to mind its own business, scoff at whatever ideology the federal government was pushing and, for the most part, let people and institutions be. How we became a maga lapdog is truly baffling.

*Has the George H.W. Bush library and a Corps of Cadets (student military organization) that deeply intergraded into school tradition, for starters. Also, oil money.

[0928374082]

Speaking of Austin, anyone wishing to admire the art of the Gerrymander ought to look at the multiple electoral districts covering the state capital.

PS. Hook'em Horns :)