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Personally, I don't think the unwashed masses (that would be us) need to be concerned with the technical solution. It can be done. Numerous other schools prove that.
We just need to demand that it BE DONE.
Thisx1000. Every one of you numb nuts that keeps asking for a solution from the posters in this thread needs to print this out and tape it on your monitor.
It's not our job to come up with a solution. It's the administration's job, and it's one that they failed at miserably, along with communicating openly and honestly about the issues involved. They've spent a **** load of money on this new facility, and along the way promises were made that traditions would be respected. We are well within our rights to hold them to their word, to tell them to dig deep, find the money if that's the issue, do what ever re-engineering is needed, but do what you said you'd do and FIX THIS.
Pressuring them from below is all the vast majority of us can do, and there's not a damn thing wrong with holding their feet to the fire, whether it be here on TexAgs, on Facebook, selling t-shirts or what have you. The PTB need to know we're pissed off by this and that we're not going to shut up about it.
And to whoever might be posting "No AgTag", no, I'm not a Former Student. I have a son who's currently a senior in the Corps, and another who will be starting next fall, the first of several of clan Longstreet that will put in their time at Texas A&M. My senior is so pissed about this he wouldn't talk about it when I mentioned it to him Saturday.
They're there because their dad has spent years telling them about this incredible place called Texas A&M. I've told the story about how I came to love A&M before and won't tell it again here, but it was enough that when people ask my senior why he chose A&M and the Corps, he points to me and says "It's his fault. Every time college was mentioned this is the only place he talked about. I've heard about it all my life." I told them about a school where you could get more than just an excellent education. About a place that wasn't afraid to move into the future and not embarrassed to drag their traditions along as they went. I told them of a place where duty, honor and integrity meant something, that old hokey saw about Aggies that don't lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do. I told them about Bonfire, about Col. Rudder, and pennies at Sul Ross' feet. About a place where a freakin' dog is treated like royalty. About Senior Boots, March In, Silver Taps, Muster and the MSC.
I told them about Texas A&M. And I'll be damned if I'll shut up about it now.
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