Sorry about that, but I swear I clicked submit only once.

Quad - It's not so secret if you post it four times.

Spicoli - I'm guessing I know you.

I used to live in Houston and go to all of the Rev meetings and Happy Hours and such.

I'll give you a hint - I looks just like Spicoli - without the long hair.

He also have the vans and is stoned a lot too!

That is a lie!

I don't have any vans - anymore.

Damn, I gots to put my thinkin' cap on.

If there is more than one, can somebody be in both...
maybe they would be called the "true sticks", or the "stickexans".

you guys have a weird idea of what secret society means

a bunch of losers hanging out together in the corps is not an elite secret society that produces important people in society.


saying this I know of one that involves people from dfw attending a&m, but I cant really talk about it.

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people from dfw attending a&m,

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Society of Fake Breasts?

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you guys have a weird idea of what secret society means

a bunch of losers hanging out together in the corps is not an elite secret society that produces important people in society.


saying this I know of one that involves people from dfw attending a&m, but I cant really talk about it.

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I hope this wasn't a serious post. Pretty damned silly if it is.

Also, who the hell started misinforming people the name was "stikkas"? Jeez, people. It's like an F'd up game of "telephone" with elementary school kids.

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It's like an F'd up game of "telephone" with elementary school kids

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You are closer than you know.

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The most secret of organizations has gotta be The Silver Taps Team. Only 3 new members a year, identities totally secret, and a secret location too. They have special uniforms. BQ's out there know some of it, but nowhere near to all. The rest of campus has no clue.

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What? A special uniform??? Wouldnt that be obvious?

And if you know so much...it apparently isnt secret...

The Siler Taps Bugle team isn't a huge secret. Heck - they we a ribbon on their uniforms for it. Everyone in the band knows which of their peers are members.

the easiest way to figure out who the current Stickers are is to see which BQs are hanging out with the hard-ass CTs. Sometimes it's as obvious as next year's Drum Major hanging out with one of the junior advisors of FDT and next year's Parson's commander.

The stuff about the stickers stuff being in the tunnels is true. Actually there is alot of weird stuff down there.

Ol' Army was a bunch of freaks if you ask me.

Steam tunnels were fun! There was a lot of cool stuff down there. Unfortunately they've cracked down on that stuff pretty hard. It's almost impossible to go down there without going to jail these days.

Bq95 hit it on the head. Just look at who shouldn't really be hanging out with who and you see it. RV's give some an excuse now but you have the cross unit friendships that just don't make much since. I had plenty of friends from other units through RV's etc., but we were a lot a like.

And to answer your question CT, I do know a guy who said he was a sticker. Later, when asked again, he changed the subject.

Lt01 - Who are you? I was in H-1

What about the Van Buren boys?

Now I'm very curious about who were the Stickers and True Texans in my class...very curious.

The Mole Men haven't been mentioned yet.

This secret group operated in the steam tunnels as well. They didn't have much of a purpose - other than producing an alternative school paper that poked fun at the bulls in the Trigon and various professors. They distributed their paper to the Corps dorms through the steam tunnels.

Dave,
Well, if you live in Austin now, I saw you there a few weeks ago at Iron Cactus. If not, then i don't know you. I liked H-1, a few really good guys in there. Tom cracked me up.

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Nice call on the MM cak....

the MM deserve some recognition. I wish they'd survived to my college day. I always enjoyed Trigon satire.

Some old ag told me he saw one of the mole men while he was in the corps. A member popped his head out of the steam tunnels during a formation once - dressed as a mole. I don't know what purpose that act served ... but it kinda makes a guy smile doesn't it?

In what years were the Mole Men active? That must have been some good bull!

I believe this was in the 50s ... but I'd have to look it up.

If anyone has the book "Keepers of the Spirit" by John Adams - look up "Mole Men" in the index - I'm pretty sure there is a lil info in that book on them as well.

In "Keepers of the Spirit," are there references to the Stickers?

"When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a p****."
- Attributed to General Tommy Franks

Any secret non-reg societies?

Old Main- supposedly there is at least one.

I don't know much about it, but some dude who was a Phi Delt and dated one of my fiancee's old roommates was allegedly in it.

Apparently the guy was a total slacker, but got to be friends with the right people, gets in this "society" and is now super successful.

However, I don't put much stock in these claims.

Damnit...

...bump for the no-refresh.

Any Stickers or True Texans on this forum?

Oh, come on...you don't expect them to admit it, do you?

TA,

Sure, this forum is somewhat anonymous. It's not like they are members of the mafia or anything.

Hmmm...that's kind of true...someone could easily put on a new handle and admit it...

Only problem is how do you know they're telling the truth?

I know there were a few stickers in my outfit.

I heard guys wore their Aggie Rings on their left hands to show they were "married to the Corps". I asked a guy from the AF Academy if he was married to the academy because he wore his ring on his left hand. He told me it was so when he was wiping his ass his ring wouldn’t be in the toilet. I laughed.

Both organizations exist to this day, at least in some loose form. According to Dr. John A. Adams Jr. '73, who was a member of the Corps of Cadets and authored KEEPERS OF THE SPIRIT: The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, 1876-2001, secret organizations began to form within the corps during the 1920s. I will paraphrase what he says in the book:

The Battalion ran articles about these developing organizations and termed them "those who have withdrawn into the Invisible Empire of secret fraternities." The most widely known of the secret societies (and also the subject of your current speculation) were Kala Kinasis or the "KKs", the Swastikas or "Stickers", and the True Texans or "True Ts" or "TTs". The secret organizations were never sanctioned by the administration...at least if it ever was or still is, then it is not kept on the up and up. On a side note (not mentioned in Dr. Adams book, it is rumored that many Bulls in the Trigon are Stickers and also that our most recent, now retired Vice President of Student Affairs is a big-wig in the Stickers. Back to what the book says....the intentions of these organizations was to influence Corps policies and appointments to positions of leadership. During my years in the Corps, I knew guys who admitted to being in these organizations and their influence was limited at best. In my opinion, they were the punks from high school who never got over thinking that they were better than everybody else. All they seemed to be was a "good ole boy" network where if you scratched someones back they would scratch yours. I think that they did nothing but create division amongst the members of the Corps. Again, back to the book...in the 50s, the administration investigated the resurging True Ts and disciplined over 25 of its members. In 1954, leaders of this group spoke to a gathering of seniors in the Corps saying something to the effect of "We don't exist, but if we did, it would only be for social interaction and not to harm the school or Corps." Dr. Adams has a little more to say about the organizations but I will stop here.



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