re: #73 Lidane

Heh, no offense taken. I call the four years people spend at A&M four years of Republican Camp.

They take everything seriously, especially the Corps. There are even parts of the campus where you can’t walk on the grass. And no, I’m not kidding.

The student union is “Memorial student union”, after the many Aggies who gave their lives in service to their nation. There’s a bit of grass that counts as part of that, and out of respect, people don’t walk on it.

The scale of the sacrifice may be estimated by the list of Aggies who have earned the medal of honor:

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Eli Whiteley, Class of 1941, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. William George Harrell, Class of 1943, U.S. Army Air Corps Maj. Horace S. Carswell, Jr., Class of 1938, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. George D. Keathley, Class of 1937, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Turney W. Leonard, Class of 1942, U.S. Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Lloyd H. Hughes, Class of 1943, and U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Thomas W. Fowler, Class of 1943

Earning this requires courage in the face of such mortal danger that there is scant chance one will survive the deed, and sure enough, most medals of honor are awarded posthumously.

This doesn’t mean that A&M is a climate denial university. The faculty know better and say so. ABC News report

Extract:

Dr. Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, emailed TP Green, that while Gov. Perry may deny climate science:
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There are dozens of credible atmospheric scientists in Texas at institutions like Rice, UT, and Texas A&M, and I can confidently say that none agree with Gov. Perry’s views on the science of climate change. This is a particularly unfortunate situation given the hellish drought that Texas is now experiencing, and which climate change is almost certainly making worse.[end quote within quote]