As long as I'm bitching...

It's so sad. I found an old copy of the batt Chef had saved from our fish year, and I was amazed at how much more professional it looked than the current layout. I actually thought it was a copy of the Eagle or the Houston Chronical.

The difference wasn't just cosmetic either, I thumbed through it, and all the stories seemed both relevant (except for being 4 yrs out of date) and newsworthy. Also, the comics actually made me laugh. It was nothing like the trumped up newsletter we seem to have now.

Say Howdy

Another repost of myself, inresponce to this article in the Batt

I agree almost entirely with the article. When I walk across campus, I hear two kinds of howdy. The insincere I-don't-wanna-get-smoked-later of CT's (mostly fish), and my own. I can count on one hand the number of times I've gotten howdy in return. Sometimes it's a meek "hi" or "hey", but more often then not, the only reply I get to an exuberant Howdy is averted eyes.

I think Joel hit the issue pretty much on the nose. The absence of Bonfire, the decline of Northside (both because of the problems with dorm dinner and the closing of halls the redass ][ilton and neutering such as what has happened to scHuHmacHer and moses), sad attempts to promote "alternatives" like greek life, and a general sense of apathy on the part of the student body is slowly killing the aggie spirit.

I think the saddest thing of all is that the people in charge, people like GVA and Dr. Murano (And Gates before her), are, if anything, making things worse because they don't quite seem to understand what the problem is. It's up to us students to fix things, to make A&M great. Sure, We'll always have Muster and Silver Taps to show to the world, but if we want to make this place anything but a sad caricature of itself, it's up to us.

tl;dr version: SAY HOWDY, DAMNIT!