I visited College Station and swore I would never go back... when I was there on a "college run" with 45 other guys from my high school, I convinced several people not to attend A&M, and completely pointed out the stupidity of the A&M "traditions" our guide (I'll come back to that..)...
Reveille the dog... Mascot?... No... So much more... The stadium, if you have ever visited Kyle Field has a scoreboard on the outside of it, simply the score of both teams and the quarter (I believe...). Now, across the street is the dog cemetery for the dead Reveilles.... Coincidence? NO... In fact, that is why that cemetery is there. Before Kyle Field was expanded to a horseshoe, the dead dogs could see the score at all times. They MUST see it... being dead and all....
Now, during construction, they must have just said, "OK, so the dogs will just not see the score for a year or so..." NOPE... :dis: (This is when I lost it...) During that period, a member of the corp stood over the cemetery during games with a dry-erase board (or a chalk board, something...) and When the score changed someone would run out and tell him to change the score on the board.... I was on the ground laughing at this... The guide asked me what was so funny, so I told him. Of course he was utterly insulted, and I laughed even more.
It gets better, he told me MORE stuff to laugh at about the dog...
Each year, the dog has a different trainer, basically one of the highest awards given to a Corp (is it Corps?) member. Well, the dog can't stay at home... No, that is just not good enough. He goes to class with his owner.... Yup... And legend says that if the dog barks, it means he/she is bored, and class is dismissed.... The perfect chance to attack the university...
"So, are you trying to tell me that this dog goes to upper level classes, assuming that the trainer is an upper classman, most probably a graduating senior, and that if this dog barks, even if during a test, class is dismissed? So, this dog comes before any kind of education in the mind of Aggies? The pecking order in the school is 1. Dog, 2. Professors? You have to be kidding me...." And my rant went on for another 3 minutes or so....
Stupid stupid Aggies... :dis:
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