QUIZ: Is This a Line of Poetry from William Butler Yeats or an Announcement from Texas A&M?
Generic university-wide A&M announcements. Irish poet and front-runner of 20th-century literature. Sometimes I can scarcely tell them apart. Can you?
- “What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.”
- Yeats
- “Bomb threat received for Kyle Field. Evacuations are underway as a precaution. All others are asked to avoid the area.”
- Believe it or not, University Announcement
- “The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.”
- Yeats
- “Texas A&M asking person who picked up bat at Kyle Field during game to check in with authorities as a safety precaution”
- University Announcement
- “Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”
- Yeats
- “The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.”
- Yeats
- “Additional planning to block network traffic to TikTok is in progress and will be communicated with the university community when plans are finalized.”
- University Announcement
- “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
- Yeats
- “As many of you may have heard about or seen on social media, we recently have had numerous incidents involving rental bikes being placed perilously on top of buildings across campus. This practice poses a significant risk to those directly involved in placing bikes on buildings, the risk of a bike falling and injuring others and the risk of damaging university property.”
- University Announcement
- “Dear faculty, staff, and students, today is the first day of the College of Arts and Sciences. I believe that this is a transformational moment in the history of Texas A&M University, and I hope that you are as excited as I am by the opportunities that are opening up for innovation in teaching, research, and impact on society at large.”
- University Announcement
— Batt-atouille
The Battalion has a rat infestation, and one of these filthy rodents found its way onto our staff. We discovered him deep in the sewers under Sbisa after a long shift of hiding under the head chef’s hat. Now, he loves writing for us just as much as he loves pulling hair. When he’s not busy in the dining hall kitchen or writing articles for the other “publication” on campus, he cooks up articles for us. We’re happy to have him on our team, even though he leaves a copious amount of health code violations in his trail.