Visitors Baffled by the Corps of Cadets
In an exit survey obtained from the Texas A&M University Visitor Center, a campus tour took an unexpected turn last Friday when the tour group crossed paths with what appeared to be a pack of armed soldiers. The “soldiers” were seen running down Military Walk before jumping into Fish Pond, carrying their rifles overhead as if to simulate wading through the Mekong river. This activity was accompanied by loud, siren-like screams.
“I hadn’t the faintest idea what was going on,” said Samantha Whitney, mother of a high school senior who was on the tour and graduate of a non-senior military institute. “One minute our guide was telling us about different housing options, and the next it looked like we were under attack.”
Andrew Wallace, a high school junior who was also on the tour, had a similar sentiment. “I guess A&M has a pretty big ROTC program? I knew some guys like that in high school, but it was like four or five, not four or five thousand.”
All participants agreed that they were not prepared for the encounter. “I had gone on the school’s website, and the student life section didn’t say anything about an ROTC program,” Wallace said. “It almost felt like they were trying to hide it from prospective students.”
After looking at the results of the survey, the Corps reportedly closed the feedback form, citing “years of tradition” and “tangible results” as more important than the successful recruitment of prospective students.
— Kushing Library
Don’t get the wrong impression, Kushing Library is a hard worker, but when he heard the university libraries don’t drug test their interns, it was love at first light. If you’re the studious type, you can occasionally hear the soft crackle of his dab pen from deep within the A&M archives. Get to know him, and he might even share Arya Stark’s Catspaw dagger that he hollowed out into his own personal pipe.