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1. Do you honestly think A&M and West Point are the only places to use that motto? Do you accuse all schools or institutions who also use that motto as "stealing?"

2. The Aggies' use of 12th Man has no relation to Iowa. They referenced it one time in some random article. We had a student literally called down from the stands in the 1922 Dixie Classic to suit up because so many players were injured. He stood by the coach waiting to go in all game. The students now stand all game to symbolize our readiness. That's our tradition, and its a great one.

And anyone who does stupid crap, no matter the university, probably does deserve to be called out, and Confederate flags are up there with "how stupid can you be?" It is ironic that this year's Corps Commander is African-American.

 
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AgMarauder04 said:
1. Do you honestly think A&M and West Point are the only places to use that motto? Do you accuse all schools or institutions who also use that motto as "stealing?"

2. The Aggies' use of 12th Man has no relation to Iowa. They referenced it one time in some random article. We had a student literally called down from the stands in the 1922 Dixie Classic to suit up because so many players were injured. He stood by the coach waiting to go in all game. The students now stand all game to symbolize our readiness. That's our tradition, and its a great one.

And anyone who does stupid crap, no matter the university, probably does deserve to be called out, and Confederate flags are up there with "how stupid can you be?" It is ironic that this year's Corps Commander is African-American.
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The whole 12th man tradition is pretty cool. Other schools may do something similar--I don't know the history on that. I always thought it was an aTm thing. :thumbs :

 
AgMarauder04 said:
1. Do you honestly think A&M and West Point are the only places to use that motto? Do you accuse all schools or institutions who also use that motto as "stealing?"

2. The Aggies' use of 12th Man has no relation to Iowa. They referenced it one time in some random article. We had a student literally called down from the stands in the 1922 Dixie Classic to suit up because so many players were injured. He stood by the coach waiting to go in all game. The students now stand all game to symbolize our readiness. That's our tradition, and its a great one.

And anyone who does stupid crap, no matter the university, probably does deserve to be called out, and Confederate flags are up there with "how stupid can you be?" It is ironic that this year's Corps Commander is African-American.
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I don't get why calling everyone who displays a Confederate Flag is stupid. I own one and display it proudly. I'm a southerner who now lives in Nebraska. I was born in Mobile, Alabama and damn proud of who I am where I came from. I'm proud of my family and my heritage and everything they've fought for. I'm not proud of everything the south has done or this entire country either. Racism and slavery is a black eye for the country it self not just the few in the south that tried to leave and form their own nation. So calling people stupid because of the flag is wrong, not all of us are racist.

AgMarauder i'm not just calling you out on this. You were just the last one to post about it.

 
That's fair. I can see why some (like the student from South Carolina) see it more as a way to honor their roots and symbolize southern culture. It is the number 1 symbol that represents the South...rightly or wrongly. Unfortunately, in today's day and age (and political culture) it also represents racism, which I'm afraid most people see....and for many years, A&M was labeled a racist institution.

We were even called as such when we hired Mike Sherman because no minorities were inteviewed.

 
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That's fair. I can see why some (like the student from South Carolina) see it more as a way to honor their roots and symbolize southern culture. It is the number 1 symbol that represents the South...rightly or wrongly. Unfortunately, in today's day and age (and political culture) it also represents racism, which I'm afraid most people see....and for many years, A&M was labeled a racist institution.

We were even called as such when we hired Mike Sherman because no minorities were inteviewed.
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I can see why people see it and think racist. A lot of it is because of the history under the flag and how a lot of racist a$$hats do wave that flag. But what a lot of people don't realize is that slavery was also in the north as well but no where near the level the south had. The laws that were made in favor of slavery by the US government helped shapped a lot of the states we have today, mainly the state of Texas.

But anyway enough of this lets get back to the original topic.

 
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Effective Sept. 1, the agency tasked with conserving and protecting the state’s trees, forests and related natural resources will assume a new moniker: Texas A&M Forest Service.

The 97-year-old state forestry agency operates under the umbrella of The Texas A&M University System, one of the nation’s largest systems of higher education with a network of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a comprehensive health science center.

The name change — which will affect all seven state agencies — was proposed earlier this year by Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp as a way to better align marketing and branding efforts.

“We stand behind the Chancellor’s decision, and we’re eager to move forward with our new name and logo. But we want to stress that changing our name will not affect how we do business,” said Texas A&M Forest Service Director Tom Boggus.

“Service has always been one of our agency’s core values — and that remains true both in name and philosophy. We have a long, rich history of serving the state of Texas, and we will continue to build upon that.”

Agency administrators have completed a logo-use inventory and are in the process of developing a plan to update all references to the previous name and logo.

http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/m....aspx?id=16388

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what could go wrong?

 
Where you going with the Bonfire photos? Forest service has been overseen by A&M for a long time.

I just hope you're not going where I think you're going with this...

 
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Where you going with the Bonfire photos? Forest service has been overseen by A&M for a long time.

I just hope you're not going where I think you're going with this...
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So do I - I would hope we don't make light of that tragedy. Let's keep it fun, folks. Thanks.

 
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I would hope he's just trying to show the irony in having agency overseen by the College dedicated to protecting forests, when they are cutting down trees for a massive bonfire.

 
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I'm not making light of anything. Just showing evidence that there is something very very wrong here. Some of it is funny, some of it is very much not.

 
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One of the cool things is that after cut for bonfire we do "Replant" where twice the number of trees cut down are planted. Very cool event.

 
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