Subject: Texas A&M University

• But What About Our Aggie Jokes?

  August 10, 2006

• Texas Tech Is Dirty. We Can Prove It. We Just Can't Tell You How.

  August 9, 2007

• Cover Story: Rotten to the Corps

  January 23, 2008

• Feral Hog Contraceptive: Less Pigs in the Poke?

  February 20, 2008

• A New Reveille for Texas A&M

  March 12, 2008

• This Just In: Watermelon Good for Blood Flow (and Erections)

  June 30, 2008

• A&M Tackles The Pressing Animal-ESP Issue

  August 1, 2008

• Conspiracy's Days Are Numbered: Aggies Are On The JFK Case

  August 25, 2008

• College Tuition In Texas Just Keeps Going Up

  September 2, 2008

• College Football Preview, Scarlett Johansson Edition

  September 5, 2008

• Indictments In A&M Assault Case

  October 3, 2008

• ARchiTecture: College of Architecture Faculty Biennial 2009

  Web exclusive!

  April 2, 2009

• You Not Only Get An Aggie Degree, You Get A George W. Bush Speech!

  November 7, 2008

• Aggies Don't Take Kindly To Saddam Hussein's Scientist, Lawsuit Claims

  Lawyers at Texas A&M want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that claims Aggie scientists harassed an Iraqi researcher and his wife. A&M lawyers aren’t saying the scientists didn’t harass Dr. Mundhir Ridha, only that Texas A&M should be exempt from litigation because it's a public institution. In fact, after Ridha filed his initial grievance, the university’s internal investigation found that there was a “draconian approach” to supervision in the lab. “The environment…is s

  November 17, 2008

• Come On Aggies! Cheer For The President! He's Almost As Good As Your Football Team!

  It's not easy being a George W. Bush supporter these days. Even at Texas A&M.The Aggies, of course, have the somewhat dubious honor of having Bush deliver a speech to their December graduates. If there's anyplace in the US outside of Utah, or maybe Kennebunkport, where this event would go over well, it's A&M.After all, it's the home of the George H.W. Bush Library.But the Facebook page touting the visit seems to be having an attack of the grumpies.

  December 2, 2008

• Get Your Shrine On

  For the second consecutive year the Shriners are bringing their postseason college football all-star game to the University of Houston's Robertson Stadium. The 84th edition of the East-West Shrine Game will be played on Saturday, January 17, 2009, with the kick-off set for 3:00 and the game to be televised by ESPN 2. This year's game will be coached by Bobby Ross and Gene Stallings. Ross, who will be the coach of the East team, is the former coach of the San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions (

  December 11, 2008

• A&M Professor Details His Harassment

  We recently wrote about Mundhir Ridha, an Iraqi scientist who filed a lawsuit against Texas A&M University and a group its professors, alleging harassment and discrimination. Ridha was in Houston this week, and he agreed to sit down and talk with us about working at Texas A&M. "They put me and wife in a trailer outside the building, and it was not fit for a human being to work over there," Ridha says. The scientists moved Ridha out of the lab because, he says, he made a formal complaint

  December 26, 2008

• Aggie Alchemy

  April 7, 1994

• Letters

  April 21, 1994

• Letters

  May 5, 1994

• Food & Foreign Policy

  The World Affairs Council of Houston is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James Baker III. However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.

  January 8, 2009

• Press Picks

  March 30, 1995

• Healthy But Flavorless Pecan Oil

  I shelled out almost $13 for this bottle of pecan oil at Whole Foods. It doesn't taste like pecans--the manufacturer says that's a good thing. They were doing a demonstration at the store using the pecan oil to fry fish. The fish tasted fine, but I wondered why no flavor was a benefit. They lady said the oil was healthy and you could sprinkle toasted pecans over the fish if you wanted pecan flavor. I asked the lady if this pecan oil went rancid quickly. She said yes and that the manufacturer rec

  January 26, 2009

• Letters

  April 4, 1996

• Houston Dog Shows Up All Them New York Bitches (And Dudes)

  The winner of the big prize at Madison Square Garden's prestigious Westminster Dog Show is a spniel from Houston who should be retired and who goes by the true Texas name of Stump.His formal name is Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee, but then again no one calls Racehorse Haynes by his given name either.Newsday reports: A nearly full crowd at Madison Square Garden cheered loudly when judge Sari Tietjen pointed to the new champion. "I didn't know how old he was," [a judge] said later. "He didn't show

  February 11, 2009

• Life On The Rodeo Road: Don't Trust Canadian Doctors With Your Credit Card

  Photo by Paul KnightName: Zach DishmanAge: 26Hometown: BeaumontEvent: Bareback RidingI got into rodeo because my dad rodeoed, and his dad college-rodeoed at Texas A&M. I started getting on calves when I was real young, and at ten years old I was going to youth rodeos. By the time I got in high school, I was real serious about it. If I didn't rodeo, I would farm and ranch, because my dad and them did that, so hopefully I'd be a part of it. It's not always the most cash-flowing business, and I

  March 17, 2009

• What You Missed

  May 11, 2000

• The 84th Annual East-West Shrine Game

  Web exclusive!

  January 15, 2009

• Bribes in the Soviet Union, Jesus Christ on PBS and Gavin Newsom at La Strada

  March 13, 2008

• Luv Ya Maroon

  February 7, 2008

• Rotten to the Corps: A Question of Justice at Texas A&M

  January 24, 2008

• Toxic Town: Suffer the Children

  Carcinogen samples from local schools are off the charts

  December 6, 2007

• Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

  November 15, 2007

• Children at Risk

  February 23, 2006

• Boobs, Balls and Beer

  Check out what's brewing for Super Sunday

  February 3, 2005

• Draining the Swamp

  A scorched-earth management philosophy is sucking the life out of our region's wetlands

  January 13, 2005

• Sex It Up

  Spring turns the media's thoughts to racy women

  March 27, 2003

• Stepping on Some Toes

  How many Aggies does it take to dance the Aggie Jitterbug? One to lead, one to follow and one to tell them to cease and desist.

  May 4, 2000

• Poison Pen

  Bryan antiabortionists use the mail - and the law - to escalate their attacks on clinic workers

  March 23, 2000

• Fatal Attraction

  In the cultlike customs of Texas A&M, tradition is life. Even in death.

  December 2, 1999

• Farm to Market

  Kody Ellis shows pigs. What have pigs shown him?

  March 18, 1999

• Texas A&M's Administration Doesn't Think Much Of Its President

  Texas A&M has released the performance evaluation of its president, Elsa Murano, and things aren't looking so hot for her. Murano's January 2008 hiring was held high by A&M, because she was the youngest president ever and also the first Hispanic and woman to hold that post. But a review of her performance obtained by Hair Balls under the state's Open Records Act shows things have soured big-time. According to the review from Mike McKinney, the chancellor of the university system, Mura

  June 8, 2009

• Texas A&M's President Goes Out In A Blaze Of Bad Headlines, Great Official Statements

  God bless the Aggies. Who else could hire a new president amidst much fanfare (She's Hispanic, y'all!!) and then fire her 18 months later?Although we're not quite sure why she got fired. Sure, as we showed last week via an Open Records Act request, she was given a not-so-hot job review, but hey, that's only one year.And judging from the official statements given by both parties, it sounds like there's nothing wrong. Says departing president Elsa Murano:  I am truly grateful for the countle

  June 15, 2009

• Not So Clear Cut

  June 18, 2009

• Wanna Know Where Meat Comes From?

  Food Inc. debuted in Texas last week. The producers of the movie talk about a "curtain" that's been deliberately placed between consumers and the meat they are eating. "The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating. Because if you knew, you might not want to eat it," the narrator says. Meat companies didn't allow the movie makers inside their processing plants to film. (Hmm, I wonder why?) While I'm a little tired of the scare tactics about food, I am in complete a

  July 1, 2009

• A Chat with David Luna of Shade

  Chef David Luna​David Luna helms the kitchen as executive chef at Shade (250 W. 19th St., in the Heights), which was named top New American restaurant in Texas by the Zagat survey. Who were your cooking inspirations?Funny you should start with that question. My grandmother's funeral was today and she was definitely a great influence. She lived on a farm in the Valley. She usually had cabbage on the stove. Poached chicken was common. She always made a caldo with whatever ingredients were

  July 30, 2009

• Aggies Finally Get Around To Caring About Their Athletes' Safety As Much As UT Does

  ​A dozen people were injured when a freakishly strong spring storm slammed into the Dallas Cowboys practice facility in Irving earlier this year. It turns out Texas A&M 's $35 million new athletic center was built by the same company and has the same basic steel-and-fabric design.Now the Aggies are asking for an independent inspection of the McFerrin Athletic Center to make sure it doesn't, you know, collapse like the Cowboys' facility did.The Associated Press looked into the new facilit

  August 11, 2009

• The Aggies Know Great Architecture When They See It, Especially If It's Done By An Aggie

  ​Texas A&M University created an architectural award this year, the Spirit of Place medal, "envisioned as becoming one of the world's premier built-environment awards," according to a press release from the school.The university wants its new award to be "viewed in the same light" as the Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Recent winners of that award include the Museum of Modern Literature in Germany, the Scottish Parliament building and the Gherkin, a sk

  October 2, 2009

• George H.W. Bush To Aggies: Please Don't Be Aggies When Obama Visits

  ​President Obama is headed to College Station Friday, at the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush, to speak about community service and whatnot.Obama, having already spoken at Notre Dame earlier this career, apparently decided to find an even more hostile environment. (Next stop: Bob Jones University! Then Al-Qaeda headquarters and then, The Woodlands.)Bush obviously is hoping very much for a polite, respectful reception for Obama in Aggieland. He also has a pretty good idea of just

  October 15, 2009

• BBQ Brisket Tasting at Texas A&M

  ​The Barbecue 101 class for freshman at Texas A&M is using my Legends of Texas Barbecue as a textbook, so I was invited to be the guest lecturer last Friday. The subject was brisket, and the theme was "To Wrap, or Not to Wrap." I talked about the history and methodology of brisket cooking, and then we tasted six briskets that had been cooked in a smoker parked on the sidewalk out in front of the building. The meat was prepared according to six different recipes. Jim Goode's recipe for "pl

  November 2, 2009