When I lived in Austin some years ago, I remember A&M to be a conservative, level headed school. Oh well.
Class of '92 here: Yes...you are correct. It used to be ulra-conservative and now its just run of the mill conservative...but even a walk through some of the comments here at times on FR shows you that social conservatism doesn't mean what it used to mean.
What has happened in this: When I started A&M in '88...A&M was cheap to go to. I paid $950 for tuition....fees...room and board (a 7 day meal plan) during my 1st semester. t.u. was the rich school. A&M was made up of middle class people with middle class values.
Now, A&M is just as expensive as t.u. It costs an arm and a leg to go there and the creep of the societal slide is showing up everywhere.