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The Texas A&M football team has just finished a dreadful season, going 4-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12 conference, including a 77-0 humiliation at the University of Oklahoma. Texas A&M's athletic director, Bill Byrne, has a novel theory as to why his school is suffering athletically. He blames the Young Conservatives of Texas A&M, a student group, which held one of those "affirmative action bake sales": "Free speech is not an issue for me, and differing political beliefs are not an issue for me, because I believe that reasonable people can disagree. But I'm disappointed over the national...

Texas A&M University's Corps of Cadets will soon be fighting the battle of the bulge. For 127 years, the Corps has allowed Aggie cadets to weigh any poundage, but some have apparently abused the privilege. Even though the Corps has inspired many of the traditions that have made A&M famous, this was one tradition the Corps badly wanted to shed. Corps officials decided this week that cadets must shape up or ship out. New weight requirements take effect this fall, and students who don't meet them can stay in the Corps only if they pass body fat tests or lose...