THE BATTALION
NEWS
- ‘AI is no different’: Professors encourage students to use AI tools responsibilityArtificial intelligence, or AI, has taken the world by storm, and Texas A&M is beginning to adapt. What began as a controversial tool is now being used to teach, learn, research and work at A&M, according to a university website about “harnessing AI.” Professors and students alike have begun integrating AI into their research and...
- Lawmakers seek to bring filmmakers to Texas with $500 million incentive proposalThe Texas Legislature has proposed a nearly $500 million injection into the Texas film and media production industry. The proposal, part of Senate Bill 1, or SB 1, aims to establish Texas as the film capital of America by bringing blockbuster productions to the state and subsidizing small media corporations. The proposal includes $450 million...
- Judge to rule on Draggieland’s future before March 26The first motion hearing in the federal case Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Williams Mahomes et al. took place in Houston Tuesday morning. The case, which was ignited last month after a Board of Regents resolution banned drag shows across the A&M System, will have an opinion released before March 26 by Judge Lee...
SPORTS
- Questions and answers: Aggies take down IslandersFollowing a sweeping weekend defeat by Alabama on Sunday, Texas A&M baseball rebounded from early struggles in a 17-7 run-rule victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. On the mound for the Aggies was freshman right-handed pitcher Aiden Sims, a young arm who has found an opportunity to start for the Maroon and White in the absence...
- It takes a village: The making of Henry Coleman IIIEvery time graduate forward Henry Coleman III takes the court, he has a village standing behind him. In a rented townhouse just shy of three miles from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, parents Hank and Cynthia Coleman assembled the latest gathering of “Henry’s village” as he and Texas A&M men’s basketball battled in the SEC...
- A&M track and field strikes gold at NCAA Indoor ChampionshipsEvery medal color shined brightly for the Texas A&M men’s and women’s track and field teams at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, during the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 14-15. The women’s team finished the meet in seventh with 27 points, while the men placed 10th with 20 points. Three athletes...
LIFE & ARTS
- Learning the ropesWhat was once the world’s primary form of long-distance travel is now a competitive sport. Texas A&M’s club sailing team currently practices at Lake Bryan, sailing two times a week, with the race team’s sailors practicing an additional day. The practice team, a feeder program for the racing group, doesn’t attend competitive events. “To get...
- A ‘Step’ into history: Historically Black fraternities, sororities host cultural dance showcaseA celebration of culture and history, the Black History Month Step Show, hosted by Texas A&M’s chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, or NPHC, was a time of great celebration and joy. The NPHC, comprising nine historically African American fraternities and sororities known as The Divine Nine, promotes unity and leadership among its members and...
- Texas A&M opens the doors to the underworldAggies made their way down to Hadestown this week as the touring production of the award-winning musical “Hadestown” made its Texas A&M debut at Rudder Auditorium. The jazz-infused retelling of Greek Mythology was a hit, bringing over two thousand audience members into the theater. “Hadestown” follows the ancient tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, intertwining it...
OPINION
- Opinion: Consider taking graduate school exams earlyThere I was, in my senior year of high school, clicking my pen as the final days of the semester rolled by. I was waiting for college decision letters, I was waiting for my annoying AP classes to be over and, most importantly, I was waiting to move away and live on my own. I’d...
- Opinion: Resurrect the girlbossYou know her, and you love her. Even if you don’t, you actually do. Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss. Deep down, everyone has their inner girlboss. We all can tap into our inner girlboss and universally slay — we are all girlbosses. Everything, everywhere, all at once, is girlbossing. However, she’s a controversial queen. The girlboss archetype...
- Opinion: We need to talk about SGA election ethicsAfter weeks of campaigning by numerous Texas A&M students, the spring Student Government Association, or SGA, election cycle is officially over. For students, this means no more campaign groups bannering outside the Memorial Student Center, no more dodging flyer-holders asking for your vote and no more “Vote for XYZ” posters on every bulletin board. At...
TRADITIONS
- Silver Taps: Lyndon ColbertApril 23, 2005 – January 2, 2025 Lyndon Colbert A man anyone could love forever A son. A musician. A chef. An engineer. An Aggie. Lyndon Colbert was a man of many roles, and he radiated kindness and goodness in every single one of them. Lyndon may have passed at 19 years old, but the...
- Silver Taps: Victor GuerreroMarch 10, 2005 – January 27, 2025 Victor Guerrero A truly selfless servant of others Victor Guerrero came to Texas A&M in order to pursue his dream of becoming an engineer. He grew up in Galveston, and his family said he loved to share all that he learned from university. He was in his fourth...
- Campus Muster announces keynote speakerTexas A&M announced Lt. Gen. Michael L. Downs ’92 as this year’s keynote speaker for Campus Muster in a campus-wide email distributed Monday afternoon. The annual ceremony takes place Monday, April 21, at Reed Arena. Downs graduated from A&M in 1992 with a degree in political science and was commissioned as a ROTC Distinguished Graduate....
