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Watch Rev. Peterson's Speech On "Why Barack Obama and Liberal Policies are Bad for America" Live From Texas A&M - Tuesday, October 28! On Tuesday, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND Action, Inc., will be the featured speaker at Texas A&M University. The topic of his address will be "Why Barack Obama and Liberal Policies are Bad for America." Rev. Peterson's speech will be streamed LIVE at 8 p.m. EST, 7 p.m. CST, 5 p.m. PST. To watch this controversial and exciting event click here or go to bondaction.org Or... Direct Link Here This event is sponsored...

For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment. What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd lived? What was he burning at all hours, for days at a time? The answer turned their stomachs. According to law enforcement officials, Shepherd dismembered, and then burned the body of his former girlfriend, Tynesha Stewart, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student. Nothing remains of Stewart's body, Harris...

Shelby Metcalf, the winningest basketball coach in Southwest Conference history, died Thursday night at College Station Medical Center after a lengthy undisclosed illness. Metcalf, who was 76, was surrounded by his wife, Janis, and daughter, Shelley, and her husband, Jack Valerius. Metcalf coached the Aggies for 26 1/2 seasons. He won 438 games - 239 of them in SWC play, both league records. Shelby Metcalf was head basketball coach for Texas A&M for 26 1/2 years. Metcalf died at 76. "A&M is going to miss a very good man," said Wally Groff, retired A&M athletics director. "I'll certainly miss a...

"Friends say the 14th Aggie to die in war embodied school's sense of duty More than five years into America's war on terrorism, the routine at Texas A&M University — home of the Corps of Cadets — is well-established. When an Aggie is killed, the school's maroon flag is hoisted in mourning. Then it is lowered, folded and shipped to yet another grieving family. ...... "But the toll has been high. Of the nation's service academies, only the United States Military Academy at West Point has lost more graduates, 51, to the war." .... ""He felt he had a debt...

STRADIVARI'S SECRETAttuned to chemistry of a genius Some doubt his technique, but scientist says he's found key to legendary soundA starter violin costs about $200. A finely crafted modern instrument can run as much as $20,000. But even that's loose change when compared with a violin made three centuries ago by Antonio Stradivari. His 600 or so surviving violins can cost upward of $3.5 million. For more than a century, artists, craftsmen and scientists have sought the secret to the prized instruments' distinct sound. Dozens have claimed to have solved the mystery, but none has been proved right. Now, a...

Gates awed by A&M By HOLLY HUFFMAN Eagle Staff Writer When Texas A&M University President Robert Gates departs Aggieland next week, he said he will do so with just one regret - a wish for more time. There are, of course, projects the 63-year-old would have liked to see through. He had hoped to see the completion of the life sciences building, which his 10th story office overlooks, he said. And he expressed disappointment that he would not be on campus to see the reconstruction of Military Walk, a project designed to restore a main walkway leading through the heart...

Once again, the Aggie Bonfire went up in flames.

HEARNE - Paul Wartham made a three-hour drive from Fort Worth to College Station on Tuesday to watch a 45-foot bonfire burn, and when he learned he had to wait an hour longer than expected, he said he didn't mind. "I think that bonfire is great," said the 50-year-old whose two children attend Texas A&M University. "I didn't go to A&M, but I understand why.... go here to read rest of article: http://www.theeagle.com/stories/112206/am_20061122025.php

Bonfire is about the burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u. It builds leadership and camaraderie between students of any origin. Bonfire is about being apart of something bigger than yourself. Go here for directions: http://studentbonfire.com/ After months of hard work and dedication, Bonfire is to be lit this Tuesday night at 7PM! We'd like to extend a hand of gratitude to all of those who have helped to make this possible. Thank you, because without your support, this dream could not have become a reality. We'd also like to invite everyone to come and be a part of...

A former Texas A&M University student has publicly apologized for his role in making a video showing the degradation of a white student in blackface. In a letter to the school's student newspaper, "The Battalion," the unidentified ex-student apologized to the school and to blacks, ABC News reported. The 3 1/2-minute video was made two years ago and raised protests when it surfaced last week. In it, a white student using a belt as a whip admonishes and whips another white student in blackface makeup. University President Robert Gates issued a statement last weekend saying the three students involved had...

COLLEGE STATION — A Texas A&M University student was killed while trying to jump aboard a moving train, police said. Robert Walker Best, 23, was killed early Saturday when he slipped under the train on a rail line located a few blocks from the university campus. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. Best, of San Antonio, would have been a fifth-year senior biology major when classes resumed Monday. Police said Best was with two male friends when the accident occurred — one a student at Blinn College and the other a University of Texas student. College Station...

SEATTLE - We can't imagine the Seahawks without their 12th Man. But another team says the 12th Man concept is their idea and they want us to stop using it. Who knew the 12th Man was born...in Texas? Turns out the first 12th Man wasn't a Hawk -- he was an Aggie. And Texas A & M wants to keep it that way and stomp out a 22-year-old Seattle tradition. The news floors Jeff Scoma, who sells Seahawks merchandise. "That's interesting that you can't produce a blue flag with a 12 on it or a blue shirt with a 12...

Burn night information Burn will be held at Hot Rod Hill off of Hwy 21 northeast of Bryan/College Station, Tx on November 19, 2005. Gates open to the public at 4 pm. Bonfire is scheduled to burn at dark-thirty. There will be on-site parking (weather permitting) before 6 p.m. and we strongly recommend parking on-site as parking is limited at the off-site locations. We urge you to carpool. On-site parking directions: Exit Hwy 21, north of Bryan, and head east (right) on Hwy 21. Take a left at the flashing yellow light on to Marino Rd. Hot Rod Hill will...

BABADAG TRAINING AREA, Romania, July 27, 2005 — A Texas flag that once flew over Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Michael Young's bunker in Vietnam now soars over the Task Force Raider Tactical Operations Command tent in Romania. The flag flies one last time before the fifth generation Texan retires from his 38-year military career in February. Young and his fellow soldiers from Texas posted the colors to bring a Lonestar State ambiance to their operations at ROMEX 05. ROMEX 05 is a bi-lateral exercise in the Babadag Training Area that includes tactical training and community development projects in Tulcea...

OPINION SPACE Bernard Schriever's Stifling Shadow 'Schriever's management techniques have stood the test of time while von Braun's have proven a dismal failure'. 'Schriever's management techniques have stood the test of time while von Braun's have proven a dismal failure'. by Jeffrey F. Bell Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 28, 2004 With the launch of the 476th and last example of the Atlas booster family, it's time to take a look back at this vehicle, its siblings Thor/Delta and Titan, and its father, USAF Lt. Gen. Bernard Schriever. If you just said "Who?", you aren't alone. Most Space Cadets can...

BRYAN, Texas (AP) - A Texas A&M University student who had been feared murdered after disappearing nearly seven years ago has been found alive and working in Kentucky, according to authorities. Brandi Stahr went missing in October 1998, and police spent hours searching for her body in wooded areas. They questioned a serial rapist and murderer about her just hours before he was executed last year. But a telephone tip led investigators to Florence, Ky., where Stahr has been working for the last five years at a Sam's Club, said Texas Ranger Frank Malinak. "We thought we were dealing with...

One year ago, I wrote a piece exposing radical Islam within Florida Atlantic University (FAU). My goal was twofold: [1] to bring awareness concerning a growing problem within FAU [2] to push the university to take action so that this problem ceases to exist. Unfortunately, only the first part of my goal was accomplished, as FAU is continuing to allow radicals on its campus, the latest being this Saturday'S (Jan.22, 2005) return engagement of potential co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj. The Enemy Thrives at FAU In recent times, a fairly large list of...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - A team of French and American researchers has successfully cloned a horse, Texas A&M University officials announced Wednesday. The foal was named Paris Texas. The university believes it's the first successful cloned horse in North America; horses have previously been cloned in Italy. "Look at him, he's gorgeous," Katrin Hinrichs, the lead scientist on the project said just before the six-week-old, light brown foal made his public debut. He whinnied and walked up to several photographers who snapped his picture. "He's very bold," said Hinrichs, a professor at Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine. She also...

[VHFCN] Real news from Iraq Went to an AUSA dinner last night at the Ft. Hood Officers' Club to hear a speech by MG Pete Chiarelli, CG of the 1st Cav Div. He and most of the Div. have just returned from Iraq. Very informative and, surprise, the Mainstream Media (MSM) isn't telling the story. I was not there as a reporter, didn't take notes but I'll make some the points I remember that were interesting, suprising or generally stuff I had not heard before. It was not a speech per se. He just walked and talked, showed some slides...

Aggie astronaut ready for launch By BRETT NAUMAN Eagle Staff Writer Michael Fossum had all but abandoned his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut when he entered Texas A&M University in the late 1970s. But an unlikely decision during his first days as an Aggie sent his life on a path that eventually led him to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Now, the astronaut is poised to make his first journey into space. Fossum, a member of A&M’s Class of 1980, is expected to board a space shuttle in July that will fly NASA’s second shuttle mission since the Columbia tragedy...