# What are "Aggie values"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179 "2005-11-29T05:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/1 "2005-11-29T05:25:31Z")
[Apparently throwing horsecrap on a visting team is not consistent with them](http://www.theeagle.com/stories/112705/local_20051127008a.php), but it makes no mention as to what they are. What (specifcally) are “Aggie values”? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/2 "2005-11-29T05:51:13Z")
[James Baker says](http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/051003bakergraduation.htm) that they include loyalty, hard work, responsibility and service. TAMU started as an agricultural college and it used to be that every student had to be a member of the corps. There’s a strong sense of honor and loyalty to the schoool and corps. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/3 "2005-11-29T06:21:58Z")
You mean like for _x + y_? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/4 "2005-11-29T06:39:26Z")
Well, [here](http://student-rules.tamu.edu/rule24.htm)’s a link to the student conduct code. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/5 "2005-11-29T12:20:34Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > Well, [here](http://student-rules.tamu.edu/rule24.htm)’s a link to the student conduct code. “Quadding”? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/6 "2005-11-29T14:44:40Z")
> [@astro](#): > > “Quadding”? Quadding includes but is not limited to throwing a person into water or holding a student down and pouring water on him/her. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/7 "2005-11-29T14:48:16Z")
I’d venture a guess that Sullivan is going to regret that poor decision. When I was a student there, booing the other team wasn’t tolerated. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/8 "2005-11-29T16:01:58Z")
My wife’s late uncle Paul lived in Texas for many years, and he delighted in telling Aggie jokes, which were standard ignorant-rube ethnic jokes. He would have had half a dozen jokes to illustrate “Aggie Values.” The funny thing was, Paul was not a UT alum. He was a native Hoosier, and a Ball State alum. He was a marvelous, witty man, and we miss him. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/9 "2005-11-29T18:08:23Z")
Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when A&M was an all male, all ROTC kind of place, stories about horrendous hazing there were common. My gay cousin was forced to attend A&M by his father; ostensibly to “make a man of him.” It made a nervous wreck of him instead. From what I remember, that wasn’t an uncommon condition among Freshmen on that campus. ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/10 "2005-11-29T18:22:07Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > I’d venture a guess that Sullivan is going to regret that poor decision. When I was a student there, booing the other team wasn’t tolerated. Booing still isn’t tolerated - isn’t that what the “horse laugh” is all about? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/11 "2005-11-29T18:27:00Z")
Seems like Not Tolerating Things is shaping up as an Aggie value. Also [all-male boot fetish activity](http://www.hotboots.com/senaggie.html). ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/12 "2005-11-29T19:09:29Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Seems like Not Tolerating Things is shaping up as an Aggie value. > > Also [all-male boot fetish activity](http://www.hotboots.com/senaggie.html). What does that have to do with not tolerating? There are currently women in the Corps, true they weren’t allowed in originally and couldn’t wear the boots until [1979](http://aggietraditions.tamu.edu/boots.shtml), but they are in the Corps now. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/13 "2005-11-29T21:36:52Z")
> [@gooftroopag](#): > > What does that have to do with not tolerating? Why should it - what’s the cherry got to do with a banana split? ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-aggie-values/333179/14 "2005-11-29T22:03:25Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Why should it - what’s the cherry got to do with a banana split? I don’t like cherries, so a cherry has nothing to do with my banana split! 😃