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The Battalion

The Student News Site of Texas A&M University - College Station

The Battalion

The intersection of Bizzell Street and College Avenue on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.
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Duke forward Cooper Flagg during a visit at a Duke game in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Flagg is one fo the top recruits in Dukes 2025 class. (Photo courtesy of Morgan Chu/The Chronicle)
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Coming out of high school, Cooper Flagg has been deemed a surefire future NBA talent and has been compared to superstars such as Paul George...

Bob Rogers, holding a special edition of The Battalion.
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Shalina SabihJuly 15, 2024

In his various positions, Professor Emeritus Bob Rogers laid down the stepping stones that student journalists at Texas A&M walk today, carving...

The referees and starting lineups of the Brazilian and Mexican national teams walk onto Kyle Field before the MexTour match on Saturday, June 8, 2024. (Kyle Heise/The Battalion)
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Ian Curtis, Sports Reporter • July 24, 2024

As I wandered somewhere in between the Brazilian carnival dancers and luchador masks that surrounded Kyle Field in the hours before the June...

From Thomas Echols, senior mechanical engineering major

To the Battalion Editorial Board: What fantasy world do you live in, where homicidal maniacs actually follow the law? You say that students should be as safe outside on campus as inside a building: They already are. Nothing stopped Tooley from entering the library with his loaded weapon, and short of posting a SWAT team at the entrance, nothing will ever stop similar behavior. I doubt anyone inside felt very safe. Why would such a person care about a law that disallows loaded weapons outdoors when they already completely disregard the law regarding the same action indoors? Do you think such a law is enforceable? Imagine the trouble and expense necessary in setting up police checkpoints executing full vehicular and personal searches upon anyone wishing to go on campus. Short of such draconian measures, all the law does is disarm the law-abiding citizens who pose no threat whatsoever. Violence cannot always be prevented by the authorities; they cannot be everywhere at once. They cannot guarantee of your personal protection. As they say, “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

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