'Now Texas A&M is Another Institution in That List of Cowards'

Last week, we ran an opinion piece by Observer contributor Austin Zook , an alumnus of Texas A&M University.

In his piece, Zook reckoned with the flagging pride he felt in the aftermath of news from his alma mater making national headlines — a professor named Melissa McCoul was the subject of a viral video in which McCoul gets into a disagreement with a student while teaching a lesson on gender studies.

ICYMI (and who could blame you, given the whiplash of news these days): McCoul was fired, and administrators Mark Zoran and Emily Johansen were stripped of their administrative duties by A&M President Mark Welsh after the video made its rounds. However, audio from a conversation between Welsh and the same student was released, in which Welsh initially tells the student that McCoul