Students Turn Laughter Into Gold With Satire, Song

Texas A&M’s satirical publication, The Mugdown, also launched a competitive campaign this season, encouraging students to write them in wherever possible. Across all the elections, The Mugdown racked up more than 3,500 votes, including winning a few seats, but was disqualified from each position.

Students at The Mugdown decided to put their non-campaign to use by donating funds to Twin City Mission, a local non-profit organization, with the help of an anonymous donor.

Student-led production nearly sells out two showings in one-day run.

What started out as a spoof has become reality. The student-produced Corps of Cadets: The Musical is showing on Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.

Blending music, humor and bizarre characters with one of Texas A&M’s most respected institutions, the upcoming student production Corps of Cadets: The Musical is expected to present audiences with an uncommon combination.

Six Yell candidates answer humorous, serious questions.

Experiences in the Corps of Cadets served as the basis for a musical comedy for cadet Robert Bannon.

One year and more than 500,000 hits on their website later, the seniors of The Mugdown — an anonymous satirical student-run newspaper — released their names to the public via social media.

Propaganda-style signs riffing on the relationship between the Corps of Cadets and fraternities went rampant on social media. Students took to Facebook and Twitter claiming the perpetrators of these signs were not “real Aggies.” The Corps of Cadets said the cartoons displayed on the signs did not align with the organization’s core values. The Mugdown, a satirical outlet, claimed responsibility.