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It has been nearly a month since Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order which removed Texas’s mask mandate and allowed businesses to open their doors to customers at 100 percent capacity. Because the government forced businesses to lower their capacity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the move to fully reopen was met with joy from many small business owners and pushback from many well-known Texans who oppose the governor lifting the restrictions. The issue with both the mask mandate and reduced business capacity is not their effectiveness in slowing the pandemic’s spread, b...

I am inevitably going to die someday. I want to live a long and healthy life surrounded by family and friends. However, during every waking moment I live in this country, the opportunity of living a long life looks unattainable. America has shown me time and time again that Black people exist as a nightmare to the American dream, and it is only a matter of time before this country kills me. Being Black in America has certain elements that would seem too far-fetched for a horror movie. It has become an uncomfortable reality that I could be killed in broad daylight with witnesses around me, and...

© Akane Shimizu / Kodansha / Aniplex / David Production The winter 2021 anime series Cells at Work is getting its home video release handled by Aniplex Japan and they’ve set their standard style release for it. The eight-episode series is getting a four-volume release that began on February 3rd, 2021. With the third set coming up on April 7th, 2021, we now have the cover artwork for it. The discs are priced between 4,000 yen to 6,800 yen on Blu-ray as the episode count per disc is set at 1/2/3/2. The DVDs are priced 1,000 yen cheaper overall. The feature film is scheduled for a March 24th...

Let's begin.  The beating heart of this ordinance is that it would disallow more than two unrelated individuals to live together in newly built homes if “50 [percent] plus one” of property owners in their respective neighborhoods agree to its adoption. This policy will hurt future students because most Aggies that live together are not related, even under the new definition of family the city council passed in January.  Granted, students will not be immediately kicked out if the ROO passes in their neighborhood thanks to a grandfather provision. However, that isn’t suffic...

Following similar actions from other Texas schools, Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork announced on Feb. 23 the university plans to have full attendance at home games for the 2021 college football season. Granted, even with these announcements, there is the strong possibility of continued COVID-19 restrictions such as a mandatory mask requirement. Additionally, Bjork was clear that full attendance is a plan subject to future changes. However, the school should work toward the goal of allowing full capacity in the fall of 2021. Hopefully, by A&M’s first home game on Sept. 4, most of A...