Some may boast of prowess bold, of the schools they think so grand, but there’s a spirit can ne’er be told, it’s the Spirit of Aggiela … Wait, what’s wrong here?

It appears as though Aggie spirit has swept SMU. In fact, the editorial board can hear “Hook ‘Em Horns” floating across the main quad as well. Is that a Stanford shirt you’ve got on? What about that Carolina blue dangling from your key chain? Surely that’s not a Tarheel! So your brother went to Duke? Save the T-shirt for the Dubliner Thursday night – you might even impress the ladies. But do not promote a university you do not attend.

When was the last time you saw SMU paraphernalia splashed across campus? You see the occasional car sticker, but those are usually dwarfed by fraternity crests and sorority letters. A T-shirt can be spotted every now and then, but usually on the back of a first-year. The administration would like to think of us as the Harvard of the South, but that is still no reason to wear that Ivy League T-shirt.

But students cannot be held completely responsible for the lack of fashionable school spirit. It seems the bookstore carries more SMU clothing in colors other than the red and the blue than they do in that patriotic palette we know so well. And the editorial board will be the first to admit that SMU administration does little to promote school spirit on campus. But that is no excuse for wearing a different school’s baseball cap to class. What kind of message does that send to visitors on campus? How about to the people who live and work in the Park Cities?

It’s time students took school spirit into their own hands. A sorority member wouldn’t wear another sorority’s T-shirt to class, so why do students wear UCLA visors and Columbia sweatshirts? Be proud of the university you chose to attend and wear that red and blue.