January 20 was more than Inauguration Day. It was the first day of the new semester in Aggieland. Nevertheless, President Elsa Murano—who as a Hispanic woman is not the typical Texas A&M chief executive—hosted faculty and students in the Zone Club at Kyle Field. It must have been a bitter pill for Aggie conservatives, who once threw eggs at a likeness of our President, to know the inauguration of a black president was broadcast into their “sacred” Kyle Field.
