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Dear Anonymous Professor:
You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.
We are the most depressed, anxious, suicidal, obese, addicted, and indebted generation in American history, and the first to be worse off than our parents. We are forced to take pointless courses, buy outrageously expensive textbooks for information freely available online, and serve as a captive audience in a system where everyone—from publishers, administrators, and banks to professors like you—profits while we drown in debt.
The numbers don’t lie: almost 40% of students drop out, burdened by loans but no degree. Half of those who graduate end up in jobs that never required a degree in the first place. A bachelor’s degree has become a $100,000 high school diploma.
What caused this collapse, you ask?
You and your ideologies did. You are no longer educating us to build, compete, and lead. You are indoctrinating us to deconstruct, resent, and surrender.
In economics, you promote Marx and Keynesian financialization, offshoring, and money printing—policies that make homes unaffordable and force us to work two jobs just to pay bills. You omit Austrian School economists like Mises and Hayek, who defended the free markets that built the unprecedented prosperity we enjoy today. You smear capitalism as “oppressive” while pushing the actually oppressive redistribution schemes that have failed everywhere they’ve been tried.
In psychology, you idolize Alfred Kinsey as the father of the sexual revolution and John Money as the one who coined the word “gender” as separate from sex. Yet you never tell us that Kinsey gathered data from pedophiles who abused babies, and that Money’s theory was founded on his experiments with the Reimer twins, both of whom committed suicide from the trauma.
In literature, you replace Shakespeare, Dickens, and Dante with a racist DEI quota system, choosing books based on race and victimhood instead of merit. The more “marginalized” the author, the less their work is critiqued and the more you celebrate it.
In sociology, you force-feed us feminism, an ideology that teaches women to resent men, motherhood, and family. You glorify Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan but hide the inconvenient truth: that single, childless women are the unhappiest demographic, while married women in Christian households report the highest life and sexual satisfaction.
In history, you teach that slavery was America’s unique sin, ignoring that it was universal until White Christian nations abolished it first. You never mention the 600,000 Americans who died ending it, the Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron that liberated 150,000 slaves, or that slavery still thrives in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
In philosophy, you prioritize Marx, Freud, and Foucault—the philosophers of disorder—over Aristotle, Aquinas, and Locke, who built the foundations of virtue, natural law, and liberty. You conveniently leave out that the philosophical purpose of freedom is to do what is good, not to do whatever we want.
In political science, you present the genocidal failures of Marxism, socialism, and communism as “viable alternatives” for academic debate, while downplaying the brilliant, liberty-ensuring architecture of our Constitution. You dismiss foundational mechanisms like the separation of powers and the Electoral College as archaic flaws, and ignore the wisdom of the Federalist Papers, because you are racist toward the White Christian males who authored them.
In the sciences, you deny the biological reality of sex, even though every single one of the 60 trillion cells in the human body is either male or female, and no amount of hormones can change that. Instead of helping people with body image and mental health issues, you promote their permanent and irreversible mutilation to virtue signal.
And we could go on. But the bitter irony is that you stand on the shoulders of the giants who built this country, this state, and this university, using your cushy job to spit on their legacy and the values that have given you everything you enjoy today. You take parents’ life savings and teach their kids to hate them, their faith, and their heritage, causing fights over Thanksgiving dinner.
You aren’t teaching us how to think; you’re teaching us what to think. You turned a marketplace of ideas, where each side is supposed to be heard equally, into an indoctrination camp where only the approved party line is parroted. You created the first generations in world history without love for their God, their family, or their country—and then wonder why they’re miserable.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, and our competitors teach their engineers calculus and physics, not gender studies and wokeness. They laugh at us as they dominate in AI, energy, and manufacturing.
So why are you scared when taxpayers demand a return to excellence? Why fear being recorded? What are you teaching that can’t stand scrutiny? Lobotomies and eugenics were once taught, too. The gender unicorn is just the current pseudoscience.
You’re not scared of politicians. You’re scared of losing your six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary because your indoctrination model is failing. What you’re seeing around you is a call on Texas A&M, the nation’s universities, and the West to become once more the leader of the educational world, as it is the leader of the free world. We need engineers, not ideologues: builders, not critics.
We need more Charlie Kirks, not more Ibram X. Kendis. We are your customers, your bosses, and your product is broken. Don’t gaslight us for demanding a better one.
Justino Russell
Texas A&M Student
P.S. I want to defend the truth, so I’ll sign my name. If you were teaching the truth, why didn’t you sign with yours?
The Rudder Association Supports Decision for
New Leadership at Texas A&M University

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, September 19th, 2025 - The Rudder Association (TRA), a group of dedicated Aggies committed to preserving and perpetuating the Core Values and unique spirit of Texas A&M fully supports the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents in their decision to seek new leadership for the Office of the President, Texas A&M University.
We respect President Welsh’s long and distinguished history of public service and recognize that the university has undergone significant reforms in recent years. Under his administration, we made further strides with respect to restoring merit culture and public accountability.
Nearly two years ago we publicly questioned the appointment of then interim President Welsh to the permanent presidency. We were troubled by a pattern of actions and statements which were typical of a DEI ideology. We were also concerned that his views on institutional shared governance might not prioritize the citizens of Texas and Aggie students as the primary stakeholders on our flagship campus. Those original questions have persisted and in recent days only grown.
A student expressing legitimate concerns about the appropriateness and legality of transgender ideology being infused into the training of elementary school teachers was dismissed from the class and then treated dismissively by President Welsh. Our classrooms should be marketplaces of ideas, inquiry, and discourse. But they should not be instruments of authoritarian indoctrination.
While the removal of the professor and reassignment of the department head and dean for related systemic failures were appropriate responses, these seem to have been made by President Welsh only under duress. We did not have full confidence that his audit of other courses for similar hidden agendas would be sufficiently vigorous to restore stakeholder trust.
We agreed with President Welsh on the importance of inculcating our students with the knowledge and skills needed to practice good citizenship. Yet to help lead this initiative, he elevated the architect of the scheme to hire an advocate of DEI and viewpoint discrimination to head our journalism department.
The past two years have also been some of the most tumultuous in the nearly 150-year history of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, which has now marched decisively away from the 3,000 member goal. We commend the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents for identifying and selecting promising new leadership for this critical institution.
Further, we were dismayed by his lack of response to the campus assassination of Charlie Kirk who we recently hosted on our campus to great acclaim. His voice was violently silenced for simply expressing mainstream conservative views which are intolerable to the illiberal left. He was a champion of free speech and civil discourse and was perhaps the most beloved figure on college campuses today. Our students are grieving this painful loss. Yet their president did not attend their vigils, did not reach out to affected students, and did not even condemn the heinous act.
Texas A&M University deserves a president who will uphold the standards expected by the Aggie family out of personal conviction rather than reactively under public pressure. We support the Chancellor and Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System in the process of identifying such a leader.
We are potentially at a turning point on our campuses and in our culture. Our universities should be places where timeless truths and new discoveries are illuminated through civil dialogue and empirical methods in the service of their stakeholders—not distorted in the service of any ideological agenda. A course correction in higher education is long overdue and Texas A&M is well positioned to lead in this moment. We have full confidence in our system leadership to identify such a leader as the next president of our beloved university.
The President and Board of Directors
The Rudder Association
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