because it was established under the morrill act of 1862, a&m was an all male military institution. the first thing it did was it provided public lands to the states in order to fund higher education. part of the act required that universities provide not only for the arts and sciences that most universities at the time were teaching, but to focus on agricultural and mechanical -- on the agricultural and mechanical engineering portions of education. in addition to that, it required universities to provide training in tactics, military tactics. so that is why a&m became what in 1876, a land-grant college that provided a corps of cadets to provide agricultural mechanical education along with military tactics. finally in 1964, a&m became a coed university. women were allowed to come here to texas a&m. and in 1965 the corps of cadets became an option. you were no longer required to be a member of the core. -- of the corps. in 1974, the first women joined the corps of cadets and it flourished ever since. today's population is 22% are female. we have 20% come from out-of-state. we have a