This podcast contains comments from Texas A&M faculty senate speaker Dale Rice and student body president Natalie Parks during the faculty senate's February 14, 2022 meeting.

The February meeting of the Texas A&M faculty senate included comments that criticized university president Katherine Banks decision to end the print edition of The Battalion student newspaper.

On February 10, Banks notified The Battalion to cease the print edition immediately. The following day, Banks issued a news release stating print editions could continue until the end of the spring semester.

The president also informed The Battalion that the newspaper would be moved to A&M's expanded journalism department, ending its status as a student organization.

On February 14, student body president Natalie Parks and faculty senate speaker Dale Rice, who is an associate professor of journalism, criticized Banks decision.

After Parks and Rice spoke at the faculty senate meeting, Banks issued a statement on her stating the working group that is developing the new journalism department will add two students from The Battalion and an undisclosed number of unidentified "media experts".

Copy and paste the following link to read the president's statement: https://president.tamu.edu/messages/feb-14-journalism-working-group-to-include-additional-representatives.html