COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M cadet Greg Hood, who created a furor by waving his saber threateningly at a Southern Methodist University cheerleader, has been suspended for the remainder of the fall semester.
Hood, a senior from Dallas, said he was acting as an Aggie when he rushed onto Kyle Field during a football game and brandished his saber.
'Fellow Aggies have stood behind me, even though I was wrong in what I did,' Hood said Monday between sessions of the hearing that resulted in his suspension.
Late in the second quarter of the Oct. 31 game, following an SMU touchdown, the school's male cheerleaders ran onto the Astroturf to spell out 'SMU.'A&M tradition prohibits visiting cheerleaders from going onto the playing surface.
Hood, the officer of the day and therefore responsible for the general behavior of the Aggie student body, rushed onto the field after the SMU cheerleaders, brandished his saber and thrust it threatenly at one of them. Another SMU cheerleader knocked Hood down before Texas A&M security officers and one Aggie football player stopped the scuffle.
