http://www.theeagle.com/am/Bonfire-debate-rages-on


"I don't think it's possible for it to come back," he said. "It has to be student-run and student-built. If it can't meet those criteria, then what's the point of doing it?"
Quote from Steve Humeniuk, a senior political science major


I always thought Aggies looked out for one another but after reading many of the stories today about bonfire I have to say I just don’t get it.

No one and I mean no wants to have another student get hurt much less lose their life due to work on bonfire.

To build a major bonfire on campus with and all the issues that come with that (insurance demands, construction companies, and environmental protest) it just does not seem to make sense.

What really bothers me it the all or nothing types like Humeniuk. If they can't have it their way they don’t want anyone to have it at all. That is B.S. in my book.

I could round up 10 friends in BCS, we could go out and pick up wood pallets behind local grocery stores, bring a flat bed trailer the football team and microphone to Duncan drill field and I would have 20,000 Aggies at bonfire site the night before the UT game. No one gets hurt, we set something on fire and the only people that are upset are the brown, red and puke pots who no longer have control of that little corner of the world. Sorry guys but Aggies want to burn some wood; we don’t want anyone to die. We just want to join together in the original sense of bonfire. Not the morphed and distorted version that took too many lives. Don’t let bonfire die out of the selfishness of the vocal minority.

PBR Street Gang

Welcome to “Outside the Quad”. On this blog we are going to look at all things Texas A&M with a focus on athletics. If you follow Aggie football, right now you know things are tough in The Bright Complex. Not since the early 1980’s has Aggie football hit the depths that currently grip the program.
Over the coming months this blog is going to look at the problems that currently have control over Mike Sherman’s football program.
In addition to the problems at Bright we will look at other issues at Texas A&M. Does the Governor have too much say in the personnel at Texas A&M? Should bonfire make a return appearance on campus? Does the long military history and culture at A&M keep its students and former students from asking tough questions about the future of their university? Should the corps of cadets make some major changes in its approach to recruiting prospective students? Are we still overly obsessed with UT?
As we discuss these issues the contributors to this blog will make one promise to its readers. There will be no personal attacks on any members of the leadership of our university. We will ask tough questions and express our opinions about our current state of affairs. We will also point out situations that might make some uncomfortable.
Looking at yourself in the mirror is hard at times. The contributors to “Outside the Quad” want Aggies everywhere to look at our issues with a different pair of glasses and consider the possibility that we might be taking the wrong approach. This will be fun and we hope to have a great exchange of ideas.
PBR Street Gang