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.
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"Bonfire didn't build the Aggie spirit, the Aggie spirit built bonfire."
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't about watching it burn, it was about building it.
I'm a recent grad of A&M who was never on campus to see Bonfire burn or get built. When I hear older Ags talk about what it was like to go toStack and Cut......I don't know....t all seems so foreign to me.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if a future Bonfire isn't controlled by students. We could do a safer version where Zachry or somebody does all the actual stacking of logs. Let students cut and help unload. And then, let's get together and burn it. We need something like that, something that will bring us together.