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Little has pointed out something that is at the heart of A&M: The Aggie Family is very important. Former students, parents, siblings and friends are all part of this wonderful, supportive, cohesive group. Bonfire isn't about a pep rally or game. It is an event that builds character as well as comraderie. Aggies will, indeed, give their all for one another. Thank you for your positive article...
Further, to call Bonfire an "excessive, unnecessary waste of natural resources" is far from correct as well. Alumni or citizens of College Station usually give up part of their land that they want to be deforested, and so these trees would have been cleared anyway. As for the burning of a 55 foot high stack of logs, the ecological damage is a tiny fraction of the damage done in a few hours by the refineries and chemical companies along the South coast of Texas, and I do not think we should get rid of those either...
...university has a responsibility to educate," he said. "Part of that responsibility is providing an environment where learning can occur. That includes libraries, labs, classrooms, but also safe, secure dorms...
...part, HUPD is upset...
...conclusion that the world, and the WTO negotiations, are a mix of principle and cynicism is pretty commonplace, but takes us only part of the way to understand the complexity of the debates in Seattle. There are a series of truly unsolved problems. Anti-WTO activists are wrong, as a point of fact, to see the WTO as a faceless bureaucracy setting the world's rules, but they are right that the negotiating process, by which the U.S. and other countries bargain over trade standards, is opaque and mostly hidden from view. Its not the WTO's bureaucracy...