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Though it may be impossible for outsiders to understand, the amazing solidarity of the A&M student body explains why mauled Aggies being carried away on stretchers from the collapsed bonfire repeatedly told reporters that they wanted the school to continue the tradition. To non-Aggies, the notion of using 7,000 trees and 125,000 man-hours to build a 55-foot bonfire for a football game is ludicrous, if not downright insane. But to Aggies, the bonfire represents the whole reason why they are at Texas A&M. Tradition is the very essence of Aggiedom...
...ritual will irreparably dampen school spirit, Texas A&M has weathered the banishment of past traditions without losing its school pride. In the '60s, university president Earl Rudder let in women and integrated minorities on campus for the first time. He also eliminated the requirement that the entire student body be in the Corps of Cadets. Even these groundbreaking changes, which altered the entire aim of the university, were not enough to stifle the enduring Aggie spirit. An end to the yearly bonfire, a comparatively minor change, would not be enough to stifle that spirit either...
Among speakers at the event were Rev. William Mathis, a Harvard Divinity School student and member of the corporate watchdog organization INFACT and Benjamin L. McKean '02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...needs to change...it's not just a matter of little country versus big country or environmentalists versus capitalists--it's about democracy," said Harvard Law student and PSLM member Aaron D. Bartley...
...They say that high school students are completely apathetic these days, that we simply don't care...but I'm here to tell you apathy is dead," declared Rainforest Action Network member and high school student Pepper Yelford...