1970 Aggie Bonfire Stack & Burn

[antipodeaninterloper]

I understand college and school tradition, but this seems to me to be the most wasteful use of resources. Not just the trees and fuel, but the thousands of hours of efforts students commit to this. Your efforts would be very welcome if used for some sort of community service.

[EvansLibraryTAMU]

@antipodeaninterloper

You would be correct, but actually Texas A&M is host to and created the Big Event, a community service project for the Bryan College Station area, "

[EvansLibraryTAMU]

@antipodeaninterloper And here is the official description, "The Big Event provides the students of Texas A&M University with the opportunity to say "Thank You" to the community. This past year, over 15,600 students volunteered to complete almost 1,500 jobs. Already the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation, The Big Event has expanded to 75 other schools across the nation.

[huntnpb]

@antipodeaninterloper in addition to The Big Event, A&M also has participated in "Replant" since the early '80s and still continues today

[hahuhnke]

Rude

[MrCoal11]

it was the disaster of 1999 not 2001

[Oldag75]

This is the same thing I saw, as a Corps member, during autumns 1971 - 1974.

The Bonfire simply got too big and ornate, later -- which led to its collapse that night.

[dmccanlies]

Fuck you,. dumbass!