| 02/25/2001 Bill seeks to help bonfire victims
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The families of some of the victims of the Texas A&M University bonfire tragedy are keeping a close eye on legislation that would clear the way for them to sue the school. 02/12/2001 Student role reduced for 2002 bonfire
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The building of next year's bonfire at Texas A&M University will be more like a professionally managed construction project than the student-controlled undertaking of years past. 01/18/2001 A&M seeks engineers for bonfire
Texas A&M University officials have started to search for a professional engineering firm to design the university's 2002 bonfire. 11/21/2000 Aggies feel A&M campus not the same this year without bonfire
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – To many at Texas A&M University, campus life wasn't as bright this year because there would be no bonfire Wednesday night. 11/19/2000 Thousands attend events marking 1999 A&M tragedy
COLLEGE STATION – Hours after a remembrance in honor of the victims of the fatal bonfire collapse here last year, people continued to visit the site where a lone memorial flame burned. Stoic father keeps A&M son's memory alive
The cold, seeping rain provided another opportunity for Mike Self to be strong for others as he's done unfailingly in the weeks and months since the accident. But the haunting memorial didn't provide him with the emotional release he both expected and feared. A year later, Aggies' memories of Bonfire tragedy still fresh
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M wide receiver Greg Porter remembers the day the Aggies football team forgot about football. 11/18/2000 Bonfire victims' families join others at A&M service
COLLEGE STATION - The only light at the site of the bonfire collapse early Saturday morning was that of the hundreds of candles that burned in memory of the 12 Aggies who died and the 27 others who were injured here a year ago. Victim's memory lives on
In the year since her son Chad died in the bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University, Jill Powell has made many a trip back to College Station. It never gets any easier, she said, but her family planned to attend the early Saturday memorial service. 11/17/2000 2:42 a.m. tribute to honor victims of bonfire collapse
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M University will mark the first anniversary of last year's deadly bonfire collapse with a candlelight memorial at 2:42 a.m. Saturday – one year to the moment after the log stack toppled, killing 12 Aggies. 11/12/2000 A&M remembers victims of bonfire collapse
AUSTIN – When 12 young people perished and 27 were injured in the early-morning collapse of the Texas A&M bonfire nearly a year ago, distraught Aggies rallied around each other like a family. Eventually, they began to fight like one. Texas A&M bonfire tradition 10/30/2000 Rescuer who helped bonfire victims honored
COLLEGE STATION – A lumber company employee who worked for hours to remove logs from the deadly Texas A&M bonfire collapse has received a national award for his heroism. 10/28/2000 Bonfire plans off, A&M students say
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A student-led group at Texas A&M University on Friday scrapped plans to burn an off-campus bonfire this year, relieving administrators who enacted a two-year moratorium on the tradition after last year's deadly log collapse. 10/24/2000 Texas A&M to mark moment of tragedy
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M University will conduct a memorial ceremony one year to the moment after 12 Aggies died when the annual bonfire stack collapsed during construction Nov. 18. 09/10/2000 Leaders of '99 bonfire steadfast in opposition to off-campus event
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Two top leaders of the 1999 Aggie bonfire say they are "hell bent" against plans to build an off-campus stack this fall. 09/09/2000 State warns students on bonfire
AUSTIN – Builders of the Texas A&M bonfire broke state engineering laws and another group of students could be ordered by a judge not to construct a similar log stack off-campus this fall, a state agency ruled Friday. 08/29/2000 Alternate bonfire is described
HOUSTON – Texas A&M students vying to hold an alternative bonfire off campus this fall, despite a two-year moratorium on the tradition after last year's deadly collapse, are promoting a modified log stack they claim is safer. 08/23/2000 Voice of tradition
PALESTINE, Texas – It was barely audible at first: a low rumble, escaping into the quiet East Texas wilderness. Then it was a deafening roar. With the intensity of a freight train, the sound of hundreds of screaming teenagers rolled like waves among the loblolly pines. 08/13/2000 Letter: Aggie bonfire 08/04/2000 Editorial: Aggie Bonfire
It is not difficult to understand why a group of current and former Texas A&M students would want to keep the annual Aggie Bonfire alive. But building an off-campus bonfire next fall that is not sanctioned by A&M officials would be a mistake. 08/03/2000 Bonfire group says A&M heavy-handed
Student leaders seeking to build an off-campus bonfire despite disapproval from the Texas A&M University administration accused officials Wednesday of engaging in "heavy-handed tactics" to block the project. 06/18/2000 Editorial: Bonfire
The usually boisterous crowd at the Texas-Texas A&M football game was unusually subdued the last time the two teams met. Still shaken from the collapse of the traditional bonfire that left 12 A&M students dead and 27 injured just over a week earlier, the record crowd of 86,128 was more emotional than it was raucous. 06/17/2000 Alternative to Bonfire discussed
Will Clark, a spokesman for Keep the Fire Burning, a group of students who collected more than 9,000 signatures in support of continuing the tradition, said he has heard much talk of a rebel Bonfire, but that idea is not being led or instituted by his organization. Families, victims praise Bowen's decision
The families of several Aggies who died or were injured in last fall's Bonfire collapse said they support the decision for the 90-year tradition to continue. Online discussions flare up following announcement
Calls for unity were largely drowned out by online sparring at a popular Aggie Web site following Friday's Bonfire announcement by Texas A&M University President Ray Bowen. Plans draw praise, dismay from students
Although students watching the announcement expected the administration to significantly alter future Bonfires, many were shocked at the scope of the changes including limiting it to a one-tier, scaled down teepee structure designed and supervised by professional engineers. Tragedy's images remain fresh, jarring
Dr. Ray Bowen's pledge to suspend the Aggie bonfire for two years and make it safer came as no surprise to those who experienced firsthand the horrors of bent and broken bodies among a stack of logs. 'Tough' call overhauls A&M bonfire
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – After six weeks of deliberations, Texas A&M president Ray Bowen on Friday canceled the annual Aggie bonfire until at least 2002 and ordered wholesale changes to make the project smaller, safer and easier to manage. 06/16/2000 Text of A&M president's statement
Here is the text of Texas A&M University President Ray Bowen's statement today:
Bonfire problems and planned solutions
Here's a look at some problems a special commission found with the Texas A&M bonfire and the university president's proposed remedies. Suspension of bonfire expected
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M bonfire will be suspended until at least 2002 and will return with much greater university oversight, A&M president Ray Bowen is expected to announce Friday. 06/15/2000 Bonfire needs a professional, board rules
AUSTIN – If Texas A&M continues its venerated but risky bonfire tradition, the annual project for the first time will have to be designed and overseen by a licensed professional engineer, not students, state officials said Wednesday. 05/31/2000 A&M panel wants Bonfire changed or abolished
A faculty senate panel is urging Texas A&M University president Ray Bowen to abolish or drastically change Bonfire.
05/19/2000 Bonfire crane crew is cleared by OSHA
Crane operators from H.B. Zachry were properly trained and operated their equipment safely before the Texas A&M bonfire collapsed, according to an investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 05/16/2000 State engineering board divided on bonfire inquiry, regulations
AUSTIN - Members of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers could not agree Monday whether the state agency should investigate last year's deadly collapse of the Texas A&M bonfire. 05/04/2000 Editorial: Bonfire report
There are myriad lessons from the collapse of the Texas A&M Bonfire in November, which killed a dozen students and injured 27 more. 05/03/2000 Full text of bonfire investigative reports
Here is the text of the investigative reports on the September collapse of the Texas A&M University bonfire. 05/02/2000 William E. Tucker Allan 'Bud' Shivers Jr. Hugh G. Robinson Leo E. Linbeck Jr. Veronica Kastrin Callaghan 04/26/2000 Aggies petition to preserve Bonfire
HOUSTON – Two Texas A&M students have started a petition drive to ensure that the university's annual Bonfire tradition continues after last year's collapse that killed 12 and injured 27. 02/18/2000 Aggie bonfire collapse: What we know so far
Here are highlights of what has been learned to date about the Aggie bonfire collapse through interviews, university records and expert analysis:
02/16/2000 Recuperating Comstock signs onto Internet from hospital bed to continue classes
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - John Comstock, partially paralyzed by the Nov. 18 Bonfire collapse, is taking Web-based classes from Texas A&M University while undergoing therapy at a Dallas hospital.
01/11/2000 Ropes on bonfire were cut, report says
Four of the eight ropes that stabilized the center pole of the Aggie bonfire were removed hours before the 60-foot log stack collapsed in November, according to an engineering report released Monday. |
