I should have been working, but I decided to write a letter to Dr. Murano.

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Dr. Murano,

First and foremost I would like to congratulate you on attaining such a
high and prestigious post, and overcoming the adversities that your surely
faced. Becoming the first female and minority in office at A&M is a huge
accomplishment, but I am sure you do not need me to tell you that. Allow
me to introduce myself, my name is XXXXX XXXXX and I am senior accounting
major here at A&M, and am currently working on my masters in finance. In
addition to expressing my well wishes I have a question that may be hard
to answer.

Will there ever be a possibility of reviving Bonfire? I know with the on
going lawsuits and what not it may be hard to comment on it, but is there
a chance under your office much less in my lifetime I will ever get to
witness a Texas Aggie Bonfire? I am sure that you have received countless
emails much like my own asking that you consider reinstating this vital
tradition, but if I could take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to
shed some light as to why this would increase A&M's marketability as well
as improve on campus morale.

Since the fall of Bonfire, A&M has seen a large exodus of students leaving
on-campus housing for apartments and houses. A large part of that was the
pride people took in representing their housing facility in the
construction of Bonfire. There are still allusions to Bonfire in a few
hall's yells, for example the "Walton Loads" yell that has been made
famous during football games. I believe that if Bonfire would make its way
back onto campus it would prove to be profitable for the university as
well as restore the sense of pride that seemed to emanate from each
building on campus.

In addition to rejuvenating the students, I believe that the reinstatement
of Bonfire would prove to be a deciding factor for high school seniors
choosing to further their education. Since the absence of Bonfire, this
past decade I have heard countless stories about Bonfire and how
spectacular the whole experience was. With each first hand account I
became more and more enthralled with Bonfire and hoped that one day I
could see one for myself. I believe kids that have heard these stories
from parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts will develop the same desire
to be apart of this amazing event, and will choose Texas A&M over other
certain state universities.

There is no doubt that long after we are all gone your legacy here at
Texas A&M will be one of great impact. I urge you to leave your mark as a
leader that thought outside the box and was not afraid to take chances,
and reinstate Bonfire.

Thanks & Gig 'Em
XXXXX XXXXX '09

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I am senior accounting
major here at A&M, and am currently working on my masters in finance

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do things work differently in finance?

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will develop the same desire to be apart of this amazing event

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Amazing how different in meaning the word "apart" and "a part" are.

I like the sentiments. I suggest you get an English major give it a grammatical scrubbing before sending.

Trust me, Bonfire on campus is never coming back. Never. Let it go.

Incoming...

He's a PPA student TR...duh

and i would highly suggest NOT SENDING THIS TO HER. who are you? and why would she care about what you, individually, have to say? i imagine that she has a trillion other things to be concerned with at this moment rather than "reviving bonfire."

so, I guess that's a snooty "yes"?

yea who cares about the little guy!

There's a spirit can ne'er be told
It's the Spirit of Aggieland.

We will never forget 11.18.1999
BTHO Bonfire

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Since the fall of Bonfire, A&M has seen a large exodus of students leaving
on-campus housing for apartments and houses.

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Unless I'm mistaken, every dorm was filled this fall semester.

That logic does not jive with his argument.

Civil, you are mistaken. Most may have been mostly full but I know for a fact of some half empty or completely empty rooms.

while the dorms are still filling up... nobody is staying on campus anymore...

Murano is probably reading this, seriously considering bringing back Bonfire, right now!

What can it hurt?

I don't think it will be back either, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

any word on this? did you send it? did she reply? update pwease

No doubt it my mind that ever since she's received it she's been holed up in her office mulling this ever so critical and already pivotal decision in her presidency.

All I know is in 2000 (the year after Bonfire fell) there was rumors about how full the dorms are that a few unlikely people might even be assigned temporarily three to a room.

I have not heard of that since. Of course they are now facing much more off-campus private dorm competition, which probably has more to do with dorm occupancy levels than Bonfire does.

[This message has been edited by Aston04 (edited 2/25/2008 1:02a).]

I would point more towards the fact that they will do bonfire off campus anyways. Would it not be safer if they did it on campus, with all the safety and oversight the university can provide?

On-campus housing was just about at capacity this year, I believe. Havn't seen an empty room yet. Know a few people who started out in closets!

You have alot of speculation in that letter, and, I don't think that'd work too well.

[This message has been edited by TXAggie2011 (edited 2/25/2008 2:12a).]

As to the off campus housing issue as well, you have to consider the quality of off campus housing these days and how the gal is widening between on campus vs off. I wasn't here in '99 or '00, but what was the nicest place to live off campus? Now we're surrounded with the Callaways, the Woodlands, The Heights, etc...

The dorms may or may not be near capacity, but capicity has gone WAY down in recent years. A lot of spots were taken up with the increase of private rooms, laundry rooms, lounges, apartments, kitchens, etc. FHK is a great example.

On campus housing is decreasing because the dorms are the suck. We need to build more on campus "village" type housing. See: Baylor.

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On campus housing is decreasing because the dorms are the suck. We need to build more on campus "village" type housing. See: Baylor.

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On campus housing is increasing. hth. baylor sucks. hth.

How do you figure on campus housing is getting better? And don't tell me it's because of "new furniture"

Baylor may suck, but the new buildings they've built and the new residence halls most definitely do not suck. hth.

i'm with dallas ag on this one. he's older. he must know more stuff.

but seriously, i agree. haha.

Man, it sucks realizing that this year will be six years since I graduated. I did manage to hit up grad school which lasted me until 2006, but it wasn't at A&M.

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this year will be six years since I graduated

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Child.

you're just super old, kip

As much as I would like to deny it, Jayci, I am super old.

Thankfully, there are some older people on this board.

[This message has been edited by madeye03 (edited 3/31/2008 3:14p).]

How many of these types of letters do you think that each respective president has received? Hundreds? Thousands?

If a letter was going to change anything...it would have already been done.

Litigation is the hold-up here, and it will remain so until resolved.

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The dorms may or may not be near capacity, but capicity has gone WAY down in recent years. A lot of spots were taken up with the increase of private rooms, laundry rooms, lounges, apartments, kitchens, etc. FHK is a great example.

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Cain and Hotard are better examples.

And no new dorms have been built since 1989.