TABC Runs a Sting

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It's been a decade since area officers have had to deal with what used to be their largest roundup of alcohol offenders -- the evening of Aggie Bonfire. Police used to write between 100 and 125 tickets during that one night in November and would have to bring in at least 25 agents and officers to help work Bonfire, Field said.

The 1998 bonfire was the last to burn. The structure collapsed under construction in 1999, killing 12 Aggies and injuring 27. Another has not been built on campus since, though an off-campus bonfire burned late Saturday. It wasn't known late Saturday how many -- if any -- people were arrested in relation to alcohol and the event.

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so they have it on record if nothing else. I like how they didn't mention the goose eggs from the last two years...

im pretty sure that number is a big fat 0

Leave it to The Eagle to peddle BS.

what BS is being peddled here?

they threw in the "if any" so really not much... but they fail to mention the alcohol record of off campus bonfire while talking about how much drinking was done in the past... insinuating that the tradition continues...

Rest assured, if somebody had been hurt at Bonfire Saturday night, or if you folks had broken the law in any way, it would have been front-page news and the letters to the editor column would be full of denunciations for the next two weeks.

That you put on an alcohol-free, horse play-free, family-safe event with a professionally designed stack built under close supervision makes this a non-story for the news media.

That's especially true for The Eagle, which has been editorializing against Aggie Bonfire since at least the beginning of the 1990s, way before anyone figured out the previous operation was unsafe from a structural standpoint. (Drunken students were the big objection before 1999.)

I've had a personal conversation with the Eagle's lead editorial writer. He told me, in so many words, that there's nothing that can change editorial board's stance on Bonfire. It's simply too dangerous, in their view, regardless of whatever improvements you guys and gals claim to have made.

That nobody was arrested for drunkenness in the past three years is a fact with which they don't want to be confused.

[This message has been edited by Elides (edited 11/25/2008 5:12a).]

haha, so you're saying the Eagle is a liberal biased pinko commie rag?

You nailed it, Elides.

You want to read some 2%er crap pick up this book I just got done reading The Texas Aggie Bonfire by Irwin Zang. For someone born in raised in Aggieland and a grad, and someone who never worked on Bonfire he sure has a lot of opinions to throw around about some things that have nothing to do with Bonfire.

When did we as a Nation become such pansies?