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R. Bowen Loftin, interim president at A&M, issued a statement Wednesday suggesting Bonfire is unlikely to return.
“I think it would take an extraordinarily large amount of interest on the part of our students for us to consider building Bonfire on campus again,” Loftin said in the statement. “I don't hear the students rising up and demanding it. To have (the Bonfire accident) happen to you one time is something that you can get past. If you did it again, and it happened again, you have no way to excuse yourself.”
Student body president Kolin Loveless said returning Bonfire to the campus should be a decision made with a lot of input from students.
“I think ultimately, for Bonfire to come back, it would need to come from students,” Loveless said.
“Some students do want to see Bonfire return,” said Mark Womack, a junior from Deer Park. “There's a lot of different opinions. ... It's a very touchy issue.”
But most students agree any decision should consider the feelings of the families of students killed or injured in the 1999 collapse, Womack said. And they don't want it taken over by an engineering firm or other outside group, he said.
