Found this today on MSNBC video page in the NCAA Football section. Check it out:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32802706#32802706

With all of this "interest" in Bonfire, does anyone else wonder why there is not more people who come out to Student Bonfire? I like how he mentioned that thousands of student would be willing to work on it if it was on campus. I don't see how the location would make students willing to wake up early and work all day long. I guess we will have to just see.

Because the majority of the student-body lives off campus and the only crew that recruits them is the Hogs... and recruiting off campus is tough...


i feel that if student bonfire were to get more involved as a mass unit rather than the the units of the northside dorms, some corps outfits, Dunn, and OC; then more people would be inclined to get involved.

people have a tendency to get involved in things they see many people like them doing...

Good question redass. Do you happen to have a guess as to why Student Bonfire doesn't draw the same numbers as Aggie Bonfire did?

IMO student bonfire just doesn't have the pull like a sanctioned one. If the university was giving it's outward encouragement for the event and everything, I think you'd see much more involvement.

This is why I believe that before we make efforts at bringing it back on campus, we need to work on getting administration to lift the "stay away from that thing" from all affiliations as I have mentioned before (Parson's, Yell leaders, band, football team etc.).

This would bring much more support for the cause and build momentum for the persuasion to bring it back.

I agree with ya Brandon... I want it to be recognized... trying to bring it back all at once and thinking they will let the students run it is the result of Aggies drinking too much of the koolaid

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Good question redass. Do you happen to have a guess as to why Student Bonfire doesn't draw the same numbers as Aggie Bonfire did?

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Part of it is lack of information on the part of former students. I can't count how many former students that I've run into that don't know anything about Student Bonfire or have a very ill conceived notion of what it is and how it's being run from either the DMN, the Batt, etc. Any time I encounter these people, I go out of my way to explain all the changes that have been implemented to make the current version safer, and 99% of the time, they are amazed, surprised and inspired to find out more and see just what the heck we're doing.

As for current students, the University doesn't have to "sanction" it, but they don't have to go out of their way to keep people from attending with threatening RA's with their jobs if they attend, or scheduling mandatory CQ for the corps.

Crocker, I completely agree. I know firsthand how hard it is to tell people about student bonfire, and to recruit with the University breathing down your neck and watching your every move. That's why I feel that getting the University to atleast respect Student Bonfire as an Off-campus organization, and to let us recruit and spread the word about Bonfire, is the first step before anyone should even think about bringing it back to campus.

I noticed there was an absense of the "post flyers until they are tired of taking them down" campeign this year...

we got billboards...

but there are so many reasons we dont have the huge numbers like in the old days,
smaller, renegade off campus, no band, no yell leaders, threats of getting fired, "fake", "not the same", disrespectful, 2005 burn(i talked a lot of friends into going and then they never came back after that)...

a huge number of former students dont even know about it, and those that do generally have a skewed view of it based on what the school puts out.

current students generally dont know much about it other than "yeah but its not the same right?"
and a lot of people that do know about it have been turned off by the northside culture in general

I have to agree on the Northside culture. It smacks of Tceh and frats.

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I have to agree on the Northside culture. It smacks of Tceh and frats.

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I think you must be thinking of Southside.

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I like how he mentioned that thousands of student would be willing to work on it if it was on campus. I don't see how the location would make students willing to wake up early and work all day long.

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Well, there is quite a bit of advertising potential in Aggies having to drive past Stack on their way to classes/games.

But still, it's a minor issue compared to the University changing position from actively promoting Bonfire to active discouraging Bonfire.

And of course, Cut was off-campus to begin with.

There are two kinds of Aggies who discuss Student Bonfire's attendance: The ones who compare it to 1998 and the ones who compare it to 2001.

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Good question redass. Do you happen to have a guess as to why Student Bonfire doesn't draw the same numbers as Aggie Bonfire did?

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Is that a serious question?

Money? Support? Advertisement? Money?