Those who want to bring it back are not talking about succumbing to the same risky free-for-all that contributed to and ultimately CAUSED the deaths.
If you cannot forsee a bonfire that is safe and student run, then you are not giving credit to the Aggie spirit of Innovation.
What happened was and is a tragedy. But NO ONE is advocating go back down that road.
There have a number of alternative ideas, many of them well-thought out and ultimately SAFE even without considerable supervision.
No one wants to see Bonfire come back to endanger another class of Aggies. But, apparently, there are plenty of Aggies, old and new, who want to be part of the Tradition, with sensible reforms, that their voice should not be discounted in the name of, quite frankly, knee-jerk naysaying.
As for why I am against off-campus bonfire - all it takes is for one person to be seriously hurt (and the community to find about it) and this debate becomes infinitely more complicated almost to the point of futility.
Further, all that energy being put into off-campus bonfire allows the University to fool itself into thinking that they have put this fire out.
IT SHOULD BURN
