Fatcat Alum
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08/09/01 03:18 PM
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Re: Demystifying the Bonfire Cult
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Fascinating to read the Aggies admit what a lot of people have been saying all along. I don't mean about the danger of the bonfire but rather of the strange and cultish attitudes.
I almost feel sorry for them, seeing the football team sink into mediocrity and losing something that meant a lot to a lot of different people.
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Tex83
08/09/01 03:57 PM
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What will fill the void left by the bonfire? I hadn't really thought about it, but College Station is such a hell hole that the bonfire was probably useful in soaking up dead time. The Chicken can hold only so many, and there are a finite number of cows to tip and other livestock to entertain.
The other really interesting question is how, or if, the ESPN sidelines show will portray the institutional wierdness at A&M. How will A&M deal with it? Will students be coached to tone it down? Or will ESPN generally choose 2%ers?
Hook 'em!
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Justinbadgerow
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08/09/01 09:30 PM
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"As pride in the accomplishments of the football team became harder to sustain, it is understandable that students began to take more pride in their Bonfire construction skills. Another and perhaps more important factor was the PAINFUL CHANGES that fundamentally altered the nature of TAMU in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps the most significant of these were: an end to toleration of old-army style hazing in the Corps of Cadets (late 1940s); the admission of civilians (1965), minorities (late 1960s), and large numbers of women (1973); rapid growth in the student population (which tripled between 1970 and 2000); and a greater emphasis on graduate education and research."
ok, so it's painful when you have to allow women and blacks attend your school and real hard not to haze anybody.... it's emotionally damaging i guess.... What a buncha redneck fools.....
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Ted
< 25 posts
08/09/01 10:43 PM
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Hilarious, thx.
http://www.ideaspot.net/flags/Big_XII/small/tu-sm.gif
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Brave Sir Robin
08/09/01 11:56 PM
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2nd paragraph: TAMU is affected by, among other biases, "a cultural bias hostile to critics. "
This will be news only to those outside Bryan/College Station.
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Sangre Naranjada
2500+ posts
08/10/01 03:09 AM
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Big Will,
Yes, I believe they DO reference the community spooge jar, albeit somewhat obliquely.
QUOTE: One additional reason for the emergence of dysfunctional practices and values must be noted, as it is relevant to the matter at hand. Members of an organization are themselves engaged in multiple projects when they participate in group activities. In all but a few malign instances, we may assume that organization members are committed to the goals of the organization and therefore place the needs of the organization before their own personal needs. But we should not assume that organization members have no personal needs or that they do not seek to satisfy personal needs in the workplace... (these) personal projects, being rooted in human psychology are not always rational.
Sounds like this pretty effectively addresses corps turds pissing on each other as well as the spooge jar, wouldn't you say?
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tropheus
500+ posts
08/10/01 06:51 PM
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"Because the old Bonfire was not rational or utilitarian, it was also for many students deeply romantic. The play of romance and imagination around Bonfire is immediately apparent to anyone who examines student reactions in the aftermath of the 1999 Bonfire colapse."
"Formal activities that cause otherwise self-consciousness individuals to terporarily merge into a collective or group consciousness are properly described as rituals, and such rituals . . . are at the heart of Aggie culture. . . participating in concordant yells . . . serve to make the group consciousness known as Aggie Spirit a reality"
So there we have it... men in overalls bending over and yelling in unison IS romantic for those in B/CS...
Seriously, I NEVER thought a fact finding commission would actually publish such a damning critique of Aggies. It must be Christmas time... what an amazing gift! The prose is so serious, yet the conclusions are so hilarious!
We DO understand it from the outside looking in, and we certainly don't want to be on the inside looking out!
THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL LONGHORN FANS!!!
Unbelievable!
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ProdigalHorn
500+ posts
08/10/01 08:58 PM
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I believe we have a classic on our hands...
"Bye weeks are for losers! Bronco Nagursky didn't get no bye weeks! And now he's dead!! ... OK, maybe they're a good thing."
- Moe Szyzlac
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tropheus
500+ posts
08/11/01 02:28 AM
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if it is made to be a classic, the report should be quoted in its entirety on this thread so that EVERY gem is preserved.
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anon
100+ posts
08/11/01 03:08 AM
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Now, the bonfire collapse is our fault -
"As pride in accomplishments of the football team became harder to sustain, it is understandable that students began to take pride in their Bonfire construction skills," the report says.
We started kicking their butt again, like the good old days, and they couldn't handle it. So, that's news?
<P>
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fk
100+ posts
08/11/01 05:53 PM
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Texas A&M...putting the cult in AgriCULTure!!
I'm surprised the report didn't include fire escape procedures for campus dorms.
Oklahoma...millions of people...not many last names!!!
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tropheus
500+ posts
08/16/01 04:29 PM
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is this not classic material?
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Hpslugga
2500+ posts
06/05/05 12:17 AM
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This thread definitely belongs in the Classics.
I'm getting a third, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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