54 stories found, listing (1 - 25)
Published Thursday, November 19, 2009
Only dedication can explain being up at that hour on that field. In 1999, the love of Aggie Bonfire fueled those working on the unfinished 59-foot stack of logs symbolizing the school's "burning desire" to beat the Longhorns. The desire to remember t ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Several thousand Aggies and others gathered at the site of the bonfire collapse at 2:42 this morning, marking the exact time a decade ago that the 59-foot stack of logs tumbled, killing 12 and injuring 27.
“Most of the people here today didn’t know ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
John Comstock drew a few stares as he sat inside the entrance of Bonfire Memorial on Tuesday, the eve of the 10th anniversary of the collapse.The 29-year-old opted not to roll his wheelchair down the long, straight path to the main part where the liv ...
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Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Struck by the magnitude of the deaths of 12 of his fellow Aggies and the injuries of 27 more, Jeff Whiting felt that he needed to do something as he wandered across campus 10 years ago Wednesday. He was a senior at the time and had a test scheduled f ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
An estimated 70 students were working on the Aggie Bonfire before dawn on a weeknight in 1999. It was the last week of construction before it would be lit in front of 70,000 people.Music was blaring. A meteor shower was expected at any time over the ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Texas A&M events scheduled for the 10th anniversary of the Aggie Bonfire collapse:* Texas A&M Bonfire Memorial8 to 9 p.m. TuesdayReed ArenaAggie family members are invited to remember the "12 Fallen Aggies" as they listen to speeches from A&a ...
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Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
As a group of Texas A&M students hoist 25-foot logs, several wearing yellow helmets -- or pots -- bark orders at them, while their bosses -- distinguishable by their red pots -- monitor the scene. These students on a rural patch of land 15 miles nort ...
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Published Monday, November 16, 2009
Views about bringing back an on-campus bonfire held by the parents whose children died in the collapse a decade ago are as diverse and far apart as those of the Aggie family when asked the same question. The difference between the two groups, of cour ...
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Published Monday, November 16, 2009
In a dimly lit building off a remote road on the Texas A&M campus sit thousands of boxes containing the heart and soul of the university's history. Wedged among the legion of documents are more than 300 boxes that hold memorabilia representing a ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
How the families of 12 fallen Aggies have coped with tragic lossEagle Staff ReportTwelve families forever changed when bonfire collapsed a decade ago on the Texas A&M campus.Gone for each was a loved one who died too young and without warning.The ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
Elsa Murano read the reports about bonfire's 1999 collapse and picked the brains of experienced officials. But before the former Texas A&M president would decide whether the tradition should return to campus, she embarked on a journey that she ca ...
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Published Sunday, November 15, 2009
As long as Texas A&M exists, Aggies likely will gather at 2:42 a.m. every Nov. 18 to mark the bonfire collapse that killed 12 and injured 27.But this week's events might be the last time A&M as an institution marks the 1999 event with remembr ...
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Published Friday, November 13, 2009
The state's poet laureate for 2010 will speak at Texas A&M during a noon luncheon Friday at the Zone Club in Kyle Field. The event is open to the public.Karla Morton -- the first woman in 15 years to hold the prestigious official poet title -- wi ...
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Published Friday, November 13, 2009
Ibi Tayyab (right) stirs curry while preparing to serve a fast-ending banquet at the annual Fast-a-thon on Thursday. A&M students skipped meals Thursday during the event, which is a fundraiser organized by the Muslim Student Association at Texas ...
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Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Every day, enough people go hungry across the Brazos Valley to fill half the seats at Kyle Field.On Thursday, at least a thousand more will join their ranks, pledging to voluntarily forgo their meals for the day so that those who go hungry without ch ...
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Published Sunday, November 08, 2009
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, fears that the Soviet Union would retaliate subdued a proper celebration, a Texas A&M University professor said.Twenty years later, an appropriate observance of the historic moment is coming to College Station.F ...
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Published Sunday, November 08, 2009
Texas A&M running back Christine Michael (33) breaks a tackle by Colorado cornerback Jalil Brown (23) and runs for a touchdown during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Boulder, Colo., on Saturday. The Buffaloes won, 35-34. ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
Mike McAleer had been working as director of software development for a computer services company in Dallas when he and everyone else were told to pack up one Friday afternoon in 2000. "You don't expect a $5 billion company to go away overnight," the ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Four Texas A&M University programs have teamed up to produce A Midsummer Night's Dream. The departments of performance studies, computer science, engineering and the A&M dance program are putting on the Shakespearean play.Flying robot fairies ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
At least eight candidates remain in the running for Texas A&M's presidency, officials said Thursday. They include both men and women, but an exact breakdown wasn't immediately available, said Richard Box, chair of the 16-person search committee l ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Texas A&M researcher Terje Raudsepp said she didn't dream of sequencing the horse genome during her first visit to the U.S. in 1995 for a conference that spawned the Horse Genome Project. But according to an announcement made Thursday, an interna ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
An official said Thursday that eight candidates remain in the running for Texas A&M’s presidency.They include both men and women, but an exact breakdown wasn’t immediately available, said Richard Box, chair of the 16-person search committee looki ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
Texas A&M researchers are part of an international team that has completed the genome sequence for horses, a milestone that could improve breeding, treatment of disease and performance traits, officials said. Loren Skow, Bhanu Chowdhary and Terje ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
A limited number of free tickets are available for a lecture by the president of the Council on Foreign Relations at 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at Texas A&M University. Richard Haass also will conduct a question-and-answer session and sign copies of his book ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
DALLAS -- Texas A&M University's tentlike athletic complex wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code, according to an engineering firm hired by the university to evaluate the $35.6 million structure.The analysis ...
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