Square one…you are totally off the mark – but that’s ok. Using your logic – how many more lives will be lost to smoking, driving while (drinking, texting, tired, etc), unprotected sex, motorcycle riders without helmets, etc.
The logic you are using is simply flawed.
These students have learned from our mistakes – blood money? Hardly…and that was not my premise. In time the university will see the need to regulate this event again.
You, as well as I have spent our time on stack. The difference here is that you see building bonfire as being disrespectful to the memory of the students that lost their lives.
I see building bonfire as honoring how they chose to live their lives.
In the end, it is the current students that should have the final decision in how they formulate their traditions. If bonfire is not important to them then bonfire will surely die.
If though the students find it important to build bonfire – then who are we to say that they do not have that right?
It is not the same Fighting Texas Aggie Bonfire…what these students are doing is safer and better – and it is what THEY are choosing to do to support the traditions they hold dear. As much as you would like for this event to die square one it will not…as long as students have that “burning desire” they will stack logs and sing songs.
