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STATE & LOCAL 4
Tuesday, November 14, 1989
Campus Ministry Association
labels bonfire as ‘out of hand’
By Cindy McMIlllan
Of The Battalion Staff
The president of the Campus Ministry Asso
ciation said he has received support from area
churches and community members for a
statement the group issued last week suggesting
that Texas A&M end bonfire as it now exists.
Rev. Steven Sellars, president of the campus-
recognized organization and chaplain for the
Episcopal Student Center, said he has received
several phone calls from area residents who
agree with him that bonfire, as it now exists, has
“gotten out of hand.”
Sellars said he read the statement at a Sunday
meeting of the Bryan-College Station Ministerial
Association and was applauded by its members.
“The churches in town are starting to take noti
ce,” he said.
“Bonfire is no longer justifiable from a moral
standpoint. We think it’s gotten way out of hand,
and enough is enough.”
The statement was unanimously approved by
the 17 members of the CM A, and cited environ
mental concerns and wasted human and natural
resources as reasons for ending bonfire.
Sellars said he also objects to bonfire because
of the effect it has on the students’ academics.
Many students cut back on class hours and make
lower grades because of the time they spend
working on bonfire, he said.
His opponents argue that bonfire represents
the “burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u.”
They say it can’t be ended because of tradition,
but the way bonfire’s done now is not tradition,
he said.
Sixty or seventy years ago, he said, students be
gan preparing for bonfire just a week before the
annual football game against the University of
Texas. They helped people clear their yards,
gathered the debris into a pile and the trash pile
was burned as bonfire, he said.
“It was a public service,” he said. “They built a
pile, not an engineering edifice.”
The statement suggested that the energy and
human resources now spent on bonfire could be
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Donfire is no longer justifiable
from a moral standpoint. We think
it’s gotten way out of hand, and
enough is enough.”
— Rev. Steven Sellars,
President, Campus Ministry
Assoc.
put to a more positive use to benefit the commu
nity. Though the statement did not suggest a spe
cific alternative to bonfire, Sellars suggested a
service project such as Habitat for Humanity,
which builds houses for low-income families.
“There’s also a tradition for that kind of servi
ce,” he said. “In the 1960s, the Corps of Cadets
went to Mexico and built an entire water system
for a poor community.” Such positive construc
tion projects leave lasting benefits, he Mid,v
bonfire consumes hundreds of hours oftimti
hundreds of acres of trees for one night.
The injuries sustained at cut and stack!;
also concern Sellars. One student was killtt
1981 when a tractor overturned, he said,and
other broke his hip at cut site four years ago
This year, a student lost two fingers v
loading logs onto a truck, Sellars said. Sett
heard about the incident from another studef
and said it was not publicized until he toldi
porter at the Bryan-College Station Eagle.
week.
“There is a terrible conspiracy of silencead
anything negative that happens during hoc!
cut,” he said. Though deaths and seriousinjef
have occurred, he said, they cause "hardlw.
pie” of disturbance.
“That student will have to go through the:
of his life with eight fingers,” Sellars said. SI
many more young bodies are we goingtoif
fice on that altar?
“It’s too late for anything to be done than
he said, "but at least we’re now to the pointvi
it’s being discussed.
The statement said, and Sellars reiterated;
the ministers are making their views knovraj
of love and concern for the University. Thti;
not against students coming together before
Texas game, but think bonfire nas grownts.
hand.
“As ordained clergy people, we are prescr
of religious tradition, so we know about is
lion,” he said. "Appealing to tradition;
longer going to cut it with people whokno.
dition.”
Turner announces bid for senate seat
By Michael Kelley
Of The Battalion Staff
Crockett
mayor Jim
Turner will seek
election to the
Texas 5th Sen
atorial District he
announced in a
press conference
Wednesday.
In a telephone
interview Thurs
day, Turner, who
served as a mem
ber of the Texas House of Represen
tatives from 1981-84, said he can be
an effective representative for Texas
A&M as a Democratic state senator.
He said would work to keep suffi
cient funding for higher education
and listen to the concerns of A&M
students, faculty and administrators
on pertinent issues.
“The central issue in this cam
paign is a simple one,” Turner said.
“Who can most effectively represent
the needs and the values of the peo
ple of this district in the Texas Sen
ate? As a Texas Democrat in the
Texas Senate, I can provide the kind
of leadership that our public schools
and institutions of higher education
need in these times of challenge and
change.”
Turner said a key to improving
Texas’ higher education is second
ary education reform, but he op-
f >oses the acquisition of funding
rom higher education to pay for
secondary schools. Instead, Turner
said he wants to see an equalization
of school Finance among all school
districts in the state.
Having served as chairman of the
first House Subcommittee on Ethics
in 1983, Turner said he has the ex-
Professors, students speak out
against removal of MSC trees
By Bob Krenek
Of The Battalion Staff
The trees that will be affected by the University Cen
ter expansion are symbolic of the environment, said Dr.
Mark Sicilio.
Sicilio spoke at a rally sponsored by the Medicine
Tribe and the Texas Environmental Action Coalition
Friday featuring three speakers who oppose the de
struction of four live Oak trees that apparently will be
the victims of the MSC expansion slated to begin in De
cember.
Sicilio, an assistant professor in the College of Medi
cine, said the students and faculty should have some in
put into decisions that will affect them.
Todd Honeycutt, a Medicine Tribe member, agreed,
saying, “We need to have some representation. At this
point, we really do not know what is going on with the
administration and Regents.”
Honeycutt said he would like some form of student
participation on the Board of Regents at Texas A&M,
either in a a voting or non-voting capacity.
“We need to know what is going on,” Honeycutt said.
“They tell us that they told our student leaders about
the expansion and that it is our leaders fault that we did
not know, but something needs to be done. The first we
heard about it was last spring.”
Dr. Benton Storey, a horticultural sciences professor,
also spoke against the destruction of the trees. He has
written a resolution preventing one tree from being
killed and others moved for the Texas A&M Faculty
Senate that was approved Monday.
Medicine Tribe invited University Center Manager
Steven Hodge to present the administration’s side of
the issue.
He also distributed a packet outlining how each of
the trees will be affected and addressed some of the ar
guments opponents of the project and presented an ar
ticle discussing techniques for transplanting trees.
The Austin American-Statesman article explains how
two trees older than those at the University Center were
successfully transplanted by Instant Shade Trees,Inc.,
the same company that will attempt to transplant the
trees around the MSC.
The project’s opponents charge the trees may not
survive the transplanting because of their advanced age
and because they have not been properly prepared by
root pruning.
perience needed to introduce I
support legislation to make pt;
of fice a position of public cl
whereby elected officials are!
vants, not masters, of the people
“The call of public services
ncjt only calls for competent J
ership but it calls for strong it
leadership,” he said. “I interc
push for strong ethics legislatioc.
member of the Texas Senateac:
join arms with those of you who:
on the front lines of battle an
drug abuse, child abuse andcriit'
“The challenges are great,
working together we can makei
ference for all Texans and bus
brighter future for all our chib
and grandchildren.”
To fight crime in Texas, Tr
said the state needs to aid localp
departments so they can adequ;
address the drug problem from:
cal level. He said local law enftf
ment is the only way to sufficifi
stop drug dealers from inhale
sparsely populated areas, wherec
now hide from the law enforcer.:
of urban areas.
“As a father of two teenage:
know state government musttf;
to the aid of local governmentir|
war on drugs,” Turner said.
cal officeholder, I know thall
state government must stop mar:
ing new programs for our self
communities and counties wif
providing the funds to impler
those mandates.”
On the deficiencies in the I*
Department of Corrections'
ties, Turner said he sees nooaj
choice than to build more pn:
He said he wants to see more:
camps,” whereby inmates arefl
military-style treatment to
them in a short amount of r
obey the law. He said this would |
alleviate the overcrowding •
lems.
Responding to the question:
the possibility of a student osB
Board of Regents, Turner sai; r‘
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