mber 19,! he Battalion
Page 3 • November 19, 1999
tudents in residence halls and Corps of Cadets’ outfits cope with loss of fallen friends
BY RICHARD BRAY
The Battalion
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fhen the officialri
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ing songs and tj
other. I
bigail Werneke.a |
ogy major, said sht
it Bonfire collapsir;’:
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:ion was prayer, stitl
Ae have to just CCU p an ts of Texas A&M resi-
iiitied taithtulnet. Idonce iialls involved with the
, Werneke said. H building of Bonfire during
t' ss |s hist nowgoi iterday’s early morning tragedy
ents are coming icted with a combination of grief,
im age and mour gel and confusion,
tragedy will affec Students from FHK Complex,
at A&M.' ases, Aston and Dunn halls
iter in the evening ;re at the Bonfire site at the time
ie Bonfire tragedy the accident,
rancis Episcopal Walking through the FHK Com-
her prayer vigil. ?x;yesterday morning, students
he Rev. C. Andrei uld be seen mourning together
gathered in p they attempted to cope with the
ing the names of a l g ei ly-
s imlin’d v Che Wilcox, resident adviser
Rcide'V A ) on duty Wednesday night in
A v must nra\ ' anc ^ a i un * or English ma-
j tlv ihis horrible-'^ man V students in Moses
trnt'd of the accident from their
rents and sought their RA’s for in-
•mation and advice.
“[Reactions to the Bonfire acci-
■nt] have been very mixed,”
^^ftx said. “At about 5 a.m., kids
leal Is from their parents and came
asking for information. They
?re really scared.”
Wilcox said that since the acci-
n| students have been comforting
eh other and coping with their
iefin the Moses Hall office.
“It’s been really confusing; a lot
^■ff has happened,” Wilcox said.
Ve’re just watching the news, and
not going to class. We’re just
to get things under control.”
ny Andenoro, hall director for
Wbn Hall, said the residents have
together to mourn and to help
er students come to terms with
Hffagedy.
JlVe’re all pulling together to
Ip any Aggies who know some-
e directly involved in the situa-
n,” he said.
Andenoro said that although
ct on the day’s tra^rValton Hall was prohibited from
Aggies here, t
1 the country
s also," Doylesai
BY STUART HUTSON
The Battalion
-here excitement and an
ticipation once filled the
quadrangle, now only
sadness and despair is felt as the
Corps of Cadets morn the loss of
fellow members whose lives were
abruptly taken in the tragic col
lapse of stack yesterday.
At least four of the dead and
more than 15 of the hospitalized
have been identified as cadets.
Along the walkway of the Quad,
students could be seen distraught
and crying in one another’s arms as
they were attempting to deal with
the fate their friends, brothers, sis
ters and loved ones were dealt.
Clay Peterson, a flight officer
from Squadron 2 and a senior elec
trical engineering major, said the in
cident has left an air of remorse
among members of the Corps.
“This entire side of campus is
in mourning,” Peterson said. “You
probably won’t see a face that
does not carry a solemn look for
a long time, at least not until the
pain goes away.”
Peterson said the death of Corps
I -■ ?
msm
SALLIE TURNER/Thf. Battalion
Friends console each other by embracing shortly after stack fell yesterday.
CHAD ADAM
working on Bonfire as a group, indi
vidual residents did participate and
were working yesterday morning
when Bonfire collapsed.
“When it comes down to it, [the
residents] banded together,and I
wasn’t about to pull sanction on
them,” he said.
Andenoro said many Walton Hall
residents helped with the rescue.
“Bottom line is: Walton as a
whole loves Bonfire,” he said.
“Many have been on stack all day.”
Andenoro said he had not seen
many of the residents all day be
cause many of them worked through
the night and did not come back to
the residence hall.
Michael Ginnard, a freshman
FHK resident who knew four stu
dents injured in the accident, said
he was worried about his friends,
but he felt that he could do little
to help them recover.
Heather Michelle Thompson,
an FHK resident who knew one of
the students killed and believes
another friend was trapped in the
rubble, said the accident has
taught her the value of each day.
“To hear about the deaths and
not know if it is your friend or not,
it really hits home,” she said.
“Now I have to imagine a life
without [my friend].”
CODY WAGES/Tm: Battalion
A Bonfire pot sits unattended on the polo fields in the wake of tragedy.
member, Bryan McClain, a fresh
man agriculture major, will forever
leave a link missing in the chain that
made up the family of Squadron 2.
“He was a class act all the way,
and he was everything the Corps
wanted to see in a person,” he said.
“The entire outfit is in shock. What
can you really say about what we
are feeling right now?”
Mark Macicek, Deputy Corps
Commander and a senior business
major, said a pain is felt throughout
the entire body of the Corps when
ever one of its members is lost.
“Everyone is really feeling the
pain right now because of the close
camaraderie and friendships people
make,” he said.
Mike Antosh, 1st Seargent in
Squadron 17 and a junior engi
neering technology major, said he
will forever miss his friend, Jerry
Self, a flight Seargent in Squadron
17 and a sophomore engineering
technology major.
Antosh said he will always re-.
member the qualities which
made Self a role model for his
community.
“He was a loyal, hardworking
individual with a huge heart,” he
said. “He cared deeply about
everything he did and he always
stood up for what he believed he
will be sorely missed by everyone
who knew him.”
Forrest Lane, Corps of Cadets
Commander and a senior political
science and economics major, said
the goal of the Corps now is to help
the friends and families of the de
ceased get through this time of strife.
“I don’t think we could ever do
enough to even begin to correct for
the horrible tragedy that happened
this morning,” he said. “But we
must try to remember those who
have gone on to a better place, and
what made them model people and
model Aggies.”
> Residence Hall Asscf
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; close to his chest,
of what those studen
said. “It doesn’t start
nit it still means a lot
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ng ordering flags at
fices to be flown ath
amber them as long a:
1 the Aggie Spirit, and
?r,” Perry said.
,ieger of the Campus! 1 .1
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on present at the set [
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dp us all,” Kruegerst
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