Elephants and Bonfire

It was an eventful Tuesday! First we had elephant walk. Elephant walk is a long standing tradition at A&M where the senior class walks around the campus like dying elephants, visiting all the important places on campus. The significance of this walk is that once they graduate they will not stand in the student section of the stands ever again. What this event means to us juniors is that '08 has died and that we are very close to taking the reins of the Corps from them.

Later that night, thanks to some much needed rain, we got to burn bonfire. As the bonfire is no longer built on campus, we have to deal with county regulations and such to be able to burn it. It has been so dry here that Robertson county had enacted a burn ban and only lifted it because we received three inches of rain over the weekend.
Despite bonfire being off-campus now, it continues to be a great unifying event for all those that participate in cut, stack, and burn. It gives students a chance to get out and work (rather competitively) towards a common goal every year. As we do as much of bonfire by hand as we can, it requires a massive effort from many students to successfully build.
There seemed to be a good turnout to burn and everyone had a good time. We should beat t.u. this year as the centerpole stood past midnight thanks to the more stable design that is used to build bonfire now. I hope everyone is having a good thanksgiving and standby for another post after we beat the hell outta t.u.