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May 28, 2010 Click here to watch The Burning Desire in its entirety COLLEGE STATION, Texas- "The Burning Desire", the inspirational original documentary produced by Texas A&M Athletics 12th Man Productions, has been awarded 3 Telly Awards. The Telly Awards are a television industry awards program which annually honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. The Burning Desire received the Silver Telly, the highest honor, in the category of Editing and another Silver Telly in the category of Copyrighting. The overall documentary was also awarded a...

CALEDONIA - Education isn't just for your children - it's for you too, Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher told a frozen but enthusiastic crowd Saturday. The setting for the latest Tea Party - this one dubbed the Tea Party Bonfire - was Wendell Anderson's farm on Highway H. Despite cold, damp winter weather, organizers reported from the stage that they'd counted more than 3,000 heads. The event jammed Highway H for about a mile in each direction; other participants were shuttled to and from the event on yellow school buses from Caledonia-Mount Pleasant Park. People were still arriving at 3:55...

The Supreme Court today refused to consider whether the mother of a Texas A&M student injured in a deadly bonfire collapse nearly a decade ago can sue because of the damage to her relationship to her son. The high court refused to hear an appeal from Nancy Braus, who sued Texas A&M University officials and others after her son Dominic was injured in the Nov. 18, 1999 log pile collapse that killed 12 people and injured 27. Lower courts have thrown out Braus’ lawsuit, saying Texas law does not allow a parent to sue for the loss of a normal...

While Dan exposes Henry Waxman’s [the Democrats' own Nosferatu] latest authoritarian crusade, let’s not forget the havoc that continues apace with his CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement [heh] Act of 2008). As Walter Olson writes: It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give...

Once again, the Aggie Bonfire went up in flames.

HEARNE - Paul Wartham made a three-hour drive from Fort Worth to College Station on Tuesday to watch a 45-foot bonfire burn, and when he learned he had to wait an hour longer than expected, he said he didn't mind. "I think that bonfire is great," said the 50-year-old whose two children attend Texas A&M University. "I didn't go to A&M, but I understand why.... go here to read rest of article: http://www.theeagle.com/stories/112206/am_20061122025.php

Burn night information Burn will be held at Hot Rod Hill off of Hwy 21 northeast of Bryan/College Station, Tx on November 19, 2005. Gates open to the public at 4 pm. Bonfire is scheduled to burn at dark-thirty. There will be on-site parking (weather permitting) before 6 p.m. and we strongly recommend parking on-site as parking is limited at the off-site locations. We urge you to carpool. On-site parking directions: Exit Hwy 21, north of Bryan, and head east (right) on Hwy 21. Take a left at the flashing yellow light on to Marino Rd. Hot Rod Hill will...

Families try to revive lawsuit over deadly 1999 bonfire collapse PLANO – The families of those killed or injured when a bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M University several years ago asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to revive their lawsuit. Attorneys representing 11 deceased and injured wanted the court to reconsider a lower court's May 2004 decision that dismissed the suit. The families allege the university failed to oversee the 59-foot bonfire, resulting in a "state-created danger." The judge who dismissed the case in May said the concept of "created danger" did not exist in 1999....

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The most recent controversy over homosexuality involves some students who do not approve of others peacefully gathering as part of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Aggies (GLBTA) association. To show their disgust, some students have torn down fliers promoting GLBTA and others have covered them up with other fliers. Connie Donnellan, a freshman political science major, said that in one instance, within 30 seconds of posting a GLBTA flier, a girl read it, proclaimed her disgust and offense at a gay-friendly group and ripped it off. Another time, she witnessed a group of male students around a kiosk looking...

A&M students do safety-first bonfire Off-campus efforts discouraged, but group wants tradition to stand 11/10/2002 Associated Press COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The buzz of chain saws and the crackling of trees toppling to the ground filled a densely wooded area east of College Station on Saturday as a group of Aggies worked to revive the university's bonfire tradition. Wearing colored hard hats signifying leadership positions and wielding axes and machetes, the current and former Texas A&M University students worked in groups scattered throughout the woods, searching for dead elm trees to cut down and burn. Luke Cheatham, spokesman for...

(Fair use excerpted) College Station (WBAP) -- Three Aggies injured in the bonfire collapse have been sued by a crane operator who accuses them of not alerting others to dangers at the construction site. Couch's attorney contends in a third-party lawsuit that A&M students John Comstock, Matthew Robbins and Dominic Braus are partly responsible for the collapse. Couch's attorney, Jim Cowles of Dallas, says his lawsuit is a way to ensure all Bonfire-related litigation is transferred to Brazos County.