Student Bonfire has rescheduled its annual Burn for Jan. 25, the organization announced Tuesday.  The original Nov. 29 Burn was set for the night before Texas A&M football’s game against Texas,...

The 2024 Student Bonfire will not burn the night before the Texas A&M-Texas game due to a burn ban in Robertson County, the organization announced Tuesday afternoon. Student Bonfire has traditionally...

Described as the “physical embodiment of the Aggie Spirit” by manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology senior and Senior Redpot Mason Taylor, the bright and blazing Student Bonfire returns...

As the last notes of the University of Texas Longhorn Band’s performance of “Amazing Grace” and “Taps” echoed across Kyle Field on Nov. 26, 1999, something unusual happened. The crowd of 86,128...

Aggie Bonfire symbolizes “the burning desire to beat the hell out of t.u. and the undying love all Aggies have for Texas A&M,” according to the Corps of Cadets’ handbook, The Cadence. As decades...

A quarter of a century ago, tragedy struck campus after the 1999 annual Bonfire collapsed and killed 12 students. Two former Battalion staff members discussed their experience covering the tragic event...

As the anniversary of Bonfire Collapse approaches, students remember those who passed away in the tragedy and share how, after two decades, Bonfire still strives to embody the spirit of those fallen Aggies. At...

On Nov. 18 at 2:42 a.m., people gathered both virtually and in person, to honor the 12 fallen Aggies of the Bonfire Collapse. Similar to Texas A&M traditions such as Silver Taps, the Bonfire Remembrance...

The morning of Nov. 18, 1999, Jason Hannam arrived at a quiet and solemn campus. Hannam, Class of 2001, soon heard rumors about the collapse of Bonfire, an incident that would ensure the day lived on in...

Just south of Texas A&M’s campus stands a different memorial dedicated to the 12 Aggies killed in the Bonfire collapse of 1999, created by the City of College Station in their honor. On Nov....

Texas A&M changed forever on Nov. 18, 1999, at 2:42 a.m., when the 59-foot-tall Bonfire Stack collapsed. Twelve Aggies died and 27 were injured. Today, on that same ground, there stands a memorial...