Tuesday, November 20, 2001

College Briefs
Selling shirts for Sept. 11 victims’ scholarship fund

The Panhellenic Council is selling T-shirts to help raise money for the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund. Shirts may be purchased from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays in the Student Center.

Families of Freedom is an organization that benefits children and spouses of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The scholarships will enable dependents of victims who were planning to attend college to do so.

Christina Thompson, director of marketing and organizer of the event, said Panhellenic bought 500 shirts for about $2,000. All revenues will go to the fund, and Panhellenic hopes to donate $6,000.

Thompson says they will continue until all the shirts are sold. As of Monday, over 150 shirts were sold.

A&M students, families remember Bonfire fall

COLLEGE STATION (U-WIRE) — Two years after the 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse, Texas A&M University students joined together Sunday in a spontaneous ceremony in memory of the 12 Aggies killed Nov. 18, 1999.

More than 500 students, family members and friends of those killed and injured gathered near the 1999 Bonfire site in the Polo Fields around 2 a.m. to pay their respects.

Candles and a wreath were laid on the site where the three-tiered, 55-foot structure fell at 2:42 a.m., sending those on the ground running and pinning the 27 Aggies injured and 12 killed beneath a pile of logs that was not cleared until July 2000.

— The Battalion