Something clicked today when I was trying to figure out why Texas A&M functions so differently from our university. Put simply, it's because "stuff" matters to them. They go to concerts. They go to Bonfire. They support their athletic teams. Their faculty generates interest in campus events, and they mourn with their students.

I can only hope upon hope that we would react with the same outpouring should 12 of our students die in such a calamity (For you math wizards, that's one out of every 500 of our students. A&M has around 46,000). Surely we would not make a sad face and retire back to our fast-as-hell internet connection.

For those of you who participated in the Rally for a Living Wage this month, you get big kudos. This is not because I agree one lick with what you're saying, but because you cared enough to do something. Harvard's 1969 protest mentality will never die.

We will learn just what the Aggie Bonfire was about when we can get our entire student body together to do something other than complain. If you want to find out for yourself, go to a basketball game in the Cage this week, go see the Kroks sing their hearts out, or go see an incredibly pretentious lecture.

Jerry Self did not die in vain. Too many of us are living in vain. Maybe we're the ones that need CPR.

Gig 'em, Ags.