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With only 9 days remaining until the annual Carolina-Clemson football game, there has been a change in the usual pep rally that occurs the friday night before the game. It has been decided to cancely "Tiger Burn," the traditional pep-rally the night before the Clemson game which concluded in a burning of a large engineered tiger. Instead, it has been decided to be renamed "Tiger Tear Down," in which two large tractors will tear down the tiger at the end of the pep rally. This decision to change has created some controversy on campus because it is breaking a very long and old tradition. I think that the decision to cancel the burning part of the pep rally has been done out of respect for those who died in the fires in North Carolina last month, and that it was the right thing to do. With the recent passing of 7 students between the two schools, I think it is only right to cancel something that might have such a negative connotation. I can understand why some might be upset because of tradition, but I think that this is more important. We will have to wait until next year to see if they keep the change to Tiger Tear Down or if it returns to Tiger Burn.