Articles written by Natalie Wade

Auburn students launch campaign to save local park

Frances Gunnells: freshman in pre-graphic design, hands out information about the preservation of Shell Toomer Parkway on the Concourse Wednesday afternoon. Kendra Carter / NEWS EDITOR

Art class projects. T-shirts. Chewacla State Park. What do all of these things have in common?

The students in two of Debora Myles’ art classes have taken up the issue of the preservation of Shell Toomer Parkway for their final projects in the classes.

“It was all really their idea,” Myles said.

Myles asks her classes to complete a protest piece before the end of the semester. She said the students asked if they had to do it on the war or some other obviously controversial topic so she began to tell them about something in which she was involved.

“I wanted to do a topic that was more locally based so it would have more of an impact,” said Katie Gonzalez, a sophomore in pre-graphic design. After the students heard about the interest of construction on Shell Toomer Parkway and the possible effect it would have on Chewacla State Park, it became a group effort.

They take classes, play sports and watch TV; they also fly planes and fire weapons. The men and women of the Auburn Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are no different than any other college student, except they are not only earning a degree but also training to serve their country.

N*gger, wetb*ck, ch*nk.

These are three words of meaning and 18 letters of hatred. 

Self-control.

Everybody knows what it is, but nobody can master it. 

I’ve been thinking the past few weeks quite a bit about that concept, and for all that time I haven’t come up with one great way to apply it to my life.

As Auburn embarks on another fall semester and old and new students begin pouring into the Plains, there will be two more new distinct faces on campus. These two people are a brand new addition to the administration of the school, but not to the University itself.

Someone once said, “You can never go home again.” I didn’t understand what was being said for the longest time. In my own naive way, I would always wonder why you couldn’t. The house was still there, right? Your family was still there, right?
Well, during the last few months on the Plains, I have come to understand the meaning of the phrase.

Auburn is constantly changing: old is taken out and new is implemented. One such change that will affect every student, employee and faculty member this fall is the change of the Tiger Card system in correlation with the Banner system.