re: White Student Union formed @ AU

Someome my friend knows emailed the White Student Union (sorry for bad quality).





He openly admits they're anti-Semitic.

I'm being cynical here, but would this even be a big deal to most schools that don't have major athletics. Their take would probably be, "meh". It is a big deal to schools like A&M and Auburn because they don't want to anything like this to ruin their sports programs. Can't blame them for not wanting to have a 9 figure investment threatened.

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"At Auburn, there isn't that many great people,"Jacobs said. "You are everything to these people if you are an athlete. Normal black people don't get treated like we do. If you aren't an athlete, they don't want anything to do with you, and that isn't right."

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Somehow I missed this dandy. Link?

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Somehow I missed this dandy. Link?

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Is he wrong? Like I said, this isn't exclusive to Auburn or any SEC school. It goes on at all schools.

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Is he wrong?

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That is a resounding yes.

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He openly admits they're anti-Semitic.

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They are "anti-semtic towards a lot of jews" This made me laugh

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"people in glass trailers..."

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Trailers?

The Birmingham News
Sunday, August 1, 1999

Many AU students sold on mobile-home life
by Brett J. Blackledge, News staff writer


AUBURN-Garbage bags piled on the front porch are the first giveaway that college students live here. Inside are clothes crumpled on the couch, stacks of dirty dishes in the kitchen, an empty pizza box on the floor.

Bobby Cornelius is living like most college freshmen. What’s different is where he lives. Cornelius and two roommates share a mobile home in a trailer park a few miles west of Shug Jordan Parkway on the outskirts of Auburn University.

No other college in the country has taken to trailers the way Auburn has, said Jim Grimm, the University of Florida’s housing director and past president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. (Really now?)

For years, thousands of Auburn’s 21,500 students have snubbed dorms for their own mobile homes off campus. “There are so many trailer parks around here,” said Amy Schreiner, a 21-year-old psychology major from Trussville who bought a mobile home last year with her sister. “And the majority of people who live in them are college students.”

If college campuses are a gauge of popular culture, then Auburn students are the best example of mobile homes’ wide appeal in Alabama.

“There’s kind of a stereotype that mobile home people are poor and rednecky,” Cornelius said. “That’s not generally what people here think about it.”

More than a half-dozen mobile-home parks line Wire Road just past the veterinary school. The parks look like any other, with only a few hints that under-graduates live here -- student parking decals dangling from rear-views, a few Auburn bumper stickers and license plates on cars, several porches sporting AU flags.

The students keep to themselves. And that’s the real attraction to living off-campus in a mobile home -- the privacy. There are no neighbors to worry about on the other side of the wall.

Amy Sibley bought her mobile home two years ago because she didn’t like the idea of signing an apartment lease. “You can get your money back when you sell it and you don’t have to pay rent,” said the
21-year-old senior from Russellville.

Her two older brothers lived in mobile homes while at Auburn years ago. And most of her friends are envious. She had some girlfriends over recently for a wedding
shower. “They said, ‘I wish I lived in a trailer. You can decorate it any way you want.’ “

There are occasional cracks from friends when they find out you’re living in a trailer park, friends who learned everything they know about mobile homes from Jeff Foxworthy jokes.

Even Mike Gerry, a freshman from Huntsville, was floored when he heard that his brother was moving to one. “I thought, ‘Great. My brother’s a redneck.’ “

But Gerry admits he was surprised. “When I saw how nice it was, I said, ‘Now I want to live here.’ “ Next year he hopes to move in to his brother’s mobile home.
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The view from my deck



The view from the balcony at my beach place



You were saying?

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1999

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Did you just post another article from 10 plus years ago

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You were saying?

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These are views from KOA Campgrounds. You could have a Good Neighbor Sam sticker for all we know.
Who cares?