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Posted on 5/7/18 at 5:26 pm to Switzerland
Posted on 5/7/18 at 5:26 pm to Switzerland
Shut the cow college down
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Posted on 5/7/18 at 5:32 pm to remaster916
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Shut the cow college down
We need something instead of the University of Phoenix (East) as an option for Alabama Children to go to school.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 5:38 pm to PanhandleDawg
Congrats on getting the hell out of the Delta!!!
Posted on 5/7/18 at 7:02 pm to Switzerland
If you think Auburn is hilly, you’ve obviously never been to Fayetteville. Damn campus is uphill both ways.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 7:04 pm to Switzerland
OP is retarded; no modifier required.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 5:24 pm to SaturdayNAthens
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If this is the loveliest village I'd hate to see the others. Drab, dated and located in the arm pit of Alabama.
Auburn has a lot more new buildings than Athens.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 5:31 pm to Tillman
You're damn right, killz 
Posted on 5/8/18 at 5:41 pm to BowlJackson
The Birmingham News
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.
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.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 5/8/18 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 5/9/18 at 4:10 pm to John Milner
Article is 19 years old.
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