Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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IT IS at the Flush'? Or, he pleads Please translate 'cream run, a burger run, and pigging out at Terrible? The professors gasp and hold their Prentice Hall close to their hearts hoping desperately that it will survive the onslaught of Auburnese. Polling their eyes heavenward, professors are heard to mumble hail Webster, Norton's Anthology, and Brown's Reader. The natives smile with secret supremacy, class is the pits anyway, and it's almost time to hit the U.B. and see whatzhappen. Auburnese doesn't rely on bookin it. So students wander over to the U.B. or the onion building after class to gossip with friends. Watchyalldoin? initiates the usual grunting responses of Nothin or Fixin to chow or just checking out what's happen. Before leaving the cafeteria, explana- tions for the exit are usually given: gotta go crash, the rack monster's callin, or Cotta go visit Ralph Dragoon Library ' or Cotta attend class, I'm enrolled in university, y'know. Only someone well grounded in Auburnese can translate these or any daily conversations on campus. Foreign language instructors beware — we've got our own, and it doesn't go by the rules.

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t. Hjidp Until a few years ago, the t-shirt had only one purpose — utility. Mothers made their children wear undershirts as protection from winter's vicious winds; the army made hoot campers on olive drab l-shirts as part of the basic dull green fatigues; wives of blue color workers made their husbands put on clean white Fruit of the Looms each day before work to help c ounterac t the less pleasant odors of life. And so it went. The t-shirt was an unwanted, unadorned, but necessary item of clothing. Look around now. T-shirts have become major components of the student wardrobe. Good things come in small packages . . . Wimpey. The key to this confusing advertisement was Lynn Wimpey, a candidate for Miss Homecoming who measures a mere five feet. Carvalho (printed in phonetic spelling) Plainsman Editor. It's that simple. was the logo for a winning campaign spring quarter. Campus fund drives are regularly announced through t-shirt communication. Bump Bamma Bash and KD, Delta Tau Delta Mardi Gras t-shirts gave places and time's of annual fund drive events. Auburn, THE University of Alabama proclaims the generally agreed upon campus fact that Auburn is definitely the best. Names of recording artists are often Stretched colorfully across t-shirt fronts: Marshall Tucker, Jimmy Buffett, and Elvis are examples of music lovers' favorites. Portraits of film and television stars often manage to smile pleasantly from the center of students' chests. Far-rah Fawcett-Majors was this year's big seller. Other colleges and universities are occasionally paraded snobbishly from class to class: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton glare from strategic positions at passers by. So, next time you're told to Go Climb a Rock or Do it with an Architect, remember that you're nowhere else but Auburn.