Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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PERSONALITIES EDITOR Buddy Davis PERSONALITIES STAFF Monique VanLandingham Dave York Alec Harvey Blake Powers Tom Palmer Greg Tankersley john Reed jennifer johns Virginia Martin 20 P lti Auburn from a different point of view Auburn, special and unusual People are what make Auburn special. PERSCNALITIES examines interesting people. In what is supposed to be a conservative southern college, there is, instead, a wide variety of individuals. These are the people we profiled. 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 Singing for Blondes Artist, Architect and Gartoonist Plato and the Zone System Swimming for Gold The Birth of Modern Music Writing in the Opposite Direction Beauty-Queenhood Road's Scholar Five Minutes on Music Bringing Arts to Auburn Acting Her Way to the Top Out of This World Getting Fired to Get Ahead Auburn in Space Speaking the Language

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1 ... .- ... E.. A. Tim Eden Singing for Blondes Many students can't wait for the weekend, so they can go out and party, or go to the coast. For TIM EDEN, the weekend means time to play the guitar, which he does late at night on the Haley Center concourse wall. I just love attention, he says, as his face lights up with a grin. l probably play a half-million half-songs, Eden says. lie hums some of the words he doesn't know, and manufactures a good amount of what he sings. lie writes most of his invented songs for girls. Girls like to have songs written about them, he says. always play on weekends. I have a lot of fun out here. It makes me happy. A junior in electrical engineering, Eden lives in Magnolia dorm, where he says he will stay until graduation. This guitar has gotten me into a lot of trouble in my hometown, he says. The police there have tried to stop him from playing, and once thought he was carrying stolen goods in his guitar case, Eden said. But Hcollege is a different atmosphere, he says. Aside from some minor annoyances from campus security, he is generally well-received. His favorite time to play is in the Spring, he says. I - Buddy R. Davis Ill Ial like to live in Florida. Everything? great down there - the clothes, the beaches, the girls. There's gohs of blondes clown there. sTuoENTs f i X I CUC Hb. 7 ,.N, - diff! Q . ' x qi -1 if s People of interest D . Diverse and different - - , Q, that make Auburn, P, MMM 'jf Auburn. t Q we , A . - f.',4 '. - - . Q ,- f .f 2 , ',,. ,-wf'i':ef,,.- .- we 'ff-1-1 . ..'. as Photography: John Reed . .7 'H T1 1- ' i