Carson-Newman

TNACGRL wrote:

<quoted text>???? You make no sense i think your on the wrong page!I never went there and so are NOT alot of other kids this year ...

Don't start a war of words with Marilyn Barr you will lose

JohnnyOnTheSpot wrote:

<quoted text>Don't start a war of words with Marilyn Barr you will lose

She's got a tongue as sharp as a serpent's fangs and hides in the high grass, that's for sure.

You know what I wish about Carson-Newman College...that when you're driving through there when school is in that those darned kids would use the crosswalks or atleast look where they're going. They dart out from behind parked cars from out of nowhere and even though you're going kinda slow already you still have to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting them.

I agree with "Knows." I am also a student at Carson-Newman. I am a junior this year and I am very grateful for my Carson-Newman education. I do not consider myself as a very religiously Christian person; in fact, I am still working out what exactly it is that I believe in. However, I love my time and Carson-Newman, and the Christian atmosphere can be summarized, for the most part, as a caring and welcoming environment, regardless of your denomination or religious views. Anyone can take the values (both spiritual and NON spiritual,by the way) and twist them into anything they want to see. For me personally, the growth that I have been encouraged to make at CN, both inside the classroom and out, is very important and has been very influential in my life. You are entitled to your opinion, and this is merely mine :)

You should have been flunked in English 101.

By the way, do you know any rich sod widowers? I am looking for one. Jeff and Robin need a little money from time to time. And I'm tired of dipping into my accounts to support those two parasites.

It appears that other people might be using other peoples identity here maybe ?? Years ago, grandma used to say, "Go work on your quilt awhile, and some of that hate will get lost in the fluff. If it doesn't, go chop some wood or dig a hole till it's deep enough to bury the hatchet and bury the grudge." Years ago when we had wringer washers and everything had to be ironed, by the time wash day was over, we sure felt better !

Mae Mae Smith Barr wrote:

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NO.
I am NOT impressed.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/Aug/20/cars...

Well, I am impressed. It is a great school and a privelige to attend C-N. The ones making the negative comments sound as if they never got a highschool diploma, much less a BA or MA."Ignorance is bliss"... "Education pays". To the students attending C-N ""keep up the hard work" you will be graduated and know a better life than these morons who have jumped on this thread sooner than you realize.

Education Pays wrote:

<quoted text>Well, I am impressed. It is a great school and a privelige to attend C-N. The ones making the negative comments sound as if they never got a highschool diploma, much less a BA or MA."Ignorance is bliss"... "Education pays". To the students attending C-N ""keep up the hard work" you will be graduated and know a better life than these morons who have jumped on this thread sooner than you realize.

Too funny! This one must have learned the ad hominem argumentum debate style and poor spelling at Carson-Newman. See why no one discreet and intelligent is impressed with an artificial sheepskin from C-N?

Carson-Newman is an EXCELLENT college.

Marilyn Turner Smith wrote:

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Too funny! This one must have learned the ad hominem argumentum debate style and poor spelling at Carson-Newman. See why no one discreet and intelligent is impressed with an artificial sheepskin from C-N?

What's misspelled?

Alumni wrote:

<quoted text> What's misspelled?

Hurry, post back, Should've used an i instead of an e! lol @ u!!!

Alumni: Here's some advice for you: Don't get into a war of words with with Marilyn, you will never win??

Found my mistake and thought I'd better correct it before Ms. Marilyn got me. Ha Ha!!

jefferson city wrote:

Found my mistake and thought I'd better correct it before Ms. Marilyn got me. Ha Ha!!

HA HA HA lol!!

Ah, good old Carson-Newman. What memories I have of that place.

Like the time my car had all the tires slashed on Halloween.

Or the time my toolbox was stolen from my truck.

Or the way I was ostracised for being too poor (I was "one of those scholarship kids").

Or the time there was an problem processing my registration, so that I had to pay cash whenever I wanted to eat in their rotten cafeteria.

Or the way I was forced to attend their snobbish chapel twice a week in order to be allowed to graduate.

Or the dorm with seemingly two-hundred football players, and the way I had to sleep in my car to escape the noise.

And I'll never forget when Danette Seale pocketed my scholarship money one semester, and I was sued by Mark Ortlieb for fourteen-thousand dollars.

Ah. Good old Carson-Newman.

That place should burn.

Former C-N Student wrote:

Ah, good old Carson-Newman. What memories I have of that place.
Like the time my car had all the tires slashed on Halloween.
Or the time my toolbox was stolen from my truck.
Or the way I was ostracised for being too poor (I was "one of those scholarship kids").
Or the time there was an problem processing my registration, so that I had to pay cash whenever I wanted to eat in their rotten cafeteria.
Or the way I was forced to attend their snobbish chapel twice a
week in order to be allowed to graduate.
Or the dorm with seemingly two-hundred football players, and the way I had to sleep in my car to escape the noise.
And I'll never forget when Danette Seale pocketed my scholarship
money one semester, and I was sued by Mark Ortlieb for fourteen-thousand dollars.
Ah. Good old Carson-Newman.
That place should burn.

Being a guy makes things really different. I hope you didn't have to go longer than you wanted it, & that you transferred to another school. When I went some students found the strict curfews of the 60's too restrictive. However, women had lights out at ll pm with doors locked at 10pm weekdays. Strange today, b ut it was a safety issue, and many of us needed that guidance to stay on course. Don't think there were any freshmen who failed out. Many were like me-- having saved YEARS for college and still worked for a pittance just to have money to buy a train ticket home at Christmas. I guess women then were kinder than the guys were in your time. I had ironing jobs waiting at home during Christmas vacation to earn money! Take away the air conditioning costs, all-wired phone systems, etc.,of today, and costs were pretty reasonable. Cars were a luxury to students. I knew only 2 people in our high school who had one! Living in the city had its advantages (public transportation). Guess I never thought about parents or government paying for college ! Farm kids in this area did everything you could imagine to earn money-- eggs, chickens, extra "putting up hay" on weekends or cutting tobacco in 100 degree weather. It is regretable that those guys, especially, got into mischief and messed up things for you. With the draft (Vietnam) in 60's and Korea so vivid a few years earlier, time, money and life was precious for us. I really sympathize with your misfortune. It reminds me of my folks loosing so much in their self-employed business due to crime and vandalism coming to their city neighborhood-- much less my mother being mugged,yes, attacked, harmed and purse stolen, twice, with a broken leg in her 60's! Society marches on, robbing us of dreams and finances. But we do indeed survive!

BTW, my folks watched many, many homes and businesses burned in riots--lifetimes of striving, praying, saving gone, and I cried as dozens of teachers lost manuscripts and a lifetime of priceless libraries ( text books cost as much as a "credit hour" then) watching the CNC administration burn in 1973. No computer data to replace books ready to be published, research, plays almost finished. A hundred years of photos. No, you don't wish fire on anyone or anything.

We both have been through big disappointments, but it's like making alloys: we have been tested and we are ready for more challenging and more rewarding experiences! We have much to give!

jefferson city wrote:

Found my mistake and thought I'd better correct it before Ms. Marilyn got me. Ha Ha!!

Oh, me, oh, my
I'm Mae-Mae
And my name is Perfidy.

I think this school is awesome. Just wish it wasn't so expensive.

I can't believe Coach Sparks is still there. Isn't he older than dirt?

Yes, some of us are ! I think we're about the same age, but his smile is ageless.

We've watched our friends, classmates and family march off to Korea, Berlin, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq and now Afghanistan.

Home interest loans at 18%. Families lose family farm due to big medical bills. Children become addicted to French fries and buttons and earphones and Cokes. Sports become mainly couch-TV and gambling recreations. Mothers who sewed their children's clothes become lost memories in the nursing homes.

The great steadfast mentors, coaches, leaders are the memory - keepers. We all have our personal ones. Among mine locally are: Janie Swann Huggins, John Lee Welton, numerous church leaders, Carl Tabb Bahner, Jane Smith, the Iddins sisters and a hundred others !

Who have been some of yours?