Tennessee Technological University
Craving Human Connection A COVID-19 survivor story
Lord... How Long?
A story of racism evolution over time
Life’s Crushing Weight ATV wreck changes student’s life
Golden Eagle Legacy The student behind the mask
FALL 2020 FREE PER SINGLE COPY
Contents 3 Lord... How Long? Victory Murray
6 Hidden Hunger Richard McMeans
8 Craving Human Connection Emma Kenner
10 Tech Construction: The Never Ending Story Logan Staley
12 Life’s Crushing Weight Logan Staley
14 Golden Eagle Legacy Shelby Campbell
Cover: Several Tech students sit around the new fire pit behind the U.C. studying and chatting.
Cover Design: Emma Kenner Cover Photo: Laura Navarro Moreno Contents Page Design: Emma Kenner Contents Page Photo: Laura Navarro Moreno Copy Editing: Kathryn Porterfield Consultants: Brenda Wilson, Russ Witcher
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Lord...How Long? Story by VICTORY MURRAY Layout by VICTORY MURRAY Photos Provided by CORINNE JOHNSON
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rotests and riots. Police brutality and racism. Is this 1968 or 2020? A now silver-haired Corinne Johnson looked aloft as she remorsefully recalled memories of her adolescence. Her stern face began to give way as she pushed back tears. Her hands gripped the arms of her chair as she shuffled uncomfortably. “It’s just awful,” she said in a high-pitched voice. “I hate talking about this, I really do. And not much has changed. If anything...it’s gotten worse.”
“And not much has changed; if anything....it’s gotten worse.” Johnson grew up in the Woodlawn-Englewood area, a primarily black neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. As she recalls, most of the people she encountered on a daily basics were black except for the majority of her teachers and police officers. “All the kids I played with were black. I went to a private school where all the nuns and all the teachers were white with the exception of two black teachers. The secretary and custodians and lunch room people were black. In my younger days, the bus drivers were black and white, but as years went by, most of the bus drivers in my neighborhood were black. The sanitation men rode on the back of the garbage trucks were black. They majority of the policemen were white,” she said. Even though Johnson’s world was consumed with representation and people who looked like her, it was not enough to shield her from the harsh reality of world she lived in. She would still encounter racism. “The first time I remember encountering racism was
Corinne Johnson attending Grammar School. Johnson went to a private school on the West Side of Chicago. when my grandmother took me to visit relatives in Memphis, Tennessee. I had not begun school yet. She and her cousin Marguerite and I were at a City Hall square or something. It was hot and miserable that day. I noticed a water fountain on the side of the building. I twisted away from my Grandmother’s hand and went to get a drink. I looked at the water fountains. One was broken to pieces. The other was okay. I started to drink from the fountain. Suddenly a lady started screaming and yelling. I didn’t know why,” she said. Johnson said looking back on this experience, she realizes she didn’t understand it then but, just like many things in life, Johnson understood as she began to grow and learn. “The next thing I know Marguerite snatched me from that fountain and shook the day lights out of me. The white lady was still screaming. My grandmother
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took my hand. Marguerite said in a very low voice, looking at the ground and not at the lady and she said, ‘Forgive her ma’am, she don’t know how to read yet!’ ‘You need to teach her her PLACE!’ the white lady said. “Yes ma’am.” Marguerite and my grandmother took me by my hands and we backed away. I did not know what I had done wrong. I have never been back to Memphis since then,” she said. This would not be the last time Johnson experienced racism. Johnson would go on to experience it again in college. “I was so happy to have the privilege to go to college. My dad and mom were college graduates and now me. I was excited to meet my roommate. My roommate came into the doorway of our room and she froze. I introduced myself and was happy to finally meet her. She looked shocked. She ran to the phone and called her Mother. “Oh my god! My roommate is a ni**er!” Johnson said horrified. Although growing up the majority of police in her neigh-
borhood were white, she says she never feared the police. This is due to the few black officers in her neighborhood being people from the community she knew outside of the badge and uniform. “I never feared. Those officers who were black included some family friends who had some military training and served our country and were active members of the black churches in the area. I never had any fear of a police officer because I would see them at church functions or other pleasant occasions. So, for me I wasn’t afraid but for somebody else it may have been a different story,” she said. “Growing up now it’s different, it’s just different. Today when I see the police, I am a little nervous.” On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. This led to the Chicago race riots. Johnson describes these riots to be similar to those happening today. “When I was growing up the protests and picketing for equal rights were mostly non-violent. Then Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated, and hell broke out. High
Corinne Johnson receiving the Unsung Hero Award presented by the Tennessee Tech University Togetherness Committee.
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schools were in turmoil. The burning and looting and rioting took place in the neighborhoods. So much sadness, despair and unrest. Just like today, but now it’s worse.” Johnson has worked at Tennessee Technological University for 13 years. She applied to Tech after being a stay-at-home mom. She works in the Office of Multicultural Affairs which is located on the second floor of the Roaden University Center. “I have heard for years the Minority students’ conversations about unjust situations in classes and other issues,” she said. It makes me very sad when anyone is treated unfairly. It really hurts my heart when students especially of color are doing their very, very best and they have difficulties in group meeting and stuff like that. Or the meeting is planned when that student is working to intentionally keep them from attending, there’s ways I’m not blind,” she said passionately. Johnson believes racism will never end, but that it can get better if we all work together. “I don’t think racism will ever end. Every continent, every nation, every country, every state, every city, every neighborhood, every people of every ethnicity has had, and continues to have someone they look down upon as subservient to them. Until there is truly no difference between any person and the next person he meets, there will always be problems. I do think it can get better. It will take all peoples of all ethnicities standing in truthful unity for all times is the only way,” she said. With believing racism can get better, she offers some advice and wisdom on what to do and how to handle it until that time comes. “In handling the racial climate in our country, I would tell anyone to watch where you are, what you are doing, and how you respond to ‘authority’ when stopped. Everyone is afraid. Some people like to incite anger in an innocent person just because of their position. Keep calm. Watch what you say. PRAY!” she encourages. “And remember just like the old gospel song says ‘He hasn’t brought you this far to leave you, but Lord how long? Lord… how long?”
Corinne Johnson in her younger years at college. Johnson attended college at Northwestern University and got her MBA at Roosevelt University.
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 led to the Chicago Race Rights. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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Hidden Hunger Layout by EMMA KENNER
Story by RICHARD MC MEANS
“34.5% of students and 28.6% of staff repondents said they had experienced or witnessed food insecurity.” live
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veryone in this modern-day society would love to be able to
life in the mindset of Timon and Pumba of the Lion King singing hakuna matata, meaning “no worries for the rest of your days,” but for many, that is only a distant dream, especially for young kids making their transition away from home onto a college campus. There are many worries for a college student; one main worry being nutritional supply for themselves while away from home. Most simply do not have the resources to fend for themselves away from parental supervision and support. Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice a non-profit research organization studied the issue of hunger across its campus by surveying over 167,000 students from 101 community colleges and 68 four-year colleges universities according to psmag.com. Their reports showed a staggering amount of respondents (48%) claiming food insecurity and being worried whether their food supply would deplete before they get more money to
restock their pantries. Though this is not a national report there are many other occurrences of this particular issue across college campuses and universities around the globe. Tennessee Tech University Food Pantry is another non-profit organization fighting against the same exact problem in the Putnam County area in Cookeville, TN. Their mission is to raise awareness of hidden hunger on college campuses across the nation and establish and sustain a network for food acquisition, storage and distribution at Tech to alleviate hunger among our campus community. In 2012, in efforts to get the campus food pantry established a survey was first sent out campus wide asking students, faculty, and staff about whether they knew of any who had or had themselves experienced food insecurity. Michelle Huddleston, food pantry director, said “34.5% of students, and 28.6 % of staff respondents said they had experienced or witnessed food insecurity.”
With this data collected, a grant from The Corporation for National and Community Service was passed, giving birth to the pantry. Since its beginnings in 2012 the number of people served has increased from 5 people a week in 2013, approximately 12-15 per week in 2016, and 35-40 per week since 2019 to present day. Michelle said, “It may not seem like a lot, but the amount of people we’re able to assists with our dedicated service makes a huge difference in the community.”
“Everyone in this modern-day society would love to be able to live life in the mindset of Timon and Pumba of the Lion King singing hakuna matata, meaning ‘no worries for the rest of your days,’ but for many, that is only a distant dream.”
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Craving Human Connection Story by EMMA KENNER Layout by EMMA KENNER Photo by LAURA NAVARRO
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uman touch can be taken for granted. A handshake when greeting a friend, the accidental brush of two hands together, a gentle kiss on the lips. For some, COVID-19 has prevented even the slightest of touches. For others, through cleanliness practices, touch has been less-
toms. On July 31st, Eva’s husband Greg made the decision to test for COVID-19. That same day, Eva went to work and then to a prayer meeting. “During this season of life, it’s been very important to us to be at prayer and to fight the good fight of faith,” she said. At the church, everyone wore masks, social-distanced, and avoided contact. Everyone but Eva’s grandson who managed to sneak in a hug for his grandmother. On August 1steverything changed. While running errands, her body
“Suddenly she felt the comforting touch of a cold latex hand on her shoulder. She turned and asked the doctor, ‘Am I dying?’ ” ened but not eradicated. Eva Dingwall has always been aware of how much contact means to her. For her, hugging her daughter, shaking hands with her pastor, and kissing her husband is as natural as breathing. In June, as she sat with her feet in a rushing stream as the sun baked over her, Eva had never considered what it would be like to live without human contact. In July, she was wondering if she would ever experience it again. In March 2020, COVID-19 arrived in the United States and it seemed the world came to a halt. Jobs, friends and family members were lost. For Eva, she was one of the lucky few to remain relatively untouched. Eva is an Administrative Associate at Tech and Greg Dingwall, Eva’s husband, is a band director in Livingston. The couple quietly finished the school year online and spent their summer together. Through the summer, Eva and her family enjoyed church youth groups and summer band camps. During one of the camps, Eva’s daughter Sarah encountered a student who wasn’t feeling well but quickly explained away all the symp-
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started shaking, racking her with stomach cramps. As her body was pouring sweat, she urgently called her daughter and asked for help. Eva quickly made it her daughter’s house. When her body finally relented its attack, she felt relief until she looked down. The smell of iron hit her nose instantly and all she could see was blood. In the moment, it was easy to assume something she ate. Making her way home, she insisted everyone keep their distance. Exhausted, she knew she needed rest. As her conditions worsened, a trip to a local urgent care was in order, and on Sunday Aug. 2nd, Eva and her husband entered quarantine. She wondered how this would impact her day to day. She asked herself, “This thing is basically just the flu, right?” The next day the results of her COVID-19 test came back positive, and on the following day her taste was fading and her fever dreams began. This is when the struggle for breath began. Knowing this was more than just the flu, Greg quickly
packed a bag, helped Eva into his big blue Ford truck and rushed her to the ER. Patiently waiting in line, she couldn’t avoid worrying for those around her. “I would say to the people around me, please I have COVID, do not come near me,” she said. After hours of cold needles, X-rays, and temperature checks, she was finally taken to the COVID ward. “I was miserable but they did everything they could to try to make me comfortable.” she said. As the night wore on, nurses passed by in a blur. Eventually one nurse asked another if Eva even needed a monitor, doubting that she was truly as sick as she claimed. This question was standard practice but it still caught her off guard. The shock washed over Eva as she heard the speculation in the nurse’s voice. She couldn’t help but wonder, how sick was she really? Toward the end of another day, it hit her how lonely she was. Since she entered the hospital, she hadn’t seen anyone’s entire face or even had skin to skin contact. In those dark hours, her only comfort was the cold, latex hand of a nurse- a sign that someone else was there, she was not alone. “That touch was critical for me. God built us to need one another’s touch. Not just the heat, but contact with one another,” she said. Those signs of comfort were what she held onto. During the day, she had two nurses. The nights were much harder. As she laid on her scratchy sheets, she slowly waited for the night to pass. She stared at the clock that wasn’t moving as her body attacked her with cramps, sweating and rising temperatures. As the days passed, her symptoms worsened. Her lungs filled with blood. Sitting up in bed brought waves of dizziness, and visions of stars and black rings. Drinking Ensure helped with the nourishment and IVs battled dehydration, however, by the next day, Eva was slipping even further into the clutches of the coronavirus. As she laid in her cold, white room she was struggling to do any of the breathing exercises. The doctors were encour-
aging her to use a breathing apparatus machine and to get her number on the machine up to 2,500. Eva could barely hit 250. The doctors tried everything they could to help her realize the reality of her situation. In that moment, Eva broke. With tears streaming down her face, struggling to breath, she looked at the doctor and uttered words she never wanted to say out loud, “I’m scared.” Suddenly she felt the comforting touch of a cold latex hand on her shoulder. She turned and asked the doctor, “Am I dying?” One week into her time in the hospital, Eva was taken into the ICU as her lungs filled slowly with fluid. Her memory of the ICU is cloudy and in snippets. The hospital staff did everything in their power to keep her off of a ventilator. To keep her temperature down, she was constantly covered in wet cloths. At some point, her family was finally able to Facetime her. The calls, texts and photos Eva received helped to keep her going. After hearing from the doctors how serious Eva’s condition was, Greg sent out an all call to everyone they knew, begging for prayers. Her husband was terrified. Their church family, who lovingly call her “Momma Eva,” were terrified. Texts, calls and prayers started pouring in almost instantly. Every night, lying in her bed, Eva would fiercely quote scripture. In those dark, lonely moments, everything felt surreal and disconnected and yet she felt fully surrounded in a blanket of love, scripture and prayer. After many days of trials and tribulations, her healing began. Little by little her conditions improved. She regained her sense of taste. The dizziness had begun to clear, and on Saturday, Aug. 16th, Eva left the ICU. Now in November, she is still not fully recovered. There are still days she wakes up breathless and fatigued. On her best days, she describes feeling “95% herself.” Despite still fighting a battle to a complete recovery, she is just happy to enjoy something as common as human touch.
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Tech Construction: T
he Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building standing at 2,717 feet. Considered to be a feat of engineering it took six years to build. Big accomplishments often take time and have their drawbacks. Since 2016 Tech has completed eight large construction projects that have added buildings to campus or renovated them as well as various smaller projects. At the end of 2020 costs for projects will total close to $250 million according to the school website. The construction presence on campus has meant the renovation and addition of new buildings but also a loss of parking spaces and traffic flow. The question must be asked, have the benefits out-weighed the losses? Director of Capital Projects and Planning, Jim Cobb, has
walked with the university through various construction projects over the past years. “We’re responsible, generically speaking, for all the renovation and construction on campus,” Cobb said. Cobb and his colleagues also coordinate efforts for the Campus Master Plan which lays out a vision for renovation and construction on Tech’s campus for the next thirty years. According to the Master Plan, a major initiative of the update refinements is the greening of the campus. This includes a progressive series of projects to maximize the green space opportunities and, in most cases, includes the removal, modification or elimination of parking spaces. One of the things that this plan includes is moving cam-
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The question must be asked, have the benefits out-weighed the losses?
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The new science building is on what used to be a red zone parking lot for students.
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The Never Ending Story Story by LOGAN STALEY
pus parking to the exterior of campus. Tech has broken up the different parking areas around campus into different zones: perimeter parking (purple), residential parking (green), student premium parking (red), employee premium parking (gold), Tech Village parking (teal), and motorcycle parking (pink). The cheapest on-campus parking pass for commuters is the red pass for $215. The purple parking pass is $129 with available parking behind the intramural fields or behind Tech Village. Hadley Taylor, a senior Tech student who commutes from Baxter, TN expresses her opinion about Tech parking. “I haven’t bought a red parking pass since my freshman year, because for me the free parking around campus is just as close as the red parking pass spots, so it really makes no difference for me to buy a red pass when I could just park around campus for free,” Taylor said. Cobb said that his team is working on sixteen large projects and twenty-five smaller projects right now. “All our projects are beneficial, but I think the ones that have the biggest impact for the students are the ones that the students can see and the ones that the students can utilize,” he said. “I’ve heard Dr. Oldham say multiple times… when they survey students and ask them questions about, ‘Why did you pick this university or that university?’ The appearance of the campus is one of the top three answers every time,” Cobb said. Cobb believes that to accomplish this, the university must limit parking in the core of campus and move it to the perimeter. The renovation of buildings and efforts to make the campus more “park-like” will aid in the effort to make Tech a more attractive campus.
Layout and Photos by SHELBY CAMPBELL
Top: This grassy area outside the RUC used to be a parking lot. Bottom: A closer look shows patio tables, a firepit and a walkway.
Left: This dirt pit has been a staple on centennial plaza the Fall 2020 semester.
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Life’s Crush Written by LOGAN STALEY Layout by EMMA KENNER Photo courtesty of ISAAC REFF
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om...I’m okay. I think I just broke my legs,” Isaac Reff said over the phone. “Oh, Isaac,” his mom said in an irritable yet worried tone. The smell of exhaust, mud, and grass blew coolly on this October night. Reff had just flipped a 1000 pound offroad vehicle and snapped both of his femurs, yet he remained calm. What was the end of an ordinary Thursday night was the beginning of a painful and near deadly two- month journey. Reff stands at six feet tall, and is a fairly muscular, hairy man. His favorite exercise in the gym is back squats and most of his time is spent reading theology books. He now attends The Southern Theological Seminary and graduated from Tech with a bachelor of science degree in chemical
engineering in December 2019. The night of his wreck, Reff was two months away from graduation, and as a “super senior,” he was ready. On that night, Reff and his friend Noah Agee found themselves with their pastor’s son riding off-road vehicles on his farm. “It’s got a brand new motor in it, so you can’t take off really fast or drive really fast or you could mess it up,” Sam Mckinney, the pastor’s son said. He got out of the vehicle and let Reff take control and Agee into the passenger seat. He accelerated, and as they were mentioning how fast it was, the vehicle started flipping. Agee’s first instinct was to jump out of the vehicle and Reff remained. They were flung out and Reff landed on his back, and the vehicle soon landed right on the middle of his thighs, crushing his femurs. At first, he was calm and realized that he had to get it off of him. Sitting up he grabbed the 1000 pound machine and pushed it off of him. At the same time, Pastor Scott Mckinney came up over the hill with his headlights shining brightly in their eyes. Help had come. “I’m going to need an ambulance,” Reff said. Pastor Mckinney seemed to be hoping that this wouldn’t be a big deal and they could just put him in the truck. Reff tried to get up but felt his now disconnected femurs grind against each other with excruciating pain. They called the ambulance and his parents and headed to Cookeville Regional Medical Center to assess the damage with a CT scan. Both of his femurs had been broken, and staff of CRMC decided he would need to be transferred for surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He and his parents decided to fly him to the hospital that night. In surgery they placed a titanium rod in each of his legs and connected the broken bones with screws. The next day he was standing beside his hospital bed.
hing Weight Isaac Reff had a strong support system in his friends and family but most importantly in his church. Reff spent the next few days in the hospital to make sure everything was working properly, and things seemed to be improving until Sunday. He began having difficulty breathing, and his chest began to feel “sticky”. They increased his oxygen level to help him, but things were not getting better. He felt something in his throat that he almost swallowed, but he coughed it up. It was blood. They immediately moved him to the ICUwhere they began to treat him for blood clots in the lungs. Family and friends worried about his condition. What was a successful surgery aimed at a quick recovery became another near death experience. The treatment was successful and he spent two weeks recovering in the hospital. After all of these complications his doctor told him he was fortunate to make it through this. As a senior chemical engineer, Reff had missed a great deal of school—enough to hinder his chances at graduating in December. He was bound to a wheelchair and walker for a few weeks. Walking and everyday tasks were difficult to complete. He needed help to get to class on time, and try to catch up on all of the assignments he had missed while he was gone. His teachers were very understanding, and one teacher said, “I usually never make exceptions, but I think
you deserve this.” Over the next few weeks, Reff was able to catch up on his assignments, and went on to graduate from Tech. He was even able to walk across the stage, almost passing out, but doing it nonetheless. Reff’s takeaways from all of this were ones that deepened his appreciation for life and for what Jesus Christ had done for him. He realized that he could have been killed several times. If the off-road vehicle landed any higher or lower, he could have been dead. He also could have died in the hospital if the blood clots had gone to his brain or if he would have stopped breathing. Ultimately, the most important thing he learned was a small degree of the physical pain that Jesus endured for him on the cross. He said breaking his legs was the most excruciating pain he had ever felt and made him more thankful for the work of Christ on the cross. Reff feels that he still hasn’t completely processed the events that occurred. He realized that he could have easily died multiple times, but in the end he believes God was the one who kept him from death.
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Golden eagle legacy I
n the peak of her junior year, notes piled on her phone of places she needed to be: workouts in the early morning, class from 8 a.m.-10:50 a.m., change into uniform and work an event from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., change out of uniform and back to class from 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m., then study groups and dance practices until she drops. For the Tech mascot, it was work. For the girl behind it all, Karly Page, it was everything. The pressure of being the Tech mascot forced Page to push herself like never before. She described herself as a person who sticks to her promises and never makes excuses. Page also confessed that she attended sporting and campus events with bronchitis and the stomach virus in fear of letting someone down. The weight came from something President Oldham said during a Homecoming parade, how she was the face of Tech. Page furthered this point by saying, “a whole university and there is one person representing it. That one person is me.” Through all of the homework, quick costume changes, and balancing her work, school, and social life, Page made the mascot an unforgettable experience. She described chasing down Clyde the bus driver to get a ride, messing with her friends when in costume who did not know her secret, going to pageants for people with disabilities while dressed up as Awesome, and going on impromptu visits to the dorm rooms to surprise the freshmen. Page closed with, “I still got the whole college experience, but
then I got to be a bird.” Special education major Page began her mascot career in high school when she took a break from basketball during her sophomore year. She found herself not playing basketball as much as she wanted, being placed on the junior varsity team for the second year in a row. She thought being the mascot was a joke at first, but Page turned it into a serious thing in her hometown. She left behind a legacy that will hopefully outlive herself. In 2016, Page attended a high school cheer and mascot camp at Tech, where the Cheer and Dance coach offered her a spot on the Tech team. By February of 2017, she had her signing day and was officially the new Awesome Eagle mascot. The mascot is a tradition here at Tech that began in 1962. The first mascot was Golden Eagle and in 1985, Awesome Eagle took over as the mascot for Tech, attending campus events and competing at the National Cheerleading Association competitions. The identity of Awesome Eagle is a treasured secret, only told once the student had retired the mantle. Page’s first year at Tech included finding her classes and starting her training as Awesome Eagle. She learned how to walk like Awesome, saying, “we all stood in a circle and started walking around the Fit. It was really, really awkward.” Page was then taught to do the classic ‘Wings Up’ pose, the poses for photos, and the stand, all to channel her inner mascot. She further explained that learning to be the mascot is simple: you either know it or you don’t.
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A whole university and there is one person representing it. That one person is me.
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Page went on to work as Awesome Eagle through her junior year, working 2-4 events per week, including football and basketball games. This equaled out to roughly 15 hours per week, plus extracurriculars and her 18-hour class schedule. During her freshman and sophomore year, Page enjoyed life as the mascot. When asked why she decided to take on this responsibility, Page simply replied, “I’m a loud person. I have too much energy.” Karly confessed that during her freshman and sophomore year, she let class and schoolwork take the backseat. Eventually, the schoolwork caught up to her, and she had to reevaluate, saying, “Then I hit junior year, and our teachers were like, ‘here’s homework, here’s some more, oh a pop quiz, a test,’ I kind of let myself put school first.” During her junior year, Page was
Photos by KARLY PAGE and EAGLE YEARBOOK
the only mascot for Tech, meaning it was up to her to attend all the events and sporting events for that year. Page’s drive to succeed allowed her to manage her busiest year of classes and continue to perform as Awesome Eagle, all without complaints. This year is Page’s first year in the retirement of Awesome Eagle, and she is finding some normalcy during her final year at Tech. Reality is slowing setting in for her as she realizes that she will go through her senior year without the weight of Awesome Eagle on her shoulders. Her ring from the cheerleading championship sits on the dresser, Cheer and Dance shirts are tucked away in the closet, and the new Awesome Eagle is walking around the Fit, learning how to channel their inner mascot.
Karly Page (right) sits with fellow Tech mascot in Awesome Eagle hands out awards at the front of Volpe Library. 2019 Heating up the Quad event.
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