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SPRING BREAK TO FORT HUACHUCA
Amber McKinney
Editor-In-Chief
While a lot of students pulled out of Meredith heading for Myrtle Beach or
Florida on Spring Break, my friend Erin and I left for Arizona. On Saturday
morning, we drove to RDU at 4:50 a.m. That’s way too early in the morning
to be awake, but we got an asiago bagel and some coffee to wake us up be
fore the plane departed. We arrived at Fort Huachuca, Arizona on Saturday
afternoon after an hour and a half long drive from the airport in Tucson.
Not to sound overdramatic or anything, but I love Arizona. Besides North
Carolina, it’s my favorite state, and it’s probably one of the most different
from NC. Instead of trees and greenery as far as the eye can see, southern
Arizona is made up of mountains that seem to appear from nowhere, mes-
quite bushes and yucca plants and miles of dirt and rocks. It’s empty and
wonderful at the same time, and there is a lot to do there, especially if you
are into outdoor sports. Not to mention that it was 75-80 degrees during the
day for most of the week that we were there.
Erin and I spent much of our time in Arizona outside of the house. On
Sunday we visited Tombstone, the town where the gunfight at the O.K.
Corral happened. It is an odd but ftin place. People walk around in cowboy
and “ladies of the night” costumes. WTiile we were in Tombstone, we went
down on a tour into .the Good Enough Mine which used to be a good mine
for silver and could be opened for silyer mining in the fiiture. Coming back
from Tombstone, we stopped at the ruins of an old town called Millville and
saw some Native American petroglyphs.
Monday morning, we headed out toward the Mexican border to the Coro-
iiado National Forest where we hiked three miles up a mountain to a cave. A
mild spelunking expedition took us deep into the cave without a tour guide.
That afternoon, we attended the homecoming of the soldiers of the 40th Ex
peditionary Signal Battalion. They were supposed to arrive around 1 p.m.,
but there were delays thanks to some soldier forgetting to turn in a sensitive
item. They eventually got to the gym around 7:50 p.m. to the screaming,
whistling and shouting of their family members and ftiends. Erin’s dad,
Brigade Commander Colonel Frank Huber, gave the shortest speech I have
ever heard from a military officer so the soldiers and their families were
able to reunite sooner than we expected.
We took it easy Tuesday since we were tired from hiking and caving on
Monday, but we ended up going on a hike up the mountains around Fort
Huachuca. At first we were going to stop at Reservoir Hill, but we decided
to see how far we could go. Eventually we were so high that we would have
needed rock-climbing gear to go higher. On Wednesday, we took one of the
trucks and drove over to Bisbee, a small town to the east of Sierra Vista.
Like Tombstone, it also sports an old mine, but Bisbee is less rough and
rowdy and more artsy with lots of little shops and galleries that supported
local artists. Thursday was mostly taken up by shopping at the PX and a five
mile hike up Huachuca Canyon, and Friday was the early morning flight
back to North Carolina.
I had a fantastic spring break in Arizona, and I hope to return there soon,
perhaps this summer'or the next. I recommend visiting Arizona if you
have any sort of interest in hiking, caving, walking or just spending lots of
time outside. ■
TRACK, Continued from Page 1
5) Do the math.
If you cannot motivate yourself to gel back into the swing of things after
Spring Break, do a little math to put you in the right mood. The cost of
tuition during the 2008-2009 academic year at Meredith, according to the
Meredith Financial Assistance website, is $23,550. Therefore, a quarter of
the year, which is about what is left right now, costs $5,887.50. For a student
who takes 15 credit hours and receives no scholarships or financial aid, she
will pay $392.50 for each credit hour this semester. To break it down even
fiirther, assuming all of a student’s courses are three credit hours and each
class meets for approximately 40 hours duringhe semester, each Meredith
student pays $58.88 per hour of instruction. Although these numbers don’t
apply to every Meredith student, they are still startling figures. So, next
time you want to skip class or just spend your fifty minutes on Facebook,
consider if the information on the newsfeed is worth $58.88. ■
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