2008 Woodie Awards
THE HOT SPOT: MILLS LAWN
Jami Furo
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Mills Lawn has long served as a pristine, peaceful area of the Rollins College campus used for reading, studying, playing games, and just passing the time. However, one day a year, it serves another special purpose.
Mills Lawn is the location of the much-anticipated Fox Day picnic. There is food and fellowship in a beautiful setting where students and faculty can get together outside of the classroom and without the pressures of due dates and exams. The Fox Day picnic is always the perfect end to a lovely day of festivities that include anything but going to class, and Mills Lawn is an ideal setting for this spectacular occasion.
On any given day, you can walk past Mills Lawn and see the large, open expanse of grass with a few tastefully placed trees. Beneath the trees, you will often see students sitting on blankets, studying, playing the guitar, or doing whatever it is that they would rather do in a beautiful, natural setting beneath the Florida sun than under the florescent lights of their dorm rooms.
Mills Lawn, sitting at the central hub of campus, is hard to ignore. Of course, why would you want to? It is a great place for relaxing, studying, or having an enormous picnic to which all of the students, faculty, and staff are invited on the one day a year that all classes are spontaneously cancelled.