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Local farmers sell homegrown, homemade goods at The Market Page A5

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Vol. 120, Issue 8, 8 Pages

ONLINE $4 million

Museum of Fine Art, 2005

$6 million

McWhorter Center, 2000

College of Agriculture, 2006

Puppy love Therapy dog presentation teaches value of animals

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$2.5 million

$5 million

Auburn University Campaign, 2007

$25 million

$3 million

College of Engineering, 2001

College of Human Sciences, 2007

$2 million

College of Engineering, 2008

$40 million

Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, 2013

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In the community Councilman leads candlelight vigil at the Auburn Police Department

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Our View: Aviation management program should benefit from $40 million donation

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Aerial view of campus showing multi-million dollar donations given in the past decade, the years they were given and to which fund the donations were given.

$40 million donation puts Harbert on map Largest donation in Auburn history adds Harbert name to College of Business Justin Ferguson NEWS REPORTER

The single largest donation in University history was officially announced during the Auburn University Board meeting the morning of Friday, June 21. After a unanimous vote to approve the $40 million donation, the College of Business received a new name and a boost toward its vision of national prominence. The college will now be known as the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business following the historic financial commitment from the Birmingham-based CEO and outgoing president pro tempore on the board of trustees. “This really is a significant change

National Spotlight Nine swimmers competing at USA championships

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July 2000 Earlon and Betty McWhorter donated $2.5 million to fund the McWhorter Center for Women’s Athletics

February 2001 Samuel Ginn donated $25 million to the College of Engineering, spearheading a $150 million campaign

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There’s a tremendous sense of pride in having the college named for me and it being there after I’m long gone,” —Raymond J. Harbert CEO of Harbert ManagementCorporation

for us, going from an unnamed College of Business to the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business,” said Bill Hardgrave, dean of the College of Business. “Over time, what we hope to see is that migration from the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business to eventually what we see with others now, that (the

name) just becomes Harbert... and that attracts great students.” Harbert, a 1982 Auburn graduate, serves as chairman and CEO of Harbert Management Corporation, an independent investment firm. According to U.S. News & World Report, 42 of the top 50 ranked business

The decade in donations

June 2005 Albert and Jule Smith donated $4 million to the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in addition to a $3 million donation in 1998

March 2006 Wayne McElrath donated $6 million to the College of Agriculture, paying for 50 full-ride scholarships

July 2007 Raymond and Kathryn Harbert donated $5 million to the AU campaign, raising funds for various University departments

November 2007 Joseph S. Bruno donated $3 million to the College of Human Sciences for a study abroad program in Arricia, Italy

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February 2008 Tom and Bettye Lowe donated $2 million to the College of Engineering toward the construction of Shelby Center

June 2013 Raymond and Kathryn Harbert donated $40 million toward the College of Business, leading to a college name change

Trustees pick design company for Toomer’s makeover, discuss University improvements Jeffrey Moore Writer

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schools in America are named after benefactors. Auburn College of Business officials believe this gift and name change will give the college a new level of prestige. “There’s a tremendous sense of pride in having the college named for me and it being there after I’m long gone,” Harbert said. “The bigger sense of pride will be watching (Hardgrave) implement this vision and watching it become successful. When we are talking about the Harbert College in the same vein as some of the other well-known and great business schools, that will be when I’m particularly proud.”

Last Friday, the Board of Trustees approved the Consultant Selection Committee’s unanimous selection of jB+a Inc., a landscape architecture firm based in Atlanta, as the preferred firm for the Samford Park at Toomer’s Corner Landscape Redevelopment Project. While jB+a is the firm contracted by the University, it will be working hand in hand with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architecture, a prestigious firm that has designed several prominent projects and will take the lead in designing the project. Jeffrey Dumars, assistant director for campus planning and space management and member of the selection committee, said Nelson Byrd Woltz was more than qualified to spearhead the design effort.

“jB+a is the firm we’re going to contract with, but there’s another firm (Nelson Byrd Woltz) that’s the executive designer,” Dumars said. “They’re relatively famous. Nelson Byrd Woltz won the competition that did the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, the flight that crashed on 9-11. They’ve done some pretty well-known work at the Univerisity of Virginia and some other projects.” Dumars said the selection process was intensive. “We held the public selection process, and it followed the Alabama Building Commission guidelines. We’re not required to follow these guidelines, but we did,” Dumars said. The selection committee posted a public request for proposal questionnaires, which would outline each potential firm’s proposals and qualifications, on the Alabama Building Commission’s

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The Samford Park renovation was publicly chosen on A-Day, the Saturday before the trees’ removal.

website. The committee subsequently received proposal questionnaires from eight different firms from across the South.

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DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn june 20–26, 2013 ■ Clinton Tinney, 22, Auburn Thursday, June 20, 12:16 a.m. at Wire Road ■ Crawford Ledbetter III, 24, Opelika Thursday, June 20, 2:10 a.m. at Wright Street ■ James Smith, 49, Auburn Friday, June 21, 4:10 p.m. at Lee Road 137 ■ Jessica Keith, 20, Auburn Saturday, June 22, 12:22 a.m. at North Donahue Drive and Railroad Avenue ■ William Allanson, 23, Auburn Saturday, June 22, 7:42 a.m. at Miller Avenue and South Gay Street ■ Bayley Kappelman, 21, Auburn Sunday, June 23, 2:44 a.m. at South College Street ■ Andrew Washburn, 20, Auburn Wednesday, June 26, 1:03 a.m. at North Donahue Drive

In the news • Registration for fall parking permits begins July 1. • Prathima Agrawal and Shiwen Mao received a best paper award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers • A newly released series of reports demonstrates the dominant and, in many cases, indispensable role the agriculture and forestry sector plays in the economic fortunes of Alabama’s 67 counties. • The Auburn University Bookstore will be hosting a book signing and recipe tasting in honor of Chef Emil Topel’s newly published book, “All in the Kitchen: Cooking for the Auburn Family,” on Tuesday, June 25, from 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. • Fourth-year interior architecture students Jeffrey Bak, Chloe Schultz and Sean Flaharty won the Innovator’s Jury Award in the 2013 American Institute of Architecture Students’ Reinventing HOME Student Design Competition. with Harbert in helping the College of Business achieve these goals. “(The matching gift) is a very generous thing for Mr. Harbert to do,” Hardgrave said. “This allows us to go out now and get those funds in order to grow our endowment. We just went out these last few weeks and already have had three people give at least $1 million as part of this matching campaign. “So when we talk about a $40 million gift, it really becomes a $55 million gift by the time we’re all said and done.” Harbert and his wife, Kathryn, were presented a gavel made out of wood from the Toomer’s Oaks as a gift of appreciation for his record-setting donation.

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Hardgrave said the donation will strengthen the college’s position as a national leader in many ways. “It is extremely gratifying to have this opportunity to help move Auburn forward, and I look forward to Dean Hardgrave making these improvements,” Harbert said. “I have always felt that college was a place to explore and find out who you are, and I hope this gift will allow Auburn to seek out professors who will challenge the students to be the best they can be.” A $15 million matching gift was included in the $40 million donation, challenging other alumni to partner

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Crime Reports for june 20–26, 2013 June 20 – Mary Lane Second-degree theft of Volvo S40 compact car, laptop, clothing, purse and wallet between 1-9 a.m.

June 22 – Aspen Heights Lane Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle and theft of clothing and U.S. currency between 12:40-12:50 a.m.

June 24 – Toomer Street Third-degree burglary of jewelry, TV and backpack between 8:30-11:05 p.m.

June 20 – North Gay Street Third-degree burglary of two TVs, laptop computer, Nintendo Wii game console and watch between 4:3011:40 p.m.

June 22 – Webster Road First-degree theft of Dodge Ram 1500 truck between 1-1:29 a.m.

June 24-25 – North Dean Road Third-degree theft of Android cell phone between June 24 at 7 p.m. and June 25 at 3 p.m.

June 20 – Cliff Drive Third-degree burglary of two TVs and laptop computer between 7:4511:25 p.m. June 21 – Mell Street Second-degree theft of Macbook laptop computer between 12:30-1 p.m.

June 23 – Felicity Lane Second-degree theft of semi-automatic pistol between midnight and 7:00 a.m. June 24 – Oak Street Third-degree burglary of laptop computer, Nintendo Wii game console and assorted coins, between 8:30 a.m. and noon.

June 26 – South College Street First-degree theft of two desktop computers and various equipment between 1:18-1:24 a.m. — Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

Not just semantics: why four departments are now schools Justin Ferguson News Reporter

What’s in a name change? The University Board of Trustees approved school designation for four departments during its meeting June 21. Instead of “department,” “school” now precedes communication and journalism, fisheries and allied aquacultures, industrial and graphic design and kinesiology at Auburn. These four former departments met certain criteria in order to start the lengthy application process for school status. These criteria contain the number of degrees and majors offered, the number of faculty members and a minimum requirement for total student hours. But what does the new designation mean for the students and faculty that are a part of these former departments? “There are several advan-

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Dumars said the committee narrowed the list down to four finalists. “The Office of the University Architect shortlisted the list to four firms; it was pretty clear that it was a strong list of firms,” Dumars said. “Then the selection committee established another disciplinary group to interview the four finalist firms. The committee included faculty from the department of horticulture and the department of landscape architecture, as well as the director of repair facilities. It included the University architect, myself and the capital project architect here.” After the four finalists were called in for interviews May 24, the committee ranked each firm based on a pre-established

“A lot of students looking at prospective universities look for certain colleges and schools within those universities,” said Jennifer Adams, journalism program director and incoming head of the school of communication and journalism. “This designation will help get us on the radar of students who are looking for a top-tier school for communication and journalism.” These new schools will also have new opportunities for financial support. “People don’t name departments, they name schools,” Adams said. “Our development offers will now be able to hopefully attract a donor who would want to name our school. When you think of the top communication and journalism programs in the country, they’re the big named schools like the Grady College at the University of Georgia or the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University.”

tages to becoming a school, but I think the most important for us is visibility,” said David Pascoe, assistant head of the school of kinesiology. “This designation of a school gives you more distinction. I’m not saying being a department is bad, but being a school recognizes our substantial size and allows us to be a player at the international and national levels.” Tim Boosinger, University provost and vice president of academic affairs, echoed Pascoe during his presentation of the proposal to the board of trustees. Boosinger said it would be a benefit to students to have school on their résumés instead of department. “When our students apply for programs in physical therapy, occupational therapy, medicine, fitness and conditioning, they will now be applying from a school,” Pascoe said. “That designation gives you a great-

er distinction in your application. You could get a degree from one of those write-in programs, but this one at Auburn is a nationally ranked school.” Other faculty members said getting the school designation is recognition of the overall progress the former department has made in recent years. “(Auburn’s) industrial design undergraduate program is currently ranked sixth in the country, while its graduate program is ranked fourth,” said Clark Lundell, head of the school of Industrial and graphic design. “This elevation of department to school status acknowledges this level of achievement and allows the school of industrial and graphic design to be competitive with other programs nationally.” Other benefits of school designation include advantages in recruiting students and faculty.

set of criteria and made their selection. The criteria for selection included team structure and personnel, team knowledge and performance on prior comparable projects, and team understanding and approach to the project. Dumars said the decision to select jB+a and Nelson Byrd Woltz was unanimous due to their experience and previous input in helping to design the Samford Park master plan. “They were the firm that assisted us on developing the initial concepts (of Samford Park at Toomer’s Corner),” Dumars said. “They spent many months with us doing public workshops here on campus. We had six public workshops ( from) last fall to the beginning of this year to gain input on what was important to the community about Toomer’s corner. Then

Overhead design of the Samford Park renovation.

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they helped us develop the initial four options for re-developing the corner.” After receiving input from Auburn supporters through these workshops and online surveys, the firms selected a preferred design. “They took all of that feedback, revised the concepts based on that feedback and their professional judgment,

and then they held another series of workshops on campus open to the public to review them again. The preferred scheme went to the executive facilities committee and was recommended to the Board of Trustees.” The Samford Park at Toomer’s Corner project is slated to be complete by the beginning of the 2014 football season.

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Replica of Toomer’s oak branching out in Auburn Art Kelsey Davis Editor-in-chief

A hand-carved Toomer’s Oak replica, driven all the way from California, sprouts in Auburn Art. When the final removal of the iconic oaks took place in April, Cliff Hare, owner of Auburn Art, didn’t want the Toomer’s area to remain treeless for the upcoming football season. “I didn’t want the trees to come down and people come to town, and not have anything to see and have a somber football season,” Hare said. “I started putting everything in the works so I could try to get it in before football season.” Though the replica took approximately five months to construct, Hare has been conceptualizing the sculpture for about a year. “We had been talking about it for maybe a year, and when we found out exactly when the trees were going to come down, we just decided that it was time to do it,” Hare said. Hare began his search for a contractor by seeking out companies that specialized in tree and shrub-

bery construction. After researching various firms, he discovered NatureMaker, a California-based company that crafted the oak. “I started chitchatting with him (Bob Jones, NatureMaker artist behind the replica) about some designs and ideas and started sending him pictures of the trees and things like that, and over a few months we came up with a design plan.” The sculpture is made from a steel frame, layered with mesh and sculpting material, but to the outsider it could be mistaken for the actual oak that stood at Toomer’s Corner. “Hearing the legacy of the school and the trees’ significance to the school, we just wanted it to be as accurate as we could in shape and color and get the features right,” Jones said as he pointed out a scar on the trunk one of the trees once bore. Jones said much of the focus in fabricating the replica involved making it appear as realistic as possible. “We tried to make the paint job

especially realistic with this tree as opposed to a lot of other trees people order,” Jones said. “(Those have) a little bit more color than maybe you would find in nature. This one we tried to make especially naturalistic.” Jones added the oak installation was a piece unlike any he had created before. “It’s a very unique job,” Jones said. “There’s not a lot of companies that do this, so there’s a lot of skill you learn just from working with this company.” Hare said that the replica turned out almost exactly as he had imagined it. Though the sculpture adds nostalgia and decor to the art shop, its primary purpose serves as a means to preserve the legacy behind the oaks. “The new generations (of Auburn fans) won’t be able to do anything except see pictures of what the trees were like,” Hare said. “This will give them a chance to see it and touch it and stand under it and let their parents tell them what it was all about.”

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Artist Bob Jones assembles the oak replica piece by piece.

Therapists start fund for recovering Mr. Penny Justin Ferguson News Reporter

An Auburn icon’s health is steadily improving, but his therapists are calling on the community to help him make the next step on the road to recovery. Johnny “Mr. Penny” Richmond, a crossing guard at Dean Road Elementary School who was known for doing pushups after touchdowns at Auburn football games, has made great strides in his recovery from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head suffered last February. But in order to move from in-home to outpatient therapy, the Richmond family needs a wheelchair-accessible van.

“He’s not able to get the therapy he needs in-home anymore,” said Jamie Hartford, an occupational therapist from the East Alabama Medical Center. “He’s now ready to go to outpatient… That would be the next step in this process. He would be able to access rehab equipment he needs, which would be a big plus.” In order to help the Richmond family raise money for the vehicle, Hartford and EAMC home care rehabilitation specialist Shaun Payne recently started a van fund through AuburnBank. Hartford estimates they need to raise nearly $10,000 to give Richmond the van he

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needs plus insurance and additional maintenance. In addition to getting Richmond to outpatient therapy at RehabWorks in Opelika, the van would also be used to get him to church. His wife, Lula Richmond, started pushing her husband’s wheelchair on the quarter-mile trek to church several months ago, but the rising summer temper-

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atures are making the Sunday trips difficult. “His faith has been a big part of his recovery process,” Hartford said. “Without it, I don’t believe he would be as far along as he is right now.” Hartford says Richmond still has a distance to go in the recovery process, but he has made incredible progress in the past year. Despite having

no use of the right side of his body, Richmond, a man familiar with strength training and exercise, continues to push himself to better health. “He’s made such great progress, and it’s such an inspiration to see how far he has come, not just physically, but cognitively as well,” Hartford said. “He is willing to put the work in and take this challenge on.” Richmond served as a janitor and crossing guard at Dean Road for 37 years. As one of Auburn football’s most famous fans, Mr. Penny did more than 9,000 pushups during the Tigers’ 2010 National Championship season. Donations can be made at

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Auburn City Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell picked up his megaphone Friday night on the steps of the Auburn Police Division to protest and raise awareness of what he says is rampant racism prevalent in Auburn’s city government. “These powers, these old racist chronicles, who are still looking at us (African-Americans) as second-class citizens, it’s not the new whites, it’s still those old people who are headed to the pits of Hell,” Dowdell said. “If you judge me because I’m black, and if you say that you love the Lord in all of these big churches downtown, there’s some of these same Klansman-like people going there, and they really do believe what they are doing is right. We know it’s not right, and that’s why we’re out here. We’re out here standing up for what we believe is right.” Speaking to a small crowd, Dowdell touched on several instances of alleged racial profiling in Auburn, specifically relating to the ascension of Paul Register to Auburn’s chief of police. Dowdell said the police department should, at the least, hire an African-American to be assistant police chief. “We have been fighting against wrongdoings for more than 30 years, and now we’ve got a police chief, Chief Dawson, who is one of the best chiefs we’ve ever had that is going to retire,” Dowdell said. “I don’t have a problem with (Register). I think he’s going to make a good chief. But I believe there are the powers that be: evil forces; racists, working behind the scenes that will not allow him to do the thing that he needs to do and hire

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City Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell leads rally for racial equality within the Auburn Police Division on Friday, June 21, to raise awareness of allegedly racial prejudices within the city of Auburn government.

a black assistant chief. There is a black captain in position more qualified than Register. He’s been to FBI school. He has two degrees. He could easily fill the chief of police position. But they’re just waving it off because that good ol’ boy system is still here. We will no longer have that in the city of Auburn.” Retired fireman William Felton said African-American firemen are struggling with the same issues plaguing the police department. In 1974, Felton, along with another fireman, became the first AfricanAmerican firefighters hired by the Auburn Fire Department. “There has not been a black person promoted to lieutenant (in the fire department) without a lawsuit being filed,” Felton said. “Every time you file a lawsuit, they’ll promote somebody to lieutenant. But no one’s ever been promoted without a lawsuit being filed.” Felton said he was promoted after a lawsuit in 1978. When asked specifically who the evil forces preventing African-Americans from ris-

ing through the ranks in Auburn city government were, Dowdell said it was all on the backs of the city administration. “It’s the people in the city government. It’s some of the people in the administration that are behind the scenes,” Dowdell said. “I think the city manager (Charlie Duggan Jr.) needs to rise up and do his job. I really do believe that this city manager is one of the most lax city managers we’ve ever had. He allows too much to go on in the city of Auburn; turns his head. He’s young.” John Zellars, president of the Lee County chapter of the Alabama New South Coalition, a statewide organization that advocates for justice and social change in the state of Alabama, was also present to show his support for the cause. “There has to be an attitude change. It has to be done through the mayor, the city council and the people, both black and white, working together to see that Auburn complies with the civil rights laws,” Zellars said.

Dowdell added the NAACP state president has also voiced his support for their cause. “Like old days, we’re going to have rallies with hundreds of people. If they don’t change it before school starts, we will protest,” Dowdell said. “We’re going to go to city hall and we’re going to march in these streets. We’re going to ask Jesse Jackson and Rev. Sharpton, we know them personally, to come and stand against what we believe is a cancer in the city of Auburn.” Dowdell concluded with a rendition of “We Shall Overcome,” sung through his megaphone and final thoughts for the four in attendance. “We will fight with every breath in our bodies. We’re going to fight until we see equal justice served in this city,” Dowdell said.

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Home grown, market fresh The College of Agriculture’s Market brings business for local farmers and fresh food and produce to the Plains Reese Counts Writer

Visit various vendors this summer at The Market for an opportunity to experience locally produced goods and produce. Every Thursday until August 15, the College of Agriculture hosts The Market, an open-air farmer’s market at the Ag Heritage Park, located at the corner of Lem Morrison and Donahue Drives. Admission is free and open to everyone. Parking is available along the road and across the street. Laura Herring, Market manager of four years, said The Market could have nearly 25 vendors during peak times this summer. “Vendors must grow or produce all items themselves,” Herring said. “Goods sold at The Market include vegetables such as corn and tomatoes, different grains, locally produced honey and goat cheese,” Herring said. “The Market has one organically certified vendor.” Visitors can find poultry and eggs, and the fisheries department occasionally attends to sell shrimp. Herring estimates 300-500 people come to The Market each week. Rain or shine, vendors will set up shop each Thursday. Exceptions are made if heavy storms pose a danger to visitors and vendors. Rod Havens, local blueberry farmer and owner of Blueberry Havens, has been attending The Market since it opened in 2005. “I have more customers than I can service,” Havens said after selling out his stock of blue-

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LEFT: Local farmers Hugh Mills and Rex Barnes prepare their fresh squash to be sold. RIGHT, TOP: Tonya and Bob Conrad from Flavorful Memories sell homemade goods like jam, jelly, butter, relish, salsa and sauces. RIGHT, BOTTOM: George Rogers cooks pecan pancake samples for market customers.

berries at The Market, which are $5 per quart. He donates half of his profits each week from The Market to Habitat for Humanity and the Auburn 4-H Club. Havens has been growing blueberries for 30 years on his 220-acre farm. He estimates he has approximately 20,000 plants on the property. “It takes four to fives years for blueberries to grow,” Havens said. “I prefer to have the blueberries handpicked. I’m always needing pickers to help out.” Havens, a former therapist and retired counselor for Auburn High School, has been selling his blueberries commercially for 22 years. He runs the farm on his own, hiring contractors to pick the blueberries. Havens also allows people to pick the berries themselves for $7 per gallon. “I don’t make much money,” Havens said. “But it’s what I like to do.” Havens hasn’t raised prices on his blueberries in a few years. “I feel like we’re paying enough with all prices going up elsewhere,” Havens said. The Market will be closed July 4 for the holiday. The website has a list of fresh goods for the week, as not all items are available every week because growing seasons vary. Links to recipes for the different weekly goods and links to the different vendors’ websites can also be found online. Those interested in becoming vendors can contact Laura Herring at herrilm@auburn.edu or by calling 334-321-1603.

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Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom made an announcement Thursday, June 20, about an expected, yet exciting addition to the app: Instagram video. Used by 130 million people around the globe every month, the former photo-only application allows users to bring images to life with movement, sound and filters. Recording and editing a video is just as easy as taking and editing a photo on Instagram. Users must hold down the vid-

eo camera button to capture video, and can record as many segments as they wish as long as it fills the 3-15 second timeframe. Instagram video offers a number of new features to accommodate video. Thirteen new filters customized for video are available to add the Instagram aesthetic value to your clip. After a video is recorded, you can browse through the shots to pick a cover image to ensure its default photo is clear and pleasing to the eye. The most celebrated new feature for Instagram video is called Cinema, which stabilizes videos taken with a shaky hand to create a smoother

viewing experience. Despite the video addition, classic features of Instagram remain the same. Videos are placed in the square format and scrolling screen with photos, and users can still create captions with hashtags and ‘like’ videos. Social network sharing capabilities also remain. It’s not a far-fetched thought to say Instagram video is Facebook’s answer to Twitter’s Vine. The original social network couldn’t stand to be upstaged and out-innovated by its number one rival, who sprung onto the video scene by introducing Vine back in early 2013. That being said, a question

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arises: Is Instagram the right place to introduce video? It’s certainly a logical step for the company. It’s difficult to predict if the new video aspect will work. While still using a camera, video is an entirely different practice than photography, and exceedingly more complicated. Instagram is all about aesthetics, turning ordinary people who take pictures into what many seem to think are master photographers. Despite filters and the Cinema feature, many videos simply appear ordinary, a characteristic that is heavily looked down upon (and won’t earn many likes) on Instagram. I hate to spend too long

comparing Instagram video to Vine, but it’s an unavoidable vice considering the competition of their parent companies. A place where Vine outshines Instagram video is with video length and looping. Vine’s maximum recording time is 6 seconds, a length that initially seemed too short to me. However, when considering the idea that Vine videos loop until you stop it or scroll to the next post, the length of time is just right. Watching a punchy 6-second video loop two or 20 times is easier than watching a 15-second video that doesn’t automatically loop. Aside from that, 15 seconds is just too long.

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Auburn-related chatter on Twitter from June 20-26 @AUBusiness: Of the top 50 business schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2013, 42 carry the names of benefactors. #WEBiz @CampusRecAU: Interested in Rock Climbing? The new Rec and Wellness Center will have 3 rock walls. @AubietheTiger01: 10 weeks until the return of @FootballAU! It’s almost time for redemption. It’s almost time for “A New Day!” War Eagle!! @AU_History: Shug ‘71: “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For I will be the meanest SOB in the valley.” @AUFAMILY: @jayjacobsauad: “While we haven’t played a game yet, @CoachGusMalzahn has shown he’s everything we hoped he would be.” @aldotcomSports: ‘That’s a bad boy right there:’ LeBron James chats up Cam Newton after winning NBA title @AU_History: 6/24/1985: Auburn announces the expansion of Jordan-Hare stadium will add approx 12,000 seats along w/ 69 luxury suites on East upper deck. @WarBlogle: In elevator today with an LSU fan that only wanted to talk about Clint Moseley. Dude, brah, man, we past that. #auburn

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Harbert’s donation should rescue aviation There is never enough money to go around. We want to be wealthy, eat fancy food and wear fancy clothes, but there just isn’t enough money for us all to live the lavish lifestyle we yearn for. Someone always gets left out. Nationally, so-called “too big to fail” banks and corporations are the ones with all the money right now, and most of us are the ones left out of the loop. The leaders of these organizations make multi-million dollar salaries, while some of us eat bologna sandwiches three times a day. They didn’t necessarily earn their money, but they hold onto every cent just as if they had toiled day in and day out, dreaming of a champagne-filled Jacuzzi and a penthouse in the sky. Many a Cayman Island and Swiss bank account is filled with American money the country will never see again. But hey, that’s capitalism. Those of us who will only ever use the nasty hot tub at the local gym, filled with boring old water, will just have to make do. We can complain and protest all we want,

but that money isn’t going anywhere near our wallets. However, locally, there is actually potential for this sad trend to be disrupted, and a worthy group of University students helped out along the way. As many of you know, Auburn’s Aviation Management Professional Flight Program is in danger of being shut down by Bill Hardgrave, dean of the College of Business. The main reason Hardgrave wants to shut down the program is a supposed decline in students and a lack of instructors. Without the instructors and the flight school, the program will lose accreditation and the prestige it has garnered during 41 years of excellence in the field. Unfortunately, that’s not even the worst part. If the program is allowed to end and eventually shut down, many current and future aviation management students will be cheated out of jobs in the growing Alabama aviation industry. These are jobs that companies want to give to Auburn graduates because they know the program pro-

duces highly qualified professionals. Take the University’s recent partnership with JetBlue Airways as a perfect example of what will be lost. So we say the College of Business should reinvest in what has already proven to be a deserving program. Raymond J. Harbert’s recent donation of $40 million, along a $15 million match campaign from other alumni, couldn’t have come at better time. The College of Business now has a name and enough money to become a competitor on the national level. According to a press release posted on the new Raymond J. Harbert College of Business website, one of the key ways the money will be spent is to “recruit and retain top faculty members in such areas as finance, business analytics and supply chain management.” Aviation management should definitely be part of that list. If the College of Business wants to establish itself as a prominent institution for business education, then it needs to learn to appreciate one of its most important programs.

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So, how hard is it to, like, break a totally bad habit? came fixtures in daily conversation. Examples in pop culture are the movie Clueless, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and Michelangelo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Although to hear a real-life like misuser, turn your attention to the nearest female (and sometimes male) millennial. Misuses, for the most part, fly rapid-fire from the mouths of the younger crowd. But the power of change lies in knowledge. After research and consulting a dictionary, I’ve found identifying correct uses and misuses is helpful when trying to drop the habit. Here is your cheat sheet.

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Like is a word with many meanings. Usually overused and often misused, like is a bad habit that plagues the speech of young generations. It’s unprofessional, adds an element of uncertainty to a conversation and makes me internally cringe when I hear it. Still, perhaps the worst part about misusing the word is I do it, and in abundance. The habit began in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s when teenage girls began to speak in a social dialect called Valley Speak. Words including like, totally, whatever and way be-

Correct uses of like: Similarity: saying something is like another thing. Analogies fall under this category, as well. Example: You look like your mom. Enjoyment: saying you like something.

Example: I like the color blue. Misuses of like: Describing speech: using like instead of said, remarked, whispered, yelled, etc. Incorrect: He was like, yeah, I’ll be there. Correct: He said, yeah, I’ll be there. Hedge: using like as an approximation or in uncertainty. Incorrect: I ran, like, six miles. Correct: I ran approximately six miles. Filler: also called a vocalized pause by linguists, which are used to keep the conversation going when you have nothing else to say. In this instance, like can often be replaced with ah, um, uh and you know. Incorrect: So, like, when are we leaving? Correct: So, we are we leaving?

These nontraditional uses of like often accompany the words so, really and literally, and often involve exaggeration. Avoiding the misuse of like, as well as the three words in the last sentence, can dramatically increase both your vocabulary and credibility. Indeed, saying like is a difficult habit to quit. Talking is infinitely harder when policing every word that comes out of my mouth. It’s been an incredibly contradicting journey. I’ve found when I’m conscious of avoiding like, I hesitate even when I’m about to use it correctly. I secretly snicker when friends misuse it, but when I hear myself say it, I feel like an idiot. (Note the correct usage in the previous sentence. Avoiding the misuse of like in writing is much easier than when speaking.) The hypocritical life is the hardest life.

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Going down in flames: a lesson in failure from penicillin Ben Croomes Opinion@ theplainsman.com

Scientists like to say there is no such thing as failure. They claim even when an experiment goes awry, or the results are unexpected, they are still able to gather useful data. Some of the best scientific discoveries have happened by pure accident, by accepting the situation and learning from the results. For example, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after noticing the effects of a mold growth on some flu cultures. He could have yelled at his assistants, punched the wall and peeled

out of the parking lot in his Trans-Am in a fit of rage, but he didn’t. He played it cool and won a Nobel Prize. Also, Trans-Ams hadn’t been invented yet. I wish I could be like Fleming because I’m terrified of failure. During the past 10 years, I’ve had 18 jobs, most of them lasting no longer than a few weeks. I would go into the job like any other person, ready to make money and do what needs to be done. But that drive soon turned into fear and anxiety, and it wouldn’t be long before I quit because I was too stressed out by my constant worrying about failure. Now, I realize I was the one causing what I feared to happen – a self-fulfilling prophecy – but damn did it take a long time for me to realize that. Just ask all the kitchen managers I’ve left without a fry cook during the

Friday night dinner shift. I know one restaurant owner in Athens, Ala., who would probably pay a hefty bounty for any information on my current whereabouts. I like to believe I’m more mature, more confident. Learning from my past mistakes is something I take seriously. At least, I thought I did. I took the Candidate Physical Ability Test, which is one of the first steps in becoming a firefighter, or student firefighter in my case, Saturday, June 22. I trained for this test, called the CPAT by all cool firemen, for three months. I even quit smoking— cold turkey. Dreams of a fitter, sexier version of myself were quite common. I would run into the burning building and come out with a gorgeous blonde on each arm. The dreams would then

take a very different turn, but I won’t burden you with the details, which are sexy. I built up a wall of confidence, even though I almost passed out at all the CPAT practice sessions. Somehow, I just knew all the years of smoking, drinking, and bad food would melt off in three months, and the test would be a breeze. But I failed. That’s what it’s called, a failure. One of the proctors even says “Failure!” when you make a test-ending mistake. My confidence was gone, my fragile ego shattered. I spent the rest of the day and the next in bed eating way too much pizza and hating myself. All kinds of old anxieties and fears resurfaced. It was not a pretty sight. I was thinking about Fleming.

How was he able to stay calm and not crawl back in bed and go on a pizza binge? He didn’t because he knew there is always something to be learned. Not all mistakes are final. From failing the CPAT, I’ve learned that I’m good at lying to myself. and, more importantly, I relearned failure is nothing to be afraid of. Learning from failure is a good thing, even if the failure seems overwhelming. You can learn from past mistakes, but it’s also all right to make new mistakes to learn from. It’s one of the ways we grow as people. Just as long as you don’t wallow in defeat for too long, you can make the best of it and come back stronger. Anyone who has ever had a penicillin shot for syphilis can attest to that.

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Use some of it to start outreach programs (more? are there any?) teaching and encouraging entrepreneurship (in all facets of civic life) all over Alabama. I’ve personally visited many rural communities that would be incredibly receptive to the idea.

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Rising senior Olivia Scott is one of nine swimmers with ties to Auburn University who is competing in the Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships this week.

Swimming for the Championships Nine athletes with ties to Auburn are swimming in Indianapolis for a chance to qualify for the FINA World Championships this week

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A group of nine current and former Auburn swimmers are competing this week in the Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships in Indianapolis for a chance to swim in the 2013 FINA World Championships. Rising seniors Olivia Scott, Haley Krakoski and Zane Grothe joined by rising sophomore Jillian Vitarius are the four current Auburn swimmers competing in the meet. Incoming freshman Kyle Dar-

mody will also be competing against his future Auburn teammates as a member of the SwimMAC Carolina team. Darmody is rated as a top-10 national recruit from the class of 2013. The Charlotte, N.C., native chose the Tigers over family ties to the University of Texas where his older brother swims. Former Auburn swimmers, including three former Olympians, are also competing in the qualifying meet this week. Winner of a London 2012 gold medal, Tyler McGill, is a top seed in the 50

and 100-meter butterfly. Twotime gold medalist Mark Gangloff will compete in multiple breaststroke events along with Mikah Lawrence. Karl Krug, a 2012 Auburn graduate, will compete in the sprint freestyle competitions. The Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships are held June 25-29 at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, home of the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The finals in both the men’s and women’s 200-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle were on Tues-

day, June 25. In the men’s 100-meter freestyle Darmody finished in 12th with a time of 50.13, followed by a 50.42 by Krug placing him in 27th. In the women’s freestyle, Scott placed 34th following a 56.71 time. Scott did not qualify for the finals in the women’s 200-meter butterfly event. The FINA World Championships will be in Barcelona, Spain, July 24-Aug. 4. The top-two competitors in each event will qualify for the U.S. National team.

Athletics website gets revamped Justin Lee writer

The Auburn Athletics Department has an all new online presence after the University launched a full redesign of the official Auburn Tigers website, with streamlining social media capabilities and opening up possibilities for new, original content. The new AuburnTigers.com launched June 21 as the culmination of an initiative to offer an improved experience to alumni and fans. In addition to a fresh presentation of content, fans can also expect to see an entirely different brand of writing after the athletics department hired veteran beat writers Charles Goldberg and Phillip Marshall to write stories from inside the Auburn Athletic Complex. “We understand why people come to the official site,” said Jason Matheson, assistant athletic director for digital media. “They come for our core information. They know we’re the source for rosters, bios, stats and all that. But what people are going to see is that we’ve added two feature writers now, Phillip and Charles. “So instead of just a preview and a recap of an event, we’re going to

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We’ve been counting down. We’ve had the old site for three years. A lot has changed in the industry in three years so, it was in desperate need of renovating and refreshing.” —Cassie Arner Assistant Athletic Director for public relations

give you some opinion and analysis and a lot of different angles that we never did before.” Matheson, a 1996 Auburn graduate, returned to The Plains in March after spending 11 years in a similar position at the University of Oklahoma. According to Cassie Arner, assistant athletic director for public relations, the project started when Matheson first arrived at the athletic complex and snowballed into the changes seen on the site today. “We’ve been counting down,” Arner said. “We’ve had the old site

for three years. A lot has changed in the industry in three years, so it was in desperate need of some renovating and refreshing. This site, compared to the old one, really takes advantage of new technologies, social media, and hopefully the navigation is a lot better for fans.” The biggest change readers will notice on the website is the addition of Goldberg and Marshall, who bring a different voice and style to features and opinion pieces where more simple previews and reviews were. “We’ve been talking about this for a while, and we decided if we were going to do it, we were going to do it right, and we were going to hire the best,” said Jack Smith, senior associate athletic director for communication. “So we hired two guys who are really legendary beat writers. I think they’re the best at their craft, and their experience is extremely valuable to us. “They don’t need much direction. You just turn them loose and let them do their job, which is great.” Aside from the website’s day-today output of content, Matheson said the new website is also designed to transform on game days, turning into a second-screen expe-

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rience for fans watching the Tigers from home. The switch will bring stats, live blogs, coverage information and more to the front homepage of the website. “When we hit August 31 when Washington State rolls into town, the whole site is going to transform into what we call game day mode,” Matheson said. “We understand that most fans are going to be either in the stands or watching us on TV, so it’s really going to be a second-screen. It’s going to be an accompaniment to how they’re trying to follow us.” The athletic department also plans to launch two mobile apps in August and expand Tiger Roar magazine into a bimonthly digital magazine geared to the entire Auburn fan base.

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Marshall Law and AU Goldmine have teamed up with Auburntigers.com to push out insightful, relevant and timely stories about Auburn athletes and coaches for the general public. Auburn recently hired senior writers Phillip Marshall and Charles Goldberg from their former jobs at 247sports.com and The Birmingham News, respectively, to exclusively write about anything and everything to do with Auburn sports. Marshall stated there are a lot of similarities between his new and former jobs, but he admitted there are some distinct differences as well.

“I’ve gone from 35 years in the newspaper business to 5 years in the website business to what I’m doing with Auburn now,” Marshall said. “The biggest difference is there’s nothing to do with message boards, which is something of a relief, and we can’t cover recruiting. Beyond those two things it’s not that much different from 247sports.” Marshall explained they are fairly limited in the recruiting sector because they were hired and are paid by the University. Though they are not allowed to cover recruiting while potential commitments are visiting the school, Goldberg and Marshall can write about it in a limited role. “We can write about recruit-

ing in general terms as far as high school and when they sign,” Marshall said. “But, during this time when they’re visiting and all that stuff, we’re not allowed to write about them.” Though there are several limitations due to the nature of the position, there are several perks to being a senior writer for Auburntigers.com. “We had several conversations at length before I took the job about what would be expected, and I pretty much have the freedom to do what I think is best,” Marshall said. “I try to have a couple new stories a day but that’s not really a requirement. I just try to do a good job.” Indeed, since his hiring less

than two weeks ago, Marshall has been writing at least a story a day, and sometimes gets as many as three on the website in 24 hours. Not to be outdone, Goldberg keeps a similar pace when pushing out the news. Marshall also said his new position allows him to dig deeper into the stories of some of the players and coaches. “One of the main reasons why I took this new job is now I get to spend more time telling the stories of athletes and coaches in an in depth way, and I really enjoy doing that,” Marshall said. “I’ve been able to do that some, and I’m going to get to do that more. That was a real attraction to me in taking the job to begin with.”

Championship games played on campus? Should colleges have home field advantage? Will Gaines Sports@theplainsman.com

Last week while watching the epic game seven of the NBA finals, one could not help but notice the awesome championship atmosphere that surrounded the game. Miami’s fan base became a part of the championship run, witnessed it first hand and then celebrated on their home court. This raises a question. Should the college football national championship be played on college campuses, giving one team home field advantage? It would not be hard to accomplish, even with the new The College Football Playoff starting in 2014. The two semi-final games could be played in the traditional bowls, and then have the highest ranked team host the national championship game. Simple, right? To quote ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso, “Not so fast my friend.” It is not that easy. There are negatives to this scenario. The biggest issue is small college towns like Auburn, Clemson, S.C., and Athens, Ga., can’t accommodate all the media, game sponsors and fans that would swarm into these towns for the game. Also, the weather, even in the South, is not the best in January when the game would be played. Most players and coaches welcome playing in a dome stadium or a town with great weather like Los Angeles or Miami, instead of Ohio State or Michigan. It would also give the home team an advantage by being able to practice and watch film in their own facilities, while the visiting team would have subpar accommodations right before the biggest game of their season. Even with these negative points it still makes a lot of sense to have the championship game on a college campus. A major benefit would be making the game easier to attend for fans, at least for the home teams fans. While a lot of Auburn fans traveled to Arizona in 2011, many did not, especially students. Imagine what it would have been like for Auburn to have won the national championship game in Jordan Hare Stadium? It would have been an unbelievable atmosphere that many more Auburn fans would have been able to experience. BCS game attendance has struggled the past few years. Having the national championship game on campuses would probably solve that problem. Imagine the huge economic boost it would have given Auburn and the state of Alabama to host a national championship game. Not to mention the economic boost of being able to host national championship games in 2010 and 2011. Both years Auburn and Alabama were ranked No. 1 before the national championship game, giving them home field advantage. While this is a nice thought, it will never happen. There is too much money being spent by the four BCS bowls (Orange, Rose, Sugar and Fiesta bowls) for the game to be moved to college campuses. However, the national championship game should be moved to college campuses. The positives out weigh the negatives. College football is great because of the college campuses, stadiums, traditions, fans and most of all the students. None of these things are being represented in the biggest game of the year.

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Auburn men’s basketball coach Tony Barbee spoke briefly Monday, June 24, about the upcoming 2013-14 season and the impending competitive trip to the Bahamas for the Tigers during an SEC men’s basketball teleconference. “I’m excited about the year upcoming,” Barbee said. “I think we’ve upgraded our roster in a number of ways.” One of the upgrades Auburn made was bringing in junior college point guard Malcolm Canada, who signed with Auburn last week. Canada was a late addition after transfer point guard Jerome Seagears decided to return to Rutgers after spending less than one month on campus. “We were fortunate to get Malcolm so late in the process,” Barbee said. “You can’t compete at the highest level with just one point guard. Malcolm is a bigger point guard with great feet, great hands and he’s a winner. I think we’ve upgraded that position significantly with Tahj (Shamsid-Deen) and Malcolm.” Canada will be competing for playing time next season with fellow point guard, freshman Shamsid-Deen. Auburn lost five seniors from last year’s team, including Frankie Sullivan, who averaged a team high 12.6 points per game. “Every year, it’s a transition for all programs,” Barbee said about personnel turnover. “When you’re taking over a program like I did a few years ago you take some steps forward and some steps back. We try to recruit guys who are about winning.” With players like Sullivan, Josh Wallace and Rob Chubb no longer on the team, Auburn will have to look to incoming players to be the new playmakers. All the new players are expected to be enrolled in the second summer session to begin building chemistry with the team. “They’ll all be enrolled here as we start the second summer session,” Barbee said. “We’re still waiting on some paperwork for the (inter-

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national players).” Barbee also said the team has plans to travel to the Bahamas. “They’re playing some federation teams in the Bahamas later this summer,” Barbee said. “It’s a great time to develop some chemistry and work on some different things to give us a head start going into next season.” The schedule has not been set, and will be announced at a later date. “Right now we don’t have a schedule of the games of who exactly we’re playing,” Barbee said. “But we’ve been in touch with the federation down there and they set up the schedule for all the teams.” Strength of schedule, and nonconference scheduling specifically, has been a big topic in SEC basketball since the spring coaches meeting. With the conference trying to build up its RPI rating, schedules will now have to be turned into the league office for approval. This season, Auburn’s nonconference schedule will be Iowa State in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, Illinois in Atlanta, Boston College and a home-and-home matchup with Clemson. Auburn will host Clemson this season at Auburn Arena and the play at Clemson next season. “The strength of our schedule is pretty solid,” Barbee said. “Every year, we’ve upgraded our

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