09.27.2012 edition of The Auburn Plainsman

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Vol. 118, Issue 15, 16 Pages

Student coach’s death saddens community Hayley Blair Campus Editor

Auburn student and assistant football coach Joseph Bagwell, age 23, died of a heart attack Sept. 22, just before the LSU game.

“It is a very heavy heart for myself and a lot of our players and a lot of our coaches right now,” said coach Gene Chizik at a post-game press conference. “The young man, who was a student assistant (coach) with us, in football passed away shortly before the game unexpectedly, and it is very tragic. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his

family.”

Bagwell was born without his right ventricle, but he never lost his heart for football.

He persevered and eventually became a student coach for the Auburn Football Special Teams and Offensive Line.

Employees from Jennifer and Company Photography, a business owned by Bagwell’s mom, Jennifer Tarkington, used their Facebook page to comment on Bagwell’s resolve.

“Joseph, you never let anything hold you back,” they said. “You went out there and achieved your dreams and we couldn’t be any more proud

of the man that you have become. We love you dearly, Baby Joe, and will miss you eternally.

War eagle, baby boy!”

He underwent his first open-heart surgery at three years old, and, with the help of several doctors, continued to manage his heart problems over the next 15 years.

Though Bagwell handled his condition well, it still caused him anxiety, “Heading to Bham to see the cardiologist.” he said in one Facebook post. “Praying for nothing but the best! Jeremiah 29:11."

He majored in Physical Ac-

tivity and Health, which would have prepared him to become a health professional in commercial fitness and cardiac rehabilitation.

If not for his death, Bagwell would have graduated in 2013.

When Tarkington posted news of her son’s death on Facebook, friends and family immediately responded with support.

“Jennifer, we are praying for you,” began a post from Betsy Mosgrove Hall. “I remember you talking about him and how your face would just glow.

He accomplished so much, and had a positive impact on

so many. He was, and will always be, a blessing to you.”

Jennifer and Company Photography also expressed their loss through a Facebook post.

“My heart hurts as I write this,” it said. “Today, we lost a beautiful and giving soul. Today, we lost a son that any mother would be proud to call her own. Today, our Jennifer lost her son and the greatest love of her life, Joseph.”

B a gw el l wa s buri ed Wednesday at Maple Hill Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family asked that mourners donate in

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Bagwell

Capturing the crown With five nominees, who do you think will win Miss Homecoming?

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Harvey Updyke was arrested Sept. 18, and charged with terrorizing charges following a dispute at a home improvement store.

Updyke arrested on terrorizing charges Zeke Turrentine Community Editor

The man on trial for the poisoning of Auburn’s Toomer’s Corner oak trees was arrested in Hammond, La., on Sept. 18 on terrorizing charges.

Harvey Updyke, 64, was taken into custody following a dispute at a home improvement store.

In the crime report, police officers said Updyke became irritated with the amount of money he was being given back for returning a lawn mower. Updyke wanted $150 but the manager was only offering $110.

Nola.com reported that upon the arresting officer’s arrival and request that Updyke call an attorney, Updyke said “he would take care of this on his own.”

“He had a sad story,” Hammond police spokesperson Lt. Vincent Giannobile said.

“He said he was going to prison anyway, he had a bad heart and he didn’t care.”

Updyke reportedly said in response to the officer banning him from the store that he would return one more time and it would be his last visit.

“You just don’t know what these people will do, and we don’t take any chances,” Giannobile said.

Updyke called the Times-

Picayune on Tuesday, Sept. 25, to share his take of what happened in the store.

He said he went to the store to fix a problem he had been having with lawnmowers. He bought several that he said leaked oil and he was tired of getting them replaced. He said the clerk offered him $109 for the lawnmower when he said he bought it for $159.

Updyke stepped outside to call 911 and when the officer arrived he told Updyke to get a lawyer.

Updyke said he asked the officer, “What you’re trying to tell me is I need a $500 lawyer to get my $50 back.” When the officer said yes, Updyke said he made the comment about coming back.

This is when the officer arrested him for terrorizing.

Updyke swore he made no threat.

“I didn’t say anything about coming back or doing something,” he said. “I did not say that. I’m not an idiot. I know all about the law. I’ve done some stuff wrong here lately, but I’m going to pay for that. But this, I don’t need this.”

His trial is set to begin Oct. 1, though the place and time are still undetermined.

Lawyers Margaret Brown and Andrew Stanley have now been appointed to his case af-

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Public Intoxications in Auburn Sept. 19 - Sept. 25

■ Joseph Hunter, 24, Gadsden, Ala. Tuesday, Sept. 25, 11:31 p.m. on West Thach Avenue ■ Jordan Haley, 20, Columbia, S.C. Tuesday, Sept. 25, 12:58 a.m. on North College Street ■ Daniel Martin, 56, Montgomery, Ala. Friday, Sept. 21, 7:28 p.m. on West Magnolia Avenue ■ Frederick Dean, 21, Baton Rouge, La. Friday, Sept. 21, 10:14 p.m. on West Magnolia Avenue ■ William Stovall, 22, Charleston S.C. Friday, Sept. 21, 11:45 on West Magnolia Avenue ■ Troy Shackelford, 21, Alabaster, Ala. Saturday, Sept, 22, 11:57 p.m. at East Glenn Avenue and North Gay Street ■ Thomas Holt, 24, Phenix City Ala. Saturday Sept. 22, 3:26 a.m. on Gay Street

Thursday, September 27, 2012 DUI Arrests in Auburn Sept. 19 - Sept. 25

■ Leston Cochran, 23, Auburn, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 5:22 a.m. on Tichenor Avenue ■ Hunter Heath, 20, Troy, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 4:51 p.m. at Wire Road and Lem Morrison Drive ■ Stephen Lindsey, 18, Bimingham, Ala. Saturday Sept. 22, 5:21 p.m. on West Magnolia Avenue ■ Cory Reid, 23, Montgomery Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 5:46 p.m. on North College Street ■ Kyle Williams, 22, Auburn, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 5:46 p.m. on North College Street ■ Matthew Smith, 23, Tarrant, Texas Saturday, Sept. 22, 6:16 p.m. on Heisman Drive ■ Taylor Leverett, 19, Alabaster, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22. At 7:34 p.m. at Lem Morrison Drive and South Donahue Drive

■ Gavin Mason, 22, Auburn Ala.

Saturday, Sept. 22, 2:57 a.m. on East Glenn Avenue ■ Terry Brown, 52, Auburn, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2:18 p.m. on East Thach Avenue ■ Joseph Lockhart, 57, Waverly Ala. Saturday, Sept. 22, 10:52 p.m. on Alabama Highway 14 ■ Scott Thomasson, 23, Auburn Ala. Sunday, Sept. 23, 3:29 a.m. at Alabama Highway 14 and North Donahue Drive ■ Marissa Kane, 24, Auburn Ala. Sunday, Sept. 23, 3:30 a.m. on Webster Road ■ William Ligon, 33, Auburn, Ala. Thursday, Sept. 20, 10:25 p.m. at Summer Hill Road and East Glenn Avenue ■ Michael Ducote, 18, Birmingham, Ala. Friday, Sept. 21, 1:45 a.m. on North College Street

— Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

Courtesy of Vivian Langley

Architects have already finished the design of the new band building, which will be used as an indoor practice space. Construction is estimated to begin in the spring, after funds are raised.

Band facility fundraising ‘about halfway there’ Hayley Blair Campus Editor

The College of Liberal Arts is collecting funds for a new facility that will provide necessary practice and storage space for the band.

The current practice facility in Goodwin Hall is too small to hold the growing band and is far from both the outdoor practice field and the football field.

“We don’t really have an indoor space the marching band can go to because we were moved to the far west of campus by the Village dorms, so when it starts raining we just have to cancel rehearsal,” said Corey Spurlin, asso-

Bagwell » From A1

Bagwell’s memory to “Clicking for a Cause,” a charity created by Tarkington.

The charity provides lifesaving equipment for pediatric cardiac patients.

The charity made a Facebook page, and the description explains Bagwell’s contribution to its creation.

“Joe was such a loving and caring person and he al-

ciate director of bands. “Our real need right now is to have a facility near our practice field, which is where we spend most of our time.”

Spurlin said a pavilion has been provided near the practice field, but it isn’t large enough to practice under, and it’s unsafe to stay there during inclement weather.

“Sometimes we have a complete week where the weather is terrible, and we’re expected to perform on Saturday,” Spurlin said. “We need a place to rehearse to meet the expectations of our fans and our University.”

The building will serve an important function on game ways kept us all laughing,” it read. “We know Joe would be thrilled to know he could help people even after his death. We ask that you help us continue Joe’s selfless and caring spirit.”

To contribute, send donations to “Clicking for a Cause” at Huntsville Hospital Foundation, 101 Sivley Road, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Information contributed

by Laughlin Service Funeral Home.

days as well, Spurlin said.

“On game days the marching band has nowhere to go after practice to change clothes and get ready for the games,” he said. “Each year we’ve been looking for a place to go, and different parts of campus try to help us out. The new building will have lockers and things so the marching band members will have a way to get ready for the game.”

Vivian Langley, development officer for the College of Liberal Arts, said fundraising for the project is going well.

“We’re $2.6 million toward our $5.5 million goal, so we’re

about halfway there,” Langley said. “We’ve only been doing this for several months now and we have several lead gifts like the $1.5 million gift from athletics. They’re starting to add up, and we still have many people to talk to about the project.”

Cassie Arner, assistant athletic director for public relations, said the money for their donation came from ticket sales, donations and football television licensing.

“The band gives quite a bit of their time and effort and atmosphere to athletic events, and it’s something we felt we needed to do to support a group that has sup-

ported us for so long,” Arner said.

Another donation of $1 million was given by Auburn alumna Meredith Birchfield.

“She has just always loved the band,” Langley said. “She can’t imagine a football game without the full-on band being there and even at basketball games, where the pep band really helps with the spirit.”

Spurlin said he hopes construction will begin by spring.

“We’re raising money, and we’re getting closer.” Spurlin said. “The architectural design is completely intact, so once the finances are

in place, we’re ready to break ground. It’s really an immediate need. It’s just not safe for us to be out on the field with nowhere to go when bad weather pops up.”

Langley said this project has been in the works for three years, and she is looking forward to seeing the final result.

“It should be finished in 2014 at the latest and, with a little luck, maybe even sooner than that,” Langley said.

“We’re being extremely optimistic, and we’re trying to move the fundraising forward as quickly as possible with hope that people will see it as a worthy project.”

Updyke » From A1

ter his previous lawyer, Everett Wess withdrew.

The case has been on hold for several months as jury selection was interrupted by Andrew Yawn’s Plainsman article reporting that Updyke confessed to him.

A status hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Lee County Justice Center.

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Harvey Updyke is scheduled for a status hearing Thursday, Sept. 27 at 8:30 a.m. at the Lee County Justice Center.

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Members of Auburn’s wheelchair basketball team practice in the Beard-Eaves Coliseum. From left to right are players Josh Gess, Phillip Crain and Scott Scroggins, who arrive at 6 a.m. every weekday to practice.

Program offers new athletic opportunities Corey Arwood Writer

Auburn’s Adaptive Recreation and Athletics organization is preparing for the wheelchair basketball team’s first season playing in a new, higher-ranking division.

The campus organization has been growing rapidly since 2009, and with the wheelchair basketball team entering a collegiate division this fall, it continues to reach major milestones.

“Our mission is to provide opportunities for students, faculty and staff on campus with physical disabilities, to provide them with more opportunities in recreation and

athletics,” said Nathan Waters, coordinator of Adaptive Recreation and Athletics and disability specialist with the Office of Accessibility.

Waters played a key role in founding the organization when he was a graduate student of the special education, rehabilitation and counseling department in the College of Education.

From lack of equipment to lack of funds, Waters said the organization was created out of a desire to further the potential of adaptive athletics on campus.

Jared Rehm, president of Adaptive Recreation and Athletics and coach of wheelchair

basketball and tennis, became almost immediately involved with the organization.

Rehm, who is pursuing his doctorate in kinesiology and biomechanics, played wheelchair sports at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater before coming to Auburn. He transferred to Auburn in 2009 and learned of Waters’ efforts in conjunction with the Office of Accessibility.

As one of the organization’s major objectives is to promote physical activity and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities, Waters and Rehm began looking for ways to include incoming members in physical activities.

At first, tennis was the game of choice because of Rehm’s familiarity with the game and because so few players are needed to have a game.

Adaptive Recreation and Athletics first sponsored Rehm at the tennis National Collegiate Wheelchair Championship.

“When we first started this group there were a whole bunch of different ideas about what to do, because there’s so many different recreational things that people with disabilities can do,” Rehm said.

“But we decided that the best course would be to attack one thing and just get it going.”

That “one thing” became

Auburn University’s Wheelchair Basketball Team.

Being a campus organization, Adaptive Recreation and Athletics received permanent status in 2011, which was another accomplishment for the group, having been on provisional status since its creation two years earlier.

“Our group is students with disabilities and students without, so it’s open to anybody who wants to join, who just wants to be involved,” Waters said. “We’ve got a mix of students. We also have a couple of staff members from the University that are involved as well.”

Currently the group has 35

members and is accepting new members. The first meeting of the semester was Sept.

18, when club officers were elected.

Mary Kathryn Fletcher, sophomore in apparel merchandising, is one of the newest members and was elected secretary of the organization.

“I didn’t really know what to expect,” Fletcher said. “Immediately everyone was extremely welcoming and very open.

The second I walked in I felt completely at home.”

Anyone who wants to join can find more information about the organization on its website, auadaptive.blogspot. com.

Brony Club promotes tolerance, friendship TV show ‘My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic’ provides the basis for one of Auburn’s newest clubs Becky Hardy Campus Reporter

Brony Club brings more to Auburn’s campus than just discussion and artwork of ponies.

One idea the club stresses is equality, said Callie Smith, member and sophomore in engineering.

“One of the things that appealed to me about becoming a Brony is that it is such an accepting fan base, and that’s one of the things we have in our constitution,” Smith said. “Being able to accept people that are different or have different lifestyles is important.”

The Brony Club is a fan club for the television show “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” a cartoon created by Lauren Faust. Faust has created several successful Cartoon Network shows.

“The new show spoke to a lot of people and created a huge fan base,” said Willy Steers, club member and sophomore in industrial design.

“The fan base is predominately males between the ages of 15 and 25.”

Steers loves the show and encourages people who do not think they will like it to give it a try.

“There’s people from all walks of life in the fandom, essentially,” Steers said.

The word “Brony” is a combination of the words bro and pony, said TJ Lowry, club president and sophomore in engineering.

“The name has become gender-neutral,” Lowry said.

Lowry helped start the club with his friend Michael Laughlin last year. “(Laughlin) put up posters around campus and got a group together of people who were interested in the show,” Lowry said.

The club has not yet had a meeting but hopes to get others excited about the club, Lowry said.

During the club meetings, members will discuss Brony artwork as well as the process it takes to draw them.

The club also hopes to clarify the difference

between the old “My Little Pony” television show and the new one.

“The original show was more about merchandising,” Steers said. “The only reason they had a new show was to sell another toy. In the new show, Faust took it and made it a legitimate cartoon that gave characters some depth and was actually made to tell a story.”

The group of 20 members found it harder to get together when there was not a distinct meeting place, Lowry said.

“We wanted a place on campus to come and talk about it, so we decided to make it a club because that gives us access to the student center, and it’s a central location,” Lowry said.

The group talks about more than just the television show, Steers said.

“We talk about the show, what we’ve seen in the fandom or artwork people have created,” Steers said. “It’s not just about the show. It’s the people around it. People have made art, music, video games or fan fiction about the show.”

The Brony fandom also involves charities.

“Just recently ‘My Little Pony’s’ subReddit donated $20,000, as well as over 127 years of computing time, to the world community grid,” Lowry said. “That doesn’t count all the auctions that are done.”

The world community grid is a research community that creates a system of individual computers to find data quickly.

These data allow researchers to make discoveries that help prevent and treat disease in costefficient ways.

Lowry and other members hope to spread open-mindedness about the club on campus.

“Obviously we’re watching pink and purple ponies on Saturday morning, which is kind of weird, so I’d like to put on some sort of presentation to explain what it’s all about,” Lowry said.

Starting the club was easy for the Brony fandom at Auburn, he said.

“All we had to do was make a constitution, by-laws, have 10 members and a faculty adviser,” Lowry said.

The club is aware it may seem a little weird to most Auburn students, Smith said.

“You don’t really walk up to people and ask, ‘Do you like ‘My Little Pony?’” Smith said. “That’s a little frowned-upon on most college campuses.”

Lowry said that won’t stop the club from being active at Auburn.

“We’re not hiding the fact that we like it,” Lowry said.

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Pity for Harvey Updyke outlasts anger Guess what? Harvey Updyke is still making news.

We can’t believe it either.

You would think a man who is about to go on trial would think it wise to stay away from anything involving police, but that’s not Updyke’s style.

On Tuesday, Sept. 18, Updyke was arrested and booked in Hammond, La., for terrorizing during a dispute over a lawn mower.

Obviously, we can’t comment on his innocence or guilt in this case, or any illegal actions he may or may not have confessed to, but we can take a moment to ruminate on our strange and tragic connection to the alleged poisoner of the Toomer’s oaks. After all, we’ve know him for almost three years. Most relationships don’t even last that long.

He certainly isn’t a friend of the Auburn community. We will most likely never be able to forgive what he has allegedly done. However, at this point, we have more pity for him than hate.

Because of Updyke, we’ve gotten a glimpse of the real world of Bama fandom, and all the misguided inanity that goes along with it. He is a living caricature of all that is wrong with the Bammers. An Auburn fan like him might exist somewhere, but we highly doubt it.

It may seem like we are proclaiming our superiority, but look at all the praise Harvey has garnered from his fellow Bama fans. His presence at the 2011 BCS National Championship and the fans that posed for pictures with him should be enough to suggest he is actually the biggest Bama fan ever to don a houndstooth cap.

They admire him.

However, it is fame he is not ready to accept, and that’s why we pity him. Much like Kurt Co-

bain, Updyke’s celebrity status is causing him to fall off the edge. If only there was a reservation where he could run around all day and allegedly poison any tree his heart desires.

Sadly, a place like that does not exist. Instead, he is stuck allegedly making threats over the cost of a lawn mower.

We can’t help but feel pity for a guy that has become a parody of a college football rivalry.

If you think about it, Auburn and Bama games mean absolutely nothing in the long run.

Anyone who takes them so seriously as to break the law when their team loses has to have some serious flaws in judgment.

On Thursday, Sept. 27, Updyke is scheduled to return to Lee County for a status hearing.

In all honesty, we hope this is the last hearing before the trial begins. Whether Updyke really did do what he confessed to doing, we just want some closure.

We have been waiting since 2010 to get some kind of justice for the Toomer’s Oaks, and we are frustrated and tired. Hearing about all of Updyke’s shenanigans since he confessed has just made it that much more difficult to wait.

Sure, it has been entertaining. We will never forget the video of Elva Updyke yelling at a police officer while entering the Lee County Justice Center. Seeing Updyke show up for court in jeans was also a particularly high moment during this ordeal.

But the party is over. It’s time to move on.

All we can say is we sincerely hope whoever is responsible for poisoning the Toomer’s Oaks pays for their crime. We certainly look forward to the day when we no longer have to hear about what some strange guy from Louisiana is doing, and we can’t wait for the day when we can just argue about football like normal people.

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Tiger Card Vote with your voice at City Council conundrum This morning I was getting my coffee at the Haley Center coffee shop. I noticed that the guy that works there every morning never gives me a receipt, so this morning I asked for one so I could see my balance. He didn't want to give it to me and showed me my balance on the screen, but I kept after it. I said I wanted my receipt again. He gave it to me finally after he had balled it up...he charged me for a muffin that I didn't order so there was a $7 charge on my card. I then told him I didn't order that and he said, "Oh, oh yeah". He then took my card back to put the money back on it.

I just checked my Tiger Card balance and he never refunded the money.

This is the only money I have for the whole semester for food on campus, and I don't appreciate this. I don't think it's fair for the staff on campus to take advantage of us. I know it's only a few dollars but the fact that he acted so shady and still didn't refund me for something he charged me for, and I didn't get, really bothers me. If it would have been an honest mistake then I would understand, but the whole fact of the matter is that it wasn't a mistake, and if you would have seen his demeanor you would completely understand what I'm talking about. You may want to tell everyone to get their receipts for purchases on campus. I know I will from now on!

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Sometimes, as a humble student, it’s easy to feel hopelessly small at a university this large.

With more than 25,000 students at Auburn, it’s not so far-fetched to think your voice will get lost in a whirlwind of other “more important” causes, including, but not limited to, tearing down the ever-aging Haley Center and once again restoring our football team to prominence in the ruthless SEC. SGA meetings can be downright intimidating if you’re not Greek, and the thought of yelling your concerns over fellow classmates— ones you know you’ll see tomorrow in World Literature—can seem daunting to those who are prone to shyness.

Ironically, but perhaps for the best, it is easy to vote with your voice at Auburn’s City Council.

City Council meetings are open to the public and covered under Alabama’s Open Meetings Law, since they concern local government.

Every second Tuesday, nine elected representatives, including Mayor Bill Ham Jr., approve, reject and discuss a variety of topics ranging from new liquor licenses to possible racial discrimination from pizza parlors.

Toward the beginning of every meeting,

there is a time called “Citizens’ Communications” in which any resident of Auburn has five minutes to voice his or her concern, approval or appreciation as long as they state their name and address for the record.

I’ve seen a husband and wife come up and thank the council for tax rebates in opening a new business, but I’ve also seen a concerned man ask why the city demolished the only skate park his children could use. You just never know what kind of issues are going to be brought forward, and that’s the odd beauty of being involved and staying informed in your city’s affairs.

Especially in the age of computers and the Internet, it’s even easier to keep informed about local government actions and decisions.

The agendas for the meetings are posted online at auburnalabama.org along with e-Packets chock full of original documents, laying out the exact discussions, evidence and explanations necessary to understand the processes happening.

It should be noted these elected representatives are real people, not robots, who care about the happiness of the citizens of Auburn and are always trying to improve our fair city.

After all, they live here too.

They are all approachable, kind individuals who will answer any question you have if you show a willingness to be involved and educate yourself.

Contrary to popular belief, Auburn University does not control the city of Auburn.

The University may be vital to the local

economy, but it does not dictate the rules of our day-to-day affairs.

Tax-paying residents, including all of us students who pay a nine percent sales tax at our favorite bars, restaurants and shops, have a say in how our precious dollars get spent.

Don’t think we need another bar? Address city council. Need a building permit to expand your house? Talk to City Council. Desperately need a road re-paved? City Council can help.

Having a dispute with a local business? Let City Council alleviate your concerns.

The council may not be able to wave a magic wand and fix your problems on the spot, but they can certainly point you in the direction of much-needed assistance.

So I’m telling you this for your own good, Auburn. Go to a City Council meeting, listen, ask questions and have a say in what goes on in your city.

The next City Council meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m.

Even if you don’t believe in the system or think nothing is going to come of it, not voting is essentially the same as lending votes to whichever side you’re against.

The City Council may seem like a staff of aged Auburn residents with a negligible amount of power, but they run this city and, from my experience, are more than willing to help anybody interested enough to ask.

So take a poll with yourself.

Are you going to submit your complaints and ideas for reform to Facebook?

Or are you going to vote with your voice?

Her View With the great responsibility of driving, we have all learned the basic rules of the road: don’t text and keep your eyes on the road.

Somehow, these ideas haven’t really transferred over to the pedestrian rules of the Concourse.

Each of us is trying to get to class as quickly and painlessly as possible, but there are always some who feel more entitled to their journey than others.

The Concourse is busy enough between classes, and the Student Center is packed every day at noon. Yet these are peak times for the most careless of students to roam the campus, not looking or caring who gets in their way.

This epidemic of reckless walkers has only grown in the past few years, mostly in correlation with

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the popularity of the iPhone.

Most of the reckless walkers find their iPhones more interesting than their surroundings. While I have been one of the many to send a text on the go, I try to look up every so often and not text in the more populated areas. In this day and age it’s almost impossible to remain technologically uninvolved with text messages, emails, Facebook and everything else on your phone, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to bulldoze through a crowd and expect everyone to move out of their way.

Everyone already has enough difficulty ducking and weaving around the crowded Concourse, but it becomes almost impossible once a selfish walker assumes

everyone will get out of the way while they tweet what they ordered from Starbucks.

Put the phone down and no one will get hurt.

If you’re not socially involved on your phone, you might just find yourself midway through an actual conversation with a real human when all of a sudden the person you’re talking to goes the other way. Rather than saying goodbye and picking up the conversation later, you whip your head around and keep walking. Before you know it, you’ve walked right into some innocent bystander.

If you were in a car, this collision would have been your fault , but the rules of the Concourse are not as easily defined.

Avoid this type of distraction

and wait until you see this friend again, or be like everyone else and text in class.

Just like the inevitable, unfortunate result of texting and driving, reckless walkers have the tendency to hit someone. You would think peripheral vision would help them avoid this, but even on an abandoned stretch they will eventually find someone to run into.

All of us have fallen victim to some type of reckless walker. This might not seem as dramatic or fatal as texting and driving because reckless walkers are an easily avoidable nuisance. But it’s a nuisance nonetheless.

Just turn around, put the phone down and enjoy your journey to and from class.

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Wooten running partner receives $700K Former COSAM dean’s jogging partner wins civil lawsuit Toi Garcia Writer

A civil suit has awarded Frankie Bell $700,000 in damages two years after the same accident that caused the death of jogging partner Marie Wooten, On Nov. 3, 2010 at 5:45 a.m.

Wooten, then dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics, was jogging with Bell, who teaches math at Loachapoka High School.

The two were near the intersection of College Street and Donahue Drive when they were both struck by a vehicle.

Immediately afterward, Wooten was airlifted to Columbus Regional Medical Center in Columbus, Ga., for emergency medical attention.

While Wooten did not survive, Bell, who was severely in-

jured and broke 25 bones, did.

Mark David Sawyer was the driver of the vehicle that hit the two women when he was allegedly setting his cruise control to 45 mph.

“It was 50 yards before he even stopped and pulled up on the curb,” Bell’s attorney Julia Beasley said.

Beasley described Sawyer as careless because the place the women were jogging was specifically designated for bikers and pedestrians.

“I don’t want anyone to think she didn’t have good judgment,” Bell said. “She always took care of me when we were running; she always made sure I was safe. She introduced me to running and this helped me through an 11hour surgery.”

Beasley said Bell was courageous as she recovered from the traumatic injuries. “(Bell) made a remarkable recovery,” throughout the healing process, Beasley said. “She never complained and was an inspiration. I’ve never met anyone like her.”

After the accident, Bell filed a lawsuit against Sawyer requesting $700,000, which she won Sept. 13.

“The jury filed in our favor, gave us victory and found him negligent,” Bell said. “That’s all I really wanted.”

The $700,000 was broken up two ways, Beasley said. $550,000 was compensatory damages for the pain Bell suffered, and $150,000 was punitive, aiming to prevent similar incidents in the future.

In November, Bell will conduct a three-mile race on the exact trail she and Wooten ran two years ago.

“Last year I ran it for selfpeace, but this year it will serve as a fundraiser for a book scholarship award, helping one child at a time,” she said.

Charles Savrda, COSAM’s interim dean, highlighted ways the school has changed to further Wooten’s vision of a program dedicated to its students first.

“With Marie’s passing, we lost a promising administrator, an outstanding scientist,

an exceptional teacher and a dear colleague,” Savrda said.

“She is greatly missed. Provost Boosinger is currently in the process of establishing a committee to renew a national search for COSAM dean.

While I abhor the circumstances under which I came to the Dean’s Office, I have appreciated the opportunity to serve the University in new and challenging ways.”

Over the past two years, the COSAM program has undergone several changes. “(There is) improved administrative efficiency in our Offices for Communications, Instructional Technology and Diversity and Multicultural Affairs; efforts to improve student learning in the college’s core and service courses; establishment of a new biomedical sciences oversight committee; and restructuring of COSAM scholarship programs,” Savrda said.

“Our students continue to excel. I like to think that Marie Wooten would be pleased with our progress.”

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Frankie Bell and Marie Wooten were jogging at the corner of College Street and Donahue Drive when they were struck by a vehicle Nov. 3, 2010. Bell was recently awarded $700,000 in a civil suit.

West Longleaf Drive apartments shown to be targets for repeated violence, criminal activity Annie Faulk Writer

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University Heights (above) and University Village (below) are two of the larger West Longleaf complexes.

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Apartment complexes off West Longleaf Drive have exhibited a recent increase in thefts and other criminal activities, including the June 9 shooting at University Heights.

A string of recent crimes on West Longleaf Drive has students discussing safety.

On Sunday, June 9, three men were wounded and three were killed at a shooting at University Heights Apartments on Longleaf Drive.

In the past month, burglaries, rapes, arrests and thefts have occurred on West Longleaf Drive.

“I think that it’s because of limited access,” said Shannon Smith, senior in graphic design. “It’s easy to get in and out of there pretty easily. It’s not controlled as well as it probably should be because it is such a narrow space with a lot of apartments and things on it, a lot of high traffic but low patrol.”

Smith lives in an apartment complex on East University.

“My roommate used to live in that apartment complex,” Smith said. “In one of the apartments one of the bullets went through one of the windows. She said there were a lot of things that would happen in the pool area that would cause problems in the middle of the night and lot of times police would have to be called.”

John Krywicki, junior in mechanical engineering, has lived at University Heights and said he was at his apartment the night of the shooting.

He said he thought he heard fireworks.

“I thought it was some col-

lege kids goofing off,” Krywicki said. “Then I heard screams running up my staircase.

Again, I thought nothing of it.

Maybe just some drunk hooligans or something like that. It was not until I checked Facebook an hour later when I realized what had happened.”

Krywicki said the precautions he takes are locking the doors to his apartment and not visiting the pool area.

“I’ve even heard there were gang activities, not in this area, but locations similar to that,” said Simon Gregg, senior in biosystems engineering.

“Neighborhoods, apartment complexes and stuff that have only one entrance tend to lead to gang activity because people can monitor the entrance and they know who is coming in and out.”

Gregg said the area has a mass quantity of people in a small location, which causes problems with crime.

“College students are more apt to leave apartments unlocked, because they don’t know if their roommates have keys and stuff,” Gregg said. “It makes it easy access to try to gank somebody’s stuff.”

Gregg said gang activity is not necessarily the case for West Longleaf.

“I think the biggest issue is gun control, and getting young people to understand that guns are never the answer in situations like that, especially when alcohol is involved,” Smith said.

Smith said she keeps her blinds closed all the time, unless she or her roommates are waiting for someone outside the apartment.

“We keep our doors locked, whether we are in the apartment or not,” she said. “We deadbolt and the standard handle lock. And we always check the peephole before we open the door, because we had a series of people who were coming around soliciting and then if no one answered the door would come in and break into the apartments. So we are very cautious.”

Smith said she knows patrols are in the area because she hears fire trucks outside of her apartment.

She said she thinks law enforcement does a good job covering the area, but it is still not enough.

“On campus you have the emergency buttons you can go and press, that are placed very conveniently around campus,” Smith said. “But when you are in an apartment complex, people have their cell phones, but not everyone remembers that they have them when they need them. And even then, the response isn’t as quick as it should be in a lot of cases because voices are confused and garbled along the way.”

“I think if apartment complexes could have security systems where you could go push a button and say ‘we need help now,’ it would be really helpful,” Smith said.

Grammy-nominated organist Carpenter to perform in Opelika Eva Woghiren Community Reporter

Cameron Carpenter is a rare, extraordinary musician.

Carpenter will have his abundance of talents on display at the East Alabama Arts Performance Series 2012-2013.

The Grammy-nominated, world-renowned organist will kick off the Performance Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts located at 1700 Lafayette Parkway.

The Performance Series is an annual performing arts series that features top national and international touring ensembles and solo artists.

The Performance Series was

founded in 1987 and celebrated its 25th Anniversary last year.

“Cameron is always excited to play for new audiences,” said Carpenter’s spokeswoman, Amanda Sweet. He will be kicking off his U.S. tour in Opelika before he heads to Princeton, N.J., Terre Haute, Ind., Baton Rouge, La., Richmond, Va., New York City, San Francisco and more.”

The Pennsylvania native showed signs early that he had a special knack for playing keys. The Pittsburgh PostGazette wrote that his parents were told by a church organist who heard a four-year-old Carpenter play in Cleveland that

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they “have got a young Mozart on your hands.”

Carpenter has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Julliard School in New York City. He performs frequently

on both the electric organ and the larger pipe organ.

He has been called “the most controversial organ player in the world” by the Dallas Morning News and “a fallen angel who gives the organ back its sin” by Dei Zeit.

The controversy stems from his tendecncy to stray from or add to the original composer’s score.

Critics recognize his virtuosic talent, though some say this doesn’t give him license to change well-known and worldrenowned pieces.

Carpenter holds a powerful spot in the series lineup as he is the first performer the community can come out to see.

“He came to my attention as the first organist to be nominated for a Grammy for a solo album in 2008,” said Performance Series director, Phillip Preston. “Being different from what people are used to hearing we decided he would be a good start to the series.”

Carpenter is currently debuting excerpts from a new composition at a concert in Berlin and will be flying ithere Thursday directly after the end of his Opelika concert.

“Carpenter is one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument,” Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said. He is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos.

He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed and most important of all, the most musical.”

This will be Carpenter’s first performance in the U.S. this fall. The last time he played in Alabama was in Huntsville in 2006.

The Arts Association of East Alabama has a goal to provide inspiring experiences for the people in the community.

Student tickets are available for $24 online. More information about Carpenter, the series and the organization is available at eastalabamaarts. org/Performance/cameroncarpenter.

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Local politicians sound off on White House race County and city representatives comment on the issues and candidates Sydney Callis Community Reporter

With the upcoming election just a little more than a month away, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are in the last stages of explaining their policies and positions to the American public.

While knowing each candidate’s positions on the issues is important, it is equally important to learn how each policy will affect the local community.

Both Obama and Romney’s policies, particularly ones regarding health care and unemployment, will have an effect on the citizens of Lee County, said Rep. Mike Hubbard, speaker of the state House of Representatives (RAuburn).

One of the issues being frequently discussed by both

Romney and Obama is health care. Regarding the recently enacted Affordable Care Act, Obama’s campaign website said the act works to put the health of families first and protect families from abuse by insurance companies.

Hubbard said Alabama would go bankrupt if forced to comply with Obamacare because of the additions that would be added to Medicaid.

“We would have to add 400,000 new people to our Medicaid rolls, and we can’t afford what we have now,” Hubbard said. “It would be instant bankruptcy for the state of Alabama. We’d have to have a massive, massive tax increase to be able to accommodate it.”

If elected president, Romney said on his website he would repeal the Affordable Care Act his first day in office and allow states to dictate their own health insurance.

Alabama has already started preparing for the cost of Medicaid.

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It was done to cover the costs of Medicaid and prisons’ rising incarceration rates.

Another big issue in the election is the unemployment rate and the candidates’ policies for creating jobs for Americans.

Obama’s website highlights the addition of half a million jobs since January 2010, as well as the president’s promise to keep job growth increasing to lower the unemployment rates.

Hubbard said Obama has created jobs, but the jobs he created were government jobs, which are paid for by the taxpayers. In actuality, there are 600,000 fewer government employees now than there were on Obama’s inauguration day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Since October 2011, private sector jobs grew 1.8 percent. Government payrolls, on the other hand, dropped by 0.8 percent.

However, the Bureau also shows the unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 43 months in a row, the longest since the Great Depression.

“The people who are creating jobs are the states that understand that the private sector is what creates wealth in this country and what creates jobs,” Hubbard said. “And that’s what we have concentrated on in the state of Alabama, and I think that it’s very important for us to continue to do that, and we will.”

Auburn City Manager Charlie Duggan said the local manufacturing companies are reporting strong outlooks and many are expanding and creating new jobs.

“Kia and Hyundai are both expanding their plants in LaGrange and Montgomery; this is causing our local suppliers to amp up also,” Duggan said.

“Since this is happening now, it leads me to believe that our manufacturing areas believe that they will continue to do well regardless of November’s outcome.”

Both want to create jobs for Americans and help with their health plans. The way they intend to do that, however, is completely different.

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JCSM hosts world-class guitarist Sydney Callis Community Reporter

Auburn is about to get a taste of international talent.

Guitarist Mitch Weverka will be playing at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Thursday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m.

Learning to play guitar at an early age, Weverka studied guitar in Italy and now tours worldwide, said Charlotte Hendrix, communications and marketing specialist at JCSM. “We’re happy to host him with the society,” Hendrix said.

“This is something special that Mitch brings to the table in terms of his ability to perform for an audience.”

Weverka, who is from Ft. Worth, Texas, is coming to play in Auburn as a part of the biannual event collaboration between the Chattahoochee Valley Guitar Society and JCSM. Auburn guitar instructor Joseph Ikner, who has attended several of Weverka’s performances, said in a press release that Weverka’s performances “provide the audience members the ability to transcend into some other higher place, a place of higher art and perspective.”

Ikner works with the museum and the Chattahoochee Valley Guitar Society to plan these events.

Guitarist Andrew Zohn also works with Ikner in the organization of these events. In a press release, Zohn said any-

one that comes to the performance can appreciate the music, even if they do not like classical music, because of the popularity of guitars.

“Being the most common instrument in the world, most have grown up with one in the house,” said Zohn. “The classical guitar possesses the unique ability to attract a public who may not have much experience with Bach per se, but can really identify with it when being performed on the guitar.”

The next performance presented by this collaboration will be in February 2013.

JCSM believes in the transformative power of the arts and that art can change lives, and Hendrix said she thinks Weverka’s music is a part of that.

Expected to last one hour with a 10-minute intermission, Weverka’s performance will feature music from many different historical periods.

Tickets are $10 and available at the museum before the performance.

While the performance is not related to “Art Interrupted,” the current exhibition at the museum, Hendrix said the museum is open before the performance for people to take a look around.

“They (performance attendees) can come before the performance and stroll in the galleries,” Hendrix said. “We welcome you to come and check it out beforehand.”

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AU Hotel’s Oktoberfest taps 24 craft brews Friday Eva Woghiren Community Reporter

Last year, the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center held its first ever Oktoberfest.

The event had such amazing feedback from guests that the hotel has decided to make it an annual event.

This Friday, Sept. 28, the hotel will host it for the second time.

Oktoberfest is a time for the hotel to promote regional products and provide a night of entertainment to the Auburn community.

Beer lovers can come for a night of craft beer sampling, along with small plates of foods specifically chosen and prepared to go with a certain glass of beer.

In addition to the food and drinks, there will be live music performed by Patrick Bruce.

The duo’s music is a combination of blues and adult alternative music.

The food will be prepared by the hotel’s own executive chef Marc Schulz and Ariccia chef Garry Anderson.

Chef Anderson had the chance to appear on WRBL News 3 “Midday Kitchen” last week and previewed some items that will be on the menu for the upcoming event.

Attendees can look forward to enjoying housesmoked salmon, crispy spicy chicken, slow-roasted brisket sliders and several other appetizing foods.

Guests have the opportunity to taste 24 different craft beers from states including Georgia, Colorado and New York.

“We are very excited to be hosting this event again,” said Tim Aylsworth, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing.

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After the conclusion of the event, music lovers are invited to keep the night going at the hotel’s jazz lounge, Piccolo, for more live music performances by the musicians Roman Street.

These Mobile natives and Auburn graduates are back in town to show off their unique style of music that blends several influences.

The band members play two guitars, djembe, congos and a bass to produce a mix-

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The band says on its website that the members hope to incorporate a lot of their international travels into their music and share their experiences around the world with fans through the music they make.

They hope to provide the guest with a style different from a usual cover band.

The event will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. around the pool and in the terrace room of the hotel.

Advance tickets are $39 per person and can be purchased by visiting auhccoktoberfest.bpt.me.

Tickets can also be purchased the day of the event at the door for $45.

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Congress members need term limits imagine someone wanting to be a career politician.

Participating in politics was viewed as more of a public service. People served and then returned to their real careers to be valuable citizens.

Today, politics has turned into a full-time job. The pay has substantially increased, and the hours of work for some have decreased. Instead of having the daunting task of shaping the country, these men and women are just responsible for keeping it running.

Because there are no restrictions set on term limits for offices outside the presidency, senators and representatives of the 50 states spend more time planning their re-election campaigns than they do representing the people they depend on to be re-elected.

Not all career politicians have a negative impact on the government. John Adams worked in the government for more than 30 years. During that time, however, Adams worked on doing what he thought was right for the country. He did not care if it made him disliked.

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The people who fill the elite office of the presidency are limited to two terms; two terms filled with enacting changes and working diligently to solve the world’s problems; two terms and then they are supposed to return to their life before the presidency.

The members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate are not limited to only serving two terms. In fact, the Constitution contains absolutely no rules or limits in regard to the number of terms members of the House and Senate can serve.

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the men responsible for shaping the laws of this country did not see setting term limits as an important issue, not because they wanted to encourage the concept of career politicians, but because they couldn’t

Today, a majority of the politicians in the House and Senate are fearful of being disliked because of the way they vote on important issues. So, instead of taking a stand or enacting changes to help, politicians abstain from voting.

They shy away from their responsibility as public servants to make decisions for the good of the people they represent.

Several attempts have already been made to establish term limits for senators and representatives.

Unsurprisingly, they have all failed. Getting career politicians to make something a law that negatively affects their livelihood would be like getting a baby to wash, feed and clothe itself.

The greed of these politicians is destroying the morals this country was founded upon.

Several organizations, such as U.S. Term Limits and Citizens for Term Limits, advocate establishing term limits for government members to avoid career politicians.

However, until the members of the government themselves

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vote to create a law containing term limits, these attempts will remain fruitless.

Sure, they’ll vote on their salaries. They’ll participate in backdoor deals and focus on their campaigns. But passing a law that limits their careers in the government is not high on their list of priorities.

In order for this to change, the people these men and women represent need to stand up together and say they

want a change.

People have the power to enact change. For example, a recent “60 Minutes” investigation revealed Congress members were using non-public information on the stock market gathered during their time on the Hill to buy and trade stocks.

After the segment ran, President Obama called for the STOCK Act, or the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowl-

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Auburn converted two of 12 third-down opportunities against LSU. Auburn has struggled with third downs thus far this season. The offense has only converted 14 out of a possible 50, good for sixth worst in the country. The biggest problem is lack of positive yardage on the early downs. Too many times does Auburn face third and long. This takes the focus off the run game and forces Kiehl Frazier to make a throw under pressure. Since that didn’t seem to be working, Chizik and Loeffler apparently decided they’d rather give the ball to the running backs—even if it’s third and 12. The holes may open more when the defense drops into what should be an obvious passing down, but besides not gaining first downs, the coaches are showing Frazier he can’t be trusted in pressure situations.

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Former Auburn offensive tackle, Kendall Simmons, signed autographs and showed off his two Super Bowl rings to his fans.

Former football stars appear for Heisman House tailgate Chandler Jones Writer

The sixth annual Sports Illustrated Heisman House, a tailgate tent presented by Nissan, featured two-time Super Bowl champion Kendall Simmons and Carnell ‘Cadillac’ Williams at Saturday’s LSU vs. Auburn game.

The tent resembled a fraternity house and was in tune with the promotional Heisman House Nissan marketing campaign. The commercials feature previous Heisman winners living together in one house, with filming based on a “Big Brotheresque” story line.

LSU vs. Auburn was the fourth stop on the road for the tour as it hits the top 10 major SEC games this season.

“The biggest ever was here with Bo Jackson,” said production manager Brad Burns. “You couldn’t move inside the tent.”

The tent’s spectacle comes from its brand-name backings, celebrity appearances and its social media-integrated fan events: a picture with the Heisman trophy, a picture on a lifesize Heisman stand, a new generation Nissan Pathfinder, a virtual field goal powered by lasers, informational touchscreens with access to Sports Illustrated covers and articles and a drawing for a trip to the BCS national championship game.

“That was neat,” said Simmons, a former offensive lineman for Auburn and the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. “I think doing things like this can keep the fans involved. Gives you something to do on campus, especially for the kids.”

Upon arrival, the brand ambassadors helped visitors register with a name and email address and, if they wished, signed them into Facebook.

Facebook then checked them in to the Auburn Heisman House.

Guests were given a lanyard with a “credential” and a bar code connected to their respective profiles.

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Simmons showed fans one of his two NFL Super Bowl rings.

“We started that last year,” said Susan Storey, public relations representative. “We’ve always had some sort of technology and we’ve sort of amped it up. Part of the deal was try to draw in a younger crowd, who are very technology oriented.”

The celebrity aspect incorporates Sports Illustrated with its “SI Chalk Talk” session. Sports Illustrated writer Andrew ‘McLovin’ Perloff interviewed Simmons and Williams from 1 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 5 p.m., respectively. Afterward, each signed autographs for fans.

Simmons was excited for the game and predicted an Auburn win 28–21.

He said he believes in this year’s team.

“I know most of the offensive line men are pretty young,” he said. “I like what McCalebb is doing. I think Kiehl will come along. He’s just young, so it’ll take a few games to get experience on the field. You’ve got the defensive guys—Jeffrey Whitaker—he’s one of my guys.”

Being back in Auburn gives Simmons a different perspective: one from the stands.

“I look at it totally different than a fan would, and I still get pumped up when they are running out of the tunnel,” he said. “The juices get flowing again.”

Williams, Auburn’s second-leading career rusher and all-time leader in touchdowns, reminisced on his original choice in Auburn University, coming from a family of Alabama fans.

“I came down here to Auburn; I started going to games, met the Auburn people, and I just fell in love with the place, and it felt like home,” Simmons said. “Everybody back home was pushing me to go to Alabama. I actually saved my last visit for there, but it didn’t feel quite like Auburn. I knew, ‘I gotta pick Auburn.’”

He said he has advice for the team.

“As long as everybody stays together and believes in each other and build on every day getting better, I mean, you can’t help but get better,” he said.

Williams said he anticipated a physical game with a lot of running the ball and incorporating a great defense. He, too, predicted an Auburn victory, 21–17.

Coming back to Auburn nearly brought tears to Williams’ eyes, he said.

“Just driving here knowing this is where I went to school at,” he said.

“This is where a lot of my manhood started. This is where a lot of our values and things started, right here at this university. So just driving around and seeing places I usually hung out at was amazing.”

For the fourth consecutive game, Auburn has lost the turnover battle, finishing with a negative one turnover margin. The defense managed to force two fumbles, but with a fumble and two interceptions by the offense, its effort was for naught. The turnover probably most ingrained in the minds of the Auburn faithful was the last-second interception thrown by Frazier. This season, Frazier has thrown nine interceptions versus two touchdown passes, and the team is third to last in the nation, averaging a negative two turnover margin per game. The plus side? Arkansas is last in the nation at -2.5.

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Freshman backup quarterback Jonathan Wallace had three carries out of the Wildcat formation. While that’s not a lot of touches, what he did with them makes this addition to the offense worth noting. On three carries, Wallace got two of Auburn’s nine first downs and one of Auburn’s two third-down conversions. He also gained 15 yards on the three carries and was quick to pick out the hole and get through it. With Frazier continuing to disappoint, increases in Wallace’s playing time in coming games could signal a dual-quarterback system or complete replacement.

Auburn in the NFL Cam Newton – (QB, Carolina Panthers)

16-of-30 for 242 yards with three interceptions. Six carries for six yards and a touchdown. L NYG 36 - CAR 7

Ben Tate – (RB, Houston Texans)

Eight rushes for 26 yards. W HOU 31 - DEN 25

Takeo Spikes – (LB, San Diego Chargers) Recorded 13 tackles (11 solo). L ATL 27 - SD 3

Quentin Groves – (LB, Arizona Cardinals) Three tackles and a sack. W ARI 27 - PHI 6

Karlos Dansby – (LB, Miami Dolphins)

Recorded eight tackles (seven solo) and one pass deflection. L NYJ 23 - MIA 20

Devin Aromashodu – (WR, Minnesota Vikings)

Two catches for 24 yards. W MIN 24 - SF 13

Rob Bironas – (PK, Tennessee Titans)

Hit 3-of-5 field goals, one of which was the game winner in overtime.

Five for five on extra points. W DET 41 - TEN 44

Spencer Johnson – (DE, Buffalo Bills)

Recorded one pass break up. W BUF 24 - CLE 14

Pat Lee – (DB, Oakland Raiders)

Recorded four tackles (three solo) and forced a fumble. W OAK 34 PIT 31

Sen’Derrick Marks – (DT, Tennessee Titans) Six tackles (four solo). W DET 41 - TEN 44

Ben Obomanu – (WR, Seattle Seahawks)

Caught one reception for 18 yards. W GB 10 - SEA 12

Jerraud Powers – (DB, Indianapolis Colts)

Had two tackles and a pass deflection. L JAC 22 - IND 17

Carlos Rogers – (DB, San Francisco 49ers) Had one solo tackle. L MIN 24 – SF 13

Injuries: San Diego running back Ronnie Brown was inactive and Philadelphia Eagles tackle King Dunlap missed the game with a hamstring injury. San Francisco running back Brandon Jacobs was also inactive and Dallas defensive tackle Jay Ratliff missed his third game with a high ankle sprain.

Injured reserve: Tristan Davis – (RB, Washington Redskins) Mario Fannin – (RB, Denver Broncos) Brandon Mosley – (OG, New York Giants) Lee Ziemba – (OT, Carolina Panthers)

Ryder Cup begins for Auburn alum Jason Dufner Andrew Yawn Sports Editor

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Jason Dufner earned $4,869,303.50 in his 2012 PGA Tour campaign.

A week after Alabama native and prospective Auburn recruit Robby Shelton helped lead USA to its third consecutive Junior Ryder Cup, former Auburn golfer Jason Dufner looks to do the same from Sept. 28–30.

This is Dufner’s first Ryder Cup in his career, and he, along with Team USA, looks to wrest the Cup away from the European side.

The tournament will be held on U.S. soil this year at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. The U.S. team is selected based on money earned in majors in 2011 and all PGA events in 2012.

The qualification system gives players one point for every $1,000 earned and two points for every $1,000 made in 2012 majors.

Dufner, who had not won an event in his professional career before this

year, enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top of golf fame beginning with a second-place finish to fellow USA teammate Keegan Bradley at the 2011 PGA Championship.

This year, Dufner won his first and second tournaments of his career at the Zurich Classic and the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

He also finished second to teammate Zach Johnson in the Crowne Invitational at the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.

His play earned him third place on the Ryder Cup standings with 5,697 points, putting him behind only Tiger Woods and Bubba Watson.

Over the weekend, however, Dufner will have to join forces with those who beat him to oppose the strong European team.

The match-play duel consists of two days of doubles matches followed by 12 singles matches on Sunday. The

team or player who wins the hole wins a point, and matches are played through 18 holes or until the lead is impossible to overcome.

Friday and Saturday morning will feature the foursomes in which partners will alternate shots.

The fourball matches—in which the teams can play the best shot hit by one of the two teammates—will take place in the afternoons.

The one-on-one matches on Sunday will be played according to normal match play rules.

While U.S. captain Davis Love III had the rough trimmed to take advantage of the team’s drive length and roll off the tee shots, Dufner will have to adjust to playing against one particular opponent.

In match play, Dufner’s career best finish was 33rd at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship this year.

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On Friday, Sept. 21, the Auburn women’s volleyball team rallied from a 1-0 deficit to win the final three sets and hand South Carolina its first loss of the season, 3-1 (25-27, 25-16, 25-18, 25-22).

Senior outside hitter Sarah Bullock and junior outside hitter Katherine Culwell led the Tigers’ strong attack. Bullock posted a team-high 20 kills and grabbed her fourth double-double of the season by adding 13 digs. Culwell finished with 19 kills and 12 digs, her second double-double of the season.

Auburn coach Rick Nold was happy with the way his team responded after dropping the first set then coming back to sweep the Gamecocks in the final three sets.

“They’re a great team,” Nold said. “Defensively, they put a lot of pressure on us, especially early. I thought the biggest thing we did to change the tide a bit was serve and serve-receive.”

Auburn also saw strong performances from junior setter Chelsea Wintzinger and freshman setter Ciara Richards.

Wintzinger recorded 28 assists and 12 digs, while Richards added 27 assists and 14 digs.

South Carolina (13-1, 2-1 SEC) took a close first set 2725 thanks to the Gamecocks’ freshman opposite hitter Sarah Blomgren, who put down the set-winning kill. South Carolina’s junior outside hitter Juliette Thévenin led with seven kills in the set.

In the second set, Auburn (11-2, 2-1 SEC) rallied after falling behind 4-0. The Tigers recorded five service aces and went on an 11-1 run—ultimately winning the set 25-16.

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Jersonsky and Katherine Culwell led the Tigers with four kills each.

Nold said it was important to get their service game going after losing the first set early.

“We were serving aggressively, but almost right to them in game one,” he said. “They’re a good passing team, and we started mixing some things up on serve to get them out of system,” Nold said.

In the third set, a kill from South Carolina’s senior setter Taylor Bruns made it 19-16, but the Tigers went on a 6-3 run to come away with a 2518 win, thanks to 19 team kills and seven kills apiece from Bullock and Culwell.

In the fourth set, the Gamecocks made it 22-20 thanks to a kill by Thévenin, but the Tigers held on and found the match-winning points, thanks to a kill by Auburn junior middle blocker Chloe Rowand and a service error by the Gamecock’s Thévenin. Bullock led the Tigers with six kills and one block in the set.

On Sunday, Sept. 23, Bullock’s 1,000th career dig served as a turning point for a second win as the Auburn volleyball team defeated Alabama for the sixth consecutive time, three sets to one.

The senior became the fifth player to reach 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in Auburn volleyball history. The landmark

dig, which came in a tightly contested third set, set up a point that gave Auburn a 1513 lead. The team continued the momentum from Bullock’s achievement,, winning 25-21.

That win gave Auburn a 2-1 lead, and the Tigers quickly dispatched their bitter rivals in the fourth and final set, 25-18.

“I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” said Bullock, who posted team highs of 16 kills and 15 digs in the win. “I got my 1,000th dig in my last game at home against Alabama. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect scenario. This is what I’ve been striving for my whole career, and it’s finally come true. I’m ecstatic.”

Bullock, Culwell, Jersonsky and Courtney McDonald led the way for the Tigers as all four finished the match with double-digit kills. Culwell joined Bullock in double-double honors, registering 14 kills and 13 digs.

The victory was enjoyed by the third-largest crowd in Auburn history, as 1,146 fans filled the Student Activities Center Sunday afternoon.

“It’s awesome to see that.

We had a huge crowd here well before the match,” Nold said afterward. “Our fans mean a lot to us. They help us through tough points and keep our energy going, so [the crowd] is something that we definitely need. It’s great when we see

that there aren’t any seats left.”

The Tigers took control of the match in the very first set, winning 25-19. Both teams traded points at the beginning of the set, but Auburn was able to take advantage of some Alabama miscues and race out to a 17-12 lead. Culwell led the way for the Tigers in the first set, registering six of her 13 kills in the opening frame.

But Alabama was able to equalize before intermission, winning a close second set 2523. Auburn looked somewhat flat after its opening win, and the visitors were able to grab seven of the set’s first nine points. Excellent serving and passing from Alabama’s players gave them an early advantage they never relinquished.

The Tigers were able to get on a small run late in the set, but a thunderous kill from Alabama’s Katherine White silenced the near-record crowd and squashed any Auburn comeback hopes.

Nold said the team made some big adjustments in intermission that led to their commanding wins in sets three and four.

“We didn’t think that our energy was where it needed to be,” he said. “We were giving them a lot of unforced errors; we had a lot that we needed to clean up on our side. We needed to come out and be more efficient on offense and adjust to what they were doing offensively. So we made those adjustments, and I think it made a big difference.”

This four-set victory over Alabama brings Auburn’s overall record to 12-2 and its conference record to 3-1. Just two weeks into conference play, Auburn has surpassed last season’s 11-win total.

The Tigers travel to Arkansas and Kentucky this weekend.

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Sports writers’ season review Danielle Lowe / PHOTO EDITOR

The Plainsman’s three sports writers take the bye week as a chance to evaluate the team after four games. At 1-3 following the 12-10 loss to LSU Saturday, Sept. 22, the team will have the weekend off as they rest and continue to prepare for Arkansas on Oct. 6 at 11 a.m.

Coaches Trooper Taylor and Gene Chizik ready to run out of the tunnel just before the LSU game.

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Kiehl Frazier tries to dodge defenders and scramble for yards after a play breaks down.

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The Positives For a team annually expected to not only win, but contend for bowl games, this year’s Auburn team has left fans with little to be optimistic about. And yet it hasn’t been a total loss.

With the season in shambles and a brutal schedule to finish the season, Auburn has fumbled away any chances for a respectable season by the fans’–and most likely the team’s– standards. At this point, the positives lie in the future of the team: the underclassmen. While having such a young team may be used as an excuse for the numerous blunders and miscues witnessed this season, the fact of the matter is that it’s experience. By scrapping the depth chart and letting the youth of the team learn by doing, the team will be more prepared for next season if Chizik and his staff can avoid the chopping block. Approximately eight seniors who play extensively are leaving after the season, roles that must be filled by the underclassmen. In addition, Auburn’s starting 22 boasts 12 underclassmen with three of those being freshmen. This season may be lost, but the experience and continued improvements gained this season may turn into success in 2013.

The Positives We may have won a game that was against a school that has never had a winning season since joining the FBS by only three points, but hey, we lost to the No. 2 team in the country by only two. That has to mean something, right? A 1-3 record going into October isn’t exactly reassuring, but at least Auburn’s displaying signs of improvement. Kiehl Frazier looked like a 5-year-old playing in his first Pop Warner game Sept. 1. He was scared, timid and downright terrified of the 300-pound lineman running straight toward him. Fast forward four weeks and Frazier has begun to show glimpses of why USA Today named him the 2010 National Offensive Player of the Year. I mean did you see that touchdown catch against ULM? Now don’t start calling him the second coming of Cam, but the talent is there. He just has to show it to the nation. Then there’s the defense. Sure, tackling hasn’t exactly been their strong suit, but when it came time to suit up against LSU they actually looked decent (shout out to Corey Lemonier). It may not be much, but it’s a step in the right direction. Let’s just say I’m willing to bet my lucky Auburn hat that we win at least one game in October.

The Negatives Where to begin? The 1-3 record? The third worst turnover margin per game average in the nation? The arm tackling?

The answer is all of the above. The real root of the problem lies in the hype created by the changes made from last season and the expectations born from speculation and projections.

Kiehl Frazier was supposed to be the savior of the offense, a stalwart at quarterback for the next three seasons. His passer rating is sixth to last in the country. Scot Loeffler was supposed to be a quarterback guru with a knack for commanding prolific offenses. His offense is No. 114 in the nation alongside teams such as Colorado State, Idaho and Southern Mississippi. The addition of Jay Prosch was supposed to free up tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen. He has 12 catches and no touchdowns. Like it or not, Auburn is rebuilding and the first four games, not the preseason practices, have shown exactly what the team has to offer right now.

The Negatives We lost to the No. 2 team in the country 12-10, but only managed to beat a Sun Belt team by three. Am I the only one that has a problem with this? Didn’t think so. Then there’s the problem of turnovers. Ah, those pesky turnovers. Here’s lookin’ at you, Frazier. I know you’re new to this and all, but seven interceptions in four games? Or what about that Mississippi State game? You know, the one where you threw three picks and forgot how to hold a football twice? Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re great, but how do you expect to win a game when you keep giving your opponent the ball and perfect field position on a silver platter?

Enough about the offense. Let’s talk about tackling, or lack there of. Look, I’ve never played football in the SEC, but I’ve watched my fair share of games, at least enough to know what a tackle looks like. I get it. They’re bigger and faster and much scarier than on TV, but you’re bigger and faster and scarier too. And what better time than next Saturday to prove that to Arkansas, and yourselves?

Surprise of the season Cody Parkey, thank you. Thank you for single-handedly saving our season. Thank you for making nine straight field goals, especially that beauty in overtime against ULM. Thank you for not letting us start 2012 with four straight losses. And most of all, thank you to your parents for giving you great genes. Now I understand Parkey’s talent hasn’t exactly come out of nowhere; he was pretty solid last season. No, it’s not his kicking ability that is this season’s biggest surprise. It’s how he uses that ability to give his team the best chance they possibly have at a win. It was Parkey that made four field goals against Clemson to put Auburn up 19-16 with 12:50 to go in the fourth. It was Parkey that sailed a 23yard field goal through the uprights to push Auburn past Mississippi State, if only for roughly two and a half minutes. It was Parkey that sealed the Tiger victory over ULM in overtime. And it was Parkey who scared the Bayou nation last Saturday night with his 40-yard field goal to take a one-point lead going into halftime.

Thanks again, Cody.

Surprise of the season The team is averaging 153 yards per game, the lowest average since Tommy Tuberville’s last year in 2008 and inflated by a 255 yard outing versus University of Louisiana-Monroe. Since Chizik has taken over, the presence of Ben Tate, Michael Dyer, Onterio McCalebb and Cam Newton allowed the team to rush for an average of 226 yards per game over Chizik’s first three seasons. McCalebb is still around, but the combination of Tre Mason and Mike Blakely as the powerful possession runners hasn’t been able to take control of any game but the overtime victory over ULM. Auburn is built on a legacy of great rushing attacks, and yet the team has been unable to outpossess any team this season. Loeffler’s post-hire declaration to continue to emphasize the power run game so vital to SEC teams looks flimsier every game, and, combined with an inept passing game and a quarterback the team can’t trust with the game on the line, Auburn must run the ball early and often if it’s going to have a chance to get the ‘backs on

The Positives Auburn has battled through four football games this season, and three of the meetings have resulted in losses, including two conference games. However, all three teams the Tigers have lost to this season are currently ranked, and their combined record is 11-1. There are plenty of things wrong with the record and on-paper statistics, but there are also things to be optimistic about. Auburn’s defense looked like a competitive, strong SEC defense against LSU last weekend. The Tigers looked sharp and held one of the best teams in the nation to 10 offensive points. Onterio McCalebb added spark to an otherwise stagnant offense and had two golden opportunities to give Auburn the lead last week, but a missed running lane and a one-hand jersey tackle prevented him from taking the ball to pay dirt on two separate occasions. Overall, however, the result against LSU showed the team still has potential.

The Negatives Auburn has averaged only 17.5 points each game this year, but will look to boost that statistic next week against Arkansas, a team that gives up more than 36 points a game. The Tiger offense is not functioning nearly as productively as most teams’. This fact can sting the Auburn faithful more than usual because only two years ago Auburn’s offense was one of the best in the nation. There are a few things to remember, though. Quarterback Kiehl Frazier is only a sophomore. He is going to get better and smarter as he gains more experience in what is undoubtedly the best defensive league in the nation. This is offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler’s first year at Auburn. Loeffler is using offensive players who were recruited to be in Gus Malzahn’s spread offense in his pro-style offense.

As the year goes on, the offensive players, especially Frazier, will grow more accustomed to this foreign style of play until it becomes second nature. That is not to say this offense will be incredible, but it can only get better after last week’s performance.

Surprise of the season The surprise of the season so far is the unexpected difficulty of Auburn’s first four games. The Tigers began the season against Clemson, a team that was supposed to be a contender for the ACC title. Clemson lost to fourth-ranked Florida State last weekend, but will still be an ACC title contender with a bit of luck. Auburn played its second game against Mississippi State, who at that point had not beaten the Tigers since 2007. Mississippi State could be a legitimate SEC West contender and has a relatively favorable schedule this year.

Louisiana at Monroe, who was fresh off a huge upset against Arkansas, came to Auburn in the third week and took the Tigers to overtime. Auburn prevailed, but only by three points in what many thought should have been an easy win. Then there was LSU last week. This was a team whose quality was never in question, yet Auburn lost by only two points. There is a bit of silver lining for Auburn this year, but the young team needs confidence and to gain confidence they need to win.

They will look for both against Arkansas Oct. 6 after an extra week of preparation.

Former Tigers score spots on “The Amazing Race” Hayley Blair Campus Editor

Former Auburn athlete Caitlin King and friend Brittany Fletcher competed in this season of “The Amazing Race,” a reality TV show where teams compete in an international marathon for a million-dollar prize.

“I’ve wanted to be on this show for forever,” Fletcher said. “When it involves a $1 million competition and being able to do it with my best friend and travel the world, why wouldn’t I want to be part of this show?”

King said it was important for her to have a partner she could rely on, which influenced her decision to work with Fletcher.

“I knew when we were starting the process of getting on the race that Brittany would be a perfect partner because we both come from big sports backgrounds,” King said. “I played soccer at Auburn, and Brittany has a dad and brother who played major league baseball. Having that in our family has brought a competitive edge to everything we do, so I knew we would be great partners.”

King starting a relationship with Fletcher’s brother, Brian,

was how they first became acquainted, and King said their friendship has only grown closer since.

“At the beginning, that was the thing that brought us together, but really now it doesn’t even have anything to do with the relationship that Brittany and me have made for ourselves,” King said.

“We’ve become really close on our own.”

Though the competitive nature of the show ensures a fast pace, Fletcher said she enjoyed every minute of the race.

“It was one of those things where you’re moving so fast, you don’t have time to get too nervous in the situations you’re placed in,” Fletcher said. “Your adrenaline’s going the whole time, and you’re just excited to be in all these different places and travel the world. You’re seeing things for the first time that you’ve never seen in your life, and just being with a person you enjoy doing these things with makes the experience that much better.”

King said, after a few weeks, she didn’t even register the cameras.

“You’re constantly on the go, so you kind of forget you’re on a TV show,” she said. When you’re starting, you see the

cameras and things around you, but as you go on you don’t even realize it. You’re so focused and in the zone of being in this competition that you forget you’re actually being filmed.”

One rule of the competition forbids the use of cell phones, but Fletcher said she enjoyed the challenge of finding information in different ways.

“It’s the only opportunity to not have a phone with you and to really have to communicate and use other sources of reference to make your way around,” Fletcher said.

Though they were unable to see their friends and families for the 30 days they competed, King said she was glad for an opportunity to forge new relationships with the other teams.

“One of the best parts for us was getting to know the other teams,” King said. “You don’t realize, at the beginning, the kind of relationships you’re going to make with these people. We all came from very different backgrounds, and we made friends we’re going to have for a lifetime. It’s kind of like being part of a new family.”

Fletcher said the only complaint she has about her time on the show is that it went by

too quickly.

“A lot of times when you plan a vacation, you know where you’re going” she said.

“To open up a clue and have to race to that destination is just a part of the competition, but I don’t think flying will ever be the same for Caitlin and I. Every time we get off a plane now, we’re ready to sprint. It flew by, and it was one of those things where you have to cherish every moment because you know it’s going to go by so quickly.”

King said the travel was one of the things she liked most about the competition.

“Never complain about traveling for free,” she said. “I love traveling, and I know Brittany does too, so it’s just really cool to go to different places that you’d never get the opportunity to go to if you weren’t on “The Amazing Race,” so I’m definitely going to miss that.”

After they were finished with the show, Fletcher continued to work as a medical sales representative in Chicago, while King moved from St. Louis to Atlanta.

Steven Feldman, CBS publicist, said filming for the show is now completed, and it will premiere Sunday at 7 p.m.

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Caitlin King (left) and Brittany Fletcher were raised with sports in their lives. King played soccer at Auburn, and Fletcher’s father and brother played Major League Baseball.

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A week in Auburn sports

Cross Country- The men’s and women’s cross coun-

try team will compete in the Greater Louisville Classic on Sept. 29. After three meets, both the men’s and women’s team are undefeated after finishing first in the Trojan invitational, auburn invitational and azalea city classic.

Baseball- Auburn has begun fall practices and will now welcome the nation’s No. 22 recruiting class. The class includes 16 players: OF Jackson Burgreen, RHP Brewer Carter, RHP Reid Carter, RHP/OF Terrance Dedrick, C/IF Tyler Deese, IF/OF Jordan Ebert, OF Sam Gillikin, OF Hunter Kelley, LHP Conner Kendrick, RHP Cole Lipscomb, LHP Mike O’Neal, OF Rock Rucker, RHP MAtt Schultz, IF Dylan Smith, IF Damek Tomscha, RHP Trey Wingenter. Gillikin, Kelley, Tomscha and Wingenter have all been drafted by MLB teams before.

Men’s Basketball- Tickets for the season have gone on sale. In addition, head coach Tony Barbee announced that former Missouri and new mexico assistant coach Ryan Miller has been named associate head coach on Sept.

18. Barbee and Miller have worked together before when the two worked under Memphis coach John Calipari.

Women’s Basketball- Tickets are now on sale for the 2012–13 season. Senior guard/forward Blanche Alverson has been selected into the top 5 for Miss Homecoming. The television schedule for the team has also been released with the team slated for six televised matchups: Tennessee, at Kentucky, at alabama, Florida and at Vanderbilt.

Women’s Tennis- After winning 14 matches and earning four titles during the Auburn Fall Invitational in early September at the Yarbrough Tennis Center, The women’s tennis team had another strong showing at the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas. There, the team won 14 matches and took home three championships.

Swimming and Diving- The swimming and diving regular season does not begin until Oct. 12, but the team prepared for the opener with its annual intrasquad Orange and Blue Meet. The orange team beat the blue team 207.5 to 197.5. OF the 22 events, Freshmen Alexandria Merritt (150-yd butterfly), Caitlyn Forman (150-yd backstroke), Jordan Jones (men’s 300-yd individual medley) and Carly Scheper (diving) all won events.

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DESIGN

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Caitlin Wagenseil Writer

When people hear the words “interior designer,” they often think of someone who makes things look pretty for a living. In reality, it’s much, much more.

Katie Scheid, junior in the top-ranked interior design program, knows this all too well.

“A lot of people think that interior design is just picking out paint colors,” Scheid said.

“There are days when I wish I was just picking out paint colors, because in my program there is a lot more technical stuff to it than just making things look pretty.”

The four main areas of study for interior design students are residential, hospitality, non-residential and commercial. “ We take two studios

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each semester,” Scheid said.

“One studio is Monday and Wednesday, and the other studio is Tuesday and Thursday.

We go to studio either right after lecture or a little bit later in the afternoon, and it’s for three hours.”

Scheid said lecture is a time for students to learn about concepts, while studio is time to work on assignments and projects.

“In residential, we’re talking about kitchens and what kind of kitchen layouts you would do, and in studio you’re either working on a project or using the time to ask questions or do exercises,” she said.

Other than some quizzes and essay assignments, grades are mostly determined by projects.

“We took a painting by a famous artist and blew it up so

that it was four feet in one direction, and then it got gritted off into half-inch squares, and each square we had to paint,” Scheid said.

“All we were doing was cutting and gluing squares for three weeks. It turned out really cool but it took me over 150 hours to finish.”

Mary Caillouet, junior in interior design, is currently working on a project for a hotel.

“Right now, we’re designing an international spa for an existing hotel that was done by the top-10 ranked design firms last year,” she said.

“We’re supposed to do all the architectural components.”

Before Auburn’s interior design program could become a top-ranked program in the nation, it had to have the appropriate accreditations.

“We’re a CIDA (Council

for Interior Design Accreditation) accredited school, which is a very big deal,” Caillouet said.

“Every project that we do they save, so a board could come in and analyze what our program does and what our professors are teaching us, so that helps with the ranking. The success of the people out in the field that graduated from Auburn also determines the ranking.”

Scheid said the professors contribute much to the success of the program.

“They do a really good job of trying to expose you to all aspects of interior design,” she said. “We’ll do a whole semester of just residential or a whole semester of commercial. You really get exposed to everything and know different aspects and what you do and don’t like.”

Students in the program regularly take field trips.

“You can see a picture of something or see something on the Internet, but I don’t think it compares to actually going to a place and seeing what something really looks like,” Scheid said.

“I think it’s cool that they let us see real-world situations, so that when we get out into the real world we’ll know what to do.”

Caillouet said the students go on many different trips and recently took a trip to see a residence being built by an interior designer.

“Just last week we went and saw a local designer’s studio in Montgomery,” she said.

“Two weeks ago we went to Peachtree City, Ga., and went to a lighting lab so we could learn about lighting fixtures and wattages and stuff that

normal people don’t understand.”

Scheid said the lab gave presentations on lighting so the students would be able to make educated choices when inspecting and choosing light fixtures.

“In residential class, we’ve gone to a bunch of different construction sites, which is cool because we can see the different phases of construction,” Scheid said.

What may be misunderstood is that the interior design program is not affiliated with the architecture program at Auburn.

“We’re with the College of Human Sciences because we want to focus on consumer needs,” Caillouet said.

“We focus on personality and that sort of thing, so it’s so much beyond the structure and decoration of a space.”

Designer Billy Reid’s top looks Alabama native Billy Reid shares his favorite looks for the Southern woman with The Plainsman.

Navy Blazer “One that fits and can stand a good deal of wear.”

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Standard Deluxe hosts first Fall Boogie Nathan Simone Online Editor

What’s fall without a boogie?

Scott Peek, owner of Standard Deluxe screen-printing shop in Waverly, Ala., kept getting asked that same question ever since Standard Deluxe hosted its first 280 Boogie in spring of 2001.

Finally, Peek agreed.

Auburn’s own WEGL 91.1 FM will be one of the main sponsors of the event, with different DJs introducing each band that plays.

According to Scott Waters, broadcast associate for WEGL, the idea for the event came about after financial complications limited WEGL in put-

ting on its own festival.

“It started off that WEGL wanted to have its own music festival, but we had a little trouble getting money together to pay bands,” Waters said. “I knew Scott Peek from Standard Deluxe from running sound out there, and he wanted to do some shows the same night we were going to have a festival, so I called him and we decided to collaborate.”

WEGL has hosted some of the artists, such as Katie Martin and the Larry Mitchell Band, in its studio for live performances, but Waters said he hopes this event will entice more artists to play in the studio.

Waters said WEGL hopes to

broadcast the festival live on 91.1 FM and online at auburn. edu/wegl.

The rules for the event are simple: no glass, no dogs and no haters. The Fall Boogie is family-friendly, BYOB and informal.

Gates for the festival open at 11 a.m. at Standard Deluxe’s location at 1015 Mayberry Ave. in Waverly, and from noon until 10 p.m. festival-goers will be able to enjoy nine musical acts, including Kristin Diable, Katie Martin, Adventure the Great, Eric Britt, the Tony Brook Band, the Larry Mitchell Band, Through the Sparks, Bohannons and Fishergreen.

Peek said interest in a fall music event to follow the

spring 280 Boogie has been around for a while.

“People have mentioned forever that we should do one in the fall…it sort of fell into our lap, since we already had three bands booked,” Peek said. “We had these shows booked for four or five months, and then Scott Waters from WEGL contacted me about collaborating.”

Opelika resident Larry Mitchell, lead guitarist of the Larry Mitchell Band, will be bringing his trio’s unique sound of “guitar-based instrumental music, with elements of funk, blues and a lot of lust,”

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School Spirit Sweatshirt “A sweatshirt to support your school’s football team, preferably in Oxford grey.”

Leather Riding Boots “They will always be a classic for fall.”

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Nickel and Dimed Telfair B. Peet Theatre opened the 2012–13 season to a sold-out crowd Mallory Barrett Writer

Main: Anna Caudle, lead actress, said she thinks the audience will appreciate the challenging show.

Top: “Nickel and Dimed” is the story of an investigative reporter who goes undercover in low-paying jobs.

Bottom: “Nickel and Dimed” is first production of the theatre department’s 2012-13 season.

While most of the students have been busy enjoying the cooler weather, celebrating the return of football season or preparing for midterms, the cast members of “Nickel and Dimed,” the first production of the theatre department’s 2012–13 season, have been busy doing what they love: performing.

The play, which opened to a sold-out crowd last week, is a dramedy written by Joan Holden and is directed by professor Chris Qualls. “‘Nickel & Dimed’ is the story of Barbara Ehrenreich, a middle-aged investigative reporter who goes undercover in several minimum-wage jobs,” said cast member Winn Caroll, senior in history.

“The play recounts her multiple low-wage jobs and the characters she meets along the way.”

The production is different in that several of the actors play more than one character. Also, the main stage of the Telfair B. Peet Theatre has been renovated to mirror a “theatre-in-the-round” atmosphere, designed by the department’s own professor Robin Jaffe.

Like many of the theatrical

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We were cast one weekend and the next day we had rehearsal. It was an immediate ‘welcome back to college’ where you have 800 things to do at once. Most people don’t realize the commitment put into a play, but after having rehearsal every day for four hours, you definitely learn a thing or two.”

—Chelsea Allen junior in theatre and business

shows, rehearsals for “Nickel & Dimed” began only a few days after auditions and, in this case, only days after the first day of class.

“We were cast one weekend, and the next day we had rehearsal,” said Chelsea Allen, junior in theatre and business.

“It was an immediate ‘wel-

come back to college’ where you have 800 things to do at once. Most people don't realize the commitment put into a play, but after having rehearsal every day for four hours, you definitely learn a thing or two.”

Although the play is geared toward an older audience, it still appeals to Auburn students and has been successful since it opened Thursday, Sept. 20.

“I think the audience will appreciate that we are challenging them,” said lead actress Anna Caudle, sophomore in theatre.

“They’re smart; they can definitely handle the challenges we present them with during the show,” she said.

The production features costumes designed by Tracy Oleinick, lighting designed by Fereshteh Rostampour and sound design by Kelly Walker.

“Nickel and Dimed” is free to Auburn University students, and tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for Auburn faculty and staff.

Performances continue through Saturday, Sept. 29 and begin at 7:30 p.m.

More information regarding the theatre department and upcoming productions can be found at cla.auburn.edu/theatre.

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and said concert-goers can expect a lot of good times.

“People can expect some funky rock,” Mitchell said. “We try to be entertaining when we perform live, and I like to go out and mix and meet with people in the crowd a little bit.

Russ Garner (drummer) will have some really great solos.”

Kristin Diable will also be performing as part of a trio, and was convinced to play the festival by friends who had played in Waverly. Her previous experience with Standard Deluxe also helped convince her.

Diable describes her music as “roots music, based on the early traditional American of folk, blues, Americana

and soul.”

Diable usually performs with her backing band, The City, but said fans can still expect to rock ‘n’ roll with the reduced trio.

Peek said the event has limited the amount of commercial vendors to 10, allowing businesses to offer a variety of unique wares to concertgoers.

“Folks should be prepared to come out and do some Christmas shopping, because it’s not too early to start thinking about that,” Peek said. “It’s going to be a neat little run of unique gifts and items.”

Peek would like to make the Fall Boogie an annual event, but said he’s waiting to see how this one turns out first.

“It’s always good (to have

an event like this), because it gives people something to look forward to,” Peek said.

“You can see a lot of bands for not that much money.”

In case of inclement weather, the show will be moved indoors to The Railyard in Opelika.

Food vendors will include Mama Mocha’s, The Overall Company, Wickles Pickles, Wilton’s Catering and the food truck Mac the Cheese.

Tickets will be $15 at the door or $10 in advance payment online or with a valid student ID. Peek summed up how he hopes the event will go, assuming favorable weather.

“It’ll be a nice fall afternoon in the country,” Peek said.

“Hang out, listen to some music and catch a little sun.”

I’ve been known to go to extreme lengths to avoid cold weather: using breakfast burritos as hand warmers on the walk to class, covering myself with sheets of loose-leaf paper in Haley Center and taking shots from a flask of Theraflu warming liquid. I came to Auburn in large part because I was promised a short and very mild winter.

When September rolled around I reflexively started to indulge in my favorite rites of fall until, trying to sip hot cider on a 90-degree day, it dawned on me: a mild winter meant a nearly nonexistent autumn.

A more sensible woman might have chosen to give up, return to tank tops and be content to sunbathe all the way into November. But not me. My strategy is to adopt the attire and activities of the season in hopes that the weather will follow.

The mornings have been deceptively crisp this past week. Take this as license to break out your thickest scarves, cardigans, coats and boots. When you step out the door at 9 a.m., you will feel well-prepared for the early

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morning chill. By 11 a.m., you’re scrambling down the concourse, tearing off layers in a heat-induced frenzy.

The beauty of fall is you can conceal yourself in so many layers of knits, wool, cotton, leather and fur that the shape of your body becomes largely indistinguishable.

Even while I’m huffing it past peers who are dressed in more seasonally appropriate outfits, I refuse to acknowledge that my pea coat has no place in 86-degree weather.

Everyone looks more adorable in outerwear. If that means suffering a heatstroke for the sake of ushering in autumnal style, so be it.

Along with the fall comes an entire palette of new novelty items that scientists have

figured out how to make taste like a pumpkin. To get into the spirit of the season, you should make a point to indulge in something pumpkin-flavored at least twice a day. Coffee shops have rolled out a spectrum of flavors that range from pumpkin spice latte to pumpkin spice chai to pumpkin spice white chocolate mocha.

Pair that with a pumpkin doughnut and a piping hot bowl of pumpkin soup, and try to ignore the beads of sweat that start to trickle down your forehead.

With enough preparation and the air conditioning set on a crisp 66 degrees, you can almost forget that your friends keep inviting you over to swim.

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Sophomore with passion for orphans raises money for home Melody Kitchens Intrigue Editor

Raising $110,000 may seem like a lofty goal to some, but for Morgan Dunn, it’ll take a little planning—and a lot of faith.

“It’s just knowing that I have to surrender to the Lord,” said Dunn, sophomore in human development and family studies. “Ultimately, it will be the Lord who provides.”

The purpose of raising these funds stems directly from a recent trip to Zambia, Africa, where Dunn said she realized her passion for the orphans of Zambia.

Family Legacy Missions International has built more than 20 homes in Zambia since 2008 for orphans through the Tree of Life program, with a total goal of 50 homes. Now, Dunn wants to add another home named Alden’s House.

Alden Malachowski attended Dunn’s high school, Regents Schools of Austin, Texas, and Dunn said the school was inspired by Malachowski’s spirit and her fight against leukemia.

Malachowski was diagnosed with leukemia in May 2008, and she passed away in December 2009. Dunn said she wants the orphans of Zambia to know Malachowski’s story, too.

“All during her life, Alden was full of joy,” Dunn said.

“Alden’s sweet but fighting spirit and her pure joy for life will be a model and reminder to those orphans that through the trials and tribulations of their own lives, the joy of the Lord is their strength. It is only appropriate to honor Alden’s death by providing these orphans with only a little taste of what we know Alden is ex-

“

There’s so many orphans in Zambia, but when you put a name with a face, it becomes so much more personal. At Tree of Life, they’re just the happiest kids you’ve ever seen in your life.

They realize what Tree of Life has done for them, and it’s a beautiful picture of what the Gospel has done for them.”

—Morgan Dunn Sophomore, human development and family studies

periencing now.”

In the summer of 2011, Dunn embarked on her first trip to Zambia through the encouragement of her high school mentor Ellen Tucker.

“I was a really big volleyball player in high school, and so I was always training for the junior Olympics in the summer,” Dunn said. “I had always wanted to go to Zambia, but I just could never find the time.”

After making a deal with her volleyball coach, Dunn visited Zambia, and “just fell in love with it,” returning the following summer for more involvement with the orphans at Camp Life.

Camp Life, a program through FLMI, is similar to

Vacation Bible School, Dunn said. Through Camp Life, the orphans at camp can meet with sponsors through the Father’s Heart program. Orphans can be then placed in the gated community of Tree of Life.

In each home in Tree of Life, the orphans live with a Zambian mother, and the children attend school each day, as well as complete daily activites such as chores.

“There’s so many orphans in Zambia, but when you put a name with a face, it becomes so much more personal,” Dunn said. “At Tree of Life, they’re just the happiest kids you’ve ever seen in your life.

They realize what Tree of Life has done for them, and it’s a beautiful picture of what the Gospel has done for them.”

Dunn said she felt a calling to build a home in Tree of Life for Malachowski, and after a year of processing the overwhelming logisitics, Dunn returned to Zambia in the summer of 2012.

After her second extended trip, Dunn said she was more than ready to begin fundraising for Alden’s House.

In the short time between her trip to Zambia and counseling at another summer camp, Dunn began writing and sending support letters, creating a website and sketching ideas for T-shirts and wristbands.

After a whirlwind of planning, Dunn is now selling Tshirts and wristbands for the future development of Alden’s House.

To support Alden’s House by purchasing a T-shirt or wristband, email Dunn at mdunn11@me.com.

For other donations, visit treeoflife.org/aldenshouse.

Courtesy of Morgan Dunn

Camp Life, a program similar to Vacation Bible School, is held each summer for the orphans of Zambia.

Courtesy of Morgan Dunn

Through Camp Life, the orphans at camp can meet with sponsors through the Father’s Heart program.

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Facecandi Lighting Productions sparks Auburn’s nightlife Rebecca Moseley Intrigue Reporter

Richard Mueller of Facecandi Lighting Productions is an example of the many individuals with a goal of inspiring others in Auburn, and his is with innovation through design.

“I am highly motivated about design,” Mueller said. “I take it on, and I want people to channel their energy through me and use me as a way to get their designs out because it’s not so much about me. It’s about making a design within reach.”

Mueller is one of the few vinyl turntable disc jockeys in Auburn, spinning under the alias of DJ Soulecta. He works with other DJs in AU Projx (Auburn Underground Projects), an organization that plans on showcasing local artists through an internet radio show.

Two years ago, Mueller joined forces with Hagan Ledkins and Scott “DJ Esko” Shep-

pard to develop Facecandi, the first of its kind.

“A lot of us DJ around Auburn, and before Facecandi, we noticed there was no lighting,” Mueller said. “It was just a bunch of DJs dancing around and whatever bar lighting was available. Realizing there was nothing available in this town, we all just decided to come up with some stuff.”

Facecandi cornered the lighting market for about two years, but now three or four other local companies have entered that market, he said.

Mueller said Facecandi is currently looking to step up its game with 3-D projection mapping, an installation at the CounterPoint Music Festival in Atlanta this weekend and other projects that other lighting services have not done.

This includes an intelligent lighting installment at the new downtown restaurant En Fuego Tapas Bar and Lounge.

Facecandi has become the resident lighting provider for TKO, operated by Andy Belsterling and Sam Higginbotham in Auburn, and also for Vulgar, operated by Chris Holmes and Max Moskol in Columbus, Ga. TKO and Vulgar are electronic dance music companies that collaborate with DJs and jam bands to produce electronic dance music for nightclubs.

Mueller comes from a family of designers. His father, Rich Mueller, owns and operates Mueller Design Group, Inc., an architectural design company in Fairhope, Ala. with a focus on designing schools.

After living in San Diego while serving in the Navy from 2005 to 2010, Mueller returned to Auburn.

“I grew up here,” Mueller said. “My whole family is from Auburn. Auburn is my team.”

He is now in the industrial design program and said he

is proud of what they have accomplished.

“I really just want people know what we are, because a lot of people don’t know,” Mueller said. “It’s basically just designing things that people want, such as packaged technology. Designing some cool stuff before you even know it’s cool. It’s kind of a difficult thing to do to try to make things people want before you know they want it.”

Along with Facecandi, he has created his own business called Mueller Design Lab. It reflects the inspiration he received from his father, who was also in the Navy and graduated from Auburn in industrial design.

“Facecandi is solely using lighting application,” Mueller said. “Mueller Design can be anything; it’s Mueller Design Lab because it’s trying out new things like the lighting in En Fuego. I’d be willing to reach out and try something

because I don’t know how, and I want that knowledge.”

Mueller Design Lab is currently redesigning a nightclub in Columbus, Ga. called Eighty-Five, developing an urban clothing line called STMP, creating various logos for businesses around town and designing flyers for local and statewide event promoters.

“Opportunity is all around,” Mueller said. “You’ll never know until you try. ‘If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right,’ as Henry Ford said.”

Mueller also has patents on products he has created through Mueller Design Lab, which can be found on the company’s WordPress blog.

Mueller has worked as a designer for the downtown clothing store Stamp since the beginning of the summer.

One project for Mueller Design Lab involves working with his boss at Stamp, Eric Stamp, to redesign the

store’s space and create Camp Stamp. Camp Stamp will be a multi-purpose retail and art gallery space that will change over time.

“We’re going to do pop art shows and still play with the repurposed and recycled fashions, but really consider the delivery of the products; the display, the execution and the environment when you walk in the store,” Mueller said. “It needs to mess with people’s heads in a sense that they don’t know it’s recycled.”

Mueller said he enjoyed his time on the West Coast while in the Navy and hopes to possibly return to earn his master’s degree in San Francisco.

“I may seem a bit more motivated and crazy about design, but I’ve had a lot of time to marinate on this concept of what I want to do with my life,” Mueller said. “I know what I want to do. I knew when I was a little kid and that’s never changed.”

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Alessio Summerfield, senior in RTVF, said he has made a variety of efforts to produce great media.

RTVF major strives to do more than just homework Rebecca Moseley Intrigue Reporter

A broad background, a broad portfolio of completed works, a broad choice for RTVF and extracurricular projects, and a broad goal with his degree: the term “broad” is sometimes given a negative connotation as it is often a substitute for the word “vague.”

However, in the case of Alessio Summerfield, senior in radio, television and film, “broad” describes his openness to new possibilities, and ultimately great opportunities.

Being an assistant in the Media and Digital Resources Lab at the library and a videographer for the College of Liberal Arts, as well as the father of the AU New Media Club, which he will preside over for the next two semesters, Summerfield said he has made a broad variety of efforts to produce great media works while assisting others in their media endeavors as well.

Originally from England, the Summerfield family moved to his mother’s home country, Sicily, where Alessio’s sister was born.

They then lived in Virginia for a short time before making their way further south to various cities in Florida and then on to Auburn.

His past is where Summerfield claims to derive inspiration, particularly the excessive film watching with his father and the hobby of pirating those films on VHS. The first feature film project that Summerfield said he was associated with took place when he was in eighth grade.

He said he helped his friend create a parody of the Matrix and that it was the first and

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(I hope to) show kids that now in today’s world with the Internet, and with everybody having production tools, you can pretty much do whatever you want to do for the rest of your life starting now.”

—Alessio Summerfield Senior, radio, television & film

last on-camera appearance.

Summerfield said he was interested in the field of radio, television and film for eight years and that he draws inspiration from an unusual source.

“You don’t hear this very often, but I was actually inspired by mid-90’s video games and graphics,” Summerfield said.

“I got interested in telling stories visually and allowing others to come to their own conclusions.”

He said this inspiration has led him to complete projects such as directing his debut feature film about zombies and a more recent feature film about the Ugliest Dog in America, which received a kickstarter fund of $50,000.

“I have a massive guilt issue where if I’m not productive and I’m just sitting around doing nothing, I feel really guilty about it,” Summerfield said.

“I feel like that guilt/productivity complex sets me apart because I try to do as much as I can so that at the end of the day, I’m not left with

nothing and I can move on knowing I left something behind.”

Summerfield said he hopes that by starting the New Media Club he will be able to leave behind a legacy and teach others that they can accomplish their dreams. “(I hope to) show kids that now in today’s world with the internet, and with everybody having production tools, you can pretty much do whatever you want to do for the rest of your life, starting now,” Summerfield said.

His wide range of future projects range from jumpstarting student interest in web presence through an ePortfolio project test group with the New Media Club to potentially pitching a feature film that highlights the lifestyle of a truck driver.

“With my degree being radio, television and film, its (possibilities are) pretty broad,” he said.

“Especially the work I do around campus is broad; it’s usually audio, video or web stuff. So, I’m hoping that since my experience on my resume is pretty broad… I’m hoping that with a broad degree and with such a broad background that I can just do media work and not have to be limited.”

Deron Overpeck, professor of film studies, said he was impressed by Summerfield’s contributions to class.

“He’s clearly seen a lot of films, yet is also eager to learn more, even in an introductory class,” Overpeck said. “He also made an interesting documentary short film last year about illegal immigration in Italy, demonstrating that he thinks about economic and social issues in a global context.”