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Grad student rescues Selma woman Becky Hardy Campus Editor

Stalking Awareness Month Think someone is stalking you? Let the Department of Public Safety help you out.

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Vol. 119, Issue 29, 16 Pages

Split-second decisions, cold water against your skin and struggling to save yourself and another against river currents; this is the scene Tuesday, Jan. 8, for Doug Bacon, graduate student in masters integrated design and construction. Bacon rescued an Opelika native, Priscilla Woods, from drowning in the Alabama River after she jumped from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma. Bacon was on his way back to Auburn University when he noticed a woman standing on the outside of a guardrail. “I was driving and I was kind of watching the road since the traffic had slowed down,” Bacon said. “I was

looking back and forth from her and the road and when I looked back and I saw that she had jumped, so I knew either way that she had either fallen or jumped.” It only took seconds for Bacon to make the decision that he would be the one to save Woods. “I think for a split second I was like ‘Well you know maybe some other people will go and help her,’ but another part of me was like ‘I better go down there and help her,’” Bacon said. Bacon drove to a nearby park that he was familiar with since he had driven through Selma in the past. Bacon ran two blocks to the edge of the park up until the park dropped down to the river said Lt. Johnny King, commander of crimi-

nal and narcotic investigation for Selma Police Department. Bacon then handed his cellphone and wallet to a man willing to help by the water’s edge. “And I just said ‘Do you see her? Do you see her?’ and then she just popped up and she was struggling,” Bacon said. “It was not a graceful dive [into the river]; it was more of a stumble.” Although the water may have looked freezing, Bacon assured everyone that the water was no more than chilly. “I wasn’t really thinking if the water was cold or not,” Bacon said. Bacon swam 35–45 feet out in the river to save Woods. “I swam out and got to

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I think she was probably just going through a lot. I got to her and said ‘Come here, it’s going to be OK.’ —Doug Bacon Auburn University Grad Student

her and she was kind of in shock,” Bacon said. “I think she was probably just going through a lot. I got to her and said ‘Come here, it’s going to be OK.’ She was willing to get some help and wasn’t fighting it at all.”

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Doug Bacon was honored Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Selma City Hall for saving a woman from the Alabama River. Bacon is an Auburn graduate student in masters integrated design and construction.

Jule Collins Anniversary After 10 years, the Jule Collins Smith Museum remains a prominent landmark in Auburn.

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Police officers train on-site at the Student center an exercise in the ALICE crisis prevention.

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Associate director of emergency management Chance Corbett demonstrates one way to bar a door closed in an emergency situation.

Shooter on campus? There’s a program for that President Obama’s pointed inaugural address President Obama outlines ideals in inaugural address we can all get behind.

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Hard In The Paint After battling Vanderbilt, the Tigers look to improve SEC play against Ole Miss on Saturday, Jan. 26.

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Life Of A Street Kid Oregon natives Alex Fleicshmann and AJ Brush travel across country with little more than $20.

Corey Arwood Campus Reporter

Regardless of the conf licting opinions Americans might have about gun control, there is consensus among institutions, agencies and businesses, in a demand for programs that provide training in the event of a shooting incident. Auburn has developed its own training program provided by the university’s Department of Public Safety and Security. The Active Shooter Re-

sponse Training course is offered to everyone on campus, both employees and students alike. “The goal of the course is to provide people with options if they ever find [themselves] in a situation such as an active shooter situation, or where someone is wanting to cause them harm; and providing the options so that they can make a quick decision,” said Chance Corbett, associate director of emergency management. “As you know, most of

these things, when they do happen, they are very fast to unfold, and the situation is over before you know it. You may not have a lot of time to make those decisions, and trying to figure out what those decisions are at the time [is] going to be a little hard for you.” Active Shooter Response is part of a two-hour Emergency Preparedness course offered to students. The basic structure of the training is contained within an acronym, ALICE. ALICE stands for: Alert,

Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate. Corbett said that the ALICE program was developed from techniques used by Special Forces, law enforcement and studies of the results from scenarios like Flight 93 during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The training focuses on providing options of different reactions that can be taken during the potential scenarios of a shooting incident. Accounts of events that have happened during the

late 60’s in Texas, up to the most recent Sandy Hook incident, have been taken into consideration for the training. Escaping, if possible, is the primary course of action prescribed by the training. But if that is not an option, the course offers scenarios to help prepare the trainee for the event of an altercation with the gunman.

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Online education Former director, interfraternity tops World Report advisor relocate to new schools Corey Arwood Campus Reporter

Auburn placed in the top 10 in four out of five online graduate degree programs evaluated by the U.S. News & World Report for best online education programs in 2013. The evaluation by USNWR placed a number of degree programs from the different schools of the universities alongside, in some cases hundreds, of others and ranked their findings based off of various factors, ranging from student engagement to faculty credentials. Online graduate programs of the University in education were ranked second, behind St. Johns University, in New York, out of the 208 different programs evaluated. Graduate engineering programs in business were ranked six among 213. Computer information technology was also six out of

the 30 online master’s degree programs evaluated, and programs in the College of Engineering ranked six among 70. “There is no difference at all in terms of the type of content these students are engaged in, or in terms of the quality of instruction,” said Troy Johnson, the College of Educations director of communications and marketing. “The only difference is that they’re not able to run over to Starbucks at the Student Center.” Chris Paulk, Georgia native, said he chose Auburn’s online program because it comes from a “brick and mortar” university. “It’s been a real positive experience,” saidPaulk, “It’s allowed me to seek my degree, my further degrees, while I’ve been teaching. When I tell (co-workers) that I got my masters in a year, they look at me like I’m crazy.”

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Times are changing for the Greek Life community two members of the staff have recently decided to relocate. Recently, Brandon Frye and Bo Mantooth have decided to transfer. Brandon Frye was the former director of student development at Auburn before he accepted a position at the University of West Florida as the assistant vice president/ dean of students, according to Amy Hecht, assistant vice president for student affairs at Auburn. Bo Mantooth was the former advisor for the Interfraternity Community social fraternities. He also taught the Office of Greek Life forcredit leadership course. Mantooth has accepted a position at Indiana State University as the director for sorority and fraternity life.

“I finished my Ph.D. during the fall semester in higher education administration and knew that I wanted to progress in student affairs,” Mantooth said. “The opportunity for professional progression wasn’t possible in student affairs at Auburn, so I had to look elsewhere.” Mantooth said he is happy with his decision to relocate to ISU. “Professionally—ISU is a great place to work and I’m learning a lot from our associate dean of students and the vice president of student affairs about what it takes to make my next step in student affairs several years down the road,” Mantooth said. Mantooth was at Auburn for six years before leaving. “Auburn is a great place to work and live,” Mantooth said. “We loved our time at Auburn, but with

a lot of professional positions, sometimes you have to move on, to move up.” The remaining staff has taken on additional responsibilities. So far there are no new candidates to fill these spots however Hecht said a position will be posted this spring. “We will be conducting interviews throughout this semester and students will be involved in that process,” Hecht said. “We hope that by this summer we will have candidates here on campus.” Mantooth was happy with the way things were run during his six years working at Auburn and said there were no problems that influenced his decision to leave. “It was tougher to leave then I thought, but professionally and personally this was a great move.”

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Crime Reports in the City of Auburn Jan. 16 – Jan. 22, 2013

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dui arrests for Jan. 16 – Jan. 22, 2013

Jan. 16 – Opelika Road Auto breaking and entering between 3:35 p.m. and 3:44 p.m.

■ Chad Cook, 37, Waterford, Mich. Thursday, Jan. 17, 10:30 p.m. at Opelika Road and North Gay Street

■ Emma Tolin, 19, Lumberton, N.C. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2:24 a.m. on West Glenn Avenue

■ Brandon Davis, 30, Auburn Sunday, Jan. 20, 3:51 a.m. on Moores Mill Road

Jan. 18 – South College Street Third-degree theft of U.S. currency between 10:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

■ Mary Ann Dowdell, 47, Auburn Friday, Jan. 18, 2:31 p.m. at Twin Forks Drive and North Dean Road ■ Christopher Kovacs, 19, Auburn Friday, Jan. 18, 11:16 p.m. on Toomer Street

■Lequinton Al-Ghanee, 25, North Hollywood, Calif. Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1:18 a.m. on Shug Jordan Parkway

Jan. 20-22 – Pear Tree Road Burglary of a flat-screen television between 10:30 p.m. Jan. 20 and 1:15 p.m. Jan. 22

■ Marshall Wickersham, 18, Birmingham Saturday, Jan. 19, 4:05 a.m. at West Magnolia Avenue and Cox Street

Jan. 21 – Lee Road 137 Harassment Report Jan. 22 – Mell Street Second-degree theft of property of a laptop, wallet, debit card, cell phone, driver’s license and U.S. currency between 8:10 pm. and 8:11 p.m.

■ Kirsten Gamble, 20, Birmingham Saturday, Jan. 19, 1:12 a.m. at North Gay Street and East Glenn Avenue ■ Anthony Winslett Jr, 37, AuburnSaturday, Jan. 19, 1:52 a.m. on South College Street

Small town dangers National Stalking Awareness Month comes to Auburn for the first time to give victimized students help Becky Hardy Campus Editor

6.6 million people are stalked in the United States every year, according to stalkingawareness.org. The Department of Public Safety and Security has made its mission to promote safe choices and options for students at the University, especially this month dedicated to stalking awareness. The department is putting on this campaign to raise awareness about stalking. Stalking is an issue at Auburn, especially because of the age group of students attending the University, said Susan McCallister, associate director of public safety information and education. Half of stalking victims that are female and a quarter of victims that are male are stalked before the age of 25. “We have dealt with some individual cases and also through Safe Harbor where people have concerns about stalking,” McCallister said.

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Bacon struggled with the current as Woods and him swam to shore. “I was kind of out of energy and going under water, so I was kind of freaking out. So I would throw her arm off of me just so I could get a breath,” Bacon said. Soon after Bacon had jumped in the water a fishermen had emerged from the woods to come help. “It was too steep to come down to the river from upstream, so the fisherman climbed way up the slope and came the way I did and helped me pull her out of the water the rest of the way,” Bacon said.

“We want to make sure people know what it is and what to do about it.” Sara Frazier, junior in communications, was a victim of stalking and harassment no less than a year and a half ago. “The first incident that I ever had with this guy with serious stalking was when I updated my Facebook with a location and he showed up there and ended up assaulting me with my friends,” Frazier said. Frazier then took legal action to get a protection order against the stalker that required him to be no less than 100 feet away from her at all times. “At this time the campus had issued a statement pretty much saying the same thing that if he saw me on campus he was supposed to go the other way and things like that,” Frazier said. Although the police and the university were involved, the problem was not completely solved. “He continued to follow me, The police arrived soon after Woods was pulled from the water to shore. “She wouldn’t have survived because it’s a long fall,” King said. “I know several people who have jumped and she was the only person that survived. [Bacon] jumped in there in that cold water and swam to her and pulled her as much as he could.” Bacon’s family was both shocked and surprised when they heard how Doug’s afternoon went. “[My mom] was just happy I was OK and she was really proud of me,” Bacon said. Woods went to Baptist South Hospital in Montgomery, but is now home with her family.

and I would see him everywhere,” Fraizer said. “If I went to the grocery store, he would be there. I would just see his car parked places where I would be.” The issue became so severe Frazier resorted to having an armed guard take her to classes. “I completely medically withdrew from the semester because I didn’t want to do the armed escort to every class, and if I was on campus I was so stressed out that I couldn’t concentrate in class,” Frazier said. Frazier, along with McCallister, recommended all girls at Auburn take the self-defense class offered through kinesiology 4970. “It’s taught by police officers that actually work on campus and one of them was the guy that was my bodyguard that took me to all my classes,” Frazier said. “You couldn’t ask for better teachers to teach you how to be aware of your surroundings. If

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Primarily it focuses on not being complicit in a scenario when it is ensured that the person intends on harming others, and it stresses other alternatives first, such as barricading the classroom. The course, which Corbett largely developed, is a recent addition to the Emergency Preparedness training, having only been offered on campus since spring of last year. Corbett has an extensive background in law enforcement and emergency management. He also worked with the Russell County Sheriff ’s De-

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■ Anthony Johnson, 21, Clayton, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2:46 a.m. on South College Street ■ Charles Wooddall, 19, Atlanta, Ga. Sunday, Jan. 20, 1:20 a.m. on Woodview Court

— Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

■Brandon Lee, 19, Columbus, Ga. Sunday, Jan. 20, 3:02 a.m. on South College Street

Facing the Facts • 1 in 6 women and 1 in 19 men have experienced stalking victimization at some point during their lifetime • Almost 1/3 of stalkers have stalked before • Less than 1/3 of states classify stalking as a felony upon first offense • 46% of stalking victims experience at least one unwanted contact per week. • Intimate partner stalkers frequently approach their targets, and their behaviors escalate quickly

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thing, like going to university court, coming to get me because I was too terrified to go anywhere, she went with me to regular court and she literally held my hand and walked me through every step,” Frazier said. “Safe Harbor is what I went through to get to her.” Frazier hopes to get the word out to alert the students and faculty that even though Auburn may seem like a normal college town, there can be danger here. “I really do feel as though Auburn did as much as they could to get my story out there,” Frazier said. “I know people as high up as Jay Gogue

you want an empowering experience you should take that class.” The class is offered in both the fall and the spring, and is one credit hour. “[The teachers] go into much more detail about stalking and just safe behaviors and unsafe behaviors and how to protect yourself and avoid these situations,” McCallister said. “Also they go over how to escape if you are actually confronted with someone trying to harm you.” Frazier attributes most of her strength through dealing with this issue to McCallister. “She went with me to everypartment as a member of the local SWAT team, of which he served as the leader for three years. The course, though relatively new to campus, has been provided by Corbett to police departments, and most recently to the Alabama Department of Transportation. “It became apparent to me through some of the resources that I had, that active shooter events were becoming more and more prevalent in our society… it’s always been an issue, since 1966 with the University of Texas, when that guy got up in the tower and started shooting folks,” Bob McWhorter, director of AL DOT’s Office of Homeland

Security, said. He said that he received positive feedback from the employees that attended the training. “That training is important

heard my story and understood what a threat there is on campus for stalking. We all think we live in a normal college world, but we have no idea what kinds of predators are on campus.” Students who are dealing with a stalker need to address the issue immediately. “The main thing that we really want to convey to students is that if they feel uncomfortable is one, tell the person to stop the behavior and if the person does not stop they should bring it to someone’s attention because it could be considered stalking,” McCallister said. because it stresses awareness of the risks that we face in the workplace, or really any public place,” said Tony Harris the bureaus chief of media and community relations.

CLARIFICATIONS AND CORRECTIONS In an article titled “Auburn’s King Week brings recognition to service and history,” from the Jan. 17 issue of The Plainsman, the story should have reflected that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 84 on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Also, Joyce Thomas-Vinson’s title should be “coordinator of service learning and student engagement for the Office of Public Service.” Paulette Dilworth’s title should be “assistant vice president for access and community affairs.” The office responsible for KING WEEK is the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, specifically Access and Community Initiatives. In the same issue, a letter to the editor from Jacob Dean incorrectly attributed the quote “I’m not very politically correct,” to Auburn Alumni Association representative Dr. Gaines Thomas. The quote should have been attributed to current Auburn trustee Jimmy Rane We apologize for these errors.

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We stand for those who can’t Kailey Miller Campus Reporter

Auburn University Dance Marathon raised $65,995.25 last year for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Columbus, Ga. This year, the event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Student Center. The staff expects a bigger turnout this year and they have made some changes in the way the event will be run. “Because we have so many people coming, our turnout doubled from last year,” said Casey Stein, president of AUDM. “We’ve had to expand from beyond the ballroom to include the entire Student Center.” Now the event will take place in different rooms throughout the Student Center so dancers can move up and down the levels with different entertainment throughout the rooms. The AUDM staff has been working hard to spread the word about this upcoming event. “We have everyone on staff change their profile picture or cover photo on Facebook so we spread awareness that way,” said Will McCann, vice president of operations. The AUDM staff got creative when it came to advertising their event. The Morale captains are part of the staff who lead the different color groups at the event and encourage people to keep standing and dancing at the event. “Morale does just crazy weird things on campus like running around in outfits and stuff just to get people talking,” Stein said. When members of Morale were interviewed for the job they were told to dress up in a costume that showed their strengths and why they should be chosen. “We had a lot of Buzz Lightyears and Captain Americas,” Stein said. “We had a Green Lantern who insisted we turn off the lights before she came in and ran into the room glowing; it was kind of funny.” The 12-hour event is broken up into different

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Jasmine Amoo, sophomore in undeclared science and math, Will McCann, sophomore in pre-business and Casey Stein, junior in human development and family studies, at the Fall Festival at the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Columbus, Ga.

segments. After the introduction there will be some two-hour segments with different themes that include beach bash, holiday hour, CMT vs. MTV, tacky prom and YouTube hour. “Some of our entertainment coming this year includes Zumba, AU singers and AU Rhythm. Tim Tyler is also coming to perform and a couple other local bands,” Stein said. “We’ll do mini kid talent shows.” One of the rooms will be available for dancers to play with kids from the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The staff has planned new entertainment for this year where they will try to break a world record. “It’s the most people to carry a Furby at one time so we are going to try to pass that around and that’s going to happen right around halfway through the event,” Stein said. The last hour will be the closing which includes a rave, a speaker and the final total will be revealed so dancers can see how their commitment made a difference. “You work all year and it’s a lot of time and

effort on your part, but when the event time comes around you get to see the total raised at the very end,” McCann said. “It’s kind of a surreal feeling because you get to see the embodiment of everything that you’ve done all come together in one moment and all the emotions of the entire year kind of hit you at the same time.” All the directors and assistant directors have a personal goal of raising $1,000. “My personal goal is $1,000 which I’m so happy that I have reached and surpassed,” said Sarah Kelly, director of dancer involvement. Some of the kids from the hospital will be there with their families speaking, performing and watching. “They range anywhere from a 21-year-old boy who actually goes to Auburn to two twin boys who are five and they are doing karate at the event,” Stein said. The money raised for the hospital is used to buy medical equipment, specifically incubators. “Usually we like to say we aren’t about the total or the goal even though it’s kind of the driv-

ing force because we want to make the biggest difference and that’s through the money,” Stein said. “Last year we were able to purchase one incubator for them and so I guess this year naturally our goal is two.” The staff has high hopes that everyone will stay for the whole event. “We do our best to encourage people to stay the entire time, that’s really the whole essence of the event is giving up your free time and you’re standing and you’re participating for the support of kids who don’t have the same opportunity as you so the whole standing and being there for the entire time really embodies the entire spirit of the event,” McCann said. McCann and Stein hope to have at least 450 people attend, but both expect there to be more. “It’s not a 12-hour dance or a 12-hour marathon, it’s giving up one day of your life to make a life time of difference for these kids,” Stein said. “Working so hard to throw a 12-hour party for a bunch of sick kids who usually spend their day in the hospital is so rewarding in and of itself.”

Students selected as finalists for Gates Cambridge Scholarship English award offers opportunties abroad MICHAEL HILL Writer

One thousand applicants, 90 finalists and two Auburn students selected among finalists to interview for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Paul Bergen, graduate student and Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Munich, and James “Jimmy” Kaczmarek, senior in chemical engineering, are among the 90 selected as finalists for the Gate Cambridge Scholarship. “It was winter break and I was sitting there watching TV and an email popped up and it read congratulations on being short listed for the Gates Cambridge finalist,’” Kaczmarek said. “And I was just like ‘yes.’”

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship is highly competitive and is a full scholarship that is awarded to outstanding students outside of the United Kingdom to pursue a post-graduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. “I definitely feel honored that I was selected as a finalist,” Bergen said. At Auburn, both Bergen and Kaczmarek have been heavily involved while maintaining 3.97 GPAs. Bergan, of Cooper City, Fla., was the president of the Microbiology Club, part of the Mock Trial Team and was a re-chartering member of the German Honor Society. Kaczmarek, of Tampa, Fla, is the trumpet section leader for the Auburn Marching Band, a part of Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity and a founding member of AU Cappella. While at Auburn, Bergen was also an undergraduate researcher under Dr. Mark Liles. Begren’s work in Liles’ lab focused on metagenom-

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man and microbiology. Kaczmarek works as an undergraduate researcher His work ethic is under Dr. Mark Brynes. second to none. I “His work ethic is second to none,” Brynes said.” I have have yet to meet yet to meet another student another student who has a work ethic like who has work Jimmy.” Byrnes described Jimmy ethic like Jimmy.” as an excellent student, pas—Dr. Mark Brynes, sionate, one who has high associate professor of scholarship and isn’t afraid chemical engineering to ask questions. “In the classes that I have had him, he has been near the top, if not the top stuics, which according to Liles “you are cloning and analyz- dent, in the class in terms of ing DNA from a community of grades that he has received”, bacteria and our focus here is Brynes said. Bergen said that he would on antibiotic discovery.” “The last year he was here, like to work under profesPaul and I were colleagues,” sors Vassilis Koronakis and Liles said. “He was definitely Gillian Fraser, which is why functioning at a higher level he would most like to attend Cambridge. than most students do.” Kaczmarek wants his foLiles said that Bergen will be a co-author on a manu- cus of study to be controlled script on the science he did release of drugs through conand that is one of the best tact lenses. According to gatescamforms of recognition, your scibridge.com, the selection crience is being published. Bergen received his under- teria are; outstanding intelgraduate degree in both Ger- lectual ability, leadership po-

tential, commitment to improving the lives of others and a good fit between the applicant’s qualifications and aspirations of the postgraduate program at Cambridge University for which they are applying. “I want to live my life to really make a difference for other people,” Kaczmarek said. There have been two previous Auburn graduates awarded the scholarship: David Harris in 2010 and Cynthia Carver in 2002. Bergen’s interview is set for Friday, Feb. 1 and Kaczmarek’s interview is Saturday, Feb 2. Both interviews will be conducted in Washington, D.C. “It’s the interview that is going to set you apart. And I think that what makes it more extreme and more intense,” Bergen said. “You have to be on top of your game and give the greatest interview you’ve given at that point.”

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Auburn Best Buddies creates true friendships Jherrica Luckie Writer

Auburn Best Buddies may appear as just another campus organization to people unfamiliar with it, but to its members it’s where they have met some of their best friends. “We are a program that provides friendships,” said Lauren Swindle, president of Auburn Best Buddies and junior in collaborative special education. “That’s what it boils down to.” Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that helps create friendships between college students and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. College students, called “college buddies,” are paired with a disabled child, with whom they spend one-on-one

time with throughout the year. Swindle said her buddy, Ann Finlen, who has Down syndrome, is truly her best friend. “Ann has taught me unconditional love,” Swindle said. “She can see the good when we can only see the bad things.” Auburn’s chapter has approximately 150 college buddies and 70 buddies ranging from age 15 and up, making it the largest Best Buddies chapter in the United States. Swindle said the group has been nominated for the best chapter award. Results will be released later this year. “It’s unlike any other organization,” said Shannon Walton, public relations coordinator for Best Buddies and sophomore in public relations. “You’re really making an im-

pact on their lives and yours. It’s truly beneficial.” Because there are not enough buddies to be paired with each member, Walton said the associate members, members not paired with a buddy, help out at events and fundraisers and spend time with everyone. As well as spending time with their buddies and speaking to them on a weekly basis, the organization holds monthly events for all the members and buddies to attend. Next month’s event is a formal Valentine’s Day dance at the Auburn Student Center. “The buddies love dancing,” said Erin Beasley, vice president of Best Buddies and junior in rehabilitation and disabilities studies. “They have

such big smiles on their faces. It’s so memorable to see them having so much fun.” Beasley has been buddies with Bryan Carpenter, who has Down syndrome, for two years. “He always just wants to spend time with me and share stories,” Beasley said. “He’s so in control and humble. He’s one of my closest friends”. The members also host Thanksgiving and Christmas parties as well as bowling nights and matching parties, where the volunteers first get paired with their buddy. “We are making friendships that will last a lifetime for them and us,” Walton said. Students looking to become a member of Best Buddies can apply at the beginning of each fall semester.

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Jule Collins Smith celebrates 10 year anniversary Eva Woghiren Writer

More than 285 guests were at the Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center Friday, Jan. 18 to celebrate the Jule Collins Smith Museum’s 10th Anniversary. “The museum opened officially to the public Oct. 3, 2003,” said Charlotte Hendrix, the print and digital media producer for the museum. “Since it is 2013 we wanted to start the year with this 10th Anniversary Gala to honor the people that have helped establish the museum.” Four guests were being honored at the gala including Jule Collins Smith herself. Along with Smith was her husband Albert J. Smith Jr., Dwight L. Carlisle and Taylor D. Littleton. Smith donated money to build the museum back in 2003 as an anniversary gift to his wife and his one wish in doing so was that it be named after his wife. “It is really hard to describe the feeling of having a museum named after you, I don’t know how to describe it,” Smith said. “It is just so overwhelming.” The conference center lobby was filled by 6 p.m. with more than 100 museum members, Auburn alumni and staff all in black tie attire. In the corner of the lobby was a full bar with choices of drinks from Maker’s Mark, to Grey Goose and an assortment of wines and champagne. Top chefs from around the world were invited to cater the special event. Gregory Gourreau, Gerald Hirigoyen, Sylvain Portay and Laurent Manrique lent their special culinary talents. The director of the hotel invited a close friend, Emmanuel Kemiji of Miura Vineyards and Clos Pissarra, to sample his fine wines. “Tonight I am presenting three different wines from my two wineries, one in California and one in Spain,” Kemij said. Throughout the reception servers of the hotel floated around with trays of hors d’oeuvres. Finally the guests began to take their seats around 7:15 p.m. The ball room scenery was fully transformed and decorated to meet the expectations of any fine designer. Marilyn Laufer, JCSM director, and her team started planning the 10th Anniversary Gala approximately two years ago when they knew they wanted to do something to kick off the 10th year. The tickets for the event were $165. Most of the guests and members of the museum bought their tickets months prior to the event. The money went toward the three-course meal. The extra donations that were also made to go toward the museum’s exhibitions and programs. “We offer all activities free to the students

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Auburn alumni Jule Collins Smith and her husband, Al J. Smith Jr., attended the 10th Anniversary Gala for the museum they funded.

and it is all because of the generosity of the people like this in this room tonight,” Laufer said. Laufer went on to speak, introducing Mayor Bill Ham and Vice President for Academic Affairs Timothy Boosinger. The night of honoring art and the accomplishments of the museum went on with a short video presentation. “I think art is an important part of our lives that a lot of people forget about,” said Mark Thornton, a museum member. “I like to encourage people to become involved with the museum.” After the dinner Auburn University President Jay Gogue brought the evening to an end with closing remarks. The goal of the JCSM is to serve the university as well as Auburn’s community. Compliments on the success of the night and also the museum flew in from all over. “The museum is absolutely stunning and has done so well and this event just goes to show,” said J’Anne Smith Rawson, daughter of Jule Collins Smith.

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The 10th Anniversary Gala was held at The Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center.

Sniffling, sneezing and coughing: the flu has arrived Jessa Pease Writer

Pigs may not be flying, but this year’s flu outbreak has the Auburn Community wrapped in blankets. The flu is breaking out in every state, and although this strain of flu isn’t to the proportions of swine flu, this season is seeing more cases than last year. “It’s more intense than last year for sure,” said John Atkinson, public relations manager at East Alabama Medical Clinic. “Last year was kind of a down year, but we have had seasons like this before and we have taken similar precautions in years past as well.” As of last Friday, East Alabama Medical Clinic had records of 177 cases of confirmed flu, Atkinson said. Of those 177 cases, 112 of them occurred in December and 44 were in January. “It started a little bit earlier this year,” Atkinson said.

“We saw cases as early as October, but it definitely began hitting the hardest in December. Then our cases in January seem to be on that same type target.” There are two different strands of flu going around: an A strain and a B strain. According to Janet King, clinical supervisor at the Auburn University Medical Clinic, strain A is the one the clinic is seeing the most. “The problem is that the flu shot itself is only between 60 and 65 percent efficacy,” King said. “It didn’t catch all of the strains. I think I heard that one of the strains was not covered in the shot, so if you are exposed to that germ you are going to get the flu.” The first week back from break the AU clinic gave 117 a flu swabs for people showing symptoms and 31 of them were positive. Last week, the clinic swabbed 116 and found 35 positive tests by Friday.

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Symptoms are not fun. It’s fever, headaches, sometimes a cough and sometimes a sore throat with lots of body aches.” —Janet King clinical supervisor at Auburn University Medical Clinic

The Auburn University Medical Clinic ordered 650 flu shots and ran out while demand was still high. King said, they have been telling people to go to CVS or Walgreen’s pharmacies to get flu shots, because it is still the best preventative measure. “Based on what’s happened with flu epidemic this year, how early it started, how

quickly its spread … I think the preventative measure is worth it,” said Harriet Huggins coordinator at the Learning Resources Center with the College of Education. “I have gotten a flu shot every year since 2001.” There are other preventative precautions people can take to keep from getting the flu. Things like washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizers, staying away from crowded areas and staying away from people who are sick. “Symptoms are not fun,” King said. “It’s fever, headaches, sometimes a cough and sometimes a sore throat with lots of body aches. If you get that you have to try to get seen within 48 hours, because then at that point they can give you an anti-viral medication. That’s not going to make it go away, but it will lessen the symptoms.” If you aren’t seen within 48

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The AU Medical Clinic ran out of flu shots, but students and others can still get them at local CVS and Walgreens stores.

hours, King said, there isn’t much the clinic can do for you. Your best bet is to take cold and flu medicines and Tylenol or Motrin to reduce the fever. “Other than that there really

isn’t anything you can do for it,” King said. “You just have to let it run its course. Sometimes it can be a week to a week and a half before you are feeling better.”

Auburn Police Department makes arrest in robbery case Abigail O’Brien Community Writer

Mychaela D. Jackson, 18, from Pike Road was arrested by the Auburn Police Department Tuesday, Jan. 15. after the police department received an anonymous tip. Jackson has been charged with two counts of third-degree robbery, said Capt. Tom Stofer of the Auburn Police

Department. Jackson was linked to a shoplifting incident that happened Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 at an undisclosed business located in the Village Mall on Opelika Road. “Through our investigation, once we got the tip, we investigated that tip and then determined her to be one of the two people involved in

that incident,” Stofer said. Stofer said the police department has not released the name of the business involved in the shoplifting. As they fled the scene of the incident, the two shoplifters struck two store employees who attempted to stop them from leaving, Capt. Stofer said. “They were treated on the

scene by medical personnel for minor injuries,” Stofer said. When the police department received the anonymous tip, they contacted Jackson. “We called her and told her to come and turn herself in or come down and see us,” Stofer said. Jackson was arrested Tues-

day, Jan. 15, 2013. After she was arrested, Jackson was taken to the Lee County Detention Facility. Jackson was arrested and released under bond the same day for $20,000 said Capt. Corey Welch. Her court date is set for March 6, Capt. Welch said. The police department continues its search to find

the other woman involved in the shoplifting Stofer said. Anyone with information regarding the identity of the second person involved in the incident is asked to call the Auburn Police Department. Citizens may anonymously text or call t he tip line, 334-246-1391, or call the police division at 334-5013140.

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Parking safety, new cigar shop discussed at City Council meeting Chandler Jones Community Reporter

Auburn City Council met Tuesday, Jan. 22 to discussgrievances about high school overflow parking along Terrace Acres Drive. The Council resolved to limit parking on Terrace Acres Drive from 7:30- 9:30 a.m. daily to prevent vehicles from cluttering the street. According to City Manager Charles Duggan, signs will be posted around the street alerting to the new no-parking policy. Tim Meeks of Auburn spoke of issues he and neighbors had with Auburn High School parking overflow along the road. “Students that don’t have permits tend to park on Terrace Acres Drive on both sides of the street,” Tim said. “When you turn east on Terrace Acres Drive it’s a difficult curve as it is visibility-wise. You have two sets of cars to both sides of Terrace Acres; you have some real visibility challenges. Additionally, most of those people parking are new drivers – 15, 16, 17-year-old drivers. They don’t always use the best judgment.” Another concern to the

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Our concern is not aesthetics and cars in front of our houses as much as it is really, truly a safety concern.” —Tim Meeks Auburn Citizen

residents of Terrace Acres Drive is the pedestrian traffic interacting with the car traffic. “At 7:30 and 2:30 it’s flatout a very dangerous area,” Tim said. “Our concern is not aesthetics and cars in front of our houses as much as it is truly a safety concern.” Interviewed after the meeting, Kelly Meeks said the parking has been an issue for nearly three years. She says this year has been the most amount of cars with 14 - 16 cars there a day. The Meeks and neighbors are “deeply concerned that there’s just an incident waiting to happen.” According to Kelly, her neighbor must pick up trash on a daily basis. “What’s hard is the people

trying to drive through our neighborhood,” Kelly said. “Utility trucks trying to service the telephone polls, the cable, the mail lady can’t get to the mailbox because they’ve parked too close. The trash people can’t get to the trashcans. It’s those kinds of inconveniences mainly. It really slows down traffic.” Also discussed at the meeting, a new cigar shop will be built at 2328 S. College St. The shop, Havana Dreamin’, is the creation of Rick Payne, an Auburn University alum. Auburn’s Havana Dreamin’ is Payne’s expansion from the original in Montgomery. He looks to create a place to idolize the old, romantic Cuba. “Auburn’s still got that friendly small-town feel that I fell in love with when I went to school there,” Payne said. The architecture of the new Havana Dreamin’ will resemble a Cuban street scene that incorporates a store in a store. “We’re trying to create an atmosphere,” Payne said. “Most cigar stores are brown leather chairs and dark pan-

eling and they’re dull, boring and look like an English library. I just don’t like that look. I think you can create something that looks fun and relaxing.” His goal is to replicate the community gathering place found in the Montgomery Havana Dreamin’. “The whole deal with cigars is really – you don’t inhale them – so you sit down; you relax; you have a drink; ya know, you talk to your buddies, your girlfriends. Ladies are welcome for sure,” Payne said. “You don’t really have that many places where people can sit and talk. In cigar store we talk politics and football nonstop. It’s intended to be a time where you take a few minutes for yourself and sit down and relax and enjoy, you know, a simple pleasure.” The Council also passed an ordinance increasing liquor tax late fees to 20 percent. A zoning ordinance passed for more than 23 acres on 3810 S. College St., which previously housed the Drivers Club Golf Range was rezoned for commercial development by developer Brantley Land, LLC.

Run for your heart: registration now open for run and bike race George Nunnelley Writer

Boom boom, boom boom, boom boom. Get ready to lace up the old sneakers and get the heart pumping ladies and gentleman. The 24th annual Love Your Heart Run and 6th annual Crank Your Heart Ride is being held Saturday Feb. 23, at Chewacla State Park, located at 124 Shell Toomer Parkway. The race and ride will satisfy a wide range of physically active participants, as there are a number of race-day options to choose from. You have the opportunity to take part in both the run and bike ride, or choose from either of the two. “The continued support of Auburn University students is vital to our efforts and we encourage anyone to walk, run or ride in our events,” said Jessie King, the director of the event. Registration for the Love Your Heart Run is $25 if done so by Friday, Feb. 8. There will also be an opportunity to register from Saturday, Feb. 9 up until race day for a $30 fee. Race-day registration will begin at 6:15 a.m. at the park. Those who choose to run or walk have two options. They can either complete a one-mile course, beginning

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at 8 a.m., or a 10K (6.2 mile) course, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Registration for the Crank Your Heart Ride also costs $25 if done so by Friday, Feb. 8. The same opportunity to register from Saturday, Feb. 9, up until race day applies to the bike ride. Race-day registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. The biking participants also have a number of options to choose from. They can complete a 3.5-mile course, beginning at 9:45 a.m., or an 11 and 22-mile course, both beginning at 9:30 a.m. Those wishing to complete both events can register by Friday, Feb. 8 for a discounted price of $30. If they register from February 9 up until race day, they will pay a registration price of $35.

“Because I am not from Auburn, I have yet to hear about the Love Your Heart Run and Crank Your Heart Ride,” said Michael McLaughlin, a junior marketing major. “But I may have to push my endurance to the edge and participate in the event this year or the next.” Megan Baron, junior in finance, also showed interest. “I enjoyed and completed the half marathon in Birmingham back in November and I could see the run and ride as something that I may be interested in,” Baron said. All proceeds will go to the Exceptional Outreach Organization, a non-profit program comprised of various community representatives and parent board members.

Their goal is to give the less fortunate and special needs individuals, both children and adults, in the Lee County area the opportunity for growth by participating in physical, educational and social activities. Some of the organization’s other fundraising events include the Special Olympics of Lee County and the Best Buddies of Auburn University. “The Love Your Heart Run has raised an estimated $100,000 in the past eight years,” King said. “Last year, an estimated 20 percent of those funds supported the Best Buddies programs on Auburn’s campus.” People wishing to register or find out more about the different races may do so at LoveYourHeartRun.com.

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Kelly Meeks of Auburn attended the City Council meeting to discuss her concerns with the parking situation on Terrace Acres Drive.

‘Wine’ not come and give it a try? Sydney Callis Community Editor

The tastes of France, California, Germany and New Zealand are coming to the Event Center Downtown in Opelika. The Event Center Downtown, former home to a Coca-Cola bottling plant, is having a wine tasting event Friday, Jan. 25. “It’s an around the world kind of thing,” said Lisa Ditchkoff, co-owner of Event Center Downtown. The wine tasting will feature wines from all over the world brought in by wine distributor International Wines. “We’re going to have a cab, a merlot, a gamay, which is similar to a pinot noir, a chardonnay, a sauvignon blanc and a Riesling,” Ditchkoff said. “None of these wines have ever been purchased here before. They’re all brand new wines to us.” The different types of wine represent old world style and new world style of wines, according to Yarbi Cound, local representative for International Wines. “We chose wines that would allow people to experience old-world styles versus new-world styles. ,” Cound said. “There will be three new world and three old world selections.” The three old-style are the Reisling, the Chardonnay and the Gamay. The three newstyle are the Sauvignon Blanc, the Merlot and the Cabernet. “There are several differences between old-world and new-world styles, one main difference is that old-world styles typically have more of an earthy taste while newworld styles are a bit more fruit driven,” Cound said. The wine tasting will be in the recently renovated second floor of the 33,000 squarefoot Event Center Downtown. “It’s a blend of charm and rustic and elegance,” Ditchkoff said. “It’s my favorite space in the building with the exposed brick throughout the main lounge area and hardwood floors.”

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We chose the wines to give people the opportunity to experience old world styles versus new world styles.” —Yarbi Cound Local Representative for International Wines

Ditchkoff said the second floor space being used for the wine tasting used to be the syrup making room during the time when Coca-Cola used the building to produce soda. “I think it’s cool because we’re just serving a different kind of syrup now in there,” Ditchkoff said. The bar on the second floor will be open during the wine tasting for those wanting to cleanse their palate between the tastings or instead of participating the tasting. Local musician Patrick James Bruce is scheduled to perform during the tasting. “He’s going to be doing mostly jazz during the tasting,” Ditchkoff said. “But, he also does blues and all of that.” Tickets for the event are $10 and are available the night of the event. “It’s a really good bargain,” Ditchkoff said. “Getting people to come in and experiencing it is a good thing.” Cound said these types of wine tastings are good for people to come and try different wines without having to buy a whole bottle of wine without knowing if they like it. Ditchkoff said this wine tasting will not be the only wine tasting at the center this year. “We’re going to start doing these sort of events consistently,” Ditchkoff said. “I think the wine tastings are going to end up being once a month.”

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“But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges” - Barack Obama’s second inauguration speech Although a majority of Auburn students did not vote for Barack Obama to have a second term as president, there are several ideals he espoused in his inauguration speech that we feel most Americans, particularly those of college age, can agree are important. While what we feel is the right route to achieve our goals may not be the same, many of the goals themselves are. Job growth to ensure our generation is as well-employed as those before it, national security as well as a general international peace and good public services like schools, roads and water systems are all things we think very few people on Auburn’s campus would say they don’t want as a part of their future. The right tax plans and government support of infrastructure may not be easily agreed upon, but as public university students in a state that takes in a large amount of federal dollars compared to what it contrib-

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utes, most of us probably owe more thanks to the federal government’s help in our state than we realize. Equal rights in the arenas of marriage, wage and opportunity are ideas a growing majority of the nation values as important to who we are. Even many opponents of gay marriage believe laws should be extended to cover blatant acts of hate crime against the LGBT community and for them to be treated fairly in spaces ranging from the middle school hallway to the hospital to the eyes of the IRS.

Though there are still giant strides to be made on campus as far as ignorant hate speech goes, there is a strong, albeit sometimes relatively silent, number of people at Auburn who are perfectly comfortable with gay couples being treated the same as straight ones. Though immigration reform remains a hot topic in many parts of the country, particularly this state, young Americans are leaning heavily towards a type of amnesty program like the DREAM Act which would grant citizenship to people living

here undocumented on the condition of their getting a college education or joining the military. A two year old Gallup poll shows Americans as a whole support this 54-42, while those under 35 said they would vote for it at a 66-30 rate, meaning support has more than likely grown. This is just a sampling of a few issues that will be addressed by governments of all sizes and jurisdictions over the next presidential term, but what appears to be obvious is the generational gap on many issues. As college students mostly between 18 and 22, we fall in what is certainly a liberal demographic of the country, but this doesn’t mean we all are liberal; far from it at Auburn. And yet what may have been considered very left wing ideas thirty years ago are becoming more and more accepted as right in 2013. As President Obama begins his second term, we will all not like many of his aims and measures, but there are several principles younger Americans seem to be warming up to, if not already full on embracing. Over the next four years, agree with him or not, let’s be a voice for what we believe in, keeping in mind that our action, or apathy, determines the world we graduate in to.

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Dunham shows girls don’t have to be twigs to be confident the HBO show, Girls, the “blobby” actress, Lena Dunham, has taken a lot photo@ of flak lately for flaunttheplainsman.com ing her body. In the show, Dunham has a few men chasing after her while the “Sometimes it just doesn’t apparently much more desirpay to be smart, breathtaking- able Marnie is left unlucky in ly beautiful, nice and kind. Not love. And because Dunham when there are blobbies who isn’t built like a Victoria’s Seare willing to take their clothes cret model, people are outraged and disgusted. But this off in public.” Unfortunately, that’s how isn’t about Lena Dunham. The implication is that only Linda Stasi, a writer for the New York Post, described a “beautiful” people deserve heavier woman finding love love. Who sets the standard when a thin, gorgeous woman for beauty, though? When did “beautiful” become synonycouldn’t. If you’re unfamiliar with mous with “size double-zero,

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tan, and blonde?” The Romans didn’t think so and neither did the Greeks. All you have to do is look at the curvaceous statues of their goddesses to realize that. Marilyn Monroe was a sex icon, a woman who men around the world fantasized about, and she had 36-inch hips. Even though plus sizes start at 14, anything above a four is often viewed as undesirable. But why? Some people will look at anorexic actresses and lingerie catalogues full of women whose lives consist of nothing but strict diets and rigorous, daily exercise. And even then,

they can’t make their bodies perfect enough for the camera. Even then, magazine editors turn to doctoring photos. There’s so much pressure on women to look a certain way so they find love, because who could love someone with imperfections? How am I supposed to find my soul mate when I have cellulite? People who are fat are obviously lazy and therefore undeserving of affection. We might not come right out and say it, but isn’t that what we think? “Why does that girl who’s fatter than me have a boyfriend? I’m thinner. I’m prettier. It should be me.” It’s the same sentiment.

Maybe both of those things are to blame, but I think we started it. I think it’s women. We wage wars on each other and ourselves. We stare in the mirror hating what we see and then cut others down for not being our definition of attractive. We cut each other down and talk behind each other’s backs to feel better about ourselves. We make other people feel ugly so we can feel beautiful. I want to know why we can’t just stop beating ourselves and others up for not being a magazine, Hollywood definition of beautiful. Why can’t we accept that Lena Dunham is a sexy, em-

powered woman? Why can’t we create our own standards for beauty instead of letting the media define it for us, and why can’t that size 12 girl be lovely too? The truth is that she and I and you are already beautiful. Whether you’re size zero or 23, you’re beautiful. To believe otherwise is to sell out and buy into this “thin-is-in” mentality. So what if that lingerie model has a perfect butt? So what if she doesn’t? Be bold about loving yourself. Don’t let anybody else define your unique brand of beauty. Eat the damn cheeseburger and enjoy your life.

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Stanford Daily’s failure to report perpetuated Te’o hoax tion imaginable. All but one. The Stanford Daily. Three months priCopy@ or to Deadspin’s article, Theplainsman.com multiple, well-respected publications, including The New York Times and It’s been a full eight days after the break of the Manti Sports Illustrated, published Te’o story. Through the mag- the story without doing their ic of smart phones, the Inter- jobs. They were inattentive net and the many other de- and all too trusting in their vices that bring the news to reporting. They were careless our fingertips, we’ve all had a and negligent. We praised Deadspin for chance to pore over the Te’o hoax, laugh at the expense of following suspicious leads the South Bend Tribune and and their journalistic instinct. blame every news organiza- However, in a profession that

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values time sensitivity above all else, I can’t help but ask, where were you, Stanford? The Stanford Daily completely ignored red flags when the facts stood right in front of them. Who better suited to research Kekua’s existence? The student paper should have been the first one to ask who Kekua was. They should have jumped at the opportunity to write about a supposed Stanford alumna who purportedly underwent unimaginable trauma while being the light of Te’os life and, as Te’o reported, the strength for him

to continue Notre Dame’s incredible season. If the reporters at Stanford had done their job, the story would have broken a week after it’s publication. Stanford’s undergraduate population is fewer than 8,000 and in that relatively small pool of students, no one on the Daily’s staff of over 200 no one asked these questions? No one tried to get that story. In short, no one bothered to do their job. As a student publication it is our job to report on the community. That community extends to alumni. When

Auburn graduate, Katherine Webb, scored some air time and a few thousand new twitter followers, the story made the front page, much to my dismay. As reporters we knew it had to be covered. We were not going to let national news about our campus, our community and our university go untouched or unverified by our own publication. I don’t believe it was the responsibility of The Daily to predict that Te’o was lying, but it was their duty to look into the story. As a California university, with an abundance

of California natives, how did no one on the staff stop to think that Carson City, Calif., doesn’t exist? My hope is that future college journalists won’t be afraid to question the publishing’s of professionals. As the Te’o hoax proves, professionals won’t always be right. Professionals also won’t always have access to the same people and documents that college journalists do. Stop second guessing yourself because you have a student press pass. Instead, use that press pass and do your job.

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Republicans need to show they care, stop being ‘do-nothings’ On the day we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term as president, having won the 2012 elections. The 113th Congress, which was seated earlier in January, returns as a body divided, the Senate controlled by Democrats and, despite having lost the popular vote for control of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber is still controlled by Republicans. The Republican Party was able to retain control of the The Editorial Board

House because the Republican Party is not made up of idiots. Having achieved a widespread victory in 2010 at almost every level of government, the GOP was in a place to control the drawing of congressional districts for the 2012 elections as they saw fit. Republican gerrymandering allowed the GOP to retain control of the House in 2012 despite the fact that more votes were cast nationally for Democrats in House races than for Republicans. Thanks

to the shady government manipulation that comes standard with the Republican brand, the GOP only lost eight seats in 2012, instead of the majority. Obama will now have to contend with a House of Representatives unwilling to play ball. Too often and too publicly, the GOP has made clear their number one priority is to obstruct the President’s plans. Holding steadfast to rigid ideology has created a lower

chamber that refuses to compromise and holds firm to the Hastert Rule – that is only bills that the majority of the majority support will be voted on – essentially making bipartisan but Democratic favored bills obsolete in the House. The House has become the place where bipartisan efforts from the White House and Senate go to die. The House of Representatives, and our congressman Mike Rogers, should recall that in 2012, the American people

rejected the Republican Party, even in the popular vote for the one national body they still control. While serving in the opposition comes with the responsibility to temper what might otherwise be a hyper-partisan agenda, it also comes with the responsibility to compromise. In fact, that responsibility comes with public service. On everything from taxes to spending cuts, the President and Senate Democrats have shown a willingness to meet

the Republicans in the middle. It’s time for Speaker Boehner, Congressman Rogers, and their ilk to stop demanding deals that favor the GOP 90-10 and start doing the business the American people, by popular vote, sent Democrats there to do: govern our country. Alexander B. Roberson College Democrats President Emeritus

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Mama Mocha believes in coffee, investing in the local community

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Sarah Gill roasts the Mama Mocha coffee in house after she became interested in the roasting process at a Specialty Coffee Association of America event.

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For Sarah Gill, everything comes back to coffee. Gill, 26, also known as Mama Mocha, runs Mama Mochaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Roastery located in the back of the Gnuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Room on South Gay Street in Auburn. Any given day Gill may be caught either roasting in the back of the shop on her handhammered copper roastery, chatting with regulars or drinking her average of 10 espressos a day. Gill has always loved coffee and found early on that community formed fast over the dark beverage, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I realized that when I was making it for

people, they would tell me these things and it was like this connection that people normally donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make,â&#x20AC;? Gill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like a daytime bartender.â&#x20AC;? The Hokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluff native grew up in high school working at local coffee shops and later moved on to working in the corporate world of coffee at a Starbucks. Gill soon found herself frustrated with climbing the ladder and yearning for a chance to be creative with the business and beverage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to start something from grass roots,â&#x20AC;? Gill said. Gillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increased interest in what she calls the â&#x20AC;&#x153;rabbit holeâ&#x20AC;? of coffee knowledge was fueled when she went to an event for the Speciality Coffee Association of America.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the first fifteen minutes I was there, I cried,â&#x20AC;? Gill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure I looked like an insane person. Because everybody cared so much- everybody was so into what they were doing with coffee- not making money, not the new cupcakeâ&#x20AC;ŚIt was just about the farmers, the beverage and the relationships.â&#x20AC;? When first moving to Auburn, Gill briefly managed another local coffee shop. She was involved in a cell group at Campus Church. Gill links much of her dreaming about the roastery and coffee shop to the time she spent around those people she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody was dreaming,â&#x20AC;? Gill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it was trying to connect dreaming with action And coffeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like a catalyst for that.â&#x20AC;? Kelly Fly, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastor at Campus

Church, was in the same cell group as Gill when she was scheming about the idea of the roastery and coffee shop. Fly said that Gill has a personality that draws people in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exclude anyone,â&#x20AC;? Fly said. For Gill, next to making excellent coffee, she wants to create an open environment and community for people to come and be themselves as they transition through college or other stages of life with their own dreams she said. She said that often the coffee shop will turn into a time of people coming in to just talk to others and unload about the stress and happiness in their lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a tear factory back here,â&#x20AC;? she said. Apart from selling her coffee in countless local venues, Gill also frequently donates or assists local nonprofits. She said she is especially passionate about the local humane society and Freedom 21, a local nonprofit charity that combats human trafficking. Gillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Debbi Barnett lives in Hokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluff and said that Gill has always been a go-getter and a starter. Her junior year in high school, Gill was elected to the homecoming court and wanted to wear combat boots with her formal dress, Barnett said. The principal would not agree, but finally gave in to a compromise: allowing her to wear flip flops, Barnett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She just thinks out of the box and she goes and does it!â&#x20AC;? Barnett said. Barnett helps sell Gillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffee in the Gadsden area, now taking on the name of Grandmama Mocha as she brings the product to waiting customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about coffee, she gets excited,â&#x20AC;? Barnett said. For Gill, community and excellence continue to be the key things. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Investing time in people around you and choosing a good local business to do that at is really important,â&#x20AC;? Gill said.

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Look out American Idol, AU â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? is here to steal the show. Auburn Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eagle Eye will produce their own â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? show to premiere Sunday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. on Auburn Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studentrun network Eagle Eye. It will broadcast on channel 6.1 and stream at Eagleeyetv.com. AU â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? is the project of Eagle Eye Assistant Directors Amanda Foster and Shannon Smith, both sophomores in radio, television and film. AU â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? will be run by the students for the students,â&#x20AC;? Foster said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From hosts to judges to cameramen to Shannon and I who are producing and directing, the show will be run entirely by reporters and photographers associated with Eagle Eye TV.â&#x20AC;? The show is looking for 10 contestants to compete for a grand prize of recording a five-song EP with Auburnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WEGL 91.1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want diversity. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a whole bunch of pop singers, or all country singers,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to select our contestants on a basis of not only talent but individual singing style and performance originality. Seeing the same kind of song multiple times every week will just bore everyone, so we want to keep things exciting.â&#x20AC;? The show will air for six weeks every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and each episode will run 45 minutes to an hour long. Two contestants will be voted off each week with the finale to be in April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only qualifications for auditioning are that you are a student and can commit to coming every Thursday night to shoot the weekly episodes. For the auditions on January 30 and 31, hopeful competitors will be asked to sing for one minute just so

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we can get a sampling of how they perform. All auditions will be taped, and Amanda and I along with a panel of outside judges and advisors will chose who we think are the best 10 acts,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? USA has a judging panel of big names in the music industry. AU â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? judges will be students. Each show will have two permanent judges and a third guest judge each week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely want personality on our judging panel,â&#x20AC;? Foster said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But confidence is really key â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our judges have to be comfortable with giving criticism directly to our competitors without being shy or nervous. The contestants are here to learn and to get feedback and we want our judges to be able to compliment them as well as point out mistakes.â&#x20AC;? The show encourages stu-

dents, parents and faculty alike to vote for their favorite contestants. To vote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Likeâ&#x20AC;? AU â&#x20AC;&#x153;X Factorâ&#x20AC;? on Facebook and vote in the poll posted for that week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public voting is crucial in deciding who stays and who goes home the following week,â&#x20AC;? Foster said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The three contestants with the lowest number of Facebook votes will be announced during the results show each Wednesday. The judges will save one contestant, and the others will be eliminated.â&#x20AC;? Since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial release Eagleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eye has had a lot of campus response. Many have spoken to Foster and Smith about participating as judges and 38 students have shown interest in competing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The publicity weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received far surpassed what we were aiming for,â&#x20AC;? Foster said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Auburn University pub-

licized our show on their official Facebook and Twitter pages and since that happened last week interest in viewing and competing has skyrocketed.â&#x20AC;? Smith said she and Foster are motivated by the potential publicity that a show of this nature will bring to Eagle Eye. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amanda and I wanted to start and produce our own show, as well as try to get the Auburn student body actively interested in everything we do here at Eagle Eye TV. When the idea of a singing competition was brought up, we dove right in and began planning last semester,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our hopes for this show is that we will receive a large amount of viewers and that the contestants will hopefully take a lot from this competition, maybe even become campus celebrities.â&#x20AC;?

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With less than two weeks of recruiting left, Malzahn and his staff scramble to acquire top prospects John Burns Sports Editor

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Senior Kyle Owens is on his way to victory while swimming the breaststroke.

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Junior Olivia Scott butterflys through the water, earning her first career SEC Performer of the Week award.

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Swimmers Olivia Scott and Kyle Owens were named SEC Swimmers of the Week last week after big performances Lance Davis Sports Writer

Senior Kyle Owens and junior Olivia Scott were named SEC Swimmers of the Week for their performances in wins over Texas and Texas A&M last week, the SEC announced last Tuesday. “These are two of the most dedicated and talented athletes in our program, and it’s good for them to be recognized,” head coach Brett Hawke said. “It’s just something that they can look back on and say they were acknowledged for their success.” Owens competed in and won all eight events in last week’s two dual meets. In Auburn’s 166-132 win over Texas, he won the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 IM, and played a part in Auburn’s win in the 200 medley relay. “It’s really cool to keep seeing Auburn up on the SEC Swimmer of the Week board,” Owens said. “To be part of that with such a great team is a re-

ally good feeling.” Owens also had success in Auburn’s 189-111 win over Texas A&M, winning two individual races and two relays. “The coaches all year just say, ‘Yeah, you’re going to feel tired, and you’re going to feel down a little bit, but they also try and help you prepare for that,” Owens said. “This is my last year, this is the last couple of dual meets of my life, so I’m just going to give it everything I have.” Scott earned her first career SEC Swimmer of the Week title by winning all three of her individual events versus Texas A&M on Saturday. She won the 100 butterfly, 200 IM and the 200 free. She also contributed to Auburn’s win in the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay. “It’s awesome. That’s one thing I’ve wanted to get a title for since freshman year,” Scott said. “I wanted to get close to my best times, but when we actually got there I just realized how

much I really wanted to beat Texas A&M, so I just gave it everything.” Owens’ huge performance helped Auburn’s men move to 5-0 (4-0 SEC), and Scott helped the women improve to 6-0 (4-0 SEC). Auburn has a huge matchup with Florida Saturday, Jan. 26, at noon. The team hopes it can carry the momentum from last week and remain undefeated. “We just have to stay focused,” Owens said. “Everyone’s doing a really good job. Everyone’s meshing together. If we can just keep that going, which I’m sure we can, we’re going to do really well.” “We’ve got parents weekend, acknowledging the seniors,” Hawke said. “Hopefully we’ll have a big crowd here. It’s just a matter of the community getting behind the team and acknowledging how great of a season they’re having so far, and hopefully we can cap it off with a win.”

It’s crunch time for Gus Malzahn and his staff, especially with National Signing Day less than two weeks away. Currently Auburn has 16 commitments in a class that was on pace to be one of the strongest in the nation, but because of some major de commitments by Reuben Foster, Dee Liner and Trey Johnson the class has fallen to 14th overall according to ESPN.com. There are four SEC teams with 27 or more recruits, but what keeps Auburn near the top of the class is the quality of the Tigers’ prospects. For instance, nine of Auburn’s 16 prospects are ranked with four or five stars. With that being said, much of Auburn’s perceived recruiting strength lies in the commitment of five star defensive end Carl Lawson, but there’s speculation that he may sign with another school which would be no less than devastating for the Tigers. It would be huge to keep him, and God knows Auburn needs all the help it can get on the defensive side of the football, but there are other worthy recruits that have committed or may commit to play for Malzahn. Actually, barring the early de commitments, Malzahn and his guys have been gaining momentum on the trail, adding two more prospects last weekend in wide receiver Tony Stevens and safety Khari Harding. Both players visited campus last weekend, and the coaching staff is

hoping for more of the same luck in the next two weekends when the Tigers have headliners Carl Lawson, Montravius Adams, Texas A&M commit Derrick Griffin, Mississippi State commit Chris Jones, Reuben Foster and Florida State commit Austin Golson to the Plains. While signing any one of those players would be a huge boost for next season, Malzahn wants every single one. Why not, right? I mean each of these players, committed or not, picked Auburn as the place for their final official visit to a university, so they’re at least slightly interested if not incredibly. And there has been a pattern: players who visit this new Auburn coaching staff usually like at least one of the coaches, and some like all of them. The coaching staff is loaded with recruiters who have had years to hone their convincing skills and make a school seem irresistible to a prospect. Dameyune Craig, Rodney Garner and Ellis Johnson in particular are recognized as some of the best recruiters in all of college football, but Tim Horton, Charlie Harbison and Malzahn know how to pitch a school to athletes as well. So while Auburn fans will only know for sure how successful this last push at recruiting has been, there is good reason to be optimistic. And if Malzahn can indeed pull in a class loaded with top recruits he will give something to the fans they haven’t had in a while.

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Malzahn addresses recruiting after the Auburn Kentucky basketball game.

Auburn athletics: a week in review This week was filled with ups and downs in Auburn sporting events. It saw the men’s and women’s tennis teams do extremely well, but it saw the basketball and gymnastics teams fall short, if only by a point. Sports Staff

Men’s Basketball: Auburn at Arkansas Jan. 16

A steady second-half comeback fell short, as Auburn couldn’t survive a double-overtime thriller on the road at Arkansas Wednesday, Jan. 16, losing 88–80, and giving Auburn its first conference loss of the season. Auburn (8–8, 2–1 SEC) received great performances from its seniors. Guard Frankie Sullivan scored 26 points and pulled down a careerhigh nine rebounds. Center Rob

Chubb scored 12 points and grabbed 11 boards, good for his second consecutive double-double, before fouling out with 1:11 left in the second overtime. Arkansas went on a 17–0 run that spanned six minutes of play in the first half. Auburn answered with an 8–0 run of its own and went into halftime trailing 34–27. Down 67–64 with less than a minute to play in the second half, Auburn guard Noel Johnson pulled down an offensive rebound off a failed threepoint attempt. He hurried the ball out beyond the three-point line and found forward Allen Payne, who connected for the game-tying three with five seconds left to send the game into overtime. But the Tigers had trouble containing Arkansas’ Marshawn Powell, who scored a game-high 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and BJ Young,

who chipped in with 22 points. With 1:11 remaining in the second overtime, Young drove to the basket and drew a foul on Chubb, who fouled out. Young hit both free throws to put the Razorbacks up 81– 77. Sullivan, who scored 23 of his 26 points after halftime, drew a blocking foul on Arkansas guard Mardracus Wade. Sullivan made one of two free throws to bring the Tigers within three. On Arkansas’ next possession, with 27 seconds remaining, BJ Young hit a three-pointer over the outstretched arm of Noel Johnson to put the game out of reach at 84–78. Arkansas went on to win 88–80. Auburn plays Kentucky Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. Auburn announced the game is sold out, the first time the Tigers have sold out Auburn Arena since Kentucky visited last season.

Auburn vs. Kentucky Jan. 19 The men’s basketball team suffered its worst home loss under head coach Tony Barbee as the Tigers fell to Kentucky 75–53 in front of a sellout crowd Saturday night, Jan. 19, dropping the Tigers to 2–2 in the SEC and 8–9 on the season. After leading by only five points at halftime, a lights-out second half from the Wildcats and sophomore Kyle Wiltjer gave Kentucky its third SEC win, improving it to 12–5 on the year. Wiltjer’s 17 points led the Wildcats, with 15 of them coming in the second half among the team’s 18–27 from the field. “We had our lack of confidence,” Barbee said. “We were scared in the

moment.” The Wildcats began to pull away with impressive play from the nation’s number two overall recruit Nerlens Noel. After sitting out much of the first half in foul trouble, the 6–10 freshman finished the game with 10 points, but his defensive play allowed Kentucky to break away. He recorded seven blocks and nine rebounds in 25 minutes on playing time. Auburn center Rob Chubb added that Noel reminded him of ex-Kentucky player and NBA starter Anthony Davis by being such a big inside presence. Auburn faltered due to poor shooting throughout the game, finishing with only 34.8 percent from the field and 0–15 from behind the arc.

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Upcoming Auburn sports events January 24

Women’s Basketball vs. Alabama 8:00 PM, Tuscaloosa Women’s Gymnastics at Florida 6:00 PM, Gainesville, Fla.

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Women’s Tennis ITA Kickoff Weekend All Day Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Swimming & Diving vs. Florida 12:00 PM Auburn Men’s Basketball vs. Ole Miss 7:00 PM Auburn

Men’s Basketball at Georgia 6:00 PM Athens, Ga.

Women’s Tennis ITA Kickoff Weekend All Day Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Harry Adams in warm up gear.

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Freshman vaulters shine at Auburn Invitational Andrew Yawn Sports Reporter

At the end of the 2012 season, Auburn track and field head coach Ralph Spry made a promise to Auburn after watching his team fall short at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. “We will be back next year with a bigger group, and we will add more firepower,” Spry said. “This group that scored this year will all return in 2013. When you have a year under your belt with this type of experience, it only benefits as you come back for another year. “We are going to learn from this and find a way to get over the hump and come back with a vengeance.” Two weeks into the indoor track season, Auburn has shown it has at least some of the the freshman firepower Spry sought. Freshman pole vaulter Larissa Debich opened the 2013 season by breaking the school record with a vault of 3.7 meters at the Crimson Tide Indoor Opener Saturday, Jan.12. At the Auburn Indoor Invitational Sat-

urday, Jan. 19, Debich matched that record. Fellow freshman women’s pole vaulter Jessie Johnson came into Auburn ranked the No. 1 recruit in her event, according to Spry. Although Johnson may have been overshadowed the first meet, she tied Debich’s school record mark at the Auburn Inviatational. Senior high jumper Maya Pressley has already noticed the impact of Auburn’s cubs. “I think the freshman have a lot of potential,” Pressley said. “We did lose a lot of (women) seniors, but the freshmen are up and coming, so we do have the opportunity to shock and surprise the conference as well. (There’s) a lot of raw talent.” For Johnson and Debich, potential is an understatement. Johnson and Debich have already broken Hannah Johnson’s 1998 record of 3.6 meters. That’s no where near the pair’s own personal records. Debich recorded a Pennsylvania state

record 3.97 meter vault in high school, and Johnson’s 4.11 meters in high school was the second best junior mark in the country and the best among high schoolers. Due to the numerous Olympians training daily on the Plains, Auburn track has a championship culture to it. Athletes and coaches, present and past, have competed on the world stage and senior sprinter Marcus Rowland said that leadership is crucial for the youngsters. “I see a lot of potential I think one of the biggest privileges they have is they get to see the upperclassmen set the bar and show great leadership,” Rowland said. “Outside the team, it’s definitely the coaching staff, Coach Spry and Coach Richardson, Clayton, those guys, they’ve had (all the Olympians) and have led them on to do great things. All our coaches are very passionate. I think with a passionate coach comes a passionate athlete.” The pair will look to continue its recordbreaking streak when the Tigers compete in the Husker Invitational at the University of Nebraska from Friday, Feb. 1-2.

On Monday, Jan. 14, track and field head coach Ralph Spry watched senior sprinter Harry Adams warm up with a relaxed 200 meter run. Spry gushed about Adams’ speed and running style as Adams rounded the turn headed for the straightaway. Adams’ fist went in the air, signaling he had crossed the finish line and Spry displayed the time on his stopwatch: 21.44 seconds. Not bad for a warm-up. “Did that feel good, Harry?” Spry shouted down the track. Adams gave a thumbs up in response. This season, Adams has a lot to feel good about. The senior sprinter was named to the Bowerman Award Watch List, the “Heisman Trophy of track and field,” according to Spry. Adams is also the only sprinter and one of only two SEC athletes on the list along with Florida’s junior triplejumper Omar Craddock. Last year, Adams’ AllAmerican 2012 season ended with a knee injury at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, an injury that perhaps cost the men’s team the title, according to Spry. Adams was named AllAmerican in the 100m, 200m and 4x400m relay and posted NCAA-best times in the 100m (9.96 seconds) and 200m (20.10 seconds). With the injury, the Auburn men were forced to play final day replacements

in the 200m and the 4x100 relay and finished No. 6 overall, the team’s best finish since 2008. This season, Adams has one last shot to help his team to a title. Adams could not be reached for comment, but Spry said the team has what it takes to do what it couldn’t last season. “The group I’ve got this year, I feel very confident, particularly on the men’s side, that we can be a real force, but again we have to take care of things like staying healthy,” Spry said. Adams ran for the first time this season Saturday, Jan. 19, finishing second to teammate Marcus Rowland in the 60m (6.63 seconds) with a time of 6.64 seconds. Besides his blistering speed, Rowland said Adams and the rest of the veterans provide the Tigers with that much more leadership and experience. “I think me and Harry (Adams) and Keenan (Brock) and Jeremy (Hardy) show a good example of leadership and when to get work done,” Rowland said. Spry said the team should know “who’s clicking and who’s not” by the third or fourth week of the season. The Tigers will compete at their third meet of the season Friday, Feb. 1-2 at the University of Nebraska Husker Invitational. With Adams already vying for the top spot in his first race of 2013, it seems the senior hasn’t missed a stride.

Adams one of 10 on watch list for Bowerman Award The Bowerman Award is to track and field as the Heisman Trophy is to college football. Auburn senior Harry Adams is one of the select few on the watch list for the award.

Watch List: Harry Adams Senior Auburn Curtis Beach Red shirt Junior Duke Jordan Clarke Red shirt Senior Arizona State Omar Craddock Junior Florida

Derek Drouin Red shirt junior Indiana

Lawi Lalang Junior Arizona

Tim Glover Senior Illinois State

Alexander Ziegler

Kennedy Kithuka Junior Texas Tech Erik Kynard Senior Kansas State

Senior Virginia Tech

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Andrew Bayer Red shirt junior Indiana Mike Berry Junior Oregon

Diego Estrada Junior Northern Arizona Andrew Irwin Sophomore Arkansas Jack Whitt Senior Oral Roberts Chad Wright Junior Nebraska

Thursday, January 24, 2013

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Malzahn swipes four-star wide receiver from Texas A&M John Burns Sports Editor

Auburn did what so many schools have been attempting to do to the Tigers: steal a prospect who is already committed. In this case Auburn has lured four star wide receiver Tony Stevens from SEC West oppo-

nent Texas A&M on Jan. 20. Stevens is listed at 6-foot-4, and weighs in at 184 pounds. Because he is so tall, Stevens will need to add bulk to be effective and physical enough to make an impact at the college level, and his wiery frame will allow him to add the mass he

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While avoiding a Kentucky defender, Frankie Sullivan drives to the hoop.

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Auburn at Kentucky Jan. 20

helped to bring them back from a late eightpoint deficit in the first half, but was unable to hold on in the second. “We came out and played scared,” said Auburn guard Frankie Sullivan. “You can’t win like that at all.” Both teams got off to a sloppy start Saturday night, scoring a combined 12 points in the first 10 minutes with 6–35 shooting from the field. “We had a real lack of aggression and lack of poise from the get-go,” Chubb said. Auburn shot 32.4 percent from the field in the first half, including a dismal 0–11 from 3-point range. “We couldn’t make a shot either,” said Kentucky’s head coach, John Calipari. “Then we executed and made plays and Nerlens played well,” and that was the difference between the two teams. Kentucky was able to bounce back from its poor first-half play and Auburn never came back.

The women’s basketball team suffered a huge loss on the road to No. 5 Kentucky 97 to 53 on Sunday, Jan. 20, at Memorial Coliseum. The loss dropped the Tigers to 3-3 in the SEC and 13-6 overall. Auburn started the game tough, but the full court pressure from the Wildcats forced turnovers and ill-advised shots from the Tigers helping Kentucky to a 51-21 lead at the half. Kentucky did not put as much pressure on the Tigers in the second half allowing them to have more offensive success. But the Wildcats continued to be dominant from 3-point range and held onto their big lead. The 44-point loss was the worst loss the Tigers have suffered all year. The Wildcats were led by senior A’dia Mathies who had 24 points on the day going 5-6 from 3-point range and hitting 8-9 FGs with two steals and two assists. Auburn was led by Hasina Muhammad with 13 points, and Peyton Davis with 11 points. Davis’s 11 points was a career high against an SEC opponent going 4-4 on FGs and hitting all three free throws. The Tigers will try and end their two game losing streak on the road at rival Alabama Thursday, Jan. 24.

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Auburn vs. Tennessee Jan. 17 Even with an 11-2 start for the Auburn women’s basketball team, the No. 9 Tennessee Volunteers rallied in the last 10 minutes to pull out a win at Auburn Arena. After Tennessee (14-3, 5-0 SEC) scored the opening shot, Hasina Muhammad, Auburn sophomore guard/forward, tallied six quick points to start Auburn’s initial run. At half, Auburn held the lead 32-27. Auburn (13-5, 2-3 SEC) dominated the first 30 minutes of the game, maintaining a consistent lead until Meighan Simmons, Vols junior guard, became hot from beyond the arc. Hitting three 3-pointers in a row, with one being a traditional 3-point play from a foul, Simmons brought the Vols back within one. The Tigers battled until 6:40 left in the game, maintaining a tie game of 53 points apiece. Following a technical foul called on the Auburn bench for having too many players on the court as the play began, Simmons hit two free throws, adding to the Vols lead of 60-55. The Tigers couldn’t recover. “Basketball is a game of runs and we knew that Tennessee was going to make their run,” said Terri Williams-Flournoy, Auburn women’s basketball coach. “They’re too good of a team not to make their run.” Although the Tigers’ starters all ended in double figures, Simmons game-high 29 points on 10-14 from the floor was a game changer in the 75-66 win. “We fought hard, we just didn’t fight hard enough,” said Auburn forward Blanche Alverson. The Tigers have lost two straight games as they prepare to go on the road. Auburn plays at Kentucky on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 1 p.m. and will be televised on the SEC Network.

Women’s Gymnastics: Auburn at Georgia Jan. 18

This weekend the No. 24 Auburn gymnastics team took on No. 8 Georgia and came out with some of their best scores of the season. The team lost to Georgia, but scored a seasonhigh overall score of 195.700 to Georgia’s 196.050. “Wins and losses don’t really matter,” said Jeff Graba, Auburn gymnastics head coach. “It was positive to see that we came so close to them.” The Tigers opened with bars and vault, where many of the gymnasts came out with some of their season-best scores. Caitlin Atkinson scored a season-high 9.875 on bars, while teammates Bri Guy and Toi Garcia made their own season-best scores on vault, with 9.878 and 9.85, respectively. “I think this was our best meet of the season,” said Bri Guy, sophomore in pre-exercise science. “Everyone was definitely in the zone. I think the coaches think we scared Georgia.” The Tigers then moved to floor and beam, where they excelled despite having to make a last minute line-up change after a gymnast was injured during warm-ups. “Adversity has been the hallmark of this team,” Graba said. “We had to pull a girl out and change the line-up, but it went well.” For both floor and beam, the Tigers scored 48.800, a season-best for the floor event. On the beam, Megan Walker, sophomore in fitness, conditioning and performance, scored a career-best of 9.875. “Beam was my career-high,” Walker said. “It was a really good experience.” Walker said she thought this meet was the

needs. In his senior year at Evans High School in Orlando, Stevens brought in 29 catches for 516 yards and found the endzone seven times. One of the reasons Stevens was more enthusiastic about playing for Auburn than Texas A&M is that at the time Auburn only had 15

commitments to the Aggies’ 33, including himself. Along with that, Stevens is one of only two true wide receivers in Auburn’s recruiting class, which means if he performes well, he’ll have a good chance to play early in the season and make a solid impact on opponents.

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Andreas Mies takes a short break to catch his breath while playing Marcer January 19.

best meet of the season, because the team was ready and excited to take on Georgia. “I thought this was the first meet of the season where everybody had a blast,” Walker said. “The whole attitude of the team changed from Kentucky to Georgia.” When asked about how they prepared for the meet at Georgia, the gymnasts said they knew Georgia was going to be an important meet and trained accordingly. “We had really intense, very difficult, trying practices,” Walker said. “And that made Friday night that much easier.” Walker also pointed out that Auburn’s fans were much more involved than Georgia fans. “When it comes to Georgia, our fans are better,” Walker said. “Georgia booed us when we came out, but then they had to be provoked by the cameras. Our fans booed Georgia the whole time – they didn’t need cameras on them.” Coming off their meet at Georgia, the team is preparing to face Florida in Gainesville this upcoming Friday, Jan. 25. “We’re going to build off last week, work at staying on our feet, having a good hit ratio,” Graba said. “If we do a good job against Florida, we’re doing really good.” During the pre-season, Florida was picked as the favorite for becoming the national champions this year. Walker said the team tries not to focus on how hard the competition is going to be. “You can’t think about the results,” Walker said. “You have to focus on the team.” “This is going to be a big one,” Graba said. “If we can duplicate that [the performance at Georgia] against Florida, I’ll be ecstatic.”

Men’s Tennis: Auburn vs. Jacksonville State and Mercer Jan. 19

The Auburn men’s tennis team swept Jacksonville State and Mercer Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Yarbrough Tennis Center to get the season rolling in perfect form. The performance by the men was so good they did not drop a single set all day. “We needed the match play,” Auburn head coach Eric Shore said. “I think they came out and did a good job. I thought we got better as the day went on. We have some things we need to work on. We’re trying to get ready for next weekend.” In singles matches, every Tiger dominated his opponent in two sets. The men were highlighted by Lukas Ollert, who only dropped three games in four sets, Michael Wardell who dropped five and Daniel Cochrane who dropped six. In six doubles matches the men were also perfect. The nation’s number-2 ranked duo of Andreas Mies and Daniel Cochrane blew out their Jacksonville State opponents 8-1 and defeated the Mercer duo 8-4. Auburn is 2-0 this season and is nationally ranked at 21.

Auburn vs. Troy Jan. 22 No. 21 ranked Auburn men’s tennis (3-0) defeated Troy (1-2) Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the Yarbrough Tennis Center , 6-1. The Tigers swept the doubles competition winning all three matches easily. The first victory came from Auburn sophomore Lukas Ollert and freshman Joseph Van Dooren against Troy’s Anas Rouchdi and Daniel Bustamante, winning 8-1. The nation’s No. 2 ranked doubles duo senior Andreas Mies and junior Daniel Cochrane coasted to an 8-3 win over Troy’s Sami Ghorbel and Andre Stabile. Auburn fared well in the singles competition winning five of six matches, three of which were won in only two sets. The Tigers’ only loss came from the match-up of Auburn’s Joeseph Van Gordon and Troy’s Sami Ghorbel that went three sets with Ghorbel coming out on top in the final set 6-2. Last week the Tigers defeated Jacksonville State 7-0 and Mercer 7-0, to open the 2013 dual match season with a doubleheader at the Yarbrough Tennis Center. Auburn never lost a single set throughout the two matches and started the season with a record of 2-0. After last week’s match, Auburn Athletics reported Auburn head coach Eric Shore as saying, “We got to play outdoors in the morning, which helped because we will be outside next weekend, and we’re also preparing for Troy on Tuesday who is much improved from last year. We’re looking to continue our success on Tuesday.” Continuing their success was exactly what happened as the team easily handled Troy Tuesday. Next week, Auburn will compete against No. 22 Indiana, No. 11 Mississippi St. and No. 24 LSU Jan. 26-27 in Starkville, Miss.

Women’s Tennis:

HEB Invitational Jan. 18, 19, 20 The Auburn women’s tennis team travelled to Waco, Texas for the Baylor hosted HEB Invitational where they won 20 total matches. “It was a good weekend of tennis,” Auburn head coach Lauren Longbotham Meisner said. “We had a variety of different levels of competition this weekend and it was good for us to be able to play our entire team. It was a good opportunity to challenge everyone. We put together some good doubles performances and I thought we were able face some quality competition and get good experience both indoors and outdoors. I was very excited to see the fight in this young team.” Freshman Ashley Kitchen, junior Jackie Kasler and senior Plamena Kurteva each won two matches, but were each defeated and eliminated by the third match they played. Senior Paula Schippers and sophomore Jen Pfeifler went undefeated through the weekend and highlighted the Tigers’ away performance. Auburn’s next tournament will take place at the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Auburn recruit named Mr. Football

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Amy Berbary is named NSCAA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year after coaching Auburn for five years

Soccer coach Berbary named regional assistant of the year John Burns Sports Editor

Amy Berbary, Auburn women soccer’s associate head coach was presented with the 2012 South Atlantic Regional Assistant Coach of the Year award at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America annual Awards Banquet Friday, Jan. 18. “I am very humbled and at the same time

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Jeremy Johnson is Carver’s first player to win the Mr. Football award and will sign with Auburn Feb. 6

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very excited to be recognized by the NSCAA,” Berbary said in a press release. “This award is not solely about me, but it is also about the dedication that our team puts in day-in and day-out.” Berbary runs an offense which scored 85 goals in the previous two seasons combined. She is a five year member on head coach Karen Hoppa’s team and is recruiting coordinator.

Carver High School of Montgomery quarterback Jeremy Johnson received the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s Mr. Football Award Wednesday at the annual Player of the Year Awards. Johnson became the

award’s 31st recipient, given to the state’s best football player. It was also the closest vote in the award’s history with Johnson winning by two overall votes. Johnson received 170 overall votes, beating Fultondale senior quarterback ArDarius Stewart’s 168. A f o u r - st a r Au b u r n

verbal recruit, Johnson passed for 3,193 yards and 31 touchdowns in his senior season. To add to his statistics, the 6-foot-6, 219-pound quarterback also rushed for 705 yards and seven scores. Last year he was an ASWA first-team all-state basketball selection.

Official visitor has a familiar face John Burns Sports Editor

Top inside linebacker recruit and former Auburn commit Reuben Foster has planned an official visit to the Plains Feb. 1. “My last official visit is going to be to Auburn,” Foster said Monday Jan. 21 on New College Football Show: Next Class 2013, on Fox Sports South. “They do deserve that official visit.” Foster also said that being close to home will be a major factor in deciding where he will sign.

It just so happens that Foster’s home is located in Auburn and his mother and daughter live in town. Besides hosting Foster on the final weekend before National Signing Day, Auburn will have prospects such as Carl Lawson and Chris Jones. The 6-foot-1, 240 pound Foster had committed to Auburn, but retracted his commitment after Gene Chizik and his staff were fired. Foster was initially an Alabama recruit until he was pulled away from the tide by Chizik.

He may have de comitted from two schools, but that makes him no less of a talent or target for any school. Foster has taken recent unofficial visits to Auburn, and has met with head coach Gus Malzahn and his new staff, including defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson who reportedly reminds Foster of his grandfather. The linebacker has narrowed his potential landing spots to Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, LSU and Washington, and plans to announce who he will sign with Signing Day Feb. 6.

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Momma Goldberg’s serves Momma's Love for 37 years Jordan Dale Writer

For 37 years, Momma Goldberg’s has been an inseparable part of the Auburn community, and continues to inspire traditions today. “Every time my boyfriend visits from out of town, we always have to go to Momma G’s for our sandwich and nacho fix,” said Will Duncan, junior in music. “The staff is always friendly and is consistently great at sandwich making.” Don DeMent, founder of Momma Goldberg’s, opened his first location on West Magnolia Avenue in 1976 after discovering that Auburn lacked variety with food. DeMent has cultivated a stellar reputation within the community, and garnered loyal customers who consider Momma Goldberg’s an integral part of their Auburn experience. “Over the years, we’ve become a part of the Auburn legacy,” said Keith Schilleci, president of the Momma Goldberg’s franchise. “This is where mom and dad first dated, or where Johnny got his nose broken, or where Jimmy proposed to his girlfriend. This is where we carved our names into the booths and walls and can still see them today.” Schilleci said that DeMent loved his customers and operated his business under the guidance of the golden rule, and attributes a loyal, generational customer base to that practice. “Windows have been broken or the Momma Goldberg’s sign has been stolen, but DeMent never called the police,” Schilleci said. “And he has never towed a car that was left in the park-

ing lot overnight.” Schilleci said it made DeMent happy that Auburn students were not driving home irresponsibly after eating and drinking at the restaurant. “It’s a great place to eat, socialize and make memories that last,” said Jessica Walton, senior in biomedical sciences. “I love going there after a game or a night out.” Momma Goldberg’s has kept up with the times by staying open until 2 a.m. every night to cater to the lifestyles of Auburn students. “I like the friendly atmosphere, the nachos and the ice,” said Nicki Mazaheri, senior in music. According to the Momma Goldberg’s website, Momma’s Nachos were created by two Auburn University students who worked at the original location. The nachos became so popular that DeMent decided to make them a permanent part of the menu. Nick Davis, current owner of the Momma Goldberg’s restaurants located in Auburn and alumni of the University, bought them from DeMent three years ago. “We consider ourselves custodians of the successful brand that DeMent built over the years,” Davis said. “We don’t make any major changes, but we have our own take on how we own and operate.” The Momma Goldberg’s franchise has expanded to Northern Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana in the last six years. “We try to bring the same elements of the original Momma Goldberg’s into every store we

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Momma Goldberg’s employees make their signature nachos and steamed sandwiches.

open, but some things: the nostalgia, the history, you can’t find anywhere but at the original,” Davis said. “You won’t have the same feeling walking into the Momma Goldberg’s in Boaz.” Schilleci said that the Momma Goldberg’s brand has a passionate following from the Au-

burn family and a strong reputation on the college campus. The owners are all multi-generational Auburn alumni. “There is no place like the original store,” Schilleci said. “Right next to 87,000 loyal Auburn fans.”

Alabama ranks no. 7 in national dog ownership survey Anna Claire Conrad Writer

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association’s United States Pet Ownership and Demographic Sourcebook released on Tuesday, Jan. 15, the dog days aren’t over for Alabama as it is ranked 7th for dog ownership with 44.1 percent of households owning a dog. This survey is conducted every five years by the AVMA, and it always includes a classification of pet ownership by state. “We work with a company that reaches out to people across the country and conduct a survey. We get 50,000 of them,” said Thomas McPheron, an AVMA spokesperson. “Then, a team of market research analysts goes to work on it, look for trends and put together the book.” According to McPheron, five years ago Alabama was not even in the top 10 for pet ownership. “55.9 percent of people in Alabama said that they did not own a pet,” McPheron said. The most recent survey, which was conducted in 2012 and based on data building up until Dec. 31, 2011, revealed that the states that outranked Alabama in dog ownership are Arkansas, New Mexico, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia and Mississippi. Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma proceeded Alabama’s ranking in the top 10. Maddy Clawges, junior in pre-veterinary medicine, said she decided to own a dog for the companionship. “I only have one roommate, and since I’m a girl, it kind of makes me feel safer at night,” Clawges said. Clawges also said that being a full-time dog

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Sami Griffith and her four-year-old dog Gemini relax on the grass, enjoying the beautiful day.

owner while also being a full-time student isn’t as difficult as some might think. “I think that if you really want a dog, and if you know how to take care of dogs, it’s actually really easy to just adapt it to your schedule, especially if you have grown up with them,” Clawges said. Erin Summerlin, a first-year Master’s student in geology, agreed with Clawges and said having not one, but two dogs while taking classes is not as overwhelming as most people that don’t own dogs perceive it to be.

“I think it helps a lot with companionship and stress relief. They’re just such a joy and comfort to have, and they bring so much happiness to my daily life,” Summerlin said. “It’s really worth it. Honestly, two isn’t that much more work than one, and they keep each other company when I can’t be there. It’s the best thing I’ve done in a long time.” Both Clawges and Summerlin bring their dogs to Kiesel Park as often as they can to let them exercise and to meet up with other college-aged people that love dogs as much as they

do. However, along with companionship and unconditional love comes vet bills; a factor most people believe would pose problems for college students. “It’s not anymore than when humans go to the doctor,” Summerlin said. “You just have to be dedicated to your animal. There are people that like dogs, but you really have to have a bond with your pet and treat them like a person. You’ve just got to make sure that they have everything that they need, sometimes over what you want.” According to McPheron, one of the most vital purposes for conducting this survey is to see how well pet owners are doing at keeping their pets healthy. “Pet owners taking their pets to the vet is something we’re really concerned about, and over the past 10 years we’ve noticed a slight decline in veterinarian visits done by pet owners,” McPheron said. “A lot of people attribute this to the economy, and I’m sure that has played a role in this decline, but it’s become a broader problem.” McPheron said one reason for a declining rate of veterinary visits is people seeking medical help on the Internet rather than consulting a trained veterinarian. “There’s no way of knowing if the information on those websites is good,” McPheron said. “We really want to reach out to the public and let them know that the vet isn’t just a place you bring your pets to for their shots, but it’s also a resource of information on animal health for the community. We want to make sure that connection is emphasized.”

New bluegrass band Chronic Glass performs at Moe’s Barbeque Caitlin Wagenseil Intrigue Reporter

Huddled in a dark equipment trailer, members of the up and coming band Chronic Grass tell the story of how they came to meet and what drives them to play, before returning to the stage at Moe’s Barbeque. “The name came from Bernard’s [Breitung] prior band, Chronic Blues, and we decided to do some blue grass, so we changed it to Chronic Grass,” said Daniel Raine, banjo player and vocalist. Raine and fellow musician Davis Little make up The Little Raine Band, but recently launched a side project with Bernard Breitung of Chronic Blues. Add Zach Drew into the mix, and it became the fourpiece band Chronic Grass. Breitung, vocalist and rhythm guitarist, had the idea for a while of forming a blue grass band, but never found the right people—until now. Playing at Moe’s Barbeque on Thursday, Jan.17, was the band’s first time playing together as a four piece. “It was

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Bernard Breitung, Daniel Raine, Davis Little and Zach Drew perform at Moe’s Barbeque.

just the three of us a month ago, and we got tired of switching off, so Zach came in and started jamming on the mando and now we don’t have to switch instruments, and we’re all comfortable,” Breitung said. Before playing in Auburn together, the band played a stretch of shows in Mobile at

venues such as Callaghan’s, Soul Kitchen and The Garage. Chronic Grass is an independent band right now, which means they book themselves, and a lot goes into booking shows. Breitung said it’s mostly about building and establishing relationships with those

involved in the music scene in Auburn. “I’ve known the guys here at Moe’s [Barbeque] for two years—I was standing outside the door before it even opened with my guitar like ‘y’all want somebody to play? I can play right here,’” Breitung said. “So I’ve known them, and they’ve

known me, so it takes a lot of that.” Breitung added that while a booking agency may occasionally help, it can be beneficial to not be exclusive. “When you’re exclusive, you’re locked in, so independent really is good.” Little, lead guitarist and vocalist, agrees. “Part of playing is to be free and to play wherever you want to,” he said. And they can all attest to the feeling of performing live. Breitung said it’s all about the audience and the band feeding off each other. “The more people there listening and vibing to it, the better you’re going to be in the zone,” he said. “You play pretty much all your life to be in that moment where you’re soaked up and feeling it. It’s the energy, you know—you can feel it.” Raine agrees that it takes the energy from the audience to push the band members to perform their best music. “The energy is just such a rush, and you’re just grooving at one mo-

ment,” he said. “That’s what I live for,” Little said. “You can smoke weed, you can drink—but honestly, once you’re up on stage playing, that’s the high. I go to school, I do my stuff, we practice, but once you get back to the gig, there’s so much love here.” Zach Drew, the soft-spoken mandolin player, sums it up with a few short words. “I just like to jam.” While the band continues to work around the schedule of The Little Raine Band, the members are hopeful for the future of Chronic Grass. “I’m just going around what their schedule is, and if it turns into something bigger and keeps going, then so be it,” Breitung said. Chronic Grass plays at various local venues in the Auburn area, and is looking to eventually play shows in Atlanta. To find out about more upcoming shows, follow the band at twitter.com/ChronicGrassAL. Promos and a website are also in the works.

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2012 Just passing through: the life of a street kid Kelsey Davis Intrigue Writer

Alex Fleicshmann and AJ Brush are travelers. They’re troubadours, hippies, hobos, street kids, what have you. They’re people. “I prefer the politically correct term of ‘traveler,’ but, I mean, I don’t give a s---. I’m a hobo,” said Brush. “By definition,” Fleicshmann pointed out, “a hobo is somebody who travels from job to job though. A tramp is somebody who asks for money.” “I guess I’m a tramp then,” Brush said with a smile. Auburn students may have noticed these two hanging around Magnolia Street last week, considering how they didn’t exactly fit our mold. They played music on the street at night, and focused their efforts on moving

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When it comes down to it, just be grateful for what you got. And don’t be afraid to lend a helping hand if you can.” —AJ Brush traveler

on to the next town during the day. The two Oregon natives have been friends since middle school, but didn’t start traveling together until around six months ago. Fleicshmann, 20, started traveling the country two years ago with little more than $20 in his pocket. He’s hit almost every state, except for a dozen in the mainland. Brush, 18, was on the fence about the idea before he decided to take the plunge. “I knew what I wanted to do as far as career goes, but I didn’t want to just jump right in from graduating high school, to getting a degree, to getting a job and working at that

career,” Brush said. “I’ve always been against that whole thing. I realized that he [Alex] was all the way across the country, and it made sense. I thought well if he can do it....I mean no offense man, but like, why not? Let’s see what it’s like, let’s try it.” Typically Brush and Fleicshmann get from place to place either by hitchhiking or hopping trains. Fleicshmann had a job lined up out of high school, and gave himself four months to travel before his job started. His travels started off mainly around California, which led him to Santa Cruz. It was here that he met other street kids and traveling folk. He began traveling up north with them, and quickly became hooked on the life style. Street kids, like Fleicshmann and Brush, are youths traveling around the country with not much more than the clothes on their back, a few essentials kept in a backpack and an instrument or two. There are thousands of them, an entire culture out there that most of us are unaware of. “Any big city we go to, we run into somebody we’ve met in another big city doing the same thing,” said Fleicshmann. “Or if we haven’t met them yet, we’ll get to know them, and then meet them again later,” Brush added. After hitting Santa Cruz, Fleicshmann continued traveling around with other street kids, and eventually wound up on the East Coast. This is where the two met up with each other again. Brush’s exodus from his hometown was similar to Fleicshmann’s. Hitchhiking out of Oregon, he was headed to Montana. A truck driver picked him up and told him he could take him to the border of Montana from Idaho, or to Nebraska. In an act of spontaneity, Brush chose Nebraska. “It turned out not to be any fun though. I hauled my ass all the way to the East Coast, and ended up meeting up with him,” said Brush. After they had reunited, they spent about a month in Vermont at a Rainbow Gathering.

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Alex Fleischmann and AJ Brush perform on the steps of Hargis Hall.

Rainbow Gatherings are where huge groups of travelers and street kids will meet up for months at a time. They set up temporary communities in the woods, and stay there until it’s time to move on. When the guys aren’t at a Rainbow Gathering, or staying somewhere for an extended amount of time, normality becomes unpredictable. “Usually I’ll just wake up from my shelter, which is like under a bridge, or a hammock set up under a dock or something, maybe an abandoned house. I grab all my crap, go into town and see all the other street kids somewhere. We just start asking people for their leftovers and stuff, and play music to try and make some money. We do whatever we run into, it changes on a daily basis,” said Brush. That’s just if they’re in a city, though. If the guys are in a more rural area, they’ll sleep in thickets of bushes or under trees. “You know on the interstate where you see all that green crap?” said Brush. “Usually we’re back there,” said Fleicshmann. The goal is to be able to get up and

move on without being noticed by the public, especially the unfriendly cops that have woken them up before. It’s easy to forget how massive our country is. As the guys travel from place to place, changes in culture and personality never stop to amaze them. “It’s weird to feel like a foreigner in a country that we’re from, you know?,” said Fleicshmann. “Like to not know what the East Coast is like, not know what the South is like. It’s all extremely different. There’s tons of undiscovered stuff in your country. You can go to the other side of the country and back, and feel like you’re in a whole different place. It’s really cool. l’m from up north so going down south, made me feel like I was in a very foreign land.” One thing the guys love especially about their culture and way of life is how grateful it makes them for every small blessing sent their way. They don’t always get to eat, have a place out of the rain to sleep, have cigarettes to smoke or even another person to talk to. While they were in Auburn, Fleicshmann and Brush set up camp in the

home of an Auburn local. “We don’t have to worry about cops waking us up in the morning, rain, losing our stuff, anything like that. It’s beautiful,” said Fleicshmann. Gratitude for what you have in life and helping each other out are the main ideals that these guys live by. “When it comes down to it, just be grateful for what you got,” said Brush. “And don’t be afraid to lend a helping hand if you can.” Street kid lifestyle may not appeal to everyone. The traveling part of it seems exciting, but doesn’t it get tiring after a while? Isn’t it exhausting not to have a place to call home? That’s exactly the beauty of it. Home doesn’t lie in a house you live in or having a bed to sleep in. Home is about the people you’re with, and finding a place for you in the world. Fleicshmann and Brush can make a home out of just about anywhere they go. “You’re going to meet awesome people everywhere you go,” said Fleicshmann. “You’re going to find your place everywhere you go. If you don’t, then you just leave. Find it somewhere else.”

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Campus creates initiatives to increase sustainability Kelsey Davis Intrigue Writer

Most of us are aware of the growing need for a more sustainable and ecofriendly lifestyle. We see changes being made all over campus, and messages encouraging us to make small changes: use our own water bottles instead of continuously buying plastic ones, walk or ride bikes to campus, recycle. We’re being called to do things differently, and the university is changing with us. For example, Auburn’s campus is now housing two WeCars. These are cars that any student can rent for $8 an hour, fuel included. They can be found in The Village and The Quad parking lots. Students can rent a WeCar for extended periods of time, and take them anywhere they choose. Depending on your car’s gas mileage, using the WeCar could significantly cut down on costs for weekend road trips. All you have to do is go online and make reservations beforehand. Another prototype project that the Facilities Department sponsored was the installment of solar panels on the roof of the stadium parking deck. “The energy that’s produced by those solar panels is enough energy to charge all the electric vehicles that are housed on the first floor [of

the parking deck]. That energy goes into our energy grid, and it basically offsets all the energy that’s needed to charge the cars. All those electric vehicles are being charged by the energy from the sun,” said Mike Kensler, Director of the Office of Sustainability. One more project that students may not know about is a cistern that is being installed around Dudley Hall. The cistern will catch water off the roof of Dudley Hall, send it to a holding tank, which will then be used to water a nearby garden. “Using captured rainwater is a much better approach that buying expensive drinkable city water to water plants,” Kensler said. “The Landscape Services Department of Facilities has plans to greatly expand the use of storm water, and water that condenses from AC units on campus.” The University is taking steps to move sustainability forward, what can we do to supplement that? “You just have to be more mindful of what you’re consuming,” said Sara Geonczy, junior in environmental science. To illustrate this point, Geonczy explained how Lee County, with 22 other counties, send their waste to a land fill in Salem. The landfill is open Monday through Saturday, and collects about 1500 tons of waste a day. “During football season, they’ll

keep open an extra day on Sunday because there is that much extra waste generated by the games,” said Geonczy Sustainability, however, isn’t just about reducing, reusing and recycling. It’s a mind set. “Sustainability reflects our core values, our own personal values,” Kensler said. “It asks, ‘Do I bring my best self to the world every day? How do I treat other people? How do I treat the world around me? Those are really the core questions that drives everything related to sustainability.” Outside of being mindful of our own waste, there is another thing students can do to drive sustainability. “Make sure that the administration knows that this is something that students care about, and that the students want to encourage the university to do everything it can,” said Kensler. Many students and members of the faculty care about the environment on campus and around the world to some extent. There are recycling bins filled with aluminum cans all around campus, and many walk to class or ride a bike as an alternative to driving or taking the Tiger Transit. Such small efforts like these, if done with consistency, can make a big difference and can help foster a more beautiful world for the future.

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The rain garden at Dudley hall is currently in its early stages of development.

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The cistern at Dudley Hall will collect rain to water the nearby rain garden.

University utilizes social media platforms to enhance learning Daniel Cannaday Writer

The world shrank today. It will do the same tomorrow and into the foreseeable future. Social media websites, like Twitter and Facebook, are a major part of this global downsizing, as they have exposed the human experience and enhanced communication like never before. At Auburn, these sites impact student social life and learning on a daily basis. Any organization, whether a bar on Toomer’s Corner or a basketweaving club, you can have instant electronic access to a community of interested students and vice versa. Twitter accounts like Auburn Memes connect those who find humor in their university experience, while Instagram portrays the Auburn culture in ways that words cannot. “There’s more connectedness among students as well,” said Monnie Wertz, Vice President of programming and planning at the University of Tampa. “We see a lot more students coming in who haven’t met their roommates but know them from Facebook already.” In her view, these sites have profoundly positive effects on students, allowing them to instantly interact

with people and organizations directly related to their interests. Kelsey Loftin, a graduate student working for the College of Liberal Arts while obtaining her Masters in technical and professional communication, said getting word out for events is much easier through sites like Twitter and Facebook, and her experience is doubtlessly mirrored in businesses and organizations everywhere. This increase in connectedness and communication can be a doubleedged sword as well. Over the past few years, numerous incidents have led to the coining of the term “cyber bullying”. “People post things online that they wouldn’t normally say to someone’s face,” said Wertz. Though there are no public instances of cyber bullying recorded at Auburn Univeristy, most people can simply look through their Facebook homepage and find some example of this trend. Even given the potentially lethal nature of cyber bullying, the rampant posting of inappropriate material by students on their own profiles has had a much broader and more negative impact. Pictures of partying and profanity-laced posts abound on these sites, so they are one of the first

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places employers and grad school admission officers go to learn about applicants. “What students don’t realize is that once it’s on there, it’s on there forever,” Wertz said. Loftin had to go through her accounts and remove any unprofessional comments or pictures before applying for grad school. She believes, however, that students are not the only ones involved in spreading inappropriate material. “I wish sites would

educate more people about privacy settings,” Loftin said, adding that she was “concerned by websites’ lack of interest in privacy.” Whether sites are interested in user privacy or not, Wertz feels that the result of social media sites’ expanded role has stagnated the process of integrating them into university learning. “When Facebook was just for college students, teachers and students would friend each other frequently. As [Facebook] opened up to everyone, it became unprofessional,” Wertz said. As a result, social media saw a decreased role in the classroom, and today, has been “scaled back as an educational tool’” according to Wertz. Dr. Michael Fuhlhage, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, sees social media sites differently and wants to use them to further learning. Instead of banning devices from his class in an attempt to curb distraction, he encourages students to interact and ask questions on Twitter. “As teachers, we have to communicate with students on their platform,” said Fuhlhage. On Twitter, he believes students are more likely to ask and respond to

questions than they would be in front of an entire class. Fuhlhage acknowledges the potential for distraction among students but said it doesn’t bother him. “Teachers tend to have a you-kidsget-off-my-lawn reaction (to social media), but there are always distractions,” Fuhlhage said. “What I think is different about this distraction is that if a teacher knows how to use it, it can become a great learning tool.” Fuhlhage envisions a future where specific hashtags for individual classes make it so that students in those classes can keep up a running dialogue with their teacher monitoring the conversation. This vision, shared by an increasing minority of teachers, has led to several classes at Auburn requiring professional Twitter handles as they would books. Because of social media’s ever increasing role and usage, Fuhlhage doesn’t see an end to this form of communication and expects the future to bring even more effective tools. “Twitter is only the latest thing,” Fuhlhage said “Somewhere in a Google lab on the West Coast, someone is creating the next best thing, and teachers are going to have to decide whether it’s a distraction or a tool.”

Pure Barre Auburn tones the town into shape through dance Anna Beth Jager Intrigue Reporter

With spring break around the corner, the pressure to get in shape has people flocking to the gym in order to shed unwanted poundage from the holidays and get a head start on new bikini bods. But let’s face it; sticking to the elliptical, treadmill or any other mundane, stationary machine can get incredibly boring after a while. Luckily, there are other ways to achieve a great figure without getting terribly bored along the way. Exercise classes like Zumba, spinning and yoga have become increasingly popular because of their ability to burn cal-

ories through fun and new methods that challenge bodies and whip people into shape. The talk of the town here in Auburn lately has been all about Pure Barre classes. Pure Barre is a class that utilizes a ballet barre to target specific muscles and help with movement. According to it’s website, Pure Barre “is the fastest, most effective, yet safest way to change your body. Students see results in just 10 classes.” The website goes on to say, “Using small isometric movements at the ballet barre set to motivating music, Pure Barre lifts your seat, tones your thighs, abs and arms and burns fat in

record breaking time.” Pamela Sanasith, one of the head instructors who is currently attending Auburn University to study health promotion, gives her input on the effective and unique method of Pure Barre. “It’s a total body workout that really targets women’s primary areas- so it focuses on the areas most women struggle with,” Sanasith said. “It just makes you feel good. After you leave you just feel strong and a little bit tighter and more toned. It gives you time to just think about yourself for even 55 minutes and leave everything at the door- when you come in here you just kind of focus on yourself.”

Pure Barre has a staff of young women who encourage every individual to do whatever they can to the best of their ability. With an incredibly friendly and open environment, every person is treated with the utmost respect, while simultaneously learning and understanding new specific techniques of the class. Auburn graduate Kelly Shumann started and co-owns Pure Barre’s Auburn location with her sister Courtney. “We just decided that Auburn needed a fitness motif like Pure Barre- there’s nothing here that really targets those muscles as quickly as

Pure Barre does,” Shumann said. “And it’s fun. It’s really all about connecting with the client. We’ve really gotten to know so many people from the community. For us it’s just about getting to know everybody who comes in the door.” The class also keeps a constant, upbeat atmosphere with fast-paced, popular music playing throughout the 55 minute timespan, making it even more unique and fun to be a part of. It is also likely that around 500 calories are burned per class. Pure Barre is $20 a class and also offers various monthly packages for students. For those who just want to try it out, every first class is free.

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Auburn art graduate applies skills to church Caitlin Wagenseil Intrigue Reporter

Meghan Stewart knew what she wanted to be since she was in kindergarten. Growing up with a father who was both a graphic designer and an oil painter, and having an encouraging art teacher in high school only added to her passion for art. “It’s all I ever wanted to do,” Stewart said. Stewart graduated from Auburn with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in December. Soon after graduation, she got a job at a church in Birmingham. During her years in Auburn, Stewart said many of her friends believed her major didn’t require much work. “I would say a lot of people think you don’t have to dedicate a lot of time. My friends seemed to think it was an easy major,” Stewart said. Stewart added that she didn’t necessarily believe her major was difficult, but instead one that was quite time consuming. “There are a lot of studio hours required outside of your normal class time—sometimes 20 to 25 hours a

week extra you had to come and put in time,” said Stewart. On top of all that, she said there was the constant pressure to be creative, which can be difficult for anyone. Stewart now works for the Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham as an administrative assistant to the minister. “I do a lot of busy work, but they don’t really have a graphic designer in house, so I do some design,” Stewart said. “It’s fun that I get to do some graphic design.” Stewart also said she is able to apply many of the compositional skills she learned while at Auburn to her job now. She also loves the environment she works in. “I really like working for a church,” Stewart said. “That’s one of my favorite things, and I like that I’m getting to use some art.” While there are job options open to those with a degree in art, Stewart said she believes it is necessary to attend graduate school to really succeed, which is something she also

plans to do in the future. “You pretty much have to go to grad school,” she said. “I think some might argue with that, but I’ve found out that there are not a lot of jobs unless you go to grad school.” Stewart thought for a while about attending graduate school for education so that she could later teach art. “I might go to grad school for art and be a college professor; so there are options,” Stewart said. Additionally, Stewart said she knows who of her fellow graduates currently have jobs. “Out of those people, I think I’m the closest to actually doing art,” Stewart said. As for students still majoring in art at Auburn, she has some advice. “I would say be prepared for what the job field is like,” Stewart said. “I wish someone had told me. Be looking for jobs and realize you probably have to go to grad school and it just might take some time to really get into your field.” She said that an art major is much different from other majors—there’s

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Meghan Stewart’s senior project was a six-piece collage made with various materials.

not an exact track laid out, and that while the job might be harder to find, it will be worth it in the end. “All my professors said that you’ll

get there, but it’s just not immediate like other majors,” Stewart said. Stewart has set her sights on graduate school within the next two years.

Cupcakes continue to trend with miniature charm Lindsey Raygan Volunteer

Eggs, cake flour, buttermilk, oil and sugar are just a few of the basics that make up the treats that are filling stomachs and putting smiles on faces today. No matter if it is their onthe-go size, enticing taste or ability to satisfy a sweet tooth, cupcakes are bringing happiness to people all over. Cakes by Cindy, a small business that operates out of the home of owner and baker, Cindy Hosmer, in Hueytown, Ala., has felt the impact of the popularity of cupcakes directly. Hosmer began her business in June of 2006 after taking an online baking class that focused on the art of creating wedding cakes. She was able to use her eye for decorating and her love of art to make this dream of hers come true.

“I like baking cupcakes because they are much less stressful than cakes that you have to get perfect,” Hosmer said. Today, Hosmer satisfies customers with not just wedding cakes, but specialized cake orders that include her cupcakes. The popularity of cupcakes has affected her business. “It has provided a different way to add to my business of making wedding cakes while also allowing me to display my cakes in a different way,” said Hosmer. Cupcakes have especially caught the attention of students in Auburn. Jennifer Cooper and her husband own the Downtown Auburn branch of Gigi’s Cupcakes, located at 132 North College St., along with three other branches around the area. The first Gigi’s Cupcakes business

opened in Nashville, Tenn. on Feb. 21, 2008 and now has over 50 shops across the nation. After its local grand opening in April of 2012, the Downtown Gigi’s had local skeptics and cupcake lovers speechless. “Business was great as soon as the doors were opened,” Cooper said. She believes college students enjoy Gigi’s so much because they remind them of their homes and moms. Selling an average of 350 cupcakes per day, Cooper included that the two most popular cupcake choices that are bought by college students are the Midnight Magic and Wedding Cake cupcakes. After pointing out that those are the two most traditional choices that Gigi’s offers, Cooper said, “I like to urge our customers to try new flavors like our awesome Carrot Cake

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