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Tigers’ losing streak slows local businesses Sonya Lovejoy Community Reporter

Just two short years ago, the Auburn Tigers won the national championship and were on top of the college football mountain. After Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss, Auburn has dropped to last place in the SEC West and holds the longest active losing streak in SEC games. This losing streak has impacted local restaurants, bars and travel accommodation facilities. Businesses that rely on sports to sell their menu items and drinks have seen the most

impact. Louis Williams, owner of Balcony Bar and Fishizzles Fish and Skrimps, has noted a 30 percent loss in the last two years. Williams said Auburn’s losing streak is affecting game times, which in turn affects business. “Another big component is what time of day we play,” Williams said. “If we’re having a winning record, we get prime time game slots and night games. But when our record is not so good we get 11 a.m. games. That has people in and out of the city in one day. No folks are staying until Sunday or staying out late downtown

after rolling Toomer’s.” Multiple bar owners have also noticed a drop in nightlife and, consequently, revenue. Skybar Café owner Daniel Grider, said business has dramatically changed since 2010 when Auburn won the national championship. Skybar Café has also seen a 30 percent decline in the last two years. “We have a little less revenue due to the fact that a lot of football fans aren’t coming to the games,” Grider said. “Arkansas didn’t bring a single fan that I could see.” University Station RV Re-

sort, an Auburn football tailgate community, has also been affected by the Tigers’ football season. While owners Mathan and Jill Holt have recorded a slight decline, they attribute that loss to the economy and an election year, in addition to the Tigers’ football performance. “We always do better when Auburn wins, but the Auburn family really is ‘All In,’ because it only seems to diminish our sales marginally,” Holt said. While some businesses have seen declines since Auburn’s national championship win, e business owners continue to

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Balcony Bar is one of several business that has seen a decline in overall sales due to a losing football team.

show support for the Tigers. “We struggled mightily in 2003 and went undefeated in 2004,” Grider said. “So miracles

are possible. Don’t give up on Auburn because Auburn will never give up on you. Enjoy Auburn as you always have.”

Medical college could decrease training quality Becky Hardy Campus Reporter

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With a decrease in budget for SGA elections, students walking on the concourse could see fewer campaign signs from candidates.

SGA campaign spending cut SGA approves bill limiting campaign funds for future elections Becky Hardy Campus Reporter

At Auburn’s Student Council meeting Monday, Oct. 15, Jacob Dean, College of Liberal Arts senator, proposed a bill to limit campaign budgets for SGA positions. The bill states that these campaigns’ expenditures limit the president to $750, originally $1,500; vice president to $750, originally $1,500; treasurer to $750, originally $1,500; Miss Auburn to $750, originally $1,000; Miss Homecoming stays the same at $750; school/college senator to $100, originally $175; atlarge senator to $125, originally $250; and school/college officer to $75, originally $125. “Elections have become more about who can provide the best image and who can sell the most T-shirts,” Dean said. Aurielle Williams, senator for the College of Human Sciences, agrees with passing the bill to make the campaigns less of a popularity contest. “I think by lowering the price that each person can spend to something more reasonable, more students will be able to participate,” Williams said. “Also, students who are running will have to use more

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Elections have become more about who can provide the best image and who can sell the most T-shirts. It needs to be more about the candidates’ platforms and how they can take the University forward.”

President Vice President Treasurer Miss Auburn Miss Homecoming Senators Senator-at-large Officers

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creative ideas.” Wesley Clendinen, senator for College of Agriculture, disagrees that gimmicks are not important. “I feel like students will still be bombarded on the concourse without gimmicks,” Clendinen said. In 2009, the campaign budget was increased from $1,200 to $1,500. Others who opposed the bill stress that gimmicks are what get students involved in the campaigns. “We have 25,000 students, and these elections are meant to reach out to all of those students,” said Amy Anne Olsen, senator at-large. “Ever since the increase in budget since 2009, there has been voter participation increase.” Dean also said lowering the budget limit will help others

who may not necessarily be able to afford the $1,500 campaign fund. Olabode O. Anise, senator for the College of Engineering, agrees with the bill. “I think we all should support some kind of decrease,” Anise said. “If you remember, we talked about making SGA more accessible to everybody, and I think doing something like this would help.” Another point hit in the discussion was money lost by any losing opponent in elections. “If someone ran a campaign and used personal money to fund that campaign, along with donations from other organizations, this puts a huge financial burden on themselves and their parents to fund something that they’re interested in,” said Steven Sheffield, senator for the

College of Business. “For students that lose that election that’s money and time that they spent that they would just lose.” Those opposed believe more research should have been done before passing the bill. Dean clarified that hours upon hours of research have been done. “This bill is not arbitrary,” he said. “We’ve done hours of research and believe this is what students want.”

Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association has voiced concerns about Auburn’s new medical school through a letter to President Gogue and Gov. Robert Bentley. “We want to do what is right for the profession of osteopathic medicine,” said Brent Boyett, presidentelect of ALOMA. “We believe at this time the additional medical school would put too much stress on the supply of applicants and supply of quality training sites.” Boyett said everyone in the association was part of the decision to send the letter. “We opened up this question to our general membership back in our summer meeting,” Boyett said. “There were even people there that were Auburn graduates and others that had close connections with Auburn University. With those facts that were presented, it was an unanimous vote that we write a letter of concern to President Gogue and Gov. Bentley.” So far the association has not received a response from Gogue, but the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine sent out a statement addressing the letter and its concerns. “Auburn and VCOM have not had the opportunity to meet with the association yet,” said Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, dean and executive vice president of VCOM. ALOMA’s concerns revolve around the quality and quantity of clinical rotations available for third and fourth year medical students, Boyett said.

“It is not enough to talk about the classroom training,” Boyett said. “You have to be able to address clinical training as well.” E. Jason Hatfield, former president of the ALOMA, said although Alabama may be able to support four medical schools, adding another medical school this soon could be troublesome for people in charge of clinical rotations. Boyett said adding an additional 150 freshmen medical school seats to the 150 that are currently being added by Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dothan would dilute the qualified applicant pool at both medical schools. “This could create a recruitment competition that could be detrimental to both Auburn’s medical school and Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dothan, Alabama,” Boyett said. Tooke-Rawlins said Auburn has done the necessary groundwork to ensure Auburn medical students will have enough training for future careers. “We did the due diligence required to assure we could provide a high quality clinical training program and develop new residencies for the students when they graduate,” Tooke-Rawlins said. Boyett believes Auburn’s medical school has not taken the right steps to give its students everything to prepare them for medical careers. “(The University’s) contributions to our state, region and the world is without question, but we believe that the leadership has been poorly advised with regard to this matter.”

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DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn Oct. 10 – Oct. 16, 2012 ■ Robert Guice, 23, Auburn Saturday, Oct. 13, 2:45 a.m. at West Magnolia Street and Hemlock Drive ■ Latoya Cameron, 28, Tallassee Saturday, Oct. 13, 1:40 a.m. on Interstate 85 ■ Julianna Myers, 20, Fairfax, Va. Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:52 a.m. at Opelika Road and East University Drive ■ Milton Patrick Jr., 31, Loachapoka Sunday, Oct. 14, 6:07 p.m. on Mary Brooks Drive ■ Timothy Casebolt, 24, Auburn Tuesday, Oct. 16, 9:02 p.m. on South Gay Street

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Crime Reports for Oct. 10 – Oct. 16, 2012 Oct. 11 – North College Street Second-degree theft of U.S. currency, purse and wallet between 12:01–1 a.m. Oct. 11-12 – Innovation Drive Third-degree criminal mischief between 4:30 p.m. Oct. 11–6 a.m. Oct. 12 Oct. 12 – West Magnolia Avenue and North College Street Third-degree assault between 1:30 a.m.–1:35 a.m. Oct. 12 – South Gay Street Left the scene of an accident between 10–10:15 p.m. Oct. 13 – Lee Road 53 Harassment report

Oct. 13-14 – Golf Club Drive Auto breaking and entering between 11 a.m. Oct. 13–4 p.m. Oct. 14

Oct. 15 – North Cary Drive Third-degree burglary of jewelry between 10 a.m.–3:55 p.m.

Oct. 14 – North Dean Road Third-degree theft of a 24-pack of beer between 8:15–8:30 p.m.

Oct. 15-16 – Devall Drive First-degree theft of a mounted welder trailer between 5 p.m. Oct. 15–7 a.m Oct. 16.

Oct. 14 – East Glenn Avenue Third-degree theft of a bicycle between 7 a.m.–4:15 p.m. Oct. 14-15 – Moores Mill Road Auto breaking and entering between 11 p.m. Oct. 14–2 p.m. Oct. 15. Oct. 15 – North Donahue Drive Third-degree criminal trespass between 2:50–3:06 p.m.

Oct. 16 – South College Street Left the scene of an accident between 5:25–5:30 p.m. Oct. 16 – Opelika Road Third-degree theft of men’s clothing between 6 p.m.–6:20 p.m. — Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

All In, All Pink event promotes cancer awareness Toi Garcia Writer

In the height of breast cancer awareness month, the Auburn family will be coming together Saturday, Oct. 19 on the AU Student Center green space from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. for the All In, All Pink breast cancer awareness event. The programs that are involved include University Outreach, the Office of Public Service and the Kappa Chi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. This is the second year the event has been up and running, and it was organized to unite, honor and raise awareness. First-year attendee, August Haywood, who is also a speaker at the event, said she will be speaking from an awareness standpoint. She explained she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer this summer when she found a lump in her breast in early May. “After I found the lump in early May, I kept a close eye on it, and by the end of May the lump was bigger,” Haywood said. Haywood took precautions and went to the doctor.

“After evaluations, I got an ultrasound and the lump was removed. We did a biopsy on the lump and found cancer,” Haywood said. Haywood said by July 2012, she had a mastectomy, during which both breasts were removed. “I started chemotherapy in August and did it every Friday,” Haywood said. She stressed that it’s important for women to investigate and detect for breast cancer earlier, rather than later. She said women should start looking around 20–30 years old rather than the typical 30–40 years old. Haywood made it clear she wanted women “not too far removed from college” to be more aware of their bodies to avoid getting ill at any cost. In regard to the cancer, the high school English teacher said, “I’ve been pretty good. I let my students know that some days I may not be 100 percent, and they are wonderful. So far, I’ve been on a regular schedule.” Caralise Hunt, School of Nursing student, said she hopes to make this event as successful as last year’s. “I did the event last year and was able to see first-hand effects of building

awareness,” she said. Hunt has been a nurse for several years and has seen the issues women face. “We will have a table set up where the nursing students will be,” Hunt said. She said they will have fliers and give out information on breast cancer and care. “We will have a model breast out so people can demonstrate on how to test themselves,” Hunt said. “Hopefully, we’ll have privacy curtains.” Hunt said by being involved with this event, she expects to “provide women with information that they weren’t aware of.” For example, Hunt said most women aren’t aware of the free mammogram services the Nursing School provides. “Auburn University Outreach is pleased to be working with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and several community partners on raising awareness and celebrating life, as it relates to this very important health issue,” said Royrickers Cook, assistant vice president for University Outreach.

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Breast cancer survivor Melanie Knause will speak at the All In, All Pink event.

Business competition jump-starts student entrepreneurs Becky Hardy Campus Reporter

Auburn’s Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club is bringing accessibility and structure to students with business ideas. The AU Start-Up Challenge is for any Auburn student or Auburn graduate since 2010 that has an idea he or she wants to create a business from, said Clint Jarvis, president of Auburn’s Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club. “It’s just a way to give people an actual route,” Jarvis said. “Everybody has ideas, especially in the business school, and everybody wants to have or start their own company, so this is a way to give them a structure to make it happen.” Participants will form teams of up to three people to compete. “We’re trying not to have the teams get too big, so they don’t

lose focus,” Jarvis said. Three judges will vote on each team’s business, which can include ideas ranging from apps to manufactured products. One of the judges will be Jim Corman, founder of the Auburn Angel Network, entrepreneur investors. The first-place winner will receive $3,000, followed by $1,000 for second place. Both first and second winners will also receive a place in the Auburn Business Incubator. John D. Weete, professor and assistant vice president for Technology Transfer and Communications, said Auburn’s business incubator, which helps young, start-up and early-stage businesses be successful, will play a big role in the challenge. “Along with the prizes, we will provide space and services

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now for students to buy into at the incubator,” Warrington said. “You can rent spaces in the incubator just like the other commercial businesses.” This is the first year the AU Start-Up Challenge is taking place at Auburn. “In the past, there really hasn’t been any start-up community,” Jarvis said. “We want the kids on campus to understand that there are resources on campus to take their idea and make it into a business.” The past business competitions at Auburn had all surrounded theoretical businesses, Warrington said. “In the past we were only looking for business plans, but through the efforts of the incubator we are now looking for real businesses,” Warrington said. “A lot of the students who showed up for the first information session had ideas for

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businesses already.” The goal of this challenge is to bring students from all different colleges on campus together, Weete said. “For example, you may have a student who has an idea about an app, but that person doesn’t have the computer skills to develop that app,” Weete said. “So you match up a computer science person with a business or idea person and you begin to build a business.” Auburn’s Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club stresses the same goal of diversity in its club. “My favorite part of the club is, for example, usually engineering students are their own way and business students are their own way, so they would never necessarily hang out on their own,” said Milton Trevino, club vice president. “This is

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TOP LEFT: Zack St. Clair, freshman in political science, poses a question to the panel. TOP RIGHT: Hubbard talks to students after the panel. BOTTOM RIGHT: Alabama legislators, from left Rep. Mike Hubbard, Sen. Lt. Col. Phil Williams, Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, Rep. Pebblin Warren and Sen. Tom Whatley, along with SGA president Owen Parrish hold a panel on the economy and education.

Alabama legislators visit Auburn University Annie Faulk Writer

Five Alabama legislators spoke on higher education, legislative processes and the economy in a panel sponsored by an SGA event called Capitol on the Plains. In attendance were Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, Rep. Pebblin Warren, Sen. Tom Whatley and Sen. Phil WIlliams. “In order to be a good advocate, you have to do your homework,” Warren said. “You got to know, number one, what you want to advocate, and you got to also know what your true feelings are.” Warren has 38 years of experience in higher education, with 30 years in student services. “So often, people jump on other folks’ bandwagon and they don’t know what the real issues are,” Warren said. “You don’t always have to agree with everybody, but as long as you can work cooperatively and share your ideas, you can get things accomplished.” The Rolling Reserve Act, put in place Oct. 1, was one issue discussed at the event. The act cuts the state education budget by millions of dollars at the beginning of the year in order to avoid proration, mid-year budget cuts that

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“We literally spend money sometimes and can’t even tell where it is going because it is not set up in what we call a business-like or efficient method.” —Phil Williams Senator

occur when money runs out. “This was overdue,” McClurkin said. “We needed to do something to keep our budgets from being prorated. That affects not only tuition, but a lot of other things.” McClurkin said budgets prorated nine times during the last 30 years. Under the Rolling Reserve Act, the projected budget is based on a previous 15-year average of revenue to the state. In previous years, the budget was based on projections of revenues. McClurkin said the Rolling Reserve Act allows the budget to have solid numbers and not wishful thinking of revenues. “In the way it would affect tuition

costs is that it would help them remain more stable,” McClurkin said. “I don’t know that our budget totally affects your tuition costs, because the state does not fully fund higher education.” Students who attended were able to ask questions of the legislators after the panel to gain more insight into current state policy. “It’s good to know we have a high value on education; one stat said we have one of the highest education budgets in the country,” said James Sappington, junior in marketing. “It’s good to know that the state is making proactive measures to reduce the debt and they are being responsible with their money.” Alabama is one of only three states in the entire nation that has two separate budgets. Education is funded by one budget, and the General Fund covers all other items. “The Rolling Reserve that has been put in place has solidified and stabilized the educational side,” Williams said, as a member of the General Fund Committee. “It is showing positive growth and showing things we hoped it would; the general fund, not so much.” Williams said there are initiatives underway to streamline the government and effectively use the reve-

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nues. “We literally spend money sometimes and can’t even tell where it is going, because it is not set up in what we call a business-like or efficient method,” Williams said. Williams said he is a Senate liaison to the Information Technology Committee. He said he will present his findings on revenue loss in terms of technology and Internet taxes. “We can’t tell where all the money goes,” Williams said. “Think about it like this: what if you were going to set up a budget for your household, so you would know what you had every month, but you had no idea what you spent on your car? That’s the way we are with IT.” Williams said the IT costs are blended into other budgeted items and are difficult to keep track of because of budget codes. He said he plans to have unified codes for buying computer software and equipment. He said every department pays separate license fees for computer software and equipment, but if the state had a unified licensing process, millions of dollars would be saved. “Our first priority is to pay back the money to the Alabama Trust Fund,” Hubbard said. “That’s not something we take lightly. I took it as a boost of confidence that people trust that we

are going to do the right things with the money.” The Alabama voters approved a constitutional amendment last month that allowed money to be transfered from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund for three years. Hubbard said although not in the legislation, there is a plan to repay the money transferred from the Alabama Trust Fund. He said there is a 10-year plan, but he hopes to pay back the money by 2014. “Governments really do not create anything, certainly don’t create jobs or wealth,” Hubbard said. “The private sector is what creates the jobs and the wealth.” Hubbard said the three areas he particularly wants to focus on in the upcoming legislative session are public safety, IT and streamlining the Legislature. Audri Larsen, freshman in biochemistry, said the panel was interesting because it showed the difference between policy in Alabama and her home state, Tennessee. “We are the ones who will be affected by the future, and if we don’t pay attention to it early on, then we won’t know what’s going on when we get old enough when things affect us,” Larsen said.

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multiple arrests. Some of the arrests have involved high-profile recruits who were supposed to lead our team to victory. Instead, they turned out to be the college football equivalents of Lindsey Lohan. All this has probably caused team morale to be almost non-existent. Of course, changes in coaching staff have also caused some difficulties. Scott Loeffler and Brian VanGorder have their work cut out for them, and it’s going to take some time for them to make their place at Auburn. Basically, no one can really put all the blame on Chizik; it’s just not fair. Anyone calling for him to be fired needs to step back and realize what they are demanding. Building a team is a long, arduous process, and if our recruits can keep out of jail, we could come back next year better than ever. If the coaching staff can learn from the mistakes of this season, the team’s chances could look even brighter. Auburn has, and always will have, great potential. So we say “War Eagle” anyway and look forward to next year.

Have you noticed our football team isn’t doing so good? We don’t really want to admit it, but we are losing. A lot. The Saturday, Oct. 13 loss to Ole Miss seemed to be the last nail in the coffin they have been building since the beginning of the season. If they can’t get at least one win in the SEC, then forfeit seems like the only dignified way to close the season. The team members are showing up to the games, which is good. However, it seems once the first quarter starts, they forget what’s going on. Many people are quick to blame Coach Gene Chizik, but we aren’t sure he’s the one we should hold responsible. Yes, he is the head coach, but the team’s failure is a result of more than just a breakdown in leadership. Chizik is a good leader, whether you believe it or not. However, good leadership can only go so far. We need to look at the team as a whole when trying to figure out why this season is so bad. Since the end of the 2011 season, the team has had to deal with a shooting and

Letter to the Editor

Apology from the top takes center stage As the chair of the Auburn University Department of Theatre, I would like to take this opportunity to respond and apologize to Jonathan McKinney (letter to the editor, Oct. 4) and all of the Auburn students who were frustrated in their attempts to see our recent production of Joan Holden’s “Nickel and Dimed.” We usually have no problem accommodating students, but the particular circumstances surrounding this production led to certain complications and unintended consequences that the department is working hard to address. Some of these complications are due to growing pains in our program: this year we tripled our subscriber base (a very good problem to have) even as “Nickel and Dimed’s” three-quarter thrust configuration made it necessary to reduce the number of available seats for the first production. In addition to

those factors, the demand for single tickets spiked throughout the production’s run, as positive word of mouth spread throughout campus and the community. The upshot is, we didn’t foresee how popular this production was going to be, and our attempts to improvise solutions in the middle of the run clearly did not work for the students who made unsuccessful but good-faith attempts to see the show. To put it simply, we goofed, and as chair of the department, I take responsibility. Mr. McKinney indicated that departmental policy makes students feel like “second-class citizens,” and from his experience with “Nickel and Dimed,” I can understand why he feels that way. While his difficulty in obtaining tickets to this production is not in any way acceptable to us, it also represents a rare occurrence, and one we would like to make even less likely to happen going forward.

We have already laid the groundwork for improving our system for distributing student tickets. Students will be able to go online and request seats for a performance in advance and have their tickets set aside at the will-call window for pickup on the day of the show, guaranteed. Our program exists because of generous support from the Office of the President, and because of that support, we are able to offer Auburn students tickets to all productions free of charge. Students are our primary stakeholders, and we remain committed to serving them to the best of our ability — even as we continue to grow our program and, hopefully, our support with the paying public. Scott Phillips Artistic Director Chair Auburn Theater Department

The “Bible Belt.” The phrase evokes so much for me here at Auburn: the First Baptist Church of Opelika; friends’ Bible studies; Campus Crusade. That Belt’s buckle is emblazoned with a distinctly Protestant inscription, and it hasn’t always allowed for Roman Catholics like me to feel welcomed. Even dear friends of mine have made misguided comments about the Church over the years. Some people I’ve met at Auburn have even scoffed at St. Michael’s and implied that Catholics are not Christians. Certainly not all Protestants believe this, though; just ask my boyfriend. As I watched last week’s vice presidential debate, my heart fluttered when Catholicism and its (i.e., Jesus’s) influence on the men’s political views was brought up. I thought of my Protestant friends, and I hoped the candidates wouldn’t do a disservice to the faith. Whether one of those men proved to be an unprincipled, willfully ignorant “Catholic” is neither here nor there, though. That can stay in D.C. (just hopefully not for another four years). Indeed, the nation’s capital isn’t the only backdrop for Christianity. A cursory glance at the microcosm that is Auburn reveals that the world’s largest Christian denomination, the Catholic Church, is not nearly as proportional here, but there are a multitude of other denominations. And, unlike sexism, racism and any other -ism you can call to mind, steely anti-Catholic sentiment has been proven to be socially acceptable here. Since the Church has inadvertently become part of the national political discussion this year, I’d like to use that as an opportunity to address some of the more common concerns and accusations I’ve

heard from non-Catholics. First, Catholics don’t believe the pope is all-knowing or perfect. He is sinful, just like the rest of humanity. Papal infallibility refers to the handful of times in the history of Christianity that a pope has declared official, infallible Church doctrine, such as when Pope Innocent X declared Jansenism heretical in the 17th century. The Virgin Mary and the saints are part of another common misconception. Catholics do not worship Mary or the saints. A “prayer to a saint” is an arguably clumsy way of describing the heavenly version of asking your friends, pastors or even strangers to keep you or someone else in their prayers. If Mary and the saints are in heaven and can hear us, as Revelation 5:8 tells us they can, then why would we not ask for their prayers? Protestants may not harp on the matter, but the Church and its history with science is an exciting topic for atheists, one filled with misinterpretation at that. According to the Catechism, “there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason.” That’s a disarmingly pragmatic position for an institution that’s anti-science. The fact that a Belgian priest developed the Big Bang Theory may also prove vexing, and Franciscan friar Roger Bacon’s propagation of the scientific method is sure to be dismissed by hardened opponents of the faith. There are other false presumptions about Catholics, but the most frustrating is the charge that Catholics aren’t Christian. Truth be told, statements like that really do hurt. It’s been tempting to respond to that sort of bigotry with complacency or feelings of superiority, but I know that’s not what Christian love is. The renowned Southern Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor must have had it right when she said smugness was “the great Catholic sin.” Out of all those presumptions out there, it’s one I can verify.

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Football, take a time out; put local pride, academics in Nathan Simone Online@ theplainsman.com

With our football team performing less than stellar this year, I think this is a great time for us to step back and realize we’re still winning in many areas at Auburn, even if the SEC doesn’t recognize these accomplishments. While many of us may have applied to Auburn because of our love for the gridiron and all the traditions that

surround it, we should not forget that we’re also receiving a world-class education at a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant university that is continually ranked as one of the best public schools in the USA. Take, for instance, the Harrison School of Pharmacy. Currently listed as one of the top in the nation (and beating Alabama) by U.S. News & World Report, our pharmacy program continues to receive grants and contracts to do important, and potentially life-saving, drug research that you may one day be very thankful for. The College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked even higher than the

pharmacy school (still ahead of Alabama, by the way), and is one of only 37 schools of veterinary medicine in the nation. We attract some of the brightest and most innovative students solving animal illnesses, something extremely important to the economies of the rural states of the Southeast. We have the top fisheries program in the world, an award given to us by the government of China in 2008, and it is a vital source of research, breeding innovations and protection of species. Auburn is also a leader in rehabilitation counseling, helping patients

overcome physical, mental, emotional and developmental disabilities. Rarely do you hear in passing conversations about how our men’s swim team has been the SEC champion for 16 years in a row (18 total), grabbed eight NCAA championships, or how the women have also done very well, with five SEC and NCAA championships. You can’t run from the fact that Auburn has produced world-class track and field athletes such as Maya Pressley, Joanna Atkins and Reuben McCoy, all of whom I watched represent Auburn with pride at the Olympic Track & Field trials in Eugene, Ore.

this summer. Being a part of the “Auburn family” that we’ve all worked so hard to cultivate and protect has absolutely nothing to do with football. Yes, it may pump us up during games and be a nice thing to shout downtown, but as Pat Dye said, “Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.” And to the people who keep saying “War damn eagle, anyway”: change your tone before that negative tide rolls over these beautiful Plains. Be confident this excellent University existed before football and will exist long after scores cease to matter.

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minded classes). Given various choices for a group assignment that involves a presentation, a couple options stuck out to my group members. They were options from which we should, apparently, keep away. One touched on race and the other on homosexuality. Their objections: “I don’t want to offend any-

one.” “I don’t want to touch that.” “I don’t want it to get awkward.” As far as the assignment went, whatever option we chose satisfied me. The objections to these specific options, however, struck a chord. All of my group members are white and, I have inferred, straight. Are we afraid to talk about race or

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Back Forty taps local scene Alumni brew brings back craft beer quality, returns flavor to local roots Sonya Lovejoy Community Reporter

Meet Jason Wilson, Auburn University alumnus and founder of Back Forty Beer Company. Wilson was born and raised in Gadsden and graduated from Auburn in 2005 with a degree in supply-chain management. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity at Auburn and said he loved every minute of it. He also worked his entire college career, mostly for TruGreen ChemLawn out of Opelika. Following his Auburn days, Wilson has worked in various aspects of logistics and supply chain management prior to founding Back Forty Beer Company. Wilson was originally inspired with the idea of Back Forty Beer Company in 2003 while visiting a brewery with family in the small ski town of Crested Butte, Colo. Wilson said it wasn’t just the brewery tour that inspired him to start Back Forty; it was the culture of craft beer in general that really got to him. “It took me almost 10 years to get this operation started after that first experience in Crested Butte, Colo.,” Wilson said. “The brewery tour was really just the spark that got me headed in the right direction.”

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Auburn grad Jason Wilson’s Gadsden-based brewery makes four flavors: a pale ale, Naked Pig; an Indian pale ale, Freckle Belly; a brown ale, Truck Stop Honey; and a porter, Kudzu.

By 2008, Back Forty began working with the Mindvolt Agency in Athens on label and packaging designs for the release of its debut offering, Naked Pig Pale Ale. In March 2009, Back Forty Beer Company was found-

ed in Birmingham, and by April of that same year, a deal was reached with the Alabama Budweiser network for statewide distribution of Back Forty’s products. This resulted in the creation of Alabama’s only craft brew-

ery with distribution throughout the state. The name Back Forty comes from an old Southern agricultural term that refers to the “back 40” acres of a farm. It was land that has historically gone unused because of

how far it is from the barn and how difficult it is to maintain. As a result, most farmers wouldn’t bother planting it. Likewise, Alabama has historically been viewed as the “back 40” of the craft beer world, Wilson said.

He said most microbreweries never bothered to distribute in Alabama because the general consensus is that everyone just drinks light beer in the South. Wilson said hewanted to address this misconception. “Since we were one of the first microbreweries to open in Alabama, we always kind of saw ourselves as the ones who were clearing the back 40 and planting the seed,” he said. “Now it’s harvest time, so to speak, and the craft beer market in this state is booming.” There are currently a multitude of Back Forty distributors in the Auburn and Opelika area. Halftime, Moe’s Original Bar B Que, The Hound and Loco’s Grill all carry the beer, as do several local grocery stores. Wilson said he views Back Forty as a true part of the Auburn family. Several of the company’s investors are Auburn graduates, as well as its attorney, accountant, packaging manager, sales manager, procurement manager and director of operations. “Needless to say, we believe in Auburn and love it,” Wilson said. Back Forty Beer Company is proudly brewing beers in a 27,000-square-foot facility in a historic building in Gadsden.

Sheila Eckman departs Council Nathan Simone ONLINE EDITOR

Amidst approvals for outdoor café permits and block parties, Councilwoman Sheila Eckman departed Auburn City Council after 10 years of service to accept a position at the County Commission. At the end of the meeting, the councilmembers wished Eckman well and allowed her to make suggestions and closing remarks. Eckman urged the Council to consider moving the traffic light on the corner of Mitchum Avenue and North College Street to Bragg Avenue to alleviate congestion. Eckman also suggested that the Council give each member a pay raise so that young entrepreneurs might actively participate in City Council and still make enough money to run a business. “I think y’all should vote yourselves another raise,” Eckman said. “I brought up the last two ones, and I’m bringing it up a third time. My concern is still the same. I think about young entrepreneurs that are unable to participate because they’re away from their jobs…it’s costly for him (or her) to be away from that business to be able to serve on the Council. These people are vital to our community and I think it’d be great to have some of them represented.” Eckman expressed dissatisfaction with the Council being behind in comparison to other cities. “Last time we did that, Charlie (Duggan) did a survey and saw what other cities were doing, and we were way behind,” Eckman said. “I know that we don’t do this for the money, but I’d like you to think about my considerations to make it more acces-

sible to some people.” Mayor Bill Ham Jr. and City Manager Charles Duggan agreed to consider the pay increase when the appropriate time for such action was available. Eckman’s final comments discussed the Historic Preservation Commission, which in her opinion was at a “stalemate.” “Nothing is happening there, and I attend most of those meetings,” Eckman said. “When I first got on Council, we had just gotten the first historic district, which took eight years to get. We don’t have a sign up yet… the Commission just seems to be stuck. They’re supposed to be looking at a second historic district, and they kind of do, but kind of don’t. There just doesn’t seem to be an energy level there.” Eckman told councilmembers that some members of the Commission thought the lack of activism was planned. “One of the things that I’m hearing is that they think it’s a planned thing that nothing is happening,” Eckman said. “They feel like someone is intentionally holding things up.” A round of applause by councilmembers and citizens in attendance ended Eckman’s service. Ham and Duggan signed an agreement with the Public Safety Department and Auburn City Schools to provide the Auburn City School System with resource officers and a K-9 unit for the purpose of drug detection. A contract was approved to construct a $1.15 million addition to the Frank Brown Rec Center. An outdoor café permit was approved for new Auburn restaurant En Fuego.

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The headstone of Charles Stodghill Miles is alleged to be the most vandalized grave in Pine Hill Cemetery on Armstrong Street. Miles was only a child when he died of an allergic reaction to an insect bite.

City plans to protect Auburn’s oldest cemetery Sydney Callis Community Reporter

The Historic Preservation Commission is doing everything it can to preserve the Pine Hill Cemetery — just short of embalming. The Historic Preservation Commission is looking around other cities for different ways to maintain and preserve the cemetery. “Basically the cemetery is one of the oldest historic resources in the city of Auburn,” said Matt Mosley, senior planner for the Auburn planning department and staff representative for the Historic Preservations Commission. “It’s still an active cemetery as well. There is just a lot of discussion about how a cemetery functions and is maintained and how to preserve the history while operating it as well.” At its last meeting, the Commission discussed the want for new techniques to upkeep the cemetery and asked Mosley about the cemetery and

how maintenance was handled at other cemeteries. “The Historic Preservation Commission, which is basically the city’s preservation arm, asked about how maintenance was handled in other cemeteries,” Mosley said. “They asked me informational issues about how other cities do it, whether any preservation departments do maintenance on cemeteries and things like that.” Currently, Pine Hill Cemetery is under the jurisdiction of the Parks and Recreation Department; therefore all changes to its upkeep must come from them. Mosley said he thinks the different groups that work in the cemetery prompted discussion on the way it is maintained. “A lot of private groups have been working with the cemetery to restore some of the older tombstones and some different areas around the cemetery,” Mosley said. “The city

has worked with them quite a bit as well.” After looking at the way other cities and towns maintain and take care of the cemeteries in their boundaries, Mosley said he passed his findings along to the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department. “I went out and asked other cities and organizations how they do it and replied back to them (HPC),” Mosley said. “We didn’t actually take any steps or asked to change the maintenance of it. It’s done by our Parks and Rec Department, and they do a good job with it.” Pine Hill Cemetery was established in 1837 on land donated by John J. Harper, the founder of Auburn. Becky Richardson, parks and recreation director, said the department works to be respectful to all cemeteries and keep them properly maintained. “The cemetery advisory board has worked with the Auburn Cemetery trust, which is

a nonprofit group that was formed to raise funds to assist with projects at city of Auburn cemeteries,” Richardson said. The two groups have worked together on a few projects designed to maintain Pine Hill cemetery. These projects include putting new fencing around the cemetery, putting a stone retaining wall around the front of the cemetery where there was erosion and new lanterns. Richardson said maintaining the cemetery is important to the Parks and Recreation Department. “It is important because it is a part of our history and we want people to be able to continue to learn from it,” Richardson said. “I think it’s important to be respectful to all cemeteries, and that’s what we try to do.” Richardson said she has not seen the findings from Mosley, but that the maintenance of the cemetery will remain the same.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Loachapoka ready for 41st Historical Festival, Syrup Sopping Sydney Callis

McCord said the Syrup Sopping Saturday started in 1971 because Loachapoka farmers have been making the syrup from the early days of the town. “They demonstrate cooking the syrup down, and they have mills that grind the sugar cane,” McCord said. “We also do the syrup on this side (Historic Festival), and we grind sugar cane. The kids get to go out and see the cutting of the cane, and we let the children help grind the cane. They get to taste the juice, and then the syrup is cooked in the syrup mill.” The two events work to expose new generations to the historical traditions and crafts of East Alabama and inspire them to continue the traditions.

Society wanted to have a day to invite people in to see old timey or heritage crafts and the historical documents and things that we have here at the Historical Society,” McCord said. ”So, they had the Historical Fair.” Lee County Historical Society saw the festival as a way to demonstrate the historic crafts and traditions to new generations in order to keep them going. “The vendors have historical crafts, homemade jellies and preserves, homemade syrups, homemade biscuits and those kinds of things,” McCord said. “They also have handcrafts like basket making, pottery, woodcarvings and other heritage crafts. Our side of the street still carries on that historical and heritage flavor.”

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Lee County is going back to its roots by showcasing the historical culture and traditions of East Alabama. The Lee County Historical Society’s 41st annual Historical Festival, Saturday, Oct. 20, highlights the traditions and crafts of historic Alabama. Directly across the street from the festival will be Syrup Sopping Saturday, an event sponsored by the Loachapoka Ruritan Club, Ladies Improvement Club and the Lee County Historical Society. Deborah McCord, event planner for Lee County Historical Society, said the historical festival began in 1971 as a way to pass on the old traditions and keep them alive. “The Lee County Historical

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“Loachapoka was named by the Creek Indians,” McCord said. “We have Creek Indian dancers that will be here at the Historical Fair, and they will perform three times during the day. They’re very specific to the history of this region.” The fair and Syrup Sopping Saturday are two events the Lee County Historical Society put on in an effort to save the historical traditions and crafts of the local area. “We’re truly trying to preserve our heritage as far as crafts, food, songs and dance and other things that we do here to keep it from being lost,” McCord said. “We’re trying to have it as an educational format so that our children won’t forget this heritage and can pass it on to future generations.”

said. “Things like pine straw baskets, pottery, wood carvings, hand crocheted and knitted items, handmade loom items.” McCord said a lot of the pottery at the events is made from Alabama clay. However, McCord said the Historical Festival and Syrup Sopping Saturday do more than show historical crafts and food. There will be musical performances to represent different musical styles from that time, dance performances, surrey rides, a petting zoo and exhibits to showcase local history. McCord said the Historical Fair also works to represent the Creek Indian heritage. Loachapoka was a Creek settlement.

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works closely with school leaders like the Committee of 19, helped preside over the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was a great event, a good turnout, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about awareness,â&#x20AC;? Carry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means more people will know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. I think it was short and sweet and right to the point.â&#x20AC;? The event was successful, with 150 people in attendance. The success has motivated

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;East Alabama Food Bank, a lot of people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize, does so much and they serve so many entities,â&#x20AC;? said attendee Abby Porter, senior accounting major. Porter is a frequent food bank volunteer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are raising all this food and money for the East Alabama Food Bank which is facing incredible amount of need, especially in the economic downturn, but in the last year particularly,â&#x20AC;? Ahmed said. Carey Bayless, senior in English and creative writing, is an advocacy and awareness facilitator for the Committee of 19. Bayless recognizes the banquetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place in creating responsiveness to hunger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we do has eternal worth and eternal purpose,â&#x20AC;? Bayless said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are people starving here in Opelika, our backyard. Lee County is actually the second hungriest county in Alabama, and people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that. Committee of 19 exists to fight hunger through advocacy and aware-

Next time you go up for seconds, consider the people who have yet to have firsts. This was the premise of Hunger Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Empty Bowls Banquet, held Tuesday, Oct. 16. The banquet was organized by the Committee of 19 and spearheaded by Vice-President Azeem Ahmed, senior in finance. The room was set and decorated in a banquet-style, but substituting a particularly fancy meal were empty bowls placed at each seat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is basically to remind everybody of the empty bowls around the world,â&#x20AC;? said Cara Tupps, senior in microbiology and fundraising facilitator for the Committee of 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our students have made the ceramic bowls, decorated them, hand-crafted. You take a bowl and you fill it with food, and you eat.â&#x20AC;? The art department and the College of Agriculture origi-

nally organized the event. The College of Agriculture donated its Heritage Park and the art department hand-made all the bowls. Tiger Dining provided the soup and The Hotel at Auburn University donated the dinner rolls. Everything, down to the plastic utensils, was donated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main thing about Empty Bowls is even though our bowls will have food in it, it is in honor of the people who go to bed at night with their bowls empty, which is over a billion people,â&#x20AC;? Ahmed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While the meal is simple and is filling, it is simple enough that you will remember that the people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get that in their bowls. So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main ideaâ&#x20AC;? The Banquet is based on a larger initiative of the Empty Bowls Project in an international grassroots movement against hunger. All of the proceeds from the banquet will be given to the East Alabama Food Bank.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

In 165th year, Auburn’s Pebble Hill house celebrates rich history Sydney Callis Community Reporter

The history of Auburn remains alive and well through the preservation of Auburn’s historic homes and buildings. This year marks the 165th year since Auburn’s historic Scott-Yarbrough “Pebble Hill” home was built. The home’s history is filled with a small list of people who lived in the home, said Maiben Beard, outreach associate for the Caroline Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities. “ The Scott-Yarbrough House was built in 1847 by Nathaniel and Mary Scott,” Beard said. “The Scotts came to East Alabama as part of a wave of settlers who came to the area after the United States acquired the territory from the Creek Indians.“ The Scotts had familial ties with Auburn, and through that, they played a role in the development of Auburn. “The Scotts helped build the town of Auburn, which was founded by Nathaniel Scott’s half brother, John J. Harper,” Beard said. Nathaniel Scott died in 1863 and Mary sold the house some time after that, said historian Evelyn Causey. “The records are not as well kept, as the area was in somewhat of an upheaval,” Causey said. Causey, who was hired by Auburn University to research the history of Pebble Hill, said there are few records of the

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time after the Civil War in relation to the ownership of the home, but that the next known owner was Mary Riley. “Mary Riley purchased it in 1876,” Causey said. “She’s a very interesting person because, looking at her records, we have no idea how she brought in any income. She’s never listed with an occupation, but somehow she had enough money to buy the house.” Riley lived in Pebble Hill until her death in 1907, Causey said. Pebble Hill’s next tenants were the Yarbrough family, who bought the home in 1912. Cecil Yarbrough served as mayor of Auburn and then

moved on to be a state representative, Beard said. Pebble Hill served as student housing in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and was bought by the Auburn Heritage Association in 1974. However, that was not the only time in Pebble Hill’s history that it was used as student housing. “When Nathaniel and Mary Scott were living at the house in 1850, they had 14 students who were attending schools in Auburn and lived in the house with them,” Causey said. “They basically boarded students who were attending academies in the town at that time.” Pebble Hill was donated to Auburn Heritage Associ-

ation in the 1980s and was then gifted to Auburn University in 1985, Causey said. It is now home of Auburn’s Caroline Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities “The location of Pebble Hill, situated in between the University and the community, is a perfect example of the work that we do,” Beard said. “Through our programs, we help connect the University with the broader community.” Beard said CAH is working to expand Pebble Hill’s influence and reputation in the city of Auburn. “The history of Pebble Hill reflects the history of Auburn in so many ways,” Beard said. “We are currently working on

a website that uses Pebble Hill as a lens to look at local, state and national history.” As one of the oldest buildings in the city, the Scott-Yarbrough home is going to continue to be protected and a project is in the works to restore the building, Beard said. “We are working on an expansion and renovation project,” Beard said. “Eventually, Pebble Hill will be period-furnished and decorated, taking it back to its 1840s roots.” Causey said she believes Pebble Hill is the most wellpreserved pre-Civil War home in the Auburn area, and it provides a way to bond Auburn University and the City of Auburn together.

“Pebble Hill represents a link between the history of the University and the history of the town,” Causey said. “So much of the physical, tangible aspects of Auburn’s early history have been gone or significantly altered.” Causey believes it is important to know the history. “The 165th anniversary is a good occasion to remember how important it is to have these buildings to understand and remember the people involved in building Auburn,” Causey said. “Not just the planters and the merchants, but this town was also built by slaves, and that’s an important thing to remember in our history as we look to our future.”

Local sports eatery, Touchdown’s, closing afer 23 years; new owners preparing hibachi & sushi joint Rebecca Moseley Writer

The miniature baseball bat that once served as the door handle for Touchdown’s will soon be removed and new owners hope to hit it out of the park with a completely transformed restaurant. Empty brew dispensers, bottles and remodeling tools line the bar that once catered to packed crowds watching football games and Pay-PerView wrestling events. Decorative street signs and sports memorabilia that are aged and dusty from the 23 years of business lay on the only pool table left in the closed bar. “It was time,” said Larry Wilson, former owner of Touchdown’s. “Business just wasn’t as good as it used to be.” Wilson, who also opened the Country’s Barbecue franchise on Opelika Road in 1990, said he opened Touchdown’s from scratch because it had always been his dream.

“It was just something I always wanted to do, so I gave it a shot,” Wilson said. Wilson cites the change in city bus routes, the distance from campus and the economy as contributing factors of the restaurant’s closing. “It has been successful over the years, but the economy made it harder for us just like everybody else,” Wilson said. As a small team worked briskly to update ceiling fans and remove old décor, the new owner Su Chong Cho explains that plans for painting and updating the floor are soon to be underway. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to open our restaurant,” Cho said. “We’re opening a sushi and hibachi-style restaurant.” Matthew Gogorth, sophomore in physics said he was excited to see more asiancuisine inspired reastaurants. “The only other oriental restaurant I know of in Auburn is Seoul BBQ,” said Go-

forth. “So, I think a new hibachi-style restaurant will add a little variety.” Fellow physics student Taylor Hall agreed and said Auburn needs a new place for dinner dates. “I think it would be nice to have a little bit nicer of a hibachi sushi place, because the only place I eat hibachi is at Hibachi Express,” Hall said. Cho said the restaurant will now be called Sushi Boy and the sign will soon be erected out front. In the meantime, some of the sports and gaming décor that once filled the walls and surrounded the classic arcade games in Touchdown’s will be available for sale on eBay and craigslist.com, according to Wilson. Wilson said he also owns rental properties around Auburn and that after the transformation from Touchdown’s to Sushi Boy is complete, he will continue to maintain those and as well as Country’s Barbecue.

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That is the number of pounds Auburn defensive tackle Kenneth Carter has on Ole Miss quarterback Brandon Wallace. That difference didn’t stop Wallace from dragging the lineman into the end zone to ice the game after slipping from the arms of defensive end Corey Lemonier on a 2-yard run. Between the poor tackling and lack of energy on defense, the Rebels had no problem hanging 17 points on Auburn in the fourth quarter.

Ole Miss had lost 12 consecutive conference games heading into the game against Auburn. The Tigers were tied with the Rebels 17–17 at the half and looked ready to keep that streak alive, but Ole Miss went on a 24–3 run in the second half to break both the tie and the streak. Auburn has now lost six straight SEC games and will try to snap that streak against Vanderbilt Saturday, Oct. 20.

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Wide receivers coach Trooper Taylor gathers the team in the huddle after pre-game warm-ups in Oxford, Miss. Saturday, Oct. 13. The Tigers would go on to lose to the Rebels 41–20 and have yet to record a conference win.

Now or never

With tough schedule looming, Auburn must win at Vanderbilt to avoid going winless in the SEC for first time since 1980.

Auburn has now allowed at least 24 points in five of the team’s six games. Last season, the Tigers allowed 24 or more points in eight of their 13 games. Whatever the cause, the defense looks uncomfortably similar to the one that cost former defensive coordinator Ted Roof his job. Heading into the second half of the season, defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder must find a better way to get his message across to the defense. Besides an inspired effort versus LSU, missed tackles, missed assignments and miscommunication have cost Auburn leads and chances to stay within striking distance of opponents.

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In Doug Barfield’s fifth and final season as head coach in 1980, Auburn finished 5–6, with all six losses coming against conference opponents. The number of wins Auburn had against the SEC that season? Zero. Through six games this season, the Tigers have been skinned by all four conference opponents and aren’t relishing the opportunity to accomplish what hasn’t happened on the Plains in 42 years. On Saturday, Oct. 20, Auburn (1–5, 0–4 conference) will have its best chance of the season to avoid laying an egg in the SEC win column. Saturday the team will take on Vanderbilt, a perennial SEC door mat that has mustered only 10 wins the past three seasons. This year, the Commodores (2–4, 1–3 conference) have been stepped on by No. 3 Florida, No. 9 South Carolina and No. 13 Georgia and lost to Northwestern 23–13. Still, Vanderbilt’s energetic style of play has impressed Auburn head coach Gene Chizik. “Vanderbilt is a team that plays extremely hard,” Chizik said. “Offensively, they’ve got a tailback (Zac Stacy) that is extremely, extremely talented; they have a couple of different wideouts that are very, very good; and the quarterback (Jordan Rodgers) is a guy that can really manage the offense.” Both offenses have the fastbreak ability to score from any range, but inconsistency and errors have left them looking up from the bottom of the league thus far. Rodgers has nowhere near the talent of his Superbowl MVP older brother Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, but has shown he can manage the game efficiently and throw when needed. When needed, wide receiver Jordan Matthews has been there to haul his passes in. At 6-foot-3-inch and 205 pounds, Matthews has the size and speed to terrorize opposing secondaries and has been the recipient of all three of Rodgers’ touchdowns this season. The primary concern for the Tigers will be tapping their own dormant offensive potential against a spunky Commodore defense. Auburn should have the upper hand on the ground Saturday when it pits the strength of the offense against the No. 108-ranked rushing defense.

Quarterback Clint Moseley had zero touchdowns aginst the Rebels. Besides the obvious hindrances caused by not scoring points, this perforomance kept alive another unfavorable streak: Moseley has never passed for a touchdown in consecutive games. In fact, in Moseley’s last seven games —not including the Chick-fil-A Bowl—weeks in which he passed for a touchdown have always been followed by a zerotouchdown, one-interception performance. Moseley threw for one touchdown against Arkansas. He left Oxford with one interception, no touchdowns.

Auburn in the NFL Ronnie Brown – (RB, San Diego Chargers)

Three rushes for 13 yards and three catches for 23 yards. His rushing total, while small, was large enough to put him over 5,000 rushing yards in his career. W DEN 35 - SD 24

Takeo Spikes – (LB, San Diego Chargers) Five tackles. L DEN 35 - SD 24

Quentin Groves – (LB, Arizona Cardinals) No tackles. L ARI 16 - BUF 19

Karlos Dansby – (LB, Miami Dolphins) Nine tackles. W MIA 17 - STL 14

Devin Aromashodu – (WR, Minnesota Vikings)

One catch for 13 yards. L MIN 26 - WAS 38

Rob Bironas – (PK, Tennessee Titans)

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Gene Chizik watches as his team gets outscored 24–3 in the second half of Auburn’s 41–20 loss to Ole Miss Saturday, Oct. 13.

The passing game is another story. Auburn has used all three quarterbacks available this season, but no changes have yielded any positive results. Starters Kiehl Frazier and Clint Moseley have combined for three touchdowns, two fumbles lost and 11 interceptions on the season. Wallace was useful in the wildcat role when his number was unexpectedly called against LSU and the freshman earned some key first downs on the ground. That talent is being squandered. Offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler’s aversion to calling pass plays for Wallace has allowed opponents to take the field prepared for yet another predictable element of Auburn’s offense, the fifth worst in the nation. Whomever enters the huddle as quarterback this weekend, Vanderbilt’s No. 7 pass defense will try to make Auburn’s offense one-dimensional and stymie any comeback opportunities the Tigers have, should the Commodores take the lead. “Defensively, the thing that is most impressive about them is it’s really been difficult for people to throw the ball on them,” Chizik said. “And then just how hard they play defensively is very, very impressive.” While Auburn understands the

impact and importance of a dominant rushing attack, sacks, turnovers and miscues have robbed the team of points, and a running game is of no use when playing from behind. Despite these limitations, Auburn must overcome the criticism, betting lines and recent failures to have any chance of recording a conference win this season. The last three SEC opponents on the schedule include No. 1 Alabama, No. 13 Georgia and Texas A&M, a team averaging 47 points-per-game this season. Barring a miraculous upset of Appalachian State-Michigan proportions, the Tigers head into Nashville with nothing to lose and nothing tangible to play for. Fans no longer expect victory and rolls of toilet paper remain conspicuously unpurchased on supermarket shelves. The team has fumbled away any chance at even a lesser bowl game and can now only hope to tackle the infamy that accompanies a historically awful season. Saturday, Chizik and the Tigers must find a sense of urgency and pounce on their best chance to record an SEC win this season, or they will risk being trampled by the rest of the pack.

Four-for-four on field goal attempts and connected on both extra point attempts. His fields goals came after a two-week drought of zero field goals. W PIT 23 - TEN 26

Sen’Derrick Marks – (DT, Tennessee Titans) Three tackles. W PIT 23 - TEN 26

Ben Obomanu – (WR, Seattle Seahawks) No catches. W NE 23 -SEA 24

Jerraud Powers – (CB, Indianapolis Colts) One tackle. L NYJ 35 - IND 9

Carlos Rogers – (DB, San Francisco 49ers) Three tackles. L NYG 26 - SF 3

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Pat Lee – (DB, Oakland Raiders) Two tackles. L OAK 20 - ATL 23

Byes: Chicago backup quarterback Jason Campbell, Carolina quarterback Cam Newton and New Orleans guard Ben Grubbs and linebacker Will Herring had bye weeks last week. Atlanta long snapper Josh Harris, Philadelphia offensive tackle King Dunlap, Miami linebacker Karlos Dansby and San Diego linebacker Takeo Spikes and running back Ronnie Brown all have byes this week. Injuries: Dallas defensive tackle and Houston running back Ben Tate returned from injuries this week. San Francisco rnning back Brandon Jacobs missed his sixth game of the season with a knee injury. Cincinatti defensive tackle Pat Sims is on the Physically Unable to Perform list with an ankle injury. Injured reserve: Tristan Davis – (RB, Washington Redskins) Mario Fannin – (RB, Denver Broncos) Brandon Mosley – (OG, New York Giants) Lee Ziemba – (OT, Carolina Panthers)

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Q&A with junior golfer Marta Sanz Marta Sanz is a junior on the women’s golf team. Originally from Madrid, Spain, Sanz hopes to turn professional after her time at Auburn is over. Sanz agreed to sit down with The Plainsman and discuss her recent playing and goals for the future. Nathan Simone Online Editor

The women’s golf team just returned from the Tar Heel Invitational at Chapel Hill, N.C. where you finished with an 80 on the par72 course. How did you feel about the tournament and how is the team looking this year?

I clearly didn’t play good, but I think it was just because I was really exhausted from playing a lot of weeks (in a row). That was the main reason I think I played bad. It’s not an excuse, because I have to keep playing well even if I’m tired because that’s what a pro tour is like, but I still feel good about my game and the team’s game. We love that tournament, they always provide really great food and the course is nice. I think we’re a really promising team, and I think we’re going to do really well this season.

The team opened up the season ranked seventh, but is now eighth. How is everyone looking to improve to No. 1? I think they still feel really good, we just had an off tournament. We’re coming from playing really great at Georgia at the fall preview, which is a really important tournament that national champi-

Miller’s eyes return to glory for hoops team John Burns Sports Reporter

onships team play at. We honed the lead until the last day, and we still feel ready to be number one and win the national championship.

Many professional golfers say that golf is 90 percent mental. Do you agree? How do you prepare for high-profile competitions?

I definitely agree. Practicing uses your mental game as well, because you need a lot of confidence. If you practice a lot and get your confidence up, then your mental games get better. You also have to practice your mental game, improve your concentration and just have time by yourself to think about the game.

You and your older sister Patricia (graduated in 2012), were both on the golf team. Coming from Madrid, Spain, how did you choose to come to Auburn?

It’s really popular in Spain to come to the U.S. to play golf. You can’t play golf in Spain while going to college. The studies are too hard and won’t allow you to do both at this level. There was another Spanish girl on Auburn’s team who recommended the coach recruit my sister. The coach recruited her, my sister felt convinced, and then my sister talked to the coach about recruiting me and she did. We knew this was a great place to come and play golf. They were highly ranked, so we just came here.

What was it like representing Spain (and helping them tie for fifth) in the World Amateur Team Championship in Antalya, Turkey? Unbelievable. I don’t know how to describe the experience of representing your country for a world championship. It’s definitely a dream come true, and it was truly incredible.

You’ve played courses all over the world and the USA. What’s

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Junior Marta Sanz recently returned from helping Spain finish fifth at the World Amateur Team Championship in Turkey.

been your favorite course to play in the world? In the USA?

(Laughs) That’s an impossible question. I’ve played too many. I really like to play a course in Madrid called Puerta Hierro (Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro). In the U.S., I really like North Carolina’s course (UNC Finley Golf Course).

Do you have any plans to turn professional after your time at Auburn is over, in the U.S. or Europe?

I’m going to try both either way, but I really want to make it here. I really want to play the LPGA qualifiers and try to be pro.

Golf is a quiet sport that doesn’t allow cheering, loud noises or excessive distractions. How can students who come to matches show their support for the golf team?

We barely play any tournaments here, but we are hosting regionals this year. It would be great if a lot of Auburn people were watching. I’m not saying to stay for 18 holes, I’ll admit that it can get boring… if you come to watch the nine last holes, especially if we’re leading, go there and applaud. Just be there, because we barely see people at tournaments.

The most recent addition to the Auburn basketball team, associate head coach Ryan Miller, has been brought on to the staff to help make Auburn a basketball power once again. Miller, 37, spent two months on the Missouri coaching staff before he was hired by Auburn. His reasons for joining the Auburn staff were his personal and professional relationship with head coach Tony Barbee and to help in the rebuilding of the basketball program. Miller spent three years at Memphis as a basketball operations assistant while Barbee was an assistant coach there. “I’m excited about Ryan joining our staff,” Barbee said. “He is a close friend who I have known for quite a while now. He is going to add a lot to the program in all areas, from recruiting to coaching to relationships with players.” Before Miller was at Missouri, he was an assistant coach for New Mexico, and Miller thought his experience with rebuilding a program such as New Mexico’s should give him an edge at Auburn. “Before we took over the job (at New Mexico), the previous staff was last in the Mountain West Conference, and in five years there we won two regular season conference championships and one conference championship tournament,” Miller said. “I will bring the experience of rebuilding a program that was traditionally good.” Auburn basketball has not been to the NCAA Tournament since 2003, when the team made it to the Sweet Sixteen and was knocked off by eventual champion Syracuse.

Associate head Basketball coach Ryan Miller

The basketball team finished last season 15–16, 5–11 in conference play, and needs to improve greatly to repeat former successes. “We’re just trying to get our guys better every day through individual instruction,” Miller said. “I’m trying to teach them things that I’ve learned in the past throughout my coaching stints.” Coaching at Auburn does not only entail teaching current players, but recruiting players for upcoming seasons as well. Miller is considered to be one of the top recruiters in the nation. “We’ve got to get out there and recruit,” Miller said. “We’re trying to find talent that wants to come to a special place in Auburn University. We have a lot to offer, so we’re just going to go out and recruit the best possible athletes that want to have success on and off the court.” Ryan Miller is familiar with playing on the court too, as he was selected to two all-state teams during high school and helped his team to a state championship in 1994. Miller played collegiate and professional basketball through 1999 until he returned to Northern State in Aberdeen, S.D. to get his bachelor’s degree in physical education in 2000.

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Equestrian rides to 11–9 win Caitlin Wagenseil Writer

In an equestrian matchup Saturday, Oct. 13 between third-ranked Auburn and fourth-ranked Texas A&M, the Auburn women emerged victorious with an 11–9 win over the Aggies. After coming off a loss to South Carolina, the Tigers used the win to push themselves to 2–1 for the year. The meet was neck-andneck the entire time, with each team winning two of the four events. Junior Christina Lin of Auburn beat Leah Chenelle of Texas A&M with a score of 88– 79, giving the Tigers a 1–0 lead. The Tigers went on to score two more points, leading 2–1 over the Aggies in Over Fences, and 2–1 overall. At halftime, the score was tied 5–5, with Auburn winning 3–2 in Over Fences, and Texas A&M taking Western Reining 3–2. With the announcer reminding anxious fans “it all comes down to this,” every point was critical following the break, as the last two events would determine who would take the win. The Tigers won Hunt Seat equitation 4–1 over the Aggies, and the three-point margin in that event was the deciding factor in the overall victory.

Auburn lost to Texas A&M in Western horsemanship with a score of 3–2, but had racked up enough points to ensure an overall win over the SEC-newcomerAggies. Head coach Greg Williams said he was pleased with how the girls rode. “We kept ahead in the game with tremendous rides from our Hunt Seat riders,” Williams said. “We have tremendous leadership from several of our upperclassmen, so how well we can move forward is unlimited at this point.” One upperclassman providing leadership was Lin. The junior won the Most Outstanding Player award for equitation over fences, as well as Hunt Seat equitation, with a high score of 84. “Coming into this meet, I was more than determined to make up for some lost ground since we fell short to South Carolina last weekend,” Lin said. “ I really wanted to give it my hardest to help my team out the best I could.” Lin said the win means so much for the team. “The spirit all the girls have right now is unbeatable,” she said. “Being able to beat the defending national champions proves that we are in this for the long haul. It would be great to keep our momentum going as we get ready to host one of

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our biggest competitors, Georgia, in a few weeks.” The coaches have clear-cut expectations now they’ve been through enough practices and meets to assess the talent level as a team, Williams said. “The task from now until April, when our national championships are, is identifying which players are going to consistently perform to those expectations with all of the different opponents, horses and conditions they will face,” Williams said. Auburn will face Georgia Friday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. at the Auburn University Horse Center. Admission is free, and the first 300 fans will receive an orange Auburn Equestrian Bandanna.

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Megan Bifano competing in English Style last Saturday against Texas A&M. Bifano defeated Kat Barkema 77–40.

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Stephanie Rucci riding Glenda The Good Horse in western last Saturday against Texas A&M.

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Cultural and Religious minefields in the practice of medicine & Medical Ethics in the U.S. and abroad Lecture will be followed by an interactive group discussion.

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Tigers outswim the Tide in first meet of the season Ali Jenkins Sports Reporter

Auburn’s swimming and diving team continued its dominance Friday, Oct. 12, besting Alabama in 24 of 26 events in the season-opening dual meet at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center. The Tiger men raced past their in-state rivals by a score of 175–68 as the women’s squad outshined the Crimson Tide 182-62. The victory pushed both Auburn teams to 1–0 on the dual meet season, while Alabama’s men and women each fell to 1–1. The Auburn women swept the pool in six of 11 individual events and placed first and second in both relays. The men’s team went 13-for-13 on the day with top-three sweeps in three individual events. “I was really happy with the attitude and the willingness to race today,” coach Brett Hawke

said. “Like I said earlier, this is not just a regular dual meet. This is Auburn-Alabama. We wanted to show our swimming supremacy in the state, and this kind of kickstarts our SEC season, too. We’re feeling good about the way we started. “We’ve been itching to get this season started, and Alabama was the opponent that happened to come into our pool today. We were ready to race. The guys have been working hard in the training pool, and it paid off.” Senior Kyle Owens jumpstarted the Tiger men’s winning-streak as the leadoff leg of the 200-yard medley relay, helping a team of senior Stuart Ferguson, juniors TJ Leon and Zane Grothe to a first-place finish in 1:30.66. Auburn’s fourman team of seniors Brandon Siemasko and Chandler Gerlach and sophomores Kevin Behrens and Sam Parker se-

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Sophomore Michael Beran placed second in 3-meter diving Oct. 12.

cured second place with a time of 1:33.69, narrowly escaping Alabama’s top team. Owens went on to take first in the 200 IM (1:49.42), heading a top-three sweep alongside sophomore Alex Hancock (1:49.52) and freshman Jordan Jones (1:53.25). Owens’ 1:47.57 grabbed the top spot in the 200 backstroke, giving him victories in all three races he competed in. Junior Marcelo Chierighini also went three-for-three on the day, swimming a 20.24 in the 50 freestyle and a 44.44 in the 100 free. He led the Tigers to their final win of the meet, swimming the leadoff leg of the 200-yard medley relay to kickstart the team of James Disney-May, Hancock and Leon to a 3:00.17 victory. Grothe, senior Hannah Riordan and junior Olivia Scott each picked up wins in three events to extend Auburn’s margin of victory over the Crimson Tide. The diving team added to the Tigers’ success. Junior John Santeiu IV finished with wins in one-and three-meter diving. His winning score of 348.83 in the 1-meter event earned him an NCAA Zone qualifying score. He led an Auburn sweep of the top three spots while collecting another Zone score in the 3-meter event with a 355.58. Sophomores Michael Beran (341.10) and Fraser McKean (321.68) rounded out the event, placing second and third respectively. The Tigers will face another SEC team in their second dual meet of the season Saturday, Oct. 20, against LSU. The meet is scheduled for an 11 a.m. start at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.

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Aaron Martin stiff-arms his way through the Texas A&M squad in a fall sevens tournament.

Rugby team improves, prepares with fall tune-ups John Burns Sports Reporter

While rugby may not be the most popular sport in Auburn, the Auburn University Rugby Club has been a staple on the Plains since 1973. The Auburn club rugby team competes in the fall and the spring, but the fall is more of a warm-up for the more serious spring matches. “The fall season is not our full conference season,” said Dillon Rheuby, club president. “The important season is in the spring, where we compete in an all-SEC league called the SCRC.” Though the spring may the most important competitive season, fall is important for preparation. The team has already competed in several games this fall, including a sevens tournament. Sevens competitions have only seven players on the field for each team, instead of the usual 15. Auburn beat Ole Miss and LSU at the tournament, but lost to Texas A&M twice and Tennessee once. The Tennessee game was to determine third place in the tournament. “We finished fourth in the

SEC,” Rheuby said. “Beating LSU was huge because they went to the national championship tournament in 2011.” In 15-man competitions this fall, Auburn’s record is 2-1. The club team fell to Alabama 28-22, but defeated Georgia Tech 20-7 and shut out Jacksonville State 17-0. “Though we lost to Alabama, it is an exceptional leap from last year when they beat us handedly,” Rheuby said. Indeed, Auburn’s rugby team has come a long way from last season, and it is due in part to new leadership. “This year we have a new coach, David Bess,” said Sebastian Kamyab, a member of the rugby team. “It has really improved the leadership on the team, because it took it out of the players’ hands. You can really tell the guys are coming together; we’ve been more productive on the field, and we’ve been able to handle ourselves a lot more professionally than before.” Before, the team had no official coaches and relied on players to fill the role. The addition of a coach has

already paid dividends. “This season has been about a 150 percent improvement from where we’ve been for the past three years,” Kamyab said. Another factor in the team’s success was the formation of a group that competed alongside each other in the off-season. “We have a bunch of guys who formed a core group this summer,” Rheuby said. “They played together while they were taking summer classes and played exceptionally well almost every time they competed together.” It is a long season, and the most intense and competitive part will come in the spring, but the team will be working hard until that time. The team practices Tuesdays and Thursdays every week, and because it is a club team that is not university sponsored, it costs $150 each semester to be a member. This weekend Auburn gets a break from recorded competition as the team will play a scrimmage. Every competition, recorded or not, will help the growing team going forward.

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Auburn art students worked together on the mural as a gift to the Boys and Girls Club last fall.

The history behind the mural of Lee County’s Boys and Girls Club Caleb List Writer

Each year, several Auburn University students have the opportunity to connect with the community through art. As one of the most recent projects last fall, students volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lee County three times a week, spending time with the youth and teaching them art classes. The project culminated with the team painting a mural as a gift to the club. “The students were allowed to get to know the community that they were creating the mural for,” said Wendy Deschene, associate professor of art. “They tried very hard to learn the young members' names, and get to know what they liked and who they were, as well as to share their art skills with them.” Deschene, whose own works have been found displayed both on the street and in galleries around the world, was the instigator behind the community outreach project. “I strongly believe that art

can be anywhere in the world at any time,” she said. “Often I think art lies dying on the wall of a gallery and is at its best when it’s being created in a lively community with conversation and the energy of both the artist and the viewer interacting. The murals I create with my students are a direct manifestation of my philosophy.” Many of the students involved in the project were eager to simply connect with the city of Auburn's community, a task sometimes difficult to fit into the busy schedule of an art student. “We sometimes forget that the city of Auburn lives on outside of the University, and Wendy often assigns her class to do mural work both as a teaching tool for large-format painting and as a service to the community,” said Kathryn Beck, senior in fine arts. “We often get shut up in our studios, and we forget the experience of getting to watch someone create something beautiful. It was wonderful to provide that for someone

else, getting to explain how the process works and illustrating it on the walls themselves.” Deschene said she hopes to find further opportunities to connect her students to the community in the cities of Auburn and Opelika. “It was great to watch the Auburn students paint and have the youth members come by and ask them questions and have conversations with them, as at the point the mural was actually being created, they were all friends,” Deschene said. “Age didn't matter as art was the focus, a binding power that allowed these wonderful interactions.” The mural the Auburn art department left behind was a conversation piece and the document of these relationships forged between youths and mentor artists. The mural will remain on the walls of the after-school club, connecting the youth members to Auburn University and inspiring them artistically and creatively.

From skimping, pimping and cable-car driving to reciting her poetry at a presidential inauguration, Maya Angelou is not considered a mere success story. She is said to be a Renaissance woman, and she’s coming to Auburn. She did not champion civil rights to the degree of Martin Luther King Jr., and she was not as militant as Malcolm X, but she did, to some extent, work with them. Angelou represented another side of civil rights: the arts. Her works acted to legitimize the black woman herself as an artist, as someone capable of being the central figure and not a corollary. To precede her arrival Nov. 8, the College of Liberal Arts will present a Renaissancestyle compilation of its own with “Angelou and the Arts.” The theater and art departments will display performances of their own respective art forms at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. There will be a presentation by the students in the intermediate I dance techniques class, a performance by the Mosaic Theatre Company and a juried art exhibit orchestrated by students in the professional practices class. “It’s a special event in her honor, since she’ll be visiting campus on Nov. 8,” said Adrienne Wilson, associate professor in the theater department. Wilson said her students in the intermediate I dance class

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The plan was to try a projectdriven approach to learning. So, instead of talking about a juried show... we decided to conduct one.” —Barb Bondy Associate professor of art

will be performing a “structured-improvisational” dance outside of the theater based off of an excerpt from Angelou’s book, “Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas.” The piece will feature dance forms popular from the late 1940s to mid 1950s and before. “We had a little history lesson about the rhumba, the tango, the jitterbug, the SuzieQ, trucking, snake-hips, conga, Charleston, cha-cha-cha,” Wilson said, laughing. The Mosaic Theatre Company will perform four pieces, two of which were created specifically for the event. The company held its first auditions last February. “We are in our inaugural season,” said Heather May, associate professor of theatre and artistic director of the MTC. “It addresses a variety of issues,” May said, describing the company’s performance. “I would say, again, around

diversity, but we take two of her poems — so we take ‘Still I Rise’ and ‘These Yet to be United States,’ as sort of the foundation for what we’re doing. For us, we really do think of diversity, pretty much, in its whitest sense. The two that aren’t Angelou’s poems are explicitly about kind of dealing with a racist incident in the classroom space.” The professional practices class, directed by Barb Bondy, associate professor of art, will present “Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: A Juried Student Exhibition of Works on Paper.” “I decided to try a real-life learning experience for the class, in addition to what they would normally gain from the class,” Bondy said. “The plan was to try a project-driven approach to learning. So, instead of talking about a juried show, which is a competitive exhibition opportunity, we decided to conduct one.” The artwork that will be in the show is from students in and outside of Auburn. “They put out a call in the Southeastern U.S. to undergraduate students, who rarely get an opportunity to be in a competitive situation,” Bondy said. “They’re offering professional development to students just like them.” “Angelou and the Arts” and reception Oct. 29 are free. Angelou’s Nov. 8 lecture is sold out, but there will be a drawing at “Angelou and the Arts” for a chance to win tickets. More information can be found at Auburn.edu/WomensLeadership.

‘Glee Project 2’ star keeps shining, soon to release first EP Melody Kitchens Intrigue Editor

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Auburn alumna Shanna Henderson will release her first EP Nov. 24.

A year ago this week marks when Auburn alumna Shanna Henderson’s life changed with “The Glee Project 2.” Now, Henderson is moving toward bigger and better things, including her own EP titled “Lost Love.” “Lost Love” is in its postproduction phase, and Henderson is currently working on photo shoots for its upcoming release date Nov. 24, including a video recently made at Telfair B. Peet Theatre for her first single titled “Burning.” “In ‘Lost Love,’ there’s definitely a theme of finding love and losing it in different facets,” Henderson said. “My music is definitely more real, because I have the ‘Lifetime’ of a movie life, and I used to be afraid to write about it in

song, but I’m not now.” Henderson, who recently graduated with a degree in musical theater, said there will be four songs on the EP titled “Let Go,” “Knightly,” “11/24” and “Burning.” “If you really pay attention to the news and real people’s stories of losing loved ones and seeing the hurt, those things inspire me,” Henderson said. Moved by stories of losing loved ones at war, abuse within a household and the “quintessential breaking up with someone and being heartbroken,” Henderson said she realizes most people are afraid to talk about these issues in mainstream music. “I’m hoping that the public’s reaction is positive, but even more than that, I want them to connect with what I’ve said,” Henderson said.

Mentioning country classics like “Whiskey Lullaby” by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss and “Concrete Angel” by Martina McBride, Henderson said her music is different from most today with a blended genre of country, folk and indie. Henderson said she has a three-year plan of success, including an upcoming Christmas EP, a full-length album releasing around February 2013 and hopes of joining tours and festivals next summer. Aside from producing and touring, Henderson said she wants to continue writing and co-writing, and, “even if I’m not nominated, I want to be at least invited to the CMAs and the Grammys. I’m just going to keep on trucking.” Henderson began work on “Lost Love” early August when she moved to Nashville, Tenn.

after “The Glee Project 2” finished. “We became a dysfunctional family that fought and loved,” Henderson said. “We went through a lot of crazy things, and they had to smell me in a meat dress.” She said preparing for “The Glee Project 2” equipped her for the endless “no’s” most people will receive before they receive their first “yes.” “I got told ‘no’ in a very public way, and the doors just opened in a different direction, even if you feel like they’re not going to,” Henderson said. “Go after everything you’ve ever wanted, because you only live once, and you don’t want to have regrets. It’s going to be hard, but sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you thought it might, but you just have to pick up your pieces and keep moving.”

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Dennis Calvert, Lauren Calvert and Tammy Calvert (right) celebrate their last beach trip together. Tammy was diagnosed with breast cancer on Feb. 14, 2011.

Daughter shares memories of true ‘Proverbs 31 woman’ Melody Kitchens Intrigue Editor

She remembers certain days in kindergarten, when it was just “me and mom,” heading out of school early, placing out the china for tea parties and watching “I Love Lucy” on repeat. Lauren Calvert said memories like these are the ones she’ll hold on to the most after her mother’s long, tiresome battle against breast cancer ended earlier this month. “She fought the good fight and kept her faith the entire time,” said Lauren, senior in human development and family studies. “The 21 years we had together is better than 50 or 60 years that other people can have with their mom.” Lauren’s mother, Tammy Calvert, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 2. During the months of endless treatment and surgeries, Lauren said her mother never became angry or ever asked, “why me?” out of frustration, stating no matter how her story ended, Tammy would give God all the glory. “She knew it was God’s plan, and with everything that got thrown at her, she just said ‘OK,’” Lauren said. “Even if she was hurting on the inside, we’d never know. She wanted to protect our family.” Although Tammy was diagnosed with breast cancer Feb. 14, 2011, Lauren first knew March 5, 2011. “She contacted Emily Riley, one of my best friends from high school, to find out my test schedule,” Lauren said. “She was always thinking of everyone before herself.” March 2011 began the 20 months of chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries, starting with a double mastectomy. Tammy’s cancer was Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, which is triple negative, meaning estrogen, progesterone and Her-2 receptor negative, which requires a more specific, rare type of chemotherapy. Lauren said the doctors found a sentinel node, and after testing an envelope of 15 nodes, each was found positive. “We knew that this meant there was a very good chance that it could spread, and that it also meant more aggressive chemo and radiation,” Lauren said. “A lot of people think breast

cancer is cookie-cutter, but Mom’s was more like a wildcard. You didn’t know what was going to happen, so we just had to pray.” In her few weeks to recover from surgery, Lauren said Tammy still happily attended her brother Matthew’s baseball games “with her drain still poking out of her outfits — but we glamorized them, just to make it better.” With chemotherapy came Tammy’s loss of hair, and with a need for a wig came Bridget. “We began the days of Bridget the wig, and we had to get the wig just right for Easter Sunday,” Lauren said. “She never missed church. She was a ‘Jesus Calling’ fan, and that was something that helped her through every day.” The remainder of the chemotherapy and radiation ended in December 2011, yet in February, Tammy began to have headaches again. “Feb. 14 now has a new meaning,” Lauren said. “It’s no longer a loving holiday to us.” Those headaches were caused by a lemonsized tumor found in Tammy’s brain, and after many prayers, Tammy decided to have a full craniotomy. “After surgery, she was sitting up in a chair and saying ‘everything is just perfect,’” Lauren said. “That was her main word. It was all perfect, no matter what. People would bring her food, and ‘oh, it was perfect.’” Instead of heading home to rest after surgery, Lauren said Tammy went straight to the ballpark to see Matthew play baseball. “She never stopped, and I don’t know how she did it,” Lauren said. “From the time we were young, she never missed a single dance recital or cheerleading competition or baseball game.” After a partial hip replacement in June and more chemotherapy in July, Tammy returned to work at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham, where she had been a nurse for 28 years. “From the custodians to the administration, everyone knew who she was,” Lauren said. “She’s very good at what she does, and she loved it.” On her second day back at work, Tammy fell and broke her femur. She was in the hospital for 17 days after her femur surgery, and her health began declining. She returned to the emergency room late

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September, and on Friday, Sept. 28, Tammy returned home to be surrounded by her family. Lauren, Matthew, Lauren’s father Dennis Calvert and sisters Ashley Davis and Meagan Calvert were “blessed with the time to laugh and reminisce on good times.” “It was a great last day, and we were able to say ‘I love you’ about 500,000 times,” Lauren said. “We just loved to tell her that.” More than 1,500 friends and family members came to celebrate Tammy’s life at Northpark Baptist Church in Birmingham Oct. 5. Lauren said the pastor compared her to the Proverbs 31 woman, which “is exactly who she is.” “I got to hold her when she took her last breath, and she was holding me when I took my first,” Lauren said. “There’s something beautiful in that, even though selfishly I want her to be here. He (God) loves her more than I ever could, which is hard for me to imagine.”

Throughout Tammy’s entire diagnosis and treatments, friends such as Linda McAllister made Tammy a story page on CaringBridge.com and a Facebook page called “365 for Tammy Calvert,” designed for anyone to post their random acts of kindness in honor of Tammy. “My family has grown together through this experience, and my dad was so great to my sweet momma from day one of this journey,” Lauren said. Oct. 15 marks the 25th anniversary of Tammy and Dennis’ marriage, and “they are a true testament of what it means to love each other through good times and bad, through sickness and health,” Lauren said. Lauren said she hopes all will remember her mother’s selfless spirit, as “a sweet friend told me something that I will never forget. Cancer did not define her, Jesus did. If Mom can change just one person’s life, she would be happy.”

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A guide to navigating the food truck culture of Auburn Lane Jones Lane@ theplainsman. com

Here in Auburn, there has been a food truck invasion. We awoke one morning to find our town studded with trucks vending food of all sorts: meatballs, mac-ncheese and every kind of taco imaginable. They experienced immediate, explosive popularity. The food truck culture enchanted us. Places that were once barren suddenly became home to quick, cheap, delicious treats that were being served on wheels. The atmosphere is unrivaled: with music blasting through the speakers and enthusiastic young employees, the trucks have the feel of a roving party that also happens to serve delicious food. Auburn students think in herds and, other than the im-

mortal Nike short, nowhere is this more evident than with our food truck choices. Tex’s Tacos If you are frequently late to class, be made aware that it’s not uncommon to find your path to class blocked by a mob of hungry students clamoring at the window of the taco truck. Tex’s Tacos has developed a cult following among students because of its stunning digital rapport on Twitter and an uncanny ability to slap a seemingly random series of ingredients (pineapple on tacos, lime on fries) into several of the most delicious dishes to ever grace the rolling plains of Dixie. Be wary: Tex’s is not recommended fare if you’re with someone you want to impress. You will inevitably attempt to swallow your taco in one gulp. It won’t be pretty. Mighty Meatballs Though the occasional soul may elbow his or her way out

of the taco mob and over to offer a word of condolence to the entrepreneurial spirit found inside the meatball truck, I have yet to see a single student actually order something. It’s hard to trust a man serving meatballs out of a truck if your friends haven’t endorsed it. What else could possibly keep you from enjoying a piping hot meatball on a warm day? Kona Ice They play a lot of Bob Marley. Or at least that’s what I thought, until I realized I was actually hearing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” being played on steel drums. Game day customers, be wary of the swarm of bees that also decided 12 sugary liquid dispensing spouts on the side of a truck was a good idea. Honeysuckle Although the Honeysuckle truck is home to some delicious flavors of gelato (salted caramel, moonpie and blue-

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berry cobbler), it is served in a cup that is roughly the size of a thimble and still costs more than a pint of ice cream at your local grocery store. According to an inside source, the truck has been pulled from campus due to insufficient profits, a report confirmed by the perpetual lack of a line. Momma G’s There’s a subtle difference between trucks that double as restaurants and restau-

rants that also happen to have trucks. Momma Goldberg’s is the latter. For ardent fans of Momma G’s, it’s a poor substitute for the original. Nachos with drip cheese instead of classic steamed nachos? Auburn is home to generations of amateur chefs who have tried and failed to replicate the nachos recipe. We know the real thing when we taste it. I get bored easily, especially with on-campus dining. Food

trucks have the same allure the ice cream truck had when we were children, because we know there’s something delicious awaiting us if only we have the right amount of wit and cunning to track it down. It’s the thrill of the hunt that keeps customers coming back for more. We are okay with exerting a little more effort to find an eating experience that gives us good stories in addition to great food.

Mumford & Son’s foot-stomping second album ‘Babel’ anna beth jager intrigue@ theplainsman. com

Mumford & Sons have played their way to platinum success and straight into all of our hearts. After releasing their first album “Sigh No More,” an album branded by songs like “The Cave” and “Little Lion Man” in February 2010, this English folk-rock band surpassed all expectations, taking the world by storm and receiving two Grammy award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song. A catchy, foot-stomping sound with country-inspired melodies and a signature pounding melodic strumming pattern, Mumford & Sons continue to step up their game

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with the wildly popular second studio album, “Babel.” Selling 600,000 albums in its first week, “Babel” has been the biggest-selling debut of any album in 2012 thus far, blowing minds with the rhythmic hoots and hollers, the powerful collective use of bluegrass and folk instrumentation. With their first single, “I Will Wait,” Mumford & Sons

raised the bar without changing too much, sticking to their guns with a hymn-like dynamic, shifting drastically from soft and loud riffs in a majority of their songs. The banjo continues to be an accessory to the hearty, folk inspired tone, their melodies never ceasing to infuse themselves within our brains. The haunting, soul-filled

voice of lead singer Marcus Mumford accentuates the group’s ability to write songs with a pure, fragile honesty that most artists try to capture, but usually can’t perfect. Mumford’s sound is a beautifully gritty, powerful tone that can take you under a gentle spell or demand your attention. A down-home, sing-along stomp that instantly gives you

an unconquerable feeling, “Babel” has all the characteristics of “Sigh No More” with a little more zing to it. While the band stayed mostly within its comfort zone, songs such as “Broken Crown” add a little more instrumental variety with an electric guitar and drums, a sound that might be considered foreign, but that really works. The album explores the many facets of a relationship with deep, crooning ballads such as “Reminder” and “Lover’s Eyes,” which both possess a sweet, tortured sadness, or uppity, foot-stomping anthems that supersize and complicate love stories with biblical references in songs such as “Broken Crown” and “Babel.” Starting off gently, with only Mumford and his guitar, nearly every song builds up until the entire

thing turns into an explosion of banjo, bass, keys and vocals. While it’s hard to fault a band for sticking to what worked so well the first time, it would have been nice to find a little bit more variety this time around. It’s difficult at times to differentiate songs because the strumming patterns stay so similar. I’m not complaining though, because their sound is so incredibly authentic, a pure and unyielding beauty that vibrates with every pluck of the banjo, every harsh strum of the guitar. “Babel” offers an irresistible combination of unyielding passion and poetry, an album with an earthy, triumphant vibe that takes you to your happy place. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, I suggest you do, because you’ll be happy you did.

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Waverly author releases first of upcoming trilogy Anna Beth Jager Intrigue Reporter

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Waverly native S.A. Wynn has recently released a coming-of-age fiction novel nationwide. In her book “Shiloh Creek: The Closet,” Wynn tells stories of love, suspense and growing up, themes that are relevant to a young adult audience but also welcoming to all readers. Inspired by a piece about an abused child she once saw on Facebook, Wynn said the basis of her story greatly revolves around the reality of abused children, even those who are poorly treated by the ones who should be protecting them. After four years of writing as a hobby, Wynn said she created a slew of realistic scenarios, some that are also based in the greater Opelika area. The scenarios of “Shiloh Creek: The Closet” follow the unlikely romance of 18-year-old Casey Reeves and 16-year-old Zeke Adams. Casey and Zeke are two teenagers who plan to start the next chapter of their lives together at Auburn University. Once Zeke realizes he can no longer handle the stress of his home life and overbearing mother, the two decide to run away together in search of a life of their own. Through her first novel, Wynn delves into themes revolving around

substance abuse, blossoming romance and the strength of love. She also sets up the plot in two separate time periods, switching between story lines of different main characters. This is the first book of what she said she hopes will eventually be three. “‘Shiloh Creek: The Barn’ and ‘Shiloh Creek: The Alley’ are the other two ideas I have for Zeke (the main character),” she said. Wynn recalled that her love of writing began at a very young age. “I've always been a writer,” she said. “I've written poetry and short stories probably since fifth grade. I have always written as far back as I can remember. “I remember writing three short stories in fifth-grade English class: one for myself and two for two friends of mine who gave me their ideas, and I wrote their short stories for them.” As for advice for fellow aspiring writers, Wynn said, “Keep writing. Get with other writers to talk about your work. It really helps you look at your work when other people who are in the same position review your material.” Partnering with Tate Publishing out of Mustang, Okla., it took just more than a year for Wynn’s story to be published and finally released Sept. 25, 2012.

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