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Tiger Transit rape trial underway

By EDUARDO MEDINA and STEPHEN LANZI

 Tony Patillo is facing felony firstdegree rape and sodomy charges.

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Opening arguments began Wednesday morning in the trial of a former Tiger Transit driver charged with the rape and sodomy of an Auburn student.

Tony Martin Patillo, 53, is being tried on felony counts of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. Patillo also faces one count of public

lewdness.

He is accused of raping an 18-year-old Auburn University student on a Tiger Transit bus in fall 2017. His attorneys are arguing the sexual contact was consensual.

In opening statements, Patillo’s defense attorney, Jon Carlton Taylor, didn’t deny Patillo had sexual contact with the victim. Instead, he argued the sexual acts on the bus were consensual.

District Attorney Brandon Hughes, who is prosecuting the case, began opening argu-

ments by quoting Patillo. “Knocked out, huh,” Patillo said on recorded video when he first saw the victim on the bus, according to prosecutors.

The district attorney referenced the phrase throughout his opening statement. Patillo faces first-degree charges because prosecutors plan to prove the victim was “helpless” and unable to consent to any sexual contact. At press time, the victim was expected to testify Wednesday afternoon.

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ple around him supported him and told him that he had a gift to sign. He also believes that God had opened many doors, which led him to where he is now.

“Did I choose to be an interpreter?” he asked rhetorically. “No, but God chose to give me the gift of interpreting. Yes, I have taken classes, but it is truly a gift.”

Guice said that he loves singing, especially in the church choir, and his favorite place to interpret is at the church. He believes that this is an excellent way for him to worship.

He started interpreting at church and then went to seminary school after college. During his last year of seminary school, he was offered a job as an interpreter at a church in Arlington, Texas.

The City gave the downtown landowner and the hotel group working to bring a Southern Living Hotel to Auburn until the end of the month to reach a deal.

If no deal is reached by the end of February — March 1 is Friday — the city plans to move forward with a smaller, 300-space parking garage on the site formerly occupied by the Baptist Student Center on South College Street.

The hotel was initially planned for a site on North College Street that stretches from the University Inn to Regions.

It includes Quixotes Bar and Grill along with the development housing Pita Pit and The Bike Shop.

Lifestyle + Hotel Group had been working closely with Godbold Development Partners, the development group that owns that land, to reach an agreement to put the hotel in the heart of downtown Auburn.

They reached an impasse earlier this month.

Before the plan to build the hotel was announced, the city was already planning to build a parking garage on the Baptist Student Center site between the rest of the land on which the Southern Living Hotel was to be built.

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Interpretive Coordinator and Accommodations Specialist Steven Guice sits in his office, on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

Signing for presidents and poets How sign language changed the life of Auburn’s interpretive coordinator

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When Steven Guice was 7 years old, he started to learn sign language. There was a deaf family at the church his family attended.

He didn’t need it for himself; he just wanted to make a friend.

Guice, accommodation specialist and interpretive coordinator for the Office of Accessibility at Auburn University, has been an Auburn fan his entire life. He even joked that his first words were “War Eagle.” Sign language has always been a part of his life, too, but he never thought it would get him a job at the University he has loved his entire life.

“I only started learning sign language so I could communicate with my friend and so

I could perform at church,” he said. “I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that I could make a living as an interpreter and that God had this planned for me.”

When he was young, Guice taught his classmates how to sign so they could speak through sign language during class without the teacher catching them. Guice and his friends did this for years, so he was always practicing sign.

However, when he was a teenager, Guice did not practice sign language for two years. It is important to keep practicing the signs, but because Guice did not sign for such a long time, he almost lost his fluency.

“God got my attention real quick, so I went to a refresher course and picked it right back up,” Guice said. “The rest is history.”

Guice never thought he would become an interpreter. Throughout his life, the peo-

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‘It’s bittersweet’: SGA president reflects on year in the position

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An unhealthy intake of coffee.

Back-to-back meetings from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Cramming studying into the time that was once reserved for sleep. These are all things that have become a part of daily life for outgoing SGA President Dane Block over

his past year in office.

The year has been a whirlwind to say the least.

As he finishes out his last few days on the job, it can seem as though the year has flown by.

“It’s definitely bittersweet,” Block said. “It still hasn’t completely sunk in.”

He wouldn’t trade the job for anything, but devoting nearly every

waking hour to the position during his senior year of college has not been all glory.

“There’s a lot of sacrifices one has to make to ensure that the student voice and the student opinion is heard at all times,” Block said. “It is very difficult for one individual to carry that weight. It’s a blessing and a curse that you never really can turn this role off.”

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The weight of the duties and responsibilities have forced him to rely on a close-knit group of friends, mentors and his support system.

“It becomes a thing where you wake up every morning, and you’re like, ‘A ll right, how can I voice the student opinion today? Like what conversation am I going to be brought into?’” Block said. “But it’s been a lot of fun.”

But the sacrifices that are inherent to the position, Block said, have been worth it. Running from meeting to meeting is when he finds he laughs the most.

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep this year,” Block said with a laugh. “And that’s been OK because as I say, it’s been worth it tenfold.”

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SGA President Dane Block hands toilet paper to Melissa McCarthy and other stars of “The Life of the Party” ahead of the movie’s premiere in Auburn, Ala., on Monday, April 30, 2018.

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The most rewarding aspect of the job for Block has been being able to engage with a significant swath of the campus body from sharing a meal with a random group of students to interacting with Auburn University President Steven Leath.

Block ran on a platform with five focuses, or five “building blocks” of the campaign — safety, success, dining, transportation and himself.

Under safety, Block made it a goal to get a sidewalk crossing between Comer Hall and RBD library, which was not able to be accomplished.

“If I could take out some paint, I’d go out there and paint it and paint a crosswalk,” Block said. “But it’s not as easy as that.”

Block has worked with city officials to keep students’ safety concerns in mind with different construction projects, including the new parking deck being built near the library, as well as new safety measures taken on Magnolia Avenue.

He made it a point in his platform for Auburn to join the American Talent Initiative, a program with nearly 300 universities and colleges nationwide participating. It aims to recruit students with more diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

Block presented a memorandum to the Student Senate to join the program. The memorandum was passed, but Leath and other administrators have not yet given the necessary approval to join the program.

The University joined the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities, a research, policy and advocacy organization representing 239 institutions throughout North America. Leath was recently named to a key post in the association.

“There is overlap between the two initiatives, and now we’re finishing strong, continuing to advocate for that,” Block said.

“Moving forward, we’re going to see how we can incorporate both of those things into this University and how we can go forward and solve the overarching issues of financial, needsbased aid.”

Block said he believes Auburn is set up to better match the demographics of the University to the demographics of the state in the coming years.

For dining, Block had said in his platform he wanted to improve dining mobility, as one of the top complaints from the

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He eventually moved back to Alabama and became a contract interpreter at the Alabama School for the Deaf. He was also asked to be the contract interpreter for his hometown of Gadsden, Alabama.

His job as the contract interpreter for Gadsden and his position as the interpreter at his home church crossed at one point. Guice was called to help the police with a problem with a couple late at night, and the couple just happened to go to his home church.

In 1999, Guice was asked to become the interpretive coordinator for the University he had always loved. But the decision wasn’t automatic.

Guice admitted that he deleted the email because he believed that he didn’t have the time and that he wasn’t good enough to become the

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When talks to bring the hotel began, the city agreed to sell their newly acquired land for $80,000 in exchange for some of the land near the rear along Wright Street.

The new land along Wright Street was to give the city more space for a larger garage and to allow the Southern Living Hotel to stretch along South College Street. The Baptist Student Center would

student body was a lack of seating around campus.

In addition to increasing food trucks, Block has worked with Tiger Dining to implement Tapingo, an app that allows students to order food remotely.

“Dining is an ongoing project, and to incorporate that student feedback is key,” Block said.

Block has also been a part of the plans recently finalized by the Board of Trustees to bring a new, massive dining hall where Parker Hall currently sits as well as renovations to Village Dining, which will eventually house an additional Chick-fil-A. A health bar has not been brought to the Rec as written into his platform last year.

One of Block’s most notable accomplishments is fulfilling the campaign goal of bringing discounted ride-hailing services to students.

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Auburn SGA President Dane Block speaks at a bill signing at the Alabama State Capitol with Gov. Kay Ivey on March 1, 2018.

interpretive coordinator at Auburn. He avoided the situation until a woman he worked for handed him a hard copy of the email he deleted.

His mother and his wife both urged him to take on the job until he eventually did.

He said the funny part about the whole situation was that two years prior, he was at an Auburn football game and saw an interpreter for a player on the opposing team.

“I made a comment, ‘What if Auburn had a deaf football player and called me to be their interpreter?’” he said. “We all laughed about it. I never dreamed that in two years I would be where I have always wanted to be.”

As an interpreter, Guice has interpreted for many events and celebrities. Some of the most memorable for Guice include artist Maya Angelou, former President George W. Bush, sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, comedian Jeff Dunham and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.

relocate to the bottom floor of the new parking garage.

“We were only going to do that if this hotel with its associated restaurants — with the Bo Jackson, Chris Hastings restaurant — and the retail space, which we were hoping would be some kind of urban grocer or Target, was built,” City Manager Jim Buston said. “If the hotel doesn’t go through, we can’t build our bigger deck. We can only build the deck we initially decided to do.”

With the developer and

A recent request for proposals was issued by the University to subsidize ride-hailing services such as Uber or Lyft. The plan is to have an open-bid process among companies, and the discounted rides will likely come into effect over the summer.

“It’s been a really cool project to research, benchmark other universities and advocate for,” Block said. “I’m really excited about that process and where it’s going moving forward.”

Block said his position is somewhat of a paradoxical situation. He has worked over the course of the past year to plan and implement a variety of projects that he won’t be around to see actually come to fruition, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“It’s all about planting a seed that will grow a tree that you will not experience the shade from,” Block said. “But understanding that some student out there will — that’s the why.”

He admitted that there are things he would have gone about differently in retrospect, but he doesn’t believe he has regrets.

“As a person, I don’t have regrets because I think a regret is a mistake you haven’t learned from, but I’ve made plenty of mistakes,” Block said. “I mean, we’re human.”

As he transitions out and helps the new executive team transfer in, he said he is advising the new group to not take themselves too seriously and embrace the task of taking on the everyday challenges of reflecting the student voice and implementing projects.

“Not seeing this as something that you have to do, but something you get to do,” he said. “Your senior year does look a lot different, but you can still have a lot of fun and enjoy your senior year as a college student.”

With graduation just a few months out, the finance major has a job lined up with Stephens Investment Bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, a place he’s only spent 18 hours in and where he only knows two people.

“It’s definitely a new phase of life, but I’m excited for it,” Block said. “I’m excited to graduate, excited to go on and come back as an alum.”

Considering the countless hours he’s spent working to fulfill his duties as president, it may be bittersweet to be unable to see the fruit of some of the projects that have been implemented this year.

But Block is excited not just to come back and see what the University looks like in five years, but also hear what is being talked about for years down the line.

“Yes, it is so bitter leaving this University and all it has to offer as a student, but I think there’s a whole other side of it all as an alum. I’m excited to experience that,” Block said.

When Maya Angelou came to Auburn, she came to speak to Guice privately before the event.

“She had a very commanding presence, and yet, sitting down with her, it was like talking with my grandmother,” Guice recalled. “She was an awesome, sweet lady. We spoke for maybe 10 minutes, and I just ate it up.

After the event, she actually came up and shook my hand.”

The Russian president was another interesting person for him to interpret since he had to wait for what the president said to be interpreted into English in order for him to sign the speech.

Guice said that interpreting for Westheimer, the sex therapist, was very interesting.

“I went up and asked her if she wanted finger spelling or the signs,” Guice said. “Well, she said she wanted the signs. So I was like, ‘Oh, okay...’ Of course, for the first part of the event, all eyes were on me.”

For Guice, the funniest person he

hotel group at an impasse, though, the city is planning to move ahead with their plan to build a smaller deck on the same site.

“So at the end of the month, if we do not hear that they have been successful in coming to a deal, then we will pull the plug and build the smaller deck,” Buston told The Plainsman.

The project is already behind schedule. The city had hoped the new garage and new Baptist Student Center would be open by August,

interpreted for was comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. During his act, one of Dunham’s puppets, Peanut, called Guice out.

“Peanut got me in the act,” Guice said. “He just all of a sudden said, ‘Oh look, a signer.’ So, I’m trying to keep a straight face, but he kept cracking me up. Then, I turned around and started to play with it. It was really funny.”

Interpreting for former president George W. Bush was a huge honor for Guice. However, he was not told about a marksman positioned at the corner of Jordan-Hare Stadium facing the stage that Guice and the president were on. He said that at first, he was terrified, but then he realized the marksman was there for protection.

Overall, Guice believes that the best part of the job is when he sees how much he has helped a student succeed at Auburn.

“My favorite part is when I see students I worked with for years walk

Buston said. That deadline has now been pushed back by months.

Buston said the Baptist Student Center has been patient with the plans, but the city recognizes they have a promise to keep.

It will take nine months to complete the deck.

Buston said the city is building a parking garage with or without the hotel project because public parking downtown is in high demand.

“There’s a lot of parking in the day, but still at night, it’s

across that stage and get a degree,” he said. “That’s why I do what I do. I feel that I stay young by staying around college students every day; they make me feel young.”

He also loves being around all the students, faculty and staff that he has encountered at Auburn.

“It is always said that we are the Auburn Family,” he said. “Only at Auburn, there is the Family. You don’t get it until you either come to school here or work here.”

Guice believes that one of the most important things about his job is the relationships, including those with students, their parents, faculty and staff.

“This is what life is about,” Guice said. “It’s about the most important word in the English language. Some people say it’s love. Others say success. And some people say money.

All of those are good, but you can’t have any of those without relationships. If it weren’t for relationships, life would be really boring.”

hard to find parking,” Buston said.

Lifestyle + Hotel Group is actively pursuing other locations for a Southern Living hotel in Auburn, CEO and President of LHG Bill Shoaf told The Plainsman earlier this month.

Shoaf said he cannot speak to what Godbold will do, but LHG has given Godbold notice of the active search and still plans to build a Southern Living Hotel in the downtown urban core.

“We’ve just run out of time,

so we’re actively looking at alternative sites,” Shoaf said.

LHG hopes to lock down a location soon, Shoaf said.

Regardless of the location, the Southern Living hotel will feature the same amenities as the plans for the North College Street location did, which includes a rooftop lounge and the restaurant in coordination with Bo Jackson.

“We’ll have all the things we were going to have on College Street. We’re just going to pick all that up and find a new home for it,” Shoaf said.

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Act now to prevent further gentrification EDITORIAL BOARD Spring 2019

Auburn is facing a gentrification crisis. This is not something that the city can deny. Many long-term, poor, black residents are being forced out of their established neighborhoods as developers search for and buy new lots to erect student housing on, in the form of so-called Academic Detached Dwelling Units.

The Auburn City Council was given an opportunity to prevent this encroachment of student houses into historically single-family neighborhoods but instead chose to table a vote on an ordinance pertaining to ADDUs, thereby prolonging gentrification.

Lots and houses are being sold to developers right now, who — as long as this ordinance stays on the table, not voted on — are breaking ground on the sites of future ADDUs. The ADDU ordinance would provide regulations for freestanding structures intended for use by students. Some Council members expressed concerns over the potential vagueness of what constitutes a student house.

Some fundamental attributes, according to the Planning Commission, that makes a house one intended for student habitation include the following: all bedrooms are of the same size, and each includes a bathroom; kitchens are engineered to be as small and efficient as possible; and common living areas are disproportionately small.

So, there are, indeed, concrete specifics that determine if a structure is for students and not for low-income families who are right next door. To add another obvious reason that makes these structures student housing, let’s look at the price.

These structures are rented by the bedroom, and there are usually four to five bedrooms in each ADDU. Each room costs around $800 to $900. That’s the equivalent of a $3,200 to $3,600 monthly payment. Those structures are usually around 2,000 square feet. For comparison, there is a 6,900-square-foot six-bedroom, seven-bathroom single-family house listed on zillow.com on Windy Hill Road that rents for $3,000 and is restricted to no more than two unrelated occupants.

It’s absurd to believe a structure of this cost was built for the benefit of low-income people who occupy these neighborhoods. Instead, it obviously seems that these were built for developers to receive the quick benefits found inside the wallets of students and their families.

The Planning Commission unanimously recommended this zoning ordinance to be passed by the City Council. But the Council’s decision was stalled by the developers in attendance who made some outright false and misleading statements.

Developers led the Council to believe the ordinance will

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only benefit a small area in Northwest Auburn. But, the Planning Commission has already identified 40 new ADDUs across all of Auburn that will be built in the near future. All 40 of these could lead to further gentrification.

Perhaps most damaging were remarks made by developers who misled the Council into thinking that this ordinance would hurt the rest of the city, and the city’s growth as a whole. This is blatantly false. Developers will still be permitted to build these student dwellings in areas that won’t affect residential neighborhoods adversely.

It makes sense for a developer to be upset at an ordinance that basically nullifies their ability to build more of these profitable student houses in portions of the city. But there are areas in town where these structures are not compatible with existing neighborhoods. Developers can instead look to other locations that are perfectly suitable for these structures.

What this ordinance does is set the guidelines of what an ADDU is, establish where it can definitively be built and protect neighborhoods from gentrification.

Councilman Tommy Dawson has repeatedly stated that if a person “wants to sell their property, by all means, they have the right to do so.” But this ordinance is not about people having or not having the right to sell their homes. Anyone can sell their homes to whomever they want, and this ordinance doesn’t change that.

What the ordinance does is make sure buyers of the property don’t build student housing in an area already marked for single-family residents, something that the already existing unrelated occupancy rule cannot do on its own.

There is an illusion among the Council that passing the ordinance is a matter that can be postponed, tabled for another meeting.

Perhaps for developers, the vote can be postponed.

Perhaps for those who live in neighborhoods already protected by zoning laws and occupancy limits, the vote can be postponed.

Perhaps for those whose income secures them a plot of land safe from gentrification — perhaps for them, this vote can be postponed.

But for those already under threat, for those who see the “for sale” sign next door and fear fundamental changes to their neighborhood, the vote cannot wait.

Dawson has stated that if nothing is amended to the ordinance, he’s not going to approve it. But Dawson is only one vote.

Let’s be clear. This ordinance is far from perfect, but it’s an important step forward.

Student-housing developers might find ways to build homes that eschew the ordinance. But the destruction of neighborhoods, such as those on Canton Avenue and Frazier Street, will continue if time is wasted on an already finetuned and detailed proposal.

It is obvious which sector of the community has been hit hardest by this ineffective governing. Black residents in Auburn cannot stand the continual negation of their concerns. If the Council wants to correct course on a long, historical trajectory of negligent governance in Northwest Auburn, it begins with passing the ADDU ordinance.

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Domestic violence victims need law enforcement

By GINA WHATLEY Guest Columnist

Domestic violence takes physical safety, trust, peace, dreams, hope, financial security and life away. Domestic violence is often like cancer — it can grow slowly, or it can be very aggressive. It can take one’s dignity away; it can kill.

The numbers of its victims are staggering.

In a June 2018 article from WAAY 31abc News, a leading local news provider for Alabama, Greg Privett reported that there are nearly 5,000 domestic violence victims a year in Alabama. By June 2018, there were already 43 homicides and 238 rapes.

Domestic violence victims need to be believed and helped by law enforcement and court officials. However, law enforcement officers often are faced with situations that are perilous to their lives and need better training for addressing cases of domestic violence.

According to a leading domestic violence website, domesticshelters.org, “22 percent of officer ‘line of duty’ deaths occurred while responding to domestic violence calls.”

Clearly, there is a need for additional training of police officers in order to better protect themselves and victims of domestic violence.

The Office of Violence against Women is

administering a grant program that provides funds for responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking.

Alabama should apply for these funds. Gov. Kay Ivey announced in January 2019 a $59,403 grant for educating court officials on the issues of domestic violence.

If Alabama could receive the available $1,000,000 grant money through OVW, police officers and other criminal justice workers could become better educated in responding to those incidences. A faster and more efficient method of response could save many lives, making Alabama a leader in helping victims of domestic violence be heard and helped more effectively.

Historically, men were legally allowed to mistreat their wives for many reasons.

However, according to the 2002 Encylcopedia of Crime and Justice, “wife beating” was made illegal in all states by 1920.

It was not until the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 that domestic violence became a crime. NBC News stated that according to the Bureau of Justice, approximately three women, 1,095 per year, are killed on a daily basis in the United States by partners with whom they have been intimate.

Jackie Davis of the Cabot Police Department in Arkansas published an in-depth paper on

domestic abuse, reporting a tragic statistic by the FBI of one woman being beaten every 18 seconds. Davis also included that police officers are the “initial tool to fixing the problem.”

In February 2018, Robert Hollie killed his ex-wife, 58-year-old Fond Poellnitz, and then killed Mobile Police Officer Justin Billa.

Hollie shot his wife and then put her body into a gutter. After officers arrived on his property, Hollie shot out of his front door and killed Billa.

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson stated, as reported by John Sharp of AL.com, “Domestic violence cases are the most dangerous calls of action that a policeman can have.”

In reference to Lee County, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reports these statistics for 2016: four homicides, nine rapes, 102 aggravated assaults and 1,441 simple assaults.

The total for Alabama, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, was 43 homicides, 238 rapes, 4,235 aggravated assaults and 34,444 simple assaults. Alabama’s law officers responded to 25,188 violent domestic offenses in 2016, the latest year surveyed by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

Alabama should apply for a grant program that is being provided by The Office on Violence against Women, which is part of the United States Department of Justice. This

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grant will provide funds for improving response time and methods to domestic violence calls, which are indeed calls of emergency that require collaboration of our entire criminal justice system.

This means that improved programs, policies and training education within police departments should be implemented — law enforcement should be better able to recognize, investigate and prosecute instances of domestic violence, advocacy programs should be strengthened, and comprehensive victim service and support centers should be formed.

The award period and amount is $1,000,000 for statewide projects over a period of 36 months, or three years, starting on Oct. 1, 2019, and ending on Sept. 30, 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, 2018. The deadline for applying for the grant is Feb. 26, 2019.

Every possible measure should be taken to help women survive the brutal attacks that they suffer through domestic violence and other horrific acts of violence. These victims are our mothers, sisters, aunts and friends. No offer of help should be ignored.

For more information on the OVW grant, see the U.S. Department of Justice Oice on Violence against Women.

Gina Whatley is a senior in social work at Auburn.

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Laura Davenport, left, poses with Kathryn Kennedy, right, after winning Miss Auburn on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

Out with the old, in with the new Kathryn Kennedy passes Miss Auburn title to Laura Davenport KATHRYN KENNEDY

By HANNAH LESTER Campus Writer

On Feb. 6, 2018, Kathryn Kennedy was surrounded by friends when she was announced as Miss Auburn.

Growing up in a split household, Kennedy had parents who cheered for Auburn and for Alabama. She chose Auburn. Having a sister who had already chosen to attend Auburn, Kennedy decided The Loveliest Village on The Plains was just the place for her.

“It already felt like home before I even became a student, and so it’s actually the only place I applied,” she said.

When Kennedy was accepted, she said she was even more excited to enter campus and begin her college life. She dove right in and took advantage of a multitude of involvement opportunities, well before undertaking the position of Miss Auburn.

Kennedy served as a Camp War Eagle parent counselor in addition to acting as the director of Freshman Forum with the Student

LAURA DAVENPORT

By ABBY CUNNINGHAM Campus Writer

The role of Miss Auburn involves serving as a War Eagle Girl as well as representing the student body externally to faculty, administrators and the entire community.

Laura Davenport, junior in biomedical sciences and newly elected Miss Auburn, is ready to embrace this role and execute it to the best of her ability.

“I want to be someone that can be approached by the students, as one of the students, and can effectively communicate their needs to other places,” she said.

Davenport said her platform is interaction based, which she believes is applicable for Auburn students because they interact with so many different people every day on and off campus.

“I think it is something we can all be very aware of in our daily conversations to treat people with respect because they are worthy of your respect,” Davenport said. “Even if we have different opinions or don’t have the same system of beliefs, we still need to treat people at the other end of the conversation like their opinion is just as worthy as

Government Association.

Not only did her knowledge of her University increase as a parent counselor, but the future Miss Auburn gained a variety of skills she would need in her position.

“So I think [being a parent counselor] really prepared me in talking to adults and just being able to relate to them and being kind of a representative — the student representative of Auburn to those parents,” Kennedy said. “[Being a parent counselor] gave me better skills on presentations and giving tours of campus.”

She said the friends she made and the relationships she formed through these on-campus experiences gave her the support system to carry her through elections and her position.

“They’re the ones that really encouraged me and challenged me and supported me to get there and supported me through the process,” Kennedy said.

Coming to Auburn, she said she never would have expected to serve in such a highly regarded position as Miss Auburn.

“I always really admired that role and admired the person in the role, but I never thought I would get that opportunity,” Ken-

nedy said.

In her junior year, a friend approached her with the proposition of nominating her for the role. Following the nomination, however, SGA chooses the top 20 and then top 5 candidates through a series of applications and interviews. She made it through that portion of the process, and a long few months ensued.

Callouts arrived on Feb. 7 after a day of campaigning by her team.

“I felt very loved that day and very thankful for all those people who would take time out of their day to help me with my campaign,” Kennedy said.

When the time came for the results, she said she was excited and not only had her friends there to support her, but she was surrounded by family, too.

“After I heard my name, it was just a bunch of screaming, some tears, tons of pictures, but it was truly so fun,” Kennedy said.

Representing Auburn to the community and being the official host of the University may seem like a broad role, and Kennedy said in some ways, it is. Her day-to-day routine would widely vary, and no one day would ever look the same.

Kennedy met regularly with a Miss Auburn advisor to discuss upcoming events or projects. Part of her role is to represent the school with the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen. In addition, Kennedy worked closely with other officials at Auburn and said one of the best parts was getting to meet alumni and administrators of the University.

“For any week, I could have two events or I could have up to five events,” she said. “It really does depend. And these events could be working with Dr. Leath and working an event at the president’s home or working with the Office of Development and talking with alumni, or it could be helping a student organization.”

Kennedy said she had to remember that she was a student, in addition to holding the role of Miss Auburn. She had to make sure to take time to handle her other responsibilities, as well as time for herself. But she wouldn’t have had it any other way.

“All the time spent with that role and just balancing student life, and that was so so worth it,” Kennedy said. “Every event and every opportunity and experience I got to do was truly so amazing.”

ours is.”

She hopes that with her platform, students will see that many stigmatized issues are just a part of being human.

“Everybody is in the same boat; it’s not something we always talk about, but I think that mental health is tied into that,” she said.

“We call ourselves the Auburn Family, and you’re supposed to be honest and truthful with your family. They are supposed to take you as you are for what you are and for nothing more than just that.”

Davenport believes that her platform was inspired by common experiences that every student faces in college. She wants to let students know that college is not always a smooth transition.

“I feel like there is so much pressure outside to act like it’s all OK constantly,” Davenport said. “But sometimes, there are good days, and there are bad days. But basically, it’s OK to not be OK.” When she was a Camp War Eagle counselor, Davenport saw how terrified all of the freshman were of the journey they were about to embark on. She kept in touch with the new students during their freshman years and watched them grow.

Davenport was able to be a mentor to many of her campers and tell them how some of their experiences were similar to

that of her own. She believes that it is essential for people who are in leadership positions to also be vulnerable with the people around them, which is why she made it a part of her campaign.

“Honesty and truthfulness, which is the part of the Auburn Creed that I chose, is so important in every relationship you have,” Davenport said. “It is the core of healthy relationships. It’s not these false pretenses like, ‘I’m great. I have everything figured out.’

Because none of us do.”

As a second-generation Auburn student, Davenport chose Auburn because it was a place that she and her family loved. Her dad always took her to Auburn games. It just felt right to come to Auburn. It’s the only place she applied.

In addition to being the newly elected Miss Auburn, Davenport is highly involved with other organizations on and off campus. She has served on the executive board and as the philanthropy chair for her sorority and was a Camp War Eagle counselor last summer.

She also is the Lambda Sigma Junior advisor, works with Campus Kitchens and is currently looking to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Club.

Davenport is currently doing 20–25 hours of research on treatments for type two dia-

betes through the Harrison School of Pharmacy in the Drug Discovery and Development Department.

After graduating, Davenport hopes to go to dental school. She said she just recently decided she wanted to be a dentist over Christmas break this year when she was shadowing a professional.

When she first came to Auburn, Davenport was on a pre-med track, but when she got the first C of her life, she decided to change her track to pre-physician’s assistant.

Davenport added that she switched for her mental health and well being.

“That’s kind of been the story of my college experience,” she said. “Just holding myself to perfection that doesn’t exist and getting frustrated when I don’t attain that and then, again, forgiving myself for being human. I believe that I am capable of dental school. It will definitely take a lot of studying and the Lord’s help.”

With a college career that has already included a wide variety of experiences, Davenport is excited to be Auburn University’s next Miss Auburn.

“It’s kind of surreal still,” she said. “It’s starting to feel more real now, but I am so humbled and honored to even be considered for this position. I hope to fulfill this position the best way that I can.”

RESEARCH

$43.3 million awarded for agriculture facility Research to focus on improving use of soil and water resources in more productive ways

By CHIP BROWNLEE Editor-in-Chief

Auburn will receive $43.3 million in federal funds to build a new agriculture laboratory.

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, announced the award Monday.

The funds will go toward constructing a new USDA Agriculture Research Service National Soil Dynamics Laboratory.

“I am proud to have secured funding for the new ARS facility in Auburn,” Shelby said.

“The soil lab will serve as an outlet for the USDA to complete research that will improve crop and livestock production for Alabama and the entire nation. I look forward to the work that will result from the partnership between Auburn and the USDA, and I am confident the project will continue to enhance our state’s thriving agriculture industry.”

Shelby is the chairman of the powerful Senate appropriations committee.

Auburn President Steven Leath said the new facility will further Auburn’s drive “to

inspire through life-changing innovation.”

“Auburn will deepen its relationship with the USDA, more opportunities will emerge for our students and faculty and Auburn will be in a better position to solve real-world problems,” Leath said. “Once again, Sen. Shelby has proven himself a champion of science and research that improves quality of life and fosters economic opportunity for farmers in Alabama and across the nation.

We’re grateful to him for making it happen.”

The funding comes from the funding package signed into law on Feb. 15.

Research at the facility will focus on improving the productive and sustainable use of soil and water resources for increased crop and livestock production.

A current laboratory site at Auburn will be relocated and a new facility will be constructed.

Agriculture is Alabama’s top revenue-producing industry.

It generates an annual statewide impact of more than $70 billion on more than 9 million acres of farmland and more than 48,500 farms.

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The Auburn University School of Nursing building on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Auburn, Ala.

Nursing students, professionals discuss stress on the job

By SAMANTHA STRUNK Campus Writer

Savannah Kolb, registered nurse in the Birmingham area, did not always take time for self-care.

Kolb graduated from Auburn University School of Nursing in May 2018. Since June, she has worked as a labor and delivery nurse.

“I deal with a lot of crazy, pregnant women all the time,” Kolb said. “It’s the most entertaining place I could possibly be.”

Although lively at times, Kolb said the job is taxing. Her first few months on the job, she struggled to find a balance between handling demanding physicians on adrenaline-filled days and enjoying her personal life in her down time.

“The first six months I really didn’t take care of myself,” Kolb said. “I just had enough time to go to work and recover from work.”

On her off days, Kolb was either recuperating from the previous day’s shift or going back to work to take new graduate-education classes and earn certifications necessary to progress in her field.

“I really struggled with things like, ‘Maybe I should’ve majored in something else’ and ‘I don’t know if I want to do this forever.’” Kolb said.

Morgan Yordy, assistant professor at Auburn’s School of Nursing, said the United States is currently experiencing a shortage in the industry that is expected to worsen in coming years.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics projected a 15 percent growth in registered-nurse employment from 2016 to 2026, a rate far above the national average.

Despite this outlook, Yordy said an increasing number of nurses are beginning to leave the field within the two-year mark of their hire date.

“The constant changeover is kind of scary,” Yordy said.

One reason for the rapid turnover is the nursing demographic. Yordy said with the national average for male nurses being just 10 percent of the nursing population, the majority of nurses are women, and it’s common for newer nurses to leave the profession to start families.

Another major reason nurses are leaving the job so early in their careers is the stress of the trade and the difficulty managing it, Yordy said.

“The flight attendant says to put the mask on yourself before you take care of the person next to you,” Yordy said. “We don’t hear that. We always want to help other people, and we feel like if we do anything for ourselves, it’s not good.”

Yordy said though nurses are at the forefront of health education, they administer so much care to others, they often forget to take care of themselves.

Stephanie Wood, Auburn pre-nursing academic advisor, said the intensity of the nursing program starts with nursing school hopefuls’ first semesters on Auburn’s campus.

“Nursing students are stress balls,” Wood said. “They’re worried about their grades in their classes. They’re worried about if that’s going to be good enough to get into a competitive major like nursing.”

Wood said when students come into the advising office, advisors ask them to rate their stress on a scale of one to 10 — one being the low extreme and 10 being the high. Advisors want students to be aware of where they are on the scale and how they can utilize resources to help manage their stress.

Wood said it’s important for nursing students to find the decompression activity that helps them the most.

“Find what works for you,” Wood said. “Is it working out? Is it a show? Is it hanging out with friends? Is it turning off your phone? Academics is important but so is getting plugged into the University — so is maintaining your stress.”

As pre-nursing students matriculate into the nursing upper division, the contrast between nursing students and their colleagues in other colleges becomes starker. Yordy said many students are stressed, but nursing students’ stress is different.

“Nursing students are with people, and people’s lives are in their hands,” Yordy said. “They have faculty and nurses working alongside them, but it’s still working with a patient.”

By the time they graduate, nursing students are working 12hour shifts in local hospitals as a part of mandatory clinicals.

“They have to wake up at 3:30 a.m. to make clinical schedules, and they work 12 hours, so it’s a different lifestyle from their peers,” Yordy said. “It’s hard to compare a nursing student to a student in a different program when they’re up all hours of the night at the hospital.”

Kolb said she first felt the weight of the position while still in nursing school. She was working the night shift at a hospital as a part of the preceptorship program, and though she was always with another nurse, she struggled with anxiety.

“I lost a lot of my hair,” Kolb said. “I have a bald spot from where my hair has still not grown back from how stressed out I was in nursing school.”

After experiencing a few panic attacks, she realized she had to do more to better manage the profession’s intensity.

Now, Kolb relaxes by doing things like exercising on her off days, preparing meals for the week and tackling tasks related to her personal life.

Fifth-semester nursing student Courtney Space said nursing professors frequently encourage students to take time to do mindless activities that don’t drain their brains.

“Our teachers always tell us to not just go all the time,” Space said. “We had a huge test this past Wednesday, and they said the day before to not study at all — to not overwhelm ourselves.”

Space said faculty members emphasize the importance of exercising in upholding healthy habits.

“They tell us to exercise because that gets blood pumping to your brain, helps with studying and releases endorphins,” Space said.

They also recommend taking breaks outside to break up the day’s strain.

“Most of the time when we’re working in the hospital, we don’t see the light of day,” Space said. “Getting out on days off or even when you’re still in school helps.”

Fourth-semester nursing student Adam Kosan said the advice he has heard the most is to find people nurses can talk to about their days.

“They tell what to look for as signs of burnout and compassion fatigue,” Kosan said. “And what we can do to not be afraid of telling somebody we might be experiencing it.”

The American Institute of Stress defines burnout as “emotional exhaustion and withdrawal associated with increased workload and institutional stress.”

Compassion fatigue differs from burnout in that it specifically deals with “the emotional residue or strain of exposure to working with those suffering from the consequences of traumatic events.”

“It’s a person-by-person thing,” Kosan said. “It’s not like they can give us a medication or a six-step plan to eliminate compassion fatigue.”

Kosan said that male nurses generally tend to avoid sharing feelings in general, particularly work-related ones.

ACADEMICS

New culinary center to bring more programs

By HANNAH LESTER Campus Writer

Auburn University has been planning a new Culinary Center for campus for close to 15 years. Students can expect a new groundbreaking culinary center in 2021 thanks to funding by the Rane family to begin construction.

“Mr. Rane has shown a lot of faith in our concept and has stepped forward to help us make a real difference programatically and economically in state,” said Martin A. O’Neill, Horst Schulze Endowed Professor of Hospitality Management and Head of Department Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality. “Truthfully, this will be a world-leading academic center.”

Auburn has had access to culinary education, but the programs will soon grow to accommodate more needs. Auburn University is already known for its hospitality management program as it is one of only 70 programs in the world to have accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration. Currently, students can find

three majors, hotel and restaurant management, event management and culinary sciences. Moving forward, however, new options will become available and students can study beverage studies, wine studies, brewing science or spa management. These will be the new majors or minors, though other courses may be available, too.

“Our goal is to serve not only the University student population, but also industry and our community,” O’Neill said.

“We anticipate offering a range of outreach-oriented courses targeted at hospitality industry workforce development — these would be targeted at employees throughout the state.”

These courses would help students learn skills necessary for their everyday jobs such as learning customer service.

Other courses would focus on skills such as beverage appreciation, food production, food and wine pairing or mixology.

The first class to experience these new Auburn options will become Tigers this fall.

“As regarding enrollment, we anticipate

growing to around 500 students across each of our study options — hotel and restaurant management, event management and culinary science,” O’Neill said.

“That said, we expect annual graduation across all programs to be in the 100 to 120 range.”

For students that join the hospitality management and culinary program, they will also be required to obtain a minor in business, O’Neill said. This may help them in their career paths.

“The culinary science option is designed to service the needs of students seeking to advance their careers in the broad culinary field, including the commercial and non-commercial food production and service industry,” O’Neill said. “The program will prepare students for advanced career entry by providing them with a differential mix of hands-on experience and the professional skill set deemed critical for success in this ever-evolving and innovative sector. The program blends the art, science and business of food to prepare students for a wide array of employment opportunities.”

“Now, we’re learning that it is common, and if you start noticing this stuff to just go and talk to somebody about it,” Kosan said.

Space, too, said she has heard that finding people in her life she can communicate with can help with enduring the pressure.

“You’re going to have really crummy days, and you don’t want to carry that burden home with you,” Space said. “That’s one of the worst things you can do.”

Space said a professor of hers once told the class that when she worked as a nurse on the hospital floor, she took her 20-minute commute home after work as time to shift from a work mindset to a home one.

“She found herself, especially in her first year, taking the burden of pain and sadness from the patients home, and she was sad all the time,” Space said. “You have to learn to separate them.”

Kolb has discovered having friends in the field to be one of her best outlets. She said other people in her life care but don’t understand like her nursing peers. Her nurse friends relate to tough situations and are able to share what they did in similar circumstances.

“Even just hearing, ‘Hey, you didn’t deserve that doctor to yell at you.’” Kolb said. “Things like that help.”

Yordy said Auburn is looking into doing more to help nursing students take ownership of their care.

For example, she and other faculty peers are in the process of developing an elective course focused on helping students recognize their responsibilities to themselves.

Another of Yordy’s projects is the center of her research at Auburn — using animal-assisted therapy on the staff side in healthcare.

Daisy, a 2-year-old goldendoodle, has her own office in Auburn’s nursing college. Yordy said students regularly take her with them to study rooms or out for walks. She’s noticed how Daisy brings joy to the students, and she’s now working to quantify that effect.

“Nurses have a stressful time at work,” Yordy said. “We want to see how animals help.”

Yordy worked as a nurse for 17 years, and she said, though mentally draining, nursing is one of the most rewarding careers.

For Kosan, who wants to work in the ER when he graduates, helping people through life-and-death situations makes it worth it.

“It’s getting to help people,” Kosan said. “It’s watching them walk out on the other side OK — knowing that they get to go home to their friends and family because of things we were able to do.”

Kolb enjoys her patient population, educating new mothers on proper infant care and having a healthy baby at the end of the day.

“Some of these young women add me on Facebook, and I get to watch their babies grow up,” Kolb said. “I love that.”

Space appreciates the chance to go above and beyond to make her patients smile on their worst days.

“If I can walk into a patient’s room and make their day even just a little bit better, I get joy and satisfaction out of it,” Space said.

Space said she’s commonly asked how she’s able to constantly pour into people when the job is so mentally taxing.

“Imagine it’s you or your family member lying in that bed — you’re going to want the best care for them,” Space said. “We need to be that nurse for that person.”

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RECREATION

BLAZING NEW TRAILS VIA OUTDOOR ALABAMA

Miles of new biking, hiking trails planned for nearby wildlife park

By SCOTT BERSON Assistant Community Editor

Many Auburn outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with nearby Chewacla State Park’s miles of hiking and biking trails.

But now, a group of adventurers are planning a new system of trails for thrill-seekers and nature lovers alike just a short drive from Auburn.

The project leaders want to build 25 miles of mixed-use mountain biking and hiking trails through Standing Boy Creek Wildlife Management Area, a 1,580-acre piece of undeveloped Georgia forest just north of Columbus, Georgia.

Blake Melton, a lawyer for Synovus who is spearheading the project, said the fund to construct the trails had drawn $700,000 of its $1.75 million goal.

“The trails are flagged,” Melton said. “We are getting ready to do the environmental and archaeological survey. Those could definitely turn up some things that require the trail corridors to be tweaked a little, but the current task is to do those and to raise more money.”

The proposed trail network would allow mountain bikers and hikers to use the trail together with minimal conflict because it would be professionally designed, Melton said.

It would be a complement to Chewacla, which offers 30

miles of track to riders of different skill levels.

Shelton said he expected the trail network to draw people from Auburn, Birmingham, northern Florida, Atlanta and beyond.

He pointed out that a lot of the growth he has seen in the Georgia mountain biking scene seemed to be driven by the thriving community in Auburn and East Alabama.

“The proximity of Auburn (or future trails in areas like Pine Mountain) will increase the number of individuals traveling to our region to ride,” the fundraising page for the project reads.

The overall master plan for the development calls for the state to build some gravel parking spaces.

The donated funds will then be used to create the trails. The whole area was originally planned as a full state park, complete with cabins, boating and even an alpine slide.

Opposition from property owners scuttled that idea, and now, the proposed trails are the only development planned for the space.

“My sense is the large majority of neighboring land owners are comfortable with the current plan,” Melton said. “We want to make sure there’s enough parking on the property that we don’t have people parking [on the road].”

Scott Dirksen, assistant director of Auburn Outdoors, said

the proposed trail system looked like a great addition to the area’s recreational offerings.

“The benefit, the exciting part is having another trail system nearby to make this more of a destination for people to ride bikes and to get on bikes and go outside,” Dirksen said. “It’s gonna be awesome.”

Students said they are excited for the possibilities, too.

“I think it will be very beneficial to get more people outside,” said AnnaLevi Chavis, junior in anthropology.

“People in the afternoons can go to Chewacla, then they go a little bit further to this new place,” said Joshua Bradford, senior in natural resource management. “Keep mixing it up.”

If funding comes through and the current surveys don’t warrant any major changes Melton said he expects the trails to be complete and open as early as 2020.

If the project doesn’t get all the funding it needs, Melton said at least part of the trail system could still be built.

Then, the rest of the project could be re-evaluated if it becomes popular enough to warrant more trails.

“Hopefully, it will be a good experience for everyone,” Melton said. “If we build these and there are so many people out there and it’s congested, that’s great. That’s a whole bunch of people outside, and the solution there is to find places to build more trails.”

EVENTS

LIBRARY

Fundraising events planned for injured police officer

By ELIZABETH HURLEY Community Editor

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The Auburn Public Library on August 2016, in Auburn, Ala.

Check out these library resources

By RACHEL MCGOVERN Community Writer

The Auburn Public Library, located on East Thach Avenue, works to inspire community members to explore new ideas, pursue their dreams and change their lives by connecting with their world, according to library director, Chris Warren.

“We do our best to have a wide collection that has something for everyone,” Warren said. “We keep up-todate with current interest, popular trends and accuracy.”

Warren said he works to provide resources that interest the entire community.

“We have everything from children’s books to mysteries to books on how to file your taxes,” Warren said.

Hard copy books are not the only resources the library provides to the public.

Subscriptions to CreativeBug, which provides unlimited access to more than 1,000 award-winning art and craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists, are available with a library card.

Cardholders can download tutorials, patterns, templates and recipes.

The library also works to accommodate Auburn University students by having study spaces available, especially during finals week, Warren said.

“Students can take advantage of our Cloud Library, a digital leading platform for downloadable eBooks and audio books,” Warren said.

Through the Auburn Library, the

Cloud Library offers thousands of popular eBooks and eAudioBooks at no cost.

Library staff will host an introductory meeting to the digital library services on March 6, April 10 and May 1 at the Auburn Public Library.

Flipster is another resource the library provides patrons. The magazine service allows cardholders to browse digital versions of the latest issues of more than 50 popular magazines.

For those that prefer holding a real book, the Friends of the Auburn Public Library will host the “BIG Book Sale” April 6 through 8. The event will be held at the Auburn Public Library.

To learn more about upcoming events, resources and volunteer opportunities, community members can visit the library or its website.

Several fundraising events and benefits for Officer Justin Sanders, who sustained serious injuries during a traffic stop of a robbery suspect on Friday, Feb. 15, are being held throughout Lee County.

Sanders is an Auburn native and graduate of Auburn High School, and has served in law enforcement for five years. After he was shot multiple times on Feb. 15, he was transported to East Alabama Medical Center.

He was later transported to UAB Medical Center in Birmingham and is now recovering.

Niffer’s Place will host a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, at Niffer’s Place Auburn location at 1151 Opelika Road.

“With everything that happened that Friday night with Officer Justin Sanders, we thought he’s going to need help,” said Mary Myers, director of operations for Niffer’s Place.

Tickets for the event are $10 and can be purchased at any of the three Niffer’s Place locations or on the restaurant’s website.

All the proceeds will go toward Sander’s expenses that are not covered by his insurance, Myers said.

The breakfast will include pancakes, sausage, coffee, juice or a fountain drink. Each purchased ticket will be entered in a raffle to win a $200 Niffer’s gift card, according to the event’s flyer.

Ticket sales will not be capped, and the restaurant is expecting about 500 community members to attend or volunteer at the event.

Community members that cannot attend the event can still donate toward the cause at any Niffer’s Place location or on the restaurant’s website.

“We just wanted to give back because they do a great job of protecting us and doing whatever we need, and we just wanted to help someone out, really,” Myers said.

A benefit concert will be held at Ruffin Farms, 3085 County Road 86 in Waverly, Alabama, on Sunday, March 24. Donations will cover admission to the family concert. Gates open at 10 a.m. with acts beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at 10 p.m., according to an event Facebook page.

Back the Badge Lee County is selling “Back the Badge” decals for $10. The decals can be purchased via Venmo for $10 to Amanda-Coon-2.

They can also be purchased at several local businesses for cash.

Two GoFundMe pages have been created to benefit Sanders.

Collectively, the pages have raised over $39,000 as of Feb. 26.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019 STUDENT HOUSING

Shaken by high rent, students turn to trailers

By DREW DAWS Community Writer

Some students are moving into mobile homes as an alternative to living in apartments with rising rents.

There are several mobile home communities in Auburn located off of Wire Road largely for University students.

Mobile home communities are different from apartment complexes in many regards, including extra amenities, said Ridgewood Village Park Manager Wayne Wood.

“The residents can have pets, fenced-in yards, their own private deck and access to a swimming pool and tennis courts,” Wood said. “Tiger Transit also provides transportation for students from our main office.”

The park, which was established in 1972, requires residents to purchase their mobile home. Residents then rent their plot of land.

Ridgewood Village feels more like a community, Wood said.

He attributes that to the fact that residents must own their trailer and take care of it.

“It feels more like home to the residents,” he said. “They get to know their neighbors, grill out and cook out.”

The monthly rent for each lot is $260. The average rent at many apartment complexes is much higher, Wood said.

“The average four-year cost in this park would be, including lot rent, an average of $8,000 to $10,000,” Wood said. “An apartment with a rent of $750 a month would cost a person nearly $35,000 in that same four-year period.”

Other nearby mobile home communities, such as Gentilly Park, allow students to rent mobile homes. The average rent for homes ranges from $600 to $1,000, according to the community’s website.

Logan Bailey, freshman in biomedical sciences, chose to purchase a mobile home because of the space and freedom it provides.

“I have a lot more room, so I can really do my own thing,” Bailey said.

Bailey purchased the mobile home for approximately $30,000.

He plans to attend medical school, so, long-term, his purchase will be more cost-effective compared to living in an apartment, he said.

He purchased a newer model, so he will not lose as much money if he ever does decide to sell it, he said.

“One good thing is that when I sell [my home], it won’t have depreciated that much,” Bailey said. “It won’t be like I am trying to sell some 30-year-old thing.”

Bailey likes the idea of the mobile home for its permanence, as well. He said he does not have to worry about planning for housing in the future.

“Since I plan to be here for seven years, it was nice to go ahead and have something set up,” Bailey said.

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The Tiger Transit bus where the alleged rape took place had four video cameras. Prosecutors are planning to use the video evidence during trial.

Brandon Hughes also referenced accounts from eyewitnesses who passed by the incident. Testimony began Wednesday.

The district attorney said the eyewitnesses immediately knew the victim was intoxicated and that something “didn’t feel right” about the situation. The witnesses saw Patillo standing over the victim along the side of Aspen Heights Lane.

Brandon Hughes said Patillo continually changed his story throughout interviews with police. The district attorney told the jury to not just consider how despicable the act was, but to consider what it would have been like for the victim.

“She was so intoxicated, she couldn’t tell him no,” Brandon Hughes said.

The defense attorney said in opening statements that there was no forensic evidence that proves the interaction wasn’t consensual.

The defense asked in preliminary motions for a video from SkyBar, showing the victim intoxicated prior to the incident on the bus, to be thrown out.

Taylor said it was irrelevant and prejudicial. The defense argued the mental state of the victim three hours prior was not relevant to the trial.

“The only way Patillo could have determined she was incapacitated was if he was at the bar,” Taylor said, adding that Patillo wasn’t inside SkyBar. The prosecution said the video was, indeed, important because it provided context of the physical state of the victim during the incident.

Lee County Circuit Judge Christo-

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Defendant Tony Martin Patillo of Columbus, Ga., sits inside Judge Christopher Hughes’ courtroom Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019.

pher Hughes, who is presiding over the case, permitted the video to be shown but said it should not be referenced in opening arguments.

Kendall Davis, who was riding in a vehicle by the scene with three friends, called 911 when they saw the incident.

Davis testified Wednesday.

Davis said she saw the victim stumbling in the Aspen Heights neighborhood with a man, who had the uniform of a Tiger Transit driver, following behind her.

“We all made remarks that she looked intoxicated,” Davis said in testimony.

Jordan Knox, who was in the car with Davis at the scene, was also called to testify.

“I just thought something sketchy was going on because the way he was following her and her stumbling,” Knox said. “She didn’t act like she knew him.”

Knox and Davis both admitted in testimony that they had one or two drinks an hour or so before witnessing the incident.

Austin Michael Hayden, an Auburn Police Division officer who testified, responded to the scene following dispatch.

Hayden talked with witnesses on the

scene. He said the eyewitnesses, including Davis and Knox, did not appear at all under the influence of alcohol and were able to recall information better than most.

Jasmine Gomez was with the victim at SkyBar the night of the incident.

According to Gomez, she and her three friends never met the victim before the night of the incident. Gomez said they were with the victim from the time they met at the bar until the time they helped the victim onto the Tiger Transit late-night Tiger Ten bus.

Gomez said the victim told her that she wanted to take the Tiger Transit back home and not an Uber, so they complied.

The jury, selected Tuesday, consists of seven white men, five white women, two black men and one black woman.

Three of the jurors are alternates and will sit in on the trial but will not have a vote when deliberations begin.

The trial will resume with testimony this afternoon after a lunch break. The trial is expected to last less than a week.

James Johnson Jr., the other defendant in the case, will be tried at a later date.

The incident prompted Tiger Transit to add security guards to each night bus.

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Citizen organization seeks to support, recognize police

By MIRANDA SHAFFER Lifestyle Writer

A new nonprofit organization called Concerned Citizens Organized for Police Support sought to build more respect for police by recognizing three officers at the Auburn City Council meeting Tuesday.

The Kiwanis Club created the organization as a way for citizens to be able to better recognize and respect police in their area.

“We need to be able to support police and all that they do,” said Jack Galassini, a Kiwanis Club member.

The plan originally launched in Montgomery in the summer of 2018 but is now moving to new areas — including Auburn.

Galassini said in his presentation that CCOPS would aim to accomplish three major tasks within the community.

The first task is to increase and improve interactions between citizens and the police.

“I feel like we have a climate in this country right now of police officers being bad, that it’s OK to resist them and hurt them, but that’s just not the case,” said former police chief and current Councilmember Tommy Dawson.

The second task is to provide a series of public service announcements to inform citizens about how police are risking their lives daily.

In light of the police shooting that wounded an Auburn officer on Feb. 15, this goal took on extra importance, the CCOPS representatives said.

The last task is to honor the county’s best police officers on a quarterly basis. The organization used the City Council meeting to honor three police officers for outstanding performances.

The district governor of Kiwanis, Mary Hoerlein, presented awards to the officers.

The first officer honored was Michael Hayden from the Auburn Police Division, who was chosen due to his actions at an accident in early January.

He removed an elderly woman who was not breathing from a wrecked vehicle and administered CPR until an ambulance arrived, saving her life.

The next officer recognized was Keith Oshel from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

He has helped his department become more efficient by revamping its technological system and creating an online portal for commonly-used forms.

The final officer to be honored was Shayna Hodges from the Opelika Police Department. She has been a school resource officer in Opelika for the past year and has received numerous letters and compliments from students and school staff due to her outstanding performance.

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By ANNAGAIL HOLTON Sports Writer

Abby Milliet, Gracie Day, Taylor Krippner, Skyler Sheppard and Drew Watson all returned to their home state to perform as the season winds down. Every one of them got to compete on an event.

Watson continued to post high scores in the all-around competition, claiming three scores of 9.8 on bars, beam and floor, and a 9.875 on vault.

She finished with an all-around score of 39.275 as Auburn won the meet with a final score of 195.5.

Other notable scores from the Texas natives included a 9.875 from Krippner and Day on bars, a 9.8 from Day on vault and a 9.85 from Milliet on floor.

“I’m happy with some of the stuff,” said Auburn head coach Jeff Graba. “I really feel like we let some things go today. I think we’re better than the score reflects. I think this was a better performance than that.”

Auburn worked through several flaws in its routines after coming off of a season-high score of 197.1 in a win last week against Arkansas.

“We have to be better than this in the future, but we got some kinks worked out,” Graba said.

Two miscues on vault from Jada Glenn and Krippner resulted in scores of 9.525 and 9.224, respectively. Counting a 9.525 decreased Auburn’s overall vault score significantly. Two additional falls on floor left Auburn out of sorts after receiving scores of 9.025 and 8.675.

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Auburn struggled but held its lead to finish the meet. The Tigers improved their record to 7-1 on the season, and they will have to face No. 9 Alabama two weeks in a row — once in Tuscaloosa and once in Birmingham.

“They’ve been through everything now,” Graba said. “We don’t have any excuses for this next Friday against Alabama. We have to bring our ‘A’ game, and I think we’re ready.”

The rivalry meet will be televised on SEC Network at 6:30 p.m. CST on Friday, March 1.

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Time for some soul-searching

By BRYCE JOHNSON Sports Writer

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Erin Falconer wins 200m Freestyle. Auburn swimming during SEC Championships on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in Athens, Ga.

Falconer wins SEC title Tiger Swimming sets SEC record in relay

By NATHAN KING Sports Editor

Auburn senior Erin Falconer won gold at the SEC Championships for the first time in her career last Thursday, claiming the 200 freestyle title at the 2019 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships in Athens, Georgia.

Falconer first qualified in the preliminary events with a time of 1:43.75, which marked the second-fastest clip of her career. She logged her career-best two days prior with a leadoff split of 1:43.42 on the 800 free relay.

The senior split a 50.90 through the first half of the race, sitting in second behind host participant Courtney Harnish from Georgia, who split a 50.79. In the second half of the race, Falconer split a field-best 25.99 before closing the event with a 26.15 in the final 50 to claim the title. She beat Tennessee’s Meghan Small by 33 seconds.

“Last SECs, last 200 free, I’m just going to have fun with it,” Falconer said. “The last 25 (yards) I saw some of the girls coming up on me and I knew I had to get my hand on the wall first. We had a lot of second places today and I didn’t want to be second.”

Falconer’s gold medal marks the first in the SEC Championships since Ashley Neidigh took first in the 1650 free two years ago. The win marks Auburn’s seventh 200 free title in program history and the first since Caitilin Geary’s 10 years ago.

“During the race I wasn’t thinking about anything other than getting my hand to the wall,” Falconer said. “As soon as I finished I didn’t even have time to look at the clock I just looked at my team and I saw them going wild and I kind of

knew. That was the most incredible feeling ever.”

Her 1:43.04 is just .04 seconds behind the school record for the event, posted by Ava Ohlgren in 2009.

“Erin has done the work all year,” said first-year Auburn head coach Gary Taylor. “She has bought in, she has been extremely coachable and very willing to be educated and grow from the experience from one week to the next. She works insanely hard and she aspires to be the very best she can be.

That’s what you saw in the performance tonight.”

Two days later in Athens, Falconer, along with teammates Claire Fisch, Julie Meynen and Aly Tetzloff, combined to set the SEC record in their victory in the 400 free relay — the last event of the SEC Championships meet.

“I don’t know about the record but I knew with these three girls in front of me that we were going to go fast,” Falconer said.

The time of 3:10.45 in the event was the fourth program record broken in Athens after the team also set the school record in the 200 medley relay with a 1:35.73, the 200 free relay with a 1:27.05 and the 400 medley relay with a 3:29.06.

The 400 free relay victory was the third gold medal of the event for the women’s team after Falconer’s 200 free title and Tetzloff ’s 100 free victory. The three titles are the most for Auburn’s women’s team since it won four gold medals at the 2012 SEC Championships.

“We felt like if the training was good, the buy-in was where it needed to be, these women were capable of a whole lot,” Taylor said. “At the same time you have to come out and perform and all of them did individually and on relays all week. They earned every bit of it.”

In this edition of the Auburn basketball notebook, sportswriter Bryce Johnson opines on the Tigers’ postseason outlook after a 27-point loss at Kentucky.

“If we think we are good enough to win a national championship, it starts here today in Rupp Arena,” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl pregame.

Two hours later, his team scored seven points to start the second half, cementing a 27-point defeat to the No. 4 team in the country. Once the final buzzer rang it was clear this Tiger team is far from a national championship.

Kentucky is notoriously a second-half-of-the-season team. Coach John Calipari even boasts how he doesn’t teach defense until way into the season. Come March, though, his teams know how to win; there’s no denying that. They’ve been to the Final Four four times this decade and have made it out of the first weekend every time except once.

For Auburn, which preaches about going further than just to the second round like they did last year, a February Kentucky team is a much better measuring stick than a January one. The January team beat them by two points. The February team held Auburn to the exact same amount of points it scored against Clemson in March Madness last year.

Unless something drastically changes, odds are that the Tigers won’t reach their goal of surpassing last year’s team.

Future NBA center Austin Wiley, who was supposed to be a centerpiece of the team, hasn’t been able to stay on the court. He even went down in Saturday’s game with a non-contact leg injury on the same leg that has been giving him complications all year.

Bryce Brown, the sharpshooting guard, started the season on a tear but hasn’t scored over 20 points in a month.

Jared Harper, a preseason SEC Player of the Year can-

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didate, didn’t record an assist against the Wildcats for just the second game of his career.

The biggest problem with the entire roster is lack of consistency. It’s rare for a player to put together a string of good games. Come tournament time everyone has that guy they call on late in the shot clock for a bucket.

Look at PJ Washington on Kentucky. He put up 24 points on Auburn, eviscerating any matchup placed in front of him. This was without his running mate, Reid Travis, who’s the second-best player on the team.

Washington has been doing this conistently since he played Auburn last. In the last six games, he’s scored over 20 points in every single one.

He’s blossoming at the right time.

It isn’t all dark and gloomy, though; this might be the wake-up call Auburn needs to end the season strong. It still has the SEC Tournament to prove itself, along with a probable March Madness bid.

All of the Tigers’ weaknesses were exposed on a national stage, so there’s a chance they use this as a learning experience.

Even if this season ends early, there’s a top-10 recruiting class on the way next year.

Pearl has done nothing but make this program relevant again, so it makes sense to trust him.

The only thing that can be determined immediately is that, as of this weekend, there’s a 27-point gap between the Auburn Tigers and a national championship-contending team.

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Mancheno claims invididual title, Auburn wins event at Grand National

By NATHAN KING Sports Editor

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Brandon Mancheno competes at the Tiger Invitational on Feb. 26, 2019, in Opelika, Ala.

Sophomore Auburn golfer Brandon Mancheno tallied his first career individual title Tuesday at the Tiger Invitational in Opelika, Alabama, finishing at 4-under for the week after a playoff victory over Kennesaw State’s Wyatt Larkin. As a team, the No. 10 Tigers won the event after the final round, shooting an 8-under 280.

Auburn ended its annual host tournament at 11-under (293-280-280--853) and won overall by 10 strokes.

“The guys felt pretty comfortable out here and played the golf we were capable of playing,” said head coach Nick Clinard. “I’m really happy for Brandon. I’m hoping this opens the door a little bit for him.”

Mancheno, a Jacksonville, Florida, product who won SEC Freshman of the Year last season, birdied

the 17th hole in Opelika to tie up Larkin. Mancheno parred on the last hole to send the matchup into a playoff.

Larkin bogeyed, gifting Mancheno a pair of putts for the victory. His second putt — from 12 feet out — won the first collegiate title of his career.

“I was trying to repeat as champions as a team,” Mancheno said. “That was our main goal at the start of the week. This win helped for me. It’s my first one in college and it’s going to be big for me moving forward.”

All five Auburn golfers finished in the top 25, including a trio in the top 10. The Tigers won by double digits, finishing 10 strokes ahead of the No. 6 SMU Mustangs for Auburn’s second team title of the season.

Auburn’s “B Team” tied for sixth place at 15-over.

Clinard’s squad heads to Las Vegas this weekend for the Southern Highland Collegiate invite, hosted by UNLV.

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2020 class lookahead

By LOGAN GLOVER Sports Writer

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Austin Wiley (50) during Auburn Men’s Basketball vs. Arkansas on Feb. 20, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

Wiley’s next roadblock

By NATHAN KING Sports Editor

Bruce Pearl knows Austin Wiley is frustrated.

Just when it seems the 6-foot-11 junior center, who returned this season after sitting out the 2017-18 campaign for his connection to the Chuck Person FBI investigation, is ready to become the player Auburn expected him to be when Pearl signed Wiley as a fivestar prospect out of Hoover, Alabama, something goes wrong.

“More than anything, I feel for Austin,” Pearl said Tuesday.

Auburn’s head coach has ruled Wiley “doubtful” for Auburn’s Wednesday matchup with Georgia after Wiley “re-aggravated” his leg injury last Saturday.

Less than five minutes into the second half of the Tigers’ loss at Kentucky over the weekend, Wiley crumbled to the hardwood and did not return. Pearl said in the days leading up the Kentucky game that Wiley had been “getting closer” to 100 percent in regards to his nagging injury from earlier in the season.

Pearl said Wiley didn’t re-injure himself, but his 260-pound frame collapsing awkwardly on his leg was painful enough to pull Wiley from the game and have him evaluated further. Wiley underwent X-Rays and MRI procedures Sunday, and no further damage was found.

“So in coming back from the injury, he’s running and he’s playing and he’s jumping and he’s landing, but at Kentucky, was probably the first time he landed on one leg... he felt

it,” Pearl said. “... Because he did feel it, there’s a little more inflammation and a little more pain, and until that calms down, we should sit him out. So our expectation is that he won’t play at Georgia. But that’s to be determined.”

After a lower right leg injury kept Wiley out of five straight contests for the Tigers, he returned Feb. 5 in a win over Florida. Wiley has since appeared in Auburn’s past six games, playing five, three, eight, 11, 13 and six minutes against Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Arkansas and Kentucky, respectively.

During that six-game stretch, the center averaged 1.8 points and 1.7 rebounds per outing.

Wiley, who has dealt with injury issues since high school, is now an occasional commodity for Auburn this season as opposed to a reliable starter. Junior Anfernee McLemore (7.1 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.3 blocks per game) has started 22 of Auburn’s 27 games this season at center.

Last season, Wiley declared for the 2018 NBA Draft but chose to return for his junior year after being closely evaluated by league scouts. The center is currently projected as a second-round pick in this year’s NBA Draft should he choose that path.

Pearl believes Auburn fans haven’t seen the last of Wiley this season, however.

“He’s been going through it all season long,” Pearl said of Wiley’s injury troubles.

“No, I think this is something that he’ll be able to come back from. It’s just that we need to let it calm down and see how it progresses over the next week or so.”

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Auburn finished the 2019 recruiting class ranked 11th in the nation and sixth in the SEC, landing elite recruits on signing day, such as Charles Moore and Mark-Antony Richards.

But as one recruiting class ends, another begins. Gus Malzahn is hard at work on the 2020 class that already has seven commits, including recent four-star wide receiver commit J.J. Evans from Montevallo, Alabama.

Now, where does Malzahn go from here?

The position that most fans want to see recruited is offensive line. This is a position that has been lacking in numbers in the past few classes. Auburn has started out the gate fast with two offensive tackles already committed in four-star Avery Jernigan and three-star JUCO commit Jonathan Buskey.

Here’s who else is on Auburn’s radar.

OT Tate Ratledge | Rome, Ga. — Auburn has a lot of ground to make up here for this four-star. While Ratledge has visited Auburn already, Georgia seems to be the team to beat.

OT Trey Zimmerman | Roswell, Ga. — Zimmerman seems to have emerged as a big target as of late. The three-star has a ton of upside, and it also helps that he is friends with Jernigan.

OT/OG Chris Mayo | Hightstown, N.J. — Mayo is a four-star target that has already visited Auburn twice. Being from New Jersey, this shows that there is major interest.

OT Joshua Braun | Live Oak, Fla. — The brother of a grad transfer target from Georgia Tech, Braun is a four-star that has not visited Auburn yet but has plans to in the future.

OT Javion Cohen | Phenix City, Ala. — Cohen does not hold an offer from Auburn yet, but the three-star’s stock is on the rise and if Auburn were to offer, then it would most certainly be a factor.

OT Broderick Jones | Lithonia, Ga. — Jones is a five-star Georgia commit who made a surprise visit to Auburn back in January with his family. Malzahn is pitching that Jones could be a starting tackle with the amount of linemen leaving.

The next major position Auburn will be loading up on in this class is linebackers, having signed three in the 2019 class and having one committed currently in Demouy Kennedy.

DE/OLB Quandarrius Robinson | Birmingham, Ala. — This four star was once committed to Auburn but backed off his pledge recently. The Tigers may still lead, but it looks to be an Iron Bowl battle for this recruit.

LB Phillip Webb | Sugar Hill, Ga. — The four-star Webb grew up an Auburn fan and his father attended the school with Rodney Garner. It will most likely come down to Auburn and Clemson for this recruit.

LB Cameron Riley | Evergreen, Ala. — Auburn and Mississippi State are the two teams to watch out for this four-star. Auburn seems to be surging of late after a visit Feb. 2.

Finally, let’s go through some other recruits to keep an eye out for. Auburn will be more picky with other positions as they are not as much of a need.

QB Robby Ashford | Hoover, Ala. — Ashford is Auburn’s QB recruit for this cycle and it looks to be a fight between Auburn and Georgia for this one.

RB Kobe Pryor | Cedartown, Ga. — New Auburn running backs coach Cadillac Willians has found a priority running back in this cycle, and he comes from the same high school that produced Nick Chubb. This 6-foot, 210-pound running back’s stock is rising, and he may not be a three-star for long.

WR E.J. Williams | Phenix City, Ala. — Auburn was once the team to beat for this rising receiver, but Clemson seems to be the team to beat as of now.

DE Myles Murphy | Powder Springs, Ga. — This five-star has visited Auburn multiple times and loves the engineering program that is offered at Auburn. Auburn is very much in the mix but so are Georgia, Alabama and Clemson.

TE Arik Gilbert | Marietta, Ga. — Gilbert is a five-star recruit that recently visited Auburn recently and will again. Georgia looks to be the leader for this freakishly athletic recruit.

There will be plenty more names to come up in the future. Keep an eye out for recruits in Arizona as new offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham is from there and has already started offering.

Also, keep an eye out in Mississippi. Auburn recruited well there in the 2019 cycle; don’t expect it to slow down with proven Magnolia-state recruiters Marcus Woodson and Wesley McGriff on staff.

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4-star WR commits to Auburn

By ZACH TANTILLO Sports Reporter

Auburn made another big splash in its 2020 recruiting class with the commitment of highly touted wide receiver prospect J.J. Evans.

The No. 16-ranked recruit out of Alabama, according to 247’s Composite Rankings, took to Twitter to make his announcement Sunday afternoon.

Listed at 6-foot-2, 185 pounds, the Montevallo High School star displayed advanced

skill on deep routes and making plays after the catch.

Evans has received numerous offers from top programs before committing to the Tigers — ­ including Alabama, Clemson and Georgia.

Evans joins other four-star receiver Kobe Hudson as the two wide receiver commits for Auburn in the 2020 class.

With the newest addition, Auburn has seven commits in the 2020 class and is ranked No. 9 in the country and No. 5 in the SEC, according to the 247 Composite Rankings.

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Wallace hired at Air Force

By JAKE WEESE Sports Writer

Former Auburn quarterback and wide receiver Jonathan Wallace is now joining the Air Force coaching staff as the program’s new tight ends coach, the school announced on Tuesday.

“Please give our new TE’s Coach @ CoachWallaceAF a warm Falcon Nation welcome! #LetsFly #TECoach,” Air Force football tweeted Tuesday.

Wallace spent a total of six years at Auburn — four as a player from 2012 to 2015 and two as a graduate assistant working with wide receivers. Most recently, he took a coaching position at Bethel University in 2018 where he took on the role of wide receivers coach and director of football operations.

Wallace saw limited snaps while at Auburn with the majority of his playing time coming during the 3-9 2012 season. Wallace started the final four games of the season for the

Tigers and currently owns the freshmen record for quarterback efficiency with a rating of 139.60.

Following the 2012 season, Wallace threw only five combined passes in his next three seasons and did not record a single offensive stat in his senior season at quarterback or wide receiver.

After his playing career was over, Wallace joined the coaching staff at Auburn as a graduate assistant before the 2016 season.

Then in 2018, Wallace was hired as the wide receiver coach at Bethel where the team finished 11-2.

Wallace joins an Air Force team that has gone 5-7 in both of its last two seasons under head coach Troy Calhoun.

“This is one of the top programs in the country that provides the best educational support and the best structural support for young men who want to be different,” Wallace said in a statement released by Air Force football on Twitter.

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Auburn picking up steam after undefeated weekend

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Rachel Cook (20) runs to third base during Auburn Softball vs. Villanova on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

Auburn finished the Tiger Invitational with an undefeated record.

The No. 21 Tigers improved their record to 13-3 after defeating Villanova 11-1 and Troy 3-1 on Sunday. Auburn entered Sunday’s doubleheader after having already beaten Villanva, Eastern Illinois once and North Dakota State twice.

“In three days, six games and four within 24 hours, it’s brutal,” said Auburn head coach Mickey Dean.

In the bottom of the first Auburn’s Kendall Veach hit an RBI single to bring home Taylon Snow after Villanova pitcher Paige Rauch hit a solo shot. Veach would later break the pair’s 1-1 tie with a home run down center field in the fourth inning.

In the fifth inning, Taylon Snow hit a single to send Bree Foynis home, giving the Tigers a 3-1 lead. On the following play, Morgan Podany advanced home after a wild pitch by Rauch.

In the bottom of the sixth, Aspyn Godwin hit a three-run home run, the first home run of her career, that extended Auburn’s lead to 7-1.

Snow would follow Godwin’s three RBIs later in the inning with a walk-off grand slam.

Snow’s grand slam was the first of her career, the program’s first walk-off grand slam since April 29, 2017, and the second game ending in a run-rule this weekend for the Tigers.

Casey McCrackin failed to get on base against the Wildcats, ending her 27 game onbase streak that extended back to last season.

Following the win over the Wildcats, the Tigers faced Troy. Troy came into the meeting 3-1 in the Tiger Invitational, only losing to North Dakota State on Friday.

The Trojans came in with a 12-4 record while ranking third in the Sun Belt conference.

“I knew it was going to be a grind,” Dean said.

“They came into the game rested, we played last night, and they’re a good team.”

Troy opened with an RBI single by Katie Webb for an early 1-0 lead.

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Makayla Martin finished a complete game with six strikeouts and four hits in the win after allowing just one run.

“I faced her in high school, so it was kind of a little bit of a throwback,” Perry said of Martin.

“I just took my mind back and thought about doing this for Makayla because she threw a hell of a game like always.”

Dean had similar praise.

“Your great pitchers win when they don’t have their best stuff,” Dean said. “She had late strikeouts, which really took the pressure off the defense.”

After the game Martin, laughed about her performance, saying how she thought it wasn’t up to her standards.

The Tigers will next travel to Fullerton, California for the Judi Garman Classic, where they will first play Loyola Marymount on Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. CST.

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Gender gap persists despite 127 years of women

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With the first three female students walking across The Plains and being admitted to Auburn University in 1892, 127 years later the gap between male and female leadership only seems to be widening.

“We need more women leaders in every single facet of the world, and the United States lags in many ways behind a lot of other countries,” said Barbara Baker, executive directive of Women’s Leadership Institute.

The Women’s Leadership Board has been a part of Auburn University since 2008, which started with an international conference that brought women leaders from all over the world to Auburn. This board became the first institute in the Southeast that supported the Center

For American Women in Politics.

“For 125 years, only three women have served as SGA presidents, so for us to get the fourth this year is amazing because it so rarely happens,” Baker said.

She said this is because Auburn started as a male college.

“The leadership of Auburn University at the top is still very male,” Baker said, “We’ve never had a women president. We rarely have a women provost, and most of the upper leadership is male.”

Baker said it is a slow process to incorporate women into positions of leadership especially in STEM careers.

According to National Center for Education Statics, only 35.1 percent of women earn their Bachelor’s in all STEM fields, and this percentage is even smaller for women of color.

“Coming from the perspective of leadership, what you’re missing is that you’re not seeing women actually leading the big institutes or big medical schools or even Auburn,” Baker said. “We want to attract women to STEM, but we don’t have a woman sitting in COSAM or leading COSAM.” Since mostly men are seen in positions of power, especially in the STEM field, Baker said women can start to believe that men may be better because that’s what they’ve always seen.

In an updated study by Ryan Noonan about women in the STEM field, 24 percent of those employed in STEM occupations are women.

Women of color make up less than 10 percent of working scientists and engineers according to the Nation Science Foundation.

“Part of the problem is and it’s a cliche, but you can’t be what you can’t see,” Baker said.

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“We’re almost to the point in this country where we probably need to go ahead and, if you have equal candidates, go ahead and prefer women because we have to break through these boundaries.”

Auburn University is in the position now where it can move the needle by pulling in some women leaders at the top, she said. However, it is to note that the wage gap around leadership is still a reality.

“We did a study where we compared women full professors at historically black universities and male full professors at predominately white institutions, and the white institutions are paying their white professors 44 percent more, over $40,000 more,” Baker said.

There is still work that needs to be done in order to pave the way for women to be in leadership on and off campus, she said.

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Destination wedding Athletics offers Auburn Arena as wedding venue on The Plains

By ELLIE FALCONER Community Writer

For couples who met at Auburn or are fans of the Tigers, hosting their wedding on The Plains can make their special day more sentimental and memorable.

Couples have the option to host their wedding reception inside the Auburn Arena, although, this is a rare opportunity because of a few limiting factors.

Because the arena is located on campus, the food and beverage vendors, along with the live music must be University-approved.

The event approval process can only begin six months in advance because Auburn Athletics event coordinators must book the date around sporting events.

“Generally, we can’t nail down a date or save a room [in the arena] until six months out,” said Cayce Haylay, Auburn Athletics coordinator of athletic hospitality and special events. “It can be a little bit of a challenge because you plan weddings for a really long time.”

She said they must present the proposed wedding reception six months prior to a committee and the planning process begins upon approval. Since the arena is located on

campus, the University and athletics’ protocols must be followed.

“We plan the logistics. Like if there’s alcohol, we get all the proper approvals to have alcohol in the space,” Haylay said. “We book the police officers, the EMS and just make sure we have everyone we need to secure the event.”

For the coordinating of the reception itself, the event planners encourage the bride to use her own wedding planner, but she must choose from University-approved vendors, Haylay said.

There are six preferred catering vendors, two linen, two audio and visual, two floral shops and four photographers that are University-approved options that brides may choose from.

The receptions do not take place on the court, instead they are held in the Courtside Lounge, which hosts 150 guests, or the Scholarship Terrace and Mezzanine overlooking Jordan-Hare Stadium, which hosts 250 guests.

There have only been a handful of wedding receptions in the Auburn Arena, and the most recent reception took place last summer.

The Courtside Lounge has a $2,000 usage fee, and the Scholarship Terrace and Mezza-

nine has a $2,500 usage fee. Both spaces are subject to a $150 fee for additional hours.

“There’s been less than 10 [in the five years] I’ve been here,” said Taylor Pair, Auburn Athletics coordinator of athletic hospitality and special events. “It’s a little difficult because some brides don’t want to wait until the six-month mark.”

She said the Auburn Arena serves a different purpose than a traditional wedding reception venue. The volume of events is limited since the arena’s primary purpose is hosting sporting events, practices and camps.

“It is a unique location, especially if graduates either met here or it’s an important part of their relationship,” Pair said. “We enjoy the ones that are here.”

Despite the limiting factors that coincide with having a wedding reception in the Auburn Arena, the experience is special and memorable to couples who adore Auburn.

“It is special, and it is super unique because Auburn does hold a place in everybody’s heart,” Haylay said. “With the limited availability that we have, there’re not a lot of people that are able to come in and out of these spaces. It’s not a place you can go to every weekend, so it’s completely different than any wedding that I’ve been to.”

James R. Hansen was apart of the award-winning cast and crew for “First Man,” which just won a 2019 Oscar.

“First Man” won the 2019 Oscar for Best Visual Effects on Feb. 24.

Hansen, professor emeritus of history at Auburn University, is the author of the only official biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, and a co-producer and co-director for the film adaption of the book, both titled, “First Man.” Hansen worked alongside director Damien Chazelle and actor Ryan Gosling on the project.

The 2019 Academy Awards was the final program for the 2018-2019 award season.

Spencer gets Oscar for ‘Green Book’

By MIKAYLA BURNS Managing Editor

Auburn alumna Octavia Spencer was an executive producer on “Green Book,” which won the 2019 Oscar for Best Picture.

Spencer, class of 1994, is an Oscar, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actor. The actor grew up in Montgomery, Alabama.

The movie follows an African-American pianist and his Italian-American bodyguard and driver as they travel throughout the South for his gigs. It focuses on race issues and interracial friendship. However, it has faced controversy for perpetuating stereotypes of the black community as well as a scandal with its director.

Spencer acted as executive producer on the film, which also received 2019 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay and 2019 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

SPOTLIGHT

A day in the life of an National Panhellenic Council Pi Chi

By LAUREN PIEPER Lifestyle Writer

Recently, 126 women have been chosen to be Pi Chis for 2019 fall formal sorority recruitment.

A Pi Chi is a disaffiliated sorority member who leads potential new members through rush week.

Pi Chis have to remain completely anonymous throughout this process so the PNMs have an unbiased week. To do this, these women have to cleanse their social media and go to some extremes to keep their true identity a secret.

Caitlin Phillips, a former Pi Chi, said the process is not as difficult as

others may think.

“It was not very hard,” Phillips said. “The head Pi Chi’s last year did a really good job of helping us make all of our accounts very private.”

Phillips said Pi Chis are safe from discovery if they follow all the steps for making their accounts private and make a creative, inconspicuous username.

Phillips said it took her a long time to come up with the perfect username. However, that was not the only aspect of social media she had to make sure was totally secure. Phillips said she had to ask all of her friends with public Ins-

tagrams to make sure she was not tagged or on them.

Luckily for her, she said it paid off.

“To my knowledge, none of my PNMs found me on social media before I told them,” she said.

Current Pi Chi, Sara, asked for her last name not to be published to remain anonymous for her PMNs. Sara agreed hiding on social media is not as difficult as it seems.

“I know I changed my profile pictures and most of my friends did, as well,” she said. “Facebook is the funniest to change usernames because it requires a first and last

name, so there are some hilarious fake last names.”

Sara said those with Apple computers have to make sure their name doesn’t show in the top right corner when PNMs use their laptops.

Although she never made her friends untag her from photos, Sara said a lot of them archived their posts with her in it just to be safe.

For her, Sara said the most difficult part of remaining anonymous is going through her sororities website and hiding her last name.

“We do have to make sure we are fully off our sororities’ web-

sites and social media platforms, though, which can be a tedious task to find all of the pictures,” she said. “The PNMs are also freaky good at creeping, so you have to be careful what information you give them, or they’ll find you from your hometown newspaper when you were a sophomore in high school.”

Sara also found the “silence rule” to be a challenge.

Sara said when she was out at BurgerFi with two other Pi Chi’s, she saw her big and twin from her sorority.

“I couldn’t say anything or even

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TECHNOLOGY

Art behind a documentary SCREENSHOT FROM PHOTOBOOTH

By ABIGAIL MURPHY Lifestyle Writer

If there’s curiosity about any topic, there’s probably a documentary out there ready to give an answer. However, like a work of art or piece of writing, there’s more to documentaries than the finished product.

“There is no one kind of documentary,” said Hollie Lavenstein, associate professor of media studies.

She said a documentary can be thought of as a visual essay that claims the truth, can be factchecked and, in general, is a mode of reflection about a subject.

“There are as many different styles to documentary as there are genres or categories to documentaries,” Lavenstein said.

Lavenstein said some broad subject genres can be history, nature or sports.

She said some stylistic genres include re-enactments, voiceovers, interviewing and observational or cinema verite, which is when the filmmaker does not intend to interview the subjects but rather, allows the subject and the nature to reveal itself overtime.

The creation of documentaries generally starts with an idea the filmmakers have, Lavenstein said. This is sometimes through a spark of inspiration or sometimes from an assignment given. From there, a research process and a point of view of a topic for the documentary begin to form.

The filming and editing process can morph the film until what will be the final work is formed, Lavenstein said.

“It’s so varied, which is the wonderful thing about it,” she said. “It’s like an essay. What form should an essay take? It should take the form it needs to take to convey the ideas and the point

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wave,” Sara said. “But after I ran home I found out that they had tracked me on Find My Friends for 45 minutes and gotten BurgerFi just to be able to walk by me for five seconds because they missed me.”

While going incognito might be a challenge, Phillips said it is not the most challenging part of being a Pi Chi.

of view of the writer — the ideas they want to convey.”

Lavenstein said documentaries have a certain flexibility to them.

Hayden Parks, freshman in media studies, said one of his favorite documentaries is “Fyre Fraud,” a documentar about the music festival that was widely publicized, but ultimately, turned out to be a scam.

“It’s this really interesting documentary about how this guy was a scam artist all the way through and the experiences people had to go through during this music festival,” Parks said.

Parks said the documentary used the stylistic approaches of interviews and voiceovers that added to the topic’s point of view.

“There were a lot of interviews with various people involved, various experts about what happened,” Parks said. “It was cool to see an inside view and an outside view through the interviews.”

Lavenstein said it is the content that determines the style.

“Sometimes when we are talking about the art of documentaries, we are talking about a stylistic approach that the documentary filmmaker selects because it will be most expressive of the content they are interested in exploring,” Lavenstein said.

The art of a documentary is about how the filmmaker frames the subject, what they choose to show in the frame and how they edit the film including how they arrange the ideas in the film, she said.

The editing process is the shaping of documentaries and how it is shaped can have a big impact on what the audience takes away from the film, Lavenstein said. It depends on the topic and what point of view the filmmaker hopes the viewer obtains from the documentary.

“There are a lot of hard aspects of being a Pi Chi, but one of the hardest is how much emotion you feel throughout the week,” Phillips said. “You get to know and care so much for these girls that when they are happy, you are happy, and when they are sad, you are sad.”

Phillips said it was hard to go from being really excited and dancing with one girl to comforting and crying with another.

Sara agreed this is the most

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challenging part of being a Pi Chi. “The hardest part about being a Pi Chi for me was hiding my emotions from my girls,” Phillips said.

As Pi Chi, you aren’t supposed to show a lot of emotion toward the PNMs to encourage the girls to stay calm and positive, Phillips said.

“If I was super sad for one of my girls, I could empathize with her, but it was hard to switch that to looking at the

Vlogs lead to individualized content

By STEPHANIE TUNNELL Lifestyle Writer

With the dominance of technology in everyday life, media platforms such as YouTube occupy the free time of a lot of people.

Regularly watched YouTube content includes cooking channels, makeup and clothing hauls, extravagant travel series, vlogging, gaming platforms and much more. What people decide to watch is usually based off of their interests, whether that’s looking up how to make a cherry pie because they enjoy baking or how to do the perfect smoky eye because they want to master the art of makeup.

One genre growing in popularity is vlogging, the phenomenon of people watching other people.

Vlogging is the video form of blogging that is primarily based on YouTube. A typical vlog can consist of one person, a group, a family or a couple experiencing their everyday life. This can include where they eat, what they eat, what they do and who they see.

“I am attracted to vlogs because sometimes my life can feel boring, but when I watch a vlog, I feel like I am experiencing something,” said Maggie Williams, sophomore in event management.

Vlogging can be seen as a more consistent reality T.V. show where the viewer has free online access to hundreds of videos and countless vloggers, who are the creators behind these videos.

Tai Pruitt, senior in journalism, started her channel “Travel with Tai” to bring to light the bright side sometimes,” Phillips said. “It was also hard because we get little sleep.”

According to Phillips, the good parts of being a Pi Chi outweigh the bad by a ton.

“One of my favorite parts was being able to make 16 new friends and being a constant encouragement for them the whole week,” she said. “Seeing them walk through one of their first college experiences and being there to watch the whole thing is really cool.”

reality of what it is like to be a broke, struggling college student who still likes to have fun.

“My vlogs are not scripted,” Pruitt said.

“They are real life, recorded, edited and posted for the world to see.”

Pruitt said she thinks people enjoy watching videos and content that are genuine and raw.

“There are a few reasons why these kinds of media representations are so prevalent today,”said Andrea Kelley, assistant professor of media studies.

She said this is not a new phenomenon.

“Some of the first ever moving images were precisely this; regular people doing mundane things and just living their everyday lives,” Kelley said.

Kelley said as screens have become smaller, the content has trended toward more individualized interactions.

“We now watch more short-form videos and media that feels scaled or directly catered to our personal viewing interests and habits,” Kelley said.

These short-form videos are essentially the vlogs that captivate many viewers, Kelley said.

“People thrive to be able to connect and relate to others in certain circumstances,” Pruitt said. “They don’t want to feel alone.”

Pruitt said she wants to be able to provide brief, comic relief to people who need it in their day after stressing over finals, family issues or whatever they may be going through.

“Not a distraction but just a happy getaway,” Pruitt said. “Just for a moment, to let you know that you’re OK, and you got this.”

Phillips said for most Pi Chis, it is their experience with their Pi Chi when they rushed that makes them want to apply to be one themselves. Phillips is no exception.

“I applied to be a Pi Chi because I went through recruitment and knew how important Pi Chis were to that week,” she said. “My Pi Chi, when I was going through, was amazing.”

Phillips said she would not have made it through the week without her.

“It sounds cliche, but she answered all of my questions and really listened to what I had to say — recruitment and non-recruitment related,” Phillips said. “I applied because I wanted to be that person for a group of girls.”

Sara said she also applied because of how influential her Pi Chi was for her during recruitment. She said being a Pi Chi is deeper than just guiding a group of girls through recruitment.

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