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City pumps brakes on height rule change By KAILEY BETH SMITH Community Reporter community@theplainsman.com
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Auburn High School students mirrored schools around the nation Tuesday morning when scores of them walked out of class in protest over gun violence. Students gathered in the school’s courtyard from 10 to 10:17 a.m. in remembrance of the 17 people who died in a February school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. A sign the students held up read, “#17lives17minutes.” “I just feel like it was wrong, what happened to them,” said AHS student Shaima Hone. “I feel like they should be acknowledged more.” Another student, Emma Kate Cotten, said she didn’t think this walkout would change the world but walkouts like this would slowly make a big difference. “I feel empowered and like we have the power to make a difference,” Cotten said. “I feel like we should definitely take action because it’s been going on too long, and something needs to be done.” Students spent the 17 minutes standing in silence and praying. AHS student Brandon Sinniger read out the names and ages of the victims from the Stoneman Douglas shooting. “The time for moments of silence are gone,” Sinniger said to
The City of Auburn could be seeing significant growth in the downtown area, both in height and development, but it could take some time. On Tuesday, Auburn City Council pushed back a vote for an increase in maximum height in parts of downtown that could clear the way for new ambitious downtown developments like one presented before the council’s meeting Tuesday. That plan could bring a 120-room Southern Living partnered hotel, a grocery store and new condos in the middle of downtown. The proposal would surround a separate planned Wright Street parking deck. The height of the building could potentially be 75 feet, which would allow for a rooftop pool and bar, but the current maximum height in the city’s traditional downtown area is 65 feet. Citizens and the council have been wrestling with the proposal of a change in the area’s height ordinance for years, and the debate has remained heated. It was near-standing room only as members of the community appeared in droves at Tuesday night’s meeting, the longest council meeting in at least 32 years, according to the mayor. The chamber’s rows were filled and citizens lined the back wall as the clock ticked to 7 p.m. Ward 3 Councilwoman Beth Witten, who ran for City Council on a platform of smart growth and increased focus on business, emphasized the great opportunity for the revitalization of the downtown area through adjusting the height ordinance, which could allow projects like the proposed development. “I have no fear of change,” Witten said. “I thrive on change, and I am excited about what is happening in Auburn.” Although Witten was in strong support of the area’s growth and called the proposal a “next generation project for Auburn,” she expressed the trouble found within the unfortunate timing of the proposal and the height ordinance vote in the same night.
Two students hold up a sign during a walkout at Auburn High School on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
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A crowd of students stand in a courtyard at Auburn High School during class on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
WALKING OUT Auburn High students walk out of class in protest over gun violence
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COMMUNITY
Crepe Myrtle, favorite Auburn open-air lunch spot, closes By ALEX HOSEY Lifestyle Editor lifestyle@theplainsman.com
Crepe Myrtle Cafe and the Market at Blooming Colors closed Sunday, March 11 while Blooming Colors itself is undergoing a move to a new location near the intersection of Society Hill Road and Moores Mill Road in Auburn. Owner of Blooming Colors and Crepe Myrtle Cafe King Braswell said that there is no controversy involved in the move and that it was a conscious decision made in order to place the store closer to its primary customers. “The retail portion of Blooming Colors was so far away from our demograph-
ic,” Braswell said. “We wanted to be closer to Tiger Town, closer to the Moore’s Mill area, who we’re selling our plant material to, and kind of consolidate our location and move out near the La-Z-Bee.” Braswell said that he is also planning to reopen the Crepe Myrtle Cafe in a new location later this year in the area around the Church of the Highlands off of East Samford Avenue and is considering opening multiple new locations in the future. “I had the opportunity to be a part of a group of people who want to create multiple locations of the Crepe Myrtle Cafe, so now was good timing for me to take advantage of that opportunity,”
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Crepe Myrtle Cafe, an open-air crepe cafe on South College Street and South Donahue Drive, recently closed.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018
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Plans for RBD Panera Bread on hold, for now By CHIP BROWNLEE and ELIZABETH HURLEY Editor-in-chief and Campus Reporter editor@theplainsman.com
The long-awaited Panera Bread location planned to open this month in Ralph Brown Draughon Library is a no go — at least for now. Because of issues involving the transition between Auburn’s longtime contractor, Chartwells, and its new dining contractor, Aramark, the Panera Bread is not expected to open this semester. Prevail Union coffee will operate, for now, in the RBD Café location where Panera was slated to operate. “In the meantime, we didn’t want students to go without food, that was a real-
ly critical thing,” said Glenn Loughridge, director of Tiger Dining. “Prevail was someone we felt like students liked the coffee, and we could operate within the space until we can get Panera installed.” Though Chartwells had reached an agreement with Panera Bread to open in that location, Aramark has not yet been able to solidify its own contract with Panera Bread, according to Tiger Dining. “It’ll open over the summer,” said Loughridge. “What has to happen now is that Aramark has to train a management staff to replace the staff that was going to be there. Aramark also has to create a contract between themselves and Panera Bread corporate.” Aramark is working to reach an agreement with Panera, but that could take un-
til May. Until then, the plans to open an on-campus Panera are on hold. “As of May 7, the contract with Chartwells expires and Aramark takes over, they will have that [the Panera Bread Contract] in place,” Loughridge said. “So from that point there will be a projection. Sometime during the summer, they’ll have all the employees trained, and they will open and will obviously be open for fall.” When the fall rolls around, Prevail will move to Foy Hall, according to Gwen Ward with Tiger Dining. Tiger Dining announced its new contract with Aramark, a food service company based in Philadelphia, in February. The new contract came at the end of a 10year contract with the former provider,
Chartwells. Aramark will be partnering with Tiger Dining for dining services and athletics concessions. With the growth of the University, there was a need for higher financial investment from the chosen partner, Loughridge said. The original opening date for Panera Bread was scheduled for September 2017, but construction has been prolonged. It was finally expected to open in March, but that didn’t happen. The delay in the opening of Panera Bread came after Chartwells also took longer than expected to open Einstein Bros. Bagels in Haley Center. That was expected to open in fall 2016 but didn’t open until fall 2017 after issues with construction.
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Anders echoed her concerns. He said that the citizens of Auburn deserved more time to make their opinions known to their respective council members concerning the height variance. Anders spoke up and denied the needed unanimous consent for the 75-foot increase when Mayor Bill Ham asked for it, thus pushing the vote to April 3, when it will require only a majority vote to pass. He made known that he was much more concerned with restoring the trust between the council and the citizens rather than the height as dictated by the ordinance. Ward 5 Councilwoman Lynda Tremaine who has in the past opposed certain large commercial developments, said the proposed project was exciting. She called the downtown area “sacred ground” and said it was important to ensure downtown buildings are complimentary of the town. She expressed her concern for the future of Auburn and grieved at the lack of trust from the public due to the council’s recent actions. “A vote ‘no’ isn’t a vote against progress,” Tremaine said. “It shows that we take interest in the people who have asked us to represent them.” Tremaine said that the absence of trust can be detrimental to any community and that it was the council’s duty to act on behalf of their people in order to regain that trust. Many of the citizens in attendance agreed with her. According to the City of Auburn, there have been three different task force initiatives that have surveyed the downtown area and recommended that 66 feet to 75 feet is the most appropriate range for sustained growth in downtown Auburn. In 2013, the City of Auburn created and initiated the Downtown Master Plan process. Over the course of the next three years, the city gathered input from many sources, including citizen surveys, committees of business owners and local leaders, individual interviews, and public workshops and hearings.
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Braswell said. “The first [Crepe Myrtle Cafe] will probably be open in about six months if everything goes well with securing the new location that we’ve chosen and construction of a new building.” Braswell said that he’s received a lot of feedback from Auburn community members who were saddened by the close of Crepe Myrtle Cafe, and he hopes that they’ll look forward to its reopening. “I’m still passionate about everything that I’ve been working on for the last 24 years, and our staff is still very passionate about moving our endeavors forward,” Braswell said. “Because we love it, we want to make sure that Auburn continues to benefit from our efforts.”
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the crowd. “The issue needs to be addressed.” Since the nationwide walkouts on March 14, a month after the Parkland shooting, there was another shooting at a Maryland high school early Tuesday morning that sent two high schoolers to the hospital and killed the 17-year-old alleged gunman. “The fact that there was another school shooting this
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Head Majorette Kelda Ward, 91, stands in the middle of Auburn’s first majorette line.
Auburn’s first majorette captain dies at 91 By LILY JACKSON Managing Editor managing.editor@theplainsman.com
Kelda Ward, the head majorette of Auburn University’s first majorette line who made history at her University while impacting many lives to come after her, died Saturday, March 17, in her home. She was 91. Ward will be buried in her Auburn Marching Band alumni shirt and jacket after dying in her sleep. Like their mother, Kelda’s three children, Leigh Nix, Jimmy Ward and Larry Ward, all attended Auburn University. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 17, 1926. Nix said Kelda’s time as a dancer and eventual twirler started at Shawnee Mission High School in Kansas City, Kansas, where she spent much of her time involved with the band. Her experience as a young girl led her to her role as the leader of the University’s first line after she married her late husband, Jim Ward, and moved to Auburn with him. He was training for the U.S. Navy when he met a young woman in Olathe, Kansas, in 1945. Jim is from Geneva, Alabama, and was already enrolled at Auburn when the two met at a military event. By 1947, that young woman was twirling at Auburn University with Jim cheering on the sidelines. Marching “was her proudest thing,” Nix said. “When they started the Alumni Band, she would come back and march with them in the ‘90s. She totally loved it.” Kelda was walking around campus one day when one of the popular football players at the time attempted to swoop her up. Nix laughed recalling her mother telling the story. She said her mother was flattered, but of course, she was married and so she scam-
morning, it’s really ridiculous that stuff hasn’t been done yet,” one AHS student said at the walkout. Auburn City Schools were on spring break last week when thousands of students across Alabama and the rest of the country walked out of class in a similar fashion. A school resource officer and some of the school administration watched the students as they gathered in the courtyard, and no students got in trouble for walking out
of school during the demonstration. Students at other schools have faced repercussions for the protests. AL.com reported on Monday that a Bessemer student received two days of in-school suspension for criticizing his high school’s plan to avert a potential walkout. “We thank you for everyone around this place,” prayed one AHS student. “And we thank you for just letting us not get suspended today.”
pered away. Nix remembered her mother telling stories about wild trips with the band to Georgia Tech games. Kelda and the rest of the Auburn band would stick their heads out of the bus windows and scream Auburn cheers for those around to listen. Since she was married, Jim would tag along. A free ride to the game was something a fan like Jim could get on board with. Nix said her mother was terribly passionate, creative and intelligent. Jimmy Ward, Kelda’s son, said he thinks he got his smarts from his mother. Also following in his mother’s footsteps, Jimmy attended Auburn, graduating with a degree in architecture. He’s now a partner at Ward-Scott Architecture in Tuscaloosa. Nix said she didn’t have much choice when deciding where to study, either. Auburn was always the only choice. She attended her first game when she was about 8 years old after her father started buying season tickets. Kelda brought Nix up to follow in her own footsteps, teaching her to twirl in high school. Nix knew how much Kelda’s time on the majorette line meant to her. “We swam on swim teams and did science projects and she was involved in everything we did,” Nix said. Jimmy remembers watching her draw house plans as a child and continue working toward her dreams despite having never finished her education at Auburn. Jimmy said you would never have known she didn’t have a degree from the talent she possessed. “She was a good person and always taught us to do the right thing,” Jimmy said. “She was a big influence in my life, especially from a career point of view.” In her later years – after working at an ar-
chitecture firm in Birmingham for 20 years – she moved to Auburn where she drew plans for the house she and Nix lived in for the 25 years before she died. Nix said her mother loved living in Auburn because she could always plan on seeing family during football season. Until she was unable, Kelda returned for the Alumni Band performance every year and twirled her heart out. Kelda is survived by seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Nix said Auburn, her children, her church and her creations — whether big or small — were the most important parts of her life. “She had good friends, everyone loved her and she was well thought of,” Jimmy said. A memorial service for Kelda Ward will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 22, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. A family visitation will take place one hour before and the family requests that donations be made to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in lieu of flowers.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018
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Pearl’s leadership, vision spell success for Auburn By EDITORIAL BOARD Spring 2018
It’s difficult to envision Auburn basketball now without its loveable, thankful and passionate leader at the helm. In the four years prior to Auburn’s hiring of Bruce Pearl, the Tigers went 49-75 under former head coach Tony Barbee, who withered under the pressure of a Power 5 school after finding success at UTEP. With Pearl finding a home at Auburn, a major change came to the Tigers’ program. Suddenly, the bottom dwellers of the SEC became relevant again, as top recruits began to choose The Plains as their college destination. With time, change finally came. In the final two years of the Barbee era, the Tigers won just nine and 14 games, respectively. This season, Auburn won 26 games, which totaled more than the last two years combined of the Barbee era. In Barbee’s “best” season, Auburn won just 14 games and did not sell out a single game inside Auburn Arena. This season, Auburn won 15 of their first 16 games. The Tigers bested Barbee’s best mark less than halfway through their season. The Tigers also sold out seven of their 16 games inside Auburn Arena. The only SEC game that did not sell out was against Texas A&M on Feb. 7, which coincidentally was the only loss the Tigers had inside Auburn Arena this season. Prior to Pearl’s hiring at Auburn, the Tigers’ program was widely known as one of the most difficult jobs in all of college basketball. Sentiments such as “impossible to win” and a “worse job than a mid-major school” were thrown around by national pundits. Pearl changed all of that, quickly becoming the face of a program on the rise. Auburn Arena has morphed from cavernous into one of the most hostile environments in college basketball. The Tigers, who reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003 this season, are here to stay on the national stage. Pearl and his Auburn program have put in all of the dirty
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Coach Bruce Pearl waves to a friend after Auburn basketball defeats Alabama, 90-71, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
work to get to the top. Thanks to Pearl and the program he has built, the Tigers are primed to remain contenders in the SEC and the NCAA Tournament for years to come. The questions remain regarding the Chuck Person investigation and the FBI probe that encompasses it. For all we know, Pearl’s job, along with many others at big-name programs across the country, could be hanging by a thread right now. No matter the fate of Pearl’s job or of the program, the per-
ception of Auburn basketball has been altered. It remains shrouded in a possible deadly grip of NCAA and federal law enforcement authorities, but according to Pearl, he’s done everything in his power to ensure the safety of the team going forward. And with that fiery and inspiring attitude, Auburn might turn a corner. Given time and opportunity, Pearl could mold the core of athletics to feature equal parts success from football and basketball.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Principles vs. Politics: Rolling the Oaks and its meaning
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By TAYLOR JOHNSON Letter to the Editor
I recently graduated in December from Auburn, a university that I love dearly. We have a beloved tradition at Auburn where following athletic victories the trees are rolled at Toomer’s Corner to signify the win. Following the 2016 presidential election, myself and other students rolled the trees in celebration of President Trump’s historic victory. The following day The Plainsman published articles condemning those actions. With statements such as, “rolling the trees should only be reserved for events that all Auburn students can enjoy,” the article sought to use unity of students as an attack against those who ‘dared’ to celebrate a presidential election. Unfortunately, it wasn’t something I was surprised to read. However, something did surprise me recently. Following Senator Jones’ victory in the recent special election held to fill the vacancy left by Attorney General Sessions, Auburn students
supporting Jones also ‘dared’ to roll the trees for an election result. I personally have no problem with their celebration, speaking as a student who formerly “dared” to roll the trees following the results of an election, and as one who was happy to see fellow students engaged with current events of our state and our country. However, unlike President Trump’s election, the election of Senator Jones was not followed the next day or any day afterward by a similar outcry attacking students for daring to roll trees for non-Auburn related events. In fact, the Plainsman shared multiple posts of photos of the Jones celebration. I believe anyone, regardless of personal political affiliation, can easily see what could be deemed a hypocritical disparity between the reactions displayed by The Plainsman in regards to these two election reactions. This is particularly interesting considering The Plainsman initially argued for inclusivity only to later ignore what they before seemingly thought to be such a pressing issue? On a campus largely comprised of conservatives I find the inclusion argument, cherry
picked and used when suiting the apparent bias of The Plainsman, to be rather blatantly one-sided and while arguing principled inclusion seemingly promotes partisan exclusion. I say all of this to put into perspective the upcoming coverage of the mid-term elections at which point supporters may or may not be condemned, depending on the election’s results, for their dare to celebrate victories on the campus where they pay tuition. I know there are some who truly believe the trees should only be rolled for Auburn related events. I do not personally share that belief, as I think it to be merely a student reaction to events (whether political, sports related, etc…) meant for celebration and I view it as fine as long as such events are peaceful in nature. However, to those who presented the argument of inclusion initially following the trees being rolled after President Trump’s victory but not following Senator Jones’, it begs the question as to whether the Plainsman truly believes the trees should not be rolled for political elections or that it should only
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not be rolled for Republican victories whereas Democratic victories are photographed, praised, and seemingly encouraged. The discussion of inclusion is important on our campus and throughout our country. Everyone, regardless of race, gender, political views , etc.. should be and ought to be able to feel comfortable on our campus. But when this argument of principled inclusion regarding our Toomer trees is advanced following Republican victories but ignored following Democratic victories, it suddenly stops being about principle and instead about partisanship, which I fear derides the actual principled argument made in the first place. I would like to thank The Plainsman for permitting me to share my thoughts on this subject and all of those who have taken the time to read my views.
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New law and justice degree approved
Club aims to erase human trafficking
By STEPHEN LANZI Campus Writer
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The Auburn chapter of the International Justice Mission is fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves. Cameron Morris, senior in marketing and head of the promotions team, joined the organization after seeing how the organization influenced others and some friends of hers. “[IJM] stands for International Justice Mission,” Morris said. “ It is an organization that is based on the eradication of human trafficking.” One of the main purposes of Auburn’s chapter of IJM is to increase awareness. In 2010, Hannah Flayhart established the Auburn chapter of IJM. “Our core value really is we’re advocates, so honestly, I think just being transparent with the issue, trying to say, ‘This is what’s going on, but we’re not going to avoid the tough spots that are hard to look at’ because sometimes human trafficking can be a little hard to look at,” Morris said. IJM works with regions that are less developed than Auburn and the United States, Morris said. Another organization that the Auburn chapter works with is House of Light, Morris said. House of Light has a restoration house in India. “A lot of girls coming out of especially sex trafficking will kind of see that as their only option as far as work goes,” Morris said. “And the fact that they have the abilities to have their own jobs and have their own skills outside of that is really important for their restoration process.” A lot of IJM’s work happens at home, however. “Serving through the people closest to you just because you can see the direct effects that it’s had,” Morris said. “So Haddie’s Home is a group; it’s basically a household that supports young women from ages 6 to 16 that don’t really have a stable home life, and they’ve been [with] churches or [with the] government. Different agencies will recommend these girls for this place, and then they go through a process to say you need this support.” Auburn’s chapter raises money for these organizations through events such as concerts or the thrift shop Threads. “We’re just going to have a pop-up thrift shop where our members will donate their clothing items that they don’t really need, and it’s kind of a way to free yourself of materialistic mindset, but also, we’re going to be raising money for Haddie’s Home and House of Light,” Morris said. Morris said this is a prevalent issue because it is not going away as numbers rise and more women are taken into human trafficking. “I-85, that interstate that goes in between Birmingham and Atlanta is the most trafficked interstate in the country,” Morris said. “So it’s prevalent, sometimes it will be right in front of your face. Like sometimes, not specifically on campus at Auburn I wouldn’t say, but in the community, it’s there, and a lot of people don’t really see it being an issue that’s close to home.” IJM establishes themselves as a Christian organization, with prayer at the center of their meetings. “Our core value would be faith, definitely, is a strong one,” Morris said. “We pray over every meeting, and we make sure that people kind of understand trafficking is … a form of slavery [that] isn’t just a physical one, it’s also a spiritual one.”
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Students look at the muffins and cookies display at RBD Cafe on Monday, March 19, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
Prevail expands coffee shop in RBD Library By INGRID SCHNADER PHOTO EDITOR
Prevail Union coffee shop moved from the first floor of Ralph Brown Draughon Library to RBD Cafe, replacing the spot originally planned for Panera Bread. Prevail will stay in that location until the end of the semester, said Jake McFarland, a barista and manager there. “And then up in the air until wherever we’re told to go,” he said. Gwen Ward with Tiger Dining said they have plans to move Prevail to Foy Hall in the fall. The cafe has the same coffee options as the Prevail that was formerly downtown. Students can also buy snack items such as chips, candy, crackers and baked goods. “We’ve added the sandwiches and muffins and stuff like that from Tiger Dining, so we’ll be able to get more of a meal here instead of just coffee, which I think students will appreciate,” McFarland said. “But as far
as what we’re doing, everything’s the same from across the street.” The downtown location of Prevail closed earlier this year after the landlord began renovations on the building. Prevail currently only exists in the library and in a shop in Montgomery. McFarland said he isn’t sure if the coffee shop will open back up downtown after the building finishes its renovations. “We’re, right now, just expecting to be on campus and working from here,” he said. McFarland said they found out they would be moving from their downstairs location a week before spring break, and they were excited to move upstairs in a more “cafe feel.” Many of the Auburn student body had expressed excitement for a Panera opening on campus, but McFarland said they have received good feedback. “Most of the students we’ve talked to are really excited we’re here as well, and that’s been really encouraging to see,” he said.
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Barista Jake Mcfarland puts the finishing touches on a cup of coffee on Monday, March 19, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
The RBD Cafe sign hangs on the second floor of the library on Monday, March 19, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.
For students looking to attend law school, Auburn will begin offering a law and justice degree for undergraduate students. The plan was recently approved by the Alabama Higher Education Commission, and it will be officially offered in the upcoming fall semester. According to Steven P. Brown, one of the architects of the major and professor in the political science department, said the degree will emphasize skills such as reasoning, interpreting case law, research and oral and written communication, which he said are all needed in law school. “If someone is bound and determined to go to law school, if it’s something they’ve always wanted to do, we believe they will get a sampling of what law school will require of them now at the undergraduate level,” Brown said. The curriculum for the major will include courses from the communication and journalism, political science, philosophy and history departments. The degree is intended to give students experience and practice with the skills they will need in law school and eventually in their career. At this time, there will be no new courses created. The degree will solely draw on courses already offered, it was just a matter of bringing together the right combination of courses. The degree will be housed in the political science department. “You have a lot of law-related majors and different things that are out there that say they’re preparing you for law school, and by that, they mean they’re preparing you to get in, and we don’t take that approach,” Brown said. “Getting in is on you. But once you’re in, we think we’ll have already given our undergraduates some skills they need to do well in law school.” Brown said he has had former students come back after their first year in law school and tell him that law school was nothing like what they expected. This major will allow students to explore what a career in law would be like without having to take out student loans and go into debt, he said. Since 2013, faculty has talked about developing a certificate in law. Auburn already offers certificates in various fields, which are not majors or minors. Shortly after the idea was floated, the University of Arizona developed an undergraduate degree in law, which gave Auburn a blueprint to model the law and justice degree after. “We thought this was fascinating because they were recognizing that you can start to prepare undergraduates early for law school,” Brown said.
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While college students typically use spring break as a way to get away from work, some Auburn students participated in service projects ranging from making water filters in a foreign country to repairing houses destroyed by natural disasters. Alternative Student Breaks hosts an array of service trips for every break for Auburn students. Each trip is coordinated by an undergraduate “site leader,” and each trip has a specific trip issue in mind.
This past spring break ASB hosted five trips, one international and four domestic. Each trip consisted of about 10-12 participants along with a supervisor for the weeklong visits. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN SANTIAGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Many rural communities have clean-water crises as the water in the urban areas is not able to be piped out to them, so they rely on rain water, which becomes stagnant and accrues bacteria.
ASB participants teamed up with Wine to Water in the production and distribution of clay filters to the different communities suffering from the clean-water crisis. The ASB group was able to help make and distribute 75 of the 4,000 filters that Wine to Water makes and disperses every year. Wine to Water does not give away the filters for free, but rather, they charge the community somewhere from $5–$15, depending on the socioeconomic status of the community. The first two days of ser-
vice were spent on the production aspect of the filters, and then the group spent the rest of the week on follow ups with the communities to make sure they understood how to use, clean and repair the filters. Site leader Bailey Hand, sophomore in marketing and global studies, said she believes that anytime you spend time serving others, you end up getting more reward and lessons than the people you serve, which she said was definitely the case for this trip.
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» From 4 “It’s kind of a miracle that we have clean water pumped to us,” Hand said. “That doesn’t happen in most countries. I think that’s what a lot of us got out of it. Whenever we got back to America, we were like, ‘Oh, we can drink water from restaurants, it doesn’t have parasites.’” DISABILITIES AND HEALTHCARE IN PARADISE, TEXAS Site leader Garrett Smith said he realized how special the trip to Paradise, Texas, was when a camper who cannot talk and had been reticent for most of the week showed him affection and gave him a hug after opening up. Smith, junior in marketing, said moments like these, when it clicked on how valuable the trip was, happened for every ASB participant during the trip to Camp Summit, such as when another mute camper signed, “I love you,” to one of the other participants. Camp Summit adapts activities to give people with special needs, regardless of age or severity of disability, the opportunity to experience camp-like activities such as arts and crafts, horseback riding and archery, which they may not normally have access to. The organization has week-long sessions during the spring and the summer. The camp splits the sessions up so that one week has kids, which is the week that ASB served during, and there’s a week for adults. ASB participants played the role of camp counselors for the week, which means they were paired with some of the kids and helped with all the different camp activities. Whether it was helping hold the bow and arrow or safely getting on a horse, the ASB participants taught the kids based on the situation. “Something that a lot of people don’t realize about special needs kids is that they’re capable of doing a lot more than we allow them to,” Smith said. “Something cool for me, personally, was things that we could teach them, rather than just making sure they had a fun time at camp.” ANIMAL WELFARE IN JUNO BEACH, FLORIDA The ASB trip to Juno Beach, Florida, helped the Loggerhead Marinelife Center prepare for its upcoming annual event known as TurtleFest. LMC is committed to rehabilitating injured sea turtles and return them to their habitat. Every year, thousands of people travel to TurtleFest to spread education on conservation of sea turtles while enjoying music, art and games.
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Kierra Goins, senior in biomedical sciences, led the ASB group as they helped prepare for the event. For example, they made cardboard boxes into turtle-like shells for the kids to play with at the festival for the purpose of education. Other work included sorting through and picking out recyclable fishing line, removing hazardous debris from the beach and general beautification of the beach for the upcoming event. The participants were also able to be the first ones to paint and redecorate the Juno Beach Pier, which had recently been damaged by a storm. Goins was excited that the pier was finally fully repaired while ASB was there because the church group that ASB stayed with uses the pier every year for its Easter service. “Everybody was really focused whether it was cutting out cardboard for the kids at TurtleFest or painting for three hours straight or picking up plastic off the beach,” Goins said. “They had a really good attitude and gave it their all, all week.” CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE IN KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA The trip’s site leader to Florida, Hannah Williams, sophomore in applied behavioral analysis, said the group members embodied what it means to be an Auburn man or woman as they served over spring break.
“Anytime there was something to do, they wanted to help,” Williams said. “It was almost like they were fighting over who got to clean the dishes at night. It was an honor to be able to call myself a site leader to them because they are so special, and I was so lucky to end up with them.” The group split time between two service sites in Florida. At Give Kids the World in Kissimmee, Florida, the group helped with the weekly Christmas party as well as aiding in food service and helping operate a care cell. Give Kids the World hosts children with lifethreatening illnesses. The non-profit throws Christmas, Halloween and birthday parties every week because many of the children will not make it to the next respective holiday. Clean the World is a non-profit that works with local hotels and airlines to gather different shampoos, conditioners and sanitizers to redistribute to shelters, especially in Nicaragua. The ASB group was able to help with sorting and organizing the hygiene kits that will be shipped out. A special moment for the group was getting to see a child who was paralyzed sit on Santa’s lap for the first time. “I don’t think there was a single participant that went dry eyed the entire week,” Williams said. “I think they all saw something special.” AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN
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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Most people know about the devastation that was caused in New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina, but many do not realize that many of the areas are still ravaged. “You can’t always tell when you go into places like the French Quarter because it looks almost back to normal, but then you go into some of these neighborhoods that we were in, and it’s just abandoned,” said Seth Brown, the site leader. Brown, junior in industrial and systems engineering, led an ASB group to work with the LowerNine organization on rebuilding the areas and homes most impacted in the Lower Nine Ward of New Orleans in a cost-effective and affordable manner. ASB participants worked on houses by repaneling the glass, installing sheet rock and releveling floors so that the residents can finally return to their homes. Brown said he was amazed at how quickly the participants were able to learn and work efficiently, considering many of the participants had no experience in the work they did. “Many of them didn’t have any construction experience or home-building experience, so it was cool to see the progression as they hadn’t used a nail gun or drills, but by the end of the week, they were experts in it and definitely more confident,” Brown said.
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Council adopts parts of Northwest plan By SAM WILLOUGHBY Community Editor
After more than a year and a half of planning, Auburn’s City Council unanimously voted to adopt portions of the Northwest Auburn Neighborhood Plan at its meeting Tuesday night. The plan covers 1.4 square miles of the northwest part of town, and the city says it will encourage redevelopment and improve the streetscape of the area. At Tuesday’s meeting, the council adopted the component of the plan that amends the future land use of the neighborhood, affecting areas around Bragg Avenue, North Donahue Drive, Martin Luther King Drive and Shug Jordan Parkway. The city says the amendments will lead to more commercial use along Martin Luther King Drive and Bragg Avenue, increase mixed-use development and foster neighborhood-scale residential development. The journey to get to this vote has been long for city staff, and the public meeting on Tuesday was no different than how others have been throughout the development process: contentious. Accusations of neglect and malice were levied against council members by former Ward 1 Councilman Arthur Dowdell and outspoken resident L.B. Jackson. The city has held multiple public meetings since the plan’s inception, both for citizen input and education, and at one point, delayed the plan in January 2017 to hold more. At recent City Council and Planning Commission meetings, Jackson has continued to ask for additional small public meetings with the city. A meeting between city staff and community stakeholders was held last week, and Ward 1 Councilwoman Verlinda White, whose ward encompasses areas of Northwest Auburn, said on Tuesday that another meeting between the city and members of the northwest community could be scheduled for as soon as next week. Mayor Bill Ham, responding to Jackson and Dowdell, rejected the claims of intentional neglect to the predominately black neighborhood. “The whole northwest scenario started because a group of property owners and people that live or have lived in North-
west Auburn came to the city, met with the City Council in hopes for revitalization of Northwest Auburn,” Ham said. “The easiest thing to have done in Northwest Auburn, to have kept any of this from happening, is nothing — to do nothing, just let it go, which is not the right thing to do.” Ham said going forward the city will continue to try to improve the area, partly by increasing the affordable housing stock. The vote on the plan came more than four hours into the council’s regular meeting, but the wait was well worth it for some attendees who said they had been ready for the changes for years.
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“We need progress on the west side of town,” said Auburn resident Pamela Pitts. “No growth is just a breeding ground for negative activity. … We’ve already had meetings for two years. Let’s not wait another 50 years.” The council will vote on the zoning components of the neighborhood plan likely in the summer. Proposed rezoning in the area is targeted at conserving the character of the neighborhood while also allowing for economic development. “We’ve got more issues than moving dirt around in Northwest Auburn,” White said. “We’ve been tabling long enough. I think we need to move ahead.”
Arrests made in mall parking lot shooting By STAFF REPORT Over the weekend, police arrested the two men identified as involved in the March 9th shooting in the Auburn Mall parking lot, according to a release from the Auburn Police Division. On Friday, Michael Ryan Trimble, 21, of Montgomery, was arrested upon his release from the Columbus Piedmont Midtown Medical Center and charged with firstdegree assault and reckless endangerment. Deion S. Brooks, 23, of Waldorf, Maryland, was arrested on Monday also upon his release from the hospital and was charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment as well. Trimble and Brooks were arrested by the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Department and were extradited to Auburn by the APD. Both suspects are being held on a $51,000 bond in the Lee County Detention Center. Trimble is also being held for a violation of probation relating to a prior felony conviction. At around 5 p.m. on March 9, police received reports of shots fired near the mall. Authorities converged on the scene, setting up a large perimeter around the parking lot. Police found the men, both wounded, near the scene. They were both airlifted via Lifesaver helicopters to Columbus. Police said their investigation shows the two met in the parking lot for conflicting and unlawful reasons, by the men’s own accounts, which resulted in a firefight. The case remains under investigation.
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Ralph and Carolyn Levi greet customers at their hotdog stand outside the Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine on Monday, March 5, 2018.
Hot dogs on The Plains Couple brings Chicago-style dog to Auburn vet students By OLIVIA WILKES Community Writer
“Can I get a combo Chicago-style dog please?” a customer asked as he ordered his lunch at Ralph and Carolyn Levy’s hot dog stand set up just outside Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine. “You want it all the way?” asked Ralph Levy, a veterinarian at the college. Ralph Levy turned from the small ordering counter to the hot pans behind him filled with franks and wieners as he prepared the signature Chicago-style hot dog. “A Chicago-style hot dog is an allbeef hot dog,” Ralph Levy explained. “Preferably the brand is Vienna.” He places the hot dog on a steamed, poppy seed bun and then adds the essential toppings. “Neon-green relish, fresh onions, sliced tomatoes, these are called sport peppers, and a pickle spear, a little shake of celery salt, some yellow mustard, and that’s a Chicago-style hot dog,” he said. The Levys can be found behind the counter of their hot dog stand at the veterinary school during lunch on most Mondays through Thursdays.
They started their business last June and have been selling at the veterinary college since last July. Besides Chicago-style hot dogs, customers can buy BLT hot dogs, chili cheese dogs, spinach Asiago chicken sausage hot dogs served with caramelized onions and vegan Tofurky sausage hot dogs. “What’s interesting is the Chicago hot dog has really caught on,” Ralph Lev saidy. “Well, I say really caught on, it’s starting to catch on.” Having always been in the cooking business in some form or another, Ralph Levy gets his hot dog savvy from his childhood home of Chicago. “My father had restaurants in Chicago that were probably like the precursor to what Waffle Houses are,” he said. “My father’s idea of a vacation was to take Ralph to work. There was always a 100-pound sack of potatoes that needed to be peeled or something that needed to be done. But I hung around; I got to do a little bit of everything, so got it drilled into me I guess or by osmosis, watching people.” Both of the Levys have always been drawn to small business, and it was their shared entrepreneurial spirit that brought them together. They met in Gainesville, Florida, where Carolyn Levy owned a European toy store and
high-end children’s clothing store, and Ralph Levy worked at a pizza place in the same strip mall. “He came down to play with toys from Europe, and I went down to eat pizza,” Carolyn Levy said with a laugh. “We work great together.” Ralph Levy eventually moved to Auburn to help start a Chicago-style pizza business, and the Levy’s have been in Auburn since — about 35 years. Ralph Levy said he’s always wanted to incorporate Chicago-style hot dogs into a business he was running. “I tried it one time before, and it did not work,” he said. “People just were not quite ready for Chicago-style hot dogs in Auburn, Alabama. … Then when I retired, I decided I was going to do it.” This time, when the Levys started selling hot dogs last year, they found a market for the Chicago dog. But it was at the University veterinary school that they discovered a solid, friendly and hungry customer base. The veterinary college, situated a couple of miles from the main campus, doesn’t have many dining options like the rest of the University. Food options are limited and sometimes unpredict-
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Meet the guys protecting the doors of downtown’s bars By EDUARDO MEDINA Community Writer
Fluorescent-blue bar signs advertise a night out for most Auburn students, but for Clark Hale, the clatter of highheels and leather boots under neon lights signals it’s time for work, not partying. Hale is a security guard at Bourbon Street Bar, a bar in downtown Auburn. Once his afternoon classes end at Southern Union, he drops his backpack off, makes a quick college-like cuisine and puts on a bright orange hoodie — his uniform for work. Hale enters Bourbon around 6:30 p.m. along with two other security guards, also students, to clean up the entrance before a stampede of eager students and young adults charge in, ready to have a good time. The bar quickly gets packed, and for Hale, checking hundreds of IDs feels like being a cashier in the Student Center Chick-fil-A during lunch, but he’s grateful for the work, he said, and he’s not the only one earning checks and grades simultaneously. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 43 percent of full-time college students were employed in 2015. For part-time students, the number rises to 78 percent. Students mostly work to help pay off tuition and have extra spending money, and Hale’s nightly duties have provided both as well as valuable communication skills like how to interact with people and, on rowdy nights, patience — the latter he learned early on. On his second day as a security guard, Hale asked a man with drinks not sold by Bourbon to throw them away. The man gave the rookie security worker attitude and threw the bottles on the ground. The bottles remained intact as they rolled across the concrete floor of the upper level, but the gesture drew a crowd around the agitator and orange-clad bouncer.
Remaining calm, Hale told the man to pick up his bottles and leave the bar. Hale said the man again ignored his command and shuffled tipsily toward him. The bass from the music playing blared as the drunk troublemaker shoved Hale. Hale took a deep breath, preparing for his first commotion on the job. He grabbed the man by the waist and dragged him outside. The man tried to grab onto anything around him and finally attached himself to the guard railing outside. “I had to wrangle his knuckles so he’d finally let go of it,” Hale said while smiling about the encounter. Enraged drunken mishaps are a rarity, according to Hale, since he’s only had few experiences similar to that one. For the most part, Hale said Auburn’s bar-hoppers are kind people. “We have a perfectly nice crowd that just likes to party,” Hale said. The security guards down the block agree. Trevor Schnell, junior at Auburn in finance, frequented the bars as a freshman and is now security at his favorite — Quixotes. At 6-feet-3-inches, Schnell is an intimidating presence and fits the mold of personnel in charge of protection, but when greeting people and talking to coworkers, Schnell is easygoing and doesn’t follow the stereotypical cold-faced security attitude. “It’s not all about standing there to look big and cool,” Schnell said. “We run food, help check IDs and help clean at closing time.” Fellow Quixotes security guard Chris Walton overheard this exchange. “Are you running for office or something?” Walton asked Schnell, who was laughing. Walton, freshman at Auburn in supply chain management, has been working at Quixotes since November 2017 and sees the job as a positive experience because of his friendly co-workers.
“It’s like a family because we’re all really close, and we all hang out after work,” Walton said. “It’s a good time.” For Hale, the three-level bar he’s in charge of securing has also gifted him friends that will soon be fellow classmates when he transfers to Auburn in the fall to major in forestry. As the job is teaching Hale social skills to use in the workforce, the security guards at Quixotes said they are obtaining business-oriented skills. Walton plans on working in the restaurant business and said the bustling security gig has helped with immersing himself into the service industry’s atmosphere. He has obtained tips on how to excel by watching closely and said the good and bad experiences will help him grow and mature as a prospective business owner in the future. Skills have also derived from dealing with altercations, but the security workers at Quixotes said nights with clashes are seldom. “There’s mostly youthful, energetic people that are coming to just get jiggy with it,” Schnell said as Walton swayed along to Soulja Boy’s “Crank That,” now blasting in their workplace. As the people in Bourbon dance, drink and attempt to do both, Hale and his co-workers stand guard to ensure their good time is uninterrupted — unless it need be. “My number one concern is everyone gets along because I’m here for their safety, and we try to do the best with our job,” Hale said. Red and purple lights dance wildly across the bar at 2:30 a.m. as late night partiers finish their last sips and go home after a night out. The Soulja Boy song down the street stops playing, the fluorescent signs shut off and the headaches start to settle in. By 3 a.m., Hale and his co-workers are done cleaning up the bar, and the future Auburn student returns home and places his neon-orange hoodie in the washer to use on the next night out for work.
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able. “There was a food truck that was coming here last year,” Ralph Levy said. “I don’t know what happened to it. People say it had good food, but it just didn’t show up when they said they would. There’s actually a little commercial kitchen inside this building where the vending machines are now, and people have come in and actually done cooking on site, but it’s so up and down that it has just never worked out.” This has worked as an advantage for the Levys, as the hot dog stand is a popular lunch destination for veterinary doctors and students. “We have no cafeteria,” said the ordering vet student as he waited for his food. Besides being good for business, the Levys enjoy the veterinary school as they have always loved being involved with students. “It’s a wonderful group of people that pretty much live at the vet school,” Ralph Levy said. For Carolyn Levy, who runs her own business teaching young girls how to sew, getting to interact with the students is one of the main reasons she comes out to help her husband sell hot dogs. The more talkative of the two, she jokes and chats with customers about their days and asks how their pets are doing. “They’re so friendly and charming and nice and interesting,” Carolyn Levy said of their veterinary customers. “And at first, I think they were surprised. We’re not your typical hot dog vendors. … It didn’t take them long to figure that out. They have made us feel very welcome, and we have had the best conversations.” The Levys have been surrounded by kids and students in one form or another for a long
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The council adopted the Downtown Master Plan in 2015 with the height at 75 feet but decided to reduce the height to 65 feet at a March 2016 adoption hearing during which it faced public push back. The city has decided to revisit the 75-foot ordinance, claiming that it provides more opportunities for growth in the downtown area. Some residents are thrilled, commending the council for their commitment to growth, while others have been outraged, accusing the council of hidden motives. Ward 8 Councilman Tommy Dawson said he has taken personal attacks from citizens
time. They raised their son in Auburn and he attended Auburn University as well. “When our son was in school at Auburn, our house was sort of like the place to hang out for the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen,” said Ralph Levy. At that time, the Levys had a separate house on their property for entertaining, and students would come over to study and socialize. In line with their affection for youth, Ralph Levy likes to sell items at his hot dog stand that customers often haven’t had since their childhood such as Cheetos and grape and orange soda. “Students come out and they see Cheetos, ‘Aw, I haven’t had Cheetos in years!’” Ralph Levy said. Since he sometimes sells at Auburn Parks and Recreation events involving kids, he keeps grape and orange soda on hand in his warehouse. One business day at the veterinary school, he put a couple of them in the drink cooler. “They were the first ones that sold,” he said. “So I started bringing a couple at a timeout, and I’ve had people almost have knockdown fights over who’s getting the last one.” Ralph Levy attributes their business’s success to good food prepared quickly. The Levys have many regular customers, some who eat hot dogs every day. “When they have a test, they need a little bit of soul food,” Carolyn Levy said of the students. “We’re not trying to be the McDonald’s of hot dogs,” Ralph Levy said. “Just kind of enjoying this, just good food. It’s not elegant, but it’ll fill you up.” As long as the Levys are around, Auburn will be seasoned with a little flavor of Chicago, hot dog style.
and encouraged mature dialogue between the council and citizens. He told the community that he was unsure how he would vote on the issue, and he echoed sentiments from Ham that urged citizens to make their concerns known with decorum, in a manner of constructive criticism. "Please talk about it, but don't question my integrity," Dawson said. "I love Auburn, and I love serving. When I got Parkinson’s I found a way to continue to serve." Julie and Timothy McGowan, who have owned storefronts in Auburn since 1998, spoke in support of the proposed plan. McGowan described store ownership as a type of parenthood, and said that she and her husband were
“involved parents.” She said, “In life, change is a constant, and it always brings new possibilities. Our family is in support of change – we know that in some small way we were able to contribute and to make this a better place.” Susan Honeycutt questioned the council and the mayor on their intentions and vision for the downtown Auburn area. She requested that the council take a closer look at developing a “strategic vision versus an opportunistic approach.” She said that raising the height to 75 feet would not only distort the sense of place in the Auburn area, but would cause the buildings to overshadow the community. “You lose the humanness near the buildings,” Honeycutt said.
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Auburn’s dream season ends with drubbing in second round of NCAA Tournament
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Bryce Brown walks down the court as Auburn trails to Clemson in the second half of Auburn basketball vs. Clemson on Sunday, March 18, 2018, at Viejas Arena in San Diego, Calif.
By NATHAN KING Assistant Sports Editor
All throughout its 2017-18 SEC regular season championship campaign, Auburn was a second-half team. The Tigers staged comebacks all year against their rigorous SEC schedule. To test that rally ability, Clemson handed Auburn the largest halftime deficit of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, 43-19. At that point, Charles Barkley called game. “I love my guys, but this one is over,” Barkley said during the halftime broadcast. No. 5 seed Clemson was up 41 points at one point in its 84-53 win over No. 4 seed Auburn in the second round of the NCAA
Tournament Sunday night in San Diego, California. The winning Tigers shot 48 percent for the game, while Auburn turned in a season-low 26 percent. “Dominating performance by Clemson,” Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl said. “They played great; they’ve been playing really well. They were very well prepared, and they dominated us.” In the opening half, Clemson went on a 25-4 scoring blast in which Auburn shot 0-for-15. The drought lasted approximately eight minutes and was broken by a pair of Chuma Okeke free throws. Auburn missed its last 18 shots of the first half en route to the colossal deficit at the break, going 10:33 of game time without a field goal. The 18.2 percent clip from the floor for Auburn was
the worst in a half in 2018, besting the 22 percent mark in the second half of the team’s quarterfinal loss to Alabama in the SEC Tournament. “We were down to just eight scholarship players in the last six weeks of the season,” Pearl said. “We managed to hang on and win an SEC regular season championship. I’m so proud of my players; I’m so proud of our program. But obviously we’re very disappointed with the way we played tonight.” Bryce Brown broke the field goal drought with a triple on the first possession of the second half. The junior finished tied with Mustapha Heron as Auburn’s leading scorers for the game with 12 points apiece.
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Tigers soar into top 10 By NATHAN KING Assistant Sports Editor
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The Tigers were picked sixth in the seventeam SEC West division in the preseason and were not expected to compete with the bigname powerhouse programs in the conference. In its first opportunity to prove those projections wrong, Auburn bested No. 6 Texas A&M at Plainsman Park, taking games one and two over the Aggies. For their best start in over a decade, the Tigers earned spots in the top 10 of college baseball’s national rankings. Auburn enters D1 Baseball’s Top 25 at No. 9, while Butch Thompson’s team sits at No. 6 in Baseball America’s poll. The Tigers jumped six spots in D1 Baseball’s
rankings from No. 15 and seven spots from No. 13 in Baseball America’s. As expected, Auburn is fueled by top MLB prospect Casey Mize. After tossing Auburn’s first no-hitter since 2002 in a win over Northeastern on March 9, Mize rifled a career-high 13 strikeouts for the second-straight start in the Game 1 victory over Texas A&M. Now 5-0 with an ERA of 1.93 in 2018, Mize was named the SEC’s Pitcher of the Week for the second-straight week. Mize is the first player in the conference to win the award in backto-back weeks since Vanderbilt’s Carson Fulmer in 2015. Mize touts 51 strikeouts with only three walks in 32.2 innings of work this season. The Tigers will continue SEC play this weekend with a three-game series in Lexington at No. 8 Kentucky.
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“I really don’t know where we lost our focus at,” Brown said. “All I can honestly remember is (Clemson) had a few stretches where they came and knocked down shots, and we came down and took bad shots.” Clemson’s bigs dominated at the rim the entire night, winning the points-in-the-paint battle 34-14 and outrebounding Auburn 5032. However, it was the deep shots from the orange and purple Tigers that stretched the lead to insurmountable stages. Clemson guard Gabe Devoe led all scorers with 22 points on 6-of-9 shooting from beyond the arc. Forward Elijah Thomas contributed 18 points behind an efficient 7-for10 mark from the floor. “It was brutal,” Pearl said. “You feel bad because you want to represent Auburn, you want to represent your conference. We haven’t made excuses all season long. This group has been resilient enough to get a 4
seed, to advance in the NCAA Tournament, to win an SEC Championship. We were a little overmatched, and Clemson showed that tonight.” The 31-point defeat is the worst NCAA Tournament loss in program history for Auburn (20-point loss in Round of 32 vs. 1-seed Oklahoma, 1988). Clemson advances to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1997, while Auburn is bounced in the Round of 32 in its first Big Dance appearance since 2003. “This doesn’t take anything away,” Pearl said. “This is where we want our program. I have no seniors. I feel good about the foundation of our program. These kids have been amazing all season long. This doesn’t take away from the championship season.” Picked in the preseason to finish ninth in the conference, Auburn ends the year at 26-8, reaching its highest win total since 1999. Clemson, which was picked 13th of 14 ACC teams, will face No. 1 seed Kansas for a shot at the program’s second-ever Elite Eight appearance (1980).
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No. 6 Auburn falls to Jackets
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Steven Williams bats during Auburn baseball vs. Georgia Tech on March 13, 2018, at Plainsman Park.
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Auburn players sit on the bench as in the final minutes of the game during Auburn vs. Clemson.
While attempting to become the first team in college baseball to reach 20 wins this season, No. 6 Auburn came up short against Georgia Tech on Tuesday night in Atlanta. The Tigers (19-3) fell 6-4 to the Yellow Jackets (12-8) to drop their second straight game. It marked the fourth straight year the two teams have split the season series after Auburn won game one 12-7 at Plainsman Park last Tuesday. Despite coming from behind to win nine times thus far in 2018, the Tigers could not cut all the way into an early six-run deficit. Georgia Tech built most of its lead with five runs on seven hits in the fourth inning, where its lineup chased Auburn starting pitcher Jack Owen (0-1) from the game after he allowed six earned runs in 3.1 innings. The frame was highlighted by freshman Michael Guldberg’s three-run home run to right center. “I hope it’s a good gut check for our guys to know they can’t just roll their gloves out,” Auburn coach Butch Thompson said. “They got themselves in position to win some ballgames by coming out and attacking, and we actually got attacked tonight.” As relievers Elliot Anderson, Ryan Watson and Corey Herndon kept the game in check by
combining for 4.2 scoreless innings, the Tigers’ bats woke up in what has continued to be their best inning: the eighth. Auburn pushed across its first three runs of the game in the eighth inning on singles by Judd Ward and Will Holland and is now outscoring opponents 32-4 in the eighth inning of games this season. “That’s a six-run game at the end of four innings, 6-0, and it ends 6-4. That lets you know how good the bullpen did the fifth through the eighth inning to keep them at bay and give us a chance,” Thompson said. “You always learn something from a game, a win or a loss, and we got punched in the mouth for about seven innings tonight.” The Tigers rallied further in the ninth with a two-out RBI single by Jay Estes, but Brett Wright eventually grounded out to third to end the game. Freshman Brant Hurter (1-1) picked up his first career win after five scoreless innings, while head coach Danny Hall also earned his 1,000th victory at Georgia Tech. Auburn will continue a five-game stretch away from Plainsman Park when they travel to face No. 8 Kentucky for a three-game series over the weekend. Casey Mize (5-0) is expected to be on the mound for the Tigers in game one, which begins at 5:30 p.m. CST on Friday.
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Stove out with injury By JAKE WRIGHT Sports Writer
A key Auburn receiver will be out for a significant amount of time. Eli Stove tore his ACL and will miss practice and workouts for the foreseeable future. He underwent surgery and is recovering. 247Sports was the first to report the news. Auburn has yet to confirm the report.
Stove was injured in the first contact practice of the spring. Stove was expected to be one of Auburn’s top receivers for the 2018 season. Last season, he caught 29 passes and tallied 265 receiving yards. He carried the ball 30 times for over 300 yards and scored two touchdowns. Auburn will practice Tuesday afternoon after returning from spring break. Practice will be closed to the media. Practice will continue Thursday with a media viewing session and a press conference following the practice.
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Auburn basketball fans can only wonder what might have been had star players Danjel Purifoy and Austin Wiley been eligible this past season. After Wiley was cleared to play next season in January, the Tigers got more good news Tuesday as Danjel Purifoy will be cleared to return in 2018-19 once he serves a suspension that amounts to 30 percent of the season. That percentage means Purifoy will miss about nine games, but he will likely be available for the entire SEC schedule. “We worked diligently with the NCAA on behalf of both our student-athletes who were ineligible this season,” Auburn University president Steven Leath said in a statement. “The process was arduous, but it was important that
we do everything we could to put Danjel Purifoy and Austin Wiley in the best position to resume their Auburn basketball careers. We’re happy for them and their teammates and coaches.” According to an Auburn spokesman, Purifoy is “happy with the decision and excited for next season.” Purifoy did not play a single game for the SEC regular season champions due to his connection to the FBI investigation that resulted in the firing of former assistant coach Chuck Person. After redshirting the entire 2015-16 season, Purifoy averaged 11.5 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 25 games as a freshman in 201617. The Centreville, Alabama, native was ranked the No. 1 recruit in Alabama by 247Sports in 2015.
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The Auburn bench celebrates a made shot during Auburn Basketball vs. Georgia on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Ga.
Despite tough ending, Auburn’s season still a major success By PETER SANTO Sports Writer
Remember when Auburn lost its first exhibition game to Division II Barry University? Neither do I. That loss was supposed to be a sign of things to come for the Tigers, who were picked to finish 9th in the SEC after the FBI scandal led to the arrest of associate head coach Chuck Person and subsequent suspension of Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy. No one would’ve blamed Auburn if they started making excuses and had another quiet season finishing near the bottom of the SEC standings. Instead, it sparked a resilience that carried the Tigers all the way to an SEC regular season title and the programs’ first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2003. It didn’t end the way they wanted, as Clemson controlled the game from the opening tip and put together a dominating performance on its way to the Sweet 16. But just like they had all season, head coach Bruce Pearl and company never made excuses. “This basketball team was very undersized; we were down to just eight scholarship players available to us the last six weeks of the season,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said Sunday. “But we managed to hang on and win an SEC regular season championship. I’m so proud of my players, so proud of our basketball program.”
Auburn was a second half team all season, scrapping and clawing its way to win after win. As the victories piled up, Auburn Arena went from an afterthought to one of the most electric atmospheres in the country. After a win over Kentucky proved Auburn was for real, it seemed like the clock struck midnight when Anfernee McLemore was lost for the season after suffering a gruesome injury against South Carolina. That injury left Auburn with just eight healthy scholarship players and a three-man front-court rotation. Decimated by injuries and with Mustapha Heron out with an illness, the Tigers turned in arguably their best performance of the season as they cruised to a 90-71 blowout of archrival Alabama. Back-to-back road losses to Florida and Arkansas quickly brought Auburn back to earth as the SEC title appeared to be slipping away. But the Auburn Arena crowd simply wouldn’t let its team be denied as the Tigers’ resilience was rewarded with an SEC championship. That resilience continued in the NCAA Tournament as Auburn narrowly avoided the upset against College of Charleston. The lack of size and depth in the front-court finally caught up to the Tigers in round two, but Pearl refused to let that take away from the success his team had. “This doesn’t take anything away,” Pearl said. “As of Sun-
day afternoon, there were 20-something teams still playing in the NCAA Tournament and Auburn was one of them. This is where we want our basketball program. I have no seniors. We’re the second-youngest team in the SEC behind Kentucky. I feel good about the foundation of our program, and these kids have been amazing us all season long.” Pearl is right. This loss shouldn’t take anything away from the tremendous season Auburn had. A team with eight scholarship players and a 6-foot-3 power forward should not stand a chance in the SEC. But there they were, night after night, proving they belonged. In just four short years since becoming head coach, Pearl has completely changed the culture of Auburn basketball. Just a few months after the University offered fans refunds on season tickets following the FBI scandal, basketball games became the hottest ticket in town. By the end of the season, students were waiting in line for hours to get inside the arena, and they filled The Jungle and then some. That atmosphere propelled Auburn to a 15-1 home record as team after team was simply overwhelmed by the crowd. The Tigers struggled on the road, finishing 4-7, but the road wins will come with experience. There will be plenty of uncertainty surrounding Pearl and his future at Auburn entering the offseason. But one thing is certain: the future is bright for Auburn basketball.
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Auburn band Solar Fleur bridges the gap between alternative country and Indie rock By ALEX HOSEY Lifestyle Editor
Like its genre, the beginning of Auburn indie band Solar Fleur is hard to place. It could’ve begun when a few ninth-grade friends played a weird mixture of garage rock and bassoon in their parents’ houses in Madison, Alabama, or maybe when Keegan Haanschoten submitted a song he wrote to The Auburn Circle during his junior year at Auburn and decided to bring his friends together to play for a house party on West Chewacla Avenue. Their beginning could’ve been over the course of a couple of years as the loose group of musicians in college changed lead vocalists and ran through short-lived band names like Tsarina and Hickey Trauma before finally settling on Solar Fleur. Or maybe trying to trace a band’s beginning is just like trying to fit its sound into a neat little category: it’s difficult, uncertain and, in the end, it doesn’t really matter. Maybe the only things that matter are if people like listening to the music and if the musicians like playing it, and if Solar Fleur’s recent popularity and show bookings are any indications, then they’re a local success. Jon Elgan, the saxophone and bassoon player, said that he, rhythm guitarist Haanschoten and lead guitarist David Horn all started playing music at the same time when they were friends growing up in northern Alabama. “We were doing garage band for a few years in high school, and I had always played bassoon, clarinet, saxophone — wood-
wind instrument stuff like that — and it was hard because that didn’t translate into a rock band or anything that we would want to do,” Elgan said. “So during college, we did a bunch of really weird sounding stuff like acoustic, Cajon instead of drums. We had bowed guitar, singing saw, we kind of did some crazy, eclectic stuff, but this year, we figured out how to mash everything together.” Most of the band agreed that Haanschoten is the main creative force behind the band, who named Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes as a major influence in his song writing. Haanschoten said that Solar Fleur’s sound differs from song to song, as Haanschoten writes most of the lyrics and the basic structure of the songs before showing them to the rest of the band to flesh out in practice. “Our sound is really a patchwork kind of thing with me writing singer-songwriter stuff and then giving it to them,” Haanschoten said. “Sometimes it turns out jazzy, sometimes it turns out kind of dreampop-y or just traditional indie rock. ... When you search us on Google, Google lists us as alternative country.” Lead vocalist Anna Porter joined Solar Fleur last fall after meeting Haanschoten at a Leroy Gold show at Avondale after the band’s former singer had to drop out due to time constraints. Despite having no formal musical training, Porter said she’s always wanted to be in a band, and, at first, she just tried to loosely imitate Lana Del Ray before finding her own voice. “Being in a band has definitely made me make a lot of friends. ... and I’ve always wanted to be in a band and sing so it’s just kind
of been a very good outlet for me,” Porter said. The Solar Fleur that exists today formed last November after Porter was recruited, and the band decided on its current name. After that, they recorded their first full-length album at a recording studio in Athens, Alabama, and released it onto Band Camp. Solar Fleur has been a mainstay of the Auburn indie scene ever since, playing at house parties around town alongside bands like Leroy Gold, Dogwood Lung and Radio Decay as well as booking gigs at bars in Auburn, Birmingham, Montgomery and Huntsville. However, the future of the band looks uncertain, as drummer Emily Ong, bassist Matt Kucera, Elgan, Horn and Haanschoten are graduating this spring or have already graduated and are planning on moving away, leaving Porter as the only member still in Auburn. “I’m thinking about just doing my own band, like I kind of want it to be a girl band because there aren’t any girl bands around here,” Porter said. “More like rock instead of what we have.” Solar Fleur still plans to play for the remainder of the semester, including playing at shows at their favorite house parties on weekends, having a show at The Nick in Birmingham on March 21, releasing a third album later this year and playing at the Arboretum Azalea Festival on March 31. “We’re going to see if there’s some way we can continue on in some fashion, but as of now it looks like we have until May to book all of our shows,” Haanschoten said.
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Auburn University’s cannon lathe continues to bore By JACK WEST Lifestyle Writer
Samford Hall is known across the state as one of the most beautiful and historically important buildings on Auburn’s campus. With that in mind, the natural question is why we as a University would tolerate placing the horrendous monstrosity that is the cannon lathe next to it. First, a little history. The lathe was first built, or perhaps demonically summoned, in Selma, Alabama, to bore cannons for the Confederate Army. Ignoring the obvious conflicts that come from its original purpose, the next interesting thing to happen to this shockingly uninteresting piece of scrap was when it was buried near Irondale, Alabama. If the arc of human invention truly bent toward the beautiful, that is where the lathe would have stayed. It would be covered in dirt, forgotten to any but the worms living alongside it and, most importantly, not in Auburn. Sadly, someone dug it up and moved it to Columbus, Ohio. It is unknown who actually unearthed this ugly mistake, but it can only be assumed that they were a human of the lowest form of intelligence, as well as someone who had no idea what kind of disgusting abomination that they had once again given life. Following the Civil War, which the lathe is probably responsible for, this over-glorified piece of junk was sold to a variety of companies. In 1936 the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company finally concluded that they were tired of looking at the ugly lathe and were ready to throw it away.
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The cannon lathe continues to sit on Auburn’s campus not doing anything in Auburn, Ala. on Monday, March 19, 2018.
Where did they throw it away? On Auburn’s beautiful campus. This is perhaps the most insulting action ever taken against Auburn University in the entire history of the world, and on this otherwise beautiful campus the lathe has now sat for the past 82 years. Somehow, over the past eight decades, this lathe has managed to masquerade itself as an Auburn tradition when in reality it is nothing more than an over-glorified hunk of metal. The myth most commonly mentioned in conjunction with this monstrosity is that if an
Auburn man kisses an Auburn woman in front of the lathe and it doesn’t move, then their relationship must be founded on true love. However, research suggests the dumb thing never moves. In fact, the lathe hasn’t so much as creaked since being installed in 1952, which means that this ugly piece of scrap metal has been lying to Auburn students for the past six decades. Many students go to this lathe expecting genuine relationship advice, and all they get are false assurances. How can we, as a student
body, accept being lied to routinely and not demand some kind of compensation? Before it marred the beautiful terrain here at Auburn, the lathe was used to bore cannons. The irony is that even though the lathe hasn’t been in working condition for over 80 years, it still does what it was intended to do: be boring. This is a satire column and is not intended to be taken seriously. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of The Plainsman.
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Winning AU Tiger Cage teams get ready for the finals in April By COURTNEY SCHELL Lifestyle Writer
The show “Shark Tank” allows competitors to pitch a business idea to a panel of highly qualified and prestigious judges in hopes that one of the “sharks” will bite and help them develop, execute and grow their idea. Auburn University has their own version known as “Tiger Cage.” This annual competition allows Auburn University students with a business idea to advance it and help jumpstart their business. Every year, students compete for a share of a prize pool up to $50,000. The winning team receives $25,000 and will go on to compete in the SEC competition. The Tiger Cage semi-finals took place on March 2, 2018, at the Auburn University Hotel. In the conference room where the competition took place, there were refreshments for the judges, competitors and audience. The screen was located up front that previewed the teams’ powerpoint. The audience consisted of families, friends and intrigued students. The eight different teams all collaborated outside the conference rooms scattered around the waiting area. They prepared and practiced for their chance to prove to the panel of six judges that their idea is the best. During this pitch, each team introduced themselves and their idea. They then went into their business plan, their mission, market opportunities, market value, competitors, marketing strategies, target markets, profits and any other relevant information. There were two different teams at the semi-finals that had team members that had to stream themselves via video chat. One participant was in California and one studying abroad in Rome. Each team was confident in their pitches and confident with its ideas. Every team member shook the judges hands afterward, thanking them for their time. “My favorite part of the competition is definitely collaborating with my colleagues, Sarah Gascon and Dawn Michaelson,” said Matthew Hanks, member of team ESCAPE
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Therapy. “We mesh very well together, and we are constantly feeding off each others’ energy making the competition a lot of fun.” During the competition, audience members and judges were able to see the dedication and love each team member had for the business idea. Teams knew their concept and were able to answer every question the judges threw at them. “Presenting in front of the judges was just like ABC’s Shark Tank. I was nervous both times I presented, but after each of my presentations, I realized how much I enjoyed presenting in front of an audience that is intantly listening to everything I am saying,” said Connor King, creator of Birds Eye Video. After each team went, the judges had a short period of time to fill out a sheet of paper, grading each team. While this was going on, the next team was preparing to present. “It is very exciting to present in front of the judges,” said Jackie Litschewski, member of Enki Engineering. “While yes, when you first walk in, the nerves are quite high. Having the opportunity to give your pitch to such successful business men and women is incredible.” Each team had five minutes to present their idea, not a lot of time for the amount of information that is needed to get across to the judges. Each team made it right inside the time limit. “The hardest part about the competition has been trusting my gut,” Litschewski said. “While there are many templates and guides on how to create a successful business, many of the most successful are born from outside of the box ideas, whether the idea is about marketing or product design.” Following the eight different pitches, the judges chose from four teams out of the eight to move on to the finals. The four teams moving on to the 2018 Tiger Cage Finals are Enki Engineering, ESCAPE Therapy, Savor and Snippety Snap. The Tiger Cage Finals will take place at The Entrepreneurship Summit on April 6, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. where these four teams will compete to take home the $25,000 and a chance to jumpstart their business.
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A dog goes for a walk during Puppy Palooza at Kiesel Park on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 in Auburn, Ala.
Five things to know before getting a puppy in college By MOLLY STEWART Lifestyle Writer
Everyone wants a puppy, but not everyone is up for the challenge. It is common for college students to get a dog. Unfortunately, it is also common for college students to give up on a dog very quickly. Owning a dog is a big responsibility — it’s time consuming, and it’s a lot of hard work. Here are five things you should know about being a puppy owner if you’re considering getting one. PUPPIES WILL MAKE YOU A MORNING PERSON Puppies will wake you up every single morning, and whether they wake you by barking or jumping on your bed, it is going to happen. There is no more sleeping in until 11 a.m.; they have no snooze button. When they are up, so are you. PUPPIES ARE EXPENSIVE The financial burden of having a pet dog can be pretty heavy on the wallet. If you are adopting a dog, there is typically a fee whether it is from a shelter or breeder. Sometimes you can catch deals with the local animal shelters on adoption fees, though this will vary from time to time. Then you have to take the pup to the vet every month to get shots. Add all of those fees with the price of collars, dog food, heartworm pills, toys, spaying/neutering and any unexpected visits to the vet, and the bill adds up. YOU WILL LEARN A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINE
New dog owners will benefit from forming a schedule around the care of their pet. You have to walk your puppy, feed them and give them medicine at certain times of the day. Your time management skills will definitely improve. You will also have to housebreak your pup. You will be up every few hours, having to repeat words like “outside” and “crate.” If you decide to crate train your dog, there will be a lot of nights filled with constant whimpering and barking. YOU WILL BE ACTIVE EVERY DAY Puppies have an unreal amount of energy. If you do not exercise them daily, they will get very annoying because all they want to do is play. If ignored, they will most likely turn to destructive behavior and chew everything in their sight. You have to take them on walks, play fetch and run around with them in order to calm them down. All of this is just a part of puppy parenthood. You will have no time to be lazy anymore, but you will finally get all your steps in. THEY WILL HAVE YOU WRAPPED AROUND THEIR PAW You will quickly become attached to your pup. It is not like having a childhood dog because you will be entirely responsible for raising it. There will undoubtedly be some missing shoes and ruined rugs, but the loss of those things will all disappear when you look at their face. Your puppy will turn you into a better person, and they will love you more than anything.
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