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The Auburn Plainsm VOL. 126 • ISSUE 26 • THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2019

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Appearance is the first in program history after Tigers downed three blue-blood programs in a row

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Giant killers

Tigers take down Kentucky for first-ever Final Four appearance

By SUMNER MARTIN

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t was only fitting that Jared Harper had the ball in his hands when the buzzer sounded.

The 5-foot-11 Auburn point guard grabbed the rebound, dribbled to half court and heaved the ball into the air in jubilation as the clock expired in overtime before jumping into his teammate’s arms.

Harper, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Midwest Regional, finished with 26 points, 12 of which came in the extra period, as 5-seed Auburn knocked off 2-seed Kentucky 77-71 inside the Sprint Center on Sunday afternoon to advance to its first Final Four in program history.

“I just can’t believe it,” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl. “When you hear the fact that Auburn is going to its first Final Four ever. The road we had to travel. ... There’s a lot of underdogs out here. A lot of second-chance kids out here, and we overcame.”

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Final 4 Chuma

How Auburn used collective effort to replace Okeke

By STEPHEN LANZI

Campus Editor

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p to that moment, the Sweet 16 win against UNC was arguably Auburn’s greatest win in program history, but the team was heartbroken as its most valuable player left the game grimacing in pain with a torn ACL. Head coach Bruce Pearl could hardly muster words through tears when he was asked postgame about Chuma Okeke’s gruesome injury that will require surgery.

Immediately following the game, Auburn players took to social media with the hashtag #DoitforChuma to rally around their brother, and that’s exactly what they did.

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The Tigers celebrate on Sunday, March 31, 2019, after winning the Midwest Regional in the Elite Eight against Kentucky 77-71.

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The Tigers managed to upset their second straight top-2 seed in three days, after defeating North Carolina on Friday night, and they did it Sunday without their most valuable player, Chuma Okeke, who was sidelined with an ACL injury.

Harper and senior guard Bryce Brown combined for 50 points after starting the game 0-for-5 from beyond the arc, and Auburn scored 14 points off turnovers after racking up 10 steals in Okeke’s absence.

“It means everything,” Brown said. “It means the world. Above all, I have to thank the man upstairs. He blessed this team in so many ways.

We did this whole thing for Chuma, but we missed him. He is one of our best players.”

The Tigers trailed by as many as 11 in the first half but used an 11-4 run to close the gap to 35-30 at halftime, despite shooting 3-for-11 from 3-point territory and failing to have one player in double digits.

After the break, Brown refused to let Sunday be his last game in an Auburn uniform.

Auburn opened the second half on a 12-2 run, with Brown going on a 8-0 run by himself during that span, to take its first lead of the game, 42-39. Brown finished with 24 points on 8-of-12 from the field and 4-of-7 from beyond the arc.

“As the game goes on, I get better,” Brown said. “My teammates just continue to encourage me. My coaches continue to have confidence in me. I knew I had to be big (today), no matter if I was going to go 0-for-20 or 20-for20, I had to be big for my team. I had to turn it around.”

After back-to-back blocks by Horace Spencer and Anfernee McLemore on the defensive end, Brown came down with the ball with only 12 seconds left in regulation, for a chance to take the final shot and send the Tigers to the next round.

Brown got trapped just past midcourt and had to give the ball up to Spencer, whose last-second attempt went banking off the backboard as the regulation horn sounded.

The game went to overtime all square at 6060.

“We work on this every day,” Pearl said jokingly after the game. “Get the ball to Horace Spencer for the three ... 3-2-1, it’s just so wellcoached.”

In overtime, the smallest player on the court made the biggest impact. Harper, whom Pearl constantly refers to as his quarterback and floor general, willed his team to the finish line, driving past every Wildcat defender time after time down the stretch. The Mableton, Georgia, native put the game away going a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line in the extra period.

“There’s not much to say,” Harper said. “It was a tough game, a tough fight. It’s a tribute to all my teammates, and how hard we played this whole game. We stayed together to continue to do what we did, and we had a great second half.”

Auburn, even without its starting forward and with Spencer fouling out in overtime, was only out-rebounded by four by Kentucky, 4137. The Tigers finished with the advantage on the offensive glass, grabbing 12 rebounds compared to 11 for the Wildcats.

The Tigers have won 12 straight games, are undefeated in the month of March and have beaten the top three all-time winningest teams in Division-I college basketball history (Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky) en route to their first Final Four in school history.

Auburn now travels to Minneapolis to face yet another 1-seed, Virginia, in the Final Four on Saturday.

After the game, Pearl sat at the podium as the moderator introduced him and his trio of guards as the Midwest Regional Champions.

“The Auburn Tigers are heading to the Final Four,” the moderator said before opening it up for questions.

Pearl paused, let the statement sink in, and looked over: “Could I ask you one favor? Could you say the very first part of what you said when you introduced us?”

“The Auburn Tigers going to the Final Four are with us,” he repeated.

Pearl smiled.

“Thank you, sir.”

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Chuma Okeke and teammates celebrate after Auburn won the Midwest Regional on Sunday, March 31, 2019.

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Emotional support aside, the Elite Eight matchup against 2-seed Kentucky appeared daunting without Auburn’s best player, especially considering Auburn’s last loss, which Pearl called embarrassing, came at the hands of the Wildcats 80-53 on Feb. 23.

Questions surrounded how the team would be able to replace its leading rebounder, third-leading scorer and most versatile defender to be able to hang with the team with firstround picks all up and down the roster.

The Tigers didn’t have a single answer to how they would replace Okeke — they had many.

Auburn used a collective effort and contributions from a multitude of players to be able to oust Kentucky 77-71 and advance to its first Final Four in school history.

Okeke’s absence was sorely felt in the first half as the offense sputtered, and the team was having to run completely different sets. Seeing a deficit as large as 11 in the first 20 minutes, Auburn slogged its way to a 3530 halftime deficit, shooting a mere 3-of-11 from beyond the arc.

“These guys will tell you that there’s no question we missed Chuma because you can’t replace him,” Pearl said. “He’s our most valuable player.

He’s kind of our go-to guy.”

The offense has been facilitated through Okeke throughout the year, but Auburn also missed him defensively as Kentucky’s star player and likely matchup for Okeke, P.J. Washington, went for 15 in the first half.

Okeke wasn’t just absent from the game. He was literally absent from the Sprint Center.

Watching the game from the hotel and nursing his injury, Okeke decided to come for the second half. Dramatically, he was wheeled into the arena and sat right behind his brothers as the second half was getting started.

The timing of his arrival couldn’t have been more fitting. His mere presence seemed to bring the team to life.

Over the year, the three leading scorers — Okeke, Bryce Brown and Jared Harper — have collectively averaged 43.0 points per game. Harper and Brown offensively made up for Okeke’s loss and then some, combining for 50.

Brown came out of the break firing, going on an 8-0 run by himself, and the team went on a 12-2 extended run to capture the lead. Brown remained hot for the rest of the half, hitting multiple mid-range shots to score 17 of his 24 points in the second 20 minutes.

“When I tried to drive, I seen that the defense wasn’t stepping up, so I tried to stop on a dime and pull up for my mid-range shot because they

were running me off the 3-point line as well,” Brown said. “That looked to be one of the only shots I was able to get late.”

His backcourt partner Harper took over late in the half and in overtime and helped fill the offensive void that Okeke’s absence left. Harper repeatedly blasted past his defender, getting to the rim and free-throw line to score 12 of his 26 points in the overtime period.

The offensive performance had little to do with the barrage of 3s Auburn is known for. A large part of why the team averaged 14 3s per game in the tournament was Okeke’s length and his ability to spread the floor. Without it, Auburn was 7-of23 and had to rely on getting inside the paint.

“I feel like they were trying to limit our 3 ball tonight, and Kentucky is not a team that usually helps off the wings,” Harper said. “We had to drive and get downhill, make tough 2s and continue to play our game.”

Horace Spencer, Austin Wiley, Anfernee McLemore and Danjel Purifoy all stepped up big to replace the massive void Okeke’s injury created down low and on the defensive side of the court.

“They (the team) have confidence in Anfernee, Austin, Danjel and Horace,” Pearl said. “They do. They’re different. And so, I think that confidence going in, our guys didn’t think, ‘We can’t win without him.’ We may

miss him, but the other guys would step up.”

The Tigers have been consistently out-rebounded throughout the year, but the collective effort kept the rebounding deficit respectable at 4137 and allowed the Tigers to have much-needed possessions, limiting Kentucky’s second-chance points.

Purifoy led the way with seven rebounds and McLemore and Spencer contributed as well with five and three, respectively.

“Big part of what we do is offensive rebounding,” said Kentucky center Reid Travis. “They just came out, trying to be more physical.”

The crew rotated in and out doing everything they could to limit Washington, who finished with 28 points and 13 boards.

Auburn as a team had seven blocks, two of which McLemore had in the last minute of overtime.

Samir Doughty added another seven rebounds and virtually shut down Tyler Herro, Kentucky’s second-leading scorer, holding him to just seven points.

“Samir Doughty locked up one of the best offensive players in this tournament in Tyler Herro,” Pearl said.

“That made them go to Washington almost exclusively.”

Kentucky coach John Calipari praised Auburn’s physicality and ability to get Kentucky off its game.

“I got to give Auburn credit for really getting up in and bumping and

grinding and doing some stuff that got these guys a little off-kilter,” he said.

Auburn faced foul trouble during the entire second half. Spencer had his night cut short as he fouled out in overtime. Malik Dunbar and McLemore each finished with four, and Purifoy and Wiley had three apiece.

Each position was one Okeke would have been able to fill, which is why having nine players see double-digit minutes was crucial.

“Dr. Tom Davis taught me that you don’t short your bench in the playoffs or in tournament time,” Pearl said. “You trust the rest of those guys.

We played our rotations. Got to trust them.”

Auburn could not have had such a historic season without Okeke. With their teammate and brother watching from the hotel, they thought they’d have to do it without him.

Yet the inspirational entrance meant he was still with them.

With the net draped around Okeke’s neck, the sophomore stamping Auburn into the Final Four at mid-court, Auburn realized the greatest season in school history, and they did it for Okeke.

“I feel like this whole game we really wanted to do this for Chuma and the Auburn Family,” Brown said.

“They supported us so much. But I think it just goes back to trusting each other and just doing what we needed to do to win the game.”

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‘I ask’: April brings awareness to sexual assault EDITORIAL BOARD Spring 2019

Sexual assault on college campuses is endemic.

Twenty to 25 percent of college women and 15 percent of college men are victims of forced sex during their time in college and more than 90 percent of those assaults are not reported, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

At Auburn, the number of reported cases of rape and fondling over four years, from 2017 to 2014, is a total of 45.

With an average of around 27,000 students enrolled during this time period, 45 reported cases comes out to less than a fraction of 1 percent of students at Auburn reporting sexual assault.

There is a nationwide problem with survivors not feeling comfortable enough to report.

Often times, survivors of assault do not feel like they will be believed or that the process of reporting will make them relive their assault.

Auburn is no safe haven from assault. Just like every other college around the country, the statistics concerning assault at Auburn are misleadingly low.

April is sexual assault awareness month — a time to call attention to this issue, engage the public in this ordinarily hard-to-talk-about issue, encourage survivors to report their assaults and empower survivors so they understand

they are not alone.

Last month, everyone at Auburn received a campus safety notice sent regarding an assault reported by a female student that took place at an apartment leased by an Auburn-affiliated entity.

Seeing a survivor report their assault is hopefully encouraging to other survivors, reminding them they are not alone and empowering those who have been and who may be assaulted in the future to also report.

The theme this year is “I ask,” focusing the month’s discussion around consent, the dynamics and importance of consent and the proper way to obtain and communicate consent.

Consent is imperative to ensure no boundaries are crossed and that, while engaging in sexual activities or dating, each person is comfortable.

In the digital age, consent is becoming increasingly important to understand and communicate so that physical and digital boundaries are not crossed and action does not lead to harassment.

Each year, the theme is set and coordinated by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

The NSVRC also provides a wealth of resources and materials to help educate people about the theme, engage people in discourse about sexual assault, bolster awareness and help people coordinate events and campaigns surrounding

the theme.

There are several events on campus this month held by the women’s studies program in coordination with the Women’s Initiatives in the the Office of Inclusion and Diversity to help promote awareness around assault, educate about consent and sex and advocate for survivors of assault.

On behalf of Sexaul Assault Awareness Month, Green Dot will also be providing bystander intervention training on April 24 from noon to 3 p.m. Green Dot is a program that promotes the Green Dot strategy on how to create positive social change by eliminating and reducing acts of violence and assault.

Green Dot provides regular trainings to help educate people so they know how to recognize the signs of assault and violence, act and hopefully prevent the assault from ever happening.

Green Dot is one program on campus that works toward reducing violence on campus, but there are many other offices that work with survivors of assault.

Auburn’s Title IX office, Student Counseling Services, the Medical Clinic, Safe Harbor and other offices can facilitate and cater to the needs of a survivor of assault.

There are many community resources off campus in place to help survivors of assault including the Rape Counselors of East Alabama, the Domestic Violence Intervention Center and the Unity Wellness Center

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 Safe Harbor — a confidential service that provides advocacy and support where students and employees can report stalking, dating violence, domestic violence or sexual assault 334- 844- 7233 auburn.edu/safeharbor  Student Counseling Services — a free mental health service to students that offers 10 counseling sessions per academic year 334-844-5123 auburn.edu/scs  Rape Counselors of East Alabama — a free and confidential counseling service available to survivors and survivors’ families and friends 334-705-0510 rapecounselorsofeastalabama.com  Employee Assistance Program — provides free, confidential mental health services for all regular employees and their dependents 800-925-5327

 Auburn Title IX Coordinator — survivors can report an assault to the Title IX coordinator who then facilitates an investigation and, following the investigation, can implement permanent measures to ensure the safety of the survivor and enact University disciplinary sanctions on the attacker 334- 844- 4794 auburn.edu/titleIX  Auburn Police Division — survivors of assault can report an assault to the Auburn Police Division to initiate a formal investigation enforcing all laws surrounding assault and can lead to prosecution of the attacker 334-501-3100 or 911 auburnalabama.org/ps  Lee County District Attorney’s Office — the district attorney’s office prosecutes all sexual assault cases in Lee County and handles victim advocacy for court proceedings 334-737-3446 leecountyda.org

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Proposed abortion bill is an affront to women’s rights

By MAGGIE SMITH Contributing Columnist

Alabama Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it a felony to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, with the only exception being for when the life of the mother is at risk.

First of all, it is completely absurd that this proposed legislation would not make an exception in the case of rape.

No girl or woman should be forced to carry out her pregnancy when the pregnancy itself is against her will.

Many pro-life groups will argue that in the case of rape, a girl or woman should carry out

her pregnancy and could always put her child up for adoption. However, the pregnancy itself has the potential to be life-altering.

Many girls reach childbearing age by the age of 13. My question for Collins is this: If a 13-year-old girl is raped and becomes pregnant because of it, would you really expect for her to have to carry out her pregnancy?

This would have a huge effect on any 13-year-old’s life. Her education would be hindered, her reputation would be affected and there could potentially be long-term mental and physical health impacts on her.

Second of all, even if a girl or woman becomes pregnant not due to rape, she should still have the option to terminate her pregnancy if she desires to. By no means am I

saying that there should be no regulations on abortions, but women should definitely have the option to obtain an abortion at least during the first trimester of their pregnancy.

There always has been and always will be unplanned pregnancies, and in some cases, the better option for girls and women is to have an abortion, especially in cases where the woman cannot afford to take care of a child.

In cases where high school and college students get pregnant, I believe those girls and women should have the ability to terminate their pregnancies so that they can continue their educations. Many girls drop out of school if they become pregnant, which only makes matters worse because they are left

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with a situation where they must take care of themself and a child and most likely will not be able to find a job that pays well enough for them to do that.

The Supreme Court ruled that women have the right to get an abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade in 1973. The high court stated that women have a due process right to obtain an abortion. This, in my opinion, should be enough to end the abortion debate.

After all, even if abortion were illegal, women would inevitably find a way to terminate their pregnancy in some way, which further puts women’s lives in danger.

Maggie Smith is a junior in agricultural communications.

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NASA awards University $5.2 million

By STEPHEN LANZI Campus Editor

Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering announced Monday that NASA awarded a $5.2 million contract to Auburn’s National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence.

The three-year contract is an expansion of a long-standing private partnership between Auburn and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Mike Ogles, director of NASA programs in the College of Engineering, will serve as the project manager.

“This contract is a giant leap toward making Alabama the go-to state for additive manufacturing,” Ogles said. “We look forward to growing our partnership with NASA, industry and academia as we support the development of our nation’s next rocket engines.”

The news release said the contract is intended to improve additive manufacturing processes and techniques for improving the performance of liquid rocket engines.

“For decades, Auburn engineers have been instrumental in helping the U.S. achieve its space exploration goals,” said Christopher Roberts, dean of Auburn’s College of Engineering. “This new collaboration between NASA and our addi-

tive manufacturing researchers will play a major role in developing advanced rockets that will drive long-duration space flight, helping our nation achieve its bold vision for the future of space.”

The research under the new contract is a part of NASA’s Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology, which focuses on evolving lightweight, large-scale novel and additive manufacturing techniques for regeneratively cool-thrust chamber assemblies for liquid rocket engines. Nina Shamsaei, NCAME director, is leading Auburn’s team.

NCAME will support the RAMPT project in creating a domestic supply chain and developing specialized manufacturing technology vendors for government, academia and the private sector. The announcement was made at the biannual ASTM International Committee on Additive Manufacturing Technologies hosted by Auburn University in Opelika, Alabama.

“This partnership with Auburn University and industry will help develop improvements for liquid rocket engines, as well as contribute to commercial opportunities,” said Paul McConnaughey, deputy director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. “The technologies developed by this team will be made available widely to the private sector, offering more companies the opportunity to use these advanced manufacturing techniques.”

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Orange Beach mayor shares summer season plans for vacationing students

By MIKAYLA BURNS Managing Editor

Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon knows the beach is a hotspot for college students during the summer, but he wants to make sure Auburn students know what to expect when they visit.

Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill along the Gulf Coast, Orange Beach has been building itself back up.

The town was at the center of environmental crisis and suffered both on the beaches and in business.

Kennon has been mayor of Orange Beach since 2008, and his focus has

been bettering the town’s beaches and tourism and, since the oil spill, initiating recovery and preventing harm for the beaches.

“We are family-friendly,” Kennon said. “That’s our brand.”

In an ongoing professional relationship between Orange Beach and Auburn, Kennon visited the University to speak with undergraduate students in the hospitality management program.

Orange Beach and the University go back to the first days of recovery after the BP oil spill, after Auburn Engineering was the first to get there and help the town out in the wake of the envi-

ronmental tragedy, Kennon said.

“We’ve taken a very heavy hand on what we want to see for spring break,” Kennon said. “We’ve done everything we can to avoid the MTV crowd.”

Students looking for a family-friendly town to enjoy their summer should expect to be respectful to Orange Beach’s waters and sand, as rules prohibiting overnight beaching have been implemented to help stop unwanted trash or camping supplies in the ocean.

The campaign is called “Leave Only Footprints.”

“The kids that want to behave come to Orange Beach,” Kennon said.

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Rex Seaman sanding the final model of his surf-punk guitar.

Design school to host FretHaus Guitar Show

By DREW DAWS Campus Writer

The School of Industrial and Graphic Design will host the FretHaus Guitar Show on April 12 at the Jan Dempsey Arts Center, featuring the work of seniors in the program.

The 12-person class worked in collaboration with Keith Medley, a wellknown designer and builder of guitars widely recognized for his 27-string guitar and work with Gibson.

Andrew Vincent, graduate student, facilitates the class. He said students have worked with Medley throughout the semester, refining their final products.

“He’s working with the students to basically do what industrial design does, which is to make things more user-friendly for people or to change the aesthetics of things,” Vincent said.

One aspect of industrial design is increasing the usability of a product, he said. While some students chose to design guitar-related products, others opted to build their own guitar.

Senior Jonathan “Jan” Walden designed a folk-style guitar. He has spent

the latter part of the semester refining the final prototype.

“Now I’m at the point where I’m at the aesthetics part of it,” Walden said.

“I spent around three days staining the top of it to get it the way I wanted it to look.”

This is the first time Walden has ever built a guitar, he said. However, his experience with wood working and making furniture has helped him throughout the process.

“It’s weird that they’re very similar in the process of how you make it,” he said. “Of course, it’s different in terms of ergonomics and how it’s used. I thought it would be a lot more difficult than it actually is, but if you know how to work with wood, it’s pretty simple.”

Senior Rex Seaman is building a surf-punk-themed guitar poured with resin and alcohol ink. The inspiration for his guitar came from his brotherin-law, he said.

“My brother-in-law is a lead singer in a band called The Frights,” Seaman said. “I’m really just building this guitar for him to use on stage, specifically for a surf-rock band.”

Like Walden, Seaman does not have

much experience with designing or creating guitars.

“One of the hardest parts has been learning how to pour the epoxy resin,” he said. “You have to pour in multiple parts, and it’s on a time schedule, and then you have to color it while you’re doing it.”

Medley played a critical role in the student’s progress during the semester, said Rich Britnell, industrial design professor.

“Keith is awesome,” Britnell said.

“He’s more so a kind of consultant because he’ll look at all the ideas and go, ‘Hey, this is great,’ or ‘You know, that’s not so good there,’ whatever the case may be.”

Because the event space was only available in early April, the seniors will not have the entire semester to complete their projects, Britnell said. However, he has been pleased with the work thus far.

“The ideas are really cool,” Britnell said. “It got Keith excited to see the out of the ordinary thought, even by people who don’t play guitar. It excites me to come to work every day, that’s for sure.”

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A student veteran works at the Auburn Veterans Resource Center on April 1, 2019.

Student veterans discuss transition

By SAMANTHA STRUNK Campus Writer

Liyah Stewart, freshman in pre-pharmacy, said the people in her lab group turn to her with questions first.

Stewart, a student veteran, has been on her own for a while.

Before coming to Auburn, Stewart spent five years working as a pharmacy technician in the U.S. Army.

Now, she’s a few years older than the vast majority of her freshman peers, many of whom came to college just two or three months after graduating high school.

“The people in my group are glad they have an older person as a lab partner,” Stewart said. “But my age doesn’t have anything to do with it — I’m learning the same material as them.”

Student veterans often experience the adjustment to college life differently than other students in their classes.

Stewart believes the largest advantage younger students have is how much more recently they were in school.

“The last time I took a biology class was about 2009,” Stewart said. “It’s been 10 years.”

Mike Castellani, sophomore in business looking to switch to architecture, agreed. Castellani, who spent nine years in the Army infantry, said it is common for professors to assume every student in the class knows certain concepts and skip over them.

Castellani said this is problematic when his last English class, for example, was in 1994.

“I haven’t been in school in 25 years,” Castellani said.

“I don’t know what they’re talking about. I probably never learned what they’re talking about, like I’d never even heard of MLA style.”

Stewart said she also had to get accustomed to taking on the credit hours of a full-time student. While serving in the military, Stewart was enrolled in one or two classes at a time while working a full-time job; moving to 14 hours a semester was a dramatic shift.

“In the Army, school’s primarily used to help you get promoted and stuff like that,” Stewart said. “College has been a huge step.”

Castellani said in the infantry, accessibility to classes gets complicated.

“You could be out in the woods for two weeks or a month and not be near a computer,” Castellani said.

“You’re not going to be doing classes.”

Castellani began his infantry career at Ft. Benning and went on to serve in Hawaii, Kuwait, Pakistan, Iraq and Thailand. When he left the Army, he settled in the Auburn area with his family and found a job as a plumber, a position he didn’t want for the rest of his life.

He decided to use his G.I. Bill to pursue an education.

“I wanted my next 40 years to be easier than my last 40 years,” Castellani said.

Michael Pixley, junior in public administration, spent 20 years in the Army infantry before retiring two years ago.

Pixley, who is in his 40s, commutes 40 minutes every day from his home in Phenix City, Alabama, where he lives with his wife and three children.

“I wear two hats,” Pixley said. “I wear one hat when I’m here as a student. Immediately when I get back in my car, I put my dad hat on. I’ve got bills to pay, errands to run, kids to pick up.”

Pixley said his time in the military prepared him to manage the new challenges posed by becoming a student.

“Everybody who joins the military gets a degree of some sort in life,” Pixley said. “The rest of the world is chaos — the Army and the services are organized chaos.”

Pixley said the Veterans Resource Center, located in Foy Union, is instrumental in creating a smooth transition to college life by providing a “home away from home” for student veterans.

Castellani, too, said the VRC does a great deal to make coming to campus less daunting.

“If you didn’t have this office, you don’t have a study partner,” Castellani said. “Other kids get a take-home quiz and get together in their dorms to work on it.”

The VRC gives Castellani a space where he can ask questions and study with people.

Stewart said the office provides tutors who specialize in various subjects, giving student veterans a free resource for help in their classes.

Regardless of their background or major, no student veteran is a stranger to adapting.

“We can mingle with people because we’re used to it,” Pixley said. “We’re used to constant change.”

Castellani said in some ways, student veterans are more prepared than younger students because they’re so familiar with changing circumstances.

“Going from different unit to different unit, we know about different expectations,” Castellani said.

Stewart said she’s stubborn — no matter what, she won’t quit. One thing she learned in the military is the Army doesn’t like quitters.

“The Army says, ‘You don’t want to adapt? OK, bye,’” Stewart said. “Go home to Fort Living Room.”

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Alumna finishes year working with PGA

By KAYLA KELLY Campus Writer

Just six days after graduation in May of 2018, communication major and marketing minor Madison Temple returned to her home state of Florida, moving into a career in the professional golf industry.

Temple had always had dreams of chasing a career in the multi-billion-dollar sports industry after college with organizations such as the NFL or NBA. However, since a young age, Temple has been surrounded by the game of golf. With two avid golf players for parents, including a former Auburn women’s golf player, Temple always had an affinity for the sport and had been familiar with it. But she never knew that one day, it would come to be her future job. However, after one summer that all quickly changed.

Going into her final year of school, Temple was given the opportunity to intern with the South Florida Section of the PGA. “A word of advice for people coming into graduation would be ‘Do not be afraid to try something new,’” Temple said. “Before graduating I was mainly looking for communication jobs, and then this opportunity came up. I have really found that I have a niche for it — I really enjoy it — and now it’s exactly what I want to do in the future.”

During her time at the South Florida PGA internship, Temple was mainly working for the operations behind the junior golf tournaments, including the Drive, Chip and Putt Quali-

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Madison Temple poses for a photo with the winner of the Honda Classic.

fiers that take place throughout south Florida at the local and sub-regional level.

She had no idea, though, that merely experiencing this internship would end up sparking a passion for a long-term career in the professional golf industry.

“Once I finished my internship, I knew I really enjoyed the golf industry and wanted to stick with it,” Temple said.

Her senior year was coming to a close and graduation was looming large when the assistant executive director of the

South Florida PGA reached out to her about an opening position as a fellow in the organization.

“I sent in my resume application, and once they knew I was graduating in May and the fellowship was beginning at the same time, they gave me a call back to let me know I had been given the position,” Temple said. “I was super excited for the opportunity to work with them again.”

Following graduation, Temple began working right away. For the next eight months, she would run the Drive, Chip and Putt Local and Sub-Regional Qualifiers and Junior League tournaments, as well as work alongside the communication and marketing team. She helped with the 2019 brochures, media guides, press releases and even helped with stories on their website.

To finish her year with the South Florida PGA Works Fellow Program, Temple was rewarded with the opportunity to work closely with the Honda Classic Tournament.

“When I moved over to the Honda Classic, they had me work in a little bit of everything, which was really cool and awesome to see different aspects of the PGA tournament and everything that goes into making it happen,” Temple said.

She also worked with the PGA HOPE Program, an initiative to introduce the game of golf to veterans with disabilities.

“The PGA Works Fellow has given me more insight on the golf industry as a whole, and just being able to know more of the ins and outs of how different tournaments work on different levels has given me a start to what could possibly be a long time career in golf,” Temple said.

CONSTRUCTION

College of Education gathering ideas for new building

By TRICE BROWN Campus Reporter

For Auburn’s College of Education, having a building to call home has been only in hopes and dreams, but not for much longer.

The University has begun the early stages of planning the building, having recently selected an architectural group for the project.

Jenny Barton, the college’s assistant dean for administration, said that not much has been set in stone, as they are still trying to figure out what the college’s faculty and students want.

While they know the building will be west of the poultry science building on P.O. Davis Drive, they don’t know how big the building will be or how much it will cost.

According to Barton, College of Education faculty are spread across seven buildings, in-

cluding the Haley Center, Wallace Hall, Ramsey Hall and a leased space on Shug Jordan Parkway.

“With the growth of faculty promised by University President Steven Leath, there is a big need for office space,” Barton said. “If the College of Education faculty can have their own building, that frees up space for incoming faculty.”

Barton said she’s excited to see collaboration between faculty once the building is complete.

Many engage in collaborative research, which is difficult given how dispersed they are.

The college invited students to give their perspective on what a home for the college should look like.

Madison Strichik, junior in early childhood education, said students want more meeting spaces for collaboration. The only designated study space in the Haley Center is crowded and

has limited seating, leaving some students to sit on the floor.

“I think having a space with more seating will invite educators to enjoy working towards their degree and bring more life and inspiration into the environment,” Strichik said.

Strichik said she and other students would like to see a space in the building dedicated to practicums and observations. When children are brought in during the summer for practicums, they are brought into colorless rooms with cinderblock walls and hard floors. Having developmentally appropriate learning environments has been proven to work better.

Students have also expressed interest in a makerspace in the building. Often, students have projects to create books, posters or handouts that they have to pay for out of their own pocket. A makerspace would provide the stu-

dents with equipment and supplies for these tasks.

“We already know that most of us will be spending out-of-pocket money to provide for our students,” Strichik said. “Being drained by that while we’re studying is not a good start to being passionate and devoted to our careers.”

Barton said she thinks students would enjoy having Engaged Active Student Learning classrooms, like the ones in the Mell Classroom Building. EASL classrooms feature movable tables, chairs and whiteboards to encourage collaborative learning.

When Barton was in college, she was in large lecture halls where the professor was just talking to the students, which she didn’t respond well to.

“I want to get my hands dirty and get in there and do it,” she said.

FUNDRAISING

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Mike Lutzenkirchen at Lutzie 43 Invitational Golf Tournament in Sylacauga, Ala. on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

Lutzie 43 Foundation partners with Alabama Law Enforcement Agency STAFF REPORT The Lutzie 43 Foundation announced a partnership with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to promote its 43 Key Seconds Safe Driving initiative.

The Lutzie 43 Foundation aims to promote safe driving among young people. The foundation was started by Mike Lutzenkirchen in memory of Philip Lutzenkirchen, a former Auburn football standout, who was killed in a car accident in 2014.

The 43 Key Seconds Safe Driving initiative, started in October 2018, aims to create the first nationally recognized symbol for awareness of distracted and impaired driving.

Its mission is to prevent accidents and fatalities.

“The Lutzie 43 Foundation started the 43 Key Seconds initiative in memory of my son, who lost his life in a car accident caused by completely preventable circumstances,” Mike Lutzenkirchen said. “We’re honored to partner with ALEA as we work together to create change in the

way Alabama drivers behave on the roads.”

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will distribute 7,500 units of the 43 Key Second lanyard, key and countdown card.

“We at ALEA rely on a variety of tools to prevent traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities, particularly when reaching Alabama’s most inexperienced drivers,” said Hal Taylor, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s secretary of law enforcement. “Who knows how many lives will be saved as our troopers and driver-license examiners help distribute 43 Key Seconds keys?”

Through the partnership, the units being distributed will be cobranded with the Lutzie 43 Foundation and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

“I strongly believe our key can become the nationally recognized symbol for safe driving and serve as a constant reminder for drivers to prioritize safety when they get behind the wheel,” Mike Lutzenkirchen said.

Local police and law en-

forcement will distribute the keys when they pull drivers over for driving misconduct, speeding, lack of seat belt and other driving violations. It is hoped that the keys distributed will act as a physical reminder to avoid distracted and impaired driving.

Driver-license examiners will also distribute the keys and lanyards in their offices.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency makes it a primary goal to target drivers at an early age.

The initiative has a safe driving checklist: clear head, clear hands, clear eyes and click it. The initiative came as a result of a grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, which is an organization geared toward youth development.

The Lutzie 43 Foundation has been promoted by a long list of notable public figures, including Gus Malzahn, Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney. It has also made numerous partnerships with colleges and high schools to fulfill its mission of safe-driving awareness.

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Honored Anew

Students design new exhibit for local veteran

By CORY BLACKMON Community Reporter

The Bennie G. Adkins Meeting Center, named after local Medal of Honor recipient Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins, is awaiting some high-tech renovations — all with the help of Auburn interior design students.

President Barack Obama presented now 85-year-old Adkins the Medal of Honor in 2014 for his service in Vietnam with the 5th Army Special Forces Group (Airborne). Now, Adkins and other Medal of Honor recipients will be honored with a new exhibit at the meeting center.

District 2 Lee County Commissioner Johnny Lawrence is spearheading the project, which includes installing a new interactive educational display which tells Adkins’ and other Medal of Honor recipients’ stories.

“Several years ago, after we renamed the meeting center, we had the idea to put some things in the lobby area and in one of the adjacent meeting rooms,” Lawrence said. “We wanted this to be about young people, so it made sense to get young people involved.”

Lawrence said the majority of the group that came to work on the center didn’t know much about Vietnam, the Green Berets or the politics surrounding the Vietnam War. After speaking with Adkins, the students broke into groups of five and began to work on designs and concepts for an interactive exhibit that would be put in the meeting center.

The main theme of the exhibit centers around an idea of service.

“When you walk into the building, there is a big wall and that’s where we decided the message should be,” Lawrence said. “We can all serve our community is the message we came up with.”

Lawrence described the exhibit as having multiple sections, with one containing information about Vietnam and another about Adkins. A third section will feature information about the Medal of Honor and previous recipients.

“One wall will be a Medal of Honor kiosk and keyboard and the Medal of Honor society will provide IT support for this if we provide the hardware,” Lawrence said. “The key is that anyone can look up anything about any of the Medal of Honor recipients that have received the medal.”

One of the exhibits will be decorated with plants to mimic the jungle environment of Vietnam. The doors and windows to this exhibit will be tinted so that looking into the ex-

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Lee County Commissioner Johnny Lawrence and Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins hold plans for the new exhibit in the Bennie Adkins Meeting Center.

hibit it will be like “looking through the gray mists of the jungle,” Lawrence said.

After the Battle of Camp A Shau, Adkins and fellow troops fled into the jungle to evacuate but were pursued by North Vietnamese soldiers. Then, a tiger came to their rescue.

The exhibit will feature a fiberglass tiger as a tribute to the tiger that saved Adkins life during the war.

“We were in the jungle, and the North Vietnamese soldiers that had us surrounded were more afraid of the tiger than us, so they backed off and gave us room to get away,” Adkins said.

On the opposite wall from the jungle exhibit, each of the military branches’ flags will be presented alongside a tribute to the five men who served with Adkins and died in the Battle of A Shau.

The last room will contain a statue of Adkins and his group along with different memorabilia and tokens from Adkins’ service.

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Adkins said he has been working closely with Lawrence to ensure the exhibit educates and inspires children who want to learn about America’s servicemen and women.

“I want this to become a learning facility for our young people,” Adkins said. “Anything that would let the young people realize what’s going on in the world would be worthwhile.”

Despite his age, Adkins is still working tirelessly to educate people on how they can support and serve their communities.

Adkins currently operates the Bennie Adkins Foundation, which raises money to support Special Forces units as they re-enter civilian life. Adkins raises money for the Foundation by traveling around the country giving lectures about his career. He also donates his share of profits from his book sales.

“This is something that is not taught in our school systems,” Adkins said. “I think it is very important to show young people that there are people who fight to protect our way of life.”

CITY COUNCIL

Council limits student housing with aim to protect neighborhoods

By EDUARDO MEDINA Enterprise Editor

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Spring flowers bloom at the Donald E. Davis Arboretum on April 3, 2019.

Floral Trail open and blooming

By CORY BLACKMON Community Reporter

With spring in full bloom, the Auburn Floral Trail is open for its 19th year and showcasing Auburn’s floral scene.

The Auburn Beautification Council, Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau and the City of Auburn put on the trail each year, which will run until April 19 this year.

There are two main trails, a 3.5-mile northern trail just off North College Street and a 10.5-mile trail off South College Street.

There are also two smaller, optional trails. One runs through the Donald E. Davis Arboretum and another off North College Street that begins on Asheton Lane.

Catrina Cook, Auburn’s Environmental Services assistant director, said the trails present a multitude of Auburn’s native azaleas as well as pear trees, cherry trees and dogwoods.

“You’ll see a lot of our winter plants that are blooming, too,” Cook said. “You’ll also see tulips and pansies and late-blooming camellias.”

Cook said now is a great time to see the trails as the late winter flowers and all the spring flowers are blooming together.

The Auburn Beautification Council has planters that help set up some areas. Residents are responsible for most of the flowers along the trails.

“Our mission, primarily, is to promote the best interest of

the residents of the city and to promote a cleaner, healthier and safer place to work and visit,” Cook said.

The two main trails move through residential areas and are accessible by car, bike or on foot so that people can view the blooms however they choose.

Organizers wanted to make sure that everyone would be able to see the hard work and time that everyone put into making the trail happen, Cook said.

“You get a chance to see just how much time everyone has put into their yards,” Cook said. “Especially in some of the more mature areas. These two areas have a lot of mature trees, so it is easy to enjoy those blooming.”

There is a large collaboration among the beautification council, the tourism bureau and environmental services to ensure that all the streets and sidewalks are swept and clean to make sure all the trails really shine, Cook said.

“The Auburn Beautification Council is responsible for planters downtown, and we (the City of Auburn) provide the signs that you see on the roads that direct you to the trail,” Cook said. “The tourism bureau funds the brochures that everyone can pick up.”

This year, the brochures also includes a QR code, which contains a map of all the trail.

“A big thanks to all the homeowners who get involved with setting up their yards earlier and putting so much effort into it,” Cook said. “I want to give a special thanks to all the homeowners that spend extra time in their yards to make it really special.”

After an incendiary, two-and-a-half hour night of debate — which was tangled in accusations of neglect, overreach and racism against white people — the City Council narrowly passed the Academic Detached Dwelling Unit ordinance, along with two amendments.

The ordinance at stake concerned the ever-increasing amount of student houses being built in residential neighborhoods — primarily historically black neighborhoods in Northwest Auburn. The houses, which are built for students and yet qualify as single-family homes because of zoning and occupancy regulations, are raising fears of gentrification across Auburn.

The ordinance will allow the city to regulate those structures differently than homes meant for families by labeling them ADDUs. But as one developer said in his denunciation of the ordinance, “There’s not a solution that’s going to make everybody happy.”

His fortune, it turns out, came true.

During the meeting, a resident of Northwest Auburn, Elizabeth Hill, spoke against the labeling of her neighborhood near Canton Avenue as a place for conditional ADDU approval — meaning more ADDUs could potentially be built there in the future.

“I would like to see, and I think the majority of our neighborhood would like to see, no more of these [student houses] in our neighborhood,” Hill said.

One of the amendments allows ADDUs to be conditionally approved in neighborhood redevelopment districts east of North Donahue Drive.

So in places like Frazier Street, where residents previously told The Plainsman that they are being forced out of their homes because of student housing, more student homes could potentially be built. And in the Canton Avenue area, where Hill and others said they have already been affected, their zoning leaves them susceptible to more student houses springing up around them.

The second amendment the Council added states that ADDUs will be permitted by right in redevelopment districts, meaning nothing can prevent developers from continuing to build student houses in places zoned as redevelopment district, or RDD. Two citizens who live in Northwest Auburn spoke in favor of the ordinance.

As has been a custom in the plethora of ADDU public hearings, most of the people who spoke against the ordinance were developers. Nick Hayes, who told The Plainsman he owns several properties in the Canton Avenue area, was one of the most vocal developers of the night.

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He said the ordinance was a “political stunt to try and appease concerned folks [in Northwest Auburn],” and that the “American dream” involves people being able to sell their house.

Many developers echoed this statement throughout the night, arguing that student houses were actually helping the community. The two Northwest Auburn residents shook their heads.

Auburn Planning Director Forrest Cotten explained that people can still sell their homes to developers — it’s just that developers could not build structures that were obviously made for students in single-family neighborhoods.

Hayes called it “poor planning and poor governance.”

A real estate lawyer, Travis Wisdom, was in agreement with the rest of the developers.

“We don’t need to fix a problem that doesn’t exist,” Wisdom said.

Wisdom owns property in an area zoned RDD, and he was afraid he wouldn’t be allowed to build anything there because of a “czar” in the planning commission being in charge of approval.

But in RDDs, building uses require conditional approval regardless; the ordinance would just define the student-housing structures as what they are instead of single-family structures.

Auburn resident Herbert Walter then reminded the Council of the gravity of this ordinance.

“There are many in Northwest Auburn that fear that this ordinance is going to lead to, directly or indirectly, a displacement,” Walter said. “Northwest Auburn is a historic, black neighborhood, and if you take that away, what do we have to say about part of our history?”

Ward 1 Councilwoman Connie Fitch Taylor, whose constituents have been most affected by the ADDUs, spoke up.

“I don’t see one person that’s got a family that wants to be surrounded by students,” Taylor said.

Ward 6 Councilman Bob Parsons said he knew what the correct decision was.

“The ones with the least are the ones that I embrace,” Parsons said. “It’s a shame to homogenize a town so that we’re all white and successful.”

Ward 8 Councilman Tommy Dawson perked up.

“So we’re all what?” Dawson asked.

“White and successful,” Parsons replied.

“Where is that even coming from?” Dawsons asked loudly.

“It’s pretty clear: white and successful,” Parsons said.

Hayes, the developer who had spoken earlier, shouted at Parsons incredulously.

“That’s offensive. That’s offensive,” Hayes blared from his seat.

“That’s very offensive to me,” Dawson added.

Hayes was still upset about what Parsons said when he spoke to The Plainsman after the meeting.

“I think it’s racist,” Hayes said.

When it came to vote on the ordinance, only Dawson, Ward 4 Councilman Brett Smith and Ward 3 Councilwoman Beth Witten voted no. Mayor Ron Anders and the rest of the Council voted yes which passed the ordinance.

A resident of Northwest Auburn thanked the Council on their decision to pass the ordinance.

“It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing,” he said.

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The man behind the hit song “We’ve got Jared,” Drew Crowson, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

‘We’ve Got Jared’: The man behind the hit

By ELIZABETH HURLEY Community Editor

What started out as funny lyrics and a quick recording session before the Auburn versus Kansas game in the Round of 32 turned into a theme song for Auburn’s March Madness run.

“We’ve Got Jared” has swept the Auburn Family, which is something the song’s writer, Drew Crowson, never thought would happen.

“It’s a bit of an out-of-body experience to be 100 percent honest,” Crowson said.

Crowson, 33, is a 2008 Auburn graduate who moved back to The Plains last year and began working with College and Magnolia, an Auburn SBNation blog, and recording an Auburn podcast called “Orange and True.”

He often writes parody lyrics on the blog, an idea he got from his time in Europe.

“Liverpool Football Club in England, they have a fan song with a very similar trajectory,” Crowson said. “A guy recorded it, and they went on this run in the Champions League. The fans embraced this song, and it became a chant in the stadium.”

The chorus of “We’ve Got Jared” had been stuck in his head since before the SEC Tournament. He decided to record a song right before the Kansas game and settled on one he’d thought of almost a month ago, Crowson said.

“I wanted to get this done before the game,” Crowson said. “[I said], let’s just record what I have and not try to write a new one.

So, I recorded that and thought it wasn’t a big deal.”

Following the game, the song didn’t get much traction. Then, the team found it.

Chuma Okeke and other players posted videos of the team listening and dancing to the song. From there, it took off.

“I literally had to pull over because my phone was just losing it,” Crowson said. “My phone battery died before noon on Monday just because it couldn’t handle the amount of notifications it was getting.”

The song now has more than 25,000 listens as of Wednesday and prompted several music videos. Crowson even performed the song with local band Magic Johnson live at Auburn University’s Relay for Life last week.

One of the craziest things for Crowson, besides the sheer number of people that have heard his silly song, is that Auburn University and the team have used the song in promotional videos as the team prepares for its first Final Four appearance.

“That’s the wildest thing,” Crowson said. “They could fly me to New York tomorrow and sing it in front of Barkley, and it wouldn’t be as wild as seeing the University use the song.”

Crowson is using his new-found fame and the popularity of the song to raise money for East Alabama Youth for Christ, a non-profit that mentors teenagers. He created a T-shirt with College and Magnolia that is available on his Twitter, @SonofCrow2.

It’s been like a dream for Crowson. He remembers watching the team come home from their win against Kansas. At that time, the song only had a few listens, and Crowson had a fleeting thought of the crowd singing his song to welcome them home.

When the team returned from their game against Kentucky, Crowson’s thought became a reality as the crowd erupted into his song.

“To be a part of a collective celebration is a very unique human experience,” Crowson said.

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Anfernee McLemore has his March moment

By JAKE WEESE Sports Writer

After a year of waiting, Anfernee McLemore’s patience paid off big time for Auburn.

In Auburn’s upset 77-70 overtime victory over the Kentucky Wildcats, McLemore took over in the overtime period.

McLemore scored four of his eight points in overtime and ended Kentucky’s hopes of advancing with the game-sealing block with 10 seconds remaining.

He finished with an all-around solid stat line, showing he can do a little bit of it all for Auburn. The forward finished with eight points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals.

The big-time game from McLemore is just what Auburn needed, especially with fellow forward Chuma Okeke out for the remainder of the tournament with a torn ACL that he suffered against North Carolina on Friday.

Not only did Auburn need a big game like this from McLemore, but McLemore wanted it, too.

McLemore understands what it’s like to be unable to help his team when they need it most because of injury.

He missed out on the postseason last year after suffering a gruesome leg injury during the SEC schedule.

“We knew that Chuma wanted us to come out and play hard,” McLemore said. “We all knew it would be a big game, and we had to do all we can to come out and play ready.”

Entering overtime, McLemore had struggled in the second half to find his groove offensively. After a hot first half with four points, he was 0-of-4 from the field in the second and picked up two personal fouls in 13 minutes in the second half. He had significantly contributed rebounding-wise, though, in the second half with four rebounds.

In overtime, McLemore picked it up offensively, going a perfect 2-for-2 from the field and later helping seal the game for Auburn with his clutch block on Kentucky guard Keldon Johnson with 10 seconds left and Kentucky down four.

The block was clean, and all Auburn’s Jared Harper had to do was sink both free throws to put Auburn up by six and out of reach for Kentucky — which Harper did.

“I don’t even know how to put it in words,” McLemore said. “I’m so happy right now. I always dreamed I would get to the Final Four. This feels amazing.”

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Anfernee McLemore (24) makes a move in the post during Auburn basketball vs. Kentucky in the Midwest Regional Final of the 2019 NCAA Tournament on March 31, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.

FINAL FOUR

Tigers lock down

By ZACH TANTILLO Sports Reporter

In a game without their best player, trailing at halftime to a team that has beaten them twice already this season, the Tigers and their Final Four hopes seemed bleak.

At the break, Kentucky was physically dominating Auburn, forcing four different Tigers into foul trouble with at least two fouls.

Not only was Kentucky more physical than Auburn, they were beating Auburn at almost every facet of the game, too.

Kentucky had the edge in field goal percentage, 3-point percentage, 3-pointers made, free throw percentage, rebounds, bench points, fast break points and blocks.

Auburn hasn’t had much success this season when trailing at half, winning only thrice this season. But with the season on the line, the second-half comeback had to come from the defense.

“I really think that Samir picked us up defensively with his energy and then Bryce at the end of the first half, Bryce started pressure up on Ashton (Hagans),” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl.

Auburn has thrived all year on making more 3s than the other team, and the Tigers weren’t successful in the first half against a Kentucky team that doesn’t rely on the 3-ball much.

That changed in the second half when Auburn turned up its perimeter defense by not allowing Kentucky to make a 3-pointer until 16 seconds left in overtime.

“But at some point, Bryce Brown as a senior had to put pressure on Ashton and not let him get to spots on the floor,” Pearl said. “Our guys saw that in the halftime locker room. Samir came in at halftime said, ‘Guys, we’re going to win this game with our defense.’”

Tyler Herro, one of Kentucky’s leading scorers and dynamic freshmen, was shut down by one of the MVPs of Auburn’s win – Samir Doughty – in the second half, scoring only two points on 1-of-3 shooting.

“Samir Doughty locked up one of the best offensive players in this tournament in Tyler Herro,” Pearl said. “I mean, he just took it on himself to make sure that he wasn’t going to get great looks, and that then made them go to Washington almost exclusively when Samir just locked his assignment up.”

Doughty not only was a menace on the defensive end, he picked up a lot of slack on rebounding for Auburn with Chuma Okeke out, racking up seven rebounds.

Thanks to a team effort on the boards in the second half, Auburn out-rebounded Kentucky 19-18.

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Jared Harper (1) celebrates Auburn’s win over Kentucky in the Elite Eight on March 31, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.

Harper does it again

AU’s floor general dominates in overtime

By OLIVIA HUSKEY Sports Writer

With the song “We’ve got Jared” being sung all around The Plains — and in the Auburn locker room in Kansas City, Missouri, for the last week or so — it seems only fitting the man himself, Jared Harper, would guide the Tigers to their first Final Four appearance in program history.

Auburn and Kentucky battled it out the entire second half of its Elite Eight matchup, with Auburn coming out the victor in a 77-71 win.

With the shot clock winding down to the final seconds of regular play, Horace Spencer took the shot for a 3-pointer that would have won the game. It wasn’t successful, and Auburn found itself heading into overtime with a 60-60 tie.

After a quick break, Auburn came out swinging behin Harper, who commanded the court the entire five minutes of play.

He scored the first four points of overtime and eventually accounted for 12 of the Tigers’ 17 points they scored in overtime.

It was sweet revenge for the junior, whose would-be go-ahead running layup fell just short in Auburn’s loss to Kentucky at home earlier in the season.

Harper led the team with 26 points. He also had five assists, four rebounds, two blocks and three steals for the night. He scored the Tigers’ final points of the game with a rebound.

This was after hitting two free throws that came on a foul that sent him the the ground hard on his hip. He took a second to recover, then get back and did what he did all of overtime — lead the Auburn offense to a win.

“In the second half, all I did was try to get out of the way and get the ball to Bryce and Jared,” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl postgame.

The Tigers’ floor general was also a perfect 11-for-11 from the foul line.

“I just knew if I was going to get to the line, I was going to make the free throws,” Harper said postgame. “I put a lot of work and a lot of pressure on myself outside of games like this to be able to make those same plays. So, sometimes in a game, it’s no pressure at all for me.”

The 5-foot-10 point guard could not be defended by Kentucky’s Ashton Hagans, an elite SEC defender. With Harper’s 3-point shot a bit off all night, he went inside time and time again, finishing strong at the rim.

The Tigers will head to Minneapolis to face off against Virginia in the national semifinals on Saturday.

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The defensive pressure from Auburn forced the Tigers into more foul trouble, but the total amount of fouls in the second half was lower than in the first.

With a more precise defense, Auburn was able to play hard defense without committing as many fouls while having the advantage in blocks and steals in the second half.

“Our defense to start the second half was tremendous,” Pearl said. “Incredible ball pressure forced Kentucky out a way. We didn’t turn them over as much, but we were aggressive without fouling.”

The Tigers are known for their high-octane offense, but in this historic victory, Auburn’s defense stole the show and sealed the victory.

Auburn wins SEC crown

By WILLIAM FINNEY Sports Writer

The No. 1 Auburn equestrian team made another stop on its way to defend the 2018-19 national title on Saturday afternoon.

The Tigers dismantled Texas A&M, 11-6 to win their second-ever SEC championship.

“This is such an exciting time for the Auburn Tigers,” said Auburn head coach Greg Williams. “We’ve set our sights on tis the past couple of years, and it feels really good to bring this title back home.”

With this win, the Tigers moved to a 15-0 record, continuing the lone undefeated season in NCAA equestrian history.

Auburn saddled up and kicked off the two-day championship Friday with a 13-7 win over South Carolina to advance to the championship round. The final meet was held on Texas A&M’s campus at the Hildebrand Equine Complex.

The Tigers started off hot on Saturday with a 4-1 victory in fence jumping. Senior Ashton Alexander orchestrated a 213120 win before freshman Emma Kurtz knocked out Grace Boston, 251-248.

Caitlyn Boyle added another win to her career wins record, extending the record to 268 wins. Hayley Giannotti put the final nail in the fence’s competition with a 225 for the win.

Horsemanship galloped to a 2-2 tie with the Aggies. This helped the Tigers go into the half with a 6-3 lead. Taylor

Searies kicked off the event with a score of 219.5 and an Auburn win.

“We really wanted to win it for our seniors,” Searies said.

“This is such a great team and we’ve really been riding as one all year.”

Junior Kara Kaufmann tied her opponent, 215.5-215.5. Senior Lauren Diaz improved her season record to 13-2 with a 218.5-212 victory.

The Tigers smacked the Aggies on the flat, finishing with a 3-0 mark. Alexander had a critical ride for the squad and scored 267 points in her win. Freshman McKayla Langmeir kept her undefeated streak in the event with a 225-212 victory.

Boyles and Iannotti helped the Tigers seal the deal with a pair of ties in the flat. Iannotti and A&M’s Rhian Murphy each scored a 239, while Boyle and her opponent ended with a score of 238-238.

The judges awarded Auburn two bonus points in reigning after a stunning performance by sophomores Terri-June Granger and Deanna Green. Granger, the Alabama native, toppled Marissa Harrell, 209.5-206 to start the event. Green shut it down with a 208.5-202.5 win over Ashton Dunkel.

“It feels great to accomplish one of our goals that we’ve set for years,” Alexander said. “Coming together as a whole team really helped us be a stellar team this weekend.”

Auburn has its sights set on defending its national title at the 2019 NCEA Championship from April 17-20, in Waco, Texas.

The four-day event will be held at the Extracto Events Center.

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Samir Doughty (10) shoots during Auburn basketball vs. Kentucky in the Midwest Regional Final of the 2019 NCAA Tournament on March 31, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.

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Equestrian team members roll Toomer’s oaks in celebration of Auburn’s fifth equestrian national championship in Auburn, Ala. on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Auburn, Ala.

FINAL FOUR

Okeke has successful surgery

By NATHAN KING

Sports Reporter

Sports Editor

After a season in which Auburn’s nine-year streak of touting a 1,000-yard rusher was snapped, Auburn’s running backs have demonstrated the potential to become one of the better groups in the SEC. Auburn held its first scrimmage of the spring last Saturday with all running backs – minus Shaun Shivers – seeing time on the field.

New running back coach Cadillac Williams rotated the running backs with all offensive groups, with Gus Malzahn saying that he saw lots of good things from the group.

The running backs are led by the most experienced runners, JaTarvious Whitlow and Kam Martin, but are closely followed by up-and-comers Harold Joiner and D.J. Williams. “[Whitlow] has a year of experience,” Malzahn said. “He’s a lot more comfortable and knows kind of what’s going on a lot better. That’s to be expected. Kam Martin’s the same way. Those are the two experienced guys. And they should be, you know, thinking ahead and everything that goes with that. Harold Joiner got some good reps, D.J. got some good reps. But the two older guys that has experience. They should be a little more ahead as far as being comfortable.”

Offensive lineman Jack Driscoll said that, during the scrimmage, the running back group showed promise, especially with an experienced offensive line making holes for the young but experienced group.

“We’ve seen a lot of encouraging stuff,” Driscoll said. “There were a lot of great runs today. There were a few touchdown runs. There are some great freshmen. D.J. Williams is an unbelievable athlete. Obviously, Boobee coming back with experience and the same with Kam Martin, there’s a lot of guys. We feel really confident that we can run the ball, especially with having a senior line and a lot of experience at running back.”

Whitlow, the leading rusher from last season and with one season under his belt at running back, has always been one of the most athletic players on the field. But during spring, Whitlow has demonstrated not only talent, but maturity and leadership.

“He’s obviously a lot quicker, and he’s running really aggressively,” Driscoll said. “The thing, honestly, that I’ve been happy with Boobee is that he’s taken the next step in maturity and growth. It’s hard as a redshirt freshman. I’ve been there before, and everyone’s been there, where there are some growing pains and you’re just getting used to it.

Boobee is really mature, and he always practices hard now.

That’s what you love to see out of him.

“He already had our respect, and he’s gaining more of our respect with how hard he’s going and taking that next step.

He knows he’s a huge part of our offense and getting going.”

One of the more anticipated players from last season’s recruiting class, Joiner, has the seen the most uptick in usage this spring so far after redshirting his freshman year. He is seeing both time as a slot receiver and at the running back position, impressing both coaches and teammates. “(Joiner has) done great,” Driscoll said. “When you’re asked to do two different position, and one being a new position he’s never played before, he’s really picking it up. » See RUNNING BACKS, 10

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Auburn celebrates. Auburn basketball vs. Kentucky in the Midwest Regional Final of the 2019 NCAA Tournament on March 31, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.

Chuma Okeke is now on the road to recovery.

Auburn’s star sophomore forward, who tore his ACL in the Tigers’ Sweet 16 win over North Carolina last week, had a successful surgery Tuesday morning with Dr. James Andrews, Bruce Pearl said Tuesday afternoon.

“Everything went well in the repair of his ACL,” Pearl said on the Paul Finebaum Show. “He’s out of surgery with Dr. Andrews.”

After an exhausting Saturday dealing with the fresh injury, Okeke planned to stay at Auburn’s team hotel during its Elite Eight contest. He watched the game from his hotel room, but before halftime, he called a team representative to come pick him up and bring him to the Sprint Center.

In his wheelchair, Okeke was behind the bench in the second half for Auburn’s first Final Four berth in program history. Teammates hung the nets around his neck after the game and presented him with the Midwest Regional championship trophy.

“Going to Minneapolis is challenging,” Pearl said. “Going without our best player in Chuma Okeke is even more challenging.”

The Tigers face 1-seed Virginia on Saturday at 5:09 p.m. CST at U.S. Bank Stadium. The action will be broadcast on CBS.

FINAL FOUR

Pearl, Bennett linked by common influence

By JAKE WEESE Sports Writer

For head coaches Bruce Pearl and Tony Bennett, the story of how their respective teams earned trips to the Final Four is straight from the pages of a Hollywood script.

Both coaches came to these programs with two goals in mind. The first: restoring the school’s pride and glory in its basketball program that existed long ago. The second: bringing the program to new heights only once dreamed up by the most die-hard and loyal of fans.

Auburn’s heyday came in the early and late 1980s, led by NBA-caliber players like Charles Barkley and Chuck Person, and coached by Sonny Smith. From 1984-88, Auburn was a regular in the NCAA Tournament, but following that brief run, Auburn’s NCAA Tournament appearances were sporadic — last season’s inclusion in the tournament was its first since 2003.

Pearl began his head coaching career at Division II’s Southern Indiana. He

held this position for nine seasons from 1992-01, leading the Screaming Eagles to nine Division-II NCAA Tournament appearances, including a championship in 1994-95.

His first Division-I head coaching job came in 2001-02 as the head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pearl led the Panthers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance, tournament win and NIT appearance in his four seasons at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Pearl’s most controversial head coaching job came next. He was tasked with turning the Tennessee Volunteers back into winners.

And just like Pearl did at Southern Indiana and Milwaukee, the Volunteers became winners once again. Pearl though found himself at the center of an NCAA investigation, however, and was dismissed after six seasons.

For Pearl, the coach with the checkered but winning past, has been all over the midwest and south as a coach, finally arriving at Auburn in 2014 to replace Tony Barbee.

The job, to put it bluntly, was not the most desirable as Auburn’s last winning record had come in the 2008-09 season.

The combination of Pearl and Auburn was a perfect match as both had something to prove. Pearl had been dismissed at Tennessee following an NCAA investigation and had been out of coaching for four years, and Auburn had the talent to win — it just needed the right coach.

Now, in Pearl’s fifth season and with the school’s first Final Four appearance coming on Saturday, it’s safe to say the pairing has worked.

Virginia was a powerhouse in the 80s and 90s with 13 tournament appearances during those 20 years. The ACC is a tough conference to play in, and soon, the Cavaliers’ appearances were non-existent in the 2000s with the only appearances coming in 2001 and 2007.

For Tony Bennett, the son of former decorated college basketball coach Dick Bennett, his path to Virginia took him

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all over the place. Tony Bennett began as a talented point guard under his father’s tutelage at Wisconsin Green Bay. Following his college playing days, the Charlotte Hornets drafted him, but a knee injury ended his NBA career after three seasons.

Tony Bennett followed in his father’s footsteps, not only by becoming a head coach, but succeeding his father as head coach at Washington State in 2006. Tony Bennett held this position for three seasons before being hired as Virginia’s head coach in 2009.

Like Pearl, Tony Bennett took over a program that was struggling in recent seasons and a program that just needed the right coach to make the difference.

In Tony Bennett’s 10 seasons since becoming the head coach, the Cavaliers have made the NCAA Tournament seven times.

But neither coach has gone this far.

Both coaches have had a chance to match up against one another before, but they barely dodged one another. Virginia played Tennessee in 2012-13, two seasons after Pearl’s dismissal.

This time, the matchup is unavoidable.

The two coaches have never faced each other until now, but they do share a coaching connection in Tony Bennett’s father, Dick Bennett.

As Pearl elaborated on this week, when he was at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he bought Dick Bennett’s man-to-man defensive coaching

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“He’s a physical kid. He’ll throw his nose in there. I think that kind of gives him an opportunity to get on the field in a lot of different roles.

There’s a lot of running backs right

videotape and continues to use it as a foundation for Auburn’s defense today.

“I adopted his first tape, and in many ways still keep some of those same principles,” Pearl said of the defensive coaching tapes. “I would say Dick Bennett taught me, through clinics and tapes, a lot of how we try to guard even still to this day.”

Pearl went on to describe how he wasn’t able to incorporate Dick Bennett’s second defensive tape, the packline, but that the first tape which contained the man-to-man is highly influential for him.

“That’s been a foundation for our man-to-man defense,” Pearl said.

Tony Bennett has joked himself during an NCAA Tournament press conference ahead of the Final Four that he is not exactly thrilled with his father having influenced so many coaches defensively.

“I was like, ‘Why do you have to do these instructional videos back then?’

Tony Bennett said. “Actually, there’s some — his influence on the game, maybe a lot of people don’t know about it, but in the coaching circles has been huge. My dad, he’s an open book, as they say. He’s so honest.”

Pearl not only has learned from Dick Bennett, but he is also friends with Tony Bennett’s sister, Kathi, who is a coach herself. While Pearl was at Southern Indiana, Kathi was coaching at the University of Evansville, where the pair met for the first time.

Both have had different paths to get to this moment, but they do share the commonality of Dick Bennett — and an orange and blue fanbase desperate for a title.

now, but if he can do something that makes him unique — like block and do some other things out of the backfield — that’s just another plus for him.

“He hasn’t many, if any, mental mistakes, which has been really impressive for a young kid asked to do two different positions in an offense

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Tony Bennett. Virginia basketball vs. Purdue during the NCAA South Regional final on Saturday, March 30, 2019, in Louisville, Ky.

where there’s a lot of different formations and a lot of different looks and reads.”

Joiner’s versatility and size is looking to become a strong weapon in Malzahn’s offense in the fall, but at the scrimmage, Joiner was mainly limited to playing just tailback, according to Malzahn.

“He’s a versatile guy,” Malzahn said. “Today, we really wanted to give him a chance to play tailback. He has been very, very effective in the slot. He’s a guy that will do both.”

Surprise recruit D.J. Williams has also impressed teammates early on this spring, especially the guys

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By STEPHANIE TUNNELL Lifestyle Writer

Sweet Sixteen, done. Elite Eight, done. And now, Auburn Men’s Basketball is on to the University’s first-ever Final Four.

If you are making the 18-hour road trip from Auburn, Alabama to Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, April 6, you will be watching the game versus Virginia.

Minneapolis will keep you busy when you are not cheering, “War Eagle!”

Minneapolis is a place for foodies. Be sure to try a Jucy Lucy burger, or the Juicy Lucy, which is Minneapolis’ version of the best burger. There is cheese in the burger patty. Or try the Hot Dish, a casserole specific to the city.

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Post-game, if you want some of the best food in Minneapolis, be sure to try Spoonriver for dinner. Recently awarded as a James Beard semifinalist, Spoonriver serves a variety of the “finest contemporary natural cuisine” and is committed to healthy options.

“The Top 5 Instagramable photo spots include First Avenue, the Mary Tyler Moore Statue, Minnehaha Falls, the Spoonbridge and Cherry and the Stone Arch Bridge,” said Kathy McCarthy, the director of public relations and communications for Meet Minneapolis.

The best way to walk around the city, rain or shine, is via the skyway system. This indoor network of tunnels in the sky connects bars, restaurants, bakeries, hotels, government services and

MINNEAPOLIS more. It spans 80 city blocks, which is equivalent to 9.5 miles.

If you want to spend some time outside, Minneapolis is the “City by Nature.” Bike along the Mississippi River or Midtown Greenway, a 5.5-mile-long trail, or visit St. Anthony Falls, a waterfall connected to the Mississippi River.

Check out Minneapolis.org/Final-Four for more information on other Minneapolis events, hotels and transportation or follow [@MeetMinneapolis] on social media to stay up to date this weekend. For more activities, visit “150 Things to do in Minneapolis.”

BUSINESS

Evolution behind the term pretty

By MIRANDA SHAFFER Lifestyle Writer

Pretty is one of those undefinable words society has always used to describe things such as a pretty flower or a pretty woman. However, what is seen as pretty constantly changes based on societal norms, beauty trends and even just time itself.

Beauty is defined as “a pleasing quality associated with appearance that arouses a strong, contemplative delight,” according to an article published in the Auburn University’s Glomerata in 1984.

The key to this definition of beauty lies in the word “appearance.”

Some people may argue that beauty has intrinsic value rather than solely relying on physical features. Pretty, on the other hand, is a different story.

The word “pretty” and the word “beauty” vary in definition, and although they may seem similar, the word pretty was not originally associated with beauty at all. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the Old English version of pretty originally meant clever or cunning and was used to describe people who were crafty or tricksters.

The word all but disappeared from written documents for a few hundred years before reemerging in the mid 1400s with new meaning, closer to what it is now. The progression went from something clever to something that was pleasing to the eye, which is what people associate with the adjective today.

Pretty things must please the eye in order to fulfill the modern-day definition of the word, but since everyone has a different perspective, what is pretty to one person may not be to another. The problem with pretty is how easily it can be confused with beauty, a much more complex concept.

A popular column in Auburn’s Glomerata for many years was called

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Auburn fans celebrate at Toomer’s Corner after the Tigers win over Kentucky in the Elite 8, on Sunday, March 31, 2019, in Auburn, Ala.

Bars benefit from basketball wins

By ABIGAIL MURPHY and EVAN MEALINS

Lifestyle Writer and Community Writer

The bars in downtown Auburn are one of the best places to join in with other Auburn fans to cheer on and celebrate the Auburn men’s basketball team’s recent success.

Quixotes, Live Oaks, 17-16 Bar and SkyBar Cafe are some of the bars that hosted gatherings for last weekend’s games and are gearing up for this coming game against University of Virginia.

“It was insane,” said Brandon Sly, assistant manager at 17-16. “It was a packed-out bar.”

For last Sunday’s game, Sly said it was tense in the beginning, especially with the history of the previous games with Kentucky.

“You could definitely tell a lot of people were a little stressed out — kind of on the edge of their seat,” Sly said.

He said when Auburn came back at halftime, things started to pick up, and they started turning up the volume on the TVs. “Once we won — as soon as that clock ticked zero, people sprinted out of here to run to Toomer’s Corner,” Sly said.

For this coming game, he said they are going to focus on just being there to help people celebrate.

He said since this is Auburn’s first time in the Final Four, people are going to want to celebrate, and they are going to be prepared.

“We want everyone to come in and have a

great experience,” said Brett Shackelford, general manager at SkyBar. For the showings of the games, SkyBar put up a screen in their back bar to make it into a movie theater-like environment in addition to the other screens and TVs normally present.

“It’s been great,” Shackelford said. “It’s been upside down, and we appreciate everybody’s support.”

Shackelford said people have been coming early on game days to get seats for the game.

This Saturday for the game against the Unviersity of Virginia, SkyBar will open at 1 p.m., while the back and VIP section will begin opening at 3 p.m.

Shackelford said SkyBar will also have the upstairs open since it is semi-covered. However, depending on the weather, they may have to prep with covers for the back half of the Big Sky, the back half of the lower balcony, the outside and some of the front.

“I think it will be another super crazy night,” Shackelford said.

At Quixotes, the past few wins have elicited reactions that general manager Dade Nunnally can only compare to the most thrilling moments in recent Auburn sports history.

“2010 National title game — it was like that,” Nunnally said.

Quixotes has been projecting the games on a big screen near the stage and dance floor and will do the same thing this weekend.

The bar will be opening at 11 a.m. Saturday for

Auburn’s game against University of Virginia.

Nunnally said he knows plenty of fans and alumni coming from out of town to come watch the game at his bar.

He said he is expecting another packed house.

Chelsea Kimbro, front house manager of Live Oaks, said business has been great, and they have seen a huge influx of people since the start of March Madness.

Live Oaks has even switched to a condensed menu temporarily to be able to handle the large crowds coming to watch the games.

There will probably be a Final Four cocktail special on Saturday, Kimbro said.

“I think everybody is super pumped, but everybody’s still like, ‘Is this really happening? Are we a basketball school for real?’” Kimbro said about the team’s historic run.

With each unprecedented win comes another rolling of Toomer’s Corner, and the bathrooms of downtown bars and restaurants have been an easy spot to snag some toilet paper.

“On Friday night, with like a minute left, our [general manager] was like ‘Grab the toilet paper,’ and we were like, ‘We still have a minute left. We’re not grabbing it yet,’” Kimbro said.

“And then by the time we got there, it was all gone.”

Regardless, a few extra rolls are a small price to pay for the profits the Auburn men’s basketball team has created in the downtown bar scene.

“I guess if that’s the worst of our problems, we’ll take it,” Kimbro said.

ACADEMIC

Professors share the importance of essays, goal of writing

By JORDAN WINDHAM Campus Writer

In an age where most statements are kept within a neat 140 character limit, essay writing can appear excessive and useless. Bullet points and multiple choice answers, not essays, are what students think of when they hear the word ‘test’.

Yet, according to Soren Jordan, assistant professor of political science, essays are as much a measure of learning as tests are because they require the writer to teach the topic to a reader. This reinforces the writer’s knowledge by helping them to internalize the information in a way that is coherent and their own.

“It forces you to be much more logical and articulate in an argumentative style than a test might,

where I’m just sort of throwing darts at a wall and just seeing [what you know],” Jordan said. “As you might imagine, tests literally are just sort of a knowledge check.”

Jordan assigns papers as a way to evaluate not only topic comprehension, but communication skills.

“Writing skills and communication skills more broadly are, without a doubt, the most important set of skills that an employer is looking for,” Jordan said.

Resumes and applications are the first impressions a job candidate makes on a potential employer, so they are significant, Jordan said. It is crucial to develop the ability to effectively communicate information.

According to Kelly Jolley, professor of philosophy, the purpose

of essay writing changes depending on the situation. He said he uses essays primarily as an evaluation of students’ grasp of class material.

In his upper-level classes, Jolley said he only assigns writing to test if students can give form to the material.

Rather than having students memorizing a collection of facts and claims, Jolley said he uses essays to challenge students to think about the relationships between variables and elements.

He said they are then required to assemble these pieces in a logical structure.

“You’re proving that you can, so to speak, wrap your mind around the material and bring it to a certain kind of intelligible shape or form,” Jolley said.

Jolley said he encourages students to view their education not as just receiving information, but as acquiring, comprehending and integrating a body of knowledge.

“If you understand that what you’re actually being required to do ... then writing an essay is going to look like a necessary feature of this because it is required to get you to perform the integration,” Jolley said.

Essay writing is the tool he said he uses to make students synthesize and understand the information.

“At the end on the day, what I want them to be able to do is make arguments — good arguments and be able to evaluate other people arguments as good or bad,” Jolley said.

Jolley translates this view across departments, especially biology.

Experiments are, according to Jolley, taking facts or things and putting them into relationships with other things to test how they fit together. Experiments work similarly to essays, acting as formal devices to find the proper relationships between variables, he said.

Having information is important, Jolley said, but there has to be a purpose. Bare content cannot give the information significance.

There must be something more, he said.

“What you can bring to bear on the world are these sort of interconnected claims,” Jolley said. “Students and faculty sometimes forget this because it becomes a lot easier to picture education as a matter of something like factoid retrieval or factoid dispersal.”

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Expert shares importance of posture

By ABIGAIL MURPHY Lifestyle Writer

After studying or sitting in class for a long time, it’s common to feel shoulder and back pain due to poor posture.

However, Crystal Wachtel, a soonto-be doctor at Complete Care Chiropractic, has some solutions and reasoning for this problem.

Poor posture is a common issue because of the way many of our lives are structured, Wachtel said.

“I think it’s very hard for us to keep good posture because our lives are sedentary now,” Wachtel said. “People used to be more active, and now, they are not. People are sitting all day. People are on their phones all day. People’s jobs are at computers a lot.”

When people are having to sit for long periods of time, they tend to lean down, she said. They become used to having their shoulders rolled over and their head looking down.

She cautions about people’s posture when texting, too, because often times, people are straining their neck to text on their phone, and it’s easy to forget correct posture.

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Over time, certain muscles become weaker and certain muscles get tighter, she said. Then, tension starts to build in the muscles. All making it harder to get that posture back, Wachtel said.

“When muscles are tight, they pull on the bone and, vice versa, when a bone is not moving properly it pulls on the muscle,” Wachtel said. “They work together. So, what we do is we will adjust, but also, we will do exercises but then also stretches. The whole teamwork of it all helps the best.”

When people are just sitting in place for a long time, she recommends trying to reset that posture every once in a while, to be aware of that alignment.

“If you’re studying all day, if you’re at your computer all day, I like to, at least every 30 minutes, reset,” she said. “So, re-come up, put your shoulders back.”

Proper posture is for one’s ear to be over their shoulder, shoulder in line with their hip, hip in line with their knee and knee in line with their ankle, she said. Overall, remembering to keep their head and shoulders back.

She also said if someone is in a place where they can, try to get up and just move around a little so that people ar-

en’t keeping static for long periods of time.

But remembering to have good posture is more than just resetting and movement, Wachtel said.

“It’s a combination,” she said. “It’s stretching. It’s strengthening. It’s movement.”

It’s a long-term correction process involving not just stretching or loosening the muscles, but also correcting those muscles with exercises and working on readjusting, she said.

“If you have that tension in your shoulders, which a bunch of people have, tension in their neck, it’s causing stress on your body,” Wachtel said.

“Even just making sure you maintain it, but really, you have to get those muscles stretched that are tight in tension and those muscles that are weak, stronger — in order to get that posture back, that curve back.”

There are exercises taught at chiropractic centers that can be done at home that help further with aiding in getting better posture, she said.

“When you get so hunched over, your brain thinks that’s normal,” Wachtel said. “It’s just retraining it.”

the Beauty section. This was a section in which Auburn’s most beautiful ladies were presented along with taglines such as “she’s a looker” and “cute as a button,” as seen in the 1984 edition.

According to the Glomerata, the top-20 beauty finalists were chosen on the basis of photogenity alone. They were later judged based on interviews, sportswear and evening gown competitions.

The header of the 1984 Beauty section led with “only the lucky ones” in big bold letters. This phrase was taken from a line later in the article written by Eric Gronquist where he said, “At a campus known throughout the country for its beautiful women, it seems only the lucky ones can reign.”

Gronquist’s statement held some truth if beauty is to be judged based off of how pretty one will look in a picture because whether someone is pretty or beautiful is just luck of the draw based off of cultural expectations.

The beauty section told the story of these ever-changing cultural looks as the winners across the years changed in appearance from hairspray-doused curls with poufy skirts to girls sporting perms and jeans.

The idea of beauty has evolved over the years, but many people still associate the word purely with appearances. One example of this is the expectation of slenderness and its correlation with fashion.

Having a thin, tan and fit figure seems like the ideal body most women strive for as it graces the covers of many magazines and television screens, but the concept of slenderness as the ideal body type actually didn’t emerge until the early twentieth century.

Auburn history professor Melissa Blair mentions a book called “Fasting Girls,” written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, in which this phenomenon is referenced, where exercise begins to be emphasized around the 1890s and corsets start to go out of style.

“In other words, the ideal of a narrow waist wasn’t new, but, now it was a women’s responsibility to achieve that through her own efforts,” Blair said.

Clothing became more formfitting and thinner around the 1920s, and a slender look was deemed the most attractive.

Flash forward 30 years, and it can be seen how easily expectations change.

“The 1950s certainly was a time that really glorified women’s curves, especially the breasts, and where skirts got fuller and looser again,” Blair said.

This was the era when Marilyn Monroe was at the height of her fame and a fuller curvy body was all the rave.

The history of pretty tells people one important thing, that really, anything can be.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 “High” places?

5 Flag down 9 Caller ID? 14 El __, Texas 15 Actor Idris who plays Heimdall in “Thor” films 16 Mozart wrote a lot of them 17 Dungeness delicacies 19 Omni rival 20 One reviewing challenges 22 Fish eggs 23 Brooding genre 24 One who’s got you covered 32 Pig’s sniffer 33 Weep for 34 See 27-Down 35 Sch. near the U.S.-Mexico border 36 Law school subject 37 Put on the cloud, say 38 Writer Deighton 39 “It Wasn’t All Velvet” memoirist 40 Asks 41 One seen in a Hanes catalog 44 Aromatic necklace 45 “How We Do (Party)” British singer Rita __ 46 Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are?

54 Implied 55 Chain used by many contractors 56 Courtroom pro 57 Take testimony from 58 Depend 59 “The Ant and the Grasshopper” storyteller 60 Philosophies 61 Fort SSW of Louisville DOWN 1 Shelter gp.

2 Big name in Tombstone

3 “By yesterday!”

4 Sleeps it off 5 Physician, ideally 6 Commercial word with Seltzer 7 “Oh, suuure” 8 Cut with a beam 9 Cruel 10 Papillon, e.g.

11 Deer sir 12 Dole (out) 13 Ballpark fig.

18 Influence 21 Ballpark opinions, at times 24 One-__ chance 25 Incessantly 26 “When the moon hits your eye” feeling 27 With 34-Across, Sally Field film 28 More adorable 29 Make blank 30 Piercing site, perhaps 31 Scottish center?

32 Sci-fi navigator 36 Specifically 37 Float fixer 39 Place with a bird’s-eye view

40 Went carefully (over) 42 Nickname of golfer Sergio García, who turned pro at age 19 43 Shakers’ relatives?

46 “Mom” actor Corddry 47 Treats, as a sprain

48 Surprised greeting 49 They’re not on the same page 50 Religious scholar 51 Premiere 52 Simple tie 53 Where Achilles was dipped for invincibility 54 Org. operating full-body scanners

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

By Kevin Salat ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

04/04/19

04/04/19