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President Gogue’s contract to be extended to 2020 Jim Little

Editor-in-Chief

Auburn University President Jay Gogue contract will be extended to 2020.

The University Board of Trustees voted on Friday, Sept. 25, to authorize Gogue’s contract to be extended an additional five years, and a housing allowance while the President’s Mansion undergoes renovations.

The specifics of the contract and allowance will be negotiated and approved by the board at a later meeting.

Gogue and his wife Susie moved to Auburn for

the start tenure as president on July 16, 2007. Previously, Gogue served as president of University of Houston from 2003.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Auburn in 1969 and his master’s in 1971. He earned his doctorate in 1973 from Michigan State University.

When Gogue’s first contract ended, he was paid deferred salary payments raising his annual salary in 2012 to $2.5 million, and landing Gogue on the list as the second-highest paid president for that year.

Gogue’s 2014 yearly salary was $482,200 with

an additional $9,456 as one time supplement payment, according to University records.

During his time as president, Gogue has overseen significant changes to the campus landscape with the completion of the Village residence halls, the construction of a new student center, a new basketball arena and a new recreation and wellness center.

With the changes the new changes to the campus Auburn has seen enrollment grow for the past three years.

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President Jay Gogue

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SGA President Walker Byrd speaks the State of the Student Body Address.

Jordan Hays

Managing Editor

Instead of traveling by car, boat, plane or rail, people could be traveling more than 700 mph in a near-vacuum tube: Hyperloop. It may sound like science-fiction, but students at Auburn University are designing a pod for such a tube that would cut cross-country travel time to 30 minutes.

Composed entirely of students, the Auburn University Hyperloop Team is working to meet the first pod design deadline on Oct. 30, despite not having any funding from the University for testing.

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla who is often compared to Tony Stark in terms of money and engineering know-how, released his designs for the fifth mode of transportation in 2013.

SpaceX has since called on engineers and university students to develop pods for their Hyperloop test track, which is scheduled to be completed in California by June 2016.

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SGA and UPC address the student body Kris Martins campus writer

The Student Government Association and University Program Council hosted their first State of the Student Body Address to speak about the projects and goals set for this school year.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Walker Byrd, SGA president and senior in finance, opened his address with statistics on the 2015 freshman class size and ACT

scores, the addition of over 200 international students and highlighting the $1 billion “Because This is Auburn” campaign.

Byrd spoke about one of SGA’s biggest projects of the year, the Mental Health Task Force, which SGA has initiated in the past seven months.

The task force includes student, faculty, staff, administrators and community members and will look at the education,

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health and wellness

‘Don’t Cancel that Class!’ program gives professors another option Andria Moore campus reporter

A professor canceling class is the best thing since sliced bread for most people. However, Auburn University Health Promotion and Wellness Services has started a new program offering substitute teachers.

Instead of a professor cancelling a class last minute, a representative from Health Promotion and Wellness Services will come teach the class about different issues on campus, such as drug and alcohol

abuse prevention and sexual assault awareness.

“When a faculty member can’t teach a class all of a sudden, we’ll be able to come in and use that time period with your class as an opportunity to get our message out there,” said Health Promotions and Wellness services director Eric Smith.

Smith said Don’t Cancel that Class! has been going on for about four years, but this year a new feature has increased the program’s popularity.

Green Dot, the newest feature of Don’t Cancel that Class!, was designed to bring awareness of sexual assault prevention to Auburn’s campus.

“Green Dot is specifically focused at bystander intervention,” Smith said. “We so often focus on the perpetrator or victim, but bystander looks at what the rest of us are doing.”

The main worry with a program like this was students would not appreciate losing their day off. The majority of

students, however, agreed that although having to still go to a lecture after a professor cancels isn’t ideal, it is worthwhile.

“If you’re already supposed to be in class anyway, why not spend 50 minutes hearing about things that are good for you?” said Katie Humphries, junior in public relations.

A large portion of students also agreed the addition of the Green Dot program maximizes the importance of Don’t Cancel that Class!

“Personally, I didn’t even

know Safe Harbor existed until recently, and I’m a senior,” said Kylie Stevens, senior in communications. “I feel like that’s a subject we need to be educated on.”

Smith said the issues being discussed through Don’t Cancel that Class! are issues that need to be repeated for the message to be retained.

“I’ve been told that you have to see something at least maybe four times before the message starts to sink in,” Smith said.

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Sara Messina, sophomore in French education, believes that although the program is doing a lot of good, it is also setting a double standard for students.

“If I am expected to attend class each day and have attendance taken, then I will hold my professor at the same expectation,” Messina said. “If he or she doesn’t have to be there, then the student should not

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DUI reports The following were arrested and charged with driving under the influence by the Auburn Police Division from Sept. 21-29: Sept. 22 - Michael Kevin Patilla, 44 North College Street at East Magnolia Avenue at 10:43 p.m.

Sept. 23 - Jeremy Chase Pannell, 33 East Magnolia Avenue at 10:31 p.m.

Sept. 24 - Alyssa Kate Eason, 25 North College Street at 12:25 a.m.

- Denise Lovett Krudop, 56 East University Drive at 10:46 p.m.

- Austin James Carver, 21 East Glenn Avenue at 3:22 a.m.

Sept. 26 - Xavius Charles Cordero Broomes, 20 Dekalb Street at 2:16 a.m.

- Michael Monroe Carroll, 20 West Magnolia Avenue at 2:19 a.m.

Sept. 27 - Kwashawn Jevantes Taylor, 22 Annalue Drive at East University Drive at 2:46 a.m.

A full crime report provided by the Auburn Department of Public Safety is available online at ThePlainsman.com.

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“We have a large group of freshmen this year,” Gogue said at the board meeting. “A good group, and I think that probably they’re academically the strongest group we’ve ever had.”

The increased enrollment is also a challenge for the University, according to Gogue, but a bigger challenge is the growing cost of federal compliance such as requirements for law enforcement reporting and sexual assault guidelines.

“Recent studies show that the cost of federal and state compliance is eight to ten percent of a university’s total budget,” Gogue said in his presidential assessment report. “For Auburn that translates to about $80 million to $100 million in compliance costs. When related to tuition, it means students pay about $2,500 each year as part of their tuition for compliance functions.”

Three board members, Charles McCrary, Sarah Newton and Jimmy Rane, conducted the presidential assessment which was presented to the board at the Sept. 25 meeting.

“Dr. Gogue is more than a president, he’s also a teacher,” Newton said, who presented the assessment to the Board. “He co-teaches a graduate course in higher education administration. It’s quite popular with the students.”

A digital course will be taught soon by Gogue, Newton said.

“Last but certainly not least, we would like public-

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Rehman Qureshi, aerodynamics and exterior structure team lead for the Auburn University Hyperloop Team and junior in aerospace engineering, discovered the Hyperloop competition while watching a press conference of SpaceX’s failed Falcon 9 rocket launch in June.

Musk segwayed into the Hyperloop competition and captured Qureshi’s interest while trying to deviate away from the failed launch during the conference.

“When cars first came out, everyone thought it was revolutionary,” Qureshi said. “For me, it’s more about the big picture.”

The Hyperloop competition was the buzz of the Tesla office while Addison Baitcher, co-captain of Auburn University Hyperloop Team and se-

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You know, it’s so nice to have a president like Dr. Gogue. We haven’t always had peace and harmony in the valley.”

-Charles McCrary

Board of trustees prESIDENT pro tempore

ly to thank Susie,” Newton said. “She’s the best part of you. She’s a great ambassador for Auburn.”

McCrary, who is president pro tempore of the board, motioned that Gogue’s contract be extended.

McCrary said he receives nothing but positive feedback from everyone he talks to about Gogue.

McCrary said when Gogue was hired, the Board offered to pay for a renovation of the President’s Mansion, but Gogue turned it down. But now, McCrary said, it has to be addressed.

“One thing we’ve got to do is address the housing,” McCrary said. “Now it’s gotten to where it’s almost a safety issue.”

Gogue told the Board he enjoyed being at Auburn and appreciates the support of the Board and the University community.

McCrary agreed with Gogue.

“You know, it’s so nice to have a president like Dr. Gogue,” McCrary said. “We haven’t always had peace and harmony in the valley.” nior in mechanical engineering, was interning there during the summer. Baitcher came into contact with Alexander Thompson, co-captain of Auburn University Hyperloop Team and senior in mechanical engineering, about forming a team through a professor.

While they wanted to start a team, Baitcher said he couldn’t recruit from his internship.

Qureshi contacted Baitcher and Thompson with 25 students ready to begin designing.

“At that point, we were still evaluating how feasible the project was,” Baitcher said.

“There was a lot of hesitation on both our parts. We didn’t want to sign our names on a failure. But at the same time, you have to risk a little bit to be successful.”

The team has since garnered more than 50 people, ranging from seniors to freshmen to graduate students in engineering majors.

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​SGA discusses budget decreases Claire Tully Campus Writer

Campus organization representatives attended SGA’s weekly senate to discuss their budgets and encourage members of the senate to approve their final budgets.

Each organization representative discussed the decreases that were made budgets, but all had positive statements regarding the budget cuts.

Dorothy Dickmann, student media budget representative, said student media are not upset, despite their 10 percent budget decrease.

“Overall, we took some cuts just like everybody else,” Dickmann said. “It was necessary this year, but we all have good attitudes about it. We’re still in a great place as far as what we wanna do this year.”

Amanda Hurite, UPC president, represented the University Program Committee.

UPC’s budget decreased by 22 percent, but they “fully intend to flourish,” according to Hurite.

Brett Walton, SGA treasurer, also addressed the senate to talk about the budget for the Aubie program, athletic programming, external affairs, homecoming, Up All Night and more.

Although these programs took about a 5 percent decrease in budget, they increased the funding that goes toward Up All Night, which is the SGA sponsored service that provides students with free doughnuts, orange juice and scantrons in the library and student center during finals week.

Walton said the funding increased partly because it is a way for SGA to reach students they normally wouldn’t.

“When you’re handing them a doughnut in the library, it’s a really good way to initiate conversation,” Walton said.

Once each budget had been presented to the senate, the senate voted on the

bills and all were approved.

Olivia Tofani, SGA chief of staff, also addressed the senate and asked for volunteers for this homecoming weekend to help organize the parade on Friday.

“This is probably two of our busiest weeks for SGA, so thank you guys so much for all that you do” Tofani said.

Brad Smith, SGA adviser, asked the senate to help promote the homecoming parade.

“We need you guys to be our hype crew on Friday night at the parade … we’ll be having interactions not only with your constituents, but also with the kids,” Smith said.

Other SGA news: “The good news is they’re still selling rings online … We did sell about 100 more class rings than we did last fall, so that’s a good improvement on people getting involved with traditions” Walton said.

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prevention, education and treatment of mental health. The task force will submit a list of recommendations for improvement to the University administration on better equipping the campus resources and professionals in through the Medical Clinic, Health Promotion and Wellness Services and Student Counseling Services, Byrd said.

Byrd said students should challenge themselves to interact with international students, experience other cultures, and have an inclusive and diverse mindset.

“It’s very rare that you branch out of (your) bubble,” Byrd said. “But it is those experiences where you feel uncomfortable that you grow and that you shape and that you develop as a person.

This is the Auburn we’re striving for.

This is the Auburn we’re fighting for. An Auburn that is inclusive and accepting of difference. Because we are a family, and because we are bound by a spirit that is not afraid, let’s fight against these things that separate us.”

Alexandra Barnett, UPC president and senior in marketing, also spoke at the address, explaining UPC’s role on campus.

“We are a program designed to better every student’s Auburn experience through engaging, fun and educational events that we put on throughout the campus,” Barnett said.

Barnett said they host over 60 events throughout the year with a team of 51 directors and assistant directors.

Benjamin Baker, SGA director of governmental relations, UPC director of speakers and comedians and senior in political science, spoke about inclusiveness and diversity on campus.

“I refuse to believe the notion that Auburn is a university of rejection,” Baker said. “We preach the ideals of ‘we are family.’ But it’s time to live them. Would you rather be tolerated or wholly accepted for who you are? That is what a family is. That is what the Auburn Family is to me: accepting every Auburn student as they are. I believe that SGA and UPC

Class » From 1

have to be either.”

Don’t Cancel that Class! is primarily targeted at freshman classes because they are usually larger and many of these students may not be as aware of certain issues on campus as upperclassmen are.

Last week alone, Smith said they at“We’re serious about this, we’re making real progress, we have real numbers on paper, we can see things coming together,” Baitcher said. “I want to win. That’s my goal.

That should be every team’s goal. I want to go up there and I want to compete, and I want to establish our identity as a top-tier engineering school.

That’s what we are.”

The Hyperloop team is divided into three groups to design the pod: electrical, industrial and mechanical and aerodynamics.

The pods designed for the competition will be a scaled down version of the final product. Instead of traveling 700 mph, competitors must design a pod that can travel approximately 250 mph. The pod must be less than 14 feet in length, less than 4.5 feet in in width, 3.5 feet width at its base and 3.75 feet in height. It must also weigh less than 11,000 pounds,

Ellen Jackson / photographer

Alexandra Barnett, UPC president, began the State of the Student Body by addressing what it is the University Program Council aims to achieve.

want to make that happen.”

Arturo King, SGA co-director of international student relations and sophomore in electrical and computer engineering, spoke on his experience at Auburn as an international student “We’re challenging you this year to step out of your comfort zone and approach an international student and get to know them,” King said. “I believe I can best serve this university by serving, promoting and unifying the student body.

I have made Auburn my home. And because I believe in Auburn, I know that I can count on my Auburn family to help me and SGA reach our goal this year.”

After the address, Byrd accepted questions from the audience. Attendees brought up concerns about seeing SGA actively foster diversity through partnerships with multicultural organizations.

“We have not done a good job reaching out to other organizations,” Byrd said. “This is a major issue. I apologize.”

Olivia Tofani, SGA chief of staff and senior in English language arts education, said SGA is working with organizations on campus to foster diversity.

Tofani said she has met with Black Student Union President Erica Rutledge and with Allen Sutton, director of the

Multicultural Center, to bring cultural competency to campus.

Byrd also spoke about an SGA project focused on the rising cost of textbooks.

SGA is proposing a form of freely accessible, open license documents to serve as free alternatives to textbooks, though the University hasn’t officially adopted the resources.

Byrd also said SGA senate is working on a resolution that would require each college publish where it allocates its professional fees.

SGA has also worked with the Office of the Registrar to make Tiger Scheduler, an interactive scheduler for students, which is currently available on Tigeri, according to Byrd.

Byrd also introduced the Auburn Memorial project, a project SGA has been working on for the past eight years.

Byrd said the memorial will be an accessible location for students and community members to honor members of the Auburn Family who have passed.

“Though this is a student-led initiative, it is an Auburn-focused one,” Byrd said.

The $1.25 million project has already raised $1 million dollars, according to Byrd.

tended six freshman classes as substitutes for faculty who didn’t want to cancel.

“Sometimes the classes we go into are sociology or psychology, and we can use that to fit into what we are discussing with the students,” Smith said.

Allison Lavelle, senior in communications, said as a senior she sees the benefit of the program.

“Some students will probably be an-

noyed at first, but overall it’s a great idea for a program,” Lavelle said.

Regardless of how students feel about the program, Smith said it is important to discuss issues that students often have little exposure to or awareness of.

“This is just another way to get outreach out there that may capture a student who otherwise may not hear what we have to say,” Smith said.

according to the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Rules and Regulations.

The pod must also have a braking system. The Hyperloop tube itself will provide power to accelerate the pod, so designing a propulsion system is not required or even suggested for the competition.

The Hyperloop team’s mechanical and aerodynamics teams are currently designing their pod that meets those specifications, but one that weighs approximately 8,000 pounds.

Their pod will also levitate, which isn’t a requirement for the competition, but “wheeled vehicles ... are unlikely to win prizes,” according to the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Rules and Regulations.

The Hyperloop team plans to take in air from the front of the vehicle through a compressor and force it beneath

the pod to levitate it microns above the surface of the tube, according to Thomas Serna, aero-mechanical technical division team lead and senior in mechanical engineering. The resulting effect will be like a puck on an air hockey table.

The pod will be made of aluminum, but Qureshi said he plans to speak to the polymer and fiber department about finding better materials to design the pod with.

However, there are still details left out of the competition rules and regulations, which Michael Ontiveros, aero-mechanical division co-manager and senior in mechanical engineering, said makes the competition more difficult.

“We don’t have the competition tube size or dimensions,” Ontiveros said. “We know (how small the competition tube will be), but we don’t know how big it’s going to be yet.”

Understanding the size of the tube would allow the team to maximize the air intake to power their levitation system, or know if its pod will even fit in the tube. Tube specifications are expected to be released in early October.

“There’s too many unknown factors, so we just have a target that we’re going to try and hit eventually,” Serna said.

If the team is picked to move beyond the preliminary design deadline on Oct. 30, it will organize a final design package, due on Dec. 23, and present its pod design at Texas A&M on Jan. 15-16. Thompson said he is confident the team will make it to Texas.

“I’m confident we can make it to (Texas A&M) with the crew we have now,” Thompson said. “I’m really pleased with all the people we recruited over the course of the summer and the beginning of the semester.”

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Campaigning for the crown The top five Miss Homecoming candidates discuss their platforms Callie Barganier • Senior in elementary education “Blessings in a Backpack” Nominated by Alpha Gamma Delta “‘Blessings in a Backpack’ stuffs bags of food for the weekend to send home with students enrolled in free and reduced lunch. Sometimes the only meal these children get is their hot meal at school. ‘Blessings in a Backpack’ recognizes that hunger does not take the weekend off and that the solution to this problem is right in front of us. I chose this as my platform, because as an elementary education major, I am able to see the affects of this every single day.”

Sara Bedsole • Senior in communication disorders “Sara B. for 43” Nominated by Alpha Delta Pi “Deciding on this foundation as my platform was easy for me. I was a big fan of Philip’s. I admired his character and his athletic abilities.This foundation is something that, in my opinion, deserves support from the Auburn student body. I see this week as a great way of providing an opportunity for students to get behind and recognize this foundation, as well as the chance to remember and honor Philip Lutzenkirchen.”

Katie Knell • Senior in apparel merchandising “Be the Key” Nominated by Chi Omega “My overall goal is to draw forth conversations that challenge the students to think both inwardly of their enslavement and beyond as we educate the student body of oppression at a global level, empower students to seek personal freedom and to ultimately encourage them that they too have the hope and the ability to be the key to aid in others experiencing that freedom as well.”

Tomi Obebe • Senior in exercise science “Fully Focused” Nominated by Student Recruiters “Too many family members and friends have been hurt because of something that is so preventable. It is my goal throughout campaign week to raise money for the national campaign, It Can Wait. It’s an initiative by AT&T that encourages drivers to eliminate the number one distraction in your car, your cell phone. No matter how great that sunset picture would be on Instagram or a really funny Snapchat to send to friends. No post is worth a life.”

Taylor Wesley • Senior in communications “Spread Wellness with Wesley” Nominated by SGA “This platform focuses on mental health awareness and spreading the true meaning of wellness throughout Auburn’s campus.What is so incredible about this platform is that I did not choose it only for homecoming week, but it is something that I strive for everyday. I struggled with mental health and finally overcame it by reaching out for help, and it is such an honor that I now get to share my story of recovery with the student body.“ Compiled by Claire Tully / Campus Writer

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Beat Bama Food Drive partners with Parking A ndria M oore Campus Reporter

The Beat Bama Food Drive is the biggest food drive done for the East Alabama Food Bank.

The two organizations teamed up in 1994 and have since raised over two million pounds of food.

This year, Beat Bama Food Drive decided to take it a step further by partnering with Parking Services.

“We want to encourage students to donate and get as many cans as possible,” said Sarah Perez, Beat Bama Food Drive president, “But we also want students to be aware of the poverty in our area.”

Perez said she thinks the partnership will push students to take the initiative and donate cans to the food drive.

Beat Bama Food Drive, Parking Services and the Student Government Association came up with a plan to encourage more students to donate cans.

“Students will be able to earn $2 in credit off of parking tickets for every can they bring in,” said Don Andrae, Parking Services manager. “And they can earn up to $50 in credit.”

It can be difficult to park on campus during finals week. That is why Parking Services and Beat Bama Food Drive added another intiative, according to Andrae.

“We are offering a contest to organizations,” Andrae said. “The organization that brings in the most cans will win five free Zone A parking permits.”

Andrae said the passes could be passed around from student to student.

“If you have a test Tuesday or Wednesday, you can let a friend use it Monday or Thursday,” Andrae said.

Perez said she thinks Parking Services has

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We want to encourage students to donate as many cans as possible.

But we also want students to be aware of the poverty in our area.”

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beat bama food drive president

an undeserved negative reputation.

She said she feels this initiative will help shed a more positive light on Parking Services.

“People tend to kind of think badly of Parking Services because they always give tickets,” Perez said. “But we are really grateful to them for helping us out with this.”

Andrae said if the ticket credit and free parking passes work, then the contest will definitely be continued in the future.

“We just want to show we do care about students and do want to help any way we can,” Andrae said.

The rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama helps fuel the food drive. The fear of defeat causes students on both campuses to contribute, according to Perez.

However, for her, the food drive has never been about beating Alabama.

“When I first moved here, I wanted to feel a part of this community,” Perez said. “I learned there are 25,000 food insecure people in Lee County, and I wanted to help those people and give back.”

Beat Bama Food Drive begins Oct. 5 and ends Nov. 20.

For donation drop-off information, go to www.beatbamafooddrive.com.

Emily Enfinger / Photo editor

The organization that brings the most cans will win five free Zone A parking permits to use during finals.

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Response to “Mega prize: Lotteries fund education across the south - except in Alabama” Alan Lee “So called “Education Lotteries” are nothing but a scam. As long as the Legislature controls the General Fund, as they do in most states, it will always be a zero sum game. Sure, lottery money goes to education but legislators that control the GF money can’t resist taking away money allocated for education so education funding remains the same. I’ve lived in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Floirida and it was the same in every state. Lottery money in the front door and GF education money out the back. It’s a scam!”

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The library is for studying, not socializing

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We think most people would agree the word “library” generally refers to a place containing a collection of books where people go to borrow such books, or study, due to its lack of noise.

Auburn’s library, Ralph Brown Draughon Library, commonly referred to as “RBD,” seems a little different, however.

While the concept of RBD is the same as most other libraries, it is certainly not a quiet place.

During the fall and spring semesters, not only is it difficult to secure a parking spot or find seating inside, but it is almost impossible to actually concentrate on school work due to the constant chatter and laughing.

It seems as though students go to the library to socialize, not to study.

This issue can be problematic for students who need a quiet place to study, especially those who live in dorms and may not have the option to leave campus.

If the library isn’t an option, where else are students supposed to go to find a quiet place?

While studying at home can be an option for some students, roommates can easily become a distraction.

And while many students like to take advantage of local coffee shops as study areas, unlike the library, most coffee shops aren’t

open 24 hours a day.

Further, students shouldn’t have to go off campus and purchase a pastry or drink to gain WiFi access, as some coffee shops require, just to find a place to study when there is a library on campus.

Many students take advantage of a room or study area that has been set aside by their major or department.

However, some majors do not offer this at all, and as with coffee shops, many of these places are not open 24 hours a day unless you are given access.

Organizations who require their members to complete a set amount of study hours in the library in a given time frame contribute to the problem.

Often times, members will go to the required library hours, meet up with friends and socialize.

This distracts those in the library who are actually trying to study.

Study hours are great for organizations to have.

However, instead of being held in the library, maybe these study hours should be proctored in meeting rooms in the Student Center or chapter rooms.

Also, there’s something ironic about the fourth floor of the library being a “quiet, study

floor.”

Any student visiting a university library should be expected to be quiet and studying, regardless of which floor they are seated on.

This fourth floor, quiet floor concept should be done away with completely.

We feel as though students assume that because the fourth floor is the only floor labeled a quiet study area, it is not necessary to be quiet on all other floors and areas of the library.

Instead of having a quiet floor, people should be required to remain quiet on all floors of the library.

Then, set aside one or two floors for group studying or tutoring sessions.

However, even these groups should be expected to be respectful and talk in a lower tone than they usually would.

While we have mentioned several points we feel are necessary, we understand that these changes cannot be made overnight.

Until a solution to this problem has been put into place, the very least that could be done would be for students using the library to be respectful of others.

Someone should monitor the library to make sure this is the case.

If students fail to do so, they should be held accountable.

Nicole Alana Moss “well that’s what happens when you don’t adhere to the contract you agreed to. there are no excuses. everyone knew the rules well ahead of time.”

Responses to “WHAT DO YOU THINK? What, if anything, should be done to minimize socializing in the library so students are able to concentrate better?”

Griff Shelley “Build another floor and prohibit shoes” Jennifer Mason Dailey “Required Greek life study hours should take place somewhere else.”

Ronald Alan Davis “An intimidating librarian with a stick might do the trick!”

Response to “BREAKING: Auburn Baseball Coach Sunny Golloway has been fired. More updates to follow at http://www.theplainsman.com”

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Support all members of the Auburn Family Emily Enfinger photo editor

Picture this: it’s game day.

You’re watching the game, you’re following updates on Twitter and keeping up with the latest photos on Instagram.

Then suddenly, some moron from the student newspaper posts an image of Auburn not doing so hot on a play.

Why the heck would they do that?

That definitely isn’t what you signed up for when you started following the paper, because all things Auburn should be Auburn-awesome, War Ea-

gle cheers and orange and blue rainbows.

You are an Auburn fan and this is how the Auburn universe should be.

But are you an Auburn fan or are you only an Auburn football fan?

Although we are a student media group that is supported by the University, we are not here to act as its PR. We are here to learn and become credible journalists who do their job and tell the truth.

We are not here to entertain you.

We are here to inform you of the news.

Auburn fans should take pride in the fact that there are many groups and organizations on campus that help students reach their fullest poten-

tial in their study of interest by providing opportunities to practice and learn.

They should support those students, because they are just as much of a representation of the University as any athlete.

Now picture this: a photographer at the student newspaper is covering a sports event.

He is both excited and nervous to be doing something that he has always admired.

After the event has ended and his work has been put online, he sees only negative comments.

These comments aren’t negative because he did his job wrong.

They are negative because fans aren’t happy with what happened at the game and are especially unhappy that he ac-

curately reported what happened.

Is this the “family” relationship that we boast?

By bullying another because we can’t take the hurt?

Yeah, Auburn football hasn’t been doing awesome so far this year.

This isn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last.

Be happy that we have had good seasons and that there is always the possibility that Auburn can still pick up its game.

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Saving Surfside emily enfinger / photo editor

Surfside Water Park has been abandoned since 2011, after approximately 16 years in business.

Abandoned water park purchased and maintained by Auburn resident Alex Wilkerson community writer

Surfside Water Park sat in decay for years, a grim reminder of summers past.

In the early 90s, the Auburn City Council approved plans for the construction of a water park on College Street, and in the spring of 1995, Surfside opened its doors for the first time.

For several years it remained a popular tourist destination.

However, after several bad seasons, the park

closed Sept. 15, 2011.

Some Auburn residents have opposed the park’s stagnant existence.

John Varner, Auburn resident since 1977, has voiced his opinions on Surfside in articles on AL.com and the Opelika-Auburn News.

“It’s a public nuisance, and it’s an eyesore,” Varner said.

After original owner Tom Hayley was prompted to sell the property, Tom Sparrow, owner of the Auburn RV Park, decided to purchase the

premises.

“I was tired of seeing the property in decline, and I wanted to do something about it,” Sparrow said.

With the help of his construction crew, Sparrow has worked tirelessly to keep up the property.

After building a large fence to deter vandalism, Sparrow began working on cleaning up problem areas within the park.

“The grass was about waist high before we went through and cleared everything up,” Spar-

row said.

Sparrow said he plans to redevelop the property, but he has not fully ruled out reopening the park.

“We are considering all options at this point,” Sparrow said.

Though the park has failed previously, there is still interest in it, according to Sparrow.

“We get families that drive up from Birmingham and other places dressed in bathing suits looking for Surfside,” Sparrow said.

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After weeks of heated debate, the Downtown Master Plan was approved Sept. 15 by the Auburn City Council.

The Auburn Planning Commission met Tuesday, Sept. 29, for its first work session on the implementation of the plan.

The commission was tasked with exploring regulating construction of student housing as a separate category from other residential land use construction.

The planning staff has been researching Columbia, South Carolina, as a reference for how communities home to universi-

ties regulate student housing, according to Forrest Cotten, planning director for the City of Auburn. “[Regulating purpose-built student residential housing differently] is just the way they’ve chosen to go about dealing with this issue that every college community is dealing with, has

dealt with or will deal with,” Cotten said.

Warren McCord, Auburn planning commissioner, said there have been past efforts to regulate student-oriented housing based on square footage and kitchen type.

“What that led to were some unintended consequences,”

McCord said. “We ended up with a lot of units that were no longer meeting the demands of the students.”

Several of the commissioners voiced concern that partitioning off student-oriented construction as a separate entity could lead to segregation of real estate.

“You end up stacking students into multilevel bunkhouses,” McCord said. “It can have an effect of ghettoizing the students. I think there is some advantage to having some integration between the students and the community, particularly in terms of the commercial part of the community.”

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Opelika distillery releases first legal whiskey in 100 years Jim Little

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It’s been 100 years since the last legal drop of whiskey was made in the state of Alabama.

That changed this month when John Emerald Distilling Company released the first batch of John’s Alabama Single Malt Whiskey.

“If you had a bourbon here and a Scotch here, we’re kind of in-between,” said John Sharp earlier this week in his Opelika distillery.

“It’s a style all of its own, and it’s a new style.”

John and his son Jimmy Sharp are co-owners of the distilling company named after John’s father.

“Because the future of our family was the reason for making the move on opening (the distillery) in the first place, we looked at the past of our family to name it,” Jimmy said.

“John Emerald is the first and middle name of my grandfather.”

Jimmy said the distillery was something his father and him always wanted to do, but they got caught up in their previous business, a Venetian plaster, of which they were also co-owners. The Sharp’s previous company’s primary customer was Louis Vuitton, where they spent three weeks out of four on the road working on Louis Vuitton’s North and South American stores, according to Jimmy.

“When my daughter was born, that was sort of the catalyst to go ahead and say, ‘Let’s do

this,’ because I didn’t want to be on the road so much anymore,” Jimmy said. “It’s as good a reason as any to open a distillery.”

Opening in August 2014, the Sharps started with a rum, the first rum made in Alabama, according to the Sharps, and expanded to gin.

The Sharps’ new whiskey is what John calls an “Alabama whiskey.”

“We smoke a portion of our grain with peach and pecan wood, so it does have a little bit of a smoke flavor,” John said. “But in all honesty, it’s more of a flavor binder, it’s not up front if you will.”

The whiskey is distilled like a traditional single-malt whiskey and placed in newly-charred oak barrels like a bourbon.

“American single-malt whiskeys are not very common,” Jimmy said. “It was a style that was more common pre-prohibition, but they were all small producers and have pretty much disappeared of the landscape of American whiskey. Which was one of the appeals of doing it, was to bring back an older style.”

Traditional whiskeys can take years to age, but the Sharps are using technology and small 5-gallon barrels to speed up the aging process.

“We’re using what you’d call a rapid maturation techniques,” Jimmy said. “We climate control our barrel room so that it heats and cools and simulates season changes. So each week it’s going through a year’s worth of tempera-

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John Emerald Distilling Company is located in Opelika.

ture changes.”

The temperature changes cause the barrels to expand and contract, allowing the whiskey to pick up the flavor from the barrels, according to Jimmy.

John Emerald Distillery Company’s products can be purchased at 47 Alabama Beverage Control stores and a few package stores in Georgia.

John said the state has helped them get their company up and running.

“They support local products, Alabama products,” John said.

Along with a tasting room and weekly distillery tours, the Sharps host bottling parties to crowd source the bottling process. The bottling parties consist of free hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, and a specific task is given to each of the 10 or 12 people, who were first to respond on an email list, to help bottle the whiskey.

“It’s a good fellowship,” John said. “It’s a good time.”

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The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center to host Oktoberfest 2015 Hannah Fuqua intrigue writer

The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center will host its annual event, Oktoberfest, on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 4-9 p.m.

Last year more than 1,000 people attended, and Adam Keeshan, executive assistant manager of food and beverage at the hotel, said attendance could increase this year.

“This year we expect an increase in attendance, about 1,200-1,500 people,” Keeshan said.

The event showcases beer

selections, food from Ariccia, the hotel’s in-house restaurant, and this year, German wines will be featured.

“We try to get as many local breweries as we can,” Keeshan said.

Returning local breweries for this year’s event will include Avondale Brewing Company, Back Forty Beer Company, Good People Brewing Company, Straight to Ale, Blue Pants Brewery, Bell’s Brewery and Monday Night Brewing.

Red Clay Brewing Company of Opelika will be making its premiere appearance.

It will also be hosting the Homebrew Alley competition, where the winner will work with Red Clay to brew and market their own beer.

Ariccia and Piccolo, the jazz-style lounge in the hotel, will sell the winner’s collaboration beer to the public until it runs out.

Auburn University’s brewing science program will also be displaying its beers.

Greg Sport, Auburn resident, attended the festival last year and plans to attend this year as well.

“I’d like to get into mak-

ing beer,” Sport said. “You can learn a lot from the vendors about the different styles of beer. It’s very interesting.”

Sport said he thought the event was organized and said he enjoyed the amount of vendors.

The Oktoberfest festival will have several competitions, making it interactive for guests.

A beer stein hoisting competition, where participants will hold a mug of beer for as long as they can, will be held.

And for those not participating in the libations, free designated driver tickets and passes

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Oktoberfest is held at the hotel every year.

for complimentary nonalcoholic beverages are available.

Mr. and Mrs. Oktoberfest will be named in a best-dressed costume contest.

Throughout the event, Kidd

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Golloway is headed home Auburn baseball coach fired ‘with cause’ after only two seasons Sam Butler Sports Editor

Sunny Golloway, who served as Auburn head baseball coach for the previous two seasons, was dismissed by Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs on Sunday, Sept. 27.

“I regret to announce that earlier today I dismissed Auburn head baseball coach Sunny Golloway with cause,” Jacobs said. “My commitment will always be to provide the best student-athlete experience in the nation, and we will not accept anything less.”

Greg Norton, former major leaguer and current Auburn assistant coach will be responsible for baseball operations until a new coach is hired. Golloway was fired with cause according to AuburnTigers. com, so his contract will not be paid out.

Golloway’s firing comes after only his second season on The Plains. He came to Auburn in 2013 from Oklahoma, where he reached the College World Series once in 2010, signing a five-year contract that had stipulations for extensions to his contract at Auburn that were contingent on various benchmarks of competitive success.

“My feeling is, is that (firing him) is not good timing for Auburn,” said Kendall Rogers, a national analyst for D1Baseball.com. “You better have a really good reason for (the firing), because if you don’t there could be some legal ramifications.”

Even before his time at Auburn, Golloway’s relationship with those around him at Oklahoma was constantly strained.

His own nephew, Kody Kaiser, transferred from the team Golloway was coaching in 2006, and Golloway reportedly wanted Kaiser to

stay not because of family ties, but because of his own image.

“He said to me, ‘If you leave the University of Oklahoma, how am I going to recruit to the University of Oklahoma when my own nephew doesn’t want to be here,”’ Kaiser told Newsok.com in 2006.

At Auburn, rumors were constantly being passed around regarding the treatment Golloway gave his players behind closed doors and how he butted heads with media and administration from day one.

In February of 2014, after a disappointing nonconference loss, Golloway dismissed a senior, and shortly after, two more upperclassmen left the program of their own accord.

Golloway’s lawyer, John D. Saxon, P.C., of Birmingham, sent out a press release Monday morning promising to defend Golloway’s “outrageous” firing.

Saxon declared the grounds of Golloway’s firing “pretextual,” saying “Golloway has made no mistakes. If some, who want him gone, say mistakes were made, they are the mistakes of others, who have conspired to make him the victim.”

As the legal process unfolds for Golloway and Auburn, Jacobs will begin a search for a new coach immediately. But with an Auburn program needing a stable presence at the helm, Jacobs can’t afford to strike out on his next hire.

“While Auburn is in a precarious spot because we’re in the middle of the fall, they could end up with a really good coach, potentially somebody that will mesh a little bit better with Jay Jacobs,” Rogers said. “(Firing Golloway) could either pay off, or it could be just another item to put on the list of issues with Auburn baseball over the last two decades.”

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Sunny Golloway is gone. His two years here had become a melting pot of emotions: exciting, disappointing, promising and, ultimately, wasted.

When he was hired in June 2013, a energizing jolt got sent through the veins of the Auburn program.

The Tigers had been to the NCAA Tournament just twice in the 10 years before Golloway’s hiring. John Pawlowski, the coach whose firing paved the way for Golloway, had led Auburn to the postseason one time in his five years at the helm.

Golloway had been the coach at the University of Oklahoma since 2005 and had experienced sustained success with the Sooners, reaching the College World Series in 2010, where

his squad was eliminated by the eventual champion South Carolina Gamecocks.

Jay Jacobs, ever the opportunist, saw Golloway as a way to breathe life into a baseball program that was the definition of middling, and he hired Golloway away from Oklahoma.

From the moment Golloway stepped on campus, he began implementing his style of play, which was a far cry from Pawlowski’s.

Golloway demanded top-line effort from his players at all times, and he wasn’t afraid to let people know how he felt when he wanted to say something.

His way of doing things drove a wedge between him and some of his players, and as a result some ended up leaving, if they weren’t kicked off the team outright.

Golloway dismissed senior Hunter Kelley in February 2014, and two more upperclassmen, senior Patrick Savage and junior Chase Williamson, left the

team of their own accord.

Golloway told the media the exodus of players was because of his demands as a coach, referring to the removal of players as cutting out “a cancer,” but Savage left cordially, of his own accord.

Savage was bewildered at the things Golloway could say to the media, of how he could manufacture a storyline out of thin air to make his own image look good.

In the summer of 2014, Golloway was reportedly under an internal invstigation by the Auburn athletics department. Players were unhappy with how he ran the program from the inside, and for a while it seemed like Golloway might have been fired only a year into his contract.

However, his team began performing well in 2015, eventually finishing 36-26, good for a berth in an NCAA Regional.

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Tallahassee, Golloway reeled in a top10 recruiting class.

But last week, it all went up in flames.

Jacobs axed Golloway with roughly four months until the season starts, which obviously is a less-than-optimal time to start a coaching search.

But this marriage was never going to work, and Jacobs felt it couldn’t go on any longer.

Golloway’s win-at-all-costs mentality couldn’t work in Auburn, and he can now add the Plains to the list of places he’s burned bridges.

There was a murky cloud hanging over the head of the baseball program: a coach whose ends-justify-the-means methods wouldn’t work.

Now Auburn can move forward with a clearer vision of the type of coach they want, one that wants Auburn to succeed instead of himself.

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Jacobs willing to fight for Auburn’s scholarship disadvantage Sam Butler Sports Editor

Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs recently penned an op-ed for AL.com where he described a disadvantage Auburn is faced with when it comes to providing scholarships for a large sect of players for several sports.

Equivalency sports, which are more commonly known as "Olympic sports," are not given the amount of fully funded scholarships that the larger sports are.

For example, the baseball team is only given 11.7 scholarships for the coaching staff to use.

They are free to divvy up those 11.7 however they wish, but every player on the 35-man roster will not receive a full scholarship. They can give one full scholarship to one player, divide a second between two players, divide another be-

tween three players and so on.

But what Jacobs pointed out, is other state schools possess certain academic scholarships that can be stacked on top of those 11.7 and not count toward the overall number. So, a team could give a player half of a scholarship, and he could receive the rest of his costs through a specialized scholarship unique to that school. Auburn, however, doesn't have these.

"The people we're competing against, they have equivalency scholarships, however they get them," Jacobs said. "We don't have that.

So for our equivalency sports, we've got to do something in the state."

Jacobs then described an issue that stems from that in the area of swimming and diving.

"In swimming and diving, we won 16—I guess it was—straight SEC men’s champion-

ships in swimming and diving," Jacobs said.

"That may never happen again, because we’ve gone to a third heat in swimming and diving. All of our kids, all of our students who are in the third heat, they’re all walk-ons. At other schools, they could be on some other kind of academic scholarship. So we’re not going to have— in all likelihood, if you just look at the dollar amount—we’re not going to have the same quality of the student athlete in that third heat. So to score those points, we’ve got walk-ons competing against scholarship athletes in the third heat, and common sense would tell you that we’re not going to get the same quality of walk-on as you would with a scholarship athlete."

Although Auburn is at a slight disadvantage, Jacobs refuses to lie down and accept it.

At the SEC Meetings in May, he proposed

legislation that would make those stacking academic scholarships count toward the equivalency scholarships in an attempt to level the playing field.

The proposition was shot down, but Jacobs is adamant he will continue fighting.

"I want everybody in the state of Alabama to realize that we’re at a disadvantage, a competitive disadvantage,” Jacobs said. "It doesn’t mean we’re not going to keep fighting, but also at the NCAA level, it’s not equitable across every sport, and is that fair? I’ve already started fighting that. I put forward legislation in May at the SEC meeting and it didn’t pass, but I’m going to keep fighting so everybody understands the challenges that we have, and then reasonable people can make decisions on what they think is fair for the students."

Equivalency Scholarships for Auburn Soccer: 14 scholarships for 24 players Baseball: 11.7 scholarships for 35 players Equestrian: 15 scholarships for 40 riders Men’s golf: 4.5 scholarships for 11 players Women’s golf: 6 scholarships for 9 players Gymnastics: 12 scholarships for 16 gymnasts Softball: 12 scholarships for 23 players Men’s swim/dive: 9.9 scholarships for 31 swimmers Women’s swim/dive: 14 scholarships for 25 swimmers Men’s tennis: 4.5 scholarships for 9 players Women’s tennis: 8 scholarships for 10 players Men’s track/xc: 12.6 scholarships for 31 runners Women’s track/xc: 18 scholarships for 44 runners Volleyball: 12 scholarships for 17 players Source: scholarshipstats.com

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Women’s cross country team off to a hot start

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The women’s cross country team runs during its race at Samford.

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The Auburn women’s cross country team has placed first in both of its meets so far, the first at the Furman Classic in South Carolina and the second at the Samford Tri-Meet Cross Country Opener. Last year, the Auburn women’s cross country team finished ninth at the SEC Championships, but this year the athletes are more confident than ever that they have a chance to place in the top five at the SEC Championships.

“We should be striving to be top five on both sides, men and women," said coach Mark Carroll. "On the day, if everything clicks and everyone feels good, if everyone runs their race of the season, we could be a lot higher.”

At the Furman Classic, the team had three runners — Brenda Kigen, Molly McKenna and Veronica Eder — place in the top five in the meet, including Kigen, a freshman who placed second overall out of 206 runners.

Kigen is an important addition to the team this year. In her first race of the season at Samford, Kigen placed third overall with a time of 10 minutes and 55 seconds in the 3K. Kigen was named SEC Freshman of the Week following her race at Furman.

One thing that will give Auburn an edge this year is its depth.

“On the ladies side we are deep from (runners) 8 to 9," Carroll said. "The team has more overall depth than years before and more enthusiasm. It seems like the team, both men and women, are more focused than ever before.”

Another important piece to the team is Eder. Eder started off the season by winning the Samford Tri Meet Cross Country Opener, running the 3K in 10 minutes and 52 seconds.

Eder also finished fifth at Furman just 9 sec-

onds after Kigen.

“I think that we can definitely come in the top five at SECs this year,” Eder said. “I’m confident enough to say that. I think we could definitely beat Mississippi State and Alabama depending on the day. I would love for us to make nationals ... Individually, I would love to make nationals, (and) I would like to make top 10 at regionals.”

Another integral athlete to the team this season is McKenna, a sophomore. McKenna finished second overall at Samford with a time of 10 minutes and 53 seconds in the 3K. She also finished third at Furman with a time of 21 minutes and 10 seconds in the 6K. Last year, McKenna was named to the 2014 NCAA All-South Region Team and the 2014 SEC Cross Country All-Freshman Team. McKenna has already improved from last year, most notably in her 6K time, which she has shaved 35 seconds off of from her last race.

McKenna said she knows that she is part of a special team this year.

“We have definitely grown as a team, we are more mature athletes this year, and we have a lot more confidence in ourselves this year," McKenna said. "We know that we’re good and that we could really push the envelope.”

The team’s average time at the Furman classic has improved by 29 seconds from last year, which is a huge improvement.

With the help of Kigen, Eder, McKenna and the rest of the team, the results for the SEC Championships this year are looking better than ever before.

“We are looking really strong right now," McKenna said. "I think we might surprise a lot of teams out there, I think we are in a good place right now.”

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LEFT: Alexa Filley (21) celebrates the final point in Auburn’s win over Tennessee. RIGHT: The Auburn soccer team sings its tradtional victory song after its 3-2 win over Florida on Sunday, Sept. 27.

This Week in Auburn Sports Soccer Sept. 25

This year’s Tiger duel ended in dramatic fashion Friday at the Auburn Soccer Complex with a 3-2 Auburn win over LSU in sudden death.

LSU struck first only 10 minutes into the match. Auburn’s Casie Ramsier responded in the 39th minute with an assist from Charlotte Van Ishoven.

Auburn led the match in shots at 22 while LSU managed 11. The Auburn defense held the opposing Tigers’ two power forwards and attacking midfield.

Ramsier found herself in possession once again in the 63rd minute, sending a midfield free kick to forward Taylor Troutman, who slipped the ball past LSU’s keeper Catalina Rubiano.

A foul call allowed a penalty kick for Jorian Baucom of LSU, who took advantage and won the challenge against keeper Sarah Le Beau.

The goal tied the score at two and with the remaining five minutes coming to a close, sent the match into overtime.

In the second 10-minute sudden death period, Auburn found its game winner when senior Kala Faulkner made a drive toward the box. A transition to Hannah Alspach and a bounce off the head of Ramsier gave the Tigers an SEC home opener victory.

Sept. 27

Auburn soccer capped off a weekend of adversity with a 3-2 win over the No. 9 Florida Gators Sunday at the Auburn Soccer Complex.

Following their win over No. 24 LSU on Friday, the Tigers recuperated for another dramatic match, leaving it all out on the field.

The Auburn defense put pressure on Florida from start to finish, allowing two goals, one being a penalty kick, against a team that averaged three goals per game.

Auburn rolled its momentum into the second half to strike twice within the first five minutes after a scoreless first half. Casie Ramsier recorded her third goal of the week on an aggressive run into Gator territory. Kristen Dodson kept the pressure on the Florida defense, slip-

ping one past keeper Valerie Tysinger to make the score 2-0.

A penalty kick by Florida’s Savannah Jordan found its way past Auburn keeper Sarah Le Beau, cutting the Auburn lead in half.

The Tigers regrouped after the allowed goal.

In the 72nd minute, Jordan found the back of the Auburn net once again, making the score even at two.

Ramsier came back in the 89th minute with 25 seconds left to seal the deal for the Tigers, launching Auburn to a 10-1-0 record, 3-1-0 in SEC play.

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The Auburn volleyball team opened up SEC play on Friday, Sept. 25 with a 3-1 win against Tennessee. Courtney Crable led the Tigers with 16 kills, and three other Auburn players reached double digit kills: Brenna Barksdale, Brenna McIlroy and Emily Klitzke.

The first set was a fairly easy win for the

Tigers, which they took 25-16. The second set, the only one Auburn lost, was interesting.

It was a back and forth battle that eventually ended with the Volunteers on top 32-30. Despite the loss of that set, Crable felt the Tigers used it to their advantage.

During the second set, the 6-foot-2 sophomore Macy Reece came in off the bench and proved to be a great force for the Tigers. She came in and registered three straight kills to bring the Tigers back.

Alexa Filley led the team in assists, finishing with 46, while sophomore Jesse Earl led the team with 26 digs.

The Tigers ran away with the game in the fourth set, taking an early lead they never gave up. Auburn was able to absorb several flurries from Tennessee but still stayed strong against a Volunteer team that came into the Plains on a win streak and was looking to knock off the Tigers.

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Gaga sheds light on sexual assault with song

Amanda Myles Intrigue Writer

Lady Gaga released her new song, “Till It Happens To You,” on Friday, Sept. 18.

The song was written for “The Hunting Ground,” a 2015 documentary about campus rape and deals with sexual assault, specifically on college campuses.

The music video portrays many scenes of violence against women such as being assaulted by someone you know, being assaulted at a party and being assaulted because of sexual orientation.

Through Gaga’s lyrics, listeners are asked to try to understand the pain the victims are forced to go through.

Gaga sings, “Till your world burns and crashes/ Till you’re at the end, the end of your rope/ Till you’re standing in my shoes/ I don’t wanna hear a thing from you, from you, from you/ Cause you don’t know/ Till it happens to you, you won’t know how I feel.”

Tyler Jennings, in college for his second degree in agronomy and soils in the production option, said he thinks sexual assault can never be justified.

“I’m sure it’s pretty high on all campuses,” Jennings said. “It’s a traumatic experience, and people need to have help so it doesn’t push them further down a path that they don’t want to be. It’s very degrading.”

Alex Dobbins, freshman in undeclared

sciences and mathematics, said he believes the music video is impactful in bringing attention to sexual assault.

“I think sexual assault is an issue because it happens, and a lot of times it isn’t reported,” Dobbins said. “It’s really important that people are aware that it actually does happen.”

A portion of the sales of the music video will be donated to organizations that help sexual assault victims.

Ashton Wells, freshman in social work, said she thinks this donation could help victims.

“I think that’s really good, so they can help the victims and do research and just pretty much fight against it,” Wells said.

The Association of American Universities published a new study Monday, Sept. 21, stating 23 percent of female undergraduate students and five percent of male undergraduate students have reported experiencing sexual assault since enrolling in college.

This statistic came from a survey of more than 150,000 students from 27 universities and supports the 2007 National Institute of Justice’s study.

The 2007 study states one in five women is sexually assaulted during her time in college.

“Till It Happens To You” brings to light many of the problems of sexual assault across college campuses.

Lady Gaga gives attention to sexual assault through her music video.

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Lady Gaga’s music video warns viewers of graphic content reflecting sexual assault on college campuses.

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GoGreekNow is a free networking app allowing fraternity and sorority chapters to connect nationally.

GoGreekNow strives to connect Greeks nationally Emily Esleck Intrigue Editor

GoGreekNow, an app founded by Sigma Chi fraternity brothers from Iowa State University, strives to be an “all-encompassing, one-stop shop” for Greek life across the country, according to co-founder Mark Hagen.

Hagen and Nick Scott, who were roommates and good friends in college, began developing GoGreekNow in fall 2014 and officially launched the app in April 2015.

Living in different cities after college, Scott said he and Hagen kept in touch. They began talking and realized there wasn’t a central hub for all things Greek — a way to locate members, get the latest news and share experiences or memories with fellow members.

Scott, who works with design, production and marketing for GoGreekNow, said he wanted to enhance the Greek experience.

“It’s a lot more than a friendship,” Scott said. “It’s an understanding and a bond that I think all Greek people tend to have, and that’s kind of why I hold it

pretty close.”

Hagen and Scott said they kept finding outdated fraternity and sorority chapter websites, which made finding members hard, so they created the app.

“We would get in contact with people who would say, ‘Yeah, that would be great, but I graduated two years ago,’” Hagen said. “And it just kind of seemed like a headache.”

Hagen said they wanted to create a place where fraternities and sororities could promote what they were doing and even connect different chapters across the U.S. GoGreekNow has campus ambassadors on 45 college campuses such as schools in the SEC, the Big 10 and the PAC 12, according to Hagen.

The app has a nationwide photo and video stream and a section of Greek-related columns written by 40 staff writers, according to Hagen and Scott.

Scott said columns range from serious topics such as hazing to lighthearted topics such as “Top 10 Ways Recruitment is like ‘The Hunger Games.’”

GoGreekNow has a news

section, which features media related to any fraternity or sorority in the country.

Additionally, there is a user section where other members can be searched.

To register for the free app, an educational (.edu) email address is required. It can be downloaded through iTunes or Google Play.

Emily Browning, junior in nursing and president of Alpha Xi Delta at Auburn, said Auburn’s chapter of Alpha Xi Delta hasn’t planned events with other chapters at other colleges, because they are still growing nationally.

However, she said if a sorority or fraternity had the option to work with other chapters, the app could be a great way to connect with other campuses Browning said she thinks it is important to know about national Greek news, however she said it needs to be positive.

“I feel like the media sometimes they only focus on the negative parts of Greek life, and Greek life has a lot more to offer than what the media portrays it as,” Browning said.

Twenty years ago, Taylor Hicks was entertaining locals at the War Eagle Supper Club in Auburn.

Only a handful of people knew his name, and he was just beginning to embark on his solo career in music.

A few years later, Hicks became the season five winner of the hit TV show, “American Idol.”

Although winning “American Idol” was a major point in Hicks’ career, it was also the launching pad that has given Hicks the opportunity to do more.

After winning “American Idol” in 2006, Taylor Hicks has been busy.

He has released two records, written a book, made a cameo in a TV show and even headlined his own show in Las Vegas for two years at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.

“The first four months that I was in Vegas felt like the first four months that I was in Auburn,” Hicks said. “Everything was crazy and fun, and you got to go out all the time. We definitely had some ‘Hangover’like movie moments during my time there.”

Hicks said he was blessed to be an entertainer and have a headlining show in Vegas.

“There is so much history in Las Vegas, and part of that history includes me having a headlining show there and that is pretty amazing,” Hicks said.

Hicks finished his show in Las Vegas in

March 2014.

Other than his Vegas show, Hicks has dabbled in other areas of entertainment as well.

Hicks said he credits “American Idol” for catapulting him into different activities other than creating music.

“Obviously winning ‘American Idol’ was a really big moment in my musical career, and it allowed me to be able to branch out into other forms of entertainment, not just music,” Hicks said. “There has been Broadway and some acting stuff with ‘Law and Order SVU,’ and I was able to write a book, so there were a lot of things that ‘American Idol’ and that platform led me to do.”

Hicks released his autobiography, “Heart Full of Soul: An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way,” in 2007.

He also performed as Teen Angel in the Broadway show, “Grease” in 2008.

In 2009, Hicks released his album “The Distance” and returned to the “American Idol” stage to perform his hit single “Seven Mile Breakdown.”

Hicks’ most recent performance was in Auburn Friday night, Sept. 25, at Bourbon Street Bar. Hicks played with his old college band, Passing Through.

Recently, Hicks has been spending time in Nashville, Tennessee, recording his new album, which will be released in Spring 2016.

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Taylor Hicks performs with his college band, Passing Through, on Friday, Sept. 25 at Bourbon Street Bar.

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An Indian SummerNight to bring music, merchandise and culture downtown Anne Dawson

Community Reporter

Downtown Auburn is holding An Indian SummerNight on Friday, Oct. 2, hosted by Auburn Arts Association, City of Auburn, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center and Auburn Downtown Merchants Association.

Sara Hand Custer, cultural arts director for the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center in the City of Auburn Parks and Recreation, said the event, SummerNight, has been held in June for the last eight

years.

However, Custer said it couldn’t happen this summer because of construction at Toomer’s Corner.

Custer said since the event is being held in October, they decided to call it an Indian SummerNight.

This refers to the expression Indian summer, which means an unseasonably warm autumn.

“We had to get a little creative with the name,” Custer said.

As a sample, A Pop Up SummerNight was held in June.

The event was held in the Gay Street parking lot and was a huge success.

The Indian SummerNight, which is free to the public, invites artists, chefs and merchants to share their talents with the community.

Merchants and musicians will stay active after hours to give the crowd plenty of time to walk around and shop.

Cari Cleckler, art education specialist for the City of Auburn, said in addition to art and shopping, An Indian SummerNight will be hosting

a barbecue sauce contest and cornbread cook-off.

There will also be barbecue plates sold by the Prewett Insurance Group’s barbecue team, You’re In Good Hams, with all proceeds going to the Auburn Art Association.

Entertainment will be provided by The Bama Gamblers, who Cleckler said is a great group to get the crowd fired up and having a good time.

“We want the City of Auburn to come out and enjoy art, music, shopping and food together,” Clecker said.

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Pottery from the art walk held in June sits on display.

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The Auburn University Marching Band has about 380 members.

The band runs out of the tunnel for the pregame show.

The Auburn University Marching Band creates drill formations for themed shows Amanda Myles intrigue writer

The Auburn University Marching Band provides a traditional Auburn game day experience with entertaining shows for fans to enjoy along with the game.

The AUMB requires planning and countless hours of practice to create a successful show.

Corey Spurlin, associate director of bands, marching band director and associate professor of music, works in-season and off-season to create and design the band’s elaborate shows.

“We have brainstorming sessions usually in February where we’ll come up with the show and concepts, and we pick the music first,” Spurlin said. “We try to offer as much variety to the fans because we have people of a lot of different ages in the 86,000 people that are in there and lots of different musical tastes. So we try to make sure we’re offering something for everybody with what we put on the field between the different shows that we do.”

Once the themes and music are selected for the shows, Spurlin said he focuses on the visual components such as formations, movements of the band and incorporation of flags.

A computer program is used to chart field formation positions and prints a series of charts of specific pages which are given to the members for practice.

“During the course of practice, it takes a lot of repetition to make that muscle memory to figure out exactly how to get from one position to the next,” Spurlin said.

Spurlin said he likes to include anniversarythemed shows.

For the Georgia game, they will have a “Back to the Future” show since October 2015 is the

30-year anniversary of the characters in the movie traveling to the future.

The show for the Idaho game will have a military appreciation theme.

Spurlin said he believes the AUMB is special for many reasons.

“Precision is one of the things the military prides itself on, and marching bands have that kind of military tradition, so the precision part of our band is something that we really work toward,” Spurlin said. “There have been a number of other bands that have tried to model the jog entrance that we do out of the tunnel. And all the spell outs we do are pretty challenging.

For our halftime show, with the variety of different types of stuff that we do and what we try to bring in terms of entertainment value along with the precision, hopefully the fans appreciate it.”

Spurlin commends the work ethic of his students, which he said is needed to achieve the band’s level of precision.

Elijah Clark, senior in music education with an instrumental and vocal concentration, plays the tuba.

He was a section leader last year and is a freshman adviser this year.

Clark said the four goals members try to follow are performance, ambassadorship, spirit and enjoyment.

“We always want to perform at a high level,” Clark said. “We always want to be great ambassadors for our University because we’re wearing the colors, and we feel like we’re carrying on the tradition of many, many years. We want to have great spirit and keep the spirit of JordanHare alive and electric. And then after all that, we want to enjoy our experience in the band.”

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He also said he loves performing pregame.

“Marching out of the tunnel for pregame is one of the greatest things in the entire world; there’s no way to share the feeling that you get,” Clark said.

Hannah Duraski, sophomore in music education, instrumental and vocal combined, is an assistant drum major.

“We are a really dedicated group of students,” Duraski said. “You don’t find a lot of people like band kids just anywhere on campus.

We kind of live out the Auburn Creed.”

Duraski said her favorite moment of marching band is when they sing the Alma Mater after game day rehearsal.

“It’s one of those traditions that we’ve been doing forever, and it’s really powerful,” Duraski said.

For the San Jose State game Saturday, Oct. 3, the band will focus on homecoming and its alumni band show.

“This week is a very special week for us because … anyone who’s been in band in the past comes and joins us on the field,” Duraski said.

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