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Opelika police chief says shooting was justified, family disagrees Maria McIlwain Community Editor

An Opelika police officer shot and killed a man after a low-speed car chase and a struggle Saturday, Oct. 31.

A police officer, identified as Jared Greer, a three and a half year veteran, was attempting to pull over Bennie Lee Tignor, 56, who was driv-

ing a 2003 Ford Explorer late Saturday, according to John McEachern III, Opelika chief of police.

Greer was not injured in the incident and has been put on administrative leave.

Greer first spotted Tignor, who was AfricanAmerican, driving east on Williamson Avenue and followed him, according to McEachern.

They continued onto Marvyn Parkway. Greer attempted to stop Tignor while they were driving on Crawford Road by turning on his lights and siren.

When Tignor refused to pull over, a short chase ensued. The chase ended at the 400 block of Comanchee Drive, where Tignor stopped at his residence. According to McEachern, the

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The shooting occurred at approximately 11:50 p.m., after an altercation, according to McEachern. Greer and Tignor were approximately 10-15 feet away when the shooting occurred.

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Contributed by Jamie Cambron

Aubie tinkers with a CubeSat, a type of miniature satellite being built and tested by the Auburn Student Space Program.

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Casie Ramsier (24) of Auburn leads the team to victory scoring both goals for her team.

Tigers secure one of best starts in program history Emily Shoffit Sports Reporter

The 2015 Auburn soccer team has spent the year defying the odds. Beginning the program’s third rebuilding season, the Tigers started their journey hungry to advance into the postseason with four seniors, two captains and a hefty crop of 11 freshmen.

Now, Auburn sits at 14-4-0, the second best regular-season in program history.

It didn’t take long for the Tigers to realize what they had, both offensively and defensively, was going to take them places. Snagging their first two wins on the West Coast against UC Irvine and Long Beach State in shut out form, Auburn quickly advanced to 2-0-0, something that hadn’t been done since 2012.

The Tigers moved on to defeat UAB at home to advance to 3-0-0, another program record that hadn’t been achieved since 2006. The Tigers lost one of their seniors, Haley Gerken, to injury that day, reducing the senior class to three. They also lost freshman Abby Meadows to injury, a low blow to the team.

That wasn’t the breaking point for Auburn. Before long, the Tigers were sitting at a 6-0-0 start, climbing to the No. 9 spot in national rankings.

Auburn now had to march into SEC play. Undefeated at home, Auburn took their momentum to Missouri to open SEC play, only to fall 2-1 in Columbia. Missouri ended a 500-plus minute shutout

streak for Auburn. Even with the loss, the 6-1-0 record was still one of the best in program history, the last being in 2002.

The loss didn’t phase the Tigers.

“It doesn’t bring us down, we learn from it and get better, and that was the goal,” said head coach Karen Hoppa. That’s what Auburn did.

Off the field, the Tigers strength and condition coach Megan Young was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The team took it to heart and decided to make their motto of the season #MeguhStrong and put everything into representing their assistant coach on the field.

The Tigers didn’t allow another loss for another five games. Making strides to keep a winning record, Auburn had a dramatic last-minute goal making win over No. 9 Florida, one of the top programs in the country. The Tigers even defeated Alabama in the Iron Bowl of soccer for the seniors to remain a perfect 4-0-0 against the Tide during their time on the plains.

The Missouri loss had dropped the Tigers in the rankings, but they quickly advanced to No. 8 and held a record of 11-1-0.

“This team just finds a way,” Hoppa said.

Another tough road match against a South Carolina team on an 11-game win streak gave Auburn their second loss of the season. The final five matches of the season were up and down for the team.

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Students receive grant to build satellites Rachel Sprouse Campus Reporter

The Auburn Student Space Program has received a grant for $894,000 from the National Science Foundation to design, build and test two CubeSat, a type of miniature satellite.

The idea began when J-M Wersinger, director of the Auburn University Student Space Program, was working with Michael Briggs, assistant director and principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

Wersinger said they had been talking about doing joint work on CubeSat satellites, which are miniature satellites for space research, because Briggs had been doing work on a big satellite at UAH. Briggs saw gamma rays, which have the most energy of all the waves on the electromagnetic spectrum, coming from Earth in the gammaray observatory at UAH, according to Wersinger. Gamma rays can kill living cells, which is why they are used

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for medical purposes to kill cancer cells, according to NASA. Rather than have one satellite, using multiple CubeSat satellites will give more than one point to make a measurement, according to Wersinger.

Wersinger said the idea is to use these CubeSat satellites to track the gamma rays coming from Earth “because they’re much cheaper, you can build them much faster.

You can have students build them, and they use the latest technology.”

Briggs and Wersinger submitted a proposal for the grant, but realized they had an issue with the data, according to Wersinger. So they reached out to Mike Fogle, assistant professor for the Auburn University physics department, who “came in and resolved it,” Wersinger said.

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DUI reports The following were arrested and charged with driving under the influence by the Auburn Police Division from Oct. 27- Nov. 2: Oct. 29 - Terry Wayne Carr, 46 East University Drive and Shelton Mill Road at 1:41 a.m.

Oct. 30 - Lauren Lee DeLuca, 19 Opelika Road at 2 a.m.

Nov. 1 -Kylie Kathleen Noles, 23 West Glenn Avenue at 2:15 a.m.

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

–Reports provided by the Auburn Department of Public Safety

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They nearly stayed undefeated at home before dropping their final match to Georgia, but then closed out the season with a huge win against Mississippi State to press on into the postseason.

“It’s all a credit to the team and their character,” said Hoppa. “It’s been a

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cost-effective,” Fogle said.

“It’s easier to get the latest technology in orbit, and your coverage is much greater.”

The CubeSat satellites take approximately 90 minutes to make a complete orbit around the Earth, according to Wersinger. They can be accessed almost anywhere depending on their orbit around the Earth, according to Fogle.

“With CubeSats, we can build many of them, hundreds [of them], and cover Earth,” Fogle said. “It’s about the cost of one big satellite. And so you distribute them everywhere on Earth and you basically could look at many places at Earth simultaneously and then track them around.”

CubeSats have multiple advantages, like the ability to “collect sunlight to make electricity” from solar panels they deploy or the ability to “move the satellite around in orbit” by using attitude determination controls, according to Fogle.

CubeSats typically come in sizes of 1U, or 10 centimeters on one side, but the size of the satellites Auburn students will work with are 6U, according to Fogle.

“It’ll be about the size of a shoebox,” Fogle said. “OK, it’ll be a heavy shoebox.

[It will] probably be somewhere between 10 and 12 kilograms.”

While not part of the project, Fogle said he hopes to work on a hyperspectral sensor for the CubeSats in the fu-

great foundation, and we’re excited to take everything we’ve learned and go into postseason.”

The Tigers will have their chance at redemption against South Carolina in the second-round of the SEC Tournament Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. CST. Because this edition is printed before the game takes place, be sure to follow along on ThePlainsman.com ture.

“It’s not a part of this mission that we’re funded to do,” Fogle said. “But we’re always looking to build the program.”

A hyperspectral sensor collects images of a scene “in tens to hundreds of narrow spectral bands nearly simultaneously,” according to the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

“The idea we had was you could put a camera [on the satellite] ... but you can’t really tell a lot of what’s going on with just red, green, blue wavelengths,” Fogle said.

“What if instead of three, we had 100 wavelengths? And we could see from the UV [Ultraviolet] all the way up to the IR [Infrared]?”

With this technology, students will be able to “start to see things that you couldn’t see with the eye” from space, like the difference “between Astroturf and regular turf on a football field,” according to Fogle. Companies could use the technology to see if an oil spill occurred in a region that had oil platforms, according to Fogle.

Once the CubeSats “engineering model,” or the test model that stays on the ground, has gone through several tests to find the “weak spots,” two flight models will be built and then submitted to a launch service provider like NASA, according to Wersinger.

“We [will] send it to the launch service provider, [and] they put it in a rocket,” Wersinger said. “And then you pray.”

Senate considers changing election laws Chip Brownlee

Community Writer

At-large senators proposed changes to the makeup of the qualification panels that select the candidates for Miss Homecoming and Miss Auburn at the Monday, Nov. 1, SGA senate meeting.

The preliminary qualifications panel, which is made up mostly of students, will now have a faculty member on the panel if the senators’ bill is approved.

The current elections adviser will take the place of a student appointed by the student government president.

“We felt like it would be a good idea to have that perspective in the first interview,” said Hunter Gibson, at-large senator. “So, to have a good variety in that first round of interviews we’re adding in the elections adviser.”

Gibson proposed the second of four amendment proposals to the election law.

"A couple of the big things would be modernizing it, adding in the way that declarations of intent and nominations for Miss Auburn and Miss Homecoming are delivered," Gibson said.

Declarations of intent and nomination forms will no longer be hand delivered, but submitted online via AUInvolve.

The proposal would also prohibit candidates in student body elections to verbally endorse other candidates.

"If a presidential candidate said 'Hey, you should also vote for Justin Mathews for vice president,' that would be considered a verbal endorsement and also

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“At some point during the struggle, Mr. Tignor brandished a small-caliber pistol,” McEachern said during a press conference Monday, Nov. 2. “Officer Greer, fearing for his safety, drew his department-issued weapon and fired multiple rounds at Mr. Tignor.”

OPD officers are equipped with a 40-caliber Sig Sauer semi-autimoatic pistol. McEachern did not comment on the gun Tignor had or whether it was loaded.

“The issue presented in this case is whether, at the instant Officer Greer fired his shots that caused the death of Mr. Tignor, he reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death from the actions of Mr. Tignor,” McEachern said.

“Based on preliminary review of the facts of this case, I believe the actions of Officer Greer were clearly justified under Alabama law.”

Tignor was transported to the East Alabama Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:32 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1, according to McEachern.

Tignor had an arrest history dating back to 1976, according to McEachern, including assault, DUI and menacing.

forming a party," Gibson said.

Major candidates for student body positions, including president, vicepresident, treasurer, Miss Homecoming and Miss Auburn, do not have the right to form parties. The proposal is intended to prevent unofficial parties.

Gibson said most of the other changes to the election law concerned wording, typos and readability.

"This is election law; this is what governs who gets elected and how they get elected," said Justin Mathews, SGA vice president. "So, please take a lot of time this week to form an opinion on this."

The senate approved another bill on Monday evening that will allow transfer students to interview for cabinet positions. Prior to the bill's approval, students had to be enrolled for at least one semester before interviewing for a position.

"The reasoning is to allow students who may have certain skills, who would really be a good addition to cabinet, to at least apply for cabinet," said Drake Pooley, business senator. Pooley went on to say that it will remain the responsibility of those interviewing to ensure that the applicant is qualified and knowledgeable about the position.

The senate also approved the allocation of senate seats for next year. The senate will remain at 34 seats. There were no verbal nays.

Pooley and Meredith Smith, liberal arts senator, discussed an idea earlier

McEachern said there is dash-cam video of the incident, but it’s up to the State Bureau of Investigation to decide if it will be released.

Bernard Tignor, brother of Bennie Lee Tignor, said his brother did not own a gun and had not owned one for five years.

“Someone’s got to look into this more deeper, and that’s what we intend to do,” Bernard said.

Bernard said Bennie Lee and Greer got into a fight, and Bennie Lee overpowered Greer.

“An individual who was on the scene has video on her camera of what happened,” Bernard said.

Bernard said he could not share the video, but said a neighbor recorded it and he saw it on Sunday, Nov. 1. He said his family is “persuing this issue” with an attorney but had not given the video to them.

“He and the officer was involved in a fight,” Bernard said. “He got the best of the officer, and the officer shot him. And I don’t understand why you would have to shoot him multiple times.”

The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting an independent investigation. According to McEachern, all findings will be handed over to Lee County District Attorney Robbie Treese, who will present it to a grand jury.

International

Emily Enfinger / photo editor

The International Student Organization held its 13th annual International Peace Dinner Wednesday, Oct. 28, bringing students and the Auburn community together for a night of cultural harmony.The event began at 6 p.m. in the Student Center ballroom and within the first hour more than 1,050 people attended.

Attendants could sample entrees from Iran, Bangladesh,Turkey, China, Africa, India, Nepal, Latin America and Korea, as well as a variety of desserts. Some of the dishes served were fried plantains from Africa, mutton curry with chili from Bangladesh, suyuk from Korea, and adas polo from Iran.

this semester that would have expanded the senate from 34 seats to 50. The bill approved at Monday's meeting does not contain any expansion.

An amendment to the code of laws was approved that will reduce the frequency of Schools Council meetings from bimonthly to monthly.

The at-large senators' first amendment to the code of laws that is intended to modernize the rules that govern elections by the student body was also approved Monday. The change to the election law made is most likely the first of several to come.

Brad Smith, SGA adviser, reminded the senate about the Green Dot Program.

"Being a green dot bystander is really easy," Smith said. "It can be as simple a posting a profile picture or one tweet that you don't stand for sexual assault."

The Green Dot Program is intended to reduce sexual assault and violence on university campuses.

"I just encourage you guys to continue to think of ways that you can commit to being a green dot bystander on this campus so that the people that come into our community know that we don't tolerate those types of things here and that those things are on us," Smith said.

"It takes those situations where the focus is usually on the individuals affected directly by it and instead places the focus on the people that are right outside the situation, the bystander, who should really be in the situation."

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Auburn expands its family tree

The University hired its first arborist, Alexander Hedgepath Kris Martins Campus Writer

Alexander Hedgepath called it “gnarly,” but most people would have just called it another tree in front of the library.

But Hedgepath, recently named the University’s first arborist, spends his days devoted to the approximate 7,300 trunks and canopies on Auburn’s campus.

A 2012 Auburn alumnus in forestry, Hedgepath first worked with plants when he was 18 after taking a job at a landscaping company owned by a friend in Fairhope.

But it wasn’t until he worked at the Fairhope nursery Preast’s Petals & Pottery that he first started looking up into the branches of trees.

Hedgepath said the nursery’s owner, Jim Preast, sparked a lasting interest of plants in him.

“He had a true love for plants that ricocheted everywhere,” Hedgepath said. “I just kind of fed off his interests and learned a lot from Jim.” However, geographical locations rather than relationships have been the biggest influencers for his interest in trees, Hedgepath said.

The Sipsey Wilderness in the Bankhead National Forest, Disney World and Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, are among some of the places that inspired his interest for landscaping and trees.

As the University arborist, Hedgepath runs risk assessments on trees by studying the relationship between trees and their surroundings, such as sidewalks, buildings and roads.

If a tree shows signs of risk, such as weak or dead limbs that threaten a building or other structures, he will recommend the appropriate action to take, such as pruning the tree.

He also keeps a campus-wide tree inventory, which includes identifying major trees on campus and collecting information about the campus’s urban forestry, according to Steven Johnston, superintendent of Facilities Management

Landscape Services.

“It helps us determine the various ecosystem services that trees may do, like carbon storage, air pollution removal,” Johnston said. “We’re in the infant stages of our tree inventory and tree care, and Alex has already hit the ground running and has done a lot in the past month or so that he’s been here.”

The inventory will also provide architects and engineers with up-to-date locations of campus trees as they prepare new projects.

In the future, Hedgepath will contribute to the landscape planning process, reviewing blueprints and designs to recommend the best tree species to plant, the appropriate spacing for planting and to determine which trees can and cannot be protected when constructing new buildings or structures.

Hedgepath said he will be involved in the preliminary steps of development, whereas in the past, the fate of trees was usually addressed after the planning stage.

“It’s all from the get-go,” Hedgepath said.

“Everybody’s included, everybody’s involved so that we can make the right decision based on Auburn’s objective and based on the needs of the campus.”

Hedgepath will also visit construction sites during development to ensure tree protection, which includes fencing around trees to prevent physical harm from heavy equipment on site, according to Johnston.

Though the University’s Tree Preservation Committee assists with Facilities Management plans on campus and has previously managed campus tree protection, with over 600 acres of managed core campus, the University needed someone specifically dedicated to caring for trees, according to Gary Keever, professor in horticulture and member of the Tree Preservation Committee.

“It takes someone devoted, or responsible, in a position where their sole purpose is tak-

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Alexander Hedgepath, university arborist, observes the branch of a tree on Auburn’s campus.

ing care of our campus trees,” Keever said. “We can’t provide that. It takes that pair of eyes there on a daily basis to really provide the minimum level of care that we need.”

Keever said he’s seen the University’s focus on tree protection increase in the past five years.

“I think with the poisoning of the Toomer’s Oaks in the fall of the 2010 Iron Bowl, the higher administration as well as the community as a whole recognizes the importance of our campus trees, much more so than before,” Keever said.

Ever since the Oaks’ poisoning, decisions about the fate of a tree on campus must go through the Tree Preservation Committee for

approval, according to Hedgepath.

“I love that that system is in place, because that means that nothing is going to happen to a tree on campus that not everybody is aware of or agrees on it,” Hedgepath said.

Hedgepath worked for the city of Fairhope for three years before returning to Auburn.

“We’re going to take the best of what he learned in the classroom, take advantage of what he learned with the city of Fairhope and apply that to our campus,” Keever said. “And I think that in doing so, he’s going to become a valuable asset in the long-term management of our campus trees.”

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Claire Tully Campus Writer

Walker Byrd, SGA president, recently discussed the developments that are taking place with the Task Force on Student Mental Health on campus to address mental illness at Auburn.

This comes shortly after Branch Acton, senior in social work, wrote to The Plainsman about how he thinks Auburn needs more mental health counselors.

Byrd agreed in his response to the letter, and is now providing information about the task force and what it is looking to do to better the University’s mental illness resources.

Byrd said force’s goal is to have the data collection complete by early December, before Christmas Break.

“We initiated the task force back in August,” Byrd said.

“There’s 37 members all across campus: students, faculty, staff, administrators. We’re kind of at the halfway point right now.”

Byrd said they want to identify what long-term needs students will have.

One way the task force is doing this is by having four subcommittees: program assessment, focus groups, faculty education and community-based groups.

“First is program assessment,” Byrd said. “So, that’s taking the programs that are currently available on this campus and assessing the service to the students.”

Byrd said this subcommittee will also assess costs of resources.

The next subcommittee, focus groups, will be responsible for collecting data about mental illness in Auburn and getting feedback, according to Byrd.

Faculty education is the third subcommittee.

“This basically tackles the question, ‘How can we better equip faculty to tackle some of these issues?’” Byrd said.

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“Especially because they are on the front lines, and they can be the ones to notice or identify an issue in the students.”

The fourth subcommittee, community-based groups, will look at the external resources that can be reached off campus.

“This ranges from medical providers to face-to-face communication and where can students go off campus to seek help,” Byrd said.

Byrd also mentioned survey, which is not a subcommittee, but a part of the task force’s process now so that the group can identify issues and form statistics.

In its current preliminary findings, the task force found some causes of mental illness or stress for college students.

“Academics are one of the leading factors,” Byrd said.

The task force's preliminary findings also indicate that anxiety, depression, suicide, academic failures, lack of communication of resources and fear of failure are key areas of concern.

Although the group is only at the halfway point in this project, Byrd said he is happy with what it's been able to do so far.

“It’s been really awesome, and we’ve made a lot of progress,” Byrd said.

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$5 million donation will go to Broun Hall renovations Campus Editor

Dorothy Davidson, chair and CEO of Huntsville’s Davidson Technologies, made a $5 million gift to Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. The donation will go toward the renovation of Broun Hall, the electrical engineering building.

The gift honors her late husband Julian Davidson, a 1950 electrical engineering graduate and defense industry pioneer.

The Davidsons co-founded Davidson Technologies, a company that provides innovative engineering, technical,

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and management solutions for the defense and aerospace industries, in 1996.

“Julian would agree that the renovation of Broun Hall will provide an environment that will inspire the next generation of engineers through spaces that are conducive to study and collaboration,” Davidson said in a University

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This basically tackles the question, ‘How can we better equip faculty to tackle some of these issues?’ Especially because they are on the front lines, and they can be the ones to notice or identify an issue in the students.”

31 percent of college students have felt depressed, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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Austin Phillips, communications specialist for the College of Engineering, said the college plans to use the donation to renovate the areas of Broun Hall that are most frequented by students. The changes will modernize the building, Phillips said.

“We want to open it up,”

Phillips said. “The appearance of the building is going to be dramatically different.”

D avids on announc ed the gift at a recent event in Huntsville related to “Because This is Auburn,” the University’s campaign to raise $1 billion. To date, the University has raised $855 million, or 85.5 percent of its goal.

“Our vision is to be the best student-centered engineering experience in America,” Phillips said. “We believe gifts from alumni are really helping elevate this college to be one of the elite engineering programs in the nation.”

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Miss Panhellenic pageant winner Caroline Pettey poses after her win.

Auburn’s first Miss Panhellenic Claire Tully Campus Writer

Caroline Pettey, junior in media studies, was crowned Miss Panhellenic 2015 on Oct. 28.

Pettey said the pageant was something she’s been looking forward to for a while.

“I actually nominated myself,” Pettey said. “The two girls who were originally nominated for it weren’t interested in doing it, and it seemed like something really fun and right up my alley, so I stood up and was just like, ‘Um, can I nominate myself?’”

Pettey then won the nomination in her sorority, Chi Omega, and was motivated to win.

“Then we voted, and I won the nomination, so I literally put it in my head that I had to try to win so I didn’t look dumb for nominating myself,” Pettey said.

Pettey said she wasn’t just preparing for Miss Panhellenic when she began preparations for the pageant.

“I’ve been preparing myself for Miss Alabama USA, which is next weekend, so basically I’ve been practicing walking and interviewing and working out every day,” Pettey said.

She also said her mother’s support has been a big help.

“My mom was such a huge help to me this week, also,” Pettey said. “She came down on Tuesday and helped me pick out my outfit for game-day wear and calmed my nerves.”

One of the benefits of being in this pageant and now holding the title is getting to know the girls in the other sororities, according to Pettey.

“I’m pumped to get to know all of the other sororities better,” Pettey said. “I have

friends in every sorority on campus, but haven’t really gotten to know each sorority as a whole since my freshman year of rush.”

She said she looks forward to creating deeper relationships with these people.

“It’ll be really great to get to know them deeper than surface level,” Pettey said.

Even though she has been preparing for two pageants at once, Pettey said she is not overlooking how great her win is and the opportunity it has presented her.

“I feel really, really, really honored to have been selected to represent all of Auburn’s sororities with this title,” Pettey said.

Pettey also thanked the judges for seeing positive qualities in her that the former Miss Miss Greek Week titleholders have shared in common.

“When I think about Auburn Panhellenic, I envision a smart, fun, well-rounded, congenial girl, because that’s what I’ve encountered in my two years here,” Pettey said. “So the fact the judges saw that in me makes my heart swell.”

This is the first year the pageant has been called “Miss Panhellenic” and not “Miss Greek Week,” said Jill Moore, director of Greek Life, in an email.

The University does not host Greek Week anymore, Moore said. The Office of Greek Life kept the most successful Greek Week events, however, and they will stand alone throughout the year.

“One of these things was the pageant, which was well attended and raised a lot of money for philanthropy,” Moore said.

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Response to “University grows its family tree, hires first arborist” Vaughn Street “From Fairhope! (The first city in Alabama to hire a Horticulturist!)”

Responses to “Auburn-Georgia kickoff time announced” Charles Henagan “No we have not become accustomed to early kickoffs and it ruins the game day experience as alums do not liger after the game and head home.”

April Powell “I would rather have the afternoon games instead.”

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Daylight saving is pointless Maybe Salvador Dali hated daylight saving time as much as we do.

As most know by now, in addition to Halloween and a tough loss in football against Ole Miss, last Saturday, Oct. 31, daylight saving time ended.

When daylight saving time begins, we set our clocks ahead one hour from the standard time each spring, usually around the first week in March. When daylight saving time ends, as it did last weekend, we set our clocks back, meaning we “gain” an hour.

This practice of setting our clocks ahead one hour started about a century ago.

Many people believe daylight saving time was adopted to benefit farmers, but this is not the case.

The main purpose of implementing daylight time was to save energy by saving daylight in the summer months, but it has been proven that changing the time is not an effective way to do so, and possibly never was.

“When clocks leap forward in the spring, researchers have found, rates of heart attacks, traffic accidents, and workplace injuries tend to increase slightly — likely the effect of millions of people’s bodies being forced to adjust to the missing hour of sleep,” according to Vox.com.

“Workplace productivity, meanwhile, tends to decrease. Then there’s the hassle of adjusting again in the fall.”

Many places across the globe, including the states of Arizona and Hawaii, have decided not to participate in daylight saving time.

Rusty Glover, a Republican Alabama State Senator from Mobile, has attempted to pass legislation in which the state of Alabama would keep daylight saving time year-round. As a result, we would have more daylight in the evening hours and would never change the time.

However, according to AL.com, Glover realized that federal law allows states to opt out

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of daylight time, but does not allow states to keep it all year.

He also told AL.com that while many real estate agents and retailers liked his idea, he had difficulty getting other lawmakers to help change the law that the U.S. has been practicing since 1918 because of issues with balancing the budget.

Even though changing legislation to make it possible for states to keep daylight saving yearround if they choose may not be a priority for many legislators, we agree with Glover that it should be done.

While the disadvantages of daylight time are obvious, the benefits are nonexistent, making the concept pointless.

We understand there are other issues that should take priority over such, legislators do need to attempt to change the law when the timing is right.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It’s time we take a stand on sexual assault Trey Fields

Sexual assault is not something to be taken lightly.

It is unfortunately an issue that is increasingly prevalent among colleges and universities across the nation, and Auburn is no exception.

Over the past few years, this University has seen an uptick in reported sexual crimes, consistently experiencing double- digit occurrences of reported sexual assaults.

Perhaps even more sad and striking is the fact that many of these assaults are preventable.

I don’t think Auburn University is an inherently dangerous place, or that our administration is not doing everything in its power to combat this matter, because it certainly is.

But I think that we, the campus community, aren’t doing enough.

I do believe that sexual assault suffers from a stigma.

A stigma that propagates a culture of discomfort for many people.

The plain truth is that it’s an issue that people don’t want to talk about.

The sad fact is, though, we can’t just continue to ignore this matter or address it the way we have been.

People too often make assumptions about reported sexual assaults.

This “he said, she said” mentality that can many times lead to placing blame upon the victim (or survivor).

That’s not the way we should be approaching this problem.

Tackling this issue starts with stopping the root of the evil, the assaults themselves, which are so often carried about by serial offenders who make a conscious decision to commit this heinous crime.

No individual on this campus should have to worry about

walking home alone, or be concerned with keeping their drink safe at a party, or be scared of being taken advantage of by an acquaintance, who many times are far more likely to be an assailant.

The heartbreaking truth is that many times we, bystanders to these crimes, can stop them, we can make a difference, we can change someone’s life.

Anyone can stop a sexual assault, there is no specialized skill set or amount of knowledge required.

It’s as simple as this: if you see something suspicious, say or do something.

I write to you today on the cusp of the launch of the Green Dot intervention program here at Auburn.

A program designed to educate precisely on this matter.

A program that has the ability to make a revolutionary difference at Auburn.

To curtail violence before it happens through the teaching of prevention tactics and what you can do stop sexual assault.

I strongly encourage anyone interested to get involved with the Green Dot. Again, though, it all falls to us, the Auburn Family, to step to the plate rather than stand idly by and help our family in these dangerous instances.

It’s time we say, “enough is enough,” and truly display that “Spirit that is not afraid” that we so often tout but don’t always exhibit.

So, I challenge you today to stand up to sexual assault and help move Auburn in the right direction.

Let’s change the culture and mindset and mark a turn toward a brighter future and a safer tomorrow on The Plains.

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Woman helps students take ‘Baby Steps’ to motherhood Liz Maddux

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One afternoon, as Michelle Schultz was driving around Auburn running errands, the idea came to her that she should open a home to help pregnant college women discover they have the option to choose life.

Baby Steps, the nonprofit organization established by Schultz, will be a home for pregnant Auburn University women to live in so they may continue to work on their degree while also being around women their age going through pregnancy.

“Baby Steps’ mission is to develop and staff a home and support system for students who become pregnant and feel trapped in circumstances, due to family pressure and/or academic or athletic scholarships that push them to feel they have to have an abortion,” Schultz said. “These women are in the terrible position of thinking they must choose between having their baby and getting their education.”

According to the Baby Steps website, a woman can be a part of Baby Steps at any point during her pregnancy and may stay until the baby is 1 year old.

“We want to offer an alternative,” Schultz said. “A safe, loving home exclusively for pregnant Auburn University college students, convenient to campus, so that these courageous women can have their babies and their education.”

Kait Willing met Schultz while working at Women’s Hope Medical Clinic in Auburn.

Willing had been in an unplanned parenting situation herself, and when she heard Schultz’s idea she said she thought it was necessary.

“I was in an unplanned pregnancy situation myself so I got to see firsthand how much there is a lack of resources for girls who find themselves wanting to parent and stay in college,” Willing said. “The University does not really have those resources. Having worked at Women’s Hope Medical Clinic, I saw college women all the time. Baby Steps bridges the gap that we have in Auburn by helping girls continue their education and not having to make a decision to choose between their

education and their baby’s life.”

Although Baby Steps is still in progress, Schultz said she feels confident that the organization is coming right along.

“We received our nonprofit status last fall and have currently made ‘baby steps’ toward our goal of $350,000, having raised $42,000,” Schultz said. “The next step is to pursue grants. We continue to look for housing or property, a long process that will happen in God’s perfect timing.”

The inspiration for Baby Steps came when Schultz and her husband began sharing their story to high school seniors and college students through ministry at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Auburn.

“My husband and I went to school at Auburn, and when I was in school, we got pregnant,” Schultz said. “It was 29 years ago. Although things are very different now, I also felt really trapped. I was close to graduating, my parents were not in a good place in their relationship. I was in a really dark place, and I chose to take my baby’s life.”

When Schultz began working in the youth ministry at St. Michael’s, she and her husband felt called to do something more.

“We shared our story with the ministry and talked about how God has helped us heal and work through those dark times,” Schultz said. “Although clearly forgiven, the scar never goes away.”

Schultz has been working with the youth ministry for 13 years.

“By working with the college students at the church, my husband and I got to share our story,” Schultz said.

“Throughout the years of sharing our story, I really felt called to do something else. I was riding through town one day when I thought to myself, ‘Oh my gosh, there are college women right here on this campus who are getting pregnant and who are feeling trapped and who feel like they don’t have an opportunity to make a choice to keep their baby, so I decided to do something about it.”

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Toomer’s receives award

Toomer’s Corner reopened Aug. 15. Several events, including Come Home to the Corner on Aug. 21, commemorated the new design.

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Because of decades of visitors, Toomer’s Corner started to display some issues that needed to be fixed.

Buildings and signs were covered, tree canopies were too low, stop bars were too far back and shrubs were overgrown. All of these factors contributed to a not aesthetically pleasing Toomer’s Corner.

To give Toomer’s Corner the makeover it needed, a design team made up of registered landscape architect Judd Langham and Daniel Ballard, watershed division manager of water resource management, decided to redevelop and improve three non-university corners of the intersection.

Small improvements were also made to edges of Universityowned corners, as well as the gateway to campus, according to Langham.

Langham said a main goal of the project was to create an urban space that was pedestrian-friendly, and could easily be closed off to cars for special events in the downtown area. “[We wanted] the intersection of College Street and Magnolia street [to be seen] as an iconic public space,” Langham said.

Some main improvements Langham and Ballard made were removing clutter such as trees, fencing, shrubs and parking meters, moving crosswalks and vehicular stop bars closer to the intersections and removing certain parking spaces to allow for larger sidewalks.

A few cosmetic changes made to the intersections include the introduction of seating with double-sided seating walls, LED lights for public safety and a more festive feel and the permanent tiger paw in the center of the intersection.

Langham and Ballard worked side by side with the help of stakeholders, Auburn University and the Urban Sustainability Accelerator team, to produce designs and drawings for the future of downtown Auburn.

Their designs were accepted and put into action by city staff, including the Public Works Department, Planning Department and Water Resource Management Department.

The project took three months to complete and was ready to be shown off in August.

“We were really able to create an atmosphere downtown for people coming to games and community events,” said Jeff Ramsey, Director of the Public Works Department.

Because of these efforts, Langham said the project was recognized by the state chapter of the American Society of Land-

Toomer’s Corner was closed for construction for the summer.

scape Architects.

“Overall, the organization promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication and fellowship,” Langham said.

Out of 23 projects submitted this year, the Toomer’s Corner project was one of three that won a merit award in the General Design category.

Langham said he and Ballard accepted the award on behalf of the city at an awards ceremony at the Birmingham Museum of Art on Oct. 22.

Langham said the project was significant, because an average of over 30,000 people visit the intersection on a daily basis, causing style and atmosphere to remain crucial.

“I think people are recognizing that it turned out to be a very nice project,” Ramsey said.

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Markale Hart indicted for murder

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Markale Hart was indicted by a grand jury in the shooting death of Jakell Mitchell, freshman football player for Auburn University on Oct. 23.

Mitchell was murdered at a party at Tiger Lodge apartment complex in December 2014.

Hart and Mitchell exchanged gunfire at the gathering, according to police.

Witnesses at the scene said they saw Hart shoot Mitchell during an altercation between Mitchell and Hart’s associate according to the indictment document.

Police said they discovered Mitchell in a car a short distance from the scene suffering from apparent multiple gunshot wounds. He later died at East Alabama Medical Center.

Hart’s bond was set at $50,000 last week.

Tiger Lodge has been the site of multiple slayings. Three men, including two Auburn football players, were fatally shot at the complex, then called University Heights, in 2012.

Desmonte Leonard was sentenced to life without parole for their murders in January and has since filed an appeal.

A movie hit theaters Feb. 17, 2014, that would also hit close to home for 94-year-old Auburn alumnus Pete Turnham.

“The Monuments Men,” directed by George Clooney, is based on the true story of a World War II platoon tasked with guarding a castle that held over 1,000 years of history.

Pete was part of that true story.

Pete received the Bronze Star medal with “V” for valor and heroism during combat in World War II, according to Tim Turnham, Pete’s son. Pete was unavailable for comment at this time because of medical reasons.

“He has told me on occasion that by being a young officer, he didn’t really know what the war was about,” Tim said. “I mean, he knew he was there fighting for his country, but he didn’t really know why.

Dad said it was not until they freed a concentration camp and saw the people in the condition they were in that he knew why he was there.”

At the conclusion of the war, Pete and 200 other men were assigned to guard the Neuschwanstein castle located in Southern Bavaria, Germany.

Before Pete was assigned to guard the castle, a small group of men that included George Thomas Jones from Monroeville was guarding, when it was discovered that the castle contained all the artwork Hitler had stolen from various museums across Europe.

When they discovered how much the art was worth, Pete and the others were sent to the castle.

It was this castle that inspired the creation of the movie, “The Monuments Men.” In March, history collided when Jones got his grandson to drive him to Auburn to finally meet Pete.

“That was crazy,” said Joe Turnham, Pete’s son. “They finally met after 70 years and they reminisced about the war, and it was a really tender and special moment.”

After the war, Pete went on to serve in the Alabama state legislature for 40 consecutive years.

“I grew up in politics,” Joe said. “Dad was elected for the first time the year before I was born, so I have been working on his campaign since I could walk. We could never go to a restaurant just to go eat. I always told everybody, ‘We worked our way into the restaurant and we worked our way out of the restaurant.’”

Joe said despite his father’s busy life, he always made time for him and his brother.

“He was a very busy man because he was a business man,” Joe said. “He was in the Army Reserve for 20 years.

After he was discharged from

Pete World War II, he was in the Alabama legislature for 40 consecutive years, but he always made extra time for us. He would take us to the Braves game and take us fishing. We did the things that fathers and sons did, and I knew it must have been really hard, especially after he worked 1416-hour days.”

Joe said he remembers his father being loved by the whole community.

“I also remember how beloved he was,” Joe said. “I am always amazed at how for the last 30 years when I travel around Alabama I have at least one persons come up to me and say, ‘You don’t know me but I know your father and he did something for me that changed my life and I will always remember that.’ They were all such touching storied about things he did for the people around him that he knew could never repay him in the material sense. It just shows how humble he is.”

Pete currently works as the CEO of Alabama Contract Sales Co., which provides design and installation for several projects, including stadium seating, according to its website.

“My favorite memories I have with my father are when I was growing up,” Tim said.

“His job involved driving around to different courthouses. I would ride with him in the summer and all that windshield time we had together serves as my fondest memories.”

Tim said he is proud of his father’s accomplishments.

“If I could describe my father in three words I would say veteran, statesman and gentleman, because he truly was all of those things,” Tim said.

Joe told a story about his father’s favorite picture.

“His favorite picture in the whole world is a picture of George Patton in a Jeep addressing the Third Army, which Dad was a part of,” Joe said. “Patton was at Fort Benning and he used to watch the Auburn vs. Georgia games in Columbus, Georgia. Patton admired the way the Auburn team fought so much he wanted his men to fight like the War Eagles did so he named his Jeep the War Eagle, and Dad has had more fun making copies of that picture and sending it to people.”

Joe said Pete loves Auburn.

“If it was something that was going to be for Auburn you better believe Pete Turnham was going to fight for it,” Joe said.

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Casie Ramsier (24) has led the charge for an upstart Auburn soccer team that finds itself as a top-4 seed in the SEC Tournament.

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Auburn’s soccer team is having one of its greatest seasons in school history. The Tigers have been a mainstay in the top 10 rankings this season and have established themselves as a prime SEC and national title contender, going 14-4 (7-4 SEC) overall and 9-1 at home.

One of the prime factors of Auburn’s success has been Casie Ramsier.

The junior from Dallas has 10 goals this season – the most for an Auburn player since Sarah Steinmann recorded 12 goals in 2003. Ramsier’s 10-goal total is currently tied for the sixth-best season in school history, and her four game-winning goals are tied for fourth-best.

With so much attention being given to her as one of the best players to come through Auburn, Ramsier maintains her success solely with the help of her teammates.

“The team has provided me with so many opportunities to be successful,” Ramsier told Auburn-

Tigers.com. “Whether it is a great assist or a great corner or someone else making a run to open the space for me, none of my success would happen without them.”

Ramsier is especially driven by the team’s senior class, which has helped the Tigers improve every season since she arrived.

“They’ve been amazing,” Ramsier said of the senior class. “They’re such a huge part of this program, and for me, personally, I just want to send them out with something they can hold onto forever, whether it’s going far in the NCAA Tournament or getting a ring.”

Ramsier finds motivation in sending out Auburn’s seniors as champions.

“They’re just an amazing group of girls and people you really want to work hard for,” Ramsier said. "I’m trying to do the best that I can for them.”

However, while crediting her success to her teammates, she still understands her importance and acknowledges she’s in a leadership role.

Ramsier described being put in a leadership posi-

tion by her teammates as “humbling.”

“Knowing that they trust me with this responsibility makes it easier to demand more from them,” Ramsier told AuburnTigers.com.

Many Auburn fans have come to love Ramsier and see her as the face of the program, but none may be a bigger fan than Auburn soccer coach Karen Hoppa, who praised Ramsier’s movement and work ethic.

“Casie is dangerous every time she steps on the field, and she is such a hard worker,” Hoppa told AuburnTigers.com. “But she is also very modest and humble, and you can see that her main focus is to help the team any way she can.”

Ramsier and the Tigers closed their regular season slate with a 3-0 shutout at Mississippi State on Oct. 29 and found out their SEC Tournament fate after the game.

Auburn will be the No. 4 seed and will face off against South Carolina in the second round after receiving a bye for the first round.

Following the match, a game story will be online at theplainsman.com.

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The hype has been there all along for Auburn running back Jovon Robinson.

The production had not been, however, until Auburn’s game against Ole Miss.

Robinson, who has dealt with a nagging ankle injury throughout the season, led all rushers with 91 yards on 18 carries against the Rebels in his first action since the LSU game.

“We felt like Jovon– it was his opportunity,” said coach Gus Malzahn. “He’s back to getting healthy. He did a good job for us. He protected the football, he ran hard. I thought he had some good runs.”

After Robinson transferred from Georgia Military College prior to the season, he struggled in preseason practice, according to running backs coach Tim Horton.

“There’s a standard that we expect, on the field and off,” Horton said in August. “Early in camp, Jovon didn’t perform to that standard … He didn’t get off to a good start.”

Despite the missteps in fall practice, Robinson was on the field against Louisville, carrying twice for 16 yards before aggravating the ankle injury.

After missing the Jacksonville State game, Robinson ran twice for four yards in the second quarter against LSU. The former five-star recruit then went missing in action for four games, but with starter Peyton Barber limited by an undisclosed injury suffered against Arkansas, Robinson carried the load and, at times, Ole Miss defenders.

“He’s been preparing the whole season to get in and contribute to us,” said senior wide receiver Ricardo Louis. “For the most part, he did that today.”

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Jovon Robinson burst onto the scene against Ole Miss, leading all rushers with 91 yards on 18 carries.

Offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee was also impressed with the performance.

“I thought he played really well,” Lashlee said. “(Robinson) had some really good, hard runs, good cuts, broke some tackles and, most importantly, held on to the football. He gave our run game a shot in the arm when we really needed it.”

With Robinson’s emergence, it remains to be seen how Auburn will distribute the workload between him and Barber, if healthy, along with fellow running backs Roc Thomas and Kerryon Johnson.

Lashlee said Auburn will need all hands on deck at running back as the Tigers move into the final third of their season.

“We’re comfortable with them all playing,” Lashlee said. “We won’t necessarily try to split it, per se …

We’ve got four tough, physical games left, so we’ll need them all.”

Regardless of how the Auburn coaches decide to divvy up the carries going forward, Robinson has given them another strong option to consider.

The hype is no more. At long last, Robinson is here.

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Phillips takes center stage as Auburn’s mic-man Nathan Deal Sports Writer

Talking in front of a group of people can be a nerve-wracking experience for some.

Many students struggle with nerves when presenting a speech or project in a class. Auburn student Daniel Phillips, however, embraces having people pay attention to him, because on fall Saturdays, he takes center stage in front of nearly 90,000 people.

Phillips, a sophomore in biomedical science from Montgomery, is in his first season as the Auburn cheerleading squad’s “mic-man.”

Every time this season that fans in Jordan-Hare Stadium have taken part in classic Auburn chants such as “Bodda Getta,” “Track ‘Em Tigers” and “Shove It,” he has led the way.

The position of mic-man is one of the most heavily scrutinized roles in Auburn football that doesn’t involve players or coaches, but Phillips has always felt up to the task.

“Ever since I went to my first Auburn game, I was interested in the position (of mic-man) because it is so different from how other schools do game day,” Phillips said. “(Previous mic-man Justin Melnick) poured into me and taught me a lot about the position and the responsibilities that it carries, and when tryouts came around, he talked me into trying out.”

The mic-man’s average game day is a busy one.

Phillips and the other cheerleaders arrive at Jordan-Hare Stadium four hours before every game to set up their equipment including water coolers, signs and flags.

Phillips and two other cheerleaders set up the speakers for the student section and test the microphone to ensure it’s working properly.

After they finish setting up, the squad heads to the cheerleading tailgate to spend time with alumni, family and friends, before making their way to the top of the hill on Donahue Drive for the famed Tiger Walk.

“We get super hyped and walk the team to the stadium to get them ready for the game, then we all split off into groups and

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Mic-man Daniel Phillips leads the Auburn faithful in cheers during Auburn’s loss to Ole Miss on Saturday, Oct. 31.

head to different locations across campus for cheers, pictures, then Spirit March,” Phillips said.

Spirit March, which Phillips describes as one of his favorite pregame traditions, is when the band, cheerleaders, dance line and Tiger Paws march from four different corners on campus and come together at the intersection of Donahue and Heisman drives for a pep rally one hour before kickoff.

After Spirit March, Phillips and the cheerleaders enter the stadium to warm up for the game. Phillips then goes with five or six other cheerleaders to the President’s Box to lead cheers for the fans in that area.

When all of that is done, Phillips is left with 15 minutes to prepare himself for the cheers at midfield before kickoff, but he doesn’t consider that a problem.

“With our pregame traditions, getting hyped isn’t a problem at all,” Phillips said.

Being Auburn’s mic-man can still bring nerves, but Phillips believes that just comes with the territory.

“There is a feeling of nervousness as well as a huge adrenaline rush surging through me,” Phillips said. “It’s easy to get worried or stressed about it, so I just kneel down, give it all to God, my successes and my screw-ups, then go out there and have the time of my life ... There is noth-

ing like going out in the middle of a field and getting everyone pumped up for Auburn,” Phillips said.

As someone who knows all of Auburn’s cheers, Phillips notes two famous cheers that he classifies as his favorites.

He loves “Bodda Getta,” because it’s a classic cheer that has been used for many years.

However, his personal favorite is a bit more simplistic and straightforward in nature.

“Let’s be honest,” Phillips said. “Whoever came up with ‘Shove It’ needs a statue in front of the stadium, because that is one of the greatest cheers ever.”

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Lashlee provides updates on injured players after Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss Evan McCullers

Assistant Sports Editor

Though the physicality of Auburn’s fourovertime loss to Arkansas was easy to see as players slowly trudged off the field at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, it didn’t become fully apparent how beat up the Tigers were until a week later.

Several offensive players were not 100 percent healthy for Auburn’s contest against Ole Miss, and offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee updated their conditions Sunday at a press conference.

Starting quarterback Sean White did not practice the week leading up to the game, and he was announced as a game-time decision Saturday morning.

White was evaluated in pregame warmups, and the training staff deemed him fit to play.

He did not receive all the offensive snaps, as backup quarterback Jeremy Johnson, running back Kerryon Johnson and wide receiver Jason Smith took snaps behind center or threw passes in the 27-19 loss in an effort to keep White from taking hits.

Despite the injured left knee, White set a career high with 258 yards on 12-28 passing against the Rebels.

Lashlee said the quarterback’s toughness has been impressive in his first five college games.

“If I would have tried to tell him in pregame warmups I don’t think he could go, I think we’d have had 12 men on the field the first play,” Lashlee said. “He was going to play. He was determined.”

Lashlee said he is “optimistic” White will practice this week after Dr. James Andrews examined White after the game and determined he suffered no additional damage to the knee.

White’s partner in the backfield, Peyton Barber, was also hobbled entering the game after receiving 37 carries against the Razorbacks.

Barber did not start the game, but he entered on the first drive and received the first carry for Auburn’s offense. The running back carried eight times in the first half but was ineffective, gaining only 17 yards.

Barber did not receive a carry in the second half, but Lashlee said he is fine.

“I don’t think he’s any worse for (playing),” Lashlee said. “He was sore, didn’t get to practice much last week. (He) showed some toughness, tried to give it a go, just wasn’t quite his self. But I don’t think there’s any long-term effects.”

Wide receiver Stanton Truitt did not see the field against Ole Miss after suffering a shoulder injury late in the first half of the Arkansas game.

Lashlee said Truitt is still “day-to-day,” but then on Tuesday, coach Gus Malzahn updated Truitt’s status: the sophomore receiver is out for the year after undergoing surgery on his injured shoulder.

Lashlee said it is important to be as healthy as possible as Auburn enters the homestretch of the season.

“We’re in a tough stretch right now,” Lashlee said. “We’ve got four tough, physical games left.”

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This Week in Auburn Sports Men’s Basketball Oct. 30

When the sneakers hit the hardwood in the Auburn Arena for the first in-game action of 2015, there was no shortage of new faces on the floor for the Auburn basketball team.

Out of 12 players who recorded stats, eight Tigers spent their first minutes on the floor in orange and blue as Auburn cruised to a 99-59 win over Brevard College Friday night.

Cinmeon Bowers led in scoring with 17 points on 7-10 shooting, as Auburn recorded its largest margin of victory since a 92-42 win against Grambling on Dec. 11, 2012. Bowers also led Auburn in rebounds with 12, securing his first double-double of 2015, recording 14 last season.

The other four Tigers who scored in doubledigits were not on the team a year ago.

Kareem Canty, who sat out last season after transferring from Marshall, knocked down four three-pointers, tying for the team lead with freshman New Williams, who knocked down all three of his second-half attempts from downtown.

Tyler Harris, a graduate transfer from Providence, and T.J. Dunans also scored in double digits. Harris and Dunans recorded eight rebounds each to help Auburn dominate the Tornados, 5333, on the boards.

Though the Tigers never trailed in the game, they were sluggish offensively for the first few minutes of the contest. A 15-0 run over 3:48 in the middle of the first half granted Auburn some separation.

The Tigers cruised to a comfortable halftime lead, and it widened in the second half behind the hot hand of Williams and the surprising play of Zach Allison.

The freshman walk-on from Pelham led Auburn in assists with eight, the first of which was a lob off the backboard to Williams, which allowed the California native to show off his renowned leaping ability in front of the crowd of 6,999.

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miliar with.

The Tigers shot only 17-28 (61 percent) from the free-throw line, one year after they finished ninth in the SEC with a 69 percent mark.

Auburn’s rotation was different than it likely would have been had the Tigers not suffered a rash of injuries in the week leading up to their first exhibition game, according to Pearl.

Projected starters TJ Lang and Tahj ShamsidDeen, along with freshman Bryce Brown, missed the exhibition with injuries, and Danjel Purifoy has yet to be cleared to play by the NCAA. Harris said exhibition games provide a great opportunity for the team to come together and develop chemistry before the season, especially with so many new faces working together for the first time.

“In these games, we want to be able to look for our strengths, our weaknesses,” Harris said.

“This was a great team to play against with their Princeton offense.”

Volleyball Nov. 1

For the third straight game, Auburn dropped an SEC game in dramatic five-set fashion. Auburn traveled to Missouri Sunday afternoon with hopes of ending its SEC losing skid and came close, but the Tigers couldn’t pull it out.

Auburn dominated the first set, winning 25-14, but the tide quickly changed. Auburn lost the second set by a score of 25-19 but bounced back to pull out a 25-21 win in the third.

Missouri then shifted into second gear, winning the fourth set 25-15 and the fifth set 15-11.

Despite the loss, there are some positives to take away from this game, according to coach Rick Nold.

“I felt like we gave great effort, but it came down to us needing to make some plays,” Nold said. “At that point you have to get back to basics a little bit. We had trouble doing that at some points. It’s definitely a learning thing that we

have to go through, and we have to learn how to step up in these situations.”

Statistically, Courtney Crable and Stephanie Campbell continued their success, as each recorded 11 kills and tied for second on the team behind Emily Klitzke who tallied 12 kills herself.

Brenna McIlroy recorded her fourth-straight double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs.

The Tigers’ service game also stepped up big with eight service aces. Alexa Filley performed well with 43 assists and 13 digs. This was a big night for Filley, because not only was this her 13th double-double this season, but she also moved into sixth all-time at Auburn in assists with 2,084. Defensively, Jesse Earl had another strong performance with 23 digs, while Breanna Barksdale and Klitzke each had four blocks.

This game marked the end of Auburn’s extended road trip. The Tigers return to the Auburn Arena Friday to take on South Carolina, then on Sunday the 12th-ranked Florida Gators travel from Gainesville for what should be an exciting showdown.

Softball Oct. 30

Auburn softball closed out fall ball Friday, defeating Northwest Florida State 19-1 and Columbus State 11-1 in a doubleheader.

The Tigers combined for 27 hits, 30 runs and 18 strikeouts, with the pitching staff only allowing nine hits. Sophomore Carlee Wallace went 4-for-5 through both games, posting two RBI doubles in game one.

Auburn had four home runs in four innings during game two, with Emily Carosone starting the trend in the third inning with a two-run home run. Courtney Shea, Kasey Cooper and Madi Gipson followed in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings respectively.

Kaylee Carlson started in the circle for the Tigers, throwing five solid innings, striking out three and not allowing any runs. Marcy Harp-

er took over in the sixth inning with two strikeouts, and Lexi Davis closed out the contest in the seventh by striking out two more.

The wins put the Tigers at a perfect 8-0 for the fall season. Auburn will have one more full week of team practice before taking off for the winter.

Cross-Country Oct. 30

While the women’s cross-country team is one of the most experienced in recent memory, it was a freshman who led the way for Auburn at the SEC Championships in College Station, Texas, Friday.

Brenda Kigen, a native of Kenya running in her first postseason event in college, placed fourth at the meet, running a 19 minute, 58 second 6K. Kigen led the Auburn women to a sixthplace finish with 164 points.

Despite falling just short of the team’s goal of placing in the top 5, coach Mark Carroll was pleased with the performance of his runners.

“Brenda had an amazing performance,” Carroll said. “To finish in fourth place in the most competitive conference as a freshman is absolutely spectacular. We had a strong performance by the women’s team to improve on last year’s finish.”

Senior Redatu Semeon placed 20th with a 24 minute, 14 second 8K in the men’s race to lead the Tigers to an eighth-place finish.

Reilly Shaw was selected for the SEC AllFreshman team after placing 34th with a time of 24 minutes, 39 seconds.

Both Auburn teams will return to the course at the NCAA South Regional on Nov. 13 in Tuscaloosa.

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Three numbers — two, 565 and 2,975.

Two degrees is the threshold for dangerous climate change. Five hundred sixtyfive gigatons is the amount of carbon dioxide that can be safely released in the atmosphere to stay under two degrees. Two thousand nine hundred seventy-five gigatons is the amount of carbon dioxide that would be released if the U.S. burned all the fossil fuel reserves discovered, according to “Keep it in the ground,” a campaign

by The Guardian.

Mark Jacobson, Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering, published an interactive map in National Geographic called “A Blueprint for a Carbon-Free America,” which gave a plan for how climate change could possibly be solved.

This map details each state’s energy mix, the combination of renewable energy each state will need to sustain itself. By 2050, this mix would rely on wind, water and solar power, according to Jacobson.

Jacobson said he researched current energy use and used energy projections to develop a plan to change the energy infrastructure of each state.

In Alabama, the state’s main source of energy would be solar power, comprising 64 percent of the total new energy mix, according to Jacobson’s study.

He said he examined electricity, heating and cooling, transportation and industry to determine what energy mixes were needed.

“And then we looked at electrifying each sector [making all industrial processes electric] and using existing technologies and that resulted in a reduction of power demand by around 30 percent over all the sectors,” Jacobson said.

Next, he said they looked at wind, water and solar resources for each state to see what was economically feasible to power them. Jacobson said he looked at costs, job creations, reduction of air pollution dimensions and cost and reduction of climate costs resulting from the transformation of each state.

He said the U.S. would eliminate approximately 60,000-65,000 air pollution

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deaths per year, save $500 billion to $600 billion dollars per year in health costs and eliminate U.S. emissions of global warming impact with renewable energy.

“So that would save the world $2.3 trillion per year in costs by 2050,” Jacobson said. “We would create about ... 2 million more jobs than we lose. We’d stabilize energy prices, because the fuel costs of wind, water and solar is zero.”

Jacobson said politically the U.S. would reduce international conflicts because we could get all our fuel locally, rather than importing it.

He also said citizens could generate movement for this vision by convincing policymakers in government. He also said using energy efficient lightbulbs, weatherizing homes and using solar-powered cars would help.

Mike Kensler, director of the Office of Sustainability at Auburn, said he agrees with Jacobson and thinks it’s possible.

Kensler said solar power will dominate the electricity market by 2033, according to Goldman Sachs. Additionally, Kensler said on some breezy, sunny days Germany got 80 percent of its electricity from renewables.

“We have the technology,” Kensler said. “It’s lack of leadership and political will that gets in our way.”

Kensler said anywhere from 90-95 percent of energy people create is wasted

when it gets to the end use.

“Our energy efficiency performance can go way up,” Kensler said.

Kensler said in the energy sector renewable energy is creating the most jobs and also said Alabama Power received approval to develop 500 megawatts of solar power over the next five years.

“So wer’re talking with them in very preliminary stages about the possibility of tapping some of that solar energy,” Kensler said.

Mark Barnett, professor of environmental engineering and associate chair of the department of civil engineering, said he thinks climate change is a serious problem which could have economic consequences.

Based on evidence, humans are changing Earth’s climate, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Barnett said he bases his opinions on this statement.

“One of the most important things to do is to stop putting so much carbon in the air, and renewable energy is a way to do that,” Barnett said.

According to Kensler, battery technology has also been changing rapidly.

“So being able to store that energy that we capture, because you can only generate wind energy when the wind’s blowing and solar energy when the sun’s shining,” Kensler said.

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Survey concludes students favor trigger warnings Marissa Luckie intrigue writer

Results from a recent survey show 51 percent of college students are in favor of speech codes being implemented on their campus, which would restrict the speech of faculty and students, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The same study showed 63 percent of students are in support of their professors being required to give trigger warnings, or a statement warning students particular material or content could be distressing.

This would give them a chance to opt out rather than be put in an uncomfortable situation.

The Wall Street Journal said the survey, which was commissioned by The William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, gathered the opinions of approximately 800 college students from various campuses across the nation.

Apryl Alexander, assistant clincal professor of psychology who specializes in areas of violence and victimization, said she finds the statistics surprising but encouraging.

“It is surprising that students are being more mindful of it, but I like it,” Alexander said. “It would be healthy to have a dialogue about what things students are experiencing to get to that 51 and 63 percent, and how are students going about handling that. Will we be able to touch everything and make every student feel as comfortable as possible? Maybe not, but we really need to find a way to interact with our students that’s comfortable and creates an environment for students to be open and honest about how they are feeling.”

William Buskist, alumnus professor and distinguished professor in the teaching of psychology, has written about effective college and university teaching.

Buskist said today the tendency of students to turn a blind eye to beliefs that challenge their preconceived notions of the world is dangerous.

“I think a major problem we have to

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worry about today with a lot of students is they don’t come to college to learn new things,” Buskist said. “They come to college to confirm what they already believe or think they know. And that’s the real danger. That’s real ignorance, not being willing to be curious and ask questions and to find different ways to answer those questions.”

This sentiment echoes a statement President Barack Obama made at an appearance in Iowa concerning the recent trend on college campuses of speakers being uninvited because students label them as offensive.

“Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them,” Obama said.

“But you shouldn’t silence them by saying, ‘You can’t come because I’m too sensitive to hear what you have to say.’ That’s not the way we learn either.”

Buskist said growing up with the idea no one should feel bad or offended has bred a generation of young people who have trouble adjusting to a harsher reality.

“I think a lot of this stuff has come up out of the Me generation,” Buskist said.

“It’s like kids’ sports. You know, everybody gets a trophy … We don’t want anyone to feel offended, and that’s just not the way life is. Those kids who have been coddled like that and protected by their parents and by culture have some rude awakenings … it makes it more difficult to adjust to the real world.”

However, Alexander said she believes the trend toward mindfulness that manifests in students favoring trigger warnings could become part of the real world as students enter the workforce.

“Is your workplace going to be sensitive to trauma based needs?” Alexander said. “No, but what I think is that … maybe my students will go to careers and be more mindful … in their own workplace.

Maybe that will improve things.”

Alexander said professors at Auburn are getting in on the widespread discussion of the place of trigger warnings and speech codes on college campuses.

“I know professors are talking about it,” Alexander said. “They are trying to figure out how do we approach this. Does it need to be mandatory? Is it something to write in our syllabi?”

Many people dream of experiencing their fifteen minutes of fame.

David Steen, assistant research professor of biological sciences, was recently featured on The Weather Channel’s segment, “Weather Geeks.”

He said he was asked to make a guest appearance on the show to discuss his work with reptiles and amphibians.

“I was contacted by the producer of the show through Twitter,” Steen said. “They just said they were interested in having me on the show to talk about how reptiles and amphibians respond to climate change.”

Steen said he had never heard of the show before his interview.

“After I was invited on, though, I watched a few episodes,” Steen said.

Steen is also a research fellow at the Alabama Natural Heritage Program at Auburn.

His work primarily focuses on wildlife conservation and the effects of climate change on the environment, something Steen said is important to him.

“I was hoping I would get the chance to talk about conservation and some of the pressing issues facing wildlife in this country,” Steen said. “I also got the chance to bust some myths about snakes.”

On Twitter, Steen’s account, @AlongsideWild, has garnered more than 8,000 followers, and his blog, “Living Alongside Wildlife,” also reaches a large audience. On both platforms he encourages a greater education and appreciation for wildlife, and answers questions on a variety of different issues such as snake identification.

Bill Sutton, assistant professor of wildlife ecology at Tennessee State University, said Steen was named the “best biologist on Twitter” by Slate Magazine.

“He has put an immense amount of time into his blog,” Sutton said. “He’s really good at covering stories quickly and

getting them out.”

Steen said “Weather Geeks” was not the first time his love of the environment for the environment was featured in the media.

“Last year I got a lot of press for giving a turtle CPR,” Steen said. “The water levels had shifted and it had drowned so I gave it mouth-to-mouth and saved it. We talked about that a little bit on ‘Weather Geeks’ too.”

Sutton said he has enjoyed collaborating with Steen on different projects. He said he admires his dedication to educating the public on issues involving the environment.

“One point I was really happy he made was about climate change,” Sutton said. “Depending on the mobility of an animal, they may not be able to respond as fast to climate change.

Take a salamander for example.

They only move about a meter every year so they couldn’t adapt as fast to a changing environment as say a bird can.”

The Weather Channel is based in Atlanta and features guests from all over the country. Steen said his experience on “Weather Geeks” was overall positive.

“I was a little nervous to go to the headquarters,” Steen said. “Once they started putting makeup on me, I knew it was the real deal.”

Sutton said The Weather Channel couldn’t have picked anyone better to speak about wildlife conservation.

“Sometimes as scientists we tend to get a bit stuck in our own research groups,” Sutton said. “But in order to have greater conservation, you have to reach a greater audience, and he was the best choice.”

Steen’s segment on “Weather Geeks” was filmed Sept. 24 and aired Oct. 18.

“I really appreciated the opportunity to talk about wildlife and science conservation,” Steen said. “It’s something that is really important to me, and this gave me the chance to reach an expanded audience.”

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Photography club takes photos to spread awareness for pet adoption Marissa Luckie intrigue writer

The animals of the Lee County Humane Society might look like normal dogs and cats, but recently they have become models for the photographers of the Auburn Aperture Photography Club. Members of the club, whether they are professional photographers or hobbyists, are volunteering their time to take photos of the animals as part of their partnership with the LCHS. Nancy Hand, member of Auburn Aperture and owner of two rescue dogs, said she first had the idea to create the partnership when she was at the LCHS dropping off supplies she saw on its wish list.

“We had some of the stuff on that list … so we made a little basket of stuff to bring down there,” Hand said.

“I had just come from one of the meetings, and it was fresh in my mind, and I was like, ‘Wait a minute, if you don’t have anyone taking pictures anymore, I’m here plugged into this group of photographers, why not put them together?’”

Emily Bowling, LCHS employee,

said the members of the club were up to the challenge of taking quality photos of the LCHS residents when they first heard about the partnership.

“A lot of the members were really receptive of it, and they were really excited to help us,” Bowling said. “I referenced a few other humane societies that are just larger that are all over the United States that have some really excellent photos, and I said in my dreams our photos would be as good as these and every single member of the group was like, ‘Absolutely. We could do like that but better,’ and so they were all extremely receptive of it.”

However, Hand said getting the animals to participate in their photoshoots is not always easy.

“They don’t stop moving,” Hand said. “And the cats are very curious about autofocus time. When a lens moves back and forth, the cats are fascinated, so I’ve had a couple of them swipe at the camera. It’s like trying to take pictures of kids.”

Bowling said the photos can play a big part in getting animals the exposure they need to expedite their jour-

ney to a loving, new home.

“Having high-quality photos of animals really, really does increase adoption,” Bowling said. “I think that that seems obvious to people, but when you see the responses we get on our Facebook posts, and you see the responses we get on our Instagram posts, it’s just like, ‘Wow.’ We just posted pictures of this dog last week, but they weren’t this quality photos and this post got 80 shares where the last one only got two shares.”

Sam Dichiara, sophomore in psychology and member of the Auburn Aperture, said he thinks these photos are helpful in getting animals adopted because they let the animals’ personality shine through.

“When you walk into the kennel room, it is a very poor showcase of the fun and happy personalities that a lot of these dogs have when they are in their real environment,” Dichiara said. “It doesn’t appeal to the fact that they could be your potential best friend … Hopefully with a picture outside of their cage in the kennel room, if it shows them smiling with their

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Hand encouraged anyone with a camera to go to LCHS and get in-

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“You don’t have to be a member of our club to go do it,” Hand said. “Anybody can go. If you have a camera and you feel like you want to help out, they need the help.”

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