2018-02-22 The Auburn Plainsman

              'WE ARE HERE'
Students tackle being black at a PWI
By LILY JACKSON
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and field uniform to dass almost every d.iv at the start
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about sports and make connectionv
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class one da\ to see what would happen. Ite walked to
the seat he had sat m lor the past'few weeks and the air!
he considered an acquaintance looked him in the e\e.
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lete: three entirely different things, Mave said. \u
burn as a culture doesn't always get thai.'
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manv — some w ould sav too many wavs to stay busy.
He serves as the vice president of Auburn's \AACP
chapter, the director of public relations for the South
ern Povertv Law Center on campus and a member ot
the Black Student Union and Harold A. Franklin So-
His schedule is packed hut much less stressful than
it was Mave said he was workmu on campus tor such
long hours in 201" that it became an issue
In m;' .Mi ". I wen; >ieep on a Sunday atv. woke
up in the hospital on Ihuisdavwith no memory o:
recollection of anything Mave saul My girlfriend
was coming ovci that Motula\ mo: mug tor us to go
to the gvm. and she found me in niv i oom choking on
mv.tongue.
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to life. He died again. She got h's nv»mmate. and they
performed CPR together, ami he can\e hack to life. He
died again.
Paramedics eatiie TuuTslicvLcitltTB!Thtfe times and
kept him sustained, he said. He was put in a medically
induced coma and woke up tour days later.
1 rom what the doctors told me. 1 had a stress in­duced
cardiac death. Ylave said. "It was from me run­ning
around doing st* much for other people and not
looking out for myself. I thought doing things tor other
people was what 1 was called to do. so 1 never thought
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Black Lives
Matter activist
visits campus
By STEPHEN LANZI
Campus Writer
campus@theplainsman.com
Opal Tometi, co-creator of Black Lives Matter and popular
activist, encouraged Auburn students to organize with one an­other
on campus to implement change needed to solve issues of
oppression in American society.
Auburn's Black Student Union hosted Tometi Tuesday eve­ning
in the Student Center Ballroom as part of its Black Histo­ry
Month event "Creating a Conversation in Color." The Black
Lives Matter movement, founded in 2013, aims to end police
brutality and systemic racism against black people.
Tometi got choked up when she discussed the famous in­stances
of police brutality in recent years, from Eric Garner and
Philando Castile to Freddie Gray and Mike Brown, all cases of
unarmed black men being killed by police officers.
"1 worry quite literally for the black folks in the U.S. who are
literally being murdered in the street, on camera, millions can
see the video, and yet we see time and time again, no justice,"
Tometi said.
Tometi said college students have a lot of resources at their
fingertips — resources they should use to change the state of race
relations in America.
"I'm really, really nervous where this whole thing is headed,"
T ometi said. "You look anywhere and we're not necessarily see­ing
things get any better. I would say that they're probably get­ting
worse."
Tometi said the roots of her activist mindset can be traced to
when her younger brother started to question his identity and
feel shame about his race at a young age.
"It sparked something in me in my teenage years," Tometi
said. "That got me thinking more critically about the world that
we live in because what kind of a world are we living in if young
children are beginning to doubt themselves and absorb messag­es
of shame."
Tometi said people should reach out to those who are willing
to listen but discouraged them from working with others who
do not care about listening or doubt them.
"To me, when people respond to Black Lives Matter by say-
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Following the footsteps of a fighter
Auburn student returns to where family member lost life in I wo Jima
By LILY JACKSON
Managing Editor
managing.editor@theplainsman.com
On the morning of Feb. 19,1945, American
troops invaded the island of Iwojima. Camer­on
Hunt, a student working toward his second
bachelor's degree, had a family member on that
island.
Cameron's great-great-granduncle, James
Archie Howard, lost his life on Iwojima. Peggy
Hunt, Cameron's grandmother and Alabama's
first woman police officer, told him stories
about Archie when he was 10 years old.
"From the first time she told me about Iwo
Jima and the flag raising, I knew I was going to
join the military," Cameron said.
He had always wanted to be a marine, but
hearing about his past and the sacrifices his
family had paid sealed the deal for him. With
the anniversary of Iwo Jima approaching on
Feb. 23, Cameron's thoughts point to his un­cle's
time in the service. He grew curious about
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CONTRIBUTED BY CAMERON HUNT
Cameron Hunt, Auburn student in pre-vet, poses on the road to Mt. Suribachi.
SGA appoints new slate of executive officers
By CHIP BROWNLEE
Editor-in-chief
editor@thepla insman.com
A new slate of Student Govern­ment
Association executive officers
has been selected, and the group met
over the weekend for a retreat to set
goals and prepare for the year ahead.
Newly elected SGA President
Dane Block said he, along with Vice
President Schyler Burney and Trea­surer
Dixon Simmons, spent the last
few weeks interviewing potential
candidates and narrowing down the
pack.
"We looked at experience and
leadership roles in the sense of fresh
ideas and what people could bring
to the table, some new faces, too,"
Block said. "We wanted individuals
with a vision and heart for all of Au­burn
through personal experience,
through seeing them active on cam­pus."
Block said they looked at plat­forms
of those who were candidates
in this year's elections, previous SGA
experience and campus involvement.
One of those individuals is Executive
Vice President of Programs Patrick
Starr, who ran against Block for SGA
president.
"Forty-eight percent of the student
body believed in Patrick," Block said.
"To have his ideas and his mindset on
this is great."
Others, like Austin Chandler, held
previous positions in SGA. Chandler
was last year's assistant vice president
of auxiliary services and has been se­lected
as this year's executive vice
president of initiatives.
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about myself until I found myself in the hospital."
His girlfriend told him the people waiting for him in the
hospital room were as diverse as he dreamed Auburn to be.
Singing, praying, talking to him — they tried to wake him
up.
Maye said he didn't want to stop leading nor could he.
With Richard Spencer's visit to campus and the White
Student Union rearing its head, Maye felt there was much
to be done and just attending classes was not going to work
for him.
Auburn's demographics 'are not representative of our
state," Maye said.
He said be thought that white supremacist efforts on cam­pus
would hurt the recruitment of minorities, but the num­bers
have been stagnant for a long time anyway. In recent
years, the number of black students as a proportion of Au­burn's
total enrollment has even declined.
This year, about 6 percent of Auburn's total student en­rollment
is black, according to the Office of Institutional Re­search.
There are 889 more white students on campus this
year compared to last, but there are 24 fewer black students
enrolled.
"Auburn gets complacent," said Monroe Clayton, sopho­more
in political science and director of community and eq­uity
for Auburn's Black Student Union. "We are okay with
being good enough, but why wouldn't you strive to be great?
What Auburn has failed to do is go into some of the neigh­borhoods
they should be going to."
Clayton said when the University looks over minority
communities, they are robbing the country of future con­tributors
to society.
Maye said recruitment trips should have real students out
in communities, telling young men and women they can
make it at Auburn.
"I feel like at one point Auburn was focusing on diversi­ty
numbers as far as international students, and what they
didn't realize was that they put a barrier and an imaginary
conflict between domestic minorities and international mi­norities,"
Maye said. "You see Auburn reaching out across
seas, but they won't reach out to folks in this state."
Maye wasn't surprised by the recruiting efforts at Auburn.
He was not looking for complete acceptance when he came
in.
"I was taught that no matter what world you are in when
you are in the South, you are in a black and white world,"
Maye said.
Monroe said when he walks down the concourse, he finds
himself hyper-aware of his race. He said he sees someone
hand a white man a flyer. When he passes them, they usual­ly
don't hand him the same flyer.
He said he wonders if it's because he is black.
Maye said knowing what he did about living in a black
and white world, he could not help but want what he saw
on the television screen or at football games — friendships
with people that didn't look like him and acceptance at his
University.
It didn't happen, he said.
Maye quoted James Baldwin, "To be black and conscious
in America is to be in a constant state of rage." He's seen ef­forts
to link the majority and the minority, but there are al­ways
complications, he said.
Even though college is thought to be a time when hori­zons
are broadened and ways of thinking are challenged, it's
not always that way. When some students get to campus,
they find more like-minded individuals that can push them
toward the extremes of their own beliefs — pushing minori­ties
even further away from the majority.
"Your crowd is going to look like you, but the majority is
not going to come in the room even though your organiza­tion
says they are inclusive of all," May? said. "They see black
people and say, 'That's only for black people."
BSlTs motto is "Unity through education." Maye stressed
that the motto has no color and the organization welcomes
all.
As an involved member of the Auburn community and
campus, Maye said he wants students and professors to know
they are here — know they were the start of the integration
of Auburn.
"We are students like everyone else, so treat us as such,"
Maye said. "Not as examples or guinea pigs for your lectures
or pawns for your sports, because we are more than that."
INGRID SCHNADER / PHOTO EDITOR
Opal Tometi speaks at the Black Student Union's Creating a Conversation in Color event on Tuesday,
Feb. 20,2018, in Auburn, Ala.
CONTRIBUTED BY CAMERON HUNT
LEFT: Archie Howard, U.S. Marine and Cameron Hunt's great-great-granduncle posed for his military picture.
RIGHT: Cameron Hunt, Auburn student and veteran, snaps a selfie on Iwo Jima where Archie Howard was killed in
battle.
TOMETI
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ing all lives matter, yes I kind of roll my
eyes, not because I can't believe it's hap­pening,
but because I am so frustrated and
so disturbed that people would respond to
me as if I'm saying black lives are superior
to other folks,"' Tometi said.
Tometi said Black Lives Matter was a
movement created as a response to sys­tematic
oppression that began during the
Regan, Clinton and Bush Sr. administra­tions.
This oppression, according to To­meti,
targeted low-income Americans and
black people especially.
"To be clear, Black Lives Matter is a hu­man
rights movement," Tometi said.
Tometi said the U.S. should do more to
invest in community and divest from op­pression.
She said in her world, people
would not get arrested for jumping turn­stiles
at subways because they could not
afford it.
"It is not your responsibility to convince
people of your humanity," Tometi said.
The best way to transform the system is
to organize, Tometi said. She said there's
no shortcut to organizing and it's often
difficult, so people have to learn the sci­ence
and the art of organizing.
"There's this phrase that you got to be
at the table, to have a seat at the table and
it's like sometimes it doesn't hold so you
might have to grab your seat at the ta­ble,
or you might have to question the ex­istence
of the entire table itself, which is
kind of where I'm at," Tometi said. "Let's
flip the table over."
Tometi said she's seen oppression first­hand,
growing up in Phoenix, Arizona.
She said her dad even had to get rid of the
family car because of such frequent racial
profiling.
Tometi studied history at the Universi­ty
of Arizona, where her research began.
She said she studied the Holocaust and saw
parallels to the modern-day treatment of
immigrants. This motivated Tometi to
start her activist work by providing aid to
undocumented immigrants.
"We know what's right," Tometi said.
"We know we're righteous. We know
when the history or herstory books are
written, we're going to be on the right side
of that so we just have to stay true to our
convictions."
Tomteti's three pillars — faith, joy and
justice — are what BSU is focusing Black
History Month on. BSU President John
Blanding was "star-struck" as he was able
to moderate the discussion with Tometi
on stage in front of the 123 students who
swiped their tiger cards at the doors.
Tometi explained the meaning of the
three pillars. She's rooted in her Christian
faith, which guides the work she does to­day.
Joy is a person's expression and the
core of humanity, and justice is a way that
people display their love.
Tometi was asked about her thoughts
on Black Panther, a recent movie praised
for its portrayal of a black superhero.
Tometi said she loved that the movie
gave the message that it is okay to be proud
to be black person. She loved the thought
experiment of what a world would be like
without colonization, she said.
IWO JIMA
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the battle his uncle fought in and his family histo­ry
as a youg man.
Peggy put him in contact with Archie's young­er
brother, Ted Howard, who was in the U.S.
Coast Guard. Ted sent photos, told him stories
over the phone and Cameron's passion grew.
He graduated from Auburn High School and
moved on to Auburn University where he re­ceived
his first Bachelor's degree. He enlisted in
the U.S. Marine Corps right after and his first de­ployment
was to Europe, but soon after he land­ed
in Japan.
Iwo Jima was the first island invaded by Amer­ican
troops and the Japanese fought for to defend
the island because of it's cultural importance.
"Iwo Jima is in the middle of nowhere," Hunt
said. "It's about 5 miles long and 2 and a half miles
wide. It's just a volcanic island in the middle of
the ocean."
Having lost a family member in that battle,
Hunt had dreamed of the day he would land on
the island. The history he had read about and the
stories he listened to Ted tell were just enough for
him to yearn for a trip.
Six trips were planned and every single one
was tanked. One of the trips was canceled because
thejapanese found remains from the batde. Cam­eron
said thejapanese view Iwo Jima as an open
grave because so many bodies were sealed off in
caves and never recovered.
Cameron said it was the same for many of the
marines. His uncle's wife was notified of his death
through a telegram. Cameron pointed the photo
of the telegram that Ted had sent him with won­der
in his eyes.
"I spent about a year in Japan," Hunt said. "Ev­ery
year, there is a handful of CI -30s that fly out
there to do trips. It's a pretty common trend that
in the last few minutes, something happens and it
gets canceled."
On July 25, 2017, Cameron caught a break
and left for Iwo Jima. They landed on the small
airstrip that is maintained by thejapanese forc­es
and 75 soldiers took off toward Mt. Suribachi,
the iconic scene of where approximately 40 sol­diers
ran up to plant the flag.
Only about a half of a dozen raised a small flag
where Cameron stood now.
"We had enough time to make the length of
the island, summit Mt. Suribachi, see where the
flag was raised, making it down to the landing
beached and then try to make it back to the bird
before it was time to leave."
Cameron passed equipment of all type while
walking up the dirt path toward the mountain.
Tanks, anti-aircraft guns, landing vehicles, shrap­nel
and shell castings lie scattered below the sol­diers
as the husde up the mountain.
"It was an experience unlike any other," Hunt
said. "It is making my hair stand up just thinking
about it right now."
Cameron said the journey up the mountain
was extremely steep and a rough mission over­all.
He said batding the heat and the altitude took
everything out of him. He thought about the sol­diers
fighting the battle of the land while under
constant attack and was humbled.
He believes most of the soldiers with him on
the trip were there for the history — to honor the
5,900 soldiers who sacrificed their lives. Camer­on
said he had read, dreamed and thought about
Iwo Jima his whole life and being there was inspi­rational
in ways he couldn't explain.
"There's one thing that really drives me cra­zy,"
Hunt said. "It seems like people don't appreci­ate
history the way they should — all the sacrific­es
it took to get us where we are. It's not just text
in history book or a documentary on TV. They
don't really grasp what it took."
SGA OFFICERS
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"There are so many things
that we are working on that he is
knowledgeable on," Block said.
"Hell bring a lot to the table."
Block, Burney and Simmons in­terviewed
11 candidates for the six
executive; positions, grading them
with a "SWOT analysis" based on
their strengths, weaknesses, exter­nal
opportunities and threats.
"We figured out what each indi­vidual
would bring to the table and
how they would gel well, all work­ing
together," Block said. "If we
have problems working, that's not
good for the students, that's not
good for the SGA and it's not good
for all of Auburn."
Four of the newly selected exec­utive
officers — Starr, Mackenzie
Yelton, Austin Chandler and Bailey
Hand — come from assistant vice
president roles in SGA while the
rest held Student Senate seats last
year. Block, Ally Arthur and Sim­mons
were business senators, while
Schyler Burney and Jordan Kramer
were liberal arts senators.
"I wanted to do something that's
tangible not just run on something
that would get votes," Block said.
"We're still meeting as a group to­gether
and figuring out what Au­burn's
doing already and what we
can do."
This year's executive board is
lacking any black representation.
Block said the disparity was not in­tentional,
but the executive officers
are diverse in other ways. Three of
the six appointees are women, and
one officer, Kramer, executive vice
president of outreach, is gay.
"There's ijiore to diversity than
what meets the eye," Block said. "I
realize that from what meets the
eye we don't meet that visual repre­sentation
of what people are look­ing
for. But I don't want people to
think that we don't have that di­verse
mindset, diverse opinions at
the table."
Block's two most recent prede­cessors,
Jacqueline Keck and Jesse
Westerhouse, both made moves to
fill their initial cabinets with at least
one black member.
"This is something that we con-standy
talk about," Block said. "We
are aware. It would be another story
if this wasn't picking at our hearts
and our brains."
Block said he wasn't aware of any
openly gay executive officers in re­cent
years.
"He (Kramer) is going to do an
incredible job, just like everybody
else on our executive team," Block
said.
The new executive officers, se­lected
last week and announced this
weekend, will take office later this
month on Feb. 25 when SGA tran­sitions
officially take place. Stu­dents
chose Block in a runoff on
Feb. 8. Since then, the top three of­ficials
have been working to select
their top officers.
"It was tough because you are so
limited on time," Block said. "We
could take four weeks out of the
year to go to the bottoms of every
single corner on Auburn's campus,
but with the crew that we inter­viewed
and with this exec team, I'm
very excited."
The candidates will need to be
confirmed by the Student Senate.
The top three elected SGA offi­cials
work together to select the ex­ecutive
officers. From there, the ex­ecutive
officers move on to select
assistant vice presidents. Togeth­er,
the executive officers and assis­tant
vice presidents work to select
the remainder of cabinet, a group
of more than 70 people that im­plement
SGA initiatives, programs
and outreach campaigns.
Block said he and his team will
continue to seek out diverse per­spectives
and backgrounds for cab­inet
positions.
"We're not done yet," Block said.
"We have AVP applications coming
out, and we do have the rest of cab­inet
to fill."
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,2018
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THEPLAINSMAN.COM OPINION
OUR VIEW
Proposed school gun bill is a foolhardy thought
By EDITORIAL BOARD
Spring 2018
Another mass shooting last Wednesday put the nation
back in mourning. It also placed lawmakers in a scramble
to see who can find a Second Amendment friendly solution
the fastest.
State Rep. Will Ainsworth from Guntersville believes he's
found it.
Ainsworth, a canditate for lieutenant governor this year,
proposed arming certain teachers — creating a diligent army
prepped and ready to take out a threat. He's working on a
bill that would allow teachers, coaches or other faculty who
want to to arm themselves during school hours to do so.
This idea is absurd.
An active shooter situation is a horrible and chaotic event.
The shooter often turns out to be someone known to the
victims, whether a fellow classmate or colleague, adding to
the mass confusion of the situation.
In school shootings, teachers, coaches and faculty already
have the tremendous responsibility of gathering their stu­dents,
getting their rooms locked down and seeking a safe
evacuation route.
Active shooter training, such as programs offered at Au­burn,
provide lessons on barricading doors and working on
evacuatiop plans. Only as a last result do they ever mention
confronting the shooter.
T o switch the script and put a gun in the hands of teachers,
giving them the task to find and take out a shooter, is an un­reasonable
and dangerously ardent plan of action.
Ainsworth's bill would provide training for these teachers
to equip themselves to take out a shooter. Although spending
on K-12 education is low and teachers aren't provided with
up-to-date textbooks or basic supplies like pencils, Alabama
will somehow find the money to train a homeroom militia.
Granted, if this plan was airtight and able to save children's
lives, then there's no price tag that would be too much to pay.
But the funding for training isn't nearly the biggest flaw with
this plan.
Arming teachers would place an immense amount of trust
with them. But, as mentioned before, the actor in an active
shooter situation often turns out to be someone known to
the victims.
In 2010, a professor at University of Alabama in Hunts-ville
opened fire on her colleagues, killing three and injuring
GARRETT JOHNSON/CARTOONIST
Representative Will Ainsworth is working on a bill to allow teachers to carry guns in school.
three more. Adding more guns to an equation does not guar­antee
they end up in the hands of a "good guy."
Further, adding more guns to the situation creates more
confusion for law enforcement when they arrive on the
scene. There's no cheat sheet for who the shooter is and who
is just a teacher trying their best in a situation.
A law enforcement official responding to the situation
needs to be able to quickly identify the shooter and remove
them from the situation. Armed teachers roaming the halls
needlessly complicates this objective and can have tragic cir-consequences.
Supporters of a bill with these measures may argue that
teachers should be armed to deter a would-be school shooter,
not necessarily to stop one. They hope a shooter will think
twice about opening fire against students if they believe
they'll be met with a physics teacher who's packing.
This hope requires the mind of a school shooter to be ra­tional,
able to look at the risks involved with their despica­ble
action and determine whether it's smart to carry it out.
School shooters don't think like this.
Often, active shooters recognize they're going to die or be
arrested following their actions. Adding another deterrent
by way of hastily arming the first adult who volunteers to
carry a gun would not effectively prevent their crime.
Even if a school never experiences an active shooter situ­ation,
guns still have no place yi any learning environment.
They can add volatility to heated situations and make stu­dents
feel unsafe.
Measures need to be taken to prevent a school shooting
from happening in the first place. This means improving and
funding the structures we have to deal with mental health
problems and implementing common sense gun safety leg­islation.
Believing this epidemic is one you can shoot your way
out of is a flawed mentality and one that could lead to more
deaths.
HER VIEW HER VIEW
Job interviews: the good, the bad, the ugly Congress, give me a number
By CHRISTIE SHIOVITZ
Contributing Columnist
The interview process becomes much more fa­miliar
and much more real in college. We tran­sition
from interviews for part-time jobs at lo­cal
stores and restaurants into interviews for full-time
careers.
It is typical for anyone older and more experi­enced
to offer tips and tricks, but they can be con­tradictory.
I have been told, for example, to make
sure to be myself but "not too much because you
still want to be professional."
No matter how much advice someone gives
you or how much it makes sense, it can be diffi­cult
to prepare for any unknown questions. How­ever,
some questions have survived the test of
time and are still used frequently. How you pre­pare
for them can make all the difference.
So, here we have the good, the bad and the
ugly.
The Good:
Do you have any questions for me? This is
commonly asked after the interviewer gives a
brief description and asks the interviewee some
questions. It is important to have done research
on the company and the job to have some well-crafted
questions that stand out. These questions
should be thought provoking and show prepared­ness
and interest in the position.
Tell me about yourself. Not so much of a ques­tion
as a command, but it can be expected in most
interviews. This gives you the opportunity to tell
the interviewer your strengths and relevant expe­rience
or accomplishments rather than give them
your life story.
I was told the formula for a good "tell me
about yourself" answer is present + past + fu­ture.
Mention things you are currently doing or
are involved in and transition how the experi­ence
you've had has enhanced your knowledge,
and then explain why it makes you excited to start
this new position.
Why should we hire you? This can be confused
with the above because it's another opportunity
to touch on your strengths. However, it's more
important to show them your ability, willingness
and why you're a good fit for the job in an answer
to this question.
The Bad:
What is your greatest strength? This question
is considered less difficult because you can adapt
your answer to whatever the position is looking
for. Whether they need communication skills,
leadership, anything of the sorts - there's your
answer.
The Ugly:
What is your greatest weakness? Who really
wants to admit their greatest weakness to their
potential future employer? The only reason for
this question is to show your transparency, but
other than that, it seems unnecessary.
What previous experience do you have that re­lates
to this job? This is one of the worst ques­tions
for college students. Many of us have lit­tle
to no real experience, so we have to find ways
to buff up what we do have. Also, the interview­er
should have seen your resume and seen what
you've done, so they kind of already know the an­swer.
These questions have come up in interview
after interview because they are timeless. That
makes them predictable and easier to prepare for.
As you apply to internships and jobs, keep in
mind it's important to be prepared (and maybe be
yourself but not too much), and go in with con­fidence.
The views expressed in columns do not necessarily
reflect the opinion of The A uburn Plainsman.
By CAMILLE MORGAN
Contributing Columnist
Republicans are in control of both
houses of Congress, the executive branch
and have nominated 24 federal judges in
the past year.
So, I'm going to need them, or anyone
particularly in favor of their leadership, to
give me a number.
The number isn't 20, which is how
many children were killed at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newton, Connect­icut.
The number isn't 96, which is how
many Americans are killed on any aver­age
day by a gun.
The number isn't 13,000, which is how
many people die every year due to gun ho­micides.
The number isn't 1,500, which the
amount of mass shootings that have oc­curred
since Sandy Hook in 2012.
I'm looking for a number that merits
actual congressional action. The ones list­ed
don't seem to be high enough to war­rant
more than thoughts and prayers.
The Manchin-Toomey Bill proposed
that background checks be required for all
gun sales between private dealers includ­ing
gun shows and websites that sell guns.
It failed in 2013 after a successful lobby­ing
effort that insisted the bill would es­tablish
a list to track all gun owners - a
false claim.
You may remember that there seemed
to be traction on legislation banning
bump stocks - an accessory that converts
semi-automatic weapons into fully auto­matic
ones - after the Las Vegas shooting
in October. It has not passed.
These are only a few of a long list of
many failed attempts.
Total inaction by our government
means accepting the current stats on gun
deaths. Every single member of congress
that is in favor of the current process to
obtain a firearm is accepting 1,500 mass
shootings a year.
Fifteen-thousand people died from
heroin in 2015, and that's considered a cri­sis.
Is 13,000 not high enough to warrant a
background check at a gun show?
Like the rest of our rights as Ameri­cans,
the 2nd Amendment is not an invi­tation
for unchecked behavior. Freedom
of speech does not include yelling "fire" in
a movie theater.
My point is not to debunk every anti-gun
reform myth one by one. I'm merely
asking what is worthy of a single piece of
legislation that signals that these numbers
are no longer acceptable.
We have a single party in control of
the government. At any time, they can
pass meaningful legislation to - at a min­imum
- attempt to decrease these num­bers.
The current minority party has been
pleading to pass meaningful gun reform
for decades.
So what's the number? How many par­ents
have to drop their child off at school
for the final time? This is not a rhetori­cal
question.
The views expressed in columns do not nec­essarily
rrflect the opinion of The Auburn
Plainsman.
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Black Girls Rock returns for second annual awards
By HANNAH WHITE
Campus Writer
Returning for the second year, Black Girls Rock, put on by
the National Society of Black Engineers, will provide a platform
honoring the many black women who serve as professors, pro­fessionals,
staff and students at Auburn.
"The purpose of Black Girls Rock is to recognize black wom­en
in the community for what they do," said Taylor Hargrove,
programs chair for the National Society of Black Engineers.
Modeled after the B.E.T. awards, Black Girls Rock is a way
to promote the accomplishments of black women on Auburn's
campus and in the surrounding community.
"1 definitely think there needs to be more events like that on
campus where it's planned out really well, gives people a chance
to dress up and support their communities on Auburn's cam­pus,"
said Carmen Stowe, senior in software engineering.
While there are some new awards being introduced this
year, there are also a few awards that will be presented for
the second year. The Shot Caller Celebrant Award, the Liv­ing
Legend Award, the Community Change Agent award
and the Social Humanitarian Award are all returning to
Black Girls Rock.
For this year, Black Girls Rock will be introducing the
Young, Black and Talented award for the first time. This
award will honor a student who expresses herself through
the arts and uses her talents to help society.
There will also be four appreciation awards presented at
this year's Black Girls Rock. The appreciation awards will go
to the women on campus who work in the Foy Food Court,
the Student Center and as custodial workers.
"We don't really recognize that they do a lot on campus
for us, and without them, campus wouldn't run smoothly,"
Hargrove said.
Members of NSBE think Black Girls Rock has the abili­ty
to grow into a bigger event, and they hope that each year
brings more campus participation and award opportunities.
"Eventually we would like a scholarship to be associated
with Black Girls Rock," Hargrove said.
Stowe, the coordinator of last year's event, said she would
love for the event become a part of Auburn's traditions.
In its first year, about 150 students, faculty and family
members attended Black Girls Rock, and both Hargrove and
Stowe hope to see this number continue to grow over the
coming years.
"Don't think of it as an exclusive event but instead that
we're giving the Auburn community a window into a differ­ent
subsection of the Auburn Family they haven't seen be­fore
or interacted a lot with," Stowe said.
Additional information about the event and each individ­ual
award is available on Instagram under the account @au-burnblackgirlsrock.
The event will be held Sunday, March 25 at 6 p.m. in the
Student Center Ballroom.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT
LOREN KIMMEL/CAMPUS EDITOR
Bernard Lafayette visits the memorial of Viola Liuzzoon Monday, Feb. 19.
'Overcome that fear by showing courage
Civil rights activist and visiting professor Bernard Lafayette on
desegregating the South and the Selma voter registration movement
By SAMANTHA STRUNK
Campus Writer
Tampa, Florida, native Bernard
Lafayette is a civil rights activist who
found his voice - and his seat - as a
student in Nashville when he began
participating in the Nashville sit-in
movement in 1960.
Once the Nashville sit-ins ended, it
was time to hit the road, and Lafay­ette
joined the Freedom Riders.
"I kept going back and forth to
school for a semester or a year at a
time, and then when the Freedom
Rides came, I went and joined the
Freedom Rides," Lafayette said.
When the Freedom Rides were
over, he went back to school for a se­mester
or so, and then got involved in
working with the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee full-time in
Selma, Alabama.
SNCC, an organization Lafayette
helped found, was conceived in April
1960 when Ella Baker, a staff member
for Martin Luther King Jr., prompt­ed
student sit-in groups from various
cities to create a united independent
student group.
"We had completed desegregat­ing
the lunch counters in Nashville
before the group was formed, but
we brought together under the em­blem
of SNCC other student groups
who were still involved in the sit-ins
when the group was formed," Lafay­ette
said.
Lafayette took a break from college
and opted to work with a voter reg­istration
project sponsored by SNCC.
"SNCC people would go out and
establish an office in various plac­es
to help people get registered to
vote," Lafayette said. "And those plac­es
were mainly in the rural areas of
the South."
Lafayette's first assignment with
SNCC was to raise bond money for
three SNCC employees: Dion Di­amond,
who had been arrested for
"criminal anarchy" when he helped
people register to vote in Louisiana,
and Chuck McDew and Bob Zellner,
who were both arrested when they
visited Diamond.
Lafayette went from Atlanta to
Chicago to raise money, and when
the three were freed, he returned to
Atlanta to find only one voter regis­tration
project left — Selma, Alabama.
"When I got back to Atlanta for
my assignment, all the assignments
had been taken up. Except there was
one that had an 'X' through it where
two different teams of SNCC work­ers
had gone down to Selma in Dal­las
County," Lafayette said. "And they
came back with the same • eport, that
nothing could be done in Selma, Ala­bama,
and they had the same reason:
they said the white people in Dallas
County were too mean and the black
folks in Selma were too afraid."
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PROFILE
Meet BSU Pres. John Blanding
INGRID SCHNADER/PHOTO EDITOR
Blanding, BSU president, sits in the organization's cubicle.
By STEPHEN LANZI
Campus Writer
The motto of the Black Student
Union is "unity through education."
For some, those three words are
just that, but for John Blanding,
president of BSU, this has become a
way of life.
Blanding, a Birmingham native,
originally came to Auburn to study
international business, seeking a ca­reer
in corporate law. However, his
experiences at Auburn and with
BSU have led to a new goal of higher
education administration.
As is the case for many high
school students, Blanding had a pe­riod
of adjustment when coming to
college.
Blanding attended Jefferson
County International Baccalaure­ate,
where he was able to personally
know all of the 63 students he grad­uated
with, which was not the case
when he came to Auburn.
"When I got here, I was shocked
to see 28,000 students on a cam­pus,"
Blanding said. "I can remem­ber
calling my mom saying, 'Hey, I
don't know if I necessarily want to
be here,' just because 1 came here by
myself. 1 didn't know anybody, I just
went to class, and then I went back
home. My Auburn experience was
not what it is now."
After not initially having a place
to go to feel comfortable with people
he could relate to, Blanding was able
to find a balance between comfort
and branching out through BSU.
"BSU is really where I found my
family, where I found my purpose
here on campus, and from there,
1 was able to venture out into dif­ferent
organizations and meet new
people," Blanding said.
Today, Blanding believes it's im­portant
to have friend groups and
spaces where you feel comfortable,
but it is also important to branch out
and experience new things to be­come
comfortable with being un­comfortable.
Blanding joined BSU on a whim
during the second semester of fresh­man
year. He started as publici­ty
chair before becoming executive
vice president. He then was elected
president and has been serving for
the past year.
Blanding said his involvement
with BSU was a major factor in his
recent decision to change career
paths.
"I decided I was more passionate
about advocating for groups and be­ing
able to promote inclusion and di­versity
on different campuses," Blan­ding
said. "I think it's kind of cool be­cause
111 be able to-be like BSU pres­ident
as a career."'
He said growing up with both
parents being educators, allocation
of resources in areas like education
inequality has been an issue that
has always struck a nerve with him,
which is where he wants to make his
impact.
"I really want to uncover a way for
us to remedy the achievment gap,
for all kids to receive the same level
of education, the same quality of ed­ucation,"
he said.
Taffye Benson Clayton, associate
provost and vice president for the
Office of Inclusion and Diversity,'
has become like a second mom for
Blanding. She has been an example
for Blanding of how education par­lays
into diversity and inclusion.
"We're living in a globalized
world," Blanding said. "We're in an
age where people are different, and
we have to learn to accept those dif­ferences
in everyday life. In every as­pect
of our daily lives, we're affected
by diversity and inclusion."
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Lafayette was undaunted.
"So nothing could be accomplished, so they
had put an 'X' through Selma, scratched it
off the map, you know, we're not going,"
Lafayette said. "So I said, 'Okay, I want to
be director of a project.' They said, 'Well,
you ought to take a look at it.' I said, 'No
111 take it.™
Rather than rush to Selma, Lafayette
researched the city in Tuskegee's library.
When he finished his research, he head­ed
to Selma. Amelia Boynton, who has be­come
known as the "matriarch of the vot­ing
rights movement," offered Lafayette
office space for SNCC, and the two be­came
close friends.
Lafayette, along with many others, be­gan
to mount a campaign focused on get­ting
people registered to vote, and they
were successful.
"We had a hard time trying to get a mass
meeting because people weren't ready,"
Lafayette said. "But we had to help them
overcome that fear by showing courage,
and they responded. So that was the begin­ning
of the Selma voter registration cam­paign."
After his work in Selma, Lafayette trav­eled
to Chicago to participate in the Chi­cago
movement and from there was re­cruited
by Martin Luther King, Jr. to join
his organization, the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. Lafayette joined
King's staff in 1967 as national programs
director. In 1968, King appointed Lafay­ette
as the national coordinator of his last
project, the Poor People's Campaign. La­fayette
was with King five hours before
the civil rights leader was shot and killed
in April 1968.
The 50-year anniversary of King's death
is coming up this year.
Since the civil rights movement, Lafay­ette
has served at many educational insti­tutions
and organizations, and he is now a
visiting professor of global leadership and
nonviolence at Auburn. He continued ad­vocating
for civil rights and nonviolence
through a number of avenues and said that
today, there is still plenty to be done in
terms of progress.
One area Lafayette believes still needs to
be addressed is voter turnout.
"We have to make sure that the people
who are qualified to vote actually vote,"
Lafayette said. "Because it's one thing to
get registered, and we need all the people
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Monday, Feb. 19.
to get registered who qualify. Then, they
must turn out to vote."
He cited Alabama's latest Senate election
as a win in terms of voter turnout.
"When people decide they're going to
get out and vote for someone who repre­sents
them, then you can see a difference,"
Lafayette said.
Lafayette also mentioned the necessi­ty
to educate America's youth on govern­ment
operations.
"Because a lot of people do not have an
appreciation for how the government op­erates,
all the different departments, what
their responsibilities are, what their lim­itations
are and what their duties should
be," Lafayette said. "So educating our
young people as to how the system oper­ates
is very important because then they
can participate in a very effective way and
also make sure that the people who are
supposed to represent us are representing
us and not themselves."
In the spirit of a movement that defined
his life, Lafayette emphasized nonviolence
and education. He said it is a responsibili­ty
of citizens to closely examine violence
in colleges, high schools and overall com­munities
and see how people can address
the issue.
"I think the way you do it is to institu­tionalize
nonviolence in our education­al
systems," Lafayette said. "And you teach
people how to deal with conflict and be
able to manage conflict without violence."
He said managing nonviolence with
people who gravitate towards violence on
account of other issues should be handled
in a "very scientific way."
"We have ways, we have means, we
have knowledge, so all we need is the non­violence
that Martin Luther King talk­ed
about," Lafayette said. "How do you
respond to the situations to prevent vio­lence?"
In 1975, Lafayette contributed to estab­lishing
a program called the Alternative to
Violence Project, centered around teach­ing
inmates how to handle conflict by us­ing
nonviolence training.
The program was successful and is now
implemented in 60 countries and 30 U.S.
states. Examples like this are why Lafay­ette
thinks the implementation of nonvi­olence
education in schools is a reasonable
goal that would produce favorable results.
"You could learn how to deal with con­flict
with nonviolence just like you learn
math and English and other things," Lafay­ette
said. "It's a skill."
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Blanding said one of the biggest lessons he's
learned is to not get mad about the way other peo­ple
view the world. He said the key to any of these
issues is education.
"Not everybody knows what a micro-aggres-sion
is," Blanding said. "Not everybody knows that
something they say may perpetuate racism. It's all
about the way we were raised and the backgrounds
and the groups we've dealt with."
Blanding does not think people should forget
about color, but rather people should celebrate it,
especially during Black History Month.
"I definitely think that race plays a large role in
the way that we think and the way that the world
operates," Blanding said. "It's going to be something
that's difficult to ignore. It's like running through a
maze. Instead of trying to get around it, use it as a
platform for something greater."
BSU's theme for Black History Month is "Creat­ing
a Conversation in Color."
Black History Month is one of Blanding's favor­ite
times of the year.
He sees the month as not only a way to observe
the achievements of African-Americans but to also
celebrate inclusion and diversity.
BSU hosted Opal Tometi, one of the founders of
Black Lives Matter, as part of BSU's many events
during Black History Month. BSU is focusing the
month on Tometi's three pillars - faith, justice and
joy.
Blanding said he wants people to realize BSU is
not just for black students.
"Numbers are great," Blanding said. "We would
love to have increased retention for students of col­or,
but at the end of the day, it's about the quality of
students that we have here. I think Auburn is tak­ing
great strides in that respect."
Blanding said the biggest change he has seen in
his time with BSU is the expansion of.the organiza­tion.
He said he was amazed at a meeting last year
when more white students were at a meeting than
black students.
"We consider BSU a safe space," Blanding said.
"So, any and everybody can come and tell their sto­ry.
We may say we don't agree with it, but we're not
going to invalidate your experience or your story."
As a senior, Blanding is in the final months of his
time as BSU president.
"I'm a crier," Blanding said. "I cried when I transi­tioned
[into office], I cried when our last vice pres­ident
left, I cried when the old president left. So, I
know I'm going to be a mess when I'm done."
Finishing out his term as president is a bitter­sweet
thought for Blanding.
He greatly appreciates the influence that BSU
has made on his life and looks forward to trying to
bring the BSU motto into his new career path.
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From slave to Auburn businesswoman
The only black person with a marked grave in Pine Hill Cemetery serves as a reminder of Auburn s past
By EDUARDO MEDINA
Community Writer
At sunup, Pine Hill Cemetery opens its iron gates, and the faint­ly
eroded marks of birth and death become visible from Auburn's
dawn. The oldest grave dates back to 1830, and the newest to 2010.
About 40 yards away from the tombstones of mayors and Auburn
University presidents, and between two great pine trees, lies the
burial grounds of slaves.
In the 1950s, over 1,100 graves were cataloged in Pine Hill. A
ground penetrating radar on the area conducted by Auburn Heri­tage
Association in 2010 proved slaves were also once buried there.
Out of those, only one has a marked grave site, now situated under
the shade of a tree.
A 4-foot tall, chiseled slab of marble stands northward beside
Hare Avenue. Swirling shades of grey cast a cloudy hue on the grave,
and the inscribed name reads "Gatsy Rice." She is the sole black per­son
with a marked grave in Pine Hill.
According to the 2010 book "Aubum Sweet Auburn: History,
Stories, and Epitaphs of Pine Hill Cemetery," Rice was from New
Orleans and came to Auburn in the 1840s, where she was enslaved
as a nurse in the Milton family's house. After emancipation, Rice
moved across the street from what is now Sdmford Hall.
President of the Auburn Heritage Association Mary Norman co-edited
the book and spoke of Rice's life in Auburn with detail.
"She sewed military uniforms for cadets because all students were
in the military prior to World War I at Auburn, so she became a
seamstress and had her own business," Norman said.
According to Norman, a man was so impressed with Rice's work
ethic and courage, he had an elegant tombstone built for her grave
years after she died.
The tombstone towers above the pine-straw-covered ground to
this day, and the admiration she earned shows in the emboldened
font etched across the base, spelling out in large letters "Rice." The
poise and strength Rice possessed as a successful black woman in
the South are reflected in the opaque tombstone with its firm rect­angular
build.
The other graves at Pine Hill are equally maintained in part be­cause
the Aubum Heritage Association donated $30,000 for clean­up
and $70,000 to put up a fence, which reduced vandalism. Auburn
Parks and Recreation Director Rebecca Richardson said she is also
determined to keep the historic site well kept
"We're in the process of doing some renovation projects there
right now that we hope will encourage people to come and enjoy it
because it's a very pretty cemetery," Richardson said.
Landscape areas are being put up near the entrance, and the light­ing
is being upgraded so the cemetery becomes more distinguish­able,
Richardson said. To further encourage visitation, seating areas
will be added near the flagpole, another a recent addition.
Chamelea gardens that once blossomed when Rice was a resident
of Auburn are being replanted, Richardson said.
The refurbishing could draw more visitors to Pine Hill and allow
people to appreciate the history preserved in the cemetery, not just
to see the final resting places of famous city and University figures
but also those of black residents who don't have a building named
after them or, in most cases, even a marker with their name on it
Auburn professor Kelly Kennington is a historian specializing in
slavery and the antebellum American South. She teaches a class fo­cusing
on African-American history and spoke on the significance
of studying this harrowing time in America. Kennington has visited
Pine Hill and upholds the importance of visiting such historical sites.
"The larger implications like, "Why does this matter? What can
this teach us about today?" are what really get me interested in visit­ing
historical sites," Kennington said.
A few graves at Pine Hill cemetery have inscribed how the person
died, while others, such as Rice's and some University presidents,'
have a plaque installed by the heritage association describing what
the person did in Auburn.
"When you visit a person's gravesite, you get a deeper under­standing
of both that person's story and why it matters," Kenning­ton
said.
A stroll through the cemetery showcases Auburn's history and its
development throughout time. Most of the graves are placed in the
middle and southern end of the cemetery.
The pines toward the west and east are planted firm like pillars,
each shading the burial ground of slaves from the fervent Southern
sun. Crowning the cemetery up in the north side rests Rice. Roots
from the giant pine trees reach the grave of Rice and encompass it
like a guardrail at a museum.
"Aged 63 years," reads the mark placed at the center of Rice's grave
- not an unusual lifespan for the time. The surrounding graves in
the cemetery tell similar stories.
At sunset, the light-polluted darkness settles, and the quote fix­ated
on the grave and memory of a former slave fades away into an
Auburn night.
"Gone to a bright home where grief cannot come," the grave
reads.
GOVERNMENT CULTURE
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Ward 8 City Councilman Tommy Dawson outside his home on Thursday,
Oct. 6,2016 in Auburn, Ala.
Councilman calls for
police in schools
By KAILEY BETH SMITH
Community Reporter
In the wake of a shoot­ing
at a South Florida high
school that claimed the lives of
17 students, Auburn Ward 8
Councilman Tommy Dawson
echoed the concerns of many
communities across the Unit­ed
States on Tuesday night: we
need to protect students.
Voices across the nation
have been crying out for more
safety precautions since school
shootings have become more
commonplace in the U.S. in
different ways. Some have
called for school policy chang­es,
increased regulations on
firearms or informational
training.
Dawson, who worked for
the Auburn Police Division
for 26 years, including a three-year
stint as police chief, pro­posed
that the city looks into
strategically placing officers in
each of the schools in the Au­burn
public school system.
At the council's regular
meeting Tuesday night, the
former police chief said that
due to the size and need of
the Auburn City Schools, he
would suggest having one of­ficer
per elementary school,
four to six in each of the mid­dle
schools and a minimum of
six at Auburn High School.
"Our children are our most
precious commodity," he said.
"I cannot imagine what these
parents are going through. 1
definitely don't want that to
happen here in Auburn, and I
would feel guilty if I did not do
all that I could do."
He cited his experience on
the force as a driving factor
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Featuring a team of Auburn alumni, the Piccolo lounge at The Hotel
at Auburn University has fostered a community of jazz fans in town
By JESSICA JERNIGAN
Community Writer
Nestled inside the Hotel at Au­burn
University is Piccolo, a bar and
lounge area that hosts live jazz every
Friday and Saturday night.
Adam Keeshan, who graduat­ed
from Auburn University in 2006,
started out as a bartender at The Ho­tel
and now is the assistant manager
of food and beverage and witnessed
the growth of the jazz lounge first­hand.
The hotel had a space that wasn't
generating any revenue, so it asked
the interior design program at the
University as one of their semester
projects to come up with something
different. The jazz lounge was the
winning concept.
"The design was an authentic jazz
lounge down to the art on the walls,
to the lighting, the food, the drinks
and, of course, the music," Keeshan
said.
The lounge is not what most would
associate with a city like Auburn and
looks similar to something one might
see in New York City, in part due to
the vision the team at The Hotel and
Hans van der Reijden, the managing
director of the hotel operations, cre­ated.
"Hans has this vision of that New
York feel of literally a narrow skinny
room that's very intimate," said Au­burn
alumnus Tim Chambliss, man­aging
partner of Modern Media Con­sulting
and owner of Four Star Music.
Chambliss has been a long time res­ident
of Auburn working as the Uni­versity's
gymnastics PA announc­er
and performing in his band, Kidd
Blue, which he formed in 1985.
While finding the praised perform­ers
that have come through the jazz
lounge, Chambliss and his band have
also performed with their music high­ly
influenced by jazz sounds.
"Jazz is truly an emotional art form,
and with the last couple years being
emotional with the state of affairs in
our country, I think to some degree
people come here and try to escape
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Tim Chambliss talks about the Piccolo Jazz Lounge at The Hotel at Auburn University on Tuesday, Feb. 20,2018.
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The Auburn Police Di­vision
has identified the
victim of a fatal Feb. 15
shooting.
Cedric Jerome Parker,
30, from Aubum died last
Thursday after succumbing
to a single gunshot wound,
police said in a release.
Early results of the in­vestigation
point to Parker
and the suspect or suspects,
who haven't been identi­fied,
having a previous con­flict
The Auburn Police Di­vision
began investigat­ing
the shooting Thursday
night in the 900 block of
Old Mill Road.
Police responded to a
report of shots fired in the
area at about 10:18 p.m.
on Feb. 15. When they ar­rived,
police found a de­ceased
30-year-old male,
who was later identified to
be Parker.
The investigation is be­ing
treated as a homicide.
Police said early Friday the
case didn't appear to be ran­dom
and involved two peo­ple
who know each other.
The APD, the Lee
County Coroner's Office
and the Department of Fo­rensic
Science Medical Ex­aminer's
Office are investi­gating
the death. Anyone
with information is en­couraged
to call 334- 501-
3140 or at die tip line, 334-
246-1391.
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Additional arrests made in
trafficking of 13-year-oSd
On Monday, Auburn
police arrested and charged
city residents Laquinta
Shamon Tarbert, 35, and
Courtney Cortez Morgan,
31, with first-degree hu­man
trafficking in connec­tion
with the October kid­napping
of a 13-year-old
girL
Two men, Brian D.
Askew and Corey B.
Heard, were arrested in
January with the kidnap­ping
and rape of a young
giri who ran away from the
Lee County Youth Devel­opment
Center in October.
The 13-year-old girl left
the facility and was picked
up by "several unknown
males" in a vehicle, police
said. They allegedly took
her to a residence in Au­burn,
held her against her
will and sexually assault­ed
her.
According to a release
from the Aubum Polioe Di­vision,
Tarbert and Mor­gan
were developed as sus­pected
accomplices in the
case and the two were ar­rested
at an Auburn resi­dence.
They were transport­ed
to the Lee County De­tention
Center where they
are each being held on a
$100,000bond.
Tuskegee woman killed
by car near Bent Creek
Kalishani Lanet Max­well,
41, of Tuskegee died
Sunday morning after be­ing
hit by a car near the
Bent Creek Road exit of In­terstate
85 in Aubum.
Aubum police, fire and
EMS paramedics respond­ed
to a call of a pedestri­an
being struck by a vehi­cle
near exit 57 early Sun­day
morning, police said in
a release.
When officers arrived
on the scene shortly after
12:40 a.m., they found an
unresponsive woman ly­ing
in the road near the end
of the exit 57 ramp, the Lee
County Coroner's Office
said.
Maxwell had no identi­fication
on her person, and
on Wednesday the coro­ner's
office confirmed her
identity.
Lee County Coroner Bill
Harris said Sunday that she
died instandy from blunt-force
impact injuries. Har­ris
pronounced Maxwell
dead at 105 a.m.
Polioe said a preliminary
investigation indicated she
was walking in the road­way
when she was struck
by the vehicle.
No charges have been
filed, and the Aubum Po­lice
Division is still investi­gating
the incident, police
said on Wednesday.
The driver of the vehicle,
a 19-year-old female from
Tuskegee, did not sustain
any injuries and remained
on the scene. She was driv­ing
a 2012 Honda Accord,
police said.
Maxwell's body was sent
to the Alabama Depart­ment
of Forensic Sciences
Medical Examiner's Office
in Montgomery for a post­mortem
investigation and
identification.
Police have asked that
anyone with information
regarding the accident call
334-501 -3140 or the anon-education
are some of the
most important things to
have in times of emergency,
Dawson said.
"If you're thinking about
it, you'll know what to do,"
he said. "It's something we
sit around and talk about too
much. We need to actually get
something done."
Dawson will soon begin
pushing for evaluations of the
current resources and to get
officers in the schools sooner
rather than later.
The proposal will be
brought before Police Chief
Paul Register.
Surge Trampoline Park
finds success in Opelika
By PAUL BROCK
Campus Writer
The first Surge Trampoline Park
opened on Jan. 28 2017, in Opelika, and
the franchise is now beginning to spread
across the Southeast.
"We just want to provide a fun and a
safe place," said Chase Higgens, the gen­eral
manager for the Opelika Surge Park.
"We want to be a spot where you can
hang out and have fun."
The park features a variety of tram­poline
activities including dodgeball and
basketball dunking.
Higgins said that the most popular age
range for Surge customers is 12-15. but
all ages are welcome.
"We've hosted plenty of sororities in
the year that we've been open," Higgins
said.
Surge hosts a college night every
Thursday from 5-9 p.m. during the
school year where students who pres­ent
a student ID can get an hour of access
for $9.95. Organizations can also rent the
park out.
"The big benefit that we have is we're
the largest of the indoor entertainment or
attraction places," Higgins said. "If you've
got a huge college group, you know, stu­dent
group or a sorority, a fraternity, it's
not one of those things where our ca­pacity
is so low that you have to split the
group up and do the activity all at differ­ent
times. We have such a large facility
that everyone can enjoy the activity all
at the same time, so that's what makes it
such a good place for college groups."
Higgins said that Surge is in the pro­cess
of creating a fitness class that uses the
trampolines.
Higgins also said they want to even­tually
add a "ninja warrior course" to the
Opelika park like other Surge parks have.
"Initially, when We drafted the plans
for this park, it was something we had
added to the plans, but at the last min­ute,
we decided not to put it here just
yet," said Higgins. "[The ninja warrior
course] was going to be kind of some­thing
that we use as we build up a bet­ter
base and got more comfortable in the
community."
Higgens said that several of Surge's
employees are Auburn students.
"Definitely an opportunity to do some
easy work with a schedule that works
around courses," Higgins said.
Surge is looking into selling season
passes in the future, Higgens added.
"We put a big emphasis on the clean­liness
of our park," Higgins said. "Beause
we believe, you know, we've got all the
attractions here to make it fun, but if
we're not making it clean and if we're not
revisiting our policies constantly, then
it's going to take a certain degree of the
fun out of it."
A physics lab at Auburn High School on Thursday, May 31,2017 in Auburn, Ala.
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behind the need to institute a
police presence at each of the
schools within the Auburn
system.
He said that not only would
it bring about a feeling of se­curity,
but officers could be
role models for the students.
In the elementary schools, he
said, having an officer pres­ence
could inspire the stu­dents,
improve officer rela­tions
and perhaps even pre­vent
criminality in the stu­dent's
future.
In speaking with The Plains­man
after the meeting's ad­journment,
he noted each
City Council meeting fea­tured
a security detail, some­thing
that most of the city's
schools lack.
The Auburn City Schools
operates as a K-12 program
with more than 8,000 stu­dents
in the 12 campuses
throughout the city. There
are nine elementary schools,
four kindergarten through
second-grade schools, four
third grade through fifth-grade
schools, one sixth-grade
school, one middle
school, one junior high and
one high school.
Auburn University Cam­pus
Safety and Security of­fered
two active shooter re­sponse
training sessions for
students this week at their
building on Magnolia Ave­nue.
The sessions were held
with the purpose of making
sure students were informed
about what to look for in an
active shooter situation, how
to stay safe and how to act
calmly but proactively in an
emergency situation.
Situational awareness and
Auburn students jump at Surge trampoline park in Opelika, Ala., on Thursday, Feb. 1,2018.
ments."
Regulars have been loyal to
the lounge that offers a refined
and different night out that is
separate from the usual down­town
routine most may expect.
The lounge is open to ev­eryone,
not just the guests at
the hotel, but it draws them in
Keeshan said.
"Our clients vary from
weekend to weekend and sea­son
to season, but it's a great
addition to their experience
if they want to come and en­joy
some amazing live talent,"
Keeshan said.
Performers come from the
Southeast, but there are a lot
of talented jazz musicians in
Auburn that people may not
know about.
"There is just a wealth of tal­ent
that has gone unrecognized
for so long, and this is a great
place to pull them in and show­case
their talent," Keeshan said.
Certain artists draw their
particular fans like Kenny "on
the keys" Heard, Kenyon Cart­er
and Grammy-nominated
trumpeter Darren English.
"It's not the same people ev­ery
weekend, and that's what
makes it so exciting and spe­cial,"
Keeshan said.
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that through the improvisation
and sound that jazz brings,"
Chambliss said. "People might
come here to hear something
they are looking for within the
music that they may need. You
may find something in your
soul that comes out through
a horn or any of the instru­
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Anfernee McLemore (24) dunks during the second half. Auburn vs UAB on Saturday, Dec. 9 in Auburn, Ala.
'PICK IT UP FOR ANFERNEE'
Auburn looking to Chuma Okeke, Horace Spencer to step up following injury to McLemore
By NATHAN KING
Assistant Sports Editor
Seconds before Auburn sophomore forward Anfernee
McLemore horrifically hit the South Carolina hardwood, the
fans donning garnet and black were as rambunctious as they
come.
Their Gamecocks, losers of six-straight at the time, were
leading the No. 10 Auburn Tigers by 22 with just over a minute
to play in the opening half.
Carolina guard Wesley Myers attacked the lane with a float­er,
triggering McLemore to leap for the rebound. Gruesome-ly,
the 6-foot-7, conference leader in shot blocks tripped on his
teammate Desean Murray, terrifyingly dislocating McLemore's
ankle.
In that moment, you could hear a pin drop in Colonial Life
Arena.
Murray, who was pleading with the official for an offensive
foul under the hoop, didn't even notice the injury next to him
for a few seconds. Gamecocks and Tigers quickly turned their
heads away — some even had to run. The Auburn bench imme­diately
huddled together, consoling one another.
Bruce Pearl hurried to McLemore's side, grabbing his hand
and urging him to look his coach in the eyes.
"1 just got to go out there and hold his hand," Pearl said af­ter
the loss. "1 got to try and calm him down. I got to go there
and have him not sit up and look at it. You got a potential for a
shock there. I wanted him to see my face."
As McLemore was being carted out of the arena, South Car­olina
head coach Frank Martin rushed over to offer his own en­couragement.
"Anfernee just want u to know that I'm still thinking of u,"
Martin tweeted after the game. "I've said plenty of (prayers) 4
u. Keep your faith God has your back."
Despite the first half filled with porous defense, lackluster
shot selection and McLemore's demoralizing exit, the Tigers
didn't quit. At one point in the second half, Auburn cut it down
to a 5-point South Carolina lead.
The then-tenth-ranked Tigers couldn't hold on howev­er,
suffering only their fourth loss of the season with as many
games remaining.
Less than 48 hours later, Pearl was able to evaluate
McLemore's surgery, which was originally expected to hold the
Warwick, Georgia product out four to six months.
The surgery was performed on McLemore's ankle and frac­tured
tibia, as well as the torn ligaments suffered.
"The surgery went extremely well," Pearl said Monday
morning on the SEC coaches teleconference. "Prior to the sur­gery
the doctors were talking about four to six months (until
McLemore returns), and after the surgery we're talking about
four months. It went that well."
"Thank you Auburn Family for all the love and support! Doc­tors
said I dislocated my ankle, fractured my tibia, and will need
surgery for some torn ligaments," McLemore tweeted. "Not to
worry, 111 be back in 4-6 months. War Eagle everybody."
Pearl now must search his remaining big men for
McLemore's replacement in the starting lineup. Junior Hor­ace
Spencer and freshman Chuma Okeke are the likely candi­dates,
and Pearl said Monday that he will allow Spencer to de­cide
which spot in the rotation he is more comfortable with.
Spencer was forced to step up in McLemore's absence in the
second half, turning in six points and four rebounds in the final
20 minutes to lead Auburn's comeback bid.
Spencer said that his play, as well as him team's, was fueled by
the thought of his teammate.
"I just saw my little brother go down and I had to pick it up
because I don't want him to see that we just gave up after he got
hurt," Spencer said. "I think we responded perfectly. Me, per­sonally,
I responded great. I feel like me getting that spark, even
though I didn't close the game the way I wanted to, it showed
my team that we're still in the game and we still can come back.
We should've come back and won,"
One of the few upperclassmen on the roster, Spencer was
tasked with lifting the team up after such a dispiriting incident
as McLemore's injury.
"It was sad in the moment," Spencer said. "A couple of guys
broke out in tears, me being one of them, but I feel like me be­ing
a leader of the team, I had to show the guys what we had
to do in the second half. We had to come back with a fire and a
spark and we had to pick it up for Anfernee."
Spencer worked to ensure that the young players, especial­ly
those who would fill the void left by McLemore, like Okeke,
didn't hang their heads.
"Chuma picked himself up," Spencer said. "I didn't tell Chu­ma
anything after that happened because I was taking it hard
myself, and to see how Chuma reacted after the fact, Chuma
had a great second half, so I know he was mentally ready to
play."
Auburn will try to push out distractions this Wednesday
against Alabama, one of only three SEC squads to record a win
against the Tigers this season. In January's victory, the Crimson
Tide inflicted most of their damage from the perimeter, opting
to stay away from the McLemore-guarded paint.
Spencer or Okeke will have to maintain that same defensive
prowess for Auburn to avoid a season sweep against its bitter
rival. One of the primary reasons for Auburn's success this sea­son
has been consistency in the rotations, as Pearl has seeming­ly
found his perfect nine-deep rotation. Now there's only eight.
Whichever rotation Pearl decides, Spencer echoed that the
name and number coinciding with the staring center position
is of little significance to a Tiger team playing in honor of their
teammate.
"Honestly, it really doesn't matter who starts, who doesn't
start," Spencer said. "I really don't care about starting or not,
I just want to win against Alabama and the next four games."
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Mustapha Heron (5) shoots from the 3-point line during Auburn vs. Georgia on Feb. 10,2018.
Tigers slide to No. 12, maintain SEC lead
ByZACHARYPIKE
Sports Writer
The road loss at South Carolina on Sat­urday
cost the Tigers two spots in the AP
poll, as Auburn dropped out of the top 10
to No. 12 this week. Auburn is currently
23-4 overall and 11-3 this season.
It was a crazy week for the top 10
throughout college basketball, as seven
teams in the top ten all lost at least one
game. Ohio State and Cincinnati both
lost two games last week.
Auburn still maintains a two-game
lead over the rest of the SEC with four
games to play. Tennessee, Florida, Al­abama
and Missouri all lost Saturday to
keep Auburn two games ahead of Ten­nessee.
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With Auburn's victory over Tennes­see
earlier in the season, Auburn holds
the tiebreaker over the Volunteers.
Auburn hosts Alabama Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. CST inside Auburn Arena. The
game will air on the SEC Network.
Auburn will end the week with a trip
to Gainesville to take on Florida on Sat­urday.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
CST on the SEC Network.
ByWILLSCHUETTE
Sports Writer
In the midst of coaching Auburn basketball to what could be its
best season in program history, Bruce Pearl's future on The Plains is
in doubt
Since former assistant Chuck Person was arrested and later indict­ed
on six federal corruption charges shortly before the season, Auburn
has been at the front of the FBI probe consuming college basketball
and it has left the university asking Pearl for answers.
"We've complied enough to still be here," Pearl said in a taped inter­view
which appeared on ESPN's College Gameday Saturday morn­ing.
"I wouldn't be coaching here if there were greater problems."
Auburn is conducting an ongoing internal investigation into the
men's basketball program which President Steven Leath has found
Pearl unwilling to fully cooperate with. Two of Pearl's assistants, Jor­dan
VerHulst and Frankie Sullivan, were put on paid administrative
leave in November and players Austin Wiley and Danjd Purifoy have
been ruled ineligible for this season by the NCAA.
"We don't know what's true and what isn't true," Pearl said. "We
know what's alleged. The university has put itself under a very strong
investigation to go through this process."
While Pearl's Tigers currently hold a record of 23-4 and are in the
mix to possibly daim a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tourna­ment,
the head coach is optimistic he will remain at Auburn for years
to come.
"I own this job," Pearl said. "I own Auburn basketball. It's mine. I'd
love to be able to have a legacy."
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No. 10 Auburn wins Ail-American Intercollegiate Championship
EQUESTRIAN
No. 2 Auburn outlasts No. 3 Aggies
By SPORTS STAFF
The No. 2 Auburn equestrian team picked
up its third-straight win over a Top 5 oppo­nent,
defeating Southeastern Conference ri­val
and No. 3 Texas A&M, 11-7, Saturday af­ternoon
at the Auburn University Equestrian
Center. The win moved the Tigers to 6-3 over­all
and 3-2 in SEC competition.
"This group has been performing so well as
a team," head coach Greg Williams said. "They
worked so hard to pull out this win and never
quit. This was a good win for us because it once
again solidified that we are good enough to ride
with anybody and we're ready to go again next
weekend."
It was a tight contest right to the end as Au­burn
held an 8-7 lead over TAMU with Rein­ing
remaining. Freshman Terri-June Grang­er
and junior Blair McFarlin each picked up a
tie to kick things off before freshman Deanna
Green earned her first career win in the event,
66.5-65.5, to give the Tigers a 9-7 advantage.
The next match proved a big one in many re­spects
as senior Alexa Rivard had to top Aggie
Madison Bohman's 72.5. After a solid ride on
Nash, the Suwanee, Ga., product was awarded
a 73 to secure the team win and also earn Most
Outstanding Performer for the event.
In addition, the victory gave Rivard her 35th
career win on the Plains, pushing her past Indy
Roper's 34 (2009-13) and into first place in the
Auburn record book for career reining wins.
"Every time I have walked out of the locker
room, I would see Indy's name at the top with
34," Rivard said. "I have looked up to her forev­er
because she is an amazing ride and amazing
leader. I wanted that spot so much and it feels
really good to finally get there."
"We're so proud of Alexa and it's fun to see
this happen for her," Williams added. "Indy
Roper was an Auburn great both in the arena
and out of the arena and Indy really helped Al­exa
become the great leader that she is in both
areas of the team. This really is special."
Junior Betsy Brown capped the discipline
with a 71-70 victory over Ashton Dunkel, giv­ing
the team its 11th point. The win also gave
Brown her team-leading sixth on the season.
The two rivals battled to a 5-5 tie at inter­mission
after great rides in both Equitation on
the Flat and Horsemanship.
The Flat crew put together a 4-1 perfor­mance
as a team over the Aggies. Junior Ash­ton
Alexander earned MOP honors with an 85-
72 victory vs. Brianna Peddicord. Junior Cait-lin
Boyle picked up her team-leading ninth win
in the event with 75 points, while classmate
Hayley Iannotti got her seventh win of the sea­son
with a 59-50 victory. Freshman Taylor St.
Jacques remained undefeated in Flat, topping
Alex Desiderio, 74-69.
Junior Lauren Diaz picked up a victory for
Auburn in Horsemanship for her sixth win of
the season. She bested Sarah Orsak, 73-72. The
Aggies took the event with a 4-1 overall mark.
In Equitation Over Fences, Auburn edged
TAMU, 3-2, to help give the Reining corps the
lead for the final event. Alexander secured the
sweep in Hunt Seat MOPs, earning a meet-best
87 points in her win. St Jacques edged Desid­erio
once again with an 82-79 victory, while
Boyle picked up 85 points for the W.
Auburn remains home for its final SEC
contest of the regular season, taking on No. 8
South Carolina. The Tigers and the Gamecocks
will face off at 11 a.m. CST Saturday, Feb. 24, at
the Auburn University Equestrian Center.
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The Feed the Family Fund is a meal
assistance program created to assist
students experiencing food insecurity.
The funds will be loaded onto the
recipients Tiger Card. Recipients
will only be able to use the funds at
campus dining venues.
Applications for the Feed the Family
Fund are open now and close Feb. 28.
E-mail auburncares@auburn.edu or
call 334-844-1305 to apply.
By PETER SANTO
Sports Writer
Coming into the weekend ranked tenth in the GCAA coach­es
poll, the Auburn golf team cemented itself as one of the best
teams in the country and took a big step toward its seventh
straight NCAA Championship appearance with a 16-stroke win
over No. 3 Baylor in the Ail-American Intercollegiate Champi­onship
in Humble, Texas.
The Tigers carded an 11-under 277 in Sunday's final round
at the Golf Club of Houston and finished a tournament-record
42-under par.
"The guys played great," Auburn head coach Nick Clinard
said. "They drove the ball well, and they putted well. We want­ed
to make a statement this weekend that we're one of the best
teams in the country, and we expect to compete at the highest
level. And we did that."
Ben Schlottman, Auburn's lone senior, led the Tigers with
a third-place finish in just his second start of the season after
shooting a pair of 67s on the weekend to finish at 12-under. The
Advance, North Carolina, native is a former All-American and
appears to be trending in the right direction as the spring sea­son
progresses.
"Ben didn't get a chance to play last fall, and being a former ail-
American and SEC freshman of the year, he's had his peaks and
valleys in college," Clinard said. "He's swinging it as well as I've
seen him swing the golf club, and he's really matured as a human
being. He's worked hard, and it's nice to see him playing well. I
know the guys on the team were really happy for him."
Sophomore Jovan Rebula shot 69-65 on Friday and Saturday
to claim the 36-hole lead, but a Sunday 71 left him in a share of
fourth place with junior Trace Crowe and Baylor's Garrett May
at 11-under.
Brandon Mancheno continued his stellar freshman season
with his fourth top-10 finish. The Jacksonville, Florida, native
led after 18 holes following a 7-under par 65 but shot just 1-un­der
on the weekend to finish T7.
"Brandon's a really dynamic player," Clinard said. "We had
high expectations for him coming in. He's really confident, he's
willing to learn. He's very coachable, which is sometimes diffi­cult
for freshmen. He wants to be an elite player, and he's will­ing
to listen to us as coaches to help him become an elite player."
Freshman Wells Padgett finished 79th at 10-over and junior
Ryan Knop finished T35 as an individual. Keenan Huskey of
South Carolina won medalist honors at 15-under.
While no Auburn player took home the individual title, the
Tigers were a consistent presence at the top of the leaderboard
as four players finished in the top seven. With all but one player
recording at least one top-20 finish this season, Clinard is con­fident
his team has the depth necessary to compete for a nation­al
title.
"We have a lot of depth," Clinard said. "It speaks to the entire
team, even the guys back home who aren't playing as much as
they want to, they're still improving. They're getting to be bet­ter
players, and they're pushing each other to compete. It push­es
all of them to be better."
After missing match play by just one shot at last year's NCAA
Championships, the Tigers will look to get over that hump and
challenge the nation's best this season.
"We just haven't been able to put it all together in that one
week and make match play," Clinard said. "We've been knock­ing
on the door. This team is a little bit better putters as a group.
I think they are fearless, and that's the best quality you can have
as a player. We're going to let them run, let them play. I always
say let the horses go, and we've got the skill to do that."
Next up for the Tigers will be a home tournament as they will
host the Tiger Intercollegiate at RTJ Grand National March 2-6.
"It's great to have a home event, just to play in front of your
donors," Clinard said. "It's a chance for fans to come out and see
you play. It's a big advantage, you know the golf course, and we
get a chance to play everybody. A tournament setting beats qual­ifying,
tournaments are a little bit different."
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Undefeated starts
Pitching leading Tigers to strong starts on the diamond
BASEBALL SOFTBALL
Auburn earns walk-off
victory to stay perfect
ByWILLSCHUETTE
Sports Writer
Auburn's makeshift lineup struggled to
do anything at the plate throughout much of
Tuesday night's game against Georgia State,
but it was able to take advantage of one last
opportunity.
After being kept in the game with five and
2/3 scoreless innings by their bullpen, the Ti­gers
put together a final-inning rally that fin­ished
with a walk-off single by junior college
transfer Brendan Venter to defeat Georgia
State 3-2.
"I thought at the end of the ballgame our
approach really changed," said Auburn head
coach Butch Thompson.
The Tigers went hitless in innings two
through seven and were 0-for-6 with runners
in scoring position until the final two hitters
of the game.
Connor Davis plated Will Holland with
two outs in the ninth inning on an infield
single off the first baseman's glove, and Ven­ter
followed by reaching base for the fourth
time in the game with his walk-off hit.
"All game we were putting barrels on balls,
and the rule of averages says a few of them
are going to fall eventually," Venter said. "It
was a pretty cool feeling being able to get it
done."
Venter would have been without a chance
for late-game heroics if it were not for fresh­NATHAN
KING / ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The Tigers celebrate after their 3-2 walkoff win over Georgia State on Feb. 20,2018, in Auburn, Ala.
man relief pitcher Cody Greenhill, who
pitched the final three and 1 /3 innings for the
Tigers without surrendering a run or a hit.
"I wanted Cody Greenhill to pitch at game
time," Thompson said. "That tells you the dif­ference
between college baseball sometimes
and professional baseball how you would
deem somebody as your -closer. We would
rather refer to him as a competitive moment
guy, bring him in in the sixth and our little
bull finds a way to finish a ballgame for us."
Auburn's lineup looked a bit different than
usual on Tuesday as regular starters Dylan
Ingram, Jay Estes and Luke Jarvis all were
missing from it. Outfielders Bowen McGuf-fin
and Judd Ward both got their first starts
of the season, and Estes and Jarvis entered the
game later.
"This is a personal thing that I'm trying to
do is see everybody on our ballclub," Thomp­son
said. "Win, lose or draw, I don't think I
would have had any regret with it. I want,
once we get to SEC play, for our players to
make the lineup out. The only way I know
how to do that is to give these players an op­portunity
to play."
Auburn moved to 4-0 on the young sea­son,
and its pitching staff has only allowed
three runs over 36 innings.
The Tigers will host Bryant over the week­end
with first pitch set for 5 p.m. Friday, 1
p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday. Casey Mize
will get the nod Friday night for Auburn.
Makayla Martin (29) tosses a pitch. Auburn vs. LSU at' v "'-K I irn m nt on Saturday. May 13.
Martin s no-hitter caps
perfect weekend for AU
By HENRY ZIMMER
Sports Writer
The No. 13 Auburn Tigers led off the last
day of the Tiger Invitational-with an 8-0 win
over the Maryland Terrapins and capped
with a 5-0 win over Georgia State to remain
undefeated in 2018.
Makayla Martin pitched the entire game,
throwing her first career no-hitter. Martin
dished out five strikeouts, losing the perfect
game bid by walking a batter late in the top
of the fourth.
In 32 innings, Martin has yet to give up a
run or lose a start, improving to 6-0 on the
season. The walked batter is also only her
third of the season,
"I was feeling really good," Martin said. "My
stuff was really working today. I was confi­dent
with every pitch that 1 was throwing.
On the offensive side, the Tigers put up 10
runs on eight hits. Maryland had three errors
on the day, assisting the Auburn scoring bar­rage.
Two fielding errors led to a Kendall Veach
single to third and the junior earning an RBI.
putting the Tigers up 4-0.
The Tigers (13-0) also successfully pulled
off a double steal. KK Crocker was walked at
the plate and was signaled to keep going. On
her rounding first and taking second, a lapse
in the defense allowed Victoria Draper to
steal home.
The five through eight hitters did the dam
age on offense as Casey McCrackin went
1 -for 2 at the plate, scoring two. Courtney
Shea also went 2-for-3 with her bat, upping
her season batting average to a hefty .458.
Another dominant pitching'performance
was on display in the second game of the day
against Georgia State. Kaylee Carlson took
the mound to start the game and pitched a
perfect game until the top of the fifth.
The single hit of the game - and single hit
of the doubleheader - broke the perfect game
bid, but the efforts of Carlson and Chardon-nay
Harris put up a combined shutout. Carl­son
dished out five strikeouts, while Harris
struck out three.
In the past four games, Auburn has only
given up four hits with back-to-back shut­outs
Sunday.
The Tigers had seven hits for 24 plate ap­pearances.
A deep fly ball by Shea started the
scoring in the third. In the next inning, a dou­ble
by Morgan Podany plated McCrackin.
Four of the team's five runs on the day came
with two outs.
Tannon Snow went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Shea went 1 -for-3 against the Panthers but
totaled two RBI in the game.
The Tigers next head west in hopes of con­tinuing
their undefeated start to the season,
facing California State University Northridge
"on Feb 21 before participating in the Mary
Nutter Classic in Cathedral City, California,
over the weekend. Auburn will take on Wis­consin,
Notre Dame, Oregon State, San Jose
State and Long Beach State in the tourna­ment.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Sloppy Tigers falter late in loss to Crimson Tide
By JOHN KOO
Sports Writer .
Just like the first game that was played at
Auburn Arena, the Tigers' second act of the
season against the Alabama Crimson Tide was
action-packed on both ends of the floor.
There were 18 lead changes throughout the
game, as both teams tried to manage momen­tum.
Ultimately, behind Alabama's exception­al
free throw shooting, the Crimson Tide beat
the Tigers 70-60.
Daisa Alexander scored 21 points for the Ti­gers,
hitting a career-high five 3-pointers for
the game and Unique Thompson contributed
15 points and four rebounds.
Even though the Tigers out-shot the Crim­son
Tide, Alabama made 25 free throws in 28
attempts, while also getting 15 more rebounds.
"That's the game right there, rebounding
and putting them on the free-throw line 28
times," said Auburn head coach Terri Wil-liams-
Flournoy. "There's nothing else you can
even look at on the stat sheet, except for free-throw
attempts and offensive rebounds. We
didn't rebound, and we were out of rhythm all
night offensively."
Auburn came out in the first quarter ex­tremely
efficient on defense, holding the Tide
to just one first-quarter field goal.
However, Alabama started the second on a
13-0 run, extending a double-digit lead over
the Tigers.
The Tigers bounced back, causing a mo
mentum shift with a 15-4 run of their own,
leading the Crimson Tide 30-29 going into
halftime.
The third quarter was where most of the
lead changes came from. Continued foul trou
ble plagued the Tigers, putting key players
on the bench and giving Alabama easy points
from the line.
Alabama, extending their pressure, went on
a 10-0 run late into the third quarter to take a
62-53 lead over the Tigers. The lead would be
too much to handle for the Tigers for the re­mainder
of the game.
The Crimson Tide had four players in dou­ble
figures with Ashley Williams leading the
team with 17 points and 10 rebounds, notch­ing
a double-double for the night.
The Tigers have had an up-and-down
stretch in the February with a 2-4 record for
the month. Auburn is now 13-13 overall and
4-10 in the conference.
Auburn will travel to Starkville, Mississip­pi
to take on the SEC Champion Mississip­pi
State Bulldogs inside Humphrey Coliseum
in its last road game of the regular season on
Thursday,
FOOTBALL
Public intox charge against former Tiger QB White dismissed
FILE PHOTO
Auburn quarterback Sean White (13) at Tiger Walk. Auburn vs. Arkansas on Saturday, Oct. 22 in Auburn, Ala.
By JAKE WRIGHT
Sports Writer
The public intoxica­tion
charge against former
Auburn quarterback Sean
White has been dismissed.
Auburn municipal court
judge James McLaugh­lin
dismissed the charge
against White.
He was arrested on Sept.
17, 2017, after being sus­pended
for the first two
games of Auburn's football
season last fall.
The day after his arrest,
White was dismissed from
the Auburn football team.
White was ordered to
pay court costs and com­plete
20 hours of com­munity
service. White
was originally set to ap­pear
in court on Nov. 30,
but White gave for a writ­ten
plea for the court to re­view.
His court,date was then
set for Feb. 1.
Neither White nor his
lawyer appeared at the
court date. •
White was arrested by
Auburn Police on Ross
Street and transferred to
the Lee County Jail in Sep­tember.
The quarterback had
recently returned from a
two-game suspension, but
the reason for the suspen­sion
wasn't made clear to
the public.
"To see him leave how
he left is kind of disap­pointing,"
Auburn line­backer
Deshaun Davis said.
"It kind of hurt for us
from a family standpoint
and from a team stand­point.
But I'm sure he's go­ing
to get his head back on
his shoulders. He's going to
get on the right track."
The junior quarterback
started 16 games for Au­burn
over the past two sea­sons,
including 10 contests
last year as Auburn's No.l
QB.
White led the SEC in
completion percentage and
quarterback rating amid
Auburn's six-game win­ning
streak in 2016.
White's next college
destination is not yet
known.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,2018 THEPLAINSMAN.COM LIFESTYLE
FEATURE
Acclaimed poet spreads message of indusivity, progress
By EMMA RYGIEL
Lifestyle Writer
Acclaimed poet L. Lamar Wilson paid a vis­it
to The Plains with a modern message oflove,
indusivity and moving forward, all of which
were artistically crafted into stanzas and spo­ken
from the heart.
Wilson took the podium Thursday as a part
of The Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine
Art's "Third Thursday Poetry Series." As the
author of "Sacrilegion," co-author of "Prime:
Poetry and Conversation," recipient of fellow­ships
from UNC Chapel Hill and a professor for
creative writing at the University of Alabama,
Wilson is well versed in his field.
Pulling from his own experiences, empathy
for others and lessons he's learned from wise
mentors in his past, Wilson covers a wide array
of social topics that can be found through un­packing
words and images in his poems.
With a doctorate in African-American and
multi-ethnic poetics, Wilson works to be a
voice for others and encourages a further un­derstanding
of one another.
Along with pulling from his own life expe­riences,
he combines his interests in literature,
journalism and history to relay a new under­standing
of modern day topics to the reader.
"I write often from a space of something
that 1 have lived, but I am also a historian and a
journalist, and I'm interested in the lives of oth­ers,
particularly people whose stories don't get
told," Wilson said.
Serving as a champion in their absence, Wil­son
spreads stories of people with different life
experiences to shed a light on our differenc­es
and spark a conversation on developing a
greater understanding of one another.
Revered as a true storyteller and visionary,
Wilson places heart to paper to create poetry
that not only makes you think but makes you
feel. With the audience's attention in the palm
of his hand, Wilson left attendees at the read­ing
with a meaningful message about human
connection and how we can move forward to
form new understandings of others' struggles
for future success.
Taking inspiration from elder family mem­bers
- some who have passed - Wilson is hon­oring
their wisdom by bringing it into his own
mindset to help present-day injustices.
"I am trying to capture that wisdom that they
gave me and also capture the wisdom that they
have to give to this country because they have
lived through the worst," Wilson said.
He utilizes his writing as a way to encour­age
further research and interest of the read­er
into the past.
"I think they have much to teach us if we
would listen to the stories that they gave me
and that they've given others to tell," Wilson
said about his ancestors.
His work also takes a stand against watch­ing
and elevates the idea of doing. Encouraging
involvement through personal communication
and not computers, Wilson highlights the pit­falls
of social media.
He illustrates how it takes us away from tru­ly
understanding the person behind the profile
and how, although it may help spread aware­ness
of issues, it doesn't always enact change.
"We are clicking on the video, we're shar­ing
it and we're thinking that we're doing
something, when in actuality we're just push­ing
on the trauma, and we're not really getting
change," Wilson said.
He encouraged others to gain a thirst for
knowledge and to have confidence in their own
voice.
When asked what advice he would give stu­dents,
Wilson said, "Read, read."
He promotes the importance in educating
oneself about the surrounding world and the
ways of other writers.
"I contain many, many writers inside of me,
and I pull from them at various times in my
life," Wilson said. "You cant just live in a vacu­um
that is your own head. You need to be read­ing
other things."
Similar to the line in Auburn's Creed, that
reads, "I believe in the human touch, which cul­tivates
sympathy with my fellow men and mu­tual
helpfulness and brings happiness for all,"
Wilson believes personal connection can cre­ate
a positive impact and progress stems from
it.
"Right now I'm really inspired by trying to
find the joy in the world," Wilson said.
Relational and reactive through his voice as
a writer, Wilson sets an example for paving
the way through kindness, love for others and
open communication.
CONTRIBUTED BY KEN AUTREY
Wilson took the podium Thursday, Feb. 15,2018, as a part of The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts "Third Thursday Poetry Series" in Auburn, Ala.
SPOTLIGHT
Final lecturer to focus on public service in higher ed
By CHIP BROWNLEE
Editor-in-chief
On a small wooden desk covered
by a thin pane of clear glass sits a
purple heart, one of the most rec­ognized
American symbols of pub­lic
service — a decoration awarded to
service members wounded or killed
in the line of combat.
The medal, adorned with the
face of America's first president,
belonged to Lt. Byron Yarbrough,
whose family once owned Peb­ble
Hill cottage, Auburn's oldest re­maining
home, built in 1847, where
the medal sits today. The Yar-broughs
were known as some of
the city's most notable public ser­vants.
Walking on the streets today,
it's not hard to find a lifelong resi­dent
whose mother or father was
delivered by Byron's father, Dr. Ce­cil
Yarbrough, once the University
physician.
To this day, the Yarbrough-Scott
Home — which was eventually given
to the University in 1985 — serves as
a beacon of public service and com­munity
engagement, and Byron's
purple heart sits on that same desk
in the office of Mark Wilson.
Wilson oversees one of the Col­lege
of Liberal Arts' outreach pro­grams
and spends his time connect­ing
students with the community
and global impacts of their education
and the University s mission.
In a referendum, students recently
selected Wilson, the director of Au­burn's
Caroline Draughon Center
for the Arts & Humanities, as their
choice tc deliver this year's Final
Lecture, and Byron's purple heart
will be on Wilson's mind as he de­livers
the academic year's pinnacle
speech — a speech he plans to fo­cus
on public service and public sac­rifice.
"It's a story of service, and the
University is at its best when it helps
keep that story alive for another
generation, when it helps keep these
stories alive so we can all learn from
them," Wilson said. "You're look­ing
at the local or the particular and
trying to understand the universal
meaning of things."
The story of the purple heart and
the person to whom it was award­ed
is one oflove and loss. Byron was
a true Auburn man, a 1942 graduate
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
as Auburn was known then. He lat­er
enlisted in the navy and was com­missioned
as a lieutenant. While
aboard ship during World War II,
he became infatuated with a young
woman from Cordele, Georgia, by
the name of Betty Jones.
They wrote letters for months.
Some were what you would expect
of recent college graduate — SEC
football and work — while others
were more serious. He wrote of the
war and the restrictions the military
placed on what he could tell Betty.
At the time, the Navy placed strict
limits on what information Byron
could include in his letters.
The pair were to meet after the
war, but he never made it home.
The anniversary of his death at sea,
Feb. 17, 1945, was just last week.
He died aboard one of a dozen gun­boats
helping to prepare for the in­vasion
of Iwo Jima, the anniversa­ry
of which is coming up on Feb. 23.
The Caroline Draughon Center
is preparing to publish the set of let­ters
Byron and Betty exchanged and
the series of letters Betty continued
to send Byron until she was finally
told of his death.
"The written word and the writ­ten
letter are something we don't of­ten
see," Wilson said. "It connects to
this house and this place."
Byron's story exemplifies to Wil­son
Auburn's tradition of public
service, a tradition both rooted in
George Petrie's Auburn Creed and
derived from the University's status
as a land-grant school. Wilson will
discuss how Auburn became a land-grant
school and plans to impart the
importance of the role to students
during his Final Lecture.
"Being a part of a rich tradition
doesn't mean anything unless you
know it," he said. "You can live in a
tradition that has great meaning, but
if you don't realize it and have some
consciousness about it, then it has no
value."
His lecture will revolve around
stories like Byron's.
Wilson said Auburn has a great
ADAM BRASHER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Mark Wilson sits in his office at Pebble Hill in Auburn, Ala. on Tuesday, Feb. 20,2018.
reputation of students who say they
would study at the University a sec­ond
time if they could. That speaks
well of the University, he said, but
he wants to make sure that students
leave the University knowing that
one of a land-grant school's most
notable purposes is to engrain with­in
students a love and a passion for
community involvement.
"One challenge for every univer­sity
is us seeing ourselves as creating
things for the private good," Wil­son
said. "The students come to get
a credential so that they can partici­pate
in the current economy."
While that's true, it isn't the sole
purpose.
"'Capitalism is always in danger of
inspiring men to be more concerned
about making a living than making
a life,'" Wilson said, recalling a well-known
quote from civil rights icon
Martin Luther King Jr.
Public universities have the dis­tinct
role of training their students
to realize that their educatiop isn't
just for themselves. It's also for the
communities they will live in and
the world in which they will partici­pate,
Wilson said.'
"If our education doesn't make
positive contributions to our com­munities
so that the character of stu­dents
is formed along with the mar­ketability
of their skills, then we
haven't done our job," Wilson said.
Wilson will deliver the Final Lec­ture,
a keynote speech sponsored by
the Student Governmenet Associa­tion,
later this semester.
The commencement-style speech
began in 2008 as an honor for re­spected
faculty members.
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Lt. Byron Yarbrough poses in an undated photo.
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The stage of Auburn University's production of "Chicago" on Thursday, Feb. 15,2018, in Auburn, Ala.
Auburn Theatre's4Chicago'
opens to a full house
By JACK WEST
Lifestyle Writer
A sold-out crowd waited under the glow of
marquee lights inside the Telfair Peet Theatre on
Thursday night.
They were all waiting for that drawn out,
plunger-muted trumpet note to open Auburn
Theatre's production of "Chicago."
The musical, which describes itself as "a wing-ding,"
is set in prohibition-era Chicago, where
the morals are loose and the gin is cold.
Two murderous women, Velma Kelley,
played by Meg McGuffin, and Roxie Hart, played
by Hannah Kuykendall, have been thrown in jail.
Their only hope comes in the form of Billy Flynn,
played by Tyler Carter, the best lawyer in the city.
The catch is that both women have to fight for
the attention of Billy and for the heart of media.
A guilty verdict means hanging, but a not-guilty
one promises fame in Vaudeville.
Roxie also has to deal with her poor husband
Amos, played by Logan Pace, as he comes to
terms with the fact that no one really cares about
him.
The show opens with a very bold statement:
"Murder is a form of entertainment." It then
spends the next two hours proving that point.
McGuffin and Kuykendall fight for the stage
throughout the show, both showing the strong
presence needed to fully portray these characters.
Kuykendall has previous stage experience, but
seeing as this is McGuffin's first theater experi­ence,
her debut was more than impressive.
The entire cast showed off its sexy side when
swinging to the live music, bringing to life the
streets of Chicago and the cells of a prison.
Readers who frequent Auburn Theatre per­formances
will notice that silks have made an
appearance in an Auburn production yet again.
This time, with one of Roxie's lovers enter­ing
from them, as well as having an entire sheet
passed over the audience.
One noticeable thing about this production
of "Chicago" is how much interaction occurs be­tween
actors and the audience. Early in the show,
multiple actors rushed to the stage from the back
of the theater and front-row viewers were treat­ed
to a signed newspaper or a cupcake.
The place this production falls short, though, is
due in part to the very nature of "Chicago."
Designed as a show full of proactivity and sen­suality,
the dancing and music is intended to ex­cite
the audience in more than one way. While
that is achieved often throughout the perfor­mance,
there are more than a few instances
where this breaks down, and, instead of being at­tractive,
it is just plain awkward.
All in all, the Auburn theater department has
put together a beautiful version of the classic mu­sical.
The dialogue is witty, the actors are talented
and the music is amazing.
For those of you looking for some classy enter­tainment
in the upcoming weeks, "Chicago" pro­vides
the perfect amount of drama, excitement
and appeal for anyone as multiple showings will
continue at the Auburn University Theatre un­til
Feb. 24.
Black Panther is a must-see
By CHRIS HEANEY
Lifestyle Writer
Movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
always cover real-life issues in a fantastical way.
While "Spiderman: Homecoming" deals with
the journey from adolescence into adulthood
and Iron Man focuses on the struggle between
the desire for power and the need to protect,
none have specifically taken on the issue of ra­cial
disparity.
"Black Panther" stands out not only because
of this, but also because it is able to take on this
issueinanuanced way without beating the au- .
dience over the head with its lesson.
The story follows TChalla, played Chad-wick
Boseman, who doubles as the Black Pan­ther,
a masked super hero, and the new king of
the nation ofWakanda.
Thanks to the mysterious super-metal vi-branium,
the five tribes of Wakanda have
thrived in technological advancement, but be­cause
of this, they chose to hide themselves
away from the World in order to keep their
semi-utopia away from the tainted ways of the
outside world.
TChalla wants to keep things that way per
his late father's wish but is faced with oppos­ing
thoughts from those who would have his
crown, members ofhis family and the main vil­lain
of the movie Erik Killmonger, portrayed
brilliantly by Michael B.Jordan.
The issue of race is what drives Killmonger,
and the way the film handles each side ofhis ar­gument
is refreshing to see in a cinematic uni­verse
that has previously steered away from
such divisive topics.
The movie definitely shows its shared DNA
with other Marvel films of late, but it sheds
enough of the superhero movie tropes to al­low
it to stand out for the better. Every scene
feels .important, and the tight runtime sitting
just over two hours makes sure to not overstay
its welcome.
The quasi-futuristic setting of fictional
Wakanda artfully blends traditional African
art, fashion and culture with the techno-fantasy
elements found in the likes of "The Avengers."
While seeing a character wearing clothes
that resemble those of the Maasi people of East
Africa and traditional Ndebele Neck Rings dis­cuss
batde strategy aboard a flying hover-craft
would seem jarring in any other setting, "Black
Panther" is able to weave these elements to­gether
seamlessly.
Overall, the film is visually stunning.
Whether it's the dense mountain valleys of Af­rica,
the technological wonder ofWakanda or
the neon-lit streets of South Korea, the back­drops
only add to the visual thrill of the action
onscreen.
The score of the movie offers a constant jux­taposition
between African tribal music and
American hip hop beats, which offer an add­ed
level of potency to the opposing viewpoints
and character attributes of the main characters.
Musical cues help dictate the action of the
film in a way that makes the audience take no­tice
of what they are hearing instead of it just
being background noise. The music of "Black
Panther" is easily the best the MCU has to offer,
both within the movie and in its soundtrack cu-rated
by Kendrick Lamar.
Everyone in the cast does an extremely solid
job, but that is expected from the movie's star-studded
roster.
The supporting roles played by Martin Free­man,
Daniel Kaluuya aftd Forest Whitaker are
all well done, too, as each one of them add emo­tional
weight to the story. However, it is the
women of Wakanda that truly shine.
Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira and Letitia
Wright star as the leading ladies of the film,
each playing a character important to TChalla
and each managing to steal the show out from
under him.
Nyong'o plays the smart and stealthy head
spy ofWakanda, Nakia; Gurira plays the no-nonsense
general of the Wakandan army,
Okoye and Wright plays the little sister of
T'challa who also designs and develops all
Wakandan technology, Shuri..
"Black Panther" is a superhero movie that
has a lot more heart than those that came be­fore
it
When the credits rolled the audience was left
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neighbors
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Following the rules: College dorms, their regulations
By STEPHEN LANZI
Campus Writer
There is one rule in Eagle Hall, according to Kaitlyn Conner,
residents' assistant for the building: don't be stupid.
The second is to understand rule number one. Every dorm,
apartment or house has guidelines that the resident must abide
by. Some rules even vary between the different dorm halls at
Auburn, while some are enforced campus wide.
All violations have associated fines or mandatory conse­quences
such as courses relating to the violation. One of the
most regularly enforced rules is abiding by the policy of Auburn
being a dry campus. This means no alcohol permitted anywhere
on campus, including the dorm halls.
This rule also does not allow for students to have empty alco­hol
containers on campus.
Another campus-wide policy that still applies to the dorm
halls is the prohibition on smoking and vaping. Smokeless to­bacco
products are allowed.
The Hill, Quad and Cambridge dorm halls, in which resi­dents
share a bedroom, allow for guests until midnight on week
nights, and until 2 a.m. on weekends.
RAs are given liberty to reprimand students for excessive
noise. Instruments are allowed as long as they do not become
disturbing to other residents.
The appliances that students are allowed to have vary be­tween
the kinds of dorms. No appliances are allowed for the
dorms that share bedrooms, while the dorms with private bed­rooms
allow for some - crock pots, griddles, panini presses and
toaster ovens.
Microwaves and mini-fridges are allowed in any of the
dorms. However, microwaves and full refrigerators are provid­ed
in the Village and South Donohue.
Space heaters and fans are allowed in all dorms. These are
useful for the residents in The Hill and The Quad as residents are
not in control of the room temperature. For all dorm halls, can­dles
with burnt wicks are prohibited. This applies regardless of
where the wick was burnt.
Residents are allowed to hang posters or frames at their dis­cretion.
However, if the walls are damaged at all, the residents
are subject to fees. Residents are not allowed to cover the ma­jority
of a wall though.
Residents are allowed nearly all types of furniture, but resi­dents
are not allowed to remove any existing furniture.
Pets are generally not allowed except for fish inside of a bowl
of 20 gallons or less. Accommodations can be made for Seeing
Eye dogs and emotional support animals.
Bikes are not allowed inside any dorms because they must
be registered through the University, while skateboards or roll-erblades
are allowed. Conner said, fortunately, she has not been
asked about a unicycle. Of course, RAs are in charge of keeping
order in the dorm hall.
They are allowed to check rooms but are only allowed to
search in plain sight. RAs are typically not forced to take action
as long as the resident obeys rule number one.
For a complete guide to residential living, visit Auburn Uni­versity's
housing website
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By KAILEY BETH SMITH
Community Reporter
This spring, when plants begin to bloom and the weath­er
warms up, people are inspired to get outdoor and to
bring the outdoors in. Horticulture student Cody Horn
provides students with a list of the top ten indoor plants
that are high quality and low maintenance.
Peace Lily
A classic staple of any apartment or home, the Peace
Lily can be found at practically any store that sells plants
and is relatively inexpensive and low maintenance. It
adds personality to a space and is a small investment, run­ning
between $10-25 for a medium-sized pot. This plant
loves to cozy up to a window indoors and does well in
moist but well-drained soil.
Croton
A popular plant in the late spring and summer months,
this decorative green can be found at any local Home De­pot
or Lowe's location for around $8-15. It thrives in
moist but well-drained soil and loves to bask in the sun­light.
Blooming Colors has many of these for sale.
Fiddle-Leaf Fig
Tall and skinny with a gathering of foliage at the top,
this spunky plant is featured at both Ace and Blooming
Colors and makes a great addition to any space. This plant
needs only to be watered two to three times per week and
loves well-lit areas without too much direct sunlight. One
runs between $15-30, depending on the size.
Norfolk Pine
The pine, like the fiddle-leaf fig, thirsts for water two to
three times a week, depending on the amount of sunlight it
receives. Ace Hardware and Blooming Colors boast these
neat plants, and they are between $8-15 each.
Snake Plant
Ranging between $10-15 each, the snake plant can be
found at Home Depot or Lowe's. This is a great plant in
place of a pet, but if you have pets, be cautious because
the foliage can be poisonous upon ingestion, causing your
furry friend to get sick easily.
Pothos/Devil's Ivy
An ivy that needs only one watering per week can be
found at Home Depot or Lowe's. It costs between $5-
10, and desires several hours of indirect sunlight each day.
Minimal upkeep with a maximal aesthetic.
English Ivy
Primarily found at Blooming Colors at the intersection
of South Donahue and College Street this species of ivy
takes the same amount of water and sunlight as does the
Devil's Ivy, and is incredibly simple to care for.
Chinese Money Plant
For those who are looking for something a little more
rare, the Chinese Money Plant is an interesting-looking
addition to any space. Horn said they are his personal fa­vorite
plant, and though they cannot be found in Auburn
as they are more of a rarity, they boast being one of the
easiest plants to grow and care for as well as one of the
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By HANNAH LESTER
Campus Writer
For many students, deciding to live on or off campus can be
a big decision.
Megan Ondrizek, freshman in Spanish, lives in Cambridge
and plans to continue living on campus next year in The Village.
Some of the benefits Ondrizek listed for on-campus living
were Tiger Card money, easier football game access and a clos­er
look at Auburn culture.
"It's just more inclusive, and you figure out who your friends
are quickly, and it's easier to get more involved," Ondrizek said.
Charlie Crider, freshman in chemical engineering, lives on
campus in The Quad at Broun Hall.
"I wanted to live in The Village, but I'm so glad I ended up in
Broun because it's in the middle of campus," Crider «aid. "I re­ally
enjoy it there."
Alec Shunnarah, senior in software engineering, lived on cam­pus
his freshman year but has lived in the Creekside apartment
complex since.
"1 think I prefer living off-campus more, but living on campus
was nice for football games and any kind of sporting events and
just getting to class was a lot easier," Shunnarah said.
Often, although students loved their on-campus experience,
they still look forward to living off campus for a number of rea­sons.
"Sometimes parking can be really inconvenient," Ondrizek
said. "For example, 1 live in Cambridge, but my parking is in
RO, so I never have my car."
Shunnarah said he had a hard time making it to class when he
lived on campus.
"I found that when I was living on campus, it was a lot easier
to skip class just because my bed was right there, but living off
campus has helped me with my studies," Shunnarah said.
Other normal frustrations for on-campus students generally
include small spaces, bathrooms and roommates.
"You're not always gonna be best friends with your room­mate,"
Crider said. "Just because your roommate's not great
doesn't mean your suite mates can't be your best friends."
Crider said he looks forward to having a dog when he moves
off campus into Aspen Heights next year.
Taylor Moore, sophomore in global studies, lives