2014-06-12 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, June 12, 2014 • Vol. 121, Issue 4, 8 Pages
Men’s tennis
lands at No.13
in the
continuing
State of the
Program
power ranking
series
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Student
named in
the top 10
contestants
in the
Miss
Alabama
Pageant
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Multimedia:
This Week in
Sports
talks
about the
United States’
chances in the
World Cup
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Eating like a caveman
Students and alumni share
opinions of the Paleo Diet
Food
Rachel Davis
Intrigue Writer
The premise behind the Pa-leo
Diet: If a caveman didn’t
eat it, neither should you.
The Paleo Diet is named af-ter
the Paleolithic era.
The foods allowed on the
diet are intended to mimic
what cavemen ate during this
period.
The foods allowed on the
diet are grass-fed and pasture-raised
meats, eggs, vegetables,
fruits and nuts.
Excluded foods include any-thing
thought to be an agricul-tural
product: grains, legumes,
dairy, potatoes, refined sugar,
salt and processed oil.
The diet was first popular-ized
in the 1970s, but has lost
much of its acclaim.
Recently, the diet has gained
the attention of alternative
health professionals and diet-ers
alike, and has even found
its way to the Plains.
“I did the Paleo Diet for
about a month,” said Darby
Stanton, recent Auburn gradu-ate.
“Alcohol was my one ex-ception.”
Kelly Tsaltas, Auburn alum-na,
and Matt Villarrubia, se-nior
in software engineering,
are both abiding by the diet for
30 days.
“(Matt and I) needed the
structure and rigidity of a strict
healthy diet to get ourselves
started [on the diet],” Tsaltas
said.
The diet is restrictive, as
Stanton and Tsaltas have at-tested,
but for Villarrubia, this
aspect was appealing.
“The diet made me focus
and deal with less food,” Vil-larrubia
said.
However, when asked about
the most difficult part of the
diet, Villarrubia listed the lack
of dairy, beans, rice and bread
as a major issue.
Stanton said she finds the
lack of Paleo choices at restau-rants
difficult to find.
“I found Paleo to be ex-tremely
limiting in today’s so-ciety,”
Stanton said. “If you go
out to eat, what are you going
to order? Spinach leaves in ol-ive
oil?”
Stanton also points out be-ing
on the Paleo diet can be ex-pensive
when someone is on a
college budget.
Although there are people
who praise the benefits of Pa-leo
dieting, some do not find
the diet logical.
“The underlying premise
behind the Paleo diet is that the
ills of modern human health
can be traced back to the Ag-riculture
Revolution,” said Al-exander
Roberson, Auburn ag-riculture
alumnus. “But man
existed for millennia after the
Agriculture Revolution with
grains and dairy in their diet
just fine.”
Roberson said the real prob-lem
with modern society’s
health is the increased con-sumption
of sugar and the de-crease
in physical activity.
“It’s a health-food fad that is
quick to demonize,” Roberson
said. “While it is tempting to
trace back our eating habits to
a time before obesity, it is im-portant
to remember we left the
Paleolithic age for a reason.”
Despite the drawbacks, Vil-larrubia
said there were def-inite
advantages to the Paleo
Diet.
“I lost about 15 pounds and
was more energetic for sure,”
Villarrubia said.
Tsaltas said she is going to
continue to carry on some of
her lessons from the experi-ence.
“I added in [to my Paleo
Diet] dairy, bread, that doesn’t
have preservatives that I get
from the farmers market, and
macaroni and cheese,” Tsaltas
said. “That’s it.”
Stanton does not agree with
this sentiment.
“I just really love eating and
some of the things I couldn’t
eat were pretty outrageous,”
Stanton said. “I stick to about
an 80 percent Paleo diet now,
so I don’t absolutely loathe
myself if I eat the mac and
cheese at The Hound.”
charlotte kelly
campus
Hitler billboard hits nerves on the highway
community
Ben Ruffin
News Reporter
An Opelika youth ministry has been
under fierce scrutiny the past week after a
billboard featuring an Adolf Hitler quote
was erected.
The billboard was put up in the Village
Mall in Auburn, then covered with a black
sheet a few days later. The billboard fea-tured
five children, a quote from Adolf
Hitler and a Bible verse.
The Hitler quote read: “He alone, who
owns the youth, gains the future.” The
quote was taken from a 1935 speech in
which Hitler tried to raise interest in Nazi
movement.
Below the Hitler quote was a Bible
verse from Proverbs 22:6 which read:
“Train up a child the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from
it.”
According to Lamar Advertising Com-pany’s
Montgomery office, the billboard
was rented out by Life Savers Ministries
based in Opelika.
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Toomer’s Corner turns high tech
Luke PopwelL/ photographer
twitter.com / @Blake_au4ever
The billboard reads: “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”-Adolf Hitler. “Train up a child the way he should go, and when he is old he will
not depart from it.”- Proverbs 22:6.
raye may / photo and design editor
The billboard was covered with a black sheet the day after it was put up.
Nicole Fulkerson
News Writer
Construction crews have finished in-stalling
the high-tech foundation of the
soon-to-be renovated Samford Park to
ensure the longest possible life for the
new Toomer’s Oaks.
Silva Cells, an underground struc-tural
system, have been placed below
where the future trees will be trans-planted
to reduce soil compaction for
optimal root growth.
“Anytime you are putting in roads
or sidewalks, you always have to com-pact,
and using the Silva Cells is like
a replacement for compaction,” said
Brenda Guglielmina, southern region-al
manager at DeepRoot.
Beneath the bricks of the plaza and
the pavement of the sidewalks, sever-al
layers, including sand and bedding
material, are placed on top of the Silva
Cells plastic frame.
The crate-like cells are filled with
soil and allow water to reach the roots.
Some of the cells are used as a bridg-ing
technique to connect the sidewalks
to more open soil, but most of the cells
will be used to benefit the trees.
“Soil volume is directly connect-ed
to how large and how vibrant the
trees will be,” Guglielmina said. “It al-lows
the soil within the Silva Cells to
do what you would want soil to do in
a prairie or forest – let water infiltrate
through it freely and let roots grow
freely.”
Silva Cells have been used in ur-ban
construction projects in the United
States, Canada, Asia, Europe and Aus-tralia.
Samford Park is the first location in
Alabama to use this technology.
“It allows the roots to grow up un-der
the sidewalk to the other side,” said
Jeffery Dumars, assistant director of
campus planning and space manage-ment.
“We cannot build a better urban
growing condition for trees,” Dumars
said.
Construction crews were able to dig
up nearly all of the contaminated soil,
but could not reach under the gates or
sidewalks.
An impervious tarp-like lining will
be installed around these areas to en-sure
no poison will reach the new trees.
The goal of this summer’s construc-tion
is the removal of all contaminated
soil and the preparing for the new trees
to be transplanted in early 2015.
All aspects of the project will bene-fit
the life of the future trees, even the
planting date.
“It’s best to transplant trees in the
winter when they are dormant,” said
project manager Ben Burmester. “Any-thing
we can control, we want to con-trol.”
The new plaza will include a circu-lar
seating area and the total size will
remain approximately the same size as
it was before.
The transplation of trees of the proj-ect
is planned to be completed by Au-gust,
and be functional for football sea-son.
Project managers are still working
with the city to decide on a course of
action for the rolling wires.
Silva Cells structural system installed at construction site
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The billboard, seen by thou-sands
via Internet alone, has
caused people in the Auburn
community to wonder why an
organization, such as Life Sav-ers
Ministry would put up the
billboard.
“I just don’t see why in the
world someone would put a
Hitler quote next to a Bible
verse, much less next to kids,”
said Jamie Shepherd, soph-omore
in communication. “I
don’t see how that billboard
could help the ministry in any
way possible, but maybe that’s
just me.”
The billboard went up Fri-day
and was taken down short-ly
after, following a request
from LSM.
LSM, founded in 1996, now
has a number of school buses
and a facility of its own “where
hundreds of boys and girls are
brought from around 20 differ-ent
rough and tough locations
throughout Opelika and Au-burn,”
according to the minis-triesabout
page on its website.
Founder James Anderegg
told the Columbus Ledger-En-quirer
it was not the group’s
intention to confuse the public
and said that other quotes could
have been used.
“We are pulling the bill-board
and certainly never in-tended
to cause confusion,”
Anderegg told the Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer.
Anderegg went on to say
President Herbert Hoover
would have been a better per-son
to quote, also said children
were the heart of their ministry.
“Children are our most valu-able
resource,” Anderegg said.
“We are a children’s organiza-tion
and had honorable inten-tions
and nothing less.”
Although it was LSM’s de-cision
to put up the billboard
and then remove it, Lamar ul-timately
has the final decision
regarding what content reach-es
their billboards.
Deemed the “Outdoor Ad-vertising
Company,” Lamar
works the same way as a tele-vision
station or newspaper
and is therefore not required to
put up any ad from anyone who
pays them.
According to their about us
page on their website, Lamar
gives their customers a blank
page in which they will help
create the ad in order to deliver
the message with a strong im-pact.
The Plainsman was unable
to reach anyone at the Lamar
firm in Montgomery for com-ment.
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al photos contributed by Meg Rainey
Local businesses set up tents during community events to sell their merchandise.
comunity
Parks and Recreation creates community
Taylor Ennis
News Report er
Every year, Auburn Parks and Recre-ation
hosts action-packed summer events to
allow residents of all ages to enjoy Auburn
with unique outdoor events and activities.
Parks and Recreation has filled their
schedule with a variety of events, both wet
and dry, to keep residents entertained un-til
Friday, Aug. 22. Event fees are cheap
and an adult must accompany children at
events.
“Most of Parks and Recreation events
are extremely family friendly, but there are
a lot of great events for students to enjoy
as well,” said Meg Rainey, public relations
specialist for Parks and Recreation. “One
of the favorite parts of what we get to do is
putting on community events and coming
up with a variety of events that appeal to all
interests and ages.”
The Auburn City Pools opened for the
summer Monday, May 26; this includes the
Samford Pool and the Drake Pool, which
have an admission fee of $2.
Duck Samford Park will sponsor a free
Summer Outdoor Movie Series. Guests are
invited to watch an outdoor movie on se-lect
Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m., includ-ing
an exclusive “Frozen” sing-along Fri-day,
July 11, and “Rudy” Saturday, Aug. 8.
Visitors are welcome to bring blankets and
lawn chairs.
The SummerNight Downtown Art Walk,
located in Downtown Auburn on Sunday,
June 13, from 6-9:30 p.m., will include a
free block party with an artistic flair. Guests
can enjoy music, art, late night shopping,
dining and children’s activities. The Art
Walk has been popular and could be the
start of a new Auburn tradition, according
to Rainey.
“SummerNight strives to bring the com-munity
together and take advantage of the
arts in a creative downtown atmosphere,”
said Sara Custer, SummerNight co-coor-dinator.
“We create an environment where
the arts are accessible to everyone. If you
are an artist, baker or would like to volun-teer,
applications can be found at auburn-arts.
org and auburnalabama.org/arts.”
The fifth annual Day in the Clay, held
Monday, June 28, will give Auburn res-idents
the chance to get their hands dirty
at the Dean Road Ceramics Studio inside
the Dean Road Recreation Center from 1-4
p.m. Day in the Clay is a free open house
event including tours of the studio, demon-strations
and the opportunity to participate
in hands-on clay creation for $10.
“I think it’s a great advantage to live in
Auburn [and] to have all of these opportu-nities,”
said Art and Education Specialist
Cari Cleckler. “It’s important for me to let
not only kids have an outlet, but recent im-plants.
We have a couple of people in our
studio that have moved across the coun-try
who have been able to join our studio
as a way of not only socialization, but also
a creative outlet. Things like Day in the
Clay where fathers and sons, moms and
children, grandparents and children come
to do something for a couple of hours that
doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.”
The annual Fourth of July celebration
is sponsored by Briggs & Stratton Corp.
which spends $10,000 every year for the
display.
Gates will open at 6 p.m. behind the
home-side of Duck Samford Stadium fol-lowed
by live music at 7 p.m. and fireworks
at 9 p.m.
The Farewell Summer Block Party and
Outdoor Summer Movie, sponsored by
Chick-fil-A on Magnolia Avenue, will take
place at Town Creek Park on Friday, Aug.
1 at 6 p.m.
There will be a free concert and the mov-ie
“The Blind Side” will be featured.
The event is held in conjunction with the
sales tax holiday weekend, so there will be
several giveaways and coupons, according
to Rainey.
“Auburn recently released the results of
its annual citizen’s survey and 92 percent
of residents surveyed said they are satisfied
with the quality of life in the city,” Rain-ey
said. “We certainly hope that the events
help add to that.”
LEFT: Aubie takes pictures with local children at a Parks and Recreation event it holds for the community.
RIGHT: Parks and Recreation events are hosted in downtown Auburn throughout the entire summer.
Community events held in downtown Auburn throughout the summer
Thursday, June 12, 2014 The Auburn Plainsman News 3
Campus Parkerson Mill Creek: from ditch to destination
Marlee Moore
News Writer
Parkerson Mill Creek is undergoing restora-tion
that will transform the formerly unappeal-ing
and eroding creek into a part of campus that
will encourage passersby to enjoy being near the
water. The section of creek being restored is the
farthest northeastern branch of exposed creek on
campus, according to Ben Burmester, campus
planner with facilities management.
This branch runs by the Beard-Eaves Memo-rial
Coliseum and the new Wellness Kitchen; its
restoration is scheduled to finish in time for the
fall semester.
The current restoration is the only definite
plan that Facilities Management has for Parker-son
Mill Creek, but the campus master plan des-ignates
the creek as a natural resource manage-ment
area and has a long-term goal of improving
the creek throughout University property.
Eve Brantley, extension agent and associate
professor in the Department of Crop, Soils and
Environmental Sciences, has led the restoration
efforts.
Brantley, Burmester and Charlene LeBleu, as-sociate
professor of the School of Landscape Ar-chitecture,
agree this restoration is a collaborative
effort that will provide campus-wide benefits.
The Office of Sustainability, the Alabama Co-operative
Extension System, Facilities Manage-ment,
Landscape Architecture, Biosystems En-gineering,
School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sci-ences
and the School of Forestry are some of the
groups that have contributed to the restoration.
Funding for the project has come from the De-partment
of Environmental Management grants
and equal funding from Facilities Management.
Brantley says the plans for the creek include
improving floodplain protection and improving
the habitat by adding natural, deep-rooted vege-tation
to slow down the erosion that storm water
causes as it hits the creek bank.
The new vegetation will shade and cool the
water and provide better living conditions for
aquatic life, as well as keep the soil in place,
which will prevent erosion.
Structures have been built close to the stream
on campus. Infrastructure nearby is threatened
when storm water from the nearby buildings
builds up energy that then flows into and erode
the creek.
Brantley said groups are partnering to look at
managing storm water more effciently so it is not
sent into the creek.
It would instead be contained and able to sink
into the ground.
LeBleu said Parkerson Mill Creek is a private
and public stream because the creek runs through
the University and the city of Auburn.
LeBleu calls Parkerson Mill Creek a wa-tershed
and compares it to a bathtub because it
drains to a single point. Parkerson Mill Creek
drains into Chewacla Creek and the Tallapoosa
River.
Brantley, who came to Auburn in 2002, said
she remembers coming to campus for the first
time and thinking “this could be a fantastic out-door
classroom” and hopes the restoration will
encourage the creek’s use.
As a land-grant university, Auburn’s mission
has three points: research, instruction and exten-sion.
“Our mission is to help people learn more
about how to be good stewards of our natural re-sources
and use them wisely so future genera-tions
have access to them,” Brantley said.
Brantley said she believes the University has
a chance to implement its mission at Parkerson
Mill Creek as the stream evolves.
“I think it might be corny, but there’s probably
something for every department and college on
campus because we’re all tied to water,” Brant-ley
said.
Several science classes have helped with the
upkeep of the stream and the College of Liber-al
Arts community engagement practicum allows
students to put plants along the stream as part of
their training in improving water quality.
LeBleu, who has also worked on watershed
restoration efforts at Town Creek and Sauga-hatchee
Creek, said this restoration will provide
an “awe-inspiring demonstration for the possibil-ities
of the whole creek.”
According to LeBleu, there were talks of put-ting
the creek in a pipe and forgeting about it sev-eral
years ago.
“In the past, people have thought of the creek
as a ditch,” LeBleu said. “This new design re-claims
the creek’s name and reclaims it as a liv-ing
and functional stream.”
LeBleu’s said her goal for the restoration is
to transform the creek from a ditch to a destina-tion.
She wants people to meet at Parkerson Mill
Creek, relax and enjoy the scenery.
Brantley said she wants to build a greenway
path that would follow the stream through cam-pus
and showcase the stream as an integral part
of campus.
Brantley said she is optimistic for the creek’s
future.
“Nature can be resilient if we push it in the
right direction,” Brantley said.
Raye May / Photo and design editor
Parkerson Mill Creek during the construction.
Student places in top 10 in Miss Alabama Pageant
Marlee Moore
News Writer
Caitlin Brunell, Miss Leeds Area, won
the 2014 Miss Alabama Pageant Saturday
night at Samford University’s Wright Cen-ter.
Brunell, graduate of the University of
Alabama with a degree in dance, was one
of 47 women who vyed for the crown, eight
of whom attend Auburn University.
First runner-up was Katie Malone, Miss
Point Mallard; second runner-up was Bri-ana
Kinsey, Miss Marble Valley; third run-ner-
up was Elisabeth Chramer, Miss Ten-nessee
Valley; and fourth runner-up was
KeLeigh Edwards, Miss Smiths Station.
As Miss Alabama, Brunell will receive a
$10,000 scholarship, in addition to any in-kind
scholarships for which she qualifys.
According to Frank Kanelos, historian
and public relations manager for the pag-eant,
in-kind scholarship are those that in-dividual
colleges in the state make avail-able
to the contestants, and are totaled at
more than $4.9 million this year.
The main benefit to Miss Alabama par-ticipants
is the scholarship money avail-able.
Each contestant is awarded scholarship
money, even if they do not win or place in
the competition.
Cash scholarships, raised through Miss
Alabama Golf Classic, Miss Alabama’s
Outstanding Teen program, Rising Star
Program and Miss Alabama fashion show,
totaled $95,000 for 2014.
The pageant is comprised of five parts:
interview, swimsuit, talent, evening gown
and on-stage question. Contestants compet-ed
in those events during preliminaries ear-lier
in the week.
Mi’a Callens, junior in radio, television
and film, was the only Auburn student to
make the top 10.
The remaining top 10 finalists were Me-gan
Smith, Miss Center Point; Hayley Bar-ber,
Miss Phenix City; Alyssa Boyd, Miss
Lake City; and Cassidy Jacks, Miss Tusca-loosa.
Callens, Miss Jefferson County, will re-ceive
a $1,000 scholarship as a semi-final-ist.
According to Miss Auburn Universi-ty
scholarship program director Katie Wil-loughby,
sophomore in communication dis-orders,
this program gives girls once-in-a-lifetime
experiences.
“I would say, as a whole, the Miss Amer-ica
program develops incredibly well-rounded,
driven women,” Willoughby said.
“Regardless of their scholarship winnings,
being a participant is a credential or bene-fit
of itself.”
Contestants learn public speaking skills,
show work ethic toward health and their
bodies and learn appreciation of the arts.
“I see pageants as a positive mainly be-cause
they are a positive influence on the
participants’ lives,” Willoughby said.
Each contestant has a platform, as well
as the national platform of Miss America –
Children’s Miracle Network.
Brunell’s platform was Caitlin’s Closet,
an organization that provides homecoming
and prom dresses for girls that can not af-ford
to attend those events.
Leading up to the pageant, Kanelos said
the ladies not only rehearsed, but had press
events at Colonial Brookwood Mall.
Ann-Marie Riley, who attended the pag-eant’s
final night, “had a wonderful time
watching so many talented young women
and hearing about each of their platforms
and all of their accomplishments.”
Brunell will compete in the Miss Amer-ica
Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
September 9-14.
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Mi’a Callens was the only Auburn student to make the top 10.
Professor creates attendance app
Ben Ruffin
News Reporter
An Auburn professor de-signed
a new mobile appli-cation
that makes class atten-dance
easy to check.
Wei Wang, alumni professor
of graphic design in the School
of Industrial and Graphic De-sign,
created the app “Class
Roll,” which is designed for
taking class attendance on an
iPad or iPhone.
Both a teacher and designer,
Wang said he knew what was
needed to make the app useful
and easy for students and pro-fessors
to use.
During the past spring se-mester,
Wang took on the proj-ect
while teaching his graphic
design students how to create
mobile applications.
Wang worked on the proj-ect
at night to stay a step ahead
of his students, which allowed
him to create “Class Roll” as a
model for the class.
The app allows students
to log into class using their
iPhone or iPad.
A few key features of the
app include: editing atten-dance
records, customizing
class schedules, viewing indi-vidual
student attendance re-cords
and sharing class atten-dance
reports.
A full list of features can be
found at ClassRoll/App.com
and on Apple’s App Store.
“Class Roll” could replace
the iClickers niche of large
class attendance taking at the
University.
This can save students mon-ey
that currently goes to pur-chasing
an iClicker.
“I would much rather down-load
‘Class Roll’ than buy an
iClicker,” said Hunter Gra-ham,
sophomore in aviation
management.“People will
most likely always have their
phone on them whereas I see
people leave their iClickers at
home or in their car quite a few
times a week. I think it would
make the teacher and students’
lives easier.”
Wang graduated with a
Bachelors in Industrial De-sign
from Shenzhen Universi-ty
in China in 1993, followed
by a Bachelors in Fine Arts
in Graphic Design from Utah
State University in 1997 and
a Masters in Fine Arts from
Louisiana Tech University in
1999.
Wang has been teaching
graphic design in the School
of Industrial & Graphic De-sign,
College of Architecture,
Design and Construction at the
University, since he graduat-ed
from Louisiana Tech Uni-versity.
Founder and creative direc-tor
of Oneway Studio and the
associate art director of Desig-nAlabama,
Wang’s main areas
of research are brand strate-gy,
user-experience design and
web and interactive design.
Wang has also designed cor-porate
logos, websites and ad-vertising
campaigns for many
clients in the United States,
such as NASA, Coca Cola and
Volkswagon.
Wang’s work has been fea-tured
in the book “Global Cor-porate
Identity 2” and he has
been the recipient of numerous
of awards including an Auburn
University Alumni Professor-ship
from 2009-14, numerous
American Advertising Federa-tion
ADDY awards, Horizon-tal
International Interactive
Design awards and an Interac-tive
Media Award.
“Class Roll” is available for
$2.99 on the Apple App Store.
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Beginning in 1847, the city of Auburn had a
steady heartbeat. Each beat sounded of railcars
barreling down tracks and the faint whistle of
trains howling through the middle of town.
This central hub, and heart, of Auburn was the
train depot, a historic location now crumbling
into ruin.
The peeling, pale-pink brick building is the
third depot Auburn has seen since 1847.
The depot was built in 1904 by Auburn archi-tecture
student, Ralph Dudley. The aging, victo-rian
style train depot sits alone on Mitcham Av-enue.
Vacant since 2003, the depot has continued to
deteriorate into obscurity. As a result, the Auburn
Heritage Association and the Alabama Historical
Commission jointly placed the depot on the 2010
list of Places in Peril.
Mary Norman has been the president of the
Auburn Heritage Association since 2004, and she
has helped in aiding the preservation of the depot.
“The train depot was the center-point of Au-burn,”
Norman said. “People think Toomer’s
was, but if you look at history, it is how everyone
came into Auburn. Some [came] in horses and
buggies, but the majority of people and students
traveled on the trains.”
According to Norman, the Alabama Historic
Commission saw the depot was deterorating and
suffering from neglect and knew something had
to be done.
The Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation’s
2010 Places in Peril list described the state of the
depot as “suffering from deferred maintenance,
a leaking roof and possible environmental prob-lems
from an adjacent gas station.”
The East Alabama Male College, Auburn Uni-versity’s
former name, was incorporated in 1839.
A few years later in 1847, the first depot was built
on the same site it rests on today.
The original building fell during a Union raid
by General Rousseau during the Civil War. The
track, running from Atlanta to Selma, was seized
and destroyed to hinder supplies and communi-cation
to the two vital cities.
The second depot burned to the ground after it
was struck by lightning in 1904.
The Montgomery and West Point Railroad
served as transportation for people, mail and sup-plies
to Auburn.
Across from the present depot is a historic
marker bearing the details of Jefferson Davis’
stop on the way to his inauguration in Montgom-ery.
The president of the Confederacy stopped at
the depot on Feb. 16, 1861, for his first inspection
of the Auburn Guard cadets at the college.
Ann Pearson, resident and Auburn historian,
grew up riding the train.
“I went to the old train depot many times when
I was much younger and would get a ticket to ride
the train to Atlanta,” Pearson said. “It had sepa-rate
waiting rooms for blacks and whites and was
heated with a potbelly stove.”
Ralph Draughon Jr., son of former Univeristy
president, Ralph Draughon, elaborated on the
prank Auburn students played when the Geor-gia
Tech football players came into town travel-ing
by train.
“There was a big crowd waiting at the depot,”
Draughon Jr. said. “When the Georgia Tech train
came by it just kept on going right past the de-pot.
Auburn students had greased the track and
the train just kept on gliding past the depot for
miles.”
The boarded-up depot sold its last ticket and
boarded its final passenger in 1970, after losing
money because of the growing popularity of cars
and public transportation.
“It’s changed and been remodeled so much
it’s hard to recognize what it used to look like,”
Draughon Jr. said. “I just hope it can be saved.”
The depot has been vacant since 2003, before
that it was a real estate office for 20 years.
The building is listed as being owned by MRT
LLC, owned by attorney Ronald Russell in Mont-gomery.
The city of Auburn voiced wishes to buy
the depot. The asking price was $1.2 million.
“They’re either going to keep the gas station
next door and sell it to the city, or keep both and
rehab the train depot,” Norman said. “I’m just
happy something is going to be done.”
Draughon Jr., serves on the Alabama Histori-cal
Commission and on the Alabama Trust His-toric
Preservation and has been involved with the
preservation attempts by the associations.
“I’m very concerned about the depot,”
Draughon Jr. said. “It was the center of town and
a place where people came and went for years
and now it’s deteriorating. I’m holding my breath
it gets saved.”
City Manager Charles Duggan described City
Council plans at a meeting held in November
2013.
“On the Tuesday night council agenda, the ini-tial
development board was looking for a reso-lution
from the city council to buy the depot and
preserve it,” Duggan said.
The city tentatively plans to turn the depot into
a gateway building for traffic coming from the
north.
They are also planning a proposal to see if a
private business would like to do something with
the depot and have it in the private sector.
“There is no definitive plan except to get a
hold of it and preserve it,” Duggan said.
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The train depot has been vacant for 30 years, but the city plans renovate the building.
“It’s changed and been remodeled so much it’s hard to
recognize what it use to look like. I just hope it can be saved.”
—Ralph Draughon Jr.
Member of the Alabama Historical Comission
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Last World Cup, I was in Frankfurt, Germa-ny,
looking for a place to watch the all-impor-tant
United States-England group stage match.
We found the one American sports bar in
town.
With more than 200 other Americans, I
cheered my heart out as our team drew with the
almighty England.
Afterward, my German friends told me I
was the loudest of all Americans there.
What? How was that possible?
Being called the loudest American in a bar is
the equivalent of being labeled “the crazy one”
on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”
There are many things I dislike about our na-tion,
but there is national pride that comes out
when the U.S. is competing with anyone else
in anything.
A badminton match against Greece?
I am yelling at the guy named Koitsopolis
playing our beloved Americans.
Our nation has never been more divided than
now.
We, as Americans, like to point out every-thing
wrong with our government.
We argue endlessly, and pointlessly, about
how our country went down the tube and who
is to blame.
The only issue we all agree on may be de-porting
Justin Bieber.
All of the political, social and religious di-vision
will disappear when our boys take the
stage during the upcoming days at the World
Cup in Brazil.
Suddenly, who you voted for doesn’t matter
as much as whether Michael Bradley will be
the key player we need him to be to somehow
make it out of the “Group of Death.”
Germany, Ghana and Portugal, not some bill
being fought over by Congress, are our ene-mies
now.
(If you have no hate for Ghana yet, just
know they have knocked us out of the last two
World Cups.)
You voted for Obama?
Who cares! Tim Howard just made a huge
save!
Disagree with the war in Iraq?
Oh! Well, Clint Dempsey just scored a won-der
goal!
In the next few weeks, bars will fill up all
across the nation and the biggest argument will
be whether or not Landon Donovan deserved
to be included on the team.
Don’t know much about soccer? That’s OK.
All you need to know is this: ball in our net?
Bad.
Ball in their net? Awesome!
You don’t need to know why Jürgen Klins-mann
(yes, our coach is German) is playing a
4-3-3 formation to cheer for the good ole USA
over those floppers of Portugal.
Soccer is famously known as the “global
game” and the World Cup captures the atten-tion
of the world every four years.
National pride is at stake and countries are
trying to prove they are better than us.
So, join me and the rest of America as we
wave our flags, cheer on our boys and hope to
prove we are not to be taken lightly.
Just know this: you won’t be able to cheer
as loud as me.
Brian Stultz
sports reporter
bjs0038@auburn.edu
his view
This World
Cup could
unite America
Nothing says “Help, I’ve been
possessed by an evil wax statue”
like a selfie.
It’s hard to ignore the lifeless on-slaught
of puckered lips, expres-sionless
gazes and submissively
tilted heads that stare from the pro-files
of many women’s social me-dia
accounts.
Even more frightening than the
creepy selfie pose is a prevailing at-titude
that seems to affect many of
my female acquaintances and even,
at times, myself.
Many young women seem to
struggle to develop original and au-tonomous
identities. Instead, they
form identities that echo their boy-friends’,
friends’ or sororities’ iden-tities.
Although intellectual autono-my
is difficult to attain, narcissism
is easily achieved and demonstrat-ed
through the sharing of constant
streams of personal updates and
photographs.
However, the culprit of this phe-nomenon
doesn’t seem to be some
fugitive spirit from Madame Tus-sauds’s
wax museum attempting
to clone lifeless imitations of indi-viduals.
Instead, I think many of us
Auburn women have inadvertently
absorbed American culture’s lack
of appreciation to originality.
Many of today’s best-selling
movies are remakes or part of fran-chises,
while television show spi-noffs
and book series flood the
market. Many of the storylines fea-ture
mashes of old storylines (vam-pires,
anyone?) instead of innova-tive
and original concepts.
And, of course, many of our fe-male
pop culture icons aren’t nec-essarily
originality role models
either. It’s all too common for a
woman to receive fame and atten-tion
for her good looks and sexu-ality
instead of her talent, artistry
or wit.
Surrounded by our culture’s cre-ative
and intellectual stagnation
and its idolization of over-sexual-ized
women, it’s understandable
that many women struggle to form
their own identities.
Luckily, the solution doesn’t re-quire
an exorcism. Although easy
to consume the vapid products of
our pop culture in our free time,
such behavior is counterproduc-tive
when forming an independent
identity.
Producing something, rath-er
than consuming, forces you to
think. You must consider what
you’re going to do, determine how
you are going to do it and then cri-tique
yourself after you’ve finished.
It’s a process that allows for self-exploration,
understanding and ac-ceptance.
This type of thinking is an es-sential
component of de-clonifying
yourself and forming an indepen-dent
identity.
Learning, when paired with
deep, analytical thinking is like-wise
helpful in the de-cloneifica-tion
process. Although it’s fun to
read an informative book, it’s also
important to spend time reflecting
on what you think about the given
topic and why you think it.
Although our culture may not
encourage self-discovery, creativ-ity
or intellectual independence
for women, that doesn’t mean we
should allow ourselves to stagnate.
If each Plainswoman worked to
think deeply and creatively in or-der
to understand herself, we could
use our rich senses of self to change
our entertainment industry’s vapid,
mindless pop products and create
a better, smarter, more innovative
culture.
Until then, it would be nice to
see women possessed only by their
sense of self.
Identity formation for a culture of dummies hEr view
Caitlin
Shostak
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our view
SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE PLAINS
Trey Palmedo
“I’m glad the era of confusion is over and
the new style is coming in, but I’d rather
take two that I know are real any day
than throwing up some arbitrary number
in which only my fan base agrees on and
I’m stuck defending to everyone not in
that fan base.”
In response to our cover story “National
title claim debate reaches tipping point”
from the June 5 issue:
How many national football champion-ships
(1913, 1983, 1993 and 2004) should
Auburn retroactively claim?
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then....”
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(and 2 they deemed worthy).”
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NC”
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Jacobs shows confidence, lays out
expectations with new coach deals
While it’s difficult to say
how much Auburn’s run to
the 2013 BCS National Cham-pionship
helped the city and
the University financially, it’s
not hard to tell how much it
helped Gus Malzahn’s wallet.
Malzahn’s newest contract
extension, which raises his
salary to $3.85 million per year
with an increase of $250,000
annually through 2019, makes
the 49-year-old coach the third
highest paid coach in the SEC
behind Nick Saban and Les
Miles.
The lucrative deals found
their way to the hardwood as
well, with new men’s basket-ball
head coach Bruce Pearl fi-nalizing
a six-year, $2.2 million
dollar contract through the
2020 season.
As usual, these contracts
are loaded with incentives
that make one thing clear: Jay
Jacobs wants these men to put
people in the seats and bring
home championships.
While both contracts would
reward coaches for postseason
success and championships,
Pearl’s contract carries a num-ber
of incentives that would
reward the coach for selling
out the Auburn Arena for half
of the season.
Attendance was a serious is-sue
at the end of the Tony Bar-bee
era, with a record-low at-tendance
of 4,434 for a game
against South Carolina being
rock bottom.
The rise of high-definition
television has made atten-dance
a difficult issue in many
sports.
A winning product can fix
many of the problems, but the
potential for championships is
a greater long-term solution.
With Malzahn and Pearl’s
championship history, it only
made sense for Jacobs to lock
down the pair for as long as
possible.
Now it’s up to Malzahn and
Pearl to prove they are worth
their lofty paystubs.
State of the program
No. 13 Men's Tenis
Auburn's nine-match losing streak
overshadowed several improvements
through the early stages of the sea-son.
A 7-1 start to the season saw the Ti-gers
move into the Top 25 in the na-tion
halfway through February. How-ever,
their season unraveled quick-ly
after a 4-0 sweep against Florida in
Gainesville, Florida.
2013-2014 Record:
14-14 (4-8 SEC)
13-11 (5-7 SEC)
2012-2013 Record:
Our third week of the State of
the Program rankings takes us
to the hard courts of the Auburn
men's tennis program.
The Tigers lost nine consecutive
matches to finish the season at an
even .500 overall record.
The men's team has struggled
since 2012, when the Tigers' 18-12
record was their best finish since
2002.
There were many low points during the
Tigers' nine-game losing streak to end
the season.
Another road sweep at Texas A&M and
a home sweep at the hands of Georgia
solidified the skid.
A sweep against Vanderbilt in the
opening match of the SEC Tournament
may have been the lowest of lows for
head coach Eric Shore and company.
Key departures:
Daniel Cochrane (24-9
singles; All-SEC Second
Team), Dennis Lengsfeld (15-
11 singles)
season low: the future:
If there's one thing the Tennis
Tigers have going for them,
it's youth. Auburn's roster
features six freshmen, with
three (Saleh, Peter Tomic
and Oliver Plaskett) receiving
substantial court time during
the fall and spring seasons.
Ollert and Van Dooren will
provide a veteran presence
at the top of the lineup.
five-year record:
73-59 (.553)
Key returnees:
Junior Lukas Ollert (21-12 sin-gles),
freshman Dante Saleh
(19-12), sophomore Joseph
Van Dooren.
previous rankings:
No. 15: Baseball
No. 14: Men's basketball
2014 FIFA World Cup
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Sports Editor
Golden Boot
Winner
Round of USA
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Sports Reporter
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Sports Writer
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Head coaches Gus Malzahn and Bruce Pearl finalized contracts that keep them in Auburn through 2019 and 2020.
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Baseball
Three members of the 2014
Auburn baseball team were
selected in the Major League
Baseball First-Year Player
Draft, which concluded Sat-urday,
June 7.
Junior right-handed pitch-er
Trey Cochran-Gill and se-nior
third baseman Damek
Tomscha were taken with
back-to-back picks in the 17th
round.
Cochran-Gill went to the
Seattle Mariners with the
501st overall pick in the draft,
and Tomscha was selected by
the Philadelphia Phillies one
pick later.
In the 31st round, junior
right-handed pitcher Rocky
McCord was picked by the
Kansas City Royals with the
933rd overall selection.
In his three-year Auburn
career, Cochran-Gill is 6-5
with three saves in 57 appear-ances
– striking out 65 and
walking 31 in 110.1 innings
pitched.
Tomscha led Auburn in
several offensive categories,
including home runs, slug-ging
percentage and on-base
percentage.
Playing in 54 of 56 games,
the Sioux City, Iowa native
was second on the team with
a .313 batting average and
drove in 29 runs while scoring
37 times.
Tomscha finished his two-year
Auburn career with a .293
average, 12 home runs and 55
RBIs.
Auburn has had at least
one player selected in the
MLB draft for 40 consecutive
seasons, which ties for the
second-longest active streak
in the SEC.
Women’s
basketball
Auburn women’s basketball
assistant Caroline McCombs
has been named the head
coach at Stony Brook Uni-versity,
the school announced
Thursday, June 5.
McCombs recently com-pleted
her second season at
Auburn where she served as
the team’s recruiting coordina-tor
and coached Auburn’s pe-rimeter
players.
During her two seasons on
the bench, she helped guide the
Tigers to 38 wins and back-to-back
berths in the WNIT.
Last season, the Tigers led
the SEC with 354 steals, av-eraging
10.4 per game as Au-burn
advanced to the WNIT
quarterfinals.
Auburn set a school re-cord
with 402 steals during
the 2012-13 season and also
forced 701 turnovers, which
ranks second all-time in pro-gram
history.
Men’s
basketball
Auburn basketball coach
Bruce Pearl has added Chad
Prewett and Jordan VerHulst
to his staff, he announced on
Wednesday, June 4.
Prewett comes from Lee-
Scott Academy in Auburn and
takes on the role of special as-sistant
to the head coach while
VerHulst joins the program
from Memphis as the video
coordinator.
Prewett joined the staff at
Lee-Scott Academy in 2007 as
both the boys and girls basket-ball
and track coach.
He led the varsity boys bas-ketball
team to the 2012 AISA
State Championship, a runner-up
finish in 2011 and the Final
Four in 2009 and 2010. Over
the years the Lee-Scott boys
team’s went 139-31.
On the girls side Prewett led
the program to four AISA State
Championships (2009, 2011,
2012, 2013), a runner-up fin-ish
in 2014 and the Final Four
in 2008 and 2010.
Prior to his stay at Lee-
Scott, Prewett was the varsi-ty
boys basketball and track
coach at Faith Academy in
Mobile from 2004-07.
Prewett led the boys bas-ketball
team to the 2006 AISA
State Championship, the 2005
Final Four and was the 2006
AISA All-Star game coach and
Coach of the Year.
Prewett led Faith Academy
to a 63-21 record.
VerHulst was the video co-ordinator
at Memphis from
2009-14.
There VerHulst broke down
upcoming opponents and pre-sented
coaches and players
scouting reports.
VerHulst also developed
software to create plus-minus
reports, shot chart data and re-cord
offensive efficiency sta-tistics.
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There is more than one way to create an album
Reese Counts
Intrigue Writer
With ever-expanding means of digital distribu-tion,
tools to create and release a record are more
accessible than ever.
Jackson Gafford, Opelika musician under the
moniker Captain Kudzu, is putting together his
first album.
Gafford’s entire recording process is based in
his bedroom using a laptop and a single micro-phone.
Gafford records various instruments and
sounds onto his laptop, often one at a time, and
uses editing software to move all the pieces into
place.
“I have this little audio box,” Gafford said. “It
just came with the software. I have, literally, a $2
keyboard that I use. I have just one mic.”
Gafford’s bedroom contains a drum set, an ar-ray
of guitars and effects pedals he feeds sounds
through. Using a sample board, he then loops the
audio to create a beat.
“I hit the record button, put it on a continu-ous
loop, and put whatever I want on top of that,”
Gafford said.
When Gafford has a sound or melody he has
not found a purpose for, he said he uses the sam-ple
board to create the basic outline of a song or
record.
“I have an idea, I don’t know what to do with
it, but I want to catalog it, so I’ll put it on there,”
Gafford said.
Gafford said he believes he has enough ideas
for two albums at this point.
“I have so much material,” Gafford said. “I
counted the other day how many loops I have
and I have about 40 different songs. I want to be
able to surprise people every time I put some-thing
out.”
One of Gafford’s finished songs contains 28
different instrument tracks, all performed by a
handful of his friends.
Most of his work has been done with one or
two other musicians he knows he can rely on.
“People have their set way of doing things and
they think that’s how it should be done across the
board,” Gafford said. “It’s a compromise. Some
people are good at that, and some people are ter-rible.”
Gafford also believes too many egos in a room
can lead to creative stagnation, so he started
working alone because he said he was frustrated
with all the conflicting mindsets.
“I had a really specific idea for how it sounds
and other people would have ideas for how it
should sound,” Gafford said.
Although he’s been playing live music for
several years now, mostly at bars and open-mic
nights, Gafford started recording in the past sev-eral
months when he decided he was wasting his
time not recording.
Tom O’Shea, owner of The Auburn Guitar
Shoppe, said using a professional studio is an op-tion
for musicians trying to polish their sound.
Converted from a doctor’s office, The Guitar
Shoppe’s studio opened approximately one year
ago. O’ Shea rents this studio out to various art-ists,
from bluegrass to hip-hop.
Experienced studio professional Wade Allen
oversees the studio and works directly with art-ists.
“It’s $35 an hour for all the kinds of work we
do,” O’Shea said. “We don’t do the mastering
here. The philosophy in the industry generally is
you don’t have the same person doing the master-ing
as you do the mixing.”
But for the artist on a budget, recording from
home may still be the best option.
Seth Brown, friend of Gafford, fills in on re-cordings
when an extra hand is needed.
“I started playing music with Jackson in about
the 10th grade,” Brown said.
Gafford said one of the first albums he wants
to put together will feature himself and Brown.
Gafford plans to release his music digitally to
keep costs down, though he does plan to have his
work mastered before release.
“It’s going to be on Sound Cloud, Reverb Na-tion
and Grooveshark,” Gafford said. “I’m going
to just upload it everywhere I can.”
sarah may / Assistant photo editor
ABOVE: Jackson Gafford is in the beginning stages of putting his songs together.
BELOW: Gafford sold various instruments and equipment to be able to afford his Fender Jazzmaster.
Local musician Jackson Gafford utilizes inexpensive options to record music at home
Auburn football camp teaches and inspires women
raye may / photo and design editor
LEFT: Participants practice passing footballs and drills with Auburn football coaches.
RIGHT: After practice, participants were given a tour of the football locker rooms and were able to try on some of the football players’ jerseys.
When my fiancé suggested that I
attend the inaugural Auburn Wom-en’s
Football camp, I wasn’t exactly
on board from the get-go.
I couldn’t think of anything more
intimidating than surrounding myself
with diehard Auburn football fans for
a whole day while trying to learn the
technicalities of football, a subject
that has never been my strong suit.
I’ve lived in Alabama my entire
life, but football was never a part of
my upbringing.
I understood the game at its most
basic level.
I knew the positions and the faces
of the big-name player for each team.
I knew what a fumble was.
I knew what calls the refs were
making at least half of the time.
But as far as Auburn-specific foot-ball,
I was a rookie.
But then, I took a deep breath and
decided to attend the camp with my
future mother-in-law, Martha.
I was expecting to enjoy a fun day
with Martha, while Nate spent the day
hanging around Auburn with his dad.
I thought, at the most, I’d get a few
autographs.
However, what I got out of this ex-perience
was much more.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime expe-rience
for me.
I graduated from Auburn in May
and have since moved to Birming-ham.
Throughout my four years on
the Plains, I never went on the field or
in the locker room.
I had never seen the new athletic
facilities, including the new indoor
football field.
I didn’t understand the key compo-nents
to our Hurry-Up, No-Huddle of-fense
or our defense.
And I never knew how much cre-ativity,
patience and skill it took to be
the Tiger’s equipment manager.
However, after eight hours of in-tense
lectures, tours, meet-and-greets
and videos, I feel like I’m up to speed.
I even got to meet Gus Malzahn,
spend time with his coaching staff and
eat lunch with Travis Williams, cur-rent
defensive analyst, former Auburn
linebacker and rapper who created the
“Tiger Walk” song.
Even though I enjoyed every-thing
offered to us at this day camp,
my favorite segment, by far, was the
presentation by Dana Marquez, the
equipment manager of the only certi-fied
equipment staff in the SEC.
Marquez patented a shoulder pad,
both the soft and hard shells, that
only weighs 3.8 pounds when dry or
wet. Most shoulder pads weigh be-tween
15 and 20 pounds by the end
of a game.
Not only that, he also put himself
through culinary school while work-ing
for several teams in various sports
across the country before his arrival
at Auburn.
Marquez was funny, well spoken
and charming, so much so that one of
the attendees asked if he was interest-ed
in “older women.”
Needless to say, the entire room
erupted in laughter.
I couldn’t have asked for a more
immersive way to wrap my head
around something that for so long was
completely foreign to me, and for this
being the first year the University has
hosted a football camp exclusively for
women, I applaud it for an invaluable
experience that I’ll always cherish,
along with all of the other memories
I made at Auburn.
I am excited to see how next year’s
camp unfolds.
I’m sure it will be an even greater
success than this year’s.
I also couldn’t have asked to spend
the day with more inspirational wom-en.
These women are at the heart of the
Auburn family.
They’re the great-grandmothers,
grandmothers and mothers of current
students.
They’re the alumnae who helped
make the University and the football
program what it is today.
I can only hope to be as dedicated,
loud and loyal as these women are by
the time I’m their age.
Anna Claire
Conrad
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