2014-02-13 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, February 13, 2014 Vol. 120, Issue 33, 14 Pages
People pick Powell
Zach bland / Assistant Photo Editor
Friends and supporters celebrate Logan Powell’s victory as Auburn’s next SGA President Tuesday, Feb. 11, after callouts on the back steps of Cater Hall.
Logan Powell wins SGA presidentail election with 72 percent of student vote
Derek herscovici
campus reporter
Freezing rain couldn’t keep the crowd off of
Cater Lawn for the results of the SGA and Miss
Auburn elections Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Logan Powell is the new SGA President,
Olabode Anise is SGA Vice President, Rich-mond
Gunter is SGA Treasurer and Caroline
Stephens is the new Miss Auburn.
“The basis for this decision was my love for
Auburn and my passion for listening to the stu-dent
body,” Powell said. “I believe that this is
the best role for me to serve Auburn. Win or
lose, I knew I should at least give it a shot.”
Powell campaigned on a platform of increas-ing
communication between SGA and the stu-dent
body, an idea that remains central to his
mission as president.
“When I sat down to create a platform I re-alized
that I was one mind out of more than
25,000,” Powell said. “It was very humbling
to not only set goals for the upcoming year but
goals that keep evolving after.”
When asked whether his opponent, Hayden
Harrelson, would serve in some capacity with-in
his administration, Powell said he was op-timistic.
“When you run for SGA president, win or
lose, you’re doing it for a reason,” Powell said.
“You’re doing it because you see something
that needs to change. So I don’t think that just
because you don’t win the election those opin-ions
should be swept under the rug. Whether
it’s an official capacity or not, I would love to
keep hearing from him.”
For Harrelson, the experience was still in-credible,
regardless of the outcome.
“It’s something I can definitely build from,
and I still hope to better the Auburn community
and use my platform and my visions to see what
I can do,” Harrelson said.
Harrelson said he’s definitely interested in
helping Powell initiate his platform of creating
a mobile application to locate late-night securi-ty
shuttles on campus.
“That’s a conversation he and I need
to have,” Harrelson said. “Our platforms
were very similar. I’d like to see what I
could do to put myself in a position to help him
out.”
Harrison Mills, the standing SGA president,
believes Powell is well suited to take over when
he leaves.
“He’s coming in with the right mind set, with
humility,” Mills said. “He will continue to serve
Auburn as he always has.”
Ray Maye / Design editor
War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen surround Caroline Stephen after her Miss Auburn win.
sarah may / assistant photo editor
Winning vice president-elect Olabode Anise is congratulated by his girlfriend, Leah Seay
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Community a6
Gymnastics vs.
Florida
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for game updates Feb. 14
Chicken Salad Chick
coming fall 2014
The new dinig option will
be added to the Foy Din-ing
Hall restuarants
New businesses join
South College
Uncle Maddio’s Pizza joint
will open in the new
shopping centeracross
from CVS
campus a4
Are you curious
about The Fox?
Opelika shop sells lingerie,
promotes local artisans
and more
intrigue a13
Baseball’s opening
day is on the way
Golloway talks depth
chart, starting rotation
ahead of Tigers’ weekend
tournament in Florida
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Campus
Opinion
Community
Sports
Intrigue
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“I believe that this is the
best role for me to
serve Auburn. Win or
lose, I knew I should at
least give it a shot.”
—Logan powel
sga president elect
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Gloria Steinem to speak at Extraordinary Women Lecture Series
Keely Shearer
Campus Writer
Gloria Steinem, activist and author, came to
Auburn to give a lecture in the seventies and is
returning Feb. 18 to kick off the fifth annual Ex-traordinary
Women Lecture Series as part of Au-burn
University’s Women’s Studies Program.
“Gloria Steinem is probably the most influen-tial
woman in the United States,” said Barbara
Baker, executive editor of the Women’s Leader-ship
Institute. “She has been for my entire life-time,
and I’m not young. Really, she is a key fig-ure
in a struggle for equality for all people. She
has worked in every facet of all race, gender and
every other kind of inequality you can think of
for 50 to 60 years.”
The lecture will take place at the Auburn Ho-tel
in the Dixon Conference Center at 4 p.m. and
is open to the general public.
The first woman to speak at Auburn’s Extraor-dinary
Women Lecture Series, Leslie Kenne-dy,
was an Auburn graduate and the first woman
three-star general in the United States Air Force.
“Our lecture series has been a trajectory,” Bak-er
said.
Since then, Lily Ledbetter, woman’s right ac-tivist
who the Fair Pay Act is named after; Ma-rie
Wilson, founder and president of the White
House Project; and Maya Angelou, renowned au-thor
and poet, have all come to Auburn to partake
in the lecture series.
“This year, our goal was to bring as many of
the units across campus together as we could,”
Baker said. “We wanted to see if we could get ev-erybody
on board together to get behind some-body.
So, we got somebody that really has a su-per
indisputable reputation as a national icon and
legendary figure.”
Steinem is the co-founder of Ms. Magazine,
the Women’s Media Center, and the National
Women’s Political Caucus, among other foun-dations.
Steinem has also received numerous awards,
such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and
written five books, with As If Women Matter, be-ing
the latest.
“What I think the catch here is [that] you have
the opportunity to be in the presence of an abso-lute
legend, an icon, somebody that not every-body
gets to be in the presence of everyday of the
week,” Baker said.
Mary Elizabeth Woodward, junior in hotel
and restaurant management, serves as a men-tee
for the Women’s Philanthropy board and at-tends
similar lectures and luncheons offered by
the Women’s Studies Program.
“I think they’re very beneficial,” Woodward
said. “It’s really awesome that we have the op-portunity,
as students, to hear from all these re-ally
cool people who make a difference, through
all these different programs that Auburn offers.”
Students such as Lauren Romano, sophomore
in elementary education, heard about the lecture
series through her professor in in her human de-velopmental
life studies class.
According to Romano, most of her class will
be attending the lecture.
“We know how families and relationships
work,” Romano said. “I think it’s an opportuni-ty
for us to see how women have been influential
not only in society but managed to run a family,
have children and do both.”
sga
» From A1
TOP LEFT: Miss Auburn candidate Rebekah Davis hugs a friend after SGA Callouts. (EMILY ENFINGER / PHO-TOGRAPHER
TOP RIGHT: The War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen sing the Alma Mater around the new Miss Auburn, Caroline
Stephens. (RAYE MAY / DESIGN EDITOR )
BOTTOM RIGHT: SGA vice president Olabode Anise celebrates with his fraternity brothers after the results
of the SGA election. (SARAH MAY / ASISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Feb. 5, 12:56 p.m., 1200 Block of South Donahue
Drive
Second-degree forgery and first-degree theft of
property
Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m., 100 Block of East Glenn Avenue
Shoplifting
Feb. 5. 1:06 p.m., 300 Block of Webster Road
Third-degree criminal trespass
Feb. 5, 6 p.m., 1600 Block of South College Street
Third-degree theft of property
Feb. 5, 6:39 p.m., 700 Block of West Veterans
Boulevard
Third-degree theft of property
Feb. 6, 7:38 a.m., Three 19 Bragg
Criminal mischief- damage to private property
Feb. 6, 11:25 a.m., 1700 Block of South College
Street
Second-degree criminal mischief
Feb. 6, 3 p.m., 1400 Block of Lee Road 10
Second-degree theft of property
Feb. 7, 11 a.m., 400 Block of Opelika Road
Second-degree criminal trespass
Feb. 7, 3 p.m., 900 Block of North Donahue
Third-degree criminal trespass
Feb. 7, 5 p.m., 100 Block of Burton Street
Third-degree theft of property
Feb. 7, 4:54 p.m., 2100 Block of Richland Road
First-degree theft of property
Feb. 7, 5:07 p.m., 1100 Block of Gatewood
Public lewdness and third-degree criminal tres-pass
Feb. 7, 11:40 p.m., 100 Block of West Magnolia
Third-degree theft of property and third-degree
criminal trespass
Feb. 8, 1 p.m., 100 Block of North College Street
Third-degree theft of property
Feb. 8, 1:26 p.m., 200 Block of West Longleaf
Third-degree criminal mischief
Feb. 8, 2:19 p.m., 1400 Block of Saugahatchee
Road
Third-degree theft of property and third-degree
criminal mischief
Feb. 8, 3 p.m., 300 Block of West Glenn Avenue
Third-degree theft of property
Feb. 9, 12:01 a.m., 300 Block of Opelika Road
Third-degree criminal trespass
Feb. 9, 11:17 a.m., 500 Block of Perry Street
Second-degree theft of property
Feb. 11, 10:26 a.m., 1100 Block of Stonegate
Auto breaking and entering
Feb. 11, 2:56 p.m., 1700 Block of South College
Third-degree theft of property
Anthony Edwards
Feb. 6, 1000 North Donahue
Jacarius Wright
Feb. 7, South College Street
Benjamin Holmes
Feb. 7, North Dean Road and An-nalue
Drive
Erin Bundy
Feb. 8, West Magnolia Avenue and
South Donahue Drive
Lawrence Nourzad
Feb. 8, South College Street
Charles Underwood
Feb. 8, South College Street
Savannah Rundquist
Feb. 8, Downs Way and West
Longleaf Drive
Gabriel McKenzie
Feb. 8, South College Street and
East Thatch
Daniel Newell
Feb. 9, North College Street
Travis Latham
Feb. 11, North College Street
–Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
Mills, Powell and other members of the
present and future SGA cabinet will ease the
transition of power from one administration to
the next at a retreat at Calloway Gardens in the
coming weeks.
Among those attending the retreat is SGA
vice president-elect Olabode Anise, who gar-nered
63 percent of the vote (3,827) to his op-ponent
David Wisdom ‘s 37 percent (2,261).
“To say I’m excited would be an understate-ment,”
Anise said. “It’s been three years, and
it has always been my dream. I am just so ex-cited.”
Anise, a junior in computer science, said
he hopes to implement his campaign platform
soon.
“[I want to] start working and go to the of-fice
of the Provost and office of Information
Technology and get this show on the road,”
Anise said. “Auburn students are really active
and really want to elect candidates that will
make sure to make a difference.”
Despite the loss, Wisdom had nothing but
praise for his campaign team and hopes to con-tinue
working for Auburn’s student body.
“The best part about campaign week was the
friendships I made with everybody else,” Wis-dom
said.
“I think the platform that I had set forth is
something that Auburn needs, so it’s some-thing
that I’d like to see move forward.”
Though he ran unopposed, Richmond Gunt-er
received 5,901 votes to secure his place as
SGA Treasurer-elect.
“I think the experiences I’ve been fortunate
enough to have on this campus prepared me to
step into this role,” Gunter said.
“[I’m] ready to lead on day one and ensure
we balance our budget and spend the money in
a way that is fair and balanced for all students.”
Gunter called his election to treasurer “an
opportunity and an obligation” and looks for-ward
to keeping SGA’s budget in the black.
“I’m just excited for the way the Lord has
blessed me to have an opportunity to serve this
university,” Gunter said.
Caroline Stephens won out over Rebekah
Davis, Jazmin Carr, Kinsey Crow and Sloane
Bell to be named the 2014 Miss Auburn.
Caroline Stephens, junior in political sci-ence
and psychology, attributed her victory to
the strength of her campaign platform: serving
others through random acts of kindness.
“I think the great things about random acts
of kindness is it’s contagious, and so one thing
that’s really neat is that we can just do it,” Ste-phens
said.
“It doesn’t cost money. All it takes is a lit-tle
time and effort. One thing we’ll do is we’ll
keep randomly doing random acts of kindness
and then more than that, too, we’re going to
teach Auburn students about what it is and just
keep doing [it].”
Stephens called her campaign experience
humbling and says she is excited to get to work
in the upcoming year.
Runner-up Rebekah Davis said campaign
week helped her understand the true meaning
of family and friendship and wouldn’t trade
that for anything, regardless of the outcome.
“Caroline Stephens and I are actually very
close and I can think of no one more deserv-ing,”
Davis said.
“I look forward to helping her in whatever
she needs and just being there for her over this
next year.”
Jazzmin Carr, another runner-up, said the
entire experience was nothing if not a lesson.
“I learned to better serve Auburn, and I
learned everything has a divine purpose,” Carr
said. “I’ll help [Stephens] with whatever she
needs.”
Runner-up Sloane Bell said her favorite part
of campaign week was watching everyone
come together to do something tangible and
raise awareness for various causes.
Bell said she still plans on helping Stephens
implement her campaign platform in the fu-ture.
“I think her platform is great, [and] we can
all do a little more to help out,” Bell said. “Au-burn
students already love to do random acts of
kindness for each other, but I think she can re-ally
help live it up.”
For Kinsey Crow, the final runner-up, just
the opportunity to run and bring attention to
her platform issue was worth it, regardless of
the outcome.
“I have been encouraged by the Auburn
University student body’s response to my plat-form,”
Crow said.
“I think we did a great job this week of just
bringing light to something we can improve
on in the Auburn Family. We succeeded in our
mission. It’s been an honor just to run for Miss
Auburn.”
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Whatchawant hot dogs give you whatcha need
sarah may / assistant photo editor
The Whatchawant hot dog stand offers a range of toppings, including sauerkraut, bacon, chili, Doritos, the classic ketchup and mustard, and many more.
Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Doritos, sauerkraut, ketchup, bacon, chili, and
pickles can all be found on one hot dog, if that is
“whatchawant.”
Although the Whatchawant hot dog stand
has only been on campus for approximately two
weeks, Danny Daniels, founder of Whatchawant,
has been creating connections with Auburn stu-dents
since the 2013 football season.
“I really got my name out there with the stu-dents,
and the students would ask me every night
when I would be on campus,” Daniels said. “[The
business grew because of] the love from my fans,
and all the students have really supported me. I
love the University, and I love the students.”
Daniels first got the idea of starting a hot dog
cart when he visited New York City with his fi-ancé,
Sade Daniels, co-owner of Whatchawant.
“I saw a couple of carts and thought it would
be something cool I could bring to Auburn,” Dan-ny
said. “I’ve always been into food and want-ed
to started a couple of businesses when I grad-uated.”
Danny is only selling his 100 percent beef
dogs on campus now.
“Getting back out downtown now depends on
working with the city, but game days would re-ally
be the time to park it outside the bars,” Dan-ny
said.
Whatchawant gets new customers to its cart
everyday.
“This is my first time [eating the hot dogs], but
after this first bite, I’m coming back for many
more,” said Chris Denson, senior in business ad-ministration.
Danny said he recommends his Whatchawant
hot dogs to the every day student and person on
campus, including the Tiger Transit bus drivers.
“[The food] gets you away from the norm, on
the way to class or a quick transit break,” Danny
said. “I don’t like calling them hot dogs because
they’re not normal hot dogs. I recommend it for
faculty, staff, students and open to everyone.”
Danny said he does not compare his business-es
to similar hot dog restaurants.
“[My business is] me providing an experience,
and I’ll give you exactly what you want,” Dan-ny
said. “That’s why it’s called Whatchawant.
I want you to be as creative as possible with the
condiments on my cart. You come to buy an ex-perience,
not a place to buy a certain meal. Any-thing
you’re mind comes up with I’ll make it for
you.”
Sade said their most popular selling hot dog is
a chili cheese hot dog.
“We have basically any topping you want,”
Sade said. “It’s not a normal hot dog.”
Daniels said he takes pride in selling his 100
percent beef hot dogs.
“They’re something you can’t buy in the
store,” Daniels said. “I want to sell high-quality
dogs, and I make my chili fresh every morning.”
Denson said he is friends with the owners and
recommends Whatchawant to everyone.
“I’m definitely going to spread the word for
everyone to come here,” Denson said. “They’re
great hot dogs.”
The hot dog stand may be one of many in the
near future.
“We’re hoping to get another cart started on
the other side of campus,” Sade said. “By the end
of the summer, hopefully we’ll have one on the
other side.”
Whatchawant hot dog cart is open Monday–
Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. next to the Student
Center by the Tiger Transit stop.
“I want to let all my fans know that I love them
and thank you for all their support,” Daniels said.
“Without the students, I wouldn’t be here.”
Sarah may / assistant photo editor
Sade Daniels prepares a Whatchawant hot dog with ketchup and mustard for Chris Denson.
Board of Trustees approves
Toomer’s Corner makeover
Derek Herscovici
Campus Reporter
The mourning period for
Toomer’s Corner is over.
The Auburn University
Board of Trustees met at Au-burn
University Montgomery
campus Friday, Feb. 7, to ap-prove
funding for the remov-al
of the contaminated soil be-neath
the corner and remodel-ing
of the brick area behind the
historic gates to the school.
“Once the trees were deter-mined
that they needed to be
removed, we went through a
number of different commit-tees
and processes to figure out
what to do with the Universi-ty’s
corner in [downtown] Au-burn,”
said Dan King, vice
president of facilities manage-ment.
The board approved
$900,000 from the University’s
general fund to complete the
makeover in two phases across
the next two years.
The first phase comprises all
of what King calls the “hard-scape”
work: removing the
bricks and pavers on the ex-isting
corner, digging, clean-ing
out and safely removing the
contaminated soil, and com-pleting
the construction chang-es
to the new area.
A new feature of the corner
will be the circular seat wall set
behind the existing gates and
path to Samford Hall.
“Right now, Toomer’s Cor-ner
is one of our most iconic
spaces on campus, but if you
want to go hang out there, you
can’t,” King said. “There’s no
place to sit. There’s not good
lighting. You’re right at the
corner where traffic is coming
back and forth. The circular
seat wall is set a bit back [from
the street], and I believe that
it’ll become a nice addition to
the campus and create another
little gathering place that’s peo-ple
friendly.”
Though the construction
should not cause problems for
traffic at the intersection of Col-lege
and Magnolia, King said it
will drastically affect pedestri-an
traffic between campus and
the rest of downtown Auburn,
which is why development
won’t begin until after gradua-tion
in May.
King said he estimates the
“hardscape” work will be com-pleted
in time for the start of
the 2014 football season, but
the second phase of the proj-ect,
planting the new trees, will
come after.
“The trees will take a little
longer because we have have
to identify the exact candidates,
go through a process called
‘root pruning,’ which causes
the root ball to get bigger and
denser and increases the likeli-hood
of the tree being replanted
successfully,” King said. “Ev-erything
before transplanting
the trees constitutes phase one.”
King said despite being ex-tremely
poisonous to plants,
Spike 80DF, the herbicide used,
is non-toxic to humans and
there are no health concerns
posed to the Auburn communi-ty
before its removal.
A redesigned, tree-lined
walkway leading to Samford
Hall will be the last completed
component to phase two in the
summer before the 2015 foot-ball
season.
“I can probably say with a
good deal of certainty that the
day we plant trees we will cer-tainly
have an event that brings
out a lot of people,” said Mike
Clardy, director of University
communications.
Harrison Mills, SGA presi-dent,
said in designing the new
corner, the University reached
out to various groups for ideas
last year.
“[2013 President] Owen
Harris and his administration
were heavily involved with fa-cilities
in the development of
that master plan,” Mills said.
“Throughout the development
they had a lot of student and
faculty input in facilitating the
design concept.”
The Board of Trustees also
approved the construction of a
graduate College of Business
building, a recycling and ser-vice
support facility on campus
and an aviation school located
next to the Auburn airport.
A $750,000 budget was ap-proved
for the graduate college
of business building, in addi-tion
to individual contract firms
for the projects.
“Right now, Toomer’s
Corner is one of
our most iconic
spaces on campus,
but if you want
to go hang out
there, you can’t.”
—Dan King
Vice president of
facilities management
Students mentor community girls
contributed by christina brown, former graduate assistant
The Young Women’s Leadership Program mentors middle school girls from Auburn Junior High School.
Keely Shearer
Campus Writer
Female students on Auburn’s campus are
given the opportunity to help guide middle and
high school girls into becoming young wom-en
every day.
The Auburn University’s Women’s Resource
Center developed a research-based mentoring
program called the Young Women’s Leadership
Program in 2010.
Each woman involved in the program is
paired with one middle school girl from Au-burn
Junior High School or Loachapoka High
School.
‘Big sisters’ are required to meet with their
‘little sister’ at least once week for a minimum
of one hour.
However, many times, students like Megan
Skipper, sophomore in human development
and family studies, visit with their littles above
the required meeting hours.
“I’ll meet with her twice a week, maybe
about two hours each time, and that is in addi-tion
to the time we spend together at the junior
high school, with the other big and littles in the
program,” Skipper said.
Through activities, mentors are able to help
their mentees with the everyday challenges
dealing with family, friends, relationships and
peer pressure.
Ashley Edwards, junior in social work, has
been involved in the Young Women’s Leader-ship
Program for two years.
“The things that we teach them are things
that I never knew,” Edwards said. “So, I learn
a lot from the curriculum, such as how to solve
conflicts and how to deal with messy relation-ships.”
While the program benefits middle school
girls by helping their transition into becoming
a young woman, it is also a great opportunity
for Auburn’s college students to grow.
“I have been involved with this a whole se-mester
now, and I’ve already seen a few chang-es
in myself, in my leadership abilities and
how I talk to people,” Skipper said. “Also, the
friendships that you make are just incredible
and long lasting.”
According to Edwards, the program is ben-eficial
to the community as a whole because it
provides outreach to at-risk adolescents, virtu-ally
at no cost.
“Another thing you wouldn’t expect to gain
by being involved in this program is an awe-some
support group of people who attend Au-burn
too,” Skipper said.
Many of the college students already in-volved
in the program hope to continue with
it in the future.
The Young Women’s Leadership Program
also allows graduate assistants to engage in the
program.
“I would love to still be an instrumental part
of this program,” Skipper said. “If that were in
the plans and worked out for me, I would love
to continue my involvement with the program.”
To read more about the Young Women’s
Leadership Program visit ThePlainsman.com.
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College of Business
MBA valuable
across the board
emily brett / graphics edtior
Kate Seckinger
Contributing Writer
Auburn’s MBA program
knows how to get down to busi-ness.
In its most recent rankings,
the graduate program at the
Raymond J. Harbert College of
Business placed second in the
nation for “Best Financial Val-ue”
by “U.S. News and World
Report.”
The esteemed survey re-vealed
Auburn MBA graduates
had the second highest salary-to-
debt ratio in the nation, with
a score of 6.72.
In other words, an MBA
graduate from Auburn makes a
starting salary 6.72 times great-er
than their average debt.
“Our mission statement says
that we are dedicated to pro-ducing
highly desired grad-uates,”
said Bill Hardgrave,
dean of the College of Busi-ness.
“We’re purposely do-ing
things to make the students
more attractive for the industry,
which pushes up the salaries of
our graduates.”
Even in hard econom-ic
times, Auburn’s business
school has been successful in
keeping its cost in check, and,
most importantly, maintaining
its value.
“Our students are decid-ing
to spend a year and a half
where they’re not working, so
that’s a huge investment of time
and money on their part,” said
Stan Harris, associate dean for
graduate and international pro-grams.
“We want them to feel
like the time they’ve taken to
do this program is ultimate-ly
worth it. The investment is
more than just money.”
According to data collect-ed
by U.S. News, the average
Auburn MBA graduate earns
an average starting salary of
$57,169 while having an aver-age
debt of $8,500.
The average graduate school
debt totals more than $30,000,
which is thousands more than
an Auburn graduate’s debt.
To keep that number low and
the salary-to-debt ratio high,
the Harbert College of Busi-ness
offers a generous number
of graduate research assistant-ships.
In the fall of 2013, 26 of 28
entering MBA students had an
assistantship, or were paid a
salary to attend Auburn while
they worked for faculty.
“The student gets money, the
faculty gets help and the stu-dent
gets hands-on learning and
work experience,” Harris said.
“It’s a win-win for the faculty
and the student.”
While assistantships provide
opportunities, the last thing
they provide is free money.
On an assistantship, students
work an average of 14 hours
per week to give back to the
College of Business, on top of
their regular coursework.
Even so, finances aren’t the
only things that make a pro-gram
valuable.
“Great programs start with
great students and great facul-ty,”
Hardgrave said. “I’m not
trying to over simplify it, but it
really is that simple. If you have
great students and great faculty
you will have a great program. I
would put our students and our
faculty up against any in the
country.”
Accomplished MBA student
Lauren Little, graduate student
in business administration,
feels the U.S. News ranking is
justified, but not just for the low
price she’s paying.
“I’m learning a lot, and I feel
like what I’m learning is real-ly
helpful and applicable to
the career I want,” Little said.
“Auburn professors seem to be
very experienced and have a lot
of knowledge of the business
world.”
Little said she agrees it is
rare to find administrators who
care as much as hers do.
“I know it’s very cliché, but
in this program you definitely
feel the sense of the ‘Auburn
Family,’” Little said. “From the
administrative staff to the pro-fessors
and students in the pro-gram,
you have a feeling that
everyone is really supporting
you and doing everything they
can to help you succeed.”
In the fall, Auburn’s MBA
program helped Little be nomi-nated
for the prestigious Mitch-ell
Scholarship.
“We use assistantships as re-cruiting
tools to recruit the best
and brightest students,” said
Jim Parrish, director of MBA
Admissions and Operations.
“If a student has a strong back-ground
and test scores and they
fit the ‘Auburn brand,’ then we
want them in our cohort.”
Parrish said Auburn’s MBA
program has great students,
faculty and financial cost, but
what makes it truly valuable is
up to personal opinion.
“I think a huge asset of our
program is that any student
would benefit from the people
that are working in it,” Parrish
said. “From the folks who do
the academic advising to our
professors and faculty, they all
have a unified front to help Au-burn
students succeed. Taking
care of people on an individu-al
basis is the Auburn way. The
personalized approach to our
MBA program is the thing that
really sets Auburn apart.”
Coming to a dining hall near you
Juan Price
Campus Writer
In fall 2014, Chicken Salad Chick will
be welcomed to campus. It has already
created a lot of buzz, including a tweet
from SGA President Harrison Mills, who
proclaimed his excitement about the res-taurant
coming to campus.
“I know students will enjoy this dining
venue,” Mills said.
Glenn Loughridge, director of Campus
Dining, credited Mills’ platform as part of
the reason Chicken Salad Chick is com-ing
to campus.
“Student feedback, especially from
Harrison – it was one of his platforms last
year – so, he was instrumental in getting
us moving forward,” Loughridge said.
According to Loughridge, the new
on-campus restaurant will be placed in a
new expansion attached to the Foy Din-ing
Hall.
With the new addition, campus dining
hopes to give students more options.
“It’s a healthier option, and that is
something that we’ve had a lot of student
feedback on, which is to have a healthi-er,
lighter option on campus,” Loughridge
said.
The Chicken Salad Chick franchise has
been in Auburn for six years and has more
than 60 restaurants around the Southeast,
according to their website.
“I am excited to see a new place open
up on campus,” said Kevin McCulloch,
freshman in mechanical engineering. “I
can try something new and hopefully will
come back a lot.”
The company was founded by 1999
Auburn grad Stacy Brown. Since the first
store opened, the franchise has opened
stores across the South every year. Al-though
the restaurant seems to be grow-ing,
the owners stuck to their Auburn
roots and established the headquarters in
Auburn.
“I am interested to see what the restau-rant
has to offer that will be different from
other restaurants on campus,” said Chris
Barnes, freshman in computer science.
Campus Dining continues to add restu-arants
to campus, including Chicken Sal-ad
Chick, to join the brand name restau-rants
on campus, such as Chick-fil-A and
Papa John’s.
“We are expecting it to be very success-ful,”
Loughridge said. “This is an Auburn
brand, these are Auburn folks that created
a restaurant. They love this place.”
Mills said the restaurant will be a qual-ity
dining experience for students and will
give students the chance to enjoy a popu-lar
local restaurant on campus.
For the future, the restaurant hopes to
become more than just a dining venue for
students to enjoy during the school year.
According to Loughridge, the plan for
the restaurant is to make it available for
football game days, which will launch the
brand even further for football seasons
to come and allow more people to enjoy
what Chicken Salad Chick has to offer.
“There will be an opportunity for some
catering out there for game day tents and
people who want to have something to
walk to their tailgate with,” Loughridge
said.
According to Loughridge, Chicken
Salad Chick will open in November, with
construction slated to begin soon.
Other plans for the University that stu-dents
can look forward to include a Star-bucks
that will replace Lowder Lounge
and provide a study space for students in
Lowder.
Chicken Salad Chick will come to campus starting Fall 2014
sarah may / assistant photo editor
Chicken Salad Chick will become an extenson of Foy Dining Hall in Fall 2014.
Professor discovers differences between
religious and non-religious human brains
Garret Kizer
Contributing Writer
For years, scientists and teachers all
over the world have called the brain “the
final frontier.”
This month, Gopikrishna Deshpande,
assistant professor in electrical and com-puter
engineering, performed research on
the brain activity of self-proclaimed reli-gious
and non-religious people.
Deshpande’s study with the National
Institute of Health, NIH, found there are
some regions of the brain that communi-cate
differently with each other depend-ing
on if the person is religious or not re-ligious.
“It’s really not the activation of differ-ent
brain regions, but rather how different
brain regions communicate with each oth-er,”
Deshpande said.
Deshpande said the research he and the
NIH performed takes a huge step down
the path to completing the journey of
mapping the brain.
“A lot of questions remained unan-swered,
and if you really did something,
it really impacted people’s lives,” Desh-pande
said.
Deshpande said he and the NIH collab-orate
with many medical schools and oth-er
groups to perform their research.
The NIH and Deshpande’s research
supports a theory that the human capacity
for religion is due to development of cer-tain
brain regions during evolution.
“These connections [in the brain] how
strong they are or how weak they are–
[are] actually controlled by both genetic
and environmental factors,” Deshpande
said. “So I think some people are born
with a predisposition to be more religious,
but that is not set in stone; your upbring-ing
does matter.”
Adam Jortner, assistant history profes-sor,
said he helps prove humans are the
only creatures with the capability for re-ligious
belief.
“Religion is probably as old as the hu-man
race,” Jortner said.
Raj Mohan, sociology professor, stud-ies
religion.
“Religion is a source of unification as
well as a source of conflict and diversifi-cation,”
Mohan said.
Alumni business benefits current students
Derek Herscovici
Campus Reporter
You’ve distilled everything about your-self,
your dreams and your accomplish-ments
into a single, approximate page,
but is it really you?
Myunfold.com, a portfolio building
site, still in Beta form, allows students to
supply a colored-in, rounded summary of
themselves, providing recruiters and po-tential
employers with a customized view
of what they want them to see.
“We wanted to create a place where
students can upload things and they know
that it will add value instantly to them,
coming off on the best foot forward pro-fessionally,”
said Yujin Ghim, co-founder
of Myunfold.com.
Combining the customizable ease of
social media with the professional inten-tions
of LinkedIn, Myunfold.com allows
users to design their own multimedia
portfolio and describe themselves in de-tail
while still maintaining the profession-al
credibility their experience demands.
“When I was putting mine together, I
used information that might not be appro-priate
for every single resume I’m putting
together but it gives people a rounder pic-ture
of who I am,” said Ashley Berglund,
new Myunfold.com user.
Berglund, a 2011 graduate from West-ern
Washington University, works as the
director of a sailing club and says her role
in management has given her a new per-spective
on profile-making and the hiring
process from the other end.
“I’m in a position where I hire peo-ple,”
Berglund said. “If I know a little bit
more about those people, or they have a
resource list on myunfold, I’d be more in-terested
in learning about them.”
Jonathan Henson, Myunfold.com co-founder
and 2008 AUM graduate, said an
added feature set to arrive once the web-site
is complete is a type of “skills market-place,”
where companies can search for
different users based on the experience
and skills described in their profiles.
“Essentially, when you post some-thing
in your portfolio on Myunfold it
gets tagged with certain skills,” Henson
said. “You can also can take tests online
or put in certifications, jobs and all of that
goes into validating a skill score for a cer-tain
set of skills. Our algorithm will move
you to the top of the search results for re-cruiters,
and actually recruiters will make
a job posting with the skills that they’re
requesting and get a list of candidates in
priority order.”
Even though there is no “right” way to
writing a resume, the process can often
be complicated by college career centers.
Myunfold puts control back in the hands
of the applicant while taking away the
stress of cutting a career down to a sin-gle
page.
When the site is out of Beta mode in a
few weeks, it could seriously change the
way college students can begin their ca-reers,
Henson said.
“This way, students can look for jobs
instead of applying randomly and hoping
that they get it,” Ghim said. “They can ap-ply
knowing that they’re qualified for the
job and that they have a good shot at it.”
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Many people actively believe
they know everything about love.
Luckily for you, we actually do
know everything about love.
Couples struggle when it comes
to coming up with romantic ideas
on Valentine’s Day.
Hold up, ladies and gentlemen!
Before raiding the neighboring
village for… uh, ideas; take some
of our advice. Take The Plains-man’s
advice with our do’s and
don’ts during this year’s holiday
of love.
Don’t pull your phone out on a
date.
We know the familiar itch in
your pocket, but don’t forget
you’re on a date with the person
in front of you, not the people on
your phone.
Our generation gets type-cast-ed
as narcissistic agorophobes;
don’t let that be you. Interacting
with a person who is, at a mini-mum,
mildly interesting far ex-ceeds
the social currency obtained
from texting.
Don’t spend too much.
This should be fairly obvious.
Naturally, we all want to do some-thing
special. Look at your tuition
and that should fix this problem.
You don’t need to go over the top
and pop out of any food. Which
leads us to our next point…
Don’t pop out of any food.
This advice might not be so ob-vious.
Popping out of food seems
like a great idea. It’s spontaneous,
exciting and delicious. Howev-er,
wheeling out a giant cake any-where
other than a bachelor party
leaves much to be desired.
Do get chocolate flowers.
Two birds, one stone.
Don’t propose on Valentine’s
Day.
It’s cliché. If you must propose,
do not place the ring inside any of
her food. The last thing you want
is for her to swallow it, which
would make putting the ring on
her finger… difficult.
Do test all of your chocolate for
poison.
Check the packaging for breaks
and tears. If you want to be sure,
you need to taste test each, indi-vidual
piece of chocolate. Your
date might get a bit upset at you
when you hand him or her a half-eaten
box of chocolates, but just
grin and say “I love you.” Which
might be a bad idea because…
Don’t say, “I love you,” just to
say “I love you.”
“I love you” is reserved for
those who actually mean it. Cou-ples
in the budding stages of a
relationship are likely to feel a
warm, fuzzy sensation. This feel-ing
is more likely indigestion than
actual love. We recommend Pep-to-
Bismol.
Do show you care.
How, you might ask? Figure it
out for yourself. This step requires
you to do something personal
enough only your significant other
would appreciate. If she wants to
stay in and watch that movie you
hate, do it. If he has a collection
of tacky camouflage hats, get him
one. If this means doing research,
you’re already behind.
Don’t see any made-for-Valen-tine’s-
Day movies.
No man in his right-mind wants
to see one of these movies. Ladies,
if you care about your man, do not
subject him to this sadistically
gushy torture. Furthermore, going
to the movies on Valentine’s Day
is too easy.
Do something special and cre-ative.
Just don’t pop out of any
cakes.
The phrase “Game Recognize
Game” isn’t usually applicable to
romance.
An adage used among pro-ath-letes
and rappers to confer mutual
respect for the other’s talents, abil-ities
or accomplishments, it can
also be used to determine a poten-tial
partner’s worth to you.
The power couple Jay-Z and
Beyoncé is a good example.
Jay-Z spent most of his life be-fore
Beyoncé embodying “the
hustle”: waking up every day in
the face of adversity to go out and
make that paper, dealing with fake
people and leeches who want to
celebrate your accomplishments
but not hang around when you
fail.
The message of songs like “99
Problems” and “Can I Live” hold
true not because we have 99 prob-lems,
but because we have too
much to do to be distracted right
now.
Beyoncé’s career has been a
lesson on the power of a strong,
independent women. Songs like
“Irreplaceable” and “Upgrade U”
speak to modern feminists every-where
that lesser options will fall
away if you hold out for the right
person. “Thought that I would
fail without you/ But I’m on top/
Thought it would be over by now/
But it won’t stop,” Beyoncé sings
on Destiny’s Child smash “I’m A
Survivor.”
In 2008, Beyoncé Knowles
married Jay-Z, whose real name
is Shawn Carter, bringing togeth-er
two of the most dynamic and in-fluential
people in contemporary
pop culture at the peaks of their
careers.
Personally, I’ve been in and out
of love more times than the entire
Kardashian family, but its been a
while. When I signed up to write
this column, I actually forgot Feb.
14 was Valentine’s Day.
Whether that makes me quali-fied
to talk about love is your de-cision,
but I’ve definitely learned
a few things, the most important
being that not everyone is worth
your time.
Some people might like one
side of you and not the rest, or they
only call late at night when ev-eryone
else that they would rath-er
talk to has gone asleep; they’ll
go out, but not want to stay home
some nights when you’re broke.
People will make whatever de-cisions
they want to, but don’t
ever forget that they’re still a real
person, with their own feelings
and their own set of ideals. The
moment you try to bend someone
to your will you will lose them.
So get to work. Forget that girl
that never texts you or that guy
flirting his way through the roll
call in your class. Work on your-self
and people will recognize
your progress.
Don’t forget that you busted ass
to go to college and you can still
name the people who never made
it, or that love never paid your
bills or saved your grade and that
you’ve been single for a hell of a
lot longer than you’ve ever been
with someone.
You’ve accomplished so much,
and you shouldn’t settle for any-thing
less than perfection.
Someday you will find the Be-yoncé
to your Jay-Z, and the re-sults
will have you feeling so
“Crazy In Love.”
I’ve been cute-couple-kicking
for at least a decade now. I don’t
remember when my aversion to
cute couples began, but something
about the blissful titters, amorous-ly
glazed eyes and surreptitious-ly
flexed biceps has always driv-en
me bonkers.
Luckily, I discovered that a few
flinty kicks on the back of a flirty
couple’s seat was usually enough
to snap a couple out of their trance.
Those were the simple days be-fore
we all had smartphones in our
hand and the latest Twitter update
only a finger tap away. It’s increas-ingly
difficult to find cute couples
so entranced with one another that
they’ve forgotten the world and,
consequently, how impossibly an-noying
they are.
Instead, they’ve been replaced
by couples whose eyes swivel
constantly from the face of their
partner to the siren glow of their
phones. Their laughter sounds
absentminded despite the agility
of their busily tapping fingers on
smartphones.
It’s sad to watch these preoccu-pied
couples who are too distract-ed
to become properly enraptured
with one another. There’s nothing
cute about them, nothing kickable.
There were a few moments this
semester that made my feet tingle
with hope. For instance, last Fri-day,
a couple in the student cen-ter
loudly discussed what love
meant to them while I was trying
to study.
They seemed like perfect candi-dates
and I could practically feel
my foot twitching. Peering over
my classwork, I peeked at them
and could see the girl glancing at
her phone as she spoke. Disgust-ed,
I left to study elsewhere.
Feeling a little nostalgic, I re-membered
the loud giggles and
nauseating smooches of the “ador-able”
couples of yesteryears.
It was annoying, but their ex-cessively
starry-eyed delight with
one another also happened to be
the very thing that made them
cute.
They were so joyfully mesmer-ized
with each other they forgot to
take those around them into con-sideration.
Unfortunately there is nothing
adorable about individuals so self-absorbed
that they’re discourte-ous
to both their partner and their
peers.
Similarly, a few weeks earli-er,
the upcoming reunion of an ac-quaintance
and her long-distance
boyfriend gave me concern.
She planned to introduce us, but
I worried I would feel uncomfort-able
witnessing the two exchange
gooey regards when they reunited.
But, after the initial greetings,
sufficiently sappy embraces and
my introduction had finished,
each partner began to thumb-fid-dle
their phone.
I was dismayed. The guy had
traveled 3 hours to visit his Au-burn
sweetie. With that kind of
time commitment, I assumed he
would have wanted to make the
most of their fleeting moments to-gether.
Love, both romantic and friend-ly,
seems to be suffering from our
culture’s endless technology ob-session.
An incoming text merits
more devotion than a loved one or
a moment of genuine intimacy.
As Valentine’s Day approaches,
maybe it’s time to reassess our val-ues
and how much uninterrupted
attention our loved ones deserve
from us.
As for my twitchy feet, I’d
gladly return to the days of care-less
cute-couple-kicking but,
frankly, I’d be so relieved to see
them return that I’d probably give
the sport up for good.
Until then, I’m considering
kicking habitual phone users. You
never know, maybe it will cure
their technology addiction and
give them the time to truly love
and appreciate someone special.
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Nick Hines
Community Writer
The Heart of Auburn development on
South College Street will now include a
new twist on an old college-diet original.
Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint opens in
early April, introducing build-your-own
pizza to Auburn.
“It’s a similar concept to Moe’s South-west,”
said Michael DiChiara, owner and
manager of Auburn’s Uncle Maddio’s.
“You come in, you go down the line and
you watch us actually build your pizza
from the ingredients that you’re looking
at.”
After six minutes in the oven, the piz-za
is brought out.
DiChiara said he is counting on stu-dents’
input to plan promotional specials.
“We want to hear from students about
the drink specials we will have on beer
and wine,” DiChiara said. “We are trying
to really cater to students and what they
want to have.”
Ideas include Thursday trivia nights
and drink specials, according to DiChi-ara.
Uncle Maddio’s will look to students
for employees. DiChiara expects to hire
an above average number of part-time
staff members because of the limited
times students’ can be available to work.
Auburn is saturated with pizza places,
from Mellow Mushroom and Little Italy’s
downtown, to Johnny Bruscos on Univer-sity
Drive; but Megan McDowen, deputy
economic development director, said she
believes Auburn has the room.
The former location of the Heart of Au-burn
Hotel now holds a CVS. Uncle Mad-dio’s
and a Birmingham-based Greek res-taurant
Taziki’s will soon fill the emp-ty
business spaces neighboring the new
CVS.
McDowen said she believes adding
the CVS may have generated interest in
the Heart of Auburn building and said de-velopment
had much to due with its prox-imity
to campus was also a draw.
DiChiara said she believes the location
will help draw customers to the new busi-nesses.
“It’s almost like being downtown,”
DiChiara said. “But we actually have
parking where people can get in.”
McDowen also said she believes being
walking distance from students, faculty
and staff will be the key to success for the
new businesses.
Katie Knell, sophomore in apparel
merchandising, said she usually chooses
Mellow Mushroom when deciding where
to get pizza. However, Knell said she be-lieves
Auburn has enough room for more
pizza restaurants.
“I think [Uncle Maddio’s] will be a fine
edition,” Knell said. “It’ll be another way
to create community in Auburn.”
Johnny Bruscos owner, Kevin Bobo,
said he is not concerned about the new
competition.
“Obviously, it’s going to have a little
bit of an effect,” Bobo said. “But at the
same time, restaurants open everyday in
this town, so I don’t see it being too big
of a deal.”
Auburn is growing, and interest in new
developments, such the rennovated Heart
of Auburn, show the city is an attractive
option for small business owners, Mc-
Dowen said.
“It is just a really thriving place,”
DiChiara said. “It’s a great place to live.
It’s got an SEC school. Everybody is very
tied-in and pro Auburn. Once you em-brace
that Auburn side of things, you real-ly
feel like you are part of the university.”
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New tastes for an old town
A look back at...
The Vault
Ashtyne Cole
Community Reporter
Not many college towns can
boast a bar that was once a his-toric
bank, but Auburn can.
In downtown Auburn, The
Vault stands among restaurants
and boutiques and resembles a
typical college bar. But behind
the beer and tacos lay years of
history, serving customers in-side
Auburn’s first bank.
The Bank of Auburn be-gan
construction in 1906 and
opened its doors Jan. 3, 1907.
The location of the Bank, sit-uated
across from Toomer’s
Drug Store was no accident.
Sheldon Toomer, the owner,
decided it was time for Auburn
to be home to a bank.
According to Auburn his-tory,
Toomer and Auburn lo-cals
had to travel seven miles to
the nearest bank by horse and
buggy. These trips became tire-some
and Toomer decided he
would open a bank to benefit
Auburn and the University.
Over the years, the bank
building has seen many differ-ent
businesses come and go.
From a cigar shop to a coffee
shop and now a bar.
The Vault has a unique as-pect
all it’s own, the incorpo-ration
of Auburn history. Au-burn
values history and tra-dition
above all else, and the
Vault is no exception. The orig-inal
bank vault is still remains
in the exact spot and now used
for something a different than
money.
“We still use the old bank
vault,” said manager Ben Bar-ley
said. “It houses our dry stor-age,
supplies and serves as a li-quor
cabinet.”
Historically, the Vault also
has a strict 21 and older poli-cy,
attracting an older crowd
in downtown Auburn. But
throughout the years, The
Vault’s policies have changed.
“We’ve always been a bar
that was 21 and up,” Barley
said. “But when Sky Bar and
17/16 came along, we had to
adjust the age limit.”
During the week, The Vault
allows those 19 and older to en-ter.
“You would think the histo-ry
of this place would be wide-ly
known around town,” Barley
said. “But it’s not. We’re more
of a chill place to hang out, not
a party party place like all the
19 year olds want.”
Bodega, also a bar, inhabit-ed
the Bank from 1999–2009,
when The Vault took over.
“Before I graduated, I would
go to The Vault with people
from class and we could work
on group projects at a table,”
said Cameron Traylor, Auburn
graduate. “It is a lot different
from any other bar in Auburn.”
Barley said the laid back at-mosphere
sets The Vault apart
from other bars in the area.
“I just like how the whole
bar seems like a place you can
sit around and hang out with
your friends,” said Faith Wood-ruff-
Blinn, junior in general so-cial
sciences. “It is a relaxed
place.”
The businesses inside the
Auburn Bank vault have
changed throughout the years
but has always remained a
place for the residents of Au-burn
to gather and commune.
Ashtyne Cole
Community Reporter
The Opelika Event Center will be
brewing up a good time Saturday, Feb.
15, with its second annual Winter Brew-fest:
Rhythm and Blues.
The Brewfest, brimming with vendors,
allows guests to sample multiple beers
from the region, including many IPAs.
A ticket to enter the Brewfest costs
$25 per person. Each guest receives three
drink tickets, with one ticket being equiv-alent
to one drink.
“We decided to allow the tickets to be
exchanged for wine and well drinks, not
only beer,” said Lisa Ditchkoff, owner of
the Event Center Downtown.
Ditchkoff also said because the event
falls on Valentine’s weekend, he and his
staff wanted to accommodate the spouses
or girlfriends who prefer wine or a mixed
drink to beer.
While this is only the second year of
the Winter Brewfest, Ditchkoff predicts
to have many more people attend, com-pared
to the 250 who attended last year.
Ditchkoff said he believes attendance will
grow due to the popularity of the event.
The Brewfest offers more than 40 dif-ferent
beers to sample. Westbrook, Calde-ra,
Whole Hog, Ass Kisser, Blue Moon,
Sweetwater, Thomas Creek, and Good
People will bring the winter-themed beers
and IPAs.
“The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the
featured bands, Trace Pridgen and Josh
Adams, will begin performing at 7 p.m.,”
said Clemon Byrd, director of entertain-ment.
“We are very excited about the
event.”
According to Ditchkoff, Trace Pridgen
band will begin playing at 7–9 p.m., fol-lowed
by Josh Adams.
“Pridgen is a 24-year-old Opelika na-tive
with a big following base, and he gets
booked for a lot of parties,” Ditchkoff
said. “Josh Adams is an Auburn Police
officer and a singer-song writer. They’re
both as cute as they can be.”
The bands will play cover music and
original songs during the craft beer tast-ing
from 7-9 p.m.
Regular beers that the Center carries
will be provided and the house wines will
also be available.
“This event should be a big thing for
both our bands,” Pridgen said. “We’re go-ing
to do a lot of intermingling during the
show, it’s always a lot of fun when two
local guys or bands get the chance to per-form
together.”
Pridgen even said she promises those
who attend the event “Wagon Wheel”
will definitely be played, along with many
other covers the crowd can sing along and
dance to. Pridgen said the event promises
to be a great time for all attending.
The Brewfest offers the Auburn and
Opelika area a night to try new beer and
mingle with vendors and other beer lov-ers
while listening to good music.
Contributed by Opelika Event Center
Attendees enjoy the creative environment of
laster year’s Winterfest.
Blues and beer enter the atmosphere
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worship service.
Auburn United Meth-odist.
7 and 8 p.m.
$2 Dinner.
Auburn First
Presbyterian Church of
Auburn. 5:15 p.m.
Creativity and Char-lie
Muncaster. Sky
Bar. 7 p.m. $2 Wells
25th Annual Love
Your Heart Run &
7th Annual Crank
Your Heart Ride
Chewacla State Park.
1-mile and 10k distanc-es.
$25. For more visit
Loveyourheartrun.com
$4 Dinner. Wesley
Foundation. 7– 8 p.m.
Blackberry Breeze
and Ty Reynolds
Band. SkyBar. 7 p.m.
Catechist Meeting.
St. Michael’s Catholic
Church. 5:30-8 p.m.
Karaoke. Sky Bar. 9
p.m.
Free Pool and $4
pitchers. 17/16
Josh Adams. War Ea-gle
Supper Club
Emily Enfinger / Photographer
Uncle Maddio’s Pizza joint looks to open in spring.
Sara May / Asistant Photo Editor
Patrons of the Vault enjoy many of its features like TVs and billiards.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 The Auburn Plainsman Community A7
Crime Time Staff report
Sunday, Jan. 26, the Auburn Police Division arrest-ed
Reginald McClendon, 23, Zederic Andrews, 24, and
Dcrawford Toles, 21, all of Montgomery, on burglary
charges.
The APD also charged Andrews with receiving third-degree
stolen property and carrying a pistol without a
permit, according to a Feb. 10 news release
At approximately 4 a.m. officers responded to a sus-picious
noises and persons incident reported in the 1500
block of Kendal Court.
Based on a description, responding officers arrived
in the area and located McClendon, Andrews and Toles
still in the vicinity.
Numerous items, determined recently stolen, were
located within their vehicle.
The stolen items come from residences within the
800 block of W. Longleaf Drive and the 100 block of
Harmon Drive. Various property, including electronic
devices valued at over $4,500, was recovered by police.
Victims told officers an unknown individual entered
their residence while they were away.
All three suspects were transported to the Lee Coun-ty
jail. McClendon and Toles both have a bond current-ly
set at $3,000, and Andrew’s bond is currently set at
$15,000.
This week’s happenings in Auburn
From the desk of:
Chris Warren
Director of Libraries for the city of Auburn
• Chris Warren started working for Auburn Libraries as Director 14 months ago. War-ran
said since coming to Auburn, he’s found the community “welcoming” and “fantastic.”
• Warren said right now the library plans to continue expanding its e-book collection
which currently stands at 1,803, and those uses are up nearly 32 percent.
• The semi-annual Friends at the Library book sale will be Saturday, March 22 between 8
a.m.–1 p.m. at the Dean Road Recreation Center. It will sell books from novels to text-books
ranging in price from hardback books at one dollar and 50 cents for paper back.
All proceeds go to library activities.
• Reading Recommendations:
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
nw Zadie Smith
Warren said:
“We’re trying constantly to anticipate what the community
needs and continually inspire, amaze and enrich people’s lives.”
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Musician playing to the tune of his crowd
Ashtyne Cole
Comunity Reporter
Local musician Trace Pridgen prides him-self
on providing a good time for all every
time he steps onstage.
An Opelika native, Pridgen knows what
the residents of Auburn, and the surround-ing
area, want to hear. He tries to condense
his description of his music style as “south-ern
rock-ish,” but his motto strives to not be
limited to one genre – “but he strives to not
limit himself to one genre.”
Pridgen began his music career at the pia-no
keys and did so through high school.
“I quit playing for a while until my fresh-man
year of college,” Pridgen said. “I picked
up a guitar, then after a while realized play-ing
wasn’t enough for me. I wanted more. I
wanted to perform.”
Prigden began performing at favorite lo-cal
hangouts, including Toomer’s Coffee
and Shakey’s Pizza. Pridgen said he begged
to play in some places, learned the ropes of
the industry and went from there.
“When you first start out in music, the
word ‘benefit’ is thrown around a lot,”
Pridgen said. “‘Will you play this benefit?’
means ‘I’m not gonna pay you.’ As you go
on, the less benefits you have to do.”
As he advanced in his career playing
weddings and fraternity parties, Pridgen be-gan
to make a name for himself in the com-munity.
“Trace is very popular and has a big fol-lowing,”
said Lisa Ditchkoff, owner of the
Opelika Event Center. “A lot of people book
him for their parties.”
Pridgen performs Saturday, Feb. 15 at the
Event Center’s Winter Brewfest at 7 p.m.
At the event, Pridgen will perform with
his usual band, but with a band comprised
of locals Josh McKenzie, Cory Spicer and
Jimmy Green.
Pridgen and the band perform at venues,
such as Niffer’s, and private parties. When
Pridgen travels to Birmingham or Atlanta,
he has a chance to perform original songs.
Pridgen dedicated his time to his first EP.
Pridgen said he believes it will be produced
and released on iTunes during the summer.
The EP will feature three original songs and
two covers.
As for a favorite song, Pridgen said “not
Wagon Wheel.” According to Pridgen, the
band usually plays “weird” versions of old-er
songs, such as a bluesy rendition of “Su-perstitious”
by Stevie Wonder and a unique
performance of “Come Together” by The
Beatles.
“The Auburn area likes country mu-sic
and are not too kind to original songs,”
Pridgen said. “Honestly, no one gives a crap
about originals, so we stick to covers to
make the crowd happy.”
Pridgen said his favorite part of perform-ing
would be the immediate response of a
song. Pridgen said playing a song that has
been in the works for a while and seeing
people dancing and singing along to the mu-sic
matters more than standing on the stage
and singing.
“I’ve known Trace for years,” said Aman-da
Enloe, senior in english. “He’s just a cool
and ‘real’ guy.”
In the upcoming months, Pridgen said he
plans to perform at the Auburn Color Run,
sponsored by Four Corner’s Ministries at the
end of March, and at a venue in Augusta, Ga.
Contributed by Trac e Pridgen
Pridgen commonly performs country-music covers.
Chris Warren
Sports A8
Thursday, February 13, 2014 ThePlainsman.com Sports
scoreboard
gymnastics
softball
baseball
THIS WEK
Feb. 14 vs. Indiana State*
Feb. 15 vs. Ohio State*
Feb. 16 vs. Connecticut*
Feb. 19 vs. Alabama State
*Snowbird Classic in Port
Charlotte, Fla.
women’s basketball
men’s basketball
11-10 (3-7 SEC)
LAST WEK
Win vs. S. Carolina, 79-74
Loss at Georgia, 87-80
THIS WEK
Feb. 15 vs. Miss. St. (13-10)
13-10 (4-6 SEC)
LAST WEK
Win vs. Miss. St., 51-43
THIS WEK
Feb. 13 at Vanderbilt (17-5)
Feb. 16 vs. Missouri (14-10)
LAST WEK
Tie at Troy, 5-5
Win vs. N. Dakota St.*, 11-3
Win vs. Morehead St.*, 12-0
Win vs. UL-Monroe*, 9-2
Loss vs. Notre Dame*, 3-2
Win vs. Tennessee Tech*, 8-4
*Plainsman Invite in Auburn
THIS WEK
Tiger Invitational: Feb. 14-
16 vs. Marshall, Loyola, Neb-
Omaha, W. Illinois, Winthrop
Ranked No. 12 in nation
LAST WEK
Win at Air Force, 195.950-
193.025
THIS WEK
Feb. 14 vs. No. 5 Alabama
Kyle Van Fechtmann
Sports reporter
After three final inter-squad scrim-mages,
the Auburn baseball team’s
lineup is set, and the Tigers are ready to
open their season in Port Charlotte, Fla.
this weekend, Feb. 14-16.
“I thought we played three inter-squad
games that were really clean,”
said head coach Sunny Golloway fol-lowing
their last preseason scrimmage
Feb. 9. “They were hard fought con-tests.
Nobody swept the series, both
teams were very competitive.”
Although the first-year head coach
was impressed with the competitive-ness
of the three scrimmages, Gollo-way
was more focused on how both
teams played out the weekend series.
“They’re executing,” Golloway said.
“We’re laying down drag bunts, we’re
hitting and running, and we played re-ally
good defense.”
Throughout the weekend, both teams
combined only committed two errors in
the field.
That level of clean baseball in the
field is important to Golloway, who ex-pects
Auburn’s defense to lead the way
in 2014.
Although Golloway was impressed
with defense, he said his team needs to
improve on pitching by throwing more
first-pitch strikes and being smarter
with their pitches.
One pitcher who stood out to Gollo-way
in the weekend series was fresh-man
starter Keegan Thompson.
“Guys got into scoring position
against Keegan, and you’d think he
was a junior out there,” Golloway said.
“I would say senior but he won’t spend
his senior year in college because he’s
too talented.”
Thompson got the start in the Sun-day
scrimmage on Feb. 9, just like he
earned the start on the mound for the
Tigers’ game Sunday, Feb. 16 against
University of Connecticut.
In the final scrimmage, Thompson
pitched five complete innings while
only allowing one run and two hits.
“His pitching performance was no
surprise,” Golloway said. “We left yes-terday
saying if the series is tied one
game a piece, it’s nice to know you’ve
got Keegan Thompson to go on Sun-day.
And that’s why he’s there. He
gives the whole club a little bit of a
comfort zone.”
When he’s not pitching in the Sun-day
spot, Thompson is expected to have
a starting spot in the field at first base.
The freshman is also expected to play
as a designated hitter in some games.
When Thompson is pitching, fresh-man
Daniel Robert will play first base.
Other freshmen have also earned
spots starting in the field.
Damon Haecker will start at second
base and Anfernee Grier will start in
right field.
“Over the weekend, we’ve had five
freshmen running with our number
ones at any given time,” Golloway said.
“They’re freshmen on the field because
they’re talented. There’s a reason why
they’re on the field. They can play, and
we think we’ve done a pretty good job
of teaching the game, so let’s get them
out there and show their ability.”
Although there are going to be at
least a few freshmen starting this sea-son,
they would not be there without
the senior class’ leadership.
Auburn’s 2014 senior class also
makes up for more than half of the
starting lineup.
Senior captains Dan Glevenyak,
Damek Tomscha, Blake Austin, and
Ryan Tella will start at shortstop, third
base, catcher and centerfield, respec-tively.
The opening day starter on the
mound will be senior right-hander Dil-lon
Ortman, and senior left-hander Mi-chael
O’Neal will start on Saturday
games.
Terrance Dedrick, also a senior, will
be Auburn’s closer.
The only starter, as of now, who is
a not freshman or senior is sophomore
left fielder Jordan Ebert.
Junior Trey Cochran-Gill will be the
setup man in the pitching rotation.
Five seniors will be sporting the ‘C’
on their jerseys this season because
Golloway wants his captains to step up
when things get tough on the diamond.
“Those are the guys I think have
done the best job of leading our young
guys, showing them the right way to do
things. And that’s not just on the field,”
Golloway said. “They were chosen by
the team, one of them was chosen by
our coaches, they’re there for a reason.”
After a successful fall adjusting to a
new system and new head coach and
then successful preseason scrimmag-es,
the team is finally ready for open-ing
day, Feb. 14, against Indiana State.
“The most important game we play
all year might be our first game,” Gollo-way
said. “These guys have worked
very hard in the weight room, they’ve
worked really hard doing everything
right and I want them to see the reward
for their hard work.”
baseball Opening Day is on the way
Golloway previews depth chart and rotation as the
Tigers prepare to open season at Snowbird Classic
David McKinney
Sports writer
With just six games left in
the regular season, the Au-burn
women’s basketball team
knows what lies ahead of them.
With a 4-6 mark in the
Southeastern Conference, Au-burn
holds the ninth spot in the
latest league standings.
Auburn will play three of its
last six games at home, and se-nior
guard Tyrese Tanner said
the team knows it needs to fin-ish
strong.
“Our practices leading up to
the games, we have to be re-ally
focused,” Tanner said. “If
we have bad practices, we have
bad games, but if we have good
practice, then we have good
games.”
The Tigers are currently on a
two-game winning streak that
started when the team snapped
a four-game losing streak at Ar-kansas
on Feb. 9.
For that run to happen, Tan-ner
will have to be at the top of
her game because, for the most
part, as goes Tanner, so go the
Tigers.
“She is their leader,” said
Auburn head coach Terri Wil-liams-
Flournoy. “They feel
comfortable when Tyrese is
playing well.”
According to Williams-
Flournoy, Tanner’s leadership
isn’t just limited to the offen-sive
side of the ball.
“When she does score, it
makes everyone else feel even
better on the defensive end,”
Williams-Flournoy said.
Defense, Williams-Flournoy
said, is what it’s going to take to
make that down-the-stretch run
the Tigers need.
“We have to realize that
it’s our defense that’s going to
win games for us,” Williams-
Flournoy said. “When the ball
leaves your hand [to take a
shot] it’s 50-50, but defense is
nothing but effort and heart.”
The last two games, Au-burn
has held their opponents
to under 50 points, after allow-ing
over 70 in each game of the
four-game skid.
“Our team philosophy is de-fense,
we get a lot of energy off
the defense,” said junior guard
Hasina Muhammad. “Once
we get one steal, we just got to
get another. Obviously, it’s a
lot easier to score in transition
rather than setting up a play.”
Williams-Flournoy reiterat-ed
the importance of the Tigers’
ability to create turnovers.
“That’s what we do,” Wil-liams-
Flournoy said. “sThat’s
the way our press is designed.
We want to cause havoc; we
want to make the game as ugly
as possible.”
Ready to make a run down the SEC stretch
Women’s basketball
jenna burgess / photographer
Senior Tyrese Tanner leads Auburn’s fast break offense against Mississippi State, Feb. 9.
Ryan Tella (CF)
Jordan Ebert (LF)
Dan Glevenyak (S) Damon Haecker (2B)
Anfernee Grier (RF)
Damek Tomscha (3B) Daniel Robert (1B)
Keegan Thompson (SP)
Trey Cochran-Gill (SU)
Terrance Dedrick (CP)
Blake Austin (C)
Dillon Ortman (SP)
Michael O’Neal (SP)
graphic by raye may / design editor
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Coming off of three exhausting road
meets, which featured two ice storms and
trips to Baton Rouge, Fayetteville and
Colorado Springs, the No. 10 gymnastics
team is ready to finally be home and look-ing
to snap Alabama’s 106-meet winning
streak this Friday night, Feb. 14 in Auburn
Arena.
“Not only is it better that the girls get
back and get to rest up, we’re exhaust-ed,
we’re beat up,” head coach Jeff Gra-ba
said. “They get to sleep in their own
beds. But it’s also we get to be in front of
our fans, that’s a lot of energy that these
people bring.”
The Auburn-Alabama rivalry is not
only in full-swing nowadays with foot-ball.
The Iron Bowl of gymnastics this
Friday in Auburn will pull fans from both
fan bases.
“[The home crowd] has a huge impact,”
Graba said. “That’s why Alabama is bus-sing
fans down. They’re trying to make
this their home field advantage.
“So, we need the student section to
show up because it’s a huge rivalry for us,
and we draw a lot of energy off of the fan
base.”
As they prepare, the team is doing their
best to focus on only what they can con-trol,
but is not ignoring the importance of
a meet like this against a top-five team,
which happens to be their rival.
“Not only is it just Alabama, it’s also
that they’re a multi-time national cham-pion
and sort of a juggernaut in gymnas-tics,”
Graba said. “It’s a huge opportunity
for our program to prove to the rest of the
country that we’re competitive with a top
five program.”
On a relatively young team with many
freshmen having an impact on the final
scores, the upperclassmen have guided
them on how to handle the pressure that
comes with a meet of this magnitude.
“The nice thing is, going to LSU and
Arkansas on the road,” Graba said. “I
think our freshmen are now starting to lis-ten
to our upperclassmen because they
were able to say what kind of environment
that’s going to be and how aggressive it
can be on the road.”
Luckily for the freshmen, their first
Alabama meet of their careers will be at
home, and they will not have to deal with
the Tuscaloosa road environment until lat-er
in the season.
Not only does having a home meet help
with drawing more fans than the visiting
team, it also helps Auburn with the event
rotation.
“That’s the advantage of being at home,
the away team has to finish on beam in a
hostile environment,” Graba said. “It’d be
good if our fan base was there and loud
and aggressive.”
Graba said the meet could be decided
during the final rotation of the night and is
confident this team will be able to handle
the pressure.
“To me, the identity of this team seems
to rise to the occasion, so I’m expecting us
to be really good this Friday,” Graba said.
Tigers ready to break ‘The Streak’
against rival powerhouse Alabama
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Bri Guy performs her floor routine during a SEC meet at Auburn Arena last season.
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Eric Wallace
Sports Reporter
Few Auburn fans will forget the shock they
felt when Ricardo Louis hauled in Nick Mar-shall’s
4th and 18 Hail Mary against Georgia.
Even fewer will forget the pandemonium that
followed Chris Davis’ 109-yard Iron Bowl win-ning
field goal return.
The plays lasted just a combined 29 sec-onds,
but Auburn broadcaster Rod Bramblett’s
passionate radio calls forever captured the col-lective
shock and pandemonium that rippled
through, not only a fanbase, but the entire na-tion.
“It’s the type of moments that, as a broadcast-er,
you get in the business and you try to prepare
yourself for those kind of moments,” Bramblett
said. “The majority of us never get a moment
like that, much less two, much less two, in back-to-
back games.”
One year after Auburn had finished a pro-gram
worst 3-9, which Bramblett described as
the “hardest job that I’ve ever had to do,” back-to-
back ‘miracles’ and a turnaround season had
thrust Auburn back into the national spotlight.
Standing alongside in that spotlight was the
voice of those Auburn Tigers.
“I’m not going to lie to you, it was cool,”
Bramblett said. “I was happy for our broad-cast
crew and for Auburn to get all that posi-tive
attention out of the national media. Auburn
was the darling of the country there for about a
week.”
While the ending to the Iron Bowl may have
convinced some that the world stopped spin-ning,
Bramblett was back on the job early the
next morning, unaware of the impending me-dia
storm.
“I had to get up the next morning to fly to
Ames, Iowa to do basketball,” Bramblett said.
“From the time I got on the plane in Auburn and
I got off the plane in Ames, it had just gone off
the deep end. I think part of it was the way that
it ended.
“You just don’t ever see that, the ramifica-tions
of the game, and then the call and reac-tion
afterwards.”
In a week he described as a total “blur,”
Bramblett made numerous appearances on na-tional
radio and television shows, including Fox
and Friends, the Dan Patrick Show and the Tim
Brando Show.
The national media swarmed over Bramblett,
hungering to hear from the man who’d been the
voice for what was being deemed one of the
greatest endings in sports history.
“It got to the point where I had to start telling
people I couldn’t do it,” Bramblett said. “That
whole following week was just surreal.
“It was one of those things when you look
back that you wish there was a way you
could’ve just recorded every single thing you
did because you will never have another mo-ment
like that.”
All in all, Bramblett’s radio calls from the
Iron Bowl and Georgia games earned the 11-
year veteran the Alabama Sportscaster of the
Year and Sports Illustrated Play-by-Play An-nouncer
of the Year awards.
Those awards, Bramblett said, speak as much
about the quality of color commentator Stan
White and the rest of the Auburn IMG broad-cast
team.
“We all get along so well that it’s kind of like
having a second family in the fall,” Bramblett
said. “On the air, Stan brings that expertise that
I will never have because he’s been through it.
I totally rely on him for the X’s and O’s, why
they’re doing this or that. It’s something I have
no knowledge of.”
Though Bramblett received most of the no-toriety
for the Iron Bowl call, White’s shriek-ing
‘Oh my God’ is a perfect addition to the Iron
Bowl call, according to Bramblett.
“What’s funny is when he says ‘Oh my God,’
our engineer turns his microphone off,” Bram-blett
said. “It’s an unwritten rule that on a big
play like that that you don’t step on the play-by-
play guy.
“I thought it was perfectly timed, it was just
enough and the funny thing is that even though
his microphone is off, you can still hear him in
the background.”
The Tigers eventually came up one miracle
short in the BCS National Championship Game,
but Bramblett said he has never experienced
anything quite like the 2013 season.
“Win or lose, that last game, the nation-al
championship game, I said, ‘This season
was probably the most fun and rewarding sea-son
that I’ve been a part of,’ just because of
where they came from and where they ended
up,” Bramblett said. “Most teams will have that
game where they either don’t show up or take
a step back, but this team just got better every
single week, and that was really neat to watch.”
Auburn play-by-play announcer Bramblett reflects on the football Tigers’ 2013 turnaround,
their run to the BCS National Championship Game, and the two calls that changed his career
football
Wesley Baker
contributing writer
When did the “Cameron Crazies” de-cide
to be crazy?
At some point in history, Duke Blue
Devil basketball became the national title-winning
program it is today.
And sometime during the mid-1980’s,
the students of Duke University decid-ed
their team needed a student section
to complement their team’s effort on the
court.
The arrival of Coach Mike Krzyzews-ki,
more easily pronounced and spelled
“Coach K,” ushered in a championship
era of Duke basketball.
The Blue Devils’ new attitude trans-ferred
over to its student section, and the
group known as the Cameron Crazies
found they had become the “blue” print
for every college basketball student sec-tion
in the nation.
Through their creative and consistent
cheers, The Crazies have seen their be-loved
“Dukies” go on to win countless
rivalry, tournament and championship
games.
Auburn’s latest football season has
turned several fans into somewhat of
dreamers when it comes to their Tigers
on the hardwood after they came close to
beating a ranked Florida team and then
went a three-game SEC winning streak.
On the Plains, a few students believe
Auburn’s The Jungle section could one
day become like the Cameron Crazies.
“Psychologically, the students give the
opposing players an intimidating atmo-sphere
while hyping up our team,” said
Dustin De La Garza, senior in mathemat-ics
education. “A good student section
gives our team a better chance to win.”
Others say the student section could
only grow in size and prestige if the team
continues to perform well.
“It has to be a two-way deal between
the players and the students,” said Auburn
student Willard Armstrong.
While some basketball-loving Auburn
students look to the section at Duke’s
Cameron Indoor Stadium — which has
some architectural similarities to Auburn
Arena — the football stadium across the
street from the Tigers’ newest facility
could be another source of inspiration.
“Jordan-Hare Stadium gives me chills
when the student section is full, and that
has to do something for our football
team,” said Stephen Bradford, senior in
health services administration. “We need
the same effort [at basketball games], and
maybe more tailgating.”
Although football has most of the
year-round spotlight on campus, several
fans have called for a well-rounded stu-dent
section like the one at the Universi-ty
of Florida, which won both football and
men’s basketball national championships
in the 2007-08 season.
“I believe in Auburn and I believe we
can win anything,” said Austin Baker,
sophomore in communications.
sarah may / assistant photo editor
Chris Denson celebrates in The Jungle student section after Auburn’s victory against archrival Alabama, Jan. 30.
men’s basketball
Kane Grimster
contributing writer
Rugby is not a popular
sport in the United States,
but a group of women on
Auburn’s campus are trying
to change that.
After a few years of low
membership, the Auburn
women’s club rugby team
has seen a growth in its num-bers,
which has breathed new
life into the team.
Drew Cash, junior in reha-bilitation
and disability stud-ies
and philosophy, has been
a member of the team for the
past three years and contrib-uted
to the team’s recent re-build.
“When I was in high
school, I played on an All-
Star team with two girls that
played at Auburn,” Cash
said. “I was already planning
on coming to college here,
so I got involved and helped
keep it going, because there
[were] a couple years where
we didn’t really have a qual-ity
club.”
The team has rebuilt by re-cruiting
other women around
campus.
Karen Dillon, sophomore
in exercise science, was also
recruited to the team.
“I was just sitting at a bas-ketball
game with a couple
of my friends, and two of
the girls on the rugby team
just turned around and start-ed
talking to us,” Dillon said.
“They invited us to practice.
I went and I got hooked.”
Dillon, who had no expe-rience
playing rugby prior to
college — only two women
on the team did — said rug-by
is a combination of more
popular sports in the United
States.
“There are the tackling as-pects
from football and the
fast-paced movements from
soccer,” Dillon said.
Although there are simi-larities
to other team sports,
the game can sometimes be
tough to explain to American
newcomers.
“When people ask, I tell
them to picture football
field with two end zones,”
said Helen Custodio, sopho-more
in industrial engineer-ing.
“You’re trying to get the
ball to the other end, but you
throw the ball backwards,
and you continuously play,
you don’t have to stop after
someone gets tackled.”
Custodio said rugby is a
multi-skilled sport, as it in-volves
a mixture of speed,
strength and endurance.
However, team members
said the tackling and contact
nature of rugby was what at-tracted
them to the sport.
“I’d always wanted to play
football in middle school,”
Cash said. “But when I tried
out for the team, they told me
I couldn’t go on the field for
liability reasons.
“So in eighth grade, I
started playing rugby be-cause
I really wanted to play
a contact sport.”
But according to Dillon,
there is as much to be gained
off the rugby pitch as there is
on it.
“It’s not just about tack-ling,”
Dillon said. “There’s
good team camaraderie and
a great amount of sportsman-ship.”
Cash said rugby has giv-en
her the opportunity to
meet people from all over
the world and make friends
she’ll have for the rest of her
life.
Anyone looking for fur-ther
information about the
women’s club rugby team
can go to the AUinvolve
website, where the team’s
contact details can be found.
“If anyone is interested
in playing, they don’t have
to know anything about
the sport at all,” Cash said.
“We’ll teach them every-thing
they need to know. So,
come out and don’t be shy.”
Women’s rugby club
on the rise in Auburn
club sports
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Rod Bramblett talks with head football coach Gus Malzahn during a “Tiger Talk” radio show in 2013.
“Most teams will have that
game where they either don’t
show up or take a step back,
but this team just got better
every single week, and that
was really neat to watch.”
—Rod Bramblet
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Students sound off on ‘The Jungle’
and the future of the Tigers’ program
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This Week in Auburn Sports
Men’s and
Women’s Tennis
No. 24 Auburn battled back from an early
deficit for the second straight match as the Ti-gers
knocked off Florida Gulf Coast, 5-2, on
Friday, Feb. 7, at the FGCU Tennis Complex.
Auburn (8-1) dropped the doubles point
for the second straight match, but quickly re-gained
ground in singles play against FGCU (1-
5). Dennis Lengsfeld was the first Tiger off the
court with a 6-2, 6-2 win on court two over FG-CU’s
Tianyu Bao. Petar Tomic cruised to a 6-3,
6-0 victory on court three to put the Tigers in
front 2-1.
No. 89 Dante Saleh moved his winning streak
to 11 straight matches, taking down FGCU’s
Lucas Vaz 6-1, 6-4. Oliver Plaskett provided the
clinching win to claim the match for the Tigers,
posting a 6-4, 6-5 (5) win on court six over the
Eagles’ Lance Lvovsky.
No. 112 Daniel Cochrane provided the high-light
of the night, ending the nation’s longest
winning streak as the senior downed FGCU’s
No. 66 Jordi Vives 2-6, 6-4, 6-2. Vives had not
lost a match since Oct. 13, while the win was
Cochrane’s ninth straight victory.
The No. 21 Auburn women’s tennis team
picked up a pair of wins on Sunday, Feb. 9,
knocking off Georgia Southern, 7-0, before
topping Samford, 4-0, at the Yarbrough Tennis
Center.
“Georgia Southern made us play every
point,” said Auburn head coach Lauren Long-botham
Meiser. “I think they got a lot of balls in
and they made us earn the point.”
The 60th-ranked duo of Michala Kucharo-va
and Reka Muller moved their record to 5-0
in dual match play with an 8-0 victory on court
one. Pleun Burgmans and Lindsey Whitehead
also claimed an 8-0 victory on court one.
Men’s and
Women’s Golf
Jake Mondy shot a final round 68, his second
round in the 60s on the weekend, and the Au-burn
men’s golf team finished the Amer Ari In-vitational
in sixth place.
Auburn shot a three-round 274-279-283--
836, minus-28, and finished one shot out of third
as Oregon, TCU and Southern Cal each shot a
835 (minus-29). Oklahoma State won the event
with an 819, minus-45 and Washington was sec-ond
at 831, minus-33.
“We got off to a slow start today but the guys
battled back and finished strong,” said Auburn
assistant coach Evan Osteen. “We need to con-tinue
to improve our putting and our par-5 play.
Overall it was a good start to the spring in a very
competitive tournament field. We are excited
and looking forward to the rest of the spring.”
Sophomore Alex Harrell tied for first as the
Auburn women’s golf team completed play at
the Lady Bulldog Individual Playing Champi-onship
in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Feb. 8.
Harrell fired a two-round total of 147, fin-ishing
3-over to tie for first with co-medalist
Chessey Thomas of Tennessee.
“I was pretty excited to come out here,” Har-rell
said. “Finally, everything came together to-day.
I had support from my team and I was ex-cited
to play well.”
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contributed by auburn athletics
Junior Lukas Ollert hits a return shot during a match in 2013’s fall schedule.
Becky Sheehan
Intrigue Reporter
After being eliminated from Oxygen
Media’s The Glee Project in 2012, Auburn
musical theatre graduate, Shanna Hender-son,
has stolen Nashville’s heart as a blos-soming
country music star.
Her delicate Southern dialect, blonde
hair and bright blue eyes could be mislead-ing,
but Henderson is nothing close to an
antebellum damsel in distress.
Besides her powerful voice, the Real
Town, Ala. native has a fierce stance
against cyberbullying. Her life experienc-es
have proven her to be nothing short of a
warrior for change.
“Bullying is so different now,” Hender-son
said. “Everyone is hiding behind their
computers.”
In an age without iPhones or Twitter, the
bullying Henderson experienced was up-front
and personal.
“The bullying I endured was about
truthful facts,” Henderson said. “Peo-ple
thought they knew my story, but they
didn’t know me. It was hard to overcome
that.”
Because of her mother’s struggles with
drug addiction, Henderson said her peers
degraded her by calling her a “crack baby.”
The bullying, which began in kindergar-ten,
reached a climax in high school when
Henderson found the severed head of a
deer in her mailbox.
With it, a note said, “You’re next.”
Henderson said despite the torment, her
grandparents encouraged her to avoid liv-ing
like a victim.
“They said, ‘You are not a victim,’”
Henderson said. “‘You will not be a vic-tim.
You will move forward and you will
be okay,’ and it really was their continued
understanding that helped me do that.”
Sharing her story on The Glee Project, a
reality show in which the winner appeared
on the television show Glee, set Henderson
apart from her competitors in a way that re-vealed
the drive and depth within.
Henderson placed sixth in the show.
“One of the best things I learned at Au-burn
through [her degree] was about find-ing
those experiences that really trigger
an emotion and using those for your ben-efit
and turning it into a positive,” Hender-son
said.
When she isn’t recording with famed
songwriter Pat Alger, who wrote songs for
Country greats such as Garth Brooks and
Trisha Yearwood, Henderson said she vis-its
local schools to share her story of tri-umph
over bullying.
“A lot of those kids that bullied me have
apologized, and I’ve forgiven them be-cause
I guarantee to the victim of bullying
- [that] if you just continue to push through
and ignore, you will come out on top on the
other end - you will win,” Henderson said.
As a motivational speaker, Henderson
said she is occasionally approached by stu-dents
who are being cyberbullied.
“I’ll never forget a little girl coming up
to me after hearing my story and giving her
a little bit of hope,” Henderson said. “Even
if it wasn’t enough hope to really change
her perspective, it was enough to give her a
little bit of light.”
Her ability to seek out the positive in the
midst of negativity allowed Henderson to
see her elimination from The Glee Project
as an optimistic turning point in her career
that solidified her goal to pursue a life in
music.
“With one meeting and performance,
Shanna Henderson got my attention,” said
Jennifer Bohler, Henderson’s manager and
publicist.
Also an Auburn graduate, Bohler has
worked with artists ranging from Reba
McEntire and Little Big Town to the Trou-badour
Kings.
“She understands things many peo-ple
twice her age have yet to figure out,”
Bohler said. “I think there is no limit to
what she will accomplish in the entertain-ment
world.”
Alger, Henderson’s writing partner and
mentor, described his first songwriting ses-sion
with Henderson.
“After an hour or so I also realized I was
sitting across from a terrific soulful sing-er—
the kind that has seen some things and
survived, but is still full of hope,” Alger
said. “She is obviously young, but wise;
full of crackling energy, but also focused.”
Henderson, who is also working on film
projects and plans to write a motivational
book, has kept close friendships with her
Auburn Theatre classmates.
Henderson has completed the pilot for
Auburn grad Kat Grilli’s series “Broken
Things” and lives with her best friend from
her graduating class at Auburn.
Henderson urged anyone seeking a ca-reer
in the arts to maintain positive relation-ships
by helping other artists.
Through it all, Henderson has proven to
be a woman of substance, firmly rooted in
the belief that any bad circumstance can
turn out to a blessing in disguise.
Henderson is becoming known for her
resilience as an artist and as a human be-ing.
When asked about it, Henderson re-plied
matter-of-factly.
“You share what you are with other peo-ple,”
Henderson said. “I’d rather share a
smile with someone rather than my pain.”
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Henderson performs with Charlie Lubeck on The Glee Project, Season 2.
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“LOVE IS” by bo burnham
maddie yerant, intrigue editor
“an irreverent but funny take on a love song. sharp, funny and surprisingly spot-on,
it’ll have you laughing as long as you’re not easily offended.”
“SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE” by etta james
becky shehan, intrigue reporter
“soulful, sophisticated and sweet - this is the perfect love song.”
“MAKING MEMORIES OF US” by keith urban
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love, but not in a tacky way that many country love songs can come off as.”
“INCHES AND FALLING” by the format
adam wolnski, intrigue writer
“i love love; i love being in love. i don’t care what it does to me.”
“YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY” by eric church
lynsde leach, contributing writer
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“HOW COULD I WANT MORE” by jamie lynn spears
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PLAINSMAN PICKS PLAYLIST: Play it safe with tornadoes
Janiee Rush
Contributing writer
April 27, 2011 will always be re-membered
as the day when one of
the deadliest and destructive tor-nadoes
tore through Alabama. As
the F4 tornado ripped through Tus-caloosa,
it destroyed thousands of
homes, businesses and other build-ings.
At least 53 people died, ac-cording
to AL.com. No one could
have imagined the devastating af-termath.
Tornadoes can be unpredictable,
so it’s important to take the prop-er
precautions. In the event of a
tornado, staying in buildings such
as apartments and trailers can be
risky.
College students, in particular,
should always some kind of safe-ty
plan.
Auburn Public Safety Director,
Bill James, suggested those who
live in non-sturdy structures, such
as mobile homes, should try to get
out when they hear warnings.
James said the safest places to
go are those made of concrete and
steel.
“A lot of the people that live in
the trailer parks out on Wire Road
will go to the vet school just be-cause
you have a lot more of a stur-dy
structure there,” James said.
“Some of the parks also have a
more permanent structure at their
office, and if that’s as far as you
can get, then at least get there.”
Once a tornado warning has
been issued, those who live on the
upper floors of apartments should
try to get to a lower floor or the
complex clubhouse if possible.
The Auburn University Depart-ment
of Public Safety and Securi-ty
recommends staying away from
windows and doors to prevent in-jury
from glass or other flying ob-jects
and also using heavy items to
protect your head.
Lauren Massey, senior in fi-nance,
lives at The Grove apart-ment
complex where and she and
her roommates have a self-desig-nated
place to go during tornado
warnings.
“We decided that when there is a
tornado warning, we will go to my
closet,” Massey said. “It’s the only
room in our apartment that doesn’t
have an outside wall.”
Once there are signs of severe
weather, it’s always a good idea to
be watchful and cautious.
Auburn University established
an efficient alert system to keep
students up-to-date with the weath-er
conditions.
This system includes AU Alert
messages, tone alert radios on
campus and a weather monitoring
radar system, which tracks storms
across Alabama.
Lee County also has outdoor
tornado sirens that signal tornado
warnings.
Along with listening for the si-rens,
you should also keep an eye
on the news and listen to the radio.
More recently, phone apps have
been a useful tool to stay updat-ed
with the weather, such as The
Weather Channel app.
Both tornado watches and warn-ings
should be taken seriously.
“During a tornado watch, it’s
business as usual on campus, but
everyone should stay alert for
changes in the weather and prepare
to seek shelter should a warning be
issued,” said Susan McCallister,
associate director of the Depart-ment
of Public Safety and Security.
The University also provides
shelter during severe weather
conditions to those who need it.
Greene Hall on Wire Road and the
University library are both open
for students, employees and visi-tors.
For more information about tor-nado
safety and risk management
visit the Department of Public and
Security page on Auburn Universi-ty’s
website.
“Everyone should stay alert for changes
in the weather and prepare to seek
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What does The Fox sell?
Becky Sheehan
Intrigue Reporter
The Curious Fox is as intriguing as its
name suggests.
Tucked away in Downtown Opelika,
walking into the intimates boutique is like
stumbling upon a treasured secret. Hard-wood
floors creak as you walk in. Artisan
jewelry and delicate lingerie are displayed
on cream-colored walls like art hung in a
museum. The aesthetic is minimalist and
inviting. Eucalyptus and spearmint waft
from a candle burning on the front desk.
The smiling brunette behind the counter
is Saramia Arenas, an Auburn native who
studied photography at Savannah College
of Art and Design.
“When you think of a woman as a fox,
it’s a woman that’s beautiful, confident,
cool,” said Arenas, who serves as manag-er,
sales associate and buyer for The Curi-ous
Fox.
According to Arenas, intimate apparel
plays an important role in boosting wom-en’s
self-confidence. Taking the time to
treat herself and feel attractive can change
how a woman feels in and out of the bed-room.
“We aim to provide an experience that
makes women feel empowered—a place
where women can come to celebrate being
a woman,” Arenas said.
Pieces by Simone Perele, Mary Green
and Montelle Intimates are laid out with
simplistic visual merchandising.
The airy hues, handcrafted lace and Chi-na
silk are presented to the shopper as del-icate
heirlooms—a far cry from flashy,
overtly sexual designs found in major re-tailers.
“The idea from the beginning was to be
the complete opposite,” said Phil Moody,
owner of The Curious Fox. “I just felt like
we didn’t want to give any kind of image
to the women. I didn’t want to project any-thing
to them so they can just come and be
whoever they wanted to be.”
As a small business, The Curious Fox is
a champion for shopping local. From push-ing
customers to sign up for credit cards to
impersonal customer service, Moody ex-plained
that retail chains are treating shop-pers
like numbers.
“We as consumers are getting smart-er
and we’re not falling for that as much,”
Moody said. “I think they’ve hit a tip-ping
point where they don’t deserve to be
around. I think places like this deserve to
be around, where knowledgeable staff will
come help you and spend time with you.”
Moody, a graphic designer from Lafay-ette,
La., transformed the former office
space in September 2013. While the bou-tique
was his vision, Moody has handed the
reins over to an all-female staff to ensure
customer comfort and privacy.
“I want people to think of Saramia when
they think of the Fox,” Moody said.
In addition to promoting female em-powerment
and local business, The Curi-ous
Fox has a commitment to supporting
local artists.
“People don’t realize how important art
is,” Moody said. “Artists tend to be mini
profits. They bring trends to the area be-cause
they see things and create things and
if they’re artists who are also business-minded,
man, they can really do things.”
After carrying Opelika-based artist Kate
Manning’s line of scarves and knitwear in
December, The Curious Fox decided to
seek out more homegrown artistic talent.
“We’re a store, but we like to think of
ourselves as very curated, similar to an art
gallery,” Arenas said. “We’re always on the
lookout for something cool and unique.”
Arenas pointed out two fox paintings
hanging on the wall by R.C. Hagans, an
Opelika native. A curtain sewn and decorat-ed
by Jane Randall of Opelika’s Jane Sweet
Jane designates the dressing room area, and
Oxford shirts designed by Moody’s friends,
Jonathan and Holly Powell, hang on a sil-ver
rack.
“I like the idea of investing in art and
people, so I’ll always have a piece of RC
in here. I’ll always have a piece of Jane. I’ll
always have a piece of Jonathan and Holly
in here,” Moody said.
Moody has also invested in the talent of
Auburn University student, Ashley Kick-liter.
The junior in graphic design was re-cruited
to produce editorial photography
for The Curious Fox.
Kickliter said she was thrilled to be part
of this small business.
“I’m a photographer and I’ve had a por-trait
business here since I was 16, but fash-ion
photography is what I really want to
do,” Kickliter said. “They hired me to a
shoot for them with models in their prod-ucts
and gorgeous sleep shirts.”
The Crious Fox views their lingerie as
an investment, and prices of apparel start
at $20.
“Hopefully, the idea is that when peo-ple
buy a piece, they love it, so it’s almost
like a piece of art that they’ve taken home,”
Moody said.
The Curious Fox also carries handcraft-ed
luxury items from Freedom Soap Com-pany
and The Green Bottle Candle Com-pany
from Birmingham and artisan jewelry
from Red Earth Trading Company.
Open only on weekends, The Curious
Fox is located at 711 Ave. in Opelika.
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The Curious Fox sells a variety of lingerie, soaps and other luxurires in Opelika, including artisan jewelry and handcrafted items.
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Valentine’s Day is here, and
Auburn restaurants are ready
for the influx of couples to wine
and dine for a romantic eve-ning.
Some places are even pro-viding
live music.
If your cooking skills aren’t
up to par, or if you want to im-press
your significant oth-er
with a nice dinner, here are
some restaurants in Auburn
providing special Valentine’s
Day menus. 1 Ariccia Italian Trattoria
& Bar is having a special
menu with two options. One
column says, “for you,” and the
other says, “for two.”
Each option is $49 per per-son.
The “for two” column
starts off with a choice between
a dozen blackened chard grilled
or raw oysters. Another option
is the spinach and goat cheese
ravioli.
The second course can either
be a mixed grill, which includes
salmon, shrimp, chicken, Ala-bama
sausage, NY steak, mar-ket
vegetables and roasted pota-toes;
or a rack of lamb with herb
crust, cast iron potato au gratin,
spinach, roasted market vegeta-bles,
and olive jus.
For desert, they will have a
chocolate and barista station
with a variety of chocolates, a
chocolate fountain and coffee.
2 Amsterdam Cafe will re-lease
a special menu clos-er
to the holiday. The pric-ing
will be similar to its regu-lar
menu.
3 Hamilton’s will also have
special Valentine’s Day
features in addition to their reg-ular
menu available on Valen-tine’s
Day.
4 Acre Restaurant’s Val-entine’s
Day menu starts
off with deep fried brie with
puff pastry and red wine; cher-ry
sauce and arugula; broiled
Virginia oysters with pork bel-ly
crumbs and fennel butter;
gulf blue crab and corn chow-der
with bacon bits and chives;
or strawberry-walnut salad with
bleu cheese, bacon, spinach,
and sherry-honey vinaigrette.
The entrees include a butter-poached
grouper with crispy
fried Gouda grits and a pickled
red onion-arugula salad topped
with lemon-herb sauce.
They will also offer seared
diver scallops, fried pork bel-ly,
picked grapes, sweet pota-to
puree, sherry molasses, and
fresh basil.
The final two entrees are a
crab and lobster pasta with an-gel
hair noodles, vegetables, to-mato-
basil butter and Parmesan
cheese, or a grilled filet mignon
with whipped potatoes, hari-cot
verts and crimini-cabernet
sauce.
Finish the night off with
sweet potato bread pudding,
chocolate bette noire, or a rasp-berry
sorbet “float.”
5 Zazu Gastropub will be
setting a romantic atmo-sphere
with a live violinist to go
along with their fixed-price $50
dinner menu.
The meal will start off with
one of three appetizers; lump
crab cakes and a fried green to-mato
with house-made remou-lade
and baby arugula, sautéed
langostino tails, or porchet-ta
with pork tenderloin stuffed
pork belly with shaved parme-san
and baby arugula.
The next portion will of-fer
soup and salad options in-cluding
shrimp bisque, mixed
greens, Caesar salad, baby spin-ach,
and baby iceberg.
The entrees are pan-seared
filet mignon, pan-include duck
breast, mahi-mahi scallopini
over house made papparedelle,
roasted airline chicken breast,
or low country shrimp and grits
with Andouille sausage.
Finally, for dessert, it has
crème brulee, chocolate and ha-zelnut
pudding or strawberry li-quor-
soaked sponge cake.
Local restaurants help bring
romance on Valentine’s Day
KRISTEN HARLIN / ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Kailey Miller
INTRIGUE REPORTER
The invention of Siri for
iPhones brought a new way to
find restaurants, get directions
and ask random questions only
Siri would know. AroundMe is
an app with similar qualities,
but you don’t have to depend
on Siri deciphering your ques-tion
before you get an answer.
AroundMe works for both
travelers and locals. With 19
different categories, such as
banks, gas stations, hotels,
movies, and more, it can be can
be beneficial for anyone who is
trying to save money or try new
things in a familiar area.
Once the app is opened, it
uses your GPS to locate things
in each of these categories in a
close radius. Some of the cat-egories,
such as nearby, which
tells you what buildings are
nearby, have a description of
what the building is used for,
how much it costs and when it
was built.
If you want to figure out
what bar to go to in a new city,
you can click on the bar and see
comments from other people
via Foursquare. For Toomer’s
Drugs, one of the comments
says, “Enjoy a glass of freshly
squeezed lemonade. It is an Au-burn
Tradition.”
The app also tells you how
far the destination is from your
location and shows you a map
of how to get there.
Some of the categories in-clude
relevant information,
such as the phone number and
the website where users can
find more information.
Foursquare also links pho-tos
users have taken of the lo-cation
if they are available, so
you can see if a place is ideal
for a date or if it looks subpar.
The deals category, powered by
Groupon, tells you places near-by
with good deals.
Another useful category for
travelers is the gas stations sec-tion,
which lists the prices for
each gas station divided by un-leaded,
midgrade, premium,
diesel, and nearest. It also tells
you the last time the price was
updated.
The hotels category is rat-ed
by stars, lists the price and
allows you to book your room
by transferring you to booking-
.com.
If you’re in a hurry and need
a place to park, the app will
show you places nearby and in-clude
the format of the parking
and any restrictions on parking.
Although free, you can elim-iate
advertisements with a
$2.99 upgrade. It’s a simple app
that doesn’t have too many dis-tractions.
You can get the information
you need fast and efficiently.
CONTRIBUTED BY KAILEY MILLER
AroundMe helps users locate im-portant
conveniences like hotels,
gas, information and more.
Are diet soft drinks safe?
Janiee Rush
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
We’ve all heard the contro-versy
about diet soft drinks
and how they might be un-healthy,
but regularly con-suming
these drinks lead to
serious health risks such as
obesity or even heart prob-lems?
The common concerns that
make diet soft drinks ques-tionable
to some people have
to do with a key ingredient:
artificial sweeteners.
People who typically drink
diet soft drinks are those who
are looking to lose weight or
consume less sugar.
These low-calorie beverag-es
are offered as an alternative
and contain 99 percent of wa-ter
and artificial sweeteners.
Some believe that because
diet soda contains artificial
sweeteners, such as aspar-tame
and saccharin, they are
allowed to consume more cal-ories
in their diet.
Auburn University Nu-trition
Professor, Dr. Kevin
Huggins said recent research
has suggested artificial sweet-eners
are also thought to cause
a certain signaling to the brain
that will ultimately cause an
increase in caloric intake.
“From what I understand,
that’s very preliminary re-search,
and we really don’t
have a good handle on that,”
Huggins said.
Shape magazine infers that
diet soft drinks alone won’t
necessarily cause weight gain
or weight loss.
Allegedly, weight gain will
most likely depend on the in-dividual’s
overall health.
Laurel Lee, junior in el-ementary
education, enjoys
having a diet soft drink every
now and then.
“I like the taste of Diet Dr.
Pepper better than regular,”
Lee said. “And the idea of
zero calories is more appeal-ing
than consuming a ton of
sugar in one drink.”
The supposed health risks
of diet soft drinks make them
not even worth drinking to
some people.
Savannah Weber, sopho-more
in building science, said
she believes diet soft drinks
are counterproductive and
would recommend drinking
water instead.
“[Diet soft drinks] may
not have any calories, but
the things that they put in
them are so bad for you that
you might as well just drink a
regular one,” Weber said. “If
you’re really trying to diet and
get healthy, then you wouldn’t
want to be putting that crap in
your body anyway.”
Although there are many
speculations floating around
about diet sodas, no major
health risks have been prov-en
thus far.
Ultimately, as long as con-sumers
are moderately drink-ing
a can of diet soda, serious
health concerns shouldn’t be
an issue.
“Of course, you know, if
you do a Google search on
these things you can find all
sorts of people linking [diet
soft drinks] to bad health is-sues,
and that’s probably an-ecdotal,
and you can’t really
rely on that,” Huggins said.