2013-11-07 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, November 7, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 120, Issue 24, 14 Pages
Eric Wallace
Sports Writer
In the modern, pass-happy
college football landscape, Tre
Mason has proven that a work-horse
running back can still be a
game changer.
Mason’s 32 carry, 168 yard and
four touchdown performance
against Arkansas was the best of
his Auburn career and earned the
junior SEC Offensive Player of the
Week recognition.
“Tre is a special guy in the
backfield because he can just pop
one at any time on any defense,”
said quarterback Nick Marshall.
“The offensive line opens up
holes for him and he’s just able to
gash them and make plays with
his legs.”
The 5-foot-10 junior from Palm
Beach, Fla., has reached the end
zone in six consecutive games
and currently leads the SEC with
13 rushing touchdowns.
Even head coach Gus Mal-zahn,
who has produced NFL
running backs such as Darren
McFadden, Felix Jones and Pey-ton
Hillis, said he is impressed by
Mason’s gritty play this season.
“The thing that really stands
out about Tre this year is he’s get-ting
very tough yards,” Malzahn
said. “He’s breaking the first tack-le
numerous times, really, just
playing hard, physical football.
He’s definitely improving and he’s
a big weapon for us.”
Mason has been the work-horse
out of Auburn’s trio of run-ning
backs, garnering 51 more
touches than fellow backs Cam-eron
Artis-Payne and Corey
Grant combined.
Despite 23.2 rushes per game
in conference play, Mason said
the offense doesn’t plan a specif-ic
number of touches for the run-ning
backs.
A new day with Tre
Ben Hohenstatt
Campus reporter
President Barrack Obama ran on a platform of
change, and the Patient Protection and Afford-able
Care Act, PPACA, is causing plenty of that
at Auburn.
The healthcare reform also known as
Obamacare, changes the health insur-ance
policy employees are offered
and the number of hours tempo-rary
employees can work.
PPACA was signed into law
March 23, 2010, and was up-held
as constitutional by the
Supreme Court of the United
States June 28, 2012.
The legislation requires em-ployers
to offer health insur-ance
to full-time employees and
contains a mandate defining a
full-time employee as someone
who works 30 hours per week.
“The biggest change the Afford-able
Care Act is the one the presi-dent
has put on hold: the Employer
Mandate,” said Gary Ward, manager for
employee benefits.
Ward said the mandate would require
Auburn to offer insurance to employees who
work more than 30 hours per week because they
would be considered full-time employees.
Karla McCormick, executive director for payroll and em-ployee
benefits, said Auburn considers an employee full time if they
work 40 hours or more per week.
“Auburn’s definition of full-time status is based on
working 40 hours per week,” McCormick said. “We
want to see employees classified as either truly
full-time, benefits eligible employees who are
eligible for all benefit plans, or truly part-time.”
McCormick said this has resulted
in either reclassification or hiring of
more than 130 part-time employees
as full-time, benefit eligible employ-ees.
Mary Prather, manager for Tem-porary
Employment Services, said
the law has caused the creation of
a limit on the number of hours a
temporary employee can work.
“There is a cap of 1,450 per year,”
Prather said. “That’s less than 30
hours per week on average.”
Prather also said some temporary
employees must take a month after
work.
McCormick said this month off has
always been required of temporary em-ployees.
She also said it protects employees drawing
state benefits from retirement but working part-time.
» See Mason A2
» See Obamacare A2
INDEX
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Sports
Intrigue
ONLINE
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Oaks planted in
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Running away
with it
The Tiger’s rushing
attack continues to
lead the SEC
Campus MRI technology
brings superpowers to life
» See mri A2
Obamacare leaves some employees hurting
A2
A6
A7
A9
A12
Junior Tre Mason
leads revamped
rushing attack
WAR EAGLE ON THE PLANES
Page A5
Jordan Hays
MRI Rese a rch Center
The problem with superheroes is
that they don’t exist. However, thanks
to science and technology, we can
make their super powers a reality. X-ray
vision and mind reading are only
a couple of the powers the engineers
at the MRI Research Center have, but
more importantly, they have the pow-er
to save lives.
Thomas Denney Jr., director of Au-burn
University’s MRI Research Cen-ter,
has been researching the heart
using magnetic resonance imaging
for approximately 20 years. His re-search
involves how the heart chang-es
shape and contraction patterns in
response to disease.
Auburn’s MRI Research Center is
one of the most advanced imaging
centers in the world in terms of the
technology used. At a cost between
$8–9 million, and with only 50 in ex-istence,
the MRI Center’s 7-Tesla MRI
scanner has the magnetic power
equivalent to the power necessary to
pick up approximately seven cars, ac-cording
to Nikhil Jha, a graduate stu-dent
in electrical engineering.
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 7, 2013
October 31 – Hemlock Drive and
Glenn Avenue
Unlawful breaking and enter-ing
a vehicle and theft of Ap-ple
Macbook, textbooks, Cos-ta
del Mar sunglasses and back-pack
between 9:50-10:15 p.m.
November 1 – Waterstone Circle
Third-degree burglary of LCD
television, two laptops, tab-let
computer and Xbox 360 be-tween
8 a.m.–4:15 p.m.
November 1 – Wire Road
Third-degree burglary of LCD tele-vision
between 9-11 a.m.
November 1-2 – Armstrong Street
Unlawful breaking and entering a
vehicle and theft of Garmin GPS
between November 1 at 7:30
p.m. and November 2 at 2 p.m.
November 1-2 – Lee Road 12
Third-degree burglary of pistol be-tween
November 1 at 10 p.m. and
November 2 at 4:30 a.m.
November 2 – Harper Avenue
Third-degree theft of Huffy bicy-cle
between 8:30-9:30 p.m.
November 3 – Martin Luther King
Drive
Third-degree burglary of four flat-screen
televisions, two PlayStation
3 consoles, desktop computer, lap-top,
tablet computer and Ninten-do
Wii between 11:15 a.m.–8 p.m.
November 3 – Opelika Road
Third-degree theft of three pairs of
Ugg boots between 5:15-5:25 p.m.
November 3-4 – Felton Lane
Unlawful breaking and enter-ing
a vehicle and theft of Can-on
LCD projector, purse and deb-it
cards between November 3 at 10
p.m. and November 4 at 7 a.m.
November 3-4 – Felton Lane
Unlawful breaking and entering a
vehicle and theft of Garmin GPS
and head rest between November
3 at 10:30 p.m. and November 4
at 7 a.m.
November 5 – Payne Street
Third-degree burglary of two flat-screen
televisions, three prescrip-tion
bottles and U.S. currency be-tween
7:45 a.m.–12:50 p.m.
November 5 – Bluff Court
Third-degree burglary of two lap-tops,
PlayStation 3 and boots
between 8 a.m.–1 p.m.
— Reports provided by
Auburn Department of Public Safety
POLICE REPORTS FOR OCT. 31– NOV. 5, 2013 DUI ARRESTS FOR THE CITY OF AUBURN
OCT. 31–NOV. 5, 2013
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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
AUBURN AT A GLANCE
• Auburn senior Patrick Donnan and 2012 graduate Ashton Richardson have been
named finalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for an opportunity to study at
the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
• Joesph Aistrup, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is the winner of the Robert Line-berry
Award from the Southwestern Social Sciences Association for his article,
“Structured Partisan Competition: A Vote Shares Model of Party Alignments and Re-alignments.”
• WriteFest for graduate students will be held Friday, Nov. 8, from 1 p.m.–4 p.m. in the
Ralph Brown Draughon Library Learning Commons.
• Songs in the Woods, a free concert, will be held at the Forest Ecology Preserve am-phitheater
Sunday, Nov. 10, from 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. featuring Will Mooty.
• The Auburn Student Veterans Association will be holding its annual luncheon on Vet-erans
Day, Monday, Nov. 11, from 11 a.m.–noon in the Student Center ballroom. The
guest speaker is Auburn alumnus retired Lt. Gen. Ron Burgess Jr., former director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency.
• The Women’s Resource Center will be hosting its fifth annual Women’s Health and
Wellness Chocolate Festival Wednesday, Nov. 13, from noon–3 p.m. in the Student
Center Ballroom.
• Marie Cirillo, former director of the Clearfork Community Institute in Eagan, Tenn., will
lead a workshop on rural community development in the age of ecological destruc-tion
from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in 310 Tichenor Hall.
• The 2014 Hudson Family Foundation Benefit Weekend is set for January 2014 in Au-burn
Arena, featuring a comedy show with Jeff Foxworthy and Opelika native Jody
Fuller Thursday, Jan. 23, and a concert Friday, Jan. 24, with Rascal Flatts and Thom-as
Rhett.
• The second annual TEDx Auburn University will take place at The Hotel at Auburn Uni-versity
and Dixon Conference Center Thursday, Feb. 27.
A1: In the article “Putting parking issues in drive,” Gregory Parsons was misquoted as saying, “[The RV’s]
are totally out of hand.” Parson was referring to the RV situation 20 years ago. He was also misquoted as
saying a parking deck with twice the capacity of the original would be erected on the site of the former RBD
parking deck with contruction slated for the summer of 2014 and that a second garage will be built adja-cent
to the South Donahue deck. The Plainsman apologizes for the mistake.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS FROM OCT. 31 ISSUE
MASON
» From A1
McCormick said this is to avoid the risk
of these employees losing their current in-surance.
“If they work enough hours to qualify for
Auburn’s active employee health insurance
coverage, they become ineligible for their
(Public Education Employees Health In-surance
Plan) retiree health insurance and
must drop it,” McCormick said.
PPACA also impacts student employees.
Alessio Summerfield, senior in radio,
television and film, said he has experi-enced
the effects of the hours limit first
hand.
“I originally had two jobs,” Summerfield
said. “I have one job because of the hours
cap.”
Summerfield said he was a technician
at the media and digital resource lab and
a videographer for the College of Liberal
Arts.
He said when the hours limit went into
effect during the summer he no longer had
enough hours to split between the two jobs.
“Before, I was working around 30–35
hours a week,” Summerfield said. “I’m mak-ing
far less money now than I was.”
Summerfield said this change in in-come
has caused him to seek supplemen-tal
sources of income.
“Essentially, what I’ve been doing is free-lance
video,” Summerfield said. “I would
like an opportunity to not look for outside
sources of income to keep my power on.”
PPACA has also changed the health in-surance
it offers to full-time insurance.
Ward said the changes are slowly com-ing
into effect.
“There are certain requirements we had
to implement into our plan,” Ward said.
McCormick said changes include ex-tending
coverage to the age of 26 for chil-dren
of those covered.
PPACA limits the contribution allow-ance
for the health care flexible savings ac-counts,
a portion of earnings set aside by
an employee to pay for health expenses.
McCormick said the FSA limit will
change to $2,500 from $5,000.
She said there is also the addition of
new fees the University will have to pay as
Auburn implements the plan.
Full-time employees are offered two in-surance
options: to opt for the health in-surance
plan offered by the University or
to look for insurance through the nation-al
pool.
“The insurance plan is heavily subsi-dized
by the University,” Ward said. “By not
using that plan, you’re losing that subsidy.”
Ward said employees pay for the insur-ance
through deductions from their pay-checks
based on income tiers.
Enrollment for Auburn University em-ployee
benefits is open in November and
will go into effect January 1.
McCormick said while Auburn has made
changes to accommodate PPCA, she antic-ipates
more changes in the near future.
“I anticipate within the next two to three
years, we will have to take a look at our
health insurance plan design or our premi-um
structure to determine how to contin-ue
to offer a high-quality health plan at a
price we employees and the University can
afford,” McCormick said.
OBAMACARE
» From A1
Patrick Riley, 22, Auburn
Thursday, Oct. 31, 4:13
a.m. at North Gay Street
Rudolph Davis, 21,
Auburn
Friday, Nov. 1, 3:35 a.m.
at South Donahue Drive
and West Samford Ave-nue
Juan Antonio Bustos, Jr.,
37, Opelika
Saturday, Nov. 2, 12:38
a.m. at West Glenn Ave-nue
and Hemlock Drive
Alan Vines, 28, Auburn
Saturday, Nov. 2, 1:43
a.m. at Shug Jordan Park-way
John Houston, 20,
Auburn
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2:32
a.m. at South College
Street and Harmon Drive
Monica Jackson, 43,
Opelika
Saturday, Nov. 2, 4:21
a.m. at East Glenn Ave-nue
Ellis Smith, Jr., 20,
Auburn
Saturday, Nov. 2, 8:40
p.m. at West Glenn Av-enue
Sean Parker, 39,
Demopolis
Saturday, Nov. 2, 10:27
p.m. at South College
Street
Lequinton Al-Ghanee, 26,
Auburn
Sunday, Nov. 3, 1:40
a.m. at South Gay Street
Chelsea Heinen, 23,
Auburn
Sunday, Nov. 3, 2:22
a.m. at North College
Street and Shelton Mill
Road
Reynaldo Diaz-Lopez, 22,
Marianna, Fla.
Sunday, Nov. 3, 4:04
a.m. at Opelika Road
Robert Powe, 26, Auburn
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 3:20
a.m. at Martin Luther
King Drive
MRI
» From A1
“Most scanners only image protons that are the
nuclei of hydrogen atoms in water molecules in
the body,” said Denney, “That’s what 95 percent of
all MRI scanners do. Our 7-Tesla can do that, but
also image other nuclei from other atoms in the
body.”
To be more specific, Denney is looking for phos-phorus
in the body.
“The energy that fuels your muscles are high-energy
phosphates,” Denney said. “We are partic-ularly
interested in measuring (phosphates) in the
heart.”
Denney’s research into high-energy phosphate
metabolism in the heart can lead to intervention
and treatment of heart failure.
“There is a hypothesis that heart failure is like
an engine that’s out of fuel,” Denney said. “The idea
is that if we could detect an early drop in that fuel,
we could intervene earlier and possibly do a better
job treating the patient.”
While Denney is focused on the heart, Gopi-krishna
Deshpande, assistant professor of electri-cal
and computer engineering, is focused on the
brain.
“With the brain MRI, my focus really is develop-ing
signal processing algorithms,” said Deshpande.
“A person goes into the MRI and is asked to do
some sort of a task. We would model the data set
we get from that to see in which areas of the brain
(activated) when the person was (doing the task).
Deshpande said they then take the informa-tion
and figure out which areas in the brain are in-volved.
“This has really been shown to be important
in understanding many mental disorders,” Desh-pande
said. “Right now, our understanding of
what happens in mental disorders is not really ad-vanced.”
Deshpande said a mechanical understanding of
how the brain works can lead to better treatment
of mental disorders.
“We know what happens when an artery is
blocked,” Deshpande said. “Since gaining that
mechanistic understanding (of the heart), it has
really helped us create solutions. We know we can
bypass that artery, do a surgery and that person
is going to live another 20 years. We don’t have
that kind of mechanistic insight with mental dis-orders.”
Gaining a better understanding of how the
brain operates will also help in diagnostics.
Deshpande is doing more than just trying to un-derstand
mental disorders. Through his research,
he is also able to determine what a person is think-ing
while they are in an MRI.
By seeing what areas of the brain activate, re-searchers
can determine what a person might be.
This study is being done in a field called “brain
computer interface,” and has the potential to help
those with physical disabilities.
“When someone who cannot move their hands
and wants to interact with a computer thinks ‘I
want to click this icon,’ that has a specific neural
signature in the brain,” Deshpande said. “If you
can read that and you can use machine learning
algorithms to actually understand what that code
means, you can actually give an external hardware
signal to the computer to do the task.”
The MRI Research Center works in unison with
member of the psychology department. Jeffrey
Katz, alumni professor of psychology, works to-gether
with the MRI Center to further research in
mental disorders such as depression, Alzheimer’s
and PTSD.
Katz is currently researching visual working
memory in humans. Subjects are placed inside
of an MRI and shown 2–10 different items on a
screen at one time. After they disappear, they are
shown again, but with one item altered. Subjects
are then asked if they can detect any change. It
has been shown the capacity for visual working
memory is reached at approximately four of these
items.
“It’s a measure of how much information you
can maintain at one given time,” said Katz, “The
question is when people have depression, schizo-phrenia,
Alzheimer’s or any disease that affects
memory, what happens to those people when
they perform the same types of task? If we can
show there are differences across groups, we can
start working on treatments to help people if we
can identify the brain areas.”
Katz is performing his research on people in
different stages of Alzheimer’s. He uses the MRI to
help make better predictions of who might get Al-zheimer’s.
The MRI Research Center is taking student vol-unteers
to have MRI scans done for their studies.
Volunteers can sign up for a scan on the MRI Re-search
Center’s website.
“I never know going into
the game,” Mason said. “I
kind of get rolling... we
run a fast-paced offense
and I was getting into my
zone and that’s the way it
panned out.”
Offensive coordina-tor
Rhett Lashlee said the
number of touches a back
receives is usually con-nected
to their effective-ness.
“Tre was the hot hand,”
Lashlee said. “I didn’t real-ize
he’d carried it 32 times
until after the game.”
According to Lashlee,
Mason’s conditioning al-lows
him to be successful
late in the game while oth-ers
fatigue.
“What can I say? The
guy gets stronger as the
game goes on; he gets
stronger as the season
goes on,” Lashlee said.
Mason’s four rushing
touchdowns against Ar-kansas
were the most by
an Auburn player since
Cam Newton’s 198 yard,
four touchdown rushing
performance against Ken-tucky
in 2010.
The Heisman trophy
winning quarterback has
been a mentor to Mason,
who hopes to leave a simi-lar
legacy once his Auburn
playing days are complete.
“That’s my guy,” Mason
said. “Ever since he told
me ‘What is your legacy
going to be here?’ I’ve been
trying to make the most
of mine. I look up to that
guy. He’s like my big broth-er,
and I’m glad to be in the
same sentence he is.”
Ben Hohenstatt
Campus Reporter
Chase Mitchell is writing in New York, but
not for the type of outlet he anticipated when
he graduated from Auburn University with a de-gree
in journalism in 2006.
After spending some time writing at the
Gwinnett Daily Post and working in marketing,
Mitchell started pursuing a comedy writing ca-reer,
and now works for “Late Night with Jimmy
Fallon.”
He has contributed jokes to the Weekend Up-date
portion of “Saturday Night Live,” and he has
written for SomeeCards.com, Collegehumor.
com and “Nikki and Sarah Live.”
Mitchell said he expects to be on the staff as a
writer when Fallon takes over as host of “The To-night
Show” in February.
His Twitter handle is @ChaseMit.
How did you go from
earning a degree in journalism to
writing for a late night talk show?
It was kind of a weird road. When I got out of
college I was looking for a job at a newspaper. It
took me a little while to find one. I started out as
a copy editor for a paper. I worked my way over
to the feature section as a feature writer, but all
through that time I was featuring as a writer on
CollegeHumor.com in my spare time, and I can
probably admit it now a little bit while I was at
work too. It went from a hobby to something I
really enjoyed.
Have you gone from steady job to
steady job, or have you been a
freelance joke writer as well?
Before I got the Nikki and Sarah job, I got
asked to submit for Weekend Update for SNL. I
didn’t get the ‘job’ job, but as a consolation prize
I got to be on what’s called the fact list, which is
where you freelance and send in 15 jokes a week.
I got really lucky, and I got a joke on the air my
first week.
How exciting was that?
I wasn’t expecting it at all, and I was actual-ly
just sitting in my living room watching SNL.
I can still remember Seth Meyers leading into
the joke, and me jumping out of my seat saying,
“That’s my joke, that’s my joke!” It was really ex-citing.
Before you knew that you would
have a career in comedy were you
someone who told a lot of jokes?
I really liked comedy growing up. I would con-sider
myself a fan of it. Until I started to write for
College Humor, I never really considered my-self
doing it. I remember during my time at The
Plainsman I included a throw-away line in a col-umn
that some of my friends liked. I like getting
that feedback from people, and knowing I made
somebody laugh.
A lot of writers also perform stand-up
comedy or branch out to other forms of
comedy, is this something you are doing?
It’s something that’s changed a little bit. I
started out totally a joke writer. In the second
season of ‘Nikki and Sarah Live’ I branched out
into writing sketches as well, and that broad-ened
my horizons a little bit as far as writing
goes. I was actually hired to ‘Fallon’ as a sketch
writer. Since I’ve been here in New York I’m also
doing standup, and it’s definitely something I’m
inexperienced with. It’s something I like to do,
and I’m pursuing it.
Popular comedians such as Anthony
Jeselnik and Hannibal Buress started out
writing for television shows; what is it like
sharing a room with those sorts of people?
I work with a lot of really talented writers.
‘Fallon’ has sort of been a launching pad for peo-ple.
People have come onto ‘Fallon,’ spent a cou-ple
years there and then gone on to their own
projects. It’s a room full of extremely talented
people.
What’s the difference in approach to
writing jokes for your own stand-up
compared to jokes you write for work?
There’s definitely a difference. Everyone has
their own personality, and you have to learn to
write for that. When I write for myself, it comes
from a more personal place. I can be a little bit
darker. I recently called off a wedding, I broke
up with my fiancé kind of at the last minute, and
that’s something I can talk about on stage.
Who are some of your
comedy influences?
As far as joke writing goes there’s a man who
I work with, Mike Drucker, who’s extremely tal-ented
and funny. I think he’s one of the best joke
writers around. For sketch writing, I really like
Tim [Heidecker] and Eric [Wareheim]. I think
they’re brilliant and doing stuff like no one else.
As far as stand up, I’d say John Mulaney is some-one
I look up to. Louis C.K. has only in recent
years become as popular as he should have been
all along.
What’s been the highlight of your time
on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” so far?
I got really lucky in my first week there. I
pitched a sketch idea, and we had Paul McCart-ney
coming on the show. I pitched a sketch idea
about Jimmy and Paul switching accents. I got
to stand in a hallway with one of the greatest
musicians in history, and hear him read lines
that I wrote. It was incredible and really surreal.
Do you have a favorite joke
that you have written?
I’m really proud of how that Paul McCart-ney
thing turned out. Joke wise, I would say the
one that got on Weekend Update that I wrote
my first week for the show, because it was real-ly
such a surprise.
What was the joke?
I hate to say it was about Chris Brown, but it
was. It was something like, ‘Chris Brown is in
the news for getting a neck tattoo that some say
resembles a battered woman. You know you’ve
made a horrible decision when having a neck
tattoo is only the second worst thing about your
neck tattoo.’
Thursday, November 7, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
contributed by chase Mitchell
Mitchell gets his ear pierced during a rehearsal for a “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” skit.
Auburn 2006 alumnus, Chase Mitchell,
currently works as a jokes contributor
for ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’
Cadet brings home the bronze
Ben Ruffin
Campus Writer
Auburn Air Force Reserve Officers Training
Corps cadet Kyle Williams, senior in biosys-tems
engineering, was awarded the Legion of
Valor’s Bronze Cross for Achievement, Oct. 10.
The Bronze Cross for Achievement is available
to those cadets of the ROTC who have demon-strated
excellence in military, scholastic and
civil affairs.
The Bronze Cross for Achievement Pro-gram
began on a limited scale in 1951 when
the District of Columbia chapter established
an incentive for excellence in the Washing-ton
High School Corps of Cadets. In 1962, col-lege-
level cadets of the U.S. Air Force ROTC be-came
eligible to receive the Bronze Cross for
Achievement.
“To be honest, I don’t really know much
about the award,” Williams said. “I was just
told it was very hard to come by.”
Hard to come by is an understatement.
Recommendations are sent to the awards
chairman of the Legion of Valor, who con-ducts
reviews to ensure adherence to all cri-teria.
Every year, less than 50 cadets and Navy
midshipmen receive the cross.
Williams is the first Auburn student to re-ceive
the Bronze Cross for Achievement.
“My commander said I was the first per-son
at Auburn to come by it,” Williams said.
“I guess the area commander thought I de-served
it.”
Williams, who co-oped as a mechanical en-gineer
before entering the ROTC, said one day,
he decided he would give the ROTC a try.
Four years later, Williams has been award-ed
the fourth highest award in AFROTC and
accredits the program for playing a major role
in his life.
“AFROTC has made me try harder in every-thing
I do,” Williams said. “Before, I had no rea-son
to make outstanding grades and I had the
Cs and Ds get degrees attitude.”
Williams’ turn around has been apparent to
his fellow cadets, who said they see him as a
leader and role model, both in and outside of
the classroom.
“He is an excellent cadet and a fantastic
leader who is cool-headed and always doing
his job,” said Willy Steers, senior in finance.
“I’ve never seen him complain. He is a fantas-tic
example of an Auburn AFROTC cadet.”
Steers said he recalled a story he once heard
about Williams during his field training.
Williams had arrived late one day to train-ing
and was going to get in trouble for his tar-diness.
Williams acknowledged he was at fault and
was going to take the punishment, but then
the discrepancy was dropped.
“It was dropped when it came out Williams
was late because he was making sure his team
had water in order to keep them hydrated and
out of dangerous situations,” Steers said. “I
think it says something about him that he was
helping his team even though it was at his ex-pense.”
Williams was awarded the Bronze Cross by
retired U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie
Atkins, a recipient of the Distinguished Ser-vice
Cross for his actions in Vietnam.
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Shiladitya Raj Chaudhury, associate director of the Biggio Center, plays traditional Indian music at the cel-ebration.
Students light up Auburn for Diwali
Kyle Nazario
Campus Writer
Shravanthi Mouli, graduate
student in pharmacal scienc-es,
walked onto the stage hold-ing
a microphone. She stepped
forward and began singing
softly.
She sang the words of the
Ganesh Vandhana, a tradition-al
Hindu prayer recited before
religious rituals.
Her prayer and the light-ing
of an oil lamp marked the
opening of Auburn’s 2013 Di-wali
festival.
The Indian Students Associ-ation
held a celebration of In-dian
culture and music in the
Student Center Ballroom Sat-urday,
Nov. 2, for 250 attend-ees.
Diwali is the third part of
a five-day religious festival
known as the Festival of Lights.
Although they could not in-clude
certain traditions, such
as fireworks and candles, be-cause
of safety concerns, the
ISA worked to create an au-thentic
Diwali experience here
in Auburn.
Colorful patterns called ran-goli
covered the floors.
The stage was lit by small
lamps beneath a white sash.
Attendees dressed in tradi-tional
Indian garb, including
the dhoti and half-saree.
The garments were brightly
colored and adorned with glit-tering
edges.
The first part of the celebra-tion
focused on music, featur-ing
a 30-minute performance
led by Shiladitya Chaudhury,
associate director of the Big-gio
Center.
Chaudhury’s group played
with a mixture of Western and
Indian instruments, using gui-tars
and a veena, a stringed in-strument
with a distinctive
gourd-shaped attachment
near the neck.
The program also mixed in
modern Bollywood tunes with
classical pieces.
“It’s contemporary music,
so all the children like it,” said
Avanti Kulkarni, cultural vice
president.
A group of children from
local Indian families showed
their appreciation for Bol-lywood
with a group dance
number.
The biggest hit of the eve-ning
was a musical mash-up
about Rajnikanth, a well-known
Indian actor. After, the
ISA served traditional Indian
food to the guests.
Robin Muthukumar, who
serves on the ISA’s sports com-mittee,
said she liked the food
the most, besides hearing the
song “Maduraikku Pogath-adee”
performed in Tamil, his
native language.
“It was great,” Muthukumar
said.
ISA president Narendra
Sadhwani said Diwali was his
favorite festival, despite the lo-gistical
challenges for the club.
Kulkarni said the club spent
approximately one month pre-paring
for the event and mak-ing
personal nametags.
Kulkarni said she hoped the
Diwali festival helped intro-duce
more people to Indian
traditions.
“We want people to know
about Indian culture too,”
Kulkarni said. “We just want
people to know what our cul-ture
back home is and enjoy it.”
SGA debates to sustain president’s vetoed bill
Keely Shearer
Campus Writer
Monday, Nov. 4, Jacob Dean, senior in po-litical
science and pro tempore, proposed to
override the veto placed on the amendment
to Chapter 702.3 in the SGA Code of Laws.
Dean said he wanted to overturn the veto
and uphold the initial bill, which was to move
the SGA president from the Elections Board
and put the elections director in the position
to vote when there is a tie.
Rob Garcia, senator for the college of busi-ness
and junior in accounting, disagreed with
Dean’s opinion to override the veto.
Garcia said he found the spirit of the bill to
be right, but thought the implications of the
bill were too great.
Richmond Gunter, senator for the college
of business, said he believes the previous dis-cussion
on supporting fairness, transparency
and making the process more open, was emo-tional
and drove some senators to switch their
votes.
“I have confidence in you as an individu-al
and a mature adult that you’re not going to
let one person, just because of their title, sway
your opinion on what you truly think is right,”
Gunter said.
David Adams, senator of the graduate
school, asked the question of whether they
were voting for organizational efficiency for
the division of student affairs, or if they were
voting for more accountability in students.
“If it’s the former, I think we are doing the
wrong thing,” Adams said. “If it’s the latter,
then I think we should uphold the amend-ment.”
The veto was upheld.
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Wishmakers on Campus rake in donations
Largest digital closet platform searches for ambassadors
Keely Shearer
Campus Writer
Stylitics, the largest digital
closet platform on the web,
recently came out with a new
app that lets someone take his
or her closet on the go.
This app helps someone
plan and share outfits, chat
with friends about clothes and
find places to shop.
Stylitics was created in 2010
and is continuing to grow.
The platform’s college am-bassador
program current-ly
has representatives at more
than 50 schools and is looking
to expand.
Stylitics is offering 50 more
college ambassador positions
to students. Student ambassa-dors
get to promote and devel-op
marketing strategies.
They also contribute week-ly
to the website’s fashion blog
and work together on events,
such as clothing drives.
Annie Wazer, marketing
manager for Stylitics, said the
process for becoming a college
ambassador is easy.
“If someone is interested,
they can send me a cover let-ter
and their résumé,” Wazer
said. “We want to hear what
it is about Stylitics that inter-ests
you, and what exactly in
your skill set would make you
a good pick for being an am-bassador.”
Wazer said she is one of
many advocates promoting
the new app.
“The general goal of Stylitics
is to help people be smarter
about their style,” Wazer said.
“We do that by giving peo-ple
a platform to keep track of
their clothing so they have it
all in one place, and also learn
things about the way they’re
wearing them.”
Joanna Johnson, junior in
public relations, said she likes
how easy the app was to use.
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Johnson said. “I like that
it helps you keep track of how
many times you wear some-thing.”
Hannah Eans, freshman in
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how the app suggests places
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me,” Eans said.
“It’s an amazing way to
not only get involved
in your community,
but also an incredible
opportunity to make
a difference in
someone’s life.”
—David Sanderlin
Member of Wishmakers on campus
Caitlin Shostak
Campus Writer
Wishmakers on Campus will hold its
second annual Rake-A-Thon event Nov.
2–3, 10 and 17.
Volunteers will go to homes and
rake residents’ lawns to raise money
and awareness for Make-A-Wish Ala-bama.
Typically, five or six yards are raked
per day for the event, and the hours are
flexible.
“(Volunteers) can come for an hour
or the whole day,” said Olivia Yocum, ju-nior
in nutrition and president of Wish-makers
on Campus.
Yocum said the money raised will
help grant the wishes of children with
life-threatening medical conditions.
Yocum also said she believed partici-pating
in the event was rewarding.
“You are actually giving back to the
community through your organization,
and on top of that, you’re making mon-ey
for Make-A-Wish,” Yocum said.
David Sanderlin, member of Wish-makers
on Campus and senior in Eng-lish
literature, also said participating
was worthwhile.
“It’s an amazing way to not only get
involved in your community, but also
an incredible opportunity to make a
difference in someone’s life,” Sander-lin
said.
Sanderlin also said students may
also encounter exciting new experi-ences
while volunteering with Wish-makers
on Campus.
Will Gosdin, senior in health servic-es
administration and vice president
of Wishmakers on Campus, said he re-called
an unexpected experience from
last year’s event.
“We raked one house, and they actu-ally
had a drum circle going on at the
same time,” Gosdin said. “We got to lis-ten
to that a little bit while we were rak-ing.”
Last year, the Rake-A-Thon generat-ed
more than $1,000 for Make-A-Wish
Alabama.
Yocum and Gosdin said they were
confident this year’s events would be
equally successful.
Students interested in volunteering
in the Rake-A-Thon event are encour-aged
to visit WishesAU.com and sign
up.
Yocum also said she encouraged stu-dents
with questions to email her at
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from last year,” Gosdin said.
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Thursday, November 7, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A5
War Eagle Flying Team competes in SAFECON competition
Caitlin Shostak
Campus Writer
On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the War Eagle Flying
Team represented Auburn in the National Inter-collegiate
Flying Association’s Safety and Flight
Evaluation Conference, SAFECON, Region IX
competition.
The top three in the event were invited to the
national championship.
Flight events were held at the Auburn Univer-sity
Regional Airport.
Students competed in events, including pre-cision
landing, navigation and ground events.
There were a total of nine events, including
four flying events and five ground events.
Though teams were judged for the precision
and accuracy of their maneuvers, the competi-tion
was ultimately based on safety precautions
the teams took.
“Aviation safety is huge, so this competition
really emphasizes a team’s ability to be safe and
conduct safe operations, so the events them-selves
are built around precision and accuracy
within your flying,” said Blake Schuette, junior
in marketing and management and captain of
the War Eagle Flying Team.
When asked about the dangers of flying,
Schuette compared it to the dangers of driving
a car.
“If you keep common sense and safety in
mind you’re going to be okay,” Schuette said.
Schuette felt confident about the team’s up-coming
performance.
“We’re a really well-rounded team,” Schuette
said. “We have experience levels of all ranges.”
Schuette said the flying events were the
team’s strong suit.
The team’s weakest area has been the ground
event, though Schuette said she believed the
team had improved during the past year in this
event.
“We have two coaches now, one to help us
with our flight events and one to help us with
our ground events,” Schuette said. “They’ve
been absolutely instrumental in helping us and
allowing us to grow.”
John Lawler, chief judge of the competition,
coordinated the safety of the flight, the running
of the competition and put the event schedules
together.
Lawler, who has been a NIFA judge for 15
years, said he looked forward to the upcoming
events.
“Every competition is unique, but every com-petition
is the same,” Lawler said. “There are the
same things you have to do, but the uniqueness
comes from the young people that come.”
Lawler said the competition will give the par-ticipants
an extra level of professionalism and
an opportunity to handle stress while flying ef-fectively.
At the opening ceremony, Oct. 29, Timo-thy
Boosinger, Auburn’s provost and vice pres-ident
of academic affairs, wished the competi-tors
luck and expressed his support for the War
Eagle Flying Team.
The War Eagle Flying Team was awarded first
place in the Flying Event Team Champions, Re-gional
Safety Award and Regional Sportsman-ship
Award.
The War Eagle Flying Team placed second in
the Region IX Championship Award.
The team also placed third in the Ground
Event Team Champions Award.
Schuette earned second place for the Top Pi-lot
Award.
The War Eagle Flying Team has a prestigious
history as the second-oldest university aviation
program in the U.S.
In recent years, the War Eagle Flying Team
gained recognition at the SAFECON compe-tition
by earning the National Safety Award in
the Columbus, Ohio SAFECON competition and
placing 16th overall.
“Auburn generates great pilots,” Schuette
said. “There’s no doubt about that.”
zach Bland / photographer
A War Eagle Flying Team member lands their plane during the Power-off Landing event. The team placed first in the Flying Event Team Champions, Regional Safety Award and Regional Sportsmanship Award.
Fundamentalist church preaches repentance to Auburn
I first heard of the end times and
the coming eternal damnation on a
sunny Wednesday afternoon outside
the Ralph Brown Draughton Library.
A man in a plain blue Polo shirt,
round glasses and khaki pants stood
outside the front steps handing pam-phlets
to people passing by.
The small black print on those nar-row
slips of paper labeled wars, ram-pant
homosexuality, religious apos-tasy
and AIDS as signs of a looming
“Day of the Lord.”
“You need to think about where
you’re going to spend eternity,” said
Brad Caldwell, member of Sand Hill
Church.
Caldwell hails from Sand Hill Bi-ble
Church, just past Chewacla State
Park, in an unassuming one-story
building at 4505 Sandhill Road.
Wednesday services take place in a
small room with wood paneling and
plush red chairs.
Forty six people sat in the room,
scattered across the chairs. They
prayed alone for the first 30 minutes.
A low buzz of speech filled the
room, but most of the adults spoke in
a language only they, and God, could
allegedly understand.
They weren’t crazy. They were pray-ing.
Sand Hill Church members believe
those who have been saved twice,
once as Christians and once by the
Holy Spirit, can pray in tongues, simi-lar
to the apostles in the Bible.
Pastor Robert Freeman Jr., 58, relat-ed
his first experience with the phe-nomenon
when he was a young man.
“I was praying there at a big oak ta-ble,
and I prayed and asked the Lord
to baptize me with the Holy Spirit
and he did,” Freeman said. “I began to
speak in another language I’ve never
learned before in my life. I have since
then, any time I’ve wanted to, prayed
in that language.”
Eventually, Freeman stood behind
a wooden podium on a small stage
before the assembly.
In a room full of incandescent yel-low
can lights, a single pale fluores-cent
panel above the lectern made
Freeman’s white hair, beard and shirt
glow.
He gripped the sides of the podi-um,
leaned forward and emphasized
God’s love was like fire.
Freeman comes from what he
called “the old school of preaching.”
Conversations with Freeman re-veal
his encyclopedic knowledge
of the Bible. He quotes chapter and
verse from memory, even citing the
original Greek and Hebrew words.
After the service, a half dozen
members stayed behind to greet each
other.
The people of Sand Hill Bible
Church were welcoming and friendly.
They looked me in the eye when they
shook my hand.
Although Freeman describes the
church as nondenominational Chris-tian,
the easiest comparison is the
Amish with electricity.
Sand Hill Christians forgo sports,
television and other activities they
see as “unChristlike” in order to focus
on “wholesome alternatives.”
“My husband and I got rid of our
television when our first child was a
year old,” said Judy Freeman, Robert’s
wife.
They also prefer to keep themselves
separate from the world which they
find immoral.
“We cannot wed the world and win
Christ at the same time,” reads anoth-er
pamphlet.
Freeman said he knows the
church’s views stand against the
world.
“Every person who becomes a dis-ciple
of Jesus Christ is going to en-counter
opposition from the world...
that’s inevitable,” Freeman said.
Scott Roney, member of Sand Hill
Church, brings the message to Au-burn’s
campus.
Every Wednesday, he stands out-side
the library and preaches. Roney
exhorts students in a loud, gravelly
voice to repent and serve Jesus.
I stood by Roney and watched the
students pass. Most ignored him.
A few stopped to talk to James
Hartford, 54, Roney’s companion.
Hartford provided pamphlets and
conversation to anyone interested in
the church.
Rachel Solorio, freshman in ho-tel
and restaurant management,
stopped to talk to Hartford and left
holding one of the church’s tracts.
“I love that people are sharing who
they believe Christ is,” Solorio said. “I
don’t know if the yelling is the best
possible way to go about that, you
know?”
Roney said other Christians often
disagree with his methods.
“We live in a lukewarm Christian
culture,” Roney said. “All I’m saying is,
with a loud voice, that Jesus is com-ing.”
The students treated the visitors
from Sand Hill hesitantly.
“I do plan to read it,” said Cait-lin
Thorn, graduate student in aero-space
engineering, who held anoth-er
pamphlet.
Solorio said she planned to come
back to talk to the Sand Hill visitors
once she understood more of their re-ligious
doctrine.
“The fact that people are willing to
go out and proclaim the name of Je-sus,
that’s cool to me,” Solorio said.
All photos by Emily enfinger / photographer
ABOVE: Sand Hill Church members singing hymns at Toomer’s Corner.
BELOW: James Hartford (back), Sand Hill Church member, speaks with Ethan Huet (front), junior in mechanical engineering.
zach Bland / photographer
Line judges watch as a member of the War Eagle Flying Team lands their plane during the Power-off Land-ing
event, Oct. 31.
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The world is evolving at un-precedented
speed, yet the Grand
Old Party is creating a mindset
that time is not the great equal-izer.
Over the course of the past 20
years, the GOP has become an
obstructionist and counter-pro-ductive
entity in the political sys-tem
that will harm America as the
worldwide community progress-es
and America remains stuck in
the 1980s.
In the last five years alone, the
Republicans have taken every
chance to obstruct and create
a hassle for the Democrats and
President Barack Obama, who
many in the GOP still claim to be
an illegitimate president.
Of course, politics is give and
take, and the Democrats don’t
have a history of being the easiest
to work with when they become
the minority party.
The present GOP runs on the
mantra of limited government,
but they say this with fingers
crossed.
While personal liberties are
supposedly championed by the
Republicans, women’s and mi-norities’
rights have been stripped
and challenged.
How can a party argue for more
personal freedoms and less gov-ernment
intrusion while creating
policies that do the opposite?
The same way they use their fa-mous
calling card to their advan-tage
— hypocrisy and lies to ben-efit
themselves.
Imagine for a moment Auburn
University hired a new athletics
director who decided athletics
should take on less of a role in the
University.
Why would the University will-ingly
put somebody in a position
of power who believes the posi-tion
to be burdensome and un-needed?
What incentives does that per-son
have to do a good job?
There are none.
Yet those who identify as Re-publican
have been doing exact-ly
that for as long as they’ve been
voting.
The Republicans can cause as
much gridlock as they want, be-come
as counter-productive as
they want, and they will get elect-ed,
because when it’s all said and
done, the politicians will sim-ply
point at the mess they creat-ed
and say, “This is why we need a
smaller government. Nothing can
get done this way.”
I understand the basic prem-ise
of conservative principles is in
the name. It’s to remain, well, con-servative
and preserve the status
quo.
But not only has the present-day
GOP been more extreme in
wishing to return back in time to
Reagan and the Cold War, they
are ignoring the ever-greater call
for more progressive policies as
the rest of the world is departing
from the American way of think-ing.
We are no longer a superpower.
We are stuck in our old-world or-der
and the lack of forward vision
will only leave us behind.
So while we are allowing old,
rich white men to wage war on
the poor, determine how a wom-an
handles her body, and do away
with protected African-American
enfranchisement, other countries
are trying to solve issues of sus-tainability,
cleaner energy, pover-ty
and healthcare.
It’s time the United States — in
particular, the American South
— wake up and see the issues
that face this nation require new
mindsets.
It’s up to this nation’s college-aged
students to challenge the
way they look at the world. The
Grand Old Party cannot remain a
staple in the current, and future,
political system.
As the old saying goes, the
winds of change are blowing
through.
And we can’t afford to fight it
if we want America to remain a
world leader.
Friendship has taken on nu-merous
definitions throughout
the past decade, thanks to the rise
of social media in everyday life.
As a millennial, I enjoy social
media.
It’s fun, keeps my short atten-tion
span occupied and helps me
interact with others.
But I’ve noticed there’s a dis-connect
with real life that often
clouds the minds of myself and
of others, and it involves the con-cept
of friends. Two distinct def-initions
of friendship have come
to be.
There are real-life friends, who
exist in the traditional sense. You
have, at one point in your life,
hung out with them in person
and keep in contact with them via
phone call, text, email or social
media. You know things about
them because they’ve told you or
you’ve experienced them.
Then there are your online
friends.
Either you or they have re-quested
to follow or friend you,
and this so-called friendship ex-ists
for the most part in the virtu-al
world. What you know about
each other comes from status up-dates,
likes, photos and tweets.
This second form of friendship
is creepy, but it has more or less
become socially acceptable to be
social media friends with some-one
you don’t know.
If you don’t agree with this,
scroll through your Facebook
feed and count how many people
you’ve never met.
It adds a confusing element to
a previously simple conversation.
For example, a few days ago my
roommate asked if I was friends
with a particular person. My ini-tial
answer was no, that I had nev-er
met this person. On second
thought, I responded with a yes,
that I was friends with him on
Facebook.
So, what is my relationship to
this person? I don’t know him —
I’ve never met the guy.
It creates a problematic scenar-io
in life outside of the Internet,
which I’m sure few are strangers
to. How do you respond to seeing
this person face-to-face, wheth-er
you’re on the same elevator or
next to each other in line?
It’s generally impolite to ignore
someone if you know who they
are. Is saying hello to someone
you know but don’t really know
against social decorum? Do they
even know who you are? Are you
being rude by saying or not saying
something?
Let’s consider the opposite is-sue
of de-friending. It’s painless
in that it only takes a simple click
to delete a person from your feed
forever. If you never actually knew
them in the first place, it’s no big
deal. But what happens when you
are no longer friends with a real-life
friend?
It used to be simple.
If you were suddenly not
friends with a person, all you
had to do was not associate with
them. But again, social media
has muddled this traditional con-struct.
Are you supposed to abandon
them on Facebook, Twitter, Ins-tagram
and Pinterest to solidify
your non-friend status?
Is a friendship officially over if
you do it, or don’t do it, online?
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In response to our post “Do you condone
faking an injury? Is it a dirty tactic?”
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Teams do it all the time
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@laura0419:
I love AU, but it’s lame. At least be a bit
better at it/more subtle
@KaraKennedy:
do you recall the one in the Texas A&M
game by the Aggies?
@jefffloyd76:
that’s bush league! Auburn is better
than that! I hope the coaches didn’t call
for that after what Gus said at media
days
@TChantx:
not sure...could b a cramp...or Oscar?
Either way War Eagle!
Kelly Adkison:
It can be quite entertaining at the right
time
Wayne Phillips:
Dirty!
Jeffrey D. Holt:
Swain was limping after the play. There
was 4 seconds in the half and Arkansas
was substituting and getting a play sent
in so time would have ticked off either
way. Then a brace was put on his knee
and he did not return. I don’t think it
was a fake I think he tweaked a knee
and when the adrenaline rush subsided
he realized it was hurt.
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Social media alters definition of friendship
GOP dysfunction threatens America
His View
Do you think Auburn takes your education
seriously?
Admittedly, that’s a strange question.
Of course the University takes our educa-tion
seriously, right?
They wouldn’t exist if they didn’t care about
education and making the world a better
place. It’s not like Auburn is one of those wacky
diploma-mill schools.
They don’t have any ludicrous programs,
such as six-month MBAs or eight-week para-legal
certificates, and they work hard to keep
their accreditation.
If you get a degree from Auburn, it means
something.
So, maybe it’s better to question what that
degree means. In other words, how much of
your time and money is spent on academic
pursuits?
We can’t study every day, all day. In the im-mortal
words of Sweet Brown, “Ain’t nobody
got time for that!” A lot of us have jobs, and
some of us have more than one.
When we are on campus, we generally want
to go to class and learn. Tuition is painfully
high, and most of us don’t want to waste it.
Yet, the amount of unnecessary, and down-right
decadent amenities suggests the Univer-sity
is shifting its priorities to attracting more
new students, more customers.
Think about the new Recreation and Well-ness
Center, which is called the Rec by the ul-tra-
hip staff. Many of the students who funded
this facility through their tuition dollars have
graduated, and they aren’t allowed to set foot
in the Rec unless it is for a tour.
Yes, the Rec is a great place to break a sweat,
but it’s also way over the top.
Do we need a rock climbing wall? Do we
need a hot tub that can seat 45 people?
The old Student Activities Center was simi-lar
to a musty, old garage. There wasn’t enough
equipment to go around, and during the sum-mer
it doubled as an oven.
But now we have the exact opposite. A mas-sive
facility built by a University that seems to
value form over function, unless that function
is making money.
The Rec is just one of many examples of the
profit-driven business Auburn is turning into.
Samsung, Microsoft and Verizon all pay
for advertising space on campus, and there is
even a small Verizon store in the Student cen-ter.
All of this seems to serve no purpose oth-er
than making money. Despite how much
we pay in tution, despite how much we have
to pay for food, the University is always asking
for more.
This is not so much a call to action, but a call
to think.
Your Auburn education relies on the quality
of the academic elements. Not the lifestyle ac-coutrements
that seem to be taking over.
Auburn students, Auburn consumers
Rachel Suhs / Design Editor
Chandler Jones
Community Editor
It’s only an average morning for na-ture-
lover Jennifer Lolley as she stands
alone in the middle of nowhere. Sur-rounding
her is 110-acres of quiet foliage.
As she walks the trails weaving
through and around bushes and trees,
plant species and histories weave in and
out of her conscious.
Her calm pace is this place’s tender-love-
and-care.
A passion begotten her before she even
had a chance to reject it stems from a bi-ology
teacher mother and an innate love
of critters.
This fire fuels a woman who inspires
Auburn to get back out to nature.
“I was raised in it,” Lolley said, glanc-ing
down to silence the chirping grass-hopper
ringtone. “Always had it around
me. I just told my mom about my black
widow collection. She was always show-ing
us things in nature.”
After moving frequently as a Navy brat,
her family settled in Enterprise and had
four horses.
“I always had some kind of critter,” Lol-ley
said.
Lolley graduated from Auburn Univer-sity
with a degree in biology. Now, she’s
settled in Auburn and spends her days
in a world of bird’s nests made for people
and tree houses built for adults.
She’s the first and only full-time em-ployee
of Auburn University School of
Forestry and Wildlife’s Louise Kreher For-est
Ecology Preserve.
Her office is in the wildlife sciences
building and her home is among the oth-er
professors in this town.
“I like being with my people,” Lolley
said. “We’re in such an academic world.
You don’t find that everywhere. I enjoy
the people who live here. College towns
are great.”
To most children around town, she’s
just “The Snake Lady.”
Lolley said she can be grocery shop-ping
when a child spots her, their eyes
go wide and they begin tugging on their
mother’s shirts whispering, “that’s the
snake lady.”
Lolley dedicates herself to the Pre-serve,
taking each opportunity as a
teaching one. She holds camps, hikes
and leisure opportunities, which have be-come
a favorite for children and families
around town, according to Lolley.
“It’s made me realize the impact you
can have on somebody in such a short
time,” Lolley said.
For Lolley, the Preserve offers an solu-tion
to the problem she calls “nature-def-icit
disorder” affecting children who just
don’t get outside much.
Lolley said her favorite part about the
job is showing the children things about
nature and watching them get excited.
“I can show them something scary or
exciting, like a snake or a tarantula,
and you can watch them change,” Lol-ley
said.
The Preserve features an outdoor
classroom, a bird observation area,
a turtle pond and an outdoor class-room
Lolley calls her pride and joy.
Lolley said she’s blessed, because
she gets a place in the Preserve’s his-tory
as the first of something.
“I have a job that can make a differ-ence,”
Lolley said. “I like to go to work,
plus my office is pretty cool.”
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Community
Quick picks with
Jennifer Lolley
• Movie: “Contact”
• Book: “Run with the
Horsemen” by Ferrol
Sams
• Food: Steak
• Interesting Detail:
Once posed on top of
an 850-pound alliga-tor
The keeper of the secret garden
Chandler Jones
Community Editor
The contract connection
between the Lee County Hu-mane
Society and Lee Coun-ty
ended Oct. 18 begging the
question, who’s going to let
the dogs out?
The nearly two-decade
long relationship between
the county and the society
is nothing more than the av-erage
contractual one simi-lar
to cable and internet ser-vices
and roadwork.
The humane society’s re-lationships
with the cities
of Opelika and Auburn have
not changed.
“We looked at our con-tracts
and what we found
was we were not getting
paid what it cost to hold the
animals for seven days,” said
Bobbi Yeo, Lee County Hu-mane
Society executive di-rector.
The stray-hold is a state-mandated
seven days an an-imal
is kept in holding un-til
rescued or adopted, after
that time the animal is dis-posed
of in any lawful man-ner,
Yeo said.
“The Humane Society de-clined
to accept a renewal of
our existing contract at lev-el
funding,” said Bill English,
Lee County Commission
chairman. “On the last day
of the year, they proposed
a new contract with less fa-vorable
terms for the coun-ty
and a 20 percent increase
in cost to the county. When
asked, they replied that the
terms were non-negotiable.
They left us no choice but to
meet our statutory obliga-tion
in another manner.”
The county commission
allocated $127,923 last year
for the society. The society
asked the commission for
$154,091 this year. The over-all
contract increase was 14
percent.
English said they asked
for more money, even
though the society reduced
their available service hours
to the county and removed
the county’s indemnifica-tion.
“The fees they provided
were nowhere near the most
basic cost of that service we
provide,” Yeo said.
Yeo said the Society’s
figures were based on the
quantity of animals brought
in by the county versus that
of the cities.
“It’s just an allocation, a
pro-rated allocation based
on activity with us over the
past several months,” Yeo
said.
Yeo said the biggest is-sue
the society was having
was subsidizing the funds
with donor funds, which she
said is unacceptable due to
its status as a tax-payer ob-ligation.
English said the Animal
Control Division will con-tinue
operations as before,
but will deliver the animals
to different facilities.
“We are exploring alter-nate
methods for housing
Contributed by The Secret Sisters
The secrets behind
these Secret Sisters
Kelsey Davis
Editor-in-Chief
How long have you been
performing?
Professionally, it was 2009
when we were “discovered,”
if you want to call it that.
We got a record deal in
early 2010, and as far as
performing goes we never
did very much of that in
front of people.
The only time we were
seen together was in private
at home or just the two of us
and our dad.
We would do a lot of
family stuff, but we never
performed anywhere. In
fact, we had never even
performed a real show
together until after we had
got our record deal so it was
kind of a backwards process.
A little surreal and definitely
different than most peoples’
experience in the music
world.
I’m curious about how
you got your record label
before you started touring.
I always had terrible stage
fright like could not even
stand in front of my friends
and sing a song because I
was so insecure. I had just
graduated from college and
was living in Nashville and A
friend of mine told me about
this open audition that was
being held here.
This record label was
doing a general talent
search. I went to my audition
and performed for this panel
of judges. I thought I did a
terrible job, but they called
me back and told me they
really liked me and wanted to
hear me sing some more. So
I played more for them and
they started talking about,
‘Let’s get you in the studio,
let’s do a record deal,’ and I
got really panicky because
I thought, ‘I can’t do this by
myself.’
So I insisted that they
hear Lydia sing. (The judges)
were kind of blown away
that they had discovered
this pair of sisters who could
sing together who actually
were not pursuing a career in
music at all.
Within a month of that we
were flown to Los Angeles
and we recorded a couple of
demos and then we went up
to New York and auditioned
for our label and on a wild
hare that label believed
in us and they signed us
ever having played a show
without us having a fan base
or web site or anything.
Tell me how the sister
dynamic plays into making
music together.
At first, when we started
touring, it was tough because
we were so used to not being
around each other, and then
all of a sudden it was like we
were everywhere together
– on airplanes, in cars, on
trains, in dressing rooms,
hotel rooms and on stages.
It was like you could not
get away from each other
so there have been tense
moments between us but
it’s like you get on the stage,
and all of a sudden you forget
what you were upset about.
We play around with it on
stage. We make jokes about
sibling rivalry and being
typical sisters and I think at
the end of the day there isn’t
anybody we would rather
be having this big crazy
adventure with.
Is there a rhythm that you
naturally pick up on when
playing with your sibling?
I think so. We kind of feed
off each other, and we know
what the other one is going
to be doing throughout
the song. Our voices blend
well together so it’s just
a completely different
dynamic than playing with
other people.
It’s funny because
sometimes I’ll go and play
with other people who aren’t
my sibling and I’m like, ‘Oh, I
miss Lydia. She would know
exactly what I need to do.’
How has your music
progressed while on tour?
When we were entering
the world of music and trying
to make a name for ourselves
we became primarily known
as a throwback country duo,
and that is true.
We definitely love classic
country music, that’s a
big part of who we are as
musicians, but I think a lot of
times it was overlooked that
we love early Rock ‘n’ Roll,
some early pop and we’re big
into gospel, blue grass and a
cappella.
The band performing Nov. 8 at Standard
Deluxe sits down with The Plainsman
to discuss what it’s like to reach fame
Lee County Commission, Humane
Society fighting like cats and dogs
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Social media has allowed people to commu-nicate
like never before. However, advance-ments
in the technology could also lead to po-tential
problems with fraud and identity theft.
The National Information Technology Lab-oratory
developed, with help from several uni-versities,
the 1998 Facial Recognition Technol-ogy,
according to NIST’s website.
This software matches a person’s face to
their online profile, or other online informa-tion.
For people who use a frontal or passport-style
photo of themselves as a profile photo
open themselves to a situation involving a po-tential
thief stealing a photo of a person and
querying who it is within the software.
This software can link that photo with the
person’s social media profile.
According to Sarah Downey of Abine Inc.,
“The accuracy rate is 99.31 percent on still
frontal-face images.”
Frank Abagnale, author of the book “Steal-ing
Your Life,” said, “If on your profile you put
where you were born and date of birth, then I
am 98 percent of the way there to stealing your
identity.”
A person can protect themselves from this
danger. Abagnale said he suggests using am-biguous
photos, such as group shots or pho-tos
of an object, such as Jordan-Hare Stadium.
This will prevent the facial recognition soft-ware
from identifying that particular profile.
Abagnale also said he strongly advised not
posting date of birth or place of birth on a per-son’s
social network profile because of the
same reasons.
“You’re just telling someone to come steal
(your) identity,” Abagnale said.
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Retirements, road repairs, parade
routes discussed at City Council
Mark Your Calendar
• 2013 Montgomery Hamfest: Nov. 7, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Alca-zar
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• 5th Annual Holiday Pottery Sale: Nov. 7, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
1102 Denson Drive, Opelika. Festive music and light refresh-ments
provided.
• Opelika Mainstreet Holiday Open House: Nov. 7, noon–
5 p.m. Downtown Opelika. Christmas items, snacks, drinks,
door prizes and gift wrapping provided.
• Songs in the Woods: Nov. 10, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Forest
Ecology Preserve & Nature Center at 2222 North College
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ANNIE FAULK
Community Reporter
The majority of the Nov. 5 Auburn City Coun-ci
meeting, after a three-week hiatus from the
last meeting Oct. 15, consisted of a quick dis-cussion
of traffic control ordinance, utility ease-ments
and closing of the streets for the Auburn
Christmas parade.
The parade will be held Dec. 6 and is host-ed
by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. The
council agreed to shut down portions of Gay
Street, Thatch Avenue, College Street and Glenn
Avenue.
Also approved was a road-paving agreement
between the city of Auburn and Lee County.
Parts of Mrs. James Road or Lee Road 081
are in the county and others are in the city. The
county engineer recieved a good price for the
job valued at $204,921.71 from East Alabama
Paving Company, Inc.
The city will remburse the county for the cost
of resurfacing the portion of Mrs. James Road
that is maintained by the city.
The Council approved a service agreement
with Allcomm Wireless, Inc for the city’s 911
management system. The company will provide
technical assistance, site response, 24/7 remote
equipment diagnostics and software/firmware
support for the city’s 911 equipment at a cost of
$23,125.50 for one year.
This is an annual contract that ensures citi-zens
are in constant communication with the
Emergency Management System.
The Council approved the purchase of 15
sets of turnout coats and pants for the fire de-partment
at a cost of $24,345 and one 2014
Ford F-150 Supercab pickup truck at a value of
$21,930 for Environmental Services.
They also approved utility agreement with
Southern Natural Gas Company for pipeline re-location
costs for $19,720.
The agreement costs include preliminary en-gineering,
preparation of design drawings and
environmental evaluation.
The Council approved drainage and utility
easements at Mimms Trail Subdivision and the
southeast corner of Moores Mill and Grove Hill
Roads.
Three people were appointed to the Tree
Commission: Chuck Furlow, Steve Eden and Ed
Lowenstein. The term expires, Nov, 7, 2016.
The city decided to continue a development
agreement with WBB, LLC Hyundai of Auburn
located at 823 Opelika Road.
The Council recognized Tim Youngblood as
November’s employee of the month.
Edward Charles Howard of water resource
management was recognized for his 29 years
of service and was recognized as a retiring em-ployee.
Catrina Cook from the environmental servic-es
department and Houston Manning from the
parks and recreation department received 15-
year service pins.
and possible euthanasia in the
future,” English said.
Animals collected by the
ACD are currently being tak-en
to approximately 25 differ-ent
Lee County veterinarians.
English said they are not
identifying those veterinari-ans
until the Commission has
established a long-term solu-tion.
“I believe those vets are giv-ing
very good care, and they
are invested in re-homing an-imals
at the end of the seven
days,” Yeo said.
In October, 35 percent of
the animals picked up were
euthanized.
In additon, 15 percent were
adopted, according to English.
As of now, neither entity in-tend
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According to defensive coordinator Ellis
Johnson, third down defense and improving in-dividual
consistency are areas of focus for Au-burn’s
defense moving forward,
“We’re having opportunities to get off the
field that we’re missing,” Johnson said. “We
give up one touchdown drive the whole night,
but there are just too many plays in between we
aren’t clean on.”
Auburn defense is rated No. 68 and has al-lowed
more than 340 yards of total offense in ev-ery
SEC game this season.
Despite this stat, Johnson said he has been
impressed by the Tigers’ ability to limit the op-ponent’s
scoring opportunities.
“When their backs are against the wall,
they’ve played with a lot of poise and tough-ness,”
Johnson said.
Johnson also said the pace and tempo of Au-burn’s
offense may put its own defense in diffi-cult
positions.
“One time we had a three-and-out touch-down,
maybe even two of those in the first half,”
Johnson said. “Those are good, but as far as
making adjustments on the sideline, it makes it
difficult.”
Johnson said the team’s conditioning has al-lowed
the defense to survive opposing team’s ex-tended
offensive drives.
“So far, it has not been an issue and as long as
long as you are scoring points it does not mat-ter,”
Johnson said.
The injury bug has taken its toll on Auburn
this season, but Johnson was hopeful the de-fense
wouldn’t lose anyone new heading into
the Tennessee game.
“Knock on wood, but that’s about the first
time we’ve gotten through a game and not had
somebody who won’t play next week,” Johnson
said.
According to Johnson, Nosa Eguae’s transi-tion
from defensive end to defensive tackle has
been critical in adding versatility to the defen-sive
line. Johnson was pleased with the way
Eguae and senior Kenneth Carter can play on
the inside and outside of the defensive line.
“He’s performing and getting better produc-tion
so he earned that starting spot,” Johnson
said. “He’s just been a lot more consistent than
everyone else. It’s not that the others have been
playing poorly. Assignment-wise, he’s always
there where he’s supposed to be.”
Third-down defense is an area of concern for coaches
Faking injuries is not
how to play the game
In today’s world of sports, there are many strat-egies
teams use to disrupt their opponent’s mo-mentum.
Whether it is freezing the kicker before a game-changing
field goal or calling a timeout in a bas-ketball
game when the opponent has a hot shoot-ing
hand, these strategies can be key in the out-come
of a game.
There is one strategy, however, that has no
place in sports: faking an injury.
Faking injuries, or “flopping,” has been prev-alent
in sports since the creation of organized
sports.
Whether it be Cristiano Ronaldo faking tears
and acting like his leg had been removed at the
hip, or Mario Chalmers pretending he’s broken
every bone in his body after receiving a reach-in
foul, the flop has become a plague in sports.
Flopping is such a problem that it has dam-aged
the perception of entire sports. As a soc-cer
player in high school, I was often the target of
jokes about how soccer players were “soft” or “not
playing a real sport.”
This is unfortunate, because nothing could be
further from the truth. Soccer requires strength,
endurance and physicality.
However, the common perception of the sport
is it is played by athletes who cannot handle any
physical contact.
While some will say the main reason for this
is that soccer is a non-contact sport, I dare to say
flopping is undoubtedly the reason behind this
misconception.
During the Auburn-Texas A&M game, there
were several instances where an Aggie player who
seemed fine would suddenly drop to the turf af-ter
glancing to the sideline. This received a good
deal of negative attention, especially from Au-burn
fans who claimed the Aggies were faking in-juries
in an attempt to halt Auburn’s momentum.
Two weeks later, the roles were reversed. Near
the end of the third quarter, Arkansas was in Au-burn’s
redzone.
Auburn linebacker Anthony Swain was seen
standing in the endzone unfazed. After glancing
to the sideline, he dropped to the turf, seeming-ly
in agony.
As a die-hard Auburn fan for 23 years, I am dis-gusted.
Obviously, things are much better for the
Tigers this year than last year.
However, if we are resorting to cheap gim-micks
such as faking an injury, we have a major
problem.
In SEC country, fans are almost as loyal to their
conference as their team, and in a conference
known for tough and physical play, flopping is
a concept that goes against everything the SEC
stands for.
We, as Auburn fans, should be deeply embar-rassed
of what happened Saturday.
Our coaches and players who were involved
in the flopping play should not only be embar-rassed,
they should be ashamed of themselves.
Not only did the flop make Auburn fans sound
like hypocrites for complaining about Texas
A&M, but the play subjected Auburn to mockery
across the country.
While head coach Gus Malzahn denied the in-jury
was faked, and claimed coaches don’t tell
their players to fake injuries, it’s hard to believe
Swain’s “injury” was anything less than a cheap
ploy to slow down Arkansas.
After the worst season in Auburn football his-tory,
Auburn is finally regaining some of its lost
national respect.
However, if we do not make it clear that we
as the Auburn fan base expect more, we will not
earn any respect, nor do we deserve it.
Taylor Jones
sports@the p lainsman.com
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Tre Mason celebrating with offensive lineman Reese Dismukes and Alex Kozan after scoring a touchdown against Arkansas Saturday, Nov. 2.
Running away with it
Auburn relying on SEC’s top rushing attack
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The Auburn defense is ranked 68th nationally and allows more than 340 yards per game.
Justin Ferguson
Assistant Sports Editor
Since coming back to The
Plains last December, Auburn
head coach Gus Malzahn has de-veloped
a reputation of repeating
phrases in press conferences and
interviews.
“It’s a new day.”
“We’re taking things one game
at a time.”
“We’ve got a big challenge
ahead of us this week.”
Following his team’s 35-17 vic-tory
against Arkansas— a rare
SEC road win that featured only
nine passes from the former Ra-zorback’s
patented hurry-up, no-huddle
offense — Malzahn used
another familiar phrase to de-scribe
his offensive strategy in
Fayetteville.
“Well, we’re a run-first football
team.”
When the Tigers travel north
to Knoxville for their final road
game of the season, the offensive
game plan is expected to stay the
same against the SEC’s worst rush
defense.
“That is where it starts with us,”
Malzahn said in his weekly press
conference Tuesday. “We have to
establish the run.”
Auburn’s running backs have
thrived in recent weeks behind a
steadily improving offensive line,
and they are now part of the sixth-best
rushing attack in the country.
At 306 yards per game, the closest
SEC foe to Auburn’s run produc-tion
is SEC East leaders Missouri,
who trail by 70 yards.
Junior running back Tre Ma-son,
fresh off his SEC Offen-sive
Player of the Week perfor-mance
in Fayetteville, is 79 yards
away from his second consecu-tive
1,000-yard season. Four of his
workman-like 32 carries against
Arkansas ended in the end zone,
giving him the conference lead in
rushing touchdown runs.
“He wanted the ball the other
night,” Malzahn said. “You could
tell that he was real explosive. He
was breaking tackles. He’s a veter-an
guy and was wanting the foot-ball,
and we just kept giving it to
him.”
Malzahn attributed Mason’s
large carry total to him being
“hot” against the Razorbacks,
and the plan moving forward is to
return to Auburn’s three-headed
rushing attack of Mason, Camer-on
Artis-Payne and Corey Grant.
The Tigers’ three weapons at
running back will reload in time
for their trip to Neyland Stadi-um,
where the Tennessee Volun-teers
have struggled against the
run. Tennessee allows an aver-age
of 201 yards per game on the
ground, and opposing running
backs average five yards per car-ry
against the Vols.
“We want to be the best rush-ing
team in college football,” Ma-son
said Tuesday. “We’re working
towards that goal every game.”
Quarterback Nick Marshall
will also bring a running threat
to Knoxville, and while Malzahn
is continuing to think run-first
for the road trip, the junior could
get some more opportunities
through the air.
“Our quarterback really didn’t
practice during the week,” Mal-zahn
said. “It was his shoulder
that we were worried about and
the run was working.”
Malzahn said he expects Nick
Marshall to go full speed in prac-tice
ahead of the Tennessee game,
“He’s a veteran and was wanting the
football, and we just kept giving it to him.”
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head coach
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Although the soccer team is losing three key
starting players to graduation, the future looks
promising for next year’s team that is return-ing
every starter besides the seniors Maddie
Barnes, Bianca Sierra and Kim Spence.
This fall’s team had multiple freshmen come
into Auburn and immediately have a positive
impact on the team.
Freshman Casie Ramsier finished the regular
season with a team-leading nine goals and she
also earned two back-to-back SEC Freshman of
the Week awards.
Ramsier became the first Auburn freshman
to score nine goals in a season since Katy Frier-son
did so in 2008.
Ramsier was also named to the SEC All-
Freshman Team following the regular season.
Looking forward to her next three seasons at
Auburn, Ramsier said she has no specific goals,
but after their win against Arkansas Oct. 25 she
said she wants to, “just keep making a difference
for the team and try to help them out as much
as I can. I just want to make a difference.”
As the regular season moved on, the fresh-men
class collectively progressed as a group and
the team finished the regular season with three
consecutive SEC victories.
“I think we’ve matured. We came in as fresh-men
not sure what to expect. The older girls
have just helped us so much getting used to SEC
play,” Ramsier said.
Other than Casie Ramsier, her twin sister
Brooke Ramsier also made a big impact this sea-son
as a starting freshman midfielder. Saman-tha
Solaru is another freshman starter who took
a lot of the team’s corner kicks and Kiana Clarke
was a starting freshman defender and one of
the reasons why Auburn’s back defense was so
strong late in the season.
“These freshmen have been big for us. They’re
growing and they’re getting better every game,”
said head coach Karen Hoppa. “Casie Ramsier
being our leading scorer, she’s obviously done
tremendous, but all of them have been. Sammie
Solaru taking left footed corner, Kiana (Clarke)
and Brooke (Ramsier) in the back. These fresh-men
have been a big part of our team and they
really make us all excited about the future.”
The freshmen class will be able to take what
they learned from this year’s seniors and apply
that to their next three seasons together.
Other than the talented freshmen class, the
team also has many talented sophomores and
juniors that will be returning next season.
This year’s team was led defensively by sopho-more
Kala Faulkner. Faulkner was named to the
All-SEC First Team for being one of the top de-fenders
in the league.
“We all feel that Kala (Faulkner) is one of the
top defenders in the conference so it was very
rewarding to have her recognized by the league
coaches as First Team All-SEC,” Hoppa said.
Next year’s team will also return starting
goalkeeper Alicen Wright. In the net Wright
turned away more than 50 shots during the reg-ular
season, including four saves and a shutout
performance in the win over their rival Alabama
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The Auburn Rugby club hosted its tradition-al
game against the “Old Boys” alumni team
Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Auburn University in-tramural
fields.
Senior Sebastien Kamyab said the Old Boys
game was a rugby tradition celebrated by
most high school, collegiate and mens recre-ational
league teams.
Joe Duncan was the president of the club
from 1998–2000.
He currently is a lawyer and lives in Bir-mingham,
but has not missed an Old Boys
game since its inception.
Duncan said the Old Boys game evolved
from a rugby festival.
The Old Boys team consisted of some recent
graduates, as well as some older alumni.
“This year (the Old Boys) had some old-er
guys in their forties as well as some guys in
their early thirties.” said Kamyab.
Sometimes it is difficult for the Old Boys
team to field a large enough team.
“It really depends on who is available.” Dun-can
said. “Two years ago we probably had 45
guys show up from around the country and
the world, this year we only had around 17 or
18 that could make it. “
Duncan said many things factor into mak-ing
it difficult to attend each year, such as dis-tance
or even childbirth, as it accounted for
several alumni not being able to attend.
Saturday, the rugby club saw early success,
which prompted the two teams to mix up the
game and make sure it stayed fun.
“We ended up mixing the teams to keep
things fun and competitive,” Kamyab said. “It
was just an all-around good-spririted contest.”
Kamyab was also excited about how the
team looked.
“Our ‘A’ side which proved to be way too
much to handle for the Old Boys which is a re-ally
good sign for us since we haven’t had the
opportunity to play many games this fall.” said
Kamyab. “It became a scrimmage giving our
rookies some game experience to help us out
with depth.”
Three games have been cancelled so far.
One game was cancelled due to weather.
Dynamic rush attack
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Kyle Van Fechtmann
Sports Writer
Although Auburn has the
fewest passing attempts in
the SEC, that does not mean
quarterbacks Jeremy John-son
and Nick Marshall are
incapable of throwing the
football.
Against Arkansas Nov. 2,
Marshall was 7-of-8 pass-ing
with 118 yards and one
touchdown, and Johnson
only threw the ball once.
Offensive coordinator
Rhett Lashlee said Marshall
executed the game plan.
“To only attempt nine
passes is not normal for any-body,”
Lashlee said. “It’s just
kind of weird the way it un-folded.
We’ve got plenty of
plays that we can throw the
football and make plays oth-er
than bubble screens. Each
game is different, the way
they unfold.”
Later in the game when
Arkansas was making a
comeback, Lashlee said the
offense was getting to the
point where if it was a tight
game, they were going to
have to throw the football.
But since the running
backs were continuing to
have success pounding the
ball running through Arkan-sas’
defense, it was not neces-sary
for Auburn to throw the
ball, simply because of the
way the game played out.
Auburn held a lead
throughout the game, so the
offense kept calling running
plays not only because they
were having success, but be-cause
they were taking time
off the clock and keeping
Arkansas’ offense off of the
field.
Tre Mason had the most
success with executing those
running plays as he had 32
carries for 168 rushing yards
and four touchdowns.
There were concerns lead-ing
up to the Arkansas game
because of Marshall’s throw-ing
shoulder he hurt in the
Florida Atlantic game.
However, according to
Marshall, his shoulder feels
well and was not a problem
in last week’s game against
Arkansas.
“If it came down to it and I
had to throw it more, I knew
I’d be able to make those
throws. But we ran the ball a
lot and were able to execute
off of that,” Marshall said.
Auburn is still first in the
SEC in rushing and sixth in
the country in rushing yards
per game.
But Lashlee is still confi-dent
in their passing game
and confident in the many
receivers who are capable
of executing the many pass-ing
plays in their high-tempo
spread offense.
“I’ll make it very clear, we
have no problem throwing
it,” Lashlee said. “We have be-lief
in both our guys and re-cievers
to throw it.”
Lashlee also knows how
important their passing
game will have to be in the fi-nal
upcoming games.
“We know it’s going to
happen where we’re going to
have to win a game throwing
the football, like we did with
Mississippi State,” Lashlee
said. “And when that hap-pens
I feel confident that our
guys will be able to do it.”
but he is confident if true
freshman Jeremy Johnson is
forced to start.
“Jeremy was prepared to
start the (Arkansas) game,”
Malzahn said. “It’s hard to
come into the game and throw
the football two weeks in a row
and complete both of them.
That says a lot about him…
We’ve got a lot of confidence
in him. If he’s called upon, we
feel like he can run our entire
offense.”
Whoever takes the snaps
and whoever gets handed the
ball the most against the Vol-unteers
will have the confi-dence
of playing behind an of-fensive
line that coaches have
called a key part of Auburn’s
historic turnaround in 2013.
According to junior center
Reese Dismukes, Auburn’s of-fensive
line enjoys being relied
on during important offensive
drives this season.
Auburn has had a couple
clutch game winning drives
this season against Mississippi
State and Texas A&M.
“When you’re leading the
SEC in rushing, you’ve got the
picture in the back of your
head that you’re a part of all
that,” Dismukes said. “I think
that has given us a lot of confi-dence.
However we perform is
how the game is going to end
up — that’s where games are
won and lost, in the trenches.”
When asked about the re-lationship
with the offensive
line and one of the nation’s top
rushing units, Dismukes said
Auburn’s star running back
has promised a unique way of
showing his appreciation for
the five up front.
“Tre said he was going to
bake us a cake,” Dismukes said.
“And I don’t like chocolate, so I
hope it’s vanilla.”
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for match against Rugby Club Along the defensive line, Johnson said he was
pleased with the way junior defensive tackle An-gelo
Blackson performed against Arkansas.
“One guy that didn’t show up real big in the
stats but I thought played extremely physical up
front was Blackson.” Johnson said. “He forced
the play to end up where it was with his penetra-tion
and disruption. He didn’t have a lot of sexy
stats, but he played really well.”
No. 9 Auburn’s game against Tennessee Sat-urday
Nov. 9 will be the Tigers’ first noon kick-off
of the season.
Junior cornerback Jonathon Mincy laughed
when asked if Tennessee will cause any prob-lems.
“We just have to wake up a little bit earlier,”
Mincy said.
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This week in Auburn sports
Women’s
Basketball
Auburn junior Hasina Muhammad was
selected to the Preseason All-Southeastern
Conference Second Team by a vote of the
league’s coaches, the SEC announced Tues-day,
Nov. 5. The Tigers were also picked to
finish eighth in the SEC in the preseason
poll.
Muhammad, a native of Memphis, Tenn.,
earned second-team honors after averag-ing
14.0 points and 5.1 rebounds per game
last year. She scored in double figures in
26 games as a junior, scoring 20 or more in
eight games, and led Auburn in scoring in a
team-high 14 games.
Auburn, under the direction of second-year
head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy,
was picked to finish eighth in the SEC in
the coaches’ vote.
The Tigers return three starters and five
letterwinners from last season’s team that
went 19–15 and advanced to the quarter-finals
of the Women’s NIT in Williams-
Flournoy’s first season as head coach.
Auburn welcomes eight newcomers for
the 2013-14 season.
The Tigers will open the season Saturday,
Nov. 9, as Auburn hosts Georgia Southern
at 6 p.m. at Auburn Arena.
The Tigers will play a 14-game home
schedule this year with games against Tu-lane,
St. John’s, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Texas
A&M, Georgia and rival Alabama.
Volleyball
Senior Camila Jersonsky put down 14 kills
and seven blocks to lead the Auburn volley-ball
team to a 3–0 win against Mississippi
State (25-17, 25-16, 25-16) Sunday, Nov. 3,
at Auburn Arena.
The Tigers (15-8, 6-5) notched their third-consecutive
sweep in Southeastern Con-ference
play, and in doing so, guaranteed at
least a .500 record for the second-straight
season.
It was also the third win in a row for the
Tigers against Mississippi State (11-13, 2-8
SEC) and the seventh in the last nine meet-ings,
and it moved Auburn above .500 in
SEC play for the first time this year.
It was a big day for Auburn’s offense in
the middle as Jersonsky and fellow senior
Courtney McDonald combined for 23 of
Auburn’s 50 kills and both topped the .500
mark for the day. Jersonsky hit .619 with
just one error on 22 swings, and McDonald
had nine kills on 13 attempts with just two
errors for a .538 hitting percentage.
The Tigers will play what will likely be the
final match at the Student Activities Cen-ter
Friday, Nov. 8, as the unbeaten and No.
7 Missouri Tigers visit.
The match is being played at the Student
Act because of a conflict with the men’s
basketball season-opener.
Next Sunday, Nov. 9, the Tigers are back at
Auburn Arena for a 1:30 p.m. match against
the Arkansas Razorbacks. Admission is
free to all home Auburn volleyball matches.
Cross Country
The Auburn men’s cross country team
finished sixth, while the women were
13th at the 2013 Southeastern Confer-ence
Championships at Mark Bostick Golf
Course on the campus of the University of
Florida Friday.
Junior Ty McCormack led the Tiger men
taking sixth place and finishing the 8k in
23:57.51, while Kane Grimster was ninth in
a personal-best of 24:07.19.
McCormack earned first-team All-SEC
honors, while Grimster was a second-team
selection.
Freshman Rachel Givens took 28th
place in the women’s race, earning SEC All-
Freshman honors after finishing the 6k in
21:27.78.
Niklas Buhner was 31st (25:01.38), Fran-cis
Hernandez was 67th (25:51.40) and Ja-son
Miller took 76th (26:03.71) to round
out the Tiger men’s scoring. Senior Samu-el
Mueller was 77th (26:04.34) and Andrew
Scott was 111th (28:30.02).
On the women’s side, Veronica Eder
was 68th (22:17.81), while Kristin Sheehan
(22:26.50), Erika Kolakowski (22:27.51),
Emily Stevens (22:32.95) and Sage Black-well
(22:34.12) were bunched together tak-ing
73rd, 74th, 78th and 79th place. Made-line
Sharp was 117th finishing in 25:34.97.
The Tigers will have two weeks off before
returning to action Nov. 15 at the NCAA
South Regional in Tuscaloosa.
Swimming and
Diving
Auburn’s John Santeiu was named SEC
Male Diver of the Week Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Santeiu won the 3-meter dive during
Auburn’s 151–87 win against LSU Saturday.
He won the event in 400.28, besting the sec-ond
place finisher by nearly 50 points, and
was the runner-up on the 1-meter board
with a score of 368.25.
Anna Grafton / photo editor
Head coach Rick Nold addresses the team during a timeout against Mississippi State Sunday, Nov. 3.
FILE
Sophomore forward Hasina Muhammad looks to pass against Alabama State last season.
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Kailey Miller
Intrigue Reporter
Auburn University and the Auburn Family
are known for upholding old traditions, from
taking graduation photographs in front of Sam-ford
Hall, to watching the eagle fly at home foot-ball
games.
When one of these traditions is threatened,
the Auburn community improvises.
Since Harvey Updyke poisoned Auburn’s be-loved
Toomer’s Oaks, the University and com-munity
have tried to find different ways to keep
the tradition alive.
This season, fans rolled wires hanging around
Toomer’s Corner, along with any tree remotely
close to Toomer’s Corner.
17-16 Bar will be contributing its own ver-sion
of a new tradition with its newest addition
to the bar.
On Oct. 24, the 17-16 staff planted two willow
oak trees in their back courtyard for students to
roll after Auburn’s sporting victories.
“We were expanding anyway because our
deck needed some repairs, so we wanted to
make the space bigger,” said Scott Crittenden,
co-owner of 17-16 Bar. “Then Harvey Updyke
obviously poisoned the Toomer’s trees, and we
heard they were going to take them down, so we
didn’t know if they were going to replant trees.
We just wanted to make sure the Auburn tradi-tion
stayed alive.”
Brandon Sapp, manager at 17-16 Bar, said the
idea to plant the trees was the result of a collab-orative
effort among the staff.
They thought of the idea after the final rolling
of the Toomer’s Oaks on A-Day in spring 2013.
“The idea started because we were like ‘Man,
everybody loved these trees,’” Sapp said. “That
was one of our best weekends ever too, so it was
just a great time.”
Matt Ralph, manager at 17-16 Bar, said so far,
students have given them good feedback about
the two oak trees.
Ralph said the staff members will take care
of the trees and protect them from out-of-town
guests who may be bitter after a loss to Auburn.
“That’s why we keep a good bouncing staff on
hand to make sure nothing goes wrong whenev-er
we are busy,” Ralph said.
Crittenden said the trees aren’t big enough to
roll this season, because the oaks are only about
13-feet tall.
Crittenden said the oaks are expected to grow
from 6–8 feet per year. They hope to be able to
roll the trees by next season, Crittenden said.
“Eventually, that’s the plan is to have every-body
roll the trees at our place after a big win,”
Crittenden said. “We’re going to get toilet paper
with our logo.”
Ralph said rolling the trees won’t replace the
Toomer’s tradition, but they are doing it as a
tribute.
Crittenden will be in charge of taking care of
the trees, watering them and giving them nutri-ents.
Even though the trees aren’t old enough to
roll yet, Crittenden said everybody seems to re-ally
be enjoying them.
“It adds an extra dimension to the space back
there,” Crittenden said.
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17-16 Bar keeps Toomer’s trees tradition rolling
Auburn’s newest downtown restaurant, Acre,
is definitely setting a name for itself as the place
to try when you’re feeling fancy.
Located at 210 E. Glenn Ave., the restaurant
has one goal, “to interpret the complex, tradi-tional
tastes of the Deep South in a totally fresh
and modern way,” according to chef David Ban-croft.
The restaurant has a rustic lodge-type feel,
with strong earth tones and modern lighting
and decor.
I went to Acre last Tuesday, with a group of 11,
for a friend’s birthday dinner.
Word of advice: make reservations ahead of
time.
Luckily, we reserved a table outside. It was a
little chilly with the overhead fans, but the patio
was beautiful and an excellent place for a birth-day
dinner, date or special occasion.
I was extremely impressed by the authentic
“Toomer’s Oak Tree,” which is a genetic clone
from one of the original Toomer’s Oaks, that is
located outside of the restaurant. It’s like having
a little bit of tradition still in Auburn.
We had two servers for our large party and
that was excellent because we never had to wait
long for anything.
They were very accommodating and handled
such a large party with ease.
We started off with an assorted meal plate.
We may have been unfamiliar with what was on
the plate, but we enjoyed every bit of it, includ-ing
the sauce that accompanied it.
Acre has an assortment of beer, wine and
mixed drinks. I had a “down by the tree,” or
something along those lines, which is Lake Mar-tin
apple cider and spiced rum. It was delicious
and very pretty to look at. The only downside
was it cost me $8 for one drink.
Ordering the main course was a the tricky
part. Acre is not the place to go on the typical
college student budget.
I ordered the brisket burger, and it was deli-cious.
It was perfectly cooked to medium rare
and I couldn’t stop eating the fries, which were
well-seasoned. I was unable to finish the entire
thing and it was $13.
I sampled my friend’s mac n’ cheese, which
was covered in gouda cheese with bacon bits
sprinkled in. It was not very filling by itself, so
my friend also ordered the strawberry and can-died
walnut salad. The side salad cost her $7 and
the mac n’ cheese was $8.
Acre’s menu changes from week to week, and
they are always adding new recipes. It was nice
to have some variability.
If you’re feeling like you want some fish, bring
your mom and dad along because it gets a little
pricey. The grilled red snapper will run you ap-proximately
$25, and the scallops are $24.
The menu is divided into three sections for
dinner, Monday-Thursday 5-9 p.m. and Friday
and Saturday 5-10 p.m.
The menu is split into three sections. “The
family,” which is smaller entrees that won’t run
up the bill, “the farmer” includes fresh grown
vegetables with meat and fish and “the foodie”
offers a variety such as oysters, spicy funnel cake
and a cast iron “Bibimbap.”
Lunch is available from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
If you save room for dessert, you’re in for a
literal treat. On the menu this week are fried
doughnut holes, a cheese plate, chocolate bete
noir and a pear bread pudding. Yum.
My experience at Acre was great. The food
was well prepared, the service was attentive and
the atmosphere wasn’t so formal that I felt un-comfortable.
It’s a great place to impress a first date or cel-ebrate
a special occasion.
Acre offers fresh, fall dining
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contributed by jon hyink
17-16 Bar planted two willow oak trees to carry on the rolling tradition.
Emily Enfinger / photographer
Acre offers a chef’s bar where you can watch your food be prepared.
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Intrigue Writer
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Intrigue Writer
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“Requiem For A Dream”
by Clint Mansell
This soundtrack will instill the tragedy of bliss and leave
those in wanting. It will leave you sooner than it came, but
you can hit repeat.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
by Hans Zimmer
I love when instrumental music sounds epic and brings a picture
to mind.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings”
by Howard Shore
Shore’s composition is a genius pairing with the massive scale of the
story.
“jane eyre”
by Dario Marianelli
I study to it all the time because it’s peaceful, but keeps me
motivated.
“Pride and Prejudice”
by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
It’s soothing, but upbeat enough so that it’s not boring. Its
uplifting tempo blends beautifully with expertly played piano.
“hary potter and the order of the phoenix”
by nicholas hooper
of all the harry poter composers, nicholas hooper is the best at
evoking the magic of harry poter.
Intrigue writer Ashtyne Cole
reviews Auburn’s newest
farm-to-table restaurant
the intrigue Sta ff’s favorite Instrumental scores
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Thursday, November 7, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue A13
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Auburn 821-9996
1650 Opelika Road
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Auburn 821-7835
2300 Gateway Drive
Inside Bread n’ Buggy
Opelika 749-2309
1888 Ogletree Rd.
Auburn 826-1207
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Auburn 826-1716
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1599 S. College Street
Inside Eagle Chevron
Auburn 887-7460
600 Webster Road
Tiger Chevron
Auburn 821-9996
1650 Opelika Road
Flints Crossing Shopping Ctr.
Auburn 821-7835
2300 Gateway Drive
Inside Bread n’ Buggy
Opelika 749-2309
1888 Ogletree Rd.
Auburn 826-1207
1791 Shug Jordan Parkway
Auburn 826-1716
1017 Columbus Parkway
Opelika 749-3528
334 W. Magnolia Avenue
Auburn 826-2476
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Additional charge for extras. Plus applicable taxes. SUBWAY® is a registered trademark of Doctor's Associates Inc. ©2013 Doctor's Associates Inc.
1599 S. College Street
Inside Eagle Chevron
Auburn 887-7460
600 Webster Road
Tiger Chevron
Auburn 821-9996
1650 Opelika Road
Flints Crossing Shopping Ctr.
Auburn 821-7835
2300 Gateway Drive
Inside Bread n’ Buggy
Opelika 749-2309
1888 Ogletree Rd.
Auburn 826-1207
1791 Shug Jordan Parkway
Auburn 826-1716
1017 Columbus Parkway
Opelika 749-3528
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Auburn 826-2476
If you’re anything like me,
you get a little test anxiety
from time to time.
When I have a test coming
up, I will study anywhere, any
time, no matter what.
It gets a little tricky some-times
because pulling out a
huge binder or a text book is
super inconvenient, and you
have to lug all of your heavy
study materials around with
you everywhere.
StudyBlue is all of your
study materials in one, and it’s
now an app. All you have to do
is sign-up, and most impor-tantly,
it’s free.
When you sign up and log
in, you’re first hit with a little
pop up that can access Face-book,
Twitter or any social
media and send out a message
saying “don’t bother me,” or
something along those lines.
On the app, you can search
for professors and courses to
find study materials your fel-low
students have made.
It’s basically a portable way
to make study cards for quick
and easy studying and reviews.
You can also view the cards
as an outline or there is a quiz
yourself option.
All of your past viewings
and cards you’ve made can
be added to your “backpack,”
a tab to get you to your study
materials more quickly.
After you search for mate-rials
you need for a class, you
can have cards from dozens of
people to choose from.
I always go through and
pick the best ones, add them to
my backpack, and study them
all multiple times.
It’s a great app for visual
learners and everything you
do on your laptop transfers
back to your phone, and vice
versa.
When you click on the ma-terials,
the amount of cards
pops up and you can choose
how many cards you want to
review at a time.
Then you can choose if you
want notecards in order, shuf-fled,
hardest to easiest, least
studied or just the cards you
get wrong.
The great thing about Study-
Blue is it shows you the prog-ress
you’re making with the
cards.
At the bottom of the page is
the outline of cards so you can
see word and definition at the
same time.
You can also set reminders
for yourself when you need to
study, and can message oth-er
people from your class with
any questions you might have.
There is even a classmates
tab that shows you every per-son
who has signed in and
contributed materials.
It’s like one big study group
for every single class you have.
I really like having all of my
notes on my phone and I can
study for my classes in the way
that I want.
Keep up with classwork
on the go with StudyBlue
The cashier at Winn-Dixie stared at
me as my roommate and I checked out.
It was the first day of No Makeup Novem-ber,
and my pink embarrassment went
unconcealed.
“You look exhausted,” she said with
concern.
It was close to 11 p.m., and I had been
swapping apartments all day. The fact I
was tired was obvious.
Throwing off her maternal worry for
my well-being, I felt hot annoyance.
“So what if I look tired?” I thought.
“Who is this stranger to point it out?”
I had earned the exhaustion with each
boxful of books and clothes lifted into
my Toyota Corolla and hauled to my new
condo.
I’d felt strong and capable all day and
was claiming the well-earned pizza-and-beer
reward.
It is only now, some days later, that I
can see I took her comment way too per-sonally.
The bubbling retaliation was unwar-ranted
because it was my own insecuri-ty
surfacing to fling mental stones at her.
In a split-second in my mind, I had
translated, “You look exhausted” into
the insult, “You look really unattractive.”
My anger was fueled by continual
stimuli promoting youth and beauty as
goals to strive toward when women are,
in all honesty, aging every second.
An airbrushed model printed on a
page of Vogue will stay young and well-rested
forever because she is just that —
static and glossed-over, not made of flesh
and blood.
Even as the model herself ages, her
flawless doppelganger will remain exact-ly
the same.
The cosmetics industry has done a su-perb
job of capitalizing on the insecuri-ties
women feel about their looks.
Leading cosmetics manufacturer
L’Oreal has raked in $7.5 billion world-wide,
so far, in 2013, according to The
Wall Street Journal. Forbes listed Ma-cy’s
and Sephora as the top grossing cos-metic
retailers with $3.25 billion and $2
billion, respectively, in North American
sales this year alone.
The pitch is easy.
Fill a woman’s head with the idea she
is inferior because she doesn’t look a cer-tain
way, then sell her the products that
will make her feel like she adds up.
Show her how she can become what
she’s been taught to view as beautiful and
you have a customer for life.
Keep her on her toes though, and
throw new trends at her monthly or, bet-ter
yet, weekly.
And get her started young — stunt a
growing mind with images of perfect
princesses who always, always end up
happy.
Be sure to make the wicked witch as
wrinkled and ugly as possible, and have
her meet an awful fate.
The only way I see to combat this self-depricating
mind-control is to step back
and say “no.”
We don’t have to accept capitalism’s
version of beautiful.
It could even be as simple as not buy-ing
that tube of mascara or trying a day
without lip gloss.
Or challenge yourself, and don’t look
at your reflection for 24 hours. See how
you feel by the end of the day.
The strength I felt after lugging boxes
and suitcases was real, and didn’t require
looking in a mirror.
It involved sweat, Gatorade and ac-complishing
a goal. And, it was a gor-geous
feeling — the kind of feeling you
can’t put a price tag on.
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No Makeup November: the price of beauty
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Cole
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@WarEagleSunny: I expected Auburn to have some time in
the rankings this year, but I NEVER expected to crack the top 10.
Dang. #WarEagle
@Pendirty: War Eagle Day has me super pumped #wardamn
@War_Blogle: Guys, there are only 5 more Auburn football
games left this season. Hard to believe. :( #wareagle
@AleishaKendall: I’ve got 99 problems, but Auburn 8-1
#WarEagle #WDE
@Weagle_Belle: Cute tshirt, but I can’t order it. It only comes
in Crimson and that’s just against my morals. War Eagle
@allison_biddle: Seeing all these high school seniors
and their parents here for War Eagle Day makes me so
depressed...I’M SO OLD!!!!!!!!!
@AndyPalys: The post game handshake between #Mal-zahn
& #Bielema may be faster than #Auburn’s tempo.
The week in Tweets
Auburn-related chatter on Twitter
from Oct. 31–Nov. 6
@BABeck88: Y’all, we didn’t win ANY SEC games last year but
are ranked 9th in the BCS right now. #auburn
@Andrea_Marie: Oh hello top 10 you gorgeous beast. #Auburn
@TMitrosilis: Anthony Swain wants the Oscar committee to
know that he’s trying his best here
@jet7111: I can’t stand this cleaning up of #Toomers within
hours it’s been rolled. Good gosh this is so stupid. #Auburn
@annaatchley: If I walk into class and just drop to the floor
does that mean I get out of my test on Tuesday? #Auburn
#getittogether
@maddywalters: I appreciate Auburn’s emphasis on recycling
but it takes me 45 minutes to find an actual trash can
#trashintherecyclingbin
Intrigue A14 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 7, 2013