2013-10-31 The Auburn Plainsman

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From David to Darcy, student embraces new identity
Kyle Nazario
CAMPUS WRITER
On May 11, 2013, Darcy Corbitt was
born at 21 years of age.
With her friends gone for the sum-mer,
Corbitt moved a couch, three book-shelves
and more than 350 books into an
apartment to start her new life.
She had $70 in her checking account.
It was the day before her birthday.
The Auburn University senior no lon-ger
wanted to go by her birth name, Da-vid
Hall. She wanted to start again as
Darcy.
“When I was really little, 3, 4, I thought
I was a girl,” Corbitt said. “I went by a girl’s
name in my mind, but I never told any-one
because I knew it was socially unac-ceptable.”
Corbitt struggled with such feelings
throughout her childhood and said de-spite
being born biologically male, she
never felt like a man.
“I tried to be that person for 18 years
and it didn’t fit me,” Corbitt said.
With help from her friends, she began
exploring the idea of living as a woman.
Bonnie Wilson in the Women’s Initia-tives
Office said she recalled a poignant
conversation about gender identity with
Corbitt when she still went by David.
“I asked her, ‘if there weren’t any bar-riers,
what would you be?’” Wilson said.
“And (Corbitt) said, ‘a woman.’ And I said,
‘then that’s what you are.’”
Corbitt said she also credits Spec-trum,
Auburn’s Gay-Straight Alliance,
with helping her come to understand her
identity.
“If I didn’t have the GSA, I don’t know
what I would have done,” Corbitt said. “I’d
have probably killed myself.”
When she still used the name David,
Corbitt said she came within seconds of
committing suicide after being outed as
someone attracted to men.
“The only thing stopping me was I
couldn’t break the razor blade out of my
razor,” Corbitt said.
“I just kind of thought that was fun-ny.
I laughed, and I thought, ‘I can’t real-ly
kill myself. I’ve got so much I can do in
the world.’”
Corbitt fully accepted being Darcy last
May, on her 21st birthday.
The transition hasn’t been easy. Some
friends offered minimal support for her
new public identity.
Corbitt said her best friend from high
school, a girl who drove three hours from
the University of Montevallo to see her
during their freshman year, unfriended
her on Facebook last summer.
“You post a lot of gay stuff,” Corbitt said
the friend told her.
Corbitt said she recently ran into her
former best friend. When Corbitt tried to
start a conversation, the friend showed
little pleasure in seeing her.
Other groups have reacted differently
to the news.
Corbitt sent an email to every profes-sor
she’s worked with in the past to let
them know about the change.
SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Darcy Corbitt preparing for her day by putting on makeup. » See IDENTITY A2
Hardcore Parkour
Page A5
Ben Hohentatt
CAMPUS REPORTER
With a layout some students might
find confusing and an advancing age,
few things are as regularly maligned as
the Haley Center.
One of those things would proba-bly
be asbestos, the building material
linked to mesothelioma, which the Hal-ey
Center itself contains.
“There are protocols in place to
make sure there is no hazard,” said Greg
Parsons, University architect.
Corbin Hamby, supervisor for as-bestos
control, said asbestos is present
in the center, above the ceiling, and in
some of the floor tiles.
Hamby also said a spray-on form of
asbestos was used to help fire proof the
building during construction.
Parsons said the asbestos in the Hal-ey
Center is left from before the health
risks associated with the mineral were
known.
“No new asbestos-containing prod-ucts
have been used in any new proj-ects,”
Parsons said.
Both Hamby and Parsons were insis-tent
that the presence of asbestos in the
center is manageable and not particu-larly
dangerous.
“When a problem occurs we take
care of it,” Hamby said.
Parsons said this is manageability is
because of the type of asbestos present
in the building and its location.
“Asbestos comes in many forms, and
some forms are more suspect when it
comes to contact with people,” Parsons
said
Parsons cited piping insulation as
one of the more harmful types of as-bestos,
and he said the Haley Center’s
pipes are not insulated with materials
containing asbestos.
Asbestos is harmful to people when
it is no longer intact and releases asbes-tos
fibers and dust into the air.
Parsons said the asbestos contained
above the ceiling and under the floor
tiles does not make contact with peo-ple
and are not disturbed in a way
which cause them to release fibers or
dust.
» See ASBESTOS A2
Putting parking issues in drive
Derek herscovici
CAMPUS WRITER
After years of being a traf-fic
jam, Auburn University is
green-lighting new transit sys-tem
policies that may lead to
the end of road rage on cam-pus.
Transit routes, parking ga-rages
and game day parking
for both students and visiting
tailgaters were points of con-versation
among students and
administrators of the Universi-ty
transit services department
at the fourth HeAUrd That!
discussion Tuesday, Oct. 29.
The scarce amount of park-ing
during home games and
exam week was the biggest
topic the small gathering dis-cussed
in AUSC 2222.
“[The RV’s are] totally out
of hand,” said Greg Parsons,
University Architect said. “The
evolution of trying to get those
to move out and take the cam-pus
back to where it could
function as a campus, you had
to find some places to move,
and unfortunately, some of
those ended up in probably
not the locations that any of us
would choose.”
Parsons said Auburn Athlet-ics
and Gameday Committee
is in charge of game day park-ing,
but no one can build on
Auburn’s campus without ob-structing
something else.
“One of our biggest issues
in student government is to
get actual feedback from stu-dents,”
said Rob Garcia, assis-tant
vice president of auxiliary
services with the Student Gov-ernment
Association. “Stu-dents
don’t know how to reach
out to SGA or the administra-tion,
but there’s a section on
our website under HeAUrd
That! where they can post
comments.”
Parsons said solutions to
problems facing the 5 p.m. on-campus
parking policy include
building additional parking
complexes around campus,
ending faculty workdays be-fore
5 p.m. or pushing evening
classes back to 5:30 p.m. to al-low
students time to park and
walk.
Parking garages in partic-ular
are a popular solution
to the hunter-gatherer style
search for space, allowing the
school to maintain its unique
layout without having costly
road expansion.
Parsons said a new parking
deck, with twice the capaci-ty
of the original, will be erect-ed
on the site of the former
Ralph Brown Draughon Li-brary
parking deck, with con-struction
slated for the sum-mer
of 2014.
A second, 750-car capacity
garage is being built adjacent
to the South Donahue garage,
which administrators antic-ipate
to be ready by the sum-mer
of 2014 as well.
Garcia said the PC park-ing
system, created in 2011, al-ready
implements aspects of
that solution, staggering cer-tain
parking passes at differ-ent
times throughout the day,
though the good it does to stu-dents
was poorly communi-cated
by the SGA and the ad-ministration.
“Transit times on Donahue
have decreased, we have less
complaints from faculty that
» See PARKING A2
Malzahn, Frazier
head home
Arkansas natives
return to their
home state
The faculty responded with over-whelming
support.
“The University was really classy
about it,” Corbitt said.
Today, Corbitt said she embraces
her identity as a woman.
She dresses in a women’s suit
with thick-frame glasses, a red-and-orange
scarf and a purple shirt to
match her purple wristwatch.
Silver eye shadow and lipstick
adorn her face.
Her fingernails bear Essie’s pink
“Ballet Slippers” nail polish, which
she said she picks at when nervous.
Her friends admire the change,
citing its positive effects.
“I saw how it truly made her hap-py
to do that,” said Alyssa Patterson,
a junior who shared English classes
with Corbitt. “She’s so much more
confident in who she is.”
In conversation, Corbitt appears
confident.
She laughs easily and jokes about
blasting “Dancing Queen” by ABBA,
her favorite song, at annoying
neighbors.
In her new life, the senior ma-joring
in English and psychology
serves as director of social affairs
for Spectrum, an advocacy group
for lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans-gender
(LBGT) students.
Corbitt said she hopes to attend
graduate school to become a thera-pist
for LBGT teens.
Her friends spoke highly of her
academic work.
“She’s a good G--d--- student,”
said Kelly Tsaltas, senior in psychol-ogy.
Corbitt’s peers said they also ad-mire
her intelligence.
“She’s really smart and cognizant
in how people think and feel and ex-press
themselves,” Wilson said.
Corbitt said she would prefer
to remain at Auburn for graduate
school, but thinks she’ll probably
attend another institution.
Until she leaves, she also wants to
stay close to her parents.
They declined to comment for
this story.
Corbitt said she understands her
transition has been difficult for her
mother and father, but she would
have been unhappy any other way.
“My whole life, all the decisions
I’ve ever made, I’ve made for love,”
Corbitt said. “I came out for myself,
the second time because I wanted to
be happy.”
“The ceiling separates peo-ple
from the asbestos,” Parsons
said. “The asbestos under the
floor is on the underside of con-crete.”
There are also low levels of as-bestos
contained in some of the
floor tiles, but both Hamby and
Parsons said this is not particu-larly
risky.
Parsons said an increased un-derstanding
of asbestos’ role in
causing health problems has
made the presence of asbestos
in the floor tiles less worrisome,
because the small amounts of
asbestos are well contained.
“Floor tiles are not particu-larly
problematic,” Parsons said.
“It used to be of greater concern
than it is now.”
In the event that a tile is re-moved
it can be a risk, but,
Hamby said asbestos control
has plans in place to safely re-move
and replace tiles.
Hamby and Parsons also said
there are exact procedures in
place for the removal or abate-ment
of asbestos from the cen-ter.
Both said that caution is ex-ercised
when entering an area
that may contain asbestos to en-sure
adequate safety.
Parsons said the asbestos
abatement process involves cre-ating
negative air pressure in a
room, the use of HEPA filters,
breathing apparatus.
“There have been a number of
asbestos removal projects from
Haley,” Parsons said.
He said when a project is con-ducted
which requires someone
to enter the area above the ceil-ing
caution is exercised and as-bestos
is removed.
This means that the Haley
Center has gradually contained
less and less asbestos.
Parsons, however, said at no
point did the levels of asbestos
in the Haley Center exceed the
allowable limit.
Parsons said the asbestos
that is still present is not prob-lematic,
and it would be hard to
imagine how it could come into
contact with students.
“Short of something like a
natural disaster, I could not
imagine anything,” Parsons said.
He also said there is no rea-son
to worry about the age or
stability of the asbestos remain-ing
in the building.
“It’s a very long-lived prod-uct,”
Parsons said. “As far as I
know, it doesn’t degrade.”
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AUBURN AT A GLANCE
• Throughout the upcoming basketball, volleyball and gymnastics seasons, the Au-burn
Arena parking lot will close at 2 p.m. on weekday events while the University is
open. Parking will be available in the coliseum lot and the stadium deck lot during
these times, depending on your type of parking permit.
• The Auburn Alumni Association has selected four Auburn University graduates as re-cipients
of its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. They are Tim Cook
’82, CEO of Apple Inc.; Pat Sullivan ’72, 1971 Heisman Trophy winner and cur-rent
head football coach at Samford University; Larry Benefield ’66, dean emeritus
of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering; and John Brown ’57, chair emeritus of
Stryker Corp.
• The Office of Professional and Continuing Education and the Office of Alumni Affairs
will host “Become the Real Deal,” part of OPCE’s Leadership Series Nov. 14 from
1–5 p.m. at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.
• The Design-Build team of Kevin Hill, William Holcomb, Kevin Laferriere and Jared
Taylor from the McWhorter School of Building Science and from the School of Ar-chitecture,
Planning and Landscape Architecture recently won the Design Build In-stitute
of America Southeast Regional Competition and has been chosen as one of
three finalists for the 2013 DBIA Student Competition.
• Auburn University has announced a formal collaborative agreement between the
University’s Cyber Initiative and Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will focus re-sources
and expertise on security issues in the cyber domain.
• The intersection of Biggio and Coliseum drives will be closed Oct. 28-29 and again
on the weekend of Nov. 2-3. A traffic detour near the closure will be in place.
• The winners of the fall Sustain-A-Bowl competition are: first place Dowell Hall; sec-ond
place Broun Hall; and third place Little Hall.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS FROM OCT. 24 ISSUE
DARCY
» From A1
ASBESTOS
» From A1
PARKING
» From A1
students are late to class and
blame parking, and the biggest
thing is there have been signifi-cantly
less parking tickets,” Gar-cia
said.
“Now our parking system is
much clearer, you know where to
go and when.”
Trying to perfect an imperfect
system takes time and an effort
from both sides, so anyone with
an idea they’d like heard are ad-vised
to email, call or pay a per-sonal
visit the University Transit
Office, which is open 24/7.
“I think they understand that
no one is really comfortable
where it is right now,” said Dave
George, director of Transit Ser-vices.
“I think they’ve heard it and
understand it.”
SARAH MAY / PHOTOGRAPHER
TOP: Corbitt shows off her prom dress. It had to be her favorite color, purple.
BOTTOM LEFT: : Corbitt gets ready for her day by putting on makeup.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Corbitt listens to ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” when getting ready.
“Asbestos comes
in many forms,
and some forms
are more suspect
when it comes to
contact with people.
—Greg Parsons
UNIVERSITY ARCHITECT
POLICE REPORTS FOR OCT. 24–29, 2013
Tonya Bradford, 47
Oct. 24, 10:32 a.m., Alabama
Highway 14
Amber Jones, 21
Oct. 25, 2:17 a.m., Highway 280
and Lee Road 72
Nery Gomez, 26
Oct. 26, 11:35 p.m., Airport
Road
Antion Finley, 24
Oct. 26, 11:54 p.m., Hickory
Woods Lane and Butternut Drive
Daniel Anderson, 22
Oct. 26, 1:53 a.m., North Dona-hue
Drive
Laura Thomas, 22
Oct. 27, 9:53 a.m., South Col-lege
Street and Devall Drive
Daniel West, 18
Oct. 27, 4:04 a.m., West Magno-lia
Avenue
Bradee Aiyer, 21
Oct. 28, 12:06 a.m., Opelika
Road and North Dean Road
Eric Strickland, 36
Oct. 28, 2:59 p.m., South Col-lege
Street
DUI ARRESTS FOR THE CITY OF AUBURN
OCT. 24–29, 2013
— Reports provided by
Auburn Department
of Public Safety
Oct. 24, 11:59 p.m., Lee Road 137
Auto breaking and entering: theft of range find-er,
knives, flashlight and camera bag
Oct. 24, 5:29 p.m., Lee Road 12
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of drive set, miscellaneous tools, wrenches and
a tool bag
Oct. 24, 6:58 p.m., East University Drive
Second-degree theft of property: theft of glock
Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m., West Glenn Avenue
Third-degree theft of property: theft of currency
Oct. 26, 10:35 a.m., Wrights Mill Road and
Shell Toomer Parkway
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of two purses, two wallets, digital camera, cell
phone, check book, currency and two cred-it
and ID cards
Oct. 26, 2:37 p.m., South Gay Steet
Auto breaking and entering: theft of purse, wal-let,
currency and two debit cards
Oct. 27, 2 a.m., Cedarcrest Circle
Third-degree burglary: three pistols, revolver
and clips
Oct. 27, 4:18 a.m., Old Mill Road
Third-degree theft of property: game console
Oct. 27, 10:52 a.m., Opelika Road
Shoplifting: theft of remote helicopter and four
cell phones
Oct. 28, 8:42 a.m., South Gay Street
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of laptop
Oct. 28, 8:39 p.m., North Dean Road
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of laptop
Oct. 28, 4:50 p.m., South Donahue Drive
Third-degree theft of property: theft of bicycle
Oct. 29, 12:05 a.m., South College Street
Third-degree theft of property: theft of peroxide,
petroleum, lotion, rubbing alcohol, razors, hair
removal kit, air mattress
Oct. 29, 1 a.m., Opelika Road
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle:
theft of golf clubs, softball equipment and cell
phone charger
Oct. 29, 2:45 a.m., South College Street
Second-degree theft of property– pairs of
pants, long-sleeve shorts, T-shirts, underwear
and sheets
Oct. 29, 11:20 a.m., West Longleaf Drive
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of backpack, three text books, lab book, click-er
and Garmin
Oct. 29, 1:39 p.m., Twin Forks Avenue
Theft from residence: theft of currency
Oct. 29, 2:40 p.m., West Longleaf Drive
Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle: theft
of chainsaw and sunglass case
Oct. 29, 4:10 p.m., Lee Road 57
First-degree theft of property: theft of four
wheeler, air compressor and two saws
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Students experiment
at chemistry tailgate
Kyle Nazario
CAMPUS WRITER
Nick went out in flames.
Nicholas Klann held the gummy bear, nick-named
after himself, over the tube for a second
before dropping “Nick” to his demise inside a so-lution
of potassium perchlorate.
A stream of white smoke poured out of the
tube, but without the flame Klann anticipated.
Burning gummy bears was just one of several
demonstrations by the Auburn Chemistry Grad-uate
Student Association at its tailgate outside
the chemistry building Saturday, Oct. 26 before
the football game.
Working with the American Chemical Soci-ety
and the National Organization for the Pro-fessional
Advancement of Black Chemists and
Chemical Engineers, several graduate students
performed experiments for an enthusiastic
group of children.
“We have a really strong oxidizing agent in-side
of a test tube, and we melt it with a bunsen
burner flame,” said Phong Ngo, chemistry and
bio-chemistry Ph.D student.
“Once it’s molten, you drop in any sugar
source — in this case, it’ll be gummy bears —
and it’ll cause very large flames or an explosion.
It’s pretty cool.”
The young audience named each gum-my
bear after a graduate student before it was
dropped into the tube.
“We just have some simple, fun explosions
and color-changing experiments,” said Jessica
Brooks, graduate student studying bioanalyti-cal
chemistry.
When she put Mentos inside a bottle of ge-neric
cola and created a spout almost as tall as
the nearby pillars, Brooks covered the sidewalk
in front of the chemistry building with soda that
exploded from the bottle.
“It’s just so much fun,” Brooks said.
The CGSA kept a table in front of its tent cov-ered
in experiments, including a self-stirring so-lution
that changed colors every few seconds
and a pumpkin exhaling smoke from dry ice.
To the right of the table, Anne Gorden, asso-ciate
professor of organic chemistry, ladled out
chunky vanilla ice cream made from liquid ni-trogen.
The graduate students also made slimy blue
silly putty with glue and borax, an experiment
that drew attention.
Klann dipped an apple in liquid nitrogen and
hurled the apple onto the sidewalk, causing it
to shatter.
The kids watching talked among themselves
at the sight.
In the background, the adults helped them-selves
to the free food the club gives out every
week.
“The department always has had a depart-mental
tailgate,” Ngo said. “Having a student
organization that was responsible for raising
funds and putting on demonstrations like this
would help fund it, and we used those funds to
help start the tailgate.”
The CGSA students arrived at 8 a.m. to set
up, even though the Auburn vs. Florida Atlantic
game started at 6 p.m.
“Hopefully, this will be the first of an annual
event,” said John Gorden, assistant professor of
chemistry.
Gorden said he hopes the event will attract
more potential students to learn more about
chemistry.
“There’s really not a lot of activities for kids to
think about science,” Gorden said.
The CSGA also wants to bring a larger group
of current students.
“I know we’ve had a lot of undergrads come
by and stop and they’ll talk to us,” Brooks said.
“They’re like, ‘Oh, these people are normal,
chemistry’s not that bad.’”
KYLE NAZARIO / CAMPUS WRITER
Anne Gorden, chemistry professor, at the Chemistry Graduate Student tailgate, Saturday, Oct. 26.
KYLE NAZARIO / CAMPUS WRITER
ABOVE: A crowd watches Walter Casper IV, graduate student in chemistry, perform an experiment.
BELOW: Nicholas Klann, graduate student in chemistry, works on an experiement.
Thursday, October 31, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
Corey Williams
CAMPUS WRITER
Every day, many college students struggle si-lently
with eating disorders and body image is-sues.
Auburn Body Image Education Eating Dis-order
Awareness, AubieEDA, has made it their
mission to promote healthy lifestyles on college
campuses.
According to Samantha Nathan, senior in nu-trition
dietetics, AubieEDA’s overall goal is at-tainable.
“We’re just trying to encourage people to live
healthy and not focus so much on size, but on
health,” Nathan said.
Nathan, former ballerina, said she has a per-sonal
connection to this issue.
“When I was a dancer, I saw a lot of my friends
going through eating disorders and struggling
with loving their bodies and loving themselves,”
Nathan said. “That’s actually one of the reasons
I became a nutrition dietetics major, so I could
help people who are having trouble losing or
gaining weight.”
Nathan also said AubieEDA is trying to raise
awareness and show people their avenues for
help.
Oct. 21–25, the organization held “Fat Talk
Free Week,” five days during which students
were encouraged to reduce their discussion
about weigh-related topics and to maintain a
healthy body image.
Brittany Hitson, senior in nutrition dietetics,
said she understands the importance of keeping
conversations fat-talk free.
“A group feeds off each other when they are
talking about bad body image,” Hitson said. “It’s
important to say nice things about yourself and
others.”
Members of AubieEDA were on the con-course
throughout the week, promoting the
cause with a different theme every day.
Monday, the event started with students sign-ing
a pledge to stop “fat talking,” which is lan-guage
that makes someone feel bad about their
body and self image.
Tuesday, was “I love my…” Day.
Instead of focusing on the negative, students
were asked to write down something they love
about themselves on a whiteboard.
On Wednesday, members of AubieEDA left
uplifting notes all across campus and invited
others to leave uplifting notes as well. AubieEDA
encouraged students to participate through so-cial
media on Thursday, by tweeting #FTFW (Fat
Talk Free Week) and posting pictures with a sign
AubieEDA members created on the concourse.
There were no events planned for Friday, but
students were encouraged to continue to re-duce
their use of fat talk and to continue striv-ing
for a positive body image.
Meg McGuffin, AubieEDA’s president and ju-nior
in radio, television and film, said she was
optimistic about the week’s impact.
“My hope is girls on Auburn’s campus will re-alize
they are beautiful regardless of what the
scale says or what the media tells us is ‘beauti-ful,’”
McGuffin said. “It took me a long time to
be comfortable in my own skin, and AubieEDA’s
mission is to help girls on Auburn’s campus do
the same and learn to love themselves for who
they are and not what they see in the mirror.”
AubieEDA’s efforts to promote a healthy life-style
are not limited to just the week of Oct. 21.
The organization will hold “Love the Skin
You’re In,” in Alpha Gamma Delta’s chapter
room, Nov. 11.
Campus A4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 31, 2013
Nominees for Rhodes, Marshall and
Mitchell Scholarships announced
Ben Hohenstatt
CAMPUS REPORTER
Auburn University nominated six students
for the prestigious Rhodes scholarships.
The Rhodes scholarships are awarded to 32
American students and offer the opportunity
for the students to continue their studies at
the University of Oxford in the United King-dom.
The Auburn nominees are Patrick Donnan,
senior in physics and music; Hunter Hayes, se-nior
in finance, music and accounting; Spen-cer
Kerns, senior in chemistry and Spanish;
Ashton Richardson, graduate in animal sci-ences;
Jennifer Waxman, senior in political
science; and Alyssa White, senior in Spanish
and anthropology.
“I’m really humbled to represent Auburn
University in this capacity,” Kerns said.
Leadership qualities, commitment to oth-ers
and dedication to the common good, as
well as academic achievement, are taken into
consideration when awarding the scholar-ships.
The nominees were not only interdisciplin-ary
students, but they were students with va-riety
and success in their non-academic en-deavors.
Donnan said the full schedule of a Rhodes
scholarship nominee can be taxing on his en-tire
life.
“A lot of times, it comes down to not sleep-ing
as much,” Donnan said. “There’s a math-music
brain connection, but there’s no curric-ulum
connection.”
Waxman, Hayes and Kerns also excel in
athletics, and White is a second-degree black
belt in Taekwondo.
Waxman is an All-American for the eques-trian
team and Kerns qualified for the 2012
Olympic swimming trials.
Hayes, member of Auburn’s track and field
team, said his divergent pursuit of music, ac-counting,
finance and running may not seem
as if they would overlap, but are excellent
when combined.
“I’ve always had this tandem of running
and music,” Hayes said. “They’ve always
worked synergistically.”
Hayes said the persistence and practice re-quired
for running also prepare him for per-forming
music.
“The biggest component is mental,” Hayes
said.
All applicants agreed mental toughness
and persistence were needed for the applica-tion
process, which includes endorsements
from faculty, choosing an area of study and in-terviews.
“They ask tough questions,” Hayes said. “It
really comes down to who can be the most
like themselves.”
Kerns said because of the thorough scru-tiny
each nominee receives, being one of the
students nominated to be considered for the
scholarship feels like being an ambassador for
the University.
The nominees said earning a nomination
and having the opportunity to go through the
application process was an honor.
“I really don’t have any expectations,” Wax-man
said. “Being nominated is an honor.”
Kerns said he shared Waxman’s senti-ments.
“Honestly, at this point, just going through
the process is very fulfilling,” Kerns said.
Auburn also announced nominees for the
Marshall scholarship and Mitchell scholar-ship.
Donnan and White are the Marshall schol-arship
nominees.
Lauren Little, graduate student in business,
was nominated for the Mitchell Scholarship.
Donnan said he recently found out he was a
finalist for the Marshall Scholarship, which al-lows
students to study at any university in the
United Kingdom.
Donnan said he’s happy to be a nominee.
“It’s been an enjoyable process,” Donnan
said. “Definitely worth it.”
Beating Bama and hunger
AubieEDA encourages healthy living on campus
CONTRIBUTED BY MEG MCGUFFIN
Sarah Foster, V1 in veterinary medicine, promotes positive body image on the Haley concourse.
Art Department, AVA hold
third annual Salon Sale
Keely Shearer
CAMPUS WRITER
On Friday, Nov. 1, the Art Department and
Association of Visual Arts will have a preview
and reception to kick off the third annual Sa-lon
Sale.
The preview and reception begin at 4:30–6
p.m. in Biggin Gallery.
The Salon Sale will last from Monday, Nov.
4–Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Spectators are welcome to attend the event
in Biggin Gallery from 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Rachel Little, senior in fine arts and presi-dent
of AVA, is one of the officers putting on
the event.
“It is an opportunity for students and fac-ulty
to make work and sell their work to raise
money for the endowment fund, which al-lows
us to bring artists and scholar lectures to
campus,” Little said.
All artwork showcased is priced at $100 or
less.
Students can find their advertisements on
the Auburn daily email, Auburn website, post-ers
on campus and other social media sites.
The event is open to all and is free of charge.
“This is my first year being involved and
first year being an officer,” Little said. “I have
heard very good things about the turn out for
the past couple of years.”
Derek Herscovici
CAMPUS WRITER
Before you eat a couple
pounds of turkey at Thanksgiv-ing
this year, consider 49 mil-lion
Americans, who will not
have an option to eat Thanks-giving
dinner.
One in six Americans lacks
access to an adequate amount
of food, but students, faculty
and staff can help make a dif-ference
through the 2013 Beat
Bama Food Drive.
“The food drive is a criti-cally
important one for us,”
said Martha Henk, director of
the East Alabama Food Bank.
“It’s not an exaggeration to say
this food bank really makes a
difference in whether people
have meals at Thanksgiving
and Christmas.”
With a goal of reaching
350,000 pounds by Nov. 25,
Auburn students are gather-ing
donations from around
the community to surpass the
University of Alabama’s goal of
275,000 pounds and secure its
12th title since 1994.
The goal is the average
amount of food the EAFB de-livers
each month to families
suffering from food insecuri-ty,
an increase from 2012’s av-erage
of 315,000 lbs.
That year, through a com-bined
student and community
effort, the food drive was able
to collect 276,000 pounds, a
record-setting amount that ex-ceeded
both Alabama and Au-burn’s
best since the contest
began in 1994.
“Last year, a student came
up to me on the concourse
and she gave me 36 cents,” said
Mark Price, 2012 president of
the Beat Bama Food Drive.
“She put it in my hand and
said, ‘I’m giving you this, it’s
not much, but I get food from
the food bank,’ and that was
huge to me,” he said.
“As an Auburn local, it’s im-portant
for me to be a part of a
food drive that affected my en-tire
community.”
Price said most people don’t
realize the depth of impact a
well-stocked food bank can
have on a community, or the
people who regularly depend
on it.
In 2012, the food bank gen-erated
food for more than
116,000 people in east and cen-tral
Alabama, including neigh-bors,
friends and former class-mates.
“You hear the recession is
over, but I will say there is part
of the population that is real-ly
struggling,” Henk said. “Basi-cally,
about one in five people
for our seven-county area are
considered food insecure. I’ve
been here since 1995, and I will
honestly say I have not seen a
need greater at any time than
it is right now.”
The national food bank
Feeding America was forced
to significantly scale back
its own donations to small-er
banks around the country,
leaving many communities to
generate their own donated re-sources.
The Food Bank of Alabama
continues to supply nearly
400,000 pounds of food every
month.
The food bank has rough-ly
200,000 pounds of food left
in reserve for people to last
through November and De-cember.
“We’re currently sitting at
1,683 pounds, so we have a
long way to go,” said Lean-na
Barkley, president of the
Beat Bama Food Drive com-mittee.
“We make it be about
competition and of course we
love beating Bama whenever
we can, but at the same time,
there really aren’t any losers in
this, only winners, and the real
winners are the people fed.”
Beat Bama Food Drive has collected more pounds
of food than the University of Alabama for 11 years
CONTRIBUTED BY MORGAN STUBBS
The Beat Bama Food Drive has currently collected 1,683 pounds of food for Americans in need.
Gigi’s Cupcakes benefit- all day
Night 5k and Bike Ride at Chewacla State
Park- registration begins 4 p.m. and the race
starts at 6 p.m.
TCBY benefit- all day
Silent auction at the Alumni Center- 6–9 p.m.
Open mic night- So You Think You “Can” Sing
on the Auburn Green Space 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 4
Thursday, Nov. 7
Thursday, Nov. 14
Friday, Nov. 15
Thursday, Nov. 21
Beat Bama Food Drive events
Salon Sale 
Dates & Times
Preview and reception
Friday, Nov. 1
4:30–6 p.m.
Biggin Gallery
Sale
Monday, Nov. 4–Tuesday, Nov. 5
8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Biggin Gallery
Becky Hardy
CAMPUS EDITOR
Leaping from edge to edge, as if flying was
possible, the Auburn Parkour Club turns an
afternoon on campus into a practice area for
an extreme sport.
“Parkour, technically, is the art form of get-ting
from point A to point B as quickly and effi-ciently
as possible,” said Dylan Westfall, soph-omore
in kinesiology and member of the club.
“Instead of walking up the stairs and around
the wall, you just go up and over the wall. You
can always add your own flair and style.”
Westfall said Auburn’s campus is a great fa-cility
to practice on.
“It’s not padded, but we have obstacles that
you cant find anywhere else, such as the way
they’ve built the wheelchair ramps and walls
and just random structures,” Westfall said.
The University allows the club to train on
campus as long as no property is destroyed
and no one goes on rooftops.
The Auburn Parkour Club was founded sev-en
years ago by Cory Robinson, a former Au-burn
Police officer and now full-time stunt
double.
The club meets new parkour trainers at
jams, events where parkour enthusiasts meet
others interested in parkour and go through
timed obstacle course challenges.
“I really like (parkour) for the community,”
Jonathan Sligh, sophomore in wireless engi-neering
and member of the club. “I wouldn’t
have known these people if I didn’t actually go
out and train. You already have that common
ground, you just build on it from there.”
Ibrahim Hakima, senior in aerospace en-gineering
and member of the club, has even
trained with people in China.
With leaping across buildings and walls on
a daily basis, injuries are a common occur-rence.
The injuries the members of the club in-clude
twisted ankles, dislocated shoulders and
concussions.
“Some of the injuries can set you back, es-pecially
leg injuries,” said Filipe Magalhaes, ju-nior
in industrial design and member of the
club. “When I would get my ankle injuries, it
would be so bad that I would have to stop for
two months.”
Although Magalhaes has injured himself
many times while practicing parkour, he said
he will never stop trying to improve.
“When I was a freshman in high school, I
saw a viral video of these Russian guys that
really inspired me,” Magalhaes said. “Every
since I saw that video, I’ll go around and see
a wall and run on the wall. Eventually, I want-ed
to take it further, so around my junior year,
I started researching and found a gym close to
me, and I’ve been going there for the past four
years.”
Magalhae’s ultimate goal is to audition for
“American Ninja Warrior,” a show on the Es-quire
network where competitors run through
a series of obstacle courses in pursuit to win
the grand prize of $500,000.
Westfall said he also hopes to pursue park-our
after graduation.
“I want to start my own parkour group to
teach kids,” Westfall said. “There are not a lot
of safe facilities to train with all the concrete
and grass.”
Parkour gives members an excuse to work
out outside the gym.
“I’m pretty athletic, so parkour actually
gives me something to do instead of hitting
the gym and then going home and watching
TV,” said Kevin Doan, undeclared freshman
and member of the club.
Dimick Beesley, sophomore at Auburn High
School and member of the club, started taking
interest in parkour after watching “American
Ninja Warrior.”
“I started to watch them and (began) prac-ticing
(the moves) on my trampoline,” Beesley
said.
Although many know of the Auburn Park-our
Club for their “Tosh.0” fame debut, West-fall
sets the record straight about the trick
mishap.
Westfall said the woman on the video clip
is a professional parkour athlete who was just
visiting from Washington D.C. for a jam at Au-burn.
“People get injured all the time, that was
just a freak accident,” Westfall said. “She broke
her jaw and sliced her cheeks. She basically
curb stomped her face into the ledge.”
Despite injuries, Sligh said parkour has
many benefits.
“(Parkour) strives to keep you in shape,”
Sligh said. “You have to work to keep in shape
to do the moves, and parkour helps you get
over fears.”
To join the club, anyone interested can post
on the Auburn Parkour Facebook page.
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Filipe Magalhaes jumps from the ground straight on to the wall by the Auburn Daycare Center.
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
LEFT: Dylan Westfall and Filipe Magalhaes backflip at the same time on the Haley concourse. RIGHT: Kevin Doam “flagpoles” outside of the Student Center over bushes below.
Top six places to
train on campus
1.Library Wall
2.Architecture Building
3.Student Center
4.Daycare Wall
5.Davis Aerospace
Building
6.Recreation and
Wellness Center
Loose bolts cause shutdown of Recreation and Wellness Center track
Ben Ruffin
CAMPUS WRITER
The Recreation and Well-ness
Center was forced to shut
down the suspended track
above the basketball courts
Friday, Oct. 18.
After finding issues in the
form of a few loose bolts, Greg-ory
Parsons, University archi-tect
and director of facility de-sign,
said he thought a tem-porary
close would allow the
track to be fixed in the correct
manner, so students would be
able to run on the track again.
Although the shutdown has
raised questions surrounding
the safety of the track, Parsons
assured students the issue be-ing
solved is not related to the
structure of the track.
“A few bolts didn’t appear
normal,” Parsons said. “We
thought it was important
enough to get all of the bolts
checked out and verified.”
With details released about
the loose bolts in the Rec Cen-ter,
many people were left
wondering whether the track
they had exercised on for
three months is structural-ly
sound or if the building as a
whole is correctly constructed
last semester.
“I think, we the Auburn stu-dents,
should have been given
more information on this,” said
Hannah LeCroy, undeclared
sophomore. “People run on it
every day, so I think we have
the right to know what’s wrong
with it and if it’s safe enough to
exercise on.”
Although the Rec Center
has yet to disclose the root of
the track closure, Parsons as-sured
Auburn students the clo-sure
was nothing more than a
precautionary measure.
Parsons also said workers
have already begun the pro-cess
of repairing the problems
with the track.
“It doesn’t have anything to
do with the structure or the
track collapsing,” Parsons said.
“Rather, the loose bolts are re-sponsible
for the attachment
of the guard rails to the track.”
The track, which is com-prised
of approximately 2,300
individual bolts, was partly re-opened
Friday, Oct. 25.
The partial opening allowed
runners to utilize the track in
the area above the gymnasi-um,
but excluding the remain-der
of the track.
Parts of the track will re-main
closed until further no-tice
as crews work off hours,
midnight–5 a.m., so the daily
operation of the Rec Center is
not disrupted.
“They still have about two
more nights of checking and
verifying bolts around the
cardio and rock climbing ar-eas
of the track,” Parsons said.
“We are trying to get it done as
quickly as possible while try-ing
to stay out of the way of
daily operation but making
sure all bolts are securely fas-tened.”
Parsons said it was impor-tant
students are aware the
closure of the track was due
to something minor rather
than something major, which
might endanger the safety of
students.
“We never really thought
there was anything wrong with
the track,” Parsons said. “It was
just a precautionary measure
with the safety of Auburn’s stu-dents
as the main focus.”
ANNA GRAFTON / PHOTO EDITOR
The track is roped off because of loose bolts found in the track.
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without him?”
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we win but not as easy. Nick’s running
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I just don’t know how worried I would
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In response to our article “Stuck in the
middle”
October is National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month.
Anyone who has watched the
World Series, walked past Sam-ford
Hall after sunset or watched
a televised game featuring two
National Football League teams
has most likely noticed all the
pink.
All types of cancer are obvious-ly
bad. This is the problem with a
month-long effort to raise aware-ness
about a potentially deadly
disease.
People understand it’s inher-ently
an awful thing.
The average person seems fair-ly
cognizant of the personal dev-astation
cancer can cause.
It would most likely take con-centrated
effort to be unaware of
breast cancer.
There are plenty of year-round
discussions and reminders about
breast cancer ranging from mild-ly
crude bracelets to pink yogurt
lids.
Years of effort and consistent
presence has pushed breast can-cer
to the front the public con-science.
The NFL, in particular, placed a
lot of emphasis on breast cancer
awareness with pink hats, jerseys
and even pink challenge flags.
BreastCancer.org claims ap-proximately
39,620 women in the
U.S. were expected to die in 2013
from breast cancer.
Any charitable effort to re-search
and cure a disease with
that death toll is a good thing, but
the NFL’s insistence on publici-ty
for breast cancer seems disin-genuous.
According to an Oct. 24 article
by Darren Rovell on ESPN.com,
The NFL takes a 25 percent royal-ty
from every piece of pink memo-rabilia
sold as part of it’s a Crucial
Catch campaign.
The NFL donates 90 percent
of that money to the American
Cancer Society, and it uses the re-maining
10 percent to fund the
campaign.
This means the ACS receives
less than a quarter of the money
spent on a transaction for pink
gear.
On NFLshop.com, breast can-cer
awareness related jerseys sell
for $69.99.
The NFL has stated it does not
make a net profit on the pink
memorabilia, but it still does not
seem to be motivated by altruism.
By donating to a medical
cause, the image-conscious orga-nization
looks good in the public
eye, targets a segment of the pop-ulation
who otherwise might not
be part of the NFL’s main fan-base
and gives people a medical mala-dy
to discuss that isn’t the long-term
effect of concussions.
On Oct. 10, Brandon Marshall,
a wide receiver for the Chica-go
Bears, decided to wear green
cleats during a game in recogni-tion
of World Mental Health Day.
Green is the color associated
with mental health awareness.
Marshall, who has been diag-nosed
with borderline personality
disorder, was fined $10,500 by the
NFL for not wearing pink cleats.
The National Institute of Men-tal
Health estimates in any given
year, more than a quarter of adult
Americans suffer from a diagnos-able
mental disorder.
The NFL has a partnership
with ACS, but it seems unreason-able
someone diagnosed with a
disorder cannot advocate aware-ness
for an issue on the disor-der’s
designated day for national
awareness.
Given the recent, high-profile
suicides of football players Jo-van
Belcher and Junior Seau, one
could see why the NFL may not
want people to spend time think-ing
about mental disorders such
as depression.
Mental disorders are wide-reaching,
potentially deadly and
helping to research them and
erase the stigma associated with
them would seem to be a worthy
cause.
However, mental health con-sciousness
does not come pack-aged
with a gender-associated
color, and can make a fan ques-tion
potential ties between play-ing
football and depression.
The NFL has a massive venue
for whatever message it wants to
send, and it could potentially do a
lot of good by spreading its char-itable
focus to other causes in-stead
of beating the same dead
horse.
From screaming “War Eagle”
to call outs at Cater Hall, Auburn
has numerous of traditions that
have been around for approxi-mately
one hundred years. The
Auburn Tiger Walk began in the
1960s, and is one of the most pop-ular
and notable Auburn tradi-tions.
But there is one Auburn tradi-tion
that is overlooked. After at-tending
a function in the Auburn
Athletics complex on a Friday af-ternoon,
I was surprised to dis-cover
there was a Tiger Walk.
Confused, I questioned why
there was another Tiger Walk
and most importantly, why did I
not know about it?
I had never heard of a “Re-verse
Tiger Walk” until the Fri-day
before the Ole Miss game. I
have been a proud Auburn fan
since I was a child, so I was sur-prised
this was a tradition I was
not aware of.
The Reverse Tiger Walk, for
those who are unaware, is when
the football team and coaches
walk out of the Auburn Athlet-ic
complex at 5 p.m. Friday after-noon
to the buses that take the
team to a hotel to keep the play-ers
focused.
A few Auburn fans and family
members come to the complex to
cheer on the team as they board
the buses, but the turnout was
not impressive.
I believe if more students and
fans knew about this Auburn tra-dition,
more people would attend
to cheer on their favorite team.
It would be a memorable expe-rience
for Auburn families that
travel into town on Fridays be-cause
their children could see the
players up close and could even
get autographs.
While visiting Auburn as a
child, I always loved meeting and
seeing Auburn players, so I feel
like this would be great tradition
for passionate Auburn families.
I also believe the team would
benefit from fans’ presence.
When the team is walking
through the Reverse Tiger Walk,
it is one of the last moments they
will experience the love and spir-it
from the Auburn Family before
they play.
Brandon Fulse, tight end and a
current classmate of mine, agrees
the team would benefit greatly by
more students and fans at the Re-verse
Tiger Walk.
I would also love to see Aubie,
cheerleaders and dancers get in-volved
with the Reverse Tiger
Walk.
They could lead the students
and fans in some of Auburn’s
great cheers and would entertain
the crowd with their spirit. By
having the entertainment there,
it would show the Auburn fans
the Reverse Tiger Walk is a great
way to support the team.
Not only would more involve-ment
motivate the team, it would
be a memorable experience for
Auburn families and students.
Finally, by getting everyone
more involved in the Reverse Ti-ger
Walk tradition, it would show
we really are “All Auburn All In”
for everything Auburn… and we
love it!
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Another chance to support the Tigers
Her View
It’s great to see the football team getting
some wins. It’s even more fulfilling to know
those wins are the result of hard-working play-ers,
an effective coaching staff and a compe-tent
head coach.
Unfortunately, we can’t say that about the
basketball team.
During the last three seasons, they have
been little more than a disappointment. Even
with head coach Tony Barbee’s much lauded
ability to recruit top players, the basketball
team has flopped.
Of course, the blame lies on Barbee.
He is the perfect example of athletic direc-tor
Jay Jacob’s poor hiring skills. Barbee repre-sents
all the misplaced hype and false poten-tial
we have seen in Auburn coaches through-out
the past nine years.
Of the three seasons Barbee has been head
coach, the Tigers have not once made it past
the first round of the SEC tournament. More
importantly, he’s never had a winning season
with Auburn.
For all his supposed talent in recruiting
— which was the talk of the town in 2010 —
the turnover rate has been deplorable with 12
players leaving the team, and he is going into
this season with six freshmen on the roster.
But this doesn’t have to be the end.
Basically, this season is Barbee’s last chance
to keep his job at Auburn. No amount of Jun-gle
Jams or trips to the Bahamas can change
that.
When Barbee was head coach at the Uni-versity
of Texas at El Paso, he consistently
took the Miners to the Conference USA tour-nament.
He even managed to take the team
to the NCAA tournament before he left for Au-burn.
Perhaps his time at UTEP is what inspired
the hype surrounding his arrival at Auburn. It
probably even helped inspire the Auburn Are-na.
We can’t say what happened between then
and now, and it honestly doesn’t matter. What
does matter is that at one point, Barbee was
a winner.
It’s time for him to be a winner again. It’s
time for Barbee to prove his critics wrong.
While we are disappointed in Barbee’s time as
coach so far, we do want to see him succeed.
We’re tired of the long, drawn-out process
and all the time it takes to find a new coach —
especially one who wins.
So yes, Barbee is on notice, but that doesn’t
mean he can’t turn it around and show us
what he’s capable of.
Rachel Suhs / Design editor
Barbee, this is your last chance
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Community
Covenant Smiles spreading smiles for miles
Gnu space, Gnu location, same books
Annie Faulk
Community Reporter
The used-bookstore, the Gnu’s Room, is back
in operation at a new space, but you won’t smell
any coffee roasting brewing this time.
The Gnu’s Room closed its Gay Street location
during the summer, but has sinced moved to 108
8th St. in Opelika in the Heritage Gifts & Gour-met
storefront.
“In Opelika, there are so many things just be-low
the surface that are about to explode in this
area in terms of arts and music,” said Tina Ta-tum,
owner of The Gnu’s Room and director of
Gnu Arts. “I’m hoping we are in a good place, and
in the right place at the right time, for this kind
of renaissance of music and film and the arts in
general.”
The Gnu’s Room is primarily a used-book
store operating via book donations for trade
credit. Tatum took over the Gnu’s Room opera-tions
in 2007.
Earlier this year, the bookstore announced it
was unable to sell enough books to continue op-erations.
“I really went through some dark days be-cause
this is what I love doing, and I wasn’t ready
to stop,” Tatum said. “There was just no way we
could keep going, so we closed.”
Tatum said her friends understood her pas-sion
for the Gnu’s Room and helped her find a lo-cation
for the bookstore.
“It was a light at the end of the tunnel,” Tatum
said. “We did a lot of hard work to get it in shape.
We had to move all of her stuff and organize it,
and then we could set up the bookshelves and
books.”
Tatum said, for right now, they’re focused
on trying to get the word out they are back and
open.
The location may have changed, but Tatum
said it is still the Gnu’s Room, but with a new lay-out
better for navigating the sea of titles on the
bookshelves.
“I thought we had a comfortable, cozy space
over there, and I think this place can be the
same,” Tatum said. “It’s just going to take a little
time to get some of the personal touches. I want
to get some local art in here.”
Tatum said she’s worked hard to retains the-
Gun’s Room’s original quality,
“It still has that funkiness that the other Gnu’s
Room had,” Tatum said. “This one may have even
more with the weird pipes coming out of the ceil-ing
and I love the hammered tin ceilings.”
Tatum said the Gnu’s Room’s music event
schedule will change slightly because other ven-ues
in Opelika provide music entertainment.
“We are focusing on literary events, like hav-ing
authors coming in for readings and signings
and poetry readings,” Tatum said. “And we are
still going to have our monthly open mic night.”
Tatum said her favorite part of the Gnu’s
Room is the people she has the opportunity to
meet.
“Book-people are just the coolest people,” Ta-tum
said. “Some people might call them nerds, I
don’t. Or maybe I am just a big book nerd. Book
people tend to be pretty open-minded and intel-ligent,”
Tatum said. “It’s just fun talking to people
about what they like to read and learning about
books that you would probably never hear about
if it wasn’t for somebody that came in and talk-ed
about it.”
Tatum said reading has been a part of her life
since she was a kid, and she still finds words
powerful.
“I just love being able to provide a venue for
authors to come in. Just being able to share that
joy of reading, it’s important to me,” Tatum said.
“Over the past six years, with the Gnu’s Room,
I’ve come to learn that a large population, even
in Lee County, is still unable to read.”
Illiteracy is not thought of in Auburn, Tatum
explained. The area is home to people, she la-beled
as functionally illiterate, who are able to
function in society without the skills to read or
write.
“It’s a vicious cycle. Their kids are behind be-cause
their parents can’t read to them,” Tatum
said. “If there’s even some little impact I can have
on making a change in that, that’s what we want
to do.”
Nick Hines
Community Writer
From a private practice, to Staton Correction-al
Facility, to Maxwell Airforce Base and then fi-nally,
Connect Church in Opelika, Frank Wright
has led anything but a normal life.
Born in Savannah, Ga., Wright graduated
from Savannah State College with a BA in biol-ogy
in 1994. In 2001, Wright earned his doctor-ate
of dental surgery from Marquette University
in Milwaukee, Wis., and completed the school-ing
necessary for a profession he said he wanted
to enter since the third grade.
“You have those things where it’s a good ca-reer,
financial stability for you and your fam-ily
and you get to help people in the process,”
Wright said. “But when I dedicated my life to
Christ, April 27, 2003, my plans began to change
a little bit.”
Wright is currently the dentist at Covenant
Smiles Dental Care, a religious organization
aimed at providing affordable and comprehen-sive
dental care. The organization began May
2010, when Wright came to Connect Church
on Saturdays after working at Maxwell Airforce
Base during the week.
“Our goal for Covenant Smile is promoting
the overall oral health of an individual,” Wright
said. “We want to help them maintain not only
a healthy smile, but also a healthy personal rela-tionship
with Jesus Christ.”
Scripture booklets intermix with dental
handbooks and magazines on the coffee table in
the waiting room. A recorded sermon plays on
the TV, and Christian music can be heard from
the dental rooms.
Wright’s wife, Farmika, two community vol-unteers
and Auburn University student volun-teers
work with patients four days per week, and
see seven–10 patients on busier days.
Heather Leyva, senior in pre-dentistry, job
shadows Wright at Covenant Smiles. She chose
to work with Wright because she wanted to
shadow where she could actually be helpful and
make a difference, Leyva said.
Each volunteer works the morning or after-noon
shift, two times per week.
Covenant Smiles is a nonprofit organization
and does not accept any outside funding. Indi-viduals
in the community, members of Connect
Church and a few local healthcare providers do-nated
all the equipment and supplies. Mercy
Medical Clinic donated the majority of the den-tal
machinery.
The revenue used to finance the practice
came from the services provided, yet Wright
said personal wealth is not the focus of Cove-nant
Smiles.
“It’s amazing how just being able to smile
when you haven’t been able to before improves
your self-esteem, and we’ve witnessed that a
number of times here,” Wright said. “They’re
crying; we’re crying; it’s just awesome. All the
glory goes to God.”
Wright works on insured and uninsured pa-tients.
Uninsured, low-income patients recieve
extra help from the Covenant Care Program,
which requires the patient to be employed,
seeking employment or a student.
Opelika has a large number of low-income in-dividuals,
and a shortage of health care profes-sionals,
according to Wright.
Covenant Smiles provides care to children on
Medicaid and in the ALL Kids program.
ALL Kids provides financial help to children
younger than 19 years old in families that don’t
qualify for Medicaid, but can’t afford private in-surance,
according to HealthInsurance.Ala-bama.
Gov.
Not all dentists in Opelika provide this care,
and through these programs Wright can reach
out to the parents as well, who can also benefit
from the Covenant Care Program.
Currently, the only way for people to learn
about Covenant Smiles is through word-of-mouth.
This makes it hard for students at Au-burn
University to learn about their services.
“We’ve not (had a lot of students) at this mo-ment
in time, but it seems like we have seen
people going in that direction,” Wright said.
Wright said he would eventually like to col-laborate
with University officials and attend
health fairs to promote the Covenant Care pro-gram
to students.
Wright said he aims to grow the Covenant
Smiles organization, and their goal of maintain-ing
a healthy mouth and healthy relationship
with God beyond Opelika.
All photos by Emily Enfinger / Photographer
Tina Tatum, director of Gnus Arts and owner of the Gnu’s Room non-profit bookstore, stands behind the
counter. The Gnu’s Room bookstore shares a building with Heritage Gifts & Gourmet in Downtown Ope-lika.
Anna Grafton / Photo Editor
Frank Wright inspects his wife, Farmika’s, mouth during a standard dental examination.
Mark Fierro
Writer
When a debit card gets hacked, the
cardholder is liable for the spending.
Some banks have liability caps if the vic-tim
reports it promptly, but the suspect
can still spend money from that person’s
savings and checking account. Plenty
of people also use debit cards for online
shopping, and for most of their daily pur-chases.
While convenience makes using a deb-it
card tempting, using it everywhere also
increases a person’s likelihood of losing
all their money.
Many people, especially younger peo-ple,
frequently make purchases on sites
such as Amazon or eBay.
Frank Abagnale would know, he was
an identity theif and fraud expert. Now
he works as founder and controlling
head of Abagnale & Associates. His story
was inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s
character in the 2002 movie, “Catch Me
if You Can.”
He stated debit cards are, “one of the
worst financial tools ever given to the
American public.”
Abagnale provided alternatatives such
as credit cards.
“When you use a debit card you ex-pose
your money,” Abagnale said. “With
a credit card, you protect it.”
According to Abagnale, credit cards
are one of the safest methods of payment.
When a credit card number is stolen,
the credit card company or issuer is li-able
for the fraudulent spending by the
suspect, instead of the cardholder.
Even if someone spends $1 million
on a cardholder’s credit card, by federal
law that person has no liability for those
fraudulent charges. All the cardholder
has to do is report it is not their spend-ing.
This protects the person’s assets and
account from destitution.
Abagnale suggest students seriously
consider about credit cards because of
all their attached pros and necessity in
future financial actions.
A credit-card user can build their cred-it
rating by paying the credit card bill on
time, something a person does not get
with a debit card.
Without credit, when a student gets
out of college they will not be able to buy
the car or the house they want because
of the lack of credit to qualify for a loan to
get those items. It also makes renting an
apartment or getting a job harder.
“One of the best things parents can do
is give their kids a supplemental credit
card,” Abagnale said.
The parents pay the bill and grow the
student’s credit, allowing the student
to buy a house or get a new car without
needing a cosigner because of the pre-built
positive credit.
“By the time that person gets out of
college their credit score (could) be in
the 800s, and they will not have to worry
about getting the house or car they want,”
Abagnale said. “There are so many scams
out there, if they get access to my ac-counts
I’d rather them get access to Visa
or Mastercard's money, not my money.”
Abagnale said debit cards were invent-ed
because bankers wanted to reduce
their risks, while still making money
through fees on the user and merchant.
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Annie Faulk
Community reporter
Two Opelika juveniles, a
16-year-old and 17-year-old,
both of Opelika, were arrested
on charges of first-degree rob-bery,
according to a news re-lease
from the Auburn Police
Division at 10 a.m., Oct. 24.
Auburn Police Division
received a call at 9:56 p.m.,
Wednesday, Oct. 23, of a possi-ble
shooting at University Vil-lage
Apartments at 200 Block
of W. Longleaf Drive.
As officers arrived, two peo-ple
explained a scenario in-volving
two juveniles, accord-ing
to the news release.
“(They) entered the apart-ment
and demanded property
from the complainant,” the re-lease
said.
The juveniles allegedly
threatened the residents with
a weapon.
“An altercation ensued and
shots were exchanged be-tween
the complainant and
the suspects after which the
suspects fled,” the release said.
Responding officers can-vassed
the area and located
the suspects at the Murphy
USA gas station adjoining the
Walmart parking lot.
Both suspects were trans-ported
to the East Alabama
Medical Center Emergency
Room for gunshot related inju-ries
before transfer to the Lee
County jail.
Both bonds are set for
$100,000.
“Officers responded to the
area and got information that
a subject had been shot,” said
Cpt. Will Mathews. “Contact-ed
two individuals here in the
parking lot of Murphy USA.”
The APD has made no up-dates
since Oct. 24.
Two incidents and a shooting
on South College Street
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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
For the Auburn men’s basketball team, the se-mester’s
first round of tests begins in less than
two weeks.
According to head coach Tony Barbee, the Ti-gers
have been spending extra time in a specific
area — raising their grade in chemistry.
“This group has really bought into sacrific-ing
for the whole and giving up that individual
glory,” Barbee said after Auburn’s season open-er,
a 109-67 exhibition win against Victory Uni-versity.
“They know that we have enough pieces
in (the locker room) that if we will play for each
other, a lot of special things can happen for this
team.”
With eight newcomers entering a program
that only won nine games last season, devel-oping
solid team chemistry was a challenge for
Barbee and his staff in the offseason.
Senior guard Chris Denson said he feels
chemistry was an issue during his first three
seasons on The Plains.
“We have had a lot of downs the last three
years, and chemistry wasn’t strong like it is
this year,” Denson said after his 21-point per-formance
against Victory. “Three years ago, we
weren’t hanging out with each other. We really
hang out with each other now, and that is a big
part of winning.”
Barbee said the focus on togetherness started
in the summer, when the Tigers went on a pre-season
exhibition tour of the Bahamas.
“This summer has been really good for us,”
said junior KT Harrell at the end of the team’s
tour in August. “As a team we have gotten so
much closer. This has been the best summer I
have been a part of as far as camaraderie and
how close we have gotten. This trip has helped
us a lot.”
Harrell, a Montgomery native, was a part of
the Auburn program last season after trans-ferring
from the University of Virginia. NCAA
rules forced him to sit out from active compe-tition
last season, but he is widely expected to
be a member of Barbee’s regular starting lineup
this season.
“It felt good to just go out there and do what
I do and be a leader offensively,” Harrell said.
“I am an all-around player; it’s not all about
Sports A9
Thursday, October 31, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Sports
Baseball swinging for the fences ­—
a trip to the College World Series
Kyle Van Fechtmann
SPORTS WRITER
This year’s baseball team has one
ultimate goal that is seen on the back
of each player’s practice jersey this
fall.
Instead of having their last names
on the jersey, each player has “OMA-HA”
on the back. This represents
Omaha, Neb., which is the location of
the annual College World Series. The
top eight teams from the field of 64
advance to Omaha to play for the Col-lege
World Series title.
Auburn has made it to Omaha four
times, but has not done so since 1997.
This year the team is ready to
achieve their goal and focused on fol-lowing
their motto of “Omahauburn.”
“That’s the goal. If anything less, it’s
a failure,” said senior catcher Blake
Austin. “I think it’s possible. I think
the young guys are coming along fast-er
than I thought they would. A lot of
young guys and a lot of old guys are
mixed so it’s been fun to see us mesh.”
The team’s attitude changed once
Sunny Golloway was hired as head
coach in June.
“We were ready to come to work
and play, before it’s just been a drag
and it’s been fun to come out here and
play baseball,” Austin said.
Golloway spent the past eight sea-sons
as head coach at the Universi-ty
of Oklahoma, and during his time
there he led the Sooners to seven
NCAA Regional berths, four NCAA
Super Regionals and the 2010 College
World Series.
“The team’s been great as far as ac-cepting
the new coaching staff and
buying into what we’re doing,” Gollo-way
said.
Golloway also led the Sooners to a
Big 12 Conference tournament title
last year, which was only the second
in school history, but he said he felt it
was time to make a move to Auburn.
“What impressed me most was
the people here, there’s a tremendous
character of people and it’s a beautiful
place,” Golloway said. “We were ready
for a move. I told my agent if I’m go-ing
to move it’s going to be now, oth-erwise
I’ll sign a lifetime contract at
OU. This will be my last move.”
Throughout the fall the team has
ANNA GRAFTON / PHOTO EDITOR
Junior point guard Malcolm Canada plays offense for Auburn in the exhibition game against Victory.
Tigers must be wary of
letdown against Arkansas
Who would have thought,
at the beginning of the sea-son,
heading into the ninth
game Auburn would still have
a chance to play in the SEC
Championship Game.
Most would have said they
would be fighting for a bowl
berth at this point.
Well, Malzhan has already
got his six wins needed for a
bowl game berth in his first
season as head coach, and it
doesn’t look like he’s going to
stop there.
At this point, Auburn con-trols
its own destiny. If they
win out they will go to the SEC
championship in Atlanta and
have a shot to play in the na-tional
championship, which
would be remarkable for Mal-zahn’s
first season.
That sounds a little easier
than it actually is.
Auburn will have an ex-tremely
tough final four game
stretch against Arkansas, Ten-nessee,
Georgia and Alabama.
The first team up is Arkan-sas,
and you can never over-look
the Razorbacks when
they play Auburn.
Arkansas has been a team
that no matter who their
coach is or what their record
is, they always give Auburn
trouble.
In 2006, Auburn was ranked
No. 2 when they lost to the
Hogs 27–17 in Jordan-Hare
Stadium, preventing them
from playing in the SEC cham-pionship.
In 2008, Auburn lost to Bob-by
Petrino in his first season
while Arkansas was struggling
with Petrino’s new pass-heavy
offense.
At that point in the season,
Auburn still had a chance to
salvage its season, but Arkan-sas
won the game 25–22 and
Auburn ended with a disap-pointing
5–7 record.
Who could forget last sea-son
when Arkansas, led by cra-zy
and talkative head coach
John L Smith, came into Jor-dan-
Hare Stadium and embar-rassed
the Tigers 24–10 and
basically sealed Gene Chizik’s
fate.
When you come right down
to it, Auburn can throw Arkan-sas’s
record out the window
because it doesn’t matter.
Arkansas has ruined Au-burn’s
chances at bigger things
time and time again, and if
they don’t go to Fayetteville
prepared to play, then this sea-son’s
dreams will be crushed
as well.
Malzahn also has a lot per-sonally
riding on this game.
This will be the first time
Malzahn returns to his home
state as a head coach.
Then you take into account
the word-swapping battle
Malzahn and Arkansas head
coach Bret Bielema had this
summer over whether high
tempo offenses are safe in col-lege
football.
Bielema’s answer was al-ways
no, and Malzahn’s an-swer
was Bielema needed to
get his players in better shape
and condition.
Bielema did not like that
so much and will probably
put some extra effort into this
game.
Between Malzahn going
back home as a head coach for
the first time and needing to
get his offense to perform well
against Bielema, there will be
a lot of pressure for Malzahn
against Arkansas.
Auburn needs a victory if
they want to keep their goals
alive for this year.
Even with all of the possi-ble
distractions and the curse
of the Hogs, Auburn should be
OK in this game.
Arkansas is riding a five-game
losing streak including a
52–0 loss in their last game at
Alabama.
But if Arkansas comes out
and plays like it did against
Texas A&M, then Auburn
needs to watch out because
they do have the ability to run
the football well.
They also have one of the
better defensive lines in the
conference.
Auburn just needs to do
what has got them to this
point, which is run the ball on
offense and stop the run on de-fense.
If the Tigers do both of those
things, then they’ll be head-ed
to Knoxville with all their
dreams still alive.
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Malzahn, Frazier return home to
Arkansas with sights set on a win
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Gus Malzahn with the players prior to the start of the Ole Miss game.
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Kiehl Frazier carrying the football against Florida Atlantic.
Will Gaines
SPORTS EDITOR
Arkansas natives Gus Malzahn and
Kiehl Frazier have both played games
against their former home state school
of Arkansas, but this time will look a lit-tle
different for them,
Malzahn made a name for him-self
coaching his way through the high
school ranks, winning multiple state
championships at Shiloh Christian and
Springdale High School before leaving to
become the offensive coordinator at the
University of Arkansas.
Malzahn left Arkansas after one sea-son
with the Razorbacks and became
the offensive coordinator at Tulsa before
leaving to join Gene Chizik’s staff at Au-burn
in 2009.
Malzahn has only returned to Fayette-ville
one time since leaving and that was
in 2011 while he was still at Auburn as of-fensive
coordinator.
Saturday will be the first time he will
return as a head coach.
“To be honest with you, it’s just anoth-er
game for us,” Malzahn said. “I’ve been
back before and played before. We’re just
trying to do everything in our power to
play good football, and try to come out
with a victory.”
While Malzahn tried to downplay go-ing
back to Arkansas, fellow Arkansas na-tive
Frazier said it will be exciting for Mal-zahn
to go back home.
“I think it will be exciting because it’s
a place where he grew up and a place
where I grew up, so I think it will be ex-citing
at first, but he’s such a profession-al
guy that whenever the game starts he’ll
be ready,” Frazier said.
One thing Malzahn has tried to do
while he’s been at Auburn is use his Ar-kansas
high school football ties to recruit
the state of Arkansas.
While Alabama, Georgia and north
Florida will always be Auburn’s main re-cruiting
ground, Malzahn has been able
to pull some recruits away from the
home-state school.
Auburn signed three players from Ar-kansas
during Malzahn’s time at Auburn;
Michael Dyer, Dakota Mosley and Kiehl
Frazier.
Both Dyer and Moseley were dismissed
from the team for a violation of team
rules, but Frazier is still on the team.
Frazier was a highly touted quarter-back
from Arkansas, being named USA
Today Offensive Player of the Year in
2010, and was expected by many to be
Cam Newton’s replacement.
When Malzahn left to become the
head coach at Arkansas State and new
offensive coordinator Scott Loeffler was
hired to install a pro-style offense, Fra-zier
struggled and was benched halfway
through the season.
With the return of Malzahn’s offense,
Frazier was in line to compete for the
starting job he lost in 2012, but halfway
through fall camp Frazier decided to
move to the defensive side of the ball to
help the team.
Frazier’s roommate and teammate,
tight end CJ Uzomah, said he saw a differ-ent
Frazier when he made that decision.
“He’s grown so much as a player and as
a person,” Uzomah said. “He was willing
to change positions just to help the team,
and I think that says a lot for him, about
his character as a person and his deter-mination
to help this team any way he
can.”
Now the former high school quarter-back
star will return to his home state,
not as a quarterback, but as a receiver.
“I haven’t really thought about going
back (home),” Frazier said. “I don’t think
it will be anything like my freshman year,
because I’m more of an Auburn guy now
than an Arkansas guy.”
Uzomah said that Frazier returning
home will be a more emotional experi-ence
than Frazier has led on.
“I think it will be emotional for him,
because he loves Arkansas, and going
back there will mean the world to him,”
Uzomah said.
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scoring. I try and do every-thing
I can to help the team
win.”
Another newcomer poised
to crack the starting five is
true freshman Tahj Shamsid-
Deen. The three-time Georgia
state champion got the start at
point guard in the exhibition
against Victory, but he sat out
most of the first half because of
early foul trouble.
Although he said he was
disappointed with his playing
time in the opening 20 min-utes
against the Eagles, Sham-sid-
Deen bounced back with
an 11-point second half per-formance.
“I came back in the second
half and my teammates kept
me in it,” Shamsid-Deen said
after the win. “They said, ‘don’t
worry about (the early fouls).’
My teammates really respond-ed
to me, and I depended on
them.”
Barbee said Shamsid-Deen
and Auburn’s other new point
guard, junior college transfer
Malcolm Canada, exemplified
a team-first mentality, Barbee.
The two guards combined for
13 assists and only one turn-over
in the exhibition win.
“(Shamsid-Deen and Can-ada)
are both unselfish,” Bar-bee
said. “They can both real-ly
pass the ball, and they are
both very cerebral players so
they know how to take care of
the ball and they know what I
want. You look at their assist-to-
turnover numbers, that’s
unbelievable. We’ll take that
every night if we can get it.”
Barbee said examples of
the point guards’ unselfish
play is a characteristic of the
entire team, a unit focused
on moving past the struggles
that plagued the head coach’s
three-year Auburn tenure.
“These guys love each oth-er,
they care about each oth-er,
and they want to see each
man do really well,” Barbee
said. “They are worried about
(each other) and are not wor-ried
about their own. I think
that shows in up in how well
we share the ball.”
had results from these scrimmages.
“We started off with a drill that was throw
the ball around, as simple as that, and we
couldn’t even do that. So it has went from
sloppy to winning baseball. It has been fun to
see it progress,” Austin said.
Austin also said that fans may not necessar-ily
see the progress they have made, but they
have made improvements.
“It might not show up so much in how we’re
playing,” Golloway said. “But our baseball IQ
has gotten much better. I think we understand
the game, we understand how to win games,”
These scrimmages have been low scoring,
filled with pitching duels and great defensive
play, like the 3-2 scrimmage last Wednesday,
Oct. 23.
“UCLA won the national championship last
year with a .250 batting average but just like
you saw on the scoreboard today, they won
games 3-2. And that’s how we’re going to be
able to win games 3-2. I think it’s going to be
pitching or defense that will be our strength.
It has to be if we’re going to be a champion-ship
type club.”
Moving forward from these fall scrimmag-es
and looking to the regular season the team
does have aspects of the game that they must
improve on in order to achieve their goal of
reaching Omaha.
“(The team must) anticipate the game be-fore
it happens. Use your head and think
about what they’re trying to do and how we’re
going to counter it.”
The fundamental details of the game are
what Golloway said will make the difference
for the Tigers.
“Don’t throw a ball when there’s not a
chance to make an out,” Golloway said. “Just
play smart baseball, we’re learning.”
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SPORTS WRITER
Auburn’s secondary has seen a number of
midseason position changes in response to the
injuries of players such as Joshua Holsey and
Jonathan Jones.
“Out back we’ve had some musical chairs due
to injuries and an early suspension,” said defen-sive
coordinator Ellis Johnson. “We had to pull
back in practice last week we were so beat up.”
Holsey’s season-ending ACL injury further
thinned the Tigers’ secondary depth and forced
senior defensive back Ryan Smith to learn the
safety position on short notice.
Johnson said the Florida Atlantic game was a
vital opportunity for Smith to get extra game ex-perience
at his new position.
“Hopefully the injury bug has come and gone,
but you never know with this game, so it was
good that some of those guys got to play,” John-son
said. “Game experience is something you
just can’t put a value on.”
The recurring injuries have become a topic
of discussion among Auburn’s defensive backs,
who say they’ve learned each secondary posi-tion
just in case a position change becomes nec-essary.
“The crazy part is we sit around and talk and
say ‘What if I had to move to safety, what if I had
to play corner?’” said junior defensive back Jer-maine
Whitehead. “So when those situations
present themselves we find it as an opportuni-ty
to showcase another skill level that we have.
We lost a couple key players, but guys stepped in
and made some remarkable moves.”
Johnson said at the cornerback position,
sophomore Jonathan Jones is finally 100 per-cent
physically, but needs a little time to recover
his fundamentals.
“He hasn’t had enough time back to be pol-ished
in his technique,” Johnson said. “He
missed so much time I think he’s lost a little of
his fundamentals and technique. We’re getting
thin back there, getting him back is important.”
Jonathan Ford’s development and the return
of Jones have been a welcome relief to the injury
riddled cornerback position.
“We keep moving guys inside so it’s very im-portant
that guys like Rudy (Ford) and Jonathan
(Jones) come along and give us some quality
depth at corner,” Johnson said.
Ford, who had 31 yards rushing in addition to
playing defensive back against Florida Atlantic,
has been learning the cornerback position after
an offseason move from running back.
Johnson said the offseason dismissal of safety
Demetruce McNeal has negatively affected the
secondary’s depth this season.
“We lost our leading returning tackler before
the season, and he never played a down,” John-son
said. We’re finally starting to get things set-tled.”
Despite their 7–1 record and a No. 11 BCS
ranking, some Tigers are not satisfied just yet.
“I think we still have some people to prove
wrong,” Whitehead said. “I think we still want to
prove to ourselves that we can win 10 games, we
can win 11 games and be a great football team.”
Injuries, suspensions lead to secondary shake-up
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Robenson Therezie and Ryan White making a tackle against Florida Atlantic Saturday, Oct. 26.
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Jeremy Johnson scrambling for extra yards against Florida Atlantic Saturday, Oct. 26.
Tigers feel comfortable with
both Marshall and Johnson
Kyle Van Fechtmann
SPORTS WRITER
Although offensive coordinator Rhett
Lashlee said Nick Marshall should be okay af-ter
he practiced Sunday, Oct. 27, Lashlee and
the rest of the team are confident in both Mar-shall
and true freshman Jeremy Johnson play-ing
starting quarterback for Auburn.
Marshall was taken out of the Florida At-lantic
game after he was tackled in the second
play of the second quarter and went down
with an apparent shoulder injury.
But Auburn was already leading by four
touchdowns at the time so they did not want
to take any chances putting Marshall back in.
Lashlee said if it was a closer game then
Marshall may have gone back into the game
but they never got to that point with the doc-tors
since they wanted to play it safe in the
game that was already 28–0.
“Other than educating (Marshall) a little
on times trying to get down a little bit, I think
he’ll be alright. He’s sore, but he’s a tough kid,”
Lashlee said.
With Marshall leaving the game, it was an-other
chance for everyone to see Johnson’s ca-pabilities
at quarterback.
After Johnson got his chance again to com-mand
the Auburn offense, he won the SEC
Freshman of the Week award for the second
time in three weeks.
Johnson completed 10-of-16 passes for 192
yards and two touchdowns.
“When Jeremy was able to step right in, I
felt we didn’t miss a beat. The whole team felt
like, “hey, it’s business as usual,’” Lashlee said.
“The coaches tell me to prepare as a start-er
and to stay focused like a starter,” Johnson
said after the 45–10 win against Florida At-lantic
Oct. 26. “That’s all I did throughout this
week and throughout the game. I just came
out there and executed.”
He executed as soon as he went into the
game for Marshall.
In his first play of the game, Johnson con-nected
with Sammie Coates for a 36-yard
touchdown pass.
“I don’t care if you’re a true freshman or a
senior, to come in cold off the bench on third-and-
13 and throw a 30-whatever touchdown
pass... that was big,” Lashlee said.
Both Johnson and Marshall are running
quarterbacks, but they have different styles.
According to Lashlee, Johnson is more of a
downhill runner and Marshall is more of an
open out of space runner.
These two also have other differences when
it comes to their style of play at quarterback.
“Jeremy is a pure passer, he’s good on
rhythm and timing throws,” Lashlee said.
“Nick is really good when things break down.
They have their strengths and they have their
things they need to work on. They both can
run our system without a lot of limitation.”
According to Lashlee, Arkansas’ strength
is in their defensive line so Auburn’s offensive
line will have to be ready to protect Marshall
Nov. 2 when Auburn travels to Fayetteville, Ar-kansas.
Johnson may also have to take a lot of snaps
at quarterback against Arkansas and the team
is ready if that has to happen.
“I’m extremely confident in (Johnson). It’s
still going to be just the fourth game he will
appear in as a college player,” Lashlee said.
Even though Johnson is young Lashlee be-lieves
Johnson does is mature enough to han-dle
the responsibility.
“Jeremy is very confident, he feels good
about what we have in the game plan each
week,” Lashlee said. “I feel good with Jeremy
out there, I really would.”
Eric Wallace
SPORTS WRITER
Senior volleyball player Sar-ah
Wroblicky came a long way
from her hometown of Irvine,
Calif., to play volleyball for Au-burn
University.
Transitioning from the sun-ny
beaches of Orange County,
to the small town atmosphere
of Auburn wasn’t always easy
for Wroblicky.
“I definitely had a culture
shock,” Wroblicky said. “Cal-ifornia
and the South are just
totally different. The accents,
food and definitely the small
town feel of Auburn. I’m from
the Orange County area so I
wasn’t used to any of that.”
The 5-foot-6 Wroblicky,
known as “Wro” to friends and
teammates, has solidified her-self
as a defensive specialist,
manning the libero position
in each of her four years with
the team.
While other players at-tack
the net and go for kills,
Wroblicky does the dirty work
of digging out spikes and sav-ing
points for the Tigers.
“I’m not a hitter so I don’t
get the glory of getting a kill,
because even setters get as-sists,”
Wroblicky said. “There’s
no way I can really score unless
I’m serving and get an ace. My
only victory is to be able to pre-vent
them from scoring.”
She may not get the glory of
contributing kills and sets, but
Wroblicky’s defensive skills
have vaulted her into the Au-burn
record books.
Wroblicky recorded her
1,000th career dig against Ole
Miss Oct. 13th and her 17 digs
in the match lifted her into the
top 10 in Auburn volleyball
history.
“It’s nice to know I reached
that level,” Wroblicky said.
“I’ve helped make a difference
in our wins and prevented the
other team from scoring.”
According to head coach
Rick Nold, Wroblicky’s impact
extends beyond her perfor-mances
on the court.
“I think it’s that she sets a
great example for what you’re
supposed to do in terms of
working in the gym and how to
get the most out of your time,”
Nold said. “She has set a great
example for everyone.”
Off the court, Wroblicky has
used her experience as an ed-ucation
major to help younger
volleyball players adjust to the
rigors of college courses.
“I try to help them out with
classes at the beginning of the
year,” Wroblicky said. “I like to
help out with tests and study
strategies. Also, just the col-lege
experience in general,
because I know I had a lot of
questions about how things
work.”
Poised to graduate in De-cember,
Wroblicky said she is
looking forward to hitting the
sunny beaches of Southern
California when her collegiate
career is finished.
“I want to stay active and
play a lot of beach volleyball,”
Wroblicky said. “I’m going
back home after I graduate in
December so I’ll just need to
stay active. I’ll be playing a lot
of beach for sure.”
Even though her heart is set
on a return to Orange County,
Wroblicky said her time in Au-burn
has been an unforgetta-ble
experience ­that
will stay
with her forever.
“I would like to come back
for volleyball and football
weekends next fall,” Wroblicky
said. “It’d be cool if I could
come back in the spring too,
but I don’t know if that’ll work
out. I would love to come back
because Auburn is a huge part
of my life now.”
Wroblicky and the Tigers
next game will be when they
take on the Tennessee Volun-teers
Friday, Nov. 1 in Knox-ville
.
From California to Alabama,
Wroblicky a defensive specialist
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Sarah Wroblicky during the Texas A&M game Sunday, Oct. 19.
“There’s no way I
can really score
unless I’m serving
and get an ace.
My only victory
is to be able to
prevent them
from scoring.”
—Sarah Wroblicky
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This week in Auburn sports
Women’s Soccer
Casie Ramsier earned her second
individual award in two weeks af-ter
being named SEC Freshman of
the Week.
Ramsier scored her eighth and
ninth goals of the season against
Arkansas and Vanderbilt to con-tinue
to hold the team-lead for
goals this season. Her nine goals
this year is the most by an Auburn
freshman since Katy Frierson (9)
in 2009. Ramsier also tallied her
fourth assist of the year against
Vanderbilt helping teammate Tori
Ball score the game-winner against
the Commodores.
Volleyball
Auburn got its first sweep in
Southeastern Conference volley-ball
play this season, taking down
South Carolina 3–0 (25–22, 25–22,
25–23) Sunday afternoon at the
Volleyball Competition Facility.
The Tigers (13–8, 4–5 SEC) won
at South Carolina for the second-straight
time and fourth time in
the last five trips to Columbia. In
an extremely tight match, Auburn
was able to fight off late pushes
in all three sets by the Gamecocks
(11–11, 3–6 SEC) and come away
with a weekend split.
Katherine Culwell picked up her
ninth double-double of the year
with a 12-kill, 12-dig performance
that also included a pair of service
aces. Kathia Rud also had a dou-ble-
double, her sixth of the season,
with 10 kills and 11 digs, and Ca-mila
Jersonsky led all hitters with a
.389 percentage, putting down 10
kills on the day. Freshman Stepha-nie
Campbell also contributed nine
kills in the match.
Sarah Wroblicky paced the de-fensive
effort for the Tigers with
a 14-dig performance along with
a pair of assists. Emily Klitzke was
big at the net for Auburn, post-ing
a career-high five blocks along
with three kills, and Courtney Mc-
Donald contributed four blocks as
well.
Auburn jumped out to an early
lead in set three, pushing ahead by
as many as six points at 11–5, but
the Gamecocks scrapped their way
back and eventually tied the match
at 19–19. However, Carolina would
never take the lead as the teams
kept trading sideouts until a Rud
kill gave Auburn a match point
try at 24–22. After the Gamecocks
fought off one attempt, a ball-han-dling
error call gave the Tigers the
game at 25–23 and a sweep in the
match.
Auburn will travel to Knoxville,
Tenn., to take on the Tennessee
Lady Vols Friday, Nov. 1, then on
Sunday host Mississippi State at 3
p.m.
Women’s Golf
The The No. 24-ranked Au-burn
women’s golf team finished
11th at the Stanford Intercolle-giate,
ending the tournament with
rounds of 294–295–295–884 (+32).
The Tigers were led by junior Vic-toria
Trapani in the final round af-ter
shooting a 1-under-par 71.
Trapani’s 1-under 70 propelled
her into a tie for the team lead with
senior Diana Fernandez. The pair
finished the tournament tied for
44th at 9-over 222.
Trapani carded three birdies in
the final round and finished the
tournament at 78–74–70–222 (+9).
Fernandez totaled rounds of 74–
73–75–222 (+9).
Women’s tennis
The Auburn’s women’s tennis
team wrapped up its first tourna-ment
of the fall on clay at the USTA
Clay Courts at Disney this week-end.
Auburn’s Ashley Kitchen picked
up two wins on the weekend af-ter
dropping her first match at
the tournament. The sophomore
took the opening set but fell in
three, losing 6–4, 5–7, 2–6 to Flori-da’s
Stefani Stojic Thursday morn-ing.
Kitchen advanced in the sin-gles
consolation draw, defeating
Yelena Nemchen (Tulsa) 6–4 in the
first set. Kitchen took the win after
Menchen retired heading into the
second set.
On Saturday, Kitchen wrapped
up the tournament earning a win
in a thrilling three-setter.
The Tigers wrap up their fall
schedule in Bradenton, Fla., at the
Dickie V Classic Nov. 8–10.
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Courtney McDonald, Stephanie Campbell and Kathia Rud against Mercer Friday Sept. 6.
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Do you want a chance to
wear the orange and blue in-side
Jordan Hare Stadium
next fall?
Well this January students
will have the chance when
Auburn holds open walk-on
tryouts.
Registration for anyone
interested will begin Mon-day,
Nov. 4.
Those interested should
pick up an information pack-et
at the front desk of the Au-burn
Athletics Complex dur-ing
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Ashtyne Cole
INTRIGUE WRITER
Walking through the Dudley Hall Courtyard
Friday, Oct. 25, students were surrounded by
hundreds of intricately carved pumpkins, part
of Auburn University’s College of Architecture,
Design and Construction 25th Annual Pump-kin
Carve.
The courtyard was home to more than 400
pumpkins Friday, ranging from a detailed ver-sion
of Van Gough’s “Starry Night” to simple
phrases such as “War Eagle.”
The Pumpkin Carve began 25 years ago as an
architecture studio project. The original idea
was to invite students to design interesting and
beautiful pumpkin carvings.
“The Pumpkin Carve soon took on a life of its
own as it became bigger each year and as the
community began to come out more and more
to see the students’ pumpkins,” said Adam Le-vet,
senior in interior architecture.
Levet is also the vice president of internal af-fairs
of the Auburn chapter of the American In-stitute
of Architecture Students.
The AIAS decided to host and organize the
event with other student organizations that
participate. Other groups set up booths where
they sell different items such as T-shirts, hot ci-der
and snacks.
Pumpkin Carve is the biggest fundraiser for
AIAS and raises thousands of dollars per year to
send students to conferences.
“I love supporting my school anyway I can,
especially for a fundraiser like this,” said Wheat
Holt, junior in public relations. “There are so
many ways for students to get involved and help
the community and this is just a small way of
showing my appreciation.”
The Pumpkin Carve was not just for Auburn
architecture students. Families brought their
children to the event to carve pumpkins or walk
around and see what all the event had to offer.
“One of our foremost goals in organizing
Pumpkin Carve is to bring the community in
to both celebrate with them and to show them
what we can do as students,” Levet said.
The Dudley Courtyard was decorated with
lights, fake spiderwebs and chalk drawings to
lead the public to the event while fall music
played.
Pumpkins were sold for $5 and many differ-ent
T-shirts and raffles were available for visi-tors
to purchase. The Jack-O’-lanterns were dis-played
throughout the Dudley Hall Courtyard,
perched on walls of tires for all to see. A chili
cook-off took place at 5 p.m. and the pumpkins
were lit and judged at 6 p.m.
The carved pumpkins were judged on cre-ativity,
appearance and craftmanship. Auburn
University President Jay Gogue and two archi-tecture
professors, Tarik Orgen and Scott Finn
were the judges of the competition.
Children attended the event dressed in their
best costumes, waiting for the kid’s costume
competition at 6:30 p.m.
Students from all majors attended the event.
“It was a really fun fall activity to do with
friends,” Erika Francks, senior in chemistry, said.
“Except for the fact it was -5 degrees.”
Auburn design students carve their way into fall
Ashtyne Cole
INTRIGUE WRITER
Ashley Ahner’s 12-year French fry fast
was finally broken when former pop star
Aaron Carter shared a fry with her “Lady
and the Tramp” style.
In seventh grade, Ashley Ahner made a
oath she wouldn’t touch a French fry until
she met teenage obsession, Aaron Carter.
Now an Auburn alumna, Ahner kept
her oath and remained French fry-free un-til
she personally met Carter at his concert
at Bourbon Street Bar, Oct. 19.
Ahner said she has attended at least
seven concerts with her friends.
Ahner said in February 2001, in her
mother’s minivan decorated with “Aaron
Carter or Bust,” she came up with an idea
on their way to a Carter concert in Peo-ria,
Ill.
“I told my three friends that I was going
to stop eating French fries until I met Aar-on
Carter,” Ahner said. “At the same time,
we were die-hard fans and knew it was a
challenge, but that eventually in the near
future I would meet my crush.”
Twelve years later, she was still fryless.
Soon after the oath was made, Carter fiz-zled
out of the music scene, but Ahner
was still bent on keeping her oath to the
end.
“Living French-fry free is mind-blow-ing
in itself, and then once I tell people the
reason why, they usually are speechless
and confused.” Ahner said.
Maggie Bird is a friend of Ahner’s and
was with her when she finally met Carter.
“I thought she was crazy,” Bird said.
“Who would want to give up eating French
fries?”
In January 2013, Ahner learned Cart-er
was back for his comeback tour and he
would be in Decatur, Ga., close to her new
home in Atlanta.
She said she couldn’t believe he would
be so close and hurriedly bought a table
for four at the Eddie’s Attic Venue where
Carter would perform March 13, 2013.
A few days before the concert, she dis-covered
a VIP ticket option, which includ-ed
a meet-and-greet with Carter after the
show. Unfortunately for Ahner, they were
sold out.
“I may or may not have driven to work
that morning with a few tears in my eyes
when I saw my 12-year-old goal become
attainable and then quickly get snatched
away from my grasp,” Ahner said. “I was
deflated but knew there had to be a way.”
Ahner said her only hope was the ru-mor
that the best poster at the concert
would be brought on stage. She made a
simple poster with crossed out French
fries advertising her 12-year fry fast.
After arriving, a teeny-bopper miracle
occurred. She was stopped in line and giv-en
the chance to buy VIP wristbands for
her and her two friends. When she got to
her table, VIP wristbands in tow, she text-ed
her roommates to bring some fries.
Her sign did the trick and got her no-ticed
among the crowd of screaming fans.
She was brought on stage with another
girl and was serenaded by Carter’s song
“I’m All About You.” When she met him af-ter
the concert, she told him all about her
story and snapped a few photos.
“The story was too crazy not to be
shared,” Carter said.
After telling the whole room of VIPs
about her 12-year journey, she decided it
was only right Carter should be the one to
feed her the first fry in 12 years.
Carter obliged, enjoying the fry and a
brief kiss with Ahner.
A 12-year oath finally ended, and Ahner
is no longer French-fry free.
Alumna kisses Carter, ends 12-year oath
CONTRIBUTED BY ASHLEY AHNER
Ahner’s sign grabbed Carter’s attention at his concert at Bourbon Street Bar, Oct. 19.
CONTRIBUTED BY ASHLEY AHNER
Ahner’s dream to meet Aaron Carter finally
came true Oct. 19.
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Intrigue Writer
“SPRINGSTEEN”
BY ERIC CHURCH
It’s just a classic and whenever I hear it at a
tailgate, it just puts me in the best mood.
“WE WILL ROCK YOU”
BY QUEEN
It’s an obvious choice, but it’s reminded me of
hard-hitting sports since I saw A Knight’s Tale
back when I was in middle school.
“VOX POPULI”
BY THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS
I love the epic stomping at the beginning of this
song. The athletic department used this song in
a stadium video during the 2011 season and I
loved it.
“ROAR”
BY KATY PERRY
While this might not have applied to last year’s
season, it seems fitting for the Auburn Tigers this
fall.
“CAN’T HOLD US”
BY RYAN LEWIS AND MACKLEMORE
It’s catchy, a great pump-up song and something
everyone can sing along to. Sounds like a win-win
to me.
MARY-KATE SHERER
Intrigue Writer
“TIGER WALK”
BY T-WILL FT. KNUCK
I don’t remember who got me to listen to this my
freshman year, but ever since it’s been my favorite
game day song. I mean, come on, it’s in the name!
Ashley Ahner vowed not
to eat a French fry until
she met Aaron Carter
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Intrigue A13 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 31, 2013
After dressing for class in my disheveled
room, guzzling coffee and then brushing my
teeth, the pause provided by the care it takes to
apply lipstick felt like a sigh.
Leaning over my bathroom sink and focusing
on my reflection behind small splatters of tooth-paste,
I saw imperfection — the blemishes I had
tried to conceal, the stubborn dry spots and the
bite I left on my bottom lip after wrestling for the
right words to finish an article overnight.
It bothered me.
But as my lips rouged to “Rum Raisin” by
Maybelline, the anxiety eased.
The effect was akin to Clark Kent changing
in a phone booth. I squinted my eyes and there
she was: this sharp, confident woman who’s able
to walk up to anyone and start a conversation,
aiming at her goals with sharpshooter preci-sion.
I wore lipstick like an emblem of fearlessness
and sophistication.
Something uneasy brushed me as I gazed
at my proud reflection. I realized the lipstick
wasn’t magic — the confidence lived inside me
all the time, but I could only, for some strange
reason, draw it out when I felt I looked attrac-tive.
As a Southern woman in my 20s, I have be-come
an expert illusionist.
I know which heels I should wear to elon-gate
my 5-foot-1 frame, I know how to cinch my
dresses with a belt to create a waistline and I
know how to contour my cheeks with blush to
create “instant cheekbones!”— as is written on
the back of my CoverGirl blush compact.
A deep-red lipstick makes me feel like Won-der
Woman, and changes the way I carry myself.
Pride sizzles through me with each applica-tion
of this stuff — this tasteless stick of chem-icals.
But what is wrong with me if the poise van-ishes
when the makeup comes off?
Do I value other people’s opinions of me so
much it dictates how I feel about myself and ap-proach
others?
And why can’t I feel kick-ass without make-up?
The feeling obviously exists somewhere in-side
me.
What I do know is this: Wonder Woman is
beautiful. She was painted by a man to be an
ideal. She has an ageless face, small shorts and
huge breasts.
And I can’t relate to her at all.
To me, she is not a feminist icon because not
a single woman I know looks or acts like her.
She is just art.
She’s a doodle on a page acting out mascu-line
stories.
What I want is more than that. I want to dis-cover
who I am without hiding behind a mask
our culture has drawn for me.
No Makeup November is an experiment in
confidence. It is a search for answers.
I pledge, here and now, to not apply makeup
(or society’s definition of beauty) to my face for
the entire month.
I predict it won’t be easy, but the goal in this is
to learn about myself and ideas of beauty.
So, if you are reading this and you want to
give it a shot with me — even for a week, or a day
— email me sheehrk@Auburn.edu.
We can get coffee and talk about our journey
together. Solidarity, sister!
No makeup November challenge,
an experiment in self-confidence
Becky Sheehan
INTRIGUE@THEPLAINSMAN.
COM
Kailey Miller
INTRIGUE REPORTER
Auburn alumnus Bryan Wilson and his
wife, Sara Farber, created Schmovie, a board
game that can be played at a family function
or a college party.
In 2010, Wilson and Farber started the com-pany,
Galactic Sneeze, on the third anniversa-ry
of their first date.
“Galactic Sneeze is a Brooklyn-based fun-stuff
think tank,” Wilson said. “We invent toys
and games and intellectual properties, then
work to partner with other companies to help
bring those to life.”
Farber said they pitch their ideas to larg-er
companies, or simply make the inventions
themselves.
Wilson graduated from Auburn in 1998,
and Farber graduated from Johns Hopkins
University in 1996. In February 2011, Wilson
and Farber began developing Schmovie.
“We ran the Facebook play-along version
of the game for about a year and a half before
launching the physical game,” Farber said.
“It was a great way to build buzz and test out
some aspects of the game with a broad audi-ence.”
Farber said they received more than 30,000
Schmovie titles from fans. Schmovie is de-signed
for ages 13 and up, and can include
three or more players.
“Every round, one person is the Schmovie
producer and they roll a genre die and figure
out what the movie’s going to be about,” Wil-son
said.
The die has six different sides: sci-fi, hor-ror,
rom-com, drama, action and producer’s
choice. For producer’s choice, the ruling pro-ducer
at the time gets to pick the genre.
The next step is picking two premise cards.
One deck of cards will tell the players who the
movie is about, and the other deck tells the
players what the movie is about.
“Then, all the other players have wipe-off
boards and they write down titles for
what they would call that Schmovie,” Wilson
said. “The Schmovie producer collects all of
the cards, all the titles, shuffles them up so it’s
anonymous, reads them aloud and hilarity en-sues.”
The producer picks their favorite Schmov-ie
title and gives that player a Schquid tro-phy.
Wilson said the first person to collect four
Schquids wins the game.
“In the movie business, you do something
good, you get a gold trophy,” Bryan Wilson
said. “In the Schmovie business you get a gold
trophy with wings and tentacles and maybe a
top hat.”
“Schmovie is unusual in that it just relies
on the creativity of the players,” said Bob, Bry-an
Wilson’s father. “Every game is a little dif-ferent.”
Schmovie is available on Amazon, and se-lect
stores around the country. Bryan said that
they are trying to get Schmovie to come to Au-burn.
Bryan said Schmovie works for different
target audiences because it’s great for kids and
adults.
“If you ask an 8-year-old to give you the
name of a movie about a smelly ninja, they’ve
got a dozen names for movies.” Bryan said. “If
you’re playing it with your college friends and
you’ve had a few drinks, it can get as creative
and as X-rated as the players want it to be.”
Bob Wilson said his favorite part of the
game is the ideas that people come up with,
especially the kids.
Farber and Wilson run Galactic Sneeze out
of their home in Brooklyn, N.Y., where they live
with their 2-year-old daughter, Sadie.
For more information about Galactic
Sneeze and Schmovie, go to GalacticSneeze.
com.
Schmovie, taking a play on
words to a whole new level
CONTRIBUTED BY BRYAN WILSON
Bryan Wilson and his wife, Sara Farber, moved to New York City to start Galactic Sneeze.
With colder weather approaching, it is easy
to slip into the mindset that working out is no
longer necessary because with colder weather
comes bulky clothing.
Without bathing suit weather looming any-where
in the near future, it can be tempting
to substitute your daily workout for a slice of
pumpkin pie or those delicious cut-out Hallow-een
sugar cookies.
Instead of falling into that rut, which will
most likely end in regret come spring semes-ter,
use Runtastic Six Pack to stay motivated
through the winter months.
This app is great for the days you don’t feel
like venturing out into the cold to go to the gym.
The company describes themselves as “a per-sonal
six pack trainer in your pocket.”
The app gives you a choice between two av-atar
trainers, Daniel and Angie. It comes with
more than 50 workout demonstrations, motiva-tional
music, training plans, tips of the day and
the option to share your accomplishments on
social media.
After you pick which trainer you want to use,
you can choose what level you want to progress
at. Level one is called “commence your journey.”
It lasts 10 days and includes 35 exercises.
Level two is labeled “kick it up a notch,” and
lasts 15 days with 60 exercise options.
Level three is “experience incredible results,”
and spans over 25 days with 115 exercise op-tions.
For each day on whichever plan you choose,
there will be a certain amount of exercises for
you to do.
You can pick the music the app comes with,
or pay an additional $0.99 for a different genre
of music.
The trainer talks and counts you through the
exercise, so you get an example of a good work-out
pace.
The avatar trainer will tell you how many sets
and repetitions are necessary, and they will give
you a 30-second break in-between each set if
you need it.
After you have finished the sets for the day,
the app shows you how many repetitions you
completed and how many calories you burned.
You can take a picture and add notes to the
work out so you can remember if you liked it or
not for the future.
After a workout, you will receive the tip of the
day, for example, “workouts need fixed dates. A
little pressure will promote your discipline.” The
duration of the exercises increase by level, and
by day.
It starts with an 8 minute and 45 second exer-cise
on level 1, day 1, and ends with a 41 minute
and 33 second exercise on level 3, day 25.
Under the section “all exercise videos,” there
are 50 animated videos that show you how to
properly execute different exercises, along with
their names.
You can change the voice coach to speak in
English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, or
Japanese.
Under the section titled, “my workouts,” the
app gives you options for extra workouts that
range from less than 10 minutes to more than
30 minutes.
If you’re looking for an extra push of motiva-tion
to stay fit this winter, check out Runtastic.
Kailey Miller
INTRIGUE@THEPLAINSMAN.
COM
Keep your six-pack with Runtastic
@two_owen: I don’t know what kind of drugs they are passing out on Auburn’s
campus but I just saw a girl skipping to class #waytooearlyforthat
@Stina_Bianca: This just in: auburn parking is an advocate of the devil and
doesn’t believe in world peace.
@maui_chowie: Praying I don’t start hyperventilating while registering for classes
like I did at camp War eagle
@schwynJ: No Friday classes for me next semester! War Eagle to that.
@MaggieMae_AU: A group of high school students walk by on a campus tour. Be-ing
friendly, I smile & say hi & war eagle. Five of them yell RTR. #getout #now
@Chance4ta: Getting a power point and war eagle from @TakeoSpikes51 on cam-pus
>>>>> #wareagle @PDeist #Auburn
@chuckfinn334: Can’t wait to see auburn stomp the razorbacks this weekend. So
glad to be pumped for the games again. #WarEagle #11
@Kelli_C_Turner: I always say ‘War Eagle’ to folks I see wearing Auburn gear, but I
just couldn’t do it today to the guy wearing AU crocs. #justsaynotocrocs
@marybethsnow: Best day of the entire semester, war eagle I love life and sun-shine
and Auburn and babies and everything
@bricemesserly: USC was nice, but there is no place like the plains. Looks like I’ll
be carrying on the family tradition next fall in Auburn. War Eagle.
@Solodeauxleaux: I’m so blessed to be able to attend Auburn and to be in such an
amazing program. A “War Eagle” can get you a long way in this industry.
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Different length workouts are available.
Mary-Kate Sherer
INTRIGUE WRITER
When international stu-dents
step foot on Auburn’s
campus, they often want a
helping hand to help them un-derstand
and assimilate into
the culture on The Plains.
Auburn University’s Inten-sive
English Program (IEP),
part of the International
Scholars English Center in the
English as a Second Language
program, and other interna-tional
student services aim to
help non-English speaking stu-dents
learn the language and
adjust to the culture here.
Auburn requires a score of
550 on the TOEFL test, an Eng-lish
proficiency test, for inter-national
undergraduates to be
admitted.
According to Mary Dia-mond,
coordinator of ISEC
and ESL instructor, the TOEFL
is for international students
what the ACT and SAT are for
domestic students — the stan-dardized
test hurdle they must
pass to be admitted.
Just like domestic students,
some international students
don’t test well. That’s where
the IEP comes in.
“A lot of times, students will
come here if they don’t meet
the requirements,” said Car-rie
Melius, coordinator for the
Global Bridge Program and
ESL instructor. “They will join
our Intensive English Program
to build on their English skills.
We also offer TOEFL prep
classes.”
Though some students may
need additional practice to get
their TOEFL score up, most
international students arrive
with at least some experience
with the language.
“It’s rare for us to get a stu-dent
that has no background
(in English) whatsoever,” Me-lius
said.
In addition to TOEFL prep,
IEP offers classes to help with
grammar, writing, reading, vo-cabulary,
listening and speak-ing.
For international teaching
assistants (ITAs), the ESL pro-gram
offers a training course
focused on classroom lan-guage
skills, teaching tech-niques,
and cultural is