2013-09-19 The Auburn Plainsman

              Auburn’s
wizard
casts light
onto his
magical
philosophy
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Ben Hohenstatt
CAMPUS REPORTER
According to Campus Dining, the Student
Center Chick-fil-A averages $15,300 in sales
per weekday, and during peak hours one cus-tomer
every 11 seconds.
From 10 a.m.–noon Monday, Sept. 16, I
worked there.
I arrived at 9:45 a.m., and met Lamond
Brock, director of the Student Center Chick-fil-
A.
“We got tore up over the weekend,” Brock
said. “The sort of Saturday you would expect
for one of the busiest Chick-fil-A restaurants
in the region.”
By 10 a.m., I was outfitted with a spare 3XL
garnet polo, a personalized name tag, a black
hat, a pair of dark slacks and, most important-ly,
a pair of Tredsafe non-slip shoes.
“Grease tends to get into every part of our
work,” Brock said. “We clean regularly, but
with that tile, it’s for safety.”
During my two-hour shift, I tended to skate
from spot to spot rather than walk.
Once I was properly outfitted, Brock placed
me under the direction of Chick-fil-A lead
LaToya Smith to start my shift.
“You’ll be bagging with Drea,” Smith said.
I spent most of my two hours attempting to
help Andrea Dowdell fulfill customers’ orders.
“Once you get used to where things are, it’s
easy,” Dowdell said.
I, on the other hand, relied on packaging
and carefully reading labels to successfully fill
orders.
Placing and receiving an order is a visible
5-step process at the Student Center Chick-fil-
A.
An order is placed, the order is relayed to
the baggers, the baggers put the appropri-ate
food into a bag, the customer pays and is
handed their food.
» See CHICK-FIL-A A2
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Auburn goes green(er) for Game Day Challenge
Derek Herscovici
CAMPUS WRITER
As the tailgate waste on Auburn’s
campus continues to reach unprece-dented
levels, University recycling pro-grams
have taken a different approach
to keeping the school clean and green.
This past game against Mississip-pi
State Sept. 14, was Auburn Universi-ty’s
Green Game, a facet of the national
Game Day Challenge to have the most
eco-friendly NCAA football game in the
country.
“We wanted to show campus that
sustainability is more than just recy-cling,”
said Courtney Washburn, recy-cling
coordinator with the Waste Re-duction
and Recycling Department.
“I feel like recycling is the smallest
act that someone can do on a Gam Day
to make the biggest difference, by sim-ply
throwing your can or your bottle
into the recycling bin, you’re making a
huge difference,” Washburn said.
Promoted by non-profit organiza-tions
such as the College and Univer-sity
Recycling Coalition, Keep America
Beautiful and Recycle Mania, the Green
Game is a competition for the lowest
environmental impact of a single game
chosen by the University to compete
with other schools.
Statistics on GameDayChallenge.
org show Ohio State had zero trash in
their stadium and was the 2012 winner
for their waste minimization and diver-sion
rate of approximately 98 percent.
Auburn’s diversion rate finished third
in the SEC, behind LSU and Tennessee,
during the 2012 Game Day Challenge
recycling and trash diversion rate, but
the school has its sights set on being
the No. 1 recyclers in the SEC, Wash-burn
said.
Behind lines
Editor’s Note: As promised, The Plainsman sent a reporter Monday, Sept. 16, to work at the
Student Center Chick-fil-A during peak business hours. We hope his experience provides
perspective to the patrons of one of the highest grossing Chick-Fil-A’s in the region.
» See GREEN(ER) A2
Officials weigh in on
proposed property tax
CONTRIBUTED BY SHELBY VALENTINE
In an attempt to cut down on the waste a typical game day generates, the University
hosted its first Green Game Sept. 14.
JENNA BURGESS / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Lines at the Student Center Chick-Fil-A are known to stretch throughout the building.
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A new
sense of
togetherness
defines the
Tigers’ 2013
team
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•1 mil = .1 of 1 percent
•Current property taxes: 54 mil
•Proposed tax increase: 9 mil
•Result of proposed tax increase: Auburn City
Schools would recieve 33 mil
•Percentage: 16.67 percent increase in commercial
property taxes
•Affect of proposed property tax on
personal vehicles: increase of $13.50 per year on the
average $20,000 vehicle
•Current property tax: A $500,000 apartment com-plex
currently pays $5,400 per year in taxes.
•Under proposed property tax: Figure will increase
to $6,300
•Spread equally over 10 individual apartments,
renters look to increase their rent $90 per year, creat-ing
$7.50 increase per month
TAX PROPOSAL BREAKDOWN
While the proposed increase in taxes
will fund a new Auburn high school,
property owners are wary of rising costs
Chandler Jones
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Most of Auburn antici-pates
the result of a coming
Sept. 24 highly controversial
vote regarding an increase
in Auburn’s property tax. The
tax will be wide reaching and
could lead to increases in stu-dents’
rent payments.
Auburn City Schools cur-rently
function under less
than 24 mil, of which 19 mil
goes directly to the Auburn
school system, a percentage
to the county and then 3 mil
to the Alabama Board of Ed-ucation.
The city aims to in-crease
property tax by 9 mil
to 33 mil creating a property
tax, real and personal prop-erty
including motor vehi-cles,
increase from 54 mil to
63 mil.
A mil is 1/10th of 1 per-cent;
in this case that percent
is calculated from the total
amount of property tax.
“From what I’ve seen
across the state, that is an
ambitious number,” said Lee
County Revenue Commis-sioner
Oline W. Price.
Auburn City Manager
Charles Duggan said they
went with the bare mini-mum
they thought would do
the job so they weren’t asking
for the citizens to pay more
than they needed. Figures are
based off how much revenue
9 mil collected last year.
The city is borrowing this
money by floating a bond,
which essentially means the
city is going into debt to build
the school and the proceeds
received from the 9 mil tax in-crease
will go toward paying
that debt service back.
» See TAXES A2
The average cost of construction of a high
school is $65 million, which is the anticipat-ed
cost of this high school. The new school
will serve grades 10–12 and measure 375,052
square feet at 158 square feet per student to po-tentially
house 2,400 students.
Duggan said the reason the school board
doesn’t already have the necessary funds to
contribute to construction relates to the four
elementary schools constructed in the past
10 years and continued renovations to current
schools.
“They’ve done their best to endure the
growth, and now they can’t handle it anymore.”
Duggan said of Auburn City Schools. “We’ve
gone from 11th in the state, per-people, spend-ing
at 45th. You can’t continue to have a quali-ty
school system like this, year after year, spend-ing
45th in this state in education. This is one
of the least-funded public school systems in the
country, as far as statewide. You can’t say there
is a one-to-one correlation with the more mon-ey
you spend the better education you have, but
I don’t think anyone says that when you con-tinue
to erode your spending on the kids that
it doesn’t have an effect on their education. It
has to.
If the tax is not passed, Duggan said the
school system will have to start finding money,
which will come in the shape of portables and
course and bussing cuts.
“They do have to find money from some-where,”
Duggan said. “The do have to provide
the core English, science, math, history class-es.
If the vote passes, they will know they have
the current funding in place to fund all those
programs they currently have, and then they’ll
have the new funding to fund the classroom
space that’s needed. If the classroom space
isn’t funded, and they’re going to have to have it
anyway, they are going to have to go to the pro-grams
and see what can be cut.”
If passed, the tax increase will go into effect
October 2014.
Figures provided by the city of Auburn show
an average homestead property owner-occu-pied
with the standard $53 exemption, home
value at slightly under $250,000. For a home of
that value, this 9-mil increase increases prop-erty
tax $225, making the annual tax payment
$1,522, up from $1,297 in 2012.
Price said property taxes will increase 16.67
percent per full value of a commercial property.
There will also be an increase on proper-ty
taxes of personal vehicles by approximately
$13.50 per year per $20,000 of the vehicle’s fair
market value.
However, commercial property will be dou-ble
that of homestead property.
Auburn University students could also be af-fected,
as the increase in taxes will affect apart-ments
and housing complexes.
Price gave the example of a hypothetical
complex at a $500,000 value, which now pays
$5,400 per year in taxes. That figure will in-crease
to $6,300, a $900 increase. Spread equal-ly
over an estimated 10 apartments would thus
result in a $90 per year increase per apartment,
making an individuals rent raise $7.50 per
month.
This also applies to personal property with-in
the apartments, such as appliances or fur-nishings
owned by the complex. If worth $500
would create an average increase, if at an as-sessed
value of $100, of $96.30 per year.
This leaves students’ rent to increase an aver-age
of $8.03 per month.
“There’s no way of knowing exactly what will
change.” Duggan said. “Rent won’t go up appre-ciatively,
when you think about it, because with
the vacancy situation that we have with apart-ments
in town. No one is going to pass all of the
tax on to the people they are renting to and not
have people move to other places. It’s basic eco-nomics
theory that some of it will be born by
the renter. Probably what will happen, it will eat
into the profits that a normal rent increase each
year will be for the people who own the build-ings.
Price disagreed.
“I’ve talked to a lot of commercial proper-ty
owners and I would imagine they’re going to
adjust their rents accordingly,” Price said.
Tim McGowin is an Auburn University grad-uate,
local resident and rental-property owner.
McGowin also said if the property tax in-crease
were approved, he would have no choice
but to increase rent for his own tenants. Though
undecided on how much more to charge, Mc-
Gowin said it would be at least enough to cov-er
the tax increase.
The school isn’t expected to open until fall
2017, at the earliest, and none of the students
currently in high school would attend this
school.
The city anticipates it will take 30 years to re-pay
the debt in full.
This will happen at a 5 percent interest rate,
which will net $8.5 million per year. The 9 mil
increase will generate more than $7 million in
its first year and is anticipated to increase each
year.
“It makes a lot of sense if you’re going to have
an asset that is going to last a long time,” Dug-gan
said. “What you do is you spread out those
payments over many years and part of the ad-vantage
is that future generations that will be
helping to pay for it are also the ones that are
using it.”
The last tax increase was in 2007 for school
upgrades at a rate of 7 mil.
“I think it’s critical,” Duggan said. “The city of
Auburn I really think of as an education town.
The University is world-renowned. We have
a public school system that is excellent; chil-dren
that want to go to elite schools are get-ting
the education they need to be able to qual-ify
for those schools. It really does provide top-to-
bottom, across the spectrum for all the levels
of kids to get whatever level of education they
want to get. If that starts decreasing, I think the
town will change.”
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 19, 2013
Alice Circle, Sept. 11, between 9:45–
10:15 a.m.
Burglary Third Degree – theft of jew-elry
box, and four pieces of jewelry
West Magnolia Avenue, Sept. 12, be-tween
1:30–1:50 a.m.
Criminal Mischief Second Degree –
theft of currency, phone and car keys
South College Street, Sept. 12, between
2:20–2:30 a.m.
Burglary Third Degree – theft of
water pipe
Lee Road 137, Sept. 12, between 4:15
a.m.–noon
Burglary Third Degree – theft of tele-vision,
laptop, guitar and router
North Perry Street, Sept. 12, between
6:15 a.m.-noon
Burglary Third Degree – theft of
television and tablet
Devall Drive, between Aug. 29, 8 a.m.-
Sept. 13, 5 p.m.
Theft of Property First Degree – theft
of four laptops, tablet and kitchen
supplies
Opelika Road, between Sept. 13, 2 p.m.–
Sept. 15, 11:57 p.m.
Burglary Third Degree – theft of tele-vision,
gaming system, safe deposit
box, tools and cigarettes
East Drake Avenue, between Sept. 16, 10
p.m.–Sept. 17, 7:40 a.m.
Unlawful Breaking and Entering a
Vehicle – theft of laptop, backpack,
currency and textbooks
South Donahue Drive, Sept. 17, between
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Theft of Property Second Degree –
theft of Canon digital camera and
camera lens
Kurt Circle, Sept. 17 between 7:30–8
p.m.
Theft of Property Second Degree
– theft of female canine; German
Shepherd
POLICE REPORTS FOR CITY OF AUBURN SEPT. 12–18, 2013 DUI ARRESTS FOR SEPT. 12–18, 2013
Anastasia Papastefan, 22
West Magnolia and Engineering Drive, Sept 12, 3:22
a.m.
Jackson Harmening, 18
West Thatch Avenue, Sept. 14, 2:16 a.m.
Edward McGuffey, 22
West Glenn Avenue and Cox Street, Sept. 14, 2:18
a.m.
Richard Lamb, 57
Lem Morrison Drive, Sept. 14, 9 p.m.
Gerald Rutherford, 29
I-85 N 53 MM, Sept. 15, 3:04 a.m.
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
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AUBURN AT A GLANCE
• Auburn University opened the new Mike Hubbard Center for
Advanced Science, Innovation and Commerce Friday, Sept. 13,
located in the Auburn Research Park at 559 Devall Drive.
• The University opened a new 58,000-square-foot kinesiology
research facility at 301 Wire Rd. The facility will conduct re-search
on physical activity in children, provide a more efficient
and up-to-date facility for the TigerFit progam and provide
health screenings for members of the community.
• Auburn volleyball will play Florida State at the Auburn Arena
Saturday, Sept. 21 at noon.
• In September and October, residents and staff in 30 University
residence halls are participating in the annual Sustain-A-Bowl
competition, which challenges each hall to increase recycling
and reduce energy and water usage by 10 percent.
• The Media and Digital Resource Lab in the Ralph Brown
Draughon Library is open to all students and faculty, and has
the latest software for publishing and video and audio editing.
• The fall 2013 Study Abroad and Passport Fair will be held
Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Haley Center lobby from 9 a.m.–2
p.m.
Though the school won’t
know its total waste-diver-sion
rate until the end of the
week, Washburn was opti-mistic
that the game against
Mississippi State was greener
than last year.
“Recycling in the stadium
really does drop as the tem-perature
goes down and peo-ple
aren’t buying as may plas-tic
bottles,” said Donnie An-derson.
“Thats why we fo-cus
our efforts mainly for the
first four home games be-cause
those are going to be
the warmest, typically.”
Washburn said the Missis-sippi
State game alone gen-erated
several dumpsters
worth of recycled plastic bot-tle.
While Auburn volunteers
do a substantial amount
of the recycling work dur-ing
gameday for the price of
a game ticket, the school’s
biggest challenge with col-lecting
recycling is the prev-alence
of tailgate areas too
distant from campus to be
serviced.
“While we may have 20
volunteers when were right
here, we can’t send people all
the way out to the vet school,
its too sprawled out for our
volunteers on foot,” Wash-burn
said.
Working in partnership
with the Waste Reduction
and Recycling Department
and recycling this season, the
Office of Sustainability used
the Green Game was used to
promote the Auburn Sustain-
A-Bowl, the competition be-tween
dorms to reduce ener-gy
and water use.
“I think the biggest thing
you can do to help people
move in a sustainable direc-tion
is let them know what
the situation is and what
they can do to be more sus-tainable,”
said Jen Morse, TES
Technician with the Office of
Sustainability. “Whether it’s
clean air or freedom or social
justice, so whatever anybody
values, it has a link back to
sustainability.”
Sustain-A-Bowl will con-tinue
until the end of Sep-tember
when the results of
the most green dorms will be
announced.
The Gameday Challenge
extends until the end of the
football season, when the re-sults
of competing schools
will be made available to the
public.
GREEN(ER)
» From A1
CHICK-FIL-A
» From A1
Behind the scenes, food is constantly be-ing
prepared in the kitchen, wrapped and slid
through labeled chutes, leading to the area
behind the counter.
Food items, which are continually on hand
by default, include chargrilled chicken sand-wiches,
three and four-count chick-n-strips,
eight and 12-count nuggets, spicy chicken
sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, with and
without pickles, and waffle fries.
Special orders are called back by cashiers
or baggers, and there are also refrigerated
foods, such as salads and wraps, ready for or-der.
During peak hours, food items tend to pile
up and then disappear in quick waves.
The late-morning shift ran smoothly until
there were technical difficulties toward the
end of my shift.
“The hot area we put food before it’s or-dered
sort of sparked up and stopped work-ing,”
Brock said. “We have excellent mainte-nance
though, so I’m sure we’ll have it fixed
later today.”
For the remainder of my time at Chick-fil-A,
all orders had to be filled with food from one
service window.
This led to frequent trips from one end of
the behind-the-counter area to the other and
back again.
This time period felt frantic to me, but ev-eryone
else was calm and collected.
During her trips between customers to the
food, Keri Bennett, another Chick-fil-A em-ployee,
actually spent the time singing a few
seconds of songs at a time.
Suddenly, it was noon, and it was time for
me to leave.
I was definitely relieved to see the end of my
two-hour shift.
In my temporary manager’s opinion, I was
too relieved.
“You really did not get the full experience,”
Brock said. “Today we had some mishaps, but
this was actually a little slow for a Monday
morning.”
TAXES
» From A1
CONTRIBUTED BY SHELBY VALENTINE
Trash cans and recycling bins are spread around campus on game day.
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Ben Hohenstatt
Campus Reporter
After working as a teacher at Auburn High
School for 24 years, Rusty Logan retired. Logan
then decided to shift his gears to a new profes-sion
and become a University Tiger Transit driv-er.
How long have you been driving
for Tiger Transit?
This is my first year. I was a high school band
director for 33 years, and I retired in July.
What inspired this change?
I retired after 33 years. I was at Auburn High
School, so I know Auburn, and I know the tran-sit
system. For the last two years I was working,
I thought about what I wanted to do, and I knew
I wanted to be around young people.
What made being around young
people so important to you?
I spent 33 years around them, and I thought I
could maybe make a difference in their day. I’m
the type of personality that says hello to every-one.
I want to be the first person students see
in the morning, and I want to make their day
brighter.
Do students generally re-turn
your kindness?
One hundred percent, I have never had a stu-dent
not speak to me.
After 24 years at Auburn High
School, l have you driven former stu-dents?
Yeah. The very first day, I drove some of my
former students. I would say that I have driven
about 10 or 12 of them in total.
Which routes do you normally
drive?
I have three that I normally drive during
the week. On Tuesdays, I do the North College
route, on Wednesdays I do the Long Leaf Route
and Thursday and Friday I do the Opelika Road
route.
Do you have a favorite route?
No, not really. The Longleaf Route is the only
route that doesn’t have to cross a railroad cross-ing,
but that’s no big deal. You just hope you
aren’t making people mad at you for having to
stop at the railroad crossing.
How long is the average work day
for a Tiger Transit Driver?
Most of the full-time drivers work 40–hour
weeks, but that’s over a three and a half-day
work week. We have an eight-hour day and
three 12-hour days.
How do you help pass the time of a
12-hour shift?
It’s no big deal. Every time you pull out, it’s
different. The traffic is different, the students are
different, everything is different. We get a break
in the morning, we get lunch and we get a break
in the afternoon.
What is a normal day like for you?
You get to the bus barn at 6 a.m. You do what
we call a pre-check to make sure everything is
safe. Around 6:45 a.m. or 7 a.m., we get the call
to start rolling. Then you just run the routes.
The final route of the day is at 6 p.m. Then you
go through a post-trip, and you check your bus
again.
What’s been the strangest thing
you have encountered during your
time on the job?
How people can leave stuff on the bus. I un-derstand
that you can put your phone down and
forget it, but how can someone load a bike down
on the front of the bus and forget about it.
What’s the best part of your job?
Being around the students.
When you aren’t driving a bus,
what type of vehicle are you driv-ing?
I have an old Chevy 5-10 pickup. The bus is
just a little bit bigger.
During your teaching career did
you take a lot of road trips or do a lot
of driving?
Yeah, I drive all the time with my wife. If we go
a long distance, I drive. My son lives in San An-tonio,
and I like to drive that 14 hours. I just en-joy
driving.
When you drive 14 hours, what
music makes up your road trip
soundtrack?
We have XM radio, and we listen to a lot of
‘70s on the seven and the Broadway channel.
When I went through school at Auburn, I played
in a few shows, and I really enjoyed it.
Aside from driving and music,
what do you enjoy doing in your free
time?
Golf. I’m not very good at it, but I really en-joy
it.
Tiger Transit Bus Driver
Rusty Logan is new to the Tiger Transit bus driver life, but is a native to the Auburn area
Ben hohenstatt / campus reporter
Logan doesn’t have a favorite route, but he likes the Longleaf Route because it doesnt go over a railroad.
ben hohenstatt / campus reporter
Logan decided to keep working with students in the area after retiring as an Auburn High School teahcer.
“I thought I could maybe make
a difference in their day.”
—Rusty Logan
Tiger Transit bus driver
Campus A4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 19, 2013
Auburn invades New York City fashion scene
Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Fashion, the city, Auburn Tigers, oh my!
Two Auburn alumnae continue to expand
their fashion label, Jordan Wolk, in the Big Ap-ple.
Sara Brosious, 2004 Auburn alumna, and Ai-mee
Mars, 2003 Auburn alumna; Tara Germi-no
started Jordan Wolk in 2010. The name Jor-dan
Wolk is a combination of Sara and Aimee’s
maiden names. Sara’s maiden name is Jordan
and Aimee’s maiden name is Wolk.
“When we first started the company, we just
wrote down Jordan Wolk Incorporated because
that was easy, but when we were thinking of a
strong, powerful name, we decided to just keep
using Jordan Wolk and it had some meaning be-hind
it,” Brosious said.
Jordan Wolk’s target audience is usually the
working woman in her 30s, but Brosious said
their targeted consumer has changed a bit.
“We still target that power woman, but af-ter
looking at a couple of seasons and see-ing
who buys, we found out that people like it
more for social wear,” Brosious said. “Our main
target consumer is socialites in New York City
for when they need a special dress for a charity
event, client dinner or a fancy wedding shower.”
Although the line targets women in their 30s
and older, Brosious said students willing to pay
more money for a piece would be able to wear
their pieces to a campus event.
“It’s a higher price point, so I don’t know if a
student would want to spend that much. That’s
why we target women in their 30s, because they
already have a career started and have that ex-tra
money,” Brosious said. “But we’ve had young-er
women wear it as well.”
Brosious said she and Mars get most of their
inspiration for the line from the women of Man-hattan.
“Our third partner, Germino, came on board
with us because she felt like there weren’t
clothes for her to wear to work that were high
quality and sophisticated and classy enough to
wear to the office,” Brosious said. “That’s where
the concept came from, something you can
wear to work or transition it to after work or an
event.”
Brosious said three words describe their fash-ion
label: polished, classy and sophisticated.
“I wouldn’t say we’re trendy because we’re
pretty classic,” Brosious said. “When someone
buys a piece they know they’ll be able to wear
it for a couple of years and it’s not going to go
out of style.”
There is no such thing as a typical day at Jor-dan
Wolk.
“One day could be doing accounting all day
long, which is something I never thought I
would be doing,” Mars said. “You set your day up
and then you could be doing something com-pletely
different at the end of the day.”
So far Jordan Wolk has been featured in
Women’s Wear Daily, Scene Magazine and on
Halsbrook.com. Celebrities such as Alex Mc-
Cord van Kempen, New York housewife, and
Heather Thomson, New York housewife and
owner and CEO of Yummy Tummy, have been
seen in Jordan Wolk pieces.
“[Thomson] has been wearing eight or nine
of our pieces all summer and she’s been wearing
them for the filming of the reality show for the
new upcoming season,” Brosious said.
Brosious said the line’s goals are always
changing.
“Ultimately we would like to grow the brand
into a lifestyle collection with accessories, bags
and shoes,” Brosious said. “We would like to
have our own boutique one day and become a
member of the CFDA.”
Brosious and Mars have had their foot in the
door in the fashion industry before starting the
line.
Brosious held various positions in the fash-ion
industry such as interning at Rebecca Tay-lor,
working in product development at Tibi, be-ing
an assistant designer at Walter Baker and
associate designer at PKO Apparel until she got
laid off, which gave her a chance to start Jordan
Wolk. Mars’ past experience included intern-ing
at Donna Karan, working for a small suit de-signer
and working a couple of years at a Swatch
Watch group doing visual merchandising.
Eloise Saber, 2013 Auburn alumna, interned
with Jordan Wolk in 2011.
“The things I got to do a lot of interns wouldn’t
get to do in a larger company. Sara and Aimee
would design the clothes, but after that I got to
do everything,” Saber said.
Saber helped Brosious and Mars with various
jobs around the office.
“The greatest part of the internship was they
wanted me to learn as much as I wanted to
learn,” Saber said.
Mars’ advice for students wanting to make it
in the fashion industry is to do whatever it takes.
“If that means working as an assistant in a
position that you don’t want to be in, but it gets
your foot in the door, take it,” Mars said. “The
harder you work the more chances you have to
grow.”
contributed by sara brosious
Jordan Wolk designs a variety of fashion pieces, such as formal wear.
contributed by sara brosious
Sara Brosious (left) and Aimee Mars (right) creators of Jordan Wolk.
contributed by sara brosious
Jordan Wolk’s target consumers are the working women in the city.
Untapping the NSA rumor
Corey Arwood
Writer
The National Security Agen-cy
recently named Auburn
University a Center of Aca-demic
Excellence in Cyber Op-erations.
This is the second designa-tion
of academic excellence
out of a 10-year relationship
with the NSA, and despite
controversy surrounding the
agency, those closest to the re-lationship
say it is a positive
one for the University.
Accusations of sweeping
domestic surveillance, and
spying on nations friendly to
the U.S. among other activi-ties,
have been documented
through internal agency leaks.
The leaks, which began
during June of this year, have
prompted reviews, inspections
and both public, and political
debate, aimed at determining
the legality of the agency’s be-havior.
“Auburn folks are not work-ing
in direct support of the
NSA as we speak. We are not
an existential arm of the NSA.
I can’t state that more defin-itively.
Auburn students are
not sitting over there in Shelby
Center working for NSA and
taking direction from them.
That ain’t happening,” said Re-tired
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess,
senior counsel for Auburn cy-ber
security programs.
Burgess also said the inter-disciplinary
program helps
meet the demands of the ex-panding
cyber workforce, and
performs the three main func-tions
of a land-grant univer-sity:
research, education and
workforce development.
The Center of Academic Ex-cellence
program is a broad-spectrum
approach to devel-oping
what the agency calls
the U.S,’s cyber operations ca-pacity
by deepening its involv-ment
with all levels of academ-ic
institutions.
Burgess said Auburn’s gen-eral
focus of research in its cy-ber
programs is defensive in
nature.
“When you have personal
information out there residing
someplace, that information
is protected and people can’t
get your data and use it for ne-farious
purposes. Auburn’s en-gaged
in that type of work,”
Burgess said.
Burgess, who serves as se-nior
counsel for national secu-rity
programs, cyber programs
and military affairs, has an ex-tensive
background in the mil-itary
and intelligence commu-nity.
Among his many appoint-ments,
he served as the direc-tor
of the Defense Intelligence
Agency from August 2005–
May 2007.
“Throughout my career, I
have been in and around the
NSA. In the latter part of my
career, I was a customer of the
NSA. I was a user of their infor-mation.
I tasked the NSA for
information as I did any oth-er
part of the U.S. Intelligence
Community,” Burgess said.
He said that he was aware of
the agency’s activities.
“At the end of the day, I was
confident, and still am confi-dent,
that, we had the requi-site
authorities to do what we
were doing,” Burgess said.
The NSA has been the sub-ject
of heated debate because
of its intelligence-gathering
practices and methods.
Drew Hamilton, assistant
vice president for research for
Mississippi State University,
first applied to the agency in
2002 regarding academic ex-cellence
in information assur-ance.
He recently left his posi-tion
in the computer science
and software engineering de-partment
to go to Mississippi
State University to help devel-op
its cyber programs.
“We just haven’t really en-gaged
in anything that I think
would really be considered to
be intelligence collection or
surveillance, or anything like
that. We pretty much work
on the technical side and all
the work we’ve done for NSA
is publicly available,” Hamil-ton
said.
David Umphress, associate
director in the department of
computer science and soft-ware
engineering took over as
acting director of the Auburn
Cyber Research Center after
Hamilton left.
“We do it so that we can
show that we support the na-tion
to begin with... But what
the NSA does for us in return
for recognizing us as a center
of excellence is that they help
with jobs,” Umphress said. “For
students that go through our
program, the NSA will make
sure that those students’ re-sumes
are looked at, that they
are paid close attention to.”
The Academic Excellence in
Cyber Programs spans across
multiple schools within the
University.
It uses the capabilities to
help development cyber pro-gram
operations. It is based in
a computer science, electrical
engineering or computer engi-neering
department.
Tiger Advisor assisting undergrads
Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Located behind glass walls on the second
floor of RBD, and conveniently a few steps
away from Caribou Coffee, Tiger Advisor, Au-burn’s
student-directed advising, is there to
help.
“It’s a way for students to come in and get
the general advising questions asked,” said
Whitney Bonham, lead tiger adviser and se-nior
in public relations. “We’re not here to re-place
their academic adviser. We’re here to di-rect
them toward resources on campus that
they may not know about, or if they don’t re-member
how to do something, we’re here to
direct them to different places.”
Tiger Advisor is a joint effort between SGA
and the Office of the Provost.
“SGA approached the provost office say-ing
that students desired after-hours advising
opportunities,” said Judith Sanders, retention
programming coordinator.
Most of the students who seek assistance
from the advisers ask questions about sched-uling,
but the tiger advisers are up for any
question.
“They can come in with any question and
we’ll try our best to help them answer it or di-rect
them to the resources to get that question
answered for them,” Bonham said. “It’s not
necessarily just for registration, but that’s the
biggest question we got last year.”
Sanders said students come to the advisers
before their academic adviser.
“[A student] just wanted to be able to ask
lots of questions and not feel intimated or
uncomfortable at all,” Sanders said. “We sat
down with her and went over DegreeWorks
with her, so she had better questions to ask
her adviser.”
DegreeWorks, located under the tiger i tab,
helps students plan out their academic future.
“It’s a way for students to kind of gauge
to see how far they are in their degree, what
classes have they taken and what classes they
need to take,” Bonham said. “They can pretend
to change their major as well.”
Bonham said the students-helping-stu-dents
factor is something the adviser place
importance on.
“They’re not meeting with their adviser, so
they feel like they don’t have to be perfect in
what they ask,” Bonham said. “We can give
them a student’s perspective, but also give
them accurate information and they’ll go
away knowing they’ll be more confident.”
The adivsers get a lot of freshman traffic,
but juniors and seniors ask for help as well.
“They’re a student, just like me, but I give
my personal perspective as a student or may-be
my personal experience,” said Kesha James,
tiger adviser and junior in communications.
“They get a personal experience or personal
relationship, where maybe they don’t feel like
that with their academic adviser.”
Tiger advisers are recommended by nomi-nations,
which are sought during the summer.
“We worked really hard in the selection pro-cess,”
Sanders said.
Sanders said Tiger Advisor is just trying to
make its presence known.
“We want students to know we’re here and
give them helpful and accurate information,”
Sanders said.
The Tiger Advisor office is open from 3–8
p.m. in Room 2341 on the second floor of RBD.
sarah may / assistant photo editor
Tiger Advising started in October 2012, but just remodeled their office to make it more visible.
“We are not an
existential arm of
the NSA. I can’t
state that more
definitively.”
—Ronald Burgess
senior counsel for Auburn
cyber security programs
Thursday, September 19, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A5
Most Auburn freshmen live on
campus in the residence halls.
Few sophomores or juniors live
on campus, and even fewer se-niors
live on campus.
I am in that small percent-age
of Auburn seniors who live
in the residence halls. I have lived
on campus all four years in col-lege.
Most people look at me fun-ny
when I say I live on campus. I
have private security, personal
trash collection, complimentary
cleaning services and I don’t have
to cook — what more could you
ask for?
There are four housing areas on
campus now — South Donahue,
the Village, the Quad and the Hill.
Each housing area has its own
personality and each area is set
up differently.
In the Hill, there are 12 res-idence
halls, all in a cluster fo-cused
around the dining hall, Ter-rell
(some pronounce it Ter-rail, I
don’t judge).
The Quad has 10 residence
halls divided into upper and low-er
sections. These halls are on
central campus.
The Village has eight residence
halls and a dining hall.
The South Donahue Residence
Hall is one hall, but houses 418
students.
Many people do not see the sil-ver
lining, but living on campus
has perks. I have unlimited hot
water, fantastic WiFi (who are we
kidding, it’s not THAT great) and
Antarctic air conditioning. My air
conditioner has two settings —
soul-freezingly cold or off.
After living on campus for
three years, you learn the prime
time for laundry, the best food
places, the best parking places
and the quickest way to the Haley
Center. You learn which washers
don’t have nasty encrusted into
them and which dryers are por-tals
to hell.
Harvard University estimated
97 percent of their undergraduate
students live on campus. There’s
a reason for that, and it has to
do with academics. Living in the
dorms provides structure be-cause
you never leave the Univer-sity
setting. I think, living on cam-pus
provides students with an ac-ademic
structure. Since I live on
campus, everything is more con-venient.
I can walk to the library
or hitch a ride on the Security
Shuttle (known in other social
circles as the drunk bus).
Most students think parking
on Auburn’s campus is a night-mare.
Since I live in the dorms, I
can park right outside and merri-ly
skip to my room. I mostly walk
everywhere and central campus
is right across the street.
But let me be frank, living on
campus has a downside. I can’t
tell you how many times I’ve been
woken up from a delightful nap
by the banshee lady trapped in
the fire alarm because someone
tried to microwave their Pop-Tart
with the wrapper still on, or tried
to see if their popcorn could be-gin
nuclear fusion.
If I had the choice, I would not
live anywhere else in Auburn. Liv-ing
on Auburn’s campus is like a
home away from home. I don’t
see my room as a concrete pris-on,
like some on-campus resi-dents.
When you get to the front
door with your Tiger Card, there’s
always a smiling face to greet you
or some sobbing fool who’s been
locked out for a day and a night.
Living on campus is what you
make of it.
You can hate the structure and
be miserable, or embrace the
community you share with the
other residents, and make the
best of it. When you live on cam-pus,
you realize there is some-thing
always going on.
Every wild fantasy – read “stu-pid
idea” – I’ve ever had, has come
true in Auburn.
Giving credit where credit is
due: Auburn and the University,
compared to everywhere else in
the world I’ve ever been (and I’m
an Air Force brat, so that number
is pretty damn high), hold some
of the most helpful, outgoing and
supportive communities, social
circles and individuals.
Want to start a small business?
Go for it. The folks at Auburn
City Hall will get you squared
away.
Want to start a student organi-zation?
Utilize Auburn University’s O-Board
and AUInvolve resourc-es,
or just email John-Michael
Roehm at roehmjm@auburn.edu.
Want to be a radio DJ?
Sign-up at WEGL 91.1 FM, or
ask the Auburn University New
Media Club if they’d be interested
in producing a podcast. Serious-ly,
you just add your name to a list
and attend a few meetings.
I have done all of these things,
and they aren’t hard to do.
Auburn helped me take every-thing
I’ve ever wanted to do and
turn it into what I am doing, and
often times, helped me get paid
for doing it.
But, there is a caveat.
For all of the interesting and
creative avenues available to stu-dents
and locals, there are those
whom simply see students and
the Auburn youth as free-labor,
easily manipulated “apprentices”
of sorts — and as a demographic
to exploit for profit.
They are the “Pied Pipers” of
our small community.
Because Auburn has a scene
ripe for the picking — scattered
and with a lack of leadership —
all it takes is a new face, with a lot
of talk, to make us dance to their
tune and think we’ve finally found
our own personal patron.
This is where the moral kicks
in, the big, inflated, bouncy-castle
of a message that I want to blow
up in your mind: DO NOT BUILD
YOUR IDEA AROUND A CORE
PERSONALITY.
It’s like every bad band break-up
you’ve ever read about, and
a lot that you haven’t. There are
those that want to be heroes and
those that love to take part in he-ro-
worship.
DIY culture, generally and in
Auburn, only benefits from a col-lective
of folks that share ideals,
principles, and the same idea of
what makes something cool as
hell.
But all of those things can get
flushed faster than you can say
“local arts” if the organization or
group becomes a monument to
one member’s ego — and there is
no use saying that “it’ll never hap-pen
here,” because it already has.
Out of the decade and some
change I’ve been a member of the
Auburn community, I have seen
some great ideas go from talk to
reality, and some go from talk to
hurt feelings and a desire to nev-er
take part in local enterprise
again.
Cool stuff happens in Auburn,
all of the time.
But the best stuff, the stuff that
lasts, centers around an idea and
some honest-to-God students
putting their souls into their
work.
So my PSA of the semester, my
swan song of my time at Auburn:
if you want to do something, start
doing it.
But if in your travels you en-counter
some folks who seem too
eager to help you, who seem to
want something for helping you
even before they lend a hand —
and who you’ve heard a lot about
but have never really seen any-thing
they’ve done — you should
be cautious.
That isn’t to say there aren’t
helpful people in Auburn and you
should throw every opportunity
to the curb; just be careful.
Find people like you and make
something wonderful together.
Don’t let someone hovering
in the wings tell you what you
should do and how you should do
it, unless they really garner your
respect and you genuinely feel
like they know what they are talk-ing
about.
Auburn University — and col-lege
in general — really is about
experimenting and learning
what makes you happy, but it
isn’t about throwing away the
best years of your life to someone
telling you what you should care
about.
Just stick to your guns.
A6
Thursday, September 19, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Opinion
Opinion
Auburn creatives: be your own Pied Piper
Life on campus better than you think
His View
Our View
In response to our tweet “Do you think
Nick Marshall will be able to lead the Ti-gers
to victory on the road against LSU?”
@jackospades1975:
tough to say. Got to complete the deep
pass at least once a game.
evh1 in response to the letter to the
editor“Plainsman’s views on smoking mis-guided”
“Smokers’ concerns were taken into
consideration and their opinions were
considered.”
...and immediately dismissed out of
hand.
Is it really Jacob Dean and the SGA’s
contention that the Auburn campus is
so terribly small that there is not a single
nook or corner anywhere that non-smok-ing
students can avoid on their walks to
and from class?
I am not a smoker, but this is ridiculous.
Even Disney World has smoking sections.
Both smokers and non-smokers could
have EASILY been accommodated in this
decision. The SGA simply chose not to do
so.
In response to our post “Do you think Nick
Marshall will be able to lead the Tigers to
victory on the road against LSU?”
Warrene Snodgrass:
LSU is always tough, especially at home,
sure hope so. We will have to get a run-ning
game, better defense and be very
consistent and no fumbles, and use
quick offense. And Marshall needs to
keep his confidence level high, as do all
the players and they must believe they
can win.
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It’ll be tough. Auburn proved they can
pass when a defense stacks the box, but
it’s his first road game. I hope we do.
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Her View
Thankfully, most of us aren’t
who we were in high school.
Even freshman have changed in
the short time they’ve been here.
Some of us had great experi-ences;
some of us had the worst
experiences of our lives. Yet we
benefitted from our time in high
school, whether we want to ad-mit
it or not.
For those of us who went to
schools that actually cared about
education and producing col-lege-
ready students, the benefits
were even greater.
A perfect example of such
an institution is Auburn High
School.
According to U.S. News’s Best
High School ranking, AHS is the
fourth best secondary institution
in Alabama and is ranked 683rd
out of 21,035 schools in 49 states.
However, these numbers don’t
signify the true value of AHS or
the impact it has on students.
One of AHS’s best qualities
is its diversity of education pro-grams,
which are classes that
aren’t just the standard core of
history, English, math and sci-ence.
AHS has a substantial arts pro-gram
that has produced many
talented students, some of whom
are on The Plainsman staff. For
these students, the arts program
was, and is, a crucial part of the
AHS experience.
The program, which includes
traditional art courses, theatre,
music, mass media and commu-nication
classes, gives students
that don’t fit in with the standard
core an opportunity to find other
avenues of learning.
Unfortunately, the arts pro-gram,
along with transportation
and teacher salaries, is in dan-ger
of being severely underfund-ed,
or even cut, in order to build
a new high school.
On Tuesday, Sept. 24, Auburn
residents will vote on a tax in-crease
that will, among other im-provements,
fund construction
of a new high school and save the
programs and salaries in danger
of being underfunded.
Enrollment for Auburn City
Schools has grown exponential-ly
during the past few years, and
the facilities need this money to
catch up and continue serving
the city with the quality educa-tion
that attracts so many stu-dents
and families.
Yes, your rent may increase a
little, but it’s a few extra dollars
that will go a long way in pro-viding
a great education and
strengthening the Auburn family.
High school,
high benefits
Rachel Suhs/Design Editor
A7
Thursday, September 19, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Community
Community
Jessa Pease
COMMUNITY WRITER
Watching Auburn grow into one
of the leading cities in Alabama was
something Council member Brent
Beard grew up experiencing. In April
2006, he took a front seat in the deci-sion-
making process by representing
Ward 4 on Auburn’s City Council.
Beard was born in 1970 in Opelika,
and remained there until his high-school
graduation. In 1988, Beard
made the decision to attend Auburn
University, and has been in Auburn
since.
“It was fun,” Beard said. “I had a
very good time. I enjoyed my college
years — all five of them. I made some
nice friendships and met some inter-esting
people.”
Beard graduated from Auburn in
1993 with a degree in accounting.
Beard said he first thought about
joining the Auburn City Council in
2006 at a PTA function with Ogletree
Elementary School. Both Beard’s wife
and the mayor’s wife were acquaint-ed
through the school, and eventual-ly
led to Beard and the mayor’s initial
interaction.
“He asked me if I ever had any in-terest
in City Council,” Beard said. “
[Of] course I had not given it much
thought. I went home and thought
about it for the next few weeks and
decided I would try to get involved.”
The first time Beard ran unop-posed.
It was the second election that
allowed him to get to know the peo-ple
of his ward better.
“The second time, it was interest-ing
because I had opposition, so I
got to go door-to-door to a lot of the
neighborhoods in my ward,” Beard
said. “I really needed to do that — to
meet people and talk to people.”
Beard said he didn’t go into the job
with any specific agenda or set list of
things he wanted to remedy.
“Auburn was, obviously, already
a great city, a great place to live and
raise a family,” Beard said. “I just
wanted to keep that focus and keep
that going. I got on there just to do
what I could to keep that image.”
Beard currently works as a sales
representative for Alabama Contract
Sales Inc., covering South Auburn to
the Florida panhandle, and he said
his job makes his work with the City
Council more honest.
“I think it is important for some-one
to be on there who is absent from
forces pulling them,” Beard said. “I
don’t have to worry about how a deci-sion
is going to affect me and my busi-ness,
but I am still a business person. I
can look at it that way and vote which
way I think is best for the community
of Auburn. That is what I am in it for
— for everybody.”
Beard said he’s unsure, but leaning
toward running again.
“It’s busy,” Beard said. “You stay on
the go all the time. You have stuff go-ing
on just about every day and ev-ery
night. It makes it fun in a way, be-cause
I don’t like to just sit around
and do nothing anyway.”
Beard has a wife, a 15-year-old
daughter, and two sons, ages two and
three. Beard said Auburn is a great a
place to raise a family, and he knows
because he grew up here.
“I could choose to live in Baldwin
County, Pensacola or somewhere
down in that area,” Beard said. “It
would probably be more beneficial
for me, from a work standpoint, be-cause
I would be in my territory ev-ery
day and wouldn’t have to travel.”
Instead of choosing the most
convenient location, Beard said, “I
choose to live here because all of
those places are not bad places, they
are just not as great as this place is.”
Plans for Opelika Road project not yet set in asphalt
Liquor licenses prevail at City Council
Chandler Jones
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Auburn has a lot of heart, and now it has
a purple one.
At the Aug. 20 meeting, the Auburn City
Council designated Glenn Avenue, from Bent
Creek Road to Donahue Drive, as a certified
Purple Heart Trail.
On Sept. 12 at 9 a.m. in the City Hall, Mayor
Bill Ham and Leslie Digman, commander of
the J. R. Thomas Memorial Chapter 2205, re-vealed
the first sign to be placed along Glenn
Avenue.
The trail honors Purple Heart medal recip-ients
by establishing roads, bridges and oth-er
monuments as visual reminders of those
awarded the Purple Heart medal.
The medal decorates any soldier of the
United States Armed Services who was
wounded or killed in combat.
“I hope it opens some eyes up to actually
realizing there are people out there who are
doing their job to protect this country, and to
keep other opposing forces out of this coun-try,”
Digman said.
The sign reads “Purple Heart Trail” below
the Purple Heart symbol with a navy back-ground.
Signs are expected to be displayed
along Glenn Avenue in coming weeks.
“It’ll be two or three signs,” City Manag-er
Charles Duggan said at the Aug. 20 coun-cil
meeting. “It may just be signs at the en-trances,
and that’s supposed to be a respect
and honoring those service members that
received a Purple Heart that are residents of
our community."
The Military Order of Purple Heart was
chartered by an Act of Congress Feb. 22, 1932.
General George Washington created the Pur-ple
Heart medal in 1782.
Glenn Avenue gets purple, honors Vets
CHANDLER JONES / COMMUNITY EDITOR
Members of the Veterans of J. R. Thomas Memorial Chapter and Mayor Bill Ham.
• The Auburn Stop Light
• Moore’s Mill closing until Sept. 30.
• School Board Property Tax Vote Sept.
24
• Auburn Parks and Recreation’s Fall
Concert Series every Thursday at 6
p.m. in Kiesel Park
• The Auburn Community Orchestra
Sunday, Sept. 22 at 4 p.m. in Kiesel Park
• Auburn Chamber of Commerce Annu-al
Golf Tournament Sept. 19.
• Sundilla Concert Series Sept. 20 at 7:30
p.m.–10 p.m.
• S.I.N. (Service Industry Night) Sept. 22
and 29 at 7 p.m.–midnight in the Event
Center Downtown
City Council member Brent Beard is ‘in it for everybody’
AUBURN EVENTS AT A GLANCE
Kelsey Davis
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
With the approval of a li-quor
license at the City Coun-cil
meeting Tuesday, Sept.17
comes the expansion of a res-taurant.
Upon moving to Auburn
approximately one year ago
from San Diego, owners Min-ny
and Eric Jo introduced the
downtown area to Arigato Su-shi
Boutique.
Walk in on any day and
Arigato boasts daily specials
and a menu of half-priced su-shi.
Either of the Jos are a sure
presence, whether it be mod-erator
of the “Sake Bomb”
chant, sushi roller or a shot
pourer (out of a bottle that
can be purchased during the
meal the week before, but
Miney keeps chilling behind
the bar.)
Despite slow days in the
summer, the business man-aged
to thrive. Part of the cou-ple’s
success was attributed to
their involvement within the
community.
“I believe that they’ve al-ready
been pretty active with
community involvement and
that they take into account
every single reaction, every
individual,” said Annie Enci-nas,
waitress leader at Ariga-to.
“They’re working on a chil-dren’s
menu just to cater to
families and any time some-one
comes in with fliers for
Auburn events, they’re more
than willing to put them up in
the windows.”
As this trend of success
showed no sign of slowing
down, the time seemed right
to open a second location on
South College Street accord-ing
to Encinas.
“In the second location,
we expect an even greater re-sponse
just because there will
be parking and it won’t be
quite so hectic,” Encinas said.
The second Arigato is ex-pected
to open in November
of this year.
Other City Council Matters
Members of the J.R. Thomas Memorial Purple Heart Chapter 2205
worked to establish a Purple Heart Trail along Glenn Road in Auburn
CHANDLER JONES / COMMUNITY EDITOR
Brent Beard reading the Sept. 12 issue of The Auburn Plainsman.
Annie Faulk
COMMUNITY REPORTER
The vote may be in, but construction will not
begin until 2014. The Auburn City Council voted
to move forward with the Renew Opelika Road
Corridor plan during the Council’s last meeting
Aug. 20. The first area of construction is in the fi-nal
design stages.
“Renew Opelika Road was a plan that came
out of our comprehensive plan,” said Justin Stein-mann,
the city of Auburn’s principal planner. “It
was really recognizing a need for knowing that
Opelika Road is a corridor that was in decline.”
The first phase of construction is the stretch of
Opelika Road between Gay and Ross Streets.
“The remaining sections will be built over time,
a lot of it depends on how much money is avail-able
from year to year to make that construction
happen,” Steinmann said. “There’s not a firm time-line,
you know, we are doing the Corridor in five
years. It’s more we are going to see what our funds
are year-to-year and work incrementally as we
can.”
Steinmann said the plan encompasses the en-tire
length of Opelika Road, from Gay Street to the
Auburn city limits. and includes areas such as Vil-lage
Mall, Aspen Heights and North Dean Road.
He said the plan was fundamentally about revital-izing
the area through improving the aesthetics of
the road with street trees, sidewalks and medians.
“As far as the street-scape, the part that the city
will be doing, redevelopment is occurring right
now,” Steinmann said. “We are asking people to
plant street trees and other things like that.”
Steinmann said the city intends to redevelop
and reinvest in existing properties to make new
investments on the corridor.
“Another thing we have talked about is corridor
identity,” Steinmann said. “You know, like down-town
has an identity. The Downtown Merchants
help promote Downtown, but there’s no similar
organization that does that for Opelika Road.”
Two citizens brought concerns for the project
to the Council meeting on the Aug. 20.
“There’s no plans for U-turns,” said Allen Pat-terson
of Village Photography. “If somebody was
traveling down Opelika Road and they needed to
turn left into a business across the street from me,
they might have to go further and loop through
Byron’s parking lot in order to come back to that
business. There are a lot of things that could go
wrong when that happens.”
Patterson raised concerns over medians im-peding
delivery trucks’ ability to park in turn lanes
on Opelika Road to deliver products to area busi-nesses.
“But we don’t want to impede ongoing busi-nesses
like [Village Photography] and others that
have been there for years and years and years,”
said Mayor Bill Ham. “Going forward, we want to
ensure the viability of our existing businesses. And
make sure that we don’t do anything to negative-ly
impact them.”
Forrest Cotten, city planning director, said cit-izens
are concerned about medians, and said he
feels the planning department is sensitive to busi-nesses’
concerns.
“Where the rubber meets the road is when we
actually get into the design phase of the project,”
Cotten said. “I think certainly we see greater op-portunities
for medians in some locations with-out
question.”
Construction is expected to begin in 2014.
“I think we are extraordinarily sensitive and
we’ll be reaching out to those businesses direct-ly,”
Cotten said. “There won’t be anything done out
there that folks aren’t aware of, and certainly that
would negatively impact businesses along there. I
think everybody’s on the same page as far as that’s
concerned.”
RACHEL SUHS / DESIGN EDITOR
Diagams for Opelika Road improvements.
•Octoberfest received
an alcohol license.
•Request for amend-ments
to Articles II, III,
IV, V, VI and VII were
approved, to “broad-en
the scope of real-estate
signs” and pro-hibit
electronic read-er
boards in the College
Edge Overlay District.
•Resolution authorizing
street closings for the
Homecoming Parade
Friday, Oct. 11 was re-scheduled.
•Service agreement
worth $289,476 with
East Alabama Health-care
Authority to
provide emergency re-sponse
was approved.
•SGA spoke of the up-coming
Capitol on The
Plains Oct. 8 at 5:15
p.m. in the Student
Center Ballroom. State
officials will meet in a
panel to discuss issues
affecting the state.
•Appointed one board
position for the Lee
County Youth Develop-ment
Center.
Community A8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 19, 2013
Sports B1
Thursday, September 19, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Sports
Last Saturday night’s victory
against the Mississippi State Bulldogs
was a great victory for the Tigers.
It showed something that has been
talked about since the first game
against Washington State, and that
was improvement.
Auburn showed more improve-ment
against the Bulldogs than they
have all season.
The biggest area of improvement
was in the passing game.
Nick Marshall finished the game
going 23-for-34 for 339 yards and two
interceptions. Minus the intercep-tions,
this was by far Marshall’s best
game, so far, in his Auburn career, and
he showed poise and resiliency in the
face of adversity.
Marshall was not the only one who
made improvements in the passing
game. Marshall had more help from
his receivers than he has had all sea-son.
A total of eight different receiv-ers
had receptions against Mississippi
State, and two of those receivers had
not been very productive in the first
two games. However, true freshman
Marcus Davis and C.J. Uzomah, both
played a big role in the final game-winning
drive.
Statistically the defense still has
work to do after giving up 427 yards
to Mississippi State, but they are still
making it tough for offenses to score
points. Defense kept Auburn in the
game by not allowing Mississip-pi
State to get points when they had
good field position in the fourth quar-ter.
This is a big improvement from last
year.
This tendency needs to continue
as conference play gets tougher each
week.
The team should feel encouraged
by their performance last week it
could be short lived with them hav-ing
to travel to Baton Rouge this week
to take on the mighty bayou Bengals
of LSU.
This will be the first bump in the
road for the Tigers this season.
Going into the game, they will be
overmatched at just about every po-sition.
The key will be if the Auburn
coaches can come up with a good
game plan to keep them in the game.
An advantage for Auburn is they
have had to play two competitive
games so far this season against
Washington State and Mississip-pi
State. LSU has only played one
against TCU.
Auburn will go into this game ex-pecting
to compete, while LSU may
not. They may overlook Auburn like
last year, and if they do then Auburn
will have an advantage.
The key will be how does Auburn
respond to adversity in this game. If
they make a mistake can they bounce
back and act like it never happened?
They showed they can do that last
week, but it was also in front of their
home crowd. It will not be as easy to
bounce back in Death Valley on Sat-urday
night.
Although I think Auburn will go
into Tiger Stadium and play a com-petitive
game I don’t think they have
enough of an identity to beat LSU yet.
Marshall is still missing on big-play
opportunities and the defense has
shown holes in defending the run.
I think Auburn will stay in this
game, but I see LSU puling away to a
35-21 win late in the fourth quarter.
Tigers will face first real test of the season against LSU
Justin Ferguson
Assistant Sports Edi t or
By now, Auburn football
fans have become familiar
with the official slogan of the
Gus Malzahn Era—“It’s a New
Day.”
But the words Malzahn pro-claimed
to fans at the Auburn
University Regional Airport
last December are not the only
ones being repeated through-out
the football program.
After their dramatic 24–
20 victory against Mississip-pi
State last Saturday, Sept.
14, several players mentioned
a key phrase that personified
their fourth quarter perfor-mance—“
Count on Me.”
“That’s all we’ve been
preaching,” said senior defen-sive
end Dee Ford. “It’s becom-ing
second nature. It’s real-ly
becoming a part of who we
are.”
The Tigers were down by
three late in the fourth quarter
when quarterback Nick Mar-shall
overthrew receiver Sam-mie
Coates on what appeared
to be a surefire touchdown.
But Ford said the Tigers re-fused
to hang their heads. As
long as there was time left on
the clock, they were still in the
game.
“We said, ‘We aren’t going
to pout. We’re going to get the
ball back, and they are going to
get an amazing two-minute to
score and win,’” Ford said.
Auburn did just that. Af-ter
the defense held off Dak
Prescott and the Bulldog of-fense,
Marshall and the offense
orchestrated an 88-yard drive
that ended with a game-win-ning
toss to junior tight end
C.J. Uzomah.
“Nick did an unbelievable
job,” Uzomah said. “We strug-gled
as an offense a little bit to-night,
but when it came down
to it, he drove us down the
field. He had confidence in
us, and we had confidence in
him.”
Marshall said his team-mates’
confidence in him was
a big boost on the game-win-ning
drive, a picture-perfect
display of Malzahn’s hurry-up,
no-huddle offense.
“Coach Malzahn believed
in me,” Marshall said. “(Fresh-man
receiver Marcus Davis)
told me on the sideline that he
believed in me. So I took what
the defense gave to me and got
the ball down there.”
Malzahn spoke highly of the
state of his team’s sideline dur-ing
the fourth quarter. When
the ball came back to Auburn,
a game-tying field goal was not
on Auburn’s mind.
“The great thing about our
sideline is our guys really be-lieve
they’re going to win, and
that’s half the battle,” Mal-zahn
said. “There wasn’t any-body
panicking. We just said,
‘Hey, let’s go do this thing,’ and
I think that’s a tribute to our
team, and Nick, too.”
According to junior receiv-er
Quan Bray, Auburn did not
have a “Count on Me” philoso-phy
during its nightmare 2012
season.
“A lot of guys didn’t believe
last year,” Bray said. “We didn’t
have a lot of confidence in
each other.”
But this year, the buzz on
the sideline is completely dif-ferent.
In two of their first
three games of the 2013 sea-son,
the Tigers have had to
rally around each other in the
fourth quarter.
“I’ll always remember this
game because it wasn’t an of-fensive
or defensive thing,”
said senior middle lineback-er
Jake Holland. “It was one
unit. When the offense need-ed
something, the defense
stepped up. When the defense
needed something, the offense
stepped up. It was a big game
for us.”
The concept of sticking to-gether
more than in years past
has been important to Hol-land.
Before the first two games
of the season, a portion of the
Auburn student section booed
Holland when his name was
called out in Auburn’s starting
lineup.
“You know, I’m one of those
guys who doesn’t pay atten-tion
to that,” Holland said. “It
doesn’t bother me. I’ve got a
close-knit family, and I know
(my teammates) have my
back.”
Before and after the game,
on and off the field, these Ti-gers
say they are counting on
each other.
“Our emphasis this year is
on being together,” Bray said.
“We always stick together.
When we do that, we’ll be a
real good football team.”
‘Count on me’
Katherine McCahey / sports photographer
Players celebrate in the student section after the victory against Mississippi State.
Will Gaines
sports@
theplainsman.com
A new sense of togetherness
defines the 2013 Tiger team
Kyle Van Fechtmann
Sports Writer
Senior Ryan White has dealt with ob-stacles
and played many different roles
during his time at Auburn, but things
seem to be finally clicking for White at
cornerback and on special teams this
season.
During his time at Lincoln High School
(Fla.), White showcased his versatility at
quarterback and cornerback.
During his junior season, he threw
for more than 1,000 yards and 14 touch-downs,
and rushed for 640 yards and six
touchdowns. White was highly recruited
as one of the highest ranked athletes in
his class.
Once he arrived to Auburn, White
spent the beginning of fall camp playing
quarterback.
Once Cam Newton won the job, White
switched to cornerback.
Since his freshman year, White has
migrated away from playing quarterback
and focused mainly on improving his
play at cornerback.
But this season, White has not only
made plays at cornerback, he has also
played a big role on special teams during
his third season as Auburn’s placeholder,
and has gotten the chance to showcase
his throwing skills once again.
In Auburn’s SEC win against Mississip-pi
State, White executed his second suc-cessful
two-point conversion this season
with a fake-kick snap, and threw a jump-pass
to tight end Brandon Fulse to put
the Tigers up 11–0.
His first successful two-point conver-sion
came in the Washington State sea-son
opener, when he used his speed to
run the ball into the end zone.
Auburn has had success with convert-ing
two-point conversions early in the
game, and White is one of the main rea-sons
why head coach Gus Malzahn is tak-ing
risks calling for a two-point play.
“Coach Malzahn likes to have fun with
that, what we call the batman. If we’re go-ing
to run it we usually go after the first
touchdown,” White said. “We just try to
look for an edge in the defense, some-thing
that we know that will get the
crowd into the game.”
After starting cornerback Chris Da-vis
injured his foot and was not cleared
to play against Mississippi State, White
knew that he had to step up and fill that
void since Davis led Auburn in tackles af-ter
their first two games.
White delivered when his opportuni-ty
came around again with a game-high,
and career-high, eight tackles, along with
two pass breakups.
“I thought it was a good stepping stone
for me. I got in there and tried to play [as]
physical as coach wanted me to. I just
tried to get a win for our team. I know
with Chris [Davis] going down, he’s a big
part of our defense, I just tried to step
in and fill that spot as much as I could,”
White said.
Despite getting some playing time
during his first two seasons and even re-cording
a solo tackle in the BCS National
Championship Game his freshman year,
it looked like last season was going to be
the one where White made a big impact
for Auburn’s defense.
White earned a start in the season
opener against Clemson, and even had
seven tackles, but after that, he saw limit-ed
action on the field.
“It was very tough. I had to look at my-self
and see what I was doing wrong and
just had to work on those things,” White
said. “All things happen for a reason.”
White has dealt with many differ-ent
coaches and adjustments during his
time on the Plains, but new cornerbacks
coach Melvin Smith is one of the main
reasons White has shown plenty of im-provements
this season.
“It’s been the biggest change, in a posi-tive
way since I’ve been here. I remember
the first time talking to (Melvin), I asked
him what he brought to the table,” White
said. “And he told me that he brought
physical and tackling. And those were the
things I needed to work on most.”
White’s father, Will White, also played
the cornerback position and played for
the Florida Gators under head coach
Steve Spurrier from 1989–1992. Will
White was an All-SEC defensive back and
All-American in 1990 and finished his ca-reer
at Florida with a then school record
14 interceptions.
His father attends every one of White’s
games and always gives him advice after
each game.
Although White had a solid perfor-mance
against Mississippi State, his fa-ther
still had some constructive criticism
after the game.
“First thing he said was ‘how did I let
that dude catch that out route,’” White
said. “Then ‘you’re coming out of your
breaks slow, you need to tighten up on
your angles.’ Then he was like ‘you had a
good game, there’s still things you can im-prove
on.’”
Going into the LSU game, White
knows the secondary will have to play a
major role in order for Auburn to steal a
win on the road in Baton Rouge for the
first time since 1999.
“It’s going to be another hard nosed
game, another physical game. I think af-ter
this 3–0 [start and] win over Missis-sippi
State, we’re running pretty high on
confidence, we think we can go down
there and beat those guys,” White said.
“I feel like this game can be on the cor-ners
once again. I feel like if we control
their receivers, we can go in there and get
this ‘W.’”
From sidekick to hero, White converts
opportunities with ‘Batman’ package
Anna Grafton / photo editor
Cornerback Ryan White drops back in pass coverage during the Washington State game Saturday, August 31.
“We said, ‘We
aren’t going to
pout. We’re going
to get the ball
back, and they
are going to get
an amazing two-minute
to score
and win.’”
— Dee Ford
senior defensive en d
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There are many unique traditions in college
football.
From Auburn’s rolling Toomer’s Corner to
Wisconsin’s “Jump Around” and Les Miles hav-ing
his pre-game meal of grass, each tradition
is unique and beloved by it’s fans.
However, there is one tradition, that is un-like
any other tradition in today’s sports world.
It is an infamously hilarious tradition, one that
was started by someone who still has not re-vealed
his true identity, but goes by the name
“deepblue” on Autigers.com.
I’m referring, of course, to the tradition of
telling LSU fans that they smell like corn dogs.
It all started, when “deepblue” made a
lengthy and poetic post on Autigers.com sev-eral
years ago. The post started with:
“LSU fans smell just like corn dogs.
Yes, it is often said, but so, so true.
LSU fans do smell like corn dogs.
I would never tell them that to their face
though. This is something better said at inter-net
distances. Even now, I am afraid.
I am afraid that they’ll know I said it. I’ll
walk past an LSU fan someday, and he’ll see
that look in my eye that gives it away.
That look that says, ‘Gee, what is that smell?
Is it corn dogs?’
The next thing you know, I’ll have flat tires
on my car.”
The post is quite lengthy, and ranges from
pointers on how to handle children around
LSU fans, to safety tips while in Baton Rouge.
I think this may be why a lot of fans get beat-en
up by LSU fans.
If you attend a game in Baton Rouge, try to
avoid telling them that they smell like corn
dogs.
Say something else instead.
Like, “Wow, LSU sure does have a great team
this year. This is going to be a great SEC game.”
While the post is satirical, it caught fire. The
tradition spread from Auburn to other SEC
schools, and then to the entire NCAA.
If searched for on YouTube, countless videos
connecting LSU and corn dogs will be found,
created by numerous fan-bases.
Clinton Durst, a former Auburn punter who
played for the Tigers from 2008-2009 is a firm
believer that the myth is true.
Originally from Destin, FL, Durst grew up a
Florida State fan before coming to the Plains,
and did not hear about the LSU connection to
corn dogs until a team meeting with former
Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville.
“It was a team meeting with Coach Tuber-ville.
He was trying to lighten up the mood a
little bit and he referred to them as ‘corn dogs’,”
Durst said while laughing.
Some of the newcomers on the team were
confused as to what Tuberville meant, but
Durst claims that when they asked, he simply
responded.
“You’ll figure it out once you get there,”
Durst said.
Sure enough, Durst says that the visitors
locker room proved the myth as fact.
“In the visitors locker room, it smells like a
million rotten corndogs.” Durst said. “It smells
like they threw a thousand (corndogs) in the
locker room and let them mold for a year.”
Former Auburn long-snapper Josh Harris,
who played for the Tigers from 2008-2012 and
is now the long-snapper for the Atlanta Fal-cons,
also corroborates Durst’s story.
“When you step on campus (in Baton Rouge)
it really smells like corndogs, almost like you’re
at a fair.” Harris said.
Whether you’re a believer or not of the LSU
corndog myth, there is no denying that “deep-blue”
started arguably the most hilarious tradi-tion
in college football.
Taylor Jones
Sports@theplainsman.com “When you step on campus
(in Baton Rouge), it really
smells like corn dogs,
almost like you’re at a fair.”
—Jake Harris
Former Auburn long snap per
LSU’s most popular fragrance? Eau de corn dog
Taylor Jones
sport s write r
When Karen Hoppa took the head coaching
position for the Auburn Women’s Soccer team
in 1999, she took the reins of a team that was
desperately looking for someone to turn things
around.
Fifteen years and 166 victories later, Hoppa
is a powerful figure in women’s collegiate soc-cer,
as she has seen great success at Auburn and
has watched her work pay off as Auburn trans-formed
into a winning program.
Hoppa played goalkeeper for the University
of Central Florida, starting three seasons from
1989 until 1991. In those three years, Hoppa al-lowed
only 30 goals in 48 games. She also still
holds three UCF records for goals allowed (30),
goals against average (0.0594) and shutouts
(30.5).
As a player, Hoppa earned distinctions in-cluding
being named a 1989 Soccer Ameri-ca
MVP Team selection, the 1990 Adidas/ISAA
Goalkeeper of the Year and the 1990 NCAA
Goalkeeper of the Year award.
After Hoppa decided to transition her role on
the pitch to the sidelines, she accepted a job as
the head coach at Central Florida in 1993. Hop-pa
wasted no time, winning 74 games in six sea-sons
and winning the Trans America Athletic
Conference championship in her first four years.
Hoppa left UCF after a 12–8 season, having
won 5 of the 6 conference championships dur-ing
her tenure with the Knights.
Hoppa describes her move from Central Flor-ida
to Auburn as being her “next step.”
“The Auburn position came open, and a
friend of mine who coached at Georgia told me
I needed to look at (the Auburn job), because it
may be a hidden gem,” Hoppa said. “I applied,
came here for the interview and fell in love. It’s a
place I could live in for a long time.”
Hoppa inherited an Auburn team that had
not seen much success in its past. In her first
year, Hoppa’s Tigers went 6–13.
“The team wasn’t very good and we wanted
to turn it into a winning program,” Hoppa said.
However, Hoppa was determined to change
things on The Plains.
“Ultimately we wanted to win the SEC Cham-pionship
and become a national contender, but
the short term was just going from a losing pro-gram
to a winning program,” Hoppa said.
Luckily for Hoppa and the Tigers, her goals
have been realized. In Hoppa’s fifteen seasons at
Auburn, she has compiled a record of 166–113–
25, with seven SEC West titles, one SEC regular
season title, one SEC tournament title and 12
NCAA tournament appearances.
In 2002, Hoppa led the Tigers to a 15–2–2
overall record, winning the SEC regular season
title and making it to the second round of the
NCAA tournament.
Hoppa also recently led the Tigers in 2011 to
the SEC Tournament Championship, where the
Tigers became the first SEC West school to ever
win the tournament.
While Hoppa has already seen incredible suc-cess
at Auburn, she doesn’t plan on becoming
content.
“At this stage we’ve established ourselves con-sistently
as a top team and an NCAA tourna-ment
team, so now our goal is to take the pro-gram
to the next level,” Hoppa said.
Hoppa said the team’s current goal is to make
the “Sweet Sixteen,” and then she hopes the Ti-gers
continue their success.
Hoppa has had many great memories in Au-burn,
not even being able to list one specific
memory as her favorite.
She recalled memories from a 2001 upset win
against Virginia, a comeback win against Al-abama
in the year in which she won her 200th
game and when her team beat Florida in 2011
to win the SEC Tournament.
Make no mistake, Hoppa plans to make more
memories involving trophies on the national
stage.
“We want to make it to the Final Four, and
then it’s on to the National Championship,” Hop-pa
said.
Hoppa will be looking to lead Auburn to their
eighth consecutive NCAA tournament berth
this season.
The Tigers have started off the season 3–3–1.
Hoppa working to add to legacy
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Karen Hoppa has led Auburn to seven consecutive NCA tournaments.
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The Auburn rugby team has began
preparations as their upcoming sea-son
rapidly approaches.
The club has attracted many new-comers
to the sport, who aspire to
succeed with the team.
Senior Sebastian Kamyab, vice
president of the rugby club, said that
the majority of those who tried out
had never played. “I would say 90 per-cent
of the people that came out have
never played before coming to Au-burn.”
While there are many new faces
to the team and the game, the team
will look to help the newcomers accli-mate
to the new sport and use them
as the future of the team.
Senior Rob Northup believes that
team chemistry will help the team
win.
“Since we have so many new peo-ple,
we want to get everyone together
and on the same page.” Northup said.
“We have some guys that have
played their whole lives who will
show the new guys who have been
playing for days the game of rugby,
and if we can get everyone to work to-gether
we’ll have a successful season,”
Northup said
Kamyab said that the rookie situa-tion
has worked for them in the past.
“Last year, a lot of rookies came out
and picked up their game and we had
a 5–2 year.”
While the team has a young base,
Kamyab makes one thing clear: the
goal is success.
“Our goal for the fall is to have the
rookies develop and understand the
sport.” Kamyab said. “Once we’ve
done that, in the spring we’re going to
try and win an SEC Championship.”
Junior Ben Winiarczyr says the
team has it’s rivals, saying “We don’t
like Ole Miss.”
However when asked about who
their biggest and most intense game
is against? He answered without hes-itation.
“Of course, Alabama,” he said.
The rugby squad will face off
against the UAB Blazers in their sea-son
opener on Sept. 21, in Auburn at
the intramural fields.
The fall season has six games
scheduled.
Auburn club rugby players are ready for new season to begin
Justin Ferguson
Assistant Sports Edito r
Their uniforms and play-ing
styles might be different,
but Nick Marshall and Zach
Mettenberger have taken
similar paths to the upcom-ing
clash between rivals Au-burn
and LSU.
Georgia natives Marshall
and Mettenberger, who will
be the two starting quarter-backs
Saturday night in Ba-ton
Rouge, both started their
college careers playing for
their home state’s Bulldogs.
After off-the-field inci-dents
led to their dismiss-als
from Georgia head coach
Mark Richt’s program, both
Marshall and Mettenberg-er
landed in Kansas, a state
known for its junior college
football.
Spectacular seasons gar-nered
the attention of other
powerhouse schools, and the
two quarterbacks eventually
became the starters at their
new SEC homes.
Marshall and Metten-berger
have led their respec-tive
offenses in three straight
wins to start the 2013 season,
and their performances at
quarterback have definitely
caught the eye of the oppos-ing
head coaches.
Auburn head coach Gus
Malzahn said he is most im-pressed
with the LSU quar-terback’s
emphasis on ball
security.
“I believe (Mettenberger)
has nine touchdowns and
zero interceptions so far,”
Malzahn said in his Tuesday
Sept. 17 press conference .
“That says a lot. He’s making
good decisions.”
Mettenberger, who is now
13–3 as LSU’s starting quar-terback,
only threw for 12
touchdowns in the 2012 sea-son.
Although Louisiana’s Ti-gers
still use a smashmouth
pro-style offense, new of-fensive
coordinator Cam
Cameron’s system has given
Mettenberger more oppor-tunities
to hit star receivers
Odell Beckham, Jr. and Jarvis
Landry on deep passes.
“They have a quarter-back
that can actually [go
deep] now,” said Auburn se-nior
linebacker Jake Holland.
“It’s a threat, but they’re still a
run-focused team.”
Mettenberger was kicked
off of the team in March 2010
for a violation of team rules,
and he pled guilty to two
counts of sexual battery the
following month.
He restarted his football
career at Butler Community
College in Kansas, where he
led the Grizzlies to the junior
college national champion-ship
game after a 32-touch-down
season.
“It was tough, but as I
kept going through JUCO
and started getting some at-tention
and started realiz-ing
that I had a talent that
coaches wanted,” Metten-berger
told Yahoo! Sports
in 2012. “It definitely made
some coaches think about
the baggage that I had, but I
shared with Coach Miles that
I was a changed guy and he
took a chance on me. And I’m
grateful to him for that.”
Marshall had a similar
journey to becoming a start-ing
quarterback in the SEC’s
Western Division. He started
his career at Georgia in 2011,
but not as an offensive player.
The athletic Marshall was
a cornerback for the Bulldogs
when he was kicked off the
team for an unspecified vio-lation
of team rules.
He allegedly stole mon-ey
from his Georgia team-mates,
but no charges were
ever filed.
Marshall then transferred
to Garden City Communi-ty
College, where he led the
team in both passing and
rushing yards.
In his first comments af-ter
being named the starter,
at Auburn Marshall made it
clear that he, like the rest of
the Auburn team, was mov-ing
on from the past.
“I don’t really worry about
[my past],” Marshall said.
“I’m an Auburn player now.”
Marshall will enter Death
Valley on the heels of a 339-
yard, two-touchdown per-formance
against the Mis-sissippi
State Bulldogs. His
last-second touchdown pass
to tight end C.J. Uzomah
snapped a 10-game SEC los-ing
streak for his new team.
The transfer’s perfor-mance
in his SEC debut and
the rest of the Tigers gar-nered
the praise of LSU head
coach Les Miles.
“I think Marshall is throw-ing
the ball better,” Miles
said. “I think (Auburn) has
good schemes. And I think
they are improved.”
For Auburn, Saturday
night’s matchup in a hostile
environment will be a per-fect
time to show the entire
country how much it has im-proved
from the 2012 season.
For LSU, “The Tiger Bowl”
will be the start of its quest
for the SEC title against a tra-ditional
rival.
But for Marshall and
Mettenberger, the Auburn-
LSU game will be another op-portunity
to take full advan-tage
of their precious second
chance at becoming a star
on college football’s biggest
stage.
A tale of two Tigers’ journeys
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Katherine Mcahey / sports photographer
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New hockey head coach Marcel Richard, a
former Division 1 hockey player who spent sev-eral
seasons in professional hockey’s minor
leagues, brings international experience and a
meticulous approach to the Tigers’ club hock-ey
program.
Taking over a program that finished 7-17 in
2012, Richard said that improving Auburn’s
hockey program will be a process for himself
and the players.
“I wish I could come in and wave my mag-ic
wand and make everything good, but I don’t
think that’s really how it works,” Richard said.
“There’s no way I can come in in just one or two
weeks, but hopefully my body of work by the end
of the year will be better on and off the ice.”
Known by the nickname “Magic” in his play-ing
days, Richard said he earned the nickname
during his first season with the Columbus Cot-tonmouths
of the Central Hockey League.
“I had a pulled groin so I was on the injured
reserve list the first two games,” Richard said.
“We lost those two games and then I played the
third game and we won 7–2. The fans said it was
like magic once I stepped onto the ice.”
An offensive standout for the Cottonmouths,
Richard piled up 310 points, including 137 goals,
in four seasons.
Prior to his time in Columbus, Ga. Richard
spent a season with the Bracknell Bees in the
English Premier Ice Hockey League and had a
tryout with the Ottawa Senators of the NHL.
Richard said that his time overseas and sea-sons
in the minor leagues have helped increase
his understanding of the sport.
“When you have a little bit of movement and
you see the leagues and the players, you real-ize
that hockey is pretty similar,” Richard said.
“You’ve got guys from all different countries and
class playing together, so it gives you a good ex-perience
to deal with all the personalities and
styles people have.”
A native of Ontario, Canada, Richard said it
was an adjustment for him to play at Colgate
University in New York.
“It was pretty shocking for a Canadian to go
down to the States and not know a lot about all
these schools,” Richard said. “Then all the sud-den
you’re at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and
you have to pinch yourself because it’s real.”
Now a long term resident of the South, Rich-ard
said that he feels comfortable living in the
South, particularly enjoying the friendliness of
his friends and neighbors.
“Someone told me ‘we may have greasy food
in the South, but we have the best cardiolo-gists,’”
Richard said. “I feel like that pretty much
summed up the attitude people have here and
I’ve come to enjoy it.”
Richard said changing the philosophy of Au-burn
hockey is the main goal of his first season
as head coach.
“People want numbers, but I’m a little bit dif-ferent
in my philosophy,” Richard said. “It’s a
process, and nothing can be instant. I’m very
analytical so I’m going to try and see matchups,
analyze the other teams and try to put forth the
best strategy I can.”
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Intrigue
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Jordan Hays
Intrigue Writer
Rodney Hall, Auburn’s “Wizzard”, is
an enigma. Shrouded in mystery, his
purpose remains unclear.
What students do know is that he
definitely looks like a wizard, and he
can be spotted in front of the Ralph
Brown Draughon Library on occasion.
In order to clear the air, the Wizzard
agreed to sit down for an interview to
answer a few questions.
How do you balance Rodney
Hall and The Wizzard? Is it the
same or do you go back and forth?
It’s the same. The ‘Wizzard’ kind
of was a projection to some degree. I
based it off of Rincewind from the Ter-ry
Pratchett books, which is where
wizard—spelled with two z’s—comes
from because he thought he was real-ly,
really intelligent.
It also has a bit of a humbling ef-fect
to it, because Rincewind knew no
magic whatsoever. He was the great-est
wizard in “Discworld,” he knows no
magic and is a coward.
He runs from danger, but happens
to always, actually be running toward
danger; and with his luck, he always
saves the day.
I took some aspects of that, because
it was a while before I came out of the
broom closet. That was an easier way
for me to come out of the broom closet
because I was like ‘Oh no, this is a fic-tional
character that I really relate to
who is one of my favorite characters.’
It’s sad that what I do to make a
statement is act like myself, be like
myself, dress like myself, hold to my
beliefs, have no apologizes for them
and be honest with what I say and
think. In 2013, it’s sad that, that’s mak-ing
a statement. But it is, and that’s the
statement I hope everyone can make
some day.
Are you worried people think
you aren’t being yourself?
Everywhere I go, people say why the
costume? I am not wearing a costume,
but I am wearing a costume.
We are all wearing costumes be-cause
we all dress, to some degree, in
a form of costume. It’s based on what
you want to look like or based on what
society said you should dress and
wear.
I am wearing less of a costume than
most people because I don’t listen to
society or trends.
I wear what I like, and what I think
looks good… And generally, I’m right. I
am pretty fabulous.
I know a guy who’s a cowboy, and he
always dresses like a cowboy, because
he is a cowboy. That’s it. He won’t go
to an opera in tux and tails. He’ll be
dressed like a cowboy. That’s who he
is. It’s the same kind of thing with me;
I’m just a lot, you know, weirder… and
more creative.
Staves or wands? Which
one do you prefer?
I like both of them. It’s kind of like
one’s a bigger version, one’s a smaller
version.
Although they serve a lot of the
same purposes, staves can help you
walk, but they serve a lot of the same
purposes.
Who is better, Gan-dalf
or Dumbledore?
Well, they’re really close and I love
both of them… But, I’m gonna have to
say Gandalf, just because even death
don’t get him down.
I mean come on, let’s be fair. Dumb-ledore
died. Gandalf did too, but then
he said, ‘OK I’m done with that! I’m
back! Sorry!’ So yeah, I love them both
equally, but if you want to really lay it
down, Gandalf. Death can’t even beat
Gandalf.
Interview with a wizard: the Auburn ‘Wizzard’ speaks
Emily Enfinger / photographer
Rodney Hall dresses the part of the “Wizzard,” complete with his signature hat.
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Jordan Hays
Intrigue Writer
Pikachu is not real. Many students
have to remind themselves of this
when they see one in their class.
Attempts to capture said creature
with spherical, capsule-like devices
will prove futile and may result in dis-ciplinary
action. This is because Pika-chu
is a student.
Individuals who dress up as charac-ters
from movies, books, anime, man-ga,
cartoons, videos games, television
shows or comic books, are known as
cosplayers. Wigs, suits, props and ex-cessive
clothing, or the lack thereof,
are all signs indicating you are look-ing
at a cosplayer. Students who par-ticipate
at Auburn are probably mem-bers
of Auburn University’s Cosplayers’
Association.
Auburn’s Cosplayers’ Association
was founded in fall 2011 by current
president Sky Acton, junior in English
education and creative writing.
“It’s getting to be a celebrity for a
short amount of time and it’s very em-powering,”
Acton said. “It’s the only
time when everyone knows your name
without you saying a word.”
However, these cosplayers do more
than simply attend meetings and go
to class in costume. Cosplayers trav-el
to conventions to meet, and social-ize
with, other cosplayers. Common-ly
known conventions, such as Comic-
Con, hosted many cosplayers. Howev-er,
there are many other conventions
popular in the cosplaying communi-ty,
such as Dragoncon in Atlanta, and
Hamacon in Huntsville.
Acton described what it’s like to ex-perience
a cosplay convention.
“Lots of people. Lots of people get-ting
the chance to be whatever they
want to be,” Acton said. “There’s a lot of
excitement. There are cameras flash-ing,
and people are asking for your pic-ture.”
Cosplaying may have the poten-tial
to be much more than simply fun
though.
David Railey, sophomore in soft-ware
engineering at Southern Union
Community College, and member of
Auburn’s Cosplayers’ Association, is
also a member of the Alabama Ghost-busters,
a Ghostbuster fan group that
cosplays for charity.
“We do walks and raise money for
various charities, like the multiple
sclerosis walks. We also raised $3,000
for tornado relief when the tornado hit
Tuscaloosa,” Railey said. “We are geeks
for good.”
Unfortunately, not everyone is as
accepting of cosplayers.
Brittany Taylor, senior in microbiol-ogy,
said she formed a passion for co-splaying
from her love of Halloween
and her enjoyment of anime and vid-eo
games.
“Some of my friends are really into
cosplay and they’re also really into
anime and video games,” Taylor said.
“I have some other friends, they like
those things too, but they’re not very
out with it. Some of my other friends
laughed when I introduced them to
cosplay.”
Taylor said friends and strangers
alike gave glances and looks to make
her feel singled out.
“They make me feel like I’m ex-tremely
weird, like I was not normal,”
Taylor said. “I wouldn’t say I’m normal,
but there is a good kind of different,
like you’re unique; and a bad kind, like
you don’t belong anywhere.”
Many cosplayers said they felt as
though they are being unjustly stereo-typed.
“I think the biggest misconception
is that cosplay or conventions are only
for people who aren’t attractive or are
super nerdy or the outcasts of society,”
Acton said. “But I’ve seen some pret-ty
good-looking Spartans with six-packs…
so if that’s not attractive, then
I don’t want to go with what everyone
is talking about.”
Luckily, the Cosplayers’ Associa-tion
offers a safe haven for many of Au-burn’s
cosplayers.
“People here are very friendly,” said
Ross Spears, senior in software en-gineering.
“Everyone here is one big
family. If there is an issue with some-one,
everyone is there to support that
one person.”
Auburn’s cosplayers apparently
formed a tight-knit group, where they
feel at home and are able to be them-selves.
“They’re crazy. That’s the best way I
can put it,” said Aric Hall, senior in so-ciology,
“They are the most crazy, in-sane,
all-over-the-wall people; but they
are also the people I love most at Au-burn.”
Cosplayers’ Association at Auburn bring characters to life
Maddie Yerant
INTRIGUE WRITER
It’s the subject of an Oscar-winning
movie, a revolution-ary
social-media tool, and a
force connecting people all
over the world. It even has an
entry in the Encyclopedia Bri-tannica.
But is Facebook on its way
out?
Emily Reed, junior in pub-lic
relations, said against the
crop of numerous social me-dia,
Facebook is slowly fading
into the background.
“I use Twitter several times
a day,” Reed said. “But I don’t
check Facebook nearly as
much.”
Kelly Schmid, junior in ap-parel
merchandising, said she
disagreed. Schmid deleted her
Twitter account last year, said
she still finds plenty of uses for
Facebook.
“I like looking at the pic-tures
on Facebook,” Schmid
said. “And it’s cool to be able
to see what people you went
to elementary school and mid-dle
school are up to. I like how
Facebook can connect you to
them. Twitter is just boring.”
Schmid said she began us-ing
Facebook as a way to reb-el
against her parents.
“I was 15 and I wanted to
talk to my Welsh boyfriend,”
Schmid said. “But I wasn’t al-lowed
to get a Facebook until
I turned 16. I did it anyway. I’ve
been using it ever since.”
But, with competition such
as Twitter, Tinder, Pinterest
and more, Facebook may be-come
just a face in a crowded
pool of apps and websites, de-signed
to do much of the same
thing.
“I have a Facebook, but it’s
probably not my favorite thing
for social media,” said Scott
Black, sophomore in business.
“I have Tinder. I think it’s hilar-ious.
And I like StumbleUpon.
You have to have an account
there, so I think that qualifies
as social media.”
Black said he thinks Face-book
highlights the differenc-es
between generations.
“It shows how fast we move
compared to baby boomers,”
Black said. “At first, not a lot of
older people had, or knew how
to use, Facebook. Now, I think
all of my relatives have (ac-counts).”
Schmid said she saw an in-crease
in the number of older
Facebook users.
“I feel like a lot of older peo-ple
use it to talk to their kids,”
Schmid said. “They use it to
update their lives and keep
track of their friends and rela-tives.
A lot of parents, I think,
use it to check up on their kids’
lives.”
Reed said Twitter is an eas-ier
way to keep up with her
friends.
“I check it constantly,” she
said. “It’s faster and more per-sonal.”
Like many students, Schmid
said she uses a variety of social
media forms to keep up with
her friends and family, not just
Facebook.
“I love Instagram and Snap-chat,”
she said. “I do check no-tifications
and look at pic-tures
on Facebook, but I can
use those throughout the day
to talk to my friends and see
what’s going on.”
Still, Schmid is not without
her pet peeves when it comes
to social-media sites.
“I hate seeing people’s sta-tuses,”
Schmid said. “Maybe
that’s why I didn’t like Twitter. I
don’t need to know every time
you’re going to the bathroom.”
Is Facebook
fading away?
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Samantha McCain and Samantha Kelly cosplay as characters from the TV show “Adventuretime.”
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All the way from Oakland, Calif., the
Tumbleweed Wanderers will be taking
over Bourbon Street Bar Thursday, Sept.
19.
The five-man band is touring all over
the South, from New Orleans to Virginia.
The Tumbleweed Wanderers consists of
vocalist and bass guitar player Zak Man-del-
Romann; Rob Fidel on vocals, guitar
and banjo; Jeremy Lyon performing vocals
and guitar; Patrick Glynn on keys and the
mandolin and Daniel Blum performing on
the drums.
Fidel said their music is soulful rock ‘n’
roll.
The group has three extended plays, or
EPs, and one full album.
“It’s been a pretty productive two years,”
Fidel said.
Lyon said last time the group was in Au-burn,
they played at The Hound Bar and
Restaurant.
“I love the South,” Lyon said. “I’m stoked
to be back in Auburn, it’s beautiful.”
Lyon said the Tumbleweed Wanderers
don’t have a set list planned for Bourbon
yet, but they will be playing songs that are
cornerstones of their album.
The group said they plan on playing
some fresh material along with their clas-sics.
“We’ve been writing a lot of new materi-al,
so people can definitely expect a hand-ful
of songs that we haven’t yet recorded,”
Lyon said.
Lyon, originally from Oakland, Calif.,
said when they aren’t touring he uses the
time to write songs and catch up with his
family and friends.
Blum met Lyon a year before the band
was formed, and then joined as the drum-mer
only two weeks before they had a gig.
“Before the band was a band, and be-fore
they had a name, they had already
booked a show,” Blum said. “I get to play
the music that I want, I get to do it every
single night.”
Touring the country has made busy
men out of the crew.
“Being in a touring band, one of the
hardest parts is that your life is very tu-multuous,”
Blum said. “You have these
amazing highs where everything is abso-lutely,
everything lines up, and then two
days later you have to spend $2,000 on
repairs and everybody’s bickering about
some little thing because you’ve been
stuck in a van with five other guys for a
month straight.”
Blum said he hopes in the long run, the
ups outweigh the downs. The band has
had some adventures while on the road,
including having a brand-new van stolen.
“We bought a brand-new, 12-passenger
van and a trailer, and then a week later, the
day before tour, the van went missing,” Fi-del
said. “We’d never dealt with anything
remotely close to that.”
Fidel also said the band works collabor-atively
to write their songs.
The lyrics focus on the next step for the
band, missing home and people, and love.
“When you play in a band, you get to
have creative input in everything that you
do,” Blum said. “Then you get to work on
that creative input every single night.”
Stolen vans pending, the band will be
playing at Bourbon Street Bar Thursday,
Sept. 19.
For more information on the band and
to purchase tickets for the concert, visit
TumbleweedWanderers.com.
Tumbleweed Wanderers rock ‘n’ roll into Auburn
contributed by claire julian
Tumbleweed Wanderers will perform at Bourbon Street Bar Thursday, Sept. 19.
wizard
» From B5
Do you feel as though
you are more power-ful,
magically, when you
collect knowledge?
Knowledge is power, in ev-ery
sense.
I also don’t agree that there
is taboo knowledge. Maybe
not all of it is relevant, but it’s
all important.
So yeah, in anything, knowl-edge
is power. The more you
know, the more in control
you are, and the more you’re
in control of that situation. I’d
rather know than not know. I
think that’s almost the funda-mental
basis of a wizard’s per-sonality.
A wizard would rath-er
know, even if it makes his
life worse.
Even if that knowledge
makes the world a darker
place or changes my percep-tion
on things, or puts a bur-den
on me because I now
have that knowledge. As from
where to begin with, it was all
puppies and ice cream.
What do you feel the
universe wants you to
do? How do you plan
on helping people?
I help people by helping
people. I’m trying, and I think
we should all learn that we
should have some unity with
individuality.
If we could all come togeth-er,
and let people just be who
they wanted to be, we would
be an unstoppable force; if we
could come together as a spe-cies,
as humans.
But not say, ‘you have to do
this, you have to do this;’ but
let people follow what they
want to do, what they want to
be because it would be a per-fect
conjunction.
Somebody wants to do ev-erything.
Someone wants to be
a janitor. Someone wants to be
a plumber. Someone wants to
be a brain surgeon. If we didn’t
have this, ‘you have to do this’
and not hate each other, and
realize that we are all the same.
Most of what somebody can
do to hurt your feelings is not
what they are doing, it’s what
you are letting them do be-cause
they are your feelings.
For instance, let’s say you
call my mom a b----. Some peo-ple
could get really, really up-set.
Now, is that your fault?
There are two different out-comes
that could be from that,
but it’s really up to me.
But if that person gets upset,
it’s not you that made them an-gry;
it’s them that made them
angry to your words.
I’m just trying to bring us all
together because we are amaz-ing.
We should all love each
other. I don’t understand dis-putes
of stuff or territory or re-ligion.
We’re all human and why
can’t we just agree to disagree
on opinions?
I’ve actually had people tell
me my opinion was wrong. It is
my thoughts on a subject.
How can you tell me my
thoughts on a subject are
wrong? They are not facts or
non-facts, they’re opinions. It’s
what I think about something.
Tell us about the
magic you can do.
I was born an empath. I can
naturally feel people’s emo-tions.
When I was younger, I
would actually take on peo-ple’s
emotions and realize that
those emotions were not com-ing
from me.
There’s a science to magic.
We are made up of energy,
and everything is made up of
energy.
So the energy inside of you,
you can call it the spirit, chi,
your will, your soul; you have
this energy in yourself.
Metaphysics is using your
energy to program the energy
of the world.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue B7
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my car has but one #Auburn sticker. It says “Alumni.” @AUAlumniAssoc
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Jam. Follow @CoachTonyBarbee for more details. #TurnUp
@Hale_YeahFR: So ready for this stressful week to be over and to be in Nola/Baton
Rouge this weekend!!!! #Auburn #WarEagle
@JHokanson: #Auburn makes its 76th appearance on ESPN this weekend against
LSU, the most of any college program.
@WarBlogle: Last Saturday felt a little like 2010. Tell me it didn’t. #auburn #warea-gle
@TylerLahti: Between guns and smoking, there’s a lot of verbiage on #Auburn
doors this semester.
@BradleyDennis_: I can almost hear my parents bank account crying when I sit in
the class. #Auburn #terribleprofessor
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weekend! #WarEagle
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#Auburn #ThePlains
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tearing up in class!! #bittersweet #dreamschool #auburn #wareagle
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should be a butterfly garden.
Maddie Yerant
Intrigue Write r
A few people in Spain might smell, but Au-burn
students, who studied abroad in the coun-try
this summer, wouldn’t exactly call their trip
the pits.
“People in Spain don’t wear deodorant,” said
Elizabeth Orantes, senior in sociology. “And they
don’t have the same concept of personal space,
so it’s something you have to get used to.”
Regan Bercher, junior in marketing and Span-ish,
said that wasn’t the only cultural difference.
“There’s five open seats next to you, but they’ll
sit right next to you on the metro,” Bercher said.
Rachel Lin, senior in Spanish and interna-tional
business and another student on the trip,
said they remembered thinking the same thing.
“One time we were on the metro and there
was this guy behind me, and instead of telling
me there was something in my hair, he reached
over and pulled it out,” Lin said.
Students from the trip said polarizing cultur-al
differences caused them to stand out from
typical Spaniards.
“We stuck out,” Bercher said. “Someone saw
my sweater and said ‘you’re not from here, are
you?’ They don’t wear bright colors. I started
wearing the same black shirt, all the time.”
However, Orantes said the locals were pa-tient
and kind, sometimes not even aware they
weren’t from Spain themselves.
“I don’t necessarily look Spanish, but when I
was by myself, I noticed people would automati-cally
speak Spanish to me,” Orantes said. “When
we were in bigger groups, they guessed we were
foreign right away.”
According to Bercher, some adjustments to
the laid-back Spanish lifestyle were harder than
others.
Since students stayed with host families for
the duration of the trip, they were thoroughly
assimilated into the local culture.
“Our host mom, one time, told us to be home
for dinner at six,” Bercher said. “We planned our
whole day around it, and we come home and
she’s on the couch, smoking. She asked us why
we looked so tired.”
Orantes said living with locals helped her to
improve her language skills.
“I lived with a family who had a little girl,”
Orantes said. “It was funny, because she would
correct my grammar. It’s actually a lot easier to
learn when you’re speaking to kids. Their vocab-ulary
is simpler, and it’s easier for us to under-stand.”
According to Bercher, breaking the cultural
divide with her host family was a two-way street.
“They don’t wash their clothes as much as
we do, and my host mom would always ask
why I wash mine so much,” Bercher said. “And
they hang clothes to dry. One day, we open the
window, and all of my thongs are hanging out
there!”
Hannah Preston, junior in international busi-ness
and Spanish, said one of her top moments
was hitting the town with her host mom.
“She took us flamenco dancing,” Preston said.
“We went to a local dancing bar, and before that,
we went and ate at a restaurant she works at. It
was one of my favorite nights of the entire trip.”
Bercher said one standout memory is a David
Guetta concert at a club called Fabrik the stu-dents
attended as a group.
“It was an adventure for all of us, being clue-less
and trying to figure things out,” Bercher
said. “It was crazy, but it was awesome.”
Orantes said the trip was both a fun and re-warding
experience.
“I’m obsessed,” Orantes said. “And I learned
so much. Being in situations where you were
forced to use your language skills was helpful.
You weren’t thinking about your grammar, you
were just doing it. Now, it comes out so much
more naturally.”
Eventually, Orantes learned to adapt to the
difference in personal hygiene.
“I bought Febreeze,” Orantes said. “It was the
best 10 euros I’ve ever spent.”
Auburn students experience sights and smells of Spain
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The entire group visiting Segovia, Spain.
contributed by elizabeth orantes
Regan Bercher, Elizabeth Orantes, Katelyn Ahern, Lauren Levan, Aspen Hancock, Grace Tenkoff, Madison
Clark, Jordie Keeley, Kathryn Boswell and Sara Emily McCarty spend the day in Cartagena, Spain.
Kailey Miller
Intrigue Reporter
Auburn students are crossing borders and us-ing
their skills to make a difference for hundreds
of families.
“Engineers Without Borders is a service out-reach
group with the College [of Engineering],”
said Jourdan Beaumont, president of Engineers
Without Borders. “It’s a way for students to vol-unteer
their time to help out the community
somewhere in the world.”
This year, they took a trip to Quesimpuco, Bo-livia,
located in the Andes Mountains.
Beaumont said their partnership focused on
water security, and any type of project to help
them secure more water for farming, eating,
drinking, irrigation, hydroponics and showers.
The trip took place in August, and lasted 10
days.
“In previous years, [the team] installed a tank
on the side of the mountain and what we’ve
been doing with it is building an irrigation sys-tem
off of it,” said Carson Smith, junior in civil
engineering. “It’s a series of pipelines and sprin-klers
that they use during their dry season to se-cure
their crop production.”
Smith said they also had a hydroponics team
working in the greenhouse, where they used re-cycled
and fertilized water to grow plants.
To get to Quesimpuco, the group landed in
La Paz, Bolivia, and drove 12 hours to the com-munity.
Stephen Smart, senior in civil engineering,
said they stayed in bunkhouses that had a kitch-en
and a meeting area. There were gates sur-rounding
the houses.
“The gates are there because people are so
excited about visitors when we’re trying to have
meetings, you’ll have 100 little third graders run-ning
in,” Beaumont said. “They’ll be climbing on
the windows watching you cook, everyone’s su-per
excited to see you.”
Beaumont described the Bolivian people as
friendly, with a welcoming culture.
“It’s like you’re just part of the family right
away,” Beaumont said.
While the people were welcoming, the differ-ence
in native languages was a challenge for the
team.
“The language barrier made it difficult,”
Smith said. “Sometimes, they would have to use
two different translators before they could un-derstand
each other.”
However, the language barrier was part of the
learning process.
“The idea is, that this group lets students be-come
better engineers, become better business
people, marketers, cross-cultural communica-tions,”
Beaumont said. “Just a unique way to de-velop
a lot of different skills.”
Smith said his best memory from the trip was
on the last day of work when they turned on the
sprinkler system the group had been working
on.
“I was with one of the community leaders,
up by the tank, and he just started absolute-ly
crying because he knew that the difference
just from one sprinkler… the difference that
that would make in the crop production and in
the lives of all the people that live in that area,”
Smith said. “It was beautiful.”
Engineers Without Borders is not exclusively
for engineering students. Any student may be-come
involved with the group and help in some
way.
“There’s a lot of students in the group who
are really dedicated to doing something more
with their time than just playing Nintendo and
watching TV,” Beaumont said. “That’s inspiring
that you want to be a part of that… it’s really re-warding
as an engineering student, and it’s also
really rewarding as a person helping other peo-ple.”
Engineers Without Borders meets once a
week, and invites guest speakers to talk about
topics, such as sustainability and other topics
relevant to the work they are doing, in Quesim-puco.
For more information, visit Eng.Auburn.edu/
organizations/EWB.
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The members of Quesimpuco receiving copies of the topography of the mountain they live on.
Engineers Without Borders take Auburn smarts to Bolivia
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