2013-09-05 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, September 5, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 120, Issue 15, 16 Pages
University
officials explain
campus-wide
smoking ban,
students react
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INDEX
Campus
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Community
Sports
Intrigue
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Football vs.
Arkansas State
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game
Saturday, Sept. 7
Therezie wins
awards
Therezie earns
two awards for his
performance against
Washingtion State
Downtown
Master Plan
meeting held
City of Auburn
invited community
to provide input on
potential downtown
renovations
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Harrison Mills
President of SGA
Harrison Mills’ campaign
slogan, ‘Hey Harrison,’ will
haunt him throughout the
rest of his term, but he is
OK with that.
Mills said he will make sure
to walk the concourse and answer any questions
students have about policies and issues on campus.
William McManus
Treasurer of SGA
William McManus is no strang-er
to the treasury business.
Serving as UPC’s vice president
of finance in the last school
year, McManus said he is one
of the only people in his posi-tion
that has ever had such financial experience before be-ing
elected treasurer.
Amy Anne Olsen
Vice president of SGA
Along with serving approxi-mately
25,000 students as vice
president, Amy Anne Olsen
also has to watch over and
lead 34 student senators. “It’s
a challenging position, but it’s
a lot of fun,” Olsen said. “I’m blessed to work with 34 of the
best, most hard-working students at Auburn.”
Chelsea Crooks
Executive vice
president of initiatives
Have any idea or issue regarding
students that you want heard?
Chelsea Crooks is your go-to
woman.
“If [students] want to contact me
personally, I check my email 600 times a day,” Crooks said.
SGA moves forward with new executive leaders
See A2 for full stories
New traditions on The Plains
Emily enfinger / Photographer
Auburn fans gathered after the win against Washington State to roll the new Toomer’s structure.
Ashtyne Cole
Intrigue Writer
It’s that time of the year again. RV’s roll in
on Thursday and people stand in staked-off
areas in a field just to get their favorite spot.
White tents start popping up all over cam-pus
and there is a tangible, lifted spirit in the
air throughout town.
Families come back to visit their favorite
school, a little older and with kids in tow, sip-ping
on Toomer’s lemonade.
Students wear game day buttons and tail-gate
with friends all for one special reason: it’s
game day at Auburn University. There is just
one difference with this season: the Toomer’s
Oaks will not be present for the first games.
The tradition of rolling Toomer’s Corner
will live on. The city of Auburn spent $5,000 on
the installation of four wires across the Col-lege
Street and Magnolia Avenue intersection
downtown, according to Aubun officials.
The wires will hold the place of the trees
until more are able to be planted in spring of
2014. The wires are attached to three poles
downtown, coming together and forming a
“V” where the Oaks used to stand.
They aim to give the Auburn Family a place
to celebrate our victories and provide a sense
of normalcy.
The wires are adorned with big “AU” sym-bols
to add to the festivities. They celebrated
their first rolling with Auburn’s win against
Washington State Saturday, Aug. 31.
The wires come with a bit of mixed emotion
and reaction.
Nothing can take the place of the trees,
which were removed in April after Harvey Up-dyke’s
irreversible poisoning.
The point is to give the Auburn family a
place to come and celebrate, even though the
trees are gone.
June and Jerry Carpenter have been coming
back to Auburn off and on since they graduat-ed
from the University in 1974.
Changes in student
organization seating
goes into practice
Ben Hohenstatt
Campus Reporter
Based on the noise generat-ed
by 87,451 rabid fans at Au-burn
home games, there isn’t
a bad seat in Jordan-Hare Sta-dium.
However, four sections of
the best seats in the student
section are reserved as part
of the Organizational Seat-ing
Program well before game
time.
“Obviously, the Organiza-tional
Seating Program block
has some pretty great seats,”
said Brad Smith, Student Gov-ernment
Association graduate
assistant.
The seats are located in sec-tions
24, 25, 26 and 27.
Connor Graves, SGA assis-tant
vice president of tradi-tions,
said the reserved seats
can accommodate approxi-mately
2,200 students. The Or-ganizational
Seating Program,
better known as block seating,
is rewarded to student organi-zation
members who regularly
attend athletic events.
“Block seating is entirely
event attendance based,” said
Anna Malloy, assistant direc-tor
of marketing for Auburn
Athletics.
In recent years, block seat-ing
was only open to Greek
organizations and was deter-mined
by a combination of
philanthropic efforts and at-tending
sporting events.
“We’re no longer on the spir-it
system,” Smith said. “Starting
last year, we opened organiza-tional
seating to all student or-ganizations.”
Organizational seating is
also open to students with the
most Auburn Ignited points.
Smith said the change was
prompted by disingenuous in-volvement
from organizations.
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Graphic by emily bret and rachel suhs
“We’re no longer on
the spirit system.
Starting last
year, we opened
organizational
seating to
all student
organizations.”
—Brad smith
Student government
association adviser
AUBURN vs. arkansas State
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Auburn
marching
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Two of the main issues Mills hopes to ad-dress
are Tiger Dining and night transportation.
His plan is to implement service for Wednesday
nights and increase capacity for dining services.
“What we’re hoping to bring in a proposal
is bring back those days, but streamline a cou-ple
of lines, so we can still offer [the students]
the same benefit, but the ride when you need
it,” Mills said. “The spring will be the earliest we
could make it happen.”
As for Tiger Dining, Mills said he wants to in-crease
student interest in the Tiger Zone dining
option located in the Village.
“People think that it’s only for student ath-letes,
too expensive or don’t know about it,”
Mills said. “Marketing is going to be a big push.”
SGA was also in charge of creating the new
online ticket exchange system.
“For the first time in several years, freshman
who wanted to purchase any variety of those
ticket packages could,” Mills said. “And now
there’s an online system on tigeri to exchange
tickets from card to card one week before the
game free of charge.”
Mills is also working on allowing students
with C-zone parking passes to be allowed to
park in PC lots after 2 p.m.
Although Mills’ life seems to be all work and
no play, Mills still finds some free time in his
packed schedule.
“When I do have free time I just want to go
out with my friends, go to Chewacla, go down-town
to have a drink with a friend or just sit and
watch a movie,” Mills said.
Mills said working with his four other execu-tive
board teammates has been fun.
“We’re all type-A people and we definitely all
bring an opinion, but we’re not here for group-think,
we’re here to bring a perspective, to pro-vide
some research and insight and hash things
out,” Mills said. “We’ve definitely grown close
and we spend a lot of time in the [office].”
Since being elected SGA president, Mills’ life
has changed.
“I’ve always been a person who thrived off
of being busy, so coming into this role, it’s just
been a boost of energy,” Mills said. “It’s definite-ly
been something to adjust to, like seeing my
face on the front of a newspaper and comments
in publications in the state, but it’s been a bless-ing
to learn about leadership and embody the
creed.”
“I’m interested in talking
with people who want to get in-volved
or have questions about
SGA,” Crooks said. “One thing
we’re trying to push this year
is this online program called
‘Heard That.’ We respond to
feedback as soon as we get it.”
One of Crooks’ goals for her
term is to get more diverse stu-dent
feedback.
“I think my biggest goal for
this year is to let students know
what SGA is working on and to
feel more comfortable express-ing
their opinions and to be
more involved,” Crooks said.
Crooks is also working on
various projects.
“We’re working on a lot of the
same issues that students com-plain
about, like transportation
and dining, and making a dent
with those,” Crooks said. “Also
[I’m] working with the provost
office to increase the gradua-tion
rate.”
Although running against
Mills in the election may have
been a challenge for Crooks,
working with him has given her
no challenges.
“Harrison and I work re-ally
close together because a
lot of what I work on were his
platform points. I knew going
into this we would be working
closely,” Crooks said. “Despite
everything that’s happened,
this year’s gone great. He’s do-ing
a great job and obviously
we have not had any problems
working together.”
During the summer, Crooks
worked on establishing SGA’s
goals and initiatives for the
year.
“We have a document we
want to share with campus
on what we want to accom-plish
for this next year,” Crooks
said. “So far we’ve done a lot of
groundwork. We’re looking for-ward
to sustainability projects.”
Being from out of state,
Crooks did not know much
about Auburn before she came
here.
“Auburn’s really given me a
lot and student government is
my way of giving back to Au-burn,”
Crooks said. “I would re-ally
love to see younger leaders
develop and that’s what makes
this job awesome for me.”
Olsen plans on helping strengthen the rela-tionships
between senators and their constitu-ents
while in office.
“We want to make sure they are representing
them, as well as we have a new committee struc-ture,
so we’re trying to move senate to more of
an initiative-based group,” Olsen said.
The summer was a busy time for Olsen.
“Part of my platform was to improve colle-giate
readership and we now receive the New
York Times,” Olsen said. “A lot of students don’t
realize that’s an SGA initiative, but it affects a lot
of them.
“Also, we’re looking at ways to delve into the
SGA Code of Laws and changing some things so
that we’re best serving students.”
Olsen emphasizes SGA’s open-door policy to
students.
“We love when students come and chat with
us,” Olsen said.
“We have campaigns on the concourse and
we’ll be out there trying to meet students. We’re
all about meeting people and learning how to
make a better Auburn experience for them.”
Olsen has worked with SGA since she was a
freshman, so a lot of time commitment has not
changed for her.
“Last year, I served as a senator-at-large, so
that was a really cool opportunity to learn about
senate and learn more about the position I’m in
now,” Olsen said.
“I was also a War Eagle Girl, so it was great to
form relationships with administrators who’ve
helped me with this role.”
Olsen said group discussions are comfortable
and fun with the executive group they have.
“We challenge each other while respecting
each other,” she said.
“We’d prefer organizations being out in the
community for the sake of the community, not
for seats,” Smith said.
Opening up block seating to all student orga-nizations
had an immediate impact on which
organizations received block seating. Honors
Congress, a non-Greek organization, finished
in first place last year.
Smith said a first-place finish earned Honors
College the best seats at the front of the block.
“There was a change in groups that received
organizational seating,” Smith said. “Some
groups did not compete very well.”
Smith also said the old system allowed fra-ternities
to essentially buy spirit points.
“They could show up to an event, buy a T-shirt
and get spirit points,” Smith said. “That as-pect
and social media don’t count for points to-ward
organizational seating points.”
Malloy said points are only earned one at a
time by scanning in and out of athletic events.
“This year, there are 22 organizations in the
seating block,” Graves said.
Placing high enough in points among orga-nizations
is only half the battle. Organizations
must also fill their allotted rows in a punctual
manner.
“Organizations fill their rows an hour before
kickoff,” Graves said. “If they don’t, it’s at our
discretion to hand out general admission wrist
bands.”
This means if a group has been designated
rows in the seating block runs late, their seats
will be filled by random students.
“If their seats get taken, tough luck,” Graves
said. “They need to be on time.”
In addition to having their seats reassigned,
organizations also have points deducted. This
makes it harder for organizations that do not
fill their seats to earn seating in the future.
“I think [the wires] are fine,” June said. “When
we were here, they didn’t roll the trees, they
rolled the corner. The trees came a little later
and it just sort of multiplied over to the trees.”
Auburn’s downtown is rich in history and,
of course, tradition. The trees were planted in
1937, but were not rolled immediately.
“The trees weren’t rolled until the ’80s or so,”
June said.
The tradition of rolling the trees began when
employees from Toomer’s Drugs received news
of an away-game win via the only telegraph in
the city. They would then toss the ticker tape
over the power lines outside, signaling the Au-burn
victory for all the fans.
“You only rolled when it was an out of town
game and we won, so we would know if Au-burn
won because the corner would be rolled,”
Carpenter said. “Sometimes, it wasn’t on TV or
we wouldn’t hear anything on the radio. Even
if we were out of town, we would cut through
just to see what happened and if the corner was
rolled.”
Fans are happy to celebrate Auburn victo-ries,
even if the trees are gone and wires are
present.
“I think it keeps the tradition alive in the best
way we can right now,” said Bethany Cooley, ju-nior
in accounting. “It’s not the trees, and the
wires are a little harder to roll, but we’re still
Auburn and will celebrate our victories on the
Corner like we are supposed to do.”
“I was just happy to wake up in Auburn on
game day again,” said Colton Mayhall, Auburn
alumus. “And we still get to roll; it’s an Auburn
tradition and it will stay that way. It’s just a little
different with wires, and something we’ll just
have to get used to.”
“I realized there was a need
for someone who was really
qualified and had that experi-ence
in finance. Normally this
position hasn’t gone through
the process before they are in
this [position],” McManus said.
McManus said he plans on
changing around a few things
during his term.
“My platform was chang-ing
the budget and finance
process from the fall to the
spring,” McManus said. “I said
my plan was to do it as per
usual throughout this month,
so I’m going through it this fall
as normal. But as of Sept. 16,
the budget that will move from
the fall to the spring will go
through the student senate.”
This plan will go into action
so the University does not have
to make up an imaginary bud-get
count for SGA when they
go over their budget in the
spring.
“The University allocated
their money during the spring,
but [SGA] doesn’t do it un-til
the beginning of the fiscal
year,” McManus said.
“When the University
makes their budget, they allo-cate
the activity fee they col-lect.
They have to make up a
number of what SGA is going
to get because their budget
is due in the spring. This will
make it so they don’t have to
make up a number.”
No matter the time or place,
McManus will always return a
student’s emails.
“People don’t think it’s true,
but if you email me I’ll re-spond,”
McManus said.
“I was a Camp War Eagle
counselor and still email my
campers. I sent them an email
and reminded them of the
drop fee. I love taking care of
people.”
Over the summer, McMa-nus
updated the student in-volvement
space.
“We updated the office to
make the space more inter-active
with students and im-prove
their ability to get work
done,” McManus said.
McManus said everyone on
the executive board is reliable.
“I’m a huge fan of special-ization,”
McManus said. “We
all know what our job is. If I
say I’m going to get something
done, it’s going to get done.”
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 5, 2013
Aug. 29 - Combs Avenue
Burglary Third Degree – theft of
television, jewelry and sunglasses
between Aug. 28, 3 p.m.–Aug. 29,
11 a.m.
Aug. 29 - Gatewood Drive
Burglary Third Degree – theft of
televisions and laptop between Aug.
29, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Aug. 30 - East University Drive
Theft of Property Second Degree
– theft of wallet, credit cards and
identification cards between 8–8:20
p.m.
Aug. 30 - West Thatch Concourse
Theft of Lost Property Second
Degree – theft of wallet, currency,
credit cards and identification cards
between 11:55 a.m.–12:05 p.m.
Aug. 31 - West Magnolia Avenue
Theft of Property Third Degree – theft
of cell phone and currency between
1:30–3:05 a.m.
Sept. 1 - North Donahue Drive
Criminal Mischief Third Degree –
damage to tires between 1 a.m.–10
a.m.
Sept. 2 - North Donahue Drive
Unlawful Breaking and Entering a
Vehicle – theft of wallet, currency,
credit cards and identification cards
between 3:30–6:30 p.m.
Sept. 2 - Meagan Lane
Unlawful Breaking and Entering a
Vehicle – theft of wallet credit cards
and identification card between
midnight–10 a.m.
Sept. 3 - Trailridge Road
Theft of Property Second Degree –
theft of rifle between 2:30–4 p.m.
Sept. 2 - Golf Club Drive
Theft of Property First Degree – theft
of jewelry between Aug. 25, noon–
Sept. 1, noon
Sept. 3 - West Longleaf Drive
Unlawful Breaking and Entering a
Vehicle – Theft of cameras, cam-era
accessories, laptop and police
vehicle emergency lights, between
6:30–7 p.m.
— Reports provided by Auburn De-partment
of Public Safety
DUI ARRESTS FOR AUG. 28–SEPT. 4, 2013 POLICE REPORTS FOR THE CITY OF AUBURN AUG. 28–SEPT. 4, 2013
Grier Stephen, 21
Opelika Road
Aug. 29, 3:31 a.m.
Bryan James, 20
North Donahue Drive
Aug. 31, 12:51 a.m.
David Kell, 31
East Glenn Avenue
Aug. 31, 1:19 a.m.
Casey Ledbetter, 22
South College Street and East University Drive
Sept. 2, 4:08 a.m.
Shane Brunstien, 23
Debardeleben Street and East Thatch Avenue
Sept. 4, 2:29 a.m.
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Students may be fuming over Au-burn
University’s new policy to ban
tobacco products and e-cigarettes
from campus. But for many, the poli-cy
came as a breath of fresh air.
Like many other universities
across the country, Auburn made the
final push to go entirely smoke-free
by eliminating the designated smok-ing
areas on campus and by banning
all smoke-able tobacco products.
The bans included cigarettes, cigars,
tobacco pipes, hookahs and e-ciga-rettes.
“The spark of it was the result of
a student letter to Dr. Gogue where
he asked the president, essentially,
for Auburn University to go smoke-free
and their concern for the health
effects on others by second-hand
smoke,” said Christine Eick, execu-tive
manager of risk management
and safety for Auburn University.
“Each governance group, meaning
the Student Government Associa-tion,
faculty senate, the staff council
and the administrative professional
assembly, were all supportive of go-ing
smoke free,” Eick said. “So their
votes passed in support of doing so.”
Rather than ban tobacco prod-ucts
outright from the start, the Uni-versity
initiated a multi-stage pro-gram
to phase out smoking in plac-es
deemed harmful to non-smokers,
beginning with the creation of desig-nated
smoking zones, a government-approved
distance of 25 feet from
doors and walkways.
While never a permanent solu-tion,
it became clear that designated
zones could only function some of
the time when it was a convenience
to the smoker.
“I’m not saying you can’t smoke,
I’m not saying I’m against smok-ing.
I’m just saying that when I
walk to class in the morning, I want
to be able to not breathe in
smoke,” said Scottie Brown,
senior in journalism. “If it
stayed in the designated
areas, that would be fine,
but I see them smoking
right outside the door.”
There are no penalties
if you get caught smoking
on campus, nor any fines
to pay, as was the rumor at
the beginning of the year.
The evolution to smoke-free
permanence also came
with a solution for students:
the Auburn University Har-rison
School of Pharmacy
has a step-by-step program
to assist you in quitting nic-otine
for good, complete with
a “Pack It Up” to help motivate
and keep students on track.
Despite being a solution to
the problem many have com-plained
about in the past, some
people would rather make the de-cision
for themselves instead of al-lowing
the school to be the decid-ing
factor.
As Auburn Taylor Carr, senior in
sociology, said, “People’s personal
lives are their personal lives, and no
one should butt into that. I worked
at Disneyworld for six months, and
they have designated smoking zones
all over the park, and it’s just away
from kids, and away from tourists.
It’s not banned at all; there are spots
for it in the Magic Kingdom. I think
the designated zones were the per-fect
middle ground between the two
different parties here, and I’ve seen
that work fine before where 60,000
people go everyday, so why not a
campus of 25,000?”
It’s a decision that’s been taken
out of the hands of Auburn students,
but one in which they did much of
the groundwork to inform the ad-ministration,
Eick said.
E-cigarettes, in particular, have
proven to be something of a slippery
slope as they aren’t technically to-bacco
products and can vary great-ly
from user to user but still contain
unsafe levels of nicotine that could
potentially harm non-users in the
vicinity.
“The whole premise of the
smoke-free policy was the
health benefits of the person
who’s choosing not to smoke,
and there’s just not a lot of
good research on electron-ic
cigarettes,”Eick said. “So
we were looking to federal
agencies in their standards,
we primarily looked to the
Food and Drug Adminis-tration,
they say that the
e-cigarette is a tobacco
product and so it kind of
comes under that juris-diction.”
Regardless of your
decision to smoke or
not to smoke, every-one
can appreciate
the push to improve
the quality of life for
all involved.
“We have re-ceived
so much pos-itive
feedback from
people, I think some-times
the focus is on
the negative aspects of change, but
we have received many more ‘thank
yous’ than complaints,” Eick said.
“I’m administering a policy that was
asked for by the community.”
Students voice their approval and disapproval
regarding the new campus smoking policy
Auburn’s smoking ban,
fresh air or just a drag?
Smoking policies
of SEC schools
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university of alabama
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University of Florida
University of Georgia
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Vanderbilt university
Alabama does not
allow smoking in
campus buildings
and people can only
smoke 30 feet away
from buildings.
Georgia does not
allow smoking in
campus buildings,
under outdoor cov-ered
walkways and on the health
sciences campus. People can
smoke 35 feet away from buildings.
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Sunlight in the spotlight
Ben Hohenstatt
Campus Reporter
It might seem odd that an
institution with a proud tra-dition
of throwing toilet paper
would be distinguished for en-vironmental
friendliness, but
Auburn University was recent-ly
praised for its solar panels.
Auburn was one of the 40
institutions included in the
Association for the Advance-ment
of Sustainability in High-er
Education’s 2012 Sustain-ability
Review.
The partnership between
Facilities Management and the
Office of Sustainability, which
produced solar panels for the
stadium parking deck, were
the subject of the profile.
“The panels offset the charg-ing
of the golf carts on the bot-tom
floor,” said Jennifer Morse,
communication and outreach
coordinator for the University
Office of Sustainability.
There are 10 stations used
to charge golf carts and vehi-cles
used by University depart-ments
on the ground floor of
the parking deck.
Morse said the solar panels
do not provide electricity di-rectly
to the vehicles, but pro-vide
roughly the equivalent
amount of energy used by the
charging stations to Auburn’s
power grid.
Ray Kirby, electrical engi-neer
in facilities management,
said there are two sections of
3.3 kilowatt solar panels on the
parking deck.
“That means during peak
sunlight hours, about five
hours per day, those panels
can produce 6.6 KW of power,”
Kirby said.
In total, there are 24 solar
panels on top of the parking
deck.
Morse said the idea for the
solar panels came during a
brainstorming session for a
highly visible project between
the Office of Sustainability and
facilities management.
“Something about the so-lar
panels with Jordan-Hare in
the background seemed like a
great idea,” Morse said. “It’s a
powerful image.”
Morse said while the solar
panels are a high-profile proj-ect,
the Office of Sustainability
is also involved with other on-campus
projects.
“We have another demo
project we’re doing,” Morse
said. “We’re doing a rain-gath-ering
project over at the Dud-ley
shop roof.
Morse said projects such as
these, and overall efforts to-ward
sustainability, resulted
and will continue to result in
Auburn receiving recognition
from organizations such as the
AASHE Sustainability Review.
AASHE also has a Sustain-ability
Tracking and Rating
System that evaluates an insti-tution’s
sustainability efforts.
“We did the STARS assess-ment
last year,” Morse said.
“We got a silver star.”
Morse said the University
is aiming for a gold star rating
this year.
“We’re working for it, but we
don’t really care about a score
or a ranking,” Morse said. “We
want the results in sustainabil-ity
that those sorts of things
represent.”
Successful women’s studies open house held Aug. 28
Ben Hohenstatt
Campus Reporter
The excitement at the women’s studies pro-gram
faculty open house was palpable, but had
nothing to do with the lunchtime refreshments
served at the event.
The crowd packed into Haley Center room
3227 was excited by the full department event
calendar and for a chance for the women’s stud-ies
program affiliates to get to know each other.
The event began with announcements re-garding
the women’s studies program’s event
schedule for the semester.
“We have a lot of great things scheduled,”
said Joyce de Vries, director of the University’s
women’s studies program.
The women’s studies program’s fall semes-ter
schedule includes an arts and humanities
month barbecue with Elvis Oct. 16, a tribute to
A.R. Siddons Oct. 18, a foreign languages panel
Nov. 6, as well as many other events.
However, it was the Extraordinary Women
Lecture featuring Gloria Steinem scheduled for
Feb. 18 captured the most attention.
“We have a lot of things going,” de Vries said.
“But of course, we’re all very excited for Steinem
in February.”
Barbara Baker, executive director of the
Women’s Leadership Institute, said she has
high hopes for the event.
“We’re really trying to tie women together
around this event,” Baker said.
The open house served as more than a
chance to announce discussion panels and
guest speakers.
“The focal point of the event was to greet
new faculty,” de Vries said. “We have more than
90 affiliates that now have the opportunity to
meet and greet.”
She also said the interdisciplinary nature can
make it difficult for all of the affiliates to be fa-miliar
with one another.
“We have faculty all over campus,” de Vries
said.
One new face was Kelly Krawczyk, assistant
professor of political science.
This semester will be Krawczyk’s first at Au-burn.
“I came from Wayne State University in De-troit,”
Krawczyk said. “The South is still new to
me.”
Krawczyk said the open house was an excel-lent
opportunity to get to know other members
of the women’s studies program.
“It seemed to me to be a great way to learn
about Auburn, new programs and initiatives
and to meet new people,” Krawczyk said.
One of the recent programs highlighted at
the event was the women’s studies minor the
College of Liberal Arts has started offering for
students this semester.
“We want the word out that there is a wom-en’s
studies minor,” de Vries said.
Information and schedules were given to ev-eryone
who attended the event.
People can learn about the program, includ-ing
the minor and scheduled events, by visiting
CLA.Auburn.edu/WomensStudies/.
Jimika Clovin
Wri t er
Assistant professor John
Easley and professor Curtis
Shannon, with the depart-ment
of chemistry and bio-chemistry
in the College of
Science and Mathematics,
successfully led a collabora-tive
effort between their re-search
teams, the Easley Re-search
Group and Shannon
Research Group, to develop a
new disease-detection meth-od
referred to as the electro-chemical
proximity assay, or
ECPA.
The Easley Research
Group is focused on mak-ing
an impact on the under-standing
of the fundamen-tals
of diabetes, obesity and
metabolic syndrome by developing meth-ods
to measure hormone release from a small
number of cells in a short time frame.
“We are trying to develop methods that can
make those types of measurements and help
out some of the people who study more fun-damental
lab biology,” Easley said. “We want
to help them out, and maybe even do some of
the measurements ourselves.”
The ECPA is one of those methods the
groups worked to develop.
“We were developing a method to detect
the proteins we were looking for, but then we
realized that it can actually detect many oth-er
ones,” Easley said. “Your body has hundreds
of thousands of different proteins, and native
protein is one of the main components of your
body. It’s simply detecting proteins.”
The Easley Research Group detects pro-teins
by using chemical methods to attach
DNA to antibodies, which are also proteins.
These antibodies can specifically recognize
certain proteins.
“We get the ones that we need for that par-ticular
protein, and then we attach DNA to
those and we can get the DNA design anyway
we want,” Easley said.
The DNA is used to tell
us if the protein is there and
acts as a signal.
“We can get it to bind only
if the protein is there,” Eas-ley
said.
Easley’s proximity assay
work and Shannon’s work on
electroanalytical chemistry
led to the realization of col-laboration.
“We combined our meth-ods
with Dr. Shannon’s elec-trochemical
methods, and it
turned out to work way bet-ter
than all the other tech-niques,”
Easley said. “There
are many different things
that you can detect by hav-ing
a method that could
quantify proteins.”
This technology also has the potential for
commercialization because of its wide range
of detection abilities and because of the elec-tro-
chemistry aspect, which allows it to be
miniaturized into an electric circuit.
Auburn University applied for a patent in
2012, and Easley and Shannon are continuing
their work on the ECPA.
“Working with Dr. Shannon has been very
fruitful and were going to continue working,”
Easley said.
“The next steps for the ECPA include proto-typing
a handheld device, miniaturization of
the sensor components, optimizing the mea-surement
parameters and detecting multiple
proteins at the same time,” Shannon said.
The National Science Foundation and other
organizations fund this research that the pro-fessors
do.
Auburn’s Office of the Vice President for Re-search
also supported the development of the
ECPA as Easley, Shannon and engineers work
with the Office of Technology Transfer to con-duct
more studies.
anna grafton / photo editor
Solar panels on the roof of a University parking deck transmit power to electric vehicles below.
Two professors develop
protein-dectecting device
“We were
developing a
method to detect
the proteins we
were looking
for, but then we
realized it can
actually detect
many other ones”
—John easley
assistant Professor of
chemistr y and biochemistr y
Two professors in the College of
Sciences and Mathematics develop
a new disease-dectecting method
Thursday, September 5, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A5
As bass singer Avi Kaplan of Pentatonix’s
voice reverberated through the speakers and
the audience members’ chests, a deeper roar
was growing in mine.
I didn’t understand what it was until the
end of UPC’s concert Thursday, Aug. 29, but
when I did, it came upon me so suddenly I had
no choice but to yield to its fury.
Hoping my 1,000 other Auburn Fami-ly
members would help me, I cracked open
my lips and expelled the breathtaking cry,
“Waaaaaaaar…”
And incredibly, those around me were
caught up in the involuntary, powerful mo-ment
and joined me, their voices melding into
something majestic.
As I guided them into the crescendo, culmi-nating
in “…eagle, hey!” I had finally done what
many Auburn freshmen dream of doing: I led
the Auburn game day cry.
It lasted only 6 seconds.
But within those 6 seconds, I checked off
almost everything on my Auburn University
bucket list, and it had only taken six years to
do so.
With my graduation looming, it made me
conscious of time and how fleeting it is. Peo-ple
say they blink and are forty; imagine how
quickly your four, or six, years of college will
fly by.
I hope you have the chance to experience
the successes I’ve had and the mistakes I’ve
made.
I’ve failed classes, used all my GAPs, wished
I had more and learned lessons from years of
immaturity.
I’ve gone to football games, lost my voice,
bled blue and orange and bled red in boyish
scuffles defending the honor of Auburn’s foot-ball
team against LSU fans.
I’ve had nights I’ll never forget and some I’ll
never remember at bars and fraternity houses.
I’ve broken nearly every rule while living in
the dorms, but nothing illegal in an on-cam-pus
dorm.
I’ve made enemies and forgiven them, and
made friends who I hope will last a lifetime.
I’ve loved and lost, loved and lost and cho-sen
to stoically love again.
I’ve gone from an out-of-state student con-fused
whether the mascot was Aubie or an ea-gle
to a member of the Auburn Family explain-ing
the story of both to others.
I read the creed and believe in it whole-heartedly,
hoping my peers set their life to its
course because it won’t lead them astray.
Poet Robert Herrick told the virgins to
make much of time, and Robin Williams told
us it meant carpe diem, “seize the day.”
So, make the most of your time left at Au-burn,
because when it’s gone, you’ll never get
it back, and while you’ll always be an Auburn
alumnus or alumna, you will never be an Au-burn
student again.
I wish I would have joined an a capella club,
been more active in intramural sports, culti-vated
new interests, studied abroad, found
something to devote my life to and engen-dered
more friendships that will last a lifetime.
But my time is coming to an end, and wish-ing
wounds the heart. Your time may be end-ing
as well, or just beginning, but make the
most of it, and ensure the pages of your story
at Auburn are written in indelible ink.
That’s what college is: sweet, poignant and
then? Over.
Leave a legacy, and learn something be-yond
the major on your diploma, something
that lasts forever.
The thing I’ve learned at Auburn, and not
from any single event, person or class, but the
culmination of everything?
I believe in Auburn and love it.
A6
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In response to our tweet “Campus-wide
power outages at Auburn University”
@thesabanfactor:
@DaPrincessCass:
@thetopbrianna:
Pay the bill!!
psychhh it’s out again
There was no one trapped inside the
Bookstore. The huge sliding door to the
lobby is manual.
In response to our post “Do you expect the
Tigers to play better against Arkansas St.
this weekend? What do they need to im-prove?”
Phillip Key:
Giving up less passing yards, not drop-ping
passes.
Wayne Partridge:
I’d be happy to rat out a smoker. In
fact, I did it yesterday. I like breathing
carcinogen-free air
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This week’s poll question:
Does the Tigers’ win against WSU
give you hope for the rest of the
season?
•YES
•NO
•I FORGOT WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
TO WIN
Last week’s poll results:
Are you excited about Ben Affleck
being Batman?
5% YES
70% NO
25% ONLY IF MATT DA-MON
CAN BE ROBIN
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Dear the-person-in-charge of
Jordan-Hare Stadium,


I am writing this letter to re-quest
seating in the stadium for
future football games where I will
be free from sexist, racist, homo-phobic
and anti-Semitic language
and behavior.


On Saturday, I skipped my way
to the stadium in the wet heat
with my friends and my boy-friend’s
family visiting from far
away.
I felt proud to be entering the
stadium for the third year in a row
as a new football fan.
I never thought I would get ex-cited
about football, live in the
South, or have so many of my neg-ative
stereotypes about Southern-ers
disconfirmed.
Within the first quarter, how-ever,
we became subject to ha-rassment,
taunting, and provo-cation
by drunk people in the stu-dent
section sitting behind us. My
boyfriend’s brother was particu-larly
subjected to heinous mascu-linity
baiting.


Although, as a graduate stu-dent
at Auburn, I am older than
most people in that section, I
was shaking in my boots with
the thick anticipation of violence
stinking the air.
We didn’t even make it to the
end of the first half when a near-by
woman referred to me as a “F--
--- JEW” and we left.
I knew that I was different than
most people in the stands, but felt
safe assuming that only I knew
this. For most of my life I have en-joyed
the privilege of not wear-ing
my othered identity status-es
externally, unlike many people
of color, people with disabilities,
or gender non-conforming folks
who do not have this luxury.
Saturday, I got a taste of what it
feels like to be reminded that be-cause
of how I look I DON’T BE-LONG.
It has taken me a long time to
accept and love what makes me
different, and I will not have that
taken away from me. I will not feel
unsafe or allow my friends or fam-ily
to feel this way.
Please let me know if you can
accommodate my request be-cause
I have invited a number of
friends and family who are Jew-ish,
gay, people of color, or dif-ferent
in some marvelous way to
games this season and I will not
expose them to what we went
through.
Emily Kerzin
Doctoral Student
Counseling Psychology
Jordan-Hare home to football, bigotry
The Plainsman’s unfortunate
and misinformed editorial last
week referring to the recently im-plemented
smoking ban as “prej-udice”
shows the editorial board’s
dearth of scientific knowledge re-lated
to tobacco associated ill-ness.
Although it would take well
more than 300 words to sort out
the misinformation and false alle-gations
promulgated by the arti-cle,
I will attempt to correct sever-al
pieces of fallacious information
in this letter to the editor.
First, the assertion that the
measure“was instituted through
non-democratic means” is sim-ply
false. As a member of the SGA
Senate, I can personally attest to
the polling conducted among
students which demonstrated an
overwhelming support of the ban.
Additionally, all four governing
bodies—Auburn University Fac-ulty
Senate, SGA Senate and A &P
Council and the Staff Council—
passed a resolution in favor of a
smoking ban.
Smokers’ concerns were taken
into consideration and their opin-ions
were considered.
Secondly, the editorial claims
that the smoke-free campus is an
“affront” to any Auburn Family
member who smokes.
I take offense to that claim be-cause
while each and every per-son
of a legal age possesses the
right to smoke, non-smokers pos-sess
a greater right to walk to
and from class without inhaling
a mouthful of carcinogen filled
smoke.
According to the CDC, sec-ondhand
smoke exposure causes
an estimated 3,400 lung cancer
deaths and 46,000 heart disease
deaths annually among adult
nonsmokers in the United States.
Let’s ensure Auburn Fami-ly
members can live long, mean-ingful
lives without the extreme-ly
horrible side-effects of second-hand
smoke.
Today, nearly 1,182 campuses
nationwide have banned smok-ing
on campuses and we can ex-pect
that number to grow.
Auburn’s decision to join the
movement demonstrates that
we’re committed to ensuring the
health and well-being of our stu-dents,
faculty, and campus visi-tors.
Jacob Dean
Auburn SGA
Senate President Pro Tempore
Plainsman’s views on smoking misguided
Letters to the Editor
My college bucket list has been finished
In response to our post “Editorial: Unfil-tered
prejudice and the anti-smoking iron
fist”
Jacob Dean:
I would encourage The Plainsman to
look up the definition of prejudice. Are
we really willing to say that a smoking
ban is somehow “prejudice?”
In response to our tweet “Power has been
restored throughout campus”
In response to our tweer “Auburn facilities
management confirmed a campus-wide
power outage for unknown reasons.”
@ddonahoo1:
Damn updyke poisoned the substa-tion
RACHEL SUHS / DESIGN EDITOR
Lessons from the season opener
His View
We won, and it feels good.
The joy of rolling Toomer’s, even with-out
the trees, almost brought tears to our
eyes. Campus seems to be brighter, and
the general mood around town is positivi-ty
laced with optimism.
Almost every Auburn fan is singing
Head Coach Gus Malzahn’s praises. He
gave us what we need so desperately, what
we crave: a win.
But we wouldn’t be doing our job as
journalists if we didn’t bring a healthy dose
of skepticism to the party.
Can it really be as good as it feels? Is
Malzahn the second coming?
We want so much to believe. It hurts to
even imagine this season not going well,
but all we have to go on is a seasonopener
that was far less than impressive. Perhaps
it was just a young team finding its legs, a
baby tiger learning how to walk.
Maybe they’re saving the excellence for
an SEC team. Either way, it’s just too soon
to tell.
We could make predictions, jump on
the sports media bandwagon and play
fortune teller, but what good does that do?
The hype surrounding Malzahn’s return
to The Plains has been well deserved. It’s
part morale booster, part nostalgia for the
2010 season. However, this hype has the
potential to make an underwhelming sea-son
seem that much worse.
Robenson Therezie gave us some hope,
but one star player out of a team of high-profile
recruits is disappointing, especial-ly
against a school such as Washington
State.
Nick Marshall had a rough go of it; he
played more like Kiehl Frazier than Cam
Newton. If we’ve learned anything over the
past few seasons, it’s that the Tigers need
an effective QB to anchor the rest of the
team and take the leadership role.
So get pumped up, wave your shakers
and scream War Eagle as loud as you can.
But remember the lessons of the 2011 and
2012 seasons, and don’t believe the hype.
A7
Thursday, September 5, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Community
Community
Chandler Jones
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Most of us know the cozy strip of downtown
Auburn to be the core of this city. College Street
and Magnolia Avenue mirror the University
with the city.
Thousands of Auburn students, residents and
visitors walk the sidewalks and drive the streets
of the downtown area. It’s home to most of us,
whether it be where we go for dinner, out for en-tertainment,
to get to school or to the stadium.
Auburn’s downtown epitomizes the approach-able,
yet exciting, environment all Tigers know
and love.
This is a fact the city of Auburn understands
completely, and only hopes to improve.
The city held a public meeting in the Jan
Dempsey Community Arts Center Wednes-day,
Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. so Auburn residents were
able to give input on what is referred to as the
“Downtown Master Plan.”
The city of Auburn realizes the best and most
fitting people to make the decisions regarding
what should be renovated downtown, and what
it should look like, are the people who frequent
our downtown area in their everyday lives.
The plan aims to revitalize the downtown
area. The area’s proximity has not expand-ed
since the 1940s, so the city is aiming to ade-quately
utilize the space by renovating some of
the more dilapidated buildings and structures.
“What we’re trying to zero in on is some
things aesthetically that we can do better,” said
Forrest Cotton, Auburn’s planning director. “I
think streetscape and talking about expanding
into some of these areas and making some ac-tual
infrastructure improvements to really show
people that we aren’t just on paper expanding
downtown, this is what we want downtown to
feel like.”
The presentation included an explanation of
the issues and potential developments, allowed
for community input and held workshops for
more personal communication.
Residents in attendance ranged from those
who have been living in Auburn for 30 years to
those living here for less than two years.
“It shows how interested and in-tune the Au-burn
citizens are,” City Manager Charles Dug-gan
said. “They care about what the future is go-ing
to be. They want to have a hand in shaping
that and we’re welcoming it. We want people to
come tell us what they like and don’t like. Their
input is going to be vital to what the final recom-mendations
are going to be.”
Bob Begle of Urban Collage conducted the
meeting as principal designer. Urban Collage is
a planning and design company based in Atlan-ta
and established in 1997.
Urban Collage’s research in Auburn began in
June, and with the first phase nearly complete,
it intends to move into the second phase of de-signing
and drafting, which will include anoth-er
public meeting.
The last phase will accept community feed-back
and focus on implementation.
“This is a downtown that doesn’t have a lot
of vacant lots, doesn’t have a lot of vacant store
fronts, but it still could be an even better version
of itself,” Begle said. “That’s what we are inter-ested
to hear what people think that better ver-sion
could be.”
Urban Collage suggested the new downtown
feature a modern grocery store, more fine din-ing,
family-oriented retail and more entertain-ment
such as nightlife options and a movie the-ater.
“At the end of the day we want to make sure
we get the quality the citizens of Auburn want to
see in their downtown,” Duggan said. “We want
a welcoming destination. We don’t want just a
place people drive through. We want people to
come, have a great time, bring their families and
when they leave think, ‘I want to go back there.’”
The city has yet to assign a budget, but Dug-gan
said the process would need to be complet-ed
before they can make an estimate. At this
point, puts completion at 2030.
Chandler Jones
COMMUNITY EDITOR
The barks of the 2013 Woofstock could be
heard even of the streets of South College Satur-day,
Aug. 24.
This year’s Woofstock brought out nearly two
thousand people, resulted in six adoptions and
raised approximately $20,000 for the Lee Coun-ty
Humane Society.
Activities for dogs, such as the Wash & Wag.
made it a great day for the four-legged friends of
the Auburn community. Dog treats were abun-dant
and happily barking animals ran rampant
in Kiesel Park.
“My favorite part was having the pets come
in and enjoying the day,” said Shelly Adams, ad-ministration
and events coordinator for the Lee
County Humane Society. “Just seeing all the dif-ferent
people and their pets and how they inter-act,
seeing the joy in their face watching their
pets be able to have fun. We had every shape and
size dog out there.”
Children enjoyed face paintings and inflata-bles.
The event’s major sponsors were Delta Zeta so-rority,
philanthropist Gerald Leischuck, Fur Buds
Veterinarians, Glynn Smith Chevrolet, Buick and
GMC and Golden Family Cattle Farm.
McAllister’s Deli, Reggie’s Concessions, Din-ky
Donuts, Overall’s Pops, Kona Ice and Momma
Mocha’s Coffee sold refreshments and Spicer’s
Music provided all the equipment for the musical
entertainment. Garage bands performed from 9
a.m.–noon and the band, Sol Co, followed.
All donated funds went toward the society’s
operating costs, animal care and provisions.
By Jessa Pease
COMMUNITY WRITER
With a grandfather as a
trustee of his hometown, a
mother who was active in
the Republican Party and a
brother who was a city coun-cil
member, it’s no wonder
Tom Worden is the city coun-cil
representative for Ward 3.
Ten years ago, the man who
had Worden’s current posi-tion
had to leave the Council,
so Mayor Ham asked Worden
to fill the slot. He said he had
no idea he would run for two
more terms.
In a year from now, the
67-year-old representa-tive’s
term will be over and
he doesn’t plan on running
again. He said it is time to get
someone younger to get in-volved.
He said he plans to trav-el
more with his wife, Tasha,
and plans to make more time
for his volunteer work with
the Literacy Coalition, the Au-burn
Arts Association and the
two church choirs he directs.
After 10 years, he said he’s
proud to be the representa-tive
of Ward 3 and the work
he’s done.
“It’s in my blood,” Wor-den
said. “I decided I need-ed
to give back what I could,
so I decided to do this. It has
been wonderful. I love that I
can help in a small way, work
with citizens and have a ward
where I can be depended on.”
Worden grew up in Val-paraiso,
Ind., a city smaller
than Auburn. After majoring
in elementary education at
Ball State University and re-ceiving
his masters and Ph.D
at Purdue, Worden applied for
a job with Auburn University.
“I could do almost anything
in the area of education by the
time I finished school,” Wor-den
said. “I thought to apply
to Auburn, see what I could
do, and they gave me a job the
first time I showed up.”
Worden said he and his
wife had always wanted to live
in a warm climate, so the job
was perfect. He taught read-ing
methods to education ma-jors,
but retired 15 years ago
for health reasons.
“I was very fortunate,” Wor-den
said. “The students were
all great and they were all in-terested
in what they were
doing. They were dedicated to
finding a degree and doing it
right.”
When Worden joined the
City Council, he said one
thing he wanted to do was
make the community under-stand
what the City Council
was and that they could help.
“They knew they could call
me in Ward 3 and knew I did
what I could,” Worden said.
“It sounds pretty easy, but not
everyone knew they could do
that. I’m glad I have been able
to do it, and do it to the best
of my ability. I like what I have
been doing here.”
Worden said the council is
currently working on the re-vitalization
of Opelika Road
and the downtown area.
“We have so many exciting
things going on right now that
it is great fun,” Worden said.
“There are so many things we
can do to help people realize
this is important.”
Worden said the projects
are exciting for him because
the Council has been talking
about them for approximate-ly
five years. Now it is actual-ly
happening, although he will
not hold his seat on the coun-cil,
he said he is excited to see
the plans come to fruition as
a resident of the Auburn com-munity.
“I don’t know why we
would ever think of leav-ing
Auburn because it is just
wonderful,” Worden said. “We
have a ton of friends, and it is
a great place to live.”
CHANDLER JONES / COMMUNITY EDITOR
Citizens convened for an interactive meeting on the Downtown Master Plan.
Things will be great when you’re downtown
ANNIE FAULK / COMMUNITY REPORTER
City Councilmember Tom Worden represents Ward 3.
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The city of Auburn held an open forum meeting to hear options for growth and development Aug. 28.
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event work such as checking people in at the Alumni Hospitality
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Some students think the
perfect fall football tailgate
involves hamburgers, bar-becue,
booze, games and
friends. People gather on Au-burn’s
campus and all over
town for pre-game festivities.
But for some, tailgating has
more to offer than food and
fun before going into the sta-dium.
“Tailgating is a special time
because you are with all the
people you’ll go to the game
with, all your friends,” said Co-rey
Smith, graduate student in
biomechanics. “You’re having
a good time conversing, but
there is a real sense of com-munity,
too, with the people
in the next tent over. You’ll get
to know them over the whole
season.”
Someone not familiar with
football traditions might
think tailgating involves sit-ting
on a truck’s tailgate, or
as Google defines it as “to eat
an informal meal served from
the back of a parked vehicle,”
but that’s not the case.
Most people tailgate in
style with RVs, motorhomes,
decorated cars or tents with
satellite television connec-tions.
The concept of tailgating is
not complicated, but there’s
more to tailgating than a good
time.
“You go to the site, you set
up a tent, you hang out, cook,
hang out some more and
then go to the game and it’s a
great way to get into the Au-burn
spirit before the game,”
said Lynn Tamblyn, senior in
industrial and systems engi-neering.
“I like to spend time
with Auburn people and fans
before the game and it’s a
time where you cook, grill and
hang out with friends.”
Auburn fans, hopeful to cel-ebrate
football, flock to cam-pus
beginning Fridays at 4
p.m., when tailgaters are al-lowed
to reserve certain areas
on campus.
Tailgating on campus is so
prevalent, the University es-tablished
guidelines for tents
used on University property.
“It’s a big community thing,
people are happy before the
game and it’s a fun atmo-sphere,”
Smith said. “It’s all
about community, I think. I
always bring my grill because
someone needs a grill master,
and that’s me.”
Auburn University allows
tailgating in the hayfields on
Donahue Drive, the Intra-mural
Fields, at Ag Heritage
Park, on the Student Center
Greenspace and the Weagle
Woods behind the Forestry
and Wildlife building.
“I love it. I grew up tail-gating
when I was little. It’s a
real nice ambiance before the
game,” Smith said. “You don’t
care about the game just yet.
If you are uptight about the
game, tailgating eases you up
a little bit.”
Tailgating goes beyond Jor-dan-
Hare Stadium and Au-burn’s
central campus.
There are parks dedicated
to RV tailgating, like Universi-ty
Station RV Resort on High-way
14, where the park offers
a shuttle service to the Stadi-um.
“The atmosphere here dur-ing
home football exceeds
your most elaborate expec-tation
for tailgating,” said Jill
Holt of University Station.
“Everyone here is here for Au-burn
football. Golf carts are
decked out in their Auburn
décor with horns, and big
sound systems playing Au-burn
songs or ballgames as
they breeze around the com-munity
and throughout the
park, exchanging ‘War Eagles’
with fellow passing fans.”
University Station covers
92 acres with approximate-ly
550 sites available for RVs.
Holt said there are approx-imately
450–650 RVs at the
site, depending on the game.
“Tailgating has evolved to
another level here at the sta-tion.
There is an unspoken
competition to “out-Auburn”
the neighbors, or at least rep-resent
yourself very well in
your display,” Holt said. “Many
sites have gone from camping
to “glamping” here. Elaborate
decks, coach houses, land-scaped
lawns and of course,
all of the Auburn Tailgate dé-cor
you can find to promote
team pride.”
Friday nights, Universi-ty
Station features live bands
performances with meals
alongside a bonfire.
Holt said there is a tradi-tion
of events that include
Halloween costume contests,
parades, church services and
auctions for Auburn scholar-ship
funds.
“Our guests vary in age
from newborn to 90 plus in
years,” Holt said. “We have
tailgaters who are grandpar-ents
entertaining their fam-ilies
and grandchildren, to
large tailgates with lots of col-lege
students, to quiet cou-ples
who just want a place to
relax.”
Holt said tailgating away
from central campus is a
money-saver because people
do not have to drive their RVs
back and forth to Auburn ev-ery
weekend.
At places like Universi-ty
Station, people are able to
leave their RVs at the site all
season.
“The two main charms are
the enormous amount of fun
we have here with friends,
new and old, and the hassle-free
experience you get when
you have a spot reserved and
your site is set up when you
get here,” Holt said. “You just
unlock the door and start
your party.”
Win or lose, there’s always tailgating
Auburn City Council votes on smoking ordinances
and consistent rulings at the Tuesday, Sept. 3 meeting
SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
At Tiger Walk, fans and cheerleaders enjoy the atmosphere of anticipation and celebration of Tiger foot-ball
before the Tigers’ win against Washington State Aug. 31.
“Tailgating is a
special time
because you are
with all the people
you’ll go to the
game with, all
your friends.”
— Corey Smith
GRADUATE STUDENT
Annie Faulk
COMMUNITY REPORTER
The City Council met Tuesday, Sept. 3 to
discuss Havana Dreamin’ requesting an alco-hol
license, and Exhale’s request to operate as
a cigar and hookah lounge.
“They died because a lack of action,” said
David Dorton, city director of public affairs.
“The Havana Dreamin’ one is two issues, even
though they are both dealing with smoking.
Havana Dreamin’s issue was that they want-ed
to add alcohol to a smoking lounge.”
Havana Dreamin’ located at 2328 S. Col-lege
St. suite 12, sought approval for an al-coholic
beverage license, but the license was
denied after being granted approval to oper-ate
as a retail tobacco shop in January.
Zamil Ali of Exhale, the cigar and hookah
lounge, requested approval to operate as a
tobacco specialty shop, or operate as a cigar
or hookah lounge. Exhale is located at 221 N.
College St. in the College Edge Overlay Dis-trict.
At the Aug. 6 meeting, both Havana Drea-min’
and Exhale’s requests were tabled in or-der
for the City Council to research the busi-nesses’
compliance of the city’s smoking or-dinances.
“The problem the City Council saw with
that was we’ve told bars that they can’t
smoke anymore,” Dorton said. “So if you al-low
a smoking lounge to add alcohol to the
smoking lounge, then that might be inconsis-tent
with rules bars have to abide by.”
Three citizens approached the City Coun-cil
to discuss the potential harms of smoking,
while Havana Dreamin’ owner, Rick Payne,
argued for the approval of the alcohol license.
“I think the hookah bar goes back to the is-sue
of what do they want the smoking ordi-nance
to allow, and the idea that we are go-ing
back and being consistent in how we ap-ply
all of these rules,” Dorton said.
“And really, do they want to allow any type
of smoking establishment, I think is part of
the discussion.”
Hookah, cigars focus at City Council
Other notes from City Council
• Katie Robinson from the planning de-partment
was named employee of the
month.
• Mayor Ham awarded five service pins
and plaques. Stephanie Spraggins
with the finance department and Au-drea
May with the public works de-partment
were awarded pins for their
five-year service to the city. David Carr
with the public safety department and
Marty Beckwith with the public works
department were honored for their 10
years of service.
• The City Council approved alcoholic
beverage licenses to Halftime Sports
Bar and Grill on 154 and 156 N. Col-lege
St.
• Approved closing City streets for the
Historic Pine Hill Lantern Tour and the
Downtown Trick or Treat in October.
• Approved Zazu’s, 149 E. Magnolia Ave.,
request for an outdoor cafe permit.
• Approved fixed costs for cutting over-grown
lots at 804 Cahaba Drive and
South College Street parcels.
• Approved non-educational tax abate-ments
for Pyongsan America Inc and
toolCare U.S. International.
• Approved conditional use of an acces-sory
road for Oly’s Automotive Detail-ing,
465 Opelika Road. The item orig-inally
appeared in the August 20 City
Council meeting where it was tabled
to ensure the correction of zoning vi-olations.
• Approved the purchase of 60 Motoro-la
two-way radios at a cost of $59,145.
• Approved purchase of two 60-inch Ex-mark
mowers, three weed eaters, two
edgers and one backpack blower at a
total cost of $21,968.25
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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
For the first time in almost two years, an Au-burn
Tiger has been named the SEC Defensive
Player of the Week.
Robenson Therezie, who started in place of
the injured Justin Garrett at the “star” position,
had seven tackles and two interceptions in Au-burn’s
31–24 win against Washington State.
“I knew [I could start] during camp when
Garrett went down,” Therezie said after the vic-tory.
“He was talking like he might not play, said
his injury could keep him out for three or four
weeks. I knew I had to step up to be that man.”
The Miami native made what many have
called the play of the game during the late stag-es
of the fourth quarter.
Therezie stopped a long Cougar drive cold
when he picked off a Conor Halliday pass in the
end zone just before the clock hit the 4-minute
mark.
“(Therezie) played really well,” head coach
Gus Malzahn said after the win. “He played a lot
of snaps out there and he was tired, but he found
a way, especially with one in the end zone late, it
was one of the critical plays of the game.”
Therezie was announced in the starting line-up
right before kickoff. Malzahn said the deci-sion
to play Therezie over Garrett was a game-time
decision, and the former safety took full
advantage of his opportunity in the hybrid role
of Ellis Johnson’s 4-2-5 defense.
His interception in the first quarter was the
first takeaway for the Tigers secondary since the
2011 season.
“I had to make a big play there,” Therezie said.
“We knew as a defense they were going for the
endzone right there and we communicated the
right read and I made the play.”
After fellow defensive back Jonathan Min-cy
matched the Tigers’ 2012 interception total
with another first half takeaway, Therezie and
the rest of the Tiger defense held the visitors to
just three points after halftime.
“I told (Therezie) big-time players make big-time
plays, and that is exactly what he did to-night,”
said cornerback Chris Davis.
Therezie and the rest of the secondary had
plenty of chances to make those big-time plays
against Washington State as Halliday threw the
ball 65 times in the loss. The junior provided
key defensive back experience to the “star” po-sition,
which has been called a safety/lineback-er
hybrid.
“Coach always tells us the game is on us, es-pecially
against a big passing team like this,”
Therezie said. “That’s all we talk about, getting
turnovers. In my opinion, we have one of the
best groups of defensive backs in the country.”
Therezie is Auburn’s first conference Player of
the Week on defense since Corey Lemonier’s big
performance against Florida in October 2011.
He joined Georgia running back Todd Gur-ley,
Alabama returner Christion Jones, Arkansas
defensive lineman Trey Flowers, LSU offensive
lineman La’el Collins and Ole Miss wide receiv-er
Laquon Treadwell in receiving All-SEC hon-ors
for the opening week.
Malzahn said he is hopeful Garrett will return
Saturday, Sept. 3, but Therezie said he is pre-pared
to continue as the Tigers’ No. 1 star.
When asked if he thought the starting job
would still be his when Garrett returned from
injury, Therezie simply said, “Yes, I do.”
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Therezie earns SEC Defensive Player of the Week
Jeff moore
SPORTS REPORTER
In his press conference
Tuesday, Sept. 3, Auburn offen-sive
coordinator Rhett Lashlee
said he was pleased with the
way the offense found a way to
win Saturday’s, Aug. 31, game
against Washington State.
However, according to
Lashlee, doing just enough to
win is not good enough.
“Offensively, I’m not really
overall pleased, just because
[the offense’s performance]
was not to our standard,”
Lashlee said.
There were several instanc-es
in which his players failed
to capitalize on opportunities
for big plays that could have
potentially closed the door on
the Cougars.
Lashlee said repeating the
same mistakes in the future
could be the difference in win-ning
and losing.
“I felt like every time we
had a chance to really put
some distance between us and
them, whether it be missing a
deep ball or having a touch-down
called back for a penal-ty,”
Lashlee said. “We just sput-tered.
We didn’t take advan-tage
of those moments, and
that’s not good enough. When
we’re in position to separate
ourselves, we’ve got to press
forward, and get some dis-tance
between ourselves and
our opponent.”
Lashlee pointed specifical-ly
to the third quarter and the
start of the fourth quarter as
times when he said he thought
the Tigers could have stepped
up and made plays.
He placed an emphasis on
correcting their second half
shortcomings going into week
two against Arkansas State.
“We’ve got to have guys who
are making plays in big mo-ments,
and that’s what we’ve
got to improve on this week,”
Lashlee said. “We’ve got to
make those plays, period. It
doesn’t matter who you are
playing. Whether it’s to stay
in a game or put a team away,
we’ve got to make those plays.”
One positive takeaway from
Saturday, Lashlee said, was
Auburn’s ability to stay calm
under pressure and resolve to
win the game.
“Never once did they panic,
never once did they get tight.
Our guys were pretty even
keeled,” Lashlee said. “They
didn’t act like the moment was
too big and they found a way to
win, and at the end of the day
you would rather win and have
some things to correct than to
be on the other end of things.”
Lashlee also said he was
pleased with junior quarter-back
Nick Marshall’s first per-formance
under center.
Though Marshall’s stat line
wasn’t spectacular, going 10–
for–19 for 199 yards through
the air and rushing for 27
yards, the offensive coordina-tor
said he thought Marshall
made sound decisions and
managed the game effectively.
“For the most part, mental-ly,
he didn’t have a lot of men-tal
busts. I felt like he called the
right plays, the protections,
the things we needed to do,”
Lashlee said.
Though Marshall didn’t ac-count
for any touchdowns in
his debut, he also didn’t turn
the ball over, which was a
problem for him last season in
junior college.
“At the end of the day, the
quarterback’s job is simple,”
Lashlee said. “It’s to win the
game, and a lot of that has to
do with protecting the foot-ball.
Who cares how many
yards you throw for or how
flashy it is? Did you win the
game or not? And we did. He
was, I thought, very conserva-tive
with the football, which is
good.”
Because, head coach Gus
Malzahn brought in sever-al
assistant coaches, such as
Lashlee, with him from Ar-kansas
State, they are familiar
with the players and schemes
the Tigers will be facing Satur-day,
Sept. 7. However, Lashlee
was quick to point out famil-iarity
with their opponent
won’t necessarily translate to
a win on the field.
“I know one thing: those
guys are winners. They’ve won
nine straight now. They’re go-ing
to come in here with the
expectation of winning and
we’re going to have to play a re-ally
good football game to beat
them,” Lashlee said. “They’re
going to know us well, and
we’re going to know them well.
I know that there are a lot of
guys over there that we care
about, and they care about us,
but when we play on Saturday,
both sides are going to want to
win pretty bad.”
Lashlee looking for playmakers in
week two against Arkansas State
Auburn’s week one performance
was a mixed bag of good and bad.
One of the few positives was the Ti-gers’
ground game.
The Tigers finished with 297 yards
on the ground with five different play-ers
getting involved in the running
game.
This needs to continue to improve
as they move closer to SEC play, but
it’s still a good sign for the offense.
Another positive were the big plays
on defense. The Tigers already sur-passed
last season’s interception to-tal
with three interceptions, and the
interceptions came at crucial times
in the game, providing the team with
much-needed momentum.
Also, the defense had two fourth
down stops in the game with the last
sealing the victory for the Tigers. The
defense had many flaws that need to
be corrected, but if they continue to
make game-changing plays like they
did against Washington State, Satur-day,
Aug. 31, the defense should be
fine.
Auburn had several surprise per-formances
Saturday, which caught
the attention of many Auburn fans.
One surprise performance was by
Robenson Therezie.
Therezie finished the game with
two interceptions and seven tackles,
earning him SEC Defensive Player of
the Week. This was a big surprise con-sidering
he was not supposed to start,
but got the nod late because of Justin
Garrett’s injury.
He, like the rest of the defense,
needs to improve, but if he does, Ther-ezie
should be a solid player for the
Tigers this season.
On the offensive side, Corey Grant
also provided an unexpected spark.
Auburn fans have been waiting
for Grant to step on the field and be
a difference maker. Against Washing-ton
State, he did just that. Rushing for
149 yards and one touchdown was ex-actly
what fans have been waiting for
him to do.
Grant’s game Saturday was pretty
much flawless. He needs to continue
to produce like he did Saturday.
Last Saturday’s game did have it’s
fair share of struggles for, but none
was more evident than Nick Mar-shall’s
debut performance. After
throwing for less than 100 yards, he
needs to find a way to be more pro-ductive
through the air. Marshall ad-mitted
to being nervous before the
game Saturday, so that probably had
a lot to do with his performance.
But if he does not produce more
than he did Saturday soon, Auburn
fans may see Jeremy Johnson get a
chance to show what he can do for
the offense.
Marshall does not deserve all of the
blame, though.
He did not have much help from
his receivers. Ricardo Louis had two
drops in the game, despite showing
explosive play potential in fall camp.
At best, his performance was disap-pointing.
Louis, and the rest of the receiving
corps, needs to step up and be a go-to
guy for Marshall.
Overall, I give the team a C+ grade
for the Washington State game, and
Therezie and Grant’s contributions
inflated the grade more than the
team probably deserved.
This team still has a lot of holes on
defense and a non-existent passing
game.
These things need to change be-fore
the Tigers start conference play,
but it was an encouraging first game
the team can build on.
Auburn narrowly beat Washington State and must improve in week two
Eric Wallace
SPORTS WRITER
After containing Washington State’s Air
Raid attack, Auburn’s defense must now pre-pare
for an Arkansas State offense that pro-duced
four different 100-yard rushers in week
one.
The Red Wolves, who are on a nine-game
winning streak dating back to last season, to-taled
509 rushing yards in a 62–11 opening
week rout of Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
“I think three different guys had runs over
50 yards,” defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson
said. “They got up so quickly and so fast that
the backups were playing by the third quarter.”
Under the direction of new head coach Bry-an
Harsin, Arkansas State has incorporated
many of the offensive strategies current Au-burn
head coach Gus Malzahn installed last
year during his only season as the Red Wolves’
coach.
“It’s kind of a combination of Gus’ offense
and their head coach’s offense merging to-gether,
and it really presents some difficult
problems,” Johnson said. “It’s a similar oper-ation,
with some of the same formations and
motions.”
Johnson said Malzahn and his staff ’s time
with the Red Wolves last season will help the
defense’s weekly preparation.
“He knows the set-up plays and things we
can work on that weren’t on the film,” Johnson
said. “They also know the personnel because
we have seven coaches here who coached
those guys last year. They have very good fa-miliarity
of the personnel.”
One of those coaches, Auburn offensive co-ordinator
Rhett Lashlee, expects a stiff test
from Arkansas State Saturday, Sept. 7.
“They’ve won nine or 10 straight now, and
they’re going to come in here with the expecta-tion
of winning,” Lashlee said. “We’re going to
have to play a really good football game to beat
them. They’ve got a lot of weapons back on of-
Auburn defense prepares for Red
Wolves’ dynamic running game
SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Carl Lawson during pre-game warm ups at the Washington State game Saturday, Aug. 31.
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SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Robenson Therezie celebrates with teammates Craig Sanders, Jonothan Mincy and Jermaine Whitehead.
SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Trovon Reed, Ryan Smith, Anthony Swain and Tre Mason before the game Aug. 31.
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Jeffrey Moore,
SPORTS REPORTER
The Auburn volleyball team is off to a hot
start this year, winning the Marcia E. Hamilton
Classic in St. Louis and taking down No. 10 Ne-braska
along the way.
The win against the Cornhuskers marks the
biggest upset in program history, with Auburn’s
only other victory over a ranked opponent com-ing
in 2010 against No. 24 Kentucky.
“It’s a huge win,” said head coach Rick Nold.
“Nebraska’s got a great program. I thought we
did a great job of staying really aggressive when
we really weren’t playing that well.”
After beating St. Louis 3–0 (25–21, 25–21, 25–
22) Friday, Aug. 30, senior outside hitter Kather-ine
Culwell showed her versatility by filling up
the stat sheet in almost every category against
Nebraska.
She posted her second double-double in as
many matches, recording 17 kills and 16 digs.
Culwell also added five blocks, five assists and
one ace. For her outstanding performance, she
was named tournament MVP.
Joining Culwell in the double-double club
was sophomore Alyssa Ivey, with 26 assists and
14 digs, and senior Chelsea Wintzinger, with 18
assists and 11 digs. Ivey’s double-double was the
first of her career.
Contributing to the milestone 3–1 victo-ry
(25–23, 22–25, 25–23, 25–23) against No. 10
Nebraska were seniors Camila Jersonsky and
Kathia Rud. Both had nine kills, with Jersonksky
also chipping in five blocks. Jersonsky and se-nior
Sarah Wroblicky were named to the all-tournament
team.
Though the second set loss to the Cornhusk-ers
was Auburn’s defeat throughout the en-tire
tournament, it may have contributed the
most to the match victory. After finding them-selves
down 20–7, the Tigers used an 11–1 run
to fight their way back into the game. Though
they lost the second set, the momentum gained
during that comeback run carried into the fi-nal
two sets.
The last two sets were neck and neck, but
costly service errors by Nebraska on each set
point wound up being the difference in the
match.
After the monumental win against Nebras-ka,
the Tigers cruised to an easy 3–0 win (25–20,
25–15, 25–17) over Louisiana-Monroe to claim
the tournament championship later that day.
They continued their season-opening hot
streak by defeating Southern Illinois-Edwards-ville
in straight sets Sunday, Sept. 1. With the
3–0 win (25–13, 25–13, 25–23), Auburn moved
to 4–0 on the year.
After dominating the first two sets and rip-ping
off a 10–0 run during the third, Auburn ap-peared
to be cruising to another easy win.
However, the Cougars wouldn’t go away, cut-ting
a 17-9 deficit all the way down to three at
21–18.
Auburn had several chances to put the game
away, serving unsuccessfully for the match four
times before a SIUE service error ended it at 25–
23.
“Obviously, coming out 3–0 and winning this
tournament is a huge plus,” Nold said. “We had
three good matches here. We were challenged
in a lot of different ways, lot of different styles
from the three teams we played.”
Culwell paced the Tigers on offense and de-fense,
recording a team high 10 kills and four
blocks. Jersonsky also chipped in four blocks,
while freshman Kia Bright contributed three.
Auburn recorded nine total team blocks, a sea-son
high.
Wintzinger led the team in assists with 14,
and Bright followed close behind with 12.
Auburn’s seven aces were more than they
recorded in any three-set match in 2012, with
sophomores Mary Hannah Arrington and Alys-sa
Ivey leading the way with two each.
Auburn will see their first home action of the
season, hosting Green Bay, Mercer and Troy at
the Active Ankle Challenge Thursday and Fri-day,
Sept. 5–6, at the Auburn Arena.
Volleyball upsets No. 10 Nebraska, begins season 4–0
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Will Gaines
SPORTS EDITOR
Nick Marshall’s first start
last Saturday Aug. 31 was not
what Auburn fan’s were hoping
for, but it did result in a victory
and a foundation was laid for
improvement.
Marshall finished the day
going 10-for-19 for 99 yards
with no touchdowns, and
27-yards rushing.
Missed opportunities were a
big theme for the new quarter-back,
after having several pass-es
sail over the hands of open
receivers early in the game.
Marshall admitted he was a
little wide-eyed in his first start
in the SEC.
“I was kind of nervous on
the first drive, but then I start-ed
getting more comfortable,”
Marshall said.
While Marshall did not play
his best, head coach Gus Mal-zahn
was pleased with how
he played considering the cir-cumstances.
“You know there were a
couple things, communica-tion
wise, we’ll get better on.
But overall I liked the way he
handled himself; he protected
the football and that’s hard to
do,” Malzahn said. “They were
showing him a lot of different
looks and trying to disguise
some things, but he protected
the football.”
Malzahn was also not con-cerned
with Marshall’s nerves
at the beginning of the game,
and believes that should im-prove
as the season goes on.
“That’s expected,” Malzahn
said. “I think a lot of our guys
had jitters starting out and he
calmed down after the first
series or two. I think we had
some drops early that proba-bly
didn’t help either, but he
settled down and I think the
game settled down for him.”
The missed opportunities
should improve as Marshall
gets more experience and be-comes
more comfortable on
the field.
“Sometimes it takes a while
when you’ve got a quarter-back
for [only] four weeks try-ing
to get timing with every-thing;
they should get better as
we [progress],” Malzahn said.
“I thought there was one that
was close– I didn’t really get
a great look at it, but the one
in the end-zone, it was close.
We’ll just keep working.”
The game plan was de-signed
to allow Marshall time
to settle, adjust and become
comfortable.
“We had a game plan com-ing
into the game so at half-time
we didn’t adjust anything,
we just stuck to our game
plan,” Marshall said.
Washington State head
coach Mike Leach has seen his
fair share of successful quar-terbacks
in his career, and he
does not think people should
write off Marshall.
“I am just kind of curious
about him after he gets more
games under his belt,” Leach
said. “I thought our defense
played well against him and
our defensive scheme was
good.”
Tre Mason said the rest of
the offense needs to help make
his job easier, by not putting
too much pressure on him to
make all the big plays.
He also said now that Mar-shall
has a game under his belt,
he can start making plays, and
not have the same problems
he had in the first game.
“I felt like, as playmakers,
we need to help him out more,
and make more big plays,” Ma-son
said. “When he gets the
jitters out he’s pretty good on
his feet, has a strong arm and
is pretty accurate too. So we’re
looking for big things from
him.”
Marshall nervous in his first start
SARAH MAY / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Nick Marshall dropping back to pass against Washington State Saturday, Aug. 31.
Will Gaines
SPORTS EDITOR
Corey Grant has had an interesting journey
since he graduated from Opelika High School
in 2010.
Grant was a four-star recruit who decided
he wanted to venture away from home and at-tend
the University of Alabama, but after a year
playing for the Tide, Grant decided he needed to
make a change.
He transferred home to the Tide’s bitter rival,
Auburn.
Auburn offered Grant a better chance for suc-cess
with his skill sets.
Auburn ran an offense that relied on speed
from its running backs, while Alabama ran an
offense that needed big, heavy, powerful run-ning
backs.
While Grant is not necessarily a small back
at 5-foot-11-inches and 205 pounds, he does not
have the ideal size to be a powerful between-the-
tackles runner.
However, Grant is a fast and agile running
back, a trait head coach Gus Malzahn relies on
for his offensive scheme to be successful.
After Grant’s return to The Plains, impressed
with his work ethic, and it looked like Grant
would be a major contributor in 2012.
But things changed when Malzahn, who was
the offensive coordinator at the time, left to be
the coach at Arkansas State.
Auburn brought in Scott Loeffler to install a
pro-style offensive attack similar to what Ala-bama
runs.
Because of the switch in offenses, Grant did
not have the kind of season he was looking to
have in 2012.
But now, Malzahn has returned to Auburn
and his fast-paced offense is fitting Grant well.
After three years of struggle for Grant, he fi-nally
broke through and had a big night for the
Tigers against Washington State.
“I think I’m more of a speed type player, and
the way the coaches are using me, I think is per-fect,”
Grant said.
Grant led the team in rushing against Wash-ington
State with 149 yards, and a 75-yard
touchdown run.
“(Grant) was awesome,” said offensive line-man
Reese Dismukes. “I’m proud of him. He’s a
guy who works hard, and really came out and
busted it. We need a guy that can do that every
week.”
Malzahn spoke about Grant, saying that
Grant is the type of rusher Auburn needs to win.
“Corey can really run and I think everybody
saw that [wSaturday],” Malzahn said. “He’s got
speed that’s comparable to Onterio McCalebb
and we just need to find ways to get him the
ball.”
Not only was it nice that Grant was able to
show off his football skills, but he was able to do
it in front of his home crowd.
“It’s a big advantage growing up so close to
Auburn,” Grant said. “I get to play in front of my
family and friends. I get to see old coaches and
talk about football. When I play at home, I feel
like I have to produce.”
Grant’s journey has been an interesting one,
but with a big first game and the rest of his ju-nior
and senior seasons ahead of him, his jour-ney
has been worth it.
“After all these years, it finally feels like it’s
paying off,” Grant said.
Eric Wallace
SPORTS WRITER
The preseason No. 12 Auburn golf team
tees off its 2013–14 campaign Friday, Sept. 6
looking to replace two of its top golfers with a
group of talented, yet inexperienced, under-classmen.
The Tigers lost seniors Dominic Bozelli,
who picked up All-American honorable men-tion
honors after finishing second individu-ally
at the NCAA Championships last spring,
and All-SEC golfer Michael Hebert, to gradu-ation
in the offseason.
“We really won’t be able to just replace
those guys,” said head coach Nick Clinard.
“They were obviously All-SEC and All-Amer-ican
type players.”
Clinard said another strong recruiting
class and the maturation of several key play-ers
in the offseason softened the blow of los-ing
Bozelli and Hebert.
“Overall, it was probably one of the top five
recruiting classes in the country, but they’re
still freshman and they’ve still got a lot to get
used to and get comfortable with,” Clinard
said. “They have to prove that they can play
at this level too.”
Jason Dufner’s recent success has also
helped them take their recruiting to the next
level.
Coming off a seventh place finish in last
spring’s NCAA Championships, junior Mi-chael
Johnson was listed among the Top-50
Male Players to Watch by Golf World in its an-nual
college preview.
“He’s really matured on and off the golf
course,” Clinard said. “He’s really become a
leader for us. He’s a great player with great tal-ent,
and now he’s a great leader.”
Johnson joins Niclas Carlsson, Blake Soni
and Dan Stringfellow as the only upperclass-men
on Auburn’s roster.
The Tigers have finished in the top three
at the SEC Championships and top 15 at the
NCAA Championships in the past two sea-sons.
Clinard said the close calls won’t shake
the Tigers from the approach that’s brought
them success in recent years.
“We’re not going to do anything differ-ent
than what we do,” Clinard said. “The only
thing I can say is that we have to try to im-prove
and we’re always trying to get better.”
Clinard said though the team, as a whole,
hasn’t set a goal for the season, getting the
underclassmen adjusted to the college game
will help others achieve both their individual
and team goals.
“I don’t really know that we’ve set goals, it’s
more that we try to establish a daily routine,”
Clinard said. “We try to make sure that we be-lieve
in ourselves and believe in your team-mates.
We need to establish the player’s con-fidence.”
Sophomore Jake Mondy, who picked up
All-SEC freshman honors last season, has al-ready
made an impact on the new team with
his work ethic.
“Jake Mondy is probably the hardest work-er
on the team,” Clinard said. “He holds him-self
to a pretty high standard on a daily basis.
We expect a lot out of him and I think he ex-pects
a lot out of himself.”
Heavily recruited freshmen Matt Gilchrest
and Victor Wiggins will hope to make an ear-ly
impact in their first seasons at the colle-giate
level, and start trying to fill the hole left
by Bozelli and Herbert.
The Tigers will begin their season with the
Carpet Capital Collegiate in Dalton, Ga., Sept.
6–8.
Men’s golf team searches for
production from new players
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Corey Grant takes a handoff from Nick Marshall against Washington State Saturday, Aug. 31.
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on offense and I know they’ve got some really
good players back on defense.”
Johnson said Auburn’s defense will prepare
for the Red Wolves’ offense by studying the
game film of Arkansas State and Texas.
Harsin was co-offensive coordinator at Tex-as
before being hired to replace Malzahn at Ar-kansas
State.
Despite the pass heavy attack of Washing-ton
State, Johnson expressed concern over the
success the Cougars found running the ball
against the Tigers.
“The only thing that was really disappoint-ing
was we didn’t stop the run well when we
were playing two high safeties,” Johnson said.
“That was as much my fault with the plan. We
should’ve adjusted it a little more quickly.”
Freshman defensive tackle Montravius Ad-ams,
who recorded a sack on the first play of
his college career, impressed Johnson with his
performance Saturday after an up-and-down
offseason.
“I just thought he played outstanding for
the first time ever in a college football game,”
Johnson said. “He probably showed up as
much as anybody in that whole front with dis-ruption
in the running game and pressuring
the quarterback. He had the fewest mental er-rors
and he certainly, physically played well.”
Johnson praised the defense’s attitude in
forcing crucial stops late in the game that
sealed Auburn’s first victory of the season.
“They stood right in there, played hard and
finished the game to get it done,” Johnson said.
“Obviously they’ve had a problem doing that
in the past.”
DEFENSE
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Taylor Jones
SPORTS WRITER
Head coach Gus Malzahn and his re-cruiting
staff wasted no time in working
toward building Auburn’s future. The hir-ing
of great recruiters such as Dameyune
Craig and Rodney Gardner strengthened
Auburn’s recruiting plan, and so far the
Tigers have 14 commitments for the 2014
season.
Seven of the recruits are offensive play-ers,
including several big names in the
college recruiting world.
Five-star running back Racean “Roc”
Thomas is arguably the Tigers’ top com-mitment
as of now. Thomas is ranked as
the No. 3 running back in the nation, and
received offers from a multitude of uni-versities,
including Alabama, Florida and
Georgia.
The 5-foot-11, 204-pound running
back out of Oxford (Miss.) High School
was recruited by Rhett Lashlee and Gard-ner.
Thomas looks to join an already im-pressive
stable in the Auburn backfield,
and said he hopes to use his impressive
mixture of balance and agility to make a
difference for the Tigers. Thomas rushed
for 1,768 yards and ran for 24 touch-downs
in 2012.
Three-star quarterback Sean White is
also a highly touted recruit after impress-ing
at the Elite 11 Quarterback Competi-tion.
White is ranked the No. 42 quarter-back
in the nation, but performed so well
at the competition he left with the MVP.
White also left with some very encourag-ing
words from former NFL quarterback
Trent Dilfer. “His accuracy isn’t just accu-rate,
it’s exact.” Dilfer said. “It’s an NFL-type
of ball.”
White was recruited by Lashlee out of
University School (Fla.). In 2012, White
completed 148 of his 215 pass attempts,
for 2,670 yards, 32 touchdowns and seven
interceptions. White chose Auburn over
schools including West Virginia and Cin-cinnati.
Four-star wide receiver D’haquille Wil-liams
also made the news lately, after the
No. 1 ranked JUCO prospect de-commit-ted
from LSU. Williams played the 2012
season at Mississippi Gulf Coast Com-munity
College (Miss.). The 6-foot-3,
213-pound receiver racked up 67 recep-tions
for 1,295 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Dameyune Craig was Williams’ lead re-cruiter.
Auburn has two tight ends committed
for the ’14 class. Jakell Mitchell, a three-star
player at Opelika High School is
ranked as the No. 22 tight end in the na-tion,
while three-star Chris Laye, from
Lambert High School (Ga.), is ranked No.
51.
Running back Kamryn Pettway, from
state powerhouse Prattville High School,
also committed to the Tigers. The three-star
running back is ranked No. 59 for
running backs.
Wide receiver Stanton Truitt, of Mon-roe
High School (Ga.), also committed
to the Tigers. Truitt is a three-star and
is ranked as the No. 93 wide receiver na-tionally.
Defensively, Auburn received a com-mittment
from middle linebacker Tre
Williams. The four-star linebacker from
St. Paul’s Episcopal School is ranked as
the No. 3 linebacker in the nation. Wil-liams
was also recruited heavily by Ala-bama.
In the 2011 season, Williams had
77 tackles with two sacks and one inter-ception.
In the 2012 season, Williams ac-cumulated
113 tackles for St. Paul’s.
Auburn has one other linebacker com-mitment
for ’14 in DeShaun Davis. Davis
is a three-star linebacker and is ranked as
the No. 42 player in his position. Davis at-tends
Vigor High School
Auburn also got a committment from
Davis’ teammate, 6-foot-5, 226-pound de-fensive
end Justin Thornton. Thornton is
a four-star end and is ranked as the No.
10 end in the nation.
The Tigers have two JUCO players com-mitted
to the 2014 class. Defensive tackle
Davaroe Lawrence plays at Georgia Mili-tary
College and is ranked as a two-star.
The other JUCO commitment is Der-rick
Moncrief, a four-star who comes
from Mississippi Gulf Coast, with fellow
commitment D’haquille Williams.
The Tigers are bringing in some size
with a commitment from three-star de-fensive
end Raashed Kennion, who
comes in at 6-foot-7, 220 pounds out of
First Coast (Fla.) High School.
Auburn also signed four-star corner-back
Nick Ruffin, who is ranked as the
No. 13 cornerback in the nation. Thorn-ton
is 6-feet-tall, 170 pounds and plays
his high school ball at St. Pius X (Ga.)
The Gus Bus is out recruiting
Kyle Van Fechtmann
SPORTS WRITER
After having a 7-17-0 overall
record last season, the Auburn
University hockey team is op-timistic
going into this year’s
season opener Sept. 15 against
Georgia Tech at the Columbus
Ice Rink in Columbus, Ga.
This year’s team is returning
14 players from last year, while
adding 14 new players.
“All of our defenses are com-ing
back, so that’s going to be
huge for us because they were
a brick last year,” said sopho-more
center Evan Barber.
“We’ve got a lot of new guys
coming in so we’re excited to
see that. I know we have a cou-ple
new defenseman coming
in that played for good pro-grams
before coming here.
But a lot of our starting for-wards
and our leading scor-ers
are coming back so hope-fully
we’re going to score a lot
of goals.”
Although the team is excit-ed
for all the newcomers who
are joining the team this year,
there will be an adjustment
period.
“With so many new guys
joining the team it will take
time to develop good chemis-try
and flow in the games,” ju-nior
co-captain defenseman
Dion Moore said. “Our team-work
will be the best thing for
us to focus on this season.”
The team is also excited to
play for new head coach Mar-cel
Richard.
After playing Division I
hockey for Colgate Universi-ty,
Richard played professional
hockey for seven seasons and
was a star for the Columbus
Cottonmouths of the Southern
Professional Hockey League
from 1996–2000.
“He’s a guy who comes in
with a lot of experience and
hockey knowledge,” Barber
said. “He’s worked with the
team in the past and we feel
confident that he brings a lot
to the table to bring us to the
next level.”
With the new additions and
new coach, there is reason to
believe the team may be about
to turn the page.
“There are a lot of new fac-es
out there. With that being
said, I expect the new blood
and the new coach to improve
this team’s performance com-pared
to that of last season,”
said senior co-captain and de-fenseman
Will Cancilla.
After finishing the season
with losses against South Car-olina
and Vanderbilt in the
SEC Conference tournament,
the team is focused on im-proving
their finish in confer-ence
playoffs this season.
“I would say Arkansas, Al-abama,
Ole Miss and Florida
are some of the best teams in
the conference. But I think if
we can finish above Vander-bilt,
Mississippi State, South
Carolina and Georgia, we’ll be
very happy with ourselves and
I think that would be achiev-able,”
Barber said. “I think
there are some teams that we
lost to last year that we could
definitely beat throughout this
year.”
In order to get to the point
of moving up to the top of the
SEC, the team knows their
overall team defense must im-prove.
“Every winning team needs
to play good defense. It obvi-ously
starts with goaltending
and the defenseman; however,
the forwards must play a large
role as well,” Cancilla said.
Individual talent isn’t
enough, and the players recog-nize
that bonding to become
a more cohesive unit will im-prove
the results.
“Our individual defensemen
are very strong. But as a team,
playing a five-man system in
our defensive zone we need to
improve on that,” Barber said.
Hockey season set to begin
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Four former Auburn football players were cut from NFL teams
Staff Report
Former football players
Phillip Lutzenkirchen, Emo-ry
Blake, John Sullen and On-terio
McCalebb were cut from
their NFL teams last week in
the final week of cuts.
Lutzenkirchen was offi-cially
released by the St. Lou-is
Rams Friday, Aug. 30. He
caught two passes for 18 yards
in the Rams preseason opener
against the Cleveland Browns.
The Rams had a wide-open
tight end competition includ-ing
seven players, and they
chose to only choose keep
of them. Lutzenkirchen has
the opportunity to make the
practice squad, which will be
assembled after released play-ers
clear waivers.
His Auburn career was cut
short because of a hip injury
he suffered during his senior
year.
He finished ranked No. 1
in touchdown catches by a
tight end in Auburn histo-ry
with 14. He also had three
game-winning touchdowns,
twice against South Carolina
in 2010 and 2011 and against
Alabama in 2010.
Blake was also cut by the
Rams. He caught two pass-es
over the course of four pre-season
games. He also will be
given a chance to make the
practice squad.
He finished his Auburn ca-reer
ranked No. 17 in single-season
recieving yards with
1,233 and No. 9 in touchdown
catches with nine total.
Sullen was signed by the
Cincinnati Bengals as a free
agent to give the team depth
on the offensive line during
the preaseason. Sullen per-formed
well for the Bengals,
especially as a pass blocker,
but was cut so the team could
get down to the 53-man ros-ter
limit.
He played in 38 games at
Auburn recording 12 starts.
McCalebb was also cut by
the Bengals. He was an inter-esting
player last season dur-ing
the NFL draft. A under-sized
running back during his
time at Auburn, his unofficial
4.21 40-yard dash at the NFL
Combine raised eyebrows as a
possible late-round draft pick.
Eventually, he was signed
as an undrafted free-agent
cornerback instead of a run-ning
back. The change of pos-tion
seemed like a good fit for
McCalebb. He even reached
out to Bengals legend Ken Ri-ley
during the offseason for
tips on how to make the tran-sition
to cornerback.
He never had a chance to
earn a spot on the 53-man ros-ter,
but he does have the po-tential
to make the practice
squad.
McCalebb finished his Au-burn
career No. 15 in career
rushing with 2,016 yards total.
The only Auburn player to
earn a spot on an NFL roster
from last years team was Dar-en
Bates, who signed with the
Rams.
Bates played safety when
he first arrived at Auburn, but
moved to linebacker his soph-omore
year. He was always
considered an undersized
linebacker but never let that
stop him from being a pro-ductive
linebacker.
While he was preparing for
the NFL draft, Bates returned
to his original position, safety.
He had to drop from 225
pounds to 209 pounds.
The Rams ended up sign-ing
him as a linebacker, so
he had to gain the weight he
had lost back before training
camp started.
Bates was able to impress
coaches and earn a spot
Bates will probably not play
at linebacker this season, but
his relentlessness will like-ly
earn him a spot on special
teams for the Rams this fall.
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Auburn students and community mem-bers
took action to spread awareness for
bike safety and compatibility with drivers.
Auburn students grabbed their bikes
and helmets and met on Samford Lawn
Friday, Aug. 30, for Critical Mass.
Catherine Priester, senior in biosystems
engineering, explained how the event was
named.
“It’s called Critical Mass because it’s
based on a concept that happens in oth-er
parts of the world where it’s more com-mon
for people to commute by bicycle,”
Priester said. “So, at an intersection when
there are bicyclists gathering, it takes a
certain amount of bicyclists to approach
this critical mass to where cars will let
them pass through.”
The group left from Samford Lawn and
rode as a group for about five miles to
Town Creek Park and back.
“Critical Mass is a group bike ride,” said
Alex Carter, alumnus in computer engi-neering.
“It’s to bring the community to-gether,
the bike community together, to
create awareness about the number of
cyclists on the road that bike to and fro,
while also educating the bicyclist on prop-er
safety, rules, regulations and laws.”
Carter said the group’s goal was to en-courage
drivers to be aware of the amount
of people who bike around.
Critical Mass has taken place in many
cities throughout the country, but Carter
was a main contributor to Critical Mass in
Auburn.
Carter said many cities don’t endorse
Critical Mass because they think it does
the exact opposite of what it’s intended
to do.
Carter didn’t go through any official
channels to plan Critical Mass; he de-scribed
it as an open forum for bicyclists.
“I have a feeling that the University isn’t
too happy with us,” Carter said.
According to Priester, their goal is to
have Critical Mass every month in Au-burn.
They said they hope to spread a positive
message about bicyclists.
“I feel like there’s a kind of animosity to-ward
people who bicycle in Auburn, just
because people see it as something that is
for fun,” Priester said. “If someone is bicy-cling
in the street, you think ‘this person
in inconveniencing me, why are they out
here biking in the road and holding me up
from getting to work?’ Whereas we want
to promote cooperation, sharing the road
and respect, mutual respect of bicyclist to
motorist and for motorist to bicyclist.”
Cris Krizan, graduate student in math-ematics,
said he wants Auburn to be more
bike aware.
“It’s a pretty friendly bike city,” Krizan
said. “Most of the problem is drivers don’t
know how to drive around bikes.”
Carter said he encourages people to
use helmets and proper etiquette on the
streets.
Priester said to start a Critical Mass, all
a person has to do is tell people about it
and start riding.
For more information and updates
about Auburn’s Critical Mass, join the “Au-burn
Critical Mass” group on Facebook.
Critical Mass rides for city-wide biker awareness
EMILY ENFINGER / PHOTOGRAPHER
Critical Mass rode from Samford Lawn to Town Creek Park and back the night of Aug. 30 to raise awareness for bikers around town.
EMILY ENFINGER / PHOTOGRAPHER
Tyler Williamson gets ready to ride as part of Critical Mass.
Kailey Miller
INTRIGUE REPORTER
While recent celebrities and
YouTube sensations have en-dorsed
“twerking” as an ac-ceptable
dance to do in public,
Auburn students have brought
back an entirely different type
of dancing.
Swing dancing has become
a common pastime for many
Auburn students.
Swing originated in the late
‘20s, but has recently made a
comeback.
Chris Olds, co-founder of
the Auburn Swing Dance As-sociation,
said he wanted to
learn how to swing dance af-ter
a Gap khaki commercial
came out.
“There was a Gap commer-cial
that kind of had swing,
then there was this big come-back,”
said Kathryn Hoerlein,
senior in industrial and sys-tems
engineering and swing
dance instructor.
“(There was) a big come-back
because everyone
thought it was really cool, and
it looked really fun.”
Hoerlein said swing danc-ing
can be a challenge for non-dancers
at the beginning, but
the basic steps aren’t that dif-ficult.
Hoerlein also said swing
dancing is a relaxed dance,
and it’s good for people that
have dance backgrounds or
that don’t.
Olds has been learning and
teaching swing dancing for
many years.
“We thought it would be fun
to learn,” Olds said. “We took
[classes] from a guy who was
teaching ballroom here, and
he knew the basics of it, so we
started to learn the basics and
we went on from there.”
The instructors teach mul-tiple
types of swing dancing
every Friday night during the
school semesters at the Jan
Dempsey Community Arts
Center.
Lessons are free and open to
the public.
“Anybody can learn how
to [swing dance],” Olds said.
“There’s a pattern to the dance,
but there are not set-in-stone
rules. A lot of the younger gen-erations
tend to, not rebel
against, but like the freedom
of being able to play with stuff
and make up stuff on their
own.”
The three types of dance fo-cused
on are six-count, eight-count,
or the lindy hop, and
the Charleston.
Olds said his favorite part of
swing dancing is meeting dif-ferent
people.
“I actually met my wife
through swing dancing, that’s
where we really got to know
each other,” Olds said.
Guests who do not have
partners are still welcome to
take the classes.
The Auburn University
Swing Dance Association is a
student run, non-profit orga-nization.
From 7–9 p.m. each Friday,
attendees can receive free les-sons
for the first hour, and par-ticipate
in a dance during the
second hour.
“Welcome Week is usually
our biggest week and we can
have 100 people pretty easily,”
Olds said. “We’ve been up to
250 (people) before.”
On slower nights, approx-imately
50–75 people attend
the classes.
Virginia Lewis, senior in
apparel merchandising, said
she doesn’t know much about
swing dancing, but said she
thinks it looks like fun.
“My sister did it at Young-
Life camp and she said it’s re-ally
fun,” Lewis said. “She’ll al-ways
try to get people to do it
when she’s out at the bars, I
guess not really many people
know how.”
Students can join classes
at any time during the semes-ter,
and no experience is nec-essary.
The Auburn Universi-ty
Swing Dancing Associa-tion
also hosts community-wide
dances and workshops
throughout the year.
For more information and
updates about the Auburn
University Swing Dance Asso-ciation,
visit auburn.edu/stu-dent_
info/swing.
Swing Dance Association swings into semester
Ashley Selby
INTRIGUE EDITOR
In a Pinterest-soaked generation, the term
craft usually evokes images of pasting photos
to journals or knitting a sweater for a Pomer-anian.
For some Auburn students, however, their
craft is much more involved than melting
some crayons on a canvas.
Christy Cameron, junior in industrial de-sign,
recently spent her summer as a black-smith
at the National Ornamental Metal Mu-seum
in Memphis, Tenn.
Cameron was given the chance to create
fine metal works in a metal shop that were lat-er
displayed within the museum.
“I’ve always enjoyed making things,” Camer-on
said. “I was able to make some coat hooks,
S-hooks and some fire pokers. I helped work
on a fire grate. I also got to work with cast-ing
aluminum and iron. I made switch plates,
decorative bookends and some bottle openers
that were for the shops.”
Cameron spent two days per week during
the summer months in front of a roaring fire,
hammering raw metal into works of art.
Although the shop was hot and the work
physically taxing, Cameron said she enjoyed
the hands-on learning experience.
“My favorite part was… watching some-thing
that started as a straight piece of metal
turn into whatever I wanted it to be and sort
of meld and form into the shapes I wanted,”
Cameron said.
As one would expect, pounding on a sheet
of red-hot metal came with its risks.
“I burned myself a few times,” Cameron
said. “I almost dumped melted aluminum on
another person by accident. You think [alumi-num]
is pretty light until you get eight pounds
of it and it’s boiling hot and you have to hold it
with an 8-foot pole.”
Although she can’t continue her craft while
in Auburn, Cameron said blacksmithing was
an activity she would revisit.
“Hopefully I will be able to work with metal
again,” Cameron said. “I’m thinking of taking
it up as a hobby once I have a house and I can
put it in a shed, maybe work on weekends.”
Rhett Kubasiak, junior in aerospace engi-neering,
has been developing his woodwork-ing
skills since high school.
Kubasiak has created multiple pieces of
fine furniture, some of which has been entered
into competitions.
“I’ve built a coffee table, desk, fishing pole
rack, shadow box, hope chest and a guitar,”
Kubasiak said.
He spent his summer with youth mission
organization TEAM Effort passing his wood-
Auburn students redefine crafting
ASHLEY SELBY / INTRIGUE EDITOR
Cameron worked as a blacksmith this summer at the National Ornamental Metal Museum.
“Anybody can learn
how to [swing
dance]. There’s
a pattern to the
dance, but there
are not set-in-stone
rules.”
—Chris Olds
CO-FOUNDER OF AUBURN
SWING DANCE ASSOCIATION
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Kailey Miller
INTRIGUE REPORTER
Football season is finally here with the team
bringing in our first win of the season.
As the football players strategize and condi-tion
for upcoming games, the band is hard at
work at a different kind of practice.
Led by four drum majors, senior Emily Gray,
senior Paige Lenssen, junior Gerritt Keaton
and senior Madison Argo, the band has a strict
schedule and routine to be prepared for game
day.
The drum majors sat down with The Plains-man
and explained what it’s like to be in their
shoes, and what they do to make each game day
the best it can be.
When did you first decide you wanted to
be a drum major and why?
Gray: I think the first year I got here. I was
a drum major back in high school, so fresh-man
year, I got to watch that entire year what
the drum majors did and I fell in love with it in-stantly.
Lenssen: My freshman year here, I was so
impressed and I thought it was something that
maybe I’d want to do.
But it took me a little longer than the other
drum majors.
I was actually a section leader here last year,
my junior year, and right toward the end I was
like ‘this is it, senior year, go big or go home.’ So I
decided to go for it.
Keaton: I was a three-year drum major in
high school, and when I got here, my goal was
to be a drum major. But it wasn’t until after my
first semester in band that I really saw what the
drum majors here did, and decided to finally try
out and do it.
What are your responsibilities as a drum
major?
Gray: Responsibilities are more of a service
leadership type of deal, so we kind of give back
to the band in the best way that we can possible.
So, sure everybody on Saturdays sees [us]
whistling off tempos and things of that nature,
but really we’re more mentors and models for
[what] the rest of the band should be doing.
Lenssen: We are the student leaders of the
band, so like the quarterbacks are to the football
team, that’s what we are to the marching band.
Keaton: Our responsibilities include leading
the ensemble, conducting tunes, but one of our
main focuses is keeping the stadium energized
on game day and keeping the fan base energized
outside the stadium before and after games.
One of our main focuses is to work with the
other units, [such as] the cheerleaders, Tiger
Paws, everybody and just keep the energy level
high in the stadium.
What is your favorite part of game day?
Gray: We go off of cues for everything, so
when we’re in the tunnel, the drum majors are
waiting for the eagle to fly down and stop, and
then for the band video to come on and that’s
our cue to go set up… there are about 8-10 sec-onds
where it’s so loud, you can’t hear your own
thoughts, and that’s probably one of the big
things for me on game days.
Lenssen: I love the pre-game jog. I haven’t
seen any other group do anything like it. Com-ing
out of that tunnel, your heart’s just pound-ing
one million miles a minute. It’s one of the
things that, I think, makes game day at Auburn
different.
Argo: It’s definitely not our 4 a.m. rehearsals
for 11 a.m. games. I would say getting ready for
pregame. That initial lead up right to pregame,
that huge crowd reaction, and then we spike the
mace. Just the way our students light up and ex-plode
is phenomenal.
Keaton: My favorite part of game day is pre-game,
because a lot of times, that’s when the sta-dium
is most energized and we’re a major part
of that. It’s very exciting and an honor to be a
part.
Can you describe a typical day of band
practice?
Gray: It’s really warm and it’s really sunny,
and everybody hopefully has their water bot-tles.
We have detailed schedules sent out to us
every day via email of exactly down-to-the-min-ute
what we’re supposed to be doing, in hopes
to get through as much information and have as
much continuity with our drills as possible. It’s
a lot of focus in an hour and a half.
Lenssen: The drum majors arrive a little bit
early, around 3 p.m., to start setting up the field.
At 3:15 p.m., warm-ups start with sections. The
section leaders have 15 minutes to warm up
their sections and stretch. Then we’ll start going
into, depending on what day of the week it is, we
might go into halftime first, or pregame. We’ll
really go through, set-by-set, and based on the
videos from the last week, fix any mistakes from
that performance. And we try to end with run-ning
a bigger segment of whatever we’re work-ing
on.
What’s your favorite memory with the
band?
Gray: Probably the championship year.
Lenssen: The last season was rough. The mil-itary
appreciation game that we did where we
had cannons during the American halftime
show and paratroopers came onto the field, it
was great to see that. Football teams, they can
win, they can lose, but we just had fun. We just
had a lot of fun.
Argo: My favorite band memory would have
to be at the National Championship game. The
play where Michael Dyer went down, but he
didn’t actually go down, and he got up and ran.
We, actually, all missed that play because we
had one of our fellow trumpet players passed
out and we were like ‘what’s going on, oh he’s
down, what’s going on?’ Then we looked up and
he was still going.
Keaton: Unlike the other three drum majors,
I wasn’t at the National Championship game, so
I can’t say that. But, my favorite band memory is
probably singing the alma mater, which we do
pretty often.
What goes on behind-the-scenes on game
days?
Gray: Depending on what time the game is
kind of determines when our times are going to
start. We’ll have morning practice, where we’ll
go over halftime and pre-game stuff. Once we
get done there, we’ll have a little bit of a break
before we have to get our uniforms on and go
to our spirit location, where we do some warm-ups
and then we do Tiger Walk. Then we do
the four corners stuff, go under the tunnel, get
kind of readjusted, cooled back down... We do
things such as President’s Box, march around…
some things that the students don’t always see
because they’re not there early enough. Come
back in, a little bit more down time, pregame
and then we’re in the stands the rest of the time.
Lenssen: A lot of people don’t realize that no
matter what time the game actually starts, the
day for the band starts a whole lot earlier. So de-pending
on the time of the game, we’re here in
the morning and we do a full rehearsal. A lot of
people who are tailgating will wake up early to
come listen to us.
Argo: It’s super hectic. There are a lot of lo-gistics
that go into it. Basically, our whole day is
timed out almost to the second.
From the time we get here and start rehears-al,
to the time that we break to go relax, if we
have time to relax. Those 11 a.m. games we go
straight to Tiger Walk in less than 45 minutes,
so it’s kind of crazy.
Just a lot of logistics, especially pregame,
making sure that everything is timed out.
If we have a fly-over, those things are logis-tical
nightmares, but it’s really awesome the
way that everything lines up and kind of just
smoothly goes through the day.
Behind the scenes with the 2013 drum majors
Becky Sheehan
INTRIGUE WRITER
The Burn City Rollers look like a small gang.
The women are inked, pierced and intense.
For five years, Auburn’s roller derby team has
been recognized as aggressive competitors.
Queens of a counterculture sport, they are
broadening their horizons this season and giv-ing
back to the city of Auburn.
“If you can make a difference, you want to
make that difference,” said Ashley Pott, second-year
veterinary student. “Raising money for
something else while drawing attention to der-by—
it’s a win-win.”
For Pott, who is brand new to roller derby, the
team’s outreach efforts are simply icing on the
cake.
The Burn City Rollers spent the year volun-teering
with the Lee County Humane Society.
They held a booth at Woofstock in Kiesel Park
Aug. 24, and raised $400 for the Humane Soci-ety
with a bingo night at Zazu’s Gastropub the
week before.
“(The Humane Society) used the money for
medicine, medical supplies, food and utilities,”
Vanessa Thuma, president of the Burn City Roll-ers,
said.
They also made connections with a local
women’s shelter and plan to get involved with
the Boys and Girls Club by holding demos and
open skate nights.
“It’s important to give back because we need
to help other groups,” Thuma said. “Without
that help, they can’t continue to thrive and offer
services to the greater community.”
The service projects do not only fill a need
within the community, they allow the team to
transcend the stereotype the sport has been
branded with.
“You always want to have a positive image,”
Neecee Matthews-Bradshaw, veteran team
member, said. “Especially with roller derby,
people think ‘Oh, those are some thuggish girls.
They’re scary,’ but we’re really not.”
Matthews-Bradshaw, known to the derby
world as Seedy Ell, is completing her doctorate
in rhetoric and composition at Auburn Univer-sity.
She is a jammer and a blocker on the team,
which means she can take a hit and score
points, despite her petite stature.
“All of us have lives outside of derby and we’re
trying to let people see what that is,” Seedy said.
Outside of derby, the lives the Rollers lead are
rich and varied.
The team members are students, teachers,
mothers and military wives drawn together to
connect with other passionate women.
“Fo