2012-08-30 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID
Thursday, August 30, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Vol. 118, Issue 14, 16 Pages
Robert Lee
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
There has been great debate about
the seating arrangements for stu-dents
in Jordan-Hare Stadium. Just as
coach Gene Chizik’s arrival dawned
a new era of Auburn football, a new
spirit system will implement a more
inclusive way for students to enjoy
the game.
“What we decided is we will only
use Ignited points as a means for gar-nering
points,” said SGA President
Owen Parrish. “The only way to gain
points toward organizational group
seating is through attendance at ath-letic
events and the Ignited points
system.”
Parrish said a group of leaders was
created last fall to establish what
would comprise a new spirit system.
Meeting for nine weeks straight, the
group was equally represented from
all parts of campus, including Greek
life, independent students, SGA lead-ers
and other smaller group leaders.
Last year’s SGA President Kirby
Turnage began the process of seeking
a new system but eventually passed
the responsibility of making a deci-sion
onto the current SGA staff.
“They worked through the whole
system and all the questions that you
can ask,” Parrish said. “They came up
with this long packet of what do we
want, and this is something they all
agreed upon and all signed off on. It
was kind of their set of recommen-dations,
so that set of recommenda-tions
ended the spirit program as it
existed.”
Parrish emphasized the impor-tance
of having a program that in-cludes
everyone, not just members of
large organizations.
“There are small benefits added
in for using social media and things
like that, but the majority of those
points come from attendance at Di-vision
I athletic events, and that is
how the Ignited points system will be
2012 to be last season for spirit seating
Organizational seating program
replaces spirit points system
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T.J. Harlin
CAMPUS REPORTER
Every new school year at Auburn
brings about changes, and some are
more noticeable than others.
One of this year’s changes is a new
organizational seating program for
Jordan Hare Stadium.
Though the new system will be
easier to implement, there is con-cern
that it may hurt student volun-teering.
The new system will only use Ig-nited
points from different sport-ing
events to decide which organiza-tions
receive block seating.
The old system awards points for
participating in philanthropies and
other charitable work.
Jennifer Lolley, administrator for
the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology
Preserve, believes the new system
brings about more harm than good.
“I’m real concerned (about the
new spirit system) because I totally
rely on IMPACT students to help me
out,” Lolley said.
IMPACT is a student volunteer or-ganization
that sends volunteers to
15 local organizations that need the
extra help.
“I get some students who just
come out for the good of it, and they
like to be outside, but I think a whole
lot of the reason I got them was those
spirit points,” Lolley said. “They just
chose my place because both boys
and girls enjoy being outside, so
they’d come work for us, but when
those spirit points aren’t available
I’m definitely worried my numbers
will decrease greatly.”
Many IMPACT volunteers come
from fraternities and sororities, and
the number of participants could
drop if spirit point incentives are
taken away.
“I like to help out the community,
so I try to do as much volunteer work
as I can,” said Erick Cooper, senior in
accounting. “But I think the number
of volunteers will go down without
the spirit points incentive.”
Holly Crawford, junior in public
relations, agrees with Cooper.
“I do think volunteers’ numbers
will decrease with the new system,
unfortunately,” Crawford said. “I
know a lot of the fraternities and so-rorities
make a big push toward spir-it
points. It’s great for rush if you are
involved in spirit points.”
The SGA believes the new system
will decrease some of the disingenu-ous
volunteers whose motives were
solely for spirit points, but Lolley is
not sure if motives matter with vol-unteer
work.
“I had such a good response,
whether they were there for student
points or not. They worked so hard,”
Lolley said. “They were excellent
workers, but I do think the ones who
will be volunteering now will proba-bly
be there more just because they
want to.”
Though the new system may de-crease
volunteer work, there are still
numerous opportunities to help out.
IMPACT, and other means of vol-unteering,
can be found under the
Student Involvement tab at Auburn.
edu/student affairs.
Lolley will also be working to en-courage
volunteers.
“I’ll have to try to make up for lack
of volunteers if this does happen,”
Lolley said. “Then again, you get the
really good quality ones who just do
it because they want to.”
DANIELLE LOWE / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Administrator of the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve Jennifer Lolley is concerned with a drop off in volunteering after the
spirit system is replaced by the new Organizational Seating Program.
Volunteer work no longer involuntary
Return to the Dome
ROBERT E. LEE / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Eva Woghiren
COMMUNITY REPORTER
Auburn was recently ranked in
the top 10 of four college catego-ries
by the Princeton Review.
In 1992, the Princeton Review
began taking surveys and releas-ing
lists of top colleges in the Unit-ed
States. In its 2013 edition of
“The Best 377 Colleges,” Auburn
University made several of the
lists.
Auburn came seventh for Stu-dents
Who Pack the Stadium,
eighth for Most Conservative
Students as well as 10th in Fu-ture
Rotarians and Daughters of
the American Revolution. For the
ranking of Best Overall Quality of
Life, Auburn ranked 19th.
“It makes me proud to be a part
of one of the greatest fan bases in
the country,” said pre-broadcast
journalism sophomore Ben Du-rand.
“Our dedication and love
for Auburn is deeply shown every
time we take our seats in Jordan-
Hare Stadium.”
Every year the Princeton Re-view
collects surveys from more
than 122,000 students. The surveys
consist of 80 questions and are
used to create 62 lists that identify
the top 20 schools in that category.
These lists are made with the
intention of guiding high school
seniors to the best university for
them.
Not only was Auburn University
recognized this week, but also the
city of Auburn itself.
The city was named among the
top 100 Best Small Cities to live in
the U.S. by Money Magazine.
“We are certainly very pleased
about this recognition and fortu-nate
that we have been named in
recent years to several other lists,”
said Mayor Bill Ham. “This is an-other
one that shows how won-derful
the partnership between
the schools and city is.”
Auburn was the only city in Al-abama
to make the list. It came
in at 89th just behind Iowa City,
Iowa.
Money Magazine reports Au-burn
is a “serious college town”
with football as its sport of choice.
Charles Duggan, Auburn city
manager, gives credit to the Au-burn
businesses, specifically rec-ognizing
the Department of Parks
and Recreation and the Jule Col-lins
Smith Museum.
“It is places like this that bring
Auburn together to make it a loca-tion
that is able to be recognized,”
Duggan said.
These terrific small cities of-fer
what American families care
about most—strong job opportu-nities,
great schools, low crime,
quality health care and plenty to
do, according to CNNMoney.com
Ham and Duggan both hope
to see Auburn on more lists and
rankings in the future.
“I cannot forget to give credit to
the public school system as well,”
Ham said. “Auburn is a great place
to retire, raise families and even
for business, and I hope to keep it
that way.”
Princeton Review ranks
Auburn in four categories
We“ are certainly
very pleased about
this recognition and
fortunate that we
have been named
in recent years to
several other lists.”
—Bill Ham
MAYOR OF AUBURN
Will organizations see drop in volunteers after spirit points go?
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Students will now only be able to earn points toward seating through the Auburn Ig-nited
program.
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, August 30, 2012
Corey Atwood
WRITER
The author of two award-winning novels, “The Eden Hunter” and “The Southern Cross,” is starting his first semester as an English pro­fessor.
Skip Horack has been an attorney, a lectur­er at Stanford University and is now a creative writing professor at Auburn.
English Department Chair Jeremy Downes said after carefully considering more than100 applications from highly qualified writers and teachers, Horack was chosen as the best.
The quality of his writing, personal engage­ment with the department and commitment to his students were what put Horack ahead of the competition, Downes said.
After graduating from Florida State Univer­sity’s College of Law, Horack worked with a law firm in Baton Rouge, La., for approximate­ly five years.
From there he went to Stanford University for a two-year fellowship in creative writing.
Even with a varied background as a lawyer and lecturer, Horack said he always consid­ered himself a writer first, and his jobs helped him support his lifestyle as an author.
“When people asked me what I did for a liv­ing, I would say ‘Oh, I work at a law firm,’ as if I stacked boxes there,” Horack said.
While at Stanford he had the opportunity to teach and write simultaneously. Once he knew he had the job at Auburn, the only things that stood in his way were six states and nearly 2,500 miles.
Horack drove a 26-foot moving truck from San Francisco to Auburn, visiting the Grand Canyon along the way. His wife and dog were in the car ahead of him.
“It was like Smokey and the Bandit,” Horack said. “At about 55 mph it would get really shaky.”
After lurching from coast to coast, he and his family arrived Aug. 1. He said Auburn was just what he needed after what was at least a 39-hour trip.
He described his introduction to Auburn as one of the friendliest and most welcoming he’s ever experienced.
“Professor Horack is an excellent addition to the faculty,” Downes said.
The students of his Fiction Writing II class, Lauren Barkley, senior in biomedical scienc­es and Ethan Hightower, senior in English, de­scribed him as knowledgeable, passionate, en­thusiastic, goofy and scatter-brained, and said he is a person who is true to his heart.
Horack said the feeling was mutual, and af­ter a few weeks into the semester, he said, “I really love the students here.”
His advice for prospective writers: finish what you start. When writing a story, he said, the “idea you’re not working on is always going to seem like the one you should be working on, because that’s the easier one.”
Horack said he plans to attend a few foot­ball games this fall, especially since it is his first year at the University.
The last and only Auburn game he ever at­tended was in 1996, when Auburn played LSU and the field house, aka “the Barn,” caught fire during the game. He said he didn’t know if Au­burn would win or lose the next game he went to, but he hoped nothing would burn.
Putting an end to the myth that “those who can’t do, teach,” he continues to write and now hopes to share this passion for creative writing with his students.
EMILY MORRIS / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
English professor Skip Horack has written two novels on the New York Times Best-seller list.
SEATING
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transferred into organization­al group seating into that com­petition,” Parrish said.
Parrish said the program is open to any organization, no matter the size.
“It’s not fair to just do sheer number because then a group of 150 is going to have a huge advantage over a group of 20,” he said.
Director of Traditions Billy Walick created an algorithmic system that evaluates organi­zations based on their size, but also keeps organizations even­ly matched.
“I collected attendance data from hundreds of previous Ig­nited events and used those historical trends to create a mathematical formula from which points are scaled off of the new Auburn Ignited point system,” Walick said. “These new scaling factors are specific down to a single member of an organization, and they are eas­ily altered through the formu­las if membership size chang­es. This creates an even and fair opportunity for organi­zations of all sizes to earn the most amount of points.”
Unlike the former program, the new program will not have monetary incentives, such as buying apparel for organiza­tions.
“You could go out and spend $100,000 on conces­sions or on apparel or any­thing like that if you wanted to, but that wouldn’t make any difference at all,” Parrish said. “Nothing is incentivized as far as the spending of money.”
Parrish said the need for a new program was realized some time ago.
“When you’re looking at it, the first step in this whole thing was why did we change what we had. (The old pro­gram) incentivized athletic events and attendance, then it was also attendance at es­sentially anything that was deemed worthy of receiving spirit points,” Parrish said.
“But also, it was a means of raising money, and so if a fra­ternity or sorority or an orga­nization offered spirits for at­tending their philanthropy and it was $10 to do it, tons of people would do it. It was very much an attendance-based program, but it was also a money generator, and so re­gardless of all the other fac­tors, the people with the most money had a leg up.”
Parrish said although peo­ple would attend activities, some would not invest their time appropriately, only doing what was required for points.
“We knew it was broken,” Parrish said. “You could nev­er really know that if I did this one thing better than anybody else, that’s how I win.”
Seating at football games remains the payoff of the pro­gram, and the student sections in Jordan-Hare Stadium will remain the same.
The old spirit contract was signed last fall and extends through the upcoming foot­ball season, putting the new system’s rewards off until next season.
“We are still rewarding wristbands and seats to orga­nizations that won block seats through last year’s spirit com­petition,” Parrish said. “This is looking at next year, seating for next football season.”
Organizations can register for the spirit program through Sept. 14. online on the Ignited website.
After Sept. 14, organizations are responsible for turning in a roster that matches the list of members who registered for the new program to the SGA Traditions Council.
Points will begin to be counted Sept. 14 and will count for organizational group seating for the 2013 season.
“With this new program, I can sit down and explain it to you in five minutes and that was my goal...to have some­thing simple and to the point that still provides incentives and a way for students to get the group seating and encour­age organizational involve­ment,” Parrish said.
New professor author of award-winning novels
Becky Hardy
CAMPUS REPORTER
WEGL has introduced a weekly, student health-fo­cused radio show called “Be­WellRadio.”
The show will air Wednes­days at 10 a.m.
“I don’t really know any oth­er health radio show that’s out there,” said Brittany Loper, co-host and sexual health special­ist in health promotion and wellness services.
The staff of the show in­cludes Loper; Blake Marble, co-host and alcohol and drug specialist in health promo­tion and wellness services; Eric Smith, co-host and direc­tor of promotion of health and wellness services; and Matt In­gram, a production engineer for the show and social media and communications direc­tor of promotion of health and wellness services.
Topics of the show include everything from dealing with stress, figuring out how to get enough sleep and which health-related apps work best.
“Each (co-host) took an app and tried it out for a week and recorded the pros and cons, our experience, how it actual­ly helped us and how it helped us reach our goals,” Loper said.
Professors and local experts in the field make appearances on the show.
“Next week is all about rela­tionships and love, so we are bringing in some people from the marriage and family center (on campus) to talk about rela­tionships,” Smith said.
Health-themed music is played in between segments to break up the amount of talk­ing.
“For example, for the app topic, it was right around the time of the Olympics so we played ‘Chariots of Fire’ and ‘Born to Run,’” Marble said. “We play roughly four songs an hour.”
Students can voice their opinions or ask questions through BeWellRadio’s Twitter account, @auburnhealth.
BeWellRadio also holds weekly trivia contests where the winners receive BeWellRa­dio-themed prizes.
“You can win anything from a T-shirt to water bottles,” Lop­er said.
Auburn students and facul­ty are not the only ones listen­ing in.
Smith said they have no­ticed people listening all the way from Maryland and re­cently discovered an unex­pected follower on their Twit­ter account.
“The only other college ra­dio that was doing a health-fo­cused radio show was out of the U.K., who just started fol­lowing us on Twitter,” Smith said.
BeWellRadio began broad­casting before the school year started to make sure the hosts knew how everything worked.
“We’re always trying to come up with new ideas,” Smith said. “We wanted to see what’s not going to work out, what’s the best format and how we manage inside the stu­dio.”
Smith said they are going to start re-airing shows on Sun­day nights and see how they do.
“If lots of people listen to us on Sunday, we could possibly get more airtime during the week,” Smith said.
Landing a time slot for a show on WEGL is as easy as presenting a creative idea, Smith said.
“We were basically like ‘Hey, we got an idea, can we do a ra­dio show about college stu­dent health, is that possible?’ And (WEGL) was like ‘Yeah, sure that’s possible!’” Smith said.
Marble reiterated that if any student wants to start a radio show they can have one; they just have to be different.
“If you bring something unique to the table and there’s a time slot available, they’re going to let you on the air,” Marble said.
Ingram already works with another show on WEGL’s ra­dio station.
“I started a sports talk show and all I did was go through Dafni (Greene),” In­gram said. “Basically any stu­dent can have a show, grant­ed that show’s not already on air. From our standpoint, the only prerequisite for our show was that there was not anoth­er one like it.”
If a student gets the oppor­tunity to have his or her own show, all they have to com­plete is an emcee test, to know what they can or cannot do on air, along with other technical information.
Loper said her time on WEGL is her favorite hour of the week.
“We just want more people to listen to WEGL,” Smith said.
New WEGL radio station attracts fans from abroad
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study abroad picture. Students sent in photos and captions for four categories: Way of
Life, People, Places and Service to the World. Here are the winners for each category.
Summer days and summer nights
TOP LEFT: Waterford, Ireland:
A craftsman in the Waterford
Crystal factory carefully carves
a design into the delicate crys-tal
vase. TOP RIGHT: Munich,
Germany: I passed this amaz-ing
landscape on the way to
visit Neuschwanstein. The
contrast in the colors grabbed
me: the green against the
blues, with the pop of the or-angey-
red on the roof of the
barn. BOTTOM LEFT: Quesim-puco,
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problem on her extern-ship.
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Category: “Places”
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Category: “Service to the World”
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Category: “Way of Life”
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As the world stands by and
coolly observes yet another
humanitarian crisis, this time
in Syria, it is relevant (and, in
my opinion, even necessary) to
return to the subject of the effi-cacy
of the United Nations.
I believe the U.N. has failed
in its most crucial mission:
that of protecting the human
rights of global citizens. The
Syrian civil war provides a
good vehicle for this discus-sion,
although this crisis is by
no means the first example of
U.N. failure.
The Syrian conflict has been
in the works since spring of
2011, and since then it has es-calated
into a bloody civil war
with a particularly bad record
for civilian casualties.
On top of this, it is estimat-ed
that more than a million
people have been internally
displaced by the conflict.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Secu-rity
Council has been unable
to make any move toward in-tervention
thanks to vetoes by
China and Russia against pro-posed
military sanctions.
This inability to act contrib-uted
to the resignation of Kofi
Annan, then-U.N. peace envoy
to Syria, on Aug. 2, as well as to
the termination of Syrian oc-cupancy
by U.N. observers and
truce monitors on Aug. 19.
Meanwhile, on Aug. 3, the
U.N. General Assembly voted
to pass a resolution condemn-ing
the Syrian government for
its violence against civilians.
Keep in mind that a resolution
passed by the General Assem-bly
is merely a statement of
the overall opinion of the Gen-eral
Assembly and does not
have the power to command
any military action or inter-vention.
What can we blame for
these failures?
Is it the General Assembly’s
inability to command any real
action? Is it the member coun-tries’
tendency to spend meet-ings
locked in debate rather
than making decisions? Per-haps
both.
In my opinion, the U.N.’s in-efficacy
lies most of all in the
Security Council’s ineptitude
and outdated method of deci-sion-
making.
The Security Council is
comprised of 15 members, 10
of which are not permanent
and rotate in and out by serv-ing
temporary two-year terms.
The other five have per-manent
member status and
are also the only five nations
with the power to veto resolu-tions.
These five are the United
States, the United Kingdom,
France, China and Russia. It is
easy to imagine that their po-litical
motives and agendas are
often at odds with one anoth-er,
making the veto a formida-ble
force.
In my opinion, the veto sys-tem
places an unfair empha-sis
on the opinions and politi-cal
goals of the five permanent
member countries, while the
rotating member system de-nies
equal representation to
other countries who are oth-erwise
permanent members
of the U.N.
Most of all, the system gives
the Security Council the pow-er
to waffle around, veto reso-lutions
left and right and gen-erally
never get anything pro-ductive
done. In the mean-time,
citizens of countries like
Syria continue to go unaided.
So how could we amend the
system?
Perhaps by giving all U.N.
countries fair representation
in the Security Council as well.
Perhaps by abolishing the
veto system and making deci-sions
via a typical democrat-ic
voting process, thereby pre-venting
countries from imped-ing
justice to further their own
political motives.
A radical solution? May-be
so.
However, I believe it takes
radical thinking to solve ex-treme
problems, and it is also
my belief that the U.N. presents
an extreme problem at the mo-ment.
In a world that is faced ev-ery
day with increasing inter-national
tension, violence, op-pression
and human rights vi-olations,
we are desperately
in need of an entity that will
stand up for peace, justice,
equality and the well-being of
all people across the globe.
This did not occur in Rwan-da
in 1994.
This did not occur in Darfur
at any time between 2003 and
the present.
This is not occurring in
Syria now, and if the state of
things remains the same, it
will not occur anywhere any
time in the future.
This is a call to the United
Nations and to the interna-tional
community as a whole
to reconsider their policies, to
reorganize their priorities, and
to stop abandoning suffering
people around the world. Our
concern is not only a sugges-tion;
it is a necessity.
Jenny Steele
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Her View
“The Hunger Games” confronts its
audience with a premise that is surely
improbable and undeniably barbaric:
that human life has become expend-able,
and children–the most inno-cent
of us all–are the ones being used
and killed for sport, their humanity
masked by euphemisms. Victims are
deemed “tributes.”
This seems so far removed from
our modern, civil rights-backed so-ciety.
You may think there is no way to
draw parallels, what with our 21st
century emphasis on equality. Yet so-cial
Darwinism and its application,
eugenics, are prevalent both in the
U.S. and abroad. On July 16, Rosa Sil-verman
of the British newspaper The
Daily Telegraph published an article
with shocking statistics from the Hu-man
Fertilization and Embryology
Authority, an independent IVF regu-lator
in the U.K. In 2009, the most re-cent
year for data, Down syndrome
was given as a reason for 31 of the 127
test-tube baby abortions. These chil-dren
would not be perfect, that much
they knew. But who is? Infertility had
been conquered, but the young con-queror
couldn’t survive our own hun-ger
games.
Earlier this month, parenting web-site
Babble.com published an equal-ly
jarring story about Paul Corby, a
23-year-old from Pottsville, Pa. in
need of a heart transplant. “Accord-ing
to the Corbys, and according to a
letter from Penn Medicine which they
shared with me, Paul has been denied
the placement in large part because
he is autistic,” Babble contributor Jo-slyn
Gray writes. Not only has Corby
been denied a transplant outright,
he has been denied any of the hope
or solace that accompanies consid-eration
for the life-saving procedure.
His mother has a petition on Change.
org and, at the latest count, is just
thirty-two thousand shy of the three
hundred thousand-signature goal.
If Corby’s autism is not the prin-cipal
reason behind Penn Medicine’s
refusal, the hospital has done nothing
to rectify the public or the press’s un-derstanding
of this tragedy.
If it is any consolation (it isn’t), our
predecessors can’t hide the vestiges
of social Darwinism either. Just this
year, North Carolina legislators vot-ed
down a measure to provide com-pensation
for victims of forced ster-ilization.
According to Jennifer Cal-houn
of the Fayetteville Observer
in a June 5, 2011, article, there were
at least 7,600 documented cases of
state-sanctioned sterilization be-tween
1929 and 1974. The state’s eu-genics
board supported forced ster-ilization
to keep people with “fee-blemindedness,”
among other traits,
from having children. The movement
was billed as a way to curb the need
for welfare and other government ex-penses.
The means to this intended
end were gruesome. "‘(My fallopian
tubes) weren't tied,’" she said. "‘Mine
were cut and burned at the end. It
was a tool they used to just have the
power–the power of God,’" said Mary
English, a victim of forced steriliza-tion
Calhoun interviewed. The state
had the third-most forced steriliza-tions
in the nation under the eugen-ics
board program.
History has spared other more bra-zen
proponents of social Darwinism.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of what
is now known as Planned Parent-hood,
once appeared as a choice on
a list of important women for a mid-dle
school project of mine. Her perni-cious
legacy has been whitewashed.
“(Sanger) referred repeatedly to the
lower classes and the unfit as ‘human
waste’ not worthy of assistance, and
proudly quoted the extreme eugen-ics
view that human ‘weeds’ should
be exterminated,” writes Edwin Black
in his book “War Against the Weak.”
Her desire for Americans to em-brace
eugenics and, as she wrote in
the April 1932 edition of Birth Con-trol
Review, “to keep the doors of im-migration
closed to the entrance of
certain aliens whose condition is
known to be detrimental to the stam-ina
of the race, such as feebleminded,
idiots, morons, insane...and others,”
speaks for itself.
Sanger’s ideas may not have been
subtle, but most of the other under-pinnings
of social Darwinism are.
Next time we watch or read the latest
pop blockbuster, let us pull ourselves
out of the haze and acknowledge the
proximity and palpability of the hun-ger
games around us.
Her View
We all like to party, some more
than others. Reese Dismukes proba-bly
falls into the latter category.
Unfortunately, Zeke Pike and Mi-chael
Dyer are also fond of the party
lifestyle.
What does it say about our team
or coaching staff that so many of our
players have had trouble with the law
lately?
Pike, Dismukes and Dyer all exhib-it
a lack of responsibility.
When an athlete, whether college
or professional, gets the chance to
play for a well-known team, they are
given a once-in-a-lifetime opportu-nity
to show the world what they are
made of. If they’re lucky, they get fa-mous.
They receive some of the best
coaching in the world, but in the end,
it is their responsibility to live up to
their potential.
We can’t blame coach Gene Chizik
for the actions of these players, and
we certainly can’t disagree with his
decision to suspend or outright dis-miss
those who break the law. They
put him in a difficult spot.
The Auburn team is expected to
hold respect and honor in the high-est
regard. Chizik is defending that
respect and honor in the best way he
knows.
Kevin Scarbinsky, of the Birming-ham
News, penned a column for
Al.com on Aug. 26 that suggested
our football program “is headed out
of control.” He cited the armed rob-bery
involving former players Anto-nio
Goodwin, Mike McNeil, Shaun
Kitchens and Dakota Mosley as an ex-ample
of how far down the drain our
team has gone.
We think Scarbinsky was way off
base, and he had no reason to bring
up June 9 shooting as an example to
further his point. No matter what
he says, that incident was not about
football and never will be.
It seems Scarbinsky and the sweaty
masses of Bammers that commented
on his column either want Chizik and
his staff to baby-sit the team 24 hours
a day or disband the team all together.
They do not realize that these players
are the ones who lack responsibility.
No one is kidnapping these guys and
pouring booze down their throats;
they are doing it to themselves.
Much like you can’t make a horse
drink, you can’t stop a football player
who wants to make a fool of himself.
Chizik is not Pike, Dyer or Dismukes’
parent and he shouldn’t be expected
to coddle rule-breakers. We will never
try to justify the actions of these play-ers.
They made mistakes; they should
have to deal with the consequenc-es
like everybody else. But we believe
it is unnecessary and short-sighted
to blame the poor judgment of Pike,
Dyer and Dismukes on the coaching
staff.
If anything has been learned from
the Penn State disaster, it’s that ac-countability
is in short supply. How-ever,
we think the disciplinary actions
Chizik has taken show he cares more
about the solidarity of Auburn than a
few star recruits.
Players
do the
darndest
things
Not all have survived the hunger games
United Nations’ failures have a human cost
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Thursday, August 30, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Community
Community
Zeke Turrentine
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Auburn city officials are put­ting in motion a $1.3 million plan to liven up the area around the downtown parking deck and its neighbors.
The planning team took ad­vice and recommendations from various civic groups, busi­nesses and citizens to help form a vision they hope will revitalize the space into a more appealing, multi-purpose, patron-friendly event area.
Several different renovation scenarios were mapped out in a detailed report that was pre­sented at the Aug. 7 city council meeting.
The plans vary from more parking with less space for pe­destrians and outdoor eating to more dining- and walking-friendly designs.
Nearly 100 new public parking spaces will be added to the es­timated 538 already downtown, about a 16 percent increase.
Of the 538 spots, 372 are me­tered during the day.
The original discussions for a downtown project late in 2011 that prompted this January’s referendum put the price tag at approximately $750,000.
City officials said the plan ex­panded after the city saw results from the annual citizen’s sur­vey showing an interest in more than simply increasing parking spots. Replies showed 61 per­cent of those surveyed iden­tified more parking as a main concern.
“We kind of took it from a pure parking project and looked at the other things we could achieve,” said Assistant City Manager Kevin Cowper.
The plans presented at the Aug. 7 city council meeting place a little more than half of the new parking spots on the east side of the parking deck, where the Auburn Bank drive-thru teller stand is located along with a vacant building.
Both buildings are on city-owned ground and will be de­molished this fall when the bank leaves the booth for the new drive-thru across Gay Street.
Bank president Bob Dumas expects the move to be complet­ed by late September.
City Manager Charlie Duggan said there are plans to build 67 temporary parking spots upon the demolition of the buildings.
Duggan and Cowper said the city will probably hire a consul­tant in early 2013, and both ex­pect major work to begin on the east side of the deck by that summer.
The west side of the deck will feature just fewer than 50 spaces in an area that will also be used for things such as outdoor mu­sic shows and tailgating.
The fall events will give citi­zens the chance to utilize the new entertainment district laws.
Businesses along East Mag­nolia Avenue and North College Street such as Little Italy, Mel­low Mushroom and Moe’s Bar­becue can look forward to brick sidewalks, more parking spots and outdoor, café-style porch areas.
Most of the leased parking spaces in the west side will be moved into the deck.
The parking area near Blood­hound will resemble the brick paved parking area in Opelika near Irish Bred Pub.
The west side will see con­struction beginning in 2014.
Planners said the city will do its best not to inconvenience football fans this fall or next fall and will also try to work while it would cause the least amount of disruption for the University.
Cowper said he understands that, because of the multiple owners of property and vari­ous patches of city-owned land, there will need to be a team ef­fort in working through the new plans and construction.
Cowper said the new side­walks and upgraded alleys along College and Magnolia will en­hance downtown and provide patrons with a clearer idea of where they are in relation to cer­tain establishments.
The Opelika Road corridor beautification project is taking priority right now, but Cowp­er said the city hopes to move out of the conceptual phase and into a comprehensive incorpo­ration of the plans into a down­town master plan by early 2013.
The budgeting for the project is already complete.
Both the Opelika Road and downtown plans are part of a vi­sion to revitalize the aesthetics of Auburn and spur new busi­nesses and economic growth.
The planners specifically noted a desire to live up to the “Loveliest Village” nickname the city embraces.
The city’s bond sales will be the primary financiers of the project, and though they may need more revenues later in the plans, Duggan said “things look pretty good” right now.
The plans that were present­ed at the city council meeting are available for public view­ing at the city of Auburn’s web­site under the city council meet­ings tab.
REBECCA CROOMES/ PHOTO EDITOR
The Auburn Bank drive-thru will make way for temporary parking before being in­corporated into the city’s new plans for the northeast section of Toomer’s Corner.
REBECCA CROOMES/ PHOTO EDITOR
The alleyways behind the downtown parking deck, near bars like the Bloodhound, will be included in the downtown enhanceent project.
“
We kind of took it from a pure parking project and [then] looked at the other things we could achieve. ”
—Kevin Cowper
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER
Downtown parking deck area to receive $1.3 million facelift
Chicken Salad Chick expanding, opening 18 new locations
Sydney Callis
COMMUNITY REPORTER
Chicken Salad Chick is ex­panding, and not just its cus­tomers’ waistlines.
Simply Southern Restau­rant Group, the franchiser of Chicken Salad Chick, an­nounced Aug. 22 that 18 new locations of the restaurant will be opening.
“We have witnessed in­creasing customer demand for Chicken Salad Chick since the opening of our first take­out restaurant in 2008,” said Chicken Salad Chick owner Stacy Brown in a press release.
“The fact that our own cus­tomers want to own their own Chicken Salad Chick is af­firmation for us that we are touching lives. And that is our goal every day.”
With new locations in Al­abama, Florida and Georgia, the new Chicken Salad Chick restaurants will expand the 15 original recipes of chicken sal­ad to a larger customer base.
Auburn area locations are on Opelika Road near Dean Road, down South College Street and on Frederick Road in Opelika.
This new customer base in­cludes Tuscaloosa, Birming­ham, Montgomery, Dothan, Valdosta, Ga., Columbus, Ga. and Tallahassee, Fla.
Debbie Mossburg, vice pres­ident of marketing for Simply Southern Restaurant Group, said some of the new restau­rants will be opening shortly, some even during the opening weeks of football season.
“We’re looking at Mont­gomery to be open sometime in late September, early Oc­tober,” Mossburg said. “We’re looking at Columbus to be open early-to-mid-October and then Tuscaloosa mid-Oc­tober to the first of November.”
Two of the five planned Bir­mingham stores are expected to be opened before the end of the year, Mossburg said.
“We’re taking the concept and growing it outside of Au­burn,” Mossburg said. “The owners, Stacy and Kevin Brown, had so many requests from people coming through Auburn for the chicken salad.”
Mossburg said the Chick­en Salad Chick’s secret reci­pes, different flavors and food preparation contribute to the great taste of the food.
“They’re fresh ingredi­ents and it’s handmade dai­ly,” Mossburg said. “We love the fact that there are so many different types of chicken sal­ad you can pick from.”
Anastasia Papastefan, se­nior in dietetics, works at Chicken Salad Chick and said the customers are why she loves working there.
“I started working there in March, and everyone was so welcoming to me,” Papastefan said. “Chicken Salad Chick’s customers are very loyal, and they obviously really love their chicken salad.”
Mossburg and her hus­band, as well as all of the new franchise owners, became in­volved with the restaurant af­ter an enjoyable experience.
“All of our franchisees have wanted to bring it back to their hometown,” Mossburg said. “So it’s just extending the reach of Chicken Salad Chick beyond Auburn and Opelika’s boundaries.”
Mossburg said she thinks Chicken Salad Chick has done so well in Auburn because stu­dents enjoy the comfort and taste of home cooking the res­taurants provide.
“Chicken salad is some­thing that almost everyone likes,” Mossburg said. “I think that’s what people enjoy when they go there and get that good taste of home.”
Chicken Salad Chick has even more plans for expan­sion. They plan to grow re­gionally and hope to have 200 stores across the United States in five years, Mossburg said.
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Chicken Salad Chick may be moving to your hometown. The store is moving into cities including Birmingham and Columbus.
Police still searching for downtown Gay Street parking deck gate vandal
Zeke Turrentine
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Auburn police are requesting the public’s help with identifying a man who allegedly damaged the Gay Street parking deck’s gate arm early on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 11.
Auburn Police Capt. Tom Stofer said the damage was caused just after midnight and discovered by an Auburn police officer who was on duty in the area.
The suspect is believed by police to be a white male in his early 20s.
He can be seen in surveillance footage wearing a blue shirt, dark pants, brown boots and a light-col­ored baseball hat.
Also present at the parking deck with the suspect were two other white men and a white female.
Anyone with any information re­garding this incident or the identi­ty of this person or those that were with him is asked to call the Au­burn Police Division at 334-501-3140 or contact them anonymous­ly by text or voice on the tip line at 334-246-1391.
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Surveillance footage shows the man Auburn police say damaged the downtown parking deck gate arm on Aug. 11.
“
They’re fresh ingredients and it’s handmade daily. We love the fact that there are so many different types of chicken salad you can choose from. ”
—Debbie Mossburg
VP OF MARKETING AT SIMPLY SOUTHERN RESTAURANT GROUPCommunity A6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, August 30, 2012
Andrew McCaslin
WRITER
The chaos surrounding HB 56, Alabama’s latest immi­gration reform law, is slowly winding down after news of the appeals court’s mixed ver­dict was given Aug. 17.
“We opposed HB 56 when it was debated and voted on, and have been involved in ef­forts to strike it down, to im­prove it and repeal because we’re concerned about the human consequences of the law,” said Jim Carnes, com­munications director for Al­abama Arise, an advocacy organization that overlooks public policies that affect low-income Alabamians.
The verdict was a partial victory for both sides. Mea­sures such as the charging of a misdemeanor for not carry­ing required immigrant doc­uments, prohibiting undocu­mented immigrants from ap­plying for work, making ille­gal the harboring of undocu­mented immigrants and void­ing contracts signed with un­documented immigrants were struck down.
The court, however, did not strike down measures prohib­iting immigrants from attend­ing universities and the pow­er of law enforcement officers from checking people’s immi­gration status given reason­able cause. Reactions from Alabama public officials have been optimistic.
The law, which constitu­tional scholar Jonathon Tur­ley described as “Arizona’s law on steroids” has been de­scribed as one of the most critical and controversial im­migration policies by critics such as Alabama Arise and the Hispanic Interest Coali­tion of America.
According to an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the initial ruling cre­ated massive hysteria. Com­plaints from undocumented families included having their water turned off to being de­nied health care.
On the national level, ef­forts pursued by the Obama administration are counter­ing the intended effects of Southern immigration poli­cies. According to Fox News, the Department of Homeland Security is executing an im­migration policy that will ease the process of deferred action for an estimated one million illegal immigrants.
The article “Senator accus­es Obama Administration of giving safe harbor to some criminal illegals,” written by Todd Starnes, says aliens con­victed of crimes related to im­migration policies, as well as aliens living in the US illegal­ly may be granted deferred ac­tion.
Additionally, the new na­tional policy grants immunity to aliens who used fake Social Security in order to find work.
Social Security fraud has become one of the major con­cerns for Alabama legislators like Senator Jeff Sessions. Ac­cording to Treasury Depart­ment Inspector General, the IRS refunded in total $4.2 bil­lion in 2010, contrasted from the $924 million refunded to illegal aliens by the IRS in 2004.
In some cases, children claimed by aliens lived out­side the borders of the U.S.
Alabama public officials maintain that they have done nothing wrong and that the law is constitutionally sound.
“[The law] it’s not anti-im­migration, it’s anti-illegal im­migration. The bottom line of the law is that if you live and work in Alabama you should do so legally,” said Jer­emy King, deputy communi­cations director of the gover­nor’s office.
Opposition to the law be­gan almost immediately after Gov. Bentley signed it on June 9, 2011.
The three parties that sought legal action against the law were the U.S. Depart­ment of Justice, The Hispan­ic Interest Coalition of Amer­ica and several religious orga­nizations. All three parties at­tempted to seek preliminary injunction, which if success­ful would prohibit the state from enforcing provisions of the law.
Specifically, the Justice De­partment’s argument was that the law violated feder­al law preemption. Preemp­tion is a legal concept that describes a limitation with­in state governments to pass laws in areas where federal laws dominate.
U.S. Federal District Court Judge Sharon Lovelace Black­burn, ruled partially in the plaintiff’s favor. She granted partial injunction on behalf of the plaintiffs and prohibited portions of the law, such as: making it a misdemeanor for an illegal alien to apply or per­form work and making it ille­gal for an individual to con­ceal, harbor or shield an alien in the U.S.
Other measures the court enjoined, or prohibited, were measures that included pro­hibiting undocumented im­migrants to enroll in univer­sities and community colleg­es and requiring that all stu­dents provide documenta­tion, such as visa and resident statuses, when entering such institutions.
Measures that survived the district court included in­validation of contracts with aliens, the duty of police offi­cers to stop individuals they suspect to be of illegal status, and requiring public schools to determine whether a stu­dent has the proper docu­mentation.
“It’s time to move forward through what we have…We believe that if you’re here in the state there’s nothing un­just. It’s time to move forward into the enforcement,” King said.
Critics of the law are antic­ipating another offensive to combat the law and its conse­quences.
“We think it’s going to be difficult to enforce that pro­vision [officers checking an individual’s immigration sta­tus] without racial profiling and we expect that it will be appealed,” said Carnes.
“As incidents of racial pro­filing occur there will be grounds for civil rights’ chal­lenges and those will go to court.”
Debate swirls around Alabama’s new immigration law despite court ruling
Jule Collins hosting new exhibit, film screening
Sydney Callis
COMMUNITY REPORTER
The Jule Collins Smith Mu­seum of Fine Art is opening a new exhibition Sept. 8 titled “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.”
The exhibition features works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Milton Avery, Charles Sheel­er and more and displays the works originally assembled by the U.S. Department of State in 1946 to represent advanced art of the time.
The exhibition opening coincides with the show­ing of “Ninotchka” on Thurs­day, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m. The showing is part of the Life In­terrupted film series created by an Auburn University pro­fessor.
“Dr. Sunny Stalter and her intern worked with the cura­tor of education at JCSM to develop a film series titled Life Interrupted,” said Scott Bish­op, curator of education at the museum.
Stalter created the series as a way to complement Art Interrupted by putting the works into a larger cultural context for viewers.
“We are showing five Amer­ican films that help audience members understand what life was like around the time that the original Advancing American Art collection was put together,” Stalter said.
The films are selected from recommendations by profes­sors who come to introduce the film before the show­ing. Stalter and her program assistant, Molly Powers, go through the recommenda­tions.
“Each film will be intro­duced by a speaker who’s an expert on some part of the cul­tural history that the movie addresses,” Stalter said. “We’ll have speakers in film studies, theater, Southern studies, mil­itary history and English.”
Introducing the film and leading the discussion after the “Ninotchka” showing is Dr. Jennifer Fay, a film studies and English professor at Van­derbilt University.
Fay recommended the movie because of its role in the country’s anti-Soviet cam­paign.
“The U.S. State Department shipped prints of “Ninotchka” to Italy during the elections when the U.S. feared a com­munist victory, and it played widely in U.S. occupied Ger­many in 1947-48 as part of a larger an anti-Communist campaign,” Fay said.
Made in 1939, the movie stars Greta Garbo as a Rus­sian woman brought up to be­lieve in communism. When she goes to Paris, she falls in love with a man whose atti­tude goes against everything she was taught.
“It sounds like a straight up propagandistic film, but it also pokes fun of capitalism, government censorship and propaganda,” Fay said. “So, us­ing it as a form of propaganda was a rather risky venture.”
The movie provides an ex­ample of how even lightheart­ed and witty movies can have serious political messages, Stalter said.
Fay said she will be delving deeper into the nature of the film’s political messages in the discussion after the showing, as well as discussing some de­fining characteristics of mov­ies made in the 1930s that are present in the film.
“I’m interested in the ways that this film actually does tell us something about Ameri­can capitalism as the bedrock of American conceptions of democracy,” Fay said. “I also want to discuss how the film makes use of satire as a politi­cal weapon.”
Food and beverages are provided during the discus­sion portion of the evening, and Bishop said it will be a great event for anyone inter­ested in popular culture, mov­ies and American studies.
“I think people should at­tend the screenings because the movies that we chose are interesting and unique, the speakers are excited about discussing them, and the post-film snacks will be tasty,” Stalter said.
Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy will be at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art until Jan. 5 2013 and, as all exhibits at the mu­seum are, is free and open to the public.
Destiny Brown opens Sundown Series
Sydney Callis
COMMUNITY REPORTER
Country and rock sing­er/guitarist Destiny Brown will be kicking off the Kiesel Park Sundown Concert Se­ries Thursday, Sept. 6 from 6-7:30 p.m.
The free concert series features a wide variety of music from folk or billboard hits to rock or country from local and regional bands.
“Some of the bands play top hits, and you have some that play more of rock or country,” said Dana Stew­art, special programs coor­dinator for Auburn Parks and Recreation. “So say you don’t want to come hear folk music this week, maybe next week you can come hear more ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s hits. It gives people options.”
A different musical group will perform every Thursday for the months of September and October.
Admission is free and con­certgoers are permitted to bring food and beverages.
“People bring blankets and chairs. They bring food and drinks,” Stewart said. “The only thing is no alcohol is allowed in the park.”
Those attending are also allowed to bring their dogs, as long as they keep them on their leashes, Stewart said.
“I think it’s awesome to be able to bring my dog with me to listen to music,” said Elle Bacon, a sophomore in Spanish. “It’s a good oppor­tunity to be outdoors and en­joy music and bring my dog.”
For more information contact the City of Auburn Parks and Recreation De­partment or visit their web­site, www.auburnalabama.org/parks.
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It’s time to move forward through what we have... We believe that if you’re here in the state there’s nothing unjust. It’s time to move forward into the enforcement.”
—Jeremy King
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Community A7 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, August 30, 2012
DANIEL ORAMAS/ PHOTOGRAPHER
Randall Bramblett performed at Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Friday, Aug. 24, as a part of the Sundilla
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Anna Faulk
WRITER
Throughout the centuries,
people have died for the right
to vote. This is a right people
in many nations across the
world are denied.
The Lee County Board of
Registrars is hosting a voter
registration drive at the Au-burn
University Student Cen-ter
lobby Wednesday, Sept. 12
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be an additional
drive in Southern Union’s Stu-dent
Union Thursday, Sept. 13
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“It is absolutely free,” said
Dianne Jay, a Lee County
board of registrar. “They can
come register and can bring
their mother or a friend or
anybody with them that has
not registered. It’s free to the
public for students and any-body
else alike.”
Jay said the registration
takes at most three minutes
to complete.
“They don’t have to have a
driver’s license or their social
security number,” Jay said.
“We like it if they have a driv-er’s
license or the last four
digits of their social security
number, but it is not required
to be able to register to vote.”
For those who are unable
to attend the drive, there are
several places throughout
the county where citizens can
register to vote.
There is a satellite office in
the Village Mall where people
can obtain voter registration
forms to fill out and mail in.
Jay said the preferred regis-tration
place is the Lee Coun-ty
Board of Registrars office
in the court house in Opelika.
More information on
where to obtain voter regis-tration
services is on the Al-abama
Votes website, the
state’s official election center.
Those who register will re-ceive
the 2012 voter guide
prepared by the elections di-vision
of Alabama.
There are pamphlets and
information available for
those who register.
“It’s important for students
to have a voice,” Jay said.
“Their vote will be a deciding
factor, I think, in this election
because they are the genera-tion
that is going to be most
effective.”
According to the U.S. cen-sus,
during the 2008 presi-dential
election, 28,263,000
people ages 18 to 24 voted.
“I get kind of annoyed
when people decide to com-plain
about things that are
wrong with the government,”
said Leonard Jordan, junior
in microbiology. “Everyone
has a choice whether to vote
or not to vote.”
Jordan is a registered Ten-nessee
voter and has voted in
local elections.
“Not voting is in fact a
choice,” Jordan said. “Howev-er,
if you choose not to vote,
then you essentially chose
not to put your voice in—
so your argument, or I guess
your complaint, holds no
weight.”
Jordan said his mother was
a political science major in
college and she encouraged
him to register to vote the day
he turned 18.
“I know I am going to go
back to Tennessee to vote,”
Jordan said. “I am not sure
how many people would ac-tually
do something like that,
or if they are going to vote
here.”
According to the Alabama
Final Report for the 2008 gen-eral
election, 336 absentee
ballots were transmitted and
240 ballots were cast and re-turned
in Lee County.
“I think it is important
to vote because that’s how
we explain our opinion and
how we take an active role
in government,” said Sarah
Ashworth, junior in applied
math and biosystems engi-neering.
“That’s how we set
ourselves apart from a lot of
other countries, and I think
it’s my duty as a citizen to do
so.”A
shworth is a registered
Alabama voter and she said
she voted in the Republican
Primary.
“It is just an opportuni-ty
for Auburn University stu-dents
to get educated and
register and to familiar-ize
themselves,” Jay said. “It
will make the election much
more effective if our youth get
involved.”
Lee Co. helps students vote, brings registrars to campus
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Thursday, August 30, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Sports
Andrew Yawn
SPORTS EDITOR
In the past few years, Auburn and Clem-son
have formed the beginnings of a heat-ed
rivalry. Already similar in mascot and
campus, the recent games played between
the two teams have differed no less on the
scoreboard.
The last time Auburn played Clemson
in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, the Tigers
(of the Auburn variety) narrowly defeated
Clemson 23–20 in overtime.
In 2010, Auburn nearly squandered its
chances for an undefeated season before
Clemson kicker Chandler Cantanzaro
missed a field goal in overtime to give Au-burn
the victory 27–24.
The only game that hasn’t been so close
was the most recent, when Clemson de-feated
Auburn 38–24 in Memorial Sta-dium
last year. After being tied 21–21 at
halftime, Clemson rallied to outscore Au-burn
17–3 in the second half, ending the
game and Auburn’s 17-game win streak,
the longest in the nation at the time.
The teams that will meet on the turf
Saturday are hardly the same as last year,
however. Auburn has two new coordina-tors
in Scot Loeffler and Brian VanGorder
and will be starting sophomore Kiehl Fra-zier
at quarterback instead of the recently
graduated Barrett Trotter. The team must
also account for the loss of running back
Michael Dyer who was responsible for
151 rushing yards and two touchdowns
against Clemson last year.
Clemson installed a new system of its
own, bringing in former Oklahoma defen-sive
coordinator Brent Venables to reme-dy
a defense that gave up 70 points to West
Virginia in the Orange Bowl last season.
Additionally, Clemson will be without last
year’s sack-leader, the recently drafted An-dre
Branch, and suspended sophomore
wide receiver Sammy Watkins. Watkins
scorched the Auburn defense for 199 to-tal
yards and two touchdowns last season.
As for playing in the Georgia Dome,
Clemson will try to snap another of Au-burn’s
streaks. Games in the Georgia
Dome have been a peach for Auburn, hav-ing
won its last four meetings there and
outscoring opponents 160–89. Clemson,
on the other hand, has not won in the
Georgia Dome since the PeachBowl in Jan-uary
2004. Recently, the team lost to Au-burn
in the aformentioned 2007 Chick-fil-
A Bowl in Atlanta and dropped the season
opener to Alabama there in the inaugural
Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in 2008.
Auburn is 15–1 against non-conference
opponents under Gene Chizik. The one
loss? That came against Clemson in 2011.
RT: After Gus Malzahn
bolted for Arkansas
State, what is every-one’s
general feeling
on new offensive coor-dinator
Scot Loeffler
and his new more tra-ditional-
style offense?
AY: So far, Auburn
fans seem optimis-tic
about Loeffler’s of-fensive
system. It’s
more pro-style and is
based more on reading
defenses than trick-ing
or outrunning
them. Plus, the list of
quarterbacks he has
trained is impressive.
The guy helped make
Tim Tebow the nation’s
most efficient passer
in 2009. That’s got to
give anybody optimism
considering Auburn’s
quarterback quandary
since Cam Newton left.
RT: With power teams
like LSU, Alabama, Ar-kansas
and maybe
even Texas A&M, how
big of a worry is it for
Auburn that they could
start to lag behind
those teams, and how
much pressure is on
Gene Chizik to make
sure that doesn’t hap-pen?
AY: There’s always
pressure in the SEC.
Falling behind any di-visional
opponent is
always a concern, but
Gene Chizik doesn’t
think that way. In his
mind, his team has
the ability to win ev-ery
time it steps on the
field. Obviously LSU
and Alabama are the
favorites, but Auburn
sees the team as a sort
of dark horse this sea-son.
RT: New coordinator
on the defensive side
as well, but Brian Van-
Gorder at least has
some toys to play with
that Loeffler might not.
Is it safe to say that Au-burn
will to lean on
its defense early in the
season?
AY: The defense and
offense are in the
same place as far
as learning all new
systems from extreme-ly
detailed-oriented
coaches. The defense
has more veteran lead-ership
in senior line-backer
Darren Bates,
junior linebacker Jake
Holland and junior de-fensive
end Corey Le-monier,
a Bronko Na-gurski
Trophy and
Ted Hendricks
Award watch list
pick.
AY: With Sammy Wat-kins
out of the lineup
against Auburn, who
will Clemson lean on
to catch the ball in the
clutch for Tajh Boyd?
RT: You’ll definitely
see Tajh Boyd look De-
Andre Hopkins’s way
more often as he did
in the North Carolina
game last year when
Sammy was dinged up.
Hopkins might have
the best hands on the
team, and I think a lot
of Clemson fans think
that he’s overlooked in
the media spotlight.
Outside of Hopkins,
look for sophomores
Martavis Bryant and
Charone Peake to have
an increased role with
the absence of Wat-kins.
Bryant is more
of deep threat, while
Peake has a little more
bulk and is more of a
possession receiver.
AY: With last season’s
70–33 loss to West Vir-ginia,
is Clemson using
that as motivation to
prove that was a fluke
or has this team put it
behind them?
RT: I think it’s a lit-tle
bit of both. I think
the defense is definite-ly
using it as motiva-tion
and it’s given them
a little bit of a chip on
their shoulder, but at
the same time, they
won’t want to dwell on
that defeat. I think it’s
probably more moti-vation
than anything
and not just for the de-fense,
but for the en-tire
team, because all
they have heard in the
offseason is questions
about that game.
AY: What can fans
expect from Clem-son’s
defense this sea-son,
after losing An-dre
Branch and hiring
Brent Venables as the
new defensive coordi-nator?
RT: The best thing
we’ve heard is that
the defense is a
lot simpler
than it was
last year.
With Ven-ables,
you
will hopeful-ly
see a lot less
missed assign-ments,
but it’s
still a young
defense,
mostly in the
front seven.
Auburn: RB Tre Mason – Starter Onterio McCalebb is the
obvious backfield threat, but Mason is expected to spell the
senior speedster off the bench. Loeffler has mentioned the
addition of multiple-back sets which will allow more oppor-tunities
for the sophomore ‘back. Mason also led the SEC in
kickoff return yards/attempt last year among players with at
least one attempt per game. If given the touches, Mason has
the ability to create for the Auburn offense in a variety of ways.
Clemson: QB Tajh Boyd – Gutsy pick, I know. Howev-er,
when you face a player that torched your defense for four
touchdowns and almost 400 yards last season, not watch-ing
him would be an egregious error. The Auburn secondary,
while talented, is still somewhat inexperienced. The safeties
will have to make the right calls from the back in VanGorder’s
system, and Clemson still has the arsenal to replace Watkins.
Auburn: DE Corey Lemonier – The last time Clemson came
to Atlanta for a season opener, the Alabama defensive line
neutralized a fairly potent offense by having their way with
a young offensive line. 4 years later, Chad Morris’s offense has
a little more firepower, but the same weakness. If Lemonier
continues his strong play and puts pressure on Boyd time af-ter
time, it could be another long night for Clemson in Atlanta
Clemson: TE Brandon Ford – Ford replaces an integral
part of Morris’s offense last year in Dwayne Allen. A convert-ed
wide receiver, Ford has drawn rave reviews from camp
and possesses much better ball skills than last year’s Mack-ie
Award winner. If Ford can continue Allen’s work, that’s
one more body that the Auburn defense will have to worry
about and gives more room for Ellington, Hopkins, Brown and
Peake.
Those who have compared this game to that Clemson-Ala-bama
game have done so a little bit lazily. This Clemson team
has a better quarterback, better receivers and a much better
coaching staff than the team that walked into the Dome four
years ago. Not having Sammy Watkins is a big loss and the of-fensive
line is a worry, but Chad Morris has had a long time to
plan for both issues. Venables’s new defense will take some
time to gel, so Auburn will be able to put some points on the
board, but in the end, Clemson is able to move the ball on Au-burn
enough to offset the defense.
Sports pundits often base their suppositions for upcom-ing
games on what thay’ve seen in the past, myself includ-ed.
In the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, it seems Auburn does
not even know what to expect from its team. Will the team
benefit from the leadership of the veterans or fall by the in-experience
of the youth? Will the new systems create prob-lems
for the opposition or the players trying to execute them?
The answers will be revealed Saturday, but, this team seems to
have a drive that could only be seen across the line of scrim-mage
last year. Clemson still has a big-play offense, but Van-
Gorder’s stress on turnovers will create points for Auburn and
steal them from Clemson.
’Tis the season
Players to watch
Predictions
For this year’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game on Sept. 1, Andrew Yawn, sports editor for The Auburn Plainsman,
and Clemson student Robbie Tinsley, sports editor for The Tiger News, answered one another’s questions
(left and right) and offered predictions (below) for the teams’ first game of the season.
Tail of the tape
Robbie
Tinsley
NSL@CLEMSON.EDU
Andrew
Yawn
SPORTS@
THEPLAINSMAN.COM
Clemson Auburn 27 – Clemson 17 31 – Auburn 27
COURTESY OF EMILY PIETRAS
Tajh Boyd scrambles during
spring practice.
ROBERT LEE / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jake Holland celebrates a
tackle against South Carolina
in 2011
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Clemson QB Tajh Boyd vs. Auburn MLB
Jake Holland
Boyd torched Auburn’s defense for 386
yards and four touchdowns in last year’s
38–24 Clemson victory. Even without stud
receiver Sammy Watkins (suspension)
and running back Mike Bellamy (academ-ic
transfer), Boyd has plenty of offensive
weapons returning from an offense that
finished 26th nationally in 2011. It’s Hol-land’s
job to keep Boyd in check. New de-fensive
coordinator Brian VanGorder calls
Holland the “lion” of the defense and has
placed high expectations on the junior in
2012. With this new scheme, Holland, the
quarterback of the defense, is responsible
for making sure his teammates are aligned
properly. Poor placement or a missed call
will lead to Boyd having his way with the
Auburn defense once again.
Auburn TE Philip Lutzenkirchen vs.
Clemson linebackers
Lutzenkirchen was forced to split du-ties
as a pass-catching tight end and lead-blocking
fullback in 2011 and still man-aged
to set Auburn’s single-season touch-down
mark for tight ends (seven). With
transfer fullback Jay Prosch taking over
the main blocking duties, Lutzenkirchen
is free to return to his playmaking role as a
receiver. Whether split out or close on the
line, the senior tight end will be matched
against one of Clemson’s speedy lineback-ers.
All three are huge, especially sopho-more
Stephone Anthony who mans the
middle at 6-foot 3-inches and 235 pounds,
but they can all cover sideline-to-sideline.
Defensive coordinator Brent Venables,
who spent the past 12 years at Oklahoma
before coming to Clemson this offseason,
will allow them more freedom in his sim-ple
defensive scheme.
Auburn C Tunde Fariyike vs. Clemson
DTs Grady Jarrett, DeShawn Williams and
Josh Watson
* Center-to-quarterback exchanges fail
even when the two players have worked
together for years, much less a few days.
After returning starter Reese Dismukes
was arrested and suspended indefinitely,
Fariyike, who played center in one game
last season, was thrust into the starting
role less than one week before the season
opener. Across the ball he will see three
sophomore lineman, Jarrett, Williams and
Watson, who will rotate testing the soph-omore’s
mettle in his first collegiate start.
The linemen, who refer to themselves as
the “Three Horsemen,” are replacing two
starters who are currently on NFL rosters.
Big shoes are trying to be filled on each
side of the ball, and which line can control
the line of scrimmage will tilt the game in
its team’s favor.
Ali Jenkins
SPORTS REPORTER
Over the past two seasons,
an all-star offensive player
has led the Auburn football
team.
Whether you look at Cam
Newton in 2010 or Michael
Dyer in 2011, one thing is
clear: it was star power that
gave the Tigers the competi-tive
edge.
But this year is different.
There is no individual break-out
player. Instead, this team
can best be described as just
that: a team.
If Auburn looks to improve
on last year’s 8-5 record, it’s
going to need everyone to
step up, from the senior vet-erans
to the inexperienced
freshmen.
With new offensive coor-dinator
Scot Loeffler imple-menting
a more pass-heavy
game, it’s up to sophomore
quarterback Kiehl Frazier
and a collection of young re-ceivers
to light the way.
The loss of DeAngelo Ben-ton
and Quindarius Carr
leaves room for more play-ers
to get a shot at competing
in games, creating a compet-itive
attitude among the re-ceivers
not just in games, but
practice as well.
“Guys are more competi-tive
about jobs because there
are more jobs open,” said
wide receivers coach Trooper
Taylor. “It’s a different mind-set
in thinking for a player
to practice knowing he has
a chance to play rather than
waiting for somebody to get
hurt before you have a chance
to play.”
Seniors Emory Blake and
Travante Stallworth will an-chor
the wide receiving core,
providing much-needed ex-perience
and leadership.
Blake led the team in re-ceiving
last year, account-ing
for five touchdowns and
nearly a third of the Tigers’
passing yards.
Then come the youngsters.
Sophomore Sammi e
Coates, redshirt freshman
Melvin Ray and true fresh-man
Ricardo Louis have the
skills, but it’s hard to gauge
how successful they will be
against college football’s top
defenses.
Sophomore Jaylon Den-son,
named the nation’s No.
24 wide receiver coming out
of high school by Rivals.com,
has impressed Taylor with his
leadership, a trait vital to on-field
success.
Sophomores Trovon Reed
and Quan Bray combined
for over 200 yards last year,
showing promise of improve-ment
coming into this sea-son.
“A lot of positions on this
football team are wide open
for young guys to come in and
help,” Taylor said.
Senior running back On-terio
McCalebb is also back,
adding yet another viable re-ceiving
option for Frazier.
With 344 receiving yards last
year, McCalebb’s talent will
only strengthen the Tigers’
pass game.
Now tack on a healthy Phil-ip
Lutzenkirchen, who led
the team last year in touch-down
receptions with seven.
He’s Auburn’s biggest threat,
a 6-foot-5 tight end who has
a gift for being in the right
place at the right time.
“There’s no substitute for
experience,” Taylor said, but
don’t count the pass game
out just yet.
Auburn
Tigers
Greg
Robinson Phillip
Lutzenkirchen
John
Sullen
Tunde
Fariyike
Chad
Slade
Avery
Young
Emory
Blake
Kiehl
Frazier
Jay
Prosch
Onterio
McCalebb
Corey
Lemonier
Ryan
White
Jermaine
Whitehead
Cody
Parkey
Steven
Clark
Jonathan
Evans
Jake
Holland
Daren
Bates
Ryan
Smith
Chris
Davis
Jeffrey
Whitaker
Angelo
Blackson
Dee
Ford
Trovon
Reed
–or–
Travante
Stallworth
–or–
Quan
Bray
LT
TE
LG C RG RT WR
QB
FB
RB
DE CB
SS
PK P
WLB MLB SLB
FS
CB DT DT
WR
DE
Auburn unveils starting lineup
for week one versus Clemson
COURTESY OF TODD VAN EMST
DeAngelo Benton is unable to stretch and make the catch during Auburn’s scrimmage on August 18.
Auburn will face Clemson without him due to a suspension for an undisclosed rule violation.
Auburn in good hands
despite Benton suspension
Key matchups to watch in season opener
COURTESY OF TODD VAN EMST
Sophomore Tunde Fariyike (left) practices against Jamar Travis on Fri-day,
August 3. Fariyike will take over the starting job at center while
2011 freshman All-American Reese Dismukes serves his indefinite
suspension for public intoxication.
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Ana Cate has been a force
on the Auburn soccer team
since she started in 2009. As
her senior year begins she pre-pares
to make it the best one
yet.
Cate is an exercise science
major with minors in Span-ish
and political science. Af-ter
15 years in the sport, she
is using her wealth of experi-ence
to help her team win as
the Tigers try to defend their
2011 SEC tournament cham-pionship.
“I’m just so excited to get
out there,” Cate said. “We were
talking about it this weekend,
the seniors, and everybody
says that it goes by so fast, and
you don’t believe them till you
are counting down the games
you have left. It has definite-ly
been a focus for me to em-brace
every game and enjoy
every game for what it’s worth.
Just being out there with 21 of
my best friends and just get-ting
to do what I love.”
That love for the game is dis-played
through her work ethic.
“I am not the most techni-cal
person, (and) I am not the
most skilled, but I try to be the
hardest worker that I can ev-ery
day and at least use that
to teach the younger ones that
you don’t have to be 6-foot-5
and then super, super skillful
to be successful and have an
impact,” Cate said. “You can
work hard every day and set an
example, then let your actions
do the talking.”
Head coach Karen Hoppa
said that Cate “provides a lot of
things” as a leader and source
of motivation for a young
team, two-thirds of which is
underclassmen.
“On the field she is a big
time player, a clutch player,”
Hoppa said. “She scored two
of the biggest goals in the pro-gram’s
history. She is the kid
you want at the end of the ball.”
This year’s schedule in-cludes
many big names like
new SEC additions Texas A&M
and Missouri.
“The SEC adding Tex-as
A&M and Mizzou is not a
small thing; those are serious,
good programs,” Cate said.
The newcomers promise to
add to an already competitive
SEC schedule.
Auburn won the SEC tour-nament
with the help of Cate’s
late game-winning goals
against Florida and Tennessee
in the finals and semifinals, re-spectively.
Cate’s smile was huge as she
reminisced.
“It was a surreal, awesome,
awesome moment,” Cate said.
“I didn’t even know it went in.
I turned and heard the crowd
and people going crazy.”
Cate, however, is not rest-ing
on last year’s success and is
extremely focused on winning
the SEC this season.
“I mean we won the tour-nament
and that is putting to-gether
three great games in
a row, and they are all teams
that we had played in the reg-ular
season,” Cate said. “I think
that is our big focus this year,
winning the SEC regular sea-son.”
In response to the team’s
slim losses against Pepperdine
and UC Irvine Aug. 24 and 26,
Cate said the team is ready to
take action.
“With a weekend like this
weekend, we really have to
rally around each other,”
Cate said. “Being able to take
strengths from our losses and
learning things from them
is definitely going to help us
when we get into the regular
season.”
Hoppa said the team
learned how to win the big
games last season.
As Cate’s career at Auburn
slowly winds towards the end,
Hoppa said Cate still hasn’t
reached her peak.
“The best is yet to come,”
Hoppa said. “She’s gotten bet-ter
every year. Over the last
three years she has improved
leaps and bounds.”
The Tigers’ next game will
be Friday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m.
where they will play Samford
at home.
ANA CATE
Senior midfielder Ana Cate looks to
provide leadership, build on success
Ali Jenkins
SPORTS REPORTER
Think you know Reuben
Foster? Guess again.
Yes, he’s America’s No. 2 high
school player and the coun-try’s
top inside linebacker.
Yes, he’s a five-star recruit,
according to Rivals.com.
Yes, he’s 6-foot-2 and weighs
in at 242 pounds.
Yes, he’s the recruit that
made headlines this July af-ter
de-committing from Ala-bama
only to tell the nation he
would become an Auburn Ti-ger
in 2013.
But there’s more to Foster
than what pops up on Google.
He’s funny, can’t dance and
hates cats.
He’s a momma’s boy and
a teenage dad that can’t get
enough of his daughter.
And he’s a high school star
that has overcome adversity to
prove to the naysayers that he’s
a person, not just another foot-ball
player.
“Well, people know I’m kind
and I’m lovable,” Foster said
through a smile. “They just
don’t know that I struggle ev-ery
day trying to reach my
goals. I struggle every day. And
it hurts me. Sometimes I feel
like quitting, but I got to step it
up because they say, ‘You can’t
quit, you gotta do it for your
daughter.’ They don’t know I
struggle every day, and some-times
I feel like quitting and
not going to college.”
Don’t get him wrong. He
loves what he does, but sacks
and tackles for a loss aren’t
what drive him.
For Foster, family comes
first.
Rewind to July 12, the day
Foster formally announced his
commitment to Auburn.
Many have questioned
the decision, saying he only
switched because he has a
greater chance of starting his
freshman year under Gene
Chizik than he would under
Nick Saban.
Foster, on the other hand,
tells it a different way.
“When my coach left Troup,
there was a lot of stuff going
on that I didn’t want to be a
part of, so I was just looking
for a high school. I found Au-burn
High because we played
against them last year and
they had a good team,” Foster
said. “I was going to go to Ox-ford
but I said no, because Au-burn
is close to my family. Al-abama
isn’t close to my fam-ily.
I’m just a family person.
You have Alabama, you know,
‘Roll Tide’ and a champion-ship
team. And you have Au-burn,
‘War Eagle’ and the AU
family. A guy like me, I’m all
about family. I care about na-tional
championships, but I’m
going to win a national cham-pionship
with a family before I
do it with a team.”
Most recruits express their
college choice by simply put-ting
on a hat with the school’s
logo, but what Foster did was
different.
In having his daughter as
the key part of his reveal, he si-lently
told the world that she,
not football, is his number one
priority.
“I’m a family dude,” Foster
said. “It don’t feel right just to
not have my daughter there,
because she’s going to be in
my life for all those years un-til
she turns 18, well until she
turns 50, cause by then I’ll
probably be gone,” he joked.
“But until she’s 50, she’s go-ing
to be a part of my life, be-cause
she ain’t going nowhere.
She ain’t going to date until
about 40. So yeah, I’m a fami-ly
dude and I just wanted my
little girl there for memories.
That’s a memory you won’t for-get,
switching from a rival to
another rival and I just want-ed
to tell my daughter that she
grew up loved; everybody loves
her. I needed her. I didn’t want
to do no hat trick, I just need-ed
her in that little cheerlead-ing
outfit.”
If that doesn’t speak vol-umes
about Foster’s character,
maybe this will.
When asked if he wanted to
say anything to Auburn stu-dents
and fans, he didn’t prom-ise
a national championship
or an undefeated season. In-stead,
he pledged to work hard
in honor of his family.
“Auburn fans, I’m not going
anywhere,” Foster said. “I’m
staying, to do it for my cous-in,
Ladarious Phillips, man.
And to do what people think
nobody like me can do, just
to prove them wrong. Just to
cherish every single moment
and every chance I get, be-cause
I don’t take anything for
granted.”
NATHAN SIMONE / ONLINE EDITOR
Foster made sure his family would be present for the announcement of his commitment change from the
University of Alabama to Auburn University on Thursday, July 2 at Auburn High School.
“A guy like me,
I’m all about
family. I care
about national
championships,
but I’m going to
win a national
championship
with a family
before I do it
with a team.”
—Reuben Foster
Foster family: star linebacker embraces Auburn culture
Rebecca Moseley
INTRIGUE REPORTER
Student media will get a run
for its money when the Athlet-ics
department chooses a win-ner
for the first Junior Report-er
Contest.
The winner will repre-sent
the web and social me-dia
Junior Reporter pro-gram
throughout the 2012-13
school year by covering athlet-ic
events or practices for Au-burnTigers.
com and other so-cial
media outlets for the Ath-letics
department.
Each Auburn athletics out-let
will display the winner’s
talent in at least 10 episodes
throughout the year.
The application process be-gan
on Aug. 17 when appli-cants
were required to submit
audition videos uploaded to
YouTube.
The results will be an-nounced
after a five to 10 day
grace period after the Sept.
10 deadline depending on the
number of applicants.
To be eligible, applicants
must be between the ages of 5
and 12 throughout the entire
year, must have a parent at all
reporting activities and must
be available to work on all 10
episodes.
According to Assistant Ath-letic
Director of Public Re-lations
Cassie Arner, “the
amount of episodes could cer-tainly
increase depending on if
the winner is nearby.”
Arner said the junior report-er
they are searching for in the
video auditions will have an
outstanding personality that
is unaffected by intimidation.
Although many interested
parents have called with ques-tions
for Arner, she said she
has not received any audition
submissions.
“What I’ve told parents that
have called to ask is that we’re
looking for good stage pres-ence,”
Arner said. “We’re look-ing
for someone with a good
personality, but that will also
feel comfortable around stu-dent-
athletes and coaches.”
Another common question
is that of the audition video
length requirement.
“There really is no set re-quirement,”
Arner said. “They
could interview their mom or
dog for one or two minutes as
long as it shows their person-ality.”
Arner also emphasized ap-plicants
should feel comfort-able
speaking about them-selves
on video.
The main goal of the Ath-letics
department’s Junior Re-porter
program is to create ex-citement
about Auburn Ath-letics
on the web by encour-aging
fan involvement, Arn-er
said.
The Junior Reporter pro-gram
is a part of the Auburn
Kids Club, an organization to
get kids involved and excit-ed
about being involved with
their community.
Arner also said they hope
to provide the contest win-ner
with fun and excitement
about their future as well as an
opportunity to become more
comfortable with the cam-era
while enjoying time with
coaches and student athletes.
Episodes will include post-game
interviews or practices
where student athletes share a
lot more personality.
Arner said inspiration for
the program came from the
NHL Chicago Blackhawks’
Joey the Junior Reporter. Joey
has become a cult classic by
making game day video ap-pearances
on screen and using
his personality to create other
videos, that have accumulat-ed
a great amount of YouTube
traffic.
To apply, an email must be
sent to markets@auburn.edu
with “Junior Reporter” as the
subject. Date of birth, grade in
school, hometown, names and
ages of siblings and parent or
legal guardian’s name should
be in the body.
A link to the applicant’s You-
Tube video audition must also
be included.
Athletics engages city’s youths in Junior Reporter contest
“We’re looking for
someone with a
good personality,
but that will also
feel comfortable
around student
athletes and
coaches.”
—Cassie Arner
ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
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On Tuesday, Aug. 28, the women’s val­leyball match against Troy was postponed due to concerns with traveling in the in­clement conditions caused by Hurricane Isaac.
The match was rescheduled to take place Sept. 4.
Before that, however, the Tigers went undefeated in the Green Bay Tournament last weekend, winning all three matches at the Kress Events Center.
The matches were the first three of the 2012–13 season.
MVP Camilla Jeronsky and junior Courtney McDonald combined for 30 kills.
“It was a battle tonight,” Auburn head coach Rick Nold said after the team’s match with Green Bay.
“I thought Green Bay played outstand­ing, great defense, very aggressive. In both the first and second games we were be­hind, and we battled back,” Nold said. “We had talked about it before the game, what we wanted to see in terms of our intensi­ty, and I thought that really showed at the end.”
Senior Sarah Bullock was named to the All-Tournament team with nine kills in the match and junior libero Sarah Wroblicky also earned an All-Tournament nod with 25 digs in the match and 61 total in the tournament.
This is the Tigers’ first 3-0 start of the season since 2010.
Before the Tigers travel to Troy next week, The War Eagle Invitational is still scheduled for Friday, Aug. 31 and Satur­day, Sept. 1.
The Tigers will play Georgia Southern at noon Friday.
Later in the day, the Tigers are slated to play High Point at 7 p.m.
The team will conclude the tournament against Jacksonville State at 1:30 p.m. Sat­urday.
The Invitational will be held at the Stu­dent Activities Center and admission is free for all six matches.
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INTRIGUE REPORTER
Adventure the Great is not just a band on the constant search for its next local gig with hopes of making it big.
It’s a project created for the search of true happiness; happiness that dif­fers from the materialistic gains and lecherous lifestyles that are typically associated with the music industry.
It has become a collaborative ef­fort to share with others that find­ing happiness is an adventure, and a great one at that.
“It all started with a philosophy,” said Chandler Jones, creator of the epic project.
As he talks, he sips Lipton green tea, which the band jokingly refers to as “Chan Chan Juice” because of his perpetual consumption of a gallon’s worth at every practice.
He sits across the small wooden ta­ble that is set against the wall in the middle of his living room that dou­bles as practice space for the band. The house he and the band’s bassist, Robert Fowler, share is nicknamed “the tree house,” with its small and aged wooden structure.
Jones continues explaining the birth of his brainchild, beginning with the discovery of the band’s founding philosophy upon his intro­duction to Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” at age 14.
“A theme in the book is the word ‘infinite,’ and that was my anthem back then,” Jones said. “I lived by it.”
Jones compared himself to the main character of the book, which he described as a seeker of moments of bliss and moments of complete spon­taneous happiness that combine to create “infinite moments.”
The example he gives of an “infinite moment” from “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a moment of bliss the main character and his friends expe­rience as they cruise through a tun­nel with the windows down and mu­sic playing. Then, there is a moment of spontaneous happiness they expe­rience as they come out of the tunnel to witness a burst of skylight.
“All these elements combine to cre­ate a feeling of ‘infinite,’” Jones clari­fied. “I became obsessed with this philosophy. His dedication was to seeking these sensations and an­swers to what create these moments, as I made my own throughout high school. Then, I saw them as ‘adven­ture moments,’ and began to develop this band.”
Jones then said after its concep­tion the band drew further inspira­tion from Jack Kerouac’s quest for truth and beauty in his autobiograph­ical book “On the Road.”
A specific part of the novel Jones said has greatly influenced the band’s performance is when the author vis­its a jazz club in San Francisco where a saxophone player creates a “mo­ment” for the entire audience.Jones says that in these “moments,” the uni­verse connects and everything is how it should be.
“The goal for Adventure the Great is to inspire others to seek these mo­ments that are the complete essence of life and to discover and create them through music,” Jones said.
Jones said the band was called “the Adventure” until the summer after his freshman year. He said he spent an eye-opening summer as a camp counselor and hiking guide in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and felt the need to add “the Great” to the end of the band’s name.
“It’s not just about discovering and seeking (these moments), but Adven­ture the Great is the process of the soul that lies in all of us and it’s about releasing that,” Jones said. “Upon re­leasing that, these moments are cre­ated.”
Jones’ artist management intern­ship at Street Talk Media in Nashville this past summer spurred even more contemplation.
“This question kept racking my brain to discover what beauty is,” Jones said. “I realized that that is the core of our music and what we write: to seek and question the answer of beauty.”
Now that he and the rest of the band are back in Auburn after a sum­mer of being away, Jones said they have had more time to work on new material. He explains there is no for­mula for this process.
Of his role as songwriter, Jones said he has been writing songs since he was 11 and that it is one of his greatest passions in life.
Another adventure Jones said molded the fate of Adventure the Great is a spur of the moment, week-long trip to Chicago in search of in­spiration. He and his friend pur­chased a Megabus ticket at the last minute with plans of couch surfing once they arrived.
“It was the peak of the summer and our last day in Chicago,” Jones said. “I decided to swim Lake Michigan in the freezing cold water. I was floating on my back in the lake.
“An infinite moment was creat­ed in the sensation where half of my body was freezing and half of my body was burning. As I looked up to the see the skyscrapers of the city, I realized that this was the perfect ex­ample of a moment being created.”
Main: Adventure the Great in­cludes (from left) Capi Jen­kins, Kelsey Reynolds, Chan­dler Jones, Robert Fowler, Sean Bowman, Reno Reynolds and Bethany Whitehead.
Top: Adventure the Great lead singer Chandler Jones strums his guitar during band practice at his residence on Armstrong Street Tuesday night.
Middle: Bethany Whitehead sings harmony and plays tam­borine in Adventure the Great.
Above: Capi Jenkins plucks fiddle strings to the rhythm during band practice.
Right: Sean Bowman tunes his cello before band practice for Adventure the Great.
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Recently, my girlfriend has become obsessed with rabbits. While normally this would be OK because they're kind of awesome and cuddly, she's adamant that I get one and take care of it—just so that she can play with it! She has offered to help out with taking care of it, but our schedules are both so busy that I don't think it's a reality. I don't really think I have time to keep any pets (my fish recently died of neglect...). She keeps bugging me about it, but I DON'T WANT A FREAKIN' RABBIT!
Lane, what should I do?
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INTRIGUE REPORTER
Downtown Opelika has a not undeserved reputation for niche boutiques with inexpli­cable hours of operation. Even the proud few who would be in­terested in antique barber shop appliances or dip-dyeing their pets find themselves facing closed storefronts at 2:30 in the afternoon. Opelika needs some serious help marketing itself as an exciting destination for stu­dents. There’s only one way to get the college crowd flock­ing to the streets of downtown Opelika: the promise of young love. Downtown Auburn has its appeal, but when it comes to sweeping your sweetheart off her feet, Skybar just won’t cut it.
Here’s how to make your date fall in love with you in downtown Opelika.
Step 1: Take the trip to downtown Opelika. The ges­ture of embarking on a small but formidable road trip to­gether provides an instant point of bonding, but it could go wrong unless you have a strategy in place before you leave. On your drive over, take whatever detours necessary to avoid the barren stretch of wasteland known as Opelika Road. Have a playlist ready for the ride, preferably a steady stream of indie darlings, pep­pered with few classics that the two of you can scream-sing to. The 15-minute ride might be the only chance you get to show your date you know every word to the Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” Take advantage of that.
Step 2: Give patronage to the Overall Company. Already wildly popular (at least accord­ing to my Instagram feed), its distance from Auburn makes it a retreat. You will probably ap­pear very cosmopolitan as you recline on the patio, gnawing on strawberry balsamic pops and applying filters to pictures of the setting sun together.
Step 3: Hunt through Ro­land’s Thrift Store. Take your date on a stroll through the darling streets of downtown that end in front of the striped awning of Roland’s Thrift Store. Push your way through a crowd of chandeliers and animal hides to the front counter and strike up a conversation with Roland himself. Not only is he a hoot and a half, but he will un­doubtedly make some pointed comments about what a cute couple you make. Laugh it off, all the while shooting surrepti­tious glances at your crush and imagining what your children would look like.
Step 4: Commit a crime to­gether. A taste of adventure is what makes a date memora­ble, and rooftops are very ac­cessible in downtown Opelika. Once evening falls, start scop­ing out the sturdiest fire es­capes, and when you find one, offer your date a boost. Good rooftops require a bit of brav­ery and even less upper body strength. The best rooftops re­quire a grappling hook dis­guised as a hair dryer. Once you have coaxed your whimpering date into committing a Class A misdemeanor in the state of Alabama, convincing them to commit to a relationship will be a breeze!
Dear “I don’t want to chase a rascally rabbit around my apartment,”
Relationships are hard to figure out, but there are some key facts to keep in mind. Behind every seem­ingly innocent comment is a strategic ploy to test your compatibility as a mate. Once you've been in a com­mitted relationship for a while, you start thinking about The Future. Thoughts of The Future typically revolve around building a life together. She watched in horror as you let your poor goldfish, arguably much lower main­tenance than a family, wither away from lack of love, so your track record is already pretty poor.
Your girlfriend may be insisting that she thinks bunnies are adorable, but underneath the whimsical facade is a much more sinister plan to determine whether you are worthy of her affections. When the great Pat Benatar (and, more recently, Jordin Sparks) sang "Love Is A Battlefield," what they really meant was 'sometimes you have to feign interest in a domesticated house pet as an offensive maneuver.'
You should buy that rabbit and, moreover, smother it with affection. Set it up in the most luxurious pet condominium money can buy and get severely offended when she mentions the cage is blocking the door and most of the TV. Sew tiny bunny-sized replicas of your own outfits and dress it each morning to match you. Name it after an ex-girlfriend and gently whisper 'I will always love you' to the rabbit whenever your girlfriend is around. In less than a week, you will have proven yourself as a caregiver and she will have developed a sudden and inexplicable allergy to rabbit dander.With valid University I.D. Alcohol and gratuity not included. Expires December 31, 2012Why not celebrate back to school by chilling out at Chili’s?Try our 2 can eat for $20 ribs or $6 lunch deals!Sign up for our email list at dinner and you will receive one FREE order of Chips and Salsa!Chill out at
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Caitlin Wagenseil
WRITER
The Southern Tatler is a new magazine devoted to Southern lifestyle and community in the Auburn and Opelika area. It re­leased its first issue in March, and the most current issue was released Monday, August 27.
While the magazine may be new to the Auburn area, the Tatler title has a long history.
“There is a London Tatler and a Hong Kong Tatler that date back to some of the world’s old­est magazines,” said Matthew Tse, publisher of The Southern Tatler. “I wanted to bring the es­sence of Southern society to the magazine, built upon the foun­dation of Auburn and how peo­ple perceive Auburn.”
Growing up in Hong Kong, London and New York, Tse was introduced to the variety of Tatler magazines before com­ing to the University in 2006 to study engineering.
“Auburn and Opelika have a lot more to offer than meets the eye, and I want my magazine to emphasize that,” Tse said. “Au­burn is not just a college town, but a good place to live and raise a family.”
In every issue of the maga­zine, there is a feature on a local businessperson.
“We try to feature a local en­trepreneur and show how peo­ple get to where they are,” said Megan Abato, operations direc­tor of the Southern Tatler.
Allen Harris of the Bailey-Harris Construction Compa­ny was featured on the cover of the June/July issue. Stephen Hollis of Hollis Lasik has also been featured, and so has Stacy Brown, the founder of Chicken Salad Chick.
Readers will get a taste of ev­erything in each issue, includ­ing local bands and events, a chef’s section and home, travel and fashion sections.
“A lot of people living in the Auburn and Opelika area don’t know what all is going on,” Tse said.
“There are tons and tons of events—there are alumni par­ties, walk-about wine tastings, wine dinners hosted by differ­ent restaurants, art galleries and art shows, just a bunch of things going on that local com­munities should know about.”
The fashion trend section in the June/July issue featured de­signs by Amirah Mahrous, an Auburn University graduate who has a boutique coming to Auburn later this year.
With its long lists of events and portrayals of local busi­nesses and restaurants, the magazine shows there is more to Auburn than meets the eye.
“Having a local magazine will inform people that events do go on, and that Auburn isn’t all about Skybar, 1716 and Quix­ote’s,” Tse said.
Changes are being made and the next issue of the magazine will have a completely different layout after a re-design by Re­becca Williams, the magazine’s new graphic designer.
“I design the layout, pick which photos are featured, edit and pick what colors to use,” Williams said.
Publication and page count will both increase for the new­est issue.
“We are jumping up in page count on each new issue and pushing the publication to ap­proximately 5,000 copies,” Tse said.
While the magazine is still new, there are hopes for expan­sion in the future.
“Five years from now we hope to bring our magazine to Newnan/Peachtree City, Atlan­ta, Birmingham and Miami,” Abato said.
The magazine can be found at local doctors’ offices, vet clin­ics, car dealerships, hotels and restaurants.
“You can also subscribe on­line for a $20 fee at Southern­tatler.com,” Abato said.
CONTRIBUTED BY PABLO DIAS
22-year-old Auburn student and Porto Alegre, Brazil native Pablo Dias recently self-released a 9-track CD titled The Sound of Simplicity.
‘Southern Tatler’ tells tales to Auburn, Opelika area
Nathan Simone
ONLINE EDITOR
Pablo Dias knows no bor­ders.
For the 22-year-old native of Porto Alegre, Brazil, Au­burn is another place where he is excited to live and per­form amongst welcoming au­diences.
Brazil’s “Science Without Borders” program has allowed Dias and 100,000 other Brazil­ian foreign exchange students to come to the United States for a year to study majors in the sciences before returning to Brazil to graduate.
Since January, Dias has been studying materials en­gineering at Auburn while also honing his guitar play­ing skills.
Dias comes from a musi­cal family and has been per­forming since he was 13 years old, when he was first allowed to play the piano in his neigh­borhood’s band.
Dias credits his singer-songwriter mother, Andréa Ribeiro, and his drummer fa­ther, Cleimon Dias, with in­spiring his love for guitar and performing.
Wanting to learn how to live on his own and create music, Dias left Brazil in 2010 to live abroad in London and perform on the street and in various venues.
Dias has also performed in Buffalo, N.Y., where he had an engineering internship.
In 2011, Dias moved back to Brazil to start recording an al­bum in July, before moving to Auburn in January of 2012.
Dias recently self-released a nine-track CD of his music, titled “The Sound of Simplic­ity” less than a month ago in Brazil.
Much of the music on “The Sound of Simplicity” is in­spired by Dias’ travels, with four of the songs sung in Eng­lish and five in Portuguese.
Complications involving his studio and producer being so far away in Brazil pushed back the release date by al­most a year.
Originally, Dias wanted to release his music under the name “The Zero Project,” be­cause many of the songs were composed when Dias was abroad and had next to noth­ing, physically and emotion­ally. He eventually realized he would like to use his own name.
Dias doesn’t charge for his music, but the complications that come from this decision sometimes weigh heavy on his mind.
“When you sell music, cer­tain people will say ‘no’ sim­ply because they don’t want to spend the money,” Dias said. “If you give them a CD for free, people will say ‘the least I can do is listen to it,’ but on the other hand, when you don’t charge, people think that the music isn’t that good.”
While Dias may only be here for a year, his interest in music is always looking to­ward the future.
Dias is taking classes that would normally be included in a music minor, but he will not be able to complete this minor because of his short time here.
Joseph Ikner, guitar and music appreciation instruc­tor in the music department, has only been at Auburn since the semester started and said he sees potential in Dias.
“He’s a very intelligent guy with tremendous talent,” Ikner said. “My job as an in­structor is to help develop (students’) talent, find their musical voice and guide them in their careers.”
Ikner’s qualifications in­clude having self-released an album of classical guitar com­positions titled “Joseph Ikner: Premiere” and performing as a concert and studio musi­cian.
Dias’ roommate and fellow “Science Without Borders” member, 23-year-old industri­al engineering student Felipe Talhari, echoed Ikner’s state­ments on Dias’ talent.
“We’re always fighting over music (in our apartment),” Talhari said. “I like more elec­tronic music, but sometimes I’ll turn it off so that I can hear him play.”
Talhari said he believes Dias has the talent to pursue engineering and music simul­taneously.
“I always joke with him that he should drop engineering and keep the guitar, but he’s a smart guy,” Talhari said. “I think he can do both. I en­courage him not to give up.”
In Auburn, Dias has per­formed at Zazu gastropub and the open mic night UPC hosts at the campus Starbucks, but he said he’s always looking for more venues to showcase his art.
“The best sensation I ever have is when I’m on stage,” Dias said. “I’m going to play anywhere I can.”
For a copy of “The Sound of Simplicity” or performance information, contact Dias at pablord7@hotmail.com or 334-354-0009.Intrigue B8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, August 30, 2012
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