2013-01-24 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, January 24, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 29, 16 Pages
CAMPUS / A2
COMMUNITY / A5
SPORTS / B1
INTRIGUE / B5
Stalking
Awarenes
Month
Think someone is
stalking you? Let the
Department of Public
Safety help you out.
Jule Collins
Anniversary
After 10 years, the Jule
Collins Smith Museum
remains a prominent land-mark
in Auburn.
Hard In The
Paint
After battling Vanderbilt,
the Tigers look to
improve SEC play
against Ole Miss on
Saturday, Jan. 26.
Life Of A
Street Kid
Oregon natives Alex
Fleicshmann and AJ
Brush travel across
country with little more
than $20.
» See Bacon a2
Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Split-second decisions,
cold water against your skin
and struggling to save your-self
and another against riv-er
currents; this is the scene
Tuesday, Jan. 8, for Doug Ba-con,
graduate student in
masters integrated design
and construction.
Bacon rescued an Opelika
native, Priscilla Woods, from
drowning in the Alabama
River after she jumped from
the Edmund Pettus Bridge,
in Selma.
Bacon was on his way
back to Auburn University
when he noticed a woman
standing on the outside of a
guardrail.
“I was driving and I was
kind of watching the road
since the traffic had slowed
down,” Bacon said. “I was
looking back and forth from
her and the road and when
I looked back and I saw that
she had jumped, so I knew
either way that she had ei-ther
fallen or jumped.”
It only took seconds for
Bacon to make the decision
that he would be the one to
save Woods.
“I think for a split second I
was like ‘Well you know may-be
some other people will go
and help her,’ but another
part of me was like ‘I better
go down there and help her,’”
Bacon said.
Bacon drove to a near-by
park that he was famil-iar
with since he had driven
through Selma in the past.
Bacon ran two blocks to
the edge of the park up un-til
the park dropped down
to the river said Lt. Johnny
King, commander of crimi-nal
and narcotic investiga-tion
for Selma Police Depart-ment.
Bacon then handed his
cellphone and wallet to a
man willing to help by the
water’s edge.
“And I just said ‘Do you
see her? Do you see her?’
and then she just popped up
and she was struggling,” Ba-con
said. “It was not a grace-ful
dive [into the river]; it was
more of a stumble.”
Although the water may
have looked freezing, Ba-con
assured everyone that
the water was no more than
chilly.
“I wasn’t really thinking if
the water was cold or not,”
Bacon said.
Bacon swam 35–45 feet
out in the river to save
Woods.
“I swam out and got to
her and she was kind of in
shock,” Bacon said. “I think
she was probably just going
through a lot. I got to her and
said ‘Come here, it’s going to
be OK.’ She was willing to get
some help and wasn’t fight-ing
it at all.”
Grad student rescues Selma woman
Online education
tops World Report
Corey Arwood
Campus Reporter
Auburn placed in the top
10 in four out of five online
graduate degree programs
evaluated by the U.S. News &
World Report for best online
education programs in 2013.
The evaluation by USN-WR
placed a number of de-gree
programs from the dif-ferent
schools of the univer-sities
alongside, in some cas-es
hundreds, of others and
ranked their findings based
off of various factors, ranging
from student engagement to
faculty credentials.
Online graduate programs
of the University in education
were ranked second, behind
St. Johns University, in New
York, out of the 208 different
programs evaluated. Grad-uate
engineering programs
in business were ranked six
among 213.
Computer information
technology was also six out of
the 30 online master’s degree
programs evaluated, and pro-grams
in the College of Engi-neering
ranked six among 70.
“There is no difference at
all in terms of the type of con-tent
these students are en-gaged
in, or in terms of the
quality of instruction,” said
Troy Johnson, the College of
Educations director of com-munications
and marketing.
“The only difference is that
they’re not able to run over
to Starbucks at the Student
Center.”
Chris Paulk, Georgia na-tive,
said he chose Auburn’s
online program because it
comes from a “brick and mor-tar”
university.
“It’s been a real positive ex-perience,”
saidPaulk, “It’s al-lowed
me to seek my degree,
my further degrees, while I’ve
been teaching. When I tell
(co-workers) that I got my
masters in a year, they look at
me like I’m crazy.”
Kailey Miller
Campus Reporter
Times are changing for
the Greek Life communi-ty
two members of the staff
have recently decided to re-locate.
Recently, Brandon
Frye and Bo Mantooth have
decided to transfer.
Brandon Frye was the for-mer
director of student de-velopment
at Auburn before
he accepted a position at the
University of West Florida as
the assistant vice president/
dean of students, according
to Amy Hecht, assistant vice
president for student affairs
at Auburn.
Bo Mantooth was the for-mer
advisor for the Interfra-ternity
Community social
fraternities. He also taught
the Office of Greek Life for-credit
leadership course.
Mantooth has accepted
a position at Indiana State
University as the director for
sorority and fraternity life.
“I finished my Ph.D. dur-ing
the fall semester in high-er
education administration
and knew that I wanted to
progress in student affairs,”
Mantooth said. “The oppor-tunity
for professional pro-gression
wasn’t possible in
student affairs at Auburn,
so I had to look elsewhere.”
Mantooth said he is hap-py
with his decision to relo-cate
to ISU.
“Professionally—ISU is a
great place to work and I’m
learning a lot from our asso-ciate
dean of students and
the vice president of student
affairs about what it takes
to make my next step in stu-dent
affairs several years
down the road,” Mantooth
said.
Mantooth was at Auburn
for six years before leaving.
“Auburn is a great place
to work and live,” Man-tooth
said. “We loved our
time at Auburn, but with
a lot of professional posi-tions,
sometimes you have
to move on, to move up.”
The remaining staff has
taken on additional respon-sibilities.
So far there are no new
candidates to fill these
spots however Hecht said a
position will be posted this
spring.
“We will be conducting
interviews throughout this
semester and students will
be involved in that process,”
Hecht said. “We hope that
by this summer we will have
candidates here on campus.”
Mantooth was happy
with the way things were
run during his six years
working at Auburn and said
there were no problems that
influenced his decision to
leave.
“It was tougher to leave
then I thought, but profes-sionally
and personally this
was a great move.”
Former director, interfraternity
advisor relocate to new schools
Corey Arwood
Campus Reporter
Regardless of the con-f
licting opinions Ameri-cans
might have about gun
control, there is consen-sus
among institutions,
agencies and businesses,
in a demand for programs
that provide training in the
event of a shooting inci-dent.
Auburn has developed its
own training program pro-vided
by the university’s
Department of Public Safe-ty
and Security.
The Active Shooter Re-sponse
Training course is
offered to everyone on cam-pus,
both employees and
students alike.
“The goal of the course
is to provide people with
options if they ever find
[themselves] in a situation
such as an active shooter
situation, or where some-one
is wanting to cause
them harm; and providing
the options so that they can
make a quick decision,” said
Chance Corbett, associate
director of emergency man-agement.
“As you know, most of
these things, when they do
happen, they are very fast to
unfold, and the situation is
over before you know it. You
may not have a lot of time to
make those decisions, and
trying to figure out what
those decisions are at the
time [is] going to be a little
hard for you.”
Active Shooter Response
is part of a two-hour Emer-gency
Preparedness course
offered to students.
The basic structure of the
training is contained within
an acronym, ALICE.
ALICE stands for: Alert,
Lockdown, Inform, Coun-ter
and Evacuate.
Corbett said that the AL-ICE
program was developed
from techniques used by
Special Forces, law enforce-ment
and studies of the re-sults
from scenarios like
Flight 93 during the Sept.
11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The training focuses on
providing options of differ-ent
reactions that can be
taken during the potential
scenarios of a shooting in-cident.
Accounts of events that
have happened during the
late 60’s in Texas, up to the
most recent Sandy Hook in-cident,
have been taken into
consideration for the train-ing.
Escaping, if possible, is
the primary course of ac-tion
prescribed by the train-ing.
But if that is not an op-tion,
the course offers sce-narios
to help prepare the
trainee for the event of an
altercation with the gun-man.
Shooter on campus? There’s a program for that
Courtesy of Tim Reves / Selma
Times-Journal
Doug Bacon was honored Tuesday,
Jan. 22, at the Selma City Hall for
saving a woman from the Alabama
River. Bacon is an Auburn graduate
student in masters integrated de-sign
and construction.
OUR VIEW / A7
President
Obama’s pointed
inaugural address
President Obama outlines
ideals in inaugural address
we can all get behind.
“I think she was
probably just
going through a
lot. I got to her
and said ‘Come
here, it’s going
to be OK.’
—Doug Bacon
Auburn Univ e rsity Grad Student
Courtesy of The Depa rtment of Public Safety
Police officers train on-site at the Student center an exercise in the ALICE crisis prevention.
Courtesy of Chance Corbet
Associate director of emergency management Chance Corbett dem-onstrates
one way to bar a door closed in an emergency situation.
» See shooter a2
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 24, 2013
■ Chad Cook, 37, Waterford, Mich.
Thursday, Jan. 17, 10:30 p.m. at
Opelika Road and North Gay Street
■ Mary Ann Dowdell, 47, Auburn
Friday, Jan. 18, 2:31 p.m. at Twin
Forks Drive and North Dean Road
■ Christopher Kovacs, 19, Auburn
Friday, Jan. 18, 11:16 p.m. on
Toomer Street
■ Kirsten Gamble, 20, Birmingham
Saturday, Jan. 19, 1:12 a.m. at
North Gay Street and East Glenn
Avenue
■ Anthony Winslett Jr, 37, AuburnSat-urday,
Jan. 19, 1:52 a.m. on South
College Street
■ Emma Tolin, 19, Lumberton, N.C.
Saturday, Jan. 19, 2:24 a.m. on
West Glenn Avenue
■ Marshall Wickersham, 18, Birming-ham
Saturday, Jan. 19, 4:05 a.m. at
West Magnolia Avenue and Cox
Street
■ Anthony Johnson, 21, Clayton,
Saturday, Jan. 19, 2:46 a.m. on
South College Street
■ Charles Wooddall, 19, Atlanta, Ga.
Sunday, Jan. 20, 1:20 a.m. on
Woodview Court
■Brandon Lee, 19, Columbus, Ga.
Sunday, Jan. 20, 3:02 a.m. on
South College Street
■ Brandon Davis, 30, Auburn
Sunday, Jan. 20, 3:51 a.m. on
Moores Mill Road
■Lequinton Al-Ghanee, 25, North Hol-lywood,
Calif.
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1:18 a.m. on
Shug Jordan Parkway
— Reports provided by Auburn
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dui arrests for Jan. 16 – Jan. 22, 2013 Crime Reports in the City of Auburn
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Jan. 16 – Opelika Road
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3:44 p.m.
Jan. 18 – South College Street
Third-degree theft of U.S. currency between 10:15
a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Jan. 20-22 – Pear Tree Road
Burglary of a flat-screen television between 10:30
p.m. Jan. 20 and 1:15 p.m. Jan. 22
Jan. 21 – Lee Road 137
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6.6 million people are
stalked in the United States
every year, according to stalk-ingawareness.
org.
The Department of Public
Safety and Security has made
its mission to promote safe
choices and options for stu-dents
at the University, espe-cially
this month dedicated to
stalking awareness.
The department is put-ting
on this campaign to raise
awareness about stalking.
Stalking is an issue at Au-burn,
especially because of the
age group of students attend-ing
the University, said Susan
McCallister, associate director
of public safety information
and education.
Half of stalking victims that
are female and a quarter of vic-tims
that are male are stalked
before the age of 25.
“We have dealt with some
individual cases and also
through Safe Harbor where
people have concerns about
stalking,” McCallister said.
“We want to make sure people
know what it is and what to do
about it.”
Sara Frazier, junior in com-munications,
was a victim of
stalking and harassment no
less than a year and a half ago.
“The first incident that I
ever had with this guy with se-rious
stalking was when I up-dated
my Facebook with a lo-cation
and he showed up there
and ended up assaulting me
with my friends,” Frazier said.
Frazier then took legal ac-tion
to get a protection or-der
against the stalker that re-quired
him to be no less than
100 feet away from her at all
times.
“At this time the campus
had issued a statement pret-ty
much saying the same thing
that if he saw me on campus
he was supposed to go the
other way and things like that,”
Frazier said.
Although the police and the
university were involved, the
problem was not completely
solved.
“He continued to follow me,
and I would see him every-where,”
Fraizer said. “If I went
to the grocery store, he would
be there. I would just see his
car parked places where I
would be.”
The issue became so severe
Frazier resorted to having an
armed guard take her to class-es.
“I completely medically
withdrew from the semester
because I didn’t want to do the
armed escort to every class,
and if I was on campus I was
so stressed out that I couldn’t
concentrate in class,” Frazier
said.
Frazier, along with McCal-lister,
recommended all girls
at Auburn take the self-de-fense
class offered through ki-nesiology
4970.
“It’s taught by police of-ficers
that actually work on
campus and one of them was
the guy that was my body-guard
that took me to all my
classes,” Frazier said. “You
couldn’t ask for better teach-ers
to teach you how to be
aware of your surroundings. If
you want an empowering ex-perience
you should take that
class.”
The class is offered in both
the fall and the spring, and is
one credit hour.
“[The teachers] go into
much more detail about stalk-ing
and just safe behaviors
and unsafe behaviors and how
to protect yourself and avoid
these situations,” McCallister
said. “Also they go over how to
escape if you are actually con-fronted
with someone trying
to harm you.”
Frazier attributes most of
her strength through dealing
with this issue to McCallister.
“She went with me to every-thing,
like going to universi-ty
court, coming to get me be-cause
I was too terrified to go
anywhere, she went with me
to regular court and she liter-ally
held my hand and walked
me through every step,” Fra-zier
said. “Safe Harbor is what
I went through to get to her.”
Frazier hopes to get the
word out to alert the students
and faculty that even though
Auburn may seem like a nor-mal
college town, there can be
danger here.
“I really do feel as though
Auburn did as much as they
could to get my story out
there,” Frazier said. “I know
people as high up as Jay Gogue
heard my story and under-stood
what a threat there is
on campus for stalking. We all
think we live in a normal col-lege
world, but we have no
idea what kinds of predators
are on campus.”
Students who are dealing
with a stalker need to address
the issue immediately.
“The main thing that we re-ally
want to convey to students
is that if they feel uncomfort-able
is one, tell the person to
stop the behavior and if the
person does not stop they
should bring it to someone’s
attention because it could be
considered stalking,” McCal-lister
said.
Small town dangers
National Stalking Awareness Month comes to Auburn
for the first time to give victimized students help
Bacon
» From A1
Primarily it focuses on not
being complicit in a scenar-io
when it is ensured that the
person intends on harming
others, and it stresses other
alternatives first, such as bar-ricading
the classroom.
The course, which Corbett
largely developed, is a recent
addition to the Emergency
Preparedness training, hav-ing
only been offered on cam-pus
since spring of last year.
Corbett has an extensive
background in law enforce-ment
and emergency man-agement.
He also worked with the
Russell County Sheriff ’s De-partment
as a member of the
local SWAT team, of which he
served as the leader for three
years.
The course, though rela-tively
new to campus, has
been provided by Corbett
to police departments, and
most recently to the Alabama
Department of Transporta-tion.
“It became apparent to
me through some of the re-sources
that I had, that active
shooter events were becom-ing
more and more prevalent
in our society… it’s always
been an issue, since 1966 with
the University of Texas, when
that guy got up in the tower
and started shooting folks,”
Bob McWhorter, director of
AL DOT’s Office of Homeland
Security, said.
He said that he received
positive feedback from the
employees that attended the
training.
“That training is important
because it stresses awareness
of the risks that we face in
the workplace, or really any
public place,” said Tony Har-ris
the bureaus chief of media
and community relations.
Rachel Suhs / Design Editor
Bacon struggled with the
current as Woods and him
swam to shore.
“I was kind of out of ener-gy
and going under water, so
I was kind of freaking out. So I
would throw her arm off of me
just so I could get a breath,” Ba-con
said.
Soon after Bacon had
jumped in the water a fisher-men
had emerged from the
woods to come help.
“It was too steep to come
down to the river from up-stream,
so the fisherman
climbed way up the slope and
came the way I did and helped
me pull her out of the water
the rest of the way,” Bacon said.
The police arrived soon af-ter
Woods was pulled from the
water to shore.
“She wouldn’t have sur-vived
because it’s a long fall,”
King said. “I know several peo-ple
who have jumped and she
was the only person that sur-vived.
[Bacon] jumped in there
in that cold water and swam to
her and pulled her as much as
he could.”
Bacon’s family was both
shocked and surprised when
they heard how Doug’s after-noon
went.
“[My mom] was just hap-py
I was OK and she was really
proud of me,” Bacon said.
Woods went to Baptist
South Hospital in Montgom-ery,
but is now home with her
family.
Shooter
» From A1
CLARIFICATIONS AND CORRECTIONS
In an article titled “Auburn’s King Week brings recognition to service and
history,” from the Jan. 17 issue of The Plainsman, the story should have re-flected
that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 84 on Tuesday, Jan.
15, 2013. Also, Joyce Thomas-Vinson’s title should be “coordinator of service
learning and student engagement for the Office of Public Service.” Paulette
Dilworth’s title should be “assistant vice president for access and commu-nity
affairs.” The office responsible for KING WEEK is the Office of Diversi-ty
and Multicultural Affairs, specifically Access and Community Initiatives.
In the same issue, a letter to the editor from Jacob Dean incorrectly attrib-uted
the quote “I’m not very politically correct,” to Auburn Alumni Associa-tion
representative Dr. Gaines Thomas. The quote should have been attrib-uted
to current Auburn trustee Jimmy Rane
We apologize for these errors.
Facing the Facts
• 1 in 6 women and 1 in 19 men have experienced stalking
victimization at some point during their lifetime
• Almost 1/3 of stalkers have stalked before
• Less than 1/3 of states classify stalking as a felony upon
first offense
• 46% of stalking victims experience at least one unwanted
contact per week.
• Intimate partner stalkers frequently approach their targets,
and their behaviors escalate quickly
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Auburn University Dance Marathon raised
$65,995.25 last year for the Children’s Miracle
Network Hospital in Columbus, Ga. This year,
the event is scheduled to take place on Satur-day,
Feb. 2, in the Student Center.
The staff expects a bigger turnout this year
and they have made some changes in the way
the event will be run.
“Because we have so many people coming,
our turnout doubled from last year,” said Casey
Stein, president of AUDM. “We’ve had to expand
from beyond the ballroom to include the entire
Student Center.”
Now the event will take place in different
rooms throughout the Student Center so danc-ers
can move up and down the levels with differ-ent
entertainment throughout the rooms.
The AUDM staff has been working hard to
spread the word about this upcoming event.
“We have everyone on staff change their pro-file
picture or cover photo on Facebook so we
spread awareness that way,” said Will McCann,
vice president of operations.
The AUDM staff got creative when it came
to advertising their event. The Morale captains
are part of the staff who lead the different col-or
groups at the event and encourage people to
keep standing and dancing at the event.
“Morale does just crazy weird things on cam-pus
like running around in outfits and stuff just
to get people talking,” Stein said.
When members of Morale were interviewed
for the job they were told to dress up in a cos-tume
that showed their strengths and why they
should be chosen.
“We had a lot of Buzz Lightyears and Captain
Americas,” Stein said. “We had a Green Lantern
who insisted we turn off the lights before she
came in and ran into the room glowing; it was
kind of funny.”
The 12-hour event is broken up into different
segments. After the introduction there will be
some two-hour segments with different themes
that include beach bash, holiday hour, CMT vs.
MTV, tacky prom and YouTube hour.
“Some of our entertainment coming this year
includes Zumba, AU singers and AU Rhythm.
Tim Tyler is also coming to perform and a cou-ple
other local bands,” Stein said. “We’ll do mini
kid talent shows.”
One of the rooms will be available for danc-ers
to play with kids from the Children’s Miracle
Network Hospital.
The staff has planned new entertainment
for this year where they will try to break a world
record. “It’s the most people to carry a Furby
at one time so we are going to try to pass that
around and that’s going to happen right around
halfway through the event,” Stein said.
The last hour will be the closing which in-cludes
a rave, a speaker and the final total will
be revealed so dancers can see how their com-mitment
made a difference.
“You work all year and it’s a lot of time and
effort on your part, but when the event time
comes around you get to see the total raised at
the very end,” McCann said. “It’s kind of a surreal
feeling because you get to see the embodiment
of everything that you’ve done all come together
in one moment and all the emotions of the en-tire
year kind of hit you at the same time.”
All the directors and assistant directors have
a personal goal of raising $1,000.
“My personal goal is $1,000 which I’m so hap-py
that I have reached and surpassed,” said Sar-ah
Kelly, director of dancer involvement.
Some of the kids from the hospital will be
there with their families speaking, performing
and watching.
“They range anywhere from a 21-year-old boy
who actually goes to Auburn to two twin boys
who are five and they are doing karate at the
event,” Stein said.
The money raised for the hospital is used to
buy medical equipment, specifically incubators.
“Usually we like to say we aren’t about the to-tal
or the goal even though it’s kind of the driv-ing
force because we want to make the biggest
difference and that’s through the money,” Stein
said. “Last year we were able to purchase one in-cubator
for them and so I guess this year natu-rally
our goal is two.”
The staff has high hopes that everyone will
stay for the whole event.
“We do our best to encourage people to stay
the entire time, that’s really the whole essence of
the event is giving up your free time and you’re
standing and you’re participating for the sup-port
of kids who don’t have the same oppor-tunity
as you so the whole standing and being
there for the entire time really embodies the en-tire
spirit of the event,” McCann said.
McCann and Stein hope to have at least 450
people attend, but both expect there to be more.
“It’s not a 12-hour dance or a 12-hour mara-thon,
it’s giving up one day of your life to make a
life time of difference for these kids,” Stein said.
“Working so hard to throw a 12-hour party for a
bunch of sick kids who usually spend their day
in the hospital is so rewarding in and of itself.”
We stand
for those
who can’t
Contributed
Jasmine Amoo, sophomore in undeclared science and math, Will McCann, sophomore in pre-business and Casey Stein, junior in human development and fam-ily
studies, at the Fall Festival at the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Columbus, Ga.
Students selected as finalists for Gates Cambridge Scholarship
MICHAEL HILL
Wri t er
One thousand applicants,
90 finalists and two Auburn
students selected among fi-nalists
to interview for the
prestigious Gates Cambridge
Scholarship to study at the
University of Cambridge in
Cambridge, England.
Paul Bergen, graduate stu-dent
and Fulbright Scholar
at the Technical University of
Munich, and James “Jimmy”
Kaczmarek, senior in chem-ical
engineering, are among
the 90 selected as finalists for
the Gate Cambridge Scholar-ship.
“It was winter break and I
was sitting there watching TV
and an email popped up and
it read congratulations on be-ing
short listed for the Gates
Cambridge finalist,’” Kacz-marek
said. “And I was just
like ‘yes.’”
The Gates Cambridge
Scholarship is highly compet-itive
and is a full scholarship
that is awarded to outstand-ing
students outside of the
United Kingdom to pursue a
post-graduate degree in any
subject available at the Uni-versity
of Cambridge.
“I definitely feel honored
that I was selected as a final-ist,”
Bergen said.
At Auburn, both Bergen
and Kaczmarek have been
heavily involved while main-taining
3.97 GPAs.
Bergan, of Cooper City, Fla.,
was the president of the Mi-crobiology
Club, part of the
Mock Trial Team and was a
re-chartering member of the
German Honor Society.
Kaczmarek, of Tampa, Fla,
is the trumpet section lead-er
for the Auburn Marching
Band, a part of Phi Mu Al-pha,
national music fraterni-ty
and a founding member of
AU Cappella.
While at Auburn, Bergen
was also an undergraduate re-searcher
under Dr. Mark Liles.
Begren’s work in Liles’
lab focused on metagenom-ics,
which according to Liles
“you are cloning and analyz-ing
DNA from a community of
bacteria and our focus here is
on antibiotic discovery.”
“The last year he was here,
Paul and I were colleagues,”
Liles said. “He was definitely
functioning at a higher level
than most students do.”
Liles said that Bergen will
be a co-author on a manu-script
on the science he did
and that is one of the best
forms of recognition, your sci-ence
is being published.
Bergen received his under-graduate
degree in both Ger-man
and microbiology.
Kaczmarek works as an
undergraduate researcher
under Dr. Mark Brynes.
“His work ethic is second
to none,” Brynes said.” I have
yet to meet another student
who has a work ethic like
Jimmy.”
Byrnes described Jimmy
as an excellent student, pas-sionate,
one who has high
scholarship and isn’t afraid
to ask questions.
“In the classes that I have
had him, he has been near
the top, if not the top stu-dent,
in the class in terms of
grades that he has received”,
Brynes said.
Bergen said that he would
like to work under profes-sors
Vassilis Koronakis and
Gillian Fraser, which is why
he would most like to attend
Cambridge.
Kaczmarek wants his fo-cus
of study to be controlled
release of drugs through con-tact
lenses.
According to gatescam-bridge.
com, the selection cri-teria
are; outstanding intel-lectual
ability, leadership po-tential,
commitment to
improving the lives of oth-ers
and a good fit between
the applicant’s qualifica-tions
and aspirations of
the postgraduate program
at Cambridge University
for which they are apply-ing.
“I want to live my life to
really make a difference for
other people,” Kaczmarek
said.
There have been two
previous Auburn gradu-ates
awarded the scholar-ship:
David Harris in 2010
and Cynthia Carver in
2002.
Bergen’s interview is set
for Friday, Feb. 1 and Kac-zmarek’s
interview is Sat-urday,
Feb 2. Both inter-views
will be conducted in
Washington, D.C.
“It’s the interview that is
going to set you apart. And
I think that what makes it
more extreme and more
intense,” Bergen said. “You
have to be on top of your
game and give the great-est
interview you’ve given
at that point.”
contributed
Paul Bergen top, Jimmy Kaczmarek,
bottom
“His work ethic is
second to none. I
have yet to meet
another student
who has work
ethic like Jimmy.”
—Dr. Mark Brynes,
associate professor of
chemical engineering
English award
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abroad
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Auburn Best Buddies creates true friendships
Jherrica Luckie
Writer
Auburn Best Buddies may
appear as just another campus
organization to people unfa-miliar
with it, but to its mem-bers
it’s where they have met
some of their best friends.
“We are a program that pro-vides
friendships,” said Lauren
Swindle, president of Auburn
Best Buddies and junior in col-laborative
special education.
“That’s what it boils down to.”
Best Buddies is a non-prof-it
organization that helps cre-ate
friendships between col-lege
students and people with
intellectual and developmen-tal
disabilities.
College students, called
“college buddies,” are paired
with a disabled child, with
whom they spend one-on-one
time with throughout the year.
Swindle said her buddy, Ann
Finlen, who has Down syn-drome,
is truly her best friend.
“Ann has taught me un-conditional
love,” Swindle said.
“She can see the good when we
can only see the bad things.”
Auburn’s chapter has ap-proximately
150 college bud-dies
and 70 buddies ranging
from age 15 and up, making it
the largest Best Buddies chap-ter
in the United States.
Swindle said the group has
been nominated for the best
chapter award. Results will be
released later this year.
“It’s unlike any other orga-nization,”
said Shannon Wal-ton,
public relations coordi-nator
for Best Buddies and
sophomore in public relations.
“You’re really making an im-pact
on their lives and yours.
It’s truly beneficial.”
Because there are not
enough buddies to be paired
with each member, Walton
said the associate members,
members not paired with a
buddy, help out at events and
fundraisers and spend time
with everyone.
As well as spending time
with their buddies and speak-ing
to them on a weekly basis,
the organization holds month-ly
events for all the members
and buddies to attend.
Next month’s event is a for-mal
Valentine’s Day dance at
the Auburn Student Center.
“The buddies love dancing,”
said Erin Beasley, vice presi-dent
of Best Buddies and ju-nior
in rehabilitation and dis-abilities
studies. “They have
such big smiles on their faces.
It’s so memorable to see them
having so much fun.”
Beasley has been buddies
with Bryan Carpenter, who has
Down syndrome, for two years.
“He always just wants to
spend time with me and share
stories,” Beasley said. “He’s so
in control and humble. He’s
one of my closest friends”.
The members also host
Thanksgiving and Christmas
parties as well as bowling
nights and matching parties,
where the volunteers first get
paired with their buddy.
“We are making friendships
that will last a lifetime for
them and us,” Walton said.
Students looking to be-come
a member of Best Bud-dies
can apply at the beginning
of each fall semester.
Contributed
Swindle and her buddy, Ann, at the end of the year event at Shakey’s.
A5
Thursday, January 24, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Community Community
Jule Collins Smith celebrates 10 year anniversary
Eva Woghiren
Writer
More than 285 guests were at the Hotel at
Auburn University & Dixon Conference Cen-ter
Friday, Jan. 18 to celebrate the Jule Collins
Smith Museum’s 10th Anniversary.
“The museum opened officially to the pub-lic
Oct. 3, 2003,” said Charlotte Hendrix, the
print and digital media producer for the mu-seum.
“Since it is 2013 we wanted to start the
year with this 10th Anniversary Gala to hon-or
the people that have helped establish the
museum.”
Four guests were being honored at the gala
including Jule Collins Smith herself. Along
with Smith was her husband Albert J. Smith
Jr., Dwight L. Carlisle and Taylor D. Littleton.
Smith donated money to build the muse-um
back in 2003 as an anniversary gift to his
wife and his one wish in doing so was that it
be named after his wife.
“It is really hard to describe the feeling of
having a museum named after you, I don’t
know how to describe it,” Smith said. “It is
just so overwhelming.”
The conference center lobby was filled by 6
p.m. with more than 100 museum members,
Auburn alumni and staff all in black tie at-tire.
In the corner of the lobby was a full bar
with choices of drinks from Maker’s Mark, to
Grey Goose and an assortment of wines and
champagne.
Top chefs from around the world were
invited to cater the special event. Gregory
Gourreau, Gerald Hirigoyen, Sylvain Portay
and Laurent Manrique lent their special cu-linary
talents.
The director of the hotel invited a close
friend, Emmanuel Kemiji of Miura Vineyards
and Clos Pissarra, to sample his fine wines.
“Tonight I am presenting three different
wines from my two wineries, one in Califor-nia
and one in Spain,” Kemij said.
Throughout the reception servers of the
hotel floated around with trays of hors
d’oeuvres.
Finally the guests began to take their seats
around 7:15 p.m. The ball room scenery was
fully transformed and decorated to meet the
expectations of any fine designer.
Marilyn Laufer, JCSM director, and her
team started planning the 10th Anniversary
Gala approximately two years ago when they
knew they wanted to do something to kick
off the 10th year. The tickets for the event
were $165. Most of the guests and members
of the museum bought their tickets months
prior to the event.
The money went toward the three-course
meal. The extra donations that were also
made to go toward the museum’s exhibitions
and programs.
“We offer all activities free to the students
and it is all because of the generosity of the
people like this in this room tonight,” Laufer
said.
Laufer went on to speak, introducing May-or
Bill Ham and Vice President for Academic
Affairs Timothy Boosinger.
The night of honoring art and the accom-plishments
of the museum went on with a
short video presentation.
“I think art is an important part of our lives
that a lot of people forget about,” said Mark
Thornton, a museum member. “I like to en-courage
people to become involved with the
museum.”
After the dinner Auburn University Pres-ident
Jay Gogue brought the evening to an
end with closing remarks.
The goal of the JCSM is to serve the univer-sity
as well as Auburn’s community. Compli-ments
on the success of the night and also
the museum flew in from all over.
“The museum is absolutely stunning and
has done so well and this event just goes to
show,” said J’Anne Smith Rawson, daughter of
Jule Collins Smith.
Jessa Pease
Writer
Pigs may not be flying, but
this year’s flu outbreak has the
Auburn Community wrapped
in blankets.
The flu is breaking out in
every state, and although this
strain of flu isn’t to the propor-tions
of swine flu, this season
is seeing more cases than last
year.
“It’s more intense than last
year for sure,” said John At-kinson,
public relations man-ager
at East Alabama Medical
Clinic. “Last year was kind of
a down year, but we have had
seasons like this before and we
have taken similar precautions
in years past as well.”
As of last Friday, East Ala-bama
Medical Clinic had re-cords
of 177 cases of con-firmed
flu, Atkinson said. Of
those 177 cases, 112 of them
occurred in December and 44
were in January.
“It started a little bit ear-lier
this year,” Atkinson said.
“We saw cases as early as Oc-tober,
but it definitely began
hitting the hardest in Decem-ber.
Then our cases in January
seem to be on that same type
target.”
There are two different
strands of flu going around:
an A strain and a B strain. Ac-cording
to Janet King, clinical
supervisor at the Auburn Uni-versity
Medical Clinic, strain A
is the one the clinic is seeing
the most.
“The problem is that the flu
shot itself is only between 60
and 65 percent efficacy,” King
said. “It didn’t catch all of the
strains. I think I heard that one
of the strains was not covered
in the shot, so if you are ex-posed
to that germ you are go-ing
to get the flu.”
The first week back from
break the AU clinic gave 117
a flu swabs for people show-ing
symptoms and 31 of them
were positive. Last week, the
clinic swabbed 116 and found
35 positive tests by Friday.
The Auburn University
Medical Clinic ordered 650 flu
shots and ran out while de-mand
was still high. King said,
they have been telling peo-ple
to go to CVS or Walgreen’s
pharmacies to get flu shots,
because it is still the best pre-ventative
measure.
“Based on what’s hap-pened
with flu epidemic this
year, how early it started, how
quickly its spread … I think the
preventative measure is worth
it,” said Harriet Huggins coor-dinator
at the Learning Re-sources
Center with the Col-lege
of Education. “I have got-ten
a flu shot every year since
2001.”
There are other preventa-tive
precautions people can
take to keep from getting the
flu. Things like washing your
hands frequently, using hand
sanitizers, staying away from
crowded areas and staying
away from people who are
sick.
“Symptoms are not fun,”
King said. “It’s fever, head-aches,
sometimes a cough
and sometimes a sore throat
with lots of body aches. If you
get that you have to try to get
seen within 48 hours, because
then at that point they can
give you an anti-viral medica-tion.
That’s not going to make
it go away, but it will lessen the
symptoms.”
If you aren’t seen within 48
hours, King said, there isn’t
much the clinic can do for you.
Your best bet is to take cold
and flu medicines and Tylenol
or Motrin to reduce the fever.
“Other than that there really
isn’t anything you can do for it,”
King said. “You just have to let
it run its course. Sometimes it
can be a week to a week and a
half before you are feeling bet-ter.”
Sniffling, sneezing and coughing: the flu has arrived
“Symptoms are
not fun. It’s fever,
headaches,
sometimes
a cough and
sometimes a sore
throat with lots
of body aches.”
—Janet King
clinical supervisor at Auburn
University Medical Clinic
Raye May / Photo Editor
Auburn alumni Jule Collins Smith and her husband, Al J. Smith Jr., attended the 10th Anniversary Gala for the museum they funded.
Raye May / Photo Editor
The 10th Anniversary Gala was held at The Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center.
Raye May / Photo Editor
The AU Medical Clinic ran out of flu shots, but students and others
can still get them at local CVS and Walgreens stores.
Auburn Police Department makes arrest in robbery case
Abigail O’Brien
Community Writer
Mychaela D. Jackson, 18,
from Pike Road was arrest-ed
by the Auburn Police De-partment
Tuesday, Jan. 15. af-ter
the police department re-ceived
an anonymous tip.
Jackson has been charged
with two counts of third-de-gree
robbery, said Capt. Tom
Stofer of the Auburn Police
Department.
Jackson was linked to a
shoplifting incident that
happened Thursday, Dec. 20,
2012 at an undisclosed busi-ness
located in the Village
Mall on Opelika Road.
“Through our investiga-tion,
once we got the tip, we
investigated that tip and then
determined her to be one of
the two people involved in
that incident,” Stofer said.
Stofer said the police de-partment
has not released
the name of the business in-volved
in the shoplifting.
As they fled the scene of
the incident, the two shop-lifters
struck two store em-ployees
who attempted to
stop them from leaving, Capt.
Stofer said.
“They were treated on the
scene by medical person-nel
for minor injuries,” Stofer
said.
When the police depart-ment
received the anony-mous
tip, they contacted
Jackson.
“We called her and told
her to come and turn herself
in or come down and see us,”
Stofer said.
Jackson was arrested Tues-day,
Jan. 15, 2013.
After she was arrested,
Jackson was taken to the Lee
County Detention Facility.
Jackson was arrested and
released under bond the
same day for $20,000 said
Capt. Corey Welch.
Her court date is set for
March 6, Capt. Welch said.
The police department
continues its search to find
the other woman involved in
the shoplifting Stofer said.
Anyone with information
regarding the identity of the
second person involved in
the incident is asked to call
the Auburn Police Depart-ment.
Citizens may anony-mously
text or call t he tip
line, 334-246-1391, or call the
police division at 334-501-
3140.
Community A6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 24, 2013
Run for your heart: registration
now open for run and bike race
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discussed at City Council meeting
George Nunnelley
Writer
Boom boom, boom boom,
boom boom.
Get ready to lace up the old
sneakers and get the heart
pumping ladies and gentle-man.
The 24th annual Love Your
Heart Run and 6th annual
Crank Your Heart Ride is be-ing
held Saturday Feb. 23, at
Chewacla State Park, located
at 124 Shell Toomer Parkway.
The race and ride will sat-isfy
a wide range of physically
active participants, as there
are a number of race-day op-tions
to choose from. You have
the opportunity to take part in
both the run and bike ride, or
choose from either of the two.
“The continued support of
Auburn University students is
vital to our efforts and we en-courage
anyone to walk, run
or ride in our events,” said Jes-sie
King, the director of the
event.
Registration for the Love
Your Heart Run is $25 if done
so by Friday, Feb. 8. There
will also be an opportuni-ty
to register from Saturday,
Feb. 9 up until race day for a
$30 fee. Race-day registra-tion
will begin at 6:15 a.m. at
the park. Those who choose to
run or walk have two options.
They can either complete a
one-mile course, beginning
at 8 a.m., or a 10K (6.2 mile)
course, beginning at 7:30 a.m.
Registration for the Crank
Your Heart Ride also costs
$25 if done so by Friday, Feb.
8. The same opportunity to
register from Saturday, Feb.
9, up until race day applies to
the bike ride. Race-day regis-tration
will begin at 8:30 a.m.
The biking participants also
have a number of options to
choose from. They can com-plete
a 3.5-mile course, begin-ning
at 9:45 a.m., or an 11 and
22-mile course, both begin-ning
at 9:30 a.m.
Those wishing to complete
both events can register by
Friday, Feb. 8 for a discount-ed
price of $30. If they register
from February 9 up until race
day, they will pay a registra-tion
price of $35.
“Because I am not from Au-burn,
I have yet to hear about
the Love Your Heart Run and
Crank Your Heart Ride,” said
Michael McLaughlin, a ju-nior
marketing major. “But I
may have to push my endur-ance
to the edge and partici-pate
in the event this year or
the next.”
Megan Baron, junior in fi-nance,
also showed interest.
“I enjoyed and completed
the half marathon in Birming-ham
back in November and I
could see the run and ride as
something that I may be inter-ested
in,” Baron said.
All proceeds will go to the
Exceptional Outreach Orga-nization,
a non-profit pro-gram
comprised of various
community representatives
and parent board members.
Their goal is to give the less
fortunate and special needs
individuals, both children and
adults, in the Lee County area
the opportunity for growth by
participating in physical, edu-cational
and social activities.
Some of the organization’s
other fundraising events in-clude
the Special Olympics of
Lee County and the Best Bud-dies
of Auburn University.
“The Love Your Heart
Run has raised an estimat-ed
$100,000 in the past eight
years,” King said. “Last year, an
estimated 20 percent of those
funds supported the Best Bud-dies
programs on Auburn’s
campus.”
People wishing to register
or find out more about the
different races may do so at
LoveYourHeartRun.com.
‘Wine’ not come
and give it a try?
Sydney Callis
Community Editor
The tastes of France, Cal-ifornia,
Germany and New
Zealand are coming to the
Event Center Downtown in
Opelika.
The Event Center Down-town,
former home to a Co-ca-
Cola bottling plant, is hav-ing
a wine tasting event Fri-day,
Jan. 25.
“It’s an around the world
kind of thing,” said Lisa
Ditchkoff, co-owner of Event
Center Downtown.
The wine tasting will fea-ture
wines from all over the
world brought in by wine dis-tributor
International Wines.
“We’re going to have a cab,
a merlot, a gamay, which is
similar to a pinot noir, a char-donnay,
a sauvignon blanc
and a Riesling,” Ditchkoff said.
“None of these wines have
ever been purchased here be-fore.
They’re all brand new
wines to us.”
The different types of wine
represent old world style and
new world style of wines, ac-cording
to Yarbi Cound, local
representative for Interna-tional
Wines.
“We chose wines that
would allow people to expe-rience
old-world styles versus
new-world styles. ,” Cound
said. “There will be three new
world and three old world se-lections.”
The three old-style are the
Reisling, the Chardonnay and
the Gamay. The three new-style
are the Sauvignon Blanc,
the Merlot and the Cabernet.
“There are several differ-ences
between old-world and
new-world styles, one main
difference is that old-world
styles typically have more of
an earthy taste while new-world
styles are a bit more
fruit driven,” Cound said.
The wine tasting will be in
the recently renovated sec-ond
floor of the 33,000 square-foot
Event Center Downtown.
“It’s a blend of charm and
rustic and elegance,” Ditch-koff
said. “It’s my favorite
space in the building with the
exposed brick throughout the
main lounge area and hard-wood
floors.”
Ditchkoff said the second
floor space being used for
the wine tasting used to be
the syrup making room dur-ing
the time when Coca-Co-la
used the building to pro-duce
soda.
“I think it’s cool because
we’re just serving a different
kind of syrup now in there,”
Ditchkoff said.
The bar on the second
floor will be open during the
wine tasting for those want-ing
to cleanse their palate be-tween
the tastings or instead
of participating the tasting.
Local musician Patrick
James Bruce is scheduled to
perform during the tasting.
“He’s going to be doing
mostly jazz during the tast-ing,”
Ditchkoff said. “But, he
also does blues and all of that.”
Tickets for the event are
$10 and are available the
night of the event.
“It’s a really good bargain,”
Ditchkoff said. “Getting peo-ple
to come in and experienc-ing
it is a good thing.”
Cound said these types of
wine tastings are good for
people to come and try dif-ferent
wines without having
to buy a whole bottle of wine
without knowing if they like
it.
Ditchkoff said this wine
tasting will not be the only
wine tasting at the center this
year.
“We’re going to start doing
these sort of events consis-tently,”
Ditchkoff said. “I think
the wine tastings are going to
end up being once a month.”
“We chose the
wines to give
people the
opportunity to
experience old
world styles
versus new
world styles.”
—Yarbi Cound
Local Representative for
Interna t ional Wines
Courtesy of Love your Heart Run
Raye May / Photo Editor
Kelly Meeks of Auburn attended the City Council meeting to discuss
her concerns with the parking situation on Terrace Acres Drive.
Chandler Jones
Community Reporter
Auburn City Council met
Tuesday, Jan. 22 to discuss-grievances
about high school
overflow parking along Ter-race
Acres Drive.
The Council resolved to
limit parking on Terrace
Acres Drive from 7:30- 9:30
a.m. daily to prevent vehicles
from cluttering the street.
According to City Manag-er
Charles Duggan, signs will
be posted around the street
alerting to the new no-park-ing
policy.
Tim Meeks of Auburn
spoke of issues he and neigh-bors
had with Auburn High
School parking overflow
along the road.
“Students that don’t have
permits tend to park on Ter-race
Acres Drive on both
sides of the street,” Tim said.
“When you turn east on Ter-race
Acres Drive it’s a dif-ficult
curve as it is visibili-ty-
wise. You have two sets
of cars to both sides of Ter-race
Acres; you have some
real visibility challenges. Ad-ditionally,
most of those peo-ple
parking are new drivers
– 15, 16, 17-year-old drivers.
They don’t always use the
best judgment.”
Another concern to the
residents of Terrace Acres
Drive is the pedestrian traf-fic
interacting with the car
traffic.
“At 7:30 and 2:30 it’s flat-out
a very dangerous area,”
Tim said. “Our concern is not
aesthetics and cars in front
of our houses as much as it is
truly a safety concern.”
Interviewed after the
meeting, Kelly Meeks said
the parking has been an is-sue
for nearly three years.
She says this year has been
the most amount of cars
with 14 - 16 cars there a day.
The Meeks and neighbors
are “deeply concerned that
there’s just an incident wait-ing
to happen.”
According to Kelly, her
neighbor must pick up trash
on a daily basis.
“What’s hard is the people
trying to drive through our
neighborhood,” Kelly said.
“Utility trucks trying to ser-vice
the telephone polls, the
cable, the mail lady can’t
get to the mailbox because
they’ve parked too close.
The trash people can’t get
to the trashcans. It’s those
kinds of inconveniences
mainly. It really slows down
traffic.”
Also discussed at the
meeting, a new cigar shop
will be built at 2328 S. Col-lege
St.
The shop, Havana Drea-min’,
is the creation of Rick
Payne, an Auburn Universi-ty
alum.
Auburn’s Havana Dream-in’
is Payne’s expansion from
the original in Montgomery.
He looks to create a place
to idolize the old, romantic
Cuba.
“Auburn’s still got that
friendly small-town feel that
I fell in love with when I went
to school there,” Payne said.
The architecture of the
new Havana Dreamin’ will
resemble a Cuban street
scene that incorporates a
store in a store.
“We’re trying to create an
atmosphere,” Payne said.
“Most cigar stores are brown
leather chairs and dark pan-eling
and they’re dull, bor-ing
and look like an English
library. I just don’t like that
look. I think you can create
something that looks fun
and relaxing.”
His goal is to replicate the
community gathering place
found in the Montgomery
Havana Dreamin’.
“The whole deal with ci-gars
is really – you don’t in-hale
them – so you sit down;
you relax; you have a drink;
ya know, you talk to your
buddies, your girlfriends. La-dies
are welcome for sure,”
Payne said. “You don’t really
have that many places where
people can sit and talk. In ci-gar
store we talk politics and
football nonstop. It’s intend-ed
to be a time where you
take a few minutes for your-self
and sit down and relax
and enjoy, you know, a sim-ple
pleasure.”
The Council also passed
an ordinance increasing li-quor
tax late fees to 20 per-cent.
A zoning ordinance
passed for more than 23
acres on 3810 S. College St.,
which previously housed
the Drivers Club Golf Range
was rezoned for commercial
development by developer
Brantley Land, LLC.
“Our concern is not
aesthetics and
cars in front of our
houses as much
as it is really, truly
a safety concern.”
—Tim Meeks
Aub u rn Citizen
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- @pourmecoffee
On the day we remember
Dr. Martin Luther King, Barack
Obama was sworn in for his
second term as president, hav-ing
won the 2012 elections.
The 113th Congress, which
was seated earlier in January,
returns as a body divided, the
Senate controlled by Demo-crats
and, despite having lost
the popular vote for control of
the House of Representatives,
the lower chamber is still con-trolled
by Republicans.
The Republican Party was
able to retain control of the
House because the Republican
Party is not made up of idiots.
Having achieved a widespread
victory in 2010 at almost every
level of government, the GOP
was in a place to control the
drawing of congressional dis-tricts
for the 2012 elections as
they saw fit.
Republican gerrymander-ing
allowed the GOP to retain
control of the House in 2012
despite the fact that more
votes were cast nationally for
Democrats in House races
than for Republicans. Thanks
to the shady government ma-nipulation
that comes stan-dard
with the Republican
brand, the GOP only lost eight
seats in 2012, instead of the
majority.
Obama will now have to
contend with a House of Rep-resentatives
unwilling to play
ball.
Too often and too publicly,
the GOP has made clear their
number one priority is to ob-struct
the President’s plans.
Holding steadfast to rigid ide-ology
has created a lower
chamber that refuses to com-promise
and holds firm to the
Hastert Rule – that is only bills
that the majority of the major-ity
support will be voted on –
essentially making bipartisan
but Democratic favored bills
obsolete in the House.
The House has become the
place where bipartisan efforts
from the White House and
Senate go to die.
The House of Representa-tives,
and our congressman
Mike Rogers, should recall that
in 2012, the American people
rejected the Republican Par-ty,
even in the popular vote for
the one national body they still
control.
While serving in the oppo-sition
comes with the respon-sibility
to temper what might
otherwise be a hyper-parti-san
agenda, it also comes with
the responsibility to compro-mise.
In fact, that responsibil-ity
comes with public service.
On everything from taxes to
spending cuts, the President
and Senate Democrats have
shown a willingness to meet
the Republicans in the middle.
It’s time for Speaker
Boehner, Congressman Rog-ers,
and their ilk to stop de-manding
deals that favor the
GOP 90-10 and start doing the
business the American people,
by popular vote, sent Demo-crats
there to do: govern our
country.
Alexander B. Roberson
College Democrats
President Emeritus
“Sometimes it just doesn’t
pay to be smart, breathtaking-ly
beautiful, nice and kind. Not
when there are blobbies who
are willing to take their clothes
off in public.”
Unfortunately, that’s how
Linda Stasi, a writer for the
New York Post, described a
heavier woman finding love
when a thin, gorgeous woman
couldn’t.
If you’re unfamiliar with
the HBO show, Girls, the
“blobby” actress, Lena
Dunham, has taken a lot
of flak lately for flaunt-ing
her body. In the show,
Dunham has a few men
chasing after her while the
apparently much more desir-able
Marnie is left unlucky in
love. And because Dunham
isn’t built like a Victoria’s Se-cret
model, people are out-raged
and disgusted. But this
isn’t about Lena Dunham.
The implication is that only
“beautiful” people deserve
love. Who sets the standard
for beauty, though? When did
“beautiful” become synony-mous
with “size double-zero,
tan, and blonde?”
The Romans didn’t think so
and neither did the Greeks. All
you have to do is look at the
curvaceous statues of their
goddesses to realize that. Mar-ilyn
Monroe was a sex icon, a
woman who men around the
world fantasized about, and
she had 36-inch hips. Even
though plus sizes start at 14,
anything above a four is of-ten
viewed as undesirable. But
why?
Some people will look at
anorexic actresses and linge-rie
catalogues full of women
whose lives consist of nothing
but strict diets and rigorous,
daily exercise. And even then,
they can’t make their bodies
perfect enough for the cam-era.
Even then, magazine edi-tors
turn to doctoring photos.
There’s so much pressure on
women to look a certain way
so they find love, because who
could love someone with im-perfections?
How am I sup-posed
to find my soul mate
when I have cellulite? Peo-ple
who are fat are obviously
lazy and therefore undeserv-ing
of affection. We might not
come right out and say it, but
isn’t that what we think? “Why
does that girl who’s fatter than
me have a boyfriend? I’m thin-ner.
I’m prettier. It should be
me.” It’s the same sentiment.
Maybe both of those things
are to blame, but I think we
started it. I think it’s women.
We wage wars on each other
and ourselves. We stare in the
mirror hating what we see and
then cut others down for not
being our definition of attrac-tive.
We cut each other down
and talk behind each other’s
backs to feel better about our-selves.
We make other people
feel ugly so we can feel beau-tiful.
I want to know why we
can’t just stop beating our-selves
and others up for not
being a magazine, Hollywood
definition of beautiful.
Why can’t we accept that
Lena Dunham is a sexy, em-powered
woman? Why can’t
we create our own standards
for beauty instead of letting
the media define it for us, and
why can’t that size 12 girl be
lovely too?
The truth is that she and I
and you are already beautiful.
Whether you’re size zero or
23, you’re beautiful. To believe
otherwise is to sell out and buy
into this “thin-is-in” mentality.
So what if that lingerie model
has a perfect butt? So what if
she doesn’t?
Be bold about loving your-self.
Don’t let anybody else
define your unique brand of
beauty. Eat the damn cheese-burger
and enjoy your life.
“But we have always understood
that when times change, so must we;
that fidelity to our founding princi-ples
requires new responses to new
challenges”
- Barack Obama’s second inaugu-ration
speech
Although a majority of Auburn
students did not vote for Barack
Obama to have a second term as
president, there are several ideals he
espoused in his inauguration speech
that we feel most Americans, partic-ularly
those of college age, can agree
are important.
While what we feel is the right
route to achieve our goals may not
be the same, many of the goals them-selves
are.
Job growth to ensure our genera-tion
is as well-employed as those be-fore
it, national security as well as
a general international peace and
good public services like schools,
roads and water systems are all
things we think very few people on
Auburn’s campus would say they
don’t want as a part of their future.
The right tax plans and government
support of infrastructure may not
be easily agreed upon, but as pub-lic
university students in a state that
takes in a large amount of federal
dollars compared to what it contrib-utes,
most of us probably owe more
thanks to the federal government’s
help in our state than we realize.
Equal rights in the arenas of mar-riage,
wage and opportunity are
ideas a growing majority of the na-tion
values as important to who we
are. Even many opponents of gay
marriage believe laws should be ex-tended
to cover blatant acts of hate
crime against the LGBT communi-ty
and for them to be treated fairly
in spaces ranging from the middle
school hallway to the hospital to the
eyes of the IRS.
Though there are still giant strides
to be made on campus as far as ig-norant
hate speech goes, there is a
strong, albeit sometimes relatively
silent, number of people at Auburn
who are perfectly comfortable with
gay couples being treated the same
as straight ones.
Though immigration reform re-mains
a hot topic in many parts of
the country, particularly this state,
young Americans are leaning heavily
towards a type of amnesty program
like the DREAM Act which would
grant citizenship to people living
here undocumented on the condi-tion
of their getting a college educa-tion
or joining the military.
A two year old Gallup poll shows
Americans as a whole support this
54-42, while those under 35 said
they would vote for it at a 66-30 rate,
meaning support has more than like-ly
grown.
This is just a sampling of a few is-sues
that will be addressed by gov-ernments
of all sizes and jurisdic-tions
over the next presidential term,
but what appears to be obvious is the
generational gap on many issues.
As college students mostly be-tween
18 and 22, we fall in what is
certainly a liberal demographic of
the country, but this doesn’t mean
we all are liberal; far from it at Au-burn.
And yet what may have been
considered very left wing ideas thir-ty
years ago are becoming more and
more accepted as right in 2013.
As President Obama begins his
second term, we will all not like
many of his aims and measures, but
there are several principles younger
Americans seem to be warming up
to, if not already full on embracing.
Over the next four years, agree
with him or not, let’s be a voice for
what we believe in, keeping in mind
that our action, or apathy, deter-mines
the world we graduate in to.
Dunham shows girls don’t have to be twigs to be confident
‘When times change, so must we’
Stanford Daily’s failure to report perpetuated Te’o hoax
Republicans need to show they care, stop being ‘do-nothings’
Rachel Suhs/Design Editor
It’s been a full eight days
after the break of the Manti
Te’o story. Through the mag-ic
of smart phones, the Inter-net
and the many other de-vices
that bring the news to
our fingertips, we’ve all had a
chance to pore over the Te’o
hoax, laugh at the expense of
the South Bend Tribune and
blame every news organiza-tion
imaginable.
All but one. The Stan-ford
Daily.
Three months pri-or
to Deadspin’s article,
multiple, well-respected
publications, including
The New York Times and
Sports Illustrated, published
the story without doing their
jobs. They were inattentive
and all too trusting in their
reporting. They were careless
and negligent.
We praised Deadspin for
following suspicious leads
and their journalistic instinct.
However, in a profession that
values time sensitivity above
all else, I can’t help but ask,
where were you, Stanford?
The Stanford Daily com-pletely
ignored red flags when
the facts stood right in front
of them. Who better suited to
research Kekua’s existence?
The student paper should
have been the first one to ask
who Kekua was. They should
have jumped at the opportu-nity
to write about a supposed
Stanford alumna who pur-portedly
underwent unimag-inable
trauma while being the
light of Te’os life and, as Te’o
reported, the strength for him
to continue Notre Dame’s in-credible
season. If the report-ers
at Stanford had done their
job, the story would have bro-ken
a week after it’s publica-tion.
Stanford’s undergradu-ate
population is fewer than
8,000 and in that relatively
small pool of students, no one
on the Daily’s staff of over 200
no one asked these questions?
No one tried to get that story.
In short, no one bothered to
do their job.
As a student publication
it is our job to report on the
community. That communi-ty
extends to alumni. When
Auburn graduate, Katherine
Webb, scored some air time
and a few thousand new twit-ter
followers, the story made
the front page, much to my
dismay. As reporters we knew
it had to be covered. We were
not going to let national news
about our campus, our com-munity
and our university go
untouched or unverified by
our own publication.
I don’t believe it was the re-sponsibility
of The Daily to
predict that Te’o was lying,
but it was their duty to look
into the story. As a California
university, with an abundance
of California natives, how did
no one on the staff stop to
think that Carson City, Calif.,
doesn’t exist?
My hope is that future col-lege
journalists won’t be
afraid to question the pub-lishing’s
of professionals. As
the Te’o hoax proves, profes-sionals
won’t always be right.
Professionals also won’t al-ways
have access to the same
people and documents that
college journalists do. Stop
second guessing yourself be-cause
you have a student
press pass. Instead, use that
press pass and do your job.
Raye May
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Seward
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Mama Mocha believes in coffee,
investing in the local community
Auburn showcases local talent with its
own version of the talent show ‘X-Factor’
Chandler Jones
Community Reporter
Look out American Idol,
AU “X Factor” is here to steal
the show.
Auburn University’s Eagle
Eye will produce their own
“X Factor” show to premiere
Sunday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. on
Auburn University’s student-run
network Eagle Eye. It will
broadcast on channel 6.1 and
stream at Eagleeyetv.com.
AU “X Factor” is the proj-ect
of Eagle Eye Assistant Di-rectors
Amanda Foster and
Shannon Smith, both sopho-mores
in radio, television and
film.
AU “X Factor” will be run
by the students for the stu-dents,”
Foster said. “From
hosts to judges to camera-men
to Shannon and I who
are producing and directing,
the show will be run entire-ly
by reporters and photog-raphers
associated with Ea-gle
Eye TV.”
The show is looking for 10
contestants to compete for
a grand prize of recording a
five-song EP with Auburn’s
WEGL 91.1.
“We want diversity. We
don’t want a whole bunch of
pop singers, or all country
singers,” Smith said. “We want
to select our contestants on a
basis of not only talent but in-dividual
singing style and per-formance
originality. Seeing
the same kind of song multi-ple
times every week will just
bore everyone, so we want to
keep things exciting.”
The show will air for six
weeks every Sunday evening
at 8 p.m. and each episode
will run 45 minutes to an
hour long.
Two contestants will be
voted off each week with the
finale to be in April.
“The only qualifications
for auditioning are that you
are a student and can com-mit
to coming every Thurs-day
night to shoot the week-ly
episodes. For the auditions
on January 30 and 31, hope-ful
competitors will be asked
to sing for one minute just so
we can get a sampling of how
they perform. All auditions
will be taped, and Amanda
and I along with a panel of
outside judges and advisors
will chose who we think are
the best 10 acts,” Smith said.
“X Factor” USA has a judg-ing
panel of big names in the
music industry. AU “X Fac-tor’s”
judges will be students.
Each show will have two per-manent
judges and a third
guest judge each week.
“We definitely want per-sonality
on our judging pan-el,”
Foster said. “But con-fidence
is really key — our
judges have to be comfortable
with giving criticism direct-ly
to our competitors with-out
being shy or nervous. The
contestants are here to learn
and to get feedback and we
want our judges to be able to
compliment them as well as
point out mistakes.”
The show encourages stu-dents,
parents and faculty
alike to vote for their favorite
contestants. To vote: “Like”
AU “X Factor” on Facebook
and vote in the poll posted for
that week.
“Public voting is crucial
in deciding who stays and
who goes home the following
week,” Foster said. “The three
contestants with the lowest
number of Facebook votes
will be announced during the
results show each Wednes-day.
The judges will save one
contestant, and the others
will be eliminated.”
Since it’s initial release Ea-gle’s
Eye has had a lot of cam-pus
response. Many have
spoken to Foster and Smith
about participating as judges
and 38 students have shown
interest in competing.
“The publicity we’ve re-ceived
far surpassed what
we were aiming for,” Foster
said. “Auburn University pub-licized
our show on their of-ficial
Facebook and Twit-ter
pages and since that hap-pened
last week interest in
viewing and competing has
skyrocketed.”
Smith said she and Foster
are motivated by the poten-tial
publicity that a show of
this nature will bring to Ea-gle
Eye.
“Amanda and I wanted to
start and produce our own
show, as well as try to get
the Auburn student body ac-tively
interested in every-thing
we do here at Eagle Eye
TV. When the idea of a sing-ing
competition was brought
up, we dove right in and be-gan
planning last semester,”
Smith said. “Our hopes for
this show is that we will re-ceive
a large amount of view-ers
and that the contestants
will hopefully take a lot from
this competition, maybe even
become campus celebrities.”
Courtesy of SHannon Smith
Amanda Foster and Shannon Smith are the two responsible for bringing AU “X Factor” to Auburn and are
producing and directing the show.
Abigail O’Brien
Community Writer
For Sarah Gill, everything comes back to cof-fee.
Gill, 26, also known as Mama Mocha, runs
Mama Mocha’s Coffee Roastery located in the
back of the Gnu’s Room on South Gay Street in
Auburn.
Any given day Gill may be caught either
roasting in the back of the shop on her hand-hammered
copper roastery, chatting with reg-ulars
or drinking her average of 10 espressos a
day.
Gill has always loved coffee and found ear-ly
on that community formed fast over the dark
beverage, she said.
“And I realized that when I was making it for
people, they would tell me these things and it
was like this connection that people normally
don’t make,” Gill said. “It’s kind of like a daytime
bartender.”
The Hoke’s Bluff native grew up in high
school working at local coffee shops and later
moved on to working in the corporate world of
coffee at a Starbucks.
Gill soon found herself frustrated with
climbing the ladder and yearning for a chance
to be creative with the business and beverage.
“I wanted to start something from grass
roots,” Gill said.
Gill’s increased interest in what she calls the
“rabbit hole” of coffee knowledge was fueled
when she went to an event for the Speciality
Coffee Association of America.
“For the first fifteen minutes I was there, I
cried,” Gill said. “I’m sure I looked like an insane
person. Because everybody cared so much- ev-erybody
was so into what they were doing with
coffee- not making money, not the new cup-cake…
It was just about the farmers, the bever-age
and the relationships.”
When first moving to Auburn, Gill briefly
managed another local coffee shop.
She was involved in a cell group at Campus
Church. Gill links much of her dreaming about
the roastery and coffee shop to the time she
spent around those people she said.
“Everybody was dreaming,” Gill said. “And
it was trying to connect dreaming with action
And coffee’s kind of like a catalyst for that.”
Kelly Fly, children’s pastor at Campus
Church, was in the same cell group as Gill when
she was scheming about the idea of the roastery
and coffee shop.
Fly said that Gill has a personality that draws
people in.
“She doesn’t exclude anyone,” Fly said.
For Gill, next to making excellent coffee, she
wants to create an open environment and com-munity
for people to come and be themselves as
they transition through college or other stages
of life with their own dreams she said.
She said that often the coffee shop will turn
into a time of people coming in to just talk to
others and unload about the stress and happi-ness
in their lives.
“Sometimes it’s like a tear factory back here,”
she said.
Apart from selling her coffee in countless lo-cal
venues, Gill also frequently donates or as-sists
local nonprofits. She said she is especially
passionate about the local humane society and
Freedom 21, a local nonprofit charity that com-bats
human trafficking.
Gill’s mother, Debbi Barnett lives in Hoke’s
Bluff and said that Gill has always been a go-get-ter
and a starter.
Her junior year in high school, Gill was elect-ed
to the homecoming court and wanted to
wear combat boots with her formal dress, Bar-nett
said. The principal would not agree, but fi-nally
gave in to a compromise: allowing her to
wear flip flops, Barnett said.
“She just thinks out of the box and she goes
and does it!” Barnett said.
Barnett helps sell Gill’s coffee in the Gadsden
area, now taking on the name of Grandmama
Mocha as she brings the product to waiting cus-tomers.
“If it’s about coffee, she gets excited,” Barnett
said.
For Gill, community and excellence continue
to be the key things.
“Investing time in people around you and
choosing a good local business to do that at is
really important,” Gill said.
Raye May / Photo Editor
Sarah Gill roasts the Mama Mocha coffee in house after she became interested in the roasting process at a Specialty Coffee Association of America event.
Sports B1
Thursday, January 24, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Sports
John Burns
Sports Editor
It’s crunch time for Gus Mal-zahn
and his staff, especially with
National Signing Day less than two
weeks away.
Currently Auburn has 16 com-mitments
in a class that was on
pace to be one of the strongest in
the nation, but because of some
major de commitments by Reuben
Foster, Dee Liner and Trey Johnson
the class has fallen to 14th overall
according to ESPN.com.
There are four SEC teams with
27 or more recruits, but what keeps
Auburn near the top of the class is
the quality of the Tigers’ prospects.
For instance, nine of Auburn’s 16
prospects are ranked with four or
five stars.
With that being said, much
of Auburn’s perceived recruiting
strength lies in the commitment of
five star defensive end Carl Lawson,
but there’s speculation that he may
sign with another school which
would be no less than devastating
for the Tigers.
It would be huge to keep him,
and God knows Auburn needs all
the help it can get on the defen-sive
side of the football, but there
are other worthy recruits that have
committed or may commit to play
for Malzahn.
Actually, barring the early de
commitments, Malzahn and his
guys have been gaining momentum
on the trail, adding two more pros-pects
last weekend in wide receiv-er
Tony Stevens and safety Khari
Harding.
Both players visited campus last
weekend, and the coaching staff is
hoping for more of the same luck in
the next two weekends when the Ti-gers
have headliners Carl Lawson,
Montravius Adams, Texas A&M
commit Derrick Griffin, Mississip-pi
State commit Chris Jones, Reu-ben
Foster and Florida State com-mit
Austin Golson to the Plains.
While signing any one of those
players would be a huge boost for
next season, Malzahn wants every
single one.
Why not, right?
I mean each of these players,
committed or not, picked Auburn
as the place for their final official
visit to a university, so they’re at
least slightly interested if not in-credibly.
And there has been a pattern:
players who visit this new Auburn
coaching staff usually like at least
one of the coaches, and some like
all of them.
The coaching staff is loaded with
recruiters who have had years to
hone their convincing skills and
make a school seem irresistible to
a prospect.
Dameyune Craig, Rodney Gar-ner
and Ellis Johnson in particular
are recognized as some of the best
recruiters in all of college football,
but Tim Horton, Charlie Harbison
and Malzahn know how to pitch a
school to athletes as well.
So while Auburn fans will only
know for sure how successful this
last push at recruiting has been,
there is good reason to be optimis-tic.
And if Malzahn can indeed pull
in a class loaded with top recruits
he will give something to the fans
they haven’t had in a while.
On the trail
Auburn athletics: a week in review
Sports Staff
Men’s
Basketball:
Auburn at
Arkansas Jan. 16
A steady second-half comeback
fell short, as Auburn couldn’t sur-vive
a double-overtime thriller on the
road at Arkansas Wednesday, Jan. 16,
losing 88–80, and giving Auburn its
first conference loss of the season.
Auburn (8–8, 2–1 SEC) received great
performances from its seniors.
Guard Frankie Sullivan scored 26
points and pulled down a career-high
nine rebounds. Center Rob
Chubb scored 12 points and grabbed
11 boards, good for his second con-secutive
double-double, before foul-ing
out with 1:11 left in the second
overtime.
Arkansas went on a 17–0 run that
spanned six minutes of play in the
first half. Auburn answered with an
8–0 run of its own and went into half-time
trailing 34–27.
Down 67–64 with less than a min-ute
to play in the second half, Auburn
guard Noel Johnson pulled down an
offensive rebound off a failed three-point
attempt. He hurried the ball
out beyond the three-point line and
found forward Allen Payne, who con-nected
for the game-tying three with
five seconds left to send the game
into overtime.
But the Tigers had trouble contain-ing
Arkansas’ Marshawn Powell, who
scored a game-high 28 points and
grabbed 11 rebounds, and BJ Young,
who chipped in with 22 points.
With 1:11 remaining in the sec-ond
overtime, Young drove to the
basket and drew a foul on Chubb,
who fouled out. Young hit both free
throws to put the Razorbacks up 81–
77.
Sullivan, who scored 23 of his 26
points after halftime, drew a blocking
foul on Arkansas guard Mardracus
Wade. Sullivan made one of two free
throws to bring the Tigers within
three.
On Arkansas’ next possession, with
27 seconds remaining, BJ Young hit a
three-pointer over the outstretched
arm of Noel Johnson to put the game
out of reach at 84–78. Arkansas went
on to win 88–80.
Auburn plays Kentucky Saturday,
Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. Auburn announced
the game is sold out, the first time
the Tigers have sold out Auburn Are-na
since Kentucky visited last season.
Auburn vs.
Kentucky
Jan. 19
The men’s basketball team suf-fered
its worst home loss under head
coach Tony Barbee as the Tigers fell
to Kentucky 75–53 in front of a sell-out
crowd Saturday night, Jan. 19,
dropping the Tigers to 2–2 in the SEC
and 8–9 on the season.
After leading by only five points
at halftime, a lights-out second half
from the Wildcats and sophomore
Kyle Wiltjer gave Kentucky its third
SEC win, improving it to 12–5 on the
year. Wiltjer’s 17 points led the Wild-cats,
with 15 of them coming in the
second half among the team’s 18–27
from the field.
“We had our lack of confidence,”
Barbee said. “We were scared in the
moment.”
The Wildcats began to pull away
with impressive play from the na-tion’s
number two overall recruit Ner-lens
Noel. After sitting out much of
the first half in foul trouble, the 6–10
freshman finished the game with 10
points, but his defensive play allowed
Kentucky to break away. He recorded
seven blocks and nine rebounds in
25 minutes on playing time. Auburn
center Rob Chubb added that Noel
reminded him of ex-Kentucky play-er
and NBA starter Anthony Davis by
being such a big inside presence.
Auburn faltered due to poor shoot-ing
throughout the game, finishing
with only 34.8 percent from the field
and 0–15 from behind the arc.
Katherine McCahey / assistant photo editor
Malzahn addresses recruiting after the Auburn Kentucky basketball game.
This week was filled with ups and downs in Auburn sporting events. It saw the men’s and women’s tennis
teams do extremely well, but it saw the basketball and gymnastics teams fall short, if only by a point.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Senior Kyle Owens is on his way to victory while swimming the breaststroke.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Junior Olivia Scott butterflys through the water, earning her first career SEC Performer of the Week award.
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Lance Davis
Sports Writer
Senior Kyle Owens and junior Oliv-ia
Scott were named SEC Swimmers
of the Week for their performances in
wins over Texas and Texas A&M last
week, the SEC announced last Tues-day.
“These are two of the most ded-icated
and talented athletes in our
program, and it’s good for them to be
recognized,” head coach Brett Hawke
said. “It’s just something that they
can look back on and say they were
acknowledged for their success.”
Owens competed in and won all
eight events in last week’s two dual
meets. In Auburn’s 166-132 win over
Texas, he won the 100 backstroke,
200 backstroke and 200 IM, and
played a part in Auburn’s win in the
200 medley relay.
“It’s really cool to keep seeing Au-burn
up on the SEC Swimmer of the
Week board,” Owens said. “To be part
of that with such a great team is a re-ally
good feeling.”
Owens also had success in Au-burn’s
189-111 win over Texas A&M,
winning two individual races and
two relays.
“The coaches all year just say,
‘Yeah, you’re going to feel tired, and
you’re going to feel down a little bit,
but they also try and help you pre-pare
for that,” Owens said. “This is my
last year, this is the last couple of dual
meets of my life, so I’m just going to
give it everything I have.”
Scott earned her first career SEC
Swimmer of the Week title by win-ning
all three of her individual events
versus Texas A&M on Saturday. She
won the 100 butterfly, 200 IM and the
200 free. She also contributed to Au-burn’s
win in the butterfly leg of the
200 medley relay.
“It’s awesome. That’s one thing I’ve
wanted to get a title for since fresh-man
year,” Scott said. “I wanted to get
close to my best times, but when we
actually got there I just realized how
much I really wanted to beat Texas
A&M, so I just gave it everything.”
Owens’ huge performance helped
Auburn’s men move to 5-0 (4-0 SEC),
and Scott helped the women im-prove
to 6-0 (4-0 SEC).
Auburn has a huge matchup with
Florida Saturday, Jan. 26, at noon.
The team hopes it can carry the mo-mentum
from last week and remain
undefeated.
“We just have to stay focused,” Ow-ens
said. “Everyone’s doing a real-ly
good job. Everyone’s meshing to-gether.
If we can just keep that going,
which I’m sure we can, we’re going to
do really well.”
“We’ve got parents weekend, ac-knowledging
the seniors,” Hawke
said. “Hopefully we’ll have a big
crowd here. It’s just a matter of the
community getting behind the team
and acknowledging how great of
a season they’re having so far, and
hopefully we can cap it off with a
win.”
Tigers awarded
Swimmers Olivia Scott and Kyle Owens were named SEC
Swimmers of the Week last week after big performances
With less than two weeks of
recruiting left, Malzahn and his staff
scramble to acquire top prospects
Sports B2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 24, 2013
Upcoming Auburn sports events
Andrew Yawn
Sports Reporter
At the end of the 2012 season, Auburn
track and field head coach Ralph Spry
made a promise to Auburn after watching
his team fall short at the NCAA Outdoor
Championship.
“We will be back next year with a big-ger
group, and we will add more firepow-er,”
Spry said. “This group that scored this
year will all return in 2013. When you have
a year under your belt with this type of
experience, it only benefits as you come
back for another year.
“We are going to learn from this and
find a way to get over the hump and come
back with a vengeance.”
Two weeks into the indoor track sea-son,
Auburn has shown it has at least
some of the the freshman firepower Spry
sought.
Freshman pole vaulter Larissa Debich
opened the 2013 season by breaking the
school record with a vault of 3.7 meters at
the Crimson Tide Indoor Opener Satur-day,
Jan.12.
At the Auburn Indoor Invitational Sat-urday,
Jan. 19, Debich matched that re-cord.
Fellow freshman women’s pole vaulter
Jessie Johnson came into Auburn ranked
the No. 1 recruit in her event, according to
Spry.
Although Johnson may have been over-shadowed
the first meet, she tied Debich’s
school record mark at the Auburn Invia-tational.
Senior high jumper Maya Pressley has
already noticed the impact of Auburn’s
cubs.
“I think the freshman have a lot of po-tential,”
Pressley said. “We did lose a lot of
(women) seniors, but the freshmen are up
and coming, so we do have the opportuni-ty
to shock and surprise the conference as
well. (There’s) a lot of raw talent.”
For Johnson and Debich, potential is an
understatement.
Johnson and Debich have already bro-ken
Hannah Johnson’s 1998 record of 3.6
meters.
That’s no where near the pair’s own per-sonal
records.
Debich recorded a Pennsylvania state
record 3.97 meter vault in high school, and
Johnson’s 4.11 meters in high school was
the second best junior mark in the coun-try
and the best among high schoolers.
Due to the numerous Olympians train-ing
daily on the Plains, Auburn track has a
championship culture to it.
Athletes and coaches, present and past,
have competed on the world stage and se-nior
sprinter Marcus Rowland said that
leadership is crucial for the youngsters.
“I see a lot of potential I think one of
the biggest privileges they have is they
get to see the upperclassmen set the bar
and show great leadership,” Rowland
said. “Outside the team, it’s definitely the
coaching staff, Coach Spry and Coach
Richardson, Clayton, those guys, they’ve
had (all the Olympians) and have led them
on to do great things.
All our coaches are very passionate.
I think with a passionate coach comes a
passionate athlete.”
The pair will look to continue its record-breaking
streak when the Tigers compete
in the Husker Invitational at the University
of Nebraska from Friday, Feb. 1-2.
Freshman vaulters shine
at Auburn Invitational
Andrew Yawn
Sports Reporter
On Monday, Jan. 14, track
and field head coach Ralph
Spry watched senior sprinter
Harry Adams warm up with
a relaxed 200 meter run.
Spry gushed about Ad-ams’
speed and running style
as Adams rounded the turn
headed for the straightaway.
Adams’ fist went in the air,
signaling he had crossed the
finish line and Spry displayed
the time on his stopwatch:
21.44 seconds.
Not bad for a warm-up.
“Did that feel good, Har-ry?”
Spry shouted down the
track.
Adams gave a thumbs up
in response.
This season, Adams has a
lot to feel good about.
The senior sprinter was
named to the Bowerman
Award Watch List, the “Heis-man
Trophy of track and
field,” according to Spry.
Adams is also the only
sprinter and one of only two
SEC athletes on the list along
with Florida’s junior triple-jumper
Omar Craddock.
Last year, Adams’ All-
American 2012 season end-ed
with a knee injury at the
NCAA Outdoor Champion-ship,
an injury that perhaps
cost the men’s team the title,
according to Spry.
Adams was named All-
American in the 100m, 200m
and 4x400m relay and post-ed
NCAA-best times in the
100m (9.96 seconds) and
200m (20.10 seconds).
With the injury, the Au-burn
men were forced to
play final day replacements
in the 200m and the 4x100 re-lay
and finished No. 6 overall,
the team’s best finish since
2008.
This season, Adams has
one last shot to help his team
to a title.
Adams could not be
reached for comment, but
Spry said the team has what
it takes to do what it couldn’t
last season.
“The group I’ve got this
year, I feel very confident,
particularly on the men’s
side, that we can be a real
force, but again we have to
take care of things like stay-ing
healthy,” Spry said.
Adams ran for the first
time this season Saturday,
Jan. 19, finishing second to
teammate Marcus Rowland
in the 60m (6.63 seconds)
with a time of 6.64 seconds.
Besides his blistering
speed, Rowland said Adams
and the rest of the veterans
provide the Tigers with that
much more leadership and
experience.
“I think me and Harry (Ad-ams)
and Keenan (Brock)
and Jeremy (Hardy) show a
good example of leadership
and when to get work done,”
Rowland said.
Spry said the team should
know “who’s clicking and
who’s not” by the third or
fourth week of the season.
The Tigers will compete at
their third meet of the season
Friday, Feb. 1-2 at the Univer-sity
of Nebraska Husker Invi-tational.
With Adams already vying
for the top spot in his first
race of 2013, it seems the se-nior
hasn’t missed a stride.
Courtesy of Auburn Athletics
Harry Adams in warm up gear.
Adams set
for big year
Adams one of 10 on watch
list for Bowerman Award
The Bowerman Award is to track and field
as the Heisman Trophy is to college football.
Auburn senior Harry Adams is one of the
select few on the watch list for the award.
Watch List:
Harry Adams
Senior
Auburn
Curtis Beach
Red shirt Junior
Duke
Jordan Clarke
Red shirt Senior
Arizona State
Omar Craddock
Junior
Florida
Derek Drouin
Red shirt junior
Indiana
Tim Glover
Senior
Illinois State
Kennedy Kithuka
Junior
Texas Tech
Erik Kynard
Senior
Kansas State
Lawi Lalang
Junior
Arizona
Alexander Ziegler
Senior
Virginia Tech
Mentioned:
Andrew Bayer
Red shirt junior
Indiana
Mike Berry
Junior
Oregon
Diego Estrada
Junior
Northern Arizona
Andrew Irwin
Sophomore
Arkansas
Jack Whitt
Senior
Oral Roberts
Chad Wright
Junior
Nebraska
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Kickoff Weekend All
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Men’s Tennis Indiana
TBA Starkville, Miss.
Women’s Gymnastics
at Florida 6:00 PM,
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Women’s Tennis ITA
Kickoff Weekend All
Day Chapel Hill, N.C.
January 30
Women’s
Basketball vs.
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January 24
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Men’s Basketball
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helped to bring them back from a late eight-point
deficit in the first half, but was unable to
hold on in the second.
“We came out and played scared,” said Au-burn
guard Frankie Sullivan. “You can’t win like
that at all.”
Both teams got off to a sloppy start Saturday
night, scoring a combined 12 points in the first
10 minutes with 6–35 shooting from the field.
“We had a real lack of aggression and lack of
poise from the get-go,” Chubb said.
Auburn shot 32.4 percent from the field in the
first half, including a dismal 0–11 from 3-point
range.
“We couldn’t make a shot either,” said Ken-tucky’s
head coach, John Calipari. “Then we
executed and made plays and Nerlens played
well,” and that was the difference between the
two teams. Kentucky was able to bounce back
from its poor first-half play and Auburn never
came back.
Women’s
Basketball:
Auburn vs. Tennessee
Jan. 17
Even with an 11-2 start for the Auburn
women’s basketball team, the No. 9 Tennes-see
Volunteers rallied in the last 10 minutes
to pull out a win at Auburn Arena.
After Tennessee (14-3, 5-0 SEC) scored the
opening shot, Hasina Muhammad, Auburn
sophomore guard/forward, tallied six quick
points to start Auburn’s initial run. At half,
Auburn held the lead 32-27.
Auburn (13-5, 2-3 SEC) dominated the
first 30 minutes of the game, maintaining
a consistent lead until Meighan Simmons,
Vols junior guard, became hot from beyond
the arc. Hitting three 3-pointers in a row,
with one being a traditional 3-point play
from a foul, Simmons brought the Vols back
within one.
The Tigers battled until 6:40 left in the
game, maintaining a tie game of 53 points
apiece.
Following a technical foul called on the
Auburn bench for having too many players
on the court as the play began, Simmons hit
two free throws, adding to the Vols lead of
60-55. The Tigers couldn’t recover.
“Basketball is a game of runs and we knew
that Tennessee was going to make their run,”
said Terri Williams-Flournoy, Auburn wom-en’s
basketball coach. “They’re too good of a
team not to make their run.”
Although the Tigers’ starters all ended
in double figures, Simmons game-high 29
points on 10-14 from the floor was a game
changer in the 75-66 win.
“We fought hard, we just didn’t fight hard
enough,” said Auburn forward Blanche Al-verson.
The Tigers have lost two straight games as
they prepare to go on the road. Auburn plays
at Kentucky on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 1 p.m. and
will be televised on the SEC Network.
Auburn at Kentucky
Jan. 20
The women’s basketball team suffered a huge
loss on the road to No. 5 Kentucky 97 to 53 on
Sunday, Jan. 20, at Memorial Coliseum. The loss
dropped the Tigers to 3-3 in the SEC and 13-6
overall.
Auburn started the game tough, but
the full court pressure from the Wildcats forced
turnovers and ill-advised shots from the Tigers
helping Kentucky to a 51-21 lead at the half.
Kentucky did not put as much pres-sure
on the Tigers in the second half allow-ing
them to have more offensive success. But
the Wildcats continued to be dominant from
3-point range and held onto their big lead.
The 44-point loss was the worst loss
the Tigers have suffered all year.
The Wildcats were led by senior A’dia
Mathies who had 24 points on the day going 5-6
from 3-point range and hitting 8-9 FGs with two
steals and two assists.
Auburn was led by Hasina Muham-mad
with 13 points, and Peyton Davis with
11 points. Davis’s 11 points was a career high
against an SEC opponent going 4-4 on FGs and
hitting all three free throws.
The Tigers will try and end their two
game losing streak on the road at rival Alabama
Thursday, Jan. 24.
Women’s
Gymnastics:
Auburn at Georgia
Jan. 18
This weekend the No. 24 Auburn gymnastics
team took on No. 8 Georgia and came out with
some of their best scores of the season.
The team lost to Georgia, but scored a season-high
overall score of 195.700 to Georgia’s 196.050.
“Wins and losses don’t really matter,” said Jeff
Graba, Auburn gymnastics head coach. “It was
positive to see that we came so close to them.”
The Tigers opened with bars and vault, where
many of the gymnasts came out with some of
their season-best scores.
Caitlin Atkinson scored a season-high 9.875
on bars, while teammates Bri Guy and Toi Gar-cia
made their own season-best scores on vault,
with 9.878 and 9.85, respectively.
“I think this was our best meet of the season,”
said Bri Guy, sophomore in pre-exercise science.
“Everyone was definitely in the zone. I think the
coaches think we scared Georgia.”
The Tigers then moved to floor and beam,
where they excelled despite having to make a
last minute line-up change after a gymnast was
injured during warm-ups.
“Adversity has been the hallmark of this team,”
Graba said. “We had to pull a girl out and change
the line-up, but it went well.”
For both floor and beam, the Tigers scored
48.800, a season-best for the floor event.
On the beam, Megan Walker, sophomore in
fitness, conditioning and performance, scored a
career-best of 9.875.
“Beam was my career-high,” Walker said. “It
was a really good experience.”
Walker said she thought this meet was the
best meet of the season, because the team was
ready and excited to take on Georgia.
“I thought this was the first meet of the sea-son
where everybody had a blast,” Walker said.
“The whole attitude of the team changed from
Kentucky to Georgia.”
When asked about how they prepared for the
meet at Georgia, the gymnasts said they knew
Georgia was going to be an important meet and
trained accordingly.
“We had really intense, very difficult, trying
practices,” Walker said. “And that made Friday
night that much easier.”
Walker also pointed out that Auburn’s fans
were much more involved than Georgia fans.
“When it comes to Georgia, our fans are bet-ter,”
Walker said. “Georgia booed us when we
came out, but then they had to be provoked by
the cameras. Our fans booed Georgia the whole
time – they didn’t need cameras on them.”
Coming off their meet at Georgia, the team is
preparing to face Florida in Gainesville this up-coming
Friday, Jan. 25.
“We’re going to build off last week, work at
staying on our feet, having a good hit ratio,” Gra-ba
said. “If we do a good job against Florida,
we’re doing really good.”
During the pre-season, Florida was picked as
the favorite for becoming the national champi-ons
this year.
Walker said the team tries not to focus on
how hard the competition is going to be.
“You can’t think about the results,” Walker
said. “You have to focus on the team.”
“This is going to be a big one,” Graba said. “If
we can duplicate that [the performance at Geor-gia]
against Florida, I’ll be ecstatic.”
Men’s Tennis:
Auburn vs.
Jacksonville State
and Mercer
Jan. 19
The Auburn men’s tennis team swept Jack-sonville
State and Mercer Saturday, Jan. 19 at
the Yarbrough Tennis Center to get the season
rolling in perfect form.
The performance by the men was so good
they did not drop a single set all day.
“We needed the match play,” Auburn head
coach Eric Shore said. “I think they came out
and did a good job. I thought we got better as
the day went on. We have some things we need
to work on. We’re trying to get ready for next
weekend.”
In singles matches, every Tiger dominated his
opponent in two sets. The men were highlighted
by Lukas Ollert, who only dropped three games
in four sets, Michael Wardell who dropped five
and Daniel Cochrane who dropped six.
In six doubles matches the men were also
perfect.
The nation’s number-2 ranked duo of Andreas
Mies and Daniel Cochrane blew out their Jack-sonville
State opponents 8-1 and defeated the
Mercer duo 8-4.
Auburn is 2-0 this season and is nationally
ranked at 21.
Auburn vs. Troy
Jan. 22
No. 21 ranked Auburn men’s tennis (3-0) de-feated
Troy (1-2) Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the Yar-brough
Tennis Center , 6-1.
The Tigers swept the doubles competi-tion
winning all three matches easily. The first
victory came from Auburn sophomore Lukas
Ollert and freshman Joseph Van Dooren against
Troy’s Anas Rouchdi and Daniel Bustamante,
winning 8-1. The nation’s No. 2 ranked doubles
duo senior Andreas Mies and junior Daniel Co-chrane
coasted to an 8-3 win over Troy’s Sami
Ghorbel and Andre Stabile.
Auburn fared well in the singles competi-tion
winning five of six matches, three of which
were won in only two sets. The Tigers’ only loss
came from the match-up of Auburn’s Joeseph
Van Gordon and Troy’s Sami Ghorbel that went
three sets with Ghorbel coming out on top in
the final set 6-2.
Last week the Tigers defeated Jackson-ville
State 7-0 and Mercer 7-0, to open the 2013
dual match season with a doubleheader at the
Yarbrough Tennis Center. Auburn never lost
a single set throughout the two matches and
started the season with a record of 2-0.
After last week’s match, Auburn Athlet-ics
reported Auburn head coach Eric Shore as
saying, “We got to play outdoors in the morning,
which helped because we will be outside next
weekend, and we’re also preparing for Troy on
Tuesday who is much improved from last year.
We’re looking to continue our success on Tues-day.”
Continuing their success was exact-ly
what happened as the team easily handled
Troy Tuesday. Next week, Auburn will compete
against No. 22 Indiana, No. 11 Mississippi St. and
No. 24 LSU Jan. 26-27 in Starkville, Miss.
Women’s
Tennis:
HEB Invitational
Jan. 18, 19, 20
The Auburn women’s tennis team travelled
to Waco, Texas for the Baylor hosted HEB In-vitational
where they won 20 total matches.
“It was a good weekend of tennis,” Auburn
head coach Lauren Longbotham Meisner
said. “We had a variety of different levels of
competition this weekend and it was good for
us to be able to play our entire team. It was a
good opportunity to challenge everyone. We
put together some good doubles performanc-es
and I thought we were able face some qual-ity
competition and get good experience both
indoors and outdoors. I was very excited to
see the fight in this young team.”
Freshman Ashley Kitchen, junior Jackie
Kasler and senior Plamena Kurteva each won
two matches, but were each defeated and
eliminated by the third match they played.
Senior Paula Schippers and sophomore Jen
Pfeifler went undefeated through the week-end
and highlighted the Tigers’ away perfor-mance.
Auburn’s next tournament will take place at
the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Chapel Hill, N.C.
Katherine McCahey / Assistant Photo Editor
Katherine McCahey / Assistant Photo Editor Andreas Mies takes a short break to catch his breath while playing Marcer January 19.
While avoiding a Kentucky defender, Frankie Sullivan drives to the hoop.
Malzahn swipes four-star wide receiver from Texas A&M
John Burns
Sports Edito r
Auburn did what so many schools have been
attempting to do to the Tigers: steal a prospect
who is already committed.
In this case Auburn has lured four star wide
receiver Tony Stevens from SEC West oppo-nent
Texas A&M on Jan. 20.
Stevens is listed at 6-foot-4, and weighs in at
184 pounds.
Because he is so tall, Stevens will need to
add bulk to be effective and physical enough
to make an impact at the college level, and his
wiery frame will allow him to add the mass he
needs.
In his senior year at Evans High School in
Orlando, Stevens brought in 29 catches for 516
yards and found the endzone seven times.
One of the reasons Stevens was more en-thusiastic
about playing for Auburn than Tex-as
A&M is that at the time Auburn only had 15
commitments to the Aggies’ 33, including him-self.
Along with that, Stevens is one of only two
true wide receivers in Auburn’s recruiting
class, which means if he performes well, he’ll
have a good chance to play early in the season
and make a solid impact on opponents.
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Auburn recruit named Mr. Football
Ethan Brady
Sports Reporter
Carver High School of
Montgomery quarterback
Jeremy Johnson received
the Alabama Sports Writ-ers
Association’s Mr. Foot-ball
Award Wednesday at
the annual Player of the
Year Awards.
Johnson became the
award’s 31st recipient, giv-en
to the state’s best foot-ball
player. It was also the
closest vote in the award’s
history with Johnson win-ning
by two overall votes.
Johnson received 170 over-all
votes, beating Fulton-dale
senior quarterback Ar-
Darius Stewart’s 168.
A four -star Auburn
verbal recruit, Johnson
passed for 3,193 yards and
31 touchdowns in his se-nior
season. To add to his
statistics, the 6-foot-6,
219-pound quarterback
also rushed for 705 yards
and seven scores. Last year
he was an ASWA first-team
all-state basketball selec-tion.
Courtesy of Julie Bennett of al.com
Jeremy Johnson is Carver’s first player to win the Mr. Football award and will sign with Auburn Feb. 6
courtesy of Auburn Athletics
Amy Berbary is named NSCA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year after coaching Auburn for five years
Soccer coach Berbary named
regional assistant of the year
John Burns
Sports Edi t or
Amy Berbary, Auburn women soccer’s asso-ciate
head coach was presented with the 2012
South Atlantic Regional Assistant Coach of the
Year award at the National Soccer Coaches As-sociation
of America annual Awards Banquet
Friday, Jan. 18.
“I am very humbled and at the same time
very excited to be recognized by the NSCAA,”
Berbary said in a press release. “This award
is not solely about me, but it is also about the
dedication that our team puts in day-in and
day-out.”
Berbary runs an offense which scored 85
goals in the previous two seasons combined.
She is a five year member on head coach Kar-en
Hoppa’s team and is recruiting coordinator.
Official visitor has a familiar face
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Top inside linebacker recruit and
former Auburn commit Reuben Fos-ter
has planned an official visit to the
Plains Feb. 1.
“My last official visit is going to be
to Auburn,” Foster said Monday Jan.
21 on New College Football Show:
Next Class 2013, on Fox Sports South.
“They do deserve that official visit.”
Foster also said that being close to
home will be a major factor in decid-ing
where he will sign.
It just so happens that Foster’s home
is located in Auburn and his mother and
daughter live in town.
Besides hosting Foster on the final
weekend before National Signing Day,
Auburn will have prospects such as Carl
Lawson and Chris Jones.
The 6-foot-1, 240 pound Foster had
committed to Auburn, but retracted his
commitment after Gene Chizik and his
staff were fired.
Foster was initially an Alabama re-cruit
until he was pulled away from the
tide by Chizik.
He may have de comitted from two
schools, but that makes him no less of a
talent or target for any school.
Foster has taken recent unofficial vis-its
to Auburn, and has met with head
coach Gus Malzahn and his new staff,
including defensive coordinator Ellis
Johnson who reportedly reminds Foster
of his grandfather.
The linebacker has narrowed his po-tential
landing spots to Auburn, Geor-gia,
Alabama, LSU and Washington, and
plans to announce who he will sign with
Signing Day Feb. 6. Robert Lee / Editor-In-Chief
Reuben Foster in Auburn garb with his daughter on campus
Intrigue
Thursday, January 24, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Intrigue
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Jordan Dale
Writer
For 37 years, Momma Goldberg’s has been an
inseparable part of the Auburn community, and
continues to inspire traditions today.
“Every time my boyfriend visits from out of
town, we always have to go to Momma G’s for
our sandwich and nacho fix,” said Will Duncan,
junior in music. “The staff is always friendly and
is consistently great at sandwich making.”
Don DeMent, founder of Momma Gold-berg’s,
opened his first location on West Mag-nolia
Avenue in 1976 after discovering that Au-burn
lacked variety with food. DeMent has cul-tivated
a stellar reputation within the commu-nity,
and garnered loyal customers who consid-er
Momma Goldberg’s an integral part of their
Auburn experience.
“Over the years, we’ve become a part of the
Auburn legacy,” said Keith Schilleci, president
of the Momma Goldberg’s franchise. “This is
where mom and dad first dated, or where John-ny
got his nose broken, or where Jimmy pro-posed
to his girlfriend. This is where we carved
our names into the booths and walls and can
still see them today.”
Schilleci said that DeMent loved his custom-ers
and operated his business under the guid-ance
of the golden rule, and attributes a loyal,
generational customer base to that practice.
“Windows have been broken or the Momma
Goldberg’s sign has been stolen, but DeMent
never called the police,” Schilleci said. “And he
has never towed a car that was left in the park-ing
lot overnight.”
Schilleci said it made DeMent happy that Au-burn
students were not driving home irrespon-sibly
after eating and drinking at the restaurant.
“It’s a great place to eat, socialize and make
memories that last,” said Jessica Walton, senior
in biomedical sciences. “I love going there after
a game or a night out.”
Momma Goldberg’s has kept up with the
times by staying open until 2 a.m. every night to
cater to the lifestyles of Auburn students.
“I like the friendly atmosphere, the nachos
and the ice,” said Nicki Mazaheri, senior in mu-sic.
According to the Momma Goldberg’s web-site,
Momma’s Nachos were created by two Au-burn
University students who worked at the
original location. The nachos became so popu-lar
that DeMent decided to make them a perma-nent
part of the menu.
Nick Davis, current owner of the Momma
Goldberg’s restaurants located in Auburn and
alumni of the University, bought them from De-
Ment three years ago.
“We consider ourselves custodians of the suc-cessful
brand that DeMent built over the years,”
Davis said. “We don’t make any major changes,
but we have our own take on how we own and
operate.”
The Momma Goldberg’s franchise has ex-panded
to Northern Alabama, Florida, Georgia
and Louisiana in the last six years.
“We try to bring the same elements of the
original Momma Goldberg’s into every store we
open, but some things: the nostalgia, the histo-ry,
you can’t find anywhere but at the original,”
Davis said. “You won’t have the same feeling
walking into the Momma Goldberg’s in Boaz.”
Schilleci said that the Momma Goldberg’s
brand has a passionate following from the Au-burn
family and a strong reputation on the col-lege
campus. The owners are all multi-genera-tional
Auburn alumni.
“There is no place like the original store,”
Schilleci said. “Right next to 87,000 loyal Au-burn
fans.”
Momma Goldberg’s serves Momma's Love for 37 years
Raye Maye / Photo editor
Momma Goldberg’s employees make their signature nachos and steamed sandwiches.
Caitlin Wagenseil
Intrigue Reporter
Huddled in a dark equip-ment
trailer, members of the
up and coming band Chronic
Grass tell the story of how they
came to meet and what drives
them to play, before returning
to the stage at Moe’s Barbeque.
“The name came from Ber-nard’s
[Breitung] prior band,
Chronic Blues, and we decid-ed
to do some blue grass, so we
changed it to Chronic Grass,”
said Daniel Raine, banjo play-er
and vocalist.
Raine and fellow musician
Davis Little make up The Lit-tle
Raine Band, but recently
launched a side project with
Bernard Breitung of Chronic
Blues. Add Zach Drew into the
mix, and it became the four-piece
band Chronic Grass.
Breitung, vocalist and
rhythm guitarist, had the idea
for a while of forming a blue
grass band, but never found
the right people—until now.
Playing at Moe’s Barbeque
on Thursday, Jan.17, was the
band’s first time playing to-gether
as a four piece. “It was
just the three of us a month
ago, and we got tired of switch-ing
off, so Zach came in and
started jamming on the man-do
and now we don’t have to
switch instruments, and we’re
all comfortable,” Breitung said.
Before playing in Auburn
together, the band played a
stretch of shows in Mobile at
venues such as Callaghan’s,
Soul Kitchen and The Garage.
Chronic Grass is an in-dependent
band right now,
which means they book them-selves,
and a lot goes into
booking shows.
Breitung said it’s mostly
about building and establish-ing
relationships with those
involved in the music scene in
Auburn.
“I’ve known the guys here
at Moe’s [Barbeque] for two
years—I was standing outside
the door before it even opened
with my guitar like ‘y’all want
somebody to play? I can play
right here,’” Breitung said. “So
I’ve known them, and they’ve
known me, so it takes a lot of
that.”
Breitung added that while a
booking agency may occasion-ally
help, it can be beneficial to
not be exclusive.
“When you’re exclusive,
you’re locked in, so indepen-dent
really is good.”
Little, lead guitarist and vo-calist,
agrees.
“Part of playing is to be free
and to play wherever you want
to,” he said.
And they can all attest to
the feeling of performing live.
Breitung said it’s all about
the audience and the band
feeding off each other.
“The more people there lis-tening
and vibing to it, the bet-ter
you’re going to be in the
zone,” he said. “You play pretty
much all your life to be in that
moment where you’re soaked
up and feeling it. It’s the ener-gy,
you know—you can feel it.”
Raine agrees that it takes
the energy from the audience
to push the band members to
perform their best music. “The
energy is just such a rush, and
you’re just grooving at one mo-ment,”
he said.
“That’s what I live for,” Lit-tle
said. “You can smoke weed,
you can drink—but honestly,
once you’re up on stage play-ing,
that’s the high. I go to
school, I do my stuff, we prac-tice,
but once you get back to
the gig, there’s so much love
here.”
Zach Drew, the soft-spoken
mandolin player, sums it up
with a few short words. “I just
like to jam.”
While the band continues
to work around the schedule
of The Little Raine Band, the
members are hopeful for the
future of Chronic Grass.
“I’m just going around what
their schedule is, and if it turns
into something bigger and
keeps going, then so be it,” Bre-itung
said.
Chronic Grass plays at vari-ous
local venues in the Auburn
area, and is looking to eventu-ally
play shows in Atlanta. To
find out about more upcom-ing
shows, follow the band at
twitter.com/ChronicGrassAL.
Promos and a website are also
in the works.
Caitlin Wagenseil / Intrigue Reporter
Bernard Breitung, Daniel Raine, Davis Little and Zach Drew perform at Moe’s Barbeque.
New bluegrass band Chronic Glass performs at Moe’s Barbeque
Anna Claire Conrad
Writer
According to the American Veterinary Med-ical
Association’s United States Pet Owner-ship
and Demographic Sourcebook released on
Tuesday, Jan. 15, the dog days aren’t over for Ala-bama
as it is ranked 7th for dog ownership with
44.1 percent of households owning a dog.
This survey is conducted every five years by
the AVMA, and it always includes a classifica-tion
of pet ownership by state.
“We work with a company that reaches out to
people across the country and conduct a survey.
We get 50,000 of them,” said Thomas McPheron,
an AVMA spokesperson. “Then, a team of mar-ket
research analysts goes to work on it, look for
trends and put together the book.”
According to McPheron, five years ago Ala-bama
was not even in the top 10 for pet own-ership.
“55.9 percent of people in Alabama said that
they did not own a pet,” McPheron said.
The most recent survey, which was conduct-ed
in 2012 and based on data building up until
Dec. 31, 2011, revealed that the states that out-ranked
Alabama in dog ownership are Arkan-sas,
New Mexico, Kentucky, Missouri, West Vir-ginia
and Mississippi.
Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma proceeded
Alabama’s ranking in the top 10.
Maddy Clawges, junior in pre-veterinary
medicine, said she decided to own a dog for the
companionship.
“I only have one roommate, and since I’m
a girl, it kind of makes me feel safer at night,”
Clawges said.
Clawges also said that being a full-time dog
owner while also being a full-time student isn’t
as difficult as some might think.
“I think that if you really want a dog, and if
you know how to take care of dogs, it’s actually
really easy to just adapt it to your schedule, es-pecially
if you have grown up with them,” Claw-ges
said.
Erin Summerlin, a first-year Master’s student
in geology, agreed with Clawges and said having
not one, but two dogs while taking classes is not
as overwhelming as most people that don’t own
dogs perceive it to be.
“I think it helps a lot with companionship and
stress relief. They’re just such a joy and comfort
to have, and they bring so much happiness to
my daily life,” Summerlin said. “It’s really worth
it. Honestly, two isn’t that much more work than
one, and they keep each other company when
I can’t be there. It’s the best thing I’ve done in a
long time.”
Both Clawges and Summerlin bring their
dogs to Kiesel Park as often as they can to let
them exercise and to meet up with other col-lege-
aged people that love dogs as much as they
do.
However, along with companionship and un-conditional
love comes vet bills; a factor most
people believe would pose problems for college
students.
“It’s not anymore than when humans go to
the doctor,” Summerlin said. “You just have to
be dedicated to your animal. There are peo-ple
that like dogs, but you really have to have a
bond with your pet and treat them like a person.
You’ve just got to make sure that they have ev-erything
that they need, sometimes over what
you want.”
According to McPheron, one of the most vi-tal
purposes for conducting this survey is to see
how well pet owners are doing at keeping their
pets healthy.
“Pet owners taking their pets to the vet is
something we’re really concerned about, and
over the past 10 years we’ve noticed a slight de-cline
in veterinarian visits done by pet owners,”
McPheron said. “A lot of people attribute this to
the economy, and I’m sure that has played a role
in this decline, but it’s become a broader prob-lem.”
McPheron said one reason for a declining
rate of veterinary visits is people seeking med-ical
help on the Internet rather than consulting
a trained veterinarian.
“There’s no way of knowing if the informa-tion
on those websites is good,” McPheron said.
“We really want to reach out to the public and
let them know that the vet isn’t just a place you
bring your pets to for their shots, but it’s also a
resource of information on animal health for the
community. We want to make sure that connec-tion
is emphasized.”
Alabama ranks no. 7 in national dog ownership survey
Katherine McCahey / assistant photo editor
Sami Griffith and her four-year-old dog Gemini relax on the grass, enjoying the beautiful day.
Intrigue B6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 24, 2013
Kelsey Davis
Intrigue Writer
Alex Fleicshmann and AJ Brush
are travelers. They’re troubadours,
hippies, hobos, street kids, what have
you. They’re people.
“I prefer the politically correct term
of ‘traveler,’ but, I mean, I don’t give a
s---. I’m a hobo,” said Brush.
“By definition,” Fleicshmann point-ed
out, “a hobo is somebody who trav-els
from job to job though. A tramp is
somebody who asks for money.”
“I guess I’m a tramp then,” Brush
said with a smile.
Auburn students may have noticed
these two hanging around Magno-lia
Street last week, considering how
they didn’t exactly fit our mold. They
played music on the street at night,
and focused their efforts on moving
on to the next town during the day.
The two Oregon natives have been
friends since middle school, but
didn’t start traveling together until
around six months ago. Fleicshmann,
20, started traveling the country two
years ago with little more than $20 in
his pocket. He’s hit almost every state,
except for a dozen in the mainland.
Brush, 18, was on the fence about
the idea before he decided to take the
plunge.
“I knew what I wanted to do as
far as career goes, but I didn’t want
to just jump right in from graduat-ing
high school, to getting a degree,
to getting a job and working at that
career,” Brush said. “I’ve always been
against that whole thing. I realized
that he [Alex] was all the way across
the country, and it made sense. I
thought well if he can do it....I mean
no offense man, but like, why not?
Let’s see what it’s like, let’s try it.”
Typically Brush and Fleicshmann
get from place to place either by
hitchhiking or hopping trains. Fleic-shmann
had a job lined up out of high
school, and gave himself four months
to travel before his job started.
His travels started off mainly
around California, which led him to
Santa Cruz. It was here that he met
other street kids and traveling folk.
He began traveling up north with
them, and quickly became hooked on
the life style.
Street kids, like Fleicshmann a