2012-11-08 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, November 8, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 24, 16 Pages
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Our View
Did Obama deserve to win
the election? What does
this mean to college
students statewide ?
View the editorial on A4.
Game
Day vs.
Georgia
See Special
Section Inside
Four more years
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
With Romney stickers be-ing
passed out on the Con-course
and many students
openly adorning them on
their shirts and backpacks,
and the College Democrats
holding up signs at local
polling stations, it proves
Auburn students are not
afraid to make their posi-tions
known.
“After returning home
from the Concourse, there
were a lot of students that I
spoke to who had a lot of en-thusiasm
about voting and
the election in general,” said
Charlie Smith, College Re-publicans
president.
“As I have watched the
news throughout the day, I
think the excitement shown
by Auburn students today
has been a snapshot of the
country-wide excitement.”
Student Affairs held an
event open to all students
wanting to watch the results,
from 6-11p.m. in the Stu-dent
Center lobby, by the Foy
desk.
The College Republicans
passed out Romney/Ryan
stickers and bumper stick-ers
on the concourse from
11a.m-2:30p.m. on Election
Day while reminding people
to vote. They also were sell-ing
Romney/Ryan T-shirts
throughout the day.
Later in the day they held
a results party at Lee County
GOP headquarters at 8p.m.
The College Democrats
went right to the source and
held up Obama/Biden signs
at the local polling stations,
as well as setting up camp
in the Student Center room
2310 to make calls to Flor-ida
and Alabama residents
on behalf of Bob Vance and
Lucy Baxley.
The Democrats joined
Student Affairs at 6 p.m. to
watch the election results.
They then headed over to
Quixotes, where they were
invited to watch the results.
Jacob Dean, president of
the College Democrats, en-couraged
students to em-brace
the excitement of the
election.
“Make some memories
folks,” Dean said. “This will
more than likely be the only
presidential election that
you’ll experience as a college
student.”
Although this is not
Smith’s first time voting, he
is still excited to participate.
“Many political analysts
have been giving different
predictions today and the
past week for who they think
will win,” Smith said. “This
is my second time voting in
a presidential election, and
these feelings of enthusiasm
and anxiety that I share with
my fellow students, I believe,
are only intensified in this
election.”
Lots of students are excit-ed
to have already turned in
their absentee ballots but
did not have any plans oth-er
than watching the results
at home.
Others ran out of time to
send in their ballots alto-gether.
“Honestly, I just kept for-getting,”
said Taylor Hicks,
senior in nutrition. “I am re-ally
busy this semester that I
never made time to get one.”
For Caitlin Miller, sopho-more
in public relations, she
missed the absentee ballot
deadline.
“I was really upset because
I wanted to vote,” Miller said.
“I feel like the process could
have been easier for students
or at least be put online.”
For local students, voting
at the polls was easier than
expected.
Mary Kathryn Fletcher,
sophomore in human devel-opment
and family studies,
said this is also her first time
voting in a presidential elec-tion.
“I didn’t have any classes
on Election Day, but I would
have skipped my classes if I
did,” Fletcher said.
Election shows responsibility, influence from student voting
» See Election, A2
Rebecca Croomes / Photo Editor Danielle Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
Left: Ben Jones, member of the Auburn College Democrats, and Kati Minter celebrate President Barack Obama’s re-election at Quixote’s on South College Street. Right: Students roll Toomer’s Corner after Obama
was declared winner in the presidential election over republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Students celebrate Obama victory by rolling Toomer’s
Lee County voting results
Mitt Romney 	 32,062 votes 59.2%
Barack Obama 21,274 votes 39.3%
Others 	 779 votes 1.4%
	 Statistics from The Huffington Post “As I have
watched the
news throughout
the day, I think
the excitement
shown by Auburn
Students today
has been a
snapshot of the
country-wide
excitement.”
—Charles Smith
College Republican President
Hayley Blair
Campus Editor
The night of Tuesday, Nov. 6, President Barack
Obama’s supporters celebrated at Toomer’s
Corner, while Romney fans shouted expletives
from across the street.
The College Democrats celebrated at Quix-ote’s,
and the College Republicans morosely left
GOP headquarters to mourn their loss.
Jacob Dean, president of the College of Dem-ocrats,
said this was exactly the result he ex-pected.
“I’m not surprised we won,” Dean said. “I’m
surprised by how big it is. This just shows that
America’s behind the president.”
But, though the president has been decided,
the future of the nation is still undetermined.
“I think we’ve got a lot of obstacles ahead,”
Dean said. “We have to get rid of the debt, so
that’s one of the things he’s going to tackle. An-other
thing we need to tackle is tax reform. It’s
not right for Romney to pay 13 percent taxes
and his secretary pay 30 percent. It’s just not
fair, and it’s not conducive to a strong middle
class.”
Economics professor William Franko said
that, although the candidates campaigned on
economic platforms, the president doesn’t actu-ally
have much power over finances, which will
make it hard for him to create reforms.
“A lot of people question how much power
the president actually has over economic condi-tions,
so if we look at the economy from a mac-roeconomic
perspective, a lot of people say it’s
really hard to influence these trends in econom-ic
growth and cycles in the economy in gener-al,
but one thing the public still comes back to
is the idea that the president can influence eco-nomic
conditions,” Franko said.
William Stern, political science professor,
agreed that the president doesn’t have much in-fluence
over the economy, but the market may
indicate the public’s general confidence in the
government.
“The market’s usually a better judge of things
than we are because it’s an aggregation of infor-mation
and opinions, as opposed to one per-son’s
opinion,” Stern said. “This morning the
market was very unhappy.”
Stern said many stock investors may be wary
of a gridlock in the Legislature, along with lay-offs
due to defense cuts and a rise in tax rates
after Dec. 31.
“Dow’s down over 200 points and bond yields
went way down, which means prices went up,
so more people are buying bonds,” Stern said.
“That’s what people do when they perceive
near-term risk because the bonds have fixed-term
values, while the stocks go up and down,
so perhaps they see that these near-term fiscal
issues may not be well resolved. It’s the fiscal
cliff, so to speak.”
Stern said many hope Obama will emulate
President Bill Clinton in his cooperation with a
dominantly Republican House, which will help
him push legislation that could help the econ-omy.
“In Bill Clinton’s second term he worked a
lot with the Republican House, and most peo-ple
look fondly on economic conditions in the
second half of the ‘90s,” Stern said. “You notice
Obama campaigned with Bill Clinton practi-cally
glued to his hip the entire time. Is he try-ing
to signal to the population that he’s going to
be more emulative of Bill Clinton’s style? I don’t
know. He doesn’t face re-election any more, so I
guess he can behave however he wants.”
Franko said cooperation between parties is
something Obama has not done well, which
may affect his performance this term.
“One thing people have been calling for Pres-ident
Obama to do is have better relationships
with people in Congress, especially for peo-ple
on the other side of the aisle,” Franko said.
“That’s going to be the real challenge, I think,
dealing with this divided government.”
Stern also said that Obama’s isolated na-ture
may cost him, though it does help him stay
above some of the partisan politics that contin-ues
to go on.
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 8, 2012
Oct. 31- Nov. 1 – College Street
Auto breaking and entering between
9:30 p.m. Oct. 31 and 12:49 a.m.
Nov. 1
Nov. 1 – Shug Jordan Parkway
Third-degree burglary between 2:50
a.m. and 3 a.m.
Nov. 1 – West Veterans Boulevard
Harassment Report
Nov. 1 – Heisman Drive
Second-degree theft of a wallet,
driver’s license, U.S. currency, debit
card, health card and Auburn Ignited
card between 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 2 – North Dean Road
First-degree theft of a gold platinum
diamond watch between 11:20 and
11:40 a.m.
Nov. 2 – Perry Street
Harassment report
Nov. 2 – Beard Eaves Court
Third-degree assault between 9:40
and 9:45 p.m.
Nov. 2 – Armstrong Street
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
11:15 and 11:20 p.m.
Nov. 3 – South College Street
Third-degree theft of beer, shampoo,
a hairbrush, deodorant, and body
wash between 9:40 and 9:45 a.m.
Nov. 4-5 – Shelton Mill Road
Report of Identity Theft between
4 p.m. Nov. 4 and 4:30 p.m. Nov.
5. Visa credit card charges of
$2,539.77
Nov. 5-6 – Harper Avenue
Auto breaking and entering between
11 p.m. Nov. 5 and 9 a.m. Nov. 6
Nov. 6 – Lee Road 12
Third-degree burglary of a television,
Xbox, headphones, DJ turntable and
controllers between 6 a.m. and 6
p.m.
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
Crime Reports for oct. 31 – Nov. 7, 2012 DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn
Oct. 31 – Nov. 7, 2012
■ Patrick McGee, 21, Fairhope
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 10:35 p.m. on South College
Street
■ Tyler Gattis, 19, Atlanta, Ga.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 10:55 p.m. at West Magnolia
Avenue and Beech Street
■ Jacob Babston, 19, Montgomery
Thursday, Nov. 1, 1:58 a.m. at South College Street
and East University Drive
■ Tony Stinson, 36, Auburn
Thursday, Nov. 1, 9:58 p.m. at South College Street
and Lee Road 10
■ Antijuan Hollie, 27, Opelika
Thursday, Nov. 1, 11:42 p.m. on East Magnolia
Avenue
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A suspicious package was
found in the Lower Quad by
Glenn and Lupton halls the
morning of Friday, Nov. 2.
“A University employ-ee
called us and said they
saw something suspicious,”
said Capt. Tom Stofer of
the Auburn Police Depart-ment.
“Just for safety’s sake
we treat all suspicious box-es
with the same safety pre-cautions.”
Nothing was found in the
box.
“We’re guessing it was
probably just a part of a prop
left over from someone’s
Halloween costume,” Stofer
said.
Although the box was
empty, Stofer said the Police
Department takes situations
like this seriously.
“We had our officer with
his bomb-sniffing canine go
over to the package to check
it out,” Stofer said.
Strange package
found on campus
Rebecca Moseley
Writer
On Thursday, Nov. 8, stu-dents
can get an entirely new
wardrobe without entering
the store.
The second annual Altera-tions
Day, hosted by the Ap-parel
Merchandising and De-sign
Association, will be held
from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Spidle
126. Students can bring their
clothes to be altered.
Prices vary based on diffi-culty
and range from $3–$12,
which can be paid by cash or
check.
Buttons and holes can be
fixed for $3, while dress and
pant hems can be adjusted
for up to $12.
For more difficult or time-consuming
alterations, the
item will need to be left over-night,
but will be returned no
later than the following Mon-day,
Nov. 12.
The money goes toward
the AMDA Peer Giving schol-arship,
which is awarded to
one student within the De-partment
of Consumer and
Design Sciences.
Members of AMDA will ro-tate
in and out throughout
the day to take orders, tag
clothes, take measurements
and perform alterations.
“Last year was a great suc-cess,
and every customer
asked us to please do it again
and more often,” said Eloise
Faber, graduate adviser for
AMDA. “It was a great way for
students to interact with cus-tomers
and also learn how to
alter clothes better than they
had before.”
Kelsey Reynolds, senior
in apparel design and presi-dent
of AMDA, said the orga-nization
hopes to spread the
word to more people on cam-pus
than just students with-in
the College of Human Sci-ences.
“We love for people across
campus to get involved be-cause
we want them to know
about our main event, which
is the annual AMDA spring
fashion show,” Reynolds said.
Faber and Reynolds agreed
the event is great in that it
saves time and money for
customers while providing
knowledge and experience to
AMDA students.
AMDA alters students’ wardrobes at event
Rebeca Croomes / Photo Editor
The Auburn College Democrats celebrate Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney in the presidential election.
Election
» From A1
“He’s very much a loner,”
Stern said. “He has almost no
relationships with the mem-bers
on Capitol Hill in either
party.”
However, Franko said
Obama did do well at making
informed decisions.
“Coming into his first elec-tion
in 2008, he was known for
having a strong understanding
of all the policies he’s been in-volved
with, really getting into
the ins and outs of these vari-ous
policies,” Franko said. “In
terms of understanding the
details of economic policy
and what needs to be done to
strengthen the economy long-term,
I think he’ll do a fine job.”
Dean said he hopes Obama’s
re-election will give Obama
more confidence in his role as
president.
“He has the ability to do
some things that are in the
best interest of the country,
but not in the best interest of
the polls the next day,” Dean
said. “Hopefully, not having to
run again for office will alle-viate
some of those concerns
he may have about what to
choose and how to proceed
because we’re going to have a
tough next couple of years.”
Dean said he is optimistic
about Obama’s second term.
“This just represents to me
the continuation of the prom-ise
(Obama) made, and we
hope that, as we move for-ward,
Republicans will work
with us in a bipartisan man-ner
to make sure we make
progress in this country,” Dean
said.
Daniele Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
Students rolled Toomer’s Corner after Barack Obama was declared
winner in the presidential election Tuesday, Nov. 8.
Margaret Brown’s American Government class
haikus for the 2012 presidential election
I want change for us
Change is inevitable
Forward Obama
Barack Obama
Always there for the people
Best man for the job
Obama will win
Because of the help he gave
To Sandy’s victims
Obama-two terms
Easy, vote for incumbent
Better luck next time
I voted Romney
The Electoral College
Will choose Obama
Obama will win
Because he’s not a rich
White guy like Romney
Hello Mitt Romney
Goodbye Barack Obama
Here comes the right wing
Mitt Romney will win
He will fix the deficit
I commit to Mitt
Daniele Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
College Republicans disappointed after Barack Obama was an-nounced
winner of the 2012 presidential election.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
Rebecca Moseley
Writer
In the past, students have used the Sam-ford
Hall clock tower to leave their mark in Au-burn’s
legacy of tradition.
History is found above the third floor in the
attic, where dusty, old documents and floor
plans lie disheveled on a table and the floor.
Students and alumni were once given the
opportunity to go beyond the attic, and the
electronic clockworks that accompany the
original 1889 bell, to view campus from its tall-est
point in the clock tower.
Groups and organizations, such as the
Glomerata staff, have climbed to the tower to
enhance their Auburn experience.
“They did it as an Auburn tradition and for
group bonding,” said Dafni Greene, Glomera-ta
adviser.
Each visitor is able to leave a signature ei-ther
on the backside of one of four clock fac-es
that face the edges of campus — College
Street, Magnolia Avenue, Donahue Drive and
Samford Avenue — or on the low, wooden
beams that stretch across the tower and show
age with color.
“The darker the wood, the older it is,” said
Teresa Whitman-McCall, director of campus
and community events. “So you can tell what
has been here a while and what was brought in
later for reinforcement.”
The darker beams display dated alumni sig-natures.
The lighter clock faces, which have
only been replaced once, display more recent
signatures.
Whitman-McCall said signatures dating
back to 1906 have been found on the original
clock face that now hangs on the second floor
of Samford Hall.
“Juniors and seniors appreciate it more be-cause
they’ve had more time to develop the
Auburn spirit,” Whitman-McCall said.
Whitman-McCall said VIP tours of Samford
Hall were conducted in 2006 for the sesquicen-tennial,
but have since been rarely given.
She said tours completely ended a couple
of years ago due to safety reasons, such as un-even
boards of the original 1888 attic floors on
which the basketball team once held practices.
“We are pursuing public tours again, but
the timing is something we are unsure about
at this time because of the safety concerns,”
Whitman-McCall said.
She said some of these safety concerns also
include the steep, narrow stairways leading to
the two towers.
Furthermore, she said the numerous buck-ets
scattered across the attic floor indicate a
need to patch the leaky, aged ceiling.
Whitman-McCall said she was informed on
Monday morning that a plan for attic renova-tion
is in the works.
University Architect Greg Parsons said ad-dressing
these safety issues is difficult because
the building is not up to ADA compliance.
“No one has researched the feaibility of ad-dressing
the issues, but it is definitely some-thing
that should be considered and we’re cer-tainly
going to look into it,” Parsons said.
The first 200 students on Cater Lawn at noon
TODAY will get their FREE BEAT GEORGIA shirt!
Bring your SAA membership card.
Auburn Alumni Center, 317 S. College Street (next to Fiji)
BEAT
GEORGIA!
Students have been signing the Samford
clock tower for decades, but the tradition has
experienced a few setbacks along the way
Orchestra plays live music for
AU Swing Dance Association
Becky Hardy
Campus Associate Editor
Even though Auburn
Knights Orchestra has been
around since the 1930s, it still
has a swing in its step.
The nonprofit organization’s
mission is to promote the spir-it
of big band jazz music and
carry on its legacy.
The orchestra combined
forces with Auburn’s Swing
Dance Association Friday, Nov.
2 by throwing a swing dance
and live jazz music event.
“The band is comprised pri-marily
of Auburn University
students in addition to other
musicians in the East Alabama
area,” said Jeremy Leff, public-ity
manager for the event and
saxophone player in orchestra.
The hour of instruction be-fore
free dance started was
well-needed, with most of the
attendees being first-time
swing dancers.
“I’ve never been swing danc-ing
before, so when my friends
invited me to come and I
thought it would be fun,” said
Tom Rogers, freshman in soft-ware
engineering.
Others had a little bit of ex-perience
under their belts and
wanted to come back for more.
“During my freshman year,
I went swing dancing with a
bunch of friends at the Auburn
swing dancing club,” said Lee-
Anne Brantley, sophomore in
social work.
Brantley said she likes the
atmosphere of the events.
“I really like the music,”
Brantley said. “It’s really laid
back. The dancing is a lot of
fun, and it’s a really comfort-able
environment.”
For the two instructors at
the event, love bloomed on the
dance floor.
“I joined the association in
2002 when I came to school,
and I met Chris in the associa-tion,”
said Laura Olds, instruc-tor
with Auburn swing dance
association. “And we are now
married.”
Chris Olds, faculty adviser
for Auburn swing dance asso-ciation,
likes the technicality
of swing dancing.
“Sort of as an engineer, the
balance and the logic behind it
really attracted me to it,” Chris
said. “It’s set, I know what to do
and I can have a plan and just
do it.”
Laura said dancing has al-ways
been in her life.
“I grew up dancing, and I al-ways
loved it,” Laura said. “I
just always wanted to learn
how to swing dance, because
I loved the history behind it.
Also, the 90s GAP khaki com-mercial
made it look like a lot
of fun.”
Laura said she has met
many different people through
the association.
“I have friends from all over
the world that I can dance
with,” Laura said. “The turn out
was bigger than I imagined. I
think a lot of people came just
for the music.”
The association holds danc-ing
events from 7–9 p.m. at the
Jan Dempsey Arts Center. The
first hour is for instruction and
the second is for free dance.
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S amford
Signatures
Rebecca Moseley / Writer
Behind the clock faces of Sam-ford
tower are thousands of
student signatures.
““We are pursuing public
tours again, but the timing
is something we are unsure
about at this time because
of the safety concerns.”
—Teresa Whitman-McCall
director of campus and community events
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As technology like the iPad
2, iPad Mini and various tab-lets
that can hold hundreds
of books in a single device be-come
more and more accessi-ble,
some may wonder if the age
of physical books and newspa-pers
is coming to an end.
I doubt it.
Although the organization
and compactness a tablet can
offer is intriguing, I, for one, will
never lose the love of flipping
each page of a book or being
engulfed by a newspaper twice
my size.
Yes, it is nice to have all your
favorite novels and poems on
one device, but who can even
read 43 books in one plane ride
anyway?
Some may argue newspaper
publications are losing lots of
customers to online editions,
but I know there are a great
number of people still out there
who cannot substitute that
Sunday morning coffee and
newspaper read with scrolling
through a website.
Reading the funnies online is
just not the same.
Books will also never go out
of style for more of a superficial
reason.
When walking into some-one’s
home, it is human nature
to judge the homeowner a little
by what his or her house con-tains.
If you see the house cluttered
with books and newspapers,
you can be fair to assume they
are caught up on what is go-ing
on in the world and are cul-tured
by the amount of books
on their shelf.
Replacing all of those books
and articles for a single tablet
may leave you more space, but
it could also leave a house look-ing
empty.
If everyone substitutes phys-ical
reading material for a slim
piece of plastic, then what are
they to do with all of the books
that are already in their posses-sion?
Throw them away just like
we did with our old VHS tapes?
The world is becoming more
technology-friendly, but I be-lieve
we will never have to as-sume
that books and newspa-pers
will share the same fate as
audio cassettes and VHS tapes.
Books, newspapers and
magazines will forever hold in-formation
that is not already
in an online form. It would
take too much time and effort
to transfer everything that has
ever been printed to an online
source.
Libraries can offer free time
with the characters you love
or can teach you the next best
pumpkin pie recipe. Transcrib-ing
all of those books and ar-ticles
into a computer system
would cost more than it would
be worth.
If libraries were to become
online-based, they would have
to spend money on more com-puters
to offer people the same
chance to read their favorite
novels as they do now.
Although the allure of
NOOKs and tablets is increas-ing,
have no fear – books will
never disappear.
Plus, no one ever said you
could get cancer from a book.
After what seems like years of non-stop
campaigning, speeches, rallies
and visits, the presidential election is
finally over.
I don’t think it is necessary to do all
that campaigning. The constant, in-your-
face “I approved this message”
commercials and news coverage is
exhausting and, frankly, obnoxious.
When running for prime minister
in Great Britain, candidates are only
allowed to start campaigning three
months before the election. They
have a cap on the amount of mon-ey
they are allowed to spend on their
campaign, and anything they put out
on the streets, in yards and on build-ings
has to be taken down almost im-mediately
after the election.
I want to know why America has
not adopted this mindset when it
comes to elections. Honestly, think
about how much money President
Obama and Gov. Romney spent on
their campaigns. Then, think about
how often they both talked about the
significance of the national debt.
In a Nov. 4 article “2012 ad blitz:
big money, smaller audience” by Beth
Fouhy from Businessweek showed
that Romney and Obama’s combined
television ads cost more than $1 bil-lion.
That is $1 billion just on one mil-lion
television ads, not the total sum
spent on the entire campaign.
And, that sum does not count the
money both spent to pay their cam-paign
staff, travel and buy their pro-motional
items such as T-shirts, yard
signs, buttons, etc.
Obama wants the rich to “pay a lit-tle
more” in taxes to help the nation-al
debt, and Romney wants to cut un-necessary
spending from the budget.
However, if each candidate had giv-en
what he spent on campaigning to
the government to aid the national
debt, imagine how much that money
would help.
Both men are independent-ly
wealthy, and both are hypocriti-cal
and irresponsible to spend the
amount of money they did on their
campaigns. Especially after preach-ing
their strategies to decrease the
national debts, they turn around and
spend billions.
The old cliché works nicely here:
actions speak louder than words.
I’m also happy the election is over
because it means I’ll stop hearing
about celebrities who suddenly think
they’re the experts in politics.
After almost two years of cam-paigning,
it is finally over. Bandwagon
politicos will go back to caring more
about what ridiculous thing a celebri-ty
did for attention this week instead
of pretending to be experts on each
candidate’s policies and character.
The entire campaign process is
filled with ridiculous notions about
how to gain voters. Focusing on niche
groups and trying to put down the
opposing candidate, the election has
turned into more of a popularity con-test.
I couldn’t care less if the president
of the United States is popular. I want
a president who knows what he or
she is doing, someone who under-stands
the economy, the military, for-eign
policy, domestic affairs and the
Constitution.
I’d rather hear the truth and what
they plan to do.
The election has progressed to the
equivalent of a two-year campaign for
popularity. The amount of time and
money spent on being elected is in-conceivable.
So, yes, I think the British have it
right. There should be a limit on the
time allowed for campaigning and a
limit for funds. That way, politicians
spend time actually doing their jobs
instead of thinking ahead to the next
election.
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Exorbitant campaign spending sign of candidates’ hypocrisy
Technology no substitute for books
Since the announce-ment
of Disney’s $4 billion
purchase of Lucasfilm, fan-boys
(and girls) have been
taking over the Internet
with overwhelming opin-ions
on the matter.
As a self proclaimed
“Star Wars” fangirl, I feel
as passionately as the next
nerd, but is this change re-ally
a negative one?
Everyone and their
grandmother knows the
Disney name and instant-ly
assumes this change
will mean Princess Leia
will be sitting between
Snow White and Cinderel-la
down at the Magic King-dom.
As well publicized as
this change has been, peo-ple
don’t realize just home
much property Disney ac-tually
owns.
Along with Lucasfilms,
they’ve recently acquired
Marvel as well as own-ing
other companies like
ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Hyper-ion
Books and Touchstone
Pictures. These assets, plus
all the channels, resorts,
theme parks, merchan-dising,
and more, show
that Disney’s doing pretty
well. All that aside, $4 bil-lion
is not a small chunk
of change to spend on any-thing.
I’d like to imagine
Disney has a plan for the
upcoming trilogy if they
invested so much money.
Seeing how these other as-sets
have fared, Lucasfilms
should return to the glort
of the original triliogy as a
profitable company.
While ‘purist’ fans might
find this acquisition un-acceptable,
let’s just take
a look back at what was
accomplished under Lu-cas
in the past 13 years.
He brought us a CGI world
filled with the universe’s
most obnoxious charac-ter,
clunky dialogue that
made some truly great ac-tors
seem terrible and the
worst seem ever worse (I’m
talking to you, Mr. Chris-tensen).
Don’t forget the
re-release in 3-D, because
nothing makes me truly
thankful for a lack of depth
perception than Jar Jar
Binks in an extra dimen-sion.
Disney has been around
long enough to see how Lu-cas
has infuriated every
single fan and will proba-bly
take a few measures to
remedy his mistakes.
If it wants a chance, it
should just follow this for-mula:
— Start with a story
that isn’t just a New Hope
remake. Lucas claims he
planned for six more mov-ies
with different charac-ters
and worlds, but he’s
been known to have a very
lax grasp on the term “orig-inal.”
— Put the right person
behind the script and cam-era.
I know Joss Whedon
is in an exclusive contract
with Marvel, but as it’s an-other
Disney property I’m
sure they can find a loop-hole.
— While developing the
newest movies, any direc-tor
can avoid Lucas’s faux
pas by combining actual
sets with CGI rather than
relying on green screen
worlds to do all the story-telling.
With great technol-ogy
comes great responsi-bility.
— With some, hopefully,
new characters, whoever is
in the director chair should
bring in some fresh talent.
Especially after the weak,
flat love interest of Pad-me,
I’m sure some actress-es
like Jennifer Lawrence,
Anne Hathaway or Chloe
Moretz would be able to
rock a lightsaber (because
there have definitely been a
lack of ladies in the Jedi Or-der,
just saying).
— While there will be a
slew of Episode VII mer-chandise
hitting stores
around 2015, the best gift
would be the original tril-ogy
Blue Ray without the
digital enhancements (es-pecially
the Hayden Chris-tensen
ghost). This would
be the final peace offering,
helping us all forget that Jar
Jar Binks ever happened.
Rachel
Suhs
Design@
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com
When you
wish upon a
Death Star
For the past year, we’ve been arguing about
some of the dumbest issues to reach national
attention since Kim Kardashian’s sex tape. We
all know the economy is circling the drain and
should take precedence, yet we can’t seem to
stop getting flustered over religious nonsense
and civil rights questions that should have
been settled years ago. But that is all over, for a
little while anyway.
So where do we go from here?
Congress, the men and women who can ac-tually
affect the way things go during the next
four years, hasn’t really changed. The Dem-ocrats
control the Senate and Republicans
control the House of Representatives, and
they hate each other just as much as they al-ways
have. Much of the political gridlock that
has occured during President Barack Obama’s
first term came from the extreme polarization
of these two legislative bodies.
Democrats blame Republicans for the mess
our country is in, and Republicans have spent
so much time trying to get President Obama
out of office their party has turned into a hol-low
caricature of what it used to be. We all have
our political alliances, but hopefully the more
clear-minded among us can see the harmful
tendencies of partisan politics.
Maybe the mood in Washington will be dif-ferent
this time around. Without the burn-den
of trying to win a second term, President
Obama could focus his time and energy on ral-lying
Congress to do some actual work.
Is it too much to ask our elected officials to
do their job? We don’t think so.
Sure, conservatives are upset, which they
the right to be, but that is no reason we can’t
bury the hatchet and prevent a catastrophic
economic collapse. Believe it or not, it doesn’t
matter who the president is when it comes to
our nation’s ability to achieve great things. If
we were able to work together, a potato could
run the country.
It may not be ideal for some people, but we
need to forget about the division of the past
four years. If your candidate won, good for you;
if not, better luck next time. The most impor-tant
thing right now is our ability to work to-gether
for the good of the nation, not just our
superficial political party.
We want to wish Pres. Obama the best of
luck, but we know it’s going to take a serious
group effort to make things better. Our coop-eration
is our redemption.
Cooperation
is the key to
America’s
success
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Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
Plant a seedling and watch
it grow.
As a part of the Arbor Day
Foundation’s program Tree
City USA, the City of Auburn
did just that when it founded
the Auburn Tree Commission.
The Auburn Tree Commis-sion
is a group of people ded-icated
to the wellbeing of the
trees planted in the city.
Tree City USA’s mission is
to provide direction, techni-cal
assistance, public atten-tion
and national direction for
the forestry programs in cur-rently
3,400 Tree City USAs,
according to the Arbor Day
Foundation website.
“One of the requirements
of Tree City USA is you have to
have a tree board or tree com-mission,”
said Art Chappelka,
chairman of the Tree Com-mission
and Auburn Univer-sity
forestry professor. “Gen-erally,
we’re a voluntary orga-nization.”
Made up of nine members,
the Auburn Tree Commission
is focused on overseeing the
protection of trees in Auburn,
promoting and increasing the
tree population and educat-ing
the citizens of Auburn on
the care and maintenance of
trees.
“We are a voluntary orga-nization
through the city,”
Chappelka said. “We are vol-unteers,
citizens of all differ-ent
kinds of backgrounds. Our
role, generally, is to act as a li-aison
from the city to the gen-eral
public. We can make rec-ommendations.
We do vari-ous
public education type of
activities. We do various ser-vice
activities such as honor
Arbor Day, things like that.”
Although the Tree Com-mission
acts as a liaison, the
actual maintenance of the
trees in Auburn falls to the
city of Auburn Parks and Rec-reation
Department.
The Tree Commission’s
yearly calendar is filled with
three major events: the
Christmas Parade, Arbor Day
and Cityfest.
Chappelka said these
events are always fun because
the Commission interacts
with the public and gets to
give away tree seedlings and
occasionally larger trees.
“We always give out trees,
and it’s a nice service,” Chap-pelka
said. “It has been high-ly
successful. We have people
every year come by and tell us
how their trees are doing. It’s
great.”
At its last meeting on Fri-day,
Nov. 2, the Tree Com-mission
discussed its upcom-ing
tree giveaways at the Sat-urday,
Dec. 15 Christmas Pa-rade.
“In the past, we’ve giv-en
away a large species and
a small species,” said James
Jennings, City of Auburn’s Ur-ban
Forester. “This year, we’re
giving away a thousand dog-woods.”
During the tree giveaways,
the Tree Commission has sev-eral
locations throughout the
city for people to come and re-ceive
one.
“If people want trees, we
give them to them,” Chappel-ka
said. “We give maybe two
trees each. It’s for the citi-zens
of Auburn. Anybody that
wants a tree, if we have them,
we’ll give them a tree.”
The Auburn Tree Commis-sion
gives out an award ev-ery
year to promote tree edu-cation.
“Through our Golden Leaf
award, we hope we can gen-erate
support from the pub-lic
and educate the public,”
Chappelka said.
The Tree Commission em-phasizes
the education of
proper tree care at these
events and throughout the
year.
Along with providing pam-phlets
through the city, the
Tree Commission also pro-vides
handouts.
“I think education is very
important,” Chappelka said.
“The more people know about
a subject, in this case trees, it
helps maintain a healthy, vi-brant
forest. One of our goals
in a vibrant city is to maintain
a good, healthy tree canopy.”
Chappelka said it is impor-tant
to understand trees and
understand that proper care
and maintenance adds to the
quality of the community.
“Trees can be assets or lia-bilities,”
Chappelka said. “We
try to encourage people to un-derstand
trees, what their as-sets
are, that it’s valuable to
preserve trees, it’s valuable to
maintain the health of these
trees.”
Auburn’s tree huggers
A step back in time
Annie Faulk
Writer
Take a step back in time
to a place where pioneers of
Lee County lived. This time
comes to life with Second
Saturday, a celebration and
recreation of Lee County’s
history.
Pioneer Park in Loachapo-ka
is hosting Second Satur-day
Nov. 10 from 10 a.m.–3
p.m., and it will be free and
open to the public.
The event is sponsored by
the Lee County Historical So-ciety
to share in local history.
Charles Mitchell, the
group’s vice president, said
the event began six years ago.
The goal of the group at the
event’s founding was to keep
the Society’s museums open
to the public and allow more
opportunities for locals to
learn about the area’s history.
“Local history belongs to
everyone,” said Mitchell, who
is also an Auburn agrono-my
and soils professor. “For
those who grew up here, it is
your family and your inheri-tance.
For those who have ad-opted
East Alabama as your
home, it helps explain the
culture and traditions of the
region. Getting involved is
the best way to learn history.”
November’s Second Sat-urday
will feature a book fair
presented by local authors.
The book fair will feature
nine authors who will dis-cuss
and sign copies of their
books.
Also, the Auburn-Ope-lika
Men’s Camellia Club
will decorate The Old Trade
Center Museum, built circa
1845, with varieties of locally
grown camellias.
“I think it is important for
any person, anywhere they
live, to know about the local
culture and the history be-hind
it,” said Deborah Mc-
Cord, secretary of the Lee
County Historical Society.
“It just helps us connect with
events that happened in our
history and, for a lot of us
who live where our ancestors
lived, to make a connection
with them.”
The Second Saturday for
October included a scare-crow-
making workshop.
In December, the focus will
be “Christmas on the Home-stead.”
Mitchell said each time
is made different by featur-ing
various aspects of the lo-cal
history or culture, but also
incorporating events that oc-cur
every Second Saturday.
“The short drive down
Highway 14 to Pioneer Park
in Loachapoka takes you
back to a semblance of life in
Lee County when most peo-ple,
even the town folk, lived
lives connected to agricul-ture,”
said Lan Lipscomb,
board member of the Lee
County Historical Society.
“The mid-19th century is our
focus, but our exhibits cover
a much wider range.”
Pioneer Park has artifacts
from the Creek Indians who
inhabited Loachapoka and
Civil War events.
The Historical Society has
recreated a Creek hunting
camp and are currently reas-sembling
a log cabin similar
to the ones built by Creeks.
“This was an era of hard
and often manual work, but it
was an era of rapid improve-ments
and mechanization
of agricultural and domes-tic
life,” Lipscomb said. “You
can come out there and get
a glimpse of lives lived very
differently from our own, but
you’ll also detect the connec-tions
still remaining to lives
of people from five or more
generations back.”
Every Second Saturday
features blacksmiths, tex-tile
workers, log cabin cooks
and gardens to demonstrate
their trade, and the textile
guild teaches spinning, weav-ing
and other textile arts and
crafts.
Around meal time, of-ten
the Lee County Histori-cal
Society will prepare a pi-oneer
meal over the log cab-in’s
open hearth, similar to
the way the early Alabama
settlers did.
In the afternoons, the
Whistle Stop Pickers, a dulci-mer
group, performs.
“In fact, Second Satur-days
are really about having
a good time — just for fun
— while learning about lo-cal
history, culture and tradi-tions,”
Mitchell said.
Courtesy of Auburn Tree Commission
Above: The Tree Commission at Auburn CityFest. Auburn CityFest is
a free, outdoor festival held in April each year. The Tree Commission
always sets up a booth to distribute information, seedlings and stick-ers
for the kids. Below: Tree Commission’s Arbor Day Tree Giveaway.
The Commission distributes free tree seedlings at local businesses.
Lee Co. Historical Society hosts Second Saturday
Rac hel Suhs / Design Editor
Local chefs help March of Dimes save prematurely born babies
Sonya Lovejoy
Community Reporter
The Auburn University
Club is bringing together the
top chefs in East Alabama to
showcase its culinary mas-terpieces
and raise money to
support the March of Dimes.
The club is hosting the Inau-gural
Signature Chefs Auction
of East Alabama Tuesday, Nov.
13.
In addition to the mouthwa-tering
cuisine sampling, this
event also offers a generous
sampling of fine wines, enter-tainment,
a silent auction and
a live auction.
Linda Gross, senior com-munity
director of the March
of Dimes Alabama chapter,
said November is Prematurity
Awareness Month. This event
is crucial because “monies
raised by this event will sup-port
our mission to improve
the health of babies by pre-venting
birth defects, prema-ture
birth and infant mortali-ty,”
Gross said. “This is a great
opportunity to help people
understand our mission and
our fight to give every baby a
healthy start in life.”
Approximately 150 guests
will dine on dishes from 12–
15 local chefs. The participat-ing
eateries at this event in-clude
Arricia, Amsterdam
Cafe, Irish Bred Pub, Maestro
2300, Hamilton’s on Magnolia,
Clubhouse at Auburn, Univer-sity
Club, Jimmy’s, Zazu Gas-tropub,
SpringHouse and Ala-gasco
Preferred Chef.
The silent auction, cuisine
sampling and wine and beer
tasting will begin at 6 p.m.
The auction will include items
such as an original Willi-Nil-li
handbag and gift card from
The Villager, an original Kathy
Miller painting, jewelry from
Marquirette’s, Pure Barre one
month unlimited sessions,
Foodie gift basket from Au-burn
Opelika Tourism Bureau,
long weekend stay at a con-do
in Panama City, and much
more. Additionally, each chef
is donating special packages.
The silent auction will be
followed by the live auction at
7 p.m.
The live auction will fea-ture
items such as an original
James Dean painting of Sam-ford
Hall donated by The Vil-lager.
Dean is an alumnus of
Auburn University and is fa-mous
for his “Pete the Cat”
paintings.
The East Alabama March
ambassador family is Chris,
Hamilton and Inman Moore,
who will be sharing their sto-ry
at the event. After prema-turely
giving birth to their son,
Inman, the Moore family ex-perienced
the benefits of the
March of Dimes.
“Because so many people
before us have stood where
you are and supported the
March of Dimes, we have the
happy ending every parent
dreams of,” Moore said. “Thank
you for caring, and thank you
for supporting the March of
Dimes Signature Chefs Auc-tion.
We are forever grateful.”
Money raised at the event
will support research and pro-grams
designed to improve
the health of babies. This is ac-complished
by preventing pre-mature
birth, birth defects and
infant mortality in Alabama.
According to Gross, more
than 500,000 babies will be
born premature this year in
the United States. In Alabama,
one in six babies is born too
soon, often struggling to sur-vive.
The current percentage
of premature births in Ala-bama
is 15.6.
“The March of Dimes 2020
goal is to achieve a prema-ture
rate of 9.6 or less in ev-ery
state,” Gross said. “On Nov.
13, the March of Dimes will re-lease
the fifth Annual Prema-ture
Birth Cards for each state
and the nation. Every year ,Al-abama
has received a grade F.
We’re hopeful this year’s report
card will show improvement
in the state.”
You can support the March
of Dimes in this mission by
purchasing tickets to the
event.
Individual tickets are $75
each or $150 per couple. Cock-tail
or business attire is pre-ferred.
For more informa-tion
on tickets, sponsorships
or how you can help, you can
contact Linda Gross at (334)
513-7381 or lgross@mar-chofdimes.
com.
Rac hel Suhs / Design Editor Courtesy of the March of Dimes
Community A6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 8, 2012
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
The Auburn Fire Depart-ment
is making sure no one is
burning down the house.
Because of a Red Flag Warn-ing
issued by the Nation-al
Weather Service, the Au-burn
Fire Department decid-ed
to suspend all open burning
permits until further notice,
said Deputy Fire Chief Rodney
Hartsfield of the Auburn Fire
Division.
“Because of the lack of rain
we’ve had, the very low hu-midity
and low fuel moisture,
which means everything is
very dry, we felt it necessary to
go ahead and issue a no burn,”
Hartsfield said. “That means
we’re not going to be writing
any burn permits or allowing
any open burning until condi-tions
change.”
Effective Monday, Oct. 29,
the “no burn order” is not like-ly
to be revoked until condi-tions
return to favorable.
“When all that happens,
all the fuel, not gasoline, but
leaves and limbs and brush,
gets really dry and brittle,”
Hartsfield said. “Because of
that, if a fire starts, it spreads
rapidly. It grows really big,
quick. It was necessary based
off the Red Flag Warning, and
our current conditions; just
wanting to be proactive, we
issued a no burn until condi-tions
change.”
The NWS issues a Red Flag
Warning when it thinks the
conditions are favorable for
fires to grow rapidly and get
out of hand in a city or town.
“If a citizen wishes to burn
on their property, leaves, limbs
or things like that, they con-tact
us and we come out and
inspect that site,” Hartsfield
said. “There’s certain criteria
that they have to adhere to be-fore
they’re allowed to burn,
and if they adhere to all of it,
then we write them a burn
permit.”
The criteria for a burn per-mit
is that the fire has to be
500 feet from any building or
structure and citizens are only
allowed to burn things such as
leaves and limbs. Citizens are
not permitted to burn trash.
Hartsfield said when some-one
has a burn permit, it
means the fire department
has inspected their area and
approved them to burn; how-ever,
they have to call the fire
department for approval be-fore
they light a fire.
This does not apply to all
outdoor fires, however.
“Things like grills, outdoor
fire places, things people pur-chase
at the store, things of
that nature don’t fall into this
category because they’re going
to be burning in equipment
designed to keep the fire con-tained,”
Hartsfield said.
This is not the first time the
Auburn Fire Department has
suspended open burning.
Whenever the conditions
are unfavorable to fire con-tainment,
it is suspended to
protect the community, Harts-field
said.
“Our overall concern is the
safety of the community and
the citizens and protecting
the property,” Hartsfield said.
“When we feel it necessary
based off weather conditions,
we make this decision.”
Once conditions improve,
Hartsfield said the Fire De-partment
will end the suspen-sion
and allow open burning
again, but until then the ban
is in the best interests of the
community.
“As soon as weather condi-tions
change and we get some
rain in, we’ll lift the no burn,”
Hartsfield said. “But right now,
we feel it is safer for the com-munity
as a whole if we don’t
allow it.”
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The Auburn Fire Dept. is stop-ping
all open burning permits
due to a Red Flag from the NWS.
Fire Dept., NWS
say Auburn
not yet safe
for open fires
Thursday, November 8, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Community A7
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what you’d likely
have if you said
this puzzle’s four
longest answers
5 Concerning
9 Frequent settler
13 Online “Seems to
me ...”
14 Mother of Judah
15 After-school treat
16 Weeded
carelessly?
19 __ glance
20 Dote on
21 Stop from
spreading
23 Short
25 Arctic diver
27 Jurist in ’90s
news
28 Editor’s rejection
of a tribute?
33 Basketball Hall of
Famer
Robertson
34 Like Olympic
pools
35 Maker of Golf
Street shoes
38 Instruction on a
cap
41 Some NFL
linemen
42 Type of vb.
44 1950s war site
46 Provoke Olympic
winners?
50 Channel for a
spree
51 __ chi
52 Ward and others
55 Disapproving
utterances
57 Unpleasant
laugh
61 “Either you do it,
__ will!”
62 Purchased, then
altered?
65 Mystique
66 Word with cast
and shadow
67 Fictional sailor
68 MapQuest data:
Abbr.
69 Sussex stable
area
70 See 1-Across
DOWN
1 Drummer’s pair
of cymbals
2 Frustrate the
director, perhaps
3 Informal bridge
opening
4 Pentagon org.
5 Inventing middle
name
6 Feel
7 Rain delay sight
8 “We’ll just see
about that!”
9 “I’m such an idiot!”
10 “Topaz” novelist
11 Conscious
12 Simultaneously
17 Summer
Olympics
equipment
18 Hard to debate
22 They might
swing
24 Chased away
26 __-El:
Superman’s birth
name
29 Canadian
Thanksgiving mo.
30 Raven relative
31 Slezak with six
Daytime Emmys
32 Leave
35 Figure on the ice
36 Placekicker’s
target
37 Produce
prolifically
39 Answer to a
prob.
40 Ad starter?
43 Clock-setting std.
45 Almost half a
glass?
47 Per
48 Microscopic alga
49 ESPN effect
53 Staggering
54 Went (with)
56 “Why not”
58 Give
59 Wasn’t guessing
60 Country runners:
Abbr.
63 Hot air
64 Corner key
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The City of Auburn’s Infor-mation
Technology Depart-ment
has released a new ver-sion
of its web-based interac-tive
map.
The city will offer two free
seminars to train the public
on its use and to help residents
discover all the information
available at their fingertips.
This system is a new version
of the city’s web-based inter-active
map and has taken the
place of the existing General
Interactive Map.
Residents can use the COA
map to see their property
information and parcel
lines; determine their voting
ward, voting location and
City Council representative;
determine their school district;
show their proximity to flood
plains and much more.
Auburn plans to add inte-gration
of live camera feeds,
emergency equipment loca-tions,
room capacities and
other relevant campus infor-mation.
Auburn’s GIS Manager,
Christopher Graff, explained
that citizens currently use the
COA map for a multitude of
things.
“Students and staff at Au-burn
University use it in class
projects; citizens use it to dis-cover
where to vote, what day
of the week garbage pickup is
and to investigate how their
property has changed over
time.”
Graff will lead the two
workshops.
The format will be a brief in-troduction
to the City’s GIS Di-vision,
including what they do
and how they do it. Graff will
then give a formal demo of the
COA Map to show the various
tools, capabilities and infor-mation
available.
The training will be followed
up with a question and answer
session. Graff then plans to di-vide
up the citizens “and al-low
folks to try the application
for themselves on a number of
computers we’ll have set up,”
Graff said.
The City of Auburn’s Infor-mation
Technology Depart-ment
will host these seminars
Nov. 6, from 5:30–6:30 p.m. and
November 13, from 3–4 p.m.
There are no prerequisites
or background needed to at-tend.
Graff hopes for the work-shops
to be “comfortable and
relaxed, and non-technical in
nature, so that we might pres-ent
the application to as wide
an audience as possible.”
There will be staff members
available to address specific or
technical questions.
Each will be held in the
City of Auburn Meeting Room
located at 122 Tichenor
Avenue.
City maps continue to expand
APD, ABC address underage drinking on Halloween
Rebecca Moseley
Writer
There are few things scari-er
for underage students than
being caught drinking or us-ing
a fake I.D.
But this Halloween, the Au-burn
Police Department and
bar security staffs buckled in
to protect citizens by reduc-ing
the use of alcohol and fake
identification of underage
goons and goblins.
For most bars downtown,
Wednesday night is desig-nated
for drink specials such
as $3 32 oz. mixed drinks at
Quixote’s and penny beers at
Bourbon Street Bar.
Therefore, much more
business is generated and the
chance of underage drinking
is higher, especially during
the fall when more people vis-it
from out of town.
“To be honest, we’ve had
game days and other days of
the night that are just as busy,”
said Sgt. Todd Hall of the Al-coholic
Beverage Control En-forcement
Division. “There
are a lot of kids out, but it’s
just another night.”
Hall said although Hallow-een
does bring an influx of
people to the bar scene down-town,
the number of patrol-ling
ABC officers remains the
same as a normal night.
However, the Auburn Po-lice
Department adjusts ac-cordingly,
according to Capt.
James Tatum.
“We typically bring in extra
officers for Halloween, just in
case,” Tatum said. “We don’t
foresee any problems but we
want to protect the citizens
of Auburn as well as the kids
trick-or-treating, so we have
several officers downtown
and patrolling the neighbor-hoods.”
Tatum said even though
many more events and cel-ebrations
for the Halloween
holiday occur, the Police De-partment
did not see any
more underage drinking ac-tivity
or use of fake identifica-tion
than usual.
“We had a pretty good
night,” Tatum said. “No dif-ferent
than any other fall
Wednesday night in Auburn.”
Tatum said those found us-ing
false identification, or a
forged instrument in the third
degree, may be issued a non-traffic
citation that amounts
to a court appearance or a
fine being levied.
Also, when officers come
across someone who has been
drinking under age and is
publicly intoxicated, the sus-pect
is arrested for doing so.
“They are violating the law,
so we definitely address it,”
Tatum said. “We have a zero
tolerance for underage drink-ers.”
For example an intoxicat-ed
underage customer in cos-tume
at Bourbon Street bar
repeatedly attempted to pur-chase
alcoholic beverages
from multiple bartenders, ac-cording
to Chris Singleton, a
bartender of the top-level bar.
Singleton said he refused
to sell alcohol to the custom-er
several times because of
the large, black X symbols on
each of his hands indicating
he was not of age.
Singleton said he later
spotted the underage custom-er
with a beer in his hand and
asked the customer to leave
after confiscating it.
“He got offended and re-fused,
so the bouncers had to
come remove him from the
bar,” Singleton said.
“They are violating
the law, so we
definitely address
it. We have a
zero tolerance
for underage
drinkers.”
—Capt. James Tatum
Auburn Police
Community A8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 8, 2012
Sports B1
Thursday, November 8, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Sports
By the numbers
New Mexico State vs. Auburn
311
That’s how many rushing yards Auburn raked in
against New Mexico State last week. Running backs
Onterio McCalebb and Tre Mason combined for
265 yards on the ground. Mason had 152 yards and
a touchdown on 22 carries, while McCalebb had
113 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries.
With a freshman quarterback, the Tigers will need
to continue to establish the run if they are going to
have any chance of success. Auburn has had more
than 200 yards rushing only twice this season, and
it is no surprise that both times the Tigers have won
their games. Auburn had 255 yards against Louisiana
Monroe.
6
Auburn’s team scored more times than it had all sea-son,
with five offensive touchdowns and one defen-sive
score. Before playing New Mexico State, the most
points Auburn had scored was 31 against Louisiana
Monroe. The common factor is that Auburn has de-feated
both teams. The Tigers scored their first defen-sive
touchdown of the season when Daren Bates re-turned
a fumble 62 yards in the third quarter. Auburn
also racked up five more touchdowns on offense. Four
of the touchdowns were scored by runningbacks On-tario
McCalebb, Tre Mason and fullback Jay Prosch.
The final offensive touchdown was a 40-yard passing
connection from freshman quarterback Jonathan
Wallace to Trovon Reed.
1
Auburn’s defense gave up only one touchdown last
week against New Mexico State. The 2-yard rushing
touchdown was scored late, and the game was well in
the Tigers’ hands by the time the Aggies found paydirt.
Auburn’s defense allowed New Mexico State 83
yards on the ground. This is the fewest rushing yards
Auburn has allowed all season. Actually, the next
best game the Tigers had in rush defense was against
Arkansas where they allowed 116. Looking forward to
the last three games of the season, Auburn will need
to have similarly good run defense against stronger
football teams such as Georgia and Alabama. More
importantly, the Tigers will need to stop the offenses of
these teams from finding the end zone.
Cam Newton – (QB, Carolina Panthers)
Completed 13-of-23 passes for 201 yards and a touchdown. Ran for
37 yards and a touchdown on eight carries. W CAR 21 - WSH 13
Quentin Groves – (LB, Arizona Cardinals)
Three tackles. L GB 31 - ARI 17
Devin Aromashodu – (WR,Minnesota Vikings)
No receptions. L SEA 30 - L MIN 20
Rob Bironas – (PK, Tennessee Titans)
Made his only field goal attempt. L CHI 51 - TEN 20
Sen’Derrick Marks – (DT, Tennessee Titans)
Five tackles. L CHI 51 - TEN 20
Takeo Spikes – (LB, San Diego Chargers)
Five tackles. W SD 31 - KC 13
Jerraud Powers – (CB, Indianapolis Colts)
Three tackles. W IND 23 - MIA 20
Spencer Johnson – (DE, Buffalo Bills)
One tackle. L HOU 21 - BUF 9
Nick Fairley – (DT, Detroit Lions)
Three tackles. W DET 31 - JAC 14
Jay Ratliff – (DT, Dallas Cowboys)
No tackles. L ATL 19 - DAL 13
Pat Lee – (DB, Oakland Raiders)
Four tackles. L TB 42 - OAK 32
Jason Campbell – (QB, Chicago Bears)
No stats. W CHI 51 - TEN 20
Will Herring – (LB, New Orleans Saints)
No stats. W NO 28 - PHI 13
Karlos Dansby – (LB, Miami Dolphins)
Nine tackles (six solo) and a pass deflection. L IND 23 - MIA 20
Ronnie Brown – (RB, San Diego Chargers)
Totaled 73 rushing yards. W SD 31 - KC 13
Byes this week: Arizona linebacker Quentin
Groves.
Injuries: San Francisco running back Brandon
Jacobs was on a bye, but is still nursing a knee
injury that has plagued him from the start of the
season. Cincinnati defensive tackle Pat Sims re-mains
on the Physically Unable to Perform list
with an ankle injury. Houston running back Ben
Tate was benched for the second straight week
because of a hamstring injury.
Injured reserve:
Tristan Davis – (RB, Washington Redskins)
Mario Fannin – (RB, Denver Broncos)
Brandon Mosley – (OG, New York Giants)
Lee Ziemba – (OT, Carolina Panthers)
Auburn in the NFL
The home team has two victories,
and the away team has one loss.
On paper, that sums up how the
meeting between the Georgia Bull-dogs
and the Auburn Tigers is like-ly
to go.
Georgia has had an excellent sea-son
and is in a prime position to win
the SEC East, while Auburn has had
a dismal season and has everything
to gain by ruining its oldest rival’s
chances of an SEC championship.
The Bulldogs have shown they can
be beaten though, and not just to a
team like South Carolina.
Georgia allowed Kentucky, who
has an even worse record than Au-burn,
to score 24 points. The Bulldogs
edged the Wildcats by putting up 29.
The Deep South’s Oldest Rival-ry
game is not one that will be tak-en
lightly for either side, because it
never has been, and both teams are
almost even through the matchup’s
history.
The Tigers have won 54 meetings
to Georgia’s 53, which means this
weekend the Bulldogs could even the
series with Auburn for the first time
since 1987.
The Bulldogs are coming off a
home victory against an Ole Miss
team that soundly beat the Tigers
earlier in the year and have now
reeled off three victories in a row af-ter
being routed by South Carolina.
Auburn, meanwhile, crushed New
Mexico State 42–7 Saturday, Nov. 3,
and though the Aggies are not even
close to being comparable with Geor-gia,
a victory in a season with pre-cious
few wins could do wonders for
the confidence of the Auburn team
and coaches.
Last Saturday, Auburn shook
things up again at quarterback and
elected to start freshman Jonathan
Wallace, who has seen some playing
time this season in a wildcat offen-sive
style, but never had been thrust
into a game as the undisputed offen-sive
leader.
Wallace’s offense seemed to work
well, but whether it will thrive against
a team such as Georgia is another
matter entirely.
Georgia does not have the best
overall defense in the SEC, and it al-lows
almost 5 yards a play and more
than 341 yards a game.
Its scoring defense, however, ranks
at 25th in the nation and allows only
20.9 points per game.
The real story has been Georgia’s
offense, which is led by veteran quar-terback
Aaron Murray.
Murray has now seen three years
worth of SEC defenses, and this sea-son
in particular he has thrived with
almost 2,500 passing yards, 21 touch-downs
and 9.75 yards per attempt.
The junior and his offense will be
going against an Auburn defense that
has given up 428.7 yards a game and
5.92 yards per play.
Auburn will need to play its best
game of the season in order to effec-tively
drown Georgia’s title aspira-tions
and take away the sting of a dis-appointing
season from the fans and
team.
The game will begin at 6 p.m. CST
and will be televised on ESPN 2.
Toi Garcia
Write r
On the afternoon of Monday, Nov.
5, the women’s soccer team got news
it had earned a bid to the NCAA tour-nament
for the seventh straight year
in a row.
“We’re excited to play a brand new
team with new players,” said senior
midfielder Jess Rightner. “It’s like a
whole new season.”
According to senior goalkeeper
Amy Howard, the team has high en-ergy
and is excited to travel and play
Washington.
“Seattle is a quality team that
should give us a good fight, so it
should be a good game,” Howard
said.
The Auburn women’s soccer team
concluded the 2012 regular season
with a record of 12–10–1.
The team just completed the SEC
tournament in Orange Beach over
the weekend of Friday, Nov. 2 –Sun-day,
Nov. 4.
While at the tournament, the
team played No. 19 Tennessee,
where neither team was able to cap-ture
a goal, but Auburn was able to
advance and play against No. 12 Tex-as
A&M.
“We actually scored a goal, but
it was taken back,” Rightner said.
“Team-wise we felt that we won, and
this boosted our confidence and en-ergy
for the next game.”
The team initially lost to A&M
when it played them on its home
field toward the beginning of the
season.
Rightner said because of the pre-vious
loss to the Aggies, the team
was “motivated to play A&M at a
middle field.”
The team beat A&M 2–0 and pro-gressed
to the semi-finals, ultimately
losing to No. 10 Florida 3–0.
“Florida is a great team that
played a phenomenal game, and we
dealt with them well,” Howard said.
The senior has played 1,938 min-utes
throughout the season and is
ranked in the top 10 nationally.
“I think the team is overall pret-ty
happy with the season,” Howard
said. “There were some high points
and low points, but our progression
has been good. We lost players from
last year, but every week we’ve got-ten
better.”
Rightner agreed with Howard
about the team’s progression and ac-complishments
this year.
“At the beginning of the season, we
struggled to find the type and style of
team we were, our identity,” Rightner
said. “All the wins came toward the
end of the season, and we grew and
became better. Everything clicked.
We were playing for each other.”
Other postseason player acco-lades
include sophomore forward
Tatiana Coleman being named All-
SEC First Team, and freshman de-fender
Kala Faulkner being named
SEC All-freshman before the SEC
tournament Monday, Oct. 29.
Also on Tuesday, Nov. 6, senior
forward Mary Coffed was named a
part of the SEC soccer community
service team.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
The women’s soccer team celebrates after its berth in the NCA tournament was announced Monday, Nov. 5.
NATIONALS
Women’s soccer makes seventh straight NCAA tournament
“We’re excited to play a
brand new team with
new players. It’s like a
whole new season,”
—Jess Rightner
senior midfielder
John Burns
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Danielle Lowe / ASsistant Photo Editor
After a dominant performance last week, fullback Jay Prosch and the rest of Auburn’s rushers will have to set the tone on
offense when Georgia comes to town Saturday, Nov. 10.
The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry
Andrew Yawn and
Lance Davis
Writers
Senior guard Noel John-son
had 10 points and 10 re-bounds,
and junior center
Asauhn Dixon-Tatum had
a team-high 11 points and
four blocks as Auburn’s men’s
baskteball team beat Georgia
Southwestern 66–50 in Au-burn’s
final tuneup before the
regular season on Monday,
Nov. 5.
Auburn got off to a slow
start, shooting 10-of-28 (35.7
percent) from the floor in the
first half.
Georgia Southwestern led
for most of the first half, but
Auburn rallied and led at half-time
32–29.
After the game, head coach
Tony Barbee said he was re-lieved
the game ended in a
victory, albeit an unimpres-sive
one.
“I said it to the staff the
whole game, I’m glad this
wasn’t a 50-point blowout,”
Barbee said. “That wouldn’t
have done us any good.”
Auburn turned it around
in the second half, shooting
14-of-28 (50 percent) from
the floor and holding Georgia
Southwestern to 21 points in
the final 20 minutes to escape
with the win.
Despite the comeback, Bar-bee
admitted after the game
an exhibition loss wouldn’t
have been bad for his team af-ter
the shaky performance.
“I was over on the bench
saying I hope we lose and we
can learn from it,” Barbee said.
“Every night out we want to
make the other team match
our intensity and how hard we
play, and that wasn’t the case
for the second straight game.
We started better against Vic-tory,
but tonight against a lit-tle
bit higher-level opponent.
“They were working at
about 1,000 miles per hour;
we were going at about 200.
It’s got to be the other way
around.”
Auburn eventually picked
up the pace and settled down
on defense, according to Bar-bee,
and those adjustments
were crucial to the Tigers se-curing
a victory in their last
preseason game before the
regular season.
“I thought once we got into
our pace of how hard we play,
we made some things hard on
them,” Barbee said. “I thought
our zone looked good. It’s kind
of what got them a little sty-mied,
because man-to-man
we couldn’t guard them.”
Noel Johnson said his focus
Monday night was to show
the coaches he’s an all-around
player.
“I think a big part of my
game is rebounding, and scor-ing,
too,” Johnson said after he
finished the game with a dou-ble-
double. “So I’m just try-ing
to show my full game this
whole season coming up.
When asked about John-son,
Barbee said his efforts on
defense and on the glass will
earn him time on the court.
“He’s got to be a guy that
makes shots,” Barbee said.
“He’s got to be smart with the
ball, but if he’ll defend and re-bound,
he’ll be in that rotation
getting a lot of minutes.”
Derrick Dawkins led the
charge for Georgia Southwest-ern,
finishing with nine points
and five assists in 32 minutes
of action.
“They were tough to guard
off the bounce, especially
the little kid Dawkins,” Bar-bee
said. “He was pretty good.
He was a quick little joker. He
was good with the ball, and he
could score.”
Senior guard Josh Wallace
scored eight points and dished
out a team-high five assists.
Junior forward Allen Payne
and freshman guard Jor-dan
Price each scored seven
points.
Auburn opens the regular
season against Indiana Uni-versity-
Purdue University at
Fort Wayne Friday, Nov. 9 at 7
p.m. at the Auburn Arena.
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Senior guard Frankie Sullican soars over Georgia State defenders in
Auburn’s exhibition win Monday, Nov. 5.
Ali Jenkins
Sports Reporter
Blanche Alverson is used
to hearing her name called
out over the loudspeaker, but
Saturday afternoon proved
to be something special.
During the halftime show
at Auburn’s Homecoming
Game against New Mexi-co
State, the senior women’s
basketball player was named
Miss Homecoming, a recog-nition
that focuses not for
her on-court abilities, but
her involvement in the com-munity
and her commitment
to kids.
“It’s just incredible,” Alver-son
said. “This University has
given so much to me, and
I’m just blessed to be able to
do something in return for
them and be able to repre-sent
the Auburn communi-ty,
just because they’ve been
there for me throughout my
four years.”
Her father, Bill, escorted
Alverson onto the field, an
experience she says she will
never forget.
“It was so cool, it really
was,” Alverson said. “It was
a once in a lifetime experi-ence,
just being down there
with the band.
“I think one of the coolest
things was walking down,
and they’re holding the flags
while you’re walking. It was
just awesome being able to
share that moment with my
dad and the other candi-dates
on the field.”
Alverson was one of five
finalists who spent Home-coming
Week campaigning
and raising awareness for
their platforms before Au-burn
students voted for their
favorite candidate Friday,
Nov. 2.
Other nominees were
Kathryn Crowley, Mallo-ry
Gilliland, Anna Davidson
and Becca Goad.
Alverson’s platform, “Ball-in’
For Books” is a communi-ty
service initiative she creat-ed
last season that provides
books to children in the Au-burn/
Opelika area.
“My teammates and I
would go and read to differ-ent
schools and be in read-a-
thons,” Alverson said. “My
mom is actually a special
needs pre-K principal, and
one thing that she always
told me was, ‘We can always
use more books here.’ I knew
that if they, a public school
system, needed more books,
then there were many other
organizations that needed
books as well.”
In just two games, Alver-son
and the basketball team
collected more than 1,100
donated books they donat-ed
to the Loachapoka Li-brary,
the Pine Hills Litera-cy
Project and the Boys and
Girls Club.
Alverson is no stranger to
community service, juggling
volunteering on top of class,
practice and sorority func-tions
throughout her career
at Auburn.
Yet, Alverson always finds
time to give back to Auburn,
a trait she said she learned
from her parents.
“My parents always
preached to us that we’re
very blessed with what we
have, and you take those
blessings and you give them
out,” Alverson said. “You help
different kinds of people with
whatever they might need.
Actually, this past Christmas
when I went home, we deliv-ered
food around Andalusia,
my hometown. It’s just some-thing
my family has instilled
in me from an early age.
“I knew coming here that
being on the women’s bas-ketball
team would give you
a pedestal to really make a
difference and impact.”
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Senior guard Blanche Alverson
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The Auburn volleyball team
continued its winning ways
during homecoming week-end,
defeating both Arkansas
and Georgia to improve to an
above .500 SEC record.
Auburn’s 16th and 17th vic-tories
of the 2012 campaign
were also head coach Rick
Nold’s 199th and 200th career
wins.
“Those things are impor-tant
as you look back later on,”
Nold said after his milestone
win. “For us, though, we’re try-ing
to get better every week.
And obviously the kids are a
big part of every win we’re try-ing
to get.”
The Tigers started their suc-cessful
weekend with a five-set
win over SEC West lead-er
Arkansas Friday, Nov. 2. Af-ter
getting swept by the Ra-zorbacks
earlier in the season
in Fayetteville, the Tigers got
their revenge.
“We’ve been so close lately
with teams like Arkansas,”
Nold said. “I think this is a
confidence builder for us. If
we do the things we need to
do, we have a chance to beat
anybody.”
Junior Camila Jersonsky led
the way for the Tigers offen-sively,
scoring 17 kills and nine
blocks.
Auburn started the match
off hot, racing out to a big 25–
14 win in the opening set. The
Tigers held their opponents to
a -.091 hitting percentage, forc-ing
12 Arkansas attack errors
in the process.
However, Arkansas took
advantage of some erratic
Auburn passes to gain a
15–4 lead in the second set.
Although the Tigers tried to
claw back, the Razorbacks
served their way to a match-tying
25–14 win for the visitors.
The Tigers tightened up
their passing game in the
back-and-forth third set, but
a late Arkansas run erased a
three-point deficit to get a 25–
23 win.
Auburn then took control of
the match in the last two sets
by dominating the net through
Jersonsky and junior Courtney
McDonald. Ten of Jersonsky’s
17 and seven of McDonald’s
nine kills came in the tight-ly
contested frames, which in-cluded
15 of the match’s 21 tie
scores.
“We knew it was going to be
a back-and-forth match,” Jer-sonsky
said. “That’s how vol-leyball
is, usually. It’s an emo-tional
game, and whoever has
the momentum is going to
lead. We knew we could come
back.”
Auburn turned its atten-tion
to Georgia two days lat-er
as itdefeated the rival Bull-dogs
3–1. While the Arkan-sas
match was highlighted
by scoring chances down the
middle of the court, Auburn’s
outside players stole the show
against Georgia.
Junior Katherine Culwell
had a career-high 21 kills and
a season-high 16 digs. Senior
Sarah Bullock also registered a
double-double, scoring 13 kills
and 20 digs.
“The interesting thing was
that on Friday, our offense was
run through the middle,” Nold
said. “The outsides struggled
a little bit. I think it says a lot
that we’re balanced enough
that we can come back.”
Similar to the Arkansas
match, the Tigers raced out to
a big lead early in the opening
set against visiting Georgia,
winning nine of the match’s
first 12 points. But the Bull-dogs,
refocused after a time-out,
went on a 9–0 run before
taking their first lead of the
day.
The rest of the first set was
characterized by back-and-forth
play until Culwell sealed
the Tigers’ win with a cross-court
kill and a quickfire block.
Auburn then lost the second
set 25–15. Georgia took advan-tage
in some gaps in Auburn’s
positioning and recorded four
aces and a .304 attack percent-age.
But the Tigers came out of
intermission with a more bal-anced
mindset, spreading the
ball en route to their own 25–
15 win in the third set.
The fourth and final set
started out evenly, but the Ti-gers
were able to pull away
with a dominating 7–0 run.
Bullock would put the nail in
the coffin minutes later, scor-ing
three out of Auburn’s final
four points.
“With Georgia and
Arkansas, it’s about winning
the serve-and-pass game,”
Culwell said after the Georgia
win. “When they beat us both
times in the second set, we
went in and talked about our
techniques in both serving
and passing. And when we
came back in the last sets, we
were relentless.”
Auburn will look to contin-ue
its winning streak Friday,
Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. when it hosts
conference newcomer Texas
A&M.
Volleyball coach Nold earns 200th win
behind victories over Arkansas, Georgia
Rebecca Croomes / Photo EDitor
Redshirt junior Katherine Cullwell, outside hitter, makes a pass during one of many tough volleys Sunday,
Nov. 4 as the Tigers took down Georgia 3-1 to give coach Rick Nold his 200th career win.
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What your winter
coat says about you
Last week, Hurricane San-dy
ushered in our first bout
of cold weather. It hit hard.
We were reduced to huddling
in small groups in the cor-ner
of Haley just to stave off
the frostbite. We transitioned
from bare arms to wool sweat-ers
overnight. Or, to translate
that into terms that are a lit-tle
more familiar, we transi-tioned
from Nike shorts to
Nike shorts with leggings un-derneath.
You might spend hours de-termining
the perfect ensem-ble,
but once the cold weath-er
strikes, the only thing peo-ple
will be able to judge you
by will be your outerwear. So
what does your winter coat
say about you?
Colored pea coat
Cold weather often means
clouds, lack of sunlight and
stowing away your vibrant
hues in favor of dark, mut-ed
colors. A brightly colored
pea coat is a way to throw on
a splash of color in a sea of
grays. But bear in mind, not
all colors are equal. If you’re
wearing a pea coat in a stun-ning
scarlet or deep red this
winter, you’re likely to come
off as mysterious, alluring and
adventurous. If you’re wearing
a pea coat in pink, you’re likely
to get mistaken for a 14-year-old
girl.
Oversized military jacket
When properly styled, this
look can add an effortless
ease to your style that lands
you somewhere squarely be-tween
glamorous and girl-next-
door. The look can most
accurately be labeled ‘home-less
chic.’ With its army-sur-plus
appeal and vintage wash,
The oversized military jack-et
runs the risk of making you
look like you are ready to hun-ker
down next to a trash can
fire.
Trench coat
The trench coat borders
on costume, not because it
is particularly garish, but be-cause
it transcends its use as
a jacket and embodies a per-sona.
A girl in a trench coat is
not simply looking for a way
to withstand the wind. You
are channeling your inner
British superstar (we all have
one, from Kate Middleton to
Emma Watson) and probably
narrating the entire event in
your head using a English ac-cent.
The trench carries con-notations
of intrigue as much
as it does elegance. With the
collar pulled high and your
hat tipped low, you look like a
girl that’s either ready to solve
a crime or commit one.
Leather jacket
The leather jacket is a great
option for turning your repu-tation
around if you made the
pink pea coat mistake earli-er
in the season. Throw on a
leather jacket, and all of a sud-den
you’re kicking your feet
up in class, popping your gum
and rolling your eyes exces-sively.
Wearing a leather jack-et
instantly communicates
that you are a rebel without
a cause who does reckless
things like riding a motor-cycle
or tossing your plastic
bottles into the bins marked
‘landfill’ without blinking an
eye.
Long sleeved T-shirt and
vest
This combination throws
onlookers for a loop, name-ly
because they simply don’t
know what to make of it.
Here’s a girl who took a look
at the weather report and
thought, ‘I’m going to need
to find a way to stay warm. I
should probably concentrate
all efforts exclusively on my
torso.” This outerwear choice
communicates an element of
danger. This is a girl who is
undaunted by the brisk tem-perature,
passersby will think.
This is a girl who is not afraid
to lose both arms to frostbite.
Swing coat
The shape of this jacket re-calls
the regal austerity of a
cape and the fit of a plastic
garbage bag. A girl in a swing
coat wears it with her head
held high, trying to avoid eye
contact with the laboring
class, and she probably still
owns the tiara she wore to her
high school prom. Because
your body will be largely in-distinguishable
underneath
the swish of fabric, wearing a
swing coat tells people that
you are devoted to the sarto-rial
cause and you’re probably
too busy for a boyfriend right
now anyway.
Graphics by Lane Jones.
TOP
TRENDS
With the warmer weather behind us
(hopefully), let the real dressing begin.
Leather, fur, combat boots and menswear
looks continue to be the frontrunning
trends of fall and winter. Muted colors such
as deep teal, oxblood and mustard will
complement and enhance these trends.
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All clothes from Behind the Glass. Looks by Chloe Popwell of Behind the Glass. Modeled by Tori Crews, junior in psychology.
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Shoes: Steve Madden
lace
metallics
To keep lace from
looking too similar
to a spring look,
choose darker colors
and long sleeves.
This look could also
be paired with tights.
Don’t be afraid to mix metallics
with patterns and bits of bright
color. It keeps the outfit interesting.
Like animal prints,
it’s timeless and
best used in
smaller doses. Keep
away from your
grandmother’s
floor-length
mink coat.
Tights and shorts have no boundaries.
Tori is pictured with denim shorts
here, but shorts of leather, suede
or wool also work well.
fur
shorts with tights
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A look inside some of Auburn’s most covetable closets
photos by Melody Kitchens
Crowe is a junior in apparel de-sign.
1. “This dress form was a pres-ent
from my dad for Christmas
one year. He gave it to me right
around the time I decided I want-ed
to major in fashion design.
When I wear (the Mickey purse)
people always smile and touch it
and usually talk to it. More peo-ple
than you would even think
would do that.”
2. “These shoes have so many
colors of suede that if you wear
them with plain solid–colored
things, it looks far more inter-esting.
They are Gianni Bini and
very, very comfortable.”
3. “I love Peter Pan collars. They
look so sweet. Real girly details
are something I always look for.
They are nostalgic, in a way, to
my extremely young youth, and
skirts are probably my favorite
item of clothing. Mostly I love
this outfit for every day with
short boots or Vans.”
photos by Melody Kitchens
McKenzie is a senior in nutrition.
1. “The glitter tennis shoes are
from H&M. I have worn them
with plain sweats and an over-sized
sweater — instantly
makes a lazy Sunday lounge out-fit
more interesting and trendy.”
2. “One of my favorite ways to
put together an outfit is by mix-ing
prints. In this shot, I layered
a plaid J. Crew shirt under a Gap
sweater.
I got the nude patent loafers
last season from J. Crew and
love them — nude shoes go
with everything. Also, loafers re-ally
dress up an outfit instantly.
The black leggings are also from
Gap.”
3. “I love wearing the vest over
really girly floral pieces; it gives
them a little bit of an edge. The
quilting on the flats and the flo-ral
shirt gives the outfit a proper,
lady-like feel, but I leave the shirt
untucked to make it feel more
relaxed.”
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Auburn’s
fashion
program
more than
just design
Holiday fashion: classic
shapes with modern twist
photos by melody kitchens
Main: “It’s the it-girl look of the
season,” Cunningham-Camp-bell
said. “It’s a nod to an era
gone with its gathered skirt,
but the new trend is the pat-tern,
pockets and horizontal
stripes.” Kate Spade Caroline
dress $478, Dolce Vita pump
$99, Sylvia Benson necklace
$136.
Top: “Kate Spade put together
the two colors that your moth-er
told you never to wear.” Kate
Spade Normandy dress $498,
Monkee earrings $25, Sylvia
Benson ring $52.
Left: “The print on the dress
plays imagery tricks, and the
scallop trim on the wedges
is feminine and unexpected.”
Beth Bowley rope print dress
$299, Butter scalloped black
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Caitlin Wagenseil
Writer
The fashion industry is a
huge, constantly changing in-dustry,
and the professors at
Auburn University are prepar-ing
students in the apparel de-sign
major to handle the size
and complexity of the indus-try
after graduation.
Pamela Ulrich is a profes-sor
in the apparel design pro-gram
at Auburn who teaches
History of Fashion Since 1910,
History of Costume and sever-al
other design courses in ad-dition
to being the coordina-tor
of the design program.
The full name of Auburn’s
design program is Apparel
Merchandising, Design and
Production Management, but
those in the program refer to
it as AMDP.
“There’s a block of courses
for students who either want
to do more on the merchan-dising
side or students who
want to do more on the de-sign
side,” Ulrich said. “Some
people go more toward the
business and retail side, some
want to be entrepreneurs and
be their own designer, and
some would choose to work
for a larger company like Un-der
Armour or Michael Kors.”
Ulrich said the beauty of
the apparel industry is that
there’s a niche for everybody.
“If you’re creative, if you
want to organize things or if
you want to make sure every-thing
gets handled and deliv-ered
the way it’s supposed to,
there’s jobs for that — there’s
jobs for everyone, and lots of
different opportunities in dif-ferent
places.”
Kelsey Reynolds, senior
and Apparel Merchandising
and Design Association pres-ident,
said she wanted to pur-sue
apparel design because
of the wide range of careers
that can come from obtaining
such a degree.
“With apparel design, you
can start your own clothing
line, go into fashion forecast-ing,
or even pursue textile en-gineering,”
she said. Reynolds
also said there are many fac-ets
that an apparel design de-gree
can filter into which is
why so many students like her
are drawn to it.
The difference between
the design program at Au-burn
and the program at a
place such as Savannah Col-lege
of Art and Design is that
students here are taught busi-ness
aspects too, Ulrich said.
“They learn the business
side of what garments cost
to make, what the practical
issues in production are and
not just how to make great
fun pictures,” she said.
“We don’t just teach how to
come up with ideas; Michael
Kors doesn’t make things that
he doesn’t think will sell — so
you have to be able to make
it at a price, know what goes
into the price and who is go-ing
to buy it; they have to
think from the point of see-ing
who their customer is,” Ul-rich
said.
Tablets are being integrat-ed
into classrooms for stu-dents
to sketch on, and stu-dents
are taught to use pro-grams
such as Adobe, Photo-shop
and Illustrator to create
specific looks.
“Their portfolios are not
all the work they ever creat-ed,
but they go through and
learn and get better skills to
present who they are,” Ulrich
said. “They each have their
own identity and even create
logos.”
Reynolds, who hopes to
go to graduate school and get
her master’s degree in Tex-tiles
or Fiber Design, said her
favorite thing about the major
is being able to learn from the
many different professionals
within the fashion industry.
“Every professor in our
program has had a success-ful
career in the different area
they teach,” she said. “Our
professors know how the in-dustry
works, which allows us
to have the best, well-rounded
education we can.”
Apparel design majors at
Auburn are required to do an
internship for 10 weeks before
they can graduate.
“It’s full time, so it’s not just
dabbling, it’s immersing,” Ul-rich
said. She said she loves
to see the students “blossom
in an internship because it’s
in the workplace, and there’s
nothing like it.”
Many of those who gradu-ated
from the program at Au-burn
have gone on to be suc-cessful
in their field. One in
particular lives in New York
and works as the head design-er
for all evening wear for the
Kay Unger brand.
“We have a couple alums at
Under Armour, and we have
alums who live in New York
and are working on their own
company,” Ulrich said.
Another alum is develop-ing
her own line in Auburn de-signing
game day dresses.
Ulrich said one of her favor-ite
things about teaching in
the program is watching the
students develop, find their
niche and find what they love.
“Just sharing the fact that
this is a hardworking, but ex-citing
and fun industry,” Ul-rich
said. “It’s fun because it’s
always changing, and it’s a
challenge to figure out what
people are going to do next.”
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Sheyda Mehrara, junior in public relations, shares
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“Class may be boring, but dressing for
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His view: men’s fashion lacking on Auburn’s campus
Courtesy of Jordan Jemison
Jordan Jemison
Writer
I feel trapped in a world
of basics. Basic shoes, basic
shirts, basic pants and a very
basic man. And unfortunate-ly
here in Auburn, Ala., “basic”
is a status quo rooted deeper
than Toomer’s.
It’s not uncommon to see
the throngs of pastel and kha-ki
short shorts, Patagonia tees
and Chaco sandals litter the
pavement of the Concourse
during class change. Nor is it
unheard of being bombarded
by visors, dashes of camo and
oversized North Face back-packs.
I won’t pretend to be okay
with it. Sure, personal style is
always welcomed. However, in
my eyes two things are missing
here on the Plains: “personal”
and “style.”
As an apparel design major
who is very knowledgeable of
the constantly changing fash-ion
industry, I know a thing or
two, or three, about style. Also,
as a man who has a deep con-nection
with fashion, far deep-er
than the simple aesthetics, I
know even more about it being
personal.
I feel as though the de-mands
of Auburn fashion are
like that of a uniform. Keep it
simple, masculine, make sure
it’s just like everybody else’s
and don’t draw attention to
yourself.
The idea of wearing some-thing
remotely different, and
in this case that means fash-ionable,
is like a taboo.
Fortunately a taboo can be
broken. It can be broken in a
way that keeps the simple Au-burn
man out of the basics
while keeping him comfort-able,
more or less. For exam-ple,
when deciding the look for
the day, switch things up. It’s
not hard; not even for the sty-listically
challenged.
The next time that Patago-nia
T-shirt can’t stop calling,
shut it up by replacing it with
a button-down and leave it un-tucked.
Don’t touch that vi-sor,
and instead of the Chacos,
pair it with a nice pair of loaf-ers.
Feel free to have at it with a
pair of chino shorts too. And, if
showing leg isn’t on the agen-da
for the day, a pair of nicely
fitted jeans or a tailored khaki
works just as well. And always
cuff the bottom.
This is a way of styling that
is simple, easy and keeps the
fashion forward but subtle.
Also, with fall in full force, or
full force as far as Southern
standards go, the weather can
be a bit indecisive some days.
So when it randomly gets
cold out, like it loves to do on
an unpredictable regular day
here, add a nice piece of out-erwear.
I would opt for a black
or gray puffer vest from Gap or
Express.
Either way have fun with it,
and don’t take it too serious-ly,
guys.
It’s basic fashion.
1. Sock bun
This bun is the top knot's
towering sister, pushing your
hair to previously unimagined
heights by cramming a sock
into it.
2. Braids
To achieve this look, you
need to have taken basket
weaving and spent a couple
years at sea studying the art
of knot-tying. If you don't have
at least three elaborate plaits
snaking their way through your
hair, around your head, down
your back and back up again,
then you might as well not even
try.
3. Hair accessories
This season’s most whimsi-cal
trend, hair accessories can
add some sparkle to even the
most casual look. Try clipping
an antique barrette, brooch,
or comb into your locks for a
vintage spin. While you're at
it, why not sprinkle some sil-verware
or USB drives in there,
too? When it comes to whimsy,
basically anything goes.
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Fashion merchandising grads find jobs through Judith March
Courtesy of Sara Weeks
Auburn alumni Amanda Thomas, Sara Weeks, Megan Crane and Brittany Hubbard all work at Judith March,
a clothing line which can be found at Kinnucans of Auburn and Village Boutique.
Anna Beth Jager
Intrigue Reporter
Auburn alumna Sara Weeks found her place
as public relations and marketing assistant for
the company Judith March, a wholesale cloth-ing
line with a unique and versatile array of de-signers
and selections.
Straight out of Auburn with a degree in jour-nalism
and an open mind, Weeks began apply-ing
for multiple PR and journalism-based ca-reers,
but found most of them fell flat.
After moving back home to spend a short
time on her parents’ couch, Weeks decided to
apply for a job in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
The position was at a fashion boutique
called Deja Vu, owned by Stephanie Carter,
head designer and owner of Judith March.
Weeks had nothing but great things to say
about Carter and her dedication to the multi-ple
companies she is in charge of, noting the
dedication Carter possesses to her “beloved
customers.”
She also points out Carter's new line, a cou-ture
style called Jacque+Janis.
"Stephanie's true personality and style
shine brightest through her newest line,
Jacque+Janis,” Weeks said.
“Launching in spring 2013, Jacque+Janis
swings from sophisticated to Bohemian in the
blink of an eye. Where classical compositions
flow to soulful rock music while forging unfor-gettable
harmonies. That approach is also the
seamless reflection of the personality of cre-ative
mastermind, Stephanie Carter. "
As far as the Judith March line, Weeks de-scribes
the style as classic.
"The bodies are very easily worn and so cute,”
Weeks said. “There is also a bohemian edge to
Judith March too."
An average day for Weeks doesn't exist, be-cause
every day is full of different things. She
usually spends her time assisting those in
charge who need her.
"I help coordinate and implement photo
shoots, editing and uploading photos, reach-ing
out to publications to promote our compa-nies,
writing materials for our website, assist
the executive team,” Weeks said.
“We strive to have a team attitude here, so
where there is a need I try to fill the gaps and
help any way I can."
When it comes to Auburn women, Weeks
points out that Judith March has a new a game
day line every fall.
"We make custom designs for most SEC
schools,” Weeks said. “Since working here, I
have been to Auburn games and seen hun-dreds
of Judith March dresses worn by Auburn
girls. Another aspect that is neat about our de-signs
are that some of the prints are custom
made. Megan Crane, one of our designers, cre-ates
our prints from scratch.”
These can be bought at ShopDejavu.com.
The environment is one of the best parts of
her job, Weeks said.
"There are 24 young women here who are
excited and bursting with creative ideas,” she
said. “I love being in this environment where
everyone's style and personalities all come to-gether
under one roof. I love my job because of
the people I work with every day."
Weeks believes her time at Auburn shaped
who she is today.
"Auburn was such a wonderful place to go to
school,” Weeks said.
“I had so many influential teachers who al-ways
encouraged me to think outside of the
box. I also learned if you want something you
have to go for it. I learned that from one of my
journalism professors at Auburn, Judith Shep-pard.
Her go-getter attitude has inspired me to
not take ‘no’ for an answer."
Weeks’ advice for any young men or women
looking to snag a similar job is to find out what
you want and go for it.
“Through my experience, the ‘finding what
you want to do’ part was the most challenging,”
Weeks said.
“Don't limit yourself. If you have a dream go
for it, despite what people around you say. If
you feel like you need to go on an adventure to
figure out your passion in life, go for it. Think
outside of the box and be happy. Also, net-working
never hurt anybody. Talk to people,
form relationships, help others out and even-tually
you'll be helped out, too."
Kelsey Davis
Writer
Photo shoots and fashion
shows may be what comes
to mind in terms of the Au-burn
Modeling Board, but
much more goes on behind
the scenes than what meets
the eye.
During O-Days, the Mod-eling
Board joins other orga-nizations
on the Concourse
to encourage new students to
join who are interested in fash-ion
or modeling. The interview
process consists of a brief in-terview
before a panel of the
group’s executives and a run-way
walk demonstration.
“It seemed like something
I’d like to get involved with, but
I was really nervous,” said Han-nah
Berryhill, junior in public
relations. “I went through the
interview process though, and
it was really fun and laid-back.”
Once members are selected,
they begin attending monthly
events to learn about events
that will be carried out and
other modeling opportunities.
The Auburn Modeling
Board held its fourth annu-al
Couture for the Cure fash-ion
show at the Opelika Event
Center Thursday, Oct. 25. The
event was created as a means
to raise awareness and funds
for breast cancer research by
a past president whose moth-er
was affected by the cause.
The philanthropic cause re-mains
particularly important
to members still, however, be-cause
of their current adviser’s
battle against the disease.
Funds raised by Couture
for the Cure goes to research
in the Auburn area. One of
the goals of the event in rais-ing
awareness is to encour-age
local women to stay up-to-date
with exams and healthy
against breast cancer.
Berryhill said members say
this was the most successful
Couture for a Cure so far and
that the event has given a lot of
purpose to the group.
Each member was assigned
a local boutique to model its
merchandise. Members got to
choose what they would wear
for the show, selecting a casu-al
and a dressy outfit.
“The boutiques loved get-ting
to show off their merchan-dise,
and we loved getting the
experience,” Berryhill said.
Fashion shows are not the
only time local boutiques uti-lize
the Modeling Board to ad-vertise
their merchandise. Au-burn
boutiques will often con-tact
the president of the group,
requesting models for photo
shoots.
Though the Modeling Board
is a great way to gain expe-rience
in the fashion indus-try
and support a noteworthy
cause, members have different
reasons for why they enjoy be-ing
part of the group.
“I just really love meeting all
the people,” Berryhill said. “We
had so much fun at the fashion
show. It was great being able to
make new friends I wouldn’t
have met otherwise.”
Backstage with Hannah Berryhill of the Auburn Modeling Board
GAME DAY
Freshman quarterback Jonathan
Wallace looks for another win.
Page 3
Top five Auburn vs. Georgia
games of all time.
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A simple drinking game to keep
things interesting.
Page 4
Q and A with The Red and Black
sports editor Nick Fouriezos.
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Runningback Onterio McCalebb scores a touchdown Saturday, Nov. 3 against the New Mexico State Aggies. The Tigers won the match with a final score of 42–7.
After a much-needed win against New Mexico State, the Tigers
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Quarterback Jonathan Wal-lace
will receive the second
start of his career this weekend
against Georgia.
The freshman’s height is listed
at 6 feet 2 inches, and he weighs
197 pounds.
Wallace got his first start in
Auburn’s 42–7 victory against
New Mexico State last Satur-day.
He ran the offense effective-ly
and finished with 164 yards
passing, a touchdown and an
interception.
“I did some things good, I did
some things bad,” Wallace said.
“There’s a lot of work to do still,
but we can’t get complacent.”
The offense Wallace led was
anything but complacent in the
second half, as the Tigers scored
14 points in both the third and
fourth quarter.
Wallace is a traditional du-al-
threat quarterback and was
working out of the wildcat style
offense during the first eight
games.
In his senior year at Central
High School in Phoenix City,
Wallace threw for 1,761 yards,
12 touchdowns and two inter-ceptions.
His legs carried him
for 891 yards and 28 touch-downs.
As the Auburn starting quar-terback,
he has been in a more
traditional drop-back role and
only ran for nine yards, but it is
clear he is comfortable running
or passing.
In his senior year, Wallace
was the 25th ranked quarter-back
in the nation and was the
28th ranked player in the state
of Alabama, according to Rivals.
com.
Wallace was not expected to
get much playing time in a non-wildcat
formation, but extreme
circumstances, such as the Ti-gers
losing seven of their first
eight games, forced head coach
Gene Chizik to give the fresh-man
a chance.
After the Tigers’ win against
New Mexico State, Chizik said
Wallace had an efficient first
start.
“I couldn’t be more pleased
with the way he managed the
team, directed the team, made
plays at critical times in the
game when we needed them,”
he said.
“And for a young guy to come
in there in his first start, I’m sure
he’ll be very critical and hard on
himself, which is the way he is,
but just looking at it from the
naked eye — what I know — I’m
very proud of the way he per-formed.”
Quarterback Jonathan Wallace gets his chance to shine
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start of his career Saturday, Nov. 10 against UGA.
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Well, Auburn fans, it has been
a rough season.
Luckily, we managed to fol-low
through with regular home-coming
tradition and racked up
points, but overall this season
has tested the loyalty of every
Tiger fan.
Now that the season is near-ing
a close, we should be able
to put the long line of losses be-hind
us, celebrate our wins and
enjoy our game against Geor-gia.
While that is probably hard-er
for some to do than others,
a little liquid courage will help
even the most passionate viewer
make it through the game.
For all those watching the
game from home, or with their
singles snuck in through cow-boy
boots, follow these few
drinking rules and it won’t mat-ter
who scores.
· Take a shot if Spirit gets
lost/runs into anything
· Take a drink when every-one
starts a kick off “War Ea-gle.”
Don’t stop until the phrase
is finished.
· Take a drink every time
you’re about to yell at a ref
· Shotgun a beer every time
you miss Lutzenkirchen
· Take a drink every time the
TV shows Chizik upset or con-templative
· Take a drink every time
Georgia scores
· Take a drink of water every
time we score (just to help off-set
some of the alcohol)
· Take a drink every time we
drop the ball
· Take a drink every time
Georgia intercepts the ball
· If we do win, stop drink-ing,
get your sober friend who
thought you were ridiculous
for drinking your way through
the Auburn–Georgia game,
and have them drive you to
Toomer’s Corner to roll the
trees.
By the end of the game, you
should be forgetting the pain-ful
numbers that have stacked
up against our family this sea-son.
Despite the odds being
against us, I’m still hoping for a
stone-cold sober pack of Tigers
A few drinks can help take the edge off a loss
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Team Depth Charts
Kick Returner
Quan Bray - So.
Holder
Ryan White - Jr.
Quarterback
Kiehl Frazier - So.
Clint Moseley - Jr.
Jonathan Wallace - Fr.
Running Back
Onterio McCalebb - Sr.
Tre Mason - So.
Mike Blakely - RS Fr.
Fullback
Jay Prosch - Jr.
Wide Receiver
Emory Blake - Sr.
Sammie Coates - RS Fr.
Ricardo Louis - Fr.
Wide Receiver 2
Trovon Reed - So.
Travante Stallworth- Sr.
3-wide
Quan Bray - So.
Tight End
Brandon Fulse - So.
C.J. Uzomah - So.
Left Tackle
Greg Robinson - RS Fr.
Shon Coleman - RS Fr.
Left Guard
John Sullen - Sr.
Alex Kozan - Fr.
Center
Reese Dismukes - So.
Tunde Fariyike - So.
Right Guard
Chad Slade - So.
C. Westerman - RS Fr.
Right Tackle
Avery Young - Fr.
Patrick Miller - Fr.
Place Kicker
Cody Parkey - Jr.
Alex Kviklys - Fr.
Punter
Steven Clark - Jr.
J.D. Strawbridge - Fr.
Defensive End
Dee Ford - Jr.
Craig Sanders - Jr.
Nosa Eguae - Jr.
Defensive Tackle
Jeffrey Whitaker - Jr.
Gabe Wright - So.
Tyler Nero - Fr.
Defensive Tackle
Angelo Blackson - So.
Kenneth Carter - Jr.
Devaunte Sigler - So.
Defensive End
Corey Lemonier - Jr.
LaDarius Owens - So.
Nosa Eguae - Jr.
Outside Linebacker
(WILL)
Jonathan Evans - Sr.
Justin Garrett - So.
Middle Linebacker
(MIKE)
Jake Holland - Jr.
Cassanova McKinzy - Fr.
Outside Linebacker
(SAM)
Daren Bates - Sr.
Kris Frost - RS Fr.
Cornerback
Chris Davis - Jr.
Jonathon Mincy - So.
Safety
Jermaine Whitehead - So.
Demetruce McNeal - Jr.
Safety 2
Demetruce McNeal - Jr.
Trent Fisher - So.
Cornerback
Ryan White - Jr.
T’Sharvan Bell - Sr.
Punt Returner
Quan Bray - So.
Trovon Reed - So.
Quarterback
Aaron Murray - Jr.
Hutson Mason - Jr.
Christian LeMay - Fr.
Parker Welch - So.
Runningback
Todd Gurley - Fr.
Keith Marshall - Fr.
Ken Malcome - So.
Richard Samuel - Sr.
Fullback
A. Ogletree - Jr.
Quayvon Hicks - Fr.
Richard Samuel - Sr.
Wide receiver
Tavarres King - Sr.
Rantavious Wooten - Jr.
Chris Conley - So.
J. Scott-Wesley - Fr.
Malcolm Mitchell -
So.
Rhett McGowan - Jr.
Taylor Bradberry - Sr.
Offensive tackle
Kenarious Gates - Jr.
Mark Beard - So.
Austin Long - Jr.
John Theus - Fr.
Watts Dantzler - So.
Center
David Andrews - So.
Chris Burnette - Jr.
Dallas Lee - Jr.
Offensive Guard
Chris Burnette - Jr.
Greg Pyke - Fr.
Dallas Lee - Jr.
Ben Reynolds - Jr.
Tight end
Arthur Lynch - Jr.
Jay Rome - Fr.
Ty Flournoy-Smith - Fr.
Defensive End
Garrison Smith - Jr.
Ray Drew - So.
C. Washington - Sr.
Ray Drew - So.
Mike Thornton - So.
Nose Tackle
John Jenkins - Sr.
Kwame Geathers - Jr.
Linebacker
Chase Vasser - JR
Ramik Wilson - SO
Josh Dawson - FR
Jarvis Jones - JR
Jordan Jenkins - FR
T.J. Stripling - JR
Alec Ogletree - JR
C. Robinson - SR
Amarlo Herrera - So.
Michael Gilliard - Sr.
Cornerback
Sanders Commings - Sr.
Sheldon Dawson - Fr.
Branden Smith - Sr.
Damian Swann - So.
Safety
Shawn Williams - Sr.
Corey Moore - So.
J. Harvey-Clemons - Fr.
Bacarri Rambo - SR
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Kicker
Marshall Morgan - Fr.
99 Jamie Lindley - Sr.
Punter
Collin Barber - Fr.
Adam Erickson - So.
Punt Return
Branden Smith - Sr.
Damian Swann - So.
Long Snapper
Ty Frix - Sr.
49 Nathan Theus - Fr.
Holder
Adam Erickson - So.
Kick Return
Branden Smith - Sr.
Todd Gurley - Fr.
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For students, six hours in the
stadium sustained by nothing
but a mustard-slathered soft
pretzel leaves us with a rag-ing
post-game hunger. If we
can make it past the conces-sion
stands without purchas-ing
an armful of hot dogs, then
our game day options usually
revolve around scrounging up
whatever food is left at the tail-gate
by the time we get there.
Eating the misshapen carrots
everyone else left on the vegeta-ble
plate is not your only option.
There are plenty of restau-rants
around town offering fans
a fresh new twist on old favor-ites
like barbecue, burgers and
fries. Game days in Auburn are
marked by tradition, but don’t
let yourself get stuck in a dining
rut by eating the same meal ev-ery
time.
Amsterdam Cafe’s crab
cake sandwich
The crab cake sandwich at
Amsterdam Cafe, located on
South Gay Street, is a delectable
twist on the typical fare of game
day. Instead of a charred burg-er,
sink your teeth into one of
the “top 100 dishes to eat in Ala-bama
before you die.”
The crab cake avocado sand-wich
is served on a flaky toasted
croissant with creole remoulade
and mango pico de gallo. The
subtle blend of flavors in this
tasty sandwich makes for a dish
you can savor instead of just in-hale
in a fit of hunger. Get it with
a side of sweet potato chips.
Big Blue Bagel’s tiger melt
Another one of the “100 dish-es
to eat in Alabama before you
die,” Big Blue, located on College
Street, offers a Tiger Melt con-sisting
of Colby Jack generously
melting over its famous chicken
salad and served atop two bagel
faces of your choice. Play it safe
and go with the multigrain ba-gel
or mix it up with cinnamon
or blueberry.
The melt comes with a side
of bagel chips, which are ba-gels
of different flavors toasted
and sliced into bite-sized piec-es.
A side of the honey mus-tard
makes the perfect dipping
sauce.
Tex’s Tacos’ barbecue taco
Putting a Tex-Mex twist on
Southern cooking, our favorite
campus food truck offers a bar-becue
taco. Get it with a side of
lime fries.
The taco combines a flour
tortilla with vinegar-basted
pulled pork barbecue, honey-lime
garden slaw and barbe-cue
sauce. Since the taco truck
is parked right outside the sta-dium,
you’ll have to endure the
shortest amount of time be-tween
you and satiating your
roaring appetite.
Top off your barbecue taco
with a round of lime fries, a
Tex’s Tacos specialty that some-how
manages to whip up a deep
fried dish that tastes like a fun-nel
ca