2012-09-06 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID
  ursday, September 6, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Vol. 118, Issue 15, 16 Pages
In the ashes
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CAMPUS REPORTER
Despite the new smoking ban,
cigarette butts can still be found
scattered behind the stone benches
outside the Haley Center.
The ban, enacted Aug. 16, 2012,
details the 25-feet rule, which says
no student or faculty member
should smoke within 25 feet of any
campus building.
Caitlin Miller, sophomore in nu-trition
and dietetics, said she has
seen many people smoking on cam-pus.
“If the rule is that no one can
smoke 25 feet from any building,
does that not include the Haley
Center?” Miller said. “  at’s where
I see the most people smoking and
it looks like they’re smoking within
the 25 feet of the building.”
If students are caught smoking on
campus, the only consequence is a
verbal nudge in the right direction.
“It’s really a supervisory thing,”
said Eric Smith, director of health
and wellness promotions.
Smith said that if one of his em-ployees
were caught smoking he
would have to address it as he would
any other University policy, but no
real punishment would be given.
Other universities and colleges
have strict smoking policies with
harsher penalties.
“The two-year college I went to
before this, there was no smoking on
campus at all,” said Ti  any Willing-ham,
sophomore in pre-pharmacy.
“You could go to your car to smoke
and that was it. You could get a $25
ticket the   rst time you were caught
smoking on campus and $50 every
time after that.”
Robert Callahan, junior in busi-ness
management, said the ban
hasn’t interfered with his smoking
habits.
“The only thing I’ve noticed is
they’ve taken away a lot of the poles
that you throw your butts in, so now
there seem to be more cigarette
butts around, “ Callahan said. “I
heard (the university) is trying to be
a completely non-smoking campus,
but waiting until next year, so I guess
they’re hoping to ease people into it.”
Although some students may not
be aware of the new rule, the O¤ ce
of Communications and Market-ing
said it has tried its best to cov-er
campus and let the students and
faculty know about the new change.
“Signs were put up,” Smith said. “It
was talked about at every Camp War
Eagle session. It was put out through
AU Daily and AU Monthly. There
were articles in the paper about
it.   ere were spots on TV. Perma-nent
signs went up and there were
screensavers in the computer labs
about it. All of these methods have
been publicized since May 2012.”
Complaints about people smok-ing
too close to ventilation shafts,
windows and doorways had brought
the Department of Risk Manage-ment
and Safety to come up with a
task force to decide how to handle
the problem.
Smith said the University decided
on the policy.
  e Department of Risk Manage-ment
and Safety will take any future
complaints about smoking on cam-pus,
and Smith said he would be
more than welcome to talk to peo-ple
about the issue.
  e Auburn University Harrison
School of Pharmacy o  ers cessation
programs for students who want to
quit smoking.
New smoking policy just for show?
BACK TO BATTLE
Tigers look to rebound against
Mississippi State
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COMMUNITY EDITOR
Desmonte Leonard, the Montgomery man who allegedly shot six people,
killing three at University Heights in June, has been indicted by a Lee County
grand jury on six charges. One of these includes capital murder.
Court records show Leonard, 22, has been indicted on two counts of sec-ond-
degree assault, one count of   rst-degree assault, two counts of attempt-ed
murder and one count of capital murder.
  e capital murder charge makes Leonard ineligible for bond.
No trial date for the sentencing has been set.
Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson is waiting until the warrants have
been served to comment.
Former Auburn University football players Ladarious Phillips and Ed
Christian and Opelika resident Demario Pitts, all 20, were killed in the June 9
shooting. Roanoke men John Robertson and Xavier Moss and Auburn foot-ball
lineman Eric Mack were injured.
  e capital murder charges are for the three deaths and the attempted
murder charges are for Leonard allegedly shooting at currently suspend-ed
Auburn football player DeAngelo Benton and area resident Turquorious
Vines.
Leonard is also charged with second-degree assault, a Class C felony, for al-legedly
injuring Moss and Mack, and   rst-degree assault, a Class B felony, for
allegedly shooting John Robertson, also of Roanoke.
Leonard indicted on
capital murder, assault
Stolen graduation banners
becoming costly ‘epidemic’
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CAMPUS REPORTER
Every year the Auburn University
Career Center prints vinyl banners
to honor students at graduation, but
the gesture has back  red two years
in a row.
A dozen of these banners have
been stolen in two years, and em-ployees
there are getting tired of it.
“A banner stolen here or there is
no biggie,” said Matthew Anspach,
graduate assistant for the Career
Center. “But it was like an epidemic.”
Late night pranksters or gradu-ates
looking for a memento as they
leave Auburn are the main suspects.
  e banners cost $250 apiece.   e
Career Center has had to stop mak-ing
them because of the expense.
“It’s costing money that we could
do other things with, but we have
to replace the banners,” said Melvin
Smith, special events coordinator
for the Career Center.
Career Center employees have
tried to deter the thefts as best they
can, but their e  orts have been fu-tile.
“We’ve put signs on the banner
poles that say to not tamper with
them,” Smith said. “I’ve reported to
the police and they’ve tried to ob-serve,
but they can’t sit and watch
these banners all the time.”
In addition to graduation, the Ca-reer
Center puts up banners to pro-mote
job fairs and other events.
The Center is concerned that if
more banners are stolen, students
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CAMPUS REPORTER
Sixty of the 67 counties in Ala-bama
have a shortage of primary
care physicians.
Auburn University’s new medi-cal
college will begin enrolling stu-dents
fall 2015 and will provide a
mission for students to help with
this problem.
“(Our students) will be leading
lives of purpose and signi  cance,”
said John Rocovich, founder and
chairman of the board of directors
of Edward Via College of Osteo-pathic
Medicine. “  ey will be able
to prevent lives needlessly lost.”
Auburn University will collab-orate
with Edward Via College of
Osteopathic Medicine, or VCOM,
to establish the medical school.
VCOM is originally based in Blacks-burg,
Va.
Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, dean and
executive vice president of VCOM,
said some of Auburn’s executives
visited the Blacksburg and South
Carolina campuses to see if VCOM
was the right   t before the collabo-ration
was made   nal.
“(Auburn) said basically to
VCOM, ‘You know what you’re do-ing
and we like the type of medical
school you’ve built, along with the
mission,’” Tooke-Rawlins said.
Tooke-Rawlins believes Auburn
and VCOM’s missions are on the
same wavelength.
“The opportunity to help out
many people of Alabama is what
attracted (VCOM) originally to the
collaboration,” Tooke-Rawlins said.
With $5 million invested into the
college and none of it coming from
state funding, President Jay Gogue
made sure he could trust the peo-ple
he was working with.
“Any partnership that is creat-ed
is created on the basis of trust,”
Gogue said. “We’ve been talking
about this for a year, and I know
VCOM and a lot of the people in
collaboration with Auburn are good
people. We look forward to making
this (collaboration) work.”
Auburn University is also in col-laboration
with Alabama A&M and
Tuskegee University.
This new campus will provide
students with the opportunity to
receive a D.O./Ph.D. dual degree, an
MBH or MBA degree.
The University and VCOM will
work in tandem with one another.
“Students and faculty of both
VCOM and the Auburn medical col-lege
will be able to share research
programs and facilities, to work
with Auburn’s sports medicine fac-ulty,
as well as have increasing ac-cess
to national institutes of health
and department of defense funding
through joint research programs,”
Rocovich said.
Jimmy Sanford, chair holder of
the Auburn Research and Tech-nology
Foundation, said this col-lege
would be separate from Au-burn
University in that it will have
its own admissions, but students
who attend this college will share
the same amenities as the rest of
Auburn University students.
“  ere will be an articulation be-tween
Auburn University and the
medical school where they share IT
services and in  rmary services, li-braries,
that kind of thing,” Sanford
said.
  e medical college will recruit
professors from anywhere and ev-erywhere,
Sanford said.
Rocovich said the overall mis-sion
is to add doctors to the work-force,
to produce osteopathic re-search
bene  ts to students in the
state of Alabama and to improve
the lifestyle in Auburn.
“We work so hard to get medical
education right to produce physi-cians
with missionary hearts,” Ro-covich
said.
Medical college on the horizon
REBECCA CROOMES / PHOTO EDITOR
VCOM President James Wolfe; Jimmy Sanford, chair of the Auburn Research and Technology Foundation; John Mason, pres-ident
of the Auburn Research and Technology Foundation and John Rocovich Jr., chairman of the VCOM Board of Directors
attend the grand opening of Auburn’s new medical campus.
EMILY MORRIS / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
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Students update their
Facebook pages and Twitter
feeds all the time, but soon
they’ll start tweaking their
own websites thanks to Au-burn’s
new ePortfolio Project.
The Office of Universi-ty
Writing is sponsoring the
project and is working with
groups such as the Media and
Digital Resource Labs and
the Career Center to set up
support systems for students
to create online portfolios.
Margaret Marshall, direc-tor
of University Writing, said
ePortfolios are a useful way
for students to organize their
achievements online.
“Putting together evidence
of your learning just as you
are preparing to graduate
helps to see the connections
between experiences you’ve
had, both in class and out-side
of class, and to be able to
represent what you’re able to
do to future employers,” Mar-shall
said.
“It’s a nice way to transi-tion
out of the University and
into the world of work.”
Laura Elmer, a student
representative for the proj-ect’s
development commit-tee,
said an ePortfolio can be
the first step in obtaining a
new online identity.
“You have a social identity,
but you also want to create
a professional identity,” El-mer
said. “Putting this image
out there with the ePortfolio
will showcase your skills, not
what you do on Saturday.”
Having a website can be
more useful than a conven-tional
résumé because it
gives employers more infor-mation,
Elmer said.
“What’s missing from a
regular résumé is that you
just have a list of things, but
a list of things doesn’t real-ly
give employers a feel for
what you can actually do,” El-mer
said.
Making employees aware
of an online portfolio can
help during a job interview
as well, Marshall said.
“When you add your web-site
link on your printed ma-terials,
then employers go
to that website and learn a
whole lot more about you,”
Marshall said.
“It seems to help students
make the cut into getting an
interview, and because em-ployers
know so much more
about you and can ask spe-cific
questions about your
experiences, it seems to give
students an edge in getting a
job.”
Alessio Summerfield was
a representative of Auburn’s
Media Club in a test group
that was gathered over the
summer. He said an ePortfo-lio
might also help students
learn new things about tech-nology.
“I think this ePortfolio
thing is something to keep
your eyes on because it’s go-ing
to make it really easy for
non-tech students to excel,”
Sumerfield said. “We have
some people in our group
that are not tech-savvy, and
they’ve been doing a pretty
good job of piecing together
a patchwork site.”
Most of the eportfolios will
be made using online tem-plates
provided by sites like
Wix and Wordpress, sites
Summerfield said can pro-vide
starting points for stu-dents
who eventually hope to
make a website on their own.
“There’s definitely more
flexibility and customiza-tion
if you do it from scratch,
but I would say this ePortfo-lio
program is the simplest
way of being introduced to
the concept,” Summerfield
said. “It’s more like making
a visual résumé than a web-site.
It’s more like a shrine to
yourself.”
Elmer said she has already
learned a lot from making
her own portfolio.
Elmer said she has already
learned a lot from making
her own portfolio.
“There’s a lot of things that
students like myself don’t
know,” Elmer said. “I learned
a lot about image copyright
issues. When you’re trying
to make your website visu-al,
you can’t just rip things
off Google. I would strongly
encourage students to take
their own photos.”
The website may not send
the right impression, howev-er,
if it is not well organized,
Marshall said.
“These portfolios are about
that moment of reflection, of
thinking and finding connec-tions,”
Marshall said. “I think
too often students have the
experience of having one
course after another or being
involved in one activity after
another and don’t have very
many opportunities to pull
those things together and fig-ure
out ‘What does it mean?’
and ‘What do I know now?’”
Elmer said that is why it’s
important to include a re-flective
essay, so the website
doesn’t become a collection
of unrelated documents.
“A document dump is real-ly
just a collection of things
you’d want to show off, so you
have to think about why you
want to show them off, why is
this a good representation of
who I am,” Elmer said.
“If you think about the
why, that’s what you can put
in a reflective portion.”
Similar ePortfolio assign-ments
already exist in certain
departments, such as build-ing
science, architecture and
interior design, Elmer said.
“We actually did a survey
at the beginning of the proj-ect
to see who was doing
something like this on cam-pus
already, so lots of depart-ments
either said, ‘Yes we do
this,’ or ‘We do a paper ver-sion
of this’ or ‘No, we don’t
do this at all, but we’d like to,’”
Elmer said. “I wouldn’t say
that we’re the first to do this
at Auburn, but we’re the first
with these goals in mind.”
An 86-page document out-lines
the eventual goals of
the project and states that,
as these portfolios become
commonplace, more incen-tives
will be put in place for
both people to participate.
The project won’t be com-pletely
finished until next
year, but Marshall said she’ll
probably ask students to par-ticipate
sooner by suggesting
possible nicknames.
“We were playing for a
while with calling this the
A.P.P. Project, so the Auburn
ePortfolio Project, but the
students this summer told
us that was a really stupid
name,” Marshall said.
Elmer said she is glad to be
involved and thinks the proj-ect
will make Auburn stu-dents
more competitive as
they search for jobs.
“We all need to keep mov-ing
forward, and I’m so glad
Auburn is doing this and say-ing
‘how can we keep our stu-dents
ahead of the game,’” El-mer
said. “I just feel so hon-ored
to be representing stu-dents
and helping to get their
voices and opinions.”
Portfolio screenshot courtesy of LAura Elmer
Students transform professional identities with online portfolios
“What’s missing
from a regular
résumé is that
you just have a
list of things, but
a list of things
doesn’t really
give employers a
feel for what you
can actually do”
—Laura Elmer
Student representative on the
ePortfolio project committee
will be unaware of important
events.
“It’s how we promote our
event,” Smith said. “A lot of
times students don’t check
their emails, but if they see a
big banner people will notice.”
Cameras that could catch
potential thieves have been set
up around campus.
“If one gets taken (the Uni-versity)
informed us they can
look at any video cameras in
the area to help us out,” Ans-pach
said.
But Smith said it isn’t always
possible to ride around cam-pus
during the night to ensure
the banners are still standing.
Students caught stealing
banners could be subject to a
wide range of punishments.
Smith and Anspach both
said the Career Center would
seek assistance both the Au-burn
Police Department and
the University to arrange ap-propriate
punishments.
Stealing banners could af-fect
a student’s graduation sta-tus,
officials said.
“We’re not out trying to hurt
anybody,” Smith said. “We just
don’t want them to tamper
with our banners. (The ban-ners)
are there to benefit the
students.”
Stealing these banners may
not be worth the risk.
Banners
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Courtesy of Matthew Anspack
Thursday, September 6, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
Hayley Blair
Campus Editor
Performers from Keimyung University in Korea visited
Thursday, Aug. 30 to demonstrate the benefits of Auburn’s
new Korea Center.
The center is being created through collaborations
with Keimyung, which is sending instructors to teach Ko-rean
language courses, said Timothy Boosinger, vice pres-ident
of academic affairs.
“Our Office of International Programs reached out to
Korean universities we thought would be good partners,
and Keimyung University was interested in working with
us,” Boosinger said. “They are a similar size to us and they
have similar majors, so we thought it would be a good
match. Obviously they’re very interested; they brought
37 students and seven faculty to put on this great show.”
The show included a quartet of violinists, a traditional
dance team and a taekwondo demonstration team that
once performed for Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.
Abbie Casey, a sophomore in anthropology, said the
performance was impressive and she hopes to learn more
about Korean culture through the new center.
“The performers were gorgeous,” Casey said. “The
dancing was my favorite because of the choreography
when they spun together to make the flower with their
fans, and the colors and costumes were really vibrant.”
The Foy Hall auditorium was packed with people who
came to see the show, and after every ‘Hyaaa’ from the
taekwondo team little echoes could be heard from chil-dren
in the audience.
Keimyung did not only bring performers, however.
Language instructor Eun Hyun Park visited as well.
Park will play an important part in the new Korea Cen-ter
as a language instructor for the non-credit courses
that will be available later this fall.
“My major is Korean teaching as a second language,”
Park said. “I am interested in America, and I want to
teach American people. Nowadays, I have heard that
American people are also interested in Korean culture
and language, so that’s why I came here.”
Younseok (Chris) Lee, coordinator in Keimyung’s office
of international affairs, said as more students become in-volved,
additional classes may be added.
“For the Korea Center we are initially going to provide
a language program, then as it grows we will put a culture
portion in as well, so we’ll see what happens,” Lee said.
Korea’s economic contributions to Alabama are part of
the reason it’s important to be more aware of its culture,
Boosinger said.
“We think this will complement our work with the Ko-rean
community that’s in Auburn and all the Korean com-panies
that line I-85,” Boosinger said. “They’re doing great
things for our economy, and they’re creating educational
opportunities for our students.”
Keimyung will also benefit as the two universities be-come
partners in research and exchange programs.
“We’re looking forward to Keimyung sending us stu-dents
to study whatever they’re interested in,” Boosing-er
said. “The students who performed would probably be
interested in dance and theater, but others can come to
study math and physics, whatever will make both univer-sities
better. That’s really what this is all about, ‘How do we
make both universities better?’”
Lee said English is widely used at Keimyung, which will
make it easier for Auburn students to study there.
“Speaking English is one of the skills needed to become
a global citizen, so our university put a lot of effort into
teaching English to the students,” Lee said. “I think over 20
percent of our courses are taught in English.”
Boosinger said he hopes Auburn students will take ad-vantage
of the new programs to increase their knowledge
of other cultures.
“If you wanted to go study at Keimyung University in
South Korea, you could go there and study whatever it
is you want to work on,” Boosinger said. “We’re hoping it
gives our students an opportunity to work and live and
study a different culture and develop better levels of un-derstanding.”
Performers from abroad visit to celebrate new Korea Center
Rebecca Croomes / Photo Editor
TOP: A student from Keimyung University demonstrates one of Korea’s traditional sword dances. LEFT: A performer peeks over her fan as she dances. MIDDLE LEFT: A member of the Keimyung String Quartet
plays the bass. MIDDLE RIGHT: The Korean drum dance is performed on large drums called janggo. RIGHT: After the ceremony, children take pictures with the performers onstage. *More pictures available online.
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  ursday, September 6, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Opinions
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Have you guys seen this new theme
park o  of Interstate 85?
From what I hear, it’s pretty dope.
Over 25,000 people seek out this
rural location every year, and they
pay exorbitant amounts of money to
sit in these little rooms, sometimes
at 8 a.m., to be scared, laugh, cry and
sometimes learn a thing or two about
life.
  ere are even a lot of spectator
events to attend if you get bored sit-ting
in the rooms–real grand show-cases
with plenty of screaming,   ash-ing
colors and odd rhythmic chants.
Be advised that you may get bom-barded
once or twice by a fellow park-goer
when walking down the check-ered-
brick main drag, a place park of-
  cials like to a  ectionately call “the
concourse.”
Did I mention this crazy whirlwind
of fun has a mascot? It’s a large, pre-sumably
male, self-aware tiger that
seems to know every pop culture ref-erence
in the book and likes to twirl
its tail like helicopters are going out
of style.
People go up and hug this thing,
unaware of its dormant ferocity and
insatiable hunger, and sob with hap-piness
into its arms while saying
something like “Aubie, I want you to
be the best man at my wedding!”
But the best part? If you get hun-gry,
you can just charge your food
purchase to the convenient little or-ange
card that you’re mandated to
buy upon entrance to the park.
Oh wait, you brought your own
lunch? Too bad, you still have to pay.
According to park rules, your situ-ation
is not an excuse from obeying
park ordinances, i.e. pay up or lose
that cash at the end of your stay.
If you’ve decided to stay inside the
park limits, you’ll have to put $1,000
on that card for every six months that
you stay.
And to all those smarty pants who
decided to stay at the Days Inn across
the street: You only have to put $300
on your card every six months.
I know what you’re saying, believe
me.
“Why do I even have to eat inside
the park? What if I want to leave and
pursue an Indian restaurant, vegan
cuisine or gluten-free options? Isn’t
this America? Whatever happened to
freedom?”
Well, you just can’t waive the fee,
OK?   at’s the way it’s always been.
The way the purchase system
works at War Eagle World, accord-ing
to park o£ cials, is that you have
to support the businesses within the
park whether you like them or not.
“But the prices are high, some-times
even triple what I could buy
outside the park!”
Look, don’t gripe to me about it.
I’m just a part of a body of young of-
  cials that has the potential to end
these shenanigans.
“But this almost seems like legal
extortion!”
Sir, please keep your voice down. I
can assure you that we’ve made these
regulations to benefit you and the
park as a whole.
“It sure doesn’t seem like it. How do
you sleep at night?”
Well, I guess that’s the way it’s al-ways
been, and the park doesn’t plan
on changing it anytime soon.
Deal with it.
Remember, keep your lap belt on
at all times, don’t touch anything with
an old-looking sign next to it, keep o 
the grass, worship the fast food chick-en
restaurant that employs cows as
advertising mercenaries, don’t ex-pect
anything to happen on the park
grounds after 5 p.m., trade in your
car for a tricycle (parking? no.) and
please apply for a permit if you’re even
thinking about mentioning our rival
park in Tuscaloosa.
But most of all, enjoy your stay at
War Eagle World!
Even if your wallet does seem a lit-tle
lighter when you leave.
Many people think of de-pression
as a teenage exagger-ation
or an excuse to relax on
the couch and be lazy.
Far from it, guys.
As a disclaimer, my goal in
writing this is not to present
a premise to those who doubt
the existence of mental illness,
because it would be an unfair
argument. No one who has
ever gone through life without
experiencing the numerous ef-fects
of depression could pos-sibly
understand. Instead, my
goal is to reach out to those
who do su  er from the medi-cal
disorder.
I know I am no doctor—
I don’t know many medical
terms, I’m no therapist to vis-it
regularly, and I cannot pre-scribe
any medication—but
what I can do is o  er a chance
to relate.
Through experience, I un-derstand
that depression
sneaks up on its victims like a
slithering snake—slowly and
dangerously, while you aren’t
even aware.
It is a deep, merciless abyss
that slowly forms below your
feet before you fall into it.
Over time, allowing con-stant
doubt, worries and grow-ing
regret to invade and re-main
in the mind becomes an
unbreakable habit that causes
an inevitable wear and tear on
the thought process. But the
world keeps spinning: work
still has to be done to graduate
or earn a paycheck.
Eventually, you turn into a
different person. Your fami-ly
and friends start to notice a
change in you. Nothing make
you happy. In fact, things you
used to enjoy annoy you, and
all you want to do is sleep.
While friends slowly drift
away and the inability to bal-ance
everyday tasks worsens,
the veil that clouds your brain
becomes heavier, and any in-terest
you may have had be-fore
has completely vanished.
But the world keeps spinning.
You watch the life being
sucked out of you before your
very eyes as you are unable
to control your emotions and
maintain a steady mood. You
are left trapped in an energy-depleted
body that becomes
alien to you while making ev-ery
attempt to scream out
“  is is not me!”
  oughts race in your mind
as you constantly worry about
every single thing that speeds
around that dangerous race-track.
Luckily, the world keeps
spinning.
If the world didn’t keep spin-ning,
it wouldn’t be there to
nudge you like a horse nudg-ing
its foal. It wouldn’t be there
to display its undeniable beau-ty
that sparks hope in even the
darkest moments and open
your eyes to the vast possi-bilities
that lay before you. It
wouldn’t be there to breathe
fresh air into your lungs, clear
your mind and revitalize your
heavy soul. But most impor-tantly,
it wouldn’t be there to
connect you with the people
that you need most in such a
di£ cult time.
If there’s one thing I’ve
learned through depression,
it’s that communication is the
key to a healthy conscience;
false communication worsens
the condition.
  e best way to combat de-pression
is to build a support
system. Using resources of the
earth such as water, air and
food are important, but more
important is tapping into the
resource of family and friends,
genuinely loving them for who
they are and sharing the beau-ty
of the world with them.
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  is past weekend marked
what has come to be one of
my favorite holidays: Labor
Day.
  ough the day will forev-er
be confused with Memori-al
Day, the two holidays are in
fact di  erent.
Labor Day weekend is a
sign that times are changing.
It is a sign that fall will soon
replace summer. It signi  es
the end of seersucker and
white clothing. Most impor-tantly,
it signals the miracu-lous
return of football to the
rabid fans that have craved it
for seven months.
The Monday off from
school and work is not too
bad either.
Needless to say, spirits
are high the   rst weekend in
September.
With all of the football and
festivities going on, the true
meaning of Labor Day can
get lost in the shuÅ e.
Labor Day can trace its
roots back to the 1880s, but
it didn’t become a feder-al
holiday until 1894 when
President Grover Cleveland
signed it into law.
  e reason for the holiday
was simple: to celebrate the
impact workers bring to this
country, both economically
and socially.
But there is a problem
with celebrating workers’
impact on this country’s cur-rent
state: Worker impact is
diminishing.
  e recession has hurt the
success and careers of work-ing-
age people nationwide.
The unemployment rate
in the U.S. is currently at 8.3
percent, with no clear path of
going down.
Recent college graduates
have been especially hurt by
the economic downturn. Ac-cording
to a study conduct-ed
by the Associated Press in
April, 53.6 percent of college
graduates under the age of 25
are unemployed or underem-ployed.
According to that same
study, graduates with de-grees
in nursing, teaching,
accounting and computer
sciences are most likely to
  nd jobs in their   elds upon
graduating.
A bachelor’s degree in hu-manities
or art may expand
your mind and leave you ac-ademically
enriched, but it
may only get you a job be-hind
the counter of a fast-food
restaurant.
  is scares the hell out of
me. Before college I worked
numerous odd jobs, from
pool maintenance to land-scaping
to warehouse shelf-building
(probably the most
entertaining one), and even
at a local deli.
Though there is noth-ing
wrong with these jobs, I
knew they were not what I
wanted to do for the rest of
my life.   is was the reason
I decided to attend Auburn.
I wanted a job after college
that would be ful  lling and
that would pay well.
But with the job market
like it is now, it is not crazy
to think my degree in jour-nalism
will lead me to a job
as a sales clerk at the neigh-borhood
O£ ce Depot or T.J.
Maxx.
Labor Day is supposed
to remind us of the impact
workers carry, but it is hard
to make a big impact living
in the basement of the house
you grew up in, sending out
multiple résumés a day.
Vice presidential candi-date
Paul Ryan may have
said it best during the Re-publican
National Conven-tion
this year. “College grad-uates
should not have to live
out their 20s in their child-hood
bedrooms.”
However, as scary as the
job market is, it is also one of
the most exciting times to be
graduating college.
The world we live in is
changing every day, and in-novators
and new thinkers
are at a premium.
  e economy will not be
down forever. With hard
work, perseverance a little
luck our generation will be
just   ne.
Now enjoy your Labor Day
leftovers and try to sober up
before you go back to work.
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on job market
Depression doesn’t have to win
Ridiculous rules make campus seem more like a theme park
Mr. Eastwood & Company
In America, we love celeb-rities.
Especially when they
screw up.
We can’t wait for the next
sex tape, messy divorce or
DUI involving some public
  gure. Seeing these people
put on a pedestal then swift-ly
knocked down by their
own drug-fueled folly is a
process we deeply cherish.
We love to feel superior to
anyone who seems like they
are more successful than we
are.
Is that wrong? Most likely.
But why do we care which
political party a celebrity
supports?
Clint Eastwood’s recent
appearance at the Republi-can
National Convention is
the perfect example of how
obsessed we are with celeb-rities.
Eastwood brought his
rough, take-no-prison-ers
image to the RNC, and
the Republicans, along
with many Eastwood fans,
swooned. He tough-talked
to an empty chair, and Rom-ney
supporters were visibly
  red up. Even “Deliverance”
star John Voight gave a nod
of approval from his seat in
the crowd.
Of course, this seems
more like posturing than any
sort of real political action.
When any celebrity makes
their political voice pub-lic,
we can’t help but yawn
and roll our eyes. Whether
they are liberal or conserva-tive,
we believe celebrity en-dorsements
are an archaic
reminder of days past.   ey
don’t have any meaning any-more.
We all know Eastwood is
an American treasure; his
films have given us many
hours of joy. But that doesn’t
mean he will change any-one’s
mind about their cho-sen
candidate.
Celebrities are good at
selling commercial goods,
not presidential candidates.
If we spent as much time
informing ourselves about
real issues as we do fawning
over Eastwood and his Hol-lywood
ilk, we would laugh
at any attempt to sell us a
candidate, which is what it
feels like now. We don’t need
to buy, we need to vote.
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Andrew McCaslin
Writer
Pop Love-It, a skateboard
shop no bigger than a universi-ty
classroom, is owned and op-erated
entirely by its founder,
Josh Loveland.
Loveland dropped out of Au-burn
University in 2009 and
used money originally intend-ed
for college tuition toward
capital for the shop.
“I saw people skating these
interesting, long skateboards
that went really fast down-hill,”
Loveland said. “When I 
saw longboards, it was tempt-ing
and I got hooked on it real-ly
fast. I met a lot of people who
shared sympathies of not hav-ing
a skateboard shop,” Love-land
said.
The name, Pop Love-It, is a
play on words integrating the
“pop-shove it” skateboard trick
and the owner’s last name.
Pop Love-It, unlike other
mainstream skate shops, does
not sell skate clothes or shoes.
However, Loveland comment-ed
he might add shoes to his in-ventory
in the future.
“My business plan was to
carry as little overhead as pos-sible
and to carry the stuff that
people wanted to see,” Love-land
said. “I  provide people
with hard goods.”
Although the store is small
and located out of sight from
Gay Street, he has a monopoly
on the skating market.
“It was an untapped market,”
he said. “There were one or two
skate shops before, but they
were lost in history. Theoreti-cally,
it was a monopoly. I don’t
plan on dominating the world
or anything. It’s the world’s
smallest monopoly.”
Loveland attributes his suc-cess
to the loyalty of his cus-tomers.
“I was blessed with the way
it all panned out,” he said. “As
soon as I opened the door, peo-ple
came in. The locals were re-ally
supportive. I  drained all
of my initial capital within a
month, but the business flowed
on its own on the get-go. It pays
its own bills, pays my bills and
floats on its own.”
Loveland offers discounts
for purchases made by first-time
skaters. The store contin-ually
has new boards coming in
and welcomes skaters to sug-gest
any new boards or equip-ment
they want to see in the
store.
“They’re specialized,” said
Cory Spicer, sophomore in hu-man
development and fami-ly
studies. “The guy who runs
it actually knows how to run
it. I’ve bought a longboard and
wheels, and he knew exactly
what to get. If skaters want a
particular item and he doesn’t
have it, then he’ll get it in for
you.”
Other plans for the store in-clude
expanding the store’s in-ventory
to provide roller skates
for the Auburn University roller
derby team, expanding to a big-ger
building and petitioning to
create a skate park.
“It’s cool being the only guy
who runs it,” Loveland said.
“I  get to meet everyone who
comes in. Everyone who comes
in is a friend of mine. It’s cool to
see people grow an interest in
skateboarding. People who had
never been on a board come
back and share how they’ve im-proved.”
City Council meeting filled with controversy
Auburn loves Pop Love-It
Nathan Simone
Online Editor
South College Street will
soon be graced by a new Ital-ian
restaurant called Notto-lini’s,
owned by James and
Roberta Torok.
The husband and wife
team are currently renovat-ing
the old Sante Fe Mex-ican
Grill location at 1660
S. College St. near the Wal-
Mart and Auburn Urgent
Care to make it an Italian
themed fine-dining restau-rant
with 120 seats and a 20-
seat lounge.
The city of Auburn ap-proved
tax abatements for
the renovation of the build-ing
at the city council meet-ing
on Sept. 4.
James Torak is pushing to
open the restaurant by Oct. 1
if everything goes according
to plan.
James and Roberta Torok
attended the council meet-ing
to thank the city for the
abatements and to give an
update to residents on their
soon-to-open business.
Nottolini’s will stand out
in competition with oth-er
Italian restaurants in the
area, according to James.
“We are compatible in
price to Olive Garden, but
our quality is three times
better,” James said.
James said the restaurant
will use all local vendors
and the food will be freshly
sourced and prepared.
“I  want to use all local
growers,” James said. “Ev-erything
will be fresher, our
seafood will be one day away
from the ship and generally
just better.”
The councilmembers
unanimously wished the To-roks
well in “bringing new
life to South College Street.”
Italian restaurant will
add flavor to Auburn
Nathan Simone
Online Editor
Accusations of racial dis-crimination
marred the Au-burn
City Council meeting on
Sept. 4.
During citizens’ commu-nication,
Councilperson Ar-thur
Dowdell and his wife, An-twameka,
brought up a com-plaint
with the council con-cerning
non-delivery of goods
by Domino’s Pizza located at
310 W. Magnolia Ave. to the
Dowdells’ residence at 909
Pleasant Ave. in Auburn.
Councilperson Dowdell
claimed Domino’s would not
deliver food to his house  on
Aug. 31 because the gener-al
manager, Chris Daughet-ry,
claimed two robberies had
recently occurred in the same
area.
After checking with the city
and an independent source,
Councilperson Dowdell said
he could find no record of a
robbery occurring on Pleas-ant
Avenue recently.
“The record does not show
that any robbery has oc-curred,”
Dowdell said. “…So
why does Domino’s think that
black people are thieves and
robbers?”
Dowdell claimed this was
the third time his family had
been denied service, even
though Domino’s had de-livered
to their house many
times before.
“The first time, we let it
slide,” Dowdell said. “But the
second and third time, we
have brought it here (to city
council) to be remedied.”
Dowdell threatened to as-semble
supporters to protest
in front of the Domino’s this
Friday and possibly take out a
racial discrimination lawsuit if
no action was taken by the city
and the council.
“We live in a good neighbor-hood,”
Dowdell said. “We feel
that we should just be treated
equal to the college students
or anybody else who wants
pizza and hot wings.”
Rev. Larry Taylor said he
supported Dowdell’s decision,
but wanted protesting to be a
last resort so Auburn did not
look like a segregated city.
“We ain’t got time for racial
discrimination,” Taylor said.
“This needs to be stopped.”
Mayor Bill Ham claimed he
had not heard about the pre-vious
incidents of racial dis-crimination
until they were
brought up that night.
City Manager Charles Dug-gan
said he had dealt with
Domino’s before on other inci-dents
of non-delivery and that
he had been provided infor-mation
that a crime may have
occurred in the area some
time ago.
Duggan visited Domino’s
after the council meeting and
Daughetry confirmed they do
not deliver to certain areas af-ter
dark, including Pleasant
Avenue.
“I asked Daughetry if he was
following Domino’s corporate
policy and he said yes,” Dug-gan
said.
Duggan said Daughetry
said he did not feel his deci-sions
were racially motivated
and that minority staff mem-bers
agreed with the policy.
Duggan said this is the first
time he has heard of a busi-ness
in Auburn refusing to pa-tronize
a certain area.
Zeke Turrentine / Community Editor
Domino’s on W. Magnolia Ave. was the subject of controversy at the Sept. 4 City Council meeting when Councilperson Arthur Dowdell ac-cused
the franchise of refusing to deliver to his neighborhood on the basis of racial discrimination. Dowdell threatened a protest and a possi-ble
racial dscrimination lawsuit if action was not taken by the city council to remedy the situation.
Caitlin Wagenseil
Writer
As the hustle and bustle
of the new school year be-gins,
students need to be
equipped with the right in-formation
to stay safe while
bike riding on campus or in
town.
The potential risks that
come with riding a bicycle
in Auburn have led at least
one experienced cyclist to
stop riding all together.
Having lived in Philadel-phia
and traveled around its
busy streets, David Mante, a
graduate research assistant
in the department of civ-il
engineering, is no begin-ner
at getting around on a
bicycle.
“I used to ride every day
for the first two years here,
and I  had a couple close
calls, so I  stopped riding,”
Mante said. “It seems to be
that people aren’t educat-ed—
both drivers and bicy-clists.”
Both motorists and cy-clists
have a responsibili-ty
to obey city regulations
in order to stay safe on the
road and avoid accidents.
“A lot of bicyclists may
not realize they are sup-posed
to follow all traffic
laws and rules of the road
that cars follow,” said Susan
McCallister, associate direc-tor
of public safety informa-tion
and education at Au-burn
University.
In addition to these rules,
cars are required to give bi-cyclists
the proper amount
of space when passing them
to avoid any accidents.
“It is a city of Auburn or-dinance
that cars need to
leave at least three feet of
space for bicyclists when
passing them,” McCallister
said. “If they don’t have the
space, they need to wait un-til
they do.”
 Many of Mante’s “close
calls” involved cars trying to
pass him.
“I’ve been almost clipped
on multiple occasions from
people going by and trying
to pass me on a double yel-low,”
Mante said.
Auburn’s bicycle policy
is described in detail in the
“War Eagle Wheels” section
of the official Auburn Uni-versity
website. Cyclists are
“required to ride with traf-fic,
obey all signs and sig-nals,
and have a light when
riding at night,” according to
the website.
Cyclists are also not al-lowed
to ride on downtown
or campus sidewalks, ac-cording
to the website.
“The concourse is techni-cally
not considered a side-walk
because of it being
wider than 10 feet, which is
why we have bicycles on the
concourse,” said Eric Smith,
director of health promo-tion
and wellness services
at Auburn University.
Students can visit www.
travelwithcareauburn.com
to educate themselves fur-ther
on the rules and regula-tions
of bicycle safety.
Travel With Care is a
“transportation safety cam-paign
that encourages cour-tesy
between all modes
of transportation such as
walking, cycling and driv-ing,”
according to the web-site.
The city of Auburn, Au-burn
University, Auburn Po-lice
Department and the
Lee County Sheriff ’s Office
are all part of the campaign
that “aims to educate citi-zens
on the laws and rules
established to enhance the
safety of all road users,” ac-cording
to the website.
Bike safety still an issue Courtesy of Pop Love-it
Auburn’s downtown skate shop, Pop Love-it, has created a loyal fanbase that owner Josh Loveland says
he loves working for.
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The Osher Lifelong Learn-ing
Institute at Auburn Univer-sity,
also known as OLLI at Au-burn,
has released its class list
for the fall quarter.
OLLI started in Auburn in
1990 and o  ers a wide variety
of classes for anyone interest-ed.
“Come spend a day with us,”
said Linda Shook, OLLI at Au-burn
coordinator. “We encour-age
people to come visit and
see what we’re doing.”
Classes begin Sept. 24 and
range from lectures to physi-cal
activities.
“Our classes meet once a
week,” Shook said. “Most of
our classes are about six to
eight weeks...Some classes are
hands on, and some are art-type
classes.”
Jim Barber, a student and
teacher for OLLI at Auburn,
said the classes are great ways
to keep the mind learning and
to make friends.
“I have made some of the
best friends and met some
of the nicest people in my life
through OLLI,” Barber said.
“We’re all equals in the class-rooms,
and there’s a wide di-chotomy
of people.”
Barber is instructing a
course this quarter titled “Fly
Me to the Moon: NASA’s Proj-ect
Mercury.” He said through-out
the course they will be
looking at videos about NASA
and discussing them.
“The first two classes will
set the stage of the political,
social and economic condi-tions
in 1956, ’57 and ’58,” Bar-ber
said. “In ’57 the Sputnik
satellite went up, and it was an
earth-shattering event world-wide
because all of the sudden
the United States was brought
to the realization that we were
not ahead of the Russians in
rocket and space technology.”
OLLI’s special October
Harvest Social will be held
Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 4–6
p.m. at the Ag Pavilion at Her-itage
Park.   e gathering will
feature food, a cake walk and
line dancing hosted by Bonnie
Stau  er.
The Auburn Writers Con-ference
is scheduled for Oct.
12 and 13 and is sponsored
by the Caroline Marshall
Draughon Center for the Arts
and Humanities. OLLI at Au-burn
members may regis-ter
at the student rate of $40.
  e conference, “  e Winding
Road: Travel, Identity and the
Search for Voice,” will be led
by a sprawling list of authors
from diverse ² elds and genres,
including several employees of
Auburn.
Other classes offered this
fall include “Flying High: Au-burn
Aviation,” “Dream a Lit-tle
Dream: Dreams and their
Meaning,” “Spanish for Be-ginners
Part 1,” “Spanish In-termediate,”
“History of Free-dom
Part 1” and a class on the
Cuban Missile Crisis that is
scheduled for its 50th anniver-sary.
To see a full class listing,
visit the OLLI at Auburn web-site.
Some Auburn University
professors will teach cours-es
o  ered this fall by OLLI at
Auburn. Steve Brown, a polit-ical
science professor at Au-burn,
will be teaching a course
on the Constitution, and fac-ulty
members from the Au-burn
University Theatre De-partment
will be conducting a
course that covers all aspects
of the theatre business.
“We try to have at least one
course taught by active Au-burn
University employees,”
Shook said. “  is time we have
four.”
The other two courses
taught by Auburn employees
are “Shedding Light on your
Hearing and Balance Loss,”
taught by Marsha Kluesing,
Martha Wilson and Kelli
Watts. Tracy Donald will teach
the course “I didn’t know I
could do that! An introduction
to tools that make the com-puter
and other technologies
easier to use.”
OLLI at Auburn is gather-ing
more publicity this year as
Mayor Bill Ham proclaimed
Monday, Sept. 17 as OLLI at
Auburn Lifelong Learning Day.
“We’re really excited about
Sept. 17,” Shook said. “It’s an
oµ cial proclamation and the
proclamation will be present-ed
that day.”
An open house will be held
Wednesday, Sept. 12 from 10
a.m. to noon at the East Ala-bama
Medical Center’s Health
Resource Center.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson
will be the featured speaker at
a general membership meet-ing
Monday, Sept. 17 at 10 a.m.
Opportunities abound to
experience what OLLI at Au-burn
is like and to gather more
information about the courses
and people.
“Come try us,” Barber said.
“Come to some classes. Come
meet some of the people.
Come sit with us and learn.
These classes are like potato
chips; you can’t take just one.”
Registration is now open
and those interested can reg-ister
by visiting the website
or mailing in the registration
form available on the website.
OLLI classes o  er opportunities for community involvement
Pre-vet students work with Alltech on sustainability
S      C     
COMMUNITY REPORTER
Pre-veterinary students
Casey Randle and Alexandra
Hawkins have been named
Alltech Student Ambassadors
for Auburn University.
Randle’s and Hawkins’ love
for animals steered them to-ward
animal science.   rough
their ambassadorship with
Alltech, they will be sharing
that love and educating Au-burn
students about agricul-tural
projects and research.
Founded in 1980 by Pearse
Lyons, Alltech is an animal
health and nutrition compa-ny.
  e company works to ed-ucate
people about agricul-ture,
where food comes from
and how it is being produced.
“Alltech is trying to improve
current issues like sustain-ability
by researching and im-plementing
new ways to in-crease
the amount of food be-ing
produced for the increas-ing
world population,” Randle
said. “Alltech has many irons
in the ² re.”
Alltech sponsors the World
Equestrian Games, an inter-national
championship for
equestrians, and is involved in
numerous philanthropic en-deavors.
“The company is also in-volved
in education in many
countries and builds schools,
science labs and supports
communities across the
world,” Randle said.
One of those philanthropic
projects, Café Citadelle, works
to help the agricultural econo-my
in Haiti. Alltech bags and
sells the coffee produced in
Haiti and then sends back the
pro² ts to Haiti, giving its econ-omy
a boost.
“This has been the most
helpful way to improve the
country’s outlook on their ag
industry,” Randle said. “The
co  ee sales are currently hap-pening
on the Auburn cam-pus,
and if you are interested
in buying a bag and supporting
both Auburn and Haiti, please
contact one of us.”
As part of their mission
to spread the word about
Alltech’s projects, Hawkins
and Randle will attend events
and represent Alltech at these
Auburn events.
“Our main duty is to explain
campus-wide what Alltech
does and the roles it plays in
the agricultural industry,” Ran-dle
said.
Hawkins said they will be
attending agriculture club
meetings and hosting events
throughout the year to share
with other students about
Alltech and their projects.
“We will hold an Alltech tail-gate
for the Texas A&M game,”
Hawkins said. “Any way that
we can spread the word of
Alltech we basically do, wheth-er
it includes presentations or
just simply talking to people
one-on-one.”
Both Hawkins and Randle
said they are excited to spread
the word about the work
Alltech is doing in the agricul-tural
industry to help better
people’s lives.
“  e most rewarding aspect
of the ambassadorship is being
able to be a part of this amaz-ing
company that is growing
by the second,” Hawkins said.
“This company can relate to
everyone’s everyday life and
gives so many people amazing
opportunities.”
For more information about
Alltech or how to get involved,
contact either Randle or
Hawkins at CLR0005@auburn.
edu or AFH0004@auburn.edu,
or visit the Alltech website at
alltech.com.
“Come to some
classes. Come
meet some of the
people. Come sit
with us and learn.
These classes
are like potato
chips, you can’t
take just one.”
—J   B     
OLLI TEACHER
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COMMUNITY REPORTER
Almost exactly two years
ago on Sept. 1 2010, Marine
Lance Cpl. Christopher Blake
Rodgers of Griffin, Ga. was
killed in action in Afghanistan.
Shortly after, the tribute
event Running for Our Heroes
was made.
Saturday, Sept. 8 2012, the
Running for Our Heroes 5K
and 1M Fun Run will be held
at Kiesel Park. All proceeds
earned from the trial race will
be donated to the Lance Cpl.
Christopher Blake Rodgers
Foundation and the A HERO
Foundation.
  e idea for the race began
in 2011 and was initially sup-posed
to be just a friend run-ning
in memory of Rodgers.
With intense planning, the
run eventually turned into a
foundation.
Event coordinator Leslie
Knight originally began the
program by training for a mar-athon
but then joined with the
A HERO Foundation and start-ed
thinking of ideas to raise
money for both groups.
“I am really excited for this
weekend,” Knight said. “It has
been a year in progress, and
since this is the ¦ rst time this
event is taking place it will be
great to ¦ nally see it all come
together.”
  e race acts as a fundrais-er
for two foundations, the
Lance Cpl. Christopher Blake
Rodgers Foundation and the A
HERO Foundation.
The Lance Cpl. Christo-pher
Blake Rodgers Founda-tion
awards an annual schol-arship
in Rodgers’ memory to
a JROTC cadet with plans to
enter the service after college
from Spalding High School in
Gri© n, Ga.
The A HERO Foundation,
which stands for America’s He-roes
Enjoying Recreation Out-doors,
helps wounded veter-ans
reacclimate and begin the
healing process through out-door
recreation.
  e 5K will be held at 8 a.m.,
with the one-mile run starting
after the 5K is ¦ nished.
  e events’ coordinators en-courage
anyone to come out,
no matter his or her age or ¦ t-ness
level.
Participants are allowed to
walk the events as well. How-ever,
awards will be given to
the first three males and fe-males
to complete the races.
  e goal is to raise at least
$1,000 for each foundation.
Kiesel Park hosts memorial run for soldier killed in Afghanistan
Auburn scientists win grant to study resurgent West Nile virus
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COMMUNITY EDITOR
While Auburn’s fall sports
teams are kicking their sea-sons
into high gear and facing
opponents from around the
country, two Auburn profes-sors
are ¦ ghting a more glob-al
enemy.
  e U.S. Forest Service Ur-ban
and Community Forest-ry
Program has given profes-sor
Graeme Lockaby and as-sociate
professor Latif Kalin
of the School of Forestry and
Wildlife Sciences a $240,000
research grant to study con-nections
between urbaniza-tion
and West Nile virus.
  e Auburn research group
also includes assistant profes-sor
Wayde Morse and post-doctoral
fellow Krisztian Ma-gori,
a quantitative disease
ecologist.
The study is beginning
amidst the latest West Nile
scare, which has affected
thousands and killed dozens
nationwide in the last sever-al
weeks.
Magori said even those
numbers don’t allow one to
appreciate the full scale of the
disease in the U.S. Some stud-ies
suggest millions may have
been infected since the first
outbreaks began appearing
in 1999.
  e Alabama Department
of Public Health is investigat-ing
cases of West Nile in the
state.
One person in Montgomery
County has died. Others have
experienced neurological is-sues
and others have had less
serious illnesses.
Many specialists say the
mild winter last year and lin-gering
heat created prime
conditions for the mosqui-toes
to breed, particularly in
areas with dense human pop-ulations.
A press release last week by
the ADPH said of the 12 con-
¦ rmed human cases of West
Nile virus, nine are male and
three are female, and their
ages range from 42 to 73. Six
are from Montgomery Coun-ty,
three are from Mobile, and
Baldwin, Je¶ erson and Tusca-loosa
counties have one case
each.
Additional suspected cases
are being investigated.
According to the ADPH, ap-proximately
one in ¦ ve people
who are infected with West
Nile virus will develop symp-toms
such as fever, headache,
body aches, joint pains, vom-iting,
diarrhea or rash. Less
than 1 percent will develop a
serious neurological illness
such as encephalitis or men-ingitis.
A study in Texas cited by
Magori found that some who
are infected—albeit a small
percentage—may show no
problems now, but can deal
with long-term health prob-lems
for the remainder of
their lives.
  e “Impact of Forest to Ur-ban
Conversion on Human
Health” project is part of a
joint e¶ ort with the Depart-ment
of Epidemiology at the
University of Alabama at Bir-mingham,
Atlanta’s Center for
Disease Control and Preven-tion
and the Georgia Depart-ment
of Community Health.
As director of Auburn’s
Center for Forest Sustainabili-ty,
Lockaby has studied the ef-fects
of urbanization before,
previously showing a direct
link between a lack of quali-ty
water and a high mosquito
population.
  e team is clear that there
are still many unanswered
questions about West Nile.
For instance, Magori said in a
press release that previous re-search
showed opposing evi-dence
as far as what the ideal
conditions for West Nile and
other mosquito-carried dis-eases
to thrive are.
“Many of the environmen-tal
factors associated with
West Nile virus remain un-clear,”
Lockaby said. “What
we as a natural resources unit
bring to the table is the abili-ty
to do a very detailed anal-ysis
of the landscape, includ-ing
aspects that may contrib-ute
to risk.”
The two are conducting a
small study right now while
preparing to start the broader
initiative, which will focus on
discovering the exact water
chemistry that breeds West
Nile mosquitoes.
“This is about predicting
risk,” Lockaby said. “We don’t
want to just say bad water
quality probably means more
mosquitoes. We want to show
a numerical relationship in
order to help prevent infec-tion.”
Mosquitoes that can spread
these viruses to humans breed
in urban and suburban as well
as rural storm sewers, ditches,
waste lagoons and artificial
containers around houses.
“We are trying to bring to-gether
data sets of water qual-ity
and hydrology, land use/
land cover changes and oc-currences
of West Nile vi-rus,
to see if there is really a
link between urbanization
and mosquito-borne diseas-es,
how we can best describe
that linkage and what we can
do about it,” Magori said.
Infection for a human is
best treated with early recog-nition,
and quick treatment
will significantly lower any
risk of severe sickness.
Of the low percentage of
people who develop neuro-logical
infection from the vi-rus,
about 10 percent will die
from the disease.
Those older than 50 and
people who are already suf-fering
from certain other con-ditions
(cancer, diabetes and
kidney disease, among oth-ers)
are at a higher risk for be-coming
seriously ill.
“With many people enjoy-ing
outdoor activities, it is im-portant
that residents take
every e¶ ort to reduce their ex-posure
to mosquitoes,” Dee W.
Jones, State Public Health Vet-erinarian,
said through the
ADPH. “Keep your mosquito
repellent with you at all times
when you are working or par-ticipating
in recreational ac-tivities
outdoors.”
More ADPH information
on new infections, updates
and prevention is available at
adph.org/epi/.
“What we as a
natural resources
unit bring to the
table is the ability
to do a very
detailed analysis
of the landscape,
including
aspects that may
contribute to risk.”
—G  
 
 L ¼¬  ½
PROFESSOR OF FORESTRY
AND WILDLIFE
“It has been a year in progress, and
since this is the   rst time this event
is taking place it will be great to
  nally see it all come together.”
—L
   
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1 No. on a utility bill
5 Show of affection
9 Dust and grime
13 Old woman’s
home, in a
nursery rhyme
14 Capital NNW of
Copenhagen
15 TV’s Uncle Miltie
16 *Place to prop a
pillow
18 Win by __
19 St. Francis’s home
20 Emulate Georgia
O’Keeffe
21 Well-suited
22 Luck of the draw
25 French girlfriend
27 Deadlocked
29 *Vital central
section of a
country
31 Sawbones
34 Joint-bending
ballet move
35 Actor Beatty
36 Youth
organization
whose focus
areas begin the
answers to
starred clues
39 Leave open-mouthed
42 Oklahoma tribe
43 Spread here and
there
47 *Effortless way to
win
50 Length x width,
for a rectangle
51 Wheel holder
52 “... nothing to fear
but fear __”
55 Unspecified high
degree
56 Bundled, as hay
58 Pretenses
60 Chutzpah
61 *Recuperative
resort
64 Raring to go
65 Part of ISBN:
Abbr.
66 Resting on
67 Small bills
68 Barely passing
grades
69 Spoil, with “on”
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2 Any product at a
dollar store
3 Rolled with the
engine off
4 “Bill & __ Bogus
Journey”
5 __ ball: rubber toy
fad of the ’80s
6 Old Testament
prophet
7 Camera type, for
short
8 Roll-your-own
grass
9 “It wasn’t me,” e.g.
10 Armored
superhero
11 “Goosebumps”
series author
12 Casual shirt
15 Sheep’s bleat
17 Ballpoint brand
20 Hazards
21 24-hr. cash
source
23 Brothers of nieces
24 Differential or
integral math
subj.
26 Onetime Leno
announcer Hall
28 “What’s the __?”:
“Seems the same
to me”
30 German: Abbr.
32 Lovey-dovey
murmurs
33 Surpassed in
performance
37 Ginger or ginseng
38 Lingerie top
39 “I get it!”
40 Yellow-podded
veggie
41 Make bigger
44 Che’s given name
45 Slippery area to
mop up
46 “Let’s not”
48 Probes, with “into”
49 Prove false
53 Calm spells
54 Strong and
healthy
57 Suffix with
auction
59 Herring known for
its roe
60 Recent: Pref.
61 Stayed out of
sight
62 WSW opposite
63 Mimic
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A university tapping into
the potential of social media
has become commonplace,
but a university using social
media to combat world hun-ger
could be groundbreaking.
The current campaign of
Auburn’s war on hunger, “Why
Care?,” was designed to gener-ate
awareness and action, all
through social media.
“‘Why care?’ is a social me-dia
campaign that we want to
involve a lot of di  erent peo-ple
from all walks of life, and
from several di  erent univer-sities
all over the world,” said
Jennie Daniel, a student in
the Hunger Studies Capstone
course.
Created by students in the
hunger studies capstone class
of last spring semester, the
same students decided to take
an extra semester as an inde-pendent
study under the hun-ger
studies minor in order to
continue working on the cam-paign.
  e campaign’s aim is to get
social media users to take pic-tures
of themselves with per-sonalized
messages stating
their concern about the issue
of hunger, both globally and at
home, signed with their name
and location.
  ey would then upload the
image to the campaign’s web-site,
Twitter or Facebook page.
  e purpose, Daniel said, is
to have people publicly iden-tify
why they care about hun-ger,
in an e  ort to instill a con-sciousness
of the issue in oth-ers.
“The goal is to challenge
them,” course instructor Kate
  ornton added. “You’ve told
us why you care, now what are
you going to do about it?”
Information on the web-sites,
operated by the cam-paign,
will provide support-ers
and visitors with resourc-es
they can use to trans-form
their ideas into actions,
whether it’s through dona-tions
of canned goods or vol-unteering
with humanitarian
organizations,   ornton said.
“Over the summer it got
picked up by the Food and Ag-riculture
Organization and the
World Food Programme, WFP.
And it is going to hopefully be
the capstone student cam-paign
for World Food Day this
year,”   ornton said.
Auburn has been the lead
academic partner with the
WFP since 2004, after being
asked to help further the new
War on Hunger student initia-tive.
Dean of the College of Hu-man
Sciences June Henton
and Director of External Re-lations
Harriet Giles are cred-ited
with developing the rela-tionship
between Auburn and
the WFP.
“Instead of launching a
website or just a campaign,
we began an actual University
student movement. We found-ed
an organization called Uni-versities
Fighting World Hun-ger,”
  ornton said.
According to the UFWH
website, “the network consists
of approximately 300 colleges
and universities from around
the world committed to mak-ing
the eradication of hunger
a core value of their institu-tions.”
The model behind UFWH
was intended to fuse academ-ics
with action in a cohesive
way that could be repeated at
other universities that joined
the movement.
Vice President of Student
A  airs Dr. Ainsley Carry said
the major challenge for most
universities is preparing the
leadership and organizational
skills of the students involved
in the program.
He will be serving as co-leader
and partner of the
UFWH initiative for the next
two years.
Since the development of
the UFWH at Auburn, the In-ternational
Hunger Institute
has also been established at
the University.
It is under the banner of the
UFWH that the “Why Care?”
campaign was created.
In addition to involvement
through social media on the
Internet, students of the hun-ger
studies capstone course
said within the next few
weeks they will be meeting on
the concourse Fridays from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to encour-age
students unfamiliar with
“Why Care?” to participate in
the campaign.
Students have a hunger for raising awareness
EMILY MORRIS / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Students of the Hunger Studies class discuss and work over their “Why Care?” awareness campaign.
Sports B1
Thursday, September 6, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Sports
Ali Jenkins
Sports Reporter
Forty years separate Gary Sanders from that
historic game at Legion Field.
It was the 1972 Iron Bowl, and Auburn was
trailing 16–0 with less than 10 minutes left on
the clock.
Rounding out his fifth year as Auburn’s radio
play-by-play announcer, Sanders went into the
game hoping for the one thing that could satisfy
a loss the previous year: revenge.
“It was such a memorable game because the
year before, Pat Sullivan had won the Heisman
Trophy,” Sanders said. “They announced it on
Thanksgiving Day, on Thursday, and so two days
later, on Saturday, Auburn and Alabama played
at Legion Field.”
“It was one of the more disappointing losses
I’ve ever been associated with because Alabama
ran the wishbone; kept the ball all day and just
beat Auburn 31–7,” he said.
“Pat had won as a freshman, then won both
sophomore and junior years, and so here he
comes his senior year, Heisman Trophy win-ner,
and Alabama really just stifled us that day. I
didn’t sleep that night. Normally, as a broadcast-er,
you know you’re going to do a lot of games
and you’re going to win some and you’re going
to lose some and you can’t let them bother you,
but that one bothered me.”
Little did he know, this game would not only
cripple the Tide nation, it would establish Sand-ers’
place in Auburn history forever.
The game now referred to as Punt, Bama,
Punt is one of the most talked-about games in
the in-state rivalry’s saga and ranks among the
top comebacks in all of college football.
The Alabama Crimson Tide, with its unblem-ished
record, was a 16-point favorite coming
into the game, and for the first 50 minutes, the
Tide lived up to the hype.
Then the unthinkable happened.
The comeback was initiated by an Auburn
drive that resulted in a field goal, thanks to Bear
Bryant and the Alabama defense overpowering
the Tigers yet again.
“At Legion Field, with the seats evenly divid-ed,
half of them Auburn, half of them Alabama,
it’s 16–0 Alabama,” Sanders said.
“Gardner Jett, who was a whole 5’8”, 145
pounds, was our field goal kicker. and Coach
Jordan sent him in to try the longest field goal
of his career. He said it’s the only time he’d ever
heard the fans on both sides boo at the same
time. The Auburn fans booed because they
thought I had given up on the game. The Ala-bama
fans booed because the betting-line was
16 and it was 16–0.’”
Little did the Auburn faithful know, it was
only the beginning.
Alabama’s next possession was stifled by the
Tigers’ defense, bringing in Tide punter Greg
Gantt to kick it away.
In one swift motion, walk-on linebacker Bill
Newton blocked the punt. It was then that fate
seemed to sweep in, placing the ball into defen-sive
back David Langner’s hands for a 25-yard
Auburn touchdown.
“Greg Gantt is in to punt, Johnny Simmons is
going back as a single safety, Mitchell and Lang-ner
on the...uh...line of scrimmage coming from
either side to try to block the kick,” Sanders an-nounced
from the press box. “Auburn trying to
go after it, here’s the snap, they got it! Blocked
kick! Ball’s back to the 25, picked up on the
bounce at the 25-yard line, and in for a touch-down
is David Langner!”
And like that, with just minutes to spare, the
game was 16–10.
But the magic didn’t stop there.
With 90 seconds left on the clock, Auburn
stopped an option play on third-and-four to
force yet another punt. And once again, New-ton
was there.
The ball ricocheted off the linebacker and
into the hands of Langner, who once again re-turned
it for a touchdown.
Sanders’ call of the second blocked punt is
still played throughout the Auburn nation to-day.
“Greg Gantt standing on his own 30, Auburn
will try to block it,” Sanders said to the thou-sands
listening to the broadcast. “Auburn go-ing
after it, here’s the good snap...it is blocked!
It is blocked! It’s caught on the run! It’s caught
on the run and he’s gonna score! David Langner!
David Langner has scored and Auburn has tied
the game! Roger Mitchell blocked the kick! And
it’s 16 to 16!”
The only problem: Mitchell isn’t the one who
made the play.
To this day, Sanders will be the first to admit
he botched the call of the second punt, caught
up in the moment of an Auburn comeback.
“Now, as the play-by-play guy, I am not proud
of the fact that I messed up the second block,”
Sanders said. “I did not give Bill Newton cred-it
even though he did it. I gave credit to a guy
named Roger Mitchell. Mitchell was com-ing
in from the outside and I still think if New-ton
doesn’t get it maybe Mitchell will, but what
Mitchell had done was he blocked the extra
point after Alabama’s first touchdown and that’s
why it was 16–0 instead of 17–0. So I told Roger,
even though Bill Newton might not appreciate
it, I said you deserve some credit. So I gave him
credit for blocking the second punt.”
The extra point from Jett sailed through the
uprights, giving Auburn a 17–16 lead the Tide
was never able to overcome.
Even though the game was played nearly a
half-century ago, its memory still resonates in
the hearts of Auburn and Alabama fans alike.
“I enjoy the people and the stories and the
fun of it,” Sanders said. “I never had an unlisted
number, so I’ve had a lot of middle-of-the-night
phone calls from Tide faithful when things are
going their way, and I’ve had scores painted in
my driveway and things like that, so I don’t feel
ashamed at all reminding them as often as I can
that we blocked two punts on them.”
Now Auburn fans young and old can remind
Alabama fans of the heartbreaking loss over and
over again.
In honor of Punt, Bama, Punt’s 40th anniver-sary,
Sanders is releasing an MP3 of the major
plays, including both blocked punts, as well as
a ringtone of the second block on his website,
puntbamapunt.com.
“Primarily, I’m looking at the fun of it,” Sand-ers
said. “I can see somebody getting a phone
call and it saying, “It’s blocked! It’s blocked!” and
some Alabama guy standing there going ‘What
the heck is this?’”
Courtesy of Ki Sanders Corley
Gary Sanders (right) was a radio broadcaster for Auburn football in the 1970s and delivered his most famous call after Auburn blocked two punts (left) against Alabama in the 1972 Iron Bowl.
Greg Gantt standing on his own 30, Auburn will try to block it. Auburn going after
it, here’s the good snap...it is blocked! It is blocked! It’s caught on the run! It’s caught
on the run and he’s gonna score! David Langner! David Langner has scored and
Auburn has tied the game! Roger Mitchell blocked the kick! And it’s 16 to 16!”
– Gary Sanders
1972 Iron Bowl
“
Oldie but goodie: Sanders’ historic ‘Punt,
Bama, Punt’ call now available for purchase
Iris Prosch dies of brain cancer, son Jay will play Saturday
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Fullback Jay Prosch (left) opens a hole for running back Tre Mason against Clemson
in the season opener.
Andrew Yawn
Sports Editor
Iris Prosch, junior fullback Jay
Prosch’s mother, died Monday, Sept. 3
after a yearlong battle with brain can-cer.
Prosch left the team Monday to
make the trip to Mobile.
On Tuesday, Gene Chizik said
Prosch was going to attend his moth-er’s
funeral services on Thursday and
rejoin the team in time for Saturday’s
conference game in Starkville.
Prosch transferred to Auburn after
two years at Illinois to be closer to his
mother in Mobile and was granted a
hardship waiver that made him im-mediately
eligible to play this season.
Iris Prosch was diagnosed with a
grade 4 brain cancer called glioblas-toma
multiforme in April 2011.
Prosch went to high school in Mo-bile
at UMS-Wright Preparatory
School.
After his mother was diagnosed,
Prosch wanted to be closer to his ail-ing
mother and transferred to play for
Chizik’s squad and pave the way for
an already fearsome rushing game.
The NCAA ruled that Prosch was
eligible to play this season under a
hardship waiver because of the mo-tives
of his transfer.
“We just ask that everybody keeps
him in their thoughts and prayers,
and it’s a very difficult time for him
as you would imagine,” Chizik said
Monday. “He’s doing fine, as fine as
you can be under the circumstances.”
Running behind Prosch in the sea-son’s
opening loss to Clemson, soph-omore
running back Tre Mason car-ried
14 times for 106 yards and se-nior
running back Onterio McCalebb
rushed for 82 yards on 12 carries,
good for a 7.2 yards per carry average
between the two.
As sophomore quarterback Kiehl
Frazier adjusts to his role as a starter,
the team will continue to rely on the
running game, and Prosch, to set the
tone on offense.
“This is the way he wanted to do
it,” Chizik said of Prosch’s decision to
play Saturday. “I’m proud of him.”
We just ask that
everybody keeps him
in their thoughts and
prayers, and it’s a very
difficult time for him as
you would imagine.”
—Gene Chizik
Head football coach
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Auburn defense now looks to
rebound at Mississippi State
By the numbers
Clemson vs Auburn
3 – Total number of kickoff returns
  e new kicko  rules had a blatant impact on the game Satur-day
night. Ten of 13 kicko  s were touchbacks and the combined re-turns
for both teams yielded only 17 yards per return. Running back
Tre Mason led the SEC in kicko  return average last season, but with
the advanced ball placement on the 35-yard line, the kickers had no
problem sending it deep. Also, the touchback possession line has been
moved from the 20 to the 25-yard line, meaning teams may settle more
for kneeling in the end zone than returning against a defense with a
head start.
4 – 3rd down conversions for Auburn
Auburn converted four of 13 third down opportunities com-pared
to Clemson’s eight of 17. Against an o  ense as dynamic as Clem-son’s,
this was especially crucial, because failed conversions mean loss
of possession and more time the defense must spend on the   eld. Al-though
defensive tackle Je  rey Whitaker insisted the defense’s condi-tioning
was not a problem Saturday, Clemson’s third down conversions
were able to keep drives going, giving them   ve drives of 60 or more
yards. Auburn only had two.
17.6 – Yards per completion for Frazier
One of the more positive stats for Frazier, his yards/comple-tion
average was well above Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd’s respect-able
8.7 yard average. Frazier’s numbers were in¡ ated a bit from his 54-
yard touchdown to Emory Blake, but even without that Frazier had 10
completions for 140 yards and a solid 14-yard average. Frazier has the
arm strength to make all the throws required of him, but must improve
his accuracy—41 percent—to take pressure o  the running backs and
force teams to respect the pass.
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Last season’s freshman
All-American center Reese
Dismukes will play against
Mississippi State this Satur-day,
coach Gene Chizik an-nounced
Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Dismukes served a one-game
suspension after be-ing
arrested for public intox-ication
eight days before Au-burn’s
opening game against
Clemson.
Redshir t sophomore
Tunde Fariyike started in
place of the Spanish Fort,
Ala., native in the opener.
The start was the first of
his college career and his sec-ond
game at center.
Chizik said he is unsure if
Dismukes will start in Satur-day’s
game.
“We’re going to wait and
see how the week unfolds,
and we’ll make that deter-mination
later in the week,”
Chizik said. “We have a very
comprehensive plan overall
moving forward so that Re-ese
can go in a positive direc-tion.
  at plan will be ongo-ing.
He’s done all that we’ve
asked him to do.”
Fariyike said he thought
he played well against Clem-son,
but admitted he made
his share of errors.
“Better communication,
for sure, just getting more
comfortable out there and
running off the ball a little
bit more,” Fariyike said of the
improvements he needs to
make.
Fariyike said the crowd
noise also played a factor and
that he and Frazier were o 
on their timing a few times.
“There was one time for
sure I didn’t hear Kiehl at all
and we didn’t get the snap
off, but other than that we
communicated pretty well,”
Fariyike said Monday. “I was
o  a little bit as far as some
of my snaps went, but apart
from that we were pretty on
time.”
With Dismukes, the team
adds to the experience of the
middle of the line where se-nior
guard John Sullen and
sophomore guard Chad Slade
line up.
Dismukes also has more
experience snapping to Fra-zier
and led the way for a
1,242-yard season for the
now-transferred running
back Michael Dyer.
COURTESY OF TODD VAN EMST
The offensive line practices special teams during fall practice. From left: Greg Robinson, Alex Kozan,
Reese Dismukes, Christian Westerman and Chad Slade.
Dismukes suspension lifted
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Sophomore outfielder Jay
Gonzalez has been suspended
inde  nitely from the Auburn
baseball team.
Media relations associate
director Daniel Froelich con-
  rmed Gonzalez has been sus-pended,
but the team has de-clined
comment at this time.
Gonzalez’s suspension
leaves Auburn’s out  eld lack-ing
depth.
Junior Ryan Tella and senior
Cullen Wacker are the pre-sumed
starters based on last
season.
Tella was a second team All-
SEC selection last season after
leading the Tigers with a .360
batting average.
Wacker started 43 games
last season and was second
on the team with a .350 BA. He
also posted a .985   elding per-centage.
Creede Simpson, the out-
  elder who started every game
for the Tigers last season, has
graduated, leaving a spot open
for the taking.
Gonzalez was a front-run-ner
for the job, but his sus-pension
now forces Auburn to
look elsewhere on the roster.
Of the remaining out  eld-ers,
sophomore Bobby An-drews
has the most experi-ence
and the suspension will
give him a chance at the spot.
Andrews saw some time
last year as a late-inning pinch
runner/hitter, and started 11
straight games in the middle
of the season.
However, a wrist injury
forced him to resume his back-up
role in the late part of the
season, according to auburn-tigers.
com.
Outfielder Jay Gonzalez
suspended indefinitely
After Clemson defeated Au-burn
and senior running back
Andre Ellington donned the
Old Leather Helmet trophy,
head coach Dabo Swinney
summed up Ellington’s suc-cess
by giving credit to his of-fensive
line.
“Our offensive line was
physical and dominant,” Swin-ney
said after the game.
  e Auburn defense had al-ready
been insulted by allow-ing
320 yards on the ground,
528 total, and Swinney’s com-ment
was salt in the proverbi-al
wounds.
  e Auburn defense , on the
other hand, refused to heed
the barb and put the blame
squarely on themselves.
“It’s very bitter,” junior de-fensive
tackle Je  rey Whitak-er
said of the yards allowed by
the defense. “We played hard,
but we didn’t get the job done
in a lot of areas, we had some
missed tackles, a lot of di  er-ent
things going on, but there’s
no excuses from us, we just
didn’t get the job done.”
Numerous defensive line-men
were asked Sunday if they
thought they were beat physi-cally.
When the question was
posed to Whitaker, the starter
bristled at the idea that he and
his line were manhandled.
“It was missed fitting, I
didn’t see us getting physically
beat at all,” Whitaker said.
For Whitaker and the de-fense,
the loss is already on the
record, and paying attention
to any afterthoughts is detri-mental
to the team.
“We’re just moving on to
next week really. One thing
about playing here and play-ing
in the SEC, you learn quick
that you can’t let a team beat
you twice, and you just have to
keep the ball rolling,” Whitak-er
said.
Defensive tackle Gabe
Wright agreed with Whitaker
on Monday.
“As a whole, it was good
to see it was the little things,
things we could fix,” Wright
said. “It wasn’t schematics,
it was missed   ts and missed
tackles and things that we can
easily adjust in practice.”
Mississippi State won its
season opening warm-up
against Jackson State 56–9
last weekend, but its offense
should pose less of a threat.
Quarterback Tyler Russel is
not nearly as mobile as Clem-son’s
Tajh Boyd, meaning the
line’s already consistent pres-sure
should create more sacks.
The Bulldogs also have no
true standout at the skill po-sitions
and split the load fair-ly
evenly on Saturday.
No running back had more
than nine carries and no wide
receiver had more than three
catches; however, the defense
can’t fall asleep on a team that
still posted 377 yards of total
o  ense.
“We just got to get up to
championship quality,” Whita-ker
said.
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Auburn defenders Chris Davis, Jonathon Mincy and Darren Bates tackle Charone Peake on Saturday.
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The Auburn Athletics De-partment
will present the   rst
James Owens Courage Award
in the Jordan-Hare Stadium at
the Louisiana-Monroe game
Saturday, Sept. 15.
Owens will be the   rst recip-ient
of the eponymous award.
Owens was a fullback for the
Tigers from 1969-72 and was
the   rst African-American to
receive a full scholarship to
play at Auburn.
In celebration of Owens,
the department will give the
award out yearly to a football
player who best exemplifies
his attributes. James Owens
played fullback for the 1972
“Amazin’s” team and opened
holes for Terry Henley, accord-ing
to Jay Jacobs, director of
athletics.
“He was a   ne football play-er,
but more importantly he
is an even   ner man,” Jacobs
said. “James walks and lives
his faith every single day, and
he has been an inspiration to
countless people.”
There are certain attri-butes
an athlete must have
to receive this award. Jacobs
said “the intent of the award
is to recognize current or for-mer
football players who have
demonstrated great courage
in the face of adversity, making
Auburn better in the process.
  at’s the legacy of James Ow-ens,
and that will be the lega-cy
of this award named in his
honor.”
“It’s an honor to even try to
shadow someone like Owens,”
said Patrick Lymon, a current
football player on Auburn’s
team.
Lymon is a redshirt sopho-more
running back. He tries to
exude qualities like Owens’ ev-ery
day on and o¥ of the   eld,
as he believes Owens paved
the way for the football play-ers
of today.
One of the student athletic
trainers for the Tigers last year,
Jenna Malphrus, worked with
the players and sta¥ every day.
“In my opinion I de  nitely
think that you need to be de-termined,
con  dent and self-less
in order to win the cour-age
award,” Malphrus said.
While players are here for
school and football, they are
also here to make a di¥ erence
in the community, she said.
“Someone who really un-derstands
and values the Au-burn
Creed” will win the
award, Malphrus said.
Owens’ legacy and his right-ful
place in the history of Au-burn
football will never be for-gotten,
Jacobs said.
“A lot of great men came be-fore
you, and now you have to
carry the torch,” said coach
Gene Chizik.
“It was important for us to
make sure that present and fu-ture
Auburn men and women,
including our football players,
understood how significant
his place in our history really
is,” he said.
During his time on the
team, Owens broke records
that helped Auburn with a
28-5 record, which in 1972
provided them with a 10-1 re-cord.
Owens was then drafted by
the New Orleans Saints after
his senior year.
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The university’s wheelchair
basketball team is entering its
third season and its   rst season
in the National Wheelchair Bas-ketball
Association’s Intercolle-giate
Division.«   e team held an
open practice Tuesday, Sept. 4 in
the Beard-Eaves Memorial Coli-seum.
«
“We have been a part of the
Wheelchair Basketball Associ-ation
for the past two years, but
now we are moving into the in-tercollegiate
division,” said Jared
Rehm, doctoral student in bio-mechanics.
“We will be playing
against other colleges and uni-versities
that have wheelchair
sports programs.”
  e team has six scheduled
tournaments in Auburn, Bir-mingham,
Tuscaloosa, Atlanta,
Augusta, Ga. and Champaign,
Ill.«
“It’s a di¥ erent level athleti-cally,”
Rehm said. “It’s also cool
because we are playing against
student-athletes and represent-ing
Auburn as student-athletes.”
Rehm has spina bifida and
has participated in wheelchair
basketball for 13 years. Rehm
played basketball for the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin-Whitewa-ter
and came to Auburn in 2008.
He is now a player and coach for
Auburn’s team.«
Rehm said in the spring of
2009 he discovered the Office
of Accessibility was interested
in starting a wheelchair basket-ball
team, and he began meet-ing
with Nathan Waters, disabil-ity
specialist with the O° ce of
Accessibility, to form the team.
Waters said a campus organiza-tion
named Adaptive Recreation
and Athletics was then formed.
He was the   rst president of the
organization as a graduate stu-dent.
«
“From the very beginning ev-erybody
encouraged us that it
was a great idea, but there was
no room in the budget,” Waters
said. “We went to the athletic de-partment
and got turned down.
We went to the president’s o° ce
and got turned down for fund-ing.
  ey all said keep pursuing
it and develop it.”
Waters works with the fi-nances
and scheduling for the
team. When more students
want to come to Auburn to be
involved with the program, the
program will see more   nancial
support, Waters said.
“Players don’t have to be ev-eryday
wheelchair users,” Wa-ters
said. “Some of them have
disabilities that would not al-low
them to play in traditional
stand-up basketball, that pre-vent
them from running and
jumping. But when they get in
a wheelchair, they can play with
anybody.”
“To be eligible for play in the
NWBA, a player must have an ir-reversible
lower extremity dis-ability,
such as paralysis, ampu-tation,
radiological evidence of
limb shortening, partial to full
joint alkalosis or joint replace-ment,
which consistently in-terferes
with functional mobil-ity,”
according to the National
Wheelchair Basketball Associ-ation.
“A lot of people don’t realize
that to play wheelchair basket-ball
doesn’t mean you have to
be in a wheelchair all the time,”
Rehm said. “To qualify you just
have to have a permanent lower
limb disability. So, like an ampu-tee
would qualify.”
Rehm said for the next five
years the team will have an as-sociate
status and anyone in
the area can play on the team.«
After that, players will need to
be either Auburn students or
students at a college within 25
miles of Auburn.«
“We’d like to have two teams
going, one for community play-ers
and one for student-ath-letes,”
Rehm said. “So if there is
a community member and they
want to get involved, they don’t
need to be afraid that they’ll
only be able to play for a couple
of years and then we are going to
drop them o¥ and they’ll never
play again.”
Wheelchair tennis is also
available for students.«   ere is
an adaptive weight room avail-able
open Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. on
the first floor of the Coliseum
1129.
“The biggest eye-opener to
me, the   rst time I heard about
wheelchair basketball in gener-al
is that having a disability or
being in a wheelchair doesn’t
mean you can’t be athletic,” said
Jon Morris, a freshman in social
work. “We represent Auburn
just like any other sport.”
  is is Morris’ second season
playing with Auburn’s wheel-chair
basketball team. He is a T3
paraplegic.«
“Because we are a brand new
team, and wheelchair basketball
itself isn’t that widely known of
a sport, we really need to raise
awareness that we have a team
and we need more players,” Mor-ris
said.«
Morris said he wrestled in
high school and now plays
wheelchair football. He is be-ginning
to participate in wheel-chair
racing.«
“We are not exactly a club
sport because they are not all
students, and we aren’t in the
athletic department because we
are not an NCAA sport,” Rehm
said. “Trying to   gure out exact-ly
where we   t in has de  nitely
been a challenge.”
Waters said he wants stu-dents
to support the team, just
like any other athletic team on
campus.
Rehm said three people vol-unteering
for the team do not
have disabilities. “  at’s what I
would like for more students to
be more aware of, is that these
guys are athletes,” Waters said.
“  ey are going to have a sched-ule
that looks like any other
sports team on campus. They
are working hard and have a full
schedule of games.”
Auburn begins intercollegiate
wheelchair basketball team
Auburn to introduce James Owens Courage Award
“The intent of the
award is to recognize
current or former
football players who
have demonstrated
great courage in the
face of adversity,
making Auburn better
in the process.”
—J ³ J     
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
COURTESY OF JIMMY RHYNE
Auburn’s wheelchair basketball team scrimmages against a team
from the Shepherd Center during halftime of the Jan. 21 men’s bas-ketball
home matchup against the University of South Carolina.
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the Tigers to a perfect 6-0 start.
“I have a lot of pride in my
game, so I focus on doing my
best every time I step on the
court,” Jersonsky said.
“She’s a big part of the way
we want to run our offense,”
head coach Rick Nold said.
“We like to run things through
our middles. It just make
things easier for our other hit-ters.
She can go up against sin-gle
blocks, double blocks; in
any situation, we feel confi-dent
in giving her the ball.”
Jersonsky started out the
season in award-winning fash-ion
two weekends ago at the
Green Bay Tournament. In the
team’s wild win over defend-ing
MAC champions Central
Michigan and a dominating
sweep of Drake, she registered
a combined 15 kills.
But Jersonsky saved the best
for last. She recorded a career-high
18 kills in Auburn’s win
over tournament host Wis-consin-
Green Bay.   ose kills
came o£ of only 34 attacks, giv-ing
her a hitting percentage of
.471.   ose game stats are even
more impressive when you
consider that the Tigers’ tour-nament-
clinching win was a
three-set sweep.
After that match, Jersonsky
was named to the All-Tourna-ment
team and received the
Most Valuable Player award.
“It’s always an honor when
you win an individual award,
but it was mostly a team ef-fort,”
Jersonsky said. “If the
passes aren’t there, there’s no
way that I can get the kills.   e
passes from my teammates
were right there every time.”
She continued to be an asset
for Auburn in last weekend’s
War Eagle Invitational, getting
22 kills and another all-tour-nament
honor.
The junior brings a great
deal of experience to the Ti-gers’
squad, both in NCAA
play and international com-petition.
In fact, her great play
as a member of the Argentini-an
national team helped bring
her to the University.
“I was playing with the na-tional
team in Miami at the
Pan American Cup,” Jerson-sky
said. “I just happened to
sit next to the Auburn coach-es
while watching one of the
other games. We started talk-ing,
and they were like, ‘Have
you considered the possibility
of coming to the U.S. and play-ing
college volleyball?’ I had
been thinking about it, and we
started sending emails back
and forth after the Cup. I made
my o¯ cial visit to Auburn and
loved it.”
After signing with the Ti-gers,
Jersonsky burst onto the
SEC volleyball scene as a true
freshman, earning conference
All-Freshman honors in Au-burn’s
Cinderella run to the
2010 NCAA tournament. In
2011, despite missing sever-al
games due to injury and in-ternational
competition, Jer-sonsky
led the Tigers in hitting
percentage and blocks.
Auburn will look to Jerson-sky
at the upcoming SMU Dou-bletree
Classic and next week-end’s
SEC opener at Mississip-pi
State. If they can carry this
early momentum into the bulk
of the season, we could see an-other
NCAA tournament for
Jersonsky and the rest of the
Tigers.
COURTESY OF ANTHONY HALL / AUBURN ATHLETICS
Camila Jersonsky has led the team to the   rst 7–0 start since 1991.
Player profile: junior Camila
Jersonsky leads team to second
all-time undefeated start
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Melody Kitchens
Intrigue Editor
Jeremy Banks, senior in Eng-lish,
landed an internship with
ABC Network’s “Modern Fam-ily”
this past summer. Now,
“Modern Family” is just the
past for Banks, as a pilot for his
own show may be picked up by
The CW Television Network in
the near future.
MK: Although shorter than
you expected, how was your
internship at ABC writing
script cameos from “Modern
Family?”
JB: First off let me just say,
I hopped off the plane at LAX
with a dream and my cardigan.
Welcome to the land of fame
excess. Was I gonna fit in?
Jumped in the cab, here I was
for the first time, looked to my
right and I saw the Hollywood
sign. It was all so crazy, every-body
seemed so famous, you
know? My stomach was turn-ing
and I felt kind of home sick.
Too much pressure, I was ner-vous
for sure.
That's when the taxi man
turned on the radio and that
new Jay-Z song they play in
Skybar a lot was on. Moving to
LA was and continues to be an
interesting experience. Some
of what you see in the movies
is true; It's a fast-paced lifestyle
and the city, it seems, is alive as
well.
I've never eaten better su-shi
or had a deeper respect for
the severity of Auburn pedes-trian
laws-they're almost non-existent
here. Working with
the studio has been the single
most humbling experience of
my life. I quickly found out that
while I am, in fact, a writing in-tern,
I was never to forget the
second part of that title.
I found myself missing read-ings
and film sessions because
the intern part of my job re-quires
me to cut up pineapples
twice a day and prepare sev-eral
trays of assorted veggies
that the cast and crew some-how
seem to miss on their way
to the El Pollo Loco catering
table. Beyond that, I've met
wonderful people and had the
opportunity to network with
everyone from producers to
editors to somehow figuring
out that Shia Labeouf lives
three blocks from me, which
prompted a three week mid-day
power walk through his
neighborhood. Shameless, I
know. I'm still grateful for the
opportunity.
MK: How did the chance of
CW picking up your own show
come about?
JB: Well just so no one as-sumes
pitching a script is easy,
I’ll start with this: It’s not. I was
18 years old the first time I
pitched a script. It was a crime
drama called “Nobody Move.”
It was quite terrible, but I
mailed it to the NBC Los Ange-les
office because I’d read some
place that they actually looked
at all new pitches.
What I didn’t know was
calling them every four days
and asking the receptionist,
“Hey, have you guys read my
script yet? My name? Oh, I’m
Jeremy, but I go by JBanks, or
just Jay, you know, depending
on the mood I’m in,” got me a
swift but just dismissal from
the hundreds of serious pitch-es
I was surrounded by. Five
years later,
I found an agent and after a
very quick, for LA, three month
stoop with no word from any
network, I scored a meeting
with a development director
for the CW. Two hours later, I
was doing my version of a back
flip down Avenue of The Stars
before being almost tazed by
the LAPD.
If the show is picked up, you
could be watching it from the
comfort of your dorm rooms
next Fall. The CW has a sis-ter
studio in Savannah, Ga.
so when I got the go ahead to
move back across country to
work on a new project this fall,
next spring and summer, a sin-gle
tear rolled down my face. I
would have sweet tea again.
MK: When did you start
drafting your ideas for your
show?
JB: I started drafting ideas
for the show about a year and
a half ago during band camp.
By the way, shout out to all my
AUMB peeps who keep it live
for your listening pleasure ev-ery
Saturday on the Plains and
abroad.
We were on a dinner break
about to go out someplace
and it was bid day on campus
or something. Needless to say,
the screaming of elated baby
sorority girls was everlasting.
But that prompted an idea
that sort of blossomed into
this hot mess of a storyline
that I kept at the back of my
head for a while.
MK: Possible name for the
show?
JB: I don’t have a working ti-tle
for the script as of yet, so for
the foreseeable future I’ll refer
to it as “Working Title.” Many
writers tend to adopt the same
sort of policy until a title for
their script or novel “comes to
them.”
People think I’m joking
when I say this, but every
time I treat myself to a nice
five star dining experience at
Wing Zone, I settle down in
an oversized shirt and turn on
“Hoarders.” There’s something
about trash-filled rooms that
ignites my creativity.
15 wings later, I realize I’m
fitting perfectly in that over-sized
shirt. Eat your heart out,
Ryan Gosling.
MK: So, what’s this show all
about?
JB: The show chronicles the
lives of Greek society in a small
college town, a particular well-to-
do group of sorority sisters,
who outwardly appear to have
their stuff together in all the
right places. They're beautiful,
heavily involved in communi-ty
service, charity, school spir-it-
the normal prerequisites of
Greek life.
But beyond those gift
wrapped bags and proverbi-al
soup kitchen soap-boxes,
lies a truth so gritty, so scan-dalous
that you'll have to wait
until the show airs to find out
about it.
MK: Biggest hopes for your
possible new show?
JB: I just hope it gets picked
up. At the risk of sounding cli-ché,
I'll admit I get a little sen-timental
about the things I
write.
They're a part of me- maybe
even the best part of me, and
it's not every day an opportu-nity
comes around like this so
I'm putting my best knock-off
Steve Madden forward and
hoping for a deal. If not, I'll
make a mean pumpkin pice
latte at Starbucks.
MK: What do you see hap-pening
in the next year or so in
your writing career?
JB: Speaking in terms of my
career as a writer, I just wish
to keep growing. I'll never be
finished doing that, so long as
comedy continues to evolve.
I'll be back taking classes in
the spring at Auburn to finish
up, driving back to Savannah
on the weekends to work on
casting, editing and market-ing-
the whole nine.
Worst case scenario, this
time next year I'll be wheeling
a TV/DVD combo into a class-room
and allowing budding
adolescents the rare opportu-nity
to experience Seinfeld, the
complete series. Don't look at
me like that. Alright, gimme a
break. I'll bring in a Blue-Ray
player.
MK: Is your mom still upset
about your non exsistent Tyler
Perry writing career?
JB: My mom once round-house
kicked a mother of five
for a pair of free Tyler Perry
tickets. So yes, she is still upset
about me turning down the
Tyler Perry gig.
As per my twitter bio, which
you can follow at @JBankS-its2012,
she and I are no longer
friends on Facebook.
MK: Any advice you’d like to
give to other comedic writers?
JB: The advice I give com-edy
writers is be funny. And
I don't mean the kind of fun-ny
where it takes the reader or
viewer 12 minutes to get your
joke (that day is done).
I mean the kind of fun-ny
where the audience is not
above breaking speeding laws
and skipping Mass to get home
to watch or read your stuff, or
have your tweets sent to their
phones and get thrown out of
class for laughing excessive-ly
(OMG still super sorry, Mag-gie.
I hope you got to make up
that test, gurl).
Easier said than done, I
know. Above all else, be your-self.
You'll be much more suc-cessful
that way and you'll
begin to hone in on your
strengths and weaknesses. But
I was joking, don't skip Mass.
the Curtain
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Senior leaves ‘Modern Family,’ hopes to premiere own show
Rebecca Croomes / Photo Editor
Tyler Baxter, senior in musical theater, trains long hours each day.
Melody Kitchens
Intrigue Editor
Rebecca Moseley
Intrigue Reporter
Tyler Baxter strives to
shine in more places than just
the stage.
As a senior working toward
a bachelor of fine arts de-gree
in musical theater, Bax-ter
commits most of his time
practicing for various perfor-mances.
“Being any sort of BFA stu-dent,
especially theater in my
case, is not only mentally de-manding,
as obtaining a de-gree
should be, but it is also
extremely physically and
emotionally demanding,”
Baxter said.
Appearing as the emcee
in “Cabaret,” Bellomy in “The
Fantastics,” and Octave in
“Scapin,” Baxter is currently
working on an original mu-sical
called “Guarding Gold
Street.”
“It’s an insane commit-ment,
but it’s the exact reason
why I have stayed in this ma-jor
since I entered Auburn,”
he said.
“I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t
love it.”
Baxter begins his day “with
some sort of physical labor,
whether it’s ballet or lifting
boxes at work doing ship-ments,”
he said.
“I have, have, have to have
coffee every morning.”
“Referencing my plan-ner,
reviewing the number of
things I have to have memo-rized
in my head like mono-logues,
scenes, songs, speech-es,
poems, warm up exercises,
the international phonetic al-phabet
and trying to focus on
what I have to do for that day,”
is how Baxter said he deals
with mounting stress.
Baxter said since he spends
the majority of his time with
fellow theater majors, the
group is like family.
“Being part of such a tight-knit
group that you see every
day and have the majority of
your classes with is very com-forting
in the college setting,”
Baxter said.
“We may yell, argue and
hurt each other’s feelings, but
in the end, we all want to see
each other succeed in a ca-reer
field filled with such rich
creativity and passion.”
The ambitious and self-motivated
student takes on a
hefty course load while work-ing
as well.
“I feel that in my major,
our class load is heavier than
most students in other de-partments
at Auburn,” Bax-ter
said.
“We spend more hours in
class and rehearsals than
most, and we have home-work
on top of that, too,” Bax-ter
said.
He also takes extra dance
and voice lessons each se-mester
that are encouraged,
not required.
“When I finally get home
to rest at the end of the day,
I only have enough time to
make dinner and rush back
to the theater for rehearsal,”
Baxter said.
“Once I have calmed down
from having to be high energy
at rehearsal, usually at least
past 9 p.m., I come home and
start homework.”
Baxter said this is his first
semester in college working a
part-time job along with tak-ing
a full load of classes and
being cast in a production.
“I struggled with the de-cision
on whether to keep
working throughout the se-mester
or to take leave until
Christmas shopping season,”
Baxter said.
“I decided that working
throughout my senior year
here could be beneficial in
having money stored up upon
graduation in May,” he said.
“I think that in the end, I
will definitely be glad that I
made that decision when I
am graduated and out in the
‘real world’ as they say.”
In the future, Baxter said
he hopes to star as Harold
Hill in “The Music Man” or be-come
a dancer and singer on
the Disney cruise line.
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From left: Lilli Jackson, Jane Randall Jackson and Laurel Jackson Callaway make the products sold in Opelika’s Jane Sweet Jane by hand.
From Jane’s home to yours
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Located on a quaint corner
of historic downtown Ope-lika
is Jane Sweet Jane, a lo-cal,
family-oriented business
started by Jane Randall Jack-son.
Jackson grew up in Opelika
and prides herself and the
business on its homegrown
roots and handmade prod-ucts.
“(To expand) is de  nitely a
goal for us, a dream,” Jackson
said. “You kind of have to have
dreams of growth to keep you
going, but (the business) will
always have a home in Ope-lika.”
Jackson said choosing a lo-cation
for her business was
easy since her family has deep
roots in the Opelika area and
the business revolves around
family.
Jackson said the design of
each of the products available
at Jane Sweet Jane are inspired
by her surroundings as well as
customized requests of cus-tomers.
Some items sold in-clude
pillows, totes, table run-ners,
placemats, lamps, cur-tain
panels and other home
décor. They are assembled
from locally purchased goods.
“We’re very verbal about
supporting local markets,”
Jackson said. “It is the back-bone
of America, and defi-nitely
the backbone of this
company. We make it here
and we’re proud of that. If
you’re a student at Auburn,
get involved in the commu-nity.
Even if you move o¦ , get
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and get involved local-ly.
”
Although the Jane Sweet
Jane family prides itself on
its use of local goods, Jack-son
said some noteworthy
shipments of her handmade
pillows have landed in for-eign
places. She added that a
friend spotted one of her pil-lows
at an apartment in New
York.
The average turnaround
time for orders is about two
days, while custom orders
can take up to two weeks,
Jackson said.
Jackson said even though
running her own business is
an ongoing process, it took
o¦ fairly quickly.
She had been painting pil-lows
and other items for her
own home as a hobby until
a friend asked her to create
some products for her shop.
“It just kind of caught on,”
Jackson said as she hovered
over a large work table strewn
with materials from other
projects. “I had a prayer mo-ment
where I asked for some-thing
to do with my hands or
to help me be content with my
old job,” Jackson continued.
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Auburn native Kellie Guth-rie
of the social enterprise Re-
Invention has taken her com-pany
to a new level with its
“Anthropologie meets TOMS
Shoes-like” line called G.E.A.R.,
now sold in Kinnucan’s.
G.E.A.R. (Go! Everyone, Ev-erywhere
and Re-Invent) is
a collection of upcycled and
repurposed goods that have
been transformed into home
accents and handmade acces-sories
made in Alabama.
Guthrie employs women
in transitional programs that
teach them useful skills.
“G.E.A.R. allows the wom-en
a reason to stay and not run
away,” said Rachel Fisher, di-rector
of communications for
Re-Invention.
“It is very consoling for
them,” she said. “It is a form
of therapy for them, for them
to learn to sew and cut. It pro-vides
a work aspect to the pro-gram
and gives them a pur-pose.
I just know it has been a
huge encouragement.”
G.E.A.R. started with repur-posing
plain burlap coffee
sacks, but Guthrie saw much
more than that.
“  at would be the most in-credible
garment bag, because
that is the natural shape of it,”
Guthrie said. “  en I thought
what a cool messenger bag.
It would be very strong. I
was thinking more like hav-ing
something on the mission
field that I could take out of
my North Face and just throw
things into and carry it, while
still being kind of snappy and
cool,” Guthrie said.
  e line uses bright, fun fab-rics
and materials like burlap
for its unusual texture.
“G.E.A.R. is sustainable in
every way,” Fisher said. “It is a
sustainable product, and we
are helping create sustainable
lives.”
Fisher explains the net prof-its
accumulated through sales
of G.E.A.R. products are re-invested
into Re-Invention.
  ese are then funneled into
organizations like Friendship
Missions in Montgomery.
  is money supports wom-en
within transitional pro-grams.
Kinnucan’s began selling
G.E.A.R. Aug. 27.
“It’s very humbling,” Guthrie
said. “It’s amazing to be able to
have a collection and be able
to serve. I love it because of the
opportunity with Kinnucan’s,
with 120 stores that we’re in
throughout the country.”
Guthrie believes they are
“taking the conventional busi-ness
model and turning it
on its ear,” she said. “It is not
about the getting, it’s about
the giving.”
Re-Invention is a social en-terprise,
meaning its main fo-cus
as a business is to