2013-01-10 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, January 10, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 27, 16 Pages
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What up with that?
Former ‘Kenan & Kel’ and current ‘SNL’ star Kenan
Thompson slated to perform in Auburn Jan. 29
Courtesy of Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC
Kenan Thompson, native of Atlanta, will perform at the Auburn Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Keeping up with the high bar the
University Program Council has
set for speakers, comedian Kenan
Thompson will return to his south-eastern
roots to perform at Auburn
Tuesday, Jan. 29.
“Kenan’s definitely really excit-ed
to come to Auburn,” said Ricky
Scheuerle, UPC director of speakers
and comedians. “It’s in an area of
the country that he’s familiar with,
being from Atlanta, so it’s definite-ly
something he’s excited about and
wanted to do.”
Scheuerle’s interest in bringing
Thompson to Auburn’s campus has
grown since last year.
“UPC has always kind of talked
about it, so we’re really excited that
the plan went through and we’re
able to do this,” Scheuerle said.
Thompson’s comedic lineup is
hard to predict, but he always en-gages
the audience in his perfor-mances,
Scheuerle said,
“He wants a lot of people to get
up and interact with him by ask-ing
questions,” Scheuerle said. “He
does something a little different
with each school, so he really tries
to look at each campus as a sepa-rate
unit. It will definitely be enter-taining
and he’s one of the biggest
comedians out there right now, so
people are really looking forward
to it.”
Scheuerle said Thompson has an
interesting platform that is a mix-ture
of comedy and storytelling.
“He’ll tell this story about ‘one
time with a celebrity...’ and how that
encounter was,” Scheuerle said.
“He’s a funny storyteller that wants
to tell how he got to where he is.”
Scheuerle and his committee
made their decision on this spring’s
speaker after looking at more than
a dozen candidates. He said they
wanted the comedian who would
draw the biggest crowd.
“We’re really trying to establish
a speaker that people are going to
want to hear and look forward to,”
Scheuerle said. “Before, I felt like
that ideal wasn’t really established
and it was harder to catch people’s
interests.”
After the last-minute location
change for fall semester’s speak-er
Bill Nye, Scheuerle said UPC has
been able to gauge students’ inter-ests
better than ever before. He is
expecting approximately 3,000-
4,000 students to attend.
“We definitely deal with Kenan
Thompson on the same level as Bill
Nye and immediately put him in the
arena,” Scheuerle said.
UPC limits the number of peo-ple
involved in the decision making
process.
“That way it doesn’t get around
to who we’re looking at, but we
still have a broad interest group,”
Scheuerle said.
Scheuerle reflected on his love
for Thompson’s comedy that dates
all the way back to “All That.”
“If you asked me when I was five
years old if I liked Kenan Thomp-son
my answer would be, ‘Of course
I like Kenan Thompson,’ and if you
asked me if I liked him now, I would
say, ‘I like watching him on SNL,’”
Scheuerle said.
UPC wanted to appeal to as many
students as possible, Scheuerle said.
“Somebody who is a classic ex-ample
of somebody that has in-fluenced
your, or others’ lives,”
Scheuerle said. “Somebody who
has always had appeal and rele-vance,
not a buzz speaker that is re-ally
popular now and only appeals
to a fraction of the population. I feel
like Kenan really personifies that.”
The performance will be held in
the arena and doors open at 6 p.m.
Entry will require a student I.D.
Freshman murdered in Montgomery during break
Abigail O’Brien
Community Writer
James Thomas McCollum was
known for his joy, loyalty to those he
cared for and his love for “The Love-liest
Village on the Plains.”
McCollum, a 19-year-old Mont-gomery
native and freshman at Au-burn,
was murdered on Monday,
Dec. 31.
Jason Curtis Ferguson has been
charged with capital murder and
held without bond said Sheriff D.T.
Marshall of Montgomery, after al-legedly
killing McCollum at his
home.
Despite the circumstances sur-rounding
McCollum’s death, his leg-acy
is remembered fondly by those
who loved him.
“Jay started coming to Auburn
football games when he was three,”
his mother, Beth McQuitty, said.
“The only place he applied was Au-burn.
He didn’t want to come any-where
else.”
McCollum came from a long line
of Auburn graduates, including his
great uncle who played with Jimmy
Hitchcock in the 30s. McQuitty said
the family has had the same seats in
Jordan-Hare since she was in high
school.
For McCollum, moving to Au-burn
was not only a dream come
true, but a smooth transition.
“Jay did remark that it’s just like
home over here,” McQuitty said. “It
wasn’t moving to some place that
was just totally different.”
More than 900 friends and fam-ily
came to show love and respect
for McCollum at his visitation on
Thursday, Jan. 3 at the Alabama
Heritage Funeral Home.
“The sheer number of people
just touched me,” McQuitty said.
McCollum attended Saint James
School in Montgomery from kin-dergarten
through 12th grade and
graduated in 2012.
McCollum was computer as-sistant
for David Long, the high
school computer instructor, last
year. Long remembers McCollum
as a young man full of joy, kindness
and confidence. » See McCollum, A2
Courtesy of Beth McQuitty
Auburn freshman James McCollum
passed away on Monday, Dec. 31,
What to
do with
Toomers
Students chime in on the
possible renovations to
Toomers corner.
Tide Appeal
Why are two
Alabama fans
living in Auburn?
Attending Auburn Univer-sity
of course.
Back on the
Gus Bus
Gus Malzahn hired a
veteran staff during
winter break, but who
are they and what does
it mean for the Tigers?
The Year in
Review
Looking back on 2012,
the Tigers didn’t fare too
well, but what about the
rest of the year?
Are you
Aware?
Do you know more about
Auburn Athletics or the situa-tion
in Syria? Are you keeping
up with national news or just
what’s entertaining?
Katherine Webb under national spotlight
Courtesy of The War Eagle Reader
Katherine Webb poses with Aubie.
Lance Davis
Sports Writer
Alabama quarterback AJ McCar-ron
led the Crimson Tide with four
touchdown passes en route to the
team’s second-straight BCS Nation-al
Championship, but it was his girl-friend
– an Auburn grad – who stole
the show.
Katherine Webb, who is also Miss
Alabama, was shown during the
first quarter of ESPN’s telecast of
the national championship game.
The cameras showed Webb along
with McCarron’s mother Dee Dee
Bonner. 73-year-old broadcaster
Brent Musburger commented, well,
swooned over Webb, comments for
which ESPN later apologized.
Webb garnered all sorts of inter-est
after her brief cameo. Her Twit-ter
account, which had about 2,000
followers before the game, shot up
to more than 223,000 as of Wednes-day
morning.
Now she’s making the rounds
with the media. In a telephone in-terview
with al.com’s Carol Robin-son,
Webb commented on Musburg-er’s
controversial statement.
“He was complimentary, not
creepy,” Webb told the paper. “I think
it’s unfair that people are giving him
a hard time.”
And about that whole Auburn
grad dating the Alabama quarter-back
thing? Well, sometimes attrac-tion
trumps allegiance.
“I grew up watching Auburn foot-ball,”
Webb said. “I had no idea who
AJ was.
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Auburn’s iconic symbol under student discussion
“It sounds stupid,
but I don’t know
if you could pay
anyone to watch
(the trees).
—Anastacia George,
sophomore in
fashion design
“I don’t think
you could ever
replace the
Toomer’s trees.
It is what it is.”
—Courtney
tidmore, junior in
interdisciplinary
studies
“I heard they are
trying to take it out
and put in another
one. I know we won’t
be able to roll them
for a couple years,
but that seems like
the best option .”
—Andrew mccrabb,
freshman in electrical
engineering
“There are other
symbols (at
Auburn) to root
behind, but I don’t
know if it would
be the same
thing if someone
finds another
tree, even if its
the same age.”
—Justin barnes,
freshman in electrical
engineering “I would hate to have
fences around them,
so we wouldn’t be
able to roll them
because that is such
a huge tradition.”
—Marlye armstrong,
graduate in
rehibilitating counseling
Students comment on what to do with Auburn’s beloved Toomer’s Oaks
Katherine McCahey / Assistant Photo Editor
The Toomer’s Oaks have gone through numerous trimmings and sugar tratments since the poisioning in January of 2010. Numerous ideas on how to replace the trees are still on the table
Kailey Miller
Camp us Writer
The Toomer’s Trees have
been an iconic part of Auburn
University throughout the
years since the 1930s.
They have been symbols of
the Auburn Family and a place
of unity after Auburn’s vic-tories.
Unfortunately, where
there is greatness there can of-ten
be jealousy, and with jeal-ousy
comes harm.
“I think that the first tar-get
(of the trees) that hap-pened
with Harvey Updyke
was out of stupidity,” Marlye
Armstrong said. “Sometimes
things happen and we don’t
know why, but as far as other
times like when they’ve been
caught on fire I think a lot of
alcohol has to do with it.”
Whatever the reason for the
trees being targeted, the trees
are struggling and it is time to
think of other options.
Auburn has generated a
survey so that students can
voice their opinions on what
they would like to see happen
to the trees.
The Committee to Study
the Future of Rolling Toom-er’s
Corner recommends that
if the oak trees are replaced,
they would be replaced with
either one or multiple trans-planted
trees that would be
big and live, according to the
Toomer’s Corner Survey. The
survey emphasizes the im-portance
of the gates that
were constructed in 1917 and
are also an important part of
Toomer’s Corner.
The survey includes four
options including the circle
and center, Olmsted arc path,
arcs and radials, and the Sam-ford
diagonal.
Students that were inter-viewed
on the matter had
varying opinions as to why the
trees are targeted.
“It’s a symbol of Auburn. If
you can attack the tree you at-tack
Auburn,” Patrick David-son,
a freshman majoring in
mechanical engineering, said.
Rebecca Croomes / Photographer
Toomers Corner prior to being trimmed in late 2012.
McCollum
» From A1
“He was always happy,”
Long said. “(He) was always
willing to go that extra mile to
help out.”
Long particularly remem-bers
McCollum’s focus on
those around him and gener-ous
heart.
Long said he remembers
McCollum talking about his
excitement to go to Auburn
and his anticipation in being
there.
“There were several times
this last football season that
he would text me on a Sat-urday
and a home game and
say, ‘I’ve got an extra ticket
Mr. Long, you wanna come?’”
Long said.
Not only was McCollum
constantly helping others, but
he had a drive to get things
done, Long said.
During McCollum’s time
as Long’s computer assistant,
Saint James School transi-tioned
their computer system
from Windows and Dell to
Mac. McCollum was extreme-ly
helpful in the process, help-ing
teachers and other adjust
to the new system Long said.
“If I gave him a task, he was
on the spot, did it,” Long said.
“He was a go-getter.”
Long said that in McCol-lum’s
eyes his whole future lay
ahead of him wide open.
“It was different with him
than a lot of students that I
have that are seniors, that they
think they want to do this or
they might want to do this,
with Jay, it was every time that
you talked to him about some-thing,
(he’d say)‘Well, I can do
that!’” Long said.
Long said that McCollum
had a way of impacting those
he met.
“I teach probably 80 stu-dents
in a day. If I could have
even half of them resemble Jay,
it would be great…Jay just had
that extra something about
him that made you glad that
you got to know him and that
he was in your life in some
small way.”
While McCollum wasn’t
taking classes, he was of-ten
came home for the week-end
to see his girlfriend, Oliv-ia
Knight.
Beth McQuitty said that
she would often get into the
car with her son and John
Mayer’s “Something like Ol-ivia,”
would inevitably be the
song playing.
Along with his loyalty to his
friends, McCollum was close
to his mother.
“Jay was very loyal to his
friends,” McQuitty said. “If
they needed him, he was there
for them. You didn’t talk bad
about his friends. I can tell
you, you didn’t talk bad about
his Momma.”
She remembers one time
specifically when McCollum
was possibly 14 and an intox-icated
woman sitting behind
them at an Auburn game was
spilling her drink on them.
They asked her to leave and
McQuitty said the woman
must have said something
smart because McCollum
whipped around and said,
“You don’t talk to my Momma
like that.”
McQuitty said that she
thinks McCollum’s early ex-posure
to handling uncertain-ty
in life helped shape him as
a person.
“I think that was a point
that he had to learn that life’s
not certain,” McQuitty said.
McCollum also enjoyed his-tory,
Texas Roadhouse food,
But I thought he was cute.”
Webb even received a job
offer from Donald Trump on
Tuesday.
“We are going to ask Kather-ine
Webb to be a judge at the
Miss USA Pageant coming up
in Las Vegas,” Trump tweeted.
Webb also appeared on
Wednesday’s cover of the New
York Post, with the paper de-claring
her the “REAL winner
of college football’s title game.”
It’s hard to determine who had
the better night – McCarron,
who threw for 264 yards and
four touchdowns, or Webb,
who is receiving national fame.
It’s safe to say Webb provided
more competition for McCar-ron
than Notre Dame.
But Webb is taking all the
attention in stride, and told
the “Today” show the atten-tion
should be redirected to-ward
the Alabama football
team.
“I’m honestly really shocked
that it really took off like that,”
Webb said. “I think that we
need to draw back our atten-tion
to who the real winners
are and that’s the Alabama
football team. They won their
second national champion-ship
and that’s such an accom-plishment.”
Webb
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Kailey Miller
Campus Reporter
David Crumbley, assistant clin-ical
nursing professor, has already
made a huge impact in his first se-mester.
Crumbley is the recent recipi-ent
of the Meritorious Service Medal,
awarded to him by the U.S. Navy.
“He’s just an exceptional human
being,” Jennifer Schuessler, associate
dean and associate professor of the
nursing school, said. “I have been at
Auburn for 23 years and I have never
had a faculty member who has hit the
ground running like he has.”
Kevin Downey, of the universi-ty’s
NROTC program, said the award
recognizes outstanding meritorious
achievement.
The Meritorious Service Medal is
the counterpart to the Bronze Star
Medal for the recognition of merito-rious
non-combat service, Downey
said.
Schuessler was not surprised at all
when she heard that Crumbley was
going to receive this award.
“When we interviewed him we
knew he was really outstanding and
would bring a lot of depth and ex-pertise,
particularly in two areas,”
Schuessler said. The two areas are
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and
being a certified wound care nurse.
Crumbley instructs a critical clini-cal
course which is an important se-nior
level clinical course. “He has re-ally
gained the respect of those stu-dents,”
Schuessler said.
Crumbley’s works and understand-ing
of the Navy and the Armed Servic-es
has been utilized, Schuessler said.
There are “things that would nev-er
happen without his leadership,”
Schuessler said.
Crumbley enlisted in the army in
1979 where he served three years as
a medic. He then went to nursing
school and joined the Navy in 1993
where he got his commission as an
officer.
Crumbley stayed in the Navy for 20
years. “In 1995 I started studying ad-vanced
wound care and then contin-ued
to do that throughout my career,”
Crumbley said.
Crumbley held various positions
of leadership including charge nurse,
department head, coordinator for
the Complex Wound and Limb Sal-vage
Center at National Naval Med-ical
Center and worked at Bethesda
and Walter Reed Army Medical Cen-ter
in Washington, D.C., according to
Crumbley.
Even after Crumbley retired, his
passion for the Navy stayed evident.
Crumbly currently works with the
Navy and Army to develop wound
care education programs for those
who will be deployed.
As a liaison to the Virginia Feder-al
Recovery Coordination Program,
Crumbley worked with families of
the wounded to coordinate the care
of their loved ones. “This position
was especially rewarding because I
had taken care of many of the wound-ed
when they returned from Iraq/Af-ghanistan,
and now I was able to as-sist
them 3-4 year later as they were
continuing with their lives,” Crumb-ley
said.
This October, when Crumbley first
heard that he received this award,
he was “honored and humbled be-cause
it’s just a great opportunity and
a great honor to be able to work with
the wounded,” Crumbley said.
By the request of first lady Michelle
Obama and Jill Biden, Crumbley will
be providing a unique clinical rota-tion
at one of the large military hospi-tals
in the U.S. for the seniors.
Downey said Crumbley was cho-sen
to receive the Meritorious Service
Medal because of his performance as
an officer in the Navy during his last
assignment.
“You cannot help but be passion-ate
about what you do when you have
been given the opportunity to serve
those who have sacrificed so much,
but ask for so little in return,” Crum-bley
said.
Professor receives Meritorious Service Medal from U.S. Navy
Crumbley
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Campus Reporter
Two artists will be showing
their work in an exhibit titled
“Future Perfect Tense” on cam-pus
beginning Monday.
“Future Perfect Tense” will
run from Jan. 14 through Feb.
22 in Biggin Gallery.
On opening day at 5 p.m.
Orion Wertz, associate pro-fessor
of fine art in painting
at Columbus State University,
will present a lecture in Room
005 that will be followed by a
public reception, and to coin-cide
with the almost-utopian
mood, admission will be free
and open to the public.
“All of my pieces in the exhi-bition
are paintings, for what
that’s worth,” said Scott An-derson,
assistant professor of
painting & drawing at the Uni-versity
of New Mexico College
of Fine Arts.
“The subject matter of the
paintings usually is related
some way to mythology, kind
of science-fiction utopian im-agery
of some kind, land-scapes
or figures,” Anderson
said. “And the paintings them-selves
are sort of somewhere in
between representational and
abstraction.”
The similarities in their
work can be found more in
their themes rather than their
methods.
“We’re similar in the sense
that we both create imagined
worlds, and work within those
idioms,” Wertz said. “I refer
to some very specific types of
picture making that are prob-ably
more traditional. Scott’s
works, the allusions to ab-straction
and popular culture
are a little stronger. And he
also works with a larger scale
of mark making. I tend to use a
very small scale of mark mak-ing
and that shifts our paint-ing
vocabulary in very differ-ent
ways.”
Anderson said that the con-nection
between their work
hinges on mutual fixations on
ideas of the future, and in their
mostly-optimistic consider-ations
of what that future ac-tually
means.
The idea behind this exhibit
has been in planning for years,
Anderson said.
Optimism is a point that
both artists agree is a factor
in the paintings of this exhibi-tion.
However that optimism is
expressed, on the other hand,
is left for the viewer to deter-mine.
Wertz and Anderson say
their paintings lean more to-wards
utopian because of im-agery
of the future.
“I would think utopian is
probably a better term,” Ander-son
said. “Not that what you
see sometimes doesn’t have a
kind of a dystopian flavor to it.
But I think that even in dysto-pian
science fiction there is an
element of escape and there’s
almost positivity to it. “
On Feb. 22 Wertz will lead a
“Narrative Corpse” workshop,
in Biggin Gallery from 1-3 p.m.
The paintings will be on dis-play
in Biggin Gallery, Monday
-Friday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
austin Lankford
Campus writer
The beginning of a new se-mester
brings excitement on
many different levels. Students
begin with a fresh slate of
grades, classes and new oppor-tunities
to get involved in var-ious
activities around campus.
A new semester also means re-uniting
with friends and meet-ing
new ones on campus as
well. Some people worthy of
note who are new to campus
aren’t students, but professors.
Dr. Sacha Pence, a professor
in the department of psychol-ogy,
began in the fall. Pence, a
Michigan native, received her
undergraduate degree in biol-ogy
and psychology at North-ern
Michigan University in
2004.
Pence was interested in
studying how to help chil-dren
with behavioral disor-ders.
During the second year
of Pence’s undergraduate stud-ies,
she worked in a home with
children who were diagnosed
with behavioral disorders.
“That was the first time I re-ally
worked with kids and I re-ally
enjoyed it,” Pence said.
Pence then received her
masters in applied behavior
analysis at Northeastern Uni-versity.
It is then that she start-ed
working with children who
showed severe aggression.
“Most of my research is with
children, but it is also on how
to train staff and adults on
how to handle children with
behavioral disorders,” Pence
said. “I want to figure out what
is really going to work when
we show instructors ways to
handle the children.”
Prior to last semester, Pence
had no previous ties to the uni-versity
before coming to teach.
“I was attracted to Auburn
because of the quality of the
university and the psycholo-gy
department,” Pence said. “I
liked the strength of the pro-gram
and the community.”
Dr. Alexander Richter is also
new to Auburn as of the fall se-mester.
He is an assistant pro-fessor
in the Department of
Economics. He completed un-dergraduate
degrees in eco-nomics,
mathematics and po-litical
science at the Universi-ty
of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
campus.
Richter then came to Au-burn
once he received his
Ph.D. at Indiana University in
Economics.
Richter said he came to Au-burn
because it was ultimate-ly
the best opportunity for his
family.
“I like Auburn in particu-lar
because the cost of living
was affordable and it is a good
place to start a family,” Rich-ter
said. “The town is small
enough to where I can get to
work and it’s big enough that
there are places to eat and
shop.”
A majority of Richter’s work
is research, but he will be
teaching applied macroeco-nomic
policy analysis in the
spring.
New beginnings at Auburn
for more than just students
Artists strive for utopian
perfection at Biggin Gallery
raye May/photo editor
Works from Orion Wertz and Scott Anderson will be on display at Biggin Gallery in Biggin Hall.
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Abigail O’Brien
Community Writer
As 2013 rolls in, complete
with New Year’s resolutions of
weight loss and better friend-ships,
there are many oppor-tunities
across Auburn to not
only socialize, but also exer-cise.
The Jan Dempsey Com-munity
Arts Center, located
at 222 E. Drake Ave., offers a
fun alternative to Friday night
movies or other normal week-night
and weekend plans.
The JDCAC hosts various
dance classes throughout the
spring, ranging from swing
dancing to square dancing, to
Argentine Tango and more.
Taylor Wright, a soph-omore
in exercise science,
started out attending the free
swing dancing classes offered
at the JDCAC during her fresh-man
year. Since then, Taylor
has found that the dance les-sons
evolved beyond simple
step learning into a passion-ate
pastime.
The free lessons are taught
by instructors of the Auburn
Swing Dance Association and
held every Friday from 7-9
p.m., with the first hour used
as a training course and the
latter one a free dance time.
Wright said her friends and
her were immediately drawn
in by the talent of some mem-bers
of the AUSDA.
She and a friend, Ted-dy
Childers then spent 2-3
months watching YouTube
videos and practicing dif-ferent
steps and moves be-fore
they could begin to move
more freely and enjoy the flu-idness
of the dance form.
Wright says the dancing is
a fun alternative to other so-cial
activities.
“When you’re sitting all
the time, you get really tired
and lethargic, but you can go
dance and move around and
get active,” Wright said.
Wright also moved on to
discover other swing dancing
venues around town, includ-ing
those events put on by the
SGA. She and her friends fre-quently
go to local parks to
put on music and have time to
dance, she said.
“Swing dancing’s not only
at events,” Wright said. “It’s re-ally,
it’s all the time. It’s some-thing
you can do impromp-tu…
it’s really diverse at what
it’s capable of doing.”
Wright also said that the
dance classes are a great way
for people to open up in a
comfortable atmosphere.
“Because it’s a little bit
more structured than just a
normal dance party, if you’re
more of an introvert and don’t
really like meeting new peo-ple,
it’s a great way to meet
new people because it’s not
always the awkward trying to
make conversation,” Wright
said.
President of AUSDA Kath-ryn
Hoerlein, junior in indus-trial
and systems engineering,
said she was drawn to danc-ing
because it is fun. She also
credits meeting her closest
friends through dancing.
“It’s a really good social
hobby to do that is not super
time-consuming,” Hoerlein
said. “The interactions be-tween
people are a lot differ-ent.
It’s just a lot different than
going to a bar or something.”
Polly Majors, an Auburn
resident of more than 50 years
has also found her niche in
dancing.
Majors is president of the
Auburn Allemanders, a square
dancing club that has been in
Auburn since the 1960s.
The Allemanders meet at
the JDCAC on Thursdays from
7-9 p.m. starting Feb. 7. The
classes cost $15 per person
per month, however on Feb.
24 and 30, there will be two
free sessions for those inter-ested.
Majors became interest-ed
in square dancing after she
lost her first spouse. She was
invited to a class by a friend
and met her second husband,
Lawrence while there. They
have now been married for 14
years. She is 73 years old and
Lawrence is 76.
“When you lose a spouse
and you’re looking for some-thing
to do, then you meet all
these friends … it just brings
you back out to living again,”
Majors said.
Like Wright, Majors has
found that community danc-ing
brings not only exercise,
but also friendship, she said.
She said that she feels
dancing allows one to express
their personality more freely.
For those looking for a
bolder style of movement,
Rick and Lynda Wilson hold
Argentine Tango classes on
Tuesdays at the Frank Brown
Recreation Center in 4-week
segments for $50 per person.
The classes start Jan. 8 and run
from 6-7 p.m.
Lynda Wilson and her hus-band
Rick have been danc-ing
since they dated and now
perform and hold workshops
across the U.S. involving the
Argentinean dance.
“You can get a taste of Ar-gentina
in your backyard,”
Lynda Wilson said.
Wilson said Argentine Tan-go
is unique in its makeup.
“The figures are close, the
movement is calm,” Wilson
said. “It can be fast, it can be
slow. It can be soft, it can be
strong. It has such a range of
character, depending on the
music and the mood of the
dancers.”
Wilson sees dance as an
art form and a new way of un-derstanding
those one danc-es
with.
“You’re going to stretch
mentally, socially, physically
and artistically,” Wilson said.
Wilson said that each
4-week course will take par-ticipants
through the founda-tions,
but for those who wish
to continue in growth there
will be added movement and
teaching.
“It’s a beautiful vehicle for
expression,” Wilson said. “And
we all need that. Some people
garden, some people cook and
some people dance.”
Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center offers dance lessons as an option for socializing and exercising in the new year
Dance your way to accomplishing New Year’s resolutions
Behind enemy lines: life as an Alabama fan
living in the Loveliest Village on the Plains
Courtesy of Lynda Wilson
Participants in the weekly dance class practice their moves during the free dance lessons offered at Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center.
Courtesy of Lynda wilson
Dance instructors Rick and Lynda Wilson demonstrate correct
dance technique during a beginners class.
Chandler Jones
Community Reporter
They live amongst us. They are in
the classrooms and we sit with them
at lunch. They are the Alabama fans.
You know they are around; you can’t
ignore those swirly A’s.
Since the first Iron Bowl in 1893
the tension between Alabama and
Auburn fans has been rampant. how-ever,
there are still Alabama fans liv-ing
on the Plains.
Katherine Carnes, senior in early
childhood education, is one of those
fans. She was born to an Auburn
alum and Alabama fan who taught
her to always root for the Crimson
Tide.
Watching the 2012 BCS Nation-al
Championship at home with her
family, Carnes said they can be a lit-tle
superstitious during the game.
“We have lucky seats at my house,”
Carnes said. “We try not to go to any
big games, because we might be un-lucky.
I sit in the chair with the most
recent championship shirt on, and
we have our lucky football, whoev-er’s
holding it, if we start doing bad
we give it to someone else and if
they’re lucky they get to keep it the
rest of the game. I have to have it in
my left hand for defense. It’s only cra-zy
if it doesn’t work.”
Carnes has no trepidation about
her dedication to her team. In fact,
she is quite open about it. She wears
her SEC Championship t-shirt on
campus and intends to sport her re-cent
BCS National Championship ac-quisition
for the first day of class.
“Usually I don’t really get any com-ments
on it,” Carnes said. “I get a lot
of ‘Roll Tides’ actually. You’d be sur-prised.
There are a couple times that
someone’s like ‘Really?’ And gets mad
at it. I get a lot of ‘Well then, why do
you go here?’ kind of things.”
Carnes says her campus response
is two “Roll Tides” for every “War Ea-gle.”
“When people ask me why I go
here, did you come to Auburn spe-cifically
to go to football games?”
Carnes said. I didn’t think so. We’re
here for the same reasons, to get an
education.”
Matthew Nesbitt, junior in nurs-ing,
is a life-long Auburn fan.
“Auburn isn’t the only university
that is huge on school pride during
football season,” Nesbitt said. “You
don’t necessarily have to be a fan of
the school to enjoy its academic life,
which is one of the best in the na-tion.”
Carnes said she has tried to cross
over to the “dark-side.”
“When we won the National
Championship I went and rolled the
tree,” Carnes said. “I tried to be an
Auburn fan, it didn’t work out.”
It is a common sterotype that Al-abama
fans can be a little excessive
when proclaiming their allegiance to
Alabama. With game day newsfeeds
that are unreadable and a coach with
the slogan “Hail Saban,” Bama fans
dedication is known for going too far.
Joining Carnes in the club of Au-burn
students supporting the rival is
Nathan Coleman, senior in software
engineering.
Coleman said he knows about the
craze surrounding University of Ala-bama
head coach Nick Saban.
“I don’t worship him, but I think
he’s Jesus,” Coleman said with a
laugh.
Coleman recognizes the reputa-tion
Bama fans can get, but knows
that some just give the group a bad
name. Harvey Updyke is an all too
real example.
But the door swings both ways.
Nesbitt said he believes Auburn
fans can get just as rowdy “talking
spit” as Alabama fans.
“Some students at Alabama come
across a tad snooty just because
their school has national champi-onship
titles,” Nesbitt said. “I’m sor-ry,
but when did winning at a sport
suddenly make a university better at
the one thing college is mainly about:
achieving a quality education.”
Coleman was introduced to foot-ball
two years ago and his alliance is
to Alabama football alone.
“I’m not interested in other sports
in general, but I hear there are funnel
cakes at the baseball games,” Cole-man
said.
Chandler Jones / Community Reporter
Proudly sporting their University of Alabama gear, Nathan Coleman and Katherine Carnes have no qualms about showing their
pride for Auburn’s rival on campus.
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space for fresh blood in community
Chandler Jones
Community Reporter
The Heart of Auburn has
been broken.
Thursday, Jan. 3 bulldozers
began demolition of the Heart
of Auburn Inn and Suites to
make room for a commercial
expansion titled “The Shoppes
at the Heart of Auburn.”
“Their goal was to redevelop
the property in kind of a more
of a downtown setting,” said
Matt Mosley, planner in the
City of Auburn Planning De-partment.
“With the anchor
and only store coming in right
now being CVS.”
This addition will become
the fourth CVS Pharmacy lo-cated
in the surrounding area.
“Being an environmental
science major, I think having
four of one thing, is a waste of
resources and economically
inefficient,” said Madison De-
Haven, freshman in environ-mental
science.
Neighboring the CVS, ac-cording
to Mosley, is a pro-posed
row of commercial, re-tail
and entertainment build-ings.
A path between the two
lots will be accessible by both
Gay and College St. The back
two lots will remain vacant for
land development in the fu-ture.
According to the city’s new
CompPlan 2030 this area is
designated as Urban Core
Three.
“Basically if you look at
downtown, it is considered to
be Urban Core, which is the
current zoning that is in place
now,” Mosley said. “So you can
go to tall buildings that are
brought up to the street, then
kind of fill the lot from lot line
to lot line. So it looks like a
typical downtown.”
To the west on Glenn and
Magnolia and areas surround-ing
campus is Urban Core 2
built of smaller more family-usage
buildings.
“This is kind of pushing that
same type of development in a
much more limited way down
South College Street to Sam-ford,”
Mosley said. “Again it’s
one-to-two story buildings, in
this case, still brought up to
the lot line trying to promote
uses that would function like a
downtown environment while
also functioning as services for
the university.”
In the new building space,
DeHaven hopes they bring in
a Taziki’s and is thinking of the
opportunities this new area
can bring to the city of Auburn.
“Well, maybe there will just
be a better downtown and
a variety of people will have
more options for their Friday
night,” said DeHaven, fresh-man
in environmental science.
“It could allow the music scene
to flourish for once.”
The property that once
housed the Heart of Auburn
Inn and Suites was purchased
by Orange Development Inc.,
a company based out of Bir-mingham.
Chandler Jones / Community Reporter
Heart of Auburn Inn and Suites was demolished Jan. 3 to make room
for new developments in the Urban Core area of Auburn.
City Council proposes increase in property tax
to pay for new $8.5 million high school building
Chandler Jones
Community Reporter
The Auburn City Council met Tuesday with
a large assembly of school officials and con-cerned
citizens for an open-forum on an in-crease
in property taxes to meet the demands
of Auburn’s rapidly growing education system.
The Special School Tax is a property tax that
increases the standing $.50 on each $100 to
$1.40 on each $100 of assessed value.
“This resolution is a direct response to a re-quest
by the school board asking us to set in
motion a path to a referendum in which ev-ery
citizen of Auburn will have a chance to vote
on whether or not a property tax can provide
for the facility needs of Auburn City Schools,”
Mayor Bill Ham said in clarification before the
open forum. “If we pass this resolution tonight
the next step is for the Alabama State Legisla-ture
to pass a local act authorizing a property
tax referendum to be held in Auburn. Ultimate-ly,
property taxes will not change without a vote
of the people.”
According to Ham the main concern of cit-izens
is they believed the sales tax was passed
for the necessities of the high school.
“We passed a sales tax,” Ham said. “We went
from 8 to 9 percent and part of that money did
go to the school.”
According to City Manager Charles Dug-gan
the money from the sales tax initiated in
the summer of 2011 went into building Pick
Elementary School, which will be opening in
the fall, and to purchase property for a future
school.
Funds from that tax also went into econom-ic
development for parks, the Renew Opelika
Road Project and expenditures for road im-provements.
“When the sales tax was passed there was a
provision that said that if it was ever replaced
with a property tax that the sales tax would au-tomatically
go away,” Duggan said. “The calcu-lations
to raise the funds that are needed by
the school system for the high school and the
other improvements that need to be made to
the schools plus replacing the sales tax would
put us in the range of 18 mills of property tax
that would have to be sought. When this was
brought before the Council in the briefing by
the Superintendent one thing we mentioned
that if the sales tax remained in place that nine
mills should be able to generate the funds nec-essary
for the school system to carry out their
projects.”
According to Duggan, as of last year the sales
tax has generated about eight million dollars.
“This City Council and ones before it have
supported public education very strongly for
many many many years through more sales tax
and general fund money more than anything,”
Ham said. “There’s been one since I’ve been on
the Council since 1986, I’m aware of one prop-erty
tax approval.”
“The next and most immediate challenge for
the school district is providing facilities for our
secondary grades sixth-12th,” said Karen Del-ano,
superintendent of Auburn City Schools.
“These facilities are quickly reaching capacity.
The most recent information and data we have
collected indicate the most prudent plan is to
construct a new high school for grades 10-12,
to reconfigure school grade levels for grades 6-9
and improve the conditions of our aging facili-ties.”
Delano says that to do this the district will
need an additional $8.5 million a year.
During the open forum Lisa Morgan of Janet
Drive spoke against the property tax.
“I know Mayor Ham is an honest man,” Mor-gan
said. “I know the politics in this city are
clean. I am proud to live here. And also I’m
proud of the success and accolades of Auburn
City Schools. I am very familiar with them and
have read about them, written about them and
I can’t say enough about the job these teachers
and students do in this city. But I find the tim-ing
of this catastrophic. As Mayor Ham men-tioned
the economy, the increase in sales tax
from which many people are still reeling.”
Morgan sees this money being spent unwise-ly
relating it to buying a child a Porsche as op-posed
to Pinto. Morgan’s solution was building
up on our existing instead of building a new fa-cility.
Morgan’s other issue is that she does not
see the government holding back on spending
themselves.
“We’re proposing a grades 10-12 school,” Del-ano
said. “We currently have a high school that
serves 10–12. We would build a new facility for
those grades. We would then have the facility
that is currently the high school serve as eighth
and ninth grade. And then the junior high pres-ently
would become a seventh grade and Drake
would be just sixth. So we would reconfigure
how we would use are facilities for those grade
levels.”
According to Delano, the operation of a new
school would be approximately two million
dollar a year.
“It sounds like a horrible figure, you know it
kind of sticks in your throat when you say it and
I understand that,” Delano said. “And I am an
educator. I will say that right up front. I’ve had
to do a lot of study in looking at construction
cost. We looked in the state of Alabama and
what the construction cost had been over the
last four years for schools and what were pro-posing
for a high school is around the 80 mil-lion
dollar mark. It falls very much in the aver-age
range of what per square footage costs for
school buildings in this day in age. The high
school we have now has approximately 150 sq.
ft. per child, and again when you look across
the state and look at averages that’s very much
in the range. The new high school that were
proposing would only have 158.”
In other news the Council passed five Agree-ments
and Contracts totaling $853,700.5, which
includes the $44, 643.85 going to the Water Re-source
Management Department to inspect
Southside Sewer Basins.
“This City Council and
the ones before it
have supported public
education very strongly for
many many many years
through more sales tax
and general fund money
more than anything.”
—Bill Ham
Mayor
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Harvey Updyke trial
set to begin April 8
Zeke Turrentine
Opinions Editor
The man accused of poi-soning
the Toomer’s Corner
oaks has had his trial set by a
Lee County judge for Monday,
April 8 after a hearing Wednes-day
with Lee County District
Attorney Robbie Treese and
defense attorney Margaret
Young Brown.
On Wednesday, Feb. 13
there will be a hearing to dis-cuss
several potential moves
including a call by the District
Attorney’s Office to revoke
Harvey Updyke’s bond because
of his arrest in Hammond, La.,
in September 2012.
Lee County Circuit Court
Judge Jacob A. Walker I set
a status conference on Friday,
March 15.
Walker said Updyke is re-quired
to attend all hearings
from here on out.
He was granted absence
from the Wednesday’s hearing
at the defense’s request.
Treese is seeking Updyke’s
records from Taylor Hardin
Secure Medical Facility in Tus-caloosa.
The defense called for court
funds to find out how many
potential jurors in Lee Coun-ty
have ties to Auburn Univer-sity
and could ask for a move
of venue.
Brown said she was in the
process of trying to find an ex-pert
without ties to the univer-sity
to conduct the study.
Updyke plead not guilty by
reason of mental disease and
faces two counts of first-de-gree
criminal mischief, two
counts of desecrating a vener-ated
object and two counts of
vandalism to a crop facility.
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Letter From The Editor
This semester won’t be one with lower tax-es
or better relations between Auburn and
Alabama fans, but one with 8 a.m. classes
and construction scattered throughout cam-pus.
For the last few years, January has been a
month of new academic beginnings, and this
January will be my last.
For returning seniors who will graduate in
May, I commend you. If this is the beginning
of the last semester for you, enjoy yourself
and all that Auburn will reveal.
If this semester is one of many to come,
then reality is much like it is in semesters
past. Long weekdays and even longer week-ends.
The library, followed by coffee, fol-lowed
by the bars.
If this week is just another week of the
hundreds to come, I also commend you. Ev-eryone
should be doing what they enjoy in
life, and if Auburn provides what you want,
enjoy it.
Beginning every semester I sometimes
find myself questioning myself more often.
Why am I still here? Is college going to get
me where I want to be?
After several nights of rummaging though
my thoughts, the answer is still yes.
We are all probably striving for what we
want to do in life, but we should also strive
for what we should be doing.
If Auburn is what you should be doing,
bravo. The Orange and Blue prevail. It will be
the building block to whatever you want it
to be.
Going to class and passing is one route,
but how far will a degree take you these days?
Why not push yourself into unchartered
territory and spend some time out of your
comfort zone?
Experience in your field is key to success
after college, so finding a way to incorporate
it into your school schedule is a must.
Whether it be an unpaid internship or ask-ing
someone to shadow them, anything that
goes beyond the classroom will help you
stand out.
Going to class for a few hours a week and
studying a couple more sounds nice, but tru-ly
dedicating yourself to your work will pay-off.
So what reality should we expect this year?
We outlasted the Mayan calendar and
watched Alabama add to their 27 (or is it 30?)
national championships, so it must be some-thing
unexpected.
Maybe the Superbowl will be filled with
straight-forward ads that don’t confuse au-diences
at all and maybe the NHL will be en-tertaining
this year.
The circle of life can be tricky sometimes,
but this semester I believe one thing should
be expected.
Live the life you know you should be living
and expect exactly what you put into it.
Starting something is usually the tough-est
step in any process you begin, but at least
you started.
One of my earliest mem-ories
is my dad teaching me
the word “compromise.” (He
thought that would make me
an obedient child. His strategy
did not work.)
If a 5-year-old can grasp the
concept of compromise, one
would expect grown men and
women to understand it—es-pecially
when the stakes are
high.
But as we saw with the fis-cal-
cliff disaster at the end of
2012, this isn’t always the case.
In typical Washington style,
neither party would bend—at
least, not enough to strike a
deal—until the deadline had
passed.
We could argue about
which side is more at fault.
We could debate whether Sen.
Harry Reid was right when he
accused House Speaker John
Boehner of running a “dicta-torship,”
and whether Boehner
was justified in his not-so-sub-tle
response (yelling expletives
at Reid in the White House
lobby).
We could talk about what
some consider a failure to lead
by President Barack Obama;
others contend that Obama
couldn’t take any more of a
hands-on approach until the
Republicans managed to get
their acts together.
But regardless of the details
of the fiscal cliff saga, the most
important question to be ask-ing
ourselves is: What can we
learn from this about our polit-ical
climate, and what can we
expect in the future?
As for the latter question,
more of the same, folks.
The 24-hour news networks
preach apocalypse during ev-ery
political showdown—
looking at you, Wolf Blitzer—
which only feeds a splintered
political climate. And in that
climate, we see a broken sys-tem.
Both parties have moved so
far from center that they can’t
see the middle of the road any-more.
As we all know, trying
to drive a car, or run a govern-ment,
becomes perilous when
you ignore your own blind
spot.
But how can they get away
with being such extremists?
Voters hold them accountable
for their actions, right?
Wrong.
As Tom Brokaw pointed out
on “Meet the Press” Dec. 30, a
huge chunk of representatives
hail from gerrymandered dis-tricts—
meaning they don’t
have to worry about voters giv-ing
them the boot.
“They only play to one con-stituency,”
he said. “They don’t
go home and have to prove
their case, because they’ve got
a choir back home.”
It makes government of the
people, by the people and for
the people feel more like gov-ernment
of, by and for party
radicals.
In the absence of bipartisan
compromise, we see biparti-san
fault for the situation.
And until our leaders in
Washington acknowledge that
the fault lies on both sides of
the aisle, the outlook is bleak.
Of course, politicians will
blame each other. We, the peo-ple,
may also feel inclined to
blame the opposing party. If
so, we must take a good, hard
look in the mirror and ask our-selves
if we too have a blind
spot.
Liz Conn
Senior
journalism and Spanish
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In the last several years, we've seen drought
in the South, tornadoes in the South and Mid-west,
floods in the Mississippi River basin, hur-ricanes
Irene and Sandy in the East, wildfires in
the West and thousands of high temperature
daily records across the U.S.
Munich Re, the largest reinsurance company,
stated North America has experienced almost a
five-fold increase in weather disasters over the
past three decades and such events will contin-ue.
What to do? Increased use of alternative
sources of energy will help.
Using job-creating incentive funds Alabama
voters approved in November, production facil-ities
for solar energy equipment could become
a reality.
Installations utilizing solar energy are already
operational at the Lee County Justice Center,
the Opelika City Hall and at Ft. Rucker.
If Alabama law makers would modify the
tax structure, solar equipment and installation
would be more attractive for builders and con-sumers.
The production of solar energy in Alabama
would create manufacturing and installation
jobs and also improve human health by reduc-ing
air and water pollution.
It could also help reduce the frequency and
severity of the weather events mentioned above.
We really ought to get on with it, without de-lay.
David Newton
Alternative energy sources could slow weather’s drama
America’s leaders continue to specialize in partisan fouls
What kind of reality are we coming back to?
Our View
For most of us in Auburn,
Jan. 1 began a new year and
a new semester with fresh
hopes and perhaps clean
starts where needed.
For nearly everyone in
the Syrian cities of Damas-cus
and Homs and Aleppo,
it simply rang in the third
calendar year of a relentless
and bloody civil war that
has largely been ignored by
the rest of the world’s media
and governments. For doz-ens
of families it was the day
they lost a parent, spouse
or sibling to yet another car
bomb or air raid.
A recent United Nations
study counted nearly 60,000
individuals who had been
killed through November
30 since the first casualties
of the uprising on March 15,
2011. While in the summer
of 2011, it was reported that
nearly one thousand peo-ple
were being killed each
month, international and
Syrian non-profit analyses
now say as many as 5,000
people are being killed each
month.
It is safe to assume that
by the end of this month
over 70,000 people will have
died in Syria as a result of
President Bashar al-Assad’s
crackdown on his citizens.
But how many Au-burn
students would have
guessed a number in that
ballpark? How many even
know that there is an ongo-ing
civil war in Syria?
Sadly, various polls and
quizzes and articles tell us
chances are likely that a
large number of college age
Americans couldn’t even la-bel
Syria on a map.
Many comedians and talk
shows have made famous
the skit in which a host with
a microphone and camera
asks random people on the
streets of New York or Los
Angeles if they can identify
leaders of their state, Con-gress
or other countries,
and found they more often
than not recognized reality
show stars, athletes, actors
or musicians at far higher
rates.
But this isn’t about the fa-cial
recognition of lawmak-ers
or celebrities you see or
don’t see on a daily basis. It’s
about simply being aware of
what is happening to other
humans around the world.
Although simply being
caught up on current events
gets next to nothing done as
far as problem solving goes,
being informed from well-vetted
and respected news
organizations is a great
start to a better conversa-tion
about humanitarian-ism
and foreign affairs.
It does America no good
for a tiny handful of news
junkies and Washington lif-ers
to be the only ones with
a decent depth of knowl-edge
about what happens in
the Sahel, Levant or South
China Sea.
Fad-like sympathy cam-paigns
are too often the only
exposure many Americans,
particularly those our age,
have to atrocities around
the world.
Whether it’s the semi-annual
African hunger and
slavery awareness cam-paigns
or the waiting for a
hurricane to strike Haiti to
realize it exists, we wait for
someone good-looking with
half-decent video editing
skills and a few tear-jerking
montages to tell us to stick
posters around our town
and then by Friday we forget
what we were blowing up
Facebook with on Monday.
Our time in college is
one of the best opportuni-ties
to be informed. The eas-iest
step could be a Twitter
follow of an international
newspaper or blogger.
This year, let’s all try to be
a little more informed about
the world and other nations
and it just might make us all
a better citizen, student and
neighbor.
Robert E Lee
Editor-in-Chief
editor@theplainsman.com
Rachel Suhs/Design Editor
More CNN, less MTV
Community A8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 10, 2013
ACROSS
1 Funnylady
Rudner
5 Pack the
groceries again
10 Eyes, to Juanita
14 Oodles
15 Condescend
16 Ivory soap ad
word
17 Wagon boss’s
directive
19 Suffix with opal
20 Arnaz of “Here’s
Lucy”
21 “Bewitched” witch
23 PennySaver
listing, usually
26 Pitches well?
27 Lacking direction
29 Home of Dolphins
and Marlins
32 Bunch of bills
35 Potted herb spot
36 Deep valley
37 Winged deity
39 Replay type,
briefly
41 Cabinet dept.
concerned with
power
42 Symbolize
44 Cup of joe
46 Singleton
47 Failed to act
48 One of the M’s in
MoMA
50 “The Hunger
Games” actor
Kravitz
52 Places in a
pyramid
56 Scrambled
alternative
59 Give a hoot
60 River isles
61 “See?” follower
64 Prego rival
65 Nixon staffer G.
Gordon __
66 Get ready, as for
surgery
67 Food for hogs
68 Close call
69 Discontinues
DOWN
1 “Unmistakably
Lou” Grammy
winner
2 Intestinal section
3 Puccini classic
4 Head Hun
5 Dietary guideline
letters
6 Always, to Pope
7 Many eBay
clicks
8 Filled with horror
9 Pointy-hatted
garden character
10 Talk show caller’s
opportunity
11 “War on Drugs”
slogan
12 Theater sect.
13 “__ penny, pick it
up ...”
18 Uses a blowtorch
on
22 Soprano Gluck
24 Give up one’s
seat, say
25 Herb used in
borscht
28 Nickname in
Olympics
sprinting
30 Big name in
faucets
31 Memo starter
32 Marries
33 Field of study
34 “Hold on!”
36 Witches’
assembly
38 Recovers from a
night on the town
40 Whipped up
43 Actress Daly
45 Pretentiously
highbrow
48 “__ River”: 2003
drama directed by
Clint Eastwood
49 Pessimist’s
phrase
51 Catches red-handed
53 Weep for
54 Cleared tables
55 Calls it quits
56 Rowboat pair
57 Perfume
container
58 “Star Wars”
philosophizer
62 Pres., for one
63 Hide the gray,
maybe
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Auburn man in blue graduates from FBI’s best
Sydney Callis
Community Editor
Founded in 1935, the FBI Nation-al
Academy is considered the top law
enforcement professional school in
the country. People wanting to at-tend
the prestigious school have to
be invited.
Prospective FBI National Academy
students go through a nomination
process and rigorous background
check before receiving an invitation.
One of Auburn’s own police offi-cers
made it through the selection
process and received an invite to the
school.
Assistant Chief Paul Register was
invited to attend the school last year
and graduated the 10-week program
Dec. 18, 2012.
“It’s an executive training for up-per
management in law enforce-ment,”
Register said.
Register said after hearing about
the course he told Chief Tommy
Dawson that it was something he
was interested in attending, and
Dawson nominated him.
“I heard about the course several
years ago, and we have had some oth-er
people go through it as well,” Reg-ister
said. “So through talking with
them and reading about it and hear-ing
about it, I thought it would be
something I would enjoy.”
Living in dormitories on Marine
Corps Base Quantico, Register took a
total of six courses, had daily PT ac-tivities
and met a diverse group of
people while at the school.
“Monday through Friday, we were
in class from 8 a.m. to 5:30, four class-es
everyday,” Register said. “Usually
there was PT everyday so there was a
lot of running and a lot of cardiovas-cular
exercise. I took two graduate
level classes when I was there that
I’m going to use towards my masters
that I’ve been working on.”
Register is working on a masters
in homeland security emergency
management at Auburn University
Montgomery.
Able to take both undergraduate
and graduate courses at the school,
the 250 students who attend the ses-sions
are made up of law enforce-ment
officers from around the Unit-ed
States and 150 countries around
the world.
“The friendships and the relation-ships
that you make with the oth-er
people at the academy should be
something you can use throughout
the rest of your career,” Register said.
“That was one of the biggest things I
took from it was the networking and
getting to know people from all over
the country and even other nations.
That was the best thing I got from it.”
Although Register said he learned
a lot from the course, he said the 10
weeks away from his family in Au-burn
was difficult for him.
“The classes were great, the train-ing
was great, but it was a challenge,”
Register said. “I came home about
four times. I flew home a couple of
times and drove home a couple of
times, but it was tough. My wife gets
more credit then I do for that because
she was able to take care of every-thing
at home and the kids. She de-serves
the credit for that.”
Register and his family live in Au-burn,
but his wife and four kids were
able to travel to Quantico, Va. to see
his graduation from the FBI Nation-al
Academy.
“We stayed in Washington D.C. for
a few days after that to see the things
around D.C.,” Register said.
Register has been working at the
Auburn Police Department for 25
years in a variety of jobs in patrol, in-vestigation,
administration and was
Captain of Patrol.
“I’ve enjoyed every job I’ve done
here,” Register said. “Every few years
I have done a new job within the divi-sion
and so it’s kept it very interesting
to me. I’ve always enjoyed it. I work
with great people and they make it
fun.”
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Survey on transportation safety in Auburn available online
Sydney Callis
Community Editor
“However you go, go safely.”
The motto and mission of
the Travel with Care campaign
emphasizes safety in all modes
of travel, whether it be walk-ing,
driving or bicycling.
Travel with Care is current-ly
asking citizens to partici-pate
in an online survey about
transportation safety in Au-burn
and surrounding areas.
“We are putting out this
survey to find out what peo-ple
perceive to be the biggest
transportation-related issues
in this area so that we can help
tailor the campaign and the
focuses of the campaign to
meet those needs,” said Bran-dy
Ezelle, a traffic engineer for
the city of Auburn and chair of
Travel with Care.
The collaborative initia-tive
between the city of Au-burn,
Auburn University and
Lee County is aimed at all cit-izens,
whether they travel by
foot, car, bicycle, motorcycle
or transit.
“This is their opportunity to
have some input in outreach
efforts to the community on
transportation issues,” said
Susan McCallister, a member
of the Travel with Care com-munity.
The survey, available un-til
Jan. 20, asks citizens about
the places they spend most of
their time and then one ques-tion
about each of the places
they list.
“It is all online, and it’s a re-ally,
really short survey,” Ezelle
said.
McCallister said the com-mittee
wanted to include the
community’s opinion in the
selection process of the 2013
Travel with Care campaign.
“It’s the first time we’ve done
a survey before the campaign,”
McCallister said. “We have a
lot of different topics that are
always of concern, like pedes-trian
safety in crosswalks and
visibility and drinking and
driving, but we may put more
emphasis on one area over an-other
depending on the survey
results.”
The Travel with Care cam-paign,
which will be March
18-22, will reflect the results of
the survey through the target-ed
areas. The results from the
survey will be used by Trav-el
with Care to make changes
around the community to im-prove
transportation safety
said Ezelle.
“I would encourage every-one
to take the survey because
what they perceive to be a safe-ty
issue may not be what other
people perceive to be the same
safety issue or what the com-mittee
perceives to be the big-gest
issue, ” Ezelle said.
To participate in the survey,
visit TravelWithCareAuburn.
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Sports B1
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Meet the new coaches John Burns
Sports editor
While most were enjoying a winter break free of stress, head coach Gus Malzahn was assembling a
new staff of coaches that have more than 100 combined years of SEC coaching experience. While
Malzahn may not be the most experienced head coach in the SEC— in fact, he’s one of the least
experienced— his staff is, and many are proven successful recruiters in and out of Auburn’s pipeline.
Ellis Johnson is one of the most re-spected
defensive minds in the SEC
and brings 16 years of in-conference
experience to the Plains.
Most recently Johnson was head
coach at Southern Miss for a one-year
winless stint, but before that
he was the defensive coordinator for
South Carolina for four years.
Johnson has also coached defens-es
at Mississippi State, Alabama and
Clemson.
He was the outside lineback-ers
coach for Alabama in the early
1990s, and helped the Tide to a na-tional
championship in 1992.
Along with his extensive coach-ing
experience, Johnson is a solid
recruiter and is credited with lock-ing
up 2011’s top-ranked prospect
Jadeveon Clowney.
Rhett Lashlee was named Au-burn’s
offensive coordinator, and
while he has only spent two years
in the SEC as an offensive gradu-ate
assistant, he has spent six years
coaching with Gus Malzahn, in-cluding
this season at Arkansas
State.
As offensive coordinator at Ar-kansas
State, Lashlee helped lead
the team to a Sun Belt Champion-ship,
and was nominated for the
Broyles Award, which honors the
nations top assistant coach, for his
contribution.
Besides coaching at Auburn and
Arkansas State, Lashlee was offen-sive
coordinator and quarterbacks
coach at Samford.
Dameyune Craig will serve as the
co-offensive coordinator and wide
receivers coach.
Craig was quarterback at Auburn
from 1994-97 and holds school re-cords
for completions (216), and
passing yards (3,227) in a single sea-son.
He also holds the record for
most all-purpose yards in a game
(445).
Before being lured to Auburn by
Malzahn, Craig was in his third year
as recruiting coordinator and quar-terbacks
coach for Florida State.
In 2012 Craig was named Rivals.
com ACC Recruiter of the Year and
Scout/FoxSportsNext ACC Recruit-er
of the Year.
While at Florida State, Craig
helped develop the skills of Christian
Ponder, who was the regular season
starting quarterback for the Minne-sota
Vikings.
Rodney Garner was hired away
from Georgia to assume the role of
associate head coach, defensive line
coach and recruiting coordinator.
Garner held almost identical ti-tles
for much of his 12-year tenure
with the Bulldogs.
Garner was a captain of the 1988
Auburn SEC Championship team,
and was honored as an all-SEC of-fensive
lineman that year.
Besides playing for the Tigers, he
also coached at Auburn from 1990–
95, holding different jobs such as
assistant strength and conditioning
coach, tight ends coach and recruit-ing
coordinator.
Charlie Harbison will assume the
position of co-defensive coordina-tor
for the Tigers. Harbison brings
18 years of SEC and ACC coaching
experience with him.
Harbison is regarded as an excel-lent
recruiter, and was named in Ri-vals.
com’s top 25 in the nation in
2010.
Along with helping Johnson with
the defense in general, Harbison will
coach the defensive backs.
He helped coach Clemson to con-secutive
10-win seasons and the
program’s first ACC Championship
in 20 years.
Harbison has experience coach-ing
in similar roles at Clemson, Mis-sissippi
State, LSU and Alabama.
Rich Bisaccia has left the NFL to
become the Tigers’ special teams and
running backs coach. He will assume
the title of assistant head coach.
Bisaccia has 30 years of coaching
experience, and has spent the last 11
in the NFL with the Buccaneers and
Chargers.
He is considered one of the top
special teams coaches in all of foot-ball,
and along with his NFL experi-ence
has coached at Ole Miss, Clem-son
and South Carolina.
During his nine years with Tampa
Bay, the Buccaneers’ special teams
players received three Pro Bowl invi-tations,
four NFC Player of the Month
awards and 13 NFC Player of the
Week awards.
The team also had four punt return
touchdowns, four kick return touch-downs
and 18 blocked kicks.
Tim Horton, formerly the Arkan-sas
running backs coach and recruit-ing
coordinator has been named as
Auburn’s tight end coach.
Horton spent six years with Au-burn
and coached standout running
backs such as Darren McFadden, Fe-lix
Jones, Knile Davis and Dennis
Johnson.
Horton can also be added to the
list of Auburn coaches who have
been recognized as a top recruiter by
Rivals.com.
J.B. Grimes, who has more than 30
years of collegiate coaching experi-ence,
including this past season at Ar-kansas
State, will coach Auburn’s of-fensive
line.
Grimes has coached offensive lines
at Mississippi State, Kansas, ECU, Tex-as
A&M, and Arkansas to name a few.
His offensive line at Mississippi
State had three 1,000-yard rushers in
four years.
Ellis Johnson
defensive coordinator
Rhett Lashlee
offensive coordinator
Dameyune Craig
co-offensive
coordinator
Rodney Garner
associate head coach
Charlie Harbison
co-defensive
coordinator
Rich Bisaccia
assistant head coach
Tim Horton
tight end coach
J.B. Grimes
offensive line coach » See assistants, B2
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Sports B2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 10, 2013
SAMFORD PARK AT TOOMER’S
CORNER CONCEPT SURVEY
Please help the University narrow down enhancement
strategies for Samford Park at Toomer’s Corner by taking a
short online survey.
www.auburn.edu/oaks
Also, please join us for a follow-up workshop to discuss strategies derived
from the results of the November sessions and this survey process. The
goal is to gain input from the campus and community concerning possible
reconfi guration of and landscape improvements to this area. Your continued
input in this process is greatly appreciated.
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
LOCATION:
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DATE: FEBRUARY 27
DAYTIME WORKSHOP
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John Burns
Sports Editor
The Auburn men’s bas-ketball
team won four of
their six games over the
break, including a victory
over Florida State.
The team has begun to
come into their own after
beginning the season with
two wins and five losses.
The Tigers have since im-proved
to 6–7.
One of Auburn’s losses
came against 12th-ranked
Illinois, but it was a close
game, with the final reading
81-79 in favor of the Fight-ing
Illini.
Though Auburn has be-gun
to warm up in recent
weeks, the team has lost
key players in Chris Den-son
and Jordan Price to in-jury.
Both suffered stress
fractures that take four to
six weeks to recover from.
The team is familiar to
playing without Denson,
who has only played in five
games this season.
“We played without
Chris earlier in the year,”
said head coach Tony Bar-bee.
“It’s not like we haven’t
done it before this year, so
guys were ready to fill into
those roles.”
Even with the injuries,
the Tigers were able to de-feat
last year’s ACC cham-pion
Florida State 78-72,
due in no small part to se-nior
Frankie Sullivan, who
was named SEC Player of
the Week by CollegeSports-
Madness.com.
Sullivan is second in the
SEC in scoring, averaging
17.3 points a game, and put
in 24 against the Seminoles.
“I think I did my part in
just carrying us and keep-ing
us in the game in the
first half,” Sullivan said.
“That’s what I do. I don’t
try to score just to be scor-ing
and get my points up,
but I did that. I was hot in
the first half, and the team
started going in the second
half.”
Indeed, if Auburn wants
to continue having success
on the court, Sullivan will
need help, and the extra
production from the rest
of the team has contribut-ed
to the strong play of the
Tigers.
Auburn ended its out-of-
conference play against
FSU, and began SEC play
Wednesday night against
LSU.
Moving forward the Ti-gers
have only SEC oppo-nents,
and the level of com-petition
will get significant-ly
higher.
Auburn will have diffi-cult
opponents in-confer-ence,
but Barbee has seen
his coaching affect the
players a lot in the last few
games.
“These guys have real-ly
understood and they’ve
been buying into it all year
long,” Barbee said. “The last
few games, they’ve real-ly
done a really good job of
continuing to fight no mat-ter
the outcome.”
Men’s basketball
heats up before
Lance Davis conference play
Soirts Writer
When Gus Malzahn left
Auburn after the 2011 season,
there were few red flags about
the state of the program, but
after a disastrous 3-9 cam-paign
in 2012, Auburn fired
head coach Gene Chizik and
hired Malzahn as his replace-ment.
“I’m grateful for the oppor-tunity
to become the head
football coach at Auburn
University,” Malzahn said in
an official statement. “It’s an
outstanding institution with
a storied football program.”
Malzahn will be tasked
with remedying an Auburn
offense that ranked last in the
SEC and 118th nationally at
305 yards per game in 2012.
“Coach Malzahn was our
choice because he is a prov-en
winner who has been suc-cessful
at every level,” said
Auburn Athletic Director
Jay Jacobs. “He is one of the
brightest minds in college
football, and he knows what
it takes to build a champion-ship
program at Auburn.”
Malzahn should be a wel-comed
hire by Auburn quar-terbacks
Kiehl Frazier, Jona-than
Wallace and incoming
freshman Jeremy Johnson.
All three quarterbacks are
threats running the ball and
benefit from Malzahn’s no-huddle,
spread-type offense.
“First of all, I think Kiehl’s
very familiar with what we’re
doing,” Malzahn said in an
appearance on ESPN’s Col-lege
Football Live. “We re-cruited
him specifically for
this system, and of course last
year, he went into a pro-style
system. Quarterbacks have a
comfort zone, and I really feel
he’ll be more comfortable in
this system.”
Malzahn spent 2006 as of-fensive
coordinator at Arkan-sas
and was the offensive co-ordinator
at Tulsa from 2007–
08. During his two seasons at
Tulsa, the Golden Hurricane
led the nation in total offense.
Malzahn found success as
offensive coordinator at Au-burn
during his three seasons
from 2009–11.
Auburn’s offense, led by
Newton, exploded in 2010
with 499.2 yards per game.
The offense led the SEC, was
seventh best in the coun-try,
and was the main reason
Auburn came away with the
2010 national championship.
After the 2010 season,
Malzahn turned down the
Vanderbilt head coaching
job, which would have re-portedly
paid him $3 mil-lion
annually. He received
a pay bump from Auburn --
$1.3 million per year – and
became one of the highest
paid assistant coaches in the
country.
Auburn’s offense dropped
considerably in 2011, but that
was to be expected after the
Tigers lost many key offen-sive
players from its champi-onship
team, including New-ton
and wide receiver Darvin
Adams. The offense fell to 8th
in the SEC and 100th overall.
After the 2011 season, Mal-zahn
once again turned down
the Vanderbilt job and offers
from Kansas and North Car-olina.
However, in a head-scratching
move, Malzahn
accepted the head coaching
job at Arkansas State. His
contract with Arkansas State
paid him $850,000 annually.
After a year at Arkan-sas
State, Malzahn accept-ed
the head coaching job at
Auburn after the university
fired Gene Chizik. Malzahn,
who was given the option
to choose his own coaching
staff, decided to clean house
and not retain any assistant
coaches from the old regime.
This is Malzahn’s second
stint with Auburn, but it’s
different this time. He’s the
leading man, and he has his
handpicked staff behind
him. He will, however, main-tain
play-calling duties on of-fense.
Auburn believes it has the
right man to get the football
program back to the top, and
back to a national champi-onship.
Melvin Smith
cornerbacks
coach
After spending seven seasons
coaching Mississippi State’s second-ary,
Melvin Smith has made the move
to Auburn for an opportunity to be
the cornerbacks coach.
This season, Mississippi State led
the SEC with 30 takeaways.
Smith has also coached at Texas
A&M and Alabama.
Ryan Russell
director of
strength and con-ditioning
Ryan Russell has accepted a posi-tion
on the Auburn coaching staff as
director of strength and conditioning.
Russell was director of athletic
performance for Malzahn’s Arkansas
State team last year, and was assis-tant
strength and conditioning coach
at Auburn from 2010–11.
A brief history of coach Gus
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courtesy of Auburn Athletics
Assistants
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Malzahn has been on a winding path throughout his
coaching career, but his decisions landed him at Auburn
Rebecca Croomes / Photographer
Frankie Sullivan drives to the rim against DePaul on Nov. 30,
2012.
Danielle Lowe / Photographer
Gus Malzahn replaces Gene Chizik as head coach after coaching as offensive coordinator for Auburn in 2009-11.
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in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Sports Writer
Auburn football coach
Gus Malzahn began building
his coaching staff by hiring
veteran defensive coordina-tor
Ellis Johnson and up and
coming offensive coordina-tor
Rhett Lashlee.
Johnson was formerly
the head coach at Southern
Miss. and brings 16 years of
SEC coaching experience
with him to Auburn.
His previous stops were at
Alabama from 1997–2000,
Mississippi State from 2004–
2007 and South Carolina
from 2008–2011.
“Ellis is one of the top de-fensive
minds in all of col-lege
football. He is very ex-perienced
and has tremen-dous
success coaching in
the Southeastern Confer-ence,”
Malzahn said. “He is a
man of integrity who will be
a great ambassador for Au-burn.
We’re very pleased to
have him join our staff and
bring a wealth of knowledge
and experience to our pro-gram.”
This experience is valuable
when it comes to recruiting
in the SEC. Johnson is known
as a relentless recruiter.
At his last stop in the SEC
at South Carolina Johnson
signed the number one high
school player in the country
according to Rivals.com and
ESPN, Jadeveon Clowney.
Johnson also knows what
it takes to compete with top
rival, Alabama.
Johnson runs a 4–2–5 base
defense that highlights three
safeties with the third safety
being a hybrid player known
as a “spur” in Johnson’s de-fense.
“I’m very fortunate for
the opportunity to coach at
Auburn and return to the
Southeastern Conference,
where there is so much tra-dition
and history,” Johnson
said. “I have a tremendous
amount of respect for Gus
Malzahn, both as a man and
a coach, and I really look for-ward
to working for him. Au-burn
has a wonderful family
environment and is a great
community, which is a bless-ing
for me, and my family.
This is truly a home run for
me. I can’t wait to get started
and I’m ready to go to work.”
Lashlee, the offensive
coordinator has the least
coaching experience of all
the staff, but he has the most
experience working with
Malzahn.
“Rhett is one of the best
young offensive minds in col-lege
football,” said Malzahn.
“I’ve been with Rhett a long
time and he’s been an in-credibly
valuable right-hand
man. He has a great knowl-edge
and understanding of
Auburn and will be a tremen-dous
asset for this program
both on and off the field.”
Lashlee played for Mal-zahn
in high school at Shiloh
Christian School in Spring-dale,
Ark. in 2002.
Lashlee was later a gradu-ate
assistant at Auburn from
2009-2010 before accepting
the offensive coordinator po-sition
at Samford University
under head coach Pat Sulli-van
in 2011.
Lashlee successfully in-stalled
Malzahn’s high tempo
offense while at Samford and
improved Samford’s offense
from being ranked number
100 in the nation in scoring
offense to 43.
In 2012 Lashlee was re-united
with Malzahn at Ar-kansas
State.
Lashlee’s offense helped
the Red Wolves to a 10–3
(7–1) record with a Sun Belt
Championship and a bowl
victory over Kent State in the
GoDaddy.com Bowl.
“We’re very excited to be
back in Auburn to rejoin this
program and the Auburn
family, which has the best
fans in the country,” Lashlee
said. “I’m looking forward
to working with Coach Mal-zahn
and help get this team
headed in the right direction
and return to winning foot-ball
games. Auburn holds a
special place in my family’s
heart, as this is where our
twin boys were born, so we
are blessed to be back. I’m
excited to get to work.”
With Malzahn’s coaching
staff complete all efforts fo-cus
on offseason training
and recruiting.
Tigers turn
page with
new coaches
Courtesy of Auburn Athletics
Defensive Coordinator Ellis Johnson was hired by the new head coach Gus Malzahn in December.
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Elizabeth Wieck
Intrigue Editor
The year 2012 proved to be
full of tumult, change, sadness,
victory and loss for the Univer-sity
and its students. To sum it
all up, here is a list of the top
ten happenings around cam-pus
during the past year.
1. New Smoking Policy
The year began with an an-nouncement
from Auburn
President Jay Gouge that the
campus would be smoke-and
cigarette-free by fall
2013. Gradual adjustments
were made in fall 2012, begin-ning
with the restriction of
on-campus smoking stating
that smokers must be at least
25 feet away from buildings
to smoke. Those not in com-pliance
with this rule would
be verbally reprimanded, al-though
not punished.
Support for students and
faculty who want to quit smok-ing
altogether has been of-fered
by campus pharmacists,
who will analyze the patient’s
situation and provide neces-sary
support and medication
through a three to six month
program. The university will
issue a full-fledged smoking
ban beginning in fall 2013, in
hopes that the offered cessa-tion
program with pharma-cists
will help alleviate such a
large change.
2. Harvey Updyke Trials
The notorious tree-poison-ing
Harvey Updyke contin-ued
to frequent the news with
various activities surrounding
his highly publicized trial. Up-dyke
confessed to Plainsman
reporter Andrew Yawn, out-side
of trial and under no ob-ligation
to speak, that he was
guilty of poisoning Toomer’s
Oaks. A day later, his primary
defense attorney denied that
Updyke made the statement.
Additional problems arose
in the trial when a number of
jurors claimed they already
knew too much about the case
and were therefore too heavi-ly
influenced to make an unbi-ased
decision.
One of Updyke’s defense at-torneys,
Lois J. Willie II, re-quested
to leave the case due
to other professional and per-sonal
obligations. Willie was
Updyke’s fifth attorney to leave
the case.
He claimed he has lost 62
pounds since the beginning of
his arrest, is taking 18 different
medications for various health
issues and pleaded not guilty
due to mental illness.
Updyke made headlines
once again when he was ar-rested
on September 18 in
Hammond, La. on terrorizing
charges at a home improve-ment
store.
3. Summer Shootings at
University Heights
An impossibly tragic event
of the summer was the triple-homicide
shooting at Universi-ty
Heights apartments on West
Longleaf Drive. Montgom-ery
resident Desmonte Leon-ard
was arrested and charged
with shooting and killing for-mer
Auburn football players
Ed Christian and Ladarious
Phillips and Auburn resident
Demario Pitts on June 9. Leon-ard
was additionally charged
with two counts of first-degree
murder and one count of at-tempted
murder.
4. Auburn in the Olympics
As a bright spot on a bleak
summer, 24 former and cur-rent
Tigers and four coach-es
traveled to London to com-pete
or coach the 2012 Olym-pics,
representing thirteen dif-ferent
countries. These includ-ed
Trinidad and Tobago, Bra-zil,
Zimbabwe, Bahamas, Ja-maica,
Australia, Great Britain,
Canada, South Africa, United
States, American Samoa, Mex-ico
and Ireland.
The athletes participat-ed
in swimming or track and
field events, and won two gold
medals, one silver and three
bronze.
Additionally, Auburn stu-dent
Marisa Grimes was cho-sen
to carry an Olympic Torch
in London.
5. New Parking Rules
In hopes of easing the ever-present
parking problems at
Auburn, Parking Services im-plemented
a number of chang-es
to policies and lots around
campus.
A new parking zone, called
Proximity-C, was created in
hopes of guaranteeing spots
for students who had a pass
for PC. These new zones are lo-cated
at the Coliseum, Auburn
Arena, the lot across from
Momma Goldberg’s on Mag-nolia
and a small space behind
the public safety office.
Parking Services said plans
for the new parking policies
had been in the works for a
year before implementation.
6. SGA Restructuring
The Student Government
Association went under a huge
restructuring that was imple-mented
in fall 2012. Because
they felt they were taking on
too many tasks and didn’t feel
they had enough manpow-er
or funding for these tasks,
many programs were delegat-ed
to other organizations that
could better tackle them. SGA
wanted to deal primarily with
governance tasks and become
more initiative-based.
7. Food Truck Expansion
In part influenced by the
food truck craze spreading
around the nation and in part
to diversify Auburn dining
experience, many new food
trucks cropped up around
campus during the past year to
build on the popularity of the
Tex’s Tacos and Momma Gold-berg’s
trucks.
Additions to the fleet in-cluded
Honeysuckle Gelato,
Kona Ice, Mighty Meatballs
and Mac the Cheese.
8. Presidential Elections
For many Auburn students,
the 2012 elections presented
the first opportunity to vote
in a presidential race. Topics
such as abortion, tax increase,
health care and immigration
influenced students to rock
the vote as citizens who will
be part of the work force in the
next number of years.
The campus was alight with
participation with much activ-ity
from political groups hand-ing
out stickers and campaign-ing
on the concourse.
At the announcement of
President Obama’s re-elec-tion
on November 6, many
students flocked to Toomer’s
Oaks to roll the trees in cele-bration.
9. Losing Football Season
With the new semester
came a new football season
and a new wave of football
fan woes. The Tigers went 3-9
overall and were completely
winless in the SEC for the first
time ever. The less than satis-fying
season was termed by
many as a “rebuilding year”
for the football program, com-ing
down from the high of the
2010 National Championship
title. However, fans and play-ers
alike were not expecting
the homecoming loss to Ole
Miss and no bowl game ap-pearance.
10. Gus Malzahn Hired
The Auburn Athletic De-partment
dismissed head
football coach Gene Chizik
in hopes of a more favorable
football season in 2013. His
contract was terminated ear-ly
and he will receive his $7.2
million buyout over the next
four years.
Chizik was replaced by for-mer
Auburn offensive coach,
Gus Malzahn, who will be re-turning
to the Plains from Ar-kansas
State. Malzahn has al-ready
hired a number of new
staff and coordinators for a
fresh start in 2013.
Auburn 2012: A Year in Review
Emily Morris / Photographer
Gouge hopes the smoking ban will be in full effect by fall 2013.
Courtesy of Tangipahoa Parish Jail
Updyke continues to frequent the headlines following his arrest on
poisoning Toomer’s Oakes, including claims of medical ailments and
an arrest on terrorizing charges.
Rebeca Croomes / Photographer
In Tyler McGill’s second Olympics, he won the gold as part of the
men’s 4x100 meter relay team.
Rachel Suhs / Design Editor
Due to parking being a chronic problem on Auburn’s campus for the
past number of years, Parking Services has implemented new poli-cies
and created new lots.
Courtesy of Student government association
SGA President Owen Parrish implemented many changes in 2012.
Andrew Yawn / Sports Reporter
The University Heights apartments were taped off for examination af-ter
the June 10 shootings.
Christen Harned / photographer
Students line up at the ever-popular Tex’s Tacos.
Rebeca Croomes / PHotographer
Ben Jones, member of the Auburn College Democrats, and Kati Mint-er
celebrate Barack Obama’s re-election at Quixote’s on South Col-lege
Street.
Rebeca Croomes / Photographer
An Auburn student shows his dismay for the football season.
robert E. Le / Editor-in-chief
Gus Malzahn arrives in Auburn via air travel with a warm welcome
from the community and students.
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Anna Beth Jager
Intrigue Reporter
Is it just me, or did 2012
go by far too quickly? Unlike
high school that dragged on
for a suffocatingly long time,
the years we spend in college
seem to pass by at lightning
speed as real life waves to us
from the suddenly near future.
One minute you’re a freshman,
the next you’re graduating and
then what?
We are destined for change,
real change, the kind that up-lifts
our lives and drops them
into the crazy, fast-paced, ter-rifying
real world, making us,
like, adults or something.
And with every new year
come resolutions we make for
ourselves. Whether it be stick-ing
pictures of Victoria Se-cret
angels inside the fridge
for thinspiration or vowing to
“live in the moment,” we all
make them and usually slip up
along the way. Because let’s be
honest; the likelihood of a per-son
sticking to a resolution is
slim to none, a fact we con-stantly
overlook every single
new year.
According to Psychology To-day,
“Research has shown that
after six months, fewer than
half the people who make New
Year’s resolutions stick with
them, and, after a year, that
number declines to around
ten percent.” Kind of disheart-ening
statistics that make one
wonder: why do we constant-ly
feel the need, year after year,
to commit to these resolutions
that we usually never keep,
and how can we start making
ones that will stick?
Bruce Weinstein, writer for
the Huffington Post, said “By
setting the bar too high, we are
setting ourselves up for disap-pointment,
and this isn’t be-ing
fair to ourselves. This is not
to suggest that we shouldn’t
strive to improve our conduct
and character, but rather that
we ought to set goals we’re
likely to accomplish.”
A list by Time Magazine
names common resolutions
that include losing weight, eat-ing
healthier, saving money,
traveling more, volunteering
and other things that would
ultimately lead to what most
would say is a more fulfilling
lifestyle. And usually these ex-amples
pertain to eliminating
the vices that are considered
bad for us.
“I’m only going to go to Fuji
once a week. Unless I’m like,
really hungry.”
“I will no longer use the tan-ning
bed. Except before spring
break. And formal. And if I get
way too pale.”
“I’ll do P90x everyday. Only
nine weeks until Spring break,
God help us all.”
The idea of a “clean slate”
that comes with the new year
convinces us all we need to
start over in some way. We set
these rules for ourselves we al-most
always end up breaking
because, as human beings,
our interest wanes and sud-denly
that cheesecake looks
way too good to pass up and
the fight simply isn’t worth it
anymore. The idea of positive
change lasts about as long as
our willpower does.
So how can we avoid this
constant battle between us
and our resolutions? Forbes
contributor Nancy Ander-son
said, “If you really want
to change your behavior in
2013, forget the resolutions.
Set goals instead and pick one
that will impact you the most.”
Setting up small, specific
goals is a useful tactic that will
keep people on track to the
change they are trying to mak,
while simultaneously lessen-ing
the likelihood of failing.
In reality, any day is the day
to start something new or to
start over from scratch. Wait-ing
for the new year to begin
isn’t a requirement for change.
Do things that make you hap-py.
Vow to get more sleep, get
organized, or take a trip to a
place you’ve never been.
In 2013, we should all do
more things for ourselves and
more things for others. Rather
than focusing on these prom-ises
we never keep, the new
year should allow us a new op-portunity
to make the best of
every situation we’ve been giv-en.
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Eating healthier and get-ting
in shape are probably the
two most common resolutions
made in light of a new year -
the tricky part is making these
resolutions happen, and main-taining
them once they do.
Given the amount of time av-erage
Auburn students spend
on campus, achieving these
goals appears impossible with
the limited campus dining op-tions
and the ongoing student
ACT construction. However,
by making small changes in
habit and utilizing the resourc-es
Auburn has to offer, the clas-sic
getting in shape resolution
can actually be done.
Setting Manageable Goals
Proposed solutions to liv-ing
healthier can easily fall
to the extremes. Absolutely
no junk food diets and two-a-days
work out regimens come
to mind when weight loss res-olutions
are brought up, but
often times crash dieting and
exercising are the enemy to a
healthy life style.
“It’s really hard to just cut
things out of your diet. I’m a
big believer in eating what
you’re craving, but eating it
in moderation,” said Kather-ine
Cain, a junior in nutrition
and dietetics. “For resolutions
some people say they don’t
want to eat as many sweets or
as much bread, but don’t just
cut it out. It’s better to cut back
than to quit cold turkey and
not even have it in your diet.”
Moderation is decidedly key
in maintaining a healthy diet
and exercise plan.
Choosing What To Eat
It’s tempting to find a go-to
healthy option on the menu in
an on campus dining facility,
and letting it become the reg-ular
selection that easily gets
worn out. “Freshman year liv-ing
on campus I ate the same
salad from ABP every day, and
I was tired of it, but I could
have gone and found other
things,” said Kelly West, a ju-nior
majoring in Nutrition and
Dietetics.
After spending a semester
performing food service rota-tions
through all the different
dining facilities for a Food Ser-vice
class, West knows this is
not the case. “Everywhere you
go on campus has at least one
vegetarian option. There are
also salad bars in The Village,
Foy and Terrell” said West.
Cain suggests simply mod-ifying
regular orders with a
healthy spin. “There’s hon-estly
different foods at differ-ent
places that you can mod-ify
to eat. For example, hav-ing
a sandwich at Lupton’s
and making it wheat bread in-stead
of white bread or adding
vegetables to your pasta. Lit-tle
things like that can make it
healthier.”
Both girls suggested Au-burn’s
recent Chicken Grill Go
Greek addition, which serves
up plenty of healthy options.
“There are a lot of healthy
choices there,” West said.
Part of the problem with
finding healthy options for on
campus dining is that students
might not always be aware
of what’s available to them.
“I think that one of the best
things that students can do
is educate themselves about
what is available on campus in
our dining options. We do have
a lot of ‘healthful’ options that
are available, but I feel like a lot
of students really aren’t aware
of that,” said Jessica-Lauren
Newby, a registered dietitian.
If you’re still looking to find
more out about healthy dining
options, Auburn’s Tiger Dining
web page has tools that will al-low
you to search menu op-tions
for any dining facility on
campus, find vegan or vegetar-ian
options, calculate calories,
and much more.
Getting In Shape
One of the most benefi-cial,
but not as well known re-sources
Auburn has to offer for
healthier living is a Health and
Wellness assessment that can
be accompanied by a person-al
trainer in the student ACT.
Students who are interested
will be required to first per-form
a fitness assessment fol-lowed
by the submission of a
three day food journal.
That information would
be turned into Jessica-Lauren
Newby, who then works to-gether
with a nutrition team
to provide feedback to the per-sonal
training client. “I sign off
on that, and we do our best to
get that back in the hands of
the personal training client.
We really believe that this af-fects
their success in person-al
training and maintaining a
healthy life style,” said Newby.
Personal training sessions
are offered in the ACT for $60
a semester which includes
two sessions a week. Aside
from personal trainers, there
are also a multitude of fitness
classes offered daily in the
ACT.
Though personal training
and health assessments are
great resource, some people
might be cut out for a more
laid back method of training.
If this is the case, there are still
plenty of options. Auburn’s
Health and Wellness Servic-es
has provided a wealth of re-sources,
my personal favorite
being the running and walk-ing
maps. There are 11 differ-ent
courses, all ranging in lo-cation
and length, but all de-signed
as loops to make the
running process easier.
Either way, there are plen-ty
of options to suit whatever
your fitness options may be.
Staying In Shape
During the height of the
resolution making season, it’s
easy to get excited about set-ting
goals for the new year. The
hard part arrives once Janu-ary
has come and gone, and
resolutions no longer seem
as attainable. There are steps
you can take, however, to en-sure
this doesn’t happen. Kel-ly
West suggests dieting and
fitness apps (such as Lose It
or My Fitness Pal) or keeping
food journals.
“If you’re trying to lose
weight, you’re actually writing
down everything you’re eating.
If you do that then you don’t
eat as much and will stick with
it better,” said West. Anoth-er
idea West proposes is hav-ing
an accountability partner,
“Maybe a roommate you could
cook with or someone to go to
the gym with,” West said.
Now that you have the tools
you need to keep your resolu-tions,
it’s time to get started. So
whether you’re trying to lose
20 pounds, or are just aiming
to live a little healthier, there
are plenty of on campus op-tions
for you - all you have to
do is take advantage of them.
A few deliberate steps in the
right direction are all you need
to take in order to live a health-ier
lifestyle.
Staying fit: exercising and eating on campus
raye maye / photo editor
Auburn students make their way through the self-serve salad bar line in the Village Dining.
Keep your resolutions for the new year by setting obtainable goals, eating fresh and hitting the gym
raye maye / photo editor
Exercising on campus is easy with a number of group classes offered each day and an equipped exercise room.
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Caitlin Wagenseil
Intrigue Reporter
Auburn University’s career center equips students with the
necessary tools to succeed in the search for a job or internship,
and is encouraging students to attend its Internship and Sum-mer
Job Fair Wednesday, Jan. 16 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the stu-dent
center ballroom.
Event coordinator Melvin K. Smith said the Internship and
Summer Job Fair is a great opportunity for students to come to
one location and talk with a number of different organizations.
“I think we help a lot by making that one on one contact, and
these employers keep coming back each year,” Smith said.
Career counselor Meaghan Weir said the event usually has
around 20 companies attend, and this year the same amount are
expected to be in attendance.
“They [companies] come and set up in the ballroom and stu-dents
can come around and introduce themselves to employers,”
Weir said. “They can talk to them about types of positions they’re
looking for, the skills they can offer and learn more about the
companies and what types of opportunities they have.”
Weir said that while several of the companies are looking for
students from all majors, some are more focused on engineering
and technical type fields and others are more focused on busi-ness
students.
According to Weir, students may view the tiger recruiting link
found at www.jobs.auburn.edu to learn about all the companies
that are coming and to find out the majors that the companies
are recruiting for.
“Not all internships are going to be there, so we encourage stu-dents
to utilize our website,” Smith said. “Even if students miss
the Internship and Summer Job Fair, they have other options to
take advantage of.”
Weir said students thinking about going to the event should
research the companies that are coming to the job fair prior to
the event in order to learn more about them for help in the fu-ture
corporate world.
“We always encourage students to go online and see what
companies are coming, look at their information and research
and find more out about what they do and what they offer,” Smith
said. “This way they will be better prepared when they actual-ly
come to the event and when employers are talking to them,
they’ll know they’ve done their research.”
Several hundred students are expected to attend the job fair.
Weir said the event is primarily geared toward internships and
summer jobs, and that it will be more of a relaxed environment.
“It’s a great way for students who are just getting started in the
process to become more comfortable with the career fair atmo-sphere,”
Weir said.
Smith said it is important for students to get an early start in
the search for an internship or job. “It’s just important for stu-dents
to work while they’re in school to show they’re responsible,
and that they’re trying to be proactive to build their resume and
build the skills they can apply later,” Smith said.
Weir said the main goal of the career counselors is to help stu-dents
prepare and be as ready as possible for the upcoming job
fair.
“We help them prepare resumes so they can be more compet-itive
and so they can highlight their past work experiences, their
skills and the qualities that the employers are looking for,” Weir
said.
The career counselors will also help students to improve their
interview skills by setting up mock interviews.
“I enjoy the coaching aspect of working with the students,”
Weir said. “To see their goals and to see how they get there—
planning their point A to point B and helping them achieve those
goals, it’s exciting to see that process.”
Students are encouraged to come to the career center if they
have questions about the event or need help preparing their ma-terials.
The career center is located in Mary Martin Hall and office
hours for career counselors can be found at http://www.auburn.
edu/career/counselors/.
Career Center hosts internship and summer job fair Jan. 16
Students begin to prepare for future
Raye May / Photo Editor
Schlotzsky’s Deli serves up sandwiches, pizza and salad with their famous fresh-baked sour-dough
bread.
rachel suhs / design editor
Kelsey Davis
Intrigue Writer
Many students were dismayed by the
sudden closing of Auburn’s Hibachi Ex-press.
“Hibachi Express was my go-to meal on
Sundays. I couldn’t believe it closed,” said
Kristen Mitchell, junior in nursing.
Taking the place of Hibachi Express is
the new Schlotzky’s. This is not Schlotzky’s
first time in Auburn, however.
Owners of Schlotzky’s decided to open
Auburn after receiving continuous en-couragement
from customers at the
Montgomery branch.
“We’re really excited to be coming back
to the community,” said Stepahnie Poston,
grand opening coordinator.
The feeling is apparently mutual. Caro-line
McDonald, junior in political science,
said, “I love Schlotzky’s. I was so excited
when I found out one would be opening in
Auburn. I arrived at the restaurant during
prime lunch hours, and there was barely
an open table in the building.”
“I think we will have continued support
from the Auburn community and the stu-dents,”
said Ramesh Gandhi, manager of
Schlotzky’s.
Next Wednesday, Schlotzky’s will be
hosting a “re-opening” event to welcome
back Auburn students.
“Anyone who comes and purchases
an entrée item and presents a valid stu-dent
ID can sign up to win free Schlotzky’s
of the Month for a year. We are going to
choose 50 winners,” said Poston. Schlotz-ky’s
of the Month will award winners one
free medium sandwich, per month, for 12
consecutive months.
Katelyn Gaylor
Writer
For Yogafly Studio owner Peach Du-mars,
yoga was always second nature, but
until she moved to Auburn, opening a stu-dio
had never crossed her mind.
“I grew up with a mom who owned a
yoga studio, so it was kind of in my blood,”
Dumars said. “But I lived in California for
six years, and when I lived in California I
would have never dreamed of opening a
studio because there’s so many. There’s a
yoga studio on every street corner.”
For that exact reason, Dumars said she
was in shock when she moved to Auburn
with her husband to find no trace of a yoga
studio.
Claudette Lewis, a junior in nursing,
said Yogafly, which opened in July, was ex-actly
what she had been missing in her life.
Dumars said it’s the particular form of
yoga practiced in her studio that creates
the calming environment.
“This is a vinyasa yoga studio, and in
vinyasa yoga we link movement with
breath,” Dumars said. “It’s a flowing style
of yoga. You almost feel like it’s a dance or
like a wave, kind of everybody’s moving to-gether
in a wave-like motion.”
Frances Capps-Palmer, 60, said her
weekly visits to Yogafly, located above Be-hind
the Glass on Magnolia Avenue, are
working wonders for her body.
Dumars said even Auburn athletes have
signed up to experience the relaxation and
energy Yogafly gives.
“We’ve done some private classes for
the woman’s swimming and diving team,
and we are doing some private classes for
the men’s golf team,” Dumars said.
Dumars said Auburn swimmer and
Olympic gold-medalist Tyler McGill fre-quents
the class on his own time.
“I’m thrilled about that because I feel
like yoga for a long time has had this rep-utation
of being gentle and easy,” Dumars
said. “What I’m finding is the athletes
come in here, and they’re awesome to
work with because they know their bod-ies
really well for their sport. But sudden-ly
they’re asked to do something new, and
it shifts their entire relationship with their
body.”
“We have pregnant women come in,”
Dumars said. “We have men and women
with multiple sclerosis come in. I have a
woman healing from breast cancer com-ing
in. So you can be an elite Olympic ath-lete,
and come and enjoy the benefits.”
Dumars said she cultivated this envi-ronment
by creating all-level classes for
majority of the timeslots.
“That means we have beginners and
advanced students in the room together,”
Dumars said. “That’s intentional because
I want to build community, a sense that
we’re all here together to help each other
grow.”
Capps-Palmer said her personal growth
is one of the main reasons she returns to
Yogafly each week.
“Part of it is what I can accomplish and
how much better I can get,” Capps-Palm-er
said.
Though setting goals is only natural,
Dumars said she chooses to emphasize to
her students the importance of being OK
where they are, first.
“Our advanced students are never judg-ing
the new students or feeling held back
by them,” Dumars said. “It’s really beauti-ful
to see all levels come together, and be
in the same room. There are not a lot of
sports where you can do that.”
Lewis agreed with Dumar’s philosophy
on various abilities.
“It doesn’t matter what the person next
to you is doing and what their level is,” Du-mars
said. “A perfect example of that is, in
class they’ll be doing headstands, or peo-ple
do the backbend, or they’ll just do a
bridge. You know, you can do any kind of
level that you want, or are able to do.”
Lewis said, contrary to popular be-lief,
the class is open to all skillsets and all
body types.
“You’ll see people like Peach, who are
really tiny and tall, and then people who
are built and athletic,” Lewis said. “You
have people who aren’t athletic, and are
just trying to find a way to get in shape and
do something healthy for their body.”
In her earlier efforts to promote healthy
bodies, Dumars published a book titled
“Diary of an Exercise Addict.”
“It’s a story of my journey into and out
of anorexia and exercise compulsion,” Du-mars
said. “I worked for a long time as a
yoga instructor, but side-by-side I was
working in the field of eating disorders.”
During that time, Dumars said she
spoke across the country at universities
and conferences on the topic of exercise
and eating disorders, and taught yoga to
men and women recovering from such
disorders.
“That’s the reason I love yoga because
yoga asks us to be mindful,” Dumars said.
“You can go run and pound your body into
the earth to burn calories, but when we
come to yoga that is not the intention. The
intention is to care for our bodies.”
Lewis said Dumars’ positive attitude
and calming teaching style is what makes
the Yogafly experience what it is.
“She’s just so exuberant; I guess it’s the
best word to describe her,” Lewis said.
“She’s really friendly and outgoing, and
you can tell she really loves what she does
and she’s really passionate about it.”
“Everything about the essence of yoga,
you can tell she really believes, and she re-ally
wants it to shine through in Yogafly,”
Lewis added.
Yogafly caters to the community