2012-09-27 The Auburn Plainsman

              Blanche Alverson
From: Andalusia, Ala.
Major: biomedical science
Year: senior
Nominated by Kappa Delta
Becca Goad
From: Clarksville, Tenn.
Major: pre-optometry/biomedical science
Year: senior
Nominated by Omicron Delta Kappa
Mallory Gilliland
From: Concordia, Kan.
Major: hotel and restaurant management
Year: senior
Nominated by Diamond Dolls
Kathryn Crowley
From: Shaker Heights, Ohio
Major: building science
Year: senior
Nominated by Alpha Xi Delta
Anna Davidson
From: Hoover, Ala.
Major: radio, television and film
Year: senior
Nominated by Student Recruiters
The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, September 27, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Vol. 118, Issue 15, 16 Pages
Student coach’s death saddens community
Capturing the crown
Bagwell
With five nominees, who do you think will win Miss Homecoming?
Updyke arrested on
terrorizing charges
Hayley Blair
Campus Editor
Auburn student and assis-tant
football coach Joseph
Bagwell, age 23, died of a heart
attack Sept. 22, just before the
LSU game.
“It is a very heavy heart for
myself and a lot of our play-ers
and a lot of our coaches
right now,” said coach Gene
Chizik at a post-game press
conference. “The young man,
who was a student assistant
(coach) with us, in football
passed away shortly before the
game unexpectedly, and it is
very tragic. Our thoughts and
prayers go out to him and his
family.”
Bagwell was born without
his right ventricle, but he nev-er
lost his heart for football.
He persevered and eventu-ally
became a student coach
for the Auburn Football Spe-cial
Teams and Offensive Line.
Employees from Jennifer
and Company Photography, a
business owned by Bagwell’s
mom, Jennifer Tarkington,
used their Facebook page to
comment on Bagwell’s resolve.
“Joseph, you never let any-thing
hold you back,” they
said. “You went out there and
achieved your dreams and we
couldn’t be any more proud
of the man that you have be-come.
We love you dearly, Baby
Joe, and will miss you eternally.
War eagle, baby boy!”
He underwent his first
open-heart surgery at three
years old, and, with the help
of several doctors, continued
to manage his heart problems
over the next 15 years.
Though Bagwell handled his
condition well, it still caused
him anxiety,
“Heading to Bham to see
the cardiologist.” he said in
one Facebook post. “Praying
for nothing but the best! Jere-miah
29:11."
He majored in Physical Ac-tivity
and Health, which would
have prepared him to become
a health professional in com-mercial
fitness and cardiac re-habilitation.
If not for his death, Bagwell
would have graduated in 2013.
When Tarkington post-ed
news of her son’s death on
Facebook, friends and family
immediately responded with
support.
“Jennifer, we are praying for
you,” began a post from Bet-sy
Mosgrove Hall. “I remem-ber
you talking about him and
how your face would just glow.
He accomplished so much,
and had a positive impact on
so many. He was, and will al-ways
be, a blessing to you.”
Jennifer and Company Pho-tography
also expressed their
loss through a Facebook post.
“My heart hurts as I write
this,” it said. “Today, we lost a
beautiful and giving soul. To-day,
we lost a son that any
mother would be proud to call
her own. Today, our Jennifer
lost her son and the greatest
love of her life, Joseph.”
Bagwel l was buried
Wednesday at Maple Hill Cem-etery.
In lieu of flowers, the family
asked that mourners donate in
Zeke Turrentine
Community Editor
The man on trial for the poi-soning
of Auburn’s Toomer’s
Corner oak trees was arrested
in Hammond, La., on Sept. 18
on terrorizing charges.
Harvey Updyke, 64, was tak-en
into custody following a
dispute at a home improve-ment
store.
In the crime report, police
officers said Updyke became
irritated with the amount
of money he was being giv-en
back for returning a lawn
mower. Updyke wanted $150
but the manager was only of-fering
$110.
Nola.com reported that
upon the arresting officer’s ar-rival
and request that Updyke
call an attorney, Updyke said
“he would take care of this on
his own.”
“He had a sad story,” Ham-mond
police spokesperson
Lt. Vincent Giannobile said.
“He said he was going to pris-on
anyway, he had a bad heart
and he didn’t care.”
Updyke reportedly said in
response to the officer ban-ning
him from the store that
he would return one more
time and it would be his last
visit.
“You just don’t know what
these people will do, and we
don’t take any chances,” Gi-annobile
said.
Updyke called the Times-
Picayune on Tuesday, Sept. 25,
to share his take of what hap-pened
in the store.
He said he went to the store
to fix a problem he had been
having with lawnmowers. He
bought several that he said
leaked oil and he was tired of
getting them replaced. He said
the clerk offered him $109 for
the lawnmower when he said
he bought it for $159.
Updyke stepped outside to
call 911 and when the officer
arrived he told Updyke to get
a lawyer.
Updyke said he asked the
officer, “What you’re trying to
tell me is I need a $500 lawyer
to get my $50 back.” When the
officer said yes, Updyke said
he made the comment about
coming back.
This is when the officer ar-rested
him for terrorizing.
Updyke swore he made no
threat.
“I didn’t say anything about
coming back or doing some-thing,”
he said. “I did not say
that. I’m not an idiot. I know all
about the law. I’ve done some
stuff wrong here lately, but I’m
going to pay for that. But this, I
don’t need this.”
His trial is set to begin Oct.
1, though the place and time
are still undetermined.
Lawyers Margaret Brown
and Andrew Stanley have now
been appointed to his case af-
Courtesy of Tangipahoa Parish Jail
Harvey Updyke was arrested Sept. 18, and charged with terrorizing
charges following a dispute at a home improvement store.
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Band facility fundraising ‘about halfway there’
Hayley Blair
Campus Editor
The College of Liberal Arts
is collecting funds for a new
facility that will provide nec-essary
practice and storage
space for the band.
The current practice fa-cility
in Goodwin Hall is too
small to hold the growing
band and is far from both the
outdoor practice field and
the football field.
“We don’t really have an
indoor space the marching
band can go to because we
were moved to the far west of
campus by the Village dorms,
so when it starts raining we
just have to cancel rehears-al,”
said Corey Spurlin, asso-ciate
director of bands. “Our
real need right now is to
have a facility near our prac-tice
field, which is where we
spend most of our time.”
Spurlin said a pavilion has
been provided near the prac-tice
field, but it isn’t large
enough to practice under,
and it’s unsafe to stay there
during inclement weather.
“Sometimes we have a
complete week where the
weather is terrible, and we’re
expected to perform on Sat-urday,”
Spurlin said. “We
need a place to rehearse to
meet the expectations of our
fans and our University.”
The building will serve an
important function on game
days as well, Spurlin said.
“On game days the march-ing
band has nowhere to
go after practice to change
clothes and get ready for
the games,” he said. “Each
year we’ve been looking for
a place to go, and different
parts of campus try to help
us out. The new building will
have lockers and things so
the marching band members
will have a way to get ready
for the game.”
Vivian Langley, develop-ment
officer for the College
of Liberal Arts, said fund-raising
for the project is go-ing
well.
“We’re $2.6 million toward
our $5.5 million goal, so we’re
about halfway there,” Langley
said. “We’ve only been doing
this for several months now
and we have several lead gifts
like the $1.5 million gift from
athletics. They’re starting
to add up, and we still have
many people to talk to about
the project.”
Cassie Arner, assistant ath-letic
director for public rela-tions,
said the money for
their donation came from
ticket sales, donations and
football television licensing.
“The band gives quite a
bit of their time and effort
and atmosphere to athletic
events, and it’s something we
felt we needed to do to sup-port
a group that has sup-ported
us for so long,” Arn-er
said.
Another donation of $1
million was given by Auburn
alumna Meredith Birchfield.
“She has just always loved
the band,” Langley said. “She
can’t imagine a football game
without the full-on band be-ing
there and even at basket-ball
games, where the pep
band really helps with the
spirit.”
Spurlin said he hopes
construction will begin by
spring.
“We’re raising money, and
we’re getting closer.” Spur-lin
said. “The architectur-al
design is completely in-tact,
so once the finances are
in place, we’re ready to break
ground. It’s really an imme-diate
need. It’s just not safe
for us to be out on the field
with nowhere to go when bad
weather pops up.”
Langley said this project
has been in the works for
three years, and she is look-ing
forward to seeing the fi-nal
result.
“It should be finished in
2014 at the latest and, with a
little luck, maybe even soon-er
than that,” Langley said.
“We’re being extremely op-timistic,
and we’re trying to
move the fundraising for-ward
as quickly as possible
with hope that people will
see it as a worthy project.”
Courtesy of Vivian Langley
Architects have already finished the design of the new band building, which will be used as an indoor practice space. Construction is estimated to begin in the spring, after funds are raised.
ter his previous lawyer, Everett
Wess withdrew.
The case has been on hold
for several months as jury se-lection
was interrupted by An-drew
Yawn’s Plainsman arti-cle
reporting that Updyke con-fessed
to him.
A status hearing is sched-uled
for 8:30 a.m. Thursday,
Sept. 27 at the Lee County Jus-tice
Center.
Courtesy of Vasha Hunt / Opelika-Auburn News
Harvey Updyke is scheduled for a status hearing Thursday, Sept. 27 at 8:30 a.m. at the Lee County Jus-tice
Center.
Updyke
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Bagwell’s memory to “Click-ing
for a Cause,” a charity cre-ated
by Tarkington.
The charity provides life-saving
equipment for pedi-atric
cardiac patients.
The charity made a Face-book
page, and the descrip-tion
explains Bagwell’s con-tribution
to its creation.
“Joe was such a loving
and caring person and he al-ways
kept us all laughing,” it
read. “We know Joe would
be thrilled to know he could
help people even after his
death. We ask that you help
us continue Joe’s selfless and
caring spirit.”
To contribute, send do-nations
to “Clicking for a
Cause” at Huntsville Hospi-tal
Foundation, 101 Sivley
Road, Huntsville, AL 35801.
Information contributed
by Laughlin Service Funeral
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Brony Club promotes
tolerance, friendship
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
Brony Club brings more to Auburn’s campus
than just discussion and artwork of ponies.
One idea the club stresses is equality, said
Callie Smith, member and sophomore in engi-neering.
“One of the things that appealed to me about
becoming a Brony is that it is such an accepting
fan base, and that’s one of the things we have in
our constitution,” Smith said. “Being able to ac-cept
people that are different or have different
lifestyles is important.”
The Brony Club is a fan club for the television
show “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” a
cartoon created by Lauren Faust. Faust has cre-ated
several successful Cartoon Network shows.
“The new show spoke to a lot of people and
created a huge fan base,” said Willy Steers, club
member and sophomore in industrial design.
“The fan base is predominately males between
the ages of 15 and 25.”
Steers loves the show and encourages people
who do not think they will like it to give it a try.
“There’s people from all walks of life in the
fandom, essentially,” Steers said.
The word “Brony” is a combination of the
words bro and pony, said TJ Lowry, club presi-dent
and sophomore in engineering.
“The name has become gender-neutral,” Low-ry
said.
Lowry helped start the club with his friend
Michael Laughlin last year.
“(Laughlin) put up posters around campus
and got a group together of people who were in-terested
in the show,” Lowry said.
The club has not yet had a meeting but hopes
to get others excited about the club, Lowry said.
During the club meetings, members will dis-cuss
Brony artwork as well as the process it
takes to draw them.
The club also hopes to clarify the difference
between the old “My Little Pony” television
show and the new one.
“The original show was more about merchan-dising,”
Steers said. “The only reason they had a
new show was to sell another toy. In the new
show, Faust took it and made it a legitimate car-toon
that gave characters some depth and was
actually made to tell a story.”
The group of 20 members found it harder to
get together when there was not a distinct meet-ing
place, Lowry said.
“We wanted a place on campus to come and
talk about it, so we decided to make it a club be-cause
that gives us access to the student center,
and it’s a central location,” Lowry said.
The group talks about more than just the tele-vision
show, Steers said.
“We talk about the show, what we’ve seen in
the fandom or artwork people have created,”
Steers said. “It’s not just about the show. It’s the
people around it. People have made art, music,
video games or fan fiction about the show.”
The Brony fandom also involves charities.
“Just recently ‘My Little Pony’s’ subReddit do-nated
$20,000, as well as over 127 years of com-puting
time, to the world community grid,” Low-ry
said. “That doesn’t count all the auctions that
are done.”
The world community grid is a research com-munity
that creates a system of individual com-puters
to find data quickly.
These data allow researchers to make discov-eries
that help prevent and treat disease in cost-efficient
ways.
Lowry and other members hope to spread
open-mindedness about the club on campus.
“Obviously we’re watching pink and purple
ponies on Saturday morning, which is kind of
weird, so I’d like to put on some sort of presen-tation
to explain what it’s all about,” Lowry said.
Starting the club was easy for the Brony fan-dom
at Auburn, he said.
“All we had to do was make a constitution,
by-laws, have 10 members and a faculty advis-er,”
Lowry said.
The club is aware it may seem a little weird to
most Auburn students, Smith said.
“You don’t really walk up to people and ask,
‘Do you like ‘My Little Pony?’” Smith said. “That’s
a little frowned-upon on most college campus-es.”
Lowry said that won’t stop the club from be-ing
active at Auburn.
“We’re not hiding the fact that we like it,” Low-ry
said.
Courtesy of the Brony Club
TV show ‘My Little
Pony: Friendship
Is Magic’ provides
the basis for one of
Auburn’s newest clubs
Program offers new athletic opportunities
Corey Arwood
Writer
Auburn’s Adaptive Recre-ation
and Athletics organiza-tion
is preparing for the wheel-chair
basketball team’s first
season playing in a new, high-er-
ranking division.
The campus organization
has been growing rapidly since
2009, and with the wheelchair
basketball team entering a col-legiate
division this fall, it con-tinues
to reach major mile-stones.
“Our mission is to provide
opportunities for students,
faculty and staff on campus
with physical disabilities, to
provide them with more op-portunities
in recreation and
athletics,” said Nathan Waters,
coordinator of Adaptive Rec-reation
and Athletics and dis-ability
specialist with the Of-fice
of Accessibility.
Waters played a key role
in founding the organization
when he was a graduate stu-dent
of the special education,
rehabilitation and counseling
department in the College of
Education.
From lack of equipment to
lack of funds, Waters said the
organization was created out
of a desire to further the po-tential
of adaptive athletics on
campus.
Jared Rehm, president of
Adaptive Recreation and Ath-letics
and coach of wheelchair
basketball and tennis, became
almost immediately involved
with the organization.
Rehm, who is pursuing his
doctorate in kinesiology and
biomechanics, played wheel-chair
sports at the Universi-ty
of Wisconsin–Whitewater
before coming to Auburn. He
transferred to Auburn in 2009
and learned of Waters’ efforts
in conjunction with the Office
of Accessibility.
As one of the organization’s
major objectives is to promote
physical activity and recre-ation
opportunities for people
with disabilities, Waters and
Rehm began looking for ways
to include incoming members
in physical activities.
At first, tennis was the game
of choice because of Rehm’s fa-miliarity
with the game and
because so few players are
needed to have a game.
Adaptive Recreation and
Athletics first sponsored Rehm
at the tennis National Colle-giate
Wheelchair Champion-ship.
“When we first started this
group there were a whole
bunch of different ideas about
what to do, because there’s
so many different recreation-al
things that people with dis-abilities
can do,” Rehm said.
“But we decided that the best
course would be to attack one
thing and just get it going.”
That “one thing” became
Auburn University’s Wheel-chair
Basketball Team.
Being a campus organiza-tion,
Adaptive Recreation and
Athletics received permanent
status in 2011, which was an-other
accomplishment for the
group, having been on provi-sional
status since its creation
two years earlier.
“Our group is students with
disabilities and students with-out,
so it’s open to anybody
who wants to join, who just
wants to be involved,” Wa-ters
said. “We’ve got a mix of
students. We also have a cou-ple
of staff members from the
University that are involved as
well.”
Currently the group has 35
members and is accepting
new members. The first meet-ing
of the semester was Sept.
18, when club officers were
elected.
Mary Kathryn Fletcher,
sophomore in apparel mer-chandising,
is one of the new-est
members and was elected
secretary of the organization.
“I didn’t really know what to
expect,” Fletcher said. “Imme-diately
everyone was extreme-ly
welcoming and very open.
The second I walked in I felt
completely at home.”
Anyone who wants to join
can find more information
about the organization on its
website, auadaptive.blogspot.
com.
Rebeca Croomes / Photo Editor
Members of Auburn’s wheelchair basketball team practice in the Beard-Eaves Coliseum. From left to right are players Josh Gess, Phillip Crain and Scott Scroggins, who arrive at 6 a.m. every weekday to practice.
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Letter to the Editor His View
Her View
This morning I was getting my coffee at the
Haley Center coffee shop. I noticed that the
guy that works there every morning never gives
me a receipt, so this morning I asked for one so
I could see my balance. He didn't want to give
it to me and showed me my balance on the
screen, but I kept after it. I said I wanted my re-ceipt
again. He gave it to me finally after he had
balled it up...he charged me for a muffin that
I didn't order so there was a $7 charge on my
card. I then told him I didn't order that and he
said, "Oh, oh yeah". He then took my card back
to put the money back on it.
I just checked my Tiger Card balance and he
never refunded the money.
This is the only money I have for the whole
semester for food on campus, and I don't ap-preciate
this. I don't think it's fair for the staff
on campus to take advantage of us. I know it's
only a few dollars but the fact that he acted so
shady and still didn't refund me for something
he charged me for, and I didn't get, really both-ers
me. If it would have been an honest mistake
then I would understand, but the whole fact of
the matter is that it wasn't a mistake, and if you
would have seen his demeanor you would com-pletely
understand what I'm talking about. You
may want to tell everyone to get their receipts
for purchases on campus. I know I will from
now on!
Marti Dunaway
Junior
pre-Education
Tiger Card
conundrum
With the great responsibility
of driving, we have all learned the
basic rules of the road: don’t text
and keep your eyes on the road.
Somehow, these ideas haven’t
really transferred over to the pe-destrian
rules of the Concourse.
Each of us is trying to get to class
as quickly and painlessly as pos-sible,
but there are always some
who feel more entitled to their
journey than others.
The Concourse is busy enough
between classes, and the Student
Center is packed every day at
noon. Yet these are peak times for
the most careless of students to
roam the campus, not looking or
caring who gets in their way.
This epidemic of reckless walk-ers
has only grown in the past few
years, mostly in correlation with
the popularity of the iPhone.
Most of the reckless walk-ers
find their iPhones more in-teresting
than their surround-ings.
While I have been one of the
many to send a text on the go, I
try to look up every so often and
not text in the more populated ar-eas.
In this day and age it’s almost
impossible to remain technolog-ically
uninvolved with text mes-sages,
emails, Facebook and ev-erything
else on your phone, but
that doesn’t give anyone the right
to bulldoze through a crowd and
expect everyone to move out of
their way.
Everyone already has enough
difficulty ducking and weaving
around the crowded Concourse,
but it becomes almost impossi-ble
once a selfish walker assumes
everyone will get out of the way
while they tweet what they or-dered
from Starbucks.
Put the phone down and no
one will get hurt.
If you’re not socially involved on
your phone, you might just find
yourself midway through an ac-tual
conversation with a real hu-man
when all of a sudden the per-son
you’re talking to goes the oth-er
way. Rather than saying good-bye
and picking up the conver-sation
later, you whip your head
around and keep walking. Before
you know it, you’ve walked right
into some innocent bystander.
If you were in a car, this collision
would have been your fault , but
the rules of the Concourse are not
as easily defined.
Avoid this type of distraction
and wait until you see this friend
again, or be like everyone else and
text in class.
Just like the inevitable, unfor-tunate
result of texting and driv-ing,
reckless walkers have the ten-dency
to hit someone. You would
think peripheral vision would
help them avoid this, but even on
an abandoned stretch they will
eventually find someone to run
into.
All of us have fallen victim to
some type of reckless walker. This
might not seem as dramatic or fa-tal
as texting and driving because
reckless walkers are an easily
avoidable nuisance. But it’s a nui-sance
nonetheless.
Just turn around, put the phone
down and enjoy your journey to
and from class.
Walking:
a tutorial
for novices
Rachel Suhs
Design@theplainsman.com
Pity for Harvey Updyke outlasts anger
Guess what? Harvey Updyke is still making
news.
We can’t believe it either.
You would think a man who is about to go on
trial would think it wise to stay away from any-thing
involving police, but that’s not Updyke’s
style.
On Tuesday, Sept. 18, Updyke was arrested
and booked in Hammond, La., for terrorizing
during a dispute over a lawn mower.
Obviously, we can’t comment on his inno-cence
or guilt in this case, or any illegal actions
he may or may not have confessed to, but we
can take a moment to ruminate on our strange
and tragic connection to the alleged poisoner
of the Toomer’s oaks. After all, we’ve know him
for almost three years. Most relationships don’t
even last that long.
He certainly isn’t a friend of the Auburn com-munity.
We will most likely never be able to for-give
what he has allegedly done. However, at
this point, we have more pity for him than hate.
Because of Updyke, we’ve gotten a glimpse of
the real world of Bama fandom, and all the mis-guided
inanity that goes along with it. He is a liv-ing
caricature of all that is wrong with the Bam-mers.
An Auburn fan like him might exist some-where,
but we highly doubt it.
It may seem like we are proclaiming our su-periority,
but look at all the praise Harvey has
garnered from his fellow Bama fans. His pres-ence
at the 2011 BCS National Championship
and the fans that posed for pictures with him
should be enough to suggest he is actually the
biggest Bama fan ever to don a houndstooth
cap.
They admire him.
However, it is fame he is not ready to accept,
and that’s why we pity him. Much like Kurt Co-bain,
Updyke’s celebrity status is causing him to
fall off the edge. If only there was a reservation
where he could run around all day and alleged-ly
poison any tree his heart desires.
Sadly, a place like that does not exist. Instead,
he is stuck allegedly making threats over the
cost of a lawn mower.
We can’t help but feel pity for a guy that has
become a parody of a college football rivalry.
If you think about it, Auburn and Bama
games mean absolutely nothing in the long run.
Anyone who takes them so seriously as to break
the law when their team loses has to have some
serious flaws in judgment.
On Thursday, Sept. 27, Updyke is scheduled
to return to Lee County for a status hearing.
In all honesty, we hope this is the last hear-ing
before the trial begins. Whether Updyke re-ally
did do what he confessed to doing, we just
want some closure.
We have been waiting since 2010 to get some
kind of justice for the Toomer’s Oaks, and we are
frustrated and tired. Hearing about all of Up-dyke’s
shenanigans since he confessed has just
made it that much more difficult to wait.
Sure, it has been entertaining. We will never
forget the video of Elva Updyke yelling at a po-lice
officer while entering the Lee County Jus-tice
Center. Seeing Updyke show up for court in
jeans was also a particularly high moment dur-ing
this ordeal.
But the party is over. It’s time to move on.
All we can say is we sincerely hope whoever
is responsible for poisoning the Toomer’s Oaks
pays for their crime. We certainly look forward
to the day when we no longer have to hear about
what some strange guy from Louisiana is doing,
and we can’t wait for the day when we can just
argue about football like normal people.
Sometimes, as a humble student, it’s easy to
feel hopelessly small at a university this large.
With more than 25,000 students at Auburn,
it’s not so far-fetched to think your voice will
get lost in a whirlwind of other “more impor-tant”
causes, including, but not limited to,
tearing down the ever-aging Haley Center
and once again restoring our football team to
prominence in the ruthless SEC.
SGA meetings can be downright intimidat-ing
if you’re not Greek, and the thought of yell-ing
your concerns over fellow classmates—
ones you know you’ll see tomorrow in World
Literature—can seem daunting to those who
are prone to shyness.
Ironically, but perhaps for the best, it is easy
to vote with your voice at Auburn’s City Coun-cil.
City Council meetings are open to the pub-lic
and covered under Alabama’s Open Meet-ings
Law, since they concern local govern-ment.
Every second Tuesday, nine elected repre-sentatives,
including Mayor Bill Ham Jr., ap-prove,
reject and discuss a variety of topics
ranging from new liquor licenses to possible
racial discrimination from pizza parlors.
Toward the beginning of every meeting,
there is a time called “Citizens’ Communica-tions”
in which any resident of Auburn has five
minutes to voice his or her concern, approv-al
or appreciation as long as they state their
name and address for the record.
I’ve seen a husband and wife come up and
thank the council for tax rebates in open-ing
a new business, but I’ve also seen a con-cerned
man ask why the city demolished the
only skate park his children could use. You just
never know what kind of issues are going to be
brought forward, and that’s the odd beauty of
being involved and staying informed in your
city’s affairs.
Especially in the age of computers and the
Internet, it’s even easier to keep informed
about local government actions and decisions.
The agendas for the meetings are posted on-line
at auburnalabama.org along with e-Pack-ets
chock full of original documents, laying out
the exact discussions, evidence and explana-tions
necessary to understand the processes
happening.
It should be noted these elected represen-tatives
are real people, not robots, who care
about the happiness of the citizens of Auburn
and are always trying to improve our fair city.
After all, they live here too.
They are all approachable, kind individuals
who will answer any question you have if you
show a willingness to be involved and educate
yourself.
Contrary to popular belief, Auburn Univer-sity
does not control the city of Auburn.
The University may be vital to the local
economy, but it does not dictate the rules of
our day-to-day affairs.
Tax-paying residents, including all of us stu-dents
who pay a nine percent sales tax at our
favorite bars, restaurants and shops, have a say
in how our precious dollars get spent.
Don’t think we need another bar? Address
city council. Need a building permit to expand
your house? Talk to City Council. Desperately
need a road re-paved? City Council can help.
Having a dispute with a local business? Let
City Council alleviate your concerns.
The council may not be able to wave a mag-ic
wand and fix your problems on the spot, but
they can certainly point you in the direction of
much-needed assistance.
So I’m telling you this for your own good,
Auburn. Go to a City Council meeting, listen,
ask questions and have a say in what goes on
in your city.
The next City Council meeting is Tuesday,
Oct. 2 at 7 p.m.
Even if you don’t believe in the system or
think nothing is going to come of it, not vot-ing
is essentially the same as lending votes to
whichever side you’re against.
The City Council may seem like a staff
of aged Auburn residents with a negligible
amount of power, but they run this city and,
from my experience, are more than willing to
help anybody interested enough to ask.
So take a poll with yourself.
Are you going to submit your complaints
and ideas for reform to Facebook?
Or are you going to vote with your voice?
Nathan Simone
online@theplainsman.
com
Vote with your voice at City Council
RACHEL SUHS / DESIGN EDITOR
Toi Garcia
Writer
A civil suit has awarded
Frankie Bell $700,000 in dam-ages
two years after the same
accident that caused the death
of jogging partner Marie Woo-ten,
On Nov. 3, 2010 at 5:45 a.m.
Wooten, then dean of the Col-lege
of Sciences and Math-ematics,
was jogging with
Bell, who teaches math at
Loachapoka High School.
The two were near the in-tersection
of College Street
and Donahue Drive when they
were both struck by a vehicle.
Immediately afterward,
Wooten was airlifted to Co-lumbus
Regional Medical Cen-ter
in Columbus, Ga., for emer-gency
medical attention.
While Wooten did not sur-vive,
Bell, who was severely in-jured
and broke 25 bones, did.
Mark David Sawyer was the
driver of the vehicle that hit
the two women when he was
allegedly setting his cruise
control to 45 mph.
“It was 50 yards before he
even stopped and pulled up on
the curb,” Bell’s attorney Julia
Beasley said.
Beasley described Sawyer as
careless because the place the
women were jogging was spe-cifically
designated for bikers
and pedestrians.
“I don’t want anyone to
think she didn’t have good
judgment,” Bell said. “She al-ways
took care of me when
we were running; she always
made sure I was safe. She in-troduced
me to running and
this helped me through an 11-
hour surgery.”
Beasley said Bell was cou-rageous
as she recovered from
the traumatic injuries.
“(Bell) made a remarkable
recovery,” throughout the heal-ing
process, Beasley said. “She
never complained and was an
inspiration. I’ve never met any-one
like her.”
After the accident, Bell filed
a lawsuit against Sawyer re-questing
$700,000, which she
won Sept. 13.
“The jury filed in our favor,
gave us victory and found him
negligent,” Bell said. “That’s all
I really wanted.”
The $700,000 was broken
up two ways, Beasley said.
$550,000 was compensatory
damages for the pain Bell suf-fered,
and $150,000 was puni-tive,
aiming to prevent similar
incidents in the future.
In November, Bell will con-duct
a three-mile race on the
exact trail she and Wooten ran
two years ago.
“Last year I ran it for self-peace,
but this year it will
serve as a fundraiser for a book
scholarship award, helping
one child at a time,” she said.
Charles Savrda, COSAM’s
interim dean, highlighted
ways the school has changed
to further Wooten’s vision of a
program dedicated to its stu-dents
first.
“With Marie’s passing, we
lost a promising administra-tor,
an outstanding scientist,
an exceptional teacher and a
dear colleague,” Savrda said.
“She is greatly missed. Pro-vost
Boosinger is currently in
the process of establishing a
committee to renew a nation-al
search for COSAM dean.
While I abhor the circum-stances
under which I came to
the Dean’s Office, I have appre-ciated
the opportunity to serve
the University in new and chal-lenging
ways.”
Over the past two years, the
COSAM program has under-gone
several changes.
“(There is) improved ad-ministrative
efficiency in our
Offices for Communications,
Instructional Technology and
Diversity and Multicultural Af-fairs;
efforts to improve stu-dent
learning in the college’s
core and service courses; es-tablishment
of a new biomedi-cal
sciences oversight commit-tee;
and restructuring of COS-AM
scholarship programs,”
Savrda said.
“Our students continue to
excel. I like to think that Marie
Wooten would be pleased with
our progress.”
Wooten running partner receives $700K
Emily morris / Assistant Photo Editor
Frankie Bell and Marie Wooten were jogging at the corner of College
Street and Donahue Drive when they were struck by a vehicle Nov. 3,
2010. Bell was recently awarded $700,000 in a civil suit.
West Longleaf Drive apartments shown to be
targets for repeated violence, criminal activity
Annie Faulk
Writer
A string of recent crimes on
West Longleaf Drive has stu-dents
discussing safety.
On Sunday, June 9, three
men were wounded and three
were killed at a shooting at
University Heights Apart-ments
on Longleaf Drive.
In the past month, burglar-ies,
rapes, arrests and thefts
have occurred on West Long-leaf
Drive.
“I think that it’s because of
limited access,” said Shannon
Smith, senior in graphic de-sign.
“It’s easy to get in and out
of there pretty easily. It’s not
controlled as well as it prob-ably
should be because it is
such a narrow space with a lot
of apartments and things on
it, a lot of high traffic but low
patrol.”
Smith lives in an apartment
complex on East University.
“My roommate used to
live in that apartment com-plex,”
Smith said. “In one of the
apartments one of the bullets
went through one of the win-dows.
She said there were a lot
of things that would happen in
the pool area that would cause
problems in the middle of the
night and lot of times police
would have to be called.”
John Krywicki, junior in me-chanical
engineering, has lived
at University Heights and said
he was at his apartment the
night of the shooting.
He said he thought he heard
fireworks.
“I thought it was some col-lege
kids goofing off,” Krywicki
said. “Then I heard screams
running up my staircase.
Again, I thought nothing of it.
Maybe just some drunk hooli-gans
or something like that. It
was not until I checked Face-book
an hour later when I real-ized
what had happened.”
Krywicki said the precau-tions
he takes are locking the
doors to his apartment and
not visiting the pool area.
“I’ve even heard there were
gang activities, not in this
area, but locations similar to
that,” said Simon Gregg, senior
in biosystems engineering.
“Neighborhoods, apartment
complexes and stuff that have
only one entrance tend to lead
to gang activity because peo-ple
can monitor the entrance
and they know who is coming
in and out.”
Gregg said the area has a
mass quantity of people in a
small location, which causes
problems with crime.
“College students are more
apt to leave apartments un-locked,
because they don’t
know if their roommates have
keys and stuff,” Gregg said. “It
makes it easy access to try to
gank somebody’s stuff.”
Gregg said gang activity is
not necessarily the case for
West Longleaf.
“I think the biggest issue is
gun control, and getting young
people to understand that
guns are never the answer in
situations like that, especial-ly
when alcohol is involved,”
Smith said.
Smith said she keeps her
blinds closed all the time, un-less
she or her roommates are
waiting for someone outside
the apartment.
“We keep our doors locked,
whether we are in the apart-ment
or not,” she said. “We
deadbolt and the standard
handle lock. And we always
check the peephole before we
open the door, because we had
a series of people who were
coming around soliciting and
then if no one answered the
door would come in and break
into the apartments. So we are
very cautious.”
Smith said she knows pa-trols
are in the area because
she hears fire trucks outside of
her apartment.
She said she thinks law en-forcement
does a good job
covering the area, but it is still
not enough.
“On campus you have the
emergency buttons you can go
and press, that are placed very
conveniently around campus,”
Smith said. “But when you are
in an apartment complex, peo-ple
have their cell phones, but
not everyone remembers that
they have them when they
need them. And even then,
the response isn’t as quick as it
should be in a lot of cases be-cause
voices are confused and
garbled along the way.”
“I think if apartment com-plexes
could have security sys-tems
where you could go push
a button and say ‘we need help
now,’ it would be really helpful,”
Smith said.
Danielle Lowe / Assistant photo Editor
University Heights (above) and University Village (below) are two of the larger West Longleaf complexes.
Grammy-nominated organist Carpenter to perform in Opelika
Eva Woghiren
Community Reporter
Cameron Carpenter is a
rare, extraordinary musician.
Carpenter will have his abun-dance
of talents on display at
the East Alabama Arts Perfor-mance
Series 2012-2013.
The Grammy-nominated,
world-renowned organist will
kick off the Performance Se-ries
at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
Sept. 27 at the Opelika Center
for the Performing Arts locat-ed
at 1700 Lafayette Parkway.
The Performance Series is
an annual performing arts se-ries
that features top national
and international touring en-sembles
and solo artists.
The Performance Series was
founded in 1987 and celebrat-ed
its 25th Anniversary last
year.
“Cameron is always excit-ed
to play for new audiences,”
said Carpenter’s spokeswom-an,
Amanda Sweet. He will be
kicking off his U.S. tour in Ope-lika
before he heads to Prince-ton,
N.J., Terre Haute, Ind., Ba-ton
Rouge, La., Richmond, Va.,
New York City, San Francisco
and more.”
The Pennsylvania native
showed signs early that he
had a special knack for play-ing
keys. The Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette wrote that his parents
were told by a church organist
who heard a four-year-old Car-penter
play in Cleveland that
they “have got a young Mozart
on your hands.”
Carpenter has a bachelor’s
and a master’s degree from
the Julliard School in New York
City. He performs frequently
on both the electric organ and
the larger pipe organ.
He has been called “the
most controversial organ play-er
in the world” by the Dallas
Morning News and “a fallen an-gel
who gives the organ back
its sin” by Dei Zeit.
The controversy stems from
his tendecncy to stray from or
add to the original composer’s
score.
Critics recognize his virtu-osic
talent, though some say
this doesn’t give him license to
change well-known and world-renowned
pieces.
Carpenter holds a powerful
spot in the series lineup as he
is the first performer the com-munity
can come out to see.
“He came to my attention
as the first organist to be nom-inated
for a Grammy for a solo
album in 2008,” said Perfor-mance
Series director, Phillip
Preston. “Being different from
what people are used to hear-ing
we decided he would be a
good start to the series.”
Carpenter is currently de-buting
excerpts from a new
composition at a concert in
Berlin and will be flying ithere
Thursday directly after the end
of his Opelika concert.
“Carpenter is one of the rare
musicians who changes the
game of his instrument,” Mark
Swed of the Los Angeles Times
said. He is a smasher of cultur-al
and classical music taboos.
He is technically the most ac-complished
organist I have
ever witnessed and most im-portant
of all, the most musi-cal.”
This will be Carpenter’s first
performance in the U.S. this
fall. The last time he played in
Alabama was in Huntsville in
2006.
The Arts Association of East
Alabama has a goal to provide
inspiring experiences for the
people in the community.
Student tickets are avail-able
for $24 online. More infor-mation
about Carpenter, the
series and the organization is
available at eastalabamaarts.
org/Performance/cameron-carpenter.
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Cameron Carpenter will perform
in Opelika Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Former COSAM
dean’s jogging
partner wins
civil lawsuit
Danielle Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
Apartment complexes off West Longleaf Drive have exhibited a recent increase in thefts and other crimi-nal
activities, including the June 9 shooting at University Heights.
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REGISTER TO VOTE
Non-partisan voter registration drive
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, from 1-5pm
Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
450 East Thach Ave.
Bring your driver's license and social security number.
Questions? Contact Lee County Voter Registration
(334) 745-9767
Registered elsewhere? Don't forget to request
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Your vote matters.
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
With the upcoming election
just a little more than a month
away, Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney are in the last stag-es
of explaining their policies
and positions to the American
public.
While knowing each candi-date’s
positions on the issues
is important, it is equally im-portant
to learn how each pol-icy
will affect the local com-munity.
Both Obama and Romney’s
policies, particularly ones re-garding
health care and un-employment,
will have an ef-fect
on the citizens of Lee
County, said Rep. Mike Hub-bard,
speaker of the state
House of Representatives (R-Auburn).
One of the issues being fre-quently
discussed by both
Romney and Obama is health
care. Regarding the recent-ly
enacted Affordable Care
Act, Obama’s campaign web-site
said the act works to put
the health of families first and
protect families from abuse by
insurance companies.
Hubbard said Alabama
would go bankrupt if forced
to comply with Obamacare
because of the additions that
would be added to Medicaid.
“We would have to add
400,000 new people to our
Medicaid rolls, and we can’t
afford what we have now,”
Hubbard said. “It would be in-stant
bankruptcy for the state
of Alabama. We’d have to have
a massive, massive tax in-crease
to be able to accommo-date
it.”
If elected president, Rom-ney
said on his website he
would repeal the Affordable
Care Act his first day in office
and allow states to dictate
their own health insurance.
Alabama has already start-ed
preparing for the cost of
Medicaid.
Last Tuesday, Alabami-ans
voted on a constitutional
amendment that allowed the
Alabama Legislature to bal-ance
the budget by borrow-ing
$437 million from the Al-abama
Trust Fund and put-ting
it into the General Fund.
It was done to cover the costs
of Medicaid and prisons’ ris-ing
incarceration rates.
Another big issue in the
election is the unemploy-ment
rate and the candidates’
policies for creating jobs for
Americans.
Obama’s website highlights
the addition of half a million
jobs since January 2010, as
well as the president’s prom-ise
to keep job growth increas-ing
to lower the unemploy-ment
rates.
Hubbard said Obama has
created jobs, but the jobs he
created were government
jobs, which are paid for by the
taxpayers. In actuality, there
are 600,000 fewer government
employees now than there
were on Obama’s inaugura-tion
day, according to the Bu-reau
of Labor Statistics.
Since October 2011, pri-vate
sector jobs grew 1.8 per-cent.
Government payrolls, on
the other hand, dropped by 0.8
percent.
However, the Bureau also
shows the unemployment rate
has been above 8 percent for
43 months in a row, the lon-gest
since the Great Depres-sion.
“The people who are creat-ing
jobs are the states that un-derstand
that the private sec-tor
is what creates wealth in
this country and what cre-ates
jobs,” Hubbard said. “And
that’s what we have concen-trated
on in the state of Ala-bama,
and I think that it’s very
important for us to continue
to do that, and we will.”
Auburn City Manager Char-lie
Duggan said the local man-ufacturing
companies are re-porting
strong outlooks and
many are expanding and cre-ating
new jobs.
“Kia and Hyundai are both
expanding their plants in La-
Grange and Montgomery; this
is causing our local suppliers
to amp up also,” Duggan said.
“Since this is happening now,
it leads me to believe that our
manufacturing areas believe
that they will continue to do
well regardless of November’s
outcome.”
Both want to create jobs for
Americans and help with their
health plans. The way they in-tend
to do that, however, is
completely different.
For a more in-depth look,
visit barackobama.com and
mittromney.com.
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
Auburn is about to get a
taste of international talent.
Guitarist Mitch Wever-ka
will be playing at Jule Col-lins
Smith Museum of Fine Art
Thursday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m.
Learning to play guitar at
an early age, Weverka stud-ied
guitar in Italy and now
tours worldwide, said Char-lotte
Hendrix, communica-tions
and marketing special-ist
at JCSM.
“We’re happy to host him
with the society,” Hendrix said.
“This is something special that
Mitch brings to the table in
terms of his ability to perform
for an audience.”
Weverka, who is from Ft.
Worth, Texas, is coming to
play in Auburn as a part of the
biannual event collaboration
between the Chattahooch-ee
Valley Guitar Society and
JCSM.
Auburn guitar instructor
Joseph Ikner, who has attend-ed
several of Weverka’s perfor-mances,
said in a press release
that Weverka’s performances
“provide the audience mem-bers
the ability to transcend
into some other higher place,
a place of higher art and per-spective.”
Ikner works with the mu-seum
and the Chattahoochee
Valley Guitar Society to plan
these events.
Guitarist Andrew Zohn also
works with Ikner in the orga-nization
of these events. In a
press release, Zohn said any-one
that comes to the per-formance
can appreciate the
music, even if they do not like
classical music, because of the
popularity of guitars.
“Being the most common
instrument in the world, most
have grown up with one in
the house,” said Zohn. “The
classical guitar possesses the
unique ability to attract a pub-lic
who may not have much
experience with Bach per se,
but can really identify with it
when being performed on the
guitar.”
The next performance pre-sented
by this collaboration
will be in February 2013.
JCSM believes in the trans-formative
power of the arts
and that art can change lives,
and Hendrix said she thinks
Weverka’s music is a part of
that.
Expected to last one hour
with a 10-minute intermis-sion,
Weverka’s performance
will feature music from many
different historical periods.
Tickets are $10 and avail-able
at the museum before the
performance.
While the performance is
not related to “Art Interrupt-ed,”
the current exhibition at
the museum, Hendrix said
the museum is open before
the performance for people to
take a look around.
“They (performance attend-ees)
can come before the per-formance
and stroll in the gal-leries,”
Hendrix said. “We wel-come
you to come and check
it out beforehand.”
Local politicians sound off on White House race
JCSM hosts world-class guitarist
County and city
representatives
comment on
the issues and
candidates
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Last year, the Auburn Uni-versity
Hotel and Conference
Center held its first ever Ok-toberfest.
The event had such amaz-ing
feedback from guests
that the hotel has decided to
make it an annual event.
This Friday, Sept. 28, the
hotel will host it for the sec-ond
time.
Oktoberfest is a time for
the hotel to promote regional
products and provide a night
of entertainment to the Au-burn
community.
Beer lovers can come for a
night of craft beer sampling,
along with small plates of
foods specifically chosen and
prepared to go with a certain
glass of beer.
In addition to the food
and drinks, there will be live
music performed by Patrick
Bruce.
The duo’s music is a combi-nation
of blues and adult al-ternative
music.
The food will be prepared
by the hotel’s own executive
chef Marc Schulz and Ariccia
chef Garry Anderson.
Chef Anderson had the
chance to appear on WRBL
News 3 “Midday Kitchen”
last week and previewed
some items that will be on
the menu for the upcoming
event.
Attendees can look for-ward
to enjoying house-smoked
salmon, crispy spicy
chicken, slow-roasted brisket
sliders and several other ap-petizing
foods.
Guests have the opportu-nity
to taste 24 different craft
beers from states including
Georgia, Colorado and New
York.
“We are very excited to be
hosting this event again,” said
Tim Aylsworth, the hotel’s di-rector
of sales and marketing.
“We had a great response to
it in terms of the craft brew-ers
who are in the state of
Alabama and the region as
well. It has been a very pop-ular
event with the residents
of Auburn, and we look for-ward
to having everybody
come out and having a fan-tastic
time.”
After the conclusion of the
event, music lovers are invit-ed
to keep the night going at
the hotel’s jazz lounge, Picco-lo,
for more live music perfor-mances
by the musicians Ro-man
Street.
These Mobile natives and
Auburn graduates are back in
town to show off their unique
style of music that blends
several influences.
The band members play
two guitars, djembe, congos
and a bass to produce a mix-ture
of “new” flamenco and
jazz.
The band says on its web-site
that the members hope
to incorporate a lot of their
international travels into
their music and share their
experiences around the
world with fans through the
music they make.
They hope to provide the
guest with a style different
from a usual cover band.
The event will take place
from 5:30 to 8 p.m. around
the pool and in the terrace
room of the hotel.
Advance tickets are $39
per person and can be pur-chased
by visiting auhccok-toberfest.
bpt.me.
Tickets can also be pur-chased
the day of the event at
the door for $45.
AU Hotel’s Oktoberfest taps 24 craft brews Friday
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danglers
7 It’s east of
Yucatán
11 Nervous reaction
14 Prophet in
Babylon
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writer?
16 Evergreen State
sch.
17 Cairo’s location?
19 Miss a fly
20 Get licked by
21 Place to fill a flask
23 She played
Honey in “Dr. No”
25 Flood zone
structure
26 Letters followed
by a colon
29 [I’m in trouble!]
31 Neuter, as a
stallion
32 Backrub response
33 Short race
35 “Holy Toledo!”
37 More succulent
39 Breakfast in a bar
42 Red herring
43 Paint ineptly
44 Walked away with
45 Two-timers
47 Briquettes, e.g.
49 Exclusively
50 “Aida” setting
52 Texas slugger
Cruz
55 Where some
manners are
important
57 Sports negotiating
group
60 “Need __ on?”
61 Havana’s
location?
64 Blue __
65 Sheet music
symbol
66 Bit of roller
coaster drama
67 Hosp. worker
68 Help with an
answer
69 It has 100 seats
DOWN
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format
2 Support bar
3 What FAQs offer
4 Shows interest
5 Filmmaker Russ
6 Mattress supports
7 Caboose, for one
8 Petroleum giant
that merged with
Chevron in 2005
9 Hogwash
10 Adams who shot
El Capitan
11 Jerusalem’s
location?
12 Mount Carmel
locale
13 Kept in check
18 16-Across mascot
22 Fox of
“Transformers”
24 Big galoot
26 Uris novel, with
“The”
27 Upsilon preceder
28 Lima’s location?
30 Cole Porter’s
Indiana
hometown
33 Bad-mouth
34 Diver’s domain
36 Debatable “gift”
38 Crescent moon
points
39 Tank unit
40 “OMG, too funny!”
41 “__ volunteers?”
43 What makes an
amp damp?
45 Send a new
invoice to
46 Marital challenge,
perhaps
48 Rugged
49 Like many an
extra-inning game
51 Former CBS
head Laurence
53 Trades
54 Réunion
attendee
56 Lunch spot
58 Novelist Jaffe
59 USAF rank
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expansion; Ambassadors & Jr. Ambassador programs;
governmental affairs; marketing & public relations
functions; commercial & retail economic development
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manage the Gateway to Education Scholarship
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Candidates must possess a minimum of a Bache-lor’s
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Complete the
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Solution to last Sunday’s puzzle
Complete the
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on how to solve
Sudoku, visit
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The people who fill the
elite office of the presiden-cy
are limited to two terms;
two terms filled with enacting
changes and working diligent-ly
to solve the world’s prob-lems;
two terms and then they
are supposed to return to their
life before the presidency.
The members of the Unit-ed
States House of Represen-tatives
and the United States
Senate are not limited to only
serving two terms. In fact, the
Constitution contains abso-lutely
no rules or limits in re-gard
to the number of terms
members of the House and
Senate can serve.
During the Constitutional
Convention of 1787, the men
responsible for shaping the
laws of this country did not
see setting term limits as an
important issue, not because
they wanted to encourage the
concept of career politicians,
but because they couldn’t
imagine someone wanting to
be a career politician.
Participating in politics was
viewed as more of a public ser-vice.
People served and then
returned to their real careers
to be valuable citizens.
Today, politics has turned
into a full-time job. The pay
has substantially increased,
and the hours of work for some
have decreased. Instead of hav-ing
the daunting task of shap-ing
the country, these men and
women are just responsible for
keeping it running.
Because there are no restric-tions
set on term limits for of-fices
outside the presidency,
senators and representatives
of the 50 states spend more
time planning their re-elec-tion
campaigns than they do
representing the people they
depend on to be re-elected.
Not all career politicians
have a negative impact on
the government. John Adams
worked in the government
for more than 30 years. Dur-ing
that time, however, Ad-ams
worked on doing what
he thought was right for the
country. He did not care if it
made him disliked.
Today, a majority of the pol-iticians
in the House and Sen-ate
are fearful of being disliked
because of the way they vote
on important issues. So, in-stead
of taking a stand or en-acting
changes to help, poli-ticians
abstain from voting.
They shy away from their re-sponsibility
as public servants
to make decisions for the good
of the people they represent.
Several attempts have al-ready
been made to establish
term limits for senators and
representatives.
Unsurprisingly, they have
all failed. Getting career politi-cians
to make something a law
that negatively affects their
livelihood would be like get-ting
a baby to wash, feed and
clothe itself.
The greed of these politi-cians
is destroying the mor-als
this country was founded
upon.
Several organizations, such
as U.S. Term Limits and Cit-izens
for Term Limits, advo-cate
establishing term limits
for government members to
avoid career politicians.
However, until the members
of the government themselves
vote to create a law contain-ing
term limits, these attempts
will remain fruitless.
Sure, they’ll vote on their
salaries. They’ll participate in
backdoor deals and focus on
their campaigns. But passing a
law that limits their careers in
the government is not high on
their list of priorities.
In order for this to change,
the people these men and
women represent need to
stand up together and say they
want a change.
People have the power to
enact change. For example, a
recent “60 Minutes” investiga-tion
revealed Congress mem-bers
were using non-public in-formation
on the stock mar-ket
gathered during their time
on the Hill to buy and trade
stocks.
After the segment ran, Pres-ident
Obama called for the
STOCK Act, or the Stop Trad-ing
on Congressional Knowl-edge
Act, to be passed, which
prevents members of Congress
from using insider information
to better their own bank ac-counts.
The act passed in April 2012,
and it represents the power
the public has over the people
representing it.
Politicians need to be called
out on their actions, and until
more people do, career politi-cians
will remain a part of the
American government.
Courtesy of Mark Wilson / Getty Images
A protest in support of term limits for Congress took place outside the U.S. Capitol in March 2012.
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Cam Newton – (QB, Carolina Panthers)
16-of-30 for 242 yards with three interceptions. Six carries for six
yards and a touchdown. L NYG 36 - CAR 7
Ben Tate – (RB, Houston Texans)
Eight rushes for 26 yards. W HOU 31 - DEN 25
Takeo Spikes – (LB, San Diego Chargers)
Recorded 13 tackles (11 solo). L ATL 27 - SD 3
Quentin Groves – (LB, Arizona Cardinals)
Three tackles and a sack. W ARI 27 - PHI 6
Karlos Dansby – (LB, Miami Dolphins)
Recorded eight tackles (seven solo) and one pass deflection. L NYJ
23 - MIA 20
Devin Aromashodu – (WR, Minnesota Vikings)
Two catches for 24 yards. W MIN 24 - SF 13
Rob Bironas – (PK, Tennessee Titans)
Hit 3-of-5 field goals, one of which was the game winner in overtime.
Five for five on extra points. W DET 41 - TEN 44
Spencer Johnson – (DE, Buffalo Bills)
Recorded one pass break up. W BUF 24 - CLE 14
Pat Lee – (DB, Oakland Raiders)
Recorded four tackles (three solo) and forced a fumble. W OAK 34 -
PIT 31
Sen’Derrick Marks – (DT, Tennessee Titans)
Six tackles (four solo). W DET 41 - TEN 44
Ben Obomanu – (WR, Seattle Seahawks)
Caught one reception for 18 yards. W GB 10 - SEA 12
Jerraud Powers – (DB, Indianapolis Colts)
Had two tackles and a pass deflection. L JAC 22 - IND 17
Carlos Rogers – (DB, San Francisco 49ers)
Had one solo tackle. L MIN 24 – SF 13
Injuries:
San Diego running back Ronnie Brown was inactive and Philadel-phia
Eagles tackle King Dunlap missed the game with a hamstring
injury. San Francisco running back Brandon Jacobs was also inac-tive
and Dallas defensive tackle Jay Ratliff missed his third game
with a high ankle sprain.
Injured reserve:
Tristan Davis – (RB, Washington Redskins)
Mario Fannin – (RB, Denver Broncos)
Brandon Mosley – (OG, New York Giants)
Lee Ziemba – (OT, Carolina Panthers)
Sports B1
Thursday, September 27, 2012 www.theplainsman.com Sports
Chandler Jones
Writer
The sixth annual Sports Illustrated
Heisman House, a tailgate tent pre-sented
by Nissan, featured two-time
Super Bowl champion Kendall Sim-mons
and Carnell ‘Cadillac’ Williams
at Saturday’s LSU vs. Auburn game.
The tent resembled a fraternity
house and was in tune with the pro-motional
Heisman House Nissan
marketing campaign. The commer-cials
feature previous Heisman win-ners
living together in one house,
with filming based on a “Big Brother-esque”
story line.
LSU vs. Auburn was the fourth
stop on the road for the tour as it hits
the top 10 major SEC games this sea-son.
“The biggest ever was here with Bo
Jackson,” said production manager
Brad Burns. “You couldn’t move in-side
the tent.”
The tent’s spectacle comes from its
brand-name backings, celebrity ap-pearances
and its social media-inte-grated
fan events: a picture with the
Heisman trophy, a picture on a life-size
Heisman stand, a new genera-tion
Nissan Pathfinder, a virtual field
goal powered by lasers, information-al
touchscreens with access to Sports
Illustrated covers and articles and a
drawing for a trip to the BCS national
championship game.
“That was neat,” said Simmons, a
former offensive lineman for Auburn
and the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. “I
think doing things like this can keep
the fans involved. Gives you some-thing
to do on campus, especially for
the kids.”
Upon arrival, the brand ambassa-dors
helped visitors register with a
name and email address and, if they
wished, signed them into Facebook.
Facebook then checked them in to
the Auburn Heisman House.
Guests were given a lanyard with a
“credential” and a bar code connect-ed
to their respective profiles.
“We started that last year,” said Su-san
Storey, public relations repre-sentative.
“We’ve always had some
sort of technology and we’ve sort of
amped it up. Part of the deal was try
to draw in a younger crowd, who are
very technology oriented.”
The celebrity aspect incorporates
Sports Illustrated with its “SI Chalk
Talk” session. Sports Illustrated writ-er
Andrew ‘McLovin’ Perloff inter-viewed
Simmons and Williams from
1 to 2:30 and 3:30 to 5 p.m., respec-tively.
Afterward, each signed auto-graphs
for fans.
Simmons was excited for the game
and predicted an Auburn win 28–21.
He said he believes in this year’s
team.
“I know most of the offensive line
men are pretty young,” he said. “I like
what McCalebb is doing. I think Kie-hl
will come along. He’s just young,
so it’ll take a few games to get expe-rience
on the field. You’ve got the de-fensive
guys—Jeffrey Whitaker—he’s
one of my guys.”
Being back in Auburn gives Sim-mons
a different perspective: one
from the stands.
“I look at it totally different than a
fan would, and I still get pumped up
when they are running out of the tun-nel,”
he said. “The juices get flowing
again.”
Williams, Auburn’s second-leading
career rusher and all-time leader in
touchdowns, reminisced on his origi-nal
choice in Auburn University, com-ing
from a family of Alabama fans.
“I came down here to Auburn; I
started going to games, met the Au-burn
people, and I just fell in love
with the place, and it felt like home,”
Simmons said. “Everybody back
home was pushing me to go to Ala-bama.
I actually saved my last visit for
there, but it didn’t feel quite like Au-burn.
I knew, ‘I gotta pick Auburn.’”
He said he has advice for the team.
“As long as everybody stays to-gether
and believes in each other and
build on every day getting better, I
mean, you can’t help but get better,”
he said.
Williams said he anticipated a
physical game with a lot of running
the ball and incorporating a great de-fense.
He, too, predicted an Auburn
victory, 21–17.
Coming back to Auburn nearly
brought tears to Williams’ eyes, he
said.
“Just driving here knowing this is
where I went to school at,” he said.
“This is where a lot of my manhood
started. This is where a lot of our val-ues
and things started, right here at
this university. So just driving around
and seeing places I usually hung out
at was amazing.”
By the numbers
LSU vs. Auburn
2
Auburn converted two of 12 third-down opportunities against LSU.
Auburn has struggled with third downs thus far this season. The of-fense
has only converted 14 out of a possible 50, good for sixth worst
in the country. The biggest problem is lack of positive yardage on the
early downs. Too many times does Auburn face third and long. This
takes the focus off the run game and forces Kiehl Frazier to make a
throw under pressure. Since that didn’t seem to be working, Chizik
and Loeffler apparently decided they’d rather give the ball to the run-ning
backs—even if it’s third and 12. The holes may open more when
the defense drops into what should be an obvious passing down, but
besides not gaining first downs, the coaches are showing Frazier he
can’t be trusted in pressure situations.
-1
For the fourth consecutive game, Auburn has lost the turnover bat-tle,
finishing with a negative one turnover margin. The defense man-aged
to force two fumbles, but with a fumble and two interceptions by
the offense, its effort was for naught. The turnover probably most in-grained
in the minds of the Auburn faithful was the last-second inter-ception
thrown by Frazier. This season, Frazier has thrown nine inter-ceptions
versus two touchdown passes, and the team is third to last in
the nation, averaging a negative two turnover margin per game. The
plus side? Arkansas is last in the nation at -2.5.
3
Freshman backup quarterback Jonathan Wallace had three carries
out of the Wildcat formation. While that’s not a lot of touches, what
he did with them makes this addition to the offense worth noting. On
three carries, Wallace got two of Auburn’s nine first downs and one
of Auburn’s two third-down conversions. He also gained 15 yards on
the three carries and was quick to pick out the hole and get through
it. With Frazier continuing to disappoint, increases in Wallace’s play-ing
time in coming games could signal a dual-quarterback system or
complete replacement.
Danielle Lowe / assistant photo editor
Former Auburn offensive tackle, Kendall Simmons, signed autographs and showed off his two Super Bowl rings to his fans.
Former football stars appear
for Heisman House tailgate
“I think doing things
like this can keep the
fans involved. Gives
you something to do
on campus, especially
for the kids.”
—Kendall Simmons
Former Auburn and nfl
offensive lineman
Danielle Lowe / ASSISTANT photo editor
Simmons showed fans one of his two
NFL Super Bowl rings.
Ryder Cup begins for Auburn alum Jason Dufner
Courtesy of Tod Van Emst
Jason Dufner earned $4,869,303.50 in his 2012 PGA Tour campaign.
Andrew Yawn
Sports Editor
A week after Alabama native and
prospective Auburn recruit Robby
Shelton helped lead USA to its third
consecutive Junior Ryder Cup, former
Auburn golfer Jason Dufner looks to
do the same from Sept. 28–30.
This is Dufner’s first Ryder Cup in
his career, and he, along with Team
USA, looks to wrest the Cup away
from the European side.
The tournament will be held on
U.S. soil this year at the Medinah
Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
The U.S. team is selected based on
money earned in majors in 2011 and
all PGA events in 2012.
The qualification system gives
players one point for every $1,000
earned and two points for every
$1,000 made in 2012 majors.
Dufner, who had not won an event
in his professional career before this
year, enjoyed a meteoric rise to the
top of golf fame beginning with a sec-ond-
place finish to fellow USA team-mate
Keegan Bradley at the 2011
PGA Championship.
This year, Dufner won his first and
second tournaments of his career at
the Zurich Classic and the HP Byron
Nelson Championship.
He also finished second to team-mate
Zach Johnson in the Crowne
Invitational at the Colonial in Fort
Worth, Texas.
His play earned him third place on
the Ryder Cup standings with 5,697
points, putting him behind only Tiger
Woods and Bubba Watson.
Over the weekend, however, Duf-ner
will have to join forces with those
who beat him to oppose the strong
European team.
The match-play duel consists of
two days of doubles matches followed
by 12 singles matches on Sunday. The
team or player who wins the hole
wins a point, and matches are played
through 18 holes or until the lead is
impossible to overcome.
Friday and Saturday morning will
feature the foursomes in which part-ners
will alternate shots.
The fourball matches—in which
the teams can play the best shot hit
by one of the two teammates—will
take place in the afternoons.
The one-on-one matches on Sun-day
will be played according to nor-mal
match play rules.
While U.S. captain Davis Love III
had the rough trimmed to take ad-vantage
of the team’s drive length and
roll off the tee shots, Dufner will have
to adjust to playing against one par-ticular
opponent.
In match play, Dufner’s career best
finish was 33rd at the WGC-Accen-ture
Match Play Championship this
year.
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On Friday, Sept. 21, the Au-burn
women’s volleyball team
rallied from a 1-0 deficit to win
the final three sets and hand
South Carolina its first loss of
the season, 3-1 (25-27, 25-16,
25-18, 25-22).
Senior outside hitter Sar-ah
Bullock and junior outside
hitter Katherine Culwell led
the Tigers’ strong attack. Bull-ock
posted a team-high 20
kills and grabbed her fourth
double-double of the season
by adding 13 digs. Culwell fin-ished
with 19 kills and 12 digs,
her second double-double of
the season.
Auburn coach Rick Nold
was happy with the way his
team responded after drop-ping
the first set then coming
back to sweep the Gamecocks
in the final three sets.
“They’re a great team,” Nold
said. “Defensively, they put a
lot of pressure on us, especial-ly
early. I thought the biggest
thing we did to change the tide
a bit was serve and serve-re-ceive.”
Auburn also saw strong per-formances
from junior setter
Chelsea Wintzinger and fresh-man
setter Ciara Richards.
Wintzinger recorded 28 assists
and 12 digs, while Richards
added 27 assists and 14 digs.
South Carolina (13-1, 2-1
SEC) took a close first set 27-
25 thanks to the Gamecocks’
freshman opposite hitter Sar-ah
Blomgren, who put down
the set-winning kill. South
Carolina’s junior outside hitter
Juliette Thévenin led with sev-en
kills in the set.
In the second set, Auburn
(11-2, 2-1 SEC) rallied after
falling behind 4-0. The Tigers
recorded five service aces and
went on an 11-1 run—ulti-mately
winning the set 25-16.
Junior middle blocker Camila
Jersonsky and Katherine Cul-well
led the Tigers with four
kills each.
Nold said it was important
to get their service game going
after losing the first set early.
“We were serving aggres-sively,
but almost right to them
in game one,” he said. “They’re
a good passing team, and we
started mixing some things up
on serve to get them out of sys-tem,”
Nold said.
In the third set, a kill from
South Carolina’s senior setter
Taylor Bruns made it 19-16,
but the Tigers went on a 6-3
run to come away with a 25-
18 win, thanks to 19 team kills
and seven kills apiece from
Bullock and Culwell.
In the fourth set, the Game-cocks
made it 22-20 thanks to
a kill by Thévenin, but the Ti-gers
held on and found the
match-winning points, thanks
to a kill by Auburn junior mid-dle
blocker Chloe Rowand and
a service error by the Game-cock’s
Thévenin. Bullock led
the Tigers with six kills and
one block in the set.
On Sunday, Sept. 23, Bull-ock’s
1,000th career dig served
as a turning point for a sec-ond
win as the Auburn volley-ball
team defeated Alabama
for the sixth consecutive time,
three sets to one.
The senior became the fifth
player to reach 1,000 kills and
1,000 digs in Auburn volley-ball
history. The landmark
dig, which came in a tight-ly
contested third set, set up a
point that gave Auburn a 15-
13 lead. The team continued
the momentum from Bullock’s
achievement,, winning 25-21.
That win gave Auburn a 2-1
lead, and the Tigers quickly
dispatched their bitter rivals in
the fourth and final set, 25-18.
“I couldn’t have asked for
anything better,” said Bullock,
who posted team highs of 16
kills and 15 digs in the win. “I
got my 1,000th dig in my last
game at home against Ala-bama.
I couldn’t have asked for
a more perfect scenario. This is
what I’ve been striving for my
whole career, and it’s finally
come true. I’m ecstatic.”
Bullock, Culwell, Jerson-sky
and Courtney McDon-ald
led the way for the Tigers
as all four finished the match
with double-digit kills. Culwell
joined Bullock in double-dou-ble
honors, registering 14 kills
and 13 digs.
The victory was enjoyed by
the third-largest crowd in Au-burn
history, as 1,146 fans
filled the Student Activities
Center Sunday afternoon.
“It’s awesome to see that.
We had a huge crowd here well
before the match,” Nold said
afterward. “Our fans mean a
lot to us. They help us through
tough points and keep our en-ergy
going, so [the crowd] is
something that we definite-ly
need. It’s great when we see
that there aren’t any seats left.”
The Tigers took control of
the match in the very first set,
winning 25-19. Both teams
traded points at the beginning
of the set, but Auburn was able
to take advantage of some Al-abama
miscues and race out
to a 17-12 lead. Culwell led the
way for the Tigers in the first
set, registering six of her 13
kills in the opening frame.
But Alabama was able to
equalize before intermission,
winning a close second set 25-
23. Auburn looked somewhat
flat after its opening win, and
the visitors were able to grab
seven of the set’s first nine
points. Excellent serving and
passing from Alabama’s play-ers
gave them an early advan-tage
they never relinquished.
The Tigers were able to get
on a small run late in the set,
but a thunderous kill from Al-abama’s
Katherine White si-lenced
the near-record crowd
and squashed any Auburn
comeback hopes.
Nold said the team made
some big adjustments in inter-mission
that led to their com-manding
wins in sets three
and four.
“We didn’t think that our
energy was where it needed to
be,” he said. “We were giving
them a lot of unforced errors;
we had a lot that we needed to
clean up on our side. We need-ed
to come out and be more ef-ficient
on offense and adjust
to what they were doing offen-sively.
So we made those ad-justments,
and I think it made
a big difference.”
This four-set victory over Al-abama
brings Auburn’s over-all
record to 12-2 and its con-ference
record to 3-1. Just two
weeks into conference play,
Auburn has surpassed last sea-son’s
11-win total.
The Tigers travel to Arkan-sas
and Kentucky this week-end.
Rebecca Croomes / photo editor
Senior outside hitter Sarah Bullock celebrates a point against Ala-bama
Sunday afternoon. Auburn beat Alabama three sets to one,
and Bullock scored her 1,000th career dig. The win over Alabama im-proved
Auburn’s record to 12-2, one more than the 2011 total wins.
“Our fans mean a lot to us. They help
us through tough points and keep
our energy going, so [the crowd]
is something that we definitely
need. It’s great when we see that
there aren’t any seats left.”
Rick Nold
Auburn Head Coach
Auburn wins two, Bullock gets 1,000th dig
Thursday, September 27, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Sports B3
The Positives
We may have won a game that was against a school that has
never had a winning season since joining the FBS by only three
points, but hey, we lost to the No. 2 team in the country by only
two. That has to mean something, right? A 1-3 record going into
October isn’t exactly reassuring, but at least Auburn’s displaying
signs of improvement. Kiehl Frazier looked like a 5-year-old play-ing
in his first Pop Warner game Sept. 1. He was scared, timid and
downright terrified of the 300-pound lineman running straight
toward him. Fast forward four weeks and Frazier has begun to
show glimpses of why USA Today named him the 2010 National
Offensive Player of the Year. I mean did you see that touchdown
catch against ULM? Now don’t start calling him the second com-ing
of Cam, but the talent is there. He just has to show it to the na-tion.
Then there’s the defense. Sure, tackling hasn’t exactly been
their strong suit, but when it came time to suit up against LSU
they actually looked decent (shout out to Corey Lemonier). It may
not be much, but it’s a step in the right direction. Let’s just say I’m
willing to bet my lucky Auburn hat that we win at least one game
in October.
The Negatives
We lost to the No. 2 team in the country 12-10, but only man-aged
to beat a Sun Belt team by three. Am I the only one that has
a problem with this? Didn’t think so. Then there’s the problem of
turnovers. Ah, those pesky turnovers. Here’s lookin’ at you, Fra-zier.
I know you’re new to this and all, but seven interceptions
in four games? Or what about that Mississippi State game? You
know, the one where you threw three picks and forgot how to
hold a football twice? Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re great,
but how do you expect to win a game when you keep giving your
opponent the ball and perfect field position on a silver platter?
Enough about the offense. Let’s talk about tackling, or lack there
of. Look, I’ve never played football in the SEC, but I’ve watched my
fair share of games, at least enough to know what a tackle looks
like. I get it. They’re bigger and faster and much scarier than on
TV, but you’re bigger and faster and scarier too. And what bet-ter
time than next Saturday to prove that to Arkansas, and your-selves?
Surprise of the season
Cody Parkey, thank you. Thank you for single-handedly sav-ing
our season. Thank you for making nine straight field goals,
especially that beauty in overtime against ULM. Thank you for
not letting us start 2012 with four straight losses. And most of all,
thank you to your parents for giving you great genes. Now I un-derstand
Parkey’s talent hasn’t exactly come out of nowhere; he
was pretty solid last season. No, it’s not his kicking ability that is
this season’s biggest surprise. It’s how he uses that ability to give
his team the best chance they possibly have at a win. It was Par-key
that made four field goals against Clemson to put Auburn up
19-16 with 12:50 to go in the fourth. It was Parkey that sailed a 23-
yard field goal through the uprights to push Auburn past Missis-sippi
State, if only for roughly two and a half minutes. It was Par-key
that sealed the Tiger victory over ULM in overtime. And it
was Parkey who scared the Bayou nation last Saturday night with
his 40-yard field goal to take a one-point lead going into halftime.
Thanks again, Cody.
The Positives
Auburn has battled through four football games this sea-son,
and three of the meetings have resulted in losses, includ-ing
two conference games. However, all three teams the Tigers
have lost to this season are currently ranked, and their com-bined
record is 11-1. There are plenty of things wrong with the
record and on-paper statistics, but there are also things to
be optimistic about. Auburn’s defense looked like a competi-tive,
strong SEC defense against LSU last weekend. The Tigers
looked sharp and held one of the best teams in the nation to
10 offensive points. Onterio McCalebb added spark to an oth-erwise
stagnant offense and had two golden opportunities to
give Auburn the lead last week, but a missed running lane and
a one-hand jersey tackle prevented him from taking the ball to
pay dirt on two separate occasions. Overall, however, the re-sult
against LSU showed the team still has potential.
The Negatives
Auburn has averaged only 17.5 points each game this year,
but will look to boost that statistic next week against Arkan-sas,
a team that gives up more than 36 points a game. The Ti-ger
offense is not functioning nearly as productively as most
teams’. This fact can sting the Auburn faithful more than usu-al
because only two years ago Auburn’s offense was one of
the best in the nation. There are a few things to remember,
though. Quarterback Kiehl Frazier is only a sophomore. He is
going to get better and smarter as he gains more experience
in what is undoubtedly the best defensive league in the na-tion.
This is offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler’s first year at
Auburn. Loeffler is using offensive players who were recruited
to be in Gus Malzahn’s spread offense in his pro-style offense.
As the year goes on, the offensive players, especially Frazier,
will grow more accustomed to this foreign style of play until
it becomes second nature. That is not to say this offense will
be incredible, but it can only get better after last week’s per-formance.
Surprise of the season
The surprise of the season so far is the unexpected diffi-culty
of Auburn’s first four games. The Tigers began the sea-son
against Clemson, a team that was supposed to be a con-tender
for the ACC title. Clemson lost to fourth-ranked Flor-ida
State last weekend, but will still be an ACC title contend-er
with a bit of luck. Auburn played its second game against
Mississippi State, who at that point had not beaten the Tigers
since 2007. Mississippi State could be a legitimate SEC West
contender and has a relatively favorable schedule this year.
Louisiana at Monroe, who was fresh off a huge upset against
Arkansas, came to Auburn in the third week and took the Ti-gers
to overtime. Auburn prevailed, but only by three points
in what many thought should have been an easy win. Then
there was LSU last week. This was a team whose quality was
never in question, yet Auburn lost by only two points. There is
a bit of silver lining for Auburn this year, but the young team
needs confidence and to gain confidence they need to win.
They will look for both against Arkansas Oct. 6 after an extra
week of preparation.
The Positives
For a team annually expected to not only win, but contend
for bowl games, this year’s Auburn team has left fans with lit-tle
to be optimistic about. And yet it hasn’t been a total loss.
With the season in shambles and a brutal schedule to finish
the season, Auburn has fumbled away any chances for a re-spectable
season by the fans’–and most likely the team’s–
standards. At this point, the positives lie in the future of the
team: the underclassmen. While having such a young team
may be used as an excuse for the numerous blunders and mis-cues
witnessed this season, the fact of the matter is that it’s ex-perience.
By scrapping the depth chart and letting the youth
of the team learn by doing, the team will be more prepared
for next season if Chizik and his staff can avoid the chopping
block. Approximately eight seniors who play extensively are
leaving after the season, roles that must be filled by the un-derclassmen.
In addition, Auburn’s starting 22 boasts 12 un-derclassmen
with three of those being freshmen. This season
may be lost, but the experience and continued improvements
gained this season may turn into success in 2013.
The Negatives
Where to begin? The 1-3 record? The third worst turnover
margin per game average in the nation? The arm tackling?
The answer is all of the above. The real root of the problem
lies in the hype created by the changes made from last season
and the expectations born from speculation and projections.
Kiehl Frazier was supposed to be the savior of the offense, a
stalwart at quarterback for the next three seasons. His pass-er
rating is sixth to last in the country. Scot Loeffler was sup-posed
to be a quarterback guru with a knack for commanding
prolific offenses. His offense is No. 114 in the nation alongside
teams such as Colorado State, Idaho and Southern Mississip-pi.
The addition of Jay Prosch was supposed to free up tight
end Philip Lutzenkirchen. He has 12 catches and no touch-downs.
Like it or not, Auburn is rebuilding and the first four
games, not the preseason practices, have shown exactly what
the team has to offer right now.
Surprise of the season
The team is averaging 153 yards per game, the lowest av-erage
since Tommy Tuberville’s last year in 2008 and inflat-ed
by a 255 yard outing versus University of Louisiana-Mon-roe.
Since Chizik has taken over, the presence of Ben Tate,
Michael Dyer, Onterio McCalebb and Cam Newton allowed
the team to rush for an average of 226 yards per game over
Chizik’s first three seasons. McCalebb is still around, but the
combination of Tre Mason and Mike Blakely as the power-ful
possession runners hasn’t been able to take control of any
game but the overtime victory over ULM. Auburn is built on a
legacy of great rushing attacks, and yet the team has been un-able
to outpossess any team this season. Loeffler’s post-hire
declaration to continue to emphasize the power run game so
vital to SEC teams looks flimsier every game, and, combined
with an inept passing game and a quarterback the team can’t
trust with the game on the line, Auburn must run the ball ear-ly
and often if it’s going to have a chance to get the ‘backs on
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Former Auburn athlete
Caitlin King and friend Britta-ny
Fletcher competed in this
season of “The Amazing Race,”
a reality TV show where teams
compete in an international
marathon for a million-dollar
prize.
“I’ve wanted to be on this
show for forever,” Fletcher
said. “When it involves a $1
million competition and be-ing
able to do it with my best
friend and travel the world,
why wouldn’t I want to be part
of this show?”
King said it was impor-tant
for her to have a partner
she could rely on, which in-fluenced
her decision to work
with Fletcher.
“I knew when we were start-ing
the process of getting on
the race that Brittany would
be a perfect partner because
we both come from big sports
backgrounds,” King said. “I
played soccer at Auburn, and
Brittany has a dad and brother
who played major league base-ball.
Having that in our fami-ly
has brought a competitive
edge to everything we do, so I
knew we would be great part-ners.”
King starting a relationship
with Fletcher’s brother, Brian,
was how they first became ac-quainted,
and King said their
friendship has only grown
closer since.
“At the beginning, that
was the thing that brought
us together, but really now it
doesn’t even have anything
to do with the relationship
that Brittany and me have
made for ourselves,” King said.
“We’ve become really close on
our own.”
Though the competitive na-ture
of the show ensures a fast
pace, Fletcher said she en-joyed
every minute of the race.
“It was one of those things
where you’re moving so fast,
you don’t have time to get
too nervous in the situations
you’re placed in,” Fletcher
said. “Your adrenaline’s going
the whole time, and you’re just
excited to be in all these dif-ferent
places and travel the
world. You’re seeing things for
the first time that you’ve never
seen in your life, and just being
with a person you enjoy doing
these things with makes the
experience that much better.”
King said, after a few weeks,
she didn’t even register the
cameras.
“You’re constantly on the
go, so you kind of forget you’re
on a TV show,” she said. When
you’re starting, you see the
cameras and things around
you, but as you go on you don’t
even realize it. You’re so fo-cused
and in the zone of be-ing
in this competition that
you forget you’re actually be-ing
filmed.”
One rule of the competition
forbids the use of cell phones,
but Fletcher said she enjoyed
the challenge of finding infor-mation
in different ways.
“It’s the only opportunity
to not have a phone with you
and to really have to commu-nicate
and use other sources
of reference to make your way
around,” Fletcher said.
Though they were unable to
see their friends and families
for the 30 days they compet-ed,
King said she was glad for
an opportunity to forge new
relationships with the other
teams.
“One of the best parts for us
was getting to know the other
teams,” King said. “You don’t
realize, at the beginning, the
kind of relationships you’re
going to make with these peo-ple.
We all came from very dif-ferent
backgrounds, and we
made friends we’re going to
have for a lifetime. It’s kind of
like being part of a new family.”
Fletcher said the only com-plaint
she has about her time
on the show is that it went by
too quickly.
“A lot of times when you
plan a vacation, you know
where you’re going” she said.
“To open up a clue and have to
race to that destination is just
a part of the competition, but
I don’t think flying will ever
be the same for Caitlin and I.
Every time we get off a plane
now, we’re ready to sprint. It
flew by, and it was one of those
things where you have to cher-ish
every moment because
you know it’s going to go by so
quickly.”
King said the travel was one
of the things she liked most
about the competition.
“Never complain about
traveling for free,” she said. “I
love traveling, and I know Brit-tany
does too, so it’s just real-ly
cool to go to different places
that you’d never get the oppor-tunity
to go to if you weren’t
on “The Amazing Race,” so I’m
definitely going to miss that.”
After they were finished
with the show, Fletcher con-tinued
to work as a medical
sales representative in Chica-go,
while King moved from St.
Louis to Atlanta.
Steven Feldman, CBS publi-cist,
said filming for the show
is now completed, and it will
premiere Sunday at 7 p.m.
CST.
Courtesy of Cliff Lipson / CBS
Caitlin King (left) and Brittany Fletcher were raised with sports in their
lives. King played soccer at Auburn, and Fletcher’s father and brother
played Major League Baseball.
Former Tigers score spots on “The Amazing Race”
Sports writers’
season review
The Plainsman’s three sports writers take the bye week
as a chance to evaluate the team after four games. At
1-3 following the 12-10 loss to LSU Saturday, Sept. 22,
the team will have the weekend off as they rest and
continue to prepare for Arkansas on Oct. 6 at 11 a.m.
Danielle Lowe / photo editor
Kiehl Frazier tries to dodge defenders and scramble for yards af-ter
a play breaks down.
Danielle Lowe / PHOTO EDITOR
Coaches Trooper Taylor and Gene Chizik ready to run out of the tun-nel
just before the LSU game.
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A week in Auburn sports
Cross Country- The men’s and women’s cross coun-try
team will compete in the Greater Louisville Classic on
Sept. 29. After three meets, both the men’s and women’s
team are undefeated after finishing first in the Trojan in-vitational,
auburn invitational and azalea city classic.
Baseball- Auburn has begun fall practices and will
now welcome the nation’s No. 22 recruiting class. The
class includes 16 players: OF Jackson Burgreen, RHP
Brewer Carter, RHP Reid Carter, RHP/OF Terrance De-drick,
C/IF Tyler Deese, IF/OF Jordan Ebert, OF Sam Gil-likin,
OF Hunter Kelley, LHP Conner Kendrick, RHP Cole
Lipscomb, LHP Mike O’Neal, OF Rock Rucker, RHP MAtt
Schultz, IF Dylan Smith, IF Damek Tomscha, RHP Trey Wing-enter.
Gillikin, Kelley, Tomscha and Wingenter have all
been drafted by MLB teams before.
Men’s Basketball- Tickets for the season have gone
on sale. In addition, head coach Tony Barbee announced
that former Missouri and new mexico assistant coach
Ryan Miller has been named associate head coach on Sept.
18. Barbee and Miller have worked together before when
the two worked under Memphis coach John Calipari.
Women’s Basketball- Tickets are now on sale for
the 2012–13 season. Senior guard/forward Blanche Al-verson
has been selected into the top 5 for Miss Home-coming.
The television schedule for the team has also
been released with the team slated for six televised
matchups: Tennessee, at Kentucky, at alabama, Florida and
at Vanderbilt.
Women’s Tennis- After winning 14 matches and earn-ing
four titles during the Auburn Fall Invitational in early
September at the Yarbrough Tennis Center, The women’s
tennis team had another strong showing at the UNLV Invi-tational
in Las Vegas. There, the team won 14 matches and
took home three championships.
Swimming and Diving- The swimming and diving regu-lar
season does not begin until Oct. 12, but the team pre-pared
for the opener with its annual intrasquad Orange
and Blue Meet. The orange team beat the blue team 207.5
to 197.5. OF the 22 events, Freshmen Alexandria Merritt
(150-yd butterfly), Caitlyn Forman (150-yd backstroke),
Jordan Jones (men’s 300-yd individual medley) and Carly
Scheper (diving) all won events.
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The Auburn cross country team competes against Kennesaw State at the Auburn Invitational.
Intrigue
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B5
Caitlin Wagenseil
Writer
When people hear the
words “interior designer,” they
often think of someone who
makes things look pretty for
a living. In reality, it’s much,
much more.
Katie Scheid, junior in the
top-ranked interior design
program, knows this all too
well.
“A lot of people think that
interior design is just picking
out paint colors,” Scheid said.
“There are days when I wish I
was just picking out paint col-ors,
because in my program
there is a lot more technical
stuff to it than just making
things look pretty.”
The four main areas of
study for interior design stu-dents
are residential, hos-pitality,
non-residential and
commercial.
“We take two studios
each semester,” Scheid said.
“One studio is Monday and
Wednesday, and the other stu-dio
is Tuesday and Thursday.
We go to studio either right
after lecture or a little bit lat-er
in the afternoon, and it’s for
three hours.”
Scheid said lecture is a time
for students to learn about
concepts, while studio is time
to work on assignments and
projects.
“In residential, we’re talk-ing
about kitchens and what
kind of kitchen layouts you
would do, and in studio you’re
either working on a project
or using the time to ask ques-tions
or do exercises,” she
said.
Other than some quiz-zes
and essay assignments,
grades are mostly determined
by projects.
“We took a painting by a fa-mous
artist and blew it up so
that it was four feet in one di-rection,
and then it got gritted
off into half-inch squares, and
each square we had to paint,”
Scheid said.
“All we were doing was cut-ting
and gluing squares for
three weeks. It turned out re-ally
cool but it took me over
150 hours to finish.”
Mary Caillouet, junior in
interior design, is currently
working on a project for a ho-tel.
“Right now, we’re design-ing
an international spa for
an existing hotel that was
done by the top-10 ranked de-sign
firms last year,” she said.
“We’re supposed to do all the
architectural components.”
Before Auburn’s interior de-sign
program could become a
top-ranked program in the
nation, it had to have the ap-propriate
accreditations.
“We’re a CIDA (Council
for Interior Design Accred-itation)
accredited school,
which is a very big deal,” Cail-louet
said.
“Every project that we do
they save, so a board could
come in and analyze what our
program does and what our
professors are teaching us,
so that helps with the rank-ing.
The success of the people
out in the field that graduated
from Auburn also determines
the ranking.”
Scheid said the professors
contribute much to the suc-cess
of the program.
“They do a really good job
of trying to expose you to all
aspects of interior design,”
she said. “We’ll do a whole se-mester
of just residential or a
whole semester of commer-cial.
You really get exposed to
everything and know different
aspects and what you do and
don’t like.”
Students in the program
regularly take field trips.
“You can see a picture of
something or see something
on the Internet, but I don’t
think it compares to actual-ly
going to a place and seeing
what something really looks
like,” Scheid said.
“I think it’s cool that they
let us see real-world situa-tions,
so that when we get out
into the real world we’ll know
what to do.”
Caillouet said the students
go on many different trips
and recently took a trip to see
a residence being built by an
interior designer.
“Just last week we went
and saw a local designer’s stu-dio
in Montgomery,” she said.
“Two weeks ago we went to
Peachtree City, Ga., and went
to a lighting lab so we could
learn about lighting fixtures
and wattages and stuff that
normal people don’t under-stand.”
Scheid said the lab gave
presentations on lighting so
the students would be able to
make educated choices when
inspecting and choosing light
fixtures.
“In residential class, we’ve
gone to a bunch of different
construction sites, which is
cool because we can see the
different phases of construc-tion,”
Scheid said.
What may be misunder-stood
is that the interior de-sign
program is not affiliat-ed
with the architecture pro-gram
at Auburn.
“We’re with the College of
Human Sciences because we
want to focus on consumer
needs,” Caillouet said.
“We focus on personality
and that sort of thing, so it’s
so much beyond the structure
and decoration of a space.”
Rachel Suhs / DESIGN EDITOR
Nathan Simone
Online Editor
What’s fall without a boo-gie?
Scott Peek, owner of Stan-dard
Deluxe screen-printing
shop in Waverly, Ala., kept get-ting
asked that same question
ever since Standard Deluxe
hosted its first 280 Boogie in
spring of 2001.
Finally, Peek agreed.
Auburn’s own WEGL 91.1
FM will be one of the main
sponsors of the event, with dif-ferent
DJs introducing each
band that plays.
According to Scott Waters,
broadcast associate for WEGL,
the idea for the event came
about after financial compli-cations
limited WEGL in put-ting
on its own festival.
“It started off that WEGL
wanted to have its own mu-sic
festival, but we had a lit-tle
trouble getting money to-gether
to pay bands,” Waters
said. “I knew Scott Peek from
Standard Deluxe from running
sound out there, and he want-ed
to do some shows the same
night we were going to have a
festival, so I called him and we
decided to collaborate.”
WEGL has hosted some of
the artists, such as Katie Mar-tin
and the Larry Mitchell
Band, in its studio for live per-formances,
but Waters said he
hopes this event will entice
more artists to play in the stu-dio.
Waters said WEGL hopes to
broadcast the festival live on
91.1 FM and online at auburn.
edu/wegl.
The rules for the event are
simple: no glass, no dogs and
no haters. The Fall Boogie is
family-friendly, BYOB and in-formal.
Gates for the festival open
at 11 a.m. at Standard Deluxe’s
location at 1015 Mayberry Ave.
in Waverly, and from noon un-til
10 p.m. festival-goers will
be able to enjoy nine musi-cal
acts, including Kristin Di-able,
Katie Martin, Adventure
the Great, Eric Britt, the Tony
Brook Band, the Larry Mitch-ell
Band, Through the Sparks,
Bohannons and Fishergreen.
Peek said interest in a fall
music event to follow the
spring 280 Boogie has been
around for a while.
“People have mentioned for-ever
that we should do one in
the fall…it sort of fell into our
lap, since we already had three
bands booked,” Peek said. “We
had these shows booked for
four or five months, and then
Scott Waters from WEGL con-tacted
me about collaborat-ing.”
Opelika resident Lar-ry
Mitchell, lead guitarist of
the Larry Mitchell Band, will
be bringing his trio’s unique
sound of “guitar-based instru-mental
music, with elements
of funk, blues and a lot of lust,”
Standard Deluxe hosts first Fall Boogie
Graphic courtesy of Standard Deluxe
Designer Billy
Reid’s top looks
» See Boogie, B6
“One that fits and can stand a
good deal of wear.”
“One that looks good on the
beach or dressed up.”
“A sweatshirt to support your
school’s football team, preferably
in Oxford grey.”
“They will always be a classic
for fall.”
“I like them oversized for girls.”
Alabama native Billy Reid shares his favorite looks
for the Southern woman with The Plainsman.
Navy Blazer
White Oxford
Button-down
School Spirit
Sweatshirt
Leather Riding
Boots
Hunting Jacket
Graphics by Lane Jones
DESIGN
Intrigue B6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 27, 2012
Mallory Barrett
Writer
While most of the students
have been busy enjoying the
cooler weather, celebrating
the return of football season
or preparing for midterms, the
cast members of “Nickel and
Dimed,” the first production
of the theatre department’s
2012–13 season, have been
busy doing what they love:
performing.
The play, which opened to
a sold-out crowd last week,
is a dramedy written by Joan
Holden and is directed by pro-fessor
Chris Qualls.
“‘Nickel & Dimed’ is the sto-ry
of Barbara Ehrenreich, a
middle-aged investigative re-porter
who goes undercov-er
in several minimum-wage
jobs,” said cast member Winn
Caroll, senior in history.
“The play recounts her mul-tiple
low-wage jobs and the
characters she meets along
the way.”
The production is differ-ent
in that several of the ac-tors
play more than one char-acter.
Also, the main stage
of the Telfair B. Peet Theatre
has been renovated to mir-ror
a “theatre-in-the-round”
atmosphere, designed by the
department’s own professor
Robin Jaffe.
Like many of the theatrical
shows, rehearsals for “Nick-el
& Dimed” began only a few
days after auditions and, in
this case, only days after the
first day of class.
“We were cast one week-end,
and the next day we had
rehearsal,” said Chelsea Allen,
junior in theatre and business.
“It was an immediate ‘wel-come
back to college’ where
you have 800 things to do at
once. Most people don't real-ize
the commitment put into a
play, but after having rehears-al
every day for four hours, you
definitely learn a thing or two.”
Although the play is geared
toward an older audience, it
still appeals to Auburn stu-dents
and has been success-ful
since it opened Thursday,
Sept. 20.
“I think the audience will
appreciate that we are chal-lenging
them,” said lead ac-tress
Anna Caudle, sophomore
in theatre.
“They’re smart; they can
definitely handle the challeng-es
we present them with dur-ing
the show,” she said.
The production features
costumes designed by Tracy
Oleinick, lighting designed by
Fereshteh Rostampour and
sound design by Kelly Walker.
“Nickel and Dimed” is free
to Auburn University students,
and tickets are $15 for the gen-eral
public and $10 for Auburn
faculty and staff.
Performances continue
through Saturday, Sept. 29 and
begin at 7:30 p.m.
More information regarding
the theatre department and
upcoming productions can be
found at cla.auburn.edu/the-atre.
“We were cast one
weekend and the
next day we had
rehearsal. It was
an immediate
‘welcome back to
college’ where you
have 800 things to
do at once. Most
people don’t realize
the commitment
put into a play,
but after having
rehearsal every
day for four hours,
you definitely learn
a thing or two.”
—Chelsea Allen
junior in theatre and business
Boogie
» From B5
I’ve been known to go to
extreme lengths to avoid cold
weather: using breakfast bur-ritos
as hand warmers on the
walk to class, covering my-self
with sheets of loose-leaf
paper in Haley Center and
taking shots from a flask of
Theraflu warming liquid. I
came to Auburn in large part
because I was promised a
short and very mild winter.
When September rolled
around I reflexively started
to indulge in my favorite rites
of fall until, trying to sip hot
cider on a 90-degree day, it
dawned on me: a mild winter
meant a nearly nonexistent
autumn.
A more sensible woman
might have chosen to give
up, return to tank tops and be
content to sunbathe all the
way into November. But not
me. My strategy is to adopt
the attire and activities of
the season in hopes that the
weather will follow.
The mornings have been
deceptively crisp this past
week. Take this as license
to break out your thickest
scarves, cardigans, coats and
boots. When you step out the
door at 9 a.m., you will feel
well-prepared for the early
morning chill. By 11 a.m.,
you’re scrambling down the
concourse, tearing off lay-ers
in a heat-induced frenzy.
The beauty of fall is you can
conceal yourself in so many
layers of knits, wool, cotton,
leather and fur that the shape
of your body becomes largely
indistinguishable.
Even while I’m huffing it
past peers who are dressed in
more seasonally appropriate
outfits, I refuse to acknowl-edge
that my pea coat has no
place in 86-degree weather.
Everyone looks more ador-able
in outerwear. If that
means suffering a heatstroke
for the sake of ushering in au-tumnal
style, so be it.
Along with the fall comes
an entire palette of new nov-elty
items that scientists have
figured out how to make
taste like a pumpkin. To get
into the spirit of the season,
you should make a point to
indulge in something pump-kin-
flavored at least twice a
day. Coffee shops have rolled
out a spectrum of flavors that
range from pumpkin spice
latte to pumpkin spice chai to
pumpkin spice white choco-late
mocha.
Pair that with a pump-kin
doughnut and a piping
hot bowl of pumpkin soup,
and try to ignore the beads
of sweat that start to trickle
down your forehead.
With enough preparation
and the air conditioning set
on a crisp 66 degrees, you
can almost forget that your
friends keep inviting you over
to swim.
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Strategizing for a faux fall
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Lane@
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and
Dimed
Nickel
Telfair B. Peet
Theatre opened the
2012–13 season to
a sold-out crowd
and said concert-goers can
expect a lot of good times.
“People can expect some
funky rock,” Mitchell said. “We
try to be entertaining when
we perform live, and I like to
go out and mix and meet with
people in the crowd a little bit.
Russ Garner (drummer) will
have some really great solos.”
Kristin Diable will also be
performing as part of a trio,
and was convinced to play the
festival by friends who had
played in Waverly. Her pre-vious
experience with Stan-dard
Deluxe also helped con-vince
her.
Diable describes her mu-sic
as “roots music, based on
the early traditional Ameri-can
of folk, blues, Americana
and soul.”
Diable usually performs
with her backing band, The
City, but said fans can still ex-pect
to rock ‘n’ roll with the re-duced
trio.
Peek said the event has lim-ited
the amount of commer-cial
vendors to 10, allowing
businesses to offer a variety
of unique wares to concert-goers.
“Folks should be prepared
to come out and do some
Christmas shopping, because
it’s not too early to start think-ing
about that,” Peek said. “It’s
going to be a neat little run of
unique gifts and items.”
Peek would like to make
the Fall Boogie an annual
event, but said he’s waiting
to see how this one turns out
first.
“It’s always good (to have
an event like this), because
it gives people something to
look forward to,” Peek said.
“You can see a lot of bands for
not that much money.”
In case of inclement weath-er,
the show will be moved in-doors
to The Railyard in Ope-lika.
Food vendors will include
Mama Mocha’s, The Over-all
Company, Wickles Pick-les,
Wilton’s Catering and the
food truck Mac the Cheese.
Tickets will be $15 at the
door or $10 in advance pay-ment
online or with a valid
student ID.
Peek summed up how he
hopes the event will go, as-suming
favorable weather.
“It’ll be a nice fall afternoon
in the country,” Peek said.
“Hang out, listen to some mu-sic
and catch a little sun.”
All Photos Courtesy of Auburn Photographic Services
Main: Anna Caudle, lead actress, said she thinks the audience will appreciate the challenging show.
Top: “Nickel and Dimed” is the story of an investigative reporter who goes undercover in low-paying jobs.
Bottom: “Nickel and Dimed” is first production of the theatre department’s 2012-13 season.
Graphic by Lane Jones
Thursday, September 27, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue B7
Melody Kitchens
Intrigue Editor
Raising $110,000 may seem
like a lofty goal to some, but
for Morgan Dunn, it’ll take a
little planning—and a lot of
faith.
“It’s just knowing that I
have to surrender to the Lord,”
said Dunn, sophomore in hu-man
development and family
studies. “Ultimately, it will be
the Lord who provides.”
The purpose of raising
these funds stems directly
from a recent trip to Zambia,
Africa, where Dunn said she
realized her passion for the
orphans of Zambia.
Family Legacy Missions In-ternational
has built more
than 20 homes in Zam-bia
since 2008 for orphans
through the Tree of Life pro-gram,
with a total goal of 50
homes. Now, Dunn wants to
add another home named Al-den’s
House.
Alden Malachowski attend-ed
Dunn’s high school, Re-gents
Schools of Austin, Tex-as,
and Dunn said the school
was inspired by Malachows-ki’s
spirit and her fight against
leukemia.
Malachowski was diag-nosed
with leukemia in May
2008, and she passed away in
December 2009. Dunn said
she wants the orphans of
Zambia to know Malachows-ki’s
story, too.
“All during her life, Alden
was full of joy,” Dunn said.
“Alden’s sweet but fighting
spirit and her pure joy for life
will be a model and reminder
to those orphans that through
the trials and tribulations of
their own lives, the joy of the
Lord is their strength. It is
only appropriate to honor Al-den’s
death by providing these
orphans with only a little taste
of what we know Alden is ex-periencing
now.”
In the summer of 2011,
Dunn embarked on her first
trip to Zambia through the
encouragement of her high
school mentor Ellen Tucker.
“I was a really big volleyball
player in high school, and so
I was always training for the
junior Olympics in the sum-mer,”
Dunn said. “I had al-ways
wanted to go to Zambia,
but I just could never find the
time.”
After making a deal with
her volleyball coach, Dunn
visited Zambia, and “just fell
in love with it,” returning the
following summer for more
involvement with the orphans
at Camp Life.
Camp Life, a program
through FLMI, is similar to
Vacation Bible School, Dunn
said. Through Camp Life, the
orphans at camp can meet
with sponsors through the
Father’s Heart program. Or-phans
can be then placed in
the gated community of Tree
of Life.
In each home in Tree of
Life, the orphans live with
a Zambian mother, and the
children attend school each
day, as well as complete daily
activites such as chores.
“There’s so many orphans
in Zambia, but when you
put a name with a face, it be-comes
so much more person-al,”
Dunn said. “At Tree of Life,
they’re just the happiest kids
you’ve ever seen in your life.
They realize what Tree of Life
has done for them, and it’s a
beautiful picture of what the
Gospel has done for them.”
Dunn said she felt a calling
to build a home in Tree of Life
for Malachowski, and after a
year of processing the over-whelming
logisitics, Dunn re-turned
to Zambia in the sum-mer
of 2012.
After her second extended
trip, Dunn said she was more
than ready to begin fundrais-ing
for Alden’s House.
In the short time between
her trip to Zambia and coun-seling
at another summer
camp, Dunn began writ-ing
and sending support let-ters,
creating a website and
sketching ideas for T-shirts
and wristbands.
After a whirlwind of plan-ning,
Dunn is now selling T-shirts
and wristbands for the
future development of Alden’s
House.
To support Alden’s House
by purchasing a T-shirt or
wristband, email Dunn at
mdunn11@me.com.
For other donations, vis-it
treeoflife.org/aldenshouse.
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“There’s so many
orphans in
Zambia, but when
you put a name
with a face, it
becomes so much
more personal. At
Tree of Life, they’re
just the happiest
kids you’ve ever
seen in your life.
They realize what
Tree of Life has
done for them,
and it’s a beautiful
picture of what
the Gospel has
done for them.”
—Morgan Dunn
Sophomore, human development
and family studies
Courtesy of Morgan Dunn
Camp Life, a program similar to Vacation Bible School, is held each summer for the orphans of Zambia.
Courtesy of Morgan Dunn
Through Camp Life, the orphans at camp can meet with sponsors through the Father’s Heart program.
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A broad background, a
broad portfolio of complet-ed
works, a broad choice for
RTVF and extracurricular
projects, and a broad goal with
his degree: the term “broad”
is sometimes given a nega-tive
connotation as it is of-ten
a substitute for the word
“vague.”
However, in the case of
Alessio Summerfield, senior
in radio, television and film,
“broad” describes his open-ness
to new possibilities, and
ultimately great opportuni-ties.
Being an assistant in the
Media and Digital Resources
Lab at the library and a vid-eographer
for the College of
Liberal Arts, as well as the fa-ther
of the AU New Media
Club, which he will preside
over for the next two semes-ters,
Summerfield said he has
made a broad variety of efforts
to produce great media works
while assisting others in their
media endeavors as well.
Originally from England,
the Summerfield family
moved to his mother’s home
country, Sicily, where Alessio’s
sister was born.
They then lived in Virginia
for a short time before making
their way further south to var-ious
cities in