2012-10-18 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, October 18, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 22, 16 Pages
Sonya Lovejoy
Community Reporter
Just two short years ago, the
Auburn Tigers won the na-tional
championship and were
on top of the college football
mountain. After Saturday’s
loss to Ole Miss, Auburn has
dropped to last place in the
SEC West and holds the lon-gest
active losing streak in SEC
games.
This losing streak has im-pacted
local restaurants, bars
and travel accommodation fa-cilities.
Businesses that rely on
sports to sell their menu items
and drinks have seen the most
impact. Louis Williams, owner
of Balcony Bar and Fishizzles
Fish and Skrimps, has noted a
30 percent loss in the last two
years. Williams said Auburn’s
losing streak is affecting game
times, which in turn affects
business.
“Another big component is
what time of day we play,” Wil-liams
said. “If we’re having a
winning record, we get prime
time game slots and night
games. But when our record
is not so good we get 11 a.m.
games. That has people in and
out of the city in one day. No
folks are staying until Sunday
or staying out late downtown
after rolling Toomer’s.”
Multiple bar owners have
also noticed a drop in nightlife
and, consequently, revenue.
Skybar Café owner Daniel
Grider, said business has dra-matically
changed since 2010
when Auburn won the nation-al
championship.
Skybar Café has also seen a
30 percent decline in the last
two years.
“We have a little less reve-nue
due to the fact that a lot
of football fans aren’t coming
to the games,” Grider said. “Ar-kansas
didn’t bring a single fan
that I could see.”
University Station RV Re-sort,
an Auburn football tail-gate
community, has also been
affected by the Tigers’ football
season. While owners Mathan
and Jill Holt have recorded a
slight decline, they attribute
that loss to the economy and
an election year, in addition
to the Tigers’ football perfor-mance.
“We always do better when
Auburn wins, but the Auburn
family really is ‘All In,’ because
it only seems to diminish our
sales marginally,” Holt said.
	
While some businesses have
seen declines since Auburn’s
national championship win, e
business owners continue to
show support for the Tigers.
“We struggled mightily in
2003 and went undefeated in
2004,” Grider said. “So miracles
are possible. Don’t give up on
Auburn because Auburn will
never give up on you. Enjoy
Auburn as you always have.”
Music City match-up
Will the Tigers hit their stride
against Vanderbilt?
Preview on B1
Tigers’ losing streak slows local businesses
Poetic Justice
Maya Angelou visits The Plains
Sunday, Oct. 29 for “Angelou
and the Arts”
Intrigue / b5
Capitol on The Plains
Legislatures visit
campus to discuss higher
education.
Campus / a3
Beer for my Tigers
Auburn graduate Jason
Wilson brings Back Forty
brew to life.
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SGA campaign spending cut
SGA approves bill limiting campaign funds for future elections
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
At Auburn’s Student Coun-cil
meeting Monday, Oct. 15,
Jacob Dean, College of Liber-al
Arts senator, proposed a bill
to limit campaign budgets for
SGA positions.
The bill states that these
campaigns’ expenditures lim-it
the president to $750, orig-inally
$1,500; vice president
to $750, originally $1,500;
treasurer to $750, originally
$1,500; Miss Auburn to $750,
originally $1,000; Miss Home-coming
stays the same at
$750; school/college senator
to $100, originally $175; at-large
senator to $125, original-ly
$250; and school/college of-ficer
to $75, originally $125.
“Elections have become
more about who can provide
the best image and who can
sell the most T-shirts,” Dean
said.
Aurielle Williams, senator
for the College of Human Sci-ences,
agrees with passing the
bill to make the campaigns
less of a popularity contest.
“I think by lowering the
price that each person can
spend to something more rea-sonable,
more students will be
able to participate,” Williams
said. “Also, students who are
running will have to use more
creative ideas.”
Wesley Clendinen, senator
for College of Agriculture, dis-agrees
that gimmicks are not
important.
“I feel like students will still
be bombarded on the con-course
without gimmicks,”
Clendinen said.
In 2009, the campaign bud-get
was increased from $1,200
to $1,500.
Others who opposed the
bill stress that gimmicks are
what get students involved in
the campaigns.
“We have 25,000 students,
and these elections are meant
to reach out to all of those stu-dents,”
said Amy Anne Olsen,
senator at-large. “Ever since
the increase in budget since
2009, there has been voter par-ticipation
increase.”
Dean also said lowering the
budget limit will help others
who may not necessarily be
able to afford the $1,500 cam-paign
fund.
Olabode O. Anise, senator
for the College of Engineering,
agrees with the bill.
“I think we all should sup-port
some kind of decrease,”
Anise said. “If you remember,
we talked about making SGA
more accessible to everybody,
and I think doing something
like this would help.”
Another point hit in the dis-cussion
was money lost by any
losing opponent in elections.
“If someone ran a cam-paign
and used person-al
money to fund that cam-paign,
along with donations
from other organizations, this
puts a huge financial burden
on themselves and their par-ents
to fund something that
they’re interested in,” said Ste-ven
Sheffield, senator for the
College of Business. “For stu-dents
that lose that election
that’s money and time that
they spent that they would
just lose.”
Those opposed believe
more research should have
been done before passing the
bill.
Dean clarified that hours
upon hours of research have
been done.
“This bill is not arbitrary,” he
said. “We’ve done hours of re-search
and believe this is what
students want.”
SGA positions
affected by
Amendment
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Miss Auburn
Miss Homecoming
Senators
Senator-at-large
Officers
“Elections have become more about
who can provide the best image
and who can sell the most T-shirts.
It needs to be more about the
candidates’ platforms and how they
can take the University forward.”
—Jacob Dean
SGA Senator
Medical college
could decrease
training quality
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
Alabama Osteopath-ic
Medical Association has
voiced concerns about Au-burn’s
new medical school
through a letter to Presi-dent
Gogue and Gov. Robert
Bentley.
“We want to do what is
right for the profession of
osteopathic medicine,” said
Brent Boyett, president-elect
of ALOMA. “We believe
at this time the additional
medical school would put
too much stress on the sup-ply
of applicants and supply
of quality training sites.”
Boyett said everyone in
the association was part of
the decision to send the let-ter.
“We opened up this ques-tion
to our general member-ship
back in our summer
meeting,” Boyett said. “There
were even people there that
were Auburn graduates and
others that had close con-nections
with Auburn Uni-versity.
With those facts
that were presented, it was
an unanimous vote that we
write a letter of concern to
President Gogue and Gov.
Bentley.”
So far the association has
not received a response from
Gogue, but the Edward Via
College of Osteopathic Med-icine
sent out a statement
addressing the letter and its
concerns.
“Auburn and VCOM have
not had the opportunity to
meet with the association
yet,” said Dixie Tooke-Rawl-ins,
dean and executive vice
president of VCOM.
ALOMA’s concerns re-volve
around the quality and
quantity of clinical rotations
available for third and fourth
year medical students, Boy-ett
said.
“It is not enough to talk
about the classroom train-ing,”
Boyett said. “You have
to be able to address clinical
training as well.”
E. Jason Hatfield, former
president of the ALOMA,
said although Alabama may
be able to support four med-ical
schools, adding anoth-er
medical school this soon
could be troublesome for
people in charge of clinical
rotations.
Boyett said adding an ad-ditional
150 freshmen med-ical
school seats to the 150
that are currently being add-ed
by Alabama College of
Osteopathic Medicine in Do-than
would dilute the qual-ified
applicant pool at both
medical schools.
“This could create a re-cruitment
competition that
could be detrimental to both
Auburn’s medical school and
Alabama College of Osteo-pathic
Medicine in Dothan,
Alabama,” Boyett said.
Tooke-Rawlins said Au-burn
has done the necessary
groundwork to ensure Au-burn
medical students will
have enough training for fu-ture
careers.
“We did the due diligence
required to assure we could
provide a high quality clin-ical
training program and
develop new residencies
for the students when they
graduate,” Tooke-Rawlins
said.
Boyett believes Auburn’s
medical school has not tak-en
the right steps to give its
students everything to pre-pare
them for medical ca-reers.
“(The University’s)
contributions to our state,
region and the world is with-out
question, but we believe
that the leadership has been
poorly advised with regard
to this matter.”
Our View:
Is Gene Chizik’s time at
Auburn coming to an
end?
View the editorial on A4.
Emily Morris / Assistant Photo Editor
Balcony Bar is one of several business that has seen a decline in
overall sales due to a losing football team.
Danielle Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
With a decrease in budget for SGA elections, students walking on the concourse could see fewer campaign signs from candidates.
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 18, 2012
Oct. 11 – North College Street
Second-degree theft of U.S. cur-rency,
purse and wallet between
12:01–1 a.m.
Oct. 11-12 – Innovation Drive
Third-degree criminal mischief between
4:30 p.m. Oct. 11–6 a.m. Oct. 12
Oct. 12 – West Magnolia Avenue and
North College Street
Third-degree assault between 1:30
a.m.–1:35 a.m.
Oct. 12 – South Gay Street
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
10–10:15 p.m.
Oct. 13 – Lee Road 53
Harassment report
Oct. 13-14 – Golf Club Drive
Auto breaking and entering between
11 a.m. Oct. 13–4 p.m. Oct. 14
Oct. 14 – North Dean Road
Third-degree theft of a 24-pack of
beer between 8:15–8:30 p.m.
Oct. 14 – East Glenn Avenue
Third-degree theft of a bicycle be-tween
7 a.m.–4:15 p.m.
Oct. 14-15 – Moores Mill Road
Auto breaking and entering between
11 p.m. Oct. 14–2 p.m. Oct. 15.
Oct. 15 – North Donahue Drive
Third-degree criminal trespass be-tween
2:50–3:06 p.m.
Oct. 15 – North Cary Drive
Third-degree burglary of jewelry
between 10 a.m.–3:55 p.m.
Oct. 15-16 – Devall Drive
First-degree theft of a mounted
welder trailer between 5 p.m. Oct.
15–7 a.m Oct. 16.
Oct. 16 – South College Street
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
5:25–5:30 p.m.
Oct. 16 – Opelika Road
Third-degree theft of men’s clothing
between 6 p.m.–6:20 p.m.
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
Crime Reports for Oct. 10 – Oct. 16, 2012 DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn
Oct. 10 – Oct. 16, 2012
■ Robert Guice, 23, Auburn
Saturday, Oct. 13, 2:45 a.m. at West Magnolia Street and
Hemlock Drive
■ Latoya Cameron, 28, Tallassee
Saturday, Oct. 13, 1:40 a.m. on Interstate 85
■ Julianna Myers, 20, Fairfax, Va.
Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:52 a.m. at Opelika Road and
East University Drive
■ Milton Patrick Jr., 31, Loachapoka
Sunday, Oct. 14, 6:07 p.m. on Mary Brooks Drive
■ Timothy Casebolt, 24, Auburn
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 9:02 p.m. on South Gay Street
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Writer
In the height of breast cancer aware-ness
month, the Auburn family will be
coming together Saturday, Oct. 19 on
the AU Student Center green space
from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. for the All In, All
Pink breast cancer awareness event.
The programs that are involved in-clude
University Outreach, the Office of
Public Service and the Kappa Chi Chap-ter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
This is the second year the event has
been up and running, and it was orga-nized
to unite, honor and raise aware-ness.
First-year attendee, August Hay-wood,
who is also a speaker at the
event, said she will be speaking from an
awareness standpoint.
She explained she was recently diag-nosed
with breast cancer this summer
when she found a lump in her breast in
early May.
“After I found the lump in early May,
I kept a close eye on it, and by the end
of May the lump was bigger,” Haywood
said.
Haywood took precautions and
went to the doctor.
“After evaluations, I got an ultra-sound
and the lump was removed. We
did a biopsy on the lump and found
cancer,” Haywood said.
Haywood said by July 2012, she had a
mastectomy, during which both breasts
were removed.
“I started chemotherapy in August
and did it every Friday,” Haywood said.
She stressed that it’s important for
women to investigate and detect for
breast cancer earlier, rather than later.
She said women should start looking
around 20–30 years old rather than the
typical 30–40 years old.
Haywood made it clear she wanted
women “not too far removed from col-lege”
to be more aware of their bodies to
avoid getting ill at any cost.
In regard to the cancer, the high
school English teacher said, “I’ve been
pretty good. I let my students know that
some days I may not be 100 percent,
and they are wonderful. So far, I’ve been
on a regular schedule.”
Caralise Hunt, School of Nursing stu-dent,
said she hopes to make this event
as successful as last year’s.
“I did the event last year and was
able to see first-hand effects of building
awareness,” she said.
Hunt has been a nurse for several
years and has seen the issues wom-en
face.
“We will have a table set up where
the nursing students will be,” Hunt
said.
She said they will have fliers and
give out information on breast cancer
and care.
“We will have a model breast out
so people can demonstrate on how to
test themselves,” Hunt said. “Hopeful-ly,
we’ll have privacy curtains.”
Hunt said by being involved with
this event, she expects to “provide
women with information that they
weren’t aware of.”
For example, Hunt said most wom-en
aren’t aware of the free mammo-gram
services the Nursing School pro-vides.
“Auburn University Outreach is
pleased to be working with Alpha Kap-pa
Alpha Sorority and several com-munity
partners on raising awareness
and celebrating life, as it relates to this
very important health issue,” said Roy-rickers
Cook, assistant vice president
for University Outreach.
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
Auburn’s Inventors and En-trepreneurs
Club is bringing
accessibility and structure to
students with business ideas.
The AU Start-Up Challenge
is for any Auburn student or
Auburn graduate since 2010
that has an idea he or she
wants to create a business
from, said Clint Jarvis, presi-dent
of Auburn’s Inventors and
Entrepreneurs Club.
“It’s just a way to give people
an actual route,” Jarvis said.
“Everybody has ideas, espe-cially
in the business school,
and everybody wants to have
or start their own company,
so this is a way to give them a
structure to make it happen.”
Participants will form
teams of up to three people to
compete.
“We’re trying not to have the
teams get too big, so they don’t
lose focus,” Jarvis said.
Three judges will vote on
each team’s business, which
can include ideas ranging from
apps to manufactured prod-ucts.
One of the judges will be Jim
Corman, founder of the Au-burn
Angel Network, entrepre-neur
investors.
The first-place winner will
receive $3,000, followed by
$1,000 for second place. Both
first and second winners will
also receive a place in the Au-burn
Business Incubator.
John D. Weete, professor
and assistant vice president
for Technology Transfer and
Communications, said Au-burn’s
business incubator,
which helps young, start-up
and early-stage businesses be
successful, will play a big role
in the challenge.
“Along with the prizes, we
will provide space and services
in the incubator for students
to become successful,” Weete
said. “We want to get more
students involved in entrepre-neurship
and dealing with re-al-
life businesses.”
The incubator is also avail-able
to any Auburn students
looking for guidance with
their business, said Doug War-rington,
director of business
development for the Office of
Technology Transfer.
“Every student at Auburn
who is interested in starting a
business and is serious enough
to go out and do what is neces-sary
to do that, we would like
to talk to them,” Warrington
said.
Along with providing men-tors
in the competition, stu-dents
can look to the incuba-tor
for help starting their busi-nesses
after the challenge is
over.
“There are spaces available
now for students to buy into
at the incubator,” Warrington
said. “You can rent spaces in
the incubator just like the oth-er
commercial businesses.”
This is the first year the AU
Start-Up Challenge is taking
place at Auburn.
“In the past, there really
hasn’t been any start-up com-munity,”
Jarvis said. “We want
the kids on campus to under-stand
that there are resources
on campus to take their idea
and make it into a business.”
The past business compe-titions
at Auburn had all sur-rounded
theoretical business-es,
Warrington said.
“In the past we were only
looking for business plans, but
through the efforts of the incu-bator
we are now looking for
real businesses,” Warrington
said. “A lot of the students who
showed up for the first infor-mation
session had ideas for
businesses already.”
The goal of this challenge is
to bring students from all dif-ferent
colleges on campus to-gether,
Weete said.
“For example, you may have
a student who has an idea
about an app, but that per-son
doesn’t have the comput-er
skills to develop that app,”
Weete said. “So you match up
a computer science person
with a business or idea person
and you begin to build a busi-ness.”
Auburn’s Inventors and En-trepreneurs
Club stresses the
same goal of diversity in its
club.
“My favorite part of the club
is, for example, usually engi-neering
students are their own
way and business students are
their own way, so they would
never necessarily hang out on
their own,” said Milton Trevi-no,
club vice president. “This is
a chance for both to come to-gether.
We have a lot of social
events where we just relax and
go get some pizza and make
friends with people that think
a lot differently than you, but
find that you actually have a
lot in common.”
Through joint efforts of the
Auburn Inventors and Entre-preneurs
Club and Auburn’s
Business Incubator, Auburn
students will have various re-sources
to chose from when
searching for ways to start a
business, even after the chal-lenge
ends.
“After the competition, they
get the ribbon,” Jarvis said.
“They get the money, but now
what do they do? They can go
to the incubator and actually
get their business started.”
To check out more informa-tion
on the AU Start-Up Chal-lenge
visit AUStartUpChal-lenge.
org.
Business competition jump-starts student entrepreneurs
Emily Moris / assista nt photo editor
Breast cancer survivor Melanie Knause will speak at the All In, All Pink event.
All In, All Pink event promotes cancer awareness
Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
Annie Faulk
Writer
Five Alabama legislators spoke on
higher education, legislative process-es
and the economy in a panel spon-sored
by an SGA event called Capitol
on the Plains.
In attendance were Speaker of the
House Mike Hubbard, Rep. Mary Sue
McClurkin, Rep. Pebblin Warren, Sen.
Tom Whatley and Sen. Phil WIlliams.
“In order to be a good advocate,
you have to do your homework,” War-ren
said. “You got to know, number
one, what you want to advocate, and
you got to also know what your true
feelings are.”
Warren has 38 years of experience
in higher education, with 30 years in
student services.
“So often, people jump on oth-er
folks’ bandwagon and they don’t
know what the real issues are,” War-ren
said. “You don’t always have to
agree with everybody, but as long as
you can work cooperatively and share
your ideas, you can get things accom-plished.”
The Rolling Reserve Act, put in
place Oct. 1, was one issue discussed
at the event.
The act cuts the state education
budget by millions of dollars at the
beginning of the year in order to avoid
proration, mid-year budget cuts that
occur when money runs out.
“This was overdue,” McClurkin
said. “We needed to do something to
keep our budgets from being prorat-ed.
That affects not only tuition, but a
lot of other things.”
McClurkin said budgets prorated
nine times during the last 30 years.
Under the Rolling Reserve Act, the
projected budget is based on a previ-ous
15-year average of revenue to the
state. In previous years, the budget
was based on projections of revenues.
McClurkin said the Rolling Reserve
Act allows the budget to have solid
numbers and not wishful thinking of
revenues.
“In the way it would affect tuition
costs is that it would help them re-main
more stable,” McClurkin said. “I
don’t know that our budget totally af-fects
your tuition costs, because the
state does not fully fund higher edu-cation.”
Students who attended were able
to ask questions of the legislators af-ter
the panel to gain more insight into
current state policy.
“It’s good to know we have a high
value on education; one stat said we
have one of the highest education
budgets in the country,” said James
Sappington, junior in marketing. “It’s
good to know that the state is mak-ing
proactive measures to reduce the
debt and they are being responsible
with their money.”
Alabama is one of only three states
in the entire nation that has two sep-arate
budgets. Education is funded
by one budget, and the General Fund
covers all other items.
“The Rolling Reserve that has been
put in place has solidified and sta-bilized
the educational side,” Wil-liams
said, as a member of the Gen-eral
Fund Committee. “It is showing
positive growth and showing things
we hoped it would; the general fund,
not so much.”
Williams said there are initiatives
underway to streamline the govern-ment
and effectively use the reve-nues.
“We literally spend money some-times
and can’t even tell where it is
going, because it is not set up in what
we call a business-like or efficient
method,” Williams said.
Williams said he is a Senate liaison
to the Information Technology Com-mittee.
He said he will present his
findings on revenue loss in terms of
technology and Internet taxes.
“We can’t tell where all the mon-ey
goes,” Williams said. “Think about
it like this: what if you were going to
set up a budget for your household, so
you would know what you had every
month, but you had no idea what you
spent on your car? That’s the way we
are with IT.”
Williams said the IT costs are
blended into other budgeted items
and are difficult to keep track of be-cause
of budget codes. He said he
plans to have unified codes for buying
computer software and equipment.
He said every department pays
separate license fees for computer
software and equipment, but if the
state had a unified licensing process,
millions of dollars would be saved.
“Our first priority is to pay back the
money to the Alabama Trust Fund,”
Hubbard said. “That’s not something
we take lightly. I took it as a boost of
confidence that people trust that we
are going to do the right things with
the money.”
The Alabama voters approved
a constitutional amendment last
month that allowed money to be
transfered from the Alabama Trust
Fund to the General Fund for three
years.
Hubbard said although not in the
legislation, there is a plan to repay the
money transferred from the Alabama
Trust Fund. He said there is a 10-year
plan, but he hopes to pay back the
money by 2014.
“Governments really do not create
anything, certainly don’t create jobs
or wealth,” Hubbard said. “The pri-vate
sector is what creates the jobs
and the wealth.”
Hubbard said the three areas he
particularly wants to focus on in the
upcoming legislative session are pub-lic
safety, IT and streamlining the Leg-islature.
Audri Larsen, freshman in bio-chemistry,
said the panel was inter-esting
because it showed the differ-ence
between policy in Alabama and
her home state, Tennessee.
“We are the ones who will be af-fected
by the future, and if we don’t
pay attention to it early on, then we
won’t know what’s going on when we
get old enough when things affect us,”
Larsen said.
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Letter to the Editor
His View
As the chair of the Auburn Universi-ty
Department of Theatre, I would like
to take this opportunity to respond and
apologize to Jonathan McKinney (letter
to the editor, Oct. 4) and all of the Auburn
students who were frustrated in their at-tempts
to see our recent production of
Joan Holden’s “Nickel and Dimed.”
We usually have no problem accom-modating
students, but the particular
circumstances surrounding this produc-tion
led to certain complications and un-intended
consequences that the depart-ment
is working hard to address.
Some of these complications are due
to growing pains in our program: this
year we tripled our subscriber base (a
very good problem to have) even as
“Nickel and Dimed’s” three-quarter
thrust configuration made it necessary
to reduce the number of available seats
for the first production. In addition to
those factors, the demand for single tick-ets
spiked throughout the production’s
run, as positive word of mouth spread
throughout campus and the community.
The upshot is, we didn’t foresee how pop-ular
this production was going to be, and
our attempts to improvise solutions in
the middle of the run clearly did not work
for the students who made unsuccessful
but good-faith attempts to see the show.
To put it simply, we goofed, and as chair
of the department, I take responsibility.
Mr. McKinney indicated that depart-mental
policy makes students feel like
“second-class citizens,” and from his ex-perience
with “Nickel and Dimed,” I can
understand why he feels that way. While
his difficulty in obtaining tickets to this
production is not in any way acceptable
to us, it also represents a rare occurrence,
and one we would like to make even less
likely to happen going forward.
We have already laid the groundwork
for improving our system for distributing
student tickets. Students will be able to
go online and request seats for a perfor-mance
in advance and have their tickets
set aside at the will-call window for pick-up
on the day of the show, guaranteed.
Our program exists because of gener-ous
support from the Office of the Presi-dent,
and because of that support, we are
able to offer Auburn students tickets to
all productions free of charge.
Students are our primary stakehold-ers,
and we remain committed to serv-ing
them to the best of our ability — even
as we continue to grow our program and,
hopefully, our support with the paying
public.
Scott Phillips
Artistic Director
Chair
Auburn Theater Department
With our football team performing
less than stellar this year, I think this
is a great time for us to step back and
realize we’re still winning in many ar-eas
at Auburn, even if the SEC doesn’t
recognize these accomplishments.
While many of us may have applied
to Auburn because of our love for the
gridiron and all the traditions that
surround it, we should not forget that
we’re also receiving a world-class ed-ucation
at a land-grant, sea-grant and
space-grant university that is contin-ually
ranked as one of the best public
schools in the USA.
Take, for instance, the Harrison
School of Pharmacy. Currently listed
as one of the top in the nation (and
beating Alabama) by U.S. News &
World Report, our pharmacy program
continues to receive grants and con-tracts
to do important, and potential-ly
life-saving, drug research that you
may one day be very thankful for.
The College of Veterinary Medi-cine
is ranked even higher than the
pharmacy school (still ahead of Ala-bama,
by the way), and is one of only
37 schools of veterinary medicine in
the nation. We attract some of the
brightest and most innovative stu-dents
solving animal illnesses, some-thing
extremely important to the
economies of the rural states of the
Southeast.
We have the top fisheries program
in the world, an award given to us by
the government of China in 2008, and
it is a vital source of research, breed-ing
innovations and protection of
species.
Auburn is also a leader in rehabil-itation
counseling, helping patients
overcome physical, mental, emotion-al
and developmental disabilities.
Rarely do you hear in passing con-versations
about how our men’s swim
team has been the SEC champion for
16 years in a row (18 total), grabbed
eight NCAA championships, or how
the women have also done very well,
with five SEC and NCAA champion-ships.
You can’t run from the fact that Au-burn
has produced world-class track
and field athletes such as Maya Press-ley,
Joanna Atkins and Reuben Mc-
Coy, all of whom I watched represent
Auburn with pride at the Olympic
Track & Field trials in Eugene, Ore.
this summer.
Being a part of the “Auburn family”
that we’ve all worked so hard to culti-vate
and protect has absolutely noth-ing
to do with football. Yes, it may
pump us up during games and be a
nice thing to shout downtown, but as
Pat Dye said, “Alabama fans love Ala-bama
football. Auburn fans love Au-burn.”
And to the people who keep saying
“War damn eagle, anyway”: change
your tone before that negative tide
rolls over these beautiful Plains. Be
confident this excellent University
existed before football and will exist
long after scores cease to matter.
The “Bible Belt.” The phrase
evokes so much for me here
at Auburn: the First Baptist
Church of Opelika; friends’ Bi-ble
studies; Campus Crusade.
That Belt’s buckle is embla-zoned
with a distinctly Protes-tant
inscription, and it hasn’t
always allowed for Roman
Catholics like me to feel wel-comed.
Even dear friends of
mine have made misguided
comments about the Church
over the years. Some peo-ple
I’ve met at Auburn have
even scoffed at St. Michael’s
and implied that Catholics are
not Christians. Certainly not
all Protestants believe this,
though; just ask my boyfriend.
As I watched last week’s
vice presidential debate, my
heart fluttered when Cathol-icism
and its (i.e., Jesus’s) in-fluence
on the men’s polit-ical
views was brought up.
I thought of my Protestant
friends, and I hoped the candi-dates
wouldn’t do a disservice
to the faith. Whether one of
those men proved to be an un-principled,
willfully ignorant
“Catholic” is neither here nor
there, though. That can stay in
D.C. (just hopefully not for an-other
four years).
Indeed, the nation’s capi-tal
isn’t the only backdrop for
Christianity. A cursory glance
at the microcosm that is Au-burn
reveals that the world’s
largest Christian denomina-tion,
the Catholic Church, is
not nearly as proportional
here, but there are a multitude
of other denominations. And,
unlike sexism, racism and
any other -ism you can call to
mind, steely anti-Catholic sen-timent
has been proven to be
socially acceptable here.
Since the Church has inad-vertently
become part of the
national political discussion
this year, I’d like to use that
as an opportunity to address
some of the more common
concerns and accusations I’ve
heard from non-Catholics.
First, Catholics don’t be-lieve
the pope is all-knowing
or perfect. He is sinful, just
like the rest of humanity. Pa-pal
infallibility refers to the
handful of times in the histo-ry
of Christianity that a pope
has declared official, infallible
Church doctrine, such as when
Pope Innocent X declared Jan-senism
heretical in the 17th
century.
The Virgin Mary and the
saints are part of another com-mon
misconception. Catholics
do not worship Mary or the
saints. A “prayer to a saint” is
an arguably clumsy way of de-scribing
the heavenly version
of asking your friends, pas-tors
or even strangers to keep
you or someone else in their
prayers. If Mary and the saints
are in heaven and can hear us,
as Revelation 5:8 tells us they
can, then why would we not
ask for their prayers?
Protestants may not harp
on the matter, but the Church
and its history with science is
an exciting topic for atheists,
one filled with misinterpreta-tion
at that. According to the
Catechism, “there can nev-er
be any real discrepancy be-tween
faith and reason.” That’s
a disarmingly pragmatic po-sition
for an institution that’s
anti-science. The fact that a
Belgian priest developed the
Big Bang Theory may also
prove vexing, and Franciscan
friar Roger Bacon’s propaga-tion
of the scientific method is
sure to be dismissed by hard-ened
opponents of the faith.
There are other false pre-sumptions
about Catholics,
but the most frustrating is the
charge that Catholics aren’t
Christian. Truth be told, state-ments
like that really do hurt.
It’s been tempting to respond
to that sort of bigotry with
complacency or feelings of su-periority,
but I know that’s not
what Christian love is.
The renowned South-ern
Catholic writer Flannery
O’Connor must have had it
right when she said smugness
was “the great Catholic sin.”
Out of all those presumptions
out there, it’s one I can verify.
Affirmative action is currently an
issue in the Supreme Court, so this
topic is all too relevant.
A strong argument for affirmative
action in college admissions is that
it helps to increase diversity in the
classroom. The hope is, and I happen
to believe this, that a diverse class-room
today will lead to widespread
acceptance of different cultures, per-sonalities
and beliefs in the future. It
is meant to create a forum where we
can discuss differences and overcome
the obstacles relating to them.
Perhaps it is linked to our 81.5 per-cent
white-student population at Au-burn,
but here we hardly have such a
forum (save, I am sure, for a few open-minded
classes).
Given various choices for a group
assignment that involves a presenta-tion,
a couple options stuck out to my
group members. They were options
from which we should, apparently,
keep away. One touched on race and
the other on homosexuality. Their ob-jections:
“I don’t want to offend any-one.”
“I don’t want to touch that.” “I
don’t want it to get awkward.”
As far as the assignment went,
whatever option we chose satisfied
me. The objections to these specific
options, however, struck a chord. All
of my group members are white and,
I have inferred, straight.
Are we afraid to talk about race or
homosexuality? Of course we are.
We may not have the most diverse
campus, but diversity still exists here.
Work always toward acceptance and
appreciation of others, similar and
different.
Tyler Lahti
Senior
Accounting
Letter to the Editor
Her View
Football, take a time out; put local pride, academics in
Despite appearances, diversity is alive and well on the Plains
The Bible Belt’s
well-defined buckle
Apology from the top takes center stage
Have you noticed our football team isn’t
doing so good?
We don’t really want to admit it, but we
are losing. A lot. The Saturday, Oct. 13 loss
to Ole Miss seemed to be the last nail in the
coffin they have been building since the be-ginning
of the season. If they can’t get at
least one win in the SEC, then forfeit seems
like the only dignified way to close the sea-son.
The team members are showing up
to the games, which is good. However, it
seems once the first quarter starts, they for-get
what’s going on. Many people are quick
to blame Coach Gene Chizik, but we aren’t
sure he’s the one we should hold responsi-ble.
Yes, he is the head coach, but the team’s
failure is a result of more than just a break-down
in leadership.
Chizik is a good leader, whether you be-lieve
it or not. However, good leadership
can only go so far. We need to look at the
team as a whole when trying to figure out
why this season is so bad.
Since the end of the 2011 season, the
team has had to deal with a shooting and
multiple arrests. Some of the arrests have
involved high-profile recruits who were
supposed to lead our team to victory. In-stead,
they turned out to be the college
football equivalents of Lindsey Lohan.
All this has probably caused team mo-rale
to be almost non-existent.
Of course, changes in coaching staff have
also caused some difficulties. Scott Loeffler
and Brian VanGorder have their work cut
out for them, and it’s going to take some
time for them to make their place at Au-burn.
Basically, no one can really put all the
blame on Chizik; it’s just not fair. Anyone
calling for him to be fired needs to step
back and realize what they are demand-ing.
Building a team is a long, arduous pro-cess,
and if our recruits can keep out of jail,
we could come back next year better than
ever. If the coaching staff can learn from the
mistakes of this season, the team’s chances
could look even brighter.
Auburn has, and always will have, great
potential. So we say “War Eagle” anyway
and look forward to next year.
A pink
slip for
Chizik Ilustration by Rachel Suhs / Design Editor
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Thursday, October 18, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Community Community
City plans to protect Auburn’s oldest cemetery
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
The Historic Preservation
Commission is doing every-thing
it can to preserve the
Pine Hill Cemetery — just
short of embalming.
The Historic Preservation
Commission is looking around
other cities for different ways
to maintain and preserve the
cemetery.
“Basically the cemetery is
one of the oldest historic re-sources
in the city of Auburn,”
said Matt Mosley, senior plan-ner
for the Auburn planning
department and staff repre-sentative
for the Historic Pres-ervations
Commission. “It’s
still an active cemetery as well.
There is just a lot of discussion
about how a cemetery func-tions
and is maintained and
how to preserve the history
while operating it as well.”
At its last meeting, the Com-mission
discussed the want
for new techniques to upkeep
the cemetery and asked Mos-ley
about the cemetery and
how maintenance was han-dled
at other cemeteries.
“The Historic Preservation
Commission, which is basi-cally
the city’s preservation
arm, asked about how main-tenance
was handled in oth-er
cemeteries,” Mosley said.
“They asked me information-al
issues about how other cit-ies
do it, whether any preser-vation
departments do main-tenance
on cemeteries and
things like that.”
Currently, Pine Hill Cem-etery
is under the jurisdic-tion
of the Parks and Recre-ation
Department; therefore
all changes to its upkeep must
come from them.
Mosley said he thinks the
different groups that work in
the cemetery prompted dis-cussion
on the way it is main-tained.
“A lot of private groups have
been working with the ceme-tery
to restore some of the old-er
tombstones and some dif-ferent
areas around the cem-etery,”
Mosley said. “The city
has worked with them quite a
bit as well.”
After looking at the way
other cities and towns main-tain
and take care of the cem-eteries
in their boundaries,
Mosley said he passed his find-ings
along to the Auburn Parks
and Recreation Department.
“I went out and asked other
cities and organizations how
they do it and replied back to
them (HPC),” Mosley said. “We
didn’t actually take any steps
or asked to change the main-tenance
of it. It’s done by our
Parks and Rec Department,
and they do a good job with it.”
Pine Hill Cemetery was es-tablished
in 1837 on land do-nated
by John J. Harper, the
founder of Auburn.
Becky Richardson, parks
and recreation director, said
the department works to be
respectful to all cemeteries
and keep them properly main-tained.
“The cemetery advisory
board has worked with the Au-burn
Cemetery trust, which is
a nonprofit group that was
formed to raise funds to assist
with projects at city of Auburn
cemeteries,” Richardson said.
The two groups have
worked together on a few proj-ects
designed to maintain
Pine Hill cemetery.
These projects include put-ting
new fencing around the
cemetery, putting a stone re-taining
wall around the front
of the cemetery where there
was erosion and new lanterns.
Richardson said maintaining
the cemetery is important to
the Parks and Recreation De-partment.
“It is important because it
is a part of our history and we
want people to be able to con-tinue
to learn from it,” Rich-ardson
said. “I think it’s im-portant
to be respectful to all
cemeteries, and that’s what we
try to do.”
Richardson said she has not
seen the findings from Mosley,
but that the maintenance of
the cemetery will remain the
same.
Back Forty taps local scene
Sonya Lovejoy
Community Reporter
Meet Jason Wilson, Au-burn
University alumnus and
founder of Back Forty Beer
Company.
Wilson was born and raised
in Gadsden and graduated
from Auburn in 2005 with a
degree in supply-chain man-agement.
He was a member of
Sigma Nu fraternity at Auburn
and said he loved every minute
of it. He also worked his entire
college career, mostly for Tru-
Green ChemLawn out of Ope-lika.
Following his Auburn days,
Wilson has worked in various
aspects of logistics and sup-ply
chain management prior
to founding Back Forty Beer
Company.
Wilson was originally in-spired
with the idea of Back
Forty Beer Company in 2003
while visiting a brewery with
family in the small ski town
of Crested Butte, Colo. Wilson
said it wasn’t just the brewery
tour that inspired him to start
Back Forty; it was the culture
of craft beer in general that re-ally
got to him.
“It took me almost 10 years
to get this operation started
after that first experience in
Crested Butte, Colo.,” Wilson
said. “The brewery tour was re-ally
just the spark that got me
headed in the right direction.”
By 2008, Back Forty began
working with the Mindvolt
Agency in Athens on label and
packaging designs for the re-lease
of its debut offering, Na-ked
Pig Pale Ale.
In March 2009, Back For-ty
Beer Company was found-ed
in Birmingham, and by
April of that same year, a deal
was reached with the Alabama
Budweiser network for state-wide
distribution of Back For-ty’s
products.
This resulted in the creation
of Alabama’s only craft brew-ery
with distribution through-out
the state.
The name Back Forty comes
from an old Southern agricul-tural
term that refers to the
“back 40” acres of a farm.
It was land that has histor-ically
gone unused because of
how far it is from the barn and
how difficult it is to maintain.
As a result, most farmers
wouldn’t bother planting it.
Likewise, Alabama has his-torically
been viewed as the
“back 40” of the craft beer
world, Wilson said.
He said most microbrewer-ies
never bothered to distrib-ute
in Alabama because the
general consensus is that ev-eryone
just drinks light beer
in the South. Wilson said he-wanted
to address this mis-conception.
“Since we were one of the
first microbreweries to open
in Alabama, we always kind
of saw ourselves as the ones
who were clearing the back 40
and planting the seed,” he said.
“Now it’s harvest time, so to
speak, and the craft beer mar-ket
in this state is booming.”
There are currently a mul-titude
of Back Forty distribu-tors
in the Auburn and Opelika
area. Halftime, Moe’s Original
Bar B Que, The Hound and Lo-co’s
Grill all carry the beer, as
do several local grocery stores.
Wilson said he views Back
Forty as a true part of the Au-burn
family.
Several of the company’s
investors are Auburn gradu-ates,
as well as its attorney, ac-countant,
packaging manager,
sales manager, procurement
manager and director of oper-ations.
“Needless to say, we believe
in Auburn and love it,” Wilson
said.
Back Forty Beer Company
is proudly brewing beers in a
27,000-square-foot facility in a
historic building in Gadsden.
Alumni brew brings back craft beer quality, returns flavor to local roots
Rebecca Croomes / Photo Editor
The headstone of Charles Stodghill Miles is alleged to be the most vandalized grave in Pine Hill Cemetery on Armstrong Street. Miles was
only a child when he died of an allergic reaction to an insect bite.
Courtesy of Back Forty Beer Company
Auburn grad Jason Wilson’s Gadsden-based brewery makes four flavors: a pale ale, Naked Pig; an Indian pale ale, Freckle Belly; a brown ale,
Truck Stop Honey; and a porter, Kudzu.
Sheila Eckman
departs Council
Nathan Simone
ONLINE EDITOR
Amidst approvals for out-door
café permits and block
parties, Councilwoman Shei-la
Eckman departed Auburn
City Council after 10 years of
service to accept a position
at the County Commission.
At the end of the meeting,
the councilmembers wished
Eckman well and allowed
her to make suggestions and
closing remarks.
Eckman urged the Coun-cil
to consider moving the
traffic light on the corner of
Mitchum Avenue and North
College Street to Bragg Ave-nue
to alleviate congestion.
Eckman also suggest-ed
that the Council give
each member a pay raise so
that young entrepreneurs
might actively participate in
City Council and still make
enough money to run a busi-ness.
“I think y’all should vote
yourselves another raise,”
Eckman said. “I brought up
the last two ones, and I’m
bringing it up a third time.
My concern is still the same.
I think about young entre-preneurs
that are unable to
participate because they’re
away from their jobs…it’s
costly for him (or her) to be
away from that business to
be able to serve on the Coun-cil.
These people are vital to
our community and I think
it’d be great to have some of
them represented.”
Eckman expressed dissat-isfaction
with the Council
being behind in comparison
to other cities.
“Last time we did that,
Charlie (Duggan) did a sur-vey
and saw what other cit-ies
were doing, and we were
way behind,” Eckman said.
“I know that we don’t do this
for the money, but I’d like you
to think about my consider-ations
to make it more acces-sible
to some people.”
Mayor Bill Ham Jr. and
City Manager Charles Dug-gan
agreed to consider the
pay increase when the ap-propriate
time for such ac-tion
was available.
Eckman’s final comments
discussed the Historic Pres-ervation
Commission, which
in her opinion was at a “stale-mate.”
“Nothing is happening
there, and I attend most of
those meetings,” Eckman
said. “When I first got on
Council, we had just got-ten
the first historic district,
which took eight years to get.
We don’t have a sign up yet…
the Commission just seems
to be stuck. They’re supposed
to be looking at a second his-toric
district, and they kind
of do, but kind of don’t. There
just doesn’t seem to be an en-ergy
level there.”
Eckman told council-members
that some mem-bers
of the Commission
thought the lack of activism
was planned.
“One of the things that I’m
hearing is that they think it’s
a planned thing that noth-ing
is happening,” Eckman
said. “They feel like some-one
is intentionally holding
things up.”
A round of applause by
councilmembers and citi-zens
in attendance ended
Eckman’s service.
Ham and Duggan signed
an agreement with the Pub-lic
Safety Department and
Auburn City Schools to pro-vide
the Auburn City School
System with resource offi-cers
and a K-9 unit for the
purpose of drug detection.
A contract was approved
to construct a $1.15 million
addition to the Frank Brown
Rec Center.
An outdoor café permit
was approved for new Au-burn
restaurant En Fuego.
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Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
Lee County is going back
to its roots by showcasing the
historical culture and tradi-tions
of East Alabama.
The Lee County Historical
Society’s 41st annual Histori-cal
Festival, Saturday, Oct. 20,
highlights the traditions and
crafts of historic Alabama.
Directly across the street
from the festival will be Syr-up
Sopping Saturday, an event
sponsored by the Loachapoka
Ruritan Club, Ladies Improve-ment
Club and the Lee County
Historical Society.
Deborah McCord, event
planner for Lee County Histor-ical
Society, said the historical
festival began in 1971 as a way
to pass on the old traditions
and keep them alive.
“The Lee County Historical
Society wanted to have a day
to invite people in to see old
timey or heritage crafts and
the historical documents and
things that we have here at the
Historical Society,” McCord
said. ”So, they had the Histor-ical
Fair.”
Lee County Historical So-ciety
saw the festival as a way
to demonstrate the historic
crafts and traditions to new
generations in order to keep
them going.
“The vendors have historical
crafts, homemade jellies and
preserves, homemade syrups,
homemade biscuits and those
kinds of things,” McCord said.
“They also have handcrafts like
basket making, pottery, wood-carvings
and other heritage
crafts. Our side of the street
still carries on that historical
and heritage flavor.”
McCord said the Syrup Sop-ping
Saturday started in 1971
because Loachapoka farm-ers
have been making the syr-up
from the early days of the
town.
“They demonstrate cook-ing
the syrup down, and they
have mills that grind the sugar
cane,” McCord said. “We also
do the syrup on this side (His-toric
Festival), and we grind
sugar cane. The kids get to go
out and see the cutting of the
cane, and we let the children
help grind the cane. They get
to taste the juice, and then the
syrup is cooked in the syrup
mill.”
The two events work to ex-pose
new generations to the
historical traditions and crafts
of East Alabama and inspire
them to continue the tradi-tions.
“We try to stick to the heri-tage
crafts like you would find
in a pioneer village,” McCord
said. “Things like pine straw
baskets, pottery, wood carv-ings,
hand crocheted and knit-ted
items, handmade loom
items.”
McCord said a lot of the pot-tery
at the events is made from
Alabama clay.
However, McCord said the
Historical Festival and Syr-up
Sopping Saturday do more
than show historical crafts and
food.
There will be musical per-formances
to represent differ-ent
musical styles from that
time, dance performances,
surrey rides, a petting zoo and
exhibits to showcase local his-tory.
McCord said the Histori-cal
Fair also works to repre-sent
the Creek Indian heritage.
Loachapoka was a Creek set-tlement.
“Loachapoka was named
by the Creek Indians,” Mc-
Cord said. “We have Creek In-dian
dancers that will be here
at the Historical Fair, and they
will perform three times dur-ing
the day. They’re very specif-ic
to the history of this region.”
The fair and Syrup Sopping
Saturday are two events the
Lee County Historical Society
put on in an effort to save the
historical traditions and crafts
of the local area.
“We’re truly trying to pre-serve
our heritage as far as
crafts, food, songs and dance
and other things that we do
here to keep it from being
lost,” McCord said. “We’re try-ing
to have it as an education-al
format so that our children
won’t forget this heritage and
can pass it on to future gener-ations.”
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Dr. Ainsley Carry, Vice President of Student Affairs, spoke about hunger and the Committee of 19.
Chandler Jones
Writer
Next time you go up for sec-onds,
consider the people who
have yet to have firsts. This
was the premise of Hunger
Week’s Empty Bowls Banquet,
held Tuesday, Oct. 16.
The banquet was organized
by the Committee of 19 and
spearheaded by Vice-Presi-dent
Azeem Ahmed, senior in
finance.
The room was set and dec-orated
in a banquet-style, but
substituting a particularly fan-cy
meal were empty bowls
placed at each seat.
“It is basically to remind ev-erybody
of the empty bowls
around the world,” said Cara
Tupps, senior in microbiolo-gy
and fundraising facilitator
for the Committee of 19. “Our
students have made the ce-ramic
bowls, decorated them,
hand-crafted. You take a bowl
and you fill it with food, and
you eat.”
The art department and the
College of Agriculture origi-nally
organized the event. The
College of Agriculture donat-ed
its Heritage Park and the
art department hand-made all
the bowls.
Tiger Dining provided the
soup and The Hotel at Auburn
University donated the dinner
rolls. Everything, down to the
plastic utensils, was donated.
“The main thing about
Empty Bowls is even though
our bowls will have food in it,
it is in honor of the people who
go to bed at night with their
bowls empty, which is over a
billion people,” Ahmed said.
“While the meal is simple and
is filling, it is simple enough
that you will remember that
the people don’t even get that
in their bowls. So that’s the
main idea”
The Banquet is based on a
larger initiative of the Empty
Bowls Project in an interna-tional
grassroots movement
against hunger.
All of the proceeds from the
banquet will be given to the
East Alabama Food Bank.
“East Alabama Food Bank, a
lot of people don’t realize, does
so much and they serve so
many entities,” said attendee
Abby Porter, senior account-ing
major. Porter is a frequent
food bank volunteer.
“We are raising all this food
and money for the East Ala-bama
Food Bank which is fac-ing
incredible amount of need,
especially in the economic
downturn, but in the last year
particularly,” Ahmed said.
Carey Bayless, senior in
English and creative writing,
is an advocacy and awareness
facilitator for the Committee
of 19. Bayless recognizes the
banquet’s place in creating re-sponsiveness
to hunger.
“What we do has eternal
worth and eternal purpose,”
Bayless said. “There are peo-ple
starving here in Opelika,
our backyard. Lee County is
actually the second hungriest
county in Alabama, and peo-ple
don’t know that. Commit-tee
of 19 exists to fight hunger
through advocacy and aware-ness,
service and fundraising.”
Martha Henk, executive di-rector
of the food bank, is re-turning
for her second year
and recognizes the statement
Empty Bowls is making.
“I really appreciate it,” Henk
said. “The bowl that I pur-chased
that evening is a bowl
that sits in my kitchen, and it
serves as a constant remind-er
that while I was fortunate
enough to have it filled with
food when I ate at the event, I
am very mindful of the people
out there who do have emp-ty
bowls and do not have that
same opportunity. So person-ally,
I find it to be very mean-ingful;
that serves to me as an
ongoing reminder.”
Henk said that banquet pro-ceeds
to the food bank will be
used to support its Backpack
program for children to be
launched within a month.
“It will be a real impact on
helping us get that program
launched,” Henk said.
Vice President for Student
Affairs Ainsley Carry, who
works closely with school
leaders like the Committee
of 19, helped preside over the
event.
“I thought it was a great
event, a good turnout, and I’m
excited it’s about awareness,”
Carry said. “It means more
people will know what’s go-ing
on. I think it was short and
sweet and right to the point.”
The event was successful,
with 150 people in attendance.
The success has motivated
Ahmed to keep the event go-ing.
“We really like to double our
number every year,” Ahmed
said. “We have been doing this
in the past, and people have re-ally
come to know us. We have
a lot of good partners in the
community, so we are hoping
to it expand it. Unfortunately, I
really hope the need for it isn’t
there, but realistically it proba-bly
will be, so we will continue
whatever we can.”
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Community Reporter
The history of Auburn re-mains
alive and well through
the preservation of Auburn’s
historic homes and buildings.
This year marks the 165th
year since Auburn’s historic
Scott-Yarbrough “Pebble Hill”
home was built.
The home’s history is filled
with a small list of people who
lived in the home, said Maiben
Beard, outreach associate for
the Caroline Draughon Center
for the Arts and Humanities.
“The Scott-Yarbrough
House was built in 1847 by Na-thaniel
and Mary Scott,” Beard
said. “The Scotts came to East
Alabama as part of a wave of
settlers who came to the area
after the United States ac-quired
the territory from the
Creek Indians.“
The Scotts had familial ties
with Auburn, and through
that, they played a role in the
development of Auburn.
“The Scotts helped build the
town of Auburn, which was
founded by Nathaniel Scott’s
half brother, John J. Harper,”
Beard said.
Nathaniel Scott died in 1863
and Mary sold the house some
time after that, said historian
Evelyn Causey.
“The records are not as well
kept, as the area was in some-what
of an upheaval,” Causey
said.
Causey, who was hired by
Auburn University to research
the history of Pebble Hill, said
there are few records of the
time after the Civil War in re-lation
to the ownership of the
home, but that the next known
owner was Mary Riley.
“Mary Riley purchased it
in 1876,” Causey said. “She’s
a very interesting person be-cause,
looking at her re-cords,
we have no idea how
she brought in any income.
She’s never listed with an oc-cupation,
but somehow she
had enough money to buy the
house.”
Riley lived in Pebble Hill un-til
her death in 1907, Causey
said.
Pebble Hill’s next tenants
were the Yarbrough fami-ly,
who bought the home in
1912. Cecil Yarbrough served
as mayor of Auburn and then
moved on to be a state repre-sentative,
Beard said.
Pebble Hill served as stu-dent
housing in the ‘60s and
‘70s, and was bought by the
Auburn Heritage Associa-tion
in 1974.
However, that was not the
only time in Pebble Hill’s histo-ry
that it was used as student
housing.
“When Nathaniel and Mary
Scott were living at the house
in 1850, they had 14 students
who were attending schools in
Auburn and lived in the house
with them,” Causey said. “They
basically boarded students
who were attending acade-mies
in the town at that time.”
Pebble Hill was donated
to Auburn Heritage Associ-ation
in the 1980s and was
then gifted to Auburn Univer-sity
in 1985, Causey said. It is
now home of Auburn’s Caro-line
Draughon Center for the
Arts and Humanities
“The location of Pebble Hill,
situated in between the Uni-versity
and the communi-ty,
is a perfect example of the
work that we do,” Beard said.
“Through our programs, we
help connect the University
with the broader community.”
Beard said CAH is working
to expand Pebble Hill’s influ-ence
and reputation in the city
of Auburn.
“The history of Pebble Hill
reflects the history of Auburn
in so many ways,” Beard said.
“We are currently working on
a website that uses Pebble Hill
as a lens to look at local, state
and national history.”
As one of the oldest build-ings
in the city, the Scott-Yar-brough
home is going to con-tinue
to be protected and a
project is in the works to re-store
the building, Beard said.
“We are working on an ex-pansion
and renovation proj-ect,”
Beard said. “Eventually,
Pebble Hill will be period-fur-nished
and decorated, taking
it back to its 1840s roots.”
Causey said she believes
Pebble Hill is the most well-preserved
pre-Civil War home
in the Auburn area, and it pro-vides
a way to bond Auburn
University and the City of Au-burn
together.
“Pebble Hill represents a
link between the history of
the University and the history
of the town,” Causey said. “So
much of the physical, tangible
aspects of Auburn’s early his-tory
have been gone or signif-icantly
altered.”
Causey believes it is impor-tant
to know the history.
“The 165th anniversary is a
good occasion to remember
how important it is to have
these buildings to understand
and remember the people in-volved
in building Auburn,”
Causey said. “Not just the
planters and the merchants,
but this town was also built by
slaves, and that’s an important
thing to remember in our his-tory
as we look to our future.”
In 165th year, Auburn’s Pebble Hill house celebrates rich history
Local sports eatery, Touchdown’s,
closing afer 23 years; new owners
preparing hibachi & sushi joint
Rebecca Moseley
Writer
The miniature baseball bat
that once served as the door
handle for Touchdown’s will
soon be removed and new
owners hope to hit it out of
the park with a completely
transformed restaurant.
Empty brew dispensers,
bottles and remodeling tools
line the bar that once catered
to packed crowds watching
football games and Pay-Per-
View wrestling events.
Decorative street signs
and sports memorabilia that
are aged and dusty from the
23 years of business lay on
the only pool table left in the
closed bar.
“It was time,” said Lar-ry
Wilson, former owner of
Touchdown’s. “Business just
wasn’t as good as it used to
be.” Wilson, who also opened
the Country’s Barbecue fran-chise
on Opelika Road in
1990, said he opened Touch-down’s
from scratch because
it had always been his dream.
“It was just something I al-ways
wanted to do, so I gave it
a shot,” Wilson said.
Wilson cites the change in
city bus routes, the distance
from campus and the econo-my
as contributing factors of
the restaurant’s closing.
“It has been successful
over the years, but the econo-my
made it harder for us just
like everybody else,” Wilson
said.
As a small team worked
briskly to update ceiling fans
and remove old décor, the
new owner Su Chong Cho ex-plains
that plans for painting
and updating the floor are
soon to be underway.
“We’ve got a lot of work to
do to open our restaurant,”
Cho said. “We’re opening a
sushi and hibachi-style res-taurant.”
Matthew Gogorth, sopho-more
in physics said he was
excited to see more asian-cuisine
inspired reastaurants.
“The only other oriental
restaurant I know of in Au-burn
is Seoul BBQ,” said Go-forth.
“So, I think a new hiba-chi-
style restaurant will add a
little variety.”
Fellow physics student
Taylor Hall agreed and said
Auburn needs a new place for
dinner dates.
“I think it would be nice to
have a little bit nicer of a hi-bachi
sushi place, because
the only place I eat hibachi is
at Hibachi Express,” Hall said.
Cho said the restaurant
will now be called Sushi Boy
and the sign will soon be
erected out front.
In the meantime, some of
the sports and gaming décor
that once filled the walls and
surrounded the classic ar-cade
games in Touchdown’s
will be available for sale on
eBay and craigslist.com, ac-cording
to Wilson.
Wilson said he also owns
rental properties around Au-burn
and that after the trans-formation
from Touchdown’s
to Sushi Boy is complete, he
will continue to maintain
those and as well as Coun-try’s
Barbecue.
Emily morris/Assistant Photo Editor
Touchdown’s, a popular Opelika Rd. restaurant since 1989, is closing and being converted to a sushi and
hibachi-style restaurant called Sushi Boy.
photo
Caption
Sports B1
Thursday, October 18, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Sports
Ronnie Brown – (RB, San Diego Chargers)
Three rushes for 13 yards and three catches for 23 yards. His rush-ing
total, while small, was large enough to put him over 5,000 rush-ing
yards in his career. W DEN 35 - SD 24
Takeo Spikes – (LB, San Diego Chargers)
Five tackles. L DEN 35 - SD 24
Quentin Groves – (LB, Arizona Cardinals)
No tackles. L ARI 16 - BUF 19
Karlos Dansby – (LB, Miami Dolphins)
Nine tackles. W MIA 17 - STL 14
Devin Aromashodu – (WR, Minnesota Vikings)
One catch for 13 yards. L MIN 26 - WAS 38
Rob Bironas – (PK, Tennessee Titans)
Four-for-four on field goal attempts and connected on both extra
point attempts. His fields goals came after a two-week drought of
zero field goals. W PIT 23 - TEN 26
Sen’Derrick Marks – (DT, Tennessee Titans)
Three tackles. W PIT 23 - TEN 26
Ben Obomanu – (WR, Seattle Seahawks)
No catches. W NE 23 -SEA 24
Jerraud Powers – (CB, Indianapolis Colts)
One tackle. L NYJ 35 - IND 9
Carlos Rogers – (DB, San Francisco 49ers)
Three tackles. L NYG 26 - SF 3
Nick Fairley – (DT, Detroit Lions)
Two tackles and half a sack. W DET 26 - PHI 23
Jay Ratliff – (DT, Dallas Cowboys)
Three tackles in his season debut after missing time with injury.
L DAL 29 - BAL 31
Ben Tate – (RB, Houston Texans)
Recorded 14 yards on three carries in his first game back from a toe
injury. L GB 42 - HOU 24
Pat Lee – (DB, Oakland Raiders)
Two tackles. L OAK 20 - ATL 23
Byes: Chicago backup quarterback Jason Campbell, Carolina quar-terback
Cam Newton and New Orleans guard Ben Grubbs and line-backer
Will Herring had bye weeks last week. Atlanta long snapper
Josh Harris, Philadelphia offensive tackle King Dunlap, Miami line-backer
Karlos Dansby and San Diego linebacker Takeo Spikes and
running back Ronnie Brown all have byes this week.
Injuries:
Dallas defensive tackle and Houston running back Ben Tate re-turned
from injuries this week. San Francisco rnning back Bran-don
Jacobs missed his sixth game of the season with a knee injury.
Cincinatti defensive tackle Pat Sims is on the Physically Unable to
Perform list with an ankle injury.
Injured reserve:
Tristan Davis – (RB, Washington Redskins)
Mario Fannin – (RB, Denver Broncos)
Brandon Mosley – (OG, New York Giants)
Lee Ziemba – (OT, Carolina Panthers)
Auburn in the NFL
By the numbers
Ole Miss vs. Auburn
79
That is the number of pounds Auburn defensive tack-le
Kenneth Carter has on Ole Miss quarterback Bran-don
Wallace. That difference didn’t stop Wallace from
dragging the lineman into the end zone to ice the
game after slipping from the arms of defensive end Co-rey
Lemonier on a 2-yard run. Between the poor tack-ling
and lack of energy on defense, the Rebels had no
problem hanging 17 points on Auburn in the fourth
quarter.
12
Ole Miss had lost 12 consecutive conference games
heading into the game against Auburn. The Tigers
were tied with the Rebels 17–17 at the half and looked
ready to keep that streak alive, but Ole Miss went on
a 24–3 run in the second half to break both the tie
and the streak. Auburn has now lost six straight SEC
games and will try to snap that streak against Vander-bilt
Saturday, Oct. 20.
0
Quarterback Clint Moseley had zero touchdowns
aginst the Rebels. Besides the obvious hindranc-es
caused by not scoring points, this perforomance
kept alive another unfavorable streak: Moseley has
never passed for a touchdown in consecutive games.
In fact, in Moseley’s last seven games —not includ-ing
the Chick-fil-A Bowl—weeks in which he passed
for a touchdown have always been followed by a zero-touchdown,
one-interception performance. Moseley
threw for one touchdown against Arkansas. He left
Oxford with one interception, no touchdowns.
24
Auburn has now allowed at least 24 points in five of
the team’s six games. Last season, the Tigers allowed
24 or more points in eight of their 13 games. What-ever
the cause, the defense looks uncomfortably sim-ilar
to the one that cost former defensive coordinator
Ted Roof his job. Heading into the second half of the
season, defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder must
find a better way to get his message across to the de-fense.
Besides an inspired effort versus LSU, missed
tackles, missed assignments and miscommunication
have cost Auburn leads and chances to stay within
striking distance of opponents.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Wide receivers coach Trooper Taylor gathers the team in the huddle after pre-game warm-ups in Oxford, Miss. Saturday, Oct. 13.
The Tigers would go on to lose to the Rebels 41–20 and have yet to record a conference win.
Now or never
In Doug Barfield’s fifth and final
season as head coach in 1980, Auburn
finished 5–6, with all six losses com-ing
against conference opponents.
The number of wins Auburn had
against the SEC that season? Zero.
Through six games this season, the
Tigers have been skinned by all four
conference opponents and aren’t rel-ishing
the opportunity to accomplish
what hasn’t happened on the Plains
in 42 years.
On Saturday, Oct. 20, Auburn
(1–5, 0–4 conference) will have its
best chance of the season to avoid
laying an egg in the SEC win column.
Saturday the team will take on
Vanderbilt, a perennial SEC door mat
that has mustered only 10 wins the
past three seasons.
This year, the Commodores (2–4,
1–3 conference) have been stepped
on by No. 3 Florida, No. 9 South Car-olina
and No. 13 Georgia and lost to
Northwestern 23–13.
Still, Vanderbilt’s energetic style
of play has impressed Auburn head
coach Gene Chizik.
“Vanderbilt is a team that plays ex-tremely
hard,” Chizik said. “Offensive-ly,
they’ve got a tailback (Zac Stacy)
that is extremely, extremely talented;
they have a couple of different wide-outs
that are very, very good; and the
quarterback (Jordan Rodgers) is a guy
that can really manage the offense.”
Both offenses have the fastbreak
ability to score from any range, but
inconsistency and errors have left
them looking up from the bottom of
the league thus far.
Rodgers has nowhere near the
talent of his Superbowl MVP older
brother Aaron Rodgers of the Green
Bay Packers, but has shown he can
manage the game efficiently and
throw when needed.
When needed, wide receiver Jor-dan
Matthews has been there to haul
his passes in.
At 6-foot-3-inch and 205 pounds,
Matthews has the size and speed to
terrorize opposing secondaries and
has been the recipient of all three of
Rodgers’ touchdowns this season.
The primary concern for the Tigers
will be tapping their own dormant
offensive potential against a spunky
Commodore defense.
Auburn should have the upper
hand on the ground Saturday when
it pits the strength of the offense
against the No. 108-ranked rushing
defense.
The passing game is another story.
Auburn has used all three quarter-backs
available this season, but no
changes have yielded any positive re-sults.
Starters Kiehl Frazier and Clint
Moseley have combined for three
touchdowns, two fumbles lost and 11
interceptions on the season.
Wallace was useful in the wildcat
role when his number was unexpect-edly
called against LSU and the fresh-man
earned some key first downs on
the ground.
That talent is being squandered.
Offensive coordinator Scot Loef-fler’s
aversion to calling pass plays
for Wallace has allowed opponents to
take the field prepared for yet anoth-er
predictable element of Auburn’s of-fense,
the fifth worst in the nation.
Whomever enters the huddle as
quarterback this weekend, Vander-bilt’s
No. 7 pass defense will try to
make Auburn’s offense one-dimen-sional
and stymie any comeback op-portunities
the Tigers have, should
the Commodores take the lead.
“Defensively, the thing that is most
impressive about them is it’s really
been difficult for people to throw the
ball on them,” Chizik said. “And then
just how hard they play defensively is
very, very impressive.”
While Auburn understands the
impact and importance of a domi-nant
rushing attack, sacks, turnovers
and miscues have robbed the team of
points, and a running game is of no
use when playing from behind.
Despite these limitations, Auburn
must overcome the criticism, betting
lines and recent failures to have any
chance of recording a conference win
this season.
The last three SEC opponents on
the schedule include No. 1 Alabama,
No. 13 Georgia and Texas A&M, a
team averaging 47 points-per-game
this season.
Barring a miraculous upset of Ap-palachian
State-Michigan propor-tions,
the Tigers head into Nashville
with nothing to lose and nothing tan-gible
to play for.
Fans no longer expect victory and
rolls of toilet paper remain conspic-uously
unpurchased on supermarket
shelves.
The team has fumbled away any
chance at even a lesser bowl game
and can now only hope to tackle the
infamy that accompanies a histori-cally
awful season.
Saturday, Chizik and the Tigers
must find a sense of urgency and
pounce on their best chance to re-cord
an SEC win this season, or they
will risk being trampled by the rest of
the pack.
Andrew Yawn
sports@
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Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Gene Chizik watches as his team gets outscored 24–3 in the second half of Au-burn’s
41–20 loss to Ole Miss Saturday, Oct. 13.
With tough schedule looming, Auburn must win at Vanderbilt
to avoid going winless in the SEC for first time since 1980.
Sports B2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 18, 2012
Nathan Simone
Online Editor
The women’s golf team just re-turned
from the Tar Heel Invita-tional
at Chapel Hill, N.C. where
you finished with an 80 on the par-
72 course. How did you feel about
the tournament and how is the
team looking this year?
I clearly didn’t play good, but I think
it was just because I was really exhaust-ed
from playing a lot of weeks (in a row).
That was the main reason I think I played
bad. It’s not an excuse, because I have
to keep playing well even if I’m tired be-cause
that’s what a pro tour is like, but
I still feel good about my game and the
team’s game. We love that tournament,
they always provide really great food and
the course is nice. I think we’re a really
promising team, and I think we’re going
to do really well this season.
The team opened up the season
ranked seventh, but is now eighth.
How is everyone looking to im-prove
to No. 1?
I think they still feel really good, we
just had an off tournament. We’re com-ing
from playing really great at Georgia at
the fall preview, which is a really impor-tant
tournament that national champi-onships
team play at. We honed the lead
until the last day, and we still feel ready
to be number one and win the national
championship.
Many professional golfers say
that golf is 90 percent mental. Do
you agree? How do you prepare
for high-profile competitions?
I definitely agree. Practicing uses your
mental game as well, because you need
a lot of confidence. If you practice a lot
and get your confidence up, then your
mental games get better. You also have
to practice your mental game, improve
your concentration and just have time by
yourself to think about the game.
You and your older sister Pa-tricia
(graduated in 2012), were
both on the golf team. Coming
from Madrid, Spain, how did you
choose to come to Auburn?
It’s really popular in Spain to come to
the U.S. to play golf. You can’t play golf in
Spain while going to college. The stud-ies
are too hard and won’t allow you to
do both at this level. There was another
Spanish girl on Auburn’s team who rec-ommended
the coach recruit my sis-ter.
The coach recruited her, my sister
felt convinced, and then my sister talk-ed
to the coach about recruiting me and
she did. We knew this was a great place
to come and play golf. They were highly
ranked, so we just came here.
What was it like representing
Spain (and helping them tie for
fifth) in the World Amateur Team
Championship in Antalya, Tur-key?
Unbelievable. I don’t know how to de-scribe
the experience of representing
your country for a world championship.
It’s definitely a dream come true, and it
was truly incredible.
You’ve played courses all over
the world and the USA. What’s
been your favorite course to play
in the world? In the USA?
(Laughs) That’s an impossible ques-tion.
I’ve played too many. I really like to
play a course in Madrid called Puerta Hi-erro
(Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro).
In the U.S., I really like North Carolina’s
course (UNC Finley Golf Course).
Do you have any plans to turn
professional after your time at Au-burn
is over, in the U.S. or Europe?
I’m going to try both either way, but I
really want to make it here. I really want
to play the LPGA qualifiers and try to be
pro.
Golf is a quiet sport that doesn’t
allow cheering, loud noises or ex-cessive
distractions. How can stu-dents
who come to matches show
their support for the golf team?
We barely play any tournaments here,
but we are hosting regionals this year. It
would be great if a lot of Auburn people
were watching. I’m not saying to stay for
18 holes, I’ll admit that it can get boring…
if you come to watch the nine last holes,
especially if we’re leading, go there and
applaud. Just be there, because we barely
see people at tournaments.
Q&A with junior
golfer Marta Sanz
Courtesy of Auburn media relations
Junior Marta Sanz recently returned from
helping Spain finish fifth at the World Ama-teur
Team Championship in Turkey.
Marta Sanz is a ju-nior
on the women’s golf
team. Originally from
Madrid, Spain, Sanz
hopes to turn profession-al
after her time at Au-burn
is over. Sanz agreed
to sit down with The
Plainsman and discuss
her recent playing and
goals for the future.
John Burns
Sports Reporter
The most recent addition to
the Auburn basketball team,
associate head coach Ryan
Miller, has been brought on to
the staff to help make Auburn
a basketball power once again.
Miller, 37, spent two months
on the Missouri coaching staff
before he was hired by Auburn.
His reasons for joining the
Auburn staff were his personal
and professional relationship
with head coach Tony Barbee
and to help in the rebuilding of
the basketball program.
Miller spent three years at
Memphis as a basketball oper-ations
assistant while Barbee
was an assistant coach there.
“I’m excited about Ryan
joining our staff,” Barbee said.
“He is a close friend who I have
known for quite a while now.
He is going to add a lot to the
program in all areas, from re-cruiting
to coaching to rela-tionships
with players.”
Before Miller was at Mis-souri,
he was an assistant
coach for New Mexico, and
Miller thought his experience
with rebuilding a program
such as New Mexico’s should
give him an edge at Auburn.
“Before we took over the job
(at New Mexico), the previous
staff was last in the Mountain
West Conference, and in five
years there we won two regu-lar
season conference cham-pionships
and one confer-ence
championship tourna-ment,”
Miller said. “I will bring
the experience of rebuilding a
program that was traditional-ly
good.”
Auburn basketball has not
been to the NCAA Tourna-ment
since 2003, when the
team made it to the Sweet Six-teen
and was knocked off by
eventual champion Syracuse.
The basketball team fin-ished
last season 15–16, 5–11
in conference play, and needs
to improve greatly to repeat
former successes.
“We’re just trying to get our
guys better every day through
individual instruction,” Miller
said. “I’m trying to teach them
things that I’ve learned in the
past throughout my coaching
stints.”
Coaching at Auburn does
not only entail teaching cur-rent
players, but recruiting
players for upcoming seasons
as well. Miller is considered to
be one of the top recruiters in
the nation.
“We’ve got to get out there
and recruit,” Miller said. “We’re
trying to find talent that wants
to come to a special place in
Auburn University. We have a
lot to offer, so we’re just going
to go out and recruit the best
possible athletes that want to
have success on and off the
court.”
Ryan Miller is familiar with
playing on the court too, as he
was selected to two all-state
teams during high school and
helped his team to a state
championship in 1994.
Miller played collegiate
and professional basketball
through 1999 until he returned
to Northern State in Aberdeen,
S.D. to get his bachelor’s de-gree
in physical education in
2000.
Associate head Basketball
coach Ryan Miller
Miller’s eyes return to
glory for hoops team
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In an equestrian match-up
Saturday, Oct. 13 between
third-ranked Auburn and
fourth-ranked Texas A&M, the
Auburn women emerged vic-torious
with an 11–9 win over
the Aggies.
After coming off a loss to
South Carolina, the Tigers
used the win to push them-selves
to 2–1 for the year.
The meet was neck-and-neck
the entire time, with each
team winning two of the four
events.
Junior Christina Lin of Au-burn
beat Leah Chenelle of
Texas A&M with a score of 88–
79, giving the Tigers a 1–0 lead.
The Tigers went on to score
two more points, leading 2–1
over the Aggies in Over Fenc-es,
and 2–1 overall.
At halftime, the score was
tied 5–5, with Auburn winning
3–2 in Over Fences, and Tex-as
A&M taking Western Rein-ing
3–2.
With the announcer re-minding
anxious fans “it all
comes down to this,” every
point was critical following the
break, as the last two events
would determine who would
take the win.
The Tigers won Hunt Seat
equitation 4–1 over the Ag-gies,
and the three-point mar-gin
in that event was the decid-ing
factor in the overall victory.
Auburn lost to Texas A&M
in Western horsemanship with
a score of 3–2, but had racked
up enough points to ensure an
overall win over the SEC-new-comerAggies.
Head coach Greg Williams
said he was pleased with how
the girls rode.
“We kept ahead in the game
with tremendous rides from
our Hunt Seat riders,” Wil-liams
said. “We have tremen-dous
leadership from several
of our upperclassmen, so how
well we can move forward is
unlimited at this point.”
One upperclassman provid-ing
leadership was Lin. The ju-nior
won the Most Outstand-ing
Player award for equita-tion
over fences, as well as
Hunt Seat equitation, with a
high score of 84.
“Coming into this meet, I
was more than determined to
make up for some lost ground
since we fell short to South
Carolina last weekend,” Lin
said. “ I really wanted to give
it my hardest to help my team
out the best I could.”
Lin said the win means so
much for the team.
“The spirit all the girls have
right now is unbeatable,” she
said. “Being able to beat the
defending national champions
proves that we are in this for
the long haul. It would be great
to keep our momentum going
as we get ready to host one of
our biggest competitors, Geor-gia,
in a few weeks.”
The coaches have clear-cut
expectations now they’ve been
through enough practices and
meets to assess the talent level
as a team, Williams said.
“The task from now un-til
April, when our national
championships are, is identify-ing
which players are going to
consistently perform to those
expectations with all of the dif-ferent
opponents, horses and
conditions they will face,” Wil-liams
said.
Auburn will face Georgia
Friday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. at the
Auburn University Horse Cen-ter.
Admission is free, and the
first 300 fans will receive an or-ange
Auburn Equestrian Ban-danna.
Emily Morris/ Assistant Photo Editor
Megan Bifano competing in English Style last Saturday against Texas
A&M. Bifano defeated Kat Barkema 77–40.
Emily Morris/ Assistant Photo Editor
Stephanie Rucci riding Glenda The Good Horse in western last Saturday against Texas A&M.
Equestrian rides to 11–9 win
“The spirit all
the girls have
right now is
unbeatable. Being
able to beat the
defending national
champions proves
that we are in this
for the long haul.”
—Christina Lin
Junior Hunt seat rider
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Sports Reporter
Auburn’s swimming and
diving team continued its
dominance Friday, Oct. 12,
besting Alabama in 24 of 26
events in the season-opening
dual meet at the James E. Mar-tin
Aquatic Center.
The Tiger men raced past
their in-state rivals by a score
of 175–68 as the women’s
squad outshined the Crim-son
Tide 182-62. The victory
pushed both Auburn teams
to 1–0 on the dual meet sea-son,
while Alabama’s men and
women each fell to 1–1.
The Auburn women swept
the pool in six of 11 individu-al
events and placed first and
second in both relays. The
men’s team went 13-for-13 on
the day with top-three sweeps
in three individual events.
“I was really happy with the
attitude and the willingness to
race today,” coach Brett Hawke
said. “Like I said earlier, this is
not just a regular dual meet.
This is Auburn-Alabama. We
wanted to show our swim-ming
supremacy in the state,
and this kind of kickstarts our
SEC season, too. We’re feeling
good about the way we started.
“We’ve been itching to get
this season started, and Ala-bama
was the opponent that
happened to come into our
pool today. We were ready to
race. The guys have been work-ing
hard in the training pool,
and it paid off.”
Senior Kyle Owens jump-started
the Tiger men’s win-ning-
streak as the leadoff leg
of the 200-yard medley relay,
helping a team of senior Stuart
Ferguson, juniors TJ Leon and
Zane Grothe to a first-place
finish in 1:30.66. Auburn’s four-man
team of seniors Brandon
Siemasko and Chandler Ger-lach
and sophomores Kevin
Behrens and Sam Parker se-cured
second place with a time
of 1:33.69, narrowly escaping
Alabama’s top team.
Owens went on to take first
in the 200 IM (1:49.42), head-ing
a top-three sweep along-side
sophomore Alex Hancock
(1:49.52) and freshman Jordan
Jones (1:53.25). Owens’ 1:47.57
grabbed the top spot in the 200
backstroke, giving him victo-ries
in all three races he com-peted
in.
Junior Marcelo Chierighini
also went three-for-three on
the day, swimming a 20.24 in
the 50 freestyle and a 44.44 in
the 100 free.
He led the Tigers to their fi-nal
win of the meet, swimming
the leadoff leg of the 200-yard
medley relay to kickstart the
team of James Disney-May,
Hancock and Leon to a 3:00.17
victory.
Grothe, senior Hannah Rior-dan
and junior Olivia Scott
each picked up wins in three
events to extend Auburn’s
margin of victory over the
Crimson Tide.
The diving team added to
the Tigers’ success. Junior John
Santeiu IV finished with wins
in one-and three-meter diving.
His winning score of 348.83
in the 1-meter event earned
him an NCAA Zone qualify-ing
score. He led an Auburn
sweep of the top three spots
while collecting another Zone
score in the 3-meter event with
a 355.58. Sophomores Michael
Beran (341.10) and Fraser
McKean (321.68) rounded out
the event, placing second and
third respectively.
The Tigers will face anoth-er
SEC team in their second
dual meet of the season Satur-day,
Oct. 20, against LSU. The
meet is scheduled for an 11
a.m. start at the James E. Mar-tin
Aquatic Center.
John Burns
Sports Reporter
While rugby may not be
the most popular sport in Au-burn,
the Auburn University
Rugby Club has been a staple
on the Plains since 1973.
The Auburn club rugby
team competes in the fall and
the spring, but the fall is more
of a warm-up for the more se-rious
spring matches.
“The fall season is not our
full conference season,” said
Dillon Rheuby, club presi-dent.
“The important sea-son
is in the spring, where we
compete in an all-SEC league
called the SCRC.”
Though the spring may the
most important competitive
season, fall is important for
preparation. The team has
already competed in sever-al
games this fall, including
a sevens tournament. Sevens
competitions have only seven
players on the field for each
team, instead of the usual 15.
Auburn beat Ole Miss and
LSU at the tournament, but
lost to Texas A&M twice and
Tennessee once. The Ten-nessee
game was to deter-mine
third place in the tour-nament.
“We finished fourth in the
SEC,” Rheuby said. “Beating
LSU was huge because they
went to the national champi-onship
tournament in 2011.”
In 15-man competitions
this fall, Auburn’s record is
2-1.
The club team fell to Al-abama
28-22, but defeated
Georgia Tech 20-7 and shut
out Jacksonville State 17-0.
“Though we lost to Al-abama,
it is an exception-al
leap from last year when
they beat us handedly,” Rheu-by
said.
Indeed, Auburn’s rugby
team has come a long way
from last season, and it is due
in part to new leadership.
“This year we have a new
coach, David Bess,” said Se-bastian
Kamyab, a member
of the rugby team. “It has re-ally
improved the leadership
on the team, because it took
it out of the players’ hands.
You can really tell the guys are
coming together; we’ve been
more productive on the field,
and we’ve been able to han-dle
ourselves a lot more pro-fessionally
than before.”
Before, the team had no of-ficial
coaches and relied on
players to fill the role.
The addition of a coach has
already paid dividends.
“This season has been
about a 150 percent improve-ment
from where we’ve been
for the past three years,” Ka-myab
said.
Another factor in the
team’s success was the for-mation
of a group that com-peted
alongside each other in
the off-season.
“We have a bunch of guys
who formed a core group this
summer,” Rheuby said. “They
played together while they
were taking summer classes
and played exceptionally well
almost every time they com-peted
together.”
It is a long season, and the
most intense and competitive
part will come in the spring,
but the team will be working
hard until that time.
The team practices Tues-days
and Thursdays every
week, and because it is a club
team that is not university
sponsored, it costs $150 each
semester to be a member.
This weekend Auburn gets
a break from recorded com-petition
as the team will play
a scrimmage.
Every competition, record-ed
or not, will help the grow-ing
team going forward.
Danielle Lowe / Assistant Photo Editor
Sophomore Michael Beran placed second in 3-meter diving Oct. 12.
Tigers outswim the Tide in
first meet of the season
Courtesy of Dillon Rheuby
Aaron Martin stiff-arms his way through the Texas A&M squad in a fall sevens tournament.
Rugby team improves,
prepares with fall tune-ups
Intrigue
Thursday, October 18, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Intrigue
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College of Liberal Arts
hosts Maya Angelou
for upcoming lecture
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Corey Arwood
Writer
From skimping, pimping
and cable-car driving to recit-ing
her poetry at a presiden-tial
inauguration, Maya Ange-lou
is not considered a mere
success story. She is said to
be a Renaissance woman, and
she’s coming to Auburn.
She did not champion civil
rights to the degree of Martin
Luther King Jr., and she was
not as militant as Malcolm X,
but she did, to some extent,
work with them.
Angelou represented an-other
side of civil rights: the
arts. Her works acted to legiti-mize
the black woman herself
as an artist, as someone capa-ble
of being the central figure
and not a corollary.
To precede her arrival Nov.
8, the College of Liberal Arts
will present a Renaissance-style
compilation of its own
with “Angelou and the Arts.”
The theater and art depart-ments
will display perfor-mances
of their own respec-tive
art forms at the Jule Col-lins
Smith Museum of Fine
Art Oct. 29 at 4 p.m.
There will be a presentation
by the students in the inter-mediate
I dance techniques
class, a performance by the
Mosaic Theatre Company and
a juried art exhibit orchestrat-ed
by students in the profes-sional
practices class.
“It’s a special event in her
honor, since she’ll be visiting
campus on Nov. 8,” said Adri-enne
Wilson, associate pro-fessor
in the theater depart-ment.
Wilson said her students in
the intermediate I dance class
will be performing a “struc-tured-
improvisational” dance
outside of the theater based
off of an excerpt from Ange-lou’s
book, “Singin’ and Swin-gin’
and Gettin’ Merry Like
Christmas.”
The piece will feature dance
forms popular from the late
1940s to mid 1950s and be-fore.
“We had a little history les-son
about the rhumba, the
tango, the jitterbug, the Suzie-
Q, trucking, snake-hips, con-ga,
Charleston, cha-cha-cha,”
Wilson said, laughing.
The Mosaic Theatre Com-pany
will perform four piec-es,
two of which were created
specifically for the event.
The company held its first
auditions last February.
“We are in our inaugural
season,” said Heather May, as-sociate
professor of theatre
and artistic director of the
MTC.
“It addresses a variety of
issues,” May said, describing
the company’s performance.
“I would say, again, around
diversity, but we take two of
her poems — so we take ‘Still
I Rise’ and ‘These Yet to be
United States,’ as sort of the
foundation for what we’re do-ing.
For us, we really do think
of diversity, pretty much, in its
whitest sense. The two that
aren’t Angelou’s poems are ex-plicitly
about kind of dealing
with a racist incident in the
classroom space.”
The professional practices
class, directed by Barb Bondy,
associate professor of art, will
present “Maya Angelou, Phe-nomenal
Woman: A Juried
Student Exhibition of Works
on Paper.”
“I decided to try a real-life
learning experience for the
class, in addition to what they
would normally gain from the
class,” Bondy said. “The plan
was to try a project-driven
approach to learning. So, in-stead
of talking about a juried
show, which is a competitive
exhibition opportunity, we de-cided
to conduct one.”
The artwork that will be in
the show is from students in
and outside of Auburn.
“They put out a call in the
Southeastern U.S. to under-graduate
students, who rare-ly
get an opportunity to be in
a competitive situation,” Bon-dy
said. “They’re offering pro-fessional
development to stu-dents
just like them.”
“Angelou and the Arts” and
reception Oct. 29 are free. An-gelou’s
Nov. 8 lecture is sold
out, but there will be a draw-ing
at “Angelou and the Arts”
for a chance to win tickets.
More information can be
found at Auburn.edu/Wom-ensLeadership.
Melody Kitchens
Intrigue Editor
A year ago this week marks
when Auburn alumna Shan-na
Henderson’s life changed
with “The Glee Project 2.”
Now, Henderson is moving to-ward
bigger and better things,
including her own EP titled
“Lost Love.”
“Lost Love” is in its post-production
phase, and Hen-derson
is currently working
on photo shoots for its up-coming
release date Nov. 24,
including a video recently
made at Telfair B. Peet The-atre
for her first single titled
“Burning.”
“In ‘Lost Love,’ there’s defi-nitely
a theme of finding love
and losing it in different fac-ets,”
Henderson said. “My mu-sic
is definitely more real, be-cause
I have the ‘Lifetime’
of a movie life, and I used to
be afraid to write about it in
song, but I’m not now.”
Henderson, who recent-ly
graduated with a degree in
musical theater, said there
will be four songs on the EP
titled “Let Go,” “Knightly,”
“11/24” and “Burning.”
“If you really pay attention
to the news and real people’s
stories of losing loved ones
and seeing the hurt, those
things inspire me,” Hender-son
said.
Moved by stories of losing
loved ones at war, abuse with-in
a household and the “quint-essential
breaking up with
someone and being heartbro-ken,”
Henderson said she re-alizes
most people are afraid
to talk about these issues in
mainstream music.
“I’m hoping that the pub-lic’s
reaction is positive, but
even more than that, I want
them to connect with what
I’ve said,” Henderson said.
Mentioning country clas-sics
like “Whiskey Lullaby”
by Brad Paisley and Alison
Krauss and “Concrete Angel”
by Martina McBride, Hender-son
said her music is different
from most today with a blend-ed
genre of country, folk and
indie.
Henderson said she has a
three-year plan of success, in-cluding
an upcoming Christ-mas
EP, a full-length album re-leasing
around February 2013
and hopes of joining tours and
festivals next summer.
Aside from producing and
touring, Henderson said she
wants to continue writing and
co-writing, and, “even if I’m
not nominated, I want to be at
least invited to the CMAs and
the Grammys. I’m just going
to keep on trucking.”
Henderson began work on
“Lost Love” early August when
she moved to Nashville, Tenn.
after “The Glee Project 2” fin-ished.
“We became a dysfunc-tional
family that fought and
loved,” Henderson said. “We
went through a lot of crazy
things, and they had to smell
me in a meat dress.”
She said preparing for “The
Glee Project 2” equipped her
for the endless “no’s” most
people will receive before they
receive their first “yes.”
“I got told ‘no’ in a very
public way, and the doors
just opened in a different di-rection,
even if you feel like
they’re not going to,” Hender-son
said. “Go after everything
you’ve ever wanted, because
you only live once, and you
don’t want to have regrets. It’s
going to be hard, but some-times
it doesn’t work out the
way you thought it might, but
you just have to pick up your
pieces and keep moving.”
‘Glee Project 2’ star keeps shining, soon to release first EP
courtesy of shanna henderson
Auburn alumna Shanna Henderson will release her first EP Nov. 24.
The history behind the mural of
Lee County’s Boys and Girls Club
Emily Moris / assistant photo editor
Auburn art students worked together on the mural as a gift to the Boys and Girls Club last fall.
Caleb List
Writer
Each year, several Auburn
University students have the
opportunity to connect with
the community through art.
As one of the most recent
projects last fall, students vol-unteered
at the Boys and Girls
Club of Greater Lee Coun-ty
three times a week, spend-ing
time with the youth and
teaching them art classes.
The project culminated with
the team painting a mural as
a gift to the club.
“The students were al-lowed
to get to know the com-munity
that they were creat-ing
the mural for,” said Wen-dy
Deschene, associate pro-fessor
of art. “They tried very
hard to learn the young mem-bers'
names, and get to know
what they liked and who they
were, as well as to share their
art skills with them.”
Deschene, whose own
works have been found dis-played
both on the street and
in galleries around the world,
was the instigator behind the
community outreach project.
“I strongly believe that art
can be anywhere in the world
at any time,” she said. “Often I
think art lies dying on the wall
of a gallery and is at its best
when it’s being created in a
lively community with con-versation
and the energy of
both the artist and the viewer
interacting. The murals I cre-ate
with my students are a di-rect
manifestation of my phi-losophy.”
Many of the students in-volved
in the project were ea-ger
to simply connect with the
city of Auburn's community, a
task sometimes difficult to fit
into the busy schedule of an
art student.
“We sometimes forget that
the city of Auburn lives on
outside of the University, and
Wendy often assigns her class
to do mural work both as a
teaching tool for large-for-mat
painting and as a service
to the community,” said Kath-ryn
Beck, senior in fine arts.
“We often get shut up in our
studios, and we forget the ex-perience
of getting to watch
someone create something
beautiful. It was wonderful
to provide that for someone
else, getting to explain how
the process works and illus-trating
it on the walls them-selves.”
Deschene said she hopes
to find further opportunities
to connect her students to
the community in the cities
of Auburn and Opelika.
“It was great to watch the
Auburn students paint and
have the youth members
come by and ask them ques-tions
and have conversations
with them, as at the point the
mural was actually being cre-ated,
they were all friends,”
Deschene said. “Age didn't
matter as art was the fo-cus,
a binding power that al-lowed
these wonderful inter-actions.”
The mural the Auburn art
department left behind was
a conversation piece and the
document of these relation-ships
forged between youths
and mentor artists.
The mural will remain on
the walls of the after-school
club, connecting the youth
members to Auburn Univer-sity
and inspiring them artis-tically
and creatively.
“The plan was
to try a project-driven
approach
to learning.
So, instead of
talking about a
juried show...
we decided to
conduct one.”
—Barb Bondy
Associate professor of art
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Daughter shares memories
of true ‘Proverbs 31 woman’
Courtesy of lauren calvert
Dennis Calvert, Lauren Calvert and Tammy Calvert (right) celebrate their last beach trip together. Tammy was diagnosed with breast cancer on Feb. 14, 2011.
Courtesy of Lauren Calvert
More than 1,500 friends and family members celebrated Tammy’s life at her funeral on Friday, Oct. 5.
Melody Kitchens
Intrigue Editor
She remembers certain days in kindergarten,
when it was just “me and mom,” heading out of
school early, placing out the china for tea parties
and watching “I Love Lucy” on repeat.
Lauren Calvert said memories like these are
the ones she’ll hold on to the most after her
mother’s long, tiresome battle against breast
cancer ended earlier this month.
“She fought the good fight and kept her faith
the entire time,” said Lauren, senior in human
development and family studies. “The 21 years
we had together is better than 50 or 60 years
that other people can have with their mom.”
Lauren’s mother, Tammy Calvert, passed
away Tuesday, Oct. 2.
During the months of endless treatment and
surgeries, Lauren said her mother never became
angry or ever asked, “why me?” out of frustra-tion,
stating no matter how her story ended,
Tammy would give God all the glory.
“She knew it was God’s plan, and with every-thing
that got thrown at her, she just said ‘OK,’”
Lauren said. “Even if she was hurting on the in-side,
we’d never know. She wanted to protect
our family.”
Although Tammy was diagnosed with breast
cancer Feb. 14, 2011, Lauren first knew March
5, 2011.
“She contacted Emily Riley, one of my best
friends from high school, to find out my test
schedule,” Lauren said. “She was always think-ing
of everyone before herself.”
March 2011 began the 20 months of chemo-therapy,
radiation and surgeries, starting with a
double mastectomy. Tammy’s cancer was Duc-tal
Carcinoma In Situ, which is triple negative,
meaning estrogen, progesterone and Her-2 re-ceptor
negative, which requires a more specific,
rare type of chemotherapy.
Lauren said the doctors found a sentinel
node, and after testing an envelope of 15 nodes,
each was found positive.
“We knew that this meant there was a very
good chance that it could spread, and that it
also meant more aggressive chemo and radia-tion,”
Lauren said. “A lot of people think breast
cancer is cookie-cutter, but Mom’s was more
like a wildcard. You didn’t know what was going
to happen, so we just had to pray.”
In her few weeks to recover from surgery,
Lauren said Tammy still happily attended her
brother Matthew’s baseball games “with her
drain still poking out of her outfits — but we
glamorized them, just to make it better.”
With chemotherapy came Tammy’s loss of
hair, and with a need for a wig came Bridget.
“We began the days of Bridget the wig, and we
had to get the wig just right for Easter Sunday,”
Lauren said. “She never missed church. She was
a ‘Jesus Calling’ fan, and that was something
that helped her through every day.”
The remainder of the chemotherapy and radi-ation
ended in December 2011, yet in February,
Tammy began to have headaches again.
“Feb. 14 now has a new meaning,” Lauren
said. “It’s no longer a loving holiday to us.”
Those headaches were caused by a lemon-sized
tumor found in Tammy’s brain, and after
many prayers, Tammy decided to have a full cra-niotomy.
“After surgery, she was sitting up in a chair
and saying ‘everything is just perfect,’” Lauren
said. “That was her main word. It was all perfect,
no matter what. People would bring her food,
and ‘oh, it was perfect.’”
Instead of heading home to rest after surgery,
Lauren said Tammy went straight to the ball-park
to see Matthew play baseball.
“She never stopped, and I don’t know how
she did it,” Lauren said. “From the time we were
young, she never missed a single dance recital
or cheerleading competition or baseball game.”
After a partial hip replacement in June and
more chemotherapy in July, Tammy returned to
work at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham,
where she had been a nurse for 28 years.
“From the custodians to the administration,
everyone knew who she was,” Lauren said. “She’s
very good at what she does, and she loved it.”
On her second day back at work, Tammy fell
and broke her femur. She was in the hospital for
17 days after her femur surgery, and her health
began declining.
She returned to the emergency room late
September, and on Friday, Sept. 28, Tammy re-turned
home to be surrounded by her family.
Lauren, Matthew, Lauren’s father Dennis Cal-vert
and sisters Ashley Davis and Meagan Cal-vert
were “blessed with the time to laugh and
reminisce on good times.”
“It was a great last day, and we were able to
say ‘I love you’ about 500,000 times,” Lauren said.
“We just loved to tell her that.”
More than 1,500 friends and family members
came to celebrate Tammy’s life at Northpark
Baptist Church in Birmingham Oct. 5. Lauren
said the pastor compared her to the Proverbs 31
woman, which “is exactly who she is.”
“I got to hold her when she took her last
breath, and she was holding me when I took my
first,” Lauren said. “There’s something beauti-ful
in that, even though selfishly I want her to be
here. He (God) loves her more than I ever could,
which is hard for me to imagine.”
Throughout Tammy’s entire diagnosis and
treatments, friends such as Linda McAllister
made Tammy a story page on CaringBridge.com
and a Facebook page called “365 for Tammy Cal-vert,”
designed for anyone to post their random
acts of kindness in honor of Tammy.
“My family has grown together through this
experience, and my dad was so great to my
sweet momma from day one of this journey,”
Lauren said.
Oct. 15 marks the 25th anniversary of Tam-my
and Dennis’ marriage, and “they are a true
testament of what it means to love each other
through good times and bad, through sickness
and health,” Lauren said.
Lauren said she hopes all will remember her
mother’s selfless spirit, as “a sweet friend told
me something that I will never forget. Cancer
did not define her, Jesus did. If Mom can change
just one person’s life, she would be happy.”
Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue B7
Here in Auburn, there has
been a food truck invasion.
We awoke one morning
to find our town studded
with trucks vending food of
all sorts: meatballs, mac-n-cheese
and every kind of taco
imaginable. They experienced
immediate, explosive popular-ity.
The food truck culture en-chanted
us.
Places that were once bar-ren
suddenly became home to
quick, cheap, delicious treats
that were being served on
wheels.
The atmosphere is unri-valed:
with music blasting
through the speakers and en-thusiastic
young employees,
the trucks have the feel of a
roving party that also happens
to serve delicious food.
Auburn students think in
herds and, other than the im-mortal
Nike short, nowhere is
this more evident than with
our food truck choices.
Tex’s Tacos
If you are frequently late to
class, be made aware that it’s
not uncommon to find your
path to class blocked by a mob
of hungry students clamor-ing
at the window of the taco
truck.
Tex’s Tacos has developed
a cult following among stu-dents
because of its stunning
digital rapport on Twitter and
an uncanny ability to slap a
seemingly random series of
ingredients (pineapple on ta-cos,
lime on fries) into sever-al
of the most delicious dishes
to ever grace the rolling plains
of Dixie.
Be wary: Tex’s is not rec-ommended
fare if you’re with
someone you want to impress.
You will inevitably attempt to
swallow your taco in one gulp.
It won’t be pretty.
Mighty Meatballs
Though the occasional soul
may elbow his or her way out
of the taco mob and over to
offer a word of condolence
to the entrepreneurial spir-it
found inside the meatball
truck, I have yet to see a single
student actually order some-thing.
It’s hard to trust a man serv-ing
meatballs out of a truck if
your friends haven’t endorsed
it. What else could possibly
keep you from enjoying a pip-ing
hot meatball on a warm
day?
Kona Ice
They play a lot of Bob
Marley. Or at least that’s what
I thought, until I realized I
was actually hearing “Twin-kle
Twinkle Little Star” being
played on steel drums.
Game day customers, be
wary of the swarm of bees that
also decided 12 sugary liquid
dispensing spouts on the side
of a truck was a good idea.
Honeysuckle
Although the Honeysuck-le
truck is home to some deli-cious
flavors of gelato (salted
caramel, moonpie and blue-berry
cobbler), it is served in a
cup that is roughly the size of
a thimble and still costs more
than a pint of ice cream at
your local grocery store.
According to an inside
source, the truck has been
pulled from campus due to in-sufficient
profits, a report con-firmed
by the perpetual lack of
a line.
Momma G’s
There’s a subtle difference
between trucks that double
as restaurants and restau-rants
that also happen to have
trucks. Momma Goldberg’s is
the latter. For ardent fans of
Momma G’s, it’s a poor substi-tute
for the original.
Nachos with drip cheese in-stead
of classic steamed nach-os?
Auburn is home to gener-ations
of amateur chefs who
have tried and failed to rep-licate
the nachos recipe. We
know the real thing when we
taste it.
I get bored easily, especially
with on-campus dining. Food
trucks have the same allure
the ice cream truck had when
we were children, because we
know there’s something de-licious
awaiting us if only we
have the right amount of wit
and cunning to track it down.
It’s the thrill of the hunt that
keeps customers coming back
for more.
We are okay with exerting
a little more effort to find an
eating experience that gives
us good stories in addition to
great food.
A guide to navigating the food truck culture of Auburn
Mumford & Son’s foot-stomping second album ‘Babel’
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Mumford & Sons have
played their way to platinum
success and straight into all
of our hearts. After releas-ing
their first album “Sigh No
More,” an album branded by
songs like “The Cave” and “Lit-tle
Lion Man” in February 2010,
this English folk-rock band
surpassed all expectations,
taking the world by storm and
receiving two Grammy award
nominations for Best New Art-ist
and Best Rock Song.
A catchy, foot-stomping
sound with country-inspired
melodies and a signature
pounding melodic strumming
pattern, Mumford & Sons con-tinue
to step up their game
with the wildly popular second
studio album, “Babel.”
Selling 600,000 albums in
its first week, “Babel” has been
the biggest-selling debut of any
album in 2012 thus far, blow-ing
minds with the rhythmic
hoots and hollers, the pow-erful
collective use of blue-grass
and folk instrumenta-tion.
With their first single, “I
Will Wait,” Mumford & Sons
raised the bar without chang-ing
too much, sticking to their
guns with a hymn-like dynam-ic,
shifting drastically from soft
and loud riffs in a majority of
their songs. The banjo contin-ues
to be an accessory to the
hearty, folk inspired tone, their
melodies never ceasing to in-fuse
themselves within our
brains.
The haunting, soul-filled
voice of lead singer Marcus
Mumford accentuates the
group’s ability to write songs
with a pure, fragile honesty
that most artists try to cap-ture,
but usually can’t perfect.
Mumford’s sound is a beauti-fully
gritty, powerful tone that
can take you under a gentle
spell or demand your atten-tion.
A down-home, sing-along
stomp that instantly gives you
an unconquerable feeling, “Ba-bel”
has all the characteristics
of “Sigh No More” with a little
more zing to it. While the band
stayed mostly within its com-fort
zone, songs such as “Bro-ken
Crown” add a little more
instrumental variety with an
electric guitar and drums, a
sound that might be consid-ered
foreign, but that really
works.
The album explores the
many facets of a relationship
with deep, crooning ballads
such as “Reminder” and “Lov-er’s
Eyes,” which both possess a
sweet, tortured sadness, or up-pity,
foot-stomping anthems
that supersize and complicate
love stories with biblical refer-ences
in songs such as “Broken
Crown” and “Babel.” Starting
off gently, with only Mumford
and his guitar, nearly every
song builds up until the entire
thing turns into an explosion
of banjo, bass, keys and vocals.
While it’s hard to fault a
band for sticking to what
worked so well the first time, it
would have been nice to find a
little bit more variety this time
around. It’s difficult at times
to differentiate songs because
the strumming patterns stay
so similar. I’m not complaining
though, because their sound is
so incredibly authentic, a pure
and unyielding beauty that vi-brates
with every pluck of the
banjo, every harsh strum of the
guitar.
“Babel” offers an irresist-ible
combination of unyielding
passion and poetry, an album
with an earthy, triumphant
vibe that takes you to your
happy place. If you haven’t
picked up your copy yet, I sug-gest
you do, because you’ll be
happy you did.
Intrigue B8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 18, 2012
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1 Some Ford autos,
briefly
6 Mocking remark
10 __ team: police
crisis unit
14 With good cheer
15 Airline to Tel Aviv
16 Hawaiian seaport
17 High-performing
Wall Street
investment
19 Giggly Muppet
20 “He’s __ no good”
21 Distribute in
portions
22 Resume the
original speed, in
music
26 Salmon, trout,
cod, etc.
29 Double-check, as
in a lab
30 Netherlands
airline
31 Farm pen
32 Sp. maiden
33 Like the area
under an awning
36 Big day for a new
store, or an apt
description of
each part of 17-,
26-, 50- and 58-
Across
41 Giorgio of
fashion
42 Per __: daily
44 Ship’s pronoun
47 Have the flu
48 Scrabble 10-
po