2012-11-15 The Auburn Plainsman

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A Spirit That Is Not Afraid
Thursday, November 15, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 25, 16 Pages
Auburn vs.
Alabama
A&M
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Jane Random
It’s time to start asking
random people ran-dom
questions. Jane
Random is back.
Intrigue / b4
Veterans Day
As Veterans Day
passes, the Veteran
Resource Center
relocates to Foy Hall.
Campus / a3
Anders appointed
Former owner of
Anders Bookstore,
Ron Anders, now a
member of the City
Council.
Community / A5
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SEC rankings
in the TRojan
Sexual
Health
Report Card
Auburn #91
Alabama #21
Georgia #27
Florida #12
Miss. State #79
Ole Miss #115
Vanderbilt #106
Texas A&M #60
Missouri #46
Arkansas #84
LSU #37
Tennessee #121
Kentucky #36
S. Carolina #23
Rankings out of 141 uni-versities.
Compiled by Tro-jan
brand condoms.
Emily Moriss / Assistant Photo Editor
Auburn is ranked #91 in the country in the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card. Alabama received the highest ranking in the SEC at #21
and Tennessee received the lowest at #121.
Auburn ranks 91st in the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card
Chelsea Harvey
Managing Editor
Some things never go out of style.
With the rise of an increasingly sci-ence
and technology-based society,
scientific controversy remains a point
of discussion. The concept of evolu-tion,
while now a decades-old debate,
is a question that remains in the news
today.
This month, the University Program
Council hosted engineer and science
educator Bill Nye, who recently made
waves with his comments about his
views on evolution. At his Nov. 1 lec-ture,
Nye commented, “I have come
under a little bit of controversy be-cause
I asserted that the world is a lit-tle
bit older than 6,000 years.”
Nye, who received a standing ova-tion
at the end of his lecture, brought
up a point that remains relevant
among university students.
Jason Bond, professor of biological
sciences, teaches a course on evolu-tion
and systematics and said science-based
controversy sometimes arises
even on the university level.
“I think that you have to recognize
that there is going to be some compo-nent
of the class that has been taught
that evolution is antithetical to their
belief system,” Bond said.
Bond said different professors may
take different approaches to present-ing
controversial information in class.
“I generally sort of feel like my pur-pose
isn’t to make folks questions their
religious beliefs in any way,” Bond said.
“I, through the course of the semester,
I keep it very science-centered. …So
you know I focus on the science, and
then I usually save for the last lecture
sort of the discussion of the elephant
in the room, which is so many people
have been taught that these two things
are diametrically opposed.
“And I tend to think that what —
and this is my opinion — that educa-tors,
whether it be at the high school
level or the grade school level or in
college, that we’re presenting infor-mation,
we’re presenting the science,
and it’s up to the students to then rec-oncile
that.”
Caleb Pickett, senior in electrical
engineering, said he attended several
Christian schools growing up. He said
after getting to college, he was able to
reconcile his Christian beliefs with
scientific teachings.
“It wasn’t necessarily that (science)
directly contradicted what I already
believed as a Christian,” Pickett said.
“It was the fact that they could actu-ally
— the scripture and the science
— could be reconciled in the sense of
evolution by saying, ‘God could have
easily just created a certain set of spe-cies
and had everything progress from
there,’ or ‘He could have created the
base species and had everything go in
different directions from there.”
Amanda Guarini, senior in graph-ic
design, said she thought students
should be exposed to both evolution-ary
theory and creationism.
“I went to a Catholic school for 12
years, and we had religion class ev-ery
day and we had science class every
day,” Guarini said.
Students, professors share views on teaching of scientific issues
Evolution remains timeless controversy
» See Evolution, A2
Is Auburn having safe sex?
Hayley Blair
Campus Editor
Auburn University moved up al-most
30 places on Trojan’s Sexual
Health Report Card for 2012.
Researcher Bert Sperling said the
results for the report card were based
on the information and resources pro-vided
by 141 different universities in
regard to sexual health.
“Some people look at the title of the
study, which is the Sexual Health Re-port
Card, and they think we’re try-ing
to measure sexual activity on cam-pus,
which would be sort of invasive,
and we don’t even want to go there,”
Sperling said. “Or we’re measuring the
amount of sexually transmitted illness
among students, but there’s really no
good measure of that either, so we
don’t even get into those areas,.”
Sperling said Auburn improved
from last year’s spot at number 121
due to the increased Web presence of
Auburn’s Health Center.
“We feel it’s really important be-cause
so much of the information
that everyone gets these days is via
the Web,” Sperling said. “HIV and STD
testing. Where can they be tested?
How much does it cost? When can it
be done? All those sorts of things, stu-dents
are going to look up, and if they
can find it online easily, then that’s go-ing
to help them stay safe and healthy.
Auburn really improved their online
presence this year, and they deserve a
lot of credit for doing a great job.”
Web presence was only one of the
11 categories Sperling considered,
however, and Auburn didn’t do as well
in other areas, such as the availabili-ty
of sexual health information in stu-dent
newspapers.
“In some campuses, we didn’t find
this in Auburn, but they have a week-ly
column about sexual health issues
where students can write anonymous
questions,” Sperling said. “Oregon
State has a great one where a member
of the teaching faculty writes under
the name of Dr. Sex, and, as a result, is
able to not only answer student ques-tions,
but educate many, many other
students.”
Another category Sperling mea-sured
was the availability of condoms
and contraceptives on campus.
Juliana Bone, senior in graphic de-sign,
said she thought Auburn does a
good job making condoms available to
those who want them, but she wasn’t
sure if the University should be provid-ing
them to students for free, as some
other universities.
“I think availability is fine,” Bone
said. “I know I’ve seen them in Out-takes.
I think it’s a touchy subject be-cause
religiously it might offend some
people. They sell them off campus
too, so I’m not sure it’s that important
to have them on campus. I’ve always
lived off campus, so I guess people in
the dorms, it would affect more.”
Sperling said he was aware of the
controversy over making condoms
available on campus, but said students
should still have the option to choose.
“Our thought is that the informa-tion
and the resources are there for
the students to use or to not use as
they choose,” Sperling said. “It’s up to
the student, so for students who want
to use those services and have that in-formation,
then it’s there for them. The
important thing is that it puts control
in the hands of the students so they
can make their own choices.”
Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 15, 2012
Chandler Jones
Writer
Consider what exactly is
in the campus food. Where
did the tomatoes on that
sandwich come from, and
how fresh is that leaf of let-tuce?
That question is the drive
behind Auburn’s Real Food
Challenge, a student initia-tive
created to establish a lo-cal
food system and real food
options for campus dining.
Rosco Davis, senior in-terdisplinary
major, found-ed
the Real Food Challenge
in 2011.
“Real food is local, eco-logically
sound, fair and hu-mane,”
Davis said. “Real
food is food that is good for
your body, and it’s good for
the planet, and on a smaller
scale it supports your com-munity
because it’s grown
by people in your commu-nity;
it’s not shipped around
all over the planet, and the
money stays in your com-munity.”
The Challenge is looking
to incorporate 20 percent
real food into Auburn’s din-ing
by 2020.
They want to cultivate a
food system that “doesn’t
go to the corporate farm-ing
industry that has gotten
so popular with the agricul-turalist,
taking it back to the
roots,” said Jen Sellers, edu-cation
outreach coordinator
for the Challenge and senior
in human development and
family studies.
The main source of in-come
for the Challenge is
its initiation of acommunity
garden. The garden is com-posed
of approximately 55
900-square-foot plots that
can be rented to students,
professors and community
members.
Recently, the Challenge
created a co-op business
model for a restaurant ven-ture,
“Locavore Cafe.” The
idea is to sell local, organ-ic
and student-grown food
by using employees paid in
food credits.
“This would intrigue any-one
that’s into eating healthy
food, because you work a lit-tle
bit and then you get to
eat a lot of good food,” Da-vis
said.
They arranged it so each
employee would be a co-owner
of the café and ev-eryone
will have equal input
into how the business is run.
The model will be pre-sented
in Auburn’s Start-Up
Challenge.
“The co-op’s menu would
be seasonal; it would be flex-ible,”
Davis said. “We’d offer
menu items based on what
we had. That’d be okay be-cause
that is how we oper-ate.
We would be like supple-mental
to Tiger Dining; we’d
be another option.”
As the semester comes to
a close, the Challenge looks
for members to lead and
maintain the organization’s
ideals and projects.
“We are a totally student-driven
initiative, like no ad-ministrator
or faculty came
to us,” Davis said. “So ev-erything
that we’ve learned
and everything that we do
is stuff that we have taken
the initiative to do. Our or-ganization
is never going to
be spoon fed, because this
inspiration came from stu-dents.”
The option of reusable sil-verware
at dining halls Foy,
Terrell and the Village was
created by the Challenge ini-tiating
the “Love Food, Not
Waste” campaign. Members
worked with senior execu-tive
chef Emil Topel by pro-posing
the idea and review-ing
costs and benefits.
“It has saved money, even
though we’ve lost 1,000 piec-es,”
said Sellers of the silver-ware.
The efforts of the Chal-lenge
have been modeled
after successful programs
from schools like UC Berke-ley,
University of Maryland
and University of Washing-ton.
“It’s a risk, because we’re
trying to bring change,” Da-vis
said. “There is no guar-antee
that our efforts are go-ing
to be successful or that
you’re going to see it. We
have to run on faith and ac-cept
— believe and accept —
that what we do has an im-pact
even if we don’t see it.
Nov. 7 – South College Street
Second-degree theft of a desktop
computer and a monitor between
2:10 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Nov. 7 – West Longleaf Drive
Menacing Report between 11 a.m.
and 11:30 a.m.
Nov. 8 – West Magnolia Avenue
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m..
Nov. 8 – North Ross Street
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
7:30 a.m. and 7:35 a.m..
Nov. 9 – Ashworth Lane
Third-degree criminal trespass at 10
p.m.
Nov. 9 – North College Street
Third-degree theft of a motorcycle
plate between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m..
Nov. 9-11 – East Magnolia Avenue
Auto breaking and entering between
4 p.m. Nov. 9 and 12 p.m. Nov. 11
Nov. 10 – Lee Road 53
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
12 a.m. and 8 a.m..
Nov. 10 – Thomas Street
Second-degree theft of a debit card,
driver’s license and insurance cards
between 5:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m..
Nov. 10 – Roosevelt Drive
Third-degree criminal mischief be-tween
5:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.
Nov. 11 – West Longleaf Drive
Third-degree theft of an iPhone be-tween
12:45 a.m. and 1 a.m.
Nov. 11 – Lee Road 137
Third-degree burglary of a bed, DVD
played and stereo system between
12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m..
Nov. 11 – Cox Road and Wire Road
Harassment Report
Nov. 13 – West Samford Avenue
Second-degree theft of a laptop be-tween
12:32 p.m. and 12:49 p.m..
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
Crime Reports for nov. 7 – nov. 13, 2012 DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn
Nov. 7 – Nov. 13, 2011
■ Ja’cieka Moore, 24, of Auburn
West Magnolia Avenue and North College Street
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 11:34 p.m.
■ Katharyn Waldrep, 27, of Auburn
West Magnolia Avenue and College Street
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2:02 a.m.
■ Brett Bogdany, 22, of Birmingham
North College Street and North Avenue
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2:29 a.m.
■ Stacy Banks, 37, of Jasper, Ala.
East University Drive and East Glenn Avenue
Saturday, Nov. 10, 9:44 p.m.
■ Mingqiang Xu, 25, of Temple City, Calif.
Heisman Drive
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 3:22 a.m.
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“And, you know, we learned
about evolution in my sci-ence
class, and we would turn
around and go to religion a few
periods later and learn about
that.”
Guarini said she thought a
way for public schools to ex-pose
students to creation-ism
would be to offer religious
elective courses, similar to the
way universities offer electives.
According to Melody Rus-sell,
program coordinator of
secondary science education,
there are many such science-related
controversies that may
arise in the classroom, includ-ing
issues such as global cli-mate
change and stem cell re-search.
She said science ed-ucators
can address these is-sues
by stimulating thought
and discussion in school.
“Certainly students may
have their different perspec-tives;
a lot of times there, they
may say, ‘well, my parents say
this or my parents say that,’”
Russell said.
“But one of the things that
our teachers, and we as ed-ucators,
really strive to do is
just give the information and
let the students … make their
own decisions about what
they think about global cli-mate
change or whether or not
they think stem cell research
is right or wrong or wheth-er
or not they think that, you
know, some of the other topics
that we may have talked about
with regards to evolution and
things like that.”
In response to different
views on scientific theories,
the 2005 Alabama Course of
Study: Science document,
which is currently used in Al-abama
schools, includes a po-sition
statement in its preface
that addresses these diverse
opinions.
“The Alabama Course of
Study: Science was developed
within the context of trying
to establish scientific litera-cy,
not to question or diminish
one’s beliefs or faith,” the state-ment
says.
Russell said providing accu-rate
and current information
is one of the most important
things to do in terms of edu-cating
students about issues
that may spark debate.
“And then, as far as what
their opinion may be about
them, what they may say about
them, those are decisions that
we give them, they can make
themselves,” Russell said.
“But we give them the infor-mation;
we want to make sure
they’re informed, so when
these topics come up, as you
mentioned, about evolution
and those types of things, then
they’re able to make informed
decisions based on the infor-mation
that they’re given al-ready
in their curriculum.”
Bond referred to Jay Gould,
a well-known evolutionary bi-ologist
who referred to science
and religion as “non-overlap-ping
magisteria.”
“So scientists might ask
the question, ‘Can we clone
humans?’” Bond said. “You
know, society, religious lead-ers,
there’s this whole other
component where those folks
might better be in a position to
pose the question, ‘Should we
be cloning humans?’
“And so I think that there are
these different segments of not
necessarily society, but these
different segments of our cul-ture
that all contribute, but in
their sort of different ways.”
Bond said evolution is an
important concept to many
people.
“There are all sorts of scien-tific
theories out there,” Bond
said. “I think this one’s particu-larly
poignant because it says a
lot about who we are and what
was the origination of our spe-cies,
and that’s a non-trivial is-sue
for beings that are conc-scious
and think about their
place in the world and the gen-eral
scheme of things.”
Evolution
» From A1 “I generally sort
of feel like my
purpose isn’t
to make folks
question their
religious beliefs
in any way.”
—Jason Bond
Professor, evolution
an d sys t ematics
Thursday, November 15, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3
Becky Hardy
Campus Reporter
Foy Hall has become home
sweet home for Auburn’s
veterans and the Veteran’s
Resource Center, as it moves
from its previous space in the
Haley Center.
As Auburn recruits more
and more veterans to the Uni-versity,
the Veteran’s Resource
Center was running out of
space to provide services to
the students.
“The resource center will be
providing academic support
services and career services,”
said Johnny Green, director
of the Auburn University
Student Resource Center.
“We have even partnered with
some outside groups to have a
variety of programs available
to the veterans here in the
center.”
The center also provides
the student veterans with
services that do not relate to
academics.
“We have marriage and fam-ily
counseling, as well as PTSS,
post traumatic stress syn-drome
services,” Green said.
Dan McClain, student vet-eran
and junior in computer
science, said he found tremen-dous
transitional help through
the resource center.
“It really helped me connect
to people that I felt understood
me and my mentality,” McClain
said. “Right after high school I
joined the army. I was only 17
when I went through basic
training. I had one semester
of college in before I received
my deployment notice for
Afghanistan.”
When McClain came to
Auburn he was looking for
something to get involved in
on campus, and he found the
perfect opportunity at the re-source
center.
“Eventually, I started work-ing
on the website, and still
do,” McClain said. “I just stuck
around and after all the other
officers were gone, I was avail-able
and was a good candidate
for president.”
McClain recommends any
veteran looking for a job to go
to the resource center.
“Dr. Green is very well-con-nected
throughout campus,”
McClain said. “If there was
anything I needed, say about
obtaining a research position
or who to talk to for that, he
knew where to go.
“Anything you need help
with as a student, like academ-ics,
career, or even personal
services, people there are very
well-connected.”
The center provides space
for other services as well,
Green said.
“Students also come here to
do other work because we now
have a computer center here,”
Green said. “They check email,
print papers or do homework.”
The new location will also
provide gathering spaces for
students, Green said.
“The University’s job is not
only to recruit students, but
also retain them and graduate
them,” Green said. “We think
that is very important as veter-ans
now to transition from the
military and the military life to
students.”
The Veteran’s Resource
Center is located in 217 Foy
Hall. Walk-in hours are from
1-4:15p.m.
Veteran’s Center moves
to new, larger location
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The ribbon is cut at Foy, where ROTC members and other members of the community toured the new Vet-eran’s
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I have an 85-year-old friend, just as
everyone should. The age difference
allows you to learn hidden life secrets
and the importance of friendships.
He's witnessed events in history that
I've only read in books.
This man is not only a friend, but
a mentor.
Wilbur Tincher is a legend with my
friends. I’ve only known him a short
while, but he has changed my life. He’s
an 85-year-old man with a jovial spirit
and an infectious smile.
When he laughs, you can’t help but
smile.
Having an older friend can change
your outlook on the world. With his
wisdom and my naivete, we make
quite a pair.
Everyone should have an older
friend. All of the reasons can be boiled
down to three simple reasons, here's
why: food, hugs and stories.
With older people, food is always
on the agenda. When you visit Wil-bur,
he serves you biscuits and gravy,
green tea and Klondike bars. It may-be
a weird combination, but for some
reason they go together. It’s not nec-essarily
the combination of food, but
the company that is special.
I’ve always believed in the power
of hugs. When I met Wilbur, I didn’t
know the true power a hug can har-ness.
The embrace of another human
being can change the outlook of the
day. A warm embrace can change the
way you see other people and can re-store
your hope for humanity.
The best stories are the ones from
history, the ones that don’t make
the books. Those are the stories that
make the bonds between humans
stronger. As a journalist, I’ve always
felt everyone has a story to tell. There
is something magical about hearing
history from a first hand perspective.
These stories seem purer and more
meaningful.
What have I learned from having
an 85-year-old friend? It’s quite diffi-cult
to say.
I’ve learned to love more and love
deeper because of the friendship with
Wilbur. I’ve learned how to treat oth-ers
and how my actions truly affect
people.
You never know the impact you
may have on someone. Wilbur taught
me that.
He once said meeting his young
friends gives him a reason to get up in
the morning and a reason to get out
of his house. Wilbur once told me that
he laughed when people told him
young people will keep him youthful,
but he now sees the truth in the cli-che.
I am not Wilbur’s only college-aged
friend, and I am glad of that. I am not
the only person who benefits from
his spirit and kindness, but there are
countless students who are blessed to
witness his friendship.
People may think he’s my grand-pa,
but what’s a grandpa – but an old-er
man who provides guidance. So in
some ways, I guess he is my grandpa.
Annie Faulk
opinion@
theplainsman.com
In Alabama, we live in-side
a bell jar.
Romney/Ryan signs dec-orate
the back windshields
of cars and yards across
the state. Preachers in the
most rural areas raise their
voices in opposition to
Obama and praise Rom-ney,
even if he is a Mormon.
The entire Greek system
at Auburn gladly showed
their support for Romney
with their “Greeks for Rom-ney/
Ryan” and “Raised
Right” t-shirts, smirking
smugly when they talk
about how Romney is a
“businessman” just like
their fathers and grandfa-thers.
How could Romney
possibly lose? Fox News
showed him winning a
landslide.
Unfortunately, reality
painted a different picture.
My mother told me to nev-er
give up on my dreams,
but I think Auburn’s Repub-lican
population should.
No amount of thinly-veiled
racist Facebook sta-tus
updates and Tweets
will change the fact that
Barack Obama was re-elected
as president on
Tuesday, Nov 6. Reality
doesn't have a “liberal bias.”
Romney was always los-ing.
You can’t polarize 47
percent of the population
(which, ironically enough,
is the percent of the vote
Romney won) as being lazy
and entitled and run a plat-form
on preserving “tradi-tional”
marriage and set-ting
back women’s rights
by taking away the right
to choose and redefining
what rape really is.
Obama’s campaign slo-gan
of “Forward” real-ly
makes sense when you
take the time to think
about it. We live in a soci-ety
where four states just
voted to allow gay mar-riage,
the first openly LGBT
senators were elected, and
women will not allow out-of-
touch men in Washing-ton
to tell them what they
can and cannot do with
their own bodies.
This country—no, this
world—is moving forward
and the only thing you can
do is accept it and concede
with as much grace as your
Mitt Romney did.
Stop complaining. Stop
disgracing this Universi-ty
and our creed with your
racist comments. Stop re-fusing
to accept the fact
the world is changing and
embrace it.
Reed Dudley
Sophomore
Journalism
Letter to the Editor
Republicans obviously suffered a loss on
Tuesday, Nov. 6. As a former delegate candidate
to the Republican National Convention, I was
pulling strongly for Gov. Romney and was on
the edge of my seat the whole night.
Campaigns are a rough ordeal that candi-dates,
staffers, the media, and citizens must pe-riodically
endure.
President Obama was given a mandate to
lead this country for the next four years. How-ever,
given the distribution of power, it is possi-ble
for either party to cause more years of grid-lock.
This is not good for America.
We are facing foreign threats on multiple lev-els,
but of arguably more importance is the mas-sive
issue we face domestically. This is the “fiscal
cliff” and we must not go over the edge.
This cliff is directly related to our national
federal debt, which currently stands at $16 tril-lion.
We currently finance this debt through bor-rowing,
but increased debt brings with it in-creased
interest payments, reduced national
savings, and the increased likelihood of a Greek-style
fiscal crisis. Obviously, this debt poses a
massive threat.
However, in reality, there is not one “cliff” that
must be avoided, but rather two. The first one
is the long-run consequence of massive feder-al
debt. The second is the sharp economic con-traction
that will occur if tax increases and
spending cuts occur too quickly.
Every day the debt is allowed to grow adds
depth to our grave. Eventually, we won’t be able
to climb out. However, if we stop spending so
quickly, we could see another recession within a
year’s time according to the Congressional Bud-get
Office.
So perhaps we should not be talking about
this as a cliff, but rather a sinking ship in shark-infested
waters. We can either stay with the ship
until it goes down, pretending that life is good,
or we can jump off and try to swim for it while
we have a chance. Both are fraught with risk,
and neither is politically popular.
But perhaps there is a middle road. If there
was a way to reduce the deficit and debt, but en-sure
that it would not occur too quickly, then
perhaps we could find a lifeboat instead of hav-ing
to swim.
This middle road must be found through a
grand compromise. Of course, this compromise
must include certain features, including discre-tionary
spending cuts, mandatory spending re-structuring
and revenue increases.
We must cut our addiction spending. Pork
barrel spending must be eliminated, but that
alone won’t come close to balancing the bud-get.
Defense spending must be smarter so that
we can continue to be a global force at the most
economical price tag, but again, that won’t
balance the budget. We must go after the big
spenders: the so-called “entitlement” programs.
Social programs like Medicare, Medicaid and
Social Security are like three 700 lb. gorillas in
the room. By 2045, 100 percent of tax revenues
will go to these three programs. If we don’t make
significant changes, they won’t be there in the
future. I am not advocating for the elimination
of these programs, but for their solvency.
We need to increase the retirement age for
Social Security and link those payments to
past earnings. We need to repeal the individu-al
health insurance mandate and restructure
the way Medicare is paid in order to introduce
market forces into the system. If we want these
programs to exist a decade from now, we must
make changes to them.
We also need to increase revenues by broad-ening
the tax base. Some want to raise rates, but
this is a misguided approach. We could raise
rates to one hundred percent, but we would
then collect no more revenue than with a zero-percent
rate since increased tax rates reduce the
incentive to work and would put us into a reces-sion.
According to the CBO, if we fail to renew the
Bush-era tax cuts, we will face a recession in a
year’s time. But, if we don’t ensure that the gov-ernment
is getting its full revenue by closing
loopholes and simplifying the code, the spend-ing
cuts will be much worse.
America must walk a difficult path. Accord-ing
to the CBO, if we don’t have a balanced bud-get
by 2020, we inevitably reach a crisis. But, if
we make a snap decision, the economy will suf-fer
even more than it has in the past four years.
Given the size of the problem we current-ly
face, now is not the time for partisan grid-lock
from either party. The task of governance is
too huge—and the risk too large—to allow that
to happen. If our elected officials can’t act like
adults and work to get something done, then
our nation will suffer. The rhetoric coming from
the White House and the House of Representa-tives
in recent days has been encouraging, but
all parties must act on that rhetoric with good
faith and honest efforts.
I am confident that we can fix the mess we
have created. It won’t be fun for anyone, Dem-ocrat
or Republican, but a bankrupt nation and
stalled economy is a whole lot less fun.
We need to move away from the conditions of
the last four years. President Obama, you were
tasked with leading this change, so take us for-ward.
Caleb Wolanek
Junior
Political Science
Letter to the Editor
A confederacy of dunces
Anyone who took Alabama history in the
fourth grade knows that secession is proba-bly
not the best idea. But that bit of knowl-edge
seems to have escaped a few of our fel-low
Alabamians.
Derrick Belcher, a former owner of a top-less
car wash, filed the petition to secede on
Friday, Nov. 9. That’s right, a topless car wash
Belcher’s logic behind creating the petition
has something to do with his dislike of social-ism
or whatever. Honestly, we couldn’t care
less about his reasoning. Anyone that thinks
secession is a good idea is a candidate for a
straitjacket.
If the petition gets 25,000 signatures, then
it is up for review by the Obama Administra-tion.
Most likely, the petition will get way more
than the required amount because, well,
there are a lot of upset Alabamians right now.
Of course, they are probably the kind of
people who think the South will rise again.
We understand only one side won the elec-tion,
and we’ve yet to see if the president’s
second term will be effective, but it’s time to
look at things in perspective.
We’ve listened to accusations of socialism
in the Obama Administration for too long.
Complaining is not accomplishing anything.
Seceding is certainly not going to change the
president.
What will happen if secessionists get their
way?
Alabama is among the lowest in the nation
in education and health and wellness. Add-ing
to that the state’s former tendency for
racial division, a sovereign Alabama looks
more and more like the foolhardy venture it
could be.
Secessionists should work toward cooper-ation,
not division.
Belcher and his ilk are the perfect example
of how radical political beliefs on either side
are making us all look ridiculous, and the ma-jority
of us have a louder voice than those on
the fringes.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Community Community
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
Born and bred in Auburn,
Ron Anders is now filling the
Auburn City Council seat left
open by Sheila Eckman.
“I’m very excited and very
proud that I’ve been asked
and appointed to participate
in this kind of role on behalf
of Auburn’s citizens,” Anders
said. “I look forward to serving
all the people of Ward 2 and all
the people of greater Auburn
to the best of my capacity.”
Replacing Eckman, who
has been elected District 1 Lee
County Commissioner, Anders
was a member of the Planning
Commission before being ap-pointed
to the Auburn City
Council.
“The Planning Commission
was a great, great opportunity
to learn, and it really allowed
me a better foundation before
I joined the City Council,” An-ders
said. “I’ve got so much to
learn, and I’m looking forward
just to learning it.”
Sitting in the conference
room of Rabren General Con-tractors,
where he is director
of business development, An-ders
discussed how maintain-ing
health and welfare of the
Auburn community is impor-tant
to him.
Two issues that Anders said
he takes a particular interest
in are maintaining the Auburn
school system and the safety of
citizens. Anders, who has three
children in the school systems,
said supporting the school sys-tem
is important to the welfare
of the Auburn community.
“The school system, in many
ways, is a measuring stick of
your community,” Anders said.
“If your school system is im-portant,
and your children
are thriving, growing, learn-ing
well and furthering them-selves
with good jobs or going
to college, then that’s a clear
indicator that your communi-ty
is a healthy community. Our
school system has been impor-tant
to our city for a long, long
time, and Auburn has benefit-ed
from that.”
Anders was raised to val-ue
community. His moth-er
helped start the Bethany
House, a hospice facility, and
his father was president of the
Chamber of Commerce and
president of the youth base-ball
board.
“It’s just kind of been a part
of my heartbeat to serve those
in this community,” Anders
said. “I’m a firm believer that
your community is only go-ing
to be as good as those that
want to make it better, and I
was raised to pay my civic rent
to make this community a bet-ter
place.”
Anders is an Auburn native,
attended Auburn University
and now lives in Auburn with
his own family. He may be best
known for his voice as a part of
the local afternoon radio show,
“The Drive.”
“It’s without question one of
the proudest moments of my
life to serve, in this capacity,
a community that is the only
community I’ve ever known
and that has provided me and
my family an opportunity to
live here and to raise my own
kids here,” Anders said. “I’m
just really proud to be able to
serve the community in this
manner.”
Because Anders was ap-pointed
in the middle of a
term, David Dorton, director
of public affairs for the City of
Auburn, said Anders will have
to run in the 2014 election to
secure his spot on the Council,
something Anders plans to do.
“My job right now is to ful-fill
Mrs. Eckman’s term until
2014, and I’m going to do that
to the best of my abilities,” An-ders
said. “I will definitely be
running in 2014.”
Ron Anders replaces Eckman as Ward 2 councilmember
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Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
The City of Auburn is look-ing
toward the future with a
few projects on the horizon to
reinvigorate the area. First on
the list is the Renew Opelika
Road project.
Designed to reinvigorate
and redevelop the Opelika
Road area, the project focus-es
on the future development
of the corridor, including im-proving
the traffic flow and ar-eas
around the highway to at-tract
new businesses and sup-port
the existing businesses
along the road.
The final meeting to dis-cuss
the Renew Opelika Road
project will be Thursday, Nov.
15 at 6 p.m. in the Auburn City
Council chambers.
“The purpose of the pub-lic
meetings is to hear from
stakeholders on the corridor,
property and business own-ers,
and the general public re-garding
the past, present and
future of the Opelika Road cor-ridor,”
said Justin Steinmann,
principal planner. “We’ve fo-cused
on asking people what
problems we need to address
on the corridor, what form fu-ture
development on the cor-ridor
should take and what
transportation-related im-provements
we can make on
Opelika Road.”
The City of Auburn has held
two previous meetings for the
public to discuss the project,as
well as held an online survey
available for citizens to take to
share opinions on the project.
“Input from stakeholders is
vital to the success of the proj-ect
and has driven many of the
recommendations we are pro-posing
in the plan,” Steinmann
said. The project website said
Opelika Road was identified
as one of the most important
commercial areas of Auburn.
The meetings offer the chance
for citizens to share their opin-ions
on the project.
“Everyone we have talked
to is supportive of planning
for an improved Opelika Road
corridor,” Steinmann said.
There are two parts to each
meeting. First, attendees are
provided with individual key-pads
and asked to vote on dif-ferent
questions about the
topics.
“The results are shown in
real time, so everyone has a
sense of how the group re-sponds
to each question,”
Steinmann said.
The second half of these
meetings allows for partici-pants
to review recommen-dations
on the future of the
Opelika Road corridor. Renew
Opelika Road is scheduled to
start in 2013 and, according to
Steinmann, will be a long pro-cess.
“The plan has at least a 20-
year time horizon,” Steinmann
said. “We anticipate begin-ning
work on the physical in-frastructure
of Opelika Road
and making changes to zon-ing
along the corridor starting
in 2013.”
The project will affect Au-burn
citizens in a few ways ac-cording
to Steinmann.
“The plan will help answer
questions of how the commu-nity
and city can support Au-burn’s
existing businesses and
attract new destinations for
residents,” Steinmann said.
“The plan will also reflect the
most effective way to improve
traffic flow, pedestrian acces-sibility
and the overall look
and feel that citizens envision
for the Auburn community.”
Steinmann said next year
the Commission will focus on
a plan involving downtown.
City’s Opelika Road beautification coming soon
Courtesy of Ron Anders
Auburn honors city’s veterans with ceremony
Sydney Callis
Community Reporter
This past Sunday, Nov. 11,
Americans honored the men
and women who served their
country or are currently serv-ing
their country.
The city of Auburn and the
Auburn Veterans Committee
held its own ceremony Mon-day,
Nov. 12, at the Auburn Vet-erans
Memorial Monument to
pay their respects to the local
veterans.
The event, led by Mayor Bill
Ham, included performances
from the Drake Middle School
Choir, the Auburn Universi-ty
Choir and bagpiper Dan
Drummond.
Although rain clouds hov-ered
over the memorial Mon-day
morning, the rain held off,
and dozens gathered around
the memorial to honor the
men and women who served
to protect America’s freedom.
Ham discussed the impor-tance
of recognizing the sacri-fice
of American veterans and
thanking them for their ser-vice.
“It’s about being able to
come forward and say thank
you to our veterans for what
they’ve done to preserve our
freedoms,” Ham said.
After an invocation from
Johnny Green, services coordi-nator
for the Auburn Universi-ty
Student Veterans and Trans-fer
Student Center, Ham spoke
about the courage and sacri-fice
military members of past
and present make to protect
the United States.
Dubbing him a “local trea-sure,”
Ham then introduced
Rear Adm. Bill Goodwin, a U.S.
Navy officer who retired in Au-burn.
“My message today is re-member
and salute,” Good-win
said. “We remember all
the veterans who have vol-unteered
to serve our coun-try.
Veterans Day is the day
we pause to remember and
pay tribute to those who have
worn the cloth of our nation.”
Also, Goodwin said it is im-portant
to pass on the tradi-tion
of honoring and saluting
the country to future genera-tions
and to know the proper
etiquette to salute the Ameri-can
flag.
“We need to teach our chil-dren
and our children’s chil-dren
what it means to be pa-triotic
and respect our flag,”
Goodwin said. “Remember to
salute, and most importantly
remember. And then when the
occasion strikes, remember to
salute.”
The ceremony honored
those who served in Operation
Iraqi Freedom and Operation
Enduring Freedom. However,
the veterans were not the only
ones honored at the ceremony.
Goodwin also recognized
the spouses and family mem-bers
of veterans and current
military members for their
sacrifices and support.
“Spouses of military mem-bers
are special,” Goodwin
said. “They are the glue that
holds the family together
when veterans and active duty
military are deployed.”
Although Veterans Day is
just one day a year, Goodwin
wanted people to remember
to be thankful for veterans and
servicemen and servicewom-en
all year long.
“Not just today, not just this
month but throughout the
year, thank a veteran for their
service, and remember those
who gave the ultimate sacri-fice,”
Goodwin said.
Ham also discussed the im-portance
of thanking and rec-ognizing
the veterans and mil-itary
members, wherever they
are.
“I hope that each of you
will go out and thank a veter-an,”
Ham said. “Whether it be
in an airport or a bus station
or wherever you see a veteran,
thank them for their service
and thank them for you being
free and having your freedom
and having our families free to-day.”
Katherine McCahey/Photographer
A moment is taken at the city’s Veterans Day ceremony to recognize those present who served in “Operation Iraqi Freedom” or “Operation En-during
Freedom”.
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Broadway, Hollywood and College Street intersect
Annie Faulk
Writer
Hollywood, Broadway and
local actors are coming to-gether
for a musical benefit-ing
charity under the guidance
of a collaboration between an
award-winning producer and
Baptist minister.
“The Forgotten Carols” is
coming to the Auburn Per-forming
Arts Center Sunday,
Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.
The performance is present-ed
by the Community Founda-tion
of East Alabama and the
East Alabama Youth for Christ.
Members of the Theos The-atricals
Touring Company
from New York and Los Ange-les
are cast members for the
production.
Michael Young, a well-known
television producer,
and Greg Smith, a local minis-ter,
are co-producing the pro-duction.
Young obtained the
permission from the show’s
composer, Michael McLean,
to start a Southeastern tour
of “The Forgotten Carols” after
he saw the performance on the
West Coast.
Smith is a pastoral counsel-or
and Baptist minister in Au-burn
who wrote a Bible study
to accompany the perfor-mance.
“This is a funny yet touch-ing
story with beautiful, mem-orable
songs,” said Stepha-nie
Gardner, volunteer board
member of the Theos Theatri-cals
Production Company. “It’s
a meaningful family tradition
for us, a wonderful Christmas
gift; you’ll leave thinking about
the greatest gift of Christmas.”
Young said he is bringing in
actors he has worked with in
the past from Hollywood and
Broadway and incorporating
local choral talent, which is a
key part of the production.
“The cast saw last year how
each performance impacted
people’s lives,” Gardner said.
“The songs opened up dia-logue
about the true mean-ing
of Christmas, the story up-lifted
people from the drudg-ery
of the secular holiday mes-sages,
and people’s lives were
changed spiritually and liter-ally.”
Ticket sales will benefit the
Community Foundation of
East Alabama. General admis-sion
is $15 for adults and $10
for students. Tickets can be
purchased at the Auburn Per-forming
Arts Center at Auburn
High School or online at Au-burn.
BrownPaperTickets.com.
“So when you buy a ticket,
you’re not going to just see a
really nice evening of theatre,
you are actually going to help
the Community Foundation of
East Alabama,” Young said.
After Smith and Young re-acquainted
at an Auburn
function about two years ago,
Smith read the story and want-ed
Young to bring the produc-tion
to the Southeast.
Young was apprehensive
about bringing a new play to
the South because of the econ-omy.
“(Smith) said that’s exact-ly
the time to do it; people are
hurting, people need to hear
this message of hope and re-demption
at a time when peo-ple
are losing jobs and all that
stuff,” Young said. “So we sort
of felt the economic climate,
and what was going on in our
country just begged for this to
be done.”
This is the second year of
the production in the South-east.
Young plans to begin pro-ducing
a movie version of the
musical in the South next year.
The tour will make stops in
Georgia, South Carolina, Mis-sissippi,
Louisiana and Ala-bama
“For me personally, it’s a
chance to give back,” Young
said. “I’ve had a really wonder-ful
career in Hollywood and
New York.”
Young is a network televi-sion
producer in Los Ange-les
and produces fashion tele-vision
for media such Vogue,
Glamour and Better Homes and
Gardens. He was the host for
“Kids are People, Too,” which
appeared on ABC.
He was the first prime-time
anchor for CNBC, origi-nal
host of the Disney Channel
and was the first host of Miss
Teen USA pageants for CBS.
He was an actor in the 1980s
television shows “Love Boat,”
“Silver Spoons” and “Reming-ton
Steele.”
“At this point, I like the idea
that I can give back to people
in this community — the tal-ents
gained over the years; and
do it for a good cause,” Young
said. “It’s not just coming back
and showing people what I’ve
learned and what my talents
are. It’s to use those talents to
raise money for charity and
help people with their spiritual
motivation at this time of year.”
Thursday, November 15, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Community A7
Sonya Lovejoy
Community Reporter
Auburn said goodbye to
Touchdown’s on Opelika
Road as well as to Juliana To-kyo
downtown this year. Su-shi
restaurants will replace
both locations.
Sushi Boy, owned by Su
Chong Cho, has since re-placed
Touchdown’s.
While the new Sushi Boy
sign has already gone up and
clear signs of renovation are
apparent, “we’ve got a lot of
work to do to open our res-taurant,”
Cho said.
Cho plans to paint and up-date
the flooring in order to
open the sushi and hibachi
restaurant.
Juliana Tokyo downtown
has also closed its doors. New
owners Minjung Shin and Ho-sung
Jo have remodeled the
interior, added 30 new sushi
rolls to the menu and opened
its doors Oct. 15 as Arigato
Sushi Boutique.
While the atmosphere and
menu is similar to that of Ju-liana
Tokyo, Shin has remod-eled
parts of the interior and
even cut some prices. Accord-ing
to Shin, all of its sushi is
half off from the original Ju-liana
menu and will remain
that way.
While opening a new res-taurant
has been challeng-ing,
Shin said business has
been very busy.
Shin and her husband have
signed a sever-year lease and
intend to continue working
on the menu.
They are also consider-ing
the addition of various
drink specials throughout
the week.
Both Arigato and Sushi
Boy will be in competition
with local sushi restaurants
such as Fuji Sushi Bar and
Mikata Japanese Steakhouse
and Sushi Bar.
Auburn graduate student
council senator, Jonathan
Frost, believes Auburn Uni-versity
greatly contributes to
the market for more sushi res-taurants
in Auburn.
“Sushi is pretty popular in
Auburn,” Frost said. “Sushi
in general is popular with-in
the college atmosphere.”
Frost and fellow senators be-lieve
there is a market for ad-ditional
sushi restaurants.
Frost believes if these new
restaurants can provide qual-ity
food, affordable prices and
an added entertainment val-ue,
they will find success.
Sushi Boy and Arigato Su-shi
Boutique also have the
added benefit of location.
Both restaurants are centrally
located and are within walk-ing
distance of campus.
“I think that part of the rea-son
that sushi is so popular
among college students is be-cause,
especially in places like
Auburn, (patrons) are able to
completely emerge them-selves
in a completely differ-ent
culture,” Frost said.
“So it is not only about the
quality of the food, it is about
the atmosphere and a unique
experience.”
Auburn resident and sushi
enthusiast, Calli Robinson,
agreed that both restaurants
will need to offer a unique at-mosphere
to compete with
current sushi venues.
“They will have to offer
quality food and cheap prices.
Drink specials wouldn’t hurt
either,” Robinson said.
While both businesses are
continuing to fine-tune their
restaurants and menus, they
both appear determined and
excited to make their mark in
Auburn.
Sushi rolls into town
Danielle Lowe/Assistant Photo Editor
Auburn is welcoming several new sushi restaurants as older, more traditional-style restaurants strug-gle
and close.
Sonya Lovejoy
Community Reporter
Auburn citizens celebrated
Veterans Day Monday during
the city’s commemorative cer-emony
at the Auburn Veterans
Memorial. This event included
a wreath laying ceremony, per-formances
by the Auburn Uni-versity
Choir, Drake Middle
School Choir and music from
bagpiper Dan Drummond.
A veteran is defined by fed-eral
law as a person who has
served in any military service.
Veterans Day is largely in-tended
to thank living veter-ans
for dedicated and loyal
service to their country. Nov.
11 of each year is the day that
we ensure veterans know that
we deeply appreciate the sac-rifices
they have made in their
lives to keep our country free.
Auburn resident Lucas Ep-person
values Veterans Day
for multiple reasons. Novem-ber
11 is a day to honor service
members and also marks his
return home from Iraq.
“Veterans day is important
to me because it honors all ser-vice
members and gives every-one
the opportunity to recog-nize
the sacrifices made,” Ep-person
said. “November 11 is
also the day that I returned
home and ended my tour in
Iraq.”
November 11 became a day
for Epperson that he thought
he would never get to experi-ence.
Before returning home from
Iraq, Epperson had been stuck
in flight delays for two days be-cause
of sand storms. “I re-member
sleeping on a cot in-side
a sleeping bag thinking I
was never going to get out of
this place,” Epperson said.
Epperson’s best memory is
one of Veterans Day when he
finally made it home.
“After an 18-hour flight, I
walked up the stairs to find my
bags and was met by my two
sisters who almost knocked
me down with hugs,” Epper-son
said. “That’s when I knew
I was home.”
Maj. Adam Hallmark is an-other
Auburn resident that
both gives thanks and appre-ciates
gratitude each Veter-ans
Day.
Hallmark is currently an
Army Public Affairs officer as-signed
to the U.S. Army Stu-dent
Detachment at Fort Jack-son,
S.C. with duty at Auburn
University, obtaining his mas-ter’s
degree.
Hallmark has served in the
military since May 2001 and
has spent time stationed at
Fort Hood, Texas and was de-ployed
twice to Iraq for a total
of 27 months.
He was also deployed to
both Haiti and Afghanistan for
three months each.
Hallmark personally values
the celebration of our veterans
“because it’s an opportunity to
thank those who have served
before me, especially those
who gave their lives,” Hallmark
said. “I will forever owe them a
debt than can’t be repaid.”
Hallmark is oftentimes
overwhelmed and grateful for
the outpouring of support and
gratitude that he has received
from random strangers over
the years.
“It still catches me off guard
to be thanked out of the blue
by someone,” Hallmark said
A simple thank you reminds
service members like Hall-mark
that citizens are aware
and grateful for their sacri-fices.
During the Battle of Na-jaf,
Hallmark went approxi-mately
30 straight days with-out
a shower. “I was so filthy
by the end of that battle, and I
can remember the front of my
uniform being a dingy brown-ish-
black color from constant-ly
wiping the sweat off of my
hands,” Hallmark said.
“While we certainly don’t
ask for it, a simple ‘thank you’
goes a long way and is genu-inely
appreciated.”
Men like Hallmark and Ep-person
may be honored at the
Auburn Veterans Memori-al
Monument, which was de-signed
to honor all veterans.
The obelisk, the central fea-ture
of the monument, hon-ors
those who have served
our country while the low wall
honors those who have made
the supreme sacrifice.
In the rear of the brick cir-cle
surrounding the monu-ment
lies a memorial area that
can be used by visitors to leave
flowers or a wreath in honor or
in memory of veterans.
Funding has been provid-ed
through donations and the
sale of brick pavers.
Order forms are available
online at AuburnAlabama.
org/veterans.
Veterans take time, reflect
on service and sacrifices
Katherine McCahey/Photographer
A wreath stands in front of the city of Auburn’s memorial site to hon-or
those who have served.
Community A8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 15, 2012
Taylor Grafft
Writer
Seniors center Rob Chubb and
guard Frankie Sullivan led a second-half
charge to rally from a halftime
deficit as the Auburn men’s basket-ball
team defeated the IPFW Mast-odons
61–50 in the Tigers’ 2012–13
season opener Friday, Nov. 9.
Sullivan led the Tigers with 26
points and four rebounds and was the
catalyst of Auburn’s 19–8 run to finish
the game.
The Tigers went into halftime trail-ing
23–27 because of poor shoot-ing
and several turnovers in the first
half. The Tigers came out in the sec-ond
half and shot 48 percent from
the field and converted 14-of-21 free
throws to pull away and start their
regular season 1–0.
Auburn had trouble stopping
IPFW senior guard Frank Gaines,
who scored 32 points.
Barbee addressed the team’s iden-tity
moving forward and what aspects
need to be improved upon.
“Our identity is always going to be
how tough we are and how good we
are defensively,” Barbee said. “We’ve
got to become a better rebounding
team, even though we out-rebounded
them by seven ... we have to be a bet-ter
defensive rebounding team. There
were a lot of defensive rebounds to be
had.”
Auburn’s young players struggled
in the first regular season game of
their careers and saw limited min-utes
as a result.
Coach Barbee addressed what the
young players need to do in order to
step up and how they need to rely on
the veterans to carry the team until
the younger players are up to speed.
“We all know how good these
new guys are, but exhibition games
and actual games at this level when
it counts are a lot different,” Bar-bee
said. “These veterans — it’s why
you have veterans. They are expect-ed
to carry the load until these new
guys come on and catch up with ev-erything
we’re trying to get accom-plished.
This season is a marathon,
not a sprint.”
The veterans carried the load for
the Tigers, with Sullivan and Chubb
rallying the team on both ends of the
court.
Sullivan had several big moments
in the game. The first came in the way
of a three-pointer that tied the game
at 42–42 with 10:04 remaining in the
game.
Sullivan got the Auburn fans and
student section on their feet with a
put-back dunk to give the Tigers a
55–46 lead with 1:22 remaining in the
game.
After the game, Sullivan talked
about his knee surgery and how he
felt rejuvenated in Friday night’s
opener.
“I haven’t felt like that in a long
time,” Sullivan said. “It makes me
want to go to work right now and get
back in the gym and get more shots
up.
“Once you’ve felt that good and see
you’ve got your old self back and what
I went through with the knee surgery
two years ago, it’s just a blessing.”
Auburn converted 11 second-chance
points thanks in large part
to the rebounding of Chubb. Chubb
added a double-double, producing 10
points and a team-high 15 rebounds.
Chubb said aspects of his game have
changed since last season, and his
overall game has improved.
“The extra weight I’ve put on over
the summer, and the agility stuff we’ve
been doing in the weight room has
helped a lot with rebounding,” Chubb
said. “One thing I’ve always focused
on up until this year is offense. If my
offense wasn’t going, I didn’t have
much going on. My shot wasn’t falling
so the only way I could help my team
was catching every rebound I could.”
Auburn junior guard Allen Payne
added 12 points, seven rebounds,
three steals and three assists and
played a team-high 37 minutes.
The Auburn men will play Mur-ray
State Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.
in the first round of the Charleston
Classic. The game will be televised on
ESPN3.
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Senior guard Frankie Sullivan tries to get a layup to fall against IPFW Friday, Nov. 9.
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Women’s soccer takes
on No. 2 BYU Thursday
Andrew Yawn
Sports Editor
On Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.,
the Auburn women’s soccer team
will play BYU in Provo, Utah in the
second round of the NCAA Tourna-ment.
When Auburn, the second-low-est
ranked team to make the tour-nament,
takes on BYU, the second
highest ranked team in the country,
the Tigers will be pushed to make
history and hopefully not repeat it.
Auburn is 5–10–0 all-time with
no wins and all 10 losses coming in
the second round. BYU (18–1–1) is
ranked No. 1 in Auburn’s quadrant.
The Lady Tigers have not won
two consecutive games all season,
but have shown they have the abil-ity
to score.
The team finished seventh in the
SEC with 35 goals scored, but incon-sistent
defense allowed 28 goals, the
seventh most in the conference.
BYU, on the other hand, has
scored 49 and only allowed 11.
When Auburn takes on BYU, the
team must play solid in the defen-sive
four to slow down the nation’s
15th -ranked offense.
The only positive going into the
game is that despite the sixth-best
goals against average, BYU has lost
a game this season to Utah, a team
not selected to the tournament.
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John Burns
Sports Reporter
Bomani Jones, a regu-lar
contributor on ESPN’s
“Around the Horn” and “Dan
Le Batard Is Highly Ques-tionable,”
spoke to students
about athletes and activism
in sports at the Student Cen-ter
Wednesday, Nov. 7.
The event was set up by
the Auburn University Mul-ticultural
Center, and Jones’
primary focus was speaking
about how the college athlete
culture can sometimes set
players up to fail.
“We’re letting guys into
school who are often not
qualified to be in school,”
Jones said. “Academical-ly
they aren’t qualified, and
there’s no real concern as to
whether or not they are … be-cause
nobody’s job has been
saved by a high graduation
rate.”
Jones went on to say that
the main reason athletes are
enrolled at college is obvi-ously
for the benefit of the
school’s athletics, and if they
contribute to the team at the
expense of their education,
nobody really cares.
“The athletes are majoring
in the sports they play,” Jones
said. “Guess what? That’s all
there is time for them to ma-jor
in.”
Several times through the
lecture Jones mentioned that
the players could not be at the
discussion because they were
at practice. He then ques-tioned
how they could possi-bly
make it to all their classes
if they are practicing at 1 p.m.
Jones said sometimes play-ers
have “to hold down 12
hours to be a full-time stu-dent,
but (their) schedule
only allows (them) to have
nine hours of work.” He said
universities then find a way
around that.
The way around for some
schools, Jones said, is to give
athletes a final project, and
not require them to come to
class. The problem is if ath-letes
are not going to their
classes, they aren’t learning
anything, and most collegiate
players are forced to earn a
living in a non-professional
sports career.
Though Jones said the play-ers
might not get a great ed-ucation,
he did acknowledge
that most would receive a de-gree
from their schools.
“They want to keep these
guys eligible, and tell them
that they’re paying them with
an education,” Jones said.
“This is why I brought up the
college students and their de-grees
and whether or not they
actually know anything. Go
look at the graduation rates
for football teams.
“They’re typically pretty
high, and now that the NCAA
has standards that they’re re-quiring
graduation rates to
be—trust me, they’ll make
the numbers.”
Jones focused most of his
lecture on the problems that
go on inside college athletics,
but he also spoke about how
activism by athletes has de-clined
recently.
He referred to how athletes
in the mid-1900s made much
less money than they do now.
“It’s a lot easier to be an ac-tivist
when you have nothing
to lose,” Jones said. “When
you’re making $10-12 million
and somebody tells you that
might go away, all of the sud-den
the discussion becomes
different.”
There are athletes who are
activists for noncontroversial
organizations such as NBA
Cares, which reaches out to
communities and education-al
facilities, but Jones’ point
was that athletes no longer
stand up to the problems with
society, because it can cost
them their job and livelihood.
Jones did not only criti-cize
athletes for this, but even
spoke about how a change in
wealth changed him.
“I can tell you this person-ally
as someone who makes a
whole lot more money in 2012
than he did in 2008,” Jones
said. “I’m no less honest now
than I was then, but you could
get a lot more fervor out of me
in 2008, because I didn’t have
anything to lose.”
Jones shed light on these
problems, but admitted he
wasn’t able to offer a solution.
“We’re letting
guys into school
who are often
not qualified to
be in school.”
—Bomani Jones
Journali st an d contributor
to SBNAtion.com
Bomani Jones tells Auburn the problem with college athletics
Corey Arwood
Writer
The women’s basketball
team came out of last
weekend’s invitational with a
win, a loss and a long to-do-list
before this week’s home game
against Alabama State.
Head Coach Terri Williams-
Flournoy began her first
season with Auburn at the
Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack
Invitational in tournament
play against the Maine Black
Bears on Friday, Nov. 9 and
the North Carolina State
Wolfpack on Saturday in the
invitational’s championship
game.
The team’s strengths and
weaknesses that factored into
a 71–41 victory against Maine
and an 85–71 loss against NC
State in the tournament finals
were evident preseason and
were focus points of team
members and coaches alike.
Senior guard and forward
Blanche Alverson said last
week that the team needed to
improve on its defensive effort.
After Saturday’s loss to
NC State, Williams-Flournoy
reiterated that in a post-game
radio interview.
“We don’t play very good
defense,” Williams-Flournoy
said. “A lot of the time we
gamble a little bit too much,
and if we learn how to just do
our defense, stay within our
defensive principles and our
defensive groove, we’ll be a
better defensive team.”
After practice on Monday,
Nov. 12, junior guard and
forward Tyrese Tanner said
the problem was not the game
plan.
“We were really confident
before the game,” Tanner said.
“We watched film a lot, and we
knew what we were going to
get into.”
Defensively, Tanner said the
Tigers must stay aggressive.
“Our defense with Maine
…we played really aggressive,
and just with the defense with
NC State we backed off a little,
and we weren’t as aggressive,”
Tanner said. “Really for the NC
State game our defense lost
the game. We didn’t execute as
we should have and so I think
with these two upcoming
games that we’re practicing
really hard on defense.”
With two games down and
vital experience acquired,
Tanner foresees different
outcomes for the upcoming
games of the season.
“I think that we should at
least force a whole bunch
of turnovers and get a lot of
steals, and that we should win
these games easy,” Tanner said.
In her radio interview,
Williams-Flournoy said
defensive strength can help on
the offensive side of the court
as well.
“What defense does is give
you a lot of confidence on the
offensive end, and I think we
began to make some shots that
we had missed in the first half,”
Williams-Flournoy said.
Tanner was one of the
few consistent offensive
performers for the Tigers over
the weekend and was named
the Southeastern Conference
Player of the Week.
Tanner opened the
tournament with a team-high
26 points against Maine and
followed that with a 15-point
effort in the team’s loss to NC
State. She also leads the team
in rebounding and averaged
8.5 rebounds per game for the
weekend.
“I just have to give credit to
my team. It’s not an ‘I’ effort,”
she said. “It’s not just for me.
It’s for my whole team.”
The team will play two
home games this week. It
will play Alabama State this
Thursday, Nov. 15 at 6 p.m.
and Alabama A&M on Sunday,
Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.
Lady Tigers open season 1–1
after Wolfpack Invitational
Courtesy of Greg Mintel
Auburn’s Najat Ouardad (3) and Tyrese Tanner (32) battle for a loose ball with a Maine player. The Tigers
defeated Maine 71–41 in the 2012–13 season-opener.
Football team hires security
team to enforce curfews
John Burns
Sports Reporter
The Auburn football
program has hired Event
Operations Group, Inc. to
enforce the players’ curfews
on a nightly basis.
The private security firm is
a “national full service event
management, staffing, and
security provider,” according
to its website.
Event Operations Group,
Inc. is not only enforcing the
Tigers’ curfews on nights
before games, but every
night.
The firm services more
than 500 venues across the
United States, including
Jordan-Hare Stadium during
Auburn football games.
Event Operations Group,
Inc. declined comment when
asked about the reasons for
overseeing curfews on the
football team.
Senior striker Coffed makes
SEC Community Service Team
Rebecca Moseley
Writer
Senior Mary Coffed’s in-volvement
in the commu-nity
with Toys for Tots and
the Yes We Can food drive,
has earned her a place on
the SEC Soccer Community
Service Team.
“On the field, she’s the
perfect teammate” said
Amy Howard, senior goal-keeper
and Coffed’s room-mate.
“She’s a hard work-er,
and she cares about the
team and the players. It
helps that she’s a great soc-cer
player as well. She’s such
a great person that is high-ly
involved with community
service and academics.”
Every week, Cof fed
spends Monday at the East
Alabama Food Bank and
Friday at the Auburn Unit-ed
Methodist Church Food
Pantry, according to Dan
Froehlich, associate direc-tor
of media relations for
Auburn athletics.
Coffed said her interest
in community service be-gan
in high school, but a
hunger studies course at
the University sparked a
passion in her.
“I’ve been getting real-ly
involved with food pan-tries
and stuff,” Coffed said.
“I’m sad that it took me this
long. It’s something I see
100 percent carrying on in
the future.”
Coffed said the experi-ence
she gained through
marketing courses has
helped her choose a path
for after graduation in May.
“Unfortunately, I don’t
know exactly what I want
to do yet,” Coffed said. “I
would really like to work
with a non-profit and do a
little marketing with that.
That would be my dream. It
would be fun and rewarding
in a lot of ways.”
Since choosing Auburn,
Coffed has been a fixture at
the front of Auburn’s attack.
Coffed has started since
midway through her fresh-man
year.
Now the senior has
played in a total of 90 games
and holds the record for
most games played.
Coach Karen Hoppa said
she feels that the record can
be credited to Coffed’s im-pact
as a freshman.
“Mary hit the ground
running her freshman year
and has played every game
of her career,” Hoppa said.
For now, Coffed is trying
to use her veteran savvy to
guide the Tigers to her and
head coach Karen Hoppa’s
first-ever Sweet 16 at the
NCAA Tournament.
The Tigers take on No. 2
BYU in the second round of
play Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7
p.m.
Allison Thompson
Senior Mary Coffed strikes a free kick in Auburn’s 4–3 2OT
victory over Alabama on Thursday, Oct. 25.
Thursday, November 15, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Sports B3
Was this season not sup-posed
to be the rebuilding
year?
After the joy and jubila-tion
of 2010 and the success
of The Great Cam-bino, Au-burn’s
2011 season was con-sidered
disappointing despite
the Chick-fil-A Bowl win.
After the departures of Mi-chael
Dyer, the other reason
Auburn went undefeated in
2010, and coordinators Gus
Malzahn and Ted Roof, the
team and the University un-derstood
this year was going
to come with a learning curve.
This season, Auburn has
played the 20th-toughest
schedule in the nation by win/
loss percentage and has the
seventh-strongest strength of
schedule in the SEC.
That, combined with new
coaches and young players,
made for a good excuse.
The problem is, in the SEC,
a team wins or loses, and the
word “rebuilding” does not ex-cuse
the latter of the two.
Auburn needs to get back to
a bowl next season. The only
question is how to get there.
If Gene Chizik is fired as ex-pected,
the new coach will in-herit
a top–10 recruiting class
at a large Southern football
program and not much else.
A new coach most like-ly
means new coordinators.
New coordinators means new
systems, more learning and a
year of wasted “experience” in
a system that gave Auburn its
first winless eight-game SEC
season ever.
There are also already
reports that quarterback
Jeremy Johnson, the cream of
the Tigers’ offensive recruiting
crop, may decommit from
Auburn if Chizik is fired.
What if more recruits fol-low
Johnson elsewhere? To
Alabama?
President Jay Gogue will
soon have to make a tough de-cision:
continue Chizik’s “re-building”
or try to rebuild the
rebuilding effort.
Auburn needs wins now.
Seeing how that’s not likely af-ter
the Alabama A&M game
ends Saturday, Nov. 17, the Ti-gers’
fans will have to wait for
next year.
But that’s as long as they’ll
wait.
Chizik or not, the head
coach in 2013 must help trans-form
a two-win team into a
never-lose team by September
or risk a repeat of this season.
Barring the addition of a
high-profile, culture-changing
coach, Auburn’s future is bleak
and the fans are restless..
Football is life in the South,
but fans are the business.
Gogue needs to make the
right decision for Auburn’s
team, the fans and its wallet,
and the decision will only be
right if Auburn can contend
immediately in 2013.
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Sports Reporter
The Auburn football team
has had a rough season.
That may be putting it light-ly,
because to the immensely
dissatisfied fans, the team has
won only two games, neither
of which were against SEC
opponents. Also, former na-tional
champion head coach
Gene Chizik is on the hottest
of seats.
After a 38–0 crushing defeat
at home against Georgia, so is
defensive coordinator Brian
VanGorder.
Barring a huge upset in Tus-caloosa,
Auburn will likely fin-ish
the season with three vic-tories
and badly miss out
on a bowl game. After three
straight seasons with bowl
wins, the big question is what
happened this year, and how
can it be fixed?
VanGorder had several
blunt suggestions of how to
improve on the defensive side
of the football.
“We’ve got to get bigger and
stronger here at Auburn.” Van-
Gorder said. “It’s pretty obvi-ous.
I think that’s our respon-sibility
— to develop them
physically and mentally. That’s
our job.”
He also spoke of how his ex-perience
in the NFL relates to
the relatively small Auburn
defensive side.
“In the NFL, there was one
defense that was built in the
ideal of small and fast,” Van-
Gorder said. “It was a de-fense
that was built with a
high-scoring offense that
was ahead all the time, and it
worked.”
The problem is Auburn has
had anything but a high-scor-ing
offense this season and
has averaged a meager 163.7
passing yards and 17.3 points
per game.
When asked about his con-fidence
concerning his future
at Auburn, VanGorder said he
was unsure.
“I don’t know that I can say
that I’m confident (about it),”
VanGorder said. “But it’s not
something that’s overly bur-densome
to me.”
To the organization’s credit,
they have not been making ex-cuses.
The coaches and play-ers
know this year has been
a disappointment, and the
mindset in the locker room
is to finish the season with
heads held high.
“It hurts to lose the way
we’ve been losing,” said senior
cornerback T’Sharvan Bell.
“We’ve just got to keep fight-ing.
The season is not over.
We’ve got two games left, so
we’ll try to make the most of
these last two games.”
The Tigers will face Ala-bama
A&M and Alabama re-spectively
in the next two
weeks.
VanGorder unsure about future
Danielle Lowe / Assistant
Photo Editor
Defensive coordinator Brian Van-
Gorder said Auburn needs to get
bigger and faster on defense in
order to compete.
Coaching situation is lose-lose for Auburn
Andrew
Yawn
sports@
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Sports B4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 15, 2012
ACROSS
1 Eugene O’Neill
character?
11 Without gaps in
coverage
15 Orbital position
nearest the sun
16 Capture, in a way
17 Commercial
identifiers
18 “The Tourist”
author Steinhauer
19 Run like the
wind, e.g.
20 More than
equaling
22 Strike setting
23 Confused
26 Oldies syllable
27 “M*A*S*H”
dramatic device
30 Graphic
designer’s deg.
33 Spurious
34 King Faisal’s
brother
35 Poet’s liberty
39 Passing
remarks?
40 “__ Plays Fats”
(1955 jazz LP)
41 R.I.’s Sheldon
Whitehouse, e.g.
42 Left nothing in
the tank
46 Brown, for one
47 Paul or Lloyd of
Cooperstown
48 Hebrew letter
before shin
51 Mythical Aegean
Sea dweller
53 Short drop-off?
55 Farm hauler
56 Not blown up
60 Bone: Pref.
61 Cleese role in
“Monty Python’s
The Meaning of
Life”
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63 Picasso medium
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advertising suffix
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track
5 Air Canada
Centre team,
informally
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Cassin
7 Ipanema greeting
8 Milne’s “Mr. __
Passes By”
9 Earth mover
10 Results
11 Overlying
12 Curse repellers
13 Realtor’s come-on
14 Where gravel
may represent
water
21 Tuba note
23 NASCAR Hall of
Famer Bobby
24 How most maps
are drawn
25 Bake
28 Map coordinate:
Abbr.
29 Exhaust
30 Balcony
alternative
31 Like playing
tennis with the
net down, to
Robert Frost
32 “Be that as it
may ...”
36 Novel conclusion?
37 Frankfurter’s
pronoun
38 Bach hymn
arrangements
43 Four-yr. conflict
44 Tried it
45 Doesn’t quite
reveal
49 Marsh bird
50 Light golden
brown
52 Watched
53 “Flashdance ...
What a Feeling”
lyricist
54 Head of a PIN?:
Abbr.
57 Dernier __
58 Shop sign word
after open,
maybe
59 One stationed at
a base
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The Auburn men’s and
women’s swimming and div-ing
team is ready to dive into
the Georgia Invitational Meet
starting Friday, Nov. 30.
The team remains unde-feated
after beating Ken-tucky
Friday, Nov. 2, with the
women earning a 212.5–87.5
win and the men a 205.5–94.5
win.
At the Georgia meet, the
team is scheduled to com-pete
against California, Indi-ana,
UVA and Georgia.
“I am excited to compete
against teams outside of the
SEC, and this will be a test
run for (the SEC Tournament
Dec. 3),” said Becca Jones, se-nior
swimmer who races in
the 50, 100 and 200 free.
Both meets will be con-ducted
similarly.
The team will try to cap-ture
seasonal best times and
essentially see how it com-petes
against the schools.
“There will be great teams
at Georgia, and all the meets
have been preparation for
this,” coach Brett Hawke said.
For the meet, the team
has made personal and team
goals.
“My goal is to be faster than
last year and for the team re-lays,”
said junior swimmer
Marcelo Chierighini.
In regard to the season so
far, the team has been nearly
perfect in terms on the score
board.
“The season is great so far,”
Chierighini said. “I’ve never
done this well.”
Chierighini swims the
50 and 100 meter freestyle
events and has won the SEC
Swimmer of the Week award
twice.
However, according to
Chierighini, even the under-classman
are ready to plunge
into the rest of the season.
“I’m happy with the team,”
Chierighini said. “The fresh-man
class is good, and they
are excited as well.”
For personal improvement,
Chierighini said he would like
to perfect his start, which he
said is his biggest weakness
in the pool.
As for the team, Chierighi-ni
said it needs to continue
its hard work.
“I want to make the most
out of my senior year, which
I think has shown in the dual
meets, because I have gotten
my season’s best times,” Jones
said.
The team’s energy has been
high along with its level of ex-citement
for the upcoming
meets.
“Everyone has been bring-ing
each other up, which has
shown in meets,” Jones said.
So far, the team has shown
its roster is deep with talent.
“The coaches have been
putting us in off events,” Jones
said. “People have stepped up
and have proven to do some-thing
they didn’t think they
could.”
The team is now pushing
toward the championship
end of the season.
With the team racing for
a 16th consecutive SEC vic-tory
at the end of the season,
Chierighini said the team
knows how difficult it will be.
“I think it’s really impor-tant
for another win,” Chier-ighini
said. “This year will be
the toughest, but we’ve been
working hard.”
The women haven’t earned
an SEC title since 2008.
“This is the strongest team
right now, and I think we
have our best shot,” Jones
said. “I would love to hang a
banner up my senior year.”
Although the team wants
another SEC title, Hawke
wants more.
“An SEC title is impor-tant,
but we are focused on a
NCAA title,” Hawke said.
The Georgia Fall Invitatioal
will be held in Athens, Ga. on
Friday, Nov. 30.
Undefeated swimming, diving team prepares for SEC play, eyes title
“This is the
strongest team
right now, and
I think we have
our best shot.
I would love to
hang a banner up
my senior year,”
—Becca Jones
senior Swimmer
Intrigue
Thursday, November 15, 2012 ThePlainsman.com Intrigue
B5
Magic of OZZ : 36 years and still spinnin’
Local bands deck the halls for The Gnu’s Room
Courtesy of DJ Ozz
DJ Ozz performed at the first Veterinary School National Symposium. “They were party animals,” Ozz said.
Nathan Simone
Online Editor
Charles Barkley can tell you who his favorite disc jockey in
Auburn is, because Barkley used to crash at his apartment in the
‘80s and watch him box in the Coliseum.
Ralph ‘Shug’ Jordan, Doug Barfield, Pat Dye and Tommy Tu-berville
have all known him on a first-name basis. Chizik re-ceived
a plate of cookies from him each Saturday during foot-ball
seasons, until scheduling conflicts arose.
Michael David Calton, better known as DJ Ozz, acknowledg-es
that in his 36 years performing in Auburn, he’s met all the su-perstars:
Bo Jackson, Kevin Greene, Charles Barkley and Chuck
Person, to name a few.
And yet, his 57-year-old balding head hasn’t grown any larger.
“Just about every way that I can reach out to communities
with music, I’ve been blessed to be a part of,” Ozz said.
From 13-year-old birthday parties to founding the ever-pop-ular
Daddy-Daughter dances in Auburn and Opelika, Ozz has
tried to DJ it all.
But for someone who’s been a visible part of the Auburn-Ope-lika
community for so long, there’s definitely a thing or two resi-dents
don’t know about Ozz.
“I used to do intramural boxing as part of The A Club,” Ozz
said. “We’d get 20,000 people in the bottom of the Coliseum, all
there to see guys beat the heck out of each other. I was pretty fit,
so I was OK.”
While he bleeds orange and blue, Ozz was born in Houston,
and lived with his family in Birmingham and Phenix City be-fore
landing in Auburn in time for him to enroll in Auburn High
School.
Ozz said that his nickname arose from first being called “Wiz
kid” by a football coach for his smart mouth. Later, peers adapt-ed
it into “Ozz,” and the name stuck.
“The only person who still calls me Michael is my brother,” Ozz
said. “My friends call me Ozz. My wife calls me Ozz. Everybody
does.”
Even on his mortgage, Ozz said that all his official documents
usually contain “a.k.a. Ozz” at the end.
What is now Bourbon Street used to be a bar called Court-ney’s,
where Ozz first started performing professionally in 1977.
“It was disco back then, the first disco place,” Ozz said. “I had
to bid with the DJ who was already there for a time slot.”
Ozz’s nickname then took on a professionally appropriate
tone when he started working at a new record store in Auburn
called Oz for Music, owned by Emerald City Records out of At-lanta.
Ozz pursued the job to get a discount on music, and because
of his yellow-brick road-decorated Converse shoes, the owner
obliged.
At the time, he was studying communications/public rela-tions
at Auburn, but he couldn’t find a job. The owner at Oz for
Music offered to let him run a store in California, but he declined
in order to take care of his ill mother and continue to DJ.
“I couldn’t find a job, and so my mother said ‘honey, do what
you love,’” Ozz said. “I told her I’d try as best I could.”
From there, Ozz said his glory days were spent from 1981-85
at a bar called The Hungry Hunter on Opelika Highway, a big
hangout for the majority of athletes.
It was at The Hungry Hunter that Ozz bestowed mercy upon a
dancing Bo Jackson with two left feet.
“He was losing so bad to another guy in a dance contest,” Ozz
said. “I said ‘Bo, you got to do something,’ so he went back out
there and ripped his shirt off and flexed. The whole place went
crazy. He won.”
After The Hungry Hunter, Ozz played a variety of venues
around town before hosting karaoke nights at Bourbon Street
in the mid–’90s.
“Heath Evans used to come by a lot,” Ozz said. “He’d sing ‘Ice,
Ice, Baby’ by Vanilla Ice and just break it down. All his friends
would dance behind him, and people just loved it. You don’t see
too much of that anymore.”
After Bourbon Street, a friend at Quixote’s suggested Ozz try
out for a permanent weekly spot.
Since 2007, Ozz has been known as the Wednesday resident
DJ of Quixote’s, where Ozz said he will stay as long as he can.
Having DJed 461 weddings in his career, Ozz said that eight of
those couples met since he’s been at Quixote’s.
“I have people come up to me all the time and say ‘we met
when you played our song,’” Ozz said. “Usually with a little prod-ding,
I can remember what it is.”
Many venues in Auburn have some mark left by Ozz, such as
the “love booth” at Niffer’s, where Ozz proposed to his wife, Kar-en.
“Niffer’s is one of my favorite places to eat, and I’ve been do-ing
their Christmas parties for over 19 years,” Ozz said. “I pro-posed
to my wife in one of their booths; it has a special place in
my heart.”
Tyler Bowden, Auburn University alumnus and graduate of
Auburn High, said he remembers Ozz performing at a variety of
school functions in Auburn, including his senior prom.
“He was always at our dances,” Bowden said. “You knew if
there was an event to expect some Ozz.”
Quentin Torbert, junior in business management and gradu-ate
of Opelika High, said Ozz is a down-to-earth person and well-liked
entertainer in many communities.
“I feel like everybody loves DJ Ozz,” Torbert said. “He’s so ap-proachable.
I see people walk up to him and have conversations
all the time. He’s DJed my dances from middle school to college
now. It’s like we all grew up with him.”
Torbert thinks most students appreciate how Ozz keeps up
with new music trends.
“Even for his age, he knows all the new stuff to play,” Torbert
said. “He also knows when to go old-school, balance it out.”
Ozz said he studies all sections the Billboard 100 and Top Hits
USA every Monday morning so that he can stay relevant with
his sets.
“There’s not any section you can beat me in,” Ozz said. “I’ve
lived my music and studied it as well.”
He acknowledges that most people his age are slowing down,
not looking for opportunities to speed up and stay up late.
“Most people my age are in bed by 8 p.m.,” Ozz said. “Last
night, I got into bed at 2:45 a.m., but it doesn’t bother me be-cause
I’ve been doing it all these years. If that what makes my au-dience
happy, I’m there for them.”
Ozz’s personal philosophy is to make his crowd have as much
fun as possible and to constantly keep the number of people on
the dance floor high. He only plays edited music and stays away
from music with “a bad message.”
“Sometimes guys will get on me for playing ‘N Sync or Back-street
Boys,” Ozz said. “Then I tell them to look at the 40 or 50
girls that just went screaming onto the dance floor. If the girls
are happy, then the guys are happy.”
The only criticism fans seem to have of Ozz is a lack of incor-porating
listener requests into sets.
“Sometimes people don’t realize that when they ask me for
certain songs, especially if they’re dirty, I can’t play them,” Ozz
said. “At schools and other events, I have to follow the guidelines
of where I’m at.”
Ozz said he sincerely tries to honor listener requests to the
best of his abilities.
“I get put in tough situations sometimes,” Ozz said. “I’d like to
play every song requested, but I also would not like to get fired
or offend someone.”
For now, Ozz reaffirms that he’s been doing what he loves for
36 years and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. However,
he’s always admired the job of fellow classmate, Jordan-Hare Sta-dium
announcer Ric Smith.
“I still have a dream of being an announcer at the stadium
or some other sporting event,” Ozz said. “I’d say ‘Auburn Tigers,
it’s time to get up!’ and then play four or five songs to get them
pumped. That would be my dream.”
Ozz is confident that his goodwill will continue to be spread
around Auburn and other communities, as long as there is mu-sic
to bring people together.
“The best thing that I can reflect on is how many people have
told me ‘you made a difference for me at Auburn, you helped me
have fun,’” Ozz said. “I’ll never have a star or banner like the big
guys, but my greatest gift is to know that I can go anywhere: Au-burn,
Opelika, Beauregard, Smiths Station … and have a friend
or help somebody.”
For event requests or quotes, Ozz can be contacted at djozz1@
hotmail.com or 334-559-4699.
Courtesy of DZ Ozz
DJ Ozz performed at the 10th annual Daddy-Daughter dance. “Those
are my favorite dances,” Ozz said.
Courtesy of DZ Ozz
Ozz sits at the DJ booth in The Hungry Hunter. “It was the Jackson
era,” Ozz said.
Caitlin Wagenseil
Writer
The Gnu’s Room has giv-en
many local bands and mu-sicians
an opportunity to play
in front of a live audience, and
now those bands are looking
to give back — in the form of a
Christmas album.
Teacup and the Monster,
Adventure of the Great, Low
June, Ellington Way and Lone-ly
Wolves are just some of the
bands recording songs for the
album.
Ellington Way, formed by
Auburn University students
Benjamin Hoefling and Carley
Boone, were more than happy
to be a part of the production.
“Jake Carnley of Teacup and
the Monster asked us to jump
in on the project with them and
some other artists,” said Boone.
“We loved the idea, so we were
a ‘yes’ right off the bat.”
Boone said because they
have only been playing together
for about three months, they’re
still figuring out their style and
sound, but would describe it as
easy listening. “We’re laid back
and acoustic,” she said.
“We play there (The Gnu’s
Room) like once a month, so
it’s pretty consistent,” Hoefling
said. “It was the first legit show
we played, and it’s been a good
home for us.”
Scott Waters, broadcast as-sociate
at WEGL91.1, formed
Low June along with his wife
Ashley, and they will be record-ing
one song for the album.
“Whenever we have new
bands come in, which has been
a lot lately, I’m the one who re-cords
those,” Waters said. “I
met Jake when they came into
the studio one day, and we re-corded
three or four tracks for
them.”
Waters and local Neil Kel-ly
recently put on the Gnu Fall
Festival, a fundraiser for The
Gnu’s Room.
“I asked Jake if they’d be will-ing
to play and they were up for
it, and from there they asked if
we wanted to do the Christmas
album,” Waters said. “There’s
10 bands involved, and we’re all
going to do one song.”
Waters said there was sup-posed
to be a show to promote
the album, but mainly the sales
of the record will go to benefit
The Gnu’s Room.
“We had intended on doing
the collaborative album and
kind of having a kickoff night
with it there with everybody
playing, but it may or may not
happen at this point with finals
coming up,” Boone said.
Live show or not, The Gnu’s
Room has given local artists
a place to play, which is why
many want to help raise money.
“I think all of us have in com-mon
that The Gnu’s Room has
really benefited us and sup-ported
us in our music endeav-ors,”
Boone said. “So we all just
want to give back.”
Low June will play Friday,
Nov. 16 at The Gnu’s Room,
and Ellington Way will play a
kickoff show for its Christmas
house show tour Thursday,
Nov. 29. It will also release its
first EP this spring.
Those interested in pur-chasing
the Christmas album
or making a donation can go
to IndieGoGo.com/TheGnus-
Room. The goal is to raise $600,
and all proceeds will go straight
to The Gnu Arts.
According to the website, for
a $15 donation, the donor will
be recognized with his or her
name printed under the “Spe-cial
Thanks” section, and for
the $20 donation, the donor
will receive an autographed
poster.
For donating $50, the donor
will receive a CD package with
albums from Teacup and the
Monster, Adventure the Great
and Dave Potts.
Those contributing $100 to
the cause will receive hand-written
lyrics to a Teacup and
the Monster song, as well as an
Adventure the Great song. For
$75 more, the donor will en-joy
a private show by the two
bands.
Intrigue B6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 15, 2012
How to: pick a formal date
Lane jones / intrigue reporter
Anna Beth Jager
Intrigue Reporter
Misch Masch Soaps, a local
business started by Lyndsay
Fukai, sells handmade bars of
soap in an abundance of dif-ferent
flavors.
The name developed from
her love for Lewis Carroll, the
author of "Alice in Wonder-land."
“My niece calls me Mimsy,
and I looked up the name and
it's a Lewis Carroll name," Fu-kai
said. "Then I started look-ing
at a bunch of Lewis Car-roll
stuff, and Misch Masch
was the title of one of his
books and I just thought,
'wow. That would be an awe-some
name for my business,'
mostly because I don't know
what I want to do with it. I
love vintage, I love sewing
and making clothes and I love
interior design, so I didn't re-ally
know what I wanted to do
in the future. I figured Misch
Masch would be a good brand
because it kind of accommo-dates
everything.”
Fukai’s love for making
soap started when she re-ceived
a bundle of them
from a friend and her friend's
daughter for Christmas.
“Her daughter is only 4,
and I was kind of like, 'if you
guys can make soap, I'm so
gonna make soap,'" Fukai
said.
"I've always wanted to,
and I maybe want to open a
bed and breakfast someday,
so I thought it would be re-ally
cool to have handmade
soap for guests. So, I just set
out to make it one day. Just re-searched
it and learned how
to do it all. I gave the friend
who I mentioned earlier one
of my bars of soap and she
was like, 'did you make this?'
and I was like ‘yeah, didn't
you?’ She had bought them
all at Hobby Lobby. But that's
how I learned; I just kind of
taught myself.”
The soaps are made with
all-natural ingredients with-out
any artificial dyes.
Everything is handmade,
and the scents are inspired by
a multitude of things.
“I love to cook, so I read
cookbooks all the time and
just kind of get different fla-vors
off of that," Fukai said.
"I also love anything fantasy
book, so I make goblin soap
and witch soap and then of
course I get inspiration from
Harry Potter. I love all that.”
While there aren’t any But-terbeer-
flavored soaps (yet),
there are still many to choose
from, and Fukai is open to
any flavor suggestions.
“I made one soap called
'Witchy,' and it has like worm-wood
and witch hazel and all
kinds of stuff like that in it,"
she said. "I just made a Jack
Frost one for Christmas, so I
used coconut shavings and
made it white and added pep-permint
to it, which is cool.”
Fukai has also been a huge
supporter of local business-es,
buying coffee beans from
Mama Mocha's and grease
from The Hound.
“I definitely believe in sup-porting
local because that
keeps everything in your
town and provides a cre-ative
support for other artist
types," Fukai said.
"I really think that most
coffee shops, and even gro-cery
stores, should definitely
buy local. I have a passion for
food, and I also think that lo-cal
farmers are a dying breed.
If we don't start supporting
them more, then places like
Wal-Mart will take over the
world and we're gonna have,
like, mass-produced weird
tomatoes that are overly per-fect.
I don't know; I just really
support local, plus I want my
environment around me to
be people that I respect and
enjoy, and I know where my
stuff comes from.”
Misch Masch Soaps are
sold at The Overall Company
in Opelika or MischMasch-
Vintaggio.blogspot.com.
Misch Masch handmade
soap bubbling around town
Melody Kitchens / Intrigue editor
Misch Masch Soaps handmade soaps are sold at The Overall Company in downtown Opelika. Girls gripe about the lack
of initiative coming from
guys who are too shy or just
too lazy to ask them on a
proper date. They blame
their perpetual singledom on
boys who just can’t work up
the nerve to break through
the friendship zone. So, so-rorities
have schemed up an
event that is perfectly de-signed
to give girls an excuse
to get dressed up and dance
with dudes. In the dating cul-ture
of the South, these orga-nizations
provide an oppor-tunity
that gives them their
one and only chance to make
the first move: formal.
Finally, they are able to sin-gle
out the guy they’ve had
their eye on for so long and
take him on a magical night
that will culminate in a whirl-wind
romance! Finally, all
their complaints will come to
an end and they can express
interest in the cardigan-clad
cutie in their chemistry lab!
This is their chance to
make dreams come true. But,
inexplicably, that’s not what
happens. Girls wait around in
terror, doodling their crush’s
name in the margin of their
notebook, but never make a
move.
It’s time to rise up, la-dies.
Formal season is loom-ing
(and for you non-Greeks,
there’s always the Honors
ball). Start using this oppor-tunity
to its fullest potential.
Kelsie Nussel, recent Auburn
graduate and seasoned for-mal-
goer, has offered her ad-vice
in hopes that our readers
will avoid making the same
mistakes she did.
1. Look past your best guy
friend. One of the biggest
mistakes girls make is invit-ing
their token ‘guy friend’’—
the one who has been passed
around the sorority like a
good cupcake pan. They
takes guys who have been
permanently friend-zoned,
precisely because they pose
no romantic threat. Nussel
admits to having fallen victim
to this behavior during her
senior year. But, she claims,
there was a time when she
mustered up the moxie to do
it right.
“Sophomore year I asked
boys I liked and had crush-es
on.” Nussel said. “Multiple
times. Multiple boys. Some-times
it was the same boy
multiple times. At that point
I had my list of boys who I
thought were cute. The cute
boys, the nice boys and the
boys I knew but wanted to get
to know better.”
2. Take a risk. Formals are
a chance to take a risk un-der
the guise of being casu-al.
Pick someone who makes
you vaguely nauseated at the
thought of approaching. Arm
yourself with the reminder
that what you’re going to say
to him is “want to join me for
a fun night of dancing?” even
if what you’re thinking is “will
you promise to grow old with
me?”
3. Go in blind. Maybe there
isn’t a single man on the ho-rizon
that you can bear the
thought of spending an eve-ning
with. At some point in
our college careers, we’ve all
felt this way. Don’t use this
as license to stop looking,
though; use it as an opportu-nity
to go blind. The beauty of
a blind date is in its presumed
informality. You guys are just
getting to know each oth-er,
even if you have used his
Facebook thumbnail to pho-toshop
pictures of what your
children would look like.
“If you have a sorority sis-ter
that’s from Birmingham
and knows half of Auburn,
get her to set you up,” Nus-sel
said. “That’s what I did
freshman year to get to know
boys.”
4. Settle for the story. Even
if you hit every item on our
checklist to guarantee a flaw-less
night, it could still go
wrong. Maybe you run out of
things to say in the first cou-ple
minutes of the ride there
or a dance battle turns vio-lent.
Nussel advised to keep
in mind that romance is not
the only positive outcome of
a formal date.
“It could end in a boy-friend
or a really, really good
story,” she said. “I feel like I
have more stories than boy-friends.”
To Johnny: Formal? Fan-nie
Mae
Lane Jones
Lane@
theplainsman.
com
Thursday, November 15, 2012 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue B7
SNAPS
Auburn Circle’s Artist Expo
An event to showcase the talent of
artists featured in the Auburn Circle.
LIVE READINGS
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EXHIBITION
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Seventh graders from Goff Junior High School in Pawtucket, R.I. ask our readers
for help with their state project and request information on Alabama.
Ariana B.
974 Newport Ave.
Pawtucket, R.I. 02861
Carlos G.
974 Newport Ave.
Pawtucket, R.I. 02861
“We want to know what life is like in the area you’re from ... pictures of what it looks like if you look
out your back window, what is your town like, what do you do for fun, what kind of attractions are
there in the local area. Postcards help, pictures and newspapers. Folks usually send letters.”
—Brian Gilmore
Goff Junior High Geography teacher
Intrigue B8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 15, 2012
Martha
Ryals
Graduate
student in
nutrition
Healthy eating guidelines
in time for exam week
lane jones / intrigue editor
For Event Information:
www.auburn.edu/UPC
(334)-844-4788 or follow us on
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UPC Presents
Wednesday, November 28th
AU Student Center 2nd floor
10 AM - 2 PM
Take a break from your stressful schedule,
enjoy free food and make a craft!
The Bourne Legacy
Thursday, November 29th
“The Beach” at Donahue
and Lem Mor rison
8:00 PM
Drive-in movie:
WINTER CRAFTS
Exam week marks the be-ginning
of a time for those of
us in the academic world, and
with it, long nights at Ralph
Brown Draughon libary and
Starbucks, Caribou coffee
cravings, and the old famil-iar
take-out bags, delivered
pizzas and an array of plastic
utensils.
Let’s be honest, where col-lege
is concerned, a healthy
diet typically is not. We’re too
busy, too poor and too preoc-cupied
to worry about mak-ing
healthy food choices.
However, additional to inade-quate
physical activity and in-creased
levels of stress, poor
food choices are directly re-lated
to weight gain in college
students.
According to the American
College Health Association,
obesity among college stu-dents
has increased from 27.4
percent in 2006 to 29.2 per-cent
in 2011.
Studies show that obesi-ty
increases the likelihood of
cardiovascular disease, high
blood pressure and type 2 di-abetes,
as well as other life
threatening conditions.
As convenient and appe-tizing
as some fast foods and
junk foods may appear, they
are more than inconvenient
when it comes to maintaining
good health. Research shows
that diets high in saturated
fat, cholesterol, sodium and
refined carbohydrates, and
low in fruits and vegetables,
greatly increases one’s risk of
chronic diseases, some types
of cancer, high blood pressure
and obesity.
What can you do this year
to make healthier food choic-es?
What does a healthy diet
look like? Some basic guide-lines
to keep in mind are bal-ance,
variety, moderation and
proportion.
Balance, simply put, is in-corporating
all of the differ-ent
food groups in the diet;
these include grains, meats
and beans, vegetables, fruit,
dairy and oils. Eating only
one food from each food
group, such as french fries for
a vegetable serving, isn’t go-ing
to cut it. We college stu-dents
have a knack for redun-dancy
in our diets, but since
there is no such thing as a “su-per
food,” there is no one food
that can meet all our nutri-tional
needs.
Variety asks us to eat many
different foods within each
food group. A good tip when
practicing balance and vari-ety
is to pay attention to the
colors of the foods on your
plate; typically, the more va-riety
in colors, the more vari-ety
and balance in your meal.
Lastly, practice moderation
and proportion. No food has
to be excluded from your diet,
there just needs to be some
control as to how often and
how much of it you eat. Mod-eration
will keep “how often”
under control, while propor-tion
takes care of “how much.”
With basic dietary knowl-edge,
you’ll be able to make
healthier choices when de-ciding
where and what to
eat. Keep in mind that your
college life does not have to
exclude your good friends
Papa John, Jimmy John, Moe
or McDonald, but as with
any friendship, you two don’t
need to be attached to the hip;
it just isn’t healthy. Get out of
the box, and try mixing up the
foods in your diet.
There are many tasty, af-fordable
and healthy food op-tions
on and off of campus;
one only needs will power and
a little nutrition knowledge to
make better food choices.
We are the future, and right
now, studies show that our fu-ture
is becoming a “weighty”
issue. Even though mak-ing
better food choices can
seem daunting, eating health-ily
doesn’t have to be hard. It
doesn’t have to be a migraine
or an empty stomach. You
don’t have to be a rabbit, ex-ile
your snack foods or avoid
McDonald’s.
Get familiar with healthy
diet guidelines, learn to read
food labels. Most important-ly,
practice moderation, and
just maybe this year, Auburn
can become greater on a com-pletely
different scale.
Jane
Random
Lily Clark
sophomore
business
1. What’s your favorite
post-election tweet?
I like the ones that weren’t
too radical in any way. Just
like the humorous ones,
like “an elephant would
win in a real match.”
2. If you could abolish
one class at Auburn,
what would it be?
COMP1000. That’s a bad
one. It’s not helping anyone.
3. Which former SGA
president would you most
want to slow dance with?
Last year’s, because he
was really cute.
4. If you could hang out
with Aubie for a day,
what would you do?
I would just go with him ev-erywhere
for the attention
and see what it’s like with
all the screaming girls.
5. What Auburn professor
has the best hair?
Stephen Swann. He keeps it
together. It’s very well done.
6. What’s your favorite
method of coping with
Auburn’s crippling losses
this season?
War Eagle anyways. Some-times
I like to pretend it’s a
bye week.
7. What’s your thoughts
on the denim-on-denim
trend?
I’m cool with that.
8. Who would win in a
fight: Gogue or Chizik?
Gogue. Chizik is kind of los-ing
his touch all around.