2013-01-31 The Auburn Plainsman

              Becky Hardy
Campus Editor
Parking services, or as some may call
them the vultures of campus, explain
their reasoning behind ticketing.
“If this University didn’t have us out
here on foot patrolling, these students
would be parked everywhere,” said Bar-bara
Barnes, parking enforcement officer.
“(Students) would be on top of the build-ings.”
The strangest place that Barnes has
seen someone park in is right off of Biggio
Drive by the intramural fields.
“He had jumped the curb and his front
end was stuck down in the ditch,” Barnes
said. “His butt was sticking up in the air.”
Manager of Parking Services, Don An-drae,
said safety is the number one factor
that parking services revolves around.
Parking services is also improving their
system of educating students on rules and
regulations.
“It’s obviously working because the
number of tickets is decreasing and same
with the appeals,” Andrae said. “The num-ber
of appeals decreasing to me means
that the students understand the rules
and why they are getting the ticket.”
Between fall 2011-12 students have
received a total of 7,645 tickets and that
number has since decreased from fall
2012-13: students have only received 4,301
tickets total.
Next Camp War Eagle sessions, park-ing
services will have a break out session
with incoming freshman.
“We’ll be able to get them right away
and let them and their parents know the
rules of parking,” Andrae said.
Parking services stresses that although
some students may feel targeted, they are
just doing their job.
“This one student, who received a tick-et,
happened to be an athlete, so I went to
the athletic department and told them ‘I
just want to let you know that this person
did this. And all we’re asking for is respect.
We’re only doing our job,’’ Andrae said.
“We’re not trying to pinpoint anyone for
race, color or athletics. All we’re trying to
do is our job and it’s a job we have to do
and we want people to respect us for it.’”
Parking services does not come up
with its own rules and regulations.
“Whatever the traffic and parking
committee says is a rule, we have to en-force,
whether we think it is right, wrong,
just, it doesn’t make a difference to us,”
Andrae said.
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Writer
Hol land Brown was
crowned the 2013 Miss Au-burn
University in front of a
packed house at Auburn High
School’s Performing Arts Cen-ter
on Saturday, Jan. 26.
“I’m really excited,” Brown
said. “It’s representing Au-burn,
my school and it’s schol-arship
money straight to Au-burn
so it’s great.”
Placing in the pageant was
first runner up Ashley Willis,
second runner up and talent
winner Meg McGullin, third
runner up Sydney Waid and
fourth runner up Jessica Dyk.
Brown was also selected as
Miss Congeniality.
“Honestly I think I’m more
excited about congeniality,”
Brown said. “That means so
much more to me because it’s
not so much based on what
I did on stage necessarily
which is great.”
Brown is not new to the
Miss Alabama pageant cir-cuit.
Brown has participated in
several pageants, but this was
her first time being crowned
the winner.
“I have done almost 25
Miss Alabama preliminar-ies,
but I have always want-ed
to be Miss Auburn Univer-sity
more than any of the oth-ers,”
Brown said. “I’m looking
at all of the others as 25 prac-tice
rounds.”
Brown chose as her plat-form,
Walk for a Cure: Sup-port
for the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation.
This foundation means a
lot as juvenile diabetes has af-fected
people close to her.
“My two best friends
were diagnosed with diabe-tes
when we were in middle
school, within the same year,”
Brown said.
Tickets Given
Fall 2011 - Jan. 22, 2012
10,485
Fall 2012 - Jan.22, 2013
7,009
Tickets Profits
Fall of 2012 - today
$400,000
Appeals
Fall 2011 - 2012
1,808
Fall 2012-2013
493
Permit Profits
Fall of 2012 - today
$1.3million
1. Go in to parking servic-es
office to appeal ticket,
reduce to $10 or excuse
ticket depending on
circumstance.
2. Go on TigerI and click
the Parking Services tab
to look at
outstanding citations.
3. Put in appeal and why
you are appealling.
4. Meet with appeal board
and plead case.
5. If denied you can appeal
to up to two boards.
If you have a permit, after your fifth ticket you either
get wheel-locked or banned from parking on cam-pus.
By the third wheel-lock it is taken to the commit-tee
and parking services recommends the student be
banned from campus because of clear intentional vi-olations;
if you do not have a permit your car will get
wheel-locked after the second ticket.
Wheel-Locking Rules
How to Appeal a Ticket
Holland Brown crowned Miss Auburn
» See Parking a2
» See pageant a2
‘We’re not
out to just
give tickets’
Emma Goddard / Photographer
Holland Brown, left, and Emily Jordan stand together after Brown was
named Miss Auburn Saturday, Jan. 26. Jordan was named Miss Au-burn
in 2012.
Tickets & Permits
Parking Services has made
$400,000 from tickets since
Fall 2012 and insist they
are only doing their job
EAO launches campaign for sustainable investment fund
» See EAO a2
Twinkle,
Twinkle
Cavanaugh
Should utility rates in Al-abama
be re-evaluated
at regular intervals?
No Factories,
Just Delicious
Cheesecake goes local
with the opening of The
Cheesecake Cottage in
downtown Opelika.
Stone Cold
Loss
The Tigers have lost four
conference games in a
row. Is there any hope
for future victories?
Students
Speak Out
Students share their
thoughts on Obama’s
second inaugural
address and hopes for
the new term.
These Colors
Don’t Run
The Draughon Library
recently received an ex-tensive
collection of Civil
War artifacts. What’s in-side
the collection?
Chelsea Harvey
ASSISTANT Online Editor
It turns out $5 can go a
long way.
The Environmental Aware-ness
Organization is spear-heading
a campaign to add a
sustainable investment fund
to the University. The pro-posed
fund would be the re-sult
of a $5 fee added to tu-ition
each semester and
would be used to fund proj-ects
related to sustainability
on campus.
“So the goal is it’s a stu-dent-
controlled, student-funded
program for green in-vestment
on campus,” said
Daniel Martinez, junior in
materials engineering and
physics and EAO vice presi-dent.
The project comes as part
of a collaboration with a
statewide initiative called
the Coalition of Alabama
Students for the Environ-ment,
or CASE, which unites
Alabama college campuses
in sustainable projects. Cur-rently,
UA, UAH, UAB and Au-burn
are each involved in ef-forts
to add sustainable in-vestment
funds to their cam-puses,
while Montevallo has
already succeeded in estab-lishing
such a fund.
“Each investment fund
will be unique to its campus,”
Martinez said. “Each one will
be different, but the idea is
between all of them basically
to have a million dollars go-ing
toward the green project
among all the campuses.”
According to Martinez,
some campuses will have
larger green funds than oth-ers,
depending on the total
number of enrolled students.
The a $5 fee per student each
semester, with approximate-ly
25,000 students, would add
up to about $125,000 per se-mester.
The EAO is in the process
of completing a proposal for
the fund, which will outline
details for the creation of a
committee to manage the
fund and rules for the sub-mission
of project propos-als.
Currently, the vision is
a committee composed of
mostly students with a facul-ty
chairperson. The commit-tee
would be in charge of re-viewing
and approving pro-posals
for sustainable proj-ects.
“So students and facul-ty
and staff are all allowed
to propose whatever proj-ect,
and it goes to commit-tee,
they discuss it,” Marti-nez
said.
Each investment
fund will be
unique to its
campus.”
Daniel Martinez
EAO Vice president
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Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 31, 2013
Jan. 20 – Webster Road
Third-degree theft of miniature vodka
bottles between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Jan. 20-21 – War Eagle Way
Second-degree theft of a road bike
between 11 p.m. Jan. 20 and 3 p.m.
Jan. 21
Jan. 23 – East University Drive
Second-degree theft of a utility trailer
between 9:10 a.m. and 11:35 a.m.
Jan. 24 – Loftin Drive
Third-degree burglary of an iPod
touch, U.S. currency and jewelry
between 9 a.m. and noon
Jan. 25 – Richland Road
Third-degree burglary of a television
and U.S. currency between 5 a.m.
and 4:20 p.m.
Jan. 25 – Lee Road 84
Third-degree burglary of three
televisions between 12:30 a.m. and
10:45 a.m.
Jan. 26 – Lee Road 18
Second-degree theft of a transmis-sion
and hydraulic engine host
between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Jan. 26 – East University Drive and An-nalue
Drive
Left the scene of an accident be-tween
5:30 p.m. and 5:43 p.m.
Jan. 27 – Holmes Avenue
Third-degree theft of a kitchen stove
between 1:45 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Jan. 28 – West Veterans Boulevard
Harassment Report.
Jan. 29 – Commerce Drive
Third-degree criminal trespass
report.
Jan. 29 – Alabama Highway 147
Third-degree burglary of two televi-sions,
and jewelry between 8:15
a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
Crime Reports for Jan. 20 – Jan. 30, 2013 DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn
Jan. 23 – Jan. 30, 2013
■ William Powell, 25, Auburn
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1:42 a.m. at Richland Road and
Shug Jordan Parkway
■ Kevin White, 41, Auburn
Friday, Jan. 25, 12:19 a.m. on East University Drive
■ Donald Menifee, 52, Auburn
Sunday, Jan. 27, 2:12 a.m. at Washington Court and
Pitts Street
■ Stephen Atkinson, 31, Opelika
Monday, Jan. 28, 1:29 a.m. at Webster Road and
Alabama Highway 14
■ Leon Shirley, 23, Auburn
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1:34 a.m. at North Dean Road
and Aspen Heights Lane
Lunch with the
Munch truck
Amber Franklin
Writer
Parked on the Roosevelt
Concourse, Munch is the
newest food truck to roll onto
Auburn’s campus.
Munch specializes in Asian
cuisine and is bringing a fresh
healthy variety to students.
“I’ve been twice,” said Anh
Duong, senior in internation-al
business. “The first time
I had the thai curry and the
next time I had the Korean
rice bowl. They were both re-ally
good.”
Glenn Loughridge, director
of dining services, said that
Munch was chosen to come
to campus for many reasons.
“Thai was a variety that was
missing,” Loughridge said.
“We didn’t want just another
burger or hot dog stand. We’re
open to innovation and inter-esting
new concepts.”
Additionally, Loughridge
said there had been student
requests for healthier op-tions
and vegetarian options,
Munch offered both.
Munch’s menu includes
dishes such as thai cucum-ber
salad, pork or veggie pot-stickers
and bahn mi, an
Asian sandwich with custom-er’s
choice of pork, chicken or
tofu topped with carrot, rad-ish,
cucumber, cilantro, may-onnaise
and pate.
“It definitely had the food-truck
feel to it,” Duong said.
“But the truck tried to stay as
close to the actual Asian dish
as they could.”
On their search for
new food truck options,
Loughridge and Gina Wells,
marketing director for dining
services, first went to Atlanta’s
Food Truck Park. Yielding no
results, Loughridge and Wells
headed to Underground At-lanta,
a well-known enter-tainment
district in the down-town
area.
“There were six or seven
food trucks, and we checked
each of them out,” Loughridge
said. “(Munch) had enough
variety and they were prepar-ing
good quality food.”
Wells said they particularly
enjoyed a dish called bim bim
bap, which is a bowl of rice,
topped with vegetables, spe-cialty
items and a poached
egg.
“I wouldn’t have expect-ed
to like it as much as I did,”
Loughridge said.
Many trucks have come
through campus in the past
year, but Loughridge and
Wells believe that Munch will
be successful.
“Students are the ultimate
drivers of success or failure,”
Loughridge said. “But it also
depends on freshness, porta-bility
and the personality of
the truck owners.”
Loughridge also said that
it can be challenging for food
truck drivers to relocate to
Auburn’s campus.
“You have to be all in,”
Loughridge said. “We only
have one ‘home-grown’ food
truck (Momma Goldberg’s),
and everyone else has to
come from somewhere else.”
Loughridge said he’s hop-ing
that Munch is going to
catch on with Auburn’s stu-dents.
“I know James [Dimacula-gan,
owner of Munch] really
wants to be here,” Loughridge
said. “And you know, variety
is the spice of life, and they’ve
brought something different.”
Getting hitched? New initiative
may help couples take next step
Trent Erwin
Writer
For the second year, the
Alabama Healthy Marriage
and Relationship Education
Initiative is helping Auburn
couples prepare to take the
plunge into marriage.
Engaged, dating, consid-ering
marriage or any oth-er
status, couples can at-tend
the ‘Ready to Take the
Plunge?’ workshop through
AHMREI to better prepare
for life after the wedding.
“We don’t want to focus
on the rings, the dress, the
honeymoon or getting en-gaged,”
said Ami Landers,
AHMREI direct partner and
public relations coordinator.
Landers said the work-shop
encourages couples to
consider how they will re-solve
issues and questions
for life after marriage, such
as future employment, high-er
education, number of
children and extended fam-ily.
“(Couples) tend to forget
about the life after the wed-ding
day,” Landers said.
The workshop is a mix of
lectures, activities, discus-sions
and role-play, and is
meant to be interactive for
everyone involved.
The workshop addresses
numerous topics that peo-ple
in any stage of a relation-ship
will find useful.
Emily Burch, a campus
minister in Auburn, was in-terested
in the workshop to
further her ability to counsel
couples preparing for mar-riage.
“It was presented in a very
engaging way,” Burch said.
“It was not boring at all.”
The workshops are offered
to the public free of charge,
and include food and child-care.
Each workshop covers
two days, a total of six hours,
with the first starting on Fri-day,
Feb. 1 from 6-9 p.m. and
continuing to Saturday, Feb.
2 from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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“It’s something that re-ally
struck a passion in me.
We started doing walks with
them in Birmingham and now
that I’m in Auburn, I’m con-tinuing
to do work with the
foundation.”
SGA was responsible for
coordinating the Miss Auburn
pageant.
“It was packed and I have
never been to a preliminary
where there was not an emp-ty
seat,” Brown said. “It really
shows how many people were
here to support Auburn and
that this is a big deal to peo-ple
at Auburn.”
President of SGA, Owen
Parrish, was pleased with how
the night turned out.
“Our winner is exception-al
and I’m sure she’ll do great
with her new roll,” Parrish
said.
Brown will represent Au-burn
in June at the Miss Ala-bama
pageant.
“If there’s a rule we have to
enforce it. Some of the rules
are not very good and we’d
have to write a ticket, but a
rule is a rule.”
Permits are important to
parking services.
“We have no idea who they
are (with no permit), so what
are they doing on campus?,”
Barnes said. “We want to
know who they are.”
For those who have gotten
tickets at 4:59p.m. here’s why.
“The reason we do it up to
exactly 5:00 p.m. is because
the faculty staff are the ones
that told us that they would
like us to patrol at that time,
simply because they would
like to go home at 5:00 p.m.,”
Andrae said. “We have been
working towards two things;
trying to get faculty to change
they’re going home time to
4:30p.m. or changing class
times to start at 5:15p.m.”
As for the answer to addi-tional
parking for campus,
Andrae said it’s unfortunately
not going to happen any time
soon.
“An example I always use is
if I went to the Board of Trust-ees
and said I need $7.5 mil-lion
to buy a parking deck and
Dr. Jones comes behind me
and says he needs money for
a academic building, he’s go-ing
to get the money,” Andrae
said.
Parking services does a lot
more than just give out tick-ets.
“We handle all the park-ing
that has to do with gradu-ations,
even if it’s on a Satur-day
we’re here,” Barnes said. “If
there’s a special event coming
up we have to monitor park-ing
in lots and we direct traf-fic.”
Even after 12 years of work-ing
for parking services and
handling the students harsh
opinions, Barnes believes
parking services improves ev-ery
year.
“I know this sounds cra-zy,
but during Camp War Ea-gle,
you can tell what students
are going to be your trou-ble
students and what stu-dents
are not by the way they
act,” Barnes said. “Not trying
to single anyone out, I’ve just
done it so many years I just
know what I’m looking for.”
Students are recommended
to talk to the parking officers
or parking services directly if
they have any questions.
“I listen,” Barnes said.
“That’s what we’re supposed
to do. If a student asks me
something I’m going to stop
long enough to give them my
opinion on what I think it is;
not only the students, but the
parents too. We’re not out to
just write tickets.”
EAO
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“And you have to have a
budget, you have to have a
sponsor, you have to have
the cooperating, interest-ed
parties already informed
and aware and accepting of
cooperation. So you don’t
just come with an idea; you
come with a plan.”
Martinez said Monteval-lo
has already used its sus-tainable
investment fund to
sponsor a bike-sharing pro-gram
on campus.
Although the proposal
has not received Universi-ty
approval, the EAO has al-ready
contacted the Office
of Sustainability in search of
support.
According to Mike
Kensler, director of cam-pus
sustainability opera-tions,
the Office of Sustain-ability
will not be involved
in the advocating of the
fund in order to preserve the
campaign’s student-run ap-proach.
However, Kensler
said the office was able to of-fer
some advice about seek-ing
University approval.
“We just raised those
types of questions about
timing and process to make
sure that the timing was
right, whatever they deter-mined
that to be, and that
the process was good in
making sure that the cam-pus
was fully informed
about it and could make an
informed decision,” Kensler
said.
The EAO is also planning
to garner student support by
distributing a petition in fa-vor
of the fund.
“We haven’t been told by
administration that we need
to come to them with a pe-tition
yet, but we feel to be
armed with a petition will
be beneficial,” said Stepha-nie
Ard, senior in hotel and
restaurant management and
president of the EAO.
The EAO will begin peti-tioning
on Saturday, Feb. 3.
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Civil War artifacts donated to Ralph Brown Draughon library
Austin Lankford
Campus Writer
The Auburn University Special
Collections and Archives Depart-ment
recently received a donation
on behalf of John Vick, a 1962 Au-burn
graduate, and his wife Faye.
The donation has been named the
Vick Collection in their honor.
“John and Faye have been very
generous toward Auburn over the
years,” said Dwayne Cox, the head
of special collections at Auburn.
“And this collection is a great ex-ample
of that.”
Hester Montford is a graduate
assistant in the history depart-ment
and is in the archival educa-tion
program.
“The collection ranges from
Revolutionary Colonialism all the
way up to the Kennedy era,” Mont-ford
said.
The collection includes three
main aspects, manuscripts, rare
books and a postal collection. Among
the manuscripts are signed papers by
Jefferson Davis and Raphael Semmes,
who was an officer in the United
States Navy and captained the CSS
Alabama during the Civil War.
“One of the main subjects the col-lection
touches on is the Civil War,”
Cox said. “The unique manuscripts
and postal material are a great addi-tion
to our sizable Civil War collec-tion.”
Montford was hired on as a gradu-ate
assistant to arrange the material
in a logical order.
“We are doing things to preserve
it such as putting things in acid free
folders,” Montford said. “We are also
arranging it into an order so research-ers
will be able to find things easily.”
Cox said that Montford is the most
knowledgeable on the collection be-cause
of the time she has spent orga-nizing
the material.
“I have not seen a donation of this
size come through,” Montford said.
“We are really grateful for this type of
collection because we depend on do-nations
and I think researchers will
find it invaluable.”
Montford is an archival education
student that it has been a great per-sonal
experience to work with the
collection.
“It is really intense because it is so
many different history topics,” Mont-ford
said. “But I am learning a lot
while working with the material and
I think it is very interesting.”
Cox said he is also grateful for the
donation from John and Faye Vick
and it is a major gift not only because
of its informational content, but the
fact that it goes well with their cur-rent
collections. Cox also said he is
happy to have the collection so it can
be used by students, faculty and re-searchers.
The material will be open for re-searchers
by the end of the semester.
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The flag for the 37th Alabama Infantry Regiment of the Confederacy is kept in the Ar-chives
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Campus Kitchen brings food to Auburn
Kailey Miller
Campus Reporter
Hunger is a growing prob-lem
in Auburn and its sur-rounding
communities, but
Auburn students have taken
the issue into their own hands
and are fighting against it with
Campus Kitchens.
Campus Kitchens was start-ed
by a hunger studies class.
The team gets leftover food
from places on campus in-cluding
Foy, the Student Cen-ter,
Terrell and the Village din-ing
hall to distribute to places
throughout the community.
“We serve dinner-like
meals, but we serve them at
different times of the day and
they aren’t hot for sanitary rea-sons
and different guidelines
we have,” said Emily Scammell,
co-founder and president of
Campus Kitchens.
Campus Kitchens is a stu-dent
led program that is run
purely by volunteers. The team
serves anywhere from 150 to
250 meals per week.
The food is distributed
based on the number of people
in a family, but when they have
extra food they allow people to
take as much as they want.
“This one woman came in to
the food pantry at Auburn and
she took home four boxes and
you could tell that she was so
happy,” said Nicole Nabozniak,
a Campus Kitchens volunteer.
“She was expecting to get may-be
one box of food when she
came in but she left with four.”
The team delivers to the
Auburn United Method-ist
Church food pantry, East
House, His Place and retire-ment
homes.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays
the team gathers the food from
the dining halls and on Thurs-days
they cook the food and
assemble it into the take out
boxes. Friday is when the food
is distributed.
“There are a lot of families
in Lee County who really need
food assistance who might
be single mothers or people
who are working a low paying
job and really need that extra
help,” Scammell said.
As Campus Kitchens is
growing the need for volun-teers
and extra hands is too.
The staff has about 40 volun-teers,
but they are hoping to
gain more.
Campus Kitchens is spon-sored
by the Office of Public
Service.
“Campus Kitchens has
been around for the last cou-ple
of years and it was kind of
the brain child of the hunger
studies minor about four years
ago,” said Jennifer Command-er,
program assistant of Cam-pus
Kitchens. “I anticipate it
growing and continuing to
grow over the next few years.”
Recently, Campus Kitchens
has received positive publici-ty
that the team hopes will in-fluence
more students to vol-unteer.
“We are just now getting a
lot of attention its awesome
and sometimes I don’t feel like
we even deserve it,” Scammell
said. “It has been pretty hard
especially in the beginning get-ting
things running and keep-ing
a steady supply of volun-teers
and leadership mem-bers.”
To Nabozniak said the most
rewarding aspect of volunteer-ing
with Campus Kitchens has
been seeing the people that
they serve have a positive out-look
on life.
“I saw people laughing and
giggling and they didn’t seem
to have a worry in the world
even though they were there
to get food,” Nabozniak said.
Many of the people who are
served are older and have trou-ble
going out to get their gro-ceries
or are retired and don’t
have a steady income.
“The meal provided by Cam-pus
Kitchens may be the only
thing that they eat for the en-tire
week or weekend,” Naboz-niak
said. “I saw one of the
people who seems to be well
known at the United Method-ist
Church and he looked like
he was going to a janitorial job
afterwards. He joked around
with us a lot like he had known
us for years, but then right
when he got his food he almost
started crying because he was
so happy.”
Quarterly journal makes name for self
Lance Davis
Sports Writer
Nestled in the corner of the
Haley Center’s ninth floor are
the offices of the Southern Hu-manities
Review, a quarterly
journal published by Auburn
University.
Founded in 1967 by the Au-burn
College of Liberal Arts
and Southern Humanities
Council, Southern Humani-ties
Review publishes works of
fiction, poetry, critical essays
and book reviews on a variety
of topics.
“It’s considered a presti-gious
thing for a university
to have a journal,” said Kar-en
Beckwith, SHR’s managing
editor, who has been with the
journal in some capacity for al-most
25 years. “We’ve had over
the years calls and queries
from other schools wanting to
start one. It’s something that is
considered to be valuable.”
Writers typically submit
material to be included in the
journal. It then goes through a
multiple-round process where
the editors decide whether the
piece should be published.
“Anyone can submit to it,
and then it goes through sev-eral
layers of readers,” Beck-with
said. “The first round of
readers rejects the stuff that is
obviously bad and simply not
ready for publication. Then
several of us will get togeth-er
and discuss stuff that made
the first cut.”
Southern Humanities Re-view
added Skip Horack to its
staff last year. Horack is cur-rently
in his first year as an
English professor at Auburn
and fiction editor for SHR.
“I’m pretty new to it, but I
was certainly aware of it before
I came here,” Horack said. “It’s
pretty well-known and well-re-spected.
It has a good reputa-tion
throughout the country
as a publisher of literary fic-tion
and poetry and criticism.”
Horack, who has also writ-ten
two award-winning books
– “The Eden Hunter” and “The
Southern Cross” -- says work-ing
with Southern Humanities
Review gives him an opportu-nity
to see what other writers
are doing.
“You get a real sense of
what’s out there and what
people are doing,” Horack said.
“It’s really interesting coming
at it as a writer.”
Literary review journals
battle a stigma that the edi-tors
are searching for reasons
to turn down submissions, but
Horack says it is the opposite
at Southern Humanities Re-view.
“With everything that
comes in, as soon as I turn to
page one, you’re hoping it’s go-ing
to be something you’re re-ally
going to connect with and
want to publish,” Horack said.
“Who doesn’t want to have a
great reading experience?”
Southern Humanities Re-view
also has student editors,
giving them an opportunity to
read what other writers from
across the country are writing.
“I’ve used this as an experi-ence
that whenever we’ve re-acted
negatively to a piece, I’ve
taken that as something not to
do,” said Savannah Harrison, a
first-year master’s student in
creative writing.
Students also find seeing
what people submit to jour-nals
fascinating.
“It’s useful to see what peo-ple
are doing, trying to do and
sending to journals,” said Mi-chelle
Hopf, a second-year
master’s student in creative
writing.
Southern Humanities Re-view
is available at the univer-sity
bookstore. People can also
submit a subscription form on
the journal’s website.
“You can learn something
from anything you read,”
Horack said. “There’s a lot of
really great writing out there.”
Whistleblower tour brings prestigious individuals to Auburn
Corey Arwood
Campus Reporter
The American Whistle
Blower Tour stops at Auburn
on Thursday and brings with
it two speakers that exemplify
cases of first amendment vic-tories.
The tour will bring to cam-pus
speakers Frank Casey and
Dr. Jon H. Oberg, and will be
moderated by Dana Gold.
The tour was brought to
Auburn by Dr. Sarah Stan-wick,
associate professor in
the Business College’s School
of Accountancy.
“It’s a great opportunity for
our students to hear from in-dividuals
who have done the
right thing. And when I say
doing the right thing, I mean
speaking up against fraud in
an organization when no one
else would,” Stanwick said.
Casey was a key component
in exposing the Ponzi scheme
of Bernie Madoff, which lost
investors upwards of $50 bil-lion
and secured Madoff 150
years in prison; the maximum
sentence for his crime.
It might also be of interest
to note that Madoff, a money
manager, attended the Uni-versity
of Alabama during his
freshman year.
Oberg, a researcher for the
Department of Education, dis-covered
that certain student
loan lenders were defrauding
the government, or taxpay-ers,
by overpricing the govern-ment
for its subsidies on the
loans.
After some time of resis-tance
from his superiors
Oberg successfully had the
case brought to trial, and won.
The victory resulted in sav-ing
the Federal Government
tremendous sums of money
where the over price on the
subsidies had been paid.
“What we’re trying to do is
really be sensitive to the per-sonal
challenges associated
with whistleblowing, and we
do that by representing folks
legally,” Dana Gold, a GAP Se-nior
Fellow and tour director,
said.
“We do litigation to protect
them through counseling, but
also we do legislative reform;
we do a lot of media outreach.
We take the information; it’s
not just about the whistle-blower.
It’s about their infor-mation,
and trying to effect
change around it,” said Gold.
The Government Account-ability
Project, formed in
1977, was created partly as a
response to Daniel Ellsberg’s
dogged attempts, and even-tual
success, in releasing in-formation
that outlined de-ceptive
motives behind enter-ing
the Vietnam War, among a
slew of other information.
That information is now fa-mously
known as the Penta-gon
Papers, and is thought
by some to be a critical factor
that helped to end the war in
Vietnam.
It was formed in 1977 and
continues to herald the cause
of whistle blowers every-where.
GAP, which once focused
primarily on protecting gov-ernment
employee whistle-blowers
through legal mea-sures,
now spans the broad
spectrum of private and pub-lic
sector whistleblowers, such
as Casey and Oberg.
The services GAP provides
span the broad spectrum
of private and public sec-tor
whistleblowers. One of its
most recent clients is former
CIA official and case worker,
John Kiriakou.
On Friday, Jan. 25, after ac-cepting
a plea bargain, Kiriak-ou
was sentenced to two-and-a-
half years in prison because
of his communication in 2007
with a journalist over inqui-ries
regarding CIA interroga-tion
methods.
The agency called the meth-ods
“enhanced interrogation
techniques.” Kiriakou said
that they equated to torture.
The aggressive prosecution
of federal employee whistle-blowers
in recent years under
the Espionage Act has been
unprecedented, with at least
six known cases.
This is more than all of the
previous administrations
combined.
On Wed. Jan. 23, two days
before Kiriakou’s hearing, the
Government Accountabil-ity
Project cosponsored an
event honoring Kiriakou, in
which his portrait from the se-ries
“Americans Who Tell the
Truth,” by Robert Shetterly
was presented.
Throughout its running his-tory
this will be the American
Whistleblower Tour’s second
stop at Auburn.
Stanwick said that she
would want all of her students
to maintain their integrity
in the professional business
world, and if the case were
to arise she would hope that
they would report instances
of fraud.
“I am firm believer in stand-ing
up for what is right and
doing what is ethical,” Stan-wick
said. “To me standing up
against fraud is the most ethi-cal
thing that you can do.”
Contributed
By blowing the whistle on fraud from student loan companies, Dr. Jon H Oberg, while he was a research-er
for the Department of Education, potentially saved billions of dollars for taxpayers and the Federal Gov-ernment.
“It’s a great
opportunity for our
students to hear
from individuals
who have done
the right thing.”
—Dr. Sarah Stanwick
associate professor in business
college’s school of accountancy
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New English professor adds creativity throughout department
Austin Lankford
Campus Writer
Auburn’s Creative Writing department may
be small, but that doesn’t reflect the size of the
ideas and passion that come from it.
Keetje Kuipers, assistant English professor,
who arrived in Auburn in August of 2012, is one
of the new professors in the department and
wants to see the creative writing culture spread
on campus and the community.
“We want to get visibility and reach out even
to people on campus who aren’t studying cre-ative
writing,” Kuipers said. “We want to do
things to get all sorts of groups together that
are fun and creative.”
Kuipers was a theatre major at Swarthmore
College and did not always know she wanted
to be a writer.
“I took creative writing classes in college
and wrote a lot of poetry and loved it, but I
didn’t see it as what I was going to do with my
life,” Kuipers said.
She went to New York to be an actress for a
couple years, but wasn’t happy doing that and
decided to go to graduate school for poetry.
“Almost as soon as I began, I knew this is
what I wanted to do because I love writing and
I also love teaching,” Kuipers said.
After a two-year masters program, Kuipers
went on to teach at the University of Oregon,
the University of Montana and Gettysburg Col-lege
before landing in Auburn.
“I also did what a lot of poets do by doing res-idencies
and fellowships,” Kuipers said.
As part of the Margery Davis Boyden writing
residency in 2007, Kuipers spent seven months
in a cabin in a wilderness area in southwest Or-egon.
“I was all by myself, except for my dog,” Kui-pers
said. “It was totally off the grid and it was
fantastic.”
Kuipers said she wrote her first book of po-etry,
“Beautiful in the Mouth,” during this res-idency.
In 2009 she became a Stegner Fellow at Stan-ford
University where she continued to write.
“All the fellowships and residencies were op-portunities
where I didn’t teach or work,” Kui-pers
said. “They just basically gave me money
and a place to live so I could write.”
After it was over, Kuipers decided she want-ed
a more permanent position where she could
get back to teaching. She applied and came to
Auburn.
“The thing about Auburn is that it has a re-ally
excellent reputation for creative writing,”
Kuipers said. “Natasha Tretheway is a very fa-mous
poet who began her career at Auburn
and when people hear her name they think of
Auburn.”
Kuipers is an editor of the Southern Human-ities
Review, which is a quarterly magazine put
out by Auburn’s English department.
“It is a nationally recognized publication and
it kind of goes under the radar here on campus,”
Kuipers said.
Kuipers also works closely with students to
promote creative writing around campus.
Michelle Hopf, graduate student in the cre-ative
writing program, helps head the Poetry
Out Loud program, which is a poetry recita-tion
contest for high school students.
“From the first time I met Kuipers I liked her
a lot because she brings an interesting perspec-tive
for us,” Hopf said. “All her students adore
her and it is cool to be around someone so pas-sionate
about poetry.”
Kiersten Wones, senior in English with a cre-ative
writing focus, enjoys Kuipers’ involve-ment
in the program.
“She is so confident in who she is as a writer,
teacher and a woman and has been very sup-portive
of me and my work,” Wones said.
Along with people in the department, Kui-pers
wants to see creative writing grow around
Auburn.
“We want to do a good job of letting people
know what we are doing and the things avail-able
to them as far as writing goes,” Kuipers
said.
Contributed
Keetje Kuipers, an Auburn English professor, has written a book, Beautiful in the Mouth, and is currently
working on her second book of poetry.
Annual symposium emphasizes
‘Goodly Land’ of Alabama
Hilary Meares
Writer
The Hotel at Auburn Uni-versity
and Dixon Conference
hosted the Third Annual “Be-coming
Alabama: This Goodly
Land” Symposium Jan.25 and
Jan.26.
The symposium, which has
a different topic each year, fo-cused
on the environmental
features of Alabama. Geolo-gists,
ecologists and anthro-pologists
from around the
state traveled to speak and to
network with others with sim-ilar
interests. Several of them
are faculty members at Au-burn.
The subjects covered ev-erything
from the Long-Leaf
Pine to Sylacauga Marble.
Several who attended say
the symposium would bene-fit
anyone. “Whether you’re in-terested
in history, or whether
you’re interested in the natu-ral
environment, there’s some-thing
here for everyone,” Mark
Wilson, Director for the Cen-ter
of Arts and Humanities,
said. Wilson worked with stu-dents
through different classes
Laura Hill, Communica-tions
Editor for The Encyclo-pedia
of Alabama, said her fa-vorite
part of the event was
meeting people she otherwise
would have never known.
Maiben Beard, outreach as-sociate
at Auburn Universi-ty,
said she hopes to help plan
many more “Becoming Ala-bama”
symposiums, each with
a different area of focus about
the state.
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Maiben Beard, outreach associate, helped organize the entire event.
Raye may/photo editor
Chuck Hemard, assistant professor in art, photographs the natural world.
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And a tree just fell be-side
TWER HQ. Can hear
another one cracking. Tell
the world my story. #au-burn”
-@wareaglereader
The Ole Miss game was tied
with 36 seconds left on the
clock. Auburn had the ball
with 28 seconds on the shot
clock. The team looked calm,
searching for a good shot,
sharing the ball. With ten sec-onds
left on the shot clock, the
Auburn Pep Band began yell-ing,
“ten…nine…eight…” and
Auburn morphed into a team
that looked desperate to get a
shot off.
They threw up a hurried
shot with eight seconds left on
the shot clock. It missed. This
is what “the countdown” does.
It makes a team think they are
running out of time so they
hurry to get a shot off before
the shot clock expires. It’s used
by home team fans as a tactic
to rush the opposing team.
I understand the band
thinks they are informing the
players of the time left on the
shot clock but the countdown
is doing what it’s supposed
to do. It’s rushing the team.
Multiple times throughout
the game when the band be-gan
the countdown, the Au-burn
team changed from a
composed group into a fren-zied
five scrambling to get a
shot off. The players are aware
of the shot clock without our
help.
Even if they weren’t at the
end of last night’s game, the
outcome would have been
better. Auburn would have re-ceived
a shot clock violation
but Ole Miss would have been
left with eight seconds instead
of 16. The band is great and I
appreciate everything they do
to hype up the crowd and sup-port
our team.
If it’s necessary to do the
countdown for our team, try
starting it when the shot clock
gets down to three seconds.
Ten seconds is a long time in
basketball. The countdown
is causing our players to rush
and give away valuable sec-onds
in close games.
Ben Teeter
Graduate Student
I can’t be sure exactly who said it,
but it’s caught my attention.
Shortly after shutting down the
website of the United States Sen-tencing
Commission on Saturday,
Jan. 26, internet ‘hacktivist’ group
Anonymous released a video titled
“Operation Last Resort” in which
the group expressed its frustration
at the U.S. justice system as a whole,
specifically relating to the suicide of
internet activist and Reddit employ-ee
Aaron Swartz.
If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d put it
on your “to do” list.
Suggestively spliced with foot-age
from the 1983 film WarGames
among graphics of Wall Street and
other political propaganda, the
nine-and-a-half minute video begins
with a statement (read by a com-puterized,
anonymous voice) that
the group has “…observed for some
time now the trajectory of justice in
the United States with growing con-cern.
We have marked the departure
of this system from the noble ideals
in which it was born and enshrined.”
It then acknowledges a silent fury
in Swartz’s death, blaming the cur-rent
justice system in the U.S. as
stacked against those who try to bat-tle
it in any way.
“Two weeks ago today, a line was
crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aar-on
Swartz was killed. Killed because
he faced an impossible choice. Killed
because he was forced into playing a
game he could not win — a twisted
and distorted perversion of justice —
a game where the only winning move
was not to play.”
The video continues to criticize
the United States for its highly dis-proportionate
sentencing of certain
crimes including, but not limited to,
hacking.
It then details how Anonymous
has information related to the cur-rent
nine Supreme Court justices
that has been released in encrypt-ed
form over the web to form a ‘war-head’
which could potentially de-stroy
the fabric of the justice system.
I’ll admit that the video is well
done and highly convincing from
the first watch, but any healthy skep-tic
has to wonder if the group is sim-ply
fronting data muscle. There’s not
many resources to accurately con-firm
the information.
Is this really the last resort, Anony-mous?
Will a swift blow to the justice
system as we know it magically solve
all our problems?
Support from the internet com-munity
has seemed to sway either
way since Saturday, with some still
referring to the group as ‘hacktivists’
in celebration while others labeling
it as full of cyber terrorists, threaten-ing
simply to demonstrate an upper
hand.
To my knowledge, officials in
Washington D.C., have not respond-ed
to the group’s claims publicly. I’ve
often wondered if the current ad-ministration
considers them a threat
at all.
Operation Last Resort ends with a
chilling quote: “This time there will
be change, or there will be chaos...”
Sounds like a threat to me.
Has ‘hacktivist’ group, Anonymous, named a plan of action?
Utilities companies on a power trip
Basketball countdown hurting team’s overall performance
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Letters to the editor
As I read Alexander Roberson’s
commentary, “Republican’s need to
show they care, stop being do-noth-ings,”
in a recent edition of The Au-burn
Plainsman, I am not sure if the
expression on my face was a smile or
a grimace.
Unfortunately the author begins
with a three paragraph tirade de-crying
required state redistricting
following the 2010 census as a dis-graceful
ploy of Republicans. The
history of gerrymandering is long
and, contrary to the author’s impli-cation,
is legally used at the state-level
by both Democrats and Repub-licans.
After each U.S. census, every
state is required to accomplish re-districting
to accommodate chang-es
in their new congressional appor-tionments.
This is a state respon-sibility
upheld by the U.S. Supreme
Court. The author’s implication that
gerrymandering is a reprehensible
tool used by only by Republicans is,
at its best, wonderfully disingenu-ous,
at its worst is a disgraceful false
representation.
What the author’s title correctly
implies is that actions speak louder
than words. With that in mind, let’s
look at three recent words versus ac-tions
comparisons for recent politi-cal
events and the actual results cre-ated
by the actions.
The Words: As the fiscal cliff
neared, President Obama public-ly
stated he wanted a balanced ap-proach
to tax increases and spend-ing
cuts to solve the Nation’s huge
budget problems.
The Action: The final position es-tablished
by President Obama and
the Democrats advocated $90 in tax
increases for every $10 in spending
cuts…no I mean $10 in planned de-creases
in future spending growth
over the next 10 years. We will still
increase Government spending ev-ery
single year.
The Result: Contrary to the Pres-ident’s
words, the action creates an
unbalanced solution and more run-away
spending.
The Words: The President stated
he just wanted “rich” Americans to
pay their fair share of taxes. The con-stant
campaign mantra was those
earning less than $250,000 each year
would not pay more in taxes.
The Actions: The final fiscal cliff
position established by President
Obama and Democrats raised tax-es
on every single American. Trea-sury
Department and IRS data show
that the taxes of every American will
rise at least 2 percent. And remem-ber,
these new taxes do not include
the increased taxes everyone now
pays to support Obamacare revenue
schemes.
The Result: Contrary to the Pres-ident’s
repeated campaign promis-es
every American now pays high-er
taxes.
The Words: The President prom-ised
he would not sign any health-care
reform legislation that was not
budget neutral. In fact, in a speech
to a joint session of Congress, the
price tag he put on his deficit neutral
idea was $900 billion for 10 years of
Obamacare coverage.
The Actions: Based on Congres-sional
Budget Office data, Obam-acare
expenses will now cost Ameri-ca
$2.6 trillion over the first 10 years
of health service. Additionally, Con-gress
continues to undercut revenue
generating portions of Obamacare
causing the health system deficit to
grow even worse.
The Result: The President’s solu-tion
creates another program with
runaway expenses further exacer-bating
the Nation’s debt problems
and encumbering our future.
The most important issue that
faces America is out of control
spending. Neither political party,
has shown the leadership needed to
place our great Nation on a path to-ward
a strong future. There is plenty
of political talk of controlling spend-ing,
reforming entitlements and liv-ing
within our means but current
political actions do not back up the
talk. The author’s implication that
one party is more to blame than for
our Nation’s plight is simply an irra-tional
rant. The actions of all poli-ticians
in Washington D.C. show ev-eryone
involved in the political pro-cess
is culpable. We are at a criti-cal
crossroads. Our current path is
a Federal debt of over $22 trillion in
the next 5 years. That debt comes
with an annual price tag of nearly
$500 billion just to pay interest on
the debt.
During these challenging times,
I would hope for a better set of de-bate
points from one of such high
esteem within the Auburn College
Democrats. Until the finger point-ing
and politics stop, our Nation
will continue on its path to oblivi-on.
Many words continue to be spo-ken
but the ineffective actions of all
America’s political elements show
they are not up to their responsibili-ty
as stewards of our future. Actions
matter, not words.
Mike Callis, ‘82
Actions speak louder than words, President Obama
“Extremist groups” with
“fancy San Francisco en-vironmental
lawyers” are
launching a “full frontal as-sault”
on you and I and this
great state.
If her own adjectives and
nouns are true it’s truly a
blessing that we have Public
Service Commission Pres-ident
Twinkle Cavanaugh
fighting on our side.
Or is that the story? As a
growing number of voices in
state media outlets are no-ticing,
Cavanaugh’s stand in
the electrical power compa-ny’s
door appears to be a lit-tle
less about protecting the
“public” whose collective
name is in her title, and a lit-tle
more about protecting
the record-profiteering util-ities
companies of Alabama.
Commissioner Terry
Dunn, a Republican as are
the other two PSC members,
asked his colleagues for
hearings to review the rate
structures for utilities com-panies
like Alabama Pow-er
Company, Alabama Gas
Corporation and Mobile Gas
Service Corporation.
He also had the audaci-ty
to suggest a review every
six years.
Cavanaugh, elected in
November 2012 along with
Roy Moore as the final two
triumphs in the Republi-cans’
statewide office take-over,
and Jeremy Oden, the
third commissioner, reject-ed
the suggestion, even be-fore
Dunn had actually filed
his motion.
Cavanaugh put on a show
about fighting to save the
5,000 coal industry jobs Al-abamians
need and leaving
rates flat through the end of
2014 at least.
Oden said hearings would
just be “lawyers talking to
lawyers.”
Companies are entitled
to get between a 13 and 14.5
percent return on their equi-ty,
far more than many other
of the same type companies
in America, and even larg-er
than many companies in
other industries ever sniff.
Meanwhile, Dunn has
said it’s been decades since
the rates were set, with Bir-mingham
News columnist,
John Archibald, noting that
it was around the time of
Bear Bryant’s funeral.
Cavanaugh, as well as
lawyers and lobbyists for
groups like JobKeeper Alli-ance,
a coal industry group,
called Dunn and his staff
Obamaphiles who wouldn’t
stop until they had hand-ed
over Alabama’s jobs and
children on a platter to the
communists and tree hug-gers.
There were online cam-paigns
full of smear litera-ture
against Dunn and his
assistants, including a vi-cious
post from Cavanaugh
herself.
Multiple reports say Ala-bama
House Speaker Mike
Hubbard, a Republican from
Auburn, even told Dunn he
was “taking his job too seri-ously.”
Perhaps he’s just doing his
job how it should be done.
Natural gas rates have been
dramatically decreasing in
recent years (38 percent says
Henry Hub terminal), while
surprisingly, Alagasco rates
have gone up (20 percent
notes Archibald).
The News’ Ben Raines
produced a study showing
that between 2006 and 2011
Alabama Power sold elec-tricity
that it created cheap
($1 billion less than what
Georgia Power would have
spent) for more than any-one
else would dream of
($1.5 billion more than what
Georgia Power could have
sold it for).
In 2010, Alabama cus-tomers
paid Alagasco and
Mobile Gas two times what
their counterparts in Missis-sippi
did.
A handful of business
leaders, particularly in
heavier industries like steel
manufacturing and coal
companies, have spoken out
against any possible review,
saying it would mess up a
system that is already work-ing
fine, bringing the un-wanted
environmentalists
(still unnamed and in the
shadows) to the forefront of
some litigation warfare.
While there are almost
certainly better avenues
for the legislature to ex-plore
about who should ar-bitrate
or litigate any rates,
the review system in place
now was almost utilized by
a state officeholder look-ing
out for what is right and
what is his job.
The rate reviews are about
fairness, from a variety of
angles. Companies should
not be allowed and endorsed
by the state to run up huge
profits they don’t deserve
and couldn’t get in a fair
market.
Even on and nearer to
campus, we are affected by
a seemingly pointless Mont-gomery
political dance. Stu-dents,
whether from Bir-mingham
or Atlanta or
Seoul, are paying these rates
after all, month after month
that we live here.
So why not have the rates
reviewed, see where that
lands us and stop the ridic-ulous
and paranoid unipar-tisan
name calling?
A7
Thursday, January 31, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Community Community
The Cheesecake Cottage:
everybody wants a piece
MICHAEL HILL
Writer
Just like a rare gem found
deep within the grounds of
nature, you find The Cheese-cake
Cottage amongst the
treasures of downtown Ope-lika.
The Cheesecake Cottage,
located at 109 S. St., opened
July 2011.
Tara Sanders, owner and
operator, was an elementary
teacher for several years be-fore
opening The Cheesecake
Cottage.
“We love to cook and just
thought we would give it a
shot,” Sanders said.
The Cheesecake Cottage
features about 60 flavors of
cheesecake that they creat-ed
andoffer five to 10 of those
flavors on a daily basis.
“The Chocolate Turtle
Cheesecake was delicious,”
said Kelcey Coyne, customer.
“It’s the best cheesecake I’ve
ever had.”
Sanders said that many of
the ideas for the cheesecakes
are thought of by her chil-dren
after eating candy bars
or s’mores.
“Our popular flavors are
red velvet, peanut butter cup,
banana pudding and cook-ies
and cream,” Sanders said.
“Those are probably our best
sellers.”
The most creative cheese-cake
that Sanders said she
has made is the Italian
Cream Cake Cheesecake, but
they are pretty proud of the
peanut butter cup cheese-cake
as well.
Sanders said that making
the cheesecakes is about a
two-day process.
The Cheesecake Cot-tage
also offers a variety of
homemade goods including
fudge, toffee, pralines, tur-tles,
cheesecake minis, cook-ies,
brownies and homemade
ice cream.
Sanders said she also ca-ters
events, bakes wedding
cakes, takes orders and walk-ins
and if there is any cheese-cake
that you would like, you
can always call ahead and let
her know when you are com-ing
and she will be glad to
make it.
Local restaurants in down-town
also order cheesecakes
from The Cheesecake Cot-tage
including the Irish Bred
Pub, Ma-Fia’s Italian Ris-torante
and Pizzeria and
Eighth & Rail.
“We decided to go with
them based on custom-er
opinion,” said Jonathan
Stripling, general manager
of Ma-Fia’s. “They are amaz-ing
people.”
Stripling said that they
used to get cheesecake from
another company and de-cided
to go local and just
about every other table rec-ommended
The Cheesecake
Cottage.
Both the Irish Bred Pub
and Eighth and Rail said that
they support the Cheesecake
Cottage because it is a local
business.
“People who know her
know what to expect, but
customers who don’t have
been positive,” said Mike Pat-terson,
owner of Eighth and
Rail. “Her hazelnut layered
cheesecake is a big hit.”
The Cheesecake Cottage
facility itself can also be rent-ed
and Sanders says that it is
a great location for wedding
and baby showers and birth-days.
The Cheesecake Cottage is
open Tuesday through Sat-urday.
Sanders said that she
would eventually like to ex-pand
The Cheesecake Cot-tage,
even creating a chain.
Raye May / Photo Editor
The Cheesecake Cottage in downtown Opelika features more than 60 homemade flavors.
Artists, authors, musicians,
oh my: Transformation Life
Center celebrates creativity
Jherrica Luckie
Writer
Local musicians, artists
and authors will be com-ing
together to celebrate the
creativity in the Lee Coun-ty
area.
The Transformations Life
Center, located in downtown
Opelika, is holding a Cele-brating
Creativity event on
Friday, Feb. 1 from 6­–
9 p.m.
The Transformations Life
Center, which store owner,
Bridget Smith, and patrons
refer to as TLC, is a gift shop,
book and toy store located at
824 Ave. A.
Stasia Dunlop, store man-ager
and a creative influence
behind TLC and Celebrating
Creativity, said the event is
a chance for artists to meet
other artists, musicians and
authors in the area and also
share their inspirations while
showcasing their arts and
talents to guests. The event
will be held inside the store
and is free to the public.
“It just seems to be that
Lee County is this pocket of
creativity, and I want that to
grow,” Dunlop said.
Dunlop said what start-ed
out as a book signing for
The Mystic Order of East Al-abama
Fiction Writers, a
group of six local women
who recently published their
second book, “The Ploy of
Cooking,” transformed into
what will be a night featuring
at least a dozen local talents.
“We try to celebrate peo-ple
here,” Dunlop said.
Some of the other authors
attending the event are Kel-ly
Kazek, author of “Hidden
History of Auburn,” Faith Se-rafin,
author of “Haunted Au-burn
and Opelika” and Ann
Pearson, co-author of “Lost
Auburn: A Village Remem-bered
in Photographs” with
Delos Hughes and Ralph
Draughon Jr.
“It sounds like it is going
to be a lot of fun,” said Gail
Langley, one of the six au-thors
from The Mystic Or-der
of East Alabama Fiction
Writers. “I am looking for-ward
to visiting with the oth-er
artists there.”
In addition to these au-thors,
the event will also fea-ture
local watercolor art-ist,
Sarah Scott; woodwork-ing
craftsman, Jimmy Camp;
process artist, Debora Myles;
puppet maker, Lesean Spen-cer
and owner of the Gnu’s
Room, Tina Tatum.
“So many small town writ-ers
go unnoticed,” Tatum
said. “Auburn and Opelika
have a lot of really talented
writers. People need to take
the chance and go check
them out.”
Local banjo player, Phillip
Stroud, will also be in atten-dance
at the event.
“Bridget wanted to give
back to the community,”
Dunlop said. “We try to sup-port
local creativity whenev-er
we can.”
Celebrating Creativity will
be held on the same night as
Opelika Main Street’s First
Fridays, which is when stores
in downtown Opelika stay
open late on the first Friday
of every month.
“Even if nobody else
comes, we sure are going to
have a great time here,” Dun-lop
said.
When she isn’t planning
large events like Celebrating
Creativity, Smith, an Auburn
University alumni and clini-cal
psychologist in Auburn,
hosts workshops in her store
on a regular basis.
The workshops are de-signed
to promote develop-ment
of participants’ emo-tional
and social wellness.
Some workshops offered at
TLC are Mindful Eating, Life
in the Stress Lane and Cele-brate
yourself.
The workshop calendar
can be viewed on the TLC
website, and tickets can be
purchased online ,as well.
“We want people to grow
and become who they want
to be,” Dunlop said.
According to Dunlop most
of the items in the store are
either handmade, fair trade,
non-profit and all have inter-esting
back stories.
“When most artists hear
what we are about, they love
it and want to support it and
the whole idea of this store,”
Dunlop said.
“It just seems
to be that
Lee County is
this pocket of
creativity, and I
want that to grow.”
—Stasia Dunlop
manager of Transf o rmations
Life Center
Group working to turn Opelika into next great art hub
Abigail O’Brien
Community Writer
As Richard Patton, Rob Slocumb and Chan-dler
Jones sit around the table at an Opelika
coffee shop, they talk of their plans and vision
for the budding downtown area.
For now, a passerby through the historic
Southern town may see quaint antique stores,
growing restaurants, dated city government
buildings and an antiquated railroad track that
runs the length of the downtown.
But for these three creative visionaries and
others on their team, their dream for Opelika
is much bigger.
“We believe that to really change our area
and our city, we need to make ourselves the
next great art capital of the south,” Patton said,
previous owner of the venue Eighth & Rail and
now owner of the Railyard, a recently-opened
recycled cotton warehouse used as a venue for
art, music, food and film.
Patton opened the Railyard summer of 2012
after spending about five years gradually buy-ing
some old cotton warehouses that sat across
the tracks from his old venue, Eighth & Rail, he
said.
Patton now owns close to two city blocks of
the historic warehouses which he said date to
between 1870 ­–
1910.
Patton and his team have studied other suc-cessful
cities like Greenville, S.C., Asheville,
N.C. and Florence, and reported a pattern of
city life and culture spreading out from cities
who have a foundation of an art culture, Pat-ton
said.
“If you have a dream list of what you want
in your city, they would have that,” Patton said.
“I don’t care what the dream list is: whether it’s
night life, food, restaurants, good schools, bike
paths, green spaces, safe, whatever- they would
all have that.”
Their dream is to have places for people to
create and live and work, whether that is a roof-top
or garden or studio warehouse Patton said.
Patton said he is opening another ware-house
this week which will act as an incubator
studio for local artists to come and create and
have community.
Patton said he hopes the space will be a
launching pad for local artists who need some-where
to begin.
For Chandler Jones, junior in radio, televi-sion
and film and lead singer of the local band
Adventure the Great, the incubator will act not
only as a much-needed space for band practice
opportunities, but as a collaborative space,
Jones said.
“At the same time, there may be a band hav-ing
practice and there may be a painter over
there painting and so again, it all feeds off of
one another and it’s about, sort of restoring
creative energy into those warehouses that
have just been sitting there for so long,” Jones
said.
For their dream to happen, it is essential
that some of the creatively-inspired settle in
the Opelika area and invest their lives in that
community.
“More and more are wanting to stay here, as
opposed to them moving to Nashville or Atlan-ta
where art communities are already planted,
and it’d be difficult to sort of jump right in, but
in this case, it’s just starting and so these cre-atives
have the opportunity to really put their
hand print on it and shape it to how they want
it to be,” Jones said.
Rob Slocumb is one such musician who be-lieved
in the vision of Opelika when he moved
here eight years ago from Canada with his
wife. Slocumb and his band, Martha’s Trouble
toured the Southeast frequently before moving
here and even a few years ago he saw the poten-tial
in Opelika he said.
“Right now, we’re on the verge of something
special happening,” Slocumb said.
Not only has the team been dreaming, but
Patton and Slocumb have spent the past two
months making presentations city-wide to lo-cal
task forces and city groups to spread the vi-sion
and gain support.
Both said they have had overwhelming sup-port.
Along with the Railyard and the incubator,
the group will soon be launching Cotton Seed
Studios, another creative nucleus that will
serve as a film and recording studio as well as a
venue, Slocumb said.
While the movement will affect the art com-munity
of Opelika, their hope is that it would
ultimately bring life and vitality to all different
parts of the city, including families and couples.
“They all need things to do, they all need
things that they enjoy,” Patton said. “For people
to want to stay here, there’s got to be activity,
there’s got to be life. And there are a lot of peo-ple
that want more than what we have to offer
at this point, whatever that is- whether it’s art
studios or more music or better restaurants or
more restaurants.”
Patton said the group is a movement of cre-atives,
not a board or task force.
“This can’t happen alone,” Patton said. “It’s
going to be a lot of people using their gifts to
put it together and make it happen.”
Raye May / Photo Editor
Chandler Jones, Richard Patton and Rob Slocumb say they’re all part of the creative process and that no one member is the “leader.”
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Guns, education hot topics for 2013 legislature
Sydney Callis
community editor
In preparation for the upcoming legislative
session, Alabama House of Representatives
Republicans and Democrats are discussing
and planning their agendas.
Both agendas can be found on each party’s
respective websites and cover an array of dif-ferent
topics affecting the people of Alabama.
The Republican’s proposed agenda, “We
Dare Defend Our Rights,” announced Thurs-day,
Jan. 17, utilizes the state motto to reiter-ate
the need to defend against an encroaching
government.
The agenda covers a variety of topics in-cluding
abortion, the Second Amendment,
school safety and economical issues, like tax-es
and paying back the money borrowed from
the Alabama Trust Fund, in the state.
Rep. Mac Buttram, R-Cullman, said that
he anticipates the Women’s Health and Safe-ty
Act and the Gun Control Laws to be most
controversial, but he is also invested in what
the government does to support job growth in
the state.
“Job creation is still an issue on my mind,”
Buttram said. “We need to get the equipment
up to standards for the industries we have in
Alabama. These are the things that we need.”
Job creation is an issue on the minds of pol-iticians
across the spectrum.
“I want jobs in my area,” said Rep. Elaine
Beech, D-Choctaw, Clarke, Washington. “I’m
on Gov. Bentley’s bandwagon on jobs. I’m in
rural Alabama and we’ve lost so many jobs.”
Protecting Alabamians right under the Sec-ond
Amendment is also expected to be dis-cussed
and is the second topic listed on the
Republican’s agenda.
“We want to make sure that our rights are
defended under the Second Amendment,” said
Rep. Jim Carns, R-Jefferson, Shelby. “We want
to be able to protect gun owners in Alabama.
We want to have a fertile field already preset
in case the feds do something that we think is
not in accordance with what our state rights
are.”
Education and repaying the money bor-rowed
from the Alabama Trust Fund are both
large issues discussed in each party’s plan.
“There are a lot of people that are con-cerned
about education, that are concerned
about the common core standards,” Carns
said. “We have 132 different school systems,
and we think that decisions can be made bet-ter
at the local level than at the state level. Just
like the state can make better decisions for us
than the federal government, miles away.”
The Democrats in the house released an ar-ticle
Monday, Jan. 14 discussing the process of
setting their legislative agenda for the upcom-ing
session, and said one of the their top prior-ities
this session is going to be school security.
“The schedule has been driven in part of the
response of the tragedy in Newtown,” said Rep.
Christopher England, D- Tuscaloosa. “School
safety and similar concerns are always of par-amount.
Making sure our children are safe at
school is always going to be a concern.”
However school safety is not the only ed-ucation
issue that is a priority for the Demo-crats.
“Always you want to explore as many pos-sibilities
as you can to incentivize individu-als
and teachers,” England said. “Over the last
couple years our teachers have seen their sala-ries
decrease and their benefits decrease.”
England said the cost of health insurance
has gone up and the amount teachers are con-tributing
to their pension has risen so teach-ers’
take home pay has decreased.
“We’re interested in finding other ways to
spread some of the cost of doing government
so we don’t have to punish our teachers and
our state employees,” England said. “In or-der
to make Alabama competitive, we have
to have some sort of incentives to make sure
we can train and retain teachers that we train.
If you look at Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia
or Florida, and you can get paid more for do-ing
the same job, why would you come to Al-abama?”
Helping Alabama educators is an impor-tant
topic for Beech, as well.
“If we can come back with some type of bill
that helps the teachers themselves, I would
be all for that because I think they’re the ones
that took the blunt of the blow,” Beech said.
“I would like to see a pay raise come to our
teachers if the money is there.”
The issue of education reform and school
safety is only two of the topics expected to ap-pear
before state lawmakers.
Although there are a variety of topics ex-pected
to be discussed, Speaker of the House
Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said in a press
release that the first topic to be discussed has
already been decided.
Legislation regarding the reimbursement of
the $437 million borrowed from the Alabama
Trust Fund will be first on the list.
The House convenes Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013
in Montgomery to begin the 2013 legislative
session.
“We want to make sure
that our rights are
defended under the
Second Amendment.
We want to be able to
protect gun owners
in Alabama”
—Rep. Jim Carns
R-Jefferson, SHelby
Rachel Suhs / Design Editor
Chewacla Creek Bridge being renovated, roads closed
Benjamin Hohenstatt
Writer
Robert Frost advocated
taking the road less traveled,
and Auburn residents may
find themselves doing exactly
that in the near future.
On Monday, Jan. 21,
Chewacla Creek Bridge
closed for the six-month ren-ovation
period, creating de-tours.
The detours will run
through Pierce Chapel Road,
Highway 51, Lee Road 112
and Lee Road 146. Detour
and construction signs will
be placed to help direct mo-torists
while the bridge is
closed.
The portion of Society Hill
Road from Pierce Chapel
Road to Moore’s Mill Road
will also be closed during the
renovation period.
“It’s a county road in city
limits; we just want to get the
word out,” said David Dorton,
Auburn’s director of public af-fairs.
The bridge, originally built
in 1935, is part of Lee Road
54 and will be closed for six
months during the renova-tion
project.
Although the project is
considered a renovation the
bridge will essentially be re-placed
with an entirely new
bridge.
“The new bridge should be
a little bit wider and a little bit
longer,” said Ken McConnell,
county engineering techni-cian.
The bridge’s size will be
slightly increased from the
old bridge size of 80.1 feet in
length and 12.1 feet in depth.
The new bridge will also be
stronger than the old bridge
and be capable of support-ing
more weight than the old
bridge’s limit of 15 tons.
The Chewacla Creek Bridge
had no specific deficiencies,
and the renovation project
is part of Lee County’s efforts
to keep roads in good condi-tions.
This process is a neces-sary
part of upkeep for the
77-year-old bridge.
In the meantime Auburn
motorists will have to take al-ternate
routes.
Sports B1
Thursday, January 31, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Sports
The Auburn men’s basketball started conference play
strong by winning at home against LSU and narrowly
edging South Carolina in Columbia.
That’s where the good news began and ended so far
this season.
Since the victory at South Carolina, Tony Barbee’s
team has dropped two heartbreakers and suffered two
more relative blowouts to kill all momentum the team
had after winning their first two SEC games.
All of this came after a 6-7 out-of-conference record.
In short, Auburn basketball is going through rough
times right now, and while there are certainly some glar-ing
disappointments, there are a few reasons to have
cautious optimism for the remainder of the season, but
only a few.
The game Auburn played against Kentucky was all but
embarassing.
If the Tigers had not at least hung close for one half in
front of a sellout home crowd it would have turned the
game from disappointment to embarassment.
The loss at Vanderbilt was not as bad as the Kentucky
defeat, but it still stung because that game marked Au-burn’s
third loss in a row.
While Auburn largely collapsed in the second half
against the Wildcats and Commodores, the Tigers hung
in there quite well against Arkansas and No. 16 Ole Miss.
The team was in the thick of both of those games un-til
the end.
At Arkansas, Auburn took the Razorbacks to double
overtime where they eventually lost by eight points. They
still took an in-conference team to two periods beyond
regulation on the road.
The Ole Miss game last Saturday was similar except at
the end of the second half Auburn had a golden opportu-nity
to win the game in the last seconds until Chris Den-son’s
drive to the basket was stuffed and Ole Miss took
hold of the basketball.
It should be noted that Denson had the hot hand in
the game, scoring 18 points, but just came up short at
the end.
Auburn sent Ole Miss player Marshall Johnson to the
line where he put the Tigers away with only seconds re-maining.
That’s enough about the past though. It’s over, and
while it leaves a bad taste in any Tiger fan’s mouth, Au-burn
is forced to look only to the future.
There are still 12 games to be played in the regular
season; that’s more than enough time for any team to
change its season for the better, especially a team like
Auburn that has proven it can at least hang with good
teams.
The team will have hang in there with good teams and
more in the coming weeks as the future holds games
against No. 17 Missouri, Kentucky, No. 4 Florida and No.
16 Ole Miss in February.
I’m not even going to talk about the NCAA Tourna-ment
right now because as it stands Auburn may not
even make the NIT Championship.
But if Barbee can get the players to feed on some good
play and earn quality wins down the stretch, nothing is
out of the realm of possibility.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Chris Denson attempts a layup against Ole Miss Saturday,
Jan. 26.
Basketball
turns from
hot to cold
After beginning SEC
play 2-0, the men’s
basketball team has
lost four in a row
Anna Claire Conrad
Write r
Twelve Auburn seniors com-peted
in their last home meet
at the James E. Martin Aquatics
Center Saturday, Jan. 26, when
the Florida Gators left their
swamp to continue one of the
longest rivalries in collegiate
swimming and diving.
The Auburn University wom-en’s
swimming and diving team
continued its undefeated sea-son
Saturday with its win over
SEC rival Florida. The men’s
team, however, fell short to the
Gators during this dual meet in
its pursuit of a similarly victori-ous
season.
This was the 33rd meeting
between the two men’s teams
and the 31st meeting between
the women’s teams. Florida led
the all-time men’s series 17-15,
but Auburn won 11 of the past
13 meetings. Florida women’s
team led the series 17-13. The
Gators entered Saturday’s meet
5-0 in dual meet competition
and 3-0 against SEC opponents
on the men’s side. On the wom-en’s
side, the Gators were 2-3
overall and 1-2 in the SEC.
Auburn finished with a 161-
138 win in the women’s meet
whereas the men lost 167-133 to
the Gators.
Auburn head coach Brett
Hawke said he had mixed feel-ings
about Saturday’s meet.
“It was great for the women
to go through undefeated, and
it’s great the way they fought
as a team. They had some re-ally
good swims out there, and
I’m just proud of them to come
out victorious,” Hawke said. “On
the men’s side, we knew this
was going to be a tough battle.
We’ve lost this dual meet be-fore,
and it’s one of those situ-ations
where the men are ob-viously
very tired. We’re losing
some close races, which were
disappointing, but overall I was
happy with most of the swims.
There are a few areas where we
need to go back and figure it
out.”
Despite Hawke’s feelings
about the outcome of the meet
against Florida, he said there
isn’t anything he would have
done differently to prepare.
“I thought they did a great
week of training. I’m really hap-py
with their attitude and their
effort in the lead up to this
meet,” Hawke said. “Obviously
there’s just a few guys that are
very tired, but we’ll start focus-ing
on the SEC championship
now.”
Although his team lost, junior
Marcello Chierighini remains
positive about the outcome of
the meet.
“It’s never good to lose a
meet, especially against Flori-da,
but we had some really good
performance,” Chierighini said.
“I swam really good. These were
the best times in the season for
me.”
Chierighini tied for first place
with Florida’s Bradley DeBorde
in the 50 meter free, both finish-ing
in 19.84 seconds. He then led
a 1-2 Auburn finish in the 100
meter free with a 43.36 as soph-omore
Alex Hancock finished
second in 44.35.
Five men and seven wom-en
competed for the last time
in their home pool. The wom-en’s
seniors are Katie Gordocki,
Laura Johnson, Micha Law-rence,
Becca Jones, Lauren Nor-berg,
Lindsey Norberg and Han-nah
Riordan. Auburn’s men’s se-niors
are Stuart Ferguson, Chris
Kramer, Brandon Siemasko,
Chandler Gerlach and Kyle Ow-ens.
Ferguson, Jones and Law-rence
were named team cap-tains
prior to this season.
Senior Lauren Norberg post-ed
a 1-2 finish in the 100 breast,
clocking in at 1:00:75 and her
twin sister posting a career-best
at 1:00:89.
“It’s really sad (this being my
last home meet) because I’ve
been here the last four years,
and this is kind of my life, but
today was really good for me,”
Norberg said. “Personal bests in
both events; so, no complaints.
They’re a really good group of
kids, and I’m really glad I got to
finish like this.”
Saturday’s Senior Day meet
meant a lot to Hawke as well.
“This is the group I came in
with as head coach,” Hawke
said. “So, I’m very close to this
group. I’m proud of the way a lot
of them fought today.”
The Auburn divers played a
huge role in Saturday’s meet on
both sides. Sophomore Cinzia
Calabretta earned a sweep of the
women’s 1-and-3-meter events,
finishing up with a win in the
1-meter event with a score of
285.68 and winning the 3-me-ter
with a final score of 315.30.
In men’s diving, sophomore Fra-sier
McKean swept both boards
as well, scoring 348.68 in his
1-meter and 392.70 in his 3-me-ter.
Junior John Santeiu placed
second in both events.
“My favorite dive today was
probably my reverse on 3-meter
and also at 1-meter,” Calabretta
said. “I’m definitely pleased with
how everyone did today. All of
our girls went personal best, so
I think it was a really good day.”
The Tiger women claimed 10
of the 16 events, while Auburn
and Florida’s men each claimed
eight events.
The Tigers will now begin
training for the 2013 SEC Cham-pionships,
which will be at the
Texas A&M Student Recreation
Center in College Station, Texas
on Feb. 19-23.
Courtesy of Todd Van Emst
Chandler Gerlatch swims the breaststroke against the Florida Gators in the last home meet of the season. Perfect season
The women’s swimming and diving team finish
season undefeated with a victory over rival Gators
Jordan Dale
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Auburn University baseball
has recently acquired Terrance
Dedrick, a pitcher/outfielder and
winner of the 2012 Alabama Ju-nior
College Player of the Year
award.
“I felt really honored. There
is a lot of talent in Alabama and
a lot of great players,” Dedrick
said. “I was really excited and
my parents were the same. They
have always supported me in ev-erything
I did.”
Shelton State Community
College, under the direction of
coach Bobby Sprowl, provided
Dedrick with two years of expe-rience
prior to the start of his ca-reer
at Auburn University.
“It was a really good pro-gram,”
Dedrick said. “Our coach
had been around the game for a
long time and he knew what it
took to get to the next level.”
Shelton State finished third
at the JUCO World Series and
won the Alabama Junior College
State Championship in 2012.
“The experience he got at the
World Series playing in front of
10,000 people is going to help
out,” Sprowl said. “That’s one
thing you always worry about:
how is a kid going to react play-ing
at LSU on a Friday night?”
Auburn began the process of
recruiting Dedrick when he was
still in high school, but was un-sure
how he would fit into the
team.
Pitcher given Junior College
Player of the Year award
“It was great
for the women
to go through
undefeated, and
it’s great the
way they fought
as a team.”
—Brett Hawke
swim and dive head coach
» See Dedrick B2
“I felt really
honored. There
is a lot of talent
in Alabama.”
—Terrance Dedrick
Auburn Pitcher/outfielder
John Burns
Sports Edito r
Sports B2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 31, 2013
After Dedrick’s freshman
year at Shelton State, Auburn
University coach John Paw-lowski
and assistant coach
Scott Foxhall heated up their
recruitment efforts.
“It became apparent what
type of hitter he was going
to be and what type of pitch-er
he had turned into,” Fox-hall
said. “We are ecstatic that
he’s here.”
Playing at the next level
presents other challenges that
Dedrick will have to over-come.
“He’s going to have to slow
the game down a little bit and
not get anxious,” said Sprowl.
“And he’ll have to under-stand
it may take him a game
or two to get comfortable.”
Foxhall said that the talent
and difficulty of Dedrick’s op-ponents
will change.
“There is less margin for er-ror,”
said Foxhall. “His good
pitches are going to have to
turn to great pitches, and his
average pitches are going to
have to become good pitch-es.”
Foxhall and Sprowl both
said that Dedrick is the type of
person who can shut down an
opponent late in the game.
“His arsenal is ideal for
being at the back end of the
game,” Foxhall said. “It’s go-ing
to be when the game is on
the line, whether that’s in the
7th inning or the 9th inning.”
Dedrick has a stellar repu-tation
both on and off the field,
and was a leader on Shelton
State’s team.
“I’ve seen Terrance grow
since he was about 7 or 8
years old,” Sprowl said. “He’s
a great kid from a great family.
He’s what you want your son
to grow up and be like.”
Sprowl said that Dedrick
was the ultimate team player.
“We have every bit of
confidence and faith in him,
and we’re looking forward
to him being out there for
us,” Foxhall said. “He has a
lot of intangibles that make a
team better and that make him
a great person. That’s why
we’re glad he’s a Tiger.”
Courtesy of Daniel Froehlich
Terrance Dedrick accepts his award for Junior College Player of
the Year.
Men’s Basketball: The men’s basketball team had a rough go of it this week.
The Tigers traveled to Vanderbilt last Wednesday and was defeated 73-61. On Saturday Au-burn
played host to then No. 23 Ole Miss and lost a heartbreaker 63-61.
Football: Auburn has received the verbal commitments of three recruits this week-end.
Included are four-star wide receiver Dominic Walker, three-star outside linebacker Ken-ny
Flowers and three star athlete Marcus Davis. With these additions Auburn’s class is up to
19 members.
Baseball: Eight former Auburn Tigers have been invited to spring training camps of
major league teams. Tim Hudson will be with the Braves, David Ross will attend camp with
the Red Socks, Evan Crawford will set up shop with the Blue Jays, Josh Donaldson will be
returning to the Athletics, Grant Dayton will be joining up with the Marlins, Hunter Morris
will be with the Brewers and Clete Thomas and Justin Christian will attend the camps of the
Twins and Cardinals, respectively, as non-roster invitees.
Men’s Swimming & Diving: The men’s swim and dive team fell short of
an undefeated season by the one meet they lost to Florida this weekend. The men finished
their regular season with a record of 5-1 (4-1 SEC).
Women’s Swimming & Diving: The women’s swim and dive team finished
their season in undefeated fashon after a day of strong competition against rival Florida Ga-tors.
The men and women’s teams will focus their attention on training for the SEC Champi-onships
Feb. 19-23 at the Texas A&M Student Recreation Center in College Station, Texas.
Men’s Tennis: The No. 21 Tigers defeated No. 23 Indiana Saturday, Jan. 26 to im-prove
to 4-0 this season. The next day the Tigers played against No. 11 Mississippi State
and were narrowly defeated to bring Auburn down to 4-1 this season.
Women’s Basketball: The women’s basketball team traveled to arch rival
Alabama last week and came up short with a final score of 62-52.
Women’s Tennis: The women’s tennis team defeated DePaul 4-0 Sunday, Jan. 27.
Gymnastics: The gymnastics team fell to Florida 197.650-196.025 Friday, Jan. 25.
A week of Auburn sports
Courtesy of Tod Van Emst
Frankie Sullivan shoots over an Ole Miss player in the loss to Ole
Miss. Saturday, Jan. 26.
Dedrick
» From B1
“We have every
bit of confidence
and faith in him
and we’re looking
forward to him
being out there
for us. He has a
lot of intangibles
that make a team
better and that
make him a great
person. That’s
why we’re glad
he’s a Tiger.”
—SCOTT FOXHALL
ASSISTANT BASEBALL COACH
Katherine McCahey / Assistant Photo Editor
The Jungle gets pumped up before the Kentucky basketball game Jan. 19.
It’s a Jungle
The Jungle is the official student
section of Auburn basketball
John Burns
Sports Editor
The Jungle is Auburn’s
official student section for
basketball, and while the
basketball team may not be
rolling along, the student
section is.
Every time the men’s bas-ketball
team has hosted a
SEC opponent there has not
been an empty seat in the
1,500 person capacity stu-dent
section at the Auburn
Arena.
Obviously that means
more students want entry
to the section, so Athletics
Director Jay Jacobs came up
with a solution.
Until the tickets are sold
out students can get into emp-ty
arena seats for free until the
arena is filled to its capacity.
Becoming a member of The
Jungle costs $10, but for that
money students receive a Jun-gle
T-shirt, and early admit-tance
to all home basketball
games.
By weaing The Jungle T-shirt,
students can also get a
buy one get one free sandwich
deal at Momma Goldberg’s
Deli and priority post season
tickets.
The Jungle is sponsored by
Momm Goldberg’s Deli.
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Auburn women’s tennis
kicked off the 2013 season by
picking up their first victory
against DePaul this weekend
at the ITA kick-off tourna-ment,
but the Tigers also got
their first loss.
The Tigers performed well
on Sunday, going 4-0 by win-ning
both the singles and
doubles points handily. This
came after a 4-0 loss to 8th
ranked UNC Tar Heels on Sat-urday.
“It was a positive week-end
for us. We showed a lot of
toughness on an indoor sur-face,”
said Lauren Longbo-tham,
coach of the Auburn
women’s tennis team.
Normally, Auburn’s team
practices outdoors on clay, a
completely different surface
than the hard indoor courts
they faced this weekend. Style
of play completely changes
from clay to hard courts.
Notwithstanding, junior
Jackie Kasler and sophomore
Emily Flickinger highlighted
the weekend by winning their
doubles matches against both
UNC and DePaul. Flickinger
also completed the week-end
by besting Depaul’s Ana
Vladutu, 6-2, 6-2 in singles
play.
Meanwhile freshman Mi-chala
Kucharova came back
from a 4-1 deficit to win her
match against Depaul’s Patri-cia
Fargas, winning the over-all
match as well. UNC’s Gina
Suarez-Malaguti is the 11th
ranked player in the coun-try,
but freshman Pleun Burg-mans,
up 6-3, 4-3, at one
point, nearly pulled off an up-set
during their match.
This kind of fire and abili-ty
encourages Longbotham.
With freshmen in the one
and two spots on the team,
the women’s tennis team is
young, but Longbotham said
leadership from a returning
core of upper classmen is the
team’s greatest strength.
“It’s good to have that kind
of support and guidance from
older players, especially with
a young team,” Longbotham
said.
Another factor is the team’s
depth.
“In my 10 years here, this
is by far the hardest time I’ve
had picking a line-up,” Long-botham
said. “It’s a good
problem to have.”
It seems both the future
and present are bright for a
youthful team brimming with
talent.
The final confidence boost-er
for the team going into Feb-ruary
is their schedule, which
boasts home games for the
rest of the month.
Next weekend, the wom-en’s
tennis team will take on
Georgia Southern Saturday,
at noon, and Alabama A&M
Sunday, at 6 p.m. Admittance
is free, and the matches are at
the Yarbrough Tennis Center
on Richland. For those want-ing
to watch the Super Bowl
as well, the football game will
be displayed on televisions at
the match.
John Burns
Sports Editor
With National Signing Day
looming head coach Gus
Malzahn and his staff are fill-ing
up the recruiting class
just in time.
Last weekend Auburn had
three players commit to play
football next year.
On Friday, Jan. 25 the Ti-gers
received verbal commit-ments
from four-star wide
receiver Dominic Walker and
three-star linebacker Kenny
Flowers.
Walker had been commit-ted
to play for Nebraska, but
flipped to Auburn, citing the
weather as his deciding fac-tor.
He will also be much clos-er
to his home in Orlando.
Walker’s current team-mate,
four-star wide receiv-er
Tony Stevens, performed
a similar flip to Auburn from
Texas A&M Jan. 20.
Flowers was also a Texas
A&M commit until the Ag-gies
realized he would not be
able to enroll in early classes
and dropped him.
Malzahn swooped in and
got a commitment from the
linebacker.
Flowers is the third play-er
from Hutchinson Commu-nity
College that Auburn has
received a commitment from.
The other two are offensive
guard Devonte Danzey and
defensive tackle Ben Bradley.
The final commitment
of the weekend came from
three-star athlete Marcus Da-vis
Sunday, Jan. 27.
Davis should fit in well
with Malzahn’s high-octane
offense as a wide receiver.
Auburn is beginning to
rake in wide receiver recruits
and seem to be stable at the
position for now, but there
are still six solid days to se-cure
depth at other positions.
The Tigers now have 19
commitments and are con-sidered
the No. 15 recruiting
class in the nation by ESPN.
com.
Tigers add three
more recruits
Rebecca Croomes / Photographer
Senior Plamena Kurteva returns a serve at the Yarborough Tennis Center.
Women’s tennis begins
season with a split
The next week in sports
January 31
Women’s basketball vs. LSU,
Auburn, Ala. at 6 pm.
February 1
Women’s gymnastics at
Missouri at 6:30 pm.
Women’s equestrian vs Fresno State
and Kansas State in Fresno, Calif.
Men and women’s track, Husker
Invitational, Lincoln Neb.
February 2
Men’s basketball at
Missouri at 12:30 pm.
Women’s equestrian vs. Fresno State
and Kansas State in Fresno, Calif.
Men’s Tennis at UAB
Men and women’s track, Husker
Invitational, Lincoln Neb.
Women’s Golf, Georgia Individual
Tournament, Athens, Ga, all day.
February 3
Women’s tennis vs. Georgia,
Auburn, Ala. at noon
Women’s basketball at South
Carolina, 2 pm.
Women’s tennis vs. Alabama A&M,
Auburn, Ala. at 6 pm.
February 6
Men’s basketball vs. Alabama,
Auburn, Ala. at 7 pm.
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With only a week left until
National Signing Day on Feb.
6, the Tigers have built an im-pressive
2013 class ranked No.
13 in the nation by Rivals.com.
With top targets and commits
visiting the Plains this week-end,
Auburn hopes to con-tinue
their momentum after
multiple flips from rival SEC
schools earlier this week.
After co-offensive coordi-nator
Dameyune Craig and
company managed to flip
4-star wide receiver Tony Ste-vens
from Texas A&M, the Ti-gers’
super crew of recruiting
have gained four new com-mitments,
three flipping from
other programs. Khari Hard-ing,
Kenny Flowers, Domi-nic
Walker and Marcus Da-vis
all pledged to play football
at Auburn over the week and
numerous high rated recruits
have the Tigers moving up on
their list of choices as well.
After an official visit last
weekend from ESPN’s No. 4
overall ranked five-star Mack-ensie
Alexander, a defensive
back from Florida, the Ti-gers
look to be moving up his
commitment choice list. 24/7
Sports national recruiting di-rector
JC Shurburtt projects
that Alexander will land at Au-burn
come Feb. 6. After his vis-it
he told Auburn Undercover
he was really impressed with
the school and its coaches. A
recruit of his caliber could ulti-mately
change the entire 2013
class for the Tigers. If he com-mits
on national signing day, a
string of commitments could
come the Tigers’ way through-out
the afternoon.
This upcoming weekend
will feature a star-studded vis-iting
group of players that in-cludes
five-star defensive tack-le
Montravius Adams, five-star
defensive end and Auburn
commit Carl Lawson, and five-star
linebacker Reuben Fos-ter.
Having some of the na-tion’s
best high school play-ers
save their final official vis-it
for Auburn says something
about the quality of recruiting
the new football staff has been
doing recently. It will also ben-efit
the Tigers because they
have the chance to give the
final pitch for many of these
athletes before they sign next
Wednesday.
After a hectic past week of
recruiting across the country,
Auburn has some new targets
that are strongly considering
the Tigers heading toward Na-tional
Signing Day. A de-com-mitment
from Vanderbilt by
New Hope High School four-star
running back Jonathan
Ford puts Auburn at the top of
the running for his talent fol-lowed
by offers from Georgia
and Florida State. He recent-ly
visited Auburn and soon de-committed
from Vanderbilt.
Also a de-commitment
from four –star offensive line-man
Austin Golsen from Flor-ida
St. gives the Tigers a great
chance of landing him on sign-ing
day. Originally Golsen was
committed to visiting Auburn
this upcoming weekend but
has since backed out yet will
continue to keep the Tigers at
the top of his commitment list.
Khari Harding, a three-star
defensive back from Oklaho-ma
who committed to the Ti-gers
Jan. 21 after flipping from
Arkansas, is a strong physi-cal
playing safety that will be
a great addition to the Tigers
struggling defense. Four days
later Auburn received com-mitments
from two three-star
recruits.
Wide receiver Dominic
Walker flipped his commit-ment
from Nebraska to Au-burn.
“It was a very tough deci-sion.
They were [mad]. They
were very mad. But I thought
I had to call them like a real
man should,” Walker said to
the Orlando Sentinel. “But
yeah, they were mad. Coach
Pelini said, ‘Best of luck, you’re
going to need it.’”
The second commitment on
Jan. 25 was JUCO linebacker
Kenny Flowers, who pledged
to the Tigers after flipping
from Texas A&M. Flowers high
school head coach told Rivals
the tradition of Auburn histo-ry
and football attracted him
to the school along with its
proximity to his home. He will
be enrolled in classes in May.
Auburn’s most recent
commitment is from Delray
Beach, Fla. three-star athlete
Marcus Davis who could play a
number of positions for the Ti-gers.
After his official visit last
weekend Davis said, “From the
moment I got here, it feels like
family. I’m committed to Au-burn.”
Davis chose Auburn
over Arkansas who he was go-ing
to visit on Feb.1 but has
ended his recruitment saying
he is 100 percent committed to
Gus Malzahn and the Tigers.
Next week could be
huge for Auburn after having
some of the nation’s best high
school football players vis-it
campus this weekend. Ex-pect
signing day to increase
Auburn’s 2013 class with po-tential
five-star commitments
and move them up the ranks
in overall recruiting charts
across the nation. Gus Mal-zahn
and his assistants are
looking to finish strong in the
final week before Feb. 6.
Malzahn seeks
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Malzahn pumps fans up at the Ole Miss basketball game
Saturday, Jan. 26.
Kelsey Davis
Writer
The Auburn gymnastics
team suffered their third con-secutive
loss last weekend
in an away meet against the
Florida Gators, with a final
score of 197.650 - 196.025.
The Tigers are staying pos-itive,
however, given that the
team achieved its second sea-son
high.
“It was our best meet so far
in the season, though going
into it and during it we proba-bly
didn’t think it was, just be-cause
we’re that hard on our-selves.
You can’t be perfect,
but we always want to be,”
said Bri Guy, sophomore.
Guy scored second highest
all around on the team with a
score of 39.250, and led on the
vaulting event with a score of
9.850.
Being on the road for two
weekends straight, with a
third away meet coming up
this Friday in Missouri pres-ents
a different set of chal-lenges
for the players.
“Probably the most diffi-cult
thing is that it’s the third
road meet in a row, so we’re all
just kind of tired of traveling,
but once we get to the meet I
think we’ll be fine. We’re going
to tune it out and do what we
normally do,” said Caitlin At-kinson,
freshman.
Atkinson led the team
overall, scoring 39.250. She
also led on floor events, scor-ing
9.825, which is where the
team posted a season high.
The Tigers are still work-ing
through certain growing
pains with competing, con-sidering
half of the competi-tive
line up is brand new. This
was a struggle head coach
Jeff Graba foresaw, and knew
would have to be worked
through.
“We don’t need any one
person to step up as a leader,
we need every one to step into
their role. For the freshman,
a lot of that was just figur-ing
out what that is for them,”
said Graba.
Because of the amount of
new players on the team, per-formance
dynamics are still
being based on trial and er-ror,
leaving room for improve-ments
with each meet.
“I don’t think we’re even
close to what we’re capable of.
We had a good meet at Flori-da,
and we hit 24 routines, but
we’re still trying to figure out
our line ups. We’re looking for
who scores best in what area,
and in what position in the
line up. We’ve done some rou-tine
changes, and changed
some skills around to see
who is going to score better
where,” Graba said.
After each meet, the team
requests inquiries from the
judges on the scores that four
different routines received.
The inquiries show where
points were deducted, and
help the team pin point what
needs to be corrected.
“Hopefully for the next two
or three meets, we’re going to
be able to implement some of
that,” said Graba.
Despite the losses that The
Tigers have faced, personal
bests and seasonal highs con-tinue
to occur, showing great
potential in the young team.
“I believe if we’re on top of
our game,” Graba said. “We’re
a top ten program.”
Gymnastics falls
to Georgia, drops
last three meets
Auburn traveled to Gainsville
Friday, Jan. 25, but failed
to bring home a victory
Lance Davis and John
Burns
Sports Writers
Auburn special teams
and running backs coach
Rich Bisaccia left Auburn
Friday, Jan. 25 to take a job
with the Dallas Cowboys,
according to the university.
He had only been an Au-burn
employee for 22 days
before abandoning the Ti-gers
in the heart of recruit-ing
season.
Bisaccia is a highly re-spected
special teams
mind that many teams
both on the collegiate and
professional level would
like to add to their staff.
“Rich had an offer that
he felt he could not turn
down and we wish him
nothing but the best,” head
coach Gus Malzahn said in
a statement.
Bisaccia’s departure
could not have come at
a worse time for the Ti-gers,
as he left the day be-fore
5-star running back
Derrick Green announced
where he would play foot-ball.
Of course, he did not end
up choosing Auburn, but
who’s to say if it was a result
of the running back coach’s
swift departure from the Ti-gers.
Malzahn was forced to
move swiftly to tweak the
coaching staff after the
abrupt departure.
Former tight ends coach
Tim Horton will now coach
the running backs, and
Scott Fountain will coach
tight ends and special
teams.
Horton was the former
running backs coach at Ar-kansas
where he sent both
Darren McFadden, who
now plays for the Raiders,
and Felix Jones, a Cowboy,
to the NFL.
“I’m really excited that
Tim will be coaching our
running backs,” Malzahn
said. “He has a tremen-dous
record coaching some
great backs and I’m ex-tremely
confident that will
continue at Auburn.”
As for Fountain, he is an
experienced recruiter who
was partially responsible
for the top-ranked Auburn
recruiting class in 2011 ac-cording
to Scout.com.
“Scott is someone I
tried to hire as an assistant
coach a year ago at Arkan-sas
State,” Malzahn said.
“He is a great coach with
a tremendous work ethic,
and his strong ties in the
state of Alabama will be an
asset to our program.”
Courtesy of the San Diego Chargers
Rich Bisaccia left Auburn after 22 days.
Bisaccia Bails
After being an Auburn Tiger
for 22 days, Rich Bisaccia left
to join the Dallas Cowboys
Intrigue
Thursday, January 31, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Intrigue
B5
Caitlin Wagenseil
Intrigue Reporter
For a night of great music, The
Hound is the place to be this Sat-urday,
Feb. 2. Rock n’ roll band Tea-cup
and the Monster will play at The
Hound, along with Atlanta based
band, The Red Sea.
“We’ve played at The Hound sever-al
times, including our album release
last year,” said Jake Carnley, lead sing-er
of Teacup and the Monster. “We’re
family—it’s a cool environment to
play and chill. They have a lot of good
food, a lot of good beer and a lot of
good people.”
Carnley added that the environ-ment
is relaxed and there is some-thing
for everybody to enjoy. “There’s
a lot of culture there,” Carnley said.
While Teacup and the Monster
is taking most of the semester off of
some gigs, the band does plan to play
certain shows.
“We’re working on an album right
now, so we’re going to do a lot of
sparse shows. We’ve been called for a
festival in Birmingham, and we want
to be strategic about the shows, in-stead
of just playing all the time,”
Carnley said.
Teacup and the Monster has been
in the studio gearing up for a suc-cessful
fall and a successful release
of its second album—all the while
surrounding itself with the evolving
sound of Auburn’s music and arts
scene.
“There’s been some really neat op-portunities
opened up in Opelika
with a gentlemen named Richard Pat-ton,”
Carnley said. “It looks like we’ll
be here for the next few years to see
this art movement through because
(Auburn is) definitely developing into
a place where there’s a lot of creativity,
original art, music, poetry and paint-ing.”
And because the band’s sound has
changed so much, its main focus is
the upcoming album, which will be
released in September.
“What we were playing was fine
and good for the time, but it just
didn’t represent us as well,” Carnley
said. “We love rock ‘n’ roll, we love
southern music and southern culture,
so we geared our sound into more of
an open book into who we are and
what it is that creates us.”
Teacup and the Monster plans to
stay in Auburn for a while not only be-cause
of the developing art scene, but
also because of the people.
“There’s an endless supply of peo-ple
here, and an endless supply of art-ists,”
Carnley said.
The Red Sea, out of Atlanta was
in contact with mutual friends of
Teacup and the Monster, so the two
bands worked together to book the
show at The Hound.
“They’re a really cool band,” Carn-ley
said. “They’re a trio that does a lot
of rock ‘n’ roll meets psychedelic—
it will be interesting to see how our
sounds mesh.”
While The Red Sea will play first,
Carnley said no one is really opening
for the other.
“It will be even. We’re excited to
hear them, and they’re excited to hear
us. It will just be a good night of mu-sic,”
Carnley said.
Carnley expects a big turnout, and
is excited for the band’s new sound to
be heard, as well as to get feedback
from the audience.
“This sound is more of what I like
to do, and more of what I hear in my
head when I hear music, and I’m ex-cited
to get this new sound circulat-ing,”
Carnley said.
The Red Sea will play first at 9 p.m.,
followed by Teacup and the Monster
at 10 p.m. Teacup and the Monster’s
second album will be released in Sep-tember
2013, and the band plans to
tour and play more gigs shortly after
the release.
Teacup and the Monster to rock at The Hound this Saturday
Courtesy of Jake Carnley
Band members Josh Carnley, Tommy Kratzert, Lydia Cash, Jake Carnley and Brian
Keyser in their upcoming album cover.
Finding a well-balanced snack on campus
Rachel Suhs / design Editor
Elizabeth Wieck
Intrigue Editor
Many students find it difficult to eat a healthy
snack on campus.
“I always have trouble eating a healthy snack
when I’m on campus,” said Lindsey Heim, ju-nior
in biomedical sciences. “It seems like ev-erything
is so expensive, and there aren’t that
many options. It’s really inconvenient.”
However, Eric Smith, the director of Health
Promotion and Wellness Services on campus,
said various vendors around the university of-fer
healthy options for students who are look-ing
for them.
“There are some great things, you just have
to look for it. It may not be the first bag of chips
that jumps off the aisle at you,” Smith said.
Smith said there are a number of points to
consider when weighing options for a quick
snack.
Smith said it’s best to stick with natural foods
and to try to eat as well balanced as possible be-tween
protein, carbohydrates and fat.
“Obviously you’re going to want to steer clear
of the processed foods like candy and chips,”
Smith said. “A well-balanced snack, whether
it’s almonds, whether it’s pistachios with a lit-tle
dried fruit thrown in there, that’s a great way
to go.”
While it’s important to have a snack to tie the
appetite over until the next meal, Smith said it’s
also about maintaining energy.
“I do food a little bit differently. I kind of look
at it as fuel,” Smith said. “To me, it’s more of an
energy source. So if I start to get a little tired,
sometimes I’ll grab a little snack to fire up my
metabolism and give me a little energy boost.
To get through, a little bit.”
As far as ideal caloric values for snacks go,
Smith said it depends on weight management
goals. On average, those who wish to maintain
their weight should eat between 150 and 220
calories for a snack.
Smith urges that variation in
snacks is key as well.
“I think one of the most challeng-ing
things people talk about when
they talk about their food choices is
people get stuck in these ruts and stuck
in these patterns where every day at 10
a.m.
“I have this, this and this,” Smith said. “And
even if it’s something healthy, it may not be the
best thing. Just add some variety and pick out
something else healthy.”
Madeleine Holmes, senior in nursing, said
she always has snacks with her because of
her busy on-the-go schedule.
“I have to go to clinicals several days a
week, so it’s important to take lots of snacks
with me because we’re there all day. I like
things like granola bars or the hummus
cups that come with pretzels,” Holmes
said.
Even with seemingly healthy options
like granola bars, Smith said it’s impor-tant
to look at the nutrition facts and
serving size to check for hidden sug-ars
or fats.
“Obviously campus does have quite
a bit of the quick fix kind of snacks.
Even quick fixes like CliffBars or stuff
like that, those are chock-full of cal-ories,
fats and sugars, and those are
really designed to keep you out there
when you’re riding your mountain
bike,” Smith said.
“If you’re choosing something
along the lines of a quick fix, realize
that portion size is very important
and eating half of it may be the way
to go.”
Here is a list of healthy options that
can be found around campus. It’s im-portant
to note that caloric values are
based on one serving size.
Some students find it difficult
to uphold a healthy lifestyle
under the restrictions of Tiger
Dining. Here are ways to
snack healthy on campus:
Raye May / Assistant Photo Editor
Fresh fruit, Kind bars, hummus and pretzels and healthy soups are among the many high-energy,
low-calorie snacks that students can find in the Student Center and other campus dining locations.
Intrigue B6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 31, 2013
EXPERIENCE WEEK
February 4 - 12
www.auburn.edu/experience
Mon, Feb 4
Tue, Feb 5
Wed, Feb 6
Dress for Success Fashion Show
How to Land an Internship
Guest Speaker & Internship Expert: Lauren Berger, The Intern Queen
Thu, Feb 7
Mon, Feb 11
Tue, Feb 12
Student Panel: Making the Most of Your Experience
How to Market Your Experience
Career Expo: Engineering & Technical Majors
6 - 7 PM | Hotel at AU and Dixon Conference Center
4 - 5 PM | AU Student Center Rm 2218
4 - 5 PM | AU Student Center Rm 2218
3 - 4 PM | AU Student Center Rm 2225
3 - 8 PM | Hotel at AU and Dixon Conference Center
6:30 - 8 PM | Foy Hall Auditorium
Auburn University Career Center
303 Martin Hall | 334.844.4744 | auburn.edu/career
Auburn University is an equal opportunity educational institution/employer.
For assistance in scheduling an appointment in an accessible location please call.
internships | co-op | research | leadership | ser vice | international
In the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook 2013,
nearly 3/4 of responding employers indicated a preference for hiring graduates
with career related work experience. (www.naceweb.org)
They want it.
You need it.
free food served at this event
free food served at this event
During Experience Week, learn how to find and make the most of career related experiences.
@AUCareer
#AUEXweek
Parkerson Mill Creek project
aims to increase sustainability
Kelsey Davis
Intrigue Writer
The typical Auburn stu-dent
has driven down South
Donahue a thousand times.
The majority have probably
noticed a ditch in the area
around the Coliseum. Most
likely no one knows that this
ditch is actually part of a nine
mile creek that runs through
Auburn.
Parkerson Mill Creek starts
on the north side of cam-pus,
and lets out into Chewa-cla
Creek just by the Water
Waste Treatment Plant. Parts
of it have been built over by
the stadium or other build-ings,
and parts of it look like
a ditch.
To try and better the wa-ter
quality and appearance
of Parkerson Mill Creek, Dr.
Eve Brantley and Kaye Chris-tian
with the Alabama Co-operative
Extension System
and Department of Agrono-my
and Soils began the Park-erson
Mill Creek Project.
“We definitely would not be
able to accomplish as much
as we do without the help of
many other groups on cam-pus
that provide support - Fa-cilities,
Office of Sustainabili-ty,
Office of Risk Management
and Safety, Alabama Water
Watch, plus many others,”
said Christian.
“The PMC project is a joint
volunteer effort to moni-tor
the chemistry of the wa-ter,
how it looks and how to
detect what outside sourc-es
may be hindering the wa-ter’s
quality,” said Wesley Ca-puto,
junior in biosystems en-gineering.
The Alabama Department
of Environmental Manage-ment
watches all the rivers,
streams and creeks in Ala-bama
and test them to see
what the water quality is.
Throughout years of test-ing,
ADEM noticed that there
were a multitude pathogens
living in the creek, specifical-ly
E. Coli.
“They realized that it was
a problem and it wasn’t go-ing
away. We needed to figure
out where it was coming from
and how to stop it,” said Kaye
Christian, water program spe-cialist
in the Department of
Agronomy and Soils.
Several sources of pollution
were identified in the tests.
“We noticed that when tail-gates
come around, especial-ly
around the coliseum, trash
from people’s tailgate will
wind up in the water and de-stroy
its composition,” said
Caputo.
Even when it’s not foot-ball
season, basically every
piece of trash that doesn’t
get placed in a receptacle
will eventually wind up in a
storm drain, which leads to
the creek.
“The idea is to try to clean
it up and deal with storm wa-ter
so that we can restore the
creek,” said Mike Kensler, di-rector
of the Office of Sustain-ability.
The PMC projects aims to
take preventative measures
to try and stop furthering
pollution of the creek. They
have installed rain gardens
and storm water wetlands
on campus which will help to
filter out some of the waste.
Also, whenever erosion along
the creek begins to occur, vol-unteers
will plant plants in
the soil that will grow and pre-vent
erosion from worsening.
Though the PMC project is
taking steps toward prevent-ing
the creek from further de-terioration,
there is only so
much they can do.
Because all trash littering
the ground eventually winds
up in Parkerson Mill Creek,
it’s up to students and resi-dents
of Auburn to be mindful
of where waste winds up.
If anyone is interested in
helping out with the PMC
project, there will be a clean-up
event on Feb. 23 from
9-12 that will end with a chili
lunch.
Also on Feb. 26, IMPACT
will be working to clean out
the creek from 2-4 p.m.. The
group for both events will
meet at the parking lot by
the women’s softball field.
Any additional information
about clean-up events or the
PMC project in general can be
found at www.aces.edu/pmc.
George Nunnelley
Writer
Waaaaarrrr eagle, hey!
Have you ever wondered where the eagles
that ceremoniously circle Jordan-Hare Stadi-um
before every Auburn football home game
are kept?
The Southeastern Raptor Center is a state-of-
the-art rehabilitation center for birds of prey
that need a second chance at life in the wild. It
has been around since the mid-1970s, found-ed
by Dr. Jimmy Milton, and has developed into
the rehabilitation hub for any injured, ill or or-phaned
raptor gathered within the Southeast.
“To me, eagles are a symbol of our American
heritage,” said Reaves Coker, senior in finance.
“Every time I wave my hand in the air, yell ‘war
eagle’ and see Nova or Spirit soaring overhead,
the hair on the back of my neck stands up.”
Although Nova, a Golden Eagle, and Spirit,
a Bald Eagle -- the two eagles that are recog-nized
for one of college football’s greatest tra-ditions
-- may be the focal point in the pub-lic’s
eye, the center is also home to many oth-er
breeds of raptors.
The center will take in any bird of prey -- a
bird with sharp talons to grab food and sharp
beaks to pick food apart -- including owls,
hawks, eagles, falcons and a few other species
within the region.
“Our mission consists of three things,” said
Marianne Murphy Hudson, a raptor special-ist
at the SRC. “Rehab, education and conser-vation.”
The main goal is for the veterinarian staff to
treat the birds and release them back into the
wild. However, if the staff deems that the bird
is not fit for life in the wild again, it lives in the
facility and is used for educational purposes
such as demonstrations in front of schools, civ-ic,
scout or church groups.
The raptors are kept in their own carrier and
are fed once a day, the normal daily intake for
birds of prey. Their meals consist of other an-imals
including rats, mice, chickens, fish and
quail.
The staff trains the birds to become desensi-tized
to noise and crowds by using them in the
before-mentioned educational presentations.
However, Nova and Spirit must also be
trained to make their flight over Jordan-Hare.
From June to December, they are taken to the
stadium and practice almost daily. When it
comes to game day, the bird chosen to fly is
picked based on their current behavior.
As with any other professional occupation,
the eagles must “retire” at some point. Tiger,
also known as War Eagle VI, made her last
flight over Jordan-Hare at the Georgia game in
November 2006. She is now solely used in the
educational and research programs.
The center also accepts student volunteers
who wish to help out with the rehabilitation
process.
“Without the help that we receive from our
volunteers each year, our job would not be pos-sible,”
said Dr. Jamie Bellah, director of the SRC.
Dr. Bellah also explained the raptor medi-cine
rotation elective that senior veterinarian
students are able to take. The course is a two-week
period of instruction and participation in
training in which the student gains avian expe-rience.
The instruction also includes the legal
issues of the practice because without a per-mit,
a vet cannot perform rehabilitation.
Contributed by Phillip Smith
Nova flies around Jordan-Hare stadium during the
fall football season.
‘War eagle’ training revealed
Courtesy of Kaye Christian
The primary purpose of the Parkerson Mill Creek project is to pre-vent
pollution and promote sustainability.
Thursday, January 31, 2013 The Auburn Plainsman Intrigue B7
Elizabeth Wieck
Intrigue Editor
Kelsey Cardinal is passionate. As a junior
in biomedical sciences and public health, she
has worked as a scribe in an emergency room
in Montgomery and is currently serving as the
national president for Silver Wings, a non-prof-it
student organization that supports the Unit-ed
States Air Force.
Cardinal originally majored in aerospace en-gineering,
although quickly found her interest
lie in medicine once she started taking classes.
After shadowing for two years in Bap-tist
Health facilities in Montgomery, Cardinal
moved onto a paid scribe position. As a scribe,
she was the first person a patient saw in the ER
and would ask them questions about their con-dition
and medical history.
“We saw anything from kids breaking their
arm to a 911 trauma gunshot wound, so you
have to be prepared for anything. You get an
adrenaline rush because scribes are in the room
when they come in,” Cardinal said.
Cardinal said she had to work a minimum of
five 10-hour shifts per month, although she of-ten
ended up working up to 16 hours at a time.
The night shifts were her favorite, because they
were more exciting and allowed her to attend
class during the day, despite lack of sleep. Still,
keeping up with school was difficult.
“The thing that made me really want to do
the job because it was so much fun. It was like,
‘wow, this is what I want to do, this is my fu-ture,’”
she said. “You get to Auburn and you take
all these classes, and it’s just kind of ho-hum.
But you go on the weekend and you see all this
knowledge being used. It’s what motivated me
to stay on this med school track. The most im-portant
thing for me is to see the other side,”
Cardinal said.
Despite her passion for her work as a scribe,
she had to put the brakes on the job in order to
make time for other commitments like her po-sition
in Silver Wings.
“It was a lot of fun, but you get to the point
where it’s 45 minutes away, I was traveling a lot,
and traveled even more with Silver Wings, so
I had to put the breaks on it to make sure my
grades were okay, stay sane with my life,