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Student
Government
Assocation
restructures
BECKY HARDY
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
Student Govenment Association has more than
just adding frozen yogurt to campus in store for
next year.
Owen Parrish, SGA president-elect, said the organization
will be re-examining its programs, projects
and positions and figuring out a better structure
so that it can operate in a more efficient manner.
"Most students are aware of different projects
that have already impacted campus life; however,
they are unaware that SGA had ownership in them,"
said Collier Tynes, SGA chief of staff and junior in
public relations. "With the new structure, SGA will
listen to the student voice and take on mariy initiatives
that can positively impact campus."
Most of SGA's organizations dealing with student
affairs will be reorganized and put under specific
offices on campus by their function, including
Tiger Tuesdays, Auburn Dance Marathon and the
Beat Bama Food Drive.
"AUDM and Beat Bama Food Drive are moving
from SGA to the Center for Community Service,"
Parrish said.
Sarah Beth Worsham, SGA executive vice pres-
» See RESTRUCTURES, A2
New central
class facility
will replace
old buildings
CAMPUS// A4
Facilities asks for input on
Campus Master Plan
Facilities Management has released a survey for
the Auburn community to help decide the priorities
for the 2012 Comprehensive Campus Master
Plan.
COMMUNITY // A7
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On Golden Pond' comes
to Auburn
Auburn Area Community Theatre will hold
auditions for its spring production of "On
Golden Pond."
INTRIGUE // B6
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during spring break
» See CLASSROOMS, A2
Closing the door on
HATE
After a derogatory comment was etched on their door, four
Sasnett Hall women are standing up against insult
CHELSEA HARVEY
CAMPUS EDITOR
For four students, what started as a horrifying experience
with racism turned into an opportunity to do something
good for Auburn's campus.
Audrey Ross, Ashley Edwards, Helen Agha and Sierra
Canty are in the process of creating a program at Auburn
that will raise awareness for issues of diversity in response
to a Jan. 23 incident that exposed them to intolerance
among a fellow student or students.
"My roommate Helen and I and Audrey came back one
night from going out," said Edwards, freshman in psychology,
"and someone had scratched into our door, 'I hate you
n-words,' pretty big and obviouslyr
The vandalized door belonged to Edwards and Agha,
sophomore in computer science, who are roommates in
Sasnett Hall. Canty was inside her room next door, which
she shares with Ross, freshman in mathematics and Spanish,
when the incident occurred, but claimed she did not
hear anything.
"After that we contacted our RA Jasmine, and she started
to write an incident report, and we were advised to call
the police," Edwards said. "So we called the City of Auburn
police, and the police officer came and the experience we
had with him wasn't too good.
"He didn't seem like he wanted to make a report. We
had to ask him about three times, you know, to write the
report, because he kept saying that there was nothing he
could do for us."
Ross said the person who committed the offense was
never found.
"And that's kind of what's scary, is that we live there and
we have no idea who did that," Ross said.
» See RACISM, A2
LANEJONES
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
You still have time to get hopelessly lost in Haley
Center before it's replaced.
The central classroom facility Program Requirements
Committee held a provost's open forum
Feb. 28 to move forward on plans for this major
instructional space.
"The forum was open to anybody who can
come," said Emmett Winn, associate provost and
committee chair. "The topic was an update from
the facilities division, which was presented by
Dan King. He discussed the master planning process,
the central classroom facility, the possibility
of a parking garage on the northeast side of campus
and a couple smaller items."
One of the goals of the Program Requirements
Committee is to replace the outdated buildings
on campus.
"The central classroom exists because we're
replacing some of the aging facilities—1950s- or
'60s-era buildings here on campus, like Haley or
Parker Hall," Carroll said. '"Ihe central classroom
is intended to provide provost-controlled core
classroom space so that individual departments*
do not have to build that space."
The committee, which includes three students—
Kirby Turnage, SGA president, Vanessa
Tarpos, SGA vice president, and Owen Parrish,
SGA president-elect—has interviewed six architectural
firms. Jim Carroll, the capital project program
architect, is also on the committee.
"The central classroom Program Requirements
Committee started in September of last year,"
Carroll said. "It contains a group of about 18 or
20 people that has gone through a bit of a change
between semesters. We have faculty, staff, administration
and students—professional representation
from across the campus. The Program Re-
REBECCA CROOMES / PHOTO EDITOR
Clockwise from left: Helen Agha, Ashley Edwards, Audrey Ross and Sierra Canty are starting a program called "The Human Touch" to raise
awareness about issues of diversity. They were inspired to start the program after an incident occurred in their dorm.
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Ross said she and her suite-mates
had never experienced
any incidents with other people
in the dorm before the occurrence.
Edwards said the experience
took a positive turn when
University administrators began
to get involved.
"Helen's and my mom contacted
the school, and so we
were then reached out to by
the housing director, Ms. Becky
(Bell), and they asked to meet
with all of us," Edwards said.
"And then we began to talk
about... the steps we wanted
to take next."
In communication with
several departments on campus,
the students have now begun
to develop a program they
hope will respond to the issues
raised by the January incident
They have decided to call it The
Human Touch, a name suggested
by Shakeer Abdullah,
director of the Multicultural
Center, and inspired by a line
in the Auburn Creed.
"Pretty much above all, 1
guess we just want to foster a
campus that is aware of differences
but also embraces them,"
Edwards said. "You know, a
campus that I guess really lives
up to the family name and
doesn't make anyone feel uncomfortable
for any sort of way
they choose to identify themselves
by, whether it be skin
color or gender or sexuality or
if someone has a disability. Just
all these things that make us
us, we need to embrace them
as a family."
The women have had several
meetings with various campus
representatives, including
Abdullah and Bell, director
of Residence Life, to come
up with ideas for how the program
should be structured and
what goals to accomplish.
"What they're looking to
do is create a program that allows
students and staff to be
proactive in raising awareness
in issues of diversity," Abdullah
said. "It will probably be
housed within multiple departments,
not particularly
here in the Multicultural Center."
Ross said she hopes to gain
support and create leadership
positions for the program by
next fall, which is when she
hopes to host the program's
first big event.
"And then from that we
can develop the program that
we've been talking about,
which is going to be some
month-long program that will
deal with a specific topic for
the month, and upon completion
members would get some
sort of recognition," Ross said.
Edwards said one way the
group hopes to gain support is
by hosting a Concourse pledge.
"The idea was to create an
actual tangible pledge against
discrimination in the Auburn
family," Edwards said. "So you
have this idea where ... we create
a pledge that pretty much
says that 'I pretty much love
my brothers and sisters in Auburn.
I'm not going to treat
them in any disrespectful way,'
and then people are signing it,
and so hopefully we'll have an
actual pledge with hopefully
hundreds of students who have
committed to that idea."
Ross said they hope the program
will become a lasting
part of Auburn University.
"We haven't got the specifics
yet, so we don't know really
what our final product is,"
Ross said. "I guess we're kind of
steering away from organization
and sticking more with the
administration side of it and to
kind of a department which is
a collaboration of multiple departments.
But we definitely
want it to be something that
lives beyond just even our time
here and keep it going."
Ross said she thinks cooperation
with campus representatives
will help keep the program
alive.
"1 think that's kind of what
sets us apart from other programs
is our connection with
the administration," Ross said.
"Because we have all these different
ideas—like when we
have our meetings, we're getting
people who have really
relevant experience with issues
like this.
"We're getting Shakeer, who
has this training in a bunch of
different training programs,
and he's got these outlines.
And Becky's got connections
with Residence Life and how
to get this going with the halls
around here.
"So I think that everybody
has a very relevant position
in this, and I think to make it
a more useful program you've
got to expand it."
Ross said what began as a
negative experience has been
a
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met with a positive reaction.
"We are so thrilled of the
people that we're involved with
now," Ross said. "I don't think
we could really ask for more
support because they seem
just as excited about this program
as we are. I think every
time that we talk with them,
we get more hopeful about
what this program could become."
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ganizations will be able to accomplish
more, Parrish said.
"This way the organization
can get better resources
and better opportunities to
provide for their needs better
than what SGA can give
them," Parrish said.
Along with reorganizing its
programs, SGA hopes to stick
to the message behind their
mission statement.
"We also want to make sure
that we are focusing our efforts
on what we are expected
to do as a governing body
for students," Worsham said.
"By serving fewer projects
and more initiatives we believe
we can be a more effective
SGA that can better impact
student life."
SGA also hopes these
changes will make it more accessible
to students.
"We see that by placing
a heavy focus on initiatives
and fewer programs it will allow
us as a SGA to focus on
what students' needs are,"
Tynes said. "This will happen
by more students working on
initiatives that directly affect
student life."
The five executive officers,
three elected and two
appointed, as well as the Office
of Student Involvement
will be making these changes
starting next semester.
"The goal of the reconstruction
is to not limit the
programs," Parrish said. "We
want to let the individual programs
grow as they choose."
Parrish said with fewer organizations
for SGA to manage,
the association can better
serve students and their
purposes.
"By refocusing on programs
and initiatives that a
governing body should take
charge of, we can give every
project the attention, manpower
and funding it needs
to reach its highest potential,"
Tynes said.
RESTRUCTURES
» From A1
ident of prgorams and junior
in agriculture communication,
said they love each
of these programs and know
they will thrive more if they
are served through other areas
of the Auburn student involvement
office.
Tiger Tuesdays, the freshman
leadership program directed
by SGA, will move to
the Center for Leadership and
Ethics.
"We believe moving Tiger
Tuesdays away from, student
government will allow
for more freshman organizations
to be created with the
increasing demand for more
freshman involvement," Worsham
said.
By letting these organizations
fall under different
management that specialize
in programming and philanthropy
specifically, these or-
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quirements Committee is a
group that's been taking a lot
of effort on initial research for
a central classroom."
The committee's current
objective is to recommend
an architect to join the team.
Parrish said they will go to
the Board of Trustees in April
with a recommendation for
the architectural and design
firm.
"Depending on where the
structure goes, there will be
some opportunities for involvement
for students," Parrish
said. "It will hopefully
be an open process in deciding
where the building goes
and what it looks like though
a provost open forum. We're
looking hopefully at the next
couple of years, potentially
2013 or 2014 for the construction
of the building, but that's
a very loose timeline."
Carroll said planning for
the central classroom facility
has been a steady process.
"The Program Requirements
Committee was originally
convened to handle
quite a few things, including
the selection of a recommendation
of an architectural
design team to complete
the programming and to do
the design of the facility," Carroll
said. "We have another
subcommittee that has been
evaluating sites on campus
to recommend to the Board
of Trustees. We have another
subcommittee that has been
evaluating informational and
structural technology needs
within the building. That's the
type of effort that we've been
going through on the large-scale
Program Requirements
Committee."
Carroll said they plan to
add classroom space before
tearing any buildings down.
"Its really not our intent to
come here and say the first
thing we're gonna do is tear
down Haley, and then we're
going to build a new building
and displace all the students.
We really can't do that," Carroll
said. "We have to work
with the population as we
have it now by providing new
facilities and then seeing if we
can replace these outdated facilities
at a later time."
Carroll said the goal for the
facility is to allow students
to excel and to provide newer,
flexible, interactive spaces
that support new teaching
styles. Parrish said they are
considering new pedagogies
and the way a,classroom will
look 30 years from now.
"We're looking for a new
classroom facility that's going
to be the very newest technology,"
Parrish said. "We're
looking 50 years into the future
for a building that will
not be like the Haley Center
50 years from now. The Haley
Center is about 40 years old,
and 40 years from now none
of us want there to be a building
that we're ready to get off
campus as much as the Haley
Center."
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we didn't have the experience
of creating the graphic novels
first," Short said.
Ketchen said he hopes his
textbook will outsell one of
the premier strategic management
textbooks written
by Arthur Thompson and AJ.
Strickland III, two professors
at the University of Alabama.
Their textbook, "Crafting
& Executing Strategy: The
Quest for Competitive Advantage,"
retails for $175.
"To me, this is the 'Iron
Bowl enters the textbook arena,'
and I'm going to enjoy taking
their lunch money;' Ketch-en
said.
Ketchen and Short's textbook
is available online at the
Flat World Knowledge website,
flatworldknowledge.
com.
"There's no adds, no pop-ups,
no silliness like that,"
Ketchen said. "You can just
read the textbook online for
free."
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Abandoning the usual PowerPoint-
assisted coat and tie
presentation, one of five Auburn
building science teams
decided on a more direct approach
at the Associated
Schools of Construction's National
Electric Competition.
"We walked in there ... and
laid it on the line," said Alex
Behringer, senior in building
science. "We took a huge risk"
Behringer was the team
leader of the Auburn group
that won first place in the
competition Feb. 8-11 in
Sparks, Nev.
Instead of preparing a formal
presentation with a PowerPoint
slideshow, the team
took a table, butted it up
against the judges' own and
presented their project eye-to-
eye.
Mark Tatum, coach of the
first place team and associate
professor of building science,
said the team's decision for the
presentation was "totally unrehearsed,
unpracticed, not even
talked about."
Tatum said teams at the
competition usually present
formally using technology.
However, pimple face-to-face
meetings for design proposals
are more common in real
Auburn's graduate building science team placed second at the Associated Schools of Construction's National
Electric Competition, which
• world situations, he said.
The six-member winning
team consisted of Behringer,
Wesley Sims, Bradley Clark,
Kelly Kennamer, Drew Scott
and Bentley Windle, all seniors
in building science.
Behringer said they decided
to focus on their strength—
knowledge of the project—
rather than a glossy presentation.
"When we walked into the
room ... people in the room,
their eyes were as big as the
moon," Behringer said regarding
their decision.
When the team was an-took
place Feb. 8-11.
nounced as the winner, Kennamer
said the judges specifically
praised their presentation
format.
The competition requirements
included a 149-page
prequalification booklet, written
proposal and oral presentation.
Teams were tasked
with creating a fictitious company,
staffing it and presenting
a thorough design proposal,
Tatum said.
"It's a dash," Behringer said.
"We don't get time in between.
It's like a total absorption of
what's in that project"
Behringer said the team was
thankful to have Tatum's design
background to better execute
a well-rounded product
"We were able to ... apply
our knowledge from here to
the construction aspect and
apply the knowledge that we
got from Tatum on a design aspect
and kind of meet in the
middle," Behringer said.
For many of the team members,
the competition is not
only a way to flesh out what
they've learned in the classroom,
but also to network for
jobs.
Clark was recently hired by
PCL Industrial Construction,
a company he first met at a regional
competition in Hoover
and again in Reno, Nev.
"If you're looking for a job
and you need something to
put on a resume, to win first
place at a national competition
... that's a big deal," Sims
said.
The team said it was especially
important that they
learn to trust each other and
delegate responsibilities.
"It's nice ... when you get
overwhelmed to realize that
five other people in the room
know what they're doing,"
Sims said. "Where you're weak
... you got five other people
who can pick up that slack"
Behringer said they worked
hard to make sure every team
member could help if someone
stumbled during the presentation.
"We specifically made sure
that for every point that we
would've had to touch on, that
two people would be able to be
responsible," Behringer said.
Auburn's graduate team,
coached by Mike Thompson,
visiting industry professional,
and Paul Holley, professor of
building science, placed second
in the graduate category.
Thompson, along with Mike
Hosey, instructor of building
science, additionally coached
the team for the preconstruc-tion
services category, which
also placed second.
Kasey Entrikin, master's
student in integrated design
and construction, said tfye
graduate team focused on excelling
above the standards set
out for them.
"They basically gave us an
outline," Entrikin said. "They
set a bunch of... constraints
and goals that we had to meet
or build within. I thought that
was extremely valuable."
One constraint was to include
750 beds in the $79 million
student housing project
they were tasked with designing.
Entrikin said the team's
proposal included not only
more beds, but a higher quality
project.
Holley said the differing
backgrounds of the graduate
team members created a
diverse dynamic. Of the fotir
team members, Washington
State, LSU, Alabama and the
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
undergraduate programs
were all represented..
"So in a sense they are drawing
from their undergraduate
experience at a different alma
mater, but on the other hand
they're representing Auburn
at a graduate capacity," Holley
said.
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"Lots of folks today are visual
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concepts."
Short credits their past
writing experience for creating
a visually stimulating
textbook
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Ketchen and his co-author,
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Strategic management is
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being used for strategic management
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his own and made it available
for free.
"Textbooks are ridiculously
overpriced in most cases."
Ketchen said. "We were approached
by a new publisher
who was interested in a different
business model where
students would be able to
read the book online for free."
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Professor Dave Ketchen's textbook deals with various facets of
strategic management, such as managing resources. The book is
available for free online and a hardcopy can be bought for $35.
ter had already begun.
The textbook is available
for free online, but students
can buy a black-and-white
hardcopy for $35. Color copies
are available for $60, and
it can also be purchased and
downloaded to an iPad or
other tablet for $35.
"The typical strategic management
textbook costs $150,
so that gives an idea of how
much money textbook companies
are making off of students,"
Ketchen said.
Ketchen and Short first
met when Short was pursuing
his doctorate at Louisiana
State University. He took a
class taught by Ketchen, and
the two have since collaborated
on four textbooks and
graphic novel textbooks.
Short said they wanted to
write a textbook that was not
"a snooze-fest." To do so, they
incorporated lots of visual aspects
to appeal to students
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SGA uses budget to host events, fund student organizations
UHKISItN HAKNtU/ ASSISIANI WHUIU tUMUK
SGA President-elect Owen Parrish meets with Wesley Clendinen, senator from the College of Agriculture.
This week,
the Auburn
Plainsman
continues its
examination
of Student
Activity Projects
BECKY HARDY
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
Student Government Association
provides for campus in
more ways than one.
"A lot of our programming
comes from our budget as
well," said Curry Stevenson,
SGA treasurer and senior in
civil engineering. "There's a
lot bf important things in our
budget from different areas."
! This year SGA received
$303,432.72 from the Student
Activity Project budget, which
is drawn from student fees.
The organization uses its
budget to provide students
with opportunities like higher
education days and collegiate
leadership programs, which
provide services for students
such as copies of USA Today
and Birmingham News.
The budget also pays for
textbooks for all core classes
that are available in the library
and contributes funds to the
University's graduate school
programs.
"We also have legislative affairs
that lobby in Montgomery,"
Stevenson said. "There is a
full-time lobbyist in Montgomery
that lobbies for higher education
for the state."
SGA sets aside $30,000 each
year for student organizations,
which must apply through the
organizational board of the
SGA senate for funds.
"Any registered campus organization
can come ask for
moneyr Stevenson said. "Each
organization gets a varied
amount of money depending
on how much they can provide
for themselves."
SGA holds approximately
30 events each semester, including
programming events,
Tiger Tuesdays and initiative
forums.
"Hie largest event with regard
to participation is The
Big Event, which receives student
fee allocation as well as
national grants and sponsorships
from corporations," Stevenson
said.
Although SGA's events can
be expensive, many are self-funded.
"Events such as Hey Day,
Fall 5K, the High School Leadership
Conference are self-funded
through T-shirt sales
and outside sponsorships,"
Stevenson said.
The majority of SGA's budget
goes toward student representation,
promoting student
issues and concerns and providing
student services, Stevenson
said.
SGA's spirit program is the
most expensive item in the
budget, costing $37,800.
"We provide shakers for all
the football games on campus,"
Stevenson said. "It also
includes pep rallies and events
and all the supplies that comes
along with that. Especially last
year being the SEC champs,
we had to provide more shakers
for the fans."
Only a small portion of the
budget goes to member salaries.
"Only our five executive officers
get paid," Stevenson said.
"The president, VP, treasurer,
executive VP and chief of staff'
Each staff member is paid
$250 per month.
The five executive officers
also attend an annual student
government conference hosted
by Texas A&M Univerisity,
and the trip is funded by the
SGA budget.
"We pay for that through
revenue that we make through
programs and outlets, where
we don't need student fees for
it," Stevenson said.
SGA is open to all students
and doesn't require fees.
"We promote the individual
students and we provide leadership
opportunities," Stevenson
said. "We impact the commitment
of involvement and
enhance student life."
Facilities Management asks for input on Campus Master Plan
rector of planning and space
management. "Every project
that's constructed should have
some justification and some
relationship with the mission
of the University. We were trying
to discover where the interest
is among students, faculty
and staff and tried to make
sure the interest of everyone
was addressed. We're trying to
involve more people than we
did before."
The first master plan was
adopted in 2002.
"It's a plan that actually
manages physical change on
the campus," Tillman said. "It
serves as a framework for future
campus development.
The master plan that we have
was approved by the Board
of Trustees in 2002. They also
mandated that it be upgraded
at least once every five years.
We had an update in 2007, and
this is the second update."
Gail Riese, communication
and marketing specialist for
Facilities Management, said
the survey will help determine
the plan's final priority list.
"This input will be submitted
to the president for presenThe
board will then develop
a draft with the top priorities
to be used on the master plan.
Tillman said a master plan
committee will be used to help
determine the plan's goals.
"We will have a master planning
consultant that works
with us, and there will be a
committee that is appointed,"
Tillman said. "It has a couple
of dozen members that represent
the main constituents
on campus, such as SGA. The
committee will serve as the
contact point for the consultant.
ROBERT E. LEE
SPORTS BEAT REPORTER
Students, staff and alumni
now have more of a say in the
future of Auburn's campus.
. Facilities Management has
released a survey for the Auburn
University community
to help decide the priorities
for the Comprehensive Campus
Master Plan. The survey
is available online at auburn,
edu/administration/facilities
until March 23.
"A master plan needs to
tie to the University strategic
plan," said Tom Tillman, ditation
to the Board of Trustees
for its consideration in establishing
the final priorities for
the master plan 2012 update,"
Riese said. "We want to invite
feedback and participation
throughout the master planning
update process to ensure
we hear all ideas."
The survey allows respondents
to choose six items they
believe are top priorities for
implementation, including academic
buildings in the core of
campus, student housing, athletic
and sporting events and
campus transportation.
"Over the next 10 or 12
months, the committee will
meet to gain information first
and then come back with
some proposals."
Before the drafting of a master
plan, Tillman said projects
were planned individually.
"The one that was adopted
in 2002 was the first one that
I'm aware that the board has
ever adopted," Tillman said.
"The master plan tries to look
forward and forecast all the
growth we can anticipate. It
looks at a whole agenda instead
of just one project."
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Chemical engineering professor
Mario Eden didn't plan
on staying in Auburn.
Attending college in Lyngby,
Denmark, Eden traveled to Auburn
in 2001 as part of his doctoral
studies at the Technical
University of Denmark.
Eden spent nine months in
Auburn studying with professor
Mahmoud El-Halwagi before
he returned to Denmark.
A few months after Eden's
departure, El-Halwagi left his
position at Auburn University
for a position at Texas A&M
University, and the chemical
engineering department
reached out to Eden to teach
his courses for two semesters.
Eden had to convince his
doctoral advisers to allow him
to leave school again after only
where," Eden said. "I miss free
refills on sodas, the cheap cars
and the cheap gas."
Even though Eden grew up
in Denmark, he said his fellow
professors claim he is more
American than they are.
"There are a few food items
1 miss from Denmark, but
there's nothing 1 really need
when I'm here except for my
family and friends," Eden said.
That doesn't stop his mother
from wanting him to return
to his hometown.
"My mom still wants me to
come home and get a job at
the local power plant or something,
but I jokingly tell her it's
half the salary and double the
taxes; that's really not that ift-teresting
to me," Eden said.
Eden is teaching the Capstone
Senior Design class this
semester, is the chair of the
"Most of my colleagues applied
to 15-20 schools and got
10 offers and then had to decide
which one to pick," Eden
said. "I only applied here. If I
was going to be a professor, it
was going to be here."
If Auburn had turned Eden
down, he said he would have
returned to Denmark and gotten
a "real job" at a refinery in
process engineering, or taken
a consulting position like
many of his classmates.
Spending close to 18
months in Auburn as a teacher,
in addition to several trips
he had taken to the U.S. as a
graduate student, eased Eden's
permanent transition to Auburn.
What does Eden miss when
he goes home?
"I miss my AC, and I miss
having ice makers everybeing
home for six months.
"1 went to teach those two
semesters; I had no plans of
becoming a professor at all,"
Eden said. "I was just trying
to help out a department that
had been very good to me. I
got a huge part of my Ph.D. research
done here, and I know
I wouldn't have had as good of
a dissertation if I hadn't been
here."
Eden taught the two semesters
at Auburn, and during this
time he applied for a tenure-track
faculty job with the University.
After being offered the
position, he returned to Denmark
for six months to finish
his dissertation and moved
permanently to Auburn in
2004.
Eden called his road to becoming
a professor "untradi-tional."
CHRISTEN HARNED / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Chemical engineering professor Mario Eden, who was born in Denmark,
said Auburn was the only place he wanted to teach.
chemical engineering graduate
program and oversees
many undergraduate and
graduate students in his labs.
Department chair Christopher
Roberts said Eden has
made an impact at every level
of the chemical engineering
department.
"I am particularly impressed
with his ability to seamlessly
make highly meaningful and
highly impactful contributions
to every level of our department,"
Roberts said, adding
that Eden is the benchmark of
what a faculty member should
strive to be.
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COMMUNITY BEAT REPORTER
Tornado sirens and AU Alerts indicate
a time to take action, but a group
in Opeiika is urging people not to wait
until it's too late to prepare for emergency
situations.
"The reason our store exists is to
help the general public prepare in the
event of any weather-related emergency
or some sort of systemic problem
with electricity," said Steve Saia.
"There is a great need for us to be prepared."
Saia and his business partner David
James own Eastwood Solutions,
a company that sells emergency and
survival products at USA Town Center
in Opeiika.
The store features items like wool
blankets, solar lanterns and water
purifiers—all items Saia said people
should have on hand in case of an
emergency.
"You're drilling down to the basic
survival things," Saia said.
Eastwood Solutions also features
preparedness classes most Thursdays
at 6 p.m.
"We take questions from the people
that show up and we share information,"
Saia said. "We are a learning
organization. We want to teach people."
James, who is also the headmaster
at Eastwood Christian School in Opeiika,
said personal experience with
bad situations is what drove them to
start the business and the classes.
"It's cold, dark, you're hungry and
you're miserable," James Said. "I've
done it. 1 don't like it. 1 think you
ought to be prepared for anything."
Saia said they're not talking about
the end of the world, but rather just
being prepared for any potential
emergency.
"There's going to be two groups
of people that survive any emergency
event," Saia said. "You're going to
have the folks that have made an effort
to prepare ... They will be somewhat
comfortable ... But the other
group that has made no effort to prepare
at all will be most miserably, assuredly
uncomfortable."
T Speir, emergency response team
volunteer with Lee County Emergency
Management Agency, said that's
what her family found out in the wake
of Hurricane Gilbert.
"We had no water; we had nothing
that we could cook with," Speir said.
"It was rather an adventure. You never
realize how foolish it is not to plan
for an emergency when you have an
opportunity."
Saia said loss of electricity is often
what drives the nefed to prepare.
"When the electricity goes out—
whether it's from a tornado or just
straight-line winds—when you lose
electricity, if you think about it, you're
going to rapidly lose everything else,"
Saia said.
Saia suggests making sure to prepare
to cover basic needs like shelter
and clean food and water. Eastwood
Solutions sells products that address
each need, like water purifiers.
"If you boil impure water, you're
going to have cooked microbes and
cysts and pathogens," Saia said.
Although boiling will kill such organisms,
rendering them harmless, it
won't remove them from water.
"Add a little salt and spices and
you've got yourself a pathogen soup,"
Saia said. "But with the filters they're
gone."
Speir said she keeps bottled water,
a portable gas stove and dehydrated
food on hand.
"When I go to the grocery store, I
buy two of whatever I need," Speir
said. "I buy one and put it up ... I'm
an emergency planner. If something's
going to happen, I'd like to have some
toothpaste, thank you very much."
The March 1 preparedness class
featured an in-ground tornado shelter.
March 8 will center on addressing
the four basic survival issues.
. "Once you give up your ability to
prepare, you will perish," Jari^es said,
adding that the current state of the
economy is troubling to him.
"As gas goes up, food goes up, (the)
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Preschool teacher
helps special
needs children
ALI JENKINS
WRITER
Like many college students,
Laura Perry wasn't sure what career
she would end up in after
graduating, but she was certain of
one thing: it wouldn't involve children.
Seven and a half years later,
however, Perry is the lead teacher
of The Little Tree's classrom for
3- and 4-year-old children, and she
said she couldn't be happier.
The Little Tree is a nonprofit
preschool that prepares children
for primary school with a focus on
improving everyday functions in
those with autism spectrum disorders.
"In college, I knew that I definitely
did not want to work with
kids," Perry said. "I did not think I
could do it. I was going for industrial
organizational psychology,
then I changed to clinical psychology
as the focus I was going to go
toward, and then last semester my
last year at school I decided I wanted
to know more about autism and
work with autism.
"In fact, someone earlier had
said that I could finish the degree
for (applied behavior analysis)
in a year and I was like, 'No, I
don't want to do that. I don't want
to work with special needs kids.
What would I do with them?' And
then I worked with them and I really
liked it. I got to know more
about ABA and I really liked ABA.
It makes sense, it's effective, and
that's why I continued in that direction."
ABA is an autism treatment system
based on the theory that behaviors
can be taught through
a system of rewards and consequences.
"It essentially means that we
analyze behaviors," Perry said. "We
figure out what's causing those
behaviors, whether it's maintaining
something that they want or
whether it's making something go
away that they didn't want around.
"Judging from what's keeping
those behaviors happening, we
tweak the situation so that we can
change the behavior."
Perry has been with The Little
Tree since its establishment in August
2005..
The school's program director,
Leigh Ann Strain, said Perry's long-term
commitment is a testament
to her passion for the children she
teaches year after year.
"She has a real love for these
children and what's here," Strain
said. "She's been here for years, and
you can tell within the classroom
of the excitement that she gets
when the children are acquiring
skills and incorporating lessons."
Despite her early skepticism,
Perry said she now finds joy in
helping children.
"I would say one of the best
(teaching experiences) is a kid
that we started doing in-home
services with when he was 2," she
said. "When he started, he wasn't
able to talk; he didn't look you in
the eye; he didn't really have very
much receptive language either,
like understanding you.
"When he left, he was talking
in full sentences. We've got a video
of him just having a conversation
with the therapist that he was
working with."
vice as it is about the food, price or atmosphere.
"We don't ever have to walk out
and ask a person what they're eating,"
said Andrew Harris, who claimed the
well-trained table staff is part of what
makes Maestro 2300 fine dining. "We
know what every single person in the
dining room is having at any given
time."
Maestro 2300, at 2300 Moore's Mill
Road, was the brainchild of Harris'
uncle, who wanted to open a Medi-terranean-
inspired restaurant after
his travels through Europe.
"Our classical thing that we do is
we take a lot of their food style preparation
and then use our Southern
ingredients," Harris sai(j- "They use
a Tuscan white bean soup; we use
our white beans here, and instead of
kale—what they would put in it—we
put collard greens."
Harris said they focus on food
quality, with everything being "extremely
fresh to order."
"We don't do sheet pans of crab
cakes and stick in a holder somewhere
then take them out and stick
them in the oven," Harris said. "Everything's
cooked from scratch, made
from scratch."
Sikes said Jimmy's also focuses on
fresh, quality food—and plenty of it.
"If you order 12 shrimp and you
need two more, just tell us," Sikes
said. "Another potato? OK. Virtually
no restaurant says that ... We're
going to give you what we think you
need. We assume you're going to order
an appetizer or a salad or a soup
or something and a main course and
a dessert. If you do that you're going
to have two pounds of food, which is
a lot. But if you need two and a half
pounds, raise your hand. We'll give
you some more."
In downtown Auburn, Zazu Gas-tropub
bridges the gap between fine
dining and a more casual dining exand
away outsells everything."
Maestro 2300 shares not only a
similar entree (shrimp and polenta,
a dish with Spanish ingredients and a
Southern preparation style), but also
provides a mix between fine dining
and casual.
The bar area is completely separate
from the dining room and might feature
an Auburn game on TV or live, local
bands.
"In the dining room it's much more
low-key," Harris said. "The dining is
very specific, (and) the acoustics were
something we really really harped on
... We really wanted to keep our dining
room acoustically sound, so if
there's 50 people in there or five people'
in there ... to be able to have a
nice, peaceful kind of feel to it and a
very refined kind of feel to it"
The room features sound absorbing
details like hanging curtains and
perience.
"It's got the best of both words-trying
to keep the fine dining aspect
but trying not to have that stuffy feeling,"
said manager Scott Warren. "We
don't really have the white tablecloth
atmosphere anymore that we used to
have."
Zazu transitioned to a more casual
atmosphere a few years ago when
owner and chef Graham Hage wanted
to attract more of the college crowd.
While food and good service are still
a focus, the restaurant also features
live bands, trivia and open mic nights.
Of course, quality food still gets the
spotlight. Warren said one of their
best-selling appetizers is the shrimp
and cornbread waffles.
"Instead of doing shrimp and grits,
which everybody does, (Hage) does a
cornmeal, Belgian-style waffle with
three shrimp on there, and he does a
homemade Andouille pepper cream
sauce," Warren said. "That one by far » See DINING, A7
Laura Perry, teacher at The Little Tree preschool,
helps autistic students by analyzing their behavior.
ALISON MCFERRIN
COMMUNITY BEAT REPORTER
Students may have to wait for a visit
from mom and dad to eat at the top-notch
restaurants in the surrounding
area, but when the day arrives it's vital
to know where to go.
Jimmy's in downtown Opeiika focuses
on New Orleans fare, but don't
think that means spicy.
"We don't do Cajun," said Jimmy
Sikes, owner and chef. "That's not
New Orleans."
Offering instead a Creole menu,
Jimmy's features dishes like shrimp
and grits, steaks and jambalaya, all
with a high level of service.
"The finer the dining, also the finer
the service," Sikes said. "The fate
of your kitchen is ifi the hands of the
person who puts the food down. If
they slam it on the table, the food's
automatically not as good, even
though it is."
Fine dining is as much about ser
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Sikes said Jimmy's resulted
from a community poll of what
locals wanted in a downtown
restaurant. With so much positive
response, he decided to
make a go of it.
"We get more business every
year," Sikes said. "The first
year I knew 95 percent of the
people who walked in the
door. Now I'll know 15 or 20."
AACT to hold
auditions
for spring
production
ALISON MCFERRIN
COMMUNITY BEAT REPORTER
For those who've been wondering
what to do with the
next eight weeks of their lives,
Auburn Area Community Theatre
has the answer: work with
"On Golden Pond."
Director Steve Bice said
most people are probably familiar
with the movie featuring
Katharine Hepburn and
Henry and Jane Fonda.
"The play is very intimate,"
Bice said. "Basically, in a nutshell,
it's a love story between
two people."
Lori McCormack, artistic
board member, described the
show as "heartwarming."
"It is a happy ending, and
you think maybe it's not going
to be a happy ending, but
it turns out that everybody
learns how to get along and
make things good again," McCormack
said.
The play features a six-member
cast, but Bice said he
isn't just looking for six actors.
The production also requires
a stage manager and people
to operate the lights, sell tickets
and make contacts for publicity.
"There's no job that's unimportant,"
McCormack said.
"Everything has a position."
Bice said finding actors isn't
even always at the top of the
priority list.
"What I'm looking for as a
director is not only a cast, but
team players: people who will
want to come out and put on a
show," Bice said.
Auditions are March 13-15
at 6 p.m. at the Jan Dempsey
Community Arts Center. Acting
roles to be cast are the
main elderly characters Ethel
and Norman Thayer, along
with their daughter Chelsea,
her boyfriend, their 13-year-old
son and the mailman.
This show will end AACT's
ninth year, and McCormack
said the opportunities it provides
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Bice described the main
characters, the Thayers, as "frill
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doing research in preparation
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"I've been observing older
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that auditions are not a competition.
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Speir also said the struggling
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means to help yourself when
the government can't.
"If you fail to plan then that's
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said. "You will get failure."
OPINIONS
Thursday, March 8, 2012 www.theplainsman.com
A8
Community
Scrap the
randomly
enforced
traffic rule
OUR VIEW
ALISON
MCFERRLN
K. NEWS@ € THEPLA1NSMAN.COM
My fiance and I were discussing our
plans for Friday, and at one point he
suggested I could pick him up from
campus.
And then he added darkly, "Of
course, I don't know where on campus."
We had recently been warned students
weren't allowed to drop off or
pick up students in the Quad Center
circle. But I, innocently ignorant, said,
"Oh, I can just pick you up in front of
the library or in the stadium parking
deck."
He shook his head: "Didn't you get
the email?"
I hadn't cheeked it yet, but when I
did I found the email sent from parking
services to all students. It contained
this gem of information: "C permits
are specifically NOT ALLOWED
in the core of campus between 7 a.m.
and 5 p.m. on weekdays during academic
sessions. City of Auburn Police
Department and Auburn University
Department of Public Safety and
Security have authority to stop a moving
vehicle within central campus that
does not display a current Auburn
University parking permit"
They added this information to
that quote from the Auburn University
Parking Rules and Regulations.
"If a vehicle is observed in central
campus without a permit or with an
inappropriate permit, the driver will
be issued a citation."
Did you catch all that? A moving vehicle.
You can't even drive down Mell
Street if it's 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Not if you
only have a C-zone pass, or no pass.
Let's count and see how many peo-
•ple that is.
In short, I find this ridiculous.
I'm usually not one to complain
about rules. Generally I come with
the mindset that rules are rules for a
reason, maybe a reason I don't understand,
and it's best not to make fuss.
But I have limits.
It's hard enough to interact with
campus already if you have a C-zone
pass. Especially if you live in an apartment
or mobile home.
Now they plan to enforce this rule
as well? Frankly, I didn't even know it
existed, and it makes things way more
difficult than they need to be.
It's already almost impossible to
park in C-zone during academic hours
(I circled the coliseum lot for a full half
hour the other day before finding a
spot), and now parking services says
by the way, you can't even drive here.
Now, this possibility of citation
would be during an upcoming period
of enforcement. Apparently they
are going to be enforcing the law sporadically.
Parking services graciously admitted,
"We are aware of the need to unload
projects for your classes or for
helping a friend who lives in the Quad
and are looking at what can be done to
accommodate these exceptions."
Good. They'd better be. •
But the thing is, the instances aren't
rare. They're the norm. That doesn't
call for accommodating exceptions.
That calls for changing the rule.
I hope AU will realize that it needs
to adapt in order to serve its students.
Especially considering the high proportion
of students who live off campus
and the already challenging parking
situation, the University needs to
be doing everything it can to make
things easier for students.
Not start enforcing another rule.
21 s t - c e n t u r y g r a f f i t i a r t i s t s
do i t in chalk.
Chalk drawings OK on
Concourse, not buildings
The Concourse has evolved.
It's become more than a concrete
walkway—it's a giant chalkboard.
It's a silent public forum in which
any student can participate.
Most weeks there's a new advertisement
for a campus group
or a message to a friend. It's an
impromptu mashup of calendar
and messageboard that, we think
shouldn't be restricted.
But th» e Concourse is differ-ent
from other areas of campus.
It was a mistake for the Nerds N'
Geeks club to use chalk on buildings
on campus. Markings on the
halls, however innocently created,
attract attention to structures
on campus in an unpleasant way.
They're too grafiti-esque.
We like the chalk on the Concourse,
but keep it on the Concourse.
We believe there's a sense of
community to be found in these
chalk messages. They're signs of
an active, vibrant student body.
It's also an interesting tactic
for getting a message out. A
few slips of paper on the bulletin
boards in the Haley Center are a
start, but so easily missed. A table
on the Concourse is all right
for most groups, but if you don't
have the manpower to swarm the
area with pamphlets and nifty T-shirts
it can be a waste of time.
The drawings are simple, they're
unobtrusive, and we want to see
more of them.
The chalk also brings a charm
to our campus that can't be found
in other areas.
The Shelby Center, for example,
is a beautiful addition to our
campus. But for all of its attractive
architecture and brickwork
it's lacking the sense of fun that a
piece of child's sidewalk chalk has
brought to the Concourse.
It's not all low-budget advertising
and birthday wishes, however.
Sometimes you'll find some
clever person has written a phone
number to call for a "good time;"
or someone will have scribble4
an inside joke for all of the University
to not get. These are irritating,
but it comes with the territory,
and we shouldn't do away
with the practice because of a few
dense individuals.
Tom Tillman, director of University
Planning, isn't crazy about
the state of the Concourse. We understand
his apprehension. The
drawings can be considered disrespectful
of the value of our University
if you think that way, but
that's not the essense of the writings,
and definitely not the intent.
Some are worried about how
the drawings make the University
look to potential students or
donors, but Auburn's trnage isn't
degraded by these drawings. We
don't think applicants would be
put off by the drawings, and only
the most stuffy of stuffed-shirted
parents would be turned away because
of few scribbles in front of
Haley Center.
It would be a shame for a
cage of rules around the Concourse.
There's something ridiculous
about petitioning the University
to draw with some sidewalk
chalk, and we think it would
do more to completely deter the
practice instead of organizing it.
There are things in life that don't
1 require regulation or approval.
This is one of those things.
The chalk on the Concourse
isn't a problem. It hasn't been a
problem for as long as any of us
have been at Auburn. We can only
hope the University doesn't turn it
into one.
Your view: Driving on campus
shouldn't require zone passes
Recently I received an email
from Don Andrae, the director of
Parking Services here at AU. I encourage
everyone to read it thoroughly,
but the gist of it is this:
anyone without an A- or B-zone
parking pass can be be ticketed
for simply driving anywhere on
campus.
Furthermore, AU has enlisted
the help of the police department
to issue these citations.
That's right, the cops are now issuing
tickets to anyone who simply
drives on campus without a green
or yellow pass. This includes drop
offs and pickups.
Hie following is my reply to Mr.
Andrae.
Wow. Really? Since moving to
Auburn to attend graduate school
I've seen the following:
1. AU builds new parking garages,
specifically the one by the
Medical Center, but no nonresident
students are allowed to use
them.
2. AU begins several new construction
projects, including the
new rec center and whatever athletic
structure is now being erected
on what used to be Biggio
Drive, thereby eliminating hundreds
of nonresident (C) parking
spaces, and makes no attempt to
replace them.
3. AU designates one or more
rows of the coliseum lot that were
formerly C-zone spaces as B-zone
spaces, eliminating even more
non-resident parking.
4. AU decides that no students,
resident or otherwise, are even allowed
to drive anywhere "central
campus," which strangely enough
is where all the classes are held.
For example, if I would like to
drop off my wife at her class at
8 a.m., thereby saving her the
30-minute walk from the nearest
available parking lot, the police
department will issue me a citation.
•
Furthermore, it seems this new
policy includes the general public
as well, as the email from Parking
Services simply states that everyone
without a pass will now get a
ticket.
No logical reason is given for
the decision to enforce, in a way
that can only be described as dra-coniaij,
an obscure paragraph of
the parking rules and regulations.
I mean, seriously? A. ticket for
driving my wife to class?!
Never mind the dubious enlistment
of our city's police force.
I'm thrilled that, instead of fighting
crime, you've decided that the
Auburn Police Department's time
is best spent enforcing University
parking regulations. I know I'll
» See PARKING, A9
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
// . . . I would hope
" that people would
have more respect for
the environment there
that they wouldn't
create any visual clutter
or visual pollution:'
—TOM TILLMAN
DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY
PLANNING
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This week's question:
Do the Concourse
chalkings reflect negatively
on Auburn?
O Yes
O No
O Not sure
Last week's question:
Do you think "The
Artist" was the best
picture this year?
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At Auburn, I experienced my first
introduction to Southern dating culture.
The intricacies of it fascinated
me. Talking about the dating process
with seasoned (if not always successful)
veterans, it seemed formulaic.
The first date should be conversation
heavy. If it's with someone you
don't know well, take her out during .
the day for coffee or buy her lunch. If
you're comfortable enough to stare
at her over a plate of lasagna for an
hour, you can ask her to dinner.
The leap from the first date to the
second date is the biggest The gentleman
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The lady, at this point, can politely
decline without any hard feelings. If
she agrees to a second date, it's your
chance to show your free spirit and
poetic soul with a more creative date
option. At this point, there's no turning
back.
You ask her on the third date,
which you both know she'll say yes to.
On the third date, experts agree, it is
finally acceptable to kiss her.
At first this stunned me. It appeared
that love was no longer driven
by heartfelt passion but by a three-step
plan for success. It seemed like
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your way and one of them is bound to
stick. As I've grown more accustomed
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I realize that, especially with
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Let's face it: Auburn isn't
"All In" during the second half
of the year.
Once the festivities die
down and winter break is
over, the spirit of Auburn
fades and students hibernate
in dorms or apartments and
focus more on nights inside
than out.
What happened to the Auburn
family that supports all
Auburn men and women?
I have attended a few sporting
events this semester and
it amazes me how most of
the Auburn family only cares
about football. What about
the men's and women's basketball
teams who needed us
to cheer in the arena to build
a reputation for The Jungle?
Though the stands started to
fill up after a few wins, there
were still a lot of gaps in the
student section.
Why can't we support baseball,
basketball, equestrian,
golf, gymnastics, soccer, soft-ball,
swimming and diving,
tennis and track like it's football
season? There is no reason
why Toomer's Corner
shouldn't be rolled almost every
other day from an athletic
victory.
Saturday nights are full
of fun and laughter after a
big SEC win in the fall, but
if you walk Magnolia on a
crisp spring night you may
see a few stragglers; no lines,
no crowded sidewalks—just
a few walking from here to
there.
It's time for Auburn to be
all in at all times. Supporting
our athletes on the field
can be the difference between
a win and a loss and the student
body needs to support
and celebrate with them.
Let's support our spring
athletic programs. Go to more
campus events and party like
the real world is just around
the corner.
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Senior forward Kenny Gabriel celebrates Auburn's 67-52 win against LSU with the student section of Auburn Arena, known as The Jungle. The final
home game for the 2011-12 season also marks Gabriel's last season as an Auburn student; he graduates in May with a degree in sociology.
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SPORTS BEAT REPORTER
When Jordan Diamond committed to Auburn
Feb. 3, he shocked the recruiting classes
of universities such as Michigan and Arkansas,
bolstering the Tigers' class with his No. 10 offensive
tackle ranking.
"The visit I had down there was amazing,"
Diamond said of his Dec. 16, 2011, trip to the
Plains. "I really.like the place, I like the town ...
It just feels like there is a lot of support."
Tigers offensive line coach Jeff Grimes said
targeting a player outside of the SEC was a challenging
process.
"We felt like it needed to be a big class for us,"
Tigers battle the seventh-seeded Ole Miss Rebels
Thursday at the SEC tournament in New Orleans
Five-star Diamond
Grimes said. "With the numbers where they
were, we had a lot of spots to fill. And early on
it was a bit of a concern for us just because it
wasn't a great year in terms of numbers in the
Southeast for really good, SEC-quality offensive
lineman. Jordan was a kid early on that
was on everyone's watch list for top lineman in
the country. We evaluated him off of his junior
highlight film and thought he was a really talented
kid."
Diamond said he enjoyed the feel of Auburn,
and everyone he met gave him support.
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After securing the No. 10 seed
in the SEC tournament with a 67-
52 win over Louisiana State Uni-veristy
in Auburn Arena Saturday,
the Auburn Tigers men's basketball
team will face seventh-seed-ed
Ole Miss in the tournament's
first round at 6:30 p.m. Thursday
in New Orleans.
Auburn finished the regular
season at 15-15 and 5-11 in the
SEC, while Ole Miss boasts an 18-
12 record overall and went 8-8 in
the conference.
This will be the third meeting
between the two teams this season.
Hie Tigers won the first, 69-
68, in double overtime Jan. 14 in
Auburn, while the Rebels took the
second game, 61-54, Feb. 11 in
Oxford, Miss.
"The thing that I know about
my team, we are going to New Orleans
with a lot of confidence, and
we've talked about getting a little
momentum," said Auburn coach
Tony Barbee. "We really needed
that win to really feel good about
ourselves going in."
Players agree that the victory
over LSU provides a solid foundation
entering the tournament.
"There's nothing like it," said junior
guard Frankie Sullivan, who
had a team-high 22 points in Saturday's
win.
"I think us winning this game
and going into the SEC tournament
gives us some motivation
because we can play with any-
Coach Barbee congratulates students from The
Jungle at the basketball awards banquet Sunday.
Student body
wins Sixth
Man Award
body. We've been doing it all year;
we just need to do it for 40 minutes."
Sullivan mentioned the 2008
Georgia Bulldogs and their unlikely
run to win the SEC tournament
as proof that any team can win.
"Anything can happen in the
SEC tournament, as you can see
from a couple of years back when
Georgia did it," Sullivan said. "Anybody
can go out and win the SEC
Championship; you just got to go
out<and play the game."
The Tigers won Saturday without
sophomore forward Allen
Payne and sophomore guardjosh
Langford. Payne will be out for the
remainder of the season because
of knee surgery, and Langford is
recovering from a concussion. » See TOURNAMENT, B2
ROBERT E. LEE ,
SPORTS BEAT REPORTER
The Sixth Man Award is given to the basketball
player that makes the biggest difference
coming off the bench, but this season's winner
wasn't even on the court—they were in the
stands.
"As long as I've been in basketball for 20 years
... I've never heard of the student body actually
'winning the trophyr said Steve Smith, executive
director of basketball. "It's always had a name
associated with it. I have never seen it given to
the student bodyf
Coach Tony Barbee announced at Sunday
evening's basketball awards banquet that the
student body would receive the award for making
Auburn Arena one of the toughest places to
play for opposing teams.
Charles "Blue Menace" Floyd, a frequent face
in the student section known for his blue span-dex
suit, said Barbee understands the passion
fans brought to each home game.
"I think it shows that he cares about his fans;
he cares about other people besides the ones
on his bench," Floyd said. "He realizes it's more
than people sitting on the sidelines, and if we're
not there, they're not going to play their hardest
And he recognizes it"
Floyd said the student section was consistently
supportive, even when the Tigers were
losing.
"If we were down by 15, we were still giving
the other team trouble," Floyd said:
Smith said fans went above and beyond in
their support for Tigers basketbalL
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Sophomore guard Varez Ward
remains suspended indefinitely.
Sophomore guard Chris Den-son
said it is necessary for other
players to step up in their absence.
"Losing Payne, Langford and
Varez really affected us scoring,
but you know coach always says
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stepped up," Denson said.
Johnson scored only three
points against LSU, but gave the
Tigers 14 minutes off the bench
as the only reserve small forward.
The Rebels lead the SEC in rebounding,
averaging 38.1 per
game, but Barbee is approaching
the tournament with a fresh
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bench 270 pounds and squat
390, all before entering a collegiate
program.
Grimes said Diamond's athleticism
was surprising for his
size.
"The two things that attracted
us to him was, one, he is
such a big, massive kid. There's
a saying 'you can't coach size';
kids are either big or they're
not," Grimes said. "He's got a
huge frame, but surprisingly
agile for his size. He's light on
his feet. He can pull, pass protect
and do all the things that
we want an offensive lineman
to do."
Diamond's mother, Angela,
said she knew her son's talent
would take him somewhere
other than their backyard.
"I know it's a long way, but
actually we have been preparing
for this for like two years,"
she said. "I knew that he
would be going somewhere. I
like Auburn; I think it's a good
u
He's got a huge
frame, but
surprisingly agile
for his size. He's
light on his feet."
—JEFF GRIMES
OFFENSIVE LINE COACH
place. Out of all the schools we
have talked to and everybody
that has been recruiting him, I
felt like coach Grimes was the
best. I really feel comfortable
with my son going there and
having him there with those
people."
Diamond's educational
goals involve majoring in
some form of law enforcement
and business.
Grimes said Diamond is
ready for the challenges of being
a college athlete.
"The next step was finding
out what kind of kid he
is, what kind of character he's
got, what kind of work ethic
he has and whether he's going
to be a good fit for the program,
not just a good athlete,"
Grimes said. "Everything was
positive along the entire road.
His coaches immediately said,
'If I had every kid in my program
like this, I'd never lose a
game.'"
Diamond's strong suit is
pass protectipn, and with
his long arms and top-tier
strength, quarterback could
be a comfortable position next
season for the Tigers.
"I'm able to use my technique
to outdo just about anybody
that I'm going against,"
Diamond said. "I am really
smart, I can catch on to things
very easily, and ultimately I
hope I'll be able to show I can
do that."
Diamond's mother said her
son is confidently preparing
for the start to his college career.
"He's in another zone when
he is playing, and actually he's
been in the same zone for a
long time," she said. "He's really
focused, he's straightforward
and he's on a mission. He
is already working out daily,
getting his mind ready for Auburn."
Diamond said in light of his
size and strength, he plays like
one of the NFL's best.
"This is probably a little
, strange, but it's like Peyton
Manning; the way he finishes
ball games, the way he conducts
himself on the field and
out-thinking his opponents
and using what he knows to
help everybody else," Diamond
said. "But as far as O-lineman,
1 play like Jake Long and Jonathan
Ogden. Those are guys
that finish the job and really
get after it and are physical."
DIAMOND
» From B1
coach Grimes and see how he
operates things and the way
he conducts practices," Diamond
said. "It's all something
that an O-lineman would
want."
Schools in almost every region
of the country expressed
interest in him, but Diamond
said the coaches at Auburn
were a major factor in his decision.
"Coach Grimes, coach
Trooper (Taylor) and coach
(Gene) Chizik, those guys did
a pretty good job with staying
in touch and really communicating
and telling me that
they really wanted me here
and things like that," Diamond
said. "Just the fact that I have
the opportunity to play (at Auburn)
really enhanced it."
At 6 feet 6 inches and 290
pounds, Diamond said he can
AWARD
» From B1
"It was the faith of the
students; the support from
them was overwhelming,"
Smith said. "There's reasons
to not come to our
games. When you lose five
out of six, typical student
bodies, like fans, stop coming.
This student body kept
coming and kept coming.
In the South Carolina game
the rain was coming down
like a monsoon, and they
still filled the place."
Carter "The Jungle King"
Michaels, sophomore in
software engineering, said
this year's atmosphere in
the arena was completely
different at home compared
to last year.
"I thought it was really
nice of him to acknowledge
all the hard work we put in
for the games," Michaels
said. "I think it's really good
because the students have
really done a good job this
year showing up."
REBECCA CR00MES / PHOTO EDITOR
Senior forward Adrian Forbes fights for a rebound during Auburn's
matchup against LSU Saturday. The Tigers won 67-52.
TOURNAMENT
» From B1
"We talk about the season
being three phases, and we
just finished the second one,"
Barbee said. "No matter what
you did all year long, in phase
three... anything can happen.
"So we're going to go into
the conference tournament
no matter what the matchup
thinking that we are going
to win the whole thing, but it
starts with the first one."
The winner of the first-round
matchup between Auburn
and Ole Miss will face
No. 2 seed Tennessee, who enters
the tournament on a four-game
win streak, at 6:30 p.m.
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Ryan Benton's dream came
true last November.
The Providence Christian
senior from Dothan signed
with the No. 4 Auburn men's
golf team Nov. 9 after an impressive
junior year and a lifetime
of practice.
"I played since I could physically
swing a club," Benton
said. "My dad played, and 1 just
wanted to do whatever he did.
I really don't remember not
playing golf'
Ashley Benton, Ryan's sister
and junior in physical activity
and health, recalls some of his
beginnings.
"I remember when he was 2
or 3 years old getting golf clubs
for Christmas," Benton said.
"We always went to play putt-putt
with our parents when
we were younger, and on hole
18 he knew the ball was never
going to come back and he
would always cry. It was a love-at-
first-sight kind of thing."
Ryan Benton didn't waste
any time in turning this love
into a career.
When he was 7 Benton
started golfing competitively
and qualified for the U.S. Kids
World Championship the next
year.
"That was a pretty big deal
for an 8-year-old," he said. "I
remember going to Williamsburg,
Va„ and being really
scared because everyone was
really good, and this was a really
big tournament.
"I had to qualify for the tournament,
and the qualifier was
my first tournament."
As Benton matured, golf's
place in his life did the same,
and in junior high he came to
a turning point
"I played baseball and golf,
and I was pretty good at both,"
Benton said. "I had to decide
which one I had a future in.
In seventh grade I decided to
go all golf. That's pretty much
when I decided ... that playj
ing in college was the goal, and
I was going to do whatever it
took to get to that point."
Over the next few years,
Benton participated in tournaments
across the country.
Closer to home, he was the co-champion
of the Class 1A-2A
Alabama High School Athletic
Association state tournament
his freshman year and runner-up
as a junior.
He began his career with the
Southeastern Junior GolfTour
in 2007 and accumulated nine
wins and eight top-10 finishes.
By her brothers sophomore
year, Ashley Benton began to
realize what the future had in
store for him.
"That's when he really started
to shine," Benton said.
"When he was the No. 20 recruit
his freshman and sophomore
year, I was like, 'Holy
cow, he's a really good golfer.'"
He went on to place fifth in
the Future Masters in Dothan,
fourth in the Greystone Invitational
in Birmingham and advanced
to the quarterfinals in
the U.S. Junior Amateur Tournament
in Seattle last July after
winning the qualifier by 11
shots.'
It didn't take long for the
college offers to start pouring
in.
"I probably had over 30 letters
of interest sent to me,"
Benton said. "It was really special
because Auburn was the
first one I got, so that pumped
me up pretty good."
Though he had always
dreamed of playing for Auburn,
the decision proved to
be tougher than Benton had
expected.
"I laid out all the schools,
and I narrowed it down to
four—Auburn, Alabama, Troy
and Florida State—this past
summer," he said.
"As the recruiting process
COURTESY OF MICHELLE BENTON
Benton said more than 30 letters of interest were sent to him during
his collegiate recruitment.
u
I've recruited
him the last few
years, and I've
been watching
him develop as
a player and as
a young man. He
was the right fit
for us at Auburn
academically and
athletically."
—NICK CLINARD
AUBURN MEN'S GOLF COACH
Went on, there was no doubt
that Auburn was the best
school for me with the coaches
and how good the campus
and the facilities are. Everything
was just way better than
anything else I went to look at"
Auburn men's golf coach
Nick Clinard has a similar confidence
in Benton's choice.
"I've recruited him the
last few years, and I've been
watching him develop as a
player and a young man," Clinard
said. "He was the right fit
for us at Auburn academically
and athletically.
"He just continually gets
better. He's a hard worker;
he's a very positive guy; he's a
team guy. As a player he's very
talented. He's very powerful
when it comes to the game of
golf ... He'll hopefully come
in and compete to earn some,
playing time as a freshman,"
Clinard added.
But it wasn't just Benton's •
ability on the greens that
caught Clinard's attention—itl
was his character.
"He's very much into his*
faith and his family," Clinard*
said.
"That really stuck out to us-.
in the recruiting process. We
thought he was a very good fit
for the program at Auburn and
what we, as coaches, believe in
as well. He's got a great mental
and physical game, and obviously
the spiritual aspect"
Senior golfer Blayne Barber*
said quality character is part of
being on the team.
"Anytime you can add a-player
to the team with Ryan's
ability, it is nothing but a positive,"
Barber said. "Being an
Auburn golfer is just as much,
if not more, about who you are
and how you carry yourself off
the golf course as you do on it
"Based on what I know
about Ryan, he will definitely
carry on the legacy of Auburn
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Jarrett said the rigorous
schedule the minors put on the
players took the most getting
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"It's just every single day you
play a game," Jarrett said. "In
Double-A we played 40 consecutive
nights. The whole lifestyle
when you have to travel
and you have to play so much,
physically and mentally it really
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load, sleep for a little and then
go to the field—nine to 10
hour bus trips sometimes," Jarrett
said. "When you do that
month after month, it's more of
a physical strain. It wears you
down. You've just got to adapt
and find a way to stay strong
through that five-month season.
It's a grind."
The schedule became more
challenging once Jarrett married
his wife, Jennifer, and only
intensified after the birth of
their first son, J.T.
Jarrett looked to the college
coaching ranks to get his name
out in the coaching world.
"I was married and my first
child was already born, so all
the traveling and relocating in
pro ball wasn't for me," he said.
"I enjoyed college and thought
it was a good environment for
my family. I probably knew in
high school that 1 wanted to
coach. As soon as I realized my
playing days were over, I went
and searched for a place to
start coaching."
Jarrett found that place in St
Augustine, Fla., at Flagler College.
Dave Barnett, baseball
coach and athletic director,
hired Jarrett as recruiting coordinator
straight out of the minor
leagues in 1999, and Jarrett
took full advantage.
"You've got to get your foot in
the door, and I was able to stick
it in there," Jarrett said.
Jarrett's minor league travels
allowed him to work with
baseball greats such as Don
Zimmer, Don Baylor and Art
Howe. At Florida State, Jarrett
was coached by Mike Martin,
who is entering his 33rd season
with the Seminoles.
"I just soaked it in," Jarrett
said. "You pull bits and pieces
from everyone around. (Martin's)
overall desire to see the
guys go out and do what they
needed to do to win games was
something that was ingrained
in me early on when I got to
college, and I think his game
management style and the way
he plays the game (was too).
Coming along that was my role
model."
Sophomore outfielder Ryan
Telia said Jarrett's enthusiasm
and experience keeps the team
from getting discouraged.
"He's always up; I've never
seen him down," Telia said.
"He's always positive. He also
knows what a winning team is
like, and that's what he wants
from us."
After Flagler, Jarrett made
stops at Florida State, Mercer
and East Carolina before his
hiring in 2010 as Auburn's director
of player development
Telia said Jarrett has helped
him with specifics with his hitting.
"I never really had a chance
to bunt or learn the proper way
to bunt before coach Jarrett,"
Telia said. "He also helped me
with the mechanics of hitting
the inside pitch."
Junior outfielder Cullen
Wacker said Jarrett uses his experiences
to provide all of the
players insight
"He's got a lot of stories from
his career that he brings up
where he might have messed
up, and he doesn't want us to
make the same mistake," Wacker
said. "That's really beneficial
to all of us."
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The focus has
shifted from a
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offense to
a multi-faceted
attack that can
bunt, steal and
manufacture
runs.
As the starting
shortstop
on three College World Series
teams at Florida State University,
Jarrett wasn't the biggest
or strongest player on the team,
but he knew his role.
"We ran the bases aggressively,"
Jarrett said. "We bunted
and we wiere always good defensive
teams, and that's what
really got me into the lineup
there. I could
play defense and
I had a good feel
for what was going
on in the
game. That's how
we played, and it
worked."
After graduating
and leaving
LINK JARRETT his hometown of
Tallahassee, Fla.,
Jarrett was drafted by the Colorado
Rockies organization in
1994. A shortstop at FSU, Jarrett
played many games at second
base, third base, a few in
Jarrett began his career with
the Bend Rockies Single-A in
1994 and continued his defensive
prowess, winning the Most
Spectacular Defensive Player
Award in his first season.
In 1996, Jarrett moved up to
Double-A. He said the jump
was the biggest talent gap he
had witnessed in his career.
"From A to AA was the biggest
jump for me—more than
from high school to college,
even college to the lower levels
of the minors leagues," Jarrett
said.
He said it was intensified because
of t he constant travel up
and down the East Coast
"We'd play a game, get on a
bus, drive all night, get off at
your next stop at 6 a.m., un-
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Facilities complaint washes away chalk graffiti
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Many University staff members
carefully plan the image and character
of Auburn, but students often
add personal touches that don't fit
the bill.
Drawings and birthday wishes are
frequently chalked on the Concourse
and in other areas around campus,
but Tom Tillman, director of University
planning, said he does not approve
of the student additions.
"We have some guidelines that we
use when we do anything on campus,"
Tillman said. "Anything you can
see, whether it's a sign or a building or
landscaping or anything like that we
take a quick check and ask ourselves,
'Does this action reinforce the image
and character of the University?"'
This rule of thumb was adopted
during the 1990s as the architecture
of the University began to change.
Tillman said chalk markings by students
do not adhere to the standard.
"I'm not supportive of the idea of
chalk markings on the sidewalks or
especially on the buildings," Tillman
said. "That's getting to be close to vandalism.
Sometimes you can't get the
entire image off.
"It just doesn't seem to add to the
campus, and I would hope that people
would have more respect for the
environment there that they wouldn't
create any visual clutter or visual pollution."
The campus group Nerds N' Geeks
recently wrote movie quotes and
drew pictures with chalk on the exterior
of several buildings on campus.
According to the group's blog,
au-nerds-n-geeks.tumblr.com, the
.Office of Student Conduct requested
a meeting after a complaint was
filed by Facilities Management, which
claimed it had difficulties removing
the chalk.
Katherine Hettinger, coordinator
of student advocacy and case management
in the OSC, said anyone can
submit a complaint, and it is the office's
duty to address the underlying
problem.
"We address complaints as they
come to our office," Hettinger said.
"Any time a complaint is brought to
us we look into it and meet with the
students to find out what was going
on."
According to the blog, the OSC assured
the. group that the meeting "is
not punitive in nature and will be focused
on how the OSC can aid you in
developing a skill set to minimize the
chances of placing yourself in a position
for having this type of concern
raised again."
"These complaints are coming
from specific buildings, i.e., the Student
Center and Foy most likely," a
Nerds N' Geeks member posted on
the blog. "Haley (Center) is also perhaps
one of them. Again, it should be
brought to (the University's) attention
that the sororities are using the same
methods to advance their own purposes,
where we simply aim to make
people smile."
Aileen Perez, doctoral assistant
in the OSC, said there is no policy
against chalk drawings, but when a
complaint is filed the office must take
action.
"There is a policy for advertising,"
Horez said. "It does not state that
chalking is not allowed specifically,
but it will fall under the advertising
rule. A complaint was submitted
to our office by facilities saying that
they wanted to address the chalk issue
with these specific students, but
they didn't want these students to get
in trouble. That's the reason for us addressing
the chalking policy."
The chalk drawings by Nerds N'
Geeks were not an explicit violation
of the advertising policy, Perez said,
which is why the OSC didn't pursue
disciplinary action. Instead, the office
had an "educational conversation"
with members of the group regarding
the complaint, and added
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ANDREW YAWN
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With spring break already here, students can forget
scultping abs and start sculpting art at the Ceramics
Studio on Dean Road.
"It's one of the best-kept secrets in Auburn," said
Amy Kaiser, five-year member turned part-time instructor
at the studio.
While students flock to the coast or cruise to exotic
countries, the Ceramics Studio provides the community
with a cheaper, alternative method of relaxation.
"It absolutely is therapeutic," said Cari Philen, art
education specialist for the City of Auburn. "It's definitely
a calming thing for me."
Hie process of making pottery is not an overly complicated
one, Philen said; however, knowing what to
do and doing it are two completely different things.
"It takes at least a couple weeks before you really get
it down," she said. "It's definitely a feel process."
While pieces may only take minutes to mold, it
takes weeks to render the pottery functional.
The mug will take one to two weeks to dry before it
is ready for the kiln, the oven used for baking the clay.
If a piece still has moisture in it, the kiln will vaporize
the water when the clay is fired—with explosive results.
"It's not just a crack; it's an explosion," Kaiser said.
"Steam doesn't just sit there; it escapes."
The studio, nestled in the back room of the Dean
Road Recreation Center, offers classes on a quarterly
schedule with a one-quarter meVnbership fee of $35
that includes all clay and equipment.
Once trained in throwing, attendees like Kaiser can
become independent studio members. This allows
them access to the shop, provided they supply their
own clay.
For those just starting out, one's mentality means as
much as the form, Philen said.
"A lot of ceramics is confidence. The more calm,
cool, collected and confident you are, the easier it is,"
she said. "If you're stressed and anxious, your work is
going to look stressed and anxious."
Besides being a therapeutic release, much of the reward
lies in creating art that combines aesthetics and
functionality.
"It is an art form, but it's a really useful art form,"
said Tucker Hallmark, freshman in pre-med and independent
studio member. "You can make functional
things you use in everyday life, instead of painting
where you just have something to put on the wall."
Despite the amount of patience and diligence exuded
by the more seasoned members, Philen is quick to
remind people that it's all about having fun.
"Who doesn't love playing with mud pies?" she said.
Steps to creating your own ceramic mug:
1. The first step is to center a baseball-sized lump of clay on the
spinning wheel.
2. As the clay spins, place both hands around the ball, continuously
adding water and shaping the lump in the middle of the wheel.
(Keeping the clay hydrated is the key to avoiding imperfections in
the clay and creating the desired shape.)
3. Continue to shape the ball until it's smooth/When it feels like it
isn't moving anymore, the ball is centered. Then, dig a finger into
the center of the clay and pull away from the center to create the
desired diameter of the cup.
4. Once the opening is created, put one hand on the inside and
one on the outside applying equal pressure. On the sides of the
cup, pinch near the bottom and gently pull up, evening the clay.
5. Repeat this until the cup is tall enough or there is no more clay
to pull up.
6. Finally, using a pencil tool, scrape around the base of the cup to
remove any excess material.
7. Once dry, place the prototype in the 1300-1500 degree Fahrenheit
kiln and bake it for six to 12 hours.'After the cup is removed
it should have a feel similar to terra cotta.
8. To be functional the piece must then be glazed and baked in a
hotter kiln.
9. The glaze is a mixture of colors and chemicals that allows the
artist to add his or her ovyn style to an otherwise plain cup. By firing
it a second time in a 2000 degree kiln for 13-16 hours, the
silica in the glaze melts and hardens, giving the cup a smooth,
glassy sheen and rendering it waterproof and microwave-safe.
that future complaints will result in
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"We don't care about the content;
it's the fact that it was there," Perez
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places where you're allowed to
advertise on campus and certain
mediums you're allowed
to use, and they're specifically
listed in there," Hettinger said.
"Chalking is not listed in the
policy as appropriate forms of
advertisement."
Nerds N' Geeks stated in its
blog that the University's reaction
to its drawings was too
harsh, and that chalk drawings
are a safe and appropriate way
to have fun.
"College and classes are not
easy, and students need to let
off steam," the blog states.
"This is a harmless, geeky, fan-dom
way of doing it. No one is
being hurt by it, and the chalk
being used is water-soluble,
so the use of brushes, soap or
power washers is overkill on
the University's part, if that (is)
part of their 'complaint.'"
Perez said students interested
in the issue could petition
the Student Government
Association for a policy specifically
regulating chalk drawings.
Tillman also said the University
would be happy to
make accommodations for
students who enjoy the activity,
or for art students who use
the medium to practice.
"If that's something you feel
you have to do, there are certain
colleges that have a rock
or something where you can
paint a message, and it's really
gross-looking most of the time
because it's really not even
good graffiti," Tillman said. "I
would hate to see something
like that in a public place, but
if something like that has to
be put on campus there are
processes students can go
through to have something
like that approved."
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stick it under because there
is no chalking policy for campus.
We're not necessarily saying
that this policy is against
chalking... If we're going to address
it because facilities submitted
a complaint, our best
umbrella would be to put it under
there."
In other words, while the
advertising policy was not intended
to address chalk drawings,
the policy's lack of language
regarding the matter
was part of the reason it was
chosen to address the complaint.
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Andrew Harris graduated
from Auburn in 2001 with
a degree in hotel and restaurant
management. He is now
a wine expert and the general
manager for the local restaurant
Maestro 2300.
What was your first job in
the restaurant business?
Shucking oysters in a restaurant
in Panama City, where
I'm from, called Montego Bay.
I was an oyster shucker and
busboy the summer I was 14,
and I've kind of done it ever
since.
How did you make the
most of your time while you
were at Auburn?
I worked a couple of jobs.
I worked at Amsterdam as
a bartender for a little bit. I
worked at Niffer's, Applebee's
and the Auburn Hotel Conference
Center.
1 worked a couple differ- •
ent places, and of course was
in school full-time, so I stayed
busy while I was in Auburn.
Was it your experience
outside the classroom that
later made you successful?
The hotel and restaurant
management program was
very strong when I was at Au-.
burn, and it's even better now.
I benefitted a lot from it I benefitted
a lot from the contacts
I made.
I got an internship with the
Baltimore Country Club in
Baltimore that I got through
Auburn University. 1 also did
•some work with Club Management
Association of America
that I got through a contact
with Auburn University.
All of that was a huge help.
But this is the kind of business
where schooling only gets
you so far. You really got to put
your nose to the grindstone,
get a lot of experience and
work your butt off to make it in
this business.
Where did you find work
after graduation?
I worked at The Reynolds
Plantation. It's a big, all-inclusive
resort in Greensburg, Ga.
It's a 9,000-
