2012-03-22 The Auburn Plainsman

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Thursday, March 22,2012
A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID
www.theplainsman.com Vol. 118, Issue 14,18 Pages
President Gogue makes smoking ban final
ALISON MCFERRIN
COMMUNITY BEAT REPORTER
An issue that flamed up more than
a year ago is nearly resolved, and
that's not just blowing smoke.
By fall 2013, Auburn will join near­ly
800 other higher education institu­tions
as a smoke-free campus.
"This is a complex decision for any
university to make," said Ainsley Car­ry,
vice president of student affairs.
"We have students, faculty and staff
on botji sides of the argument. As
an administration we represent all
members of the community, and we
wanted to be sure every conccrn was
considered carefully."
Careful consideration is what
made this an issue that has been
stretched over two years. The initia­tive
first became a point of interest
after a letter was sent to President Jay
Gogue requesting a smoke-free cam­pus
in spring 2010.
After student surveys, SGA meet­ings
and other research, student gov­ernance
groups made the recom­mendation
that Auburn become a
smoke-free campus. With Gogue's
stamp of approval, smoking will be
restricted fall 2012 and banned by
fall 2013.
"It was an initial aspiration for the
policy to be in effect by 2012, but that
would not provide enough lead time
for employees who smoke to make
adjustments in their smoking needs,"
Carry said. "We wanted to give peo­ple
more time to adjust, and we felt
fall 2012 might be too soon to go from
where we are to completely smoke-free."
Gogue was unavailable for com­ment.
Beginning fall 2012, smokers will
be requireddo remain at least 25 feet
away from doorways and buildings.
In the time leading up to the full ban,
Carry said there will be a focus on
promoting cessation programs.
Luis Rodriguez, junior in political
science, said he thought the ban was
a great idea.
"I make the conscious decision to
not smoke, and it's sort of a burden
on me ... for other people to impose
that on me," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said his work with the
American Cancer Society influenc­es
his opinion about smoking, and he
said he hopes it will result in people
quitting.
"It'll obviously be harder for them,
so if nothing else it will reduce the
amount that they do," Rodriguez
said.
The hope that some smokers will
consider quitting as a result of the
ban, a hope shared by University ad­ministration,
maybe unfounded.
"I've had friends who have been
smokers and have tried to quit, and if
you're not ready to quit, you're not go­ing
to, no matter what anybody will
say or do or where you can or can­not,"
said Kate Turner, who is pursu­ing
English as her third bachelor's de­gree.
"It'll be interesting to see, if they
polled now and saw how many stu­dents
smoked on campus, and then
polled at the end of the partial (ban)
how many students are smoking, and
then at the end of when they instated
the full—1 think that would be inter­esting
to see."
Methods for enforcing the new
policies have also been part of the
discussion.
"There are no plans to provide ad­ditional
enforcement efforts," said
Carry, calling the smoking ban an
"educational policy."
Big Event plans
come to fruition
LANEJONES
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
Something big is coming.
This year's Big Event, sponsored by Student Government
Association and taking place Saturday, boasts record num­bers
ofvolunteers and jobsites. *
"The Big Event is Auburn University SGA's service day,
sponsored once a year in the spring," said Kyla Wilkinson,
director and sophomore in biomedical sciences. "This will
be our 10th annual event. This year we will be putting over
3,000 students to work at almost 250 job sites."
Wilkinson said this has been a year of growth and expan­sion
for the Big Event.
"We continued to expand into the school system," she
said. "We increased involvement by almost 800 volunteers
and 50 job sites."
Patrick Dreher, sophomore in landscape design, serves as
a Big Event assistant director.
"There were a lot of little things that we wanted to im­prove
on, such as organization," Dreher said. "My commit-
» See EVENT, A2
"Building managers and super­visors
will enforce as they deem ap­propriate.
For example, if someone is
smoking at the front door of the Stu­dent
Center, they will be asked by the
building manager to move at least 25
feet from the building... In 2013 they
would be asked to put out the ciga­rette.
Most will comply. Some may se­lect
not to comply."
Carry said he anticipates the
smoking ban will function much like
the alcohol ban.
"All students know alcohol is not
permitted on campus, and most of
them comply when they are found
in violation of this policy," Carry said.
"I expect us to eventually get to that
point with the smoking policy. Of
course that will take some time."
Carry said the focus on a healthy
» See SMOKING, A2
Bookstore creates
big changes to
textbook services
CHELSEA HARVEY
CAMPUS EDITOR
The Auburn Uni­versity
bookstore is
on the verge of some
big changes.
According to
Rusty Weldon, assis­tant
director of the
bookstore, the book­store
will be intro­ducing
two major
modifications by the
end of the semester
to the way it sells and
buys back textbooks.
The first change is
the introduction of REBECCA CROOMES / PHOTO EDITOR
an iPhone and An- thf new fPJiCf°n if re'eased students must check buyback price's
droid application by having their textbooks scanned at
that will allow stu- the bookstore.
dents to scan their
books and find out the buyback price without ever going
to the bookstore.
"And what they can do is they can use the scanning func­tion
on the back of their Smartphone or they can type in
an ISBN, and that will bring up how much your books are
worth," Weldon said. "So if you're at the library at 12:30, you
know you've got that app on your phone, download it, you
can literally scan that ISBN number on the back of each of
your books, and you'll know real-time what we're,offering."
Weldon said the application will make it more conve­nient
for students to find out the buyback prices for their
books because students can scan their books from any lo­cation.
"There's just so many spots on campus that it's a walk,
and if you're not carrying your books to class every day, all
of a sudden you've got to load them in your backpack, walk
all the way to the bookstore to find out what they're Worth,"
Weldon said. "And we realize that if it's a wholesale value on
a book, you might want to hold on to it. Or if it's not being
» See BOOKSTORE, A2
Auburn researchers assist
in international study
Professor Francis Robicheaux and student assis­tant
Patrick Donnan aid in the study of antimat­ter
at CERN in Geneva. Switzerland.
INTRIGUE // B5
REBECCA CROOMES / PHOTO EDITOR
Toomer's Oaks have recently shown foliage growth that does not exhibit effects of herbicide. While this does not mean the trees will definitely
survive, the new growth is encouraging to the community's efforts to save the trees.
Signs of fife
Toomer's Oaks encourage community with signs of recovery
CAMPUS // A3
Students work together to
build library
Blanche Alverson and Sara Beasley are com­bining
efforts to establish a public library in
Loachapoka.
COLEMAN MCDOWELL
SPORTS EDITOR
The changing of the season
has brought new hope to the
oaks residing at Toomer's Cor­ner.
Last week Gary Keever,
horticulture professor at Au­burn
University and leader of
a group of scientists working
to save the trees, observed the
canopies of the oaks and saw
progress.
"The foliage grown so far
this year has not shown signs
of the herbicide yet, but it's
still early," said Keever, a long­time
adviser for the landscape
of Toomer's Corner and an offi­cial
consultant for the trees the
last five and a half years.
"Does it mean they are go­ing
to survive? Absolutely not.
If there is still herbicide in the
root zone, the tree is going to
take it right to the new leaves. '
There's reason to be encour­aged,
but there's no reason to
be overly optimistic."
^Minimizing the stress on
the oaks involves many differ­ent
facets of care, but the next
step is injecting the trunks of
the trees with a sugar solution.
Saturday, a company from
Tennessee will use a reservoir
of a sugar solution with tubes
running into the trunks. Keev­er
likened the process to a hu­man
receiving an IV. The sugar
will replace the carbohydrates
the trees have used in their bat­tle
to grow new foliage.
The sugar solution has been
used before on healthy trees,
but it is not an automatic fix.
"The only work done on this
was done in 2009 where they
injected the sugar into healthy
trees, and our trees are any­thing
but healthy," Keever said.
"We will use low pressure to
gently force it into the trunk.
We might be able to force it a
little, but not much. The ques­tion
is, will these trees take on
this solution with as little foli­age
as there is?"
After the sugar solution,
Keever and his team will con­tinue
to work on keeping the
trees alive—Keever s only con­cern.
"We're going to inject the
sugar solution; we're going to
continue to fertilize; we're go­ing
to prune the trees," he said.
"We're going to test the soil,
and beyond thivt, we're going
to irrigate in any dry spells."
The committee deciding the
future of the Toomer's Oaks
is not letting the new foliage
change its plans.
"If the trees by some chance
live, then there would not be a
need for us to find another lo­cation
to roll, which would be
great news," said Debbie Shaw,
chairperson for the Commit­tee
to Determine the Future
of Rolling Toomer's Corner.
"However, since the chanc­es
are still relatively slight, it
is important we continue with
our backup plan regarding the
Toomer's Corner rolling tradi­tion."
With the uncertainty re­garding
the trees' future, Shaw
knows one thing for sure: there
will be toilet paper flying on
the corner in the fall.
"We do plan to roll the trees
this fall, even if the trees were
to die," Shaw said. "We have
been assured by horticultur­ists
that will be OK. But be­cause
the results of the sur­vey
we conducted this past
fall showed that people feel
that continuing the rolling tra­dition
is very important, we
know we must be ready for the
day that the trees might not be
around."
Keever said ideally the oaks
wouldn't need pruning at all,
but the wood that has already
died could become hazardous.
» See TREES, A2
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Campus A2 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thursday, March 22,2012
DUI ARRESTS IN THE CITY OF AUBURN
MAR. 8 - MAR. 18,2012
• Holly A. Spates, 21, Tallassee, Ala.
Railroad Avenue at Hemlock Drive
Mar. 8, 3:15 a.m.
• Kerry M. Goode, 27, Tuskegee, Ala.
Mell Street at West Samford Avenue
Mar. 9,12:56 a.m.
• Ikim C. Sanders, 26, Fairfield, Ala.
South College Street at West Longleaf Drive
Mar. 9, 7:58 p.m.
• Courtney J. Thomas, 22, Columbus, Ga.
South College Street
Mar. 10,1:19 a.m.
• Kim Drake, 47, Tuskegee, Ala.
Tucker Avenue
Mar. 10, 3:33 p.m.
• Leon Levett, 46, Tuskegee, Ala.
South College Street
Mar. 10, 9:25 p.m.
• Christopher M. Arrington, 33, Valley, Ala.
South College Street
Mar. 11, 3:59 a.m.
• Bobby E. Chambers, 72, Opelika, Ala.
Highway 14 at Waverly Road
Mar. 12,12:47 p.m.
• Brittany A. Thrower, 21, Opelika, Ala.
South College Street
Mar. 12, 9:22 p.m.
• Morgan A. Roe, 27, Lamar, Calif.
West Magnolia Avenue
Mar. 13, 8:13 p.m.
• Jeffrey B. Penn, 37, Cullman, Ala.
South College Street at East University Drive
Mar. 16, 2:36 a.m.
• Robert W. Goletz, 23, Elberton, Ga.
Wire Road at Extension Loop
Mar. 16, 9:34 a.m.
• Rebekah R. Housewirth, 20, Peoria, III.
West Longleaf Drive
Mar. 18,2:26 a.m.
CRIME REPORTS FOR MAR. 12 - MAR. 20,2012
Mar. 12 — Opelika Road
Theft of one Honda Accord reported.
Mar. 15 — Northwood Drive
Theft of one 33-inch flatscreen
television with DVD player, one
pearl necklace, one silver, pearl and
diamond ring, one gold ring with pink
diamond, one gold ring with two dia­monds
and one sapphire and gold
ring reported.
Mar. 16 — South College Street
Theft of one leather ring box with
CEG initials on top, one Memphis
University class ring with CPJ inside,
one 2009 Memphis University
football championship ring, one
2008 Memphis University football
championship ring and one Xbox
360 reported.
Mar. 17 — Casey Avenue
Burglary of one Ruger rifle, one
Remington rifle, one Winchester rifle,
one Remington shotgun and one gun
safe reported.
Mar. 20 — Lem Morrison Drive
Theft of one Taurus handgun re­ported.
Mar. 20 — Lee Road 191
Theft of one 32-inch television, one
7-foot artificial Christmas tree, one
queen-size bed, one cordless drill,
one portable sewing machine and
one metal tool box reported.
— Reports provided by Auburn
Department of Public Safety
BOOKSTORE
» From A1
bought, obviously you don't
want to go to the trouble of
bringing it all the way to cam­pus."
Weldon said the applica­tion
will also inform students
of how many more books the
bookstore is willing to buy
back at any given time.
"It will give you warnings
like, "Ihe bookstore only needs
five more of these,' which I
think is always a source of
contention when everybody's
taking a final and there's this
big rush to get to the counter,"
Weldon said. "You can actual­ly
go through there and scan to
find out, 'Hey the bookstore's
almost full on this, it might be
better if I got that to them to­day
rather than trying to wait
until the end of finals like a lot
of people do.'"
The other major change the
bookstore will implement is a
makeover for its website.
"We've partnered with a
company called Verba ... and
they've created a way for us to
basically show you our price,
and then show you prices
throughout the Internet, both
that will be rental, digital, even
down to the e-chapter level,
where you can buy by chap­ters,"
Weldon said.
"One of the most difficult
things with all the different
options for students is that
you've got to go to five differ­ent
websites to make the best
purchase decision."
Weldon said the new web­site
design will show price op­tions
from different compa­nies,
such as Amazon, along­side
Auburn's prices.
The new design will also al­low
students the option of pur­chasing
textbooks from a dif­ferent
company without hav­ing
to go to that company's
website.
"And what happens if you
put all of our classes in here,
and say you bought one from
us, two from Amazon (and)
you wanted to get one digital­ly,
you actually have one spot
to chdck out," Weldon said. "It
will take you to all three plac­es
from this site to check out,
so you don't have to go over to
Amazon; it's going to present
the checkout pages for those
to you, so literally you can get
all of your books in one spot."
Weldon said the changes
have been made as part of the
bookstore's ongoing effort to
lower textbook prices for stu­dents.
"But this, I think, will hope­fully
help explain to students
how we feel about our role in
the process," Weldon said. "We
know that books are expen­sive,
and we're fighting it tooth
and nail. It's just that jve real­ize
that we can't win in every
single circumstance."
Weldon said the new web­site
should be running this
week so students can use it
when they register for sum­mer
classes. The application
should be available in April.
"Books are just way too ex­pensive
for students to not
have somebody fighting for
them," Weldon said. "We talk
about being a family here at
Auburn. Isn't it time that stu­dents
could say that part of
that family was truly standing
up and fighting for them?"
• Anne E. Jones, 22, West Point, Ga.
South College Street at West Samford Avenue
Mar. 18,3:54 a.m.
TREES
» From AI
Keever said the oaks have
been through a plaza reno­vation
and one major limb
removal a few years ago and
have been regressing for a
number of years.
"This tree has been declin­ing
for many years," Keev­er
said, "and we're going to
have to take a lot of wood off
of it. And if you go up there
now and photograph this
tree, you'll see there are quite
a few limbs with no leaves
on them. In most cases, that
wood is dead."
Keever said the trees may
become "aesthetically dead"
if too much is removed, and
at that point his hand will be
forced.
"Let's say we remove 80
percent of the canopy," Keev­er
said. "I would be inclined
to make the recommenda­tion
the tree be removed. It's
no longer an asset, but a lia-bilityr
Keever thinks any oth­er
oaks would have been re­moved
by this point
"Anywhere else on cam­pus
that tree probably would
have been taken out alreadyT
Keever said. "But because it's
one of the Toomer s Oaks we
haven't really considered (re­moving)
it
"With special trees, it's
about more than the appear­ance
of tree. It's about what
it means and the symbolism
of the tree."
SMOKING
» From Al
lifestyle is a main factor for
the initiative.
"Both smokers and non-smokers
will benefit in the
long run," Carry said. "Some
smokers will elect to quit
smoking and thereby reduce
our insurance costs. Non-smokers
will be able to walk
around a campus free of sec­ondhand
smoke."
Turner also said she sees
both sides.
"I'm a smoker, (and) it's
not necessarily fair to ban
that completely," Turn­er
said. "I feel that there
should be designated areas,
of course, because this is a
huge campus.
"But also at the same
time, I feel like everybody
does have the right that if
they don't want to breathe it
they shouldn't have to."
EVENT
» From Al
tee now has two directors in
charge of job sites and tools."
Robert Powers, also an as­sistant
director for the Big
Event and sophomore in build­ing
science, said the job sites
this year consist mainly of sim­ple
yard work.
Earlier in the year, commu­nity
residents applied to have a
team work at their house.
"We sent out an applica­tion
in the water bill, so pret­ty
much everyone in Auburn,
Opelika and Notasulga gets an
application," Dreher said.
Unlike other outreach proj­ects,
Big Event is not a need-based
service project and any­one
can apply.
"It's just a way for us to say
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thank you to the communi­ty
for being a great place to
live," Powers said. "It's not
need-based. If you apply, pret­ty
much everyone who applies
will have volunteers at their
house. It's not need-based, but
we do have a lot of people who
are in need."
Wilkinson said the Big
Event will be a way to give back
to a community that has given
students a great place to live
and go to school.
"As an Auburn student, we
love this community we live
in so much, for more than just
football," she said.
"We love Auburn because
of the Auburn spirit and the
people we surround ourselves
with while we study here. This
is our chance to thank them
for putting up with us."
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Thursday, March 22,2012 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Campus A3 1
Researchers participate in international study
CHRISTEN HARNED / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Francis Robicheaux, professor of theoretical atomic physics, works
with international researchers on antimatter studies at CERN in Ge­neva,
Switzerland.
BRADLEY ROBERTS
WRITER
Auburn researchers, in col­laboration
with the Antihy-drogen
Laser Physics Appara­tus
team in Geneva, Switzer­land,
are helping make break­throughs
in the study of anti­matter
material and its prop­erties.
Francis Robicheaux, profes­sor
of theoretical at omic phys­ics
at Auburn, has been work­ing
with ALPHA, an interna­tional
collaboration of exper­imentalists
and theorists, for
the past six years along with
student assistant Patrick Don-nan,
sophomore in physics
and music performance.
"I'm a theorist and I'm
mostly doing calculations,"
Robicheaux said. "We do cal­culations
to say, 'Here is what
you should expect to see if you
are to do certain operations' It
kind of helps the experiment
to know what you might want
to try to make antiltydrogen so
you can hold on to it."
For every type of mat­ter
identified in the universe,
there exists an equal, but op­positely
charged, form of mat­ter
called antimatter. When
the two meet they are de­stroyed
in a burst of energy,
making the study of antimat­ter
difficult.
ALPHA'S purpose is to trap
and study antihydrogen at­oms,
the antimatter counter­part
of the simplest atom. The
experiments are conducted at
the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, or CERN's,
particle physics lab using vac­uum
tubes and powerful elec­tromagnetic
fields.
Robicheaux said he works
with different formulas to cal­culate
the conditions neces­sary
to capture antihydro­gen
atoms to study their prop­erties.
He sends them off to
CERN headquarters, where
the experimentalists take over.
"We are a small part of the
project, and even though we
aren't experimentalists we can
still help out," Robicheaux said.
Robicheaux said his, Don-nan's
and the ALPHA team's
research was published in the
most recent edition of Nature
magazine.
"In some ways this is just
what we do," Robicheaux said.
"It just so happens that for
some reason antimatter is a
lot sexier than something else,
so it has caught other people's
attention. In some ways this is
just practice for research sci­entists."
The article focuses on the
steps the group has taken to
make the first measurements
of antihydrogen properties.
"It's a really big deal to get
a Nature publication," Don-nan
said. "I was super excited
about that. It's the second pub­lication
I've gotten with (Robi­cheaux).
It's the highlight of my
scientific career so far for sure."
Donnan said the experience
of working with the ALPHA
team has been beneficial.
"It was really a lot of fun to
work in a group where theo­rists
were working hand-in-hand
with experimentalists,"
Donnan said. "You learn what
their limitations are and what
you have to do to accommo­date
that We are like a support
team for them."
Robicheaux said he makes a
trip to ALPHA'S lab every sum­mer
to witness some of the ex­periments
and toss around
new ideas.
"We teleconference all the
time, but if you are actually
hanging out with the people
and having a beer or pizza you
find out what is actually im­portant
to them or what cal­culations
maybe most crucial
at that time," Robicheaux said.
Jeffrey Hangst, professor of
physics and astronomy at Aar-hus
University in Denmark
and ALPHA researcher, has
been working at CERN on an­timatter
research since 1993.
"The focus of my research
has been to produce, trap and
begin to measure the proper­ties
of the atom antihydrogen,"
Hangst said.
Hangst said their research
would be a monumental
breakthrough if they were to
discover any discrepancies
with the current school of
thought
"If we find that antihydro­gen
is even slightly different
in its behavior than hydro­gen,
that would be a small rev­olution
that would require all
of the textbooks to be re-writ-ten,"
Hangst said. "If they are
the same in all the ways that
we can measure, it would be
consistent with the basic ideas
that we have about the nature
of space and time."
New Media Club
brings Adult Swim
carnival to campus
Art faculty allowed chance to show off at museum exhibit
RACHEL COOPER
WRITER
The Jule Collins Smith Mu­seum
of Fine Art is presenting
a diverse collection of ceram­ics,
drawings, paintings, pho­tographs,
prints, sculptures
and videos by the studio art
faculty at Auburn.
The faculty exhibition is Fri­day
at 6 p.m.
. Dennis Harper, curator of
collections and exhibitions at
the museum, is organizing the
event.
"The museum organizes an
exhibition featuring recent
work by the studio art faculty
at the Department of Art every
three years," Harper said. "We
do this in cooperation with the
art department and the Col­lege
of Liberal Arts."
Professors do not have to
have a piece of art to display
to be part of the presentation,
but can conduct lectures at the
museum instead.
"All faculty members in the
department of art who teach
studio classes including paint­ing,
drawing, printmaking,
photography, sculpture, ce­ramics
and digital media aTe
invited to participate," Harp­er
said. "That includes full pro­fessors
to adjunct instructors.
Art history instructors do not
generally include art in the ex­hibition,
but they often partic­ipate
by lecturing at the mu­seum
during the course of the
exhibition on their current re­search."
•
Andrew Kozlowski, assis­tant
professor of printmak­ing,
will be presenting his Dear
Tree Hugger pieces.
"This tree hugger piece
came from musing over the
question: what if all the hor­rible
things environmental­ists
say are happening is really
true?" Kozlowski said. "Where
I lived in Philadelphia, my bus
stop used to be a corn field and
now it's the corner of a small
Mcmansion development"
Chuck Hemard, assistant
professor of photography,
has a similar inspiration for
his work. Bishop Mudpuddle,
which he will present in the
JCSM auditorium.
"The lecture is on a new
body of work where I'm pho­tographically
exploring land­scapes
of cites which have old
growth longleaf pine trees," he
said.
Hemard explained the long-leaf
pine's nickname is "the
tree that built the South."
"What sparked my interest
in that is that Auburn in the
school of forestry has a cen­ter
for the study of the long-leaf
pine ecosystems," Hemard
said. "The longleaf pine eco­system
was the majority of the
forest. It covered from Virginia
to Texas 90 million acres, and
now there's less than 3 million.
I see it as trying to contribute
to an ongoing conversation
from the perspective of art."
Hemard's project focuses
on subtle changes in nature by
photographing one area from
2003 to 2010.
"I hope this work collective­ly
embodies an attempt to lis­ten
to the land and reflects
on the possibility to define a
sense of place in the tireless
pace associated with progress
in American culture," Hemard
said.
Kozlowski also brings na­ture
awareness to the public
through his work.
"Certain things feel wrong,
so when I make work there's
information in it," Kozlowski
said. "There is a bit of politics
and some of myself in it. This
inspiration is why one of my
works begins with the begin­ning
of a presidential speech
to a tree hugger."
Harper encourages stu­dents
to come to the faculty
show.
"It gives students the op­portunity*
to see the work of
their professors who are not
only teachers, but active pro­fessional
artists who prac­tice
what they preach," Harp­er
said.
BECKY HARDY
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
Auburn's New Media Club
will host Adult .Swim, Super-fly
Marketing and Electronic
Arts for the Adult Swim Car­nival
Tour.
The Saturday event will
be held from 6-10 p.m. and
will be a showcase for Adult
Swim's new shows airing
throughout this year.
"One of (Adult Swim's) key
demographics is college stu­dents
and young adults," said
Nathaniel Simone, webmas­ter
for the New Media Club
and junior in journalism. "By
coming to Auburn's campus
and hosting a carnival, they
hope to showcase all their
new ideas and get students to
watch Adult Swim."
The Adult Swim tour will
include free giveaways, said
Alessio Summerfield, brand
ambassador team leader and
junior in radio, television and
film. Simone said the event
will also include live music.
"Dan Deacon will be play­ing
the event as far as the mu­sical
act, and there is a strong
possibility that there will be a
local DJ duo opening for Dea­con,"
Summerfield said.
Summerfield said the pur­pose
of the carnival is to have a
good time and help expose Au­burn's
New Media Club to stu­dents
and faculty on campus.
"Adult Swim wanted to
give cool stuff away to college
campuses, and the New Me­dia
Club wants to let itself be
known to the student body,
so this is really a win-win and
should be a blast to put to­gether,"
Summerfield said.
The carnival's official spon­sors
are covering all the
u
Keep an eye
out, because
the New Media
Club has some
great promotional
shenanigans
planned for the
AU campus."
—ALESSIO SUMMERFIELD
ADULT SWIM BRAND AMBASSADOR
event's costs.
Superfly initially contact­ed
Auburn University and sent
emails to organizations look­ing
for a team leader. Sum­merfield
said he quickly re­sponded.
"The interview process took
all of a week, and I was com­pletely
blown away to know
that I'd be team leader for
such an exciting event," Sum­merfield
said. "I put together
the rest of the team shortly af­ter
that."
He said there was no prob­lem
getting permission for the
carnival to be held at Auburn.
"As far as preparations, Au­burn
University, Adult Swim,
Superfly Marketing and Elec­tronic
Arts have all been really
great about making sure .that
everything is running smooth­ly,
so the logistics of the event
haven't been stressful at all,"
Summerfield said.
The carnival will be held in
the Poultry Science Building
parking lot
"Keep an eye out, because
the New Media Club has some
great promotional shenani­gans
planned for the AU cam­pus,"
Summerfield said.
History professor juggles writing,
teaching and community service
ROBERT E. LEE
SPORTS BEAT REPORTER
David Carter has found
time to write a book and
serve his community, all while
teaching history.
"I really like to interact
with students and play with
this idea that the past isn't
dead," said Carter, professor
of history. "There's a William
Faulkner quote that says, 'The
past is never dead, it's not
even past,' so I enjoy talking
to students about the ways in
which this history that on one
hand was before any of you all
were alive, bilt on the other
hanfi, ttye echoes of that histo-
' ry are still very much with us."
Carter's book, "The Music
has Gone Out of the Move­ment:
Civil Rights and the
Johnson Administration,
1965-1968," examines how
President Lyndon B. John­son
failed to respond to the
challenges of the Civil Rights
Movement in the last years of
his administration.
"I got interested in the last
few years of his term when
most people oversaw LBJ's
preoccupation with Vietnam,"
Carter said. "I was interested
in thinking about how LBJ
was responding to this se­ries
of urban rights that were
breaking out then and just
trying to argue against this in­terpretation
that suggests civ­il
rjghts ends in 1965.
"I saw a lot of things hap­pening
all through 1968 that
were worth looking at."
Carter's background in his­tory
began because his father
was a historian.
"I also had a high school
history teacher that really in­fluenced
me a lot to think I
might want to teach history
as a career," Carter said.
He earned his bachelor's
degree at the University of
North Carolina and his doc­torate
from Duke, which he
said "led some people to ac­cuse
me of schizophrenia be­cause
of the basketball rivalry
up there."
His 12-year tenure at Au­burn
began in 2000, and histo­ry
professor Joseph Kicklight-er
said teaching comes natu­rally
to Carter.
"We teach a lot of people,
and it's not like you can be
just a great scholar and teach
all these folks and do a good
job," Kicklighter said. "He did
such interesting research. I
have known him since the
day he got here. He has a very
dynamic personality and
he's the kind of person that's
easy to talk to and easy to get
to know, and I knew the stu­dents
would love him."
Kicklighter said Carter is
involved with numerous po­litical
groups in Auburn, in­cluding
his role as adviser for
the College Democrats.
"He's very active personal­ly
and professionally as a his­torian
and as a citizen," Kick-lighter
said.. "This is an indi­vidual
who is very involved
with his community, state
and party' '
For the last six years Cart­er
has served on the Presby­terian
Community Ministry,
which helps provide access
to better housing and, more
recently, utility assistance to
low income Lee County resi­dents.
He is currently teaching
two classes, one about the
Civil Rights Movement and
the other an honors section of
world history.
Marian Royston, junior in
history, said Carter is engag­ing
and informative.
"I am working on my hon­ors
thesis under Dr. Carter, so
I've gotten to know him a lit­tle
more than the average stu­dent,"
Royston said. "I have
never questioned his exper­tise,
and he doesn't intimi­date
students like other pro­fessors."
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Best Buddies strives to decrease 'r-word use
LANEJONES
CAMPUS BEAT REPORTER
The word "retarded" has
gone from a clinical term to a
word of derision.
During the month of March,
Best Buddies and the Special
Olympics are sponsoring a na­tional
campaign called Spread
the Word to End the Word.
"It's a national campaign to
remove the use of the r-word
as a derogatory comment,"
said Lauren Swindle, vice pres­ident
of event coordination
for Best Buddies and sopho­more
in special education. "A
lot of negative comments have
come and people are saying,
'Why the r-word?'
"What our campaign is all
about is removing the use of
'retard' or 'retarded' in refer-
Even if you're trying to be sil­ly
or funny, it's offensive. The
campaign is just trying to pro­mote
awareness for that"
Best Buddies, a nonprof­it
organization, establishes
friendships between college
students and individuals suf­fering
from intellectual and
developmental disabilities.
"It is one of the most re­warding
experiences ever,"
Swindle said. "I describe it to
people as the definition of un­conditional
love.
"These people have mental
and physical handicaps and
intellectual disabilities and
they overcome adversity day
by day. Some of them don't
know that they're different My
buddy doesn't know, but she is
so full of joy and just wants to
treated."
Swindle said even if it's un­realized,
use of the word is of­fending
someone directly or
indirectly.
"I was talking to a girl on
the concourse who was so ex­cited
to sign her name because
she has a little sister who has
Down syndrome," Swindle
said. "The girl said she gets so
upset when people use that
word. For people who have
someone that's very special to
them dealing with that, it can
be really offensive."
Patrick Marsh, sophomore
in biomedical sciences, said
the campaign is about respect.
"If we had a significant
problem in our lives that was
labeled by a certain word, we
wouldn't want that word used
u
What our
campaign is all
about is removing
the use of 'retard'
or 'retarded'
in reference
to objects or
your friends."
—LAUREN SWINDLE
VICE PRESIDENT OF EVENT
COORDINATION. BfcST BUDDIES
something that they can help;
it's something they struggle
with. Throwing around the
word 'retarded' is making light
of the fact that retarded means
held back, and they do have
intellectually. Calling people
who aren't retarded by that
word is very disrespectful."
This is the first year Au­burn's
Best Buddies chapter
has promoted the campaign
on campus. Joy DeShazzo,
treasurer and junior in Span­ish,
helped plan the event
"We had a huge banner out
on the concourse that peo­ple
could come by and sign to
pledge to stop using the word
in a derogatory way," DeShaz­zo
said. "We also had a blurb
in This Week at AU so we could
get the word out. We had little
wristbands we would give out
to people when they came by
and signed."
DeShazzo said the cam­paign
attracted more atten­tion
than expected.
feedback," Swindle said. "We
counted and we had around
2,000 signatures on the ban­ner,
which is awesome. It was
a huge success and our bud­dies
had so much fun getting
to love on this campus. They
call everyone here their bud-dy."
Marsh said he hopes aware­ness
continues even after the
month of March ends.
"Even though our campaign
is done, their problems don't
go away," Marsh said. "The
problem is still there so the
use of the word is still disre­spectful.
1 know it's just some­thing
that slips out, but stu­dents
should really make the
effort even getting involved in
Best Buddies. After getting in­volved,
I don't ever want to say
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COMMUNITY A5
Thursday, March 22,2012 www.theplainsman.com Community
Community dance classes encourage involvement
HEATHER ALLEN
WRITER
Auburn Parks and Recreation is en­couraging
the community to get out
and dance.
The Jan Dempsey Community Arts
Center in Auburn hosts a variety of
dance classes available to people of
all ages and skill levels.
Classes range from square danc­ing,
salsa, belly dancing, tango and
ballroom dancing.
"We have been offering these class­es
for 12 years," said Sarah Hand
Custer, cultural arts director for Au­burn
Parks and Recreation at the JD-CAC.
"We also have visual arts class­es,
theatre classes and even music
classes."
A beginner's dance class meets
Monday through Friday from 8-10
a.m. at the JDCAC. Participants of all
skill levels are welcome at no charge.
Instructor Wartan Jemian has been
teaching the class for 13 years, but his
attendance has dwindled to only one
student, Linda Weidenbach.
"It is a two hour session," Jemi­an
said. "Generally we start off with
some line dance. And then some­times
we do some ballroom after­ward."
•
The pair has worked to master the
cha-cha, foxtrot, West Coast swing,
American tango and many others.
"We dance mostly for fun," Jemian
said. "We both want to Jearn, and so
we are working on it together."
Weidenbach attends the class each
morning.
"I have been coming for about two
. and a half years," Weidenbach said.
"It keeps me from just sitting on the
couch watching the 'Today' show.
And I have always wanted to dance,
and my husband is not a dancer, so I
had to go find one."
Jemian said they dance to CDs of
20 songs during the two-hour class,
which provides plenty of exercise.
"If you put the CD on and dance all
the way through... you get an hour of
really aerobic exercise," Jemian said.
Jemian said he started dancing
13 years ago after he and his wife at­tended
his son's wedding and did not
know the dances at the reception.
"We could do some waltz steps,
and we could do some slow steps, but
that was it" Jemian said. "Everybody
else was having a great time with
swing dance, and we were out of it.
And that was very sad."
Jemian decided to learn to dance,
but ran into a problem when he and
his wife did not have enough room in
Kiesel Park caters to dog owners
Modem dance
comes to Opelika
SYDNEY CALLIS
WRITER
Pilobolus Dance Theatre will per­form
at the Opelika Center for the
Performing Arts March 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Matt Kent, associate artistic direc­tor
for Pilobolus, said it is a program
everyone can enjoy.
"If you've never seen dance before,
this is the show to go see," Kent said.
"It's diverse and it's accessible."
Kent said because Pilobolus does
riot focus on traditionafballet and
modern dance vocabulary, it appeals
to a wide range of people.
"There's a lot of athleticism and a
lot of humor," Kent said. "You're going
to laugh. You're going to feel some­thing
and be amazed with some of
the illusions."
Tickets are $40 for adults, $35 for
seniors and $26 for students, but dis­counts
for students are available from
the OCPAs office.
Founded 41 years ago at Dart­mouth
College, Pilobolus has
' achieved international recognition
and has been featured in Hyundai's
Santa Fe car commercial.
The show was also involved with
the music video for the song "All is
Not Lost" by the band OK Go, which
led to a Grammy nomination.
Phillip Preston, director of The Arts
Association of East Alabama, works
to bring a variety of national and in­ternational
touring groups to the
OCPA
Each season the AAEA plans a
schedule of performances including
dance troupes, Broadway musicals
and symphony orchestras to bring to
the region, Preston said.
Preston attended Pilobolus perfor­mances
at the Joyce Theater in New
There's a lot of
athleticism and a lot
of humor. You're going
to laugh. You're going
to feel something and
be amazed with some
of the illusions."
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—MATT KENT
ASSOCIATE ART WHKCTOR OF PILOBOLUS
York City last year and saw many of
the different routines.
"That was very helpful when it
came time to customize the program
that they will do for us here on (Satur­day),"
Preston said.
The Pilobolus performance in
Opelika will feature a routine cho­reographed
in collaboration with the
students and faculty at the Distribut­ed
Robotics Laboratory of the Massa- .
chusetts Institute of Technology.
The routine, named Seraph, in­cludes
remote-controlled flying ro­bots
for a combination of technology
and art, Preston said.
"It's not your mother s ballet," Pres­ton
said.
The collaborations with choreog­raphers
and people outside the dance
world lead to different types of pro­ductions,
Kent said.
"We like to work with a lot of differ­ent
kinds of other groups that aren't
necessarily in the dance world," Kpnt
said. "If you collaborate with people
in your own field, you just do what
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their house to move.
"We started learning dancing and
then we started to practice, and we
couldn't move the furniture around
too easily at home," Jemian said. "So
I arranged to have (JDCAC) available
at 8 o'clock in the morning; no one
else wanted that time."
While Jemian and Weidenbach en­joy
dancing each morning, they are
hopefiil more people will join them
each week.
"Last summer we had a number
of people who joined," Jemian said.
"Anybody can walk in and join. There
is no charge."
Jemian said he is ready for his class
size to grow so others can learn.
"I think it will change, and I am
ready for them when they come,"
Jemian said. "I never get tired of
showing the steps."
JENNY STEELE
WRITER
Dog owners are invited to learn
more about their furry friends at Re­sponsible
Dog Ownership Day Satur­day
at Kiesel Park.
Booths featuring information
about dog first aid, dental care, local
vet hours and other pet safety tips will
be set up near the pavilion from 9 a.m.
to noon. •
"We're going to have some give­aways
available that are people and
pet friendly," said Melissa Weldon,
youth enrichment manager for Au­burn
Parks and Recreation and direc­tor
of the event.
Students from the vet school and
;local veterinarians will host the
booths.
"They'll have information on topics
that are health related to help make
your dog's life better," Weldon said.
These students will also have an­other
booth set up showcasing im­portant
vaccinations and "ooey-goo-ey
samples from the vet school of
what heartworms actually look like,"
Weldon said.
Booths about household dangers
Event info
Responsible Dog Ownership Day at Kie­sel
Park will be set up near the pavil­ion
from 9 a.m. to noon. It will include
booths witli information about canine
first aid. dental care and other tips.
will be there, "whether it's different
foods around your house that may be
all right for people but are harmful to
your dog's health... or different medi­cations
or plants," Weldon said.
"I think everyone, including col­lege
students, can benefit from learn­ing
the most up-to-date training tech­niques
and health information that
will allow us all to be more responsi­ble
pet owners," said Jessie King, a vol­unteer
for the event
King said she is most excited to vis­it
the household dangers booth.
"Education is the key to keep­ing
my four-legged friends safe and
healthy," she said.
King and her husband serve as a
foster home for Paws Rescue, a group
of volunteers who rescue pets, reha­bilitate
them and get them ready for
adoption.
"Seeing firsthand the needs of so
many companion animals, I was ex­cited
to hear that an event like this
was being organized," King said.
The event will also feature demon­strations
from local business owners.
Weldon said Karlene Turkington of
Karlene's K-9 Academy will be pres­ent
"She's going to be doing some.ca­nine
good citizen testing and will
have information about dog training."
' Veterinarians from Tigertown Vet­erinary
Hospital will host demonstra­tions
showing owners how to proper­ly
clean their dog's teeth as just one of
the many health-related booths.
"We're going to have a veterinar­ian
out there that's going to be do­ing
some microchipping and another
that will be giving rabies shots," Wel­don
said.
The Lee County Humane Society
will be present to share information
about .volunteer opportunities and
adoption. Some of the dogs available
for adoption will be at the park.
"You might not have a lot of mon-
CHRISTEN HARNED / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Rachael Colley, pharmacy student, takes her dog Luke for a walk in Kiesel Park. » See KIESEL, A6
Tipi Colley Miller
gives back, keeps
Opelika beautiful
ABIGAIL O'BRIEN
WRITER
Working with her husband and
two young children in their vegeta­ble
garden, shooting an elk in Colo­rado
with her dad or cheering on the
Auburn Tigers at a home football
game are just some of the things Tipi
Colley Miller might be found doing.
Miller's love for the outdoors and
her community are exercised week­ly
in her position as executive direc­tor
of Keep Opelika Beautiful, a non­profit
organization that provides
numerous programs to educate
people about cherishing and clean­ing
up their community,
A native of Opelika herself, Mill­er
graduated from Auburn in 2001
with a degree in logistics.
Miller was taught from an early
age to love nature and of the impor­tance
of preserving it, and said tak­ing
the position "just seemed like a
perfect fit"
Faye Ford, president of Keep Ope­lika
Beautiful and senior vice presi­dent
of BancorpSouth Bank in Ope­lika,
said Miller's love of community
is her driving passion.
"Tipi is the glue that holds every­thing
together," Ford said.
Ford said Miller's experience in
growing up in the Opelika area and
being taught to give back plays a
role in the way she looks at things.
"She just really stepped right in
and didn't miss a beat," Ford said
about Miller becoming executive di­rector
three years ago.
Miller said her interest in giving
back began during college when
she was involved in Project Uplift,
the food bank and other local non­profits.
"That's where I found my love
for the nonprofit world," Miller
said. "And that's where I really de­cided
that I wanted to wake up ev­ery
morning and make a difference,
even if it was a small difference."
Miller said her parents made a
point to encourage her and her two
siblings to enjoy the outdoors.
"Now I find myself saying the
same things to my children," Miller
KRISTEN OLIVER / COMMUNITY EDITOR
Tipi Colley Miller, executive director of Keep Opelika Beautiful, strives to give back
to the Opelika area as an Opelika native herself.
said. "So it's kind of funny how that
works." .
. Miller and her husband, Wes, who
is a landscaper in Auburn, have two
children: Colt, who will turn 4 years
old next week, and Annie, 2.
Miller said she wants her chil­dren
to understand the importance
of sustainability so they can pass on
the knowledge to their children.
"When they go to the woods and
they see how pretty it is and they see
... how God made our creation just
so intricate, I think that they will ap­preciate
it and in turn they'll not
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PEOPLE
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PILOBOLUS
» From A5
missionaries.
Jere Colley, veterinarian
at Opelika Animal Hospital
and Miller's father, said ev­ery
morning Miller and her
sister would get up to collect
hundreds of eggs from their
farm to give to the village's
residents.
"1 think that time that was
spent with her outside grow­ing
up is starting to come
back and pay dividends right
now," Colley said.
He said he's proud of the
connections his daughter
has made in Opelika.
"I've been a vet here 33
years and Tipi knows more
people than I do," Colley said.
Colley agreed with Ford in
saying that one of his daugh­ter's
strongest attributes is
her "deep love for Opelika."
"She's my pride and joy,"
Colley said.
want to litter," Miller said.
"And they'll do what they
can to maintain that envi­ronment
for their children."
Miller said she has fond
memories of visiting her
grandparents and their gar­den.
•
"During the summers
we would go visit them and
work in the garden, and
then throughout the year
they would give us peas and
corn ... My favorite was al­ways
their pears that they
canned," Miller said. "So 1
grew up on fresh vegetables
and fresh fruits."
Miller has practiced giving
back overseas as well.
As a young girl her fami­ly
lived on a farm in Bangla­desh
for a year and a half as
you always do."
The performance in Ope­lika
will also feature a collabo­ration
with an expert in Japa­nese
dance.
"Even when you work in the
dance world, the collabora­tions
create something inter­esting
and unique," Kent said.
• Pilobolus has also collabo­rated
with writers, including
Steven Banks, the lead writer
for "Spongebob Squarepants,"
and other-musicians and art­ists.
Amy Whittemore, junior in
radio, television and film, said
she is excited about the perfor­mance.
"I love all types of dance,
and this just looks so unique,"
Whittemore said. "Plus, the
performing arts center in Ope­lika
always has good produc­tions."
Pilobolus is scheduled to
perform at the Opelika Center
for the Performing Arts for one
night. Tickets are available on­line
at eastalabamaarts.org or
by phone at 334-749-8105.
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, Will Powers, junior in indus­trial
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"My vet told me not to go
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twice a week."
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and agony
of lying to
people
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Mike Daisey told the world he went
to China, and 1 believe him. He told
the world he stood at the gates of Fox-conn,
the factory where Apple prod­ucts
are made, and I believe him.
Everything else that happened is
what I have a hard time believing.
Daisey was recently recorded per­forming
his one-man show, "The Ec­stasy
and the Agony of Steve Jobs,"
by Ira Glass of the famous Public Ra­dio
International show "This Ameri­can
Life," which airs on most NPR sta­tions.
Daisey tells of his trip to rural Chi­na
to meet and greet those who make
the Apple toys he so much adores. He
claimed to have interviewed a myri­ad
of people who were ready to talk
about the working conditions, which
were terrible at best. He talked about
being so close to the place where our
technology is pumped out, but the
ones making it are flinging them­selves
off the roofs of the factory.
The episode was the most down­loaded
podcast of "This American
Life." Ironically, I still have it on my
iPod.
Glass, who has won gobs of awards
for his journalism, was made to look
a fool when another NPR reporter be­gan
to unravel Daisey s story.
And Daisey didn't deny it. He free­ly
admits there are things he drama­tized
in the monologue. He admits he
is in the habit of never taking notes or
recording.
It isn't the practice of his job as a
monologist to do so, Daisey said.
But in this case it certainly would
have helped.
Daisey said he's sorry for fabricat­ed
elements of his story, but not sorry
the show reached the size of audience
it did on NPR. The point of the story is
to create an emotional tie to the peo­ple
who are suffering while they make
technology we take for granted, and I
agree with that sentiment. We should
care, but I don't agree on building
that emotional connection on a faulty
or sensationalized foundation.
A rookie mistake is what Daisey
called it. He said he couldn't bring
himself to tell them to stop telling his
story, because he thought the overall
theme was too important to drop.
The problem with this line of
thinking is a misunderstanding of
how the world works for journalists.
Everything has to be correct, dou­ble-
checked and copy edited. Dais­ey
should have listened to his mis­givings
about not having all his facts
straight, because if it goes to print, if
it goes on air, then not only does Da­isey
look bad, but respected people
like Ira Glass are put to shame. We all
know when a journalist messes up it
can be the end of a career.
The spirit of journalism is what
drove him to go to China, Daisey said,
not the intention to be a journalist. If
he just wanted to make something
up, he would not have gone, and I be­lieve
him. It just stands to reason if
someone was going to be telling a sto­ry
with implications that could affect
the lives of other people, they would
think to either make records or call it
by another name than nonfiction.
1 don't want to come across as the
"pics or it didn't happen" type of per­son,
because Daisey said he didn't
want the controversy to take away
from the plight of workers in China.
I agree, but I also believe the undeni­able
truth shocks people as much as
composite truths.
Ravi deserves immediate
deportation, not jail time
Tyler Clementi decided to take
his own life after being filmed be­ing
romantically involved with an­other
man by his Rutgers Univer­sity
roommate Dahrun Ravi. He
jumped from the George Washing­ton
Bridge on Sept. 22,2010.
Dahrun Ravi was convicted on
multiple charges, including in­vasion
of privacy, evidence tam­pering
and biased intimidation,
March 16.
Ravi has been living in the Unit­ed
States with his family since he
was 3 years old. He was in the US
on a green card. He faces prison
time and deportation, pending his
appeal.
Ravi's actions were deplorable.
He ruined the life of a student who
hadn't acted maliciously toward
him. He acted only out of his con­tempt
for gays and lack of appreci­ation
for another person's privacy
and well-being.
He wasn't charged with lead­ing
Clementi to commit suicide,
which we think is a just decision.
No matter how despicible Ravi's
actions were, Clementi chose to
take his own life. Ravi did not push
him from the bridge.
Ravi will have to live with his
guilt for the rest of his life. We be­lieve
guilt is worse than any life-in-
prison sentence or similar sen­tence
he would have received if
convicted of manslaughter or
murder. His guilt will be enough.
This is not to say we disagree
with the convictions. Ravi defi­nitely
acted out of his hate for gays
and received just convictions.
We disagree with the sentenc­ing
when it comes down to pris­on
time. We believe that to spend
American dollars feeding, cloth­ing,
housing and caring for him—
only to deport him at the end of his
sentence—is a waste of resourc­es.
His punishment should be im­mediate
deportation back to his
home country of India.
American prisons—for those
not on death row and without life
sentences—are places of reforma­tion.
They're places where crim­inals
can learn the skills and the
habits of decent, law-abiding cit­izens.
What will Ravi learn there? If
anything it will be to the benefit of
India, or wherever he chooses to
reside. The United States will not
benefit from their thousands in­vested
in keeping him alive.
He will spend his time dreading
his eventual deportation while de­vouring
the tax dollars of Ameri­can
citizens. Prison is not the an­swer.
It's not the place for Ravi.
Anywhere but America is the
place for a man like Ravi.
The jury, in essence, proved Ravi
guilty of lacking a moral compass.
He's being sent to prison for the
crimes related to not being able to
tell right from wrong. He couldn't
see Clementi as a person equal in
worth to himself, and acted like
the worst of the worst bullies in
the schoolyard.
The Clementi family will contin­ue
life without their son. Ravi will
continue life with his guilt. Amer­ica
should continue life without
Ravi.
Ward innocent until proven guilty
BRANDON
MILLER
SENIOR, JOURNALISM
' Innocent until proven guilty has
become almost as outdated as the
geocentric model.
With nationally prominent cas­es
like those of O.J. Simpson, Casey
Anthony and Charles Manson,
none of which were found guilty
of murder, in the understanding of
most of society all three are killers.
This effect hit closer to home
two weeks ago when Yahoo re­ported
Auburn point guard Varez
Ward is being investigated by the
FBI for point shaving.
Once the shocking news sank
in, the jokes began.
Being the first investigation in­volving
an Auburn athlete since
Cam Newton, fans could not have
handled the two situations any
more differently.
With Newton, "Stand with
Cam" was the big motto. With
Ward, there is no motto.
Basketball coach Tony Barbee
silently reinforced that logic by
offering three-star guard Brian
Greene Jr. a late scholarship.
Whether Ward is guilty of the
alleged point shaving or not,
there's no happy ending for him.
Even if he is found not guilty,
there's still no chance of him ever
putting on an Auburn uniform
again—all over a rumor.
And with the Auburn family not
having Ward's back, it raises the
question of when the Plains be­came
so cynical.
After superstar center Rob
Chubb returned from his suspen­sion,
which was actually for being
arrested, he became more popu­lar.
There wasn't any smoke there.
Everyone saw the bloody mugshot
that revealed the truth.
Ward isn't the first player from
Auburn to receive similar treat­ment,
though. .
After Michael Dyer was sus­pended,
allegedly for failing a
drug test, and when news initial­ly
broke of him transferring, there
were groups of this great "family"
that were fine with his departure.
Hopefully remembering cor­rectly,
it was because Auburn
doesn't need a thug.
Society's perspective has been
skewed over the years because of
laziness and ignorance.
In a world that has become all
about image, people are quick to
judge and, obviously, are willing to
put those in power down.
Survival of the fittest is taking
place here and now. For instance,
what happened when Tommy Tu-berville
couldn't hang with the
SEC in 2008?
Saying that, people also don't
want to be associated with those
being judge.
That's one reason why Ward is
being left hung out to dry.
As the investigation contin­ues,
if the Auburn family does not
begin to support Ward, it clear­ly
shows how dysfunctional this
family really can be.
The best word to use is condi­tional.
Ward isn't needed like Newton
was. Dyer wasn't needed like New­ton
was. So, they can leave.
It's the epitome of a contradic­tion.
If nothing else, Auburn should
support Ward simply to avoid any
repercussions that it may expe­rience
if Ward is found guilty. If
that's the case, Auburn basketball
will continue to struggle for years
to come.
Your view: close call is great lesson
On Marchl3, I almost lost my
14-year-old son.
He's a great kid. He plays sports,
is an A-B student and has been
voted class favorite for three years
in a row. Teachers have always
commented on what a fine young
man he is.
At his age peer pressure can be
tough, but he's always seemed to
stay level headed—until last Tues­day
in Panama City Beach during
his and Auburn's spring break.
He and his friends went to the
Spinnaker. He told me he was go­ing
somewhere else because he
knows that is off limits during col­lege
spring break. He apparently
decided to drink.
He had an Auburn backpack on
and received drinks from Auburn
students. It Was his choice.
In just three hours he collapsed
with alcohol poisoning. An am­bulance
was called and another
group of Auburn students stayed
by his side until the ambulance ar­rived.
Hearing over the phone that he
was being rushed to the hospital
was a harsh reality not knowing if
he was going to be OK.
It's news a parent never wants
to hear.
When they got him stable they
tested his blood alcohol level. A
.25, three times over the legal lim­it.
They also told me he had started
to asperate before the paramedics
got to him.
I am grateful he survived this
awful mess and wanted to share
this to thank the students that
helped him. 1 have no way ofkiu-w-ing
who they are, but appreciate
their strength and courage to help
my Son. He made a really bad de­cision
that could have devestated
a mom, dad, grandparents, friends
and and the entire beach commu­nity.
The ER was full of young college
students in the same shape my son
was literally lining the hallways. I
felt overwhemed for their families.
A young man had overdosed just a
few weeks before.
We all have choices that we can
make. We are all human and in our
lives will make both good and not-so-
good choices. There are con­sequences
to all our actions both
good and bad.
My son now has to walk through
the consequences of his own ac­tions.
Hopefully it will build his
character. It is ultimately his
choice.
Because he is minor, I choose
not to share his name. Keep com­ing
to the beach and have a great
time, but please remember to be
safe and responsible.
Beth Casey
Auburn aulmna, 1986
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midnight. I went into Molly's
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webcam. I saw him making
out with a dude. Yay."
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I'll admit it—I bought a midnight
ticket to see "The Hunger Games" to­night.
I took my fandom a step fur­ther
than those of you going to see
it here in Auburn. My sister and 1
bought tickets in Columbus, which
means we get to see the movie a
whole hour earlier. Yes, we are really
that excited.
Since I've been able to stay up past
midnight, I've also seen all the Harry
Potter movies at midnight and (I'm
reluctant to admit) most of the Twi­light
movies as well. Entire theaters
sell out to cater to rabid fans like
me. People dress up in costume; they
camp out to get the best seats.
While I consider myself one of the
biggest Hunger Games fans and pos­sibly
the biggest Potter fan, I can't
help but wonder what it is about
these series that reel in so many read­ers
and viewers.
Let's just throw Twilight out of the
discussion—frankly it's nothing more
than a poorly written story about why
you should lie to your parents, never
talk to your mother again, become
the undead and drink blood, all for
your boyfriend.
But Harry's story is one of life and
death, virtue triumphing over evil.
Katniss is a strong-willed, 17-year-old
who does unspeakable things to
protect the people she loves.
Are these the things that reel read­ers
in? Are we attracted to flawed
but virtuous characters? Personally,
I doubt it. If that was the factor that
reels in a huge audience, how is Twi­light
so popular?
I think what makes these stories
so appealing is the idea of the unreal.
Vampires, wizards and witches, and
technology so far in the future it can
do things we only dream of now—
these are things we'll never have and
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1 appreciate the stories like
J.K. Rowling's and Suzanne
Collins' that include lessons.
I've already been over the
valuable lesson that can be
learned in Twilight
In contrast, Harry teaches
us to trust our friends, never
be afraid of death and be brave
enough to protect the people
we love.
Collins makes no mistake
of hiding the dangerous direc­tion
she thinks today's society
is headed toward. She paints a
picture of the ridiculous-look-ing
people in the capital, but
how different is that from the
plastic surgery done today?
Will that be normal one day?
She said in the last book,
"Mockingjay": "We're fickle,
stupid beings with poor mem­ories
and a great gift for self-destruction."
People respect stories that
challenge what is normal.
That's why we are attracted to
vampires and magic and our
futuristic dying world.
We want to escape to a
world that doesn't exist, and
the movies are the epitome of
that escape. We don't have to
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As a 22-year-old white fe­male
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I don't appear to be diverse
or multiculturally affiliat­ed.
When most strangers see
me, they probably assume
that I'm a privileged, dumb
blonde with nothing more on
my mind than who's going to
buy me my next shot.
I know this because when
I pass a blond, white girl I as­sume
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not every white girl fits this
description, and with friends
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with a small IQ.
Everyone is guilty of ste­reotyping.
We do it every day,
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I will admit that as a white
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not saying I agree with it, but
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Growing up I was enrolled in
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more than 60 percent of the
students were African-Amer­ican.
Until the fourth grade, I
never considered anyone's
skin color when interacting
with other kids and assumed
that, like hair, everyone just
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In fifth grade, I moved into
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The No. 2 men's golf team finished in the
top-three for the sixth time this season with a
17-under showing at the Schenkel Invitation­al
at the Forest Heights Country Club in States-boro,
Ga., tying for third place with the No. 25
Florida Gators.
Despite the strong finish overall, coach Nick
Clinard wants to see more consistency going
forward.
"Blayne (Barber) played very well, as did Ni-clas
(Carlsson) and Will (McCurdy)," said Clin­ard.
"We need to have more production from
the rest of the team though. It is going to be an
interesting week to see who will make the line­up
for our next tournament, and it is wide open
at the moment."
Barber, who finished 15-under, was the only
player in the tournament who managed to
avoid a bogey during the entire tournament.
He finished second overall.
Auburn's next match is Monday at the Hoo-tie
at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate in Awendaw, S.C.
The No. 5 women's golf team recorded a final
round 12-over for a total score of292 to finish
While Auburn students relaxed during
spring break, it was just another
week for student-athletes. Catch up
on what you missed last week in
Auburn athletics.
in a tie for sixth in the SunTrust Women's Ga­tor
Invitational at the Mark Bostic Golf Course
in Gainesville, Fla.
Sophomore Marta Sanz led the Tigers with a
7-over total of 217, finishing tied for ninth.
' Coach Kim Evans said the team never re­covered
from a tough first round and has work
to do before its next match at the Liz Murphey
Collegiate Classic in Athens, Ga., March 30.
"We had a tough tournament this week and
never got our great energy back from the first
round," Evans said. "We have a lot of work to do
over the next week or so to get ready for anoth­er
tough tournament at Georgia."
The Auburn baseball team took its open­ing
series of SEC play from No. 12 Ole Miss
with a 3-2 win in Oxford Saturday.
"The whole weekend was back-and-forth
• where one pitch or one play could have
made the difference," said coach John Paw-lowsla.
Auburn continued its winning streak
against South Alabama with a 7-0 victory
Tuesday night and will hoSt LSU this week­end.
The Tigers look to win the two open­ing
SEC series for the first time since 2003.
The No. 20 ranked softbali team couldn't
hold on to a late-game lead on the road at
No. 8 Georgia, losing the game 4-2 and the
series to the Bulldogs.
"This was a disappointing loss," said
coach Tina Deese. "We got beat on the lit­tle
things today. We can't make the type
of mistakes we made today and expect to
win. This is a tough loss, but we are going
to have to learn from it and move forward."
Softball returns to Auburn this weekend
to host the Kentucky Wildcats.
Vanderpool-Wallace defends championship
Tigers
chase title
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Gymnastics finishes with win
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Freshmen to transfer
Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace won her second-consecutive national championship in the 100-yard freestyle at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center March 17 in Auburn. "It was just emotional,"
said swimming coach Brett Hawke. "I really didn't see her pulling it off. She's just toiigh. She dug down, and I just stayed out of her way tonight. I tried not to give her too much advice. I just
said, 'Go have fun. Go race and see what happens.' That last'10 yards, she just dug down and wanted it, real bad. It was a great win for her." The Tigers finished the meet tied for seventh with
a score of 249. Auburn finished the championship meet with 31 All-American honors, seven from Vanderpool-Wallace. The Tigers broke six previous school records at the meet.
fit," said Darien Knox, the
players' Amateur Athletic
Union coach and guardian,
"(Auburn) granted them a
full release without restric­tions,
so that was a bless­ing."
The players' exit marks
the fifth transfer during
Barbee's tenure, adding to
last year's departure of Er­nest
Ross, Andre Malone
and Ty Armstrong.
Kouassi appeared to re­gain
Barbee's confidence
toward the end of the sea­son,
averaging over 15 min­utes
a game in the Tigers'
final three contests, and he
seemed a prime candidate
to fill in for senior Adrian
Forbes next season.
The high school team­mates
from Central Park
Christian in Birmingham
plan, to transfer together,
but their destination is un­known.
.
TODD VAN EMST
Freshman Willy Kouassi attempts a jump shot over a Vander-bilt
defender. Kouassi averaged 1.5 points in 10.2 minutes
per game this season.
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Auburn gymnasts prepare for the upcoming SEC Championships where they will
compete against six other nationally ranked teams.
SPORTS EDITOR
Auburn defeated the BYU Cougars by 3.375 points in the final home
meet of the season March 16. The Tigers won With senior Kylie Shields par­ticipating
in only two events, resting for the SEC Championships Saturday
in Duluth, Ga. .
Even with the victory, coach Jeff Graba wasn't pleased.
"I'm not happy abput how the meet went," Graba said. "We looked a bit
sloppy. We didn't look sharp. We didn't look great; we just looked alright"
Auburn enters the SEC Championships as the No. 15 ranked team na­tionally.
Hie Tigers join Florida, Alabama, Georgia, LSU and Arkansas as
SEC teams in the top 15. *
Auburn finished sixth.in last year's SEC Championships.
TODD VAN EMST
COLEMAN MCDOWELL
SPORTS EDITOR
Freshmen Willy Kouassi
and Bernard Morena were
granted their uncondition­al
release by coach Tony
Barbee last Monday.
"Obviously, I am disap­pointed
that they decided
to leave Auburn, but I have
always said in this busi­ness,
it is not about me or
this program, it is about
these players and what is
best for them," Barbee said
in a statement. "Some­times
tilings don't fit, and I
am disappointed that they
felt that this wasn't the
right fit for them."
Morena was redshirted
the 2011-12 season due to
a hand injury, while Kouas­si
scored 1.5 points and
grabbed 2.6 rebounds a
game in limited action.
"They decided to try to
transfer and find a better
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Auburn track team's first outdoor meet will be the Alabama Relays this Friday and Saturday.
Track travels to Tuscaloosa
for opening outdoor meet
CALLIE WARD
WRITER
Auburn's indoor track and field season came
to an end before spring break, leaving the team
to make a quick transition for its first upcoming
outdoor meet.
The Alabama Relays, the first event of the out­door
track season, takes place Friday and Satur­day
in Tuscaloosa. Coach Ralph Spry said only
select athletes will compete.
The following weekend the team will split up.
Half will travel to Austin, Tex., March 29-31 for
the Texas Relays, and the other half will travel
to Jacksonville, Fla., March 30-31 for the North
Florida Invitational.
Spry said he is feeling good about the team's
transition from indoor to outdoor, and he said
they actually perform better outdoors because
of Auburn's lack of an indoor facility.
Although most members of the team com­pete
in both the indoor and outdoor seasons,
for some athletes, such as the javelin throwers,
spring is the first chance they get to compete
this year, Spry said.
Spry also said the team will focus every meet
in the outdoor season on preparing for the SEC
Outdoor Championship in early May.
"It doesn't do you a lot of good to run fast ear­ly
and then burn out," Spry said. "We try to pace
ourselves so that our sharpest point of the sea­son
is when we're competing at the conference
and the national championship. We call that
peaking in our sport."
Senior indoor All-American high jumper
Monica Carney said she is excited and ready for
the first outdoor meet, adding that she stayed in
Auburn over spring break to prepare.
"This week since we don't have a meet we're
DANIELLE LOWE / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
After the Alabama Relays, the team will split up to
participate in both the Texas Relays and the North
Florida Invitational.
harder training, kind of more conditioning and
laying off the jumping for a little bit," Carney
said. "Then next we'll start throwing in more
jumps and bring down the running and less
conditioning."
Senior All-American sprinter Neil Danville
said the team is prepared for outdoor compe­tition
after having a few weeks off to transition.
"Indoor is to get ready for outdoor, so every­one
is ready for outdoor and just anticipating it,"
Danville said. "So right now we're just all anx­ious
to get to the first outdoor meet"
The athletes competing in the Texas Relays
and Florida Invitational have yet to be decided.
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ticed the differences between
her and Kurteva's styles due to
Kurteva growing up playing on
clay courts.
Despite their technical dif­ferences,
Kurteva and Schip-pers
enjoy sharing one com­mon
bond: the Spanish lan­guage.
"We never talk in English,"
Schippers said with a laugh.
"We talk to each other in Eng­lish
when we're around the
team, just so everyone under­stands,
but it's really weird. I
don't like to talk to her in Eng­lish."
Kurteva has certainly
bought into the team mental­ity
that she said was lacking
in Spain. Whether yelljng "va-mos!"—
Spanish for "let's go!"—
across the courts to Schippers,
or shouting "Go Tigers" to her
other teammates, Kurteva is
always supporting her team.
"It's awesome because
sometimes you struggle, you're
tired, but there is always at
least one of your teammates
to pump you up, to tell some
funny joke that you're going to
laugh at," Kurteva said. "And
then you can perform better;
you can practice better; you
have more moth ation to do
well."
It is that personal bond
which Kurteva loves about the
game.
"I have had great moments
while I was on the team,"
Kurteva said, "but one of the
good, good days for me just
happened against Southern
Methodist University. I had a
very close match and all my
teammates were right next to
me and they were all cheering
on for me.
"It was just great to see
them and very inspiring. It-was
a great experience and defi­nitely
one of the matches that
I will remember for the rest of
my life."
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For Plamena Kurteva, ten­nis
was not always the No. 1
sport in her heart.
"Actually, I'm not from an
athletic background, but my
brother played soccer," Kurte­va
said. "We have four years
different—he's older than
me—so I was looking up to
him."
She wanted to follow in her
brother Georgi's footsteps,
but there were cultural norms
blocking her. Kurteva, a junior
on Auburn's women's tennis
team, is from Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
"Soccer in Bulgaria is not for
girls," Kurteva said.
Growing up, all Kurteva
could do was watch her broth­er
play the sport she loved
more than any other.
"Right next to the soccer fa­cility
there were tennis courts;
I tried it a few times and I loved
it," Kurteva said. "And I was 5
years old when I first started
playing tennis, so it's a lot of
years already playing."
The sport came easily to her,
and her parents, local farmers
in Bulgaria, encouraged her to
pursue the new hobby.
"They both loved us doing
athletics, since they never did
athletic," Kurteva said. "They
were encouraging both oY us
to do well. We both did pretty
good."
Her tennis skills encour­aged
Kurteva's parents to send
her to the Schiller Internation­al
School in Barcelona, Spain,
at age 14.
Spain's more moderate tem­peratures
certainly made for a
better training climate, but the
country presented its own dif­ficulties.
Kurteva spoke neither
Spanish nor English when she
moved to Spain, and for the
first two of five years she was
there, she. trained as hard at
The main
difference that
I found is that
in Europe you
play tennis just
•for yourself. And
here ... it's (about
the) team."
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linguistics as she did at tennis.
She is now fluent in both lan­guages.
Kurteva ultimately decided
to play tennis in the U.S.
"While I was in Spain I heard
more about college tennis, and
a few of my friends went to play
tennis in college (in the U.S.)..!
and they all loved it so I decid­ed
to look for colleges," Kurte­va
said.
Kurteva ended up at Auburn
thanks to fellow Bulgarian and
former tennis player Fani Chif-chieva.
"1 got in contact with her
and she told me all the great
things about Auburn athlet­ics,"
Kurteva said. "I was lucky
to find out about Auburn."
Women's tennis coach Lau­ren
Meisner said this method
of discovery is common for in­ternational
athletes.
"It's very common where
you'll have a girl from a coun­try
be not so much recruited
by the other girl, but they're
friends and they t^lk," Meisner
said. "So a lot of international
girls are more comfortable ...
when (they) know that there's
other people they may know
or there's shared interest with
your countries."
Kurteva's doubles part­ner,
junior Paulina Schippers,
is from Guatemala and no­CONTRIBUTED.
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Plamena Kurteva moved from Bulgaria to Spain at age 14 and moved again to Auburn to (blay tennis.
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PATRICK TIGHE
SPORTS BEAT REPORTER
Mark Ryal has a plethora of
playing experience from his
days in Major Leauge Base­ball.
Ryal has used this expe­rience
to help improve the
Auburn Tigers softball team
in his four seasons as an as­sistant
coach.
Ryal arrived at Auburn
in 2009, and statistics have
shown team-wide improve­ment
since then.
Before Ryal arrived at Au­burn,
the Tigers were strug­gling
offensivley. In the 2008-
09 season, opponents out-scored
the Tigers 138-84.
Ryal said he was hired by
(the Tigers after a job open­ing
was posted online by
Auburn softball coach Tina
Deese. Ryal was coaching a
junior college team in Okal-homa
and came down for an
interview.
During the 2010-11 sea­son,
Ryal helped the Tigers
set Auburn program records,
including a team batting av­erage
of .279—the programs
fifth highest—the fifth-most
runs scored with 272 and
fifth-most RBIs with 235.
Ryal and Deese have meet­ings
periodically to set up
what they want completed
each day.
"Basically, coach Deese
puts a practice schedule to­gether,"
Ryal said. "We sit
down and look over it and de­cide
if there is anything we
need to work on for the week­end
series. We just try to get
in the desired plan as much
as we can."
This season Ryal hopes the
team can improve in certain
categories.
Auburn will send 12 athletes to the NCAA Championships in Federal Way, Wash., beginning Thursday.
ETHAN BERNAL
WRITER
The Auburn Tigers men's
swimming and diving team
will send 12 swimmers and
divers to the 2012 NCAA Men's
Swimming and Diving Cham­pionships
in. Federal Way,
Wash., Thursday through Sat­urday.
Auburn coach Brett Hawke,
named 2012 SEC Men's Coach
of the Year, will lead 11 swim­mers
and one diver in the Wey­erhaeuser
King County Aquat­ics
Center against the top 270
swimmers and divers in the
nation.
"We've got a great team go­ing
out there," Hawke said.
"We have a lot. of swimmers
with multiple swims. Our re­lays
are very strong; we feel
great about that. We're just
happy with the number that
we got."
The group of swimmers is
' highlighted by junior Kyle Ow­ens.
Owens, named SEC Co-
Male ScholarrAthlete of the
Year along with Ryan Helms
of Tennessee, will swim in a
team-high seven events.
Owens will race the 100-me-ter
backstroke, 200-meter
backstroke and the 200-me-ter
individual medley. He won
took the SEC title in the 100-
and 200-meter and finished
second in the 200-meter indi­vidual
medley.
Senior Drew Modrov will
join Owens in the 400-freestyle
relay and swim in four other
events. Modrov will race the
50-, 100- and 200-meter free­style
along with the 200-meter
freestyle relay.
Karl Krug will swim in the
200-meter freestyle relay with
Modrov and against him in the
50-meter freestyle. The senior
will also race in the 200-meter
medley relay and the 100-me­ter
freestyle.
Senior Max Murphy will
race the 100- and 200-rne-ter
backstroke. Murphy was
named to the 2012 SEC Sec­ond
Team.'
Auburn's lone diver, John
Santeiu, will participate in
three events. The sophomore
is set to dive in the one-me-ter,
three-meter and platfoim
events.
Even though Hawke said
the competing field will be
tough, he feels good about his
team's chances.
"I feel really good about
where the men's team is,"
Hawke said. "It's a very com­petitive
meet across the board
with really solid teams in the
top 10. Anyone can take a run
at trying to win this thing. I
don't know that there's any real
standout favorites.
"Every team has their own
strengths and weaknesses,
but we feel pretty good about
where we're at right now."
Hawke said he wanted his
seniors to finish their careers
at Auburn on a positive note.
"Our seniors—Karl Krug,
Drew Modrov and Max Mur­phy—
I w,ant them to finish
strong so we can send th^m
out the way an Auburn swim­mer
should be sent out,"
Hawke said.
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Assistant softball coach Mark Ryal brings experiences from the
Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"Offensively I would like for
us to hit .300... as a team and
maybe lead the SEC in dou­bles
like last year," Ryal said.
"The bottom line is we want
• to win. We got to get into the
SEC tournament and hope­fully
we can get into the re­gional
and take it from there."
Baseball has been passed
down to the younger genera­tion
in the Ryal family. Ryal's
son, Rusty, is an infielder for
the Arizona Diamondbacks.
"It's cool to have that con­nection,
to have someone
there to talk to and an ear to
hear your complaints and
your success stories," Ryal
said. "
Ryal, who spent 10 seasons
in the majors with clubs like
the Philadelphia Phillies and
Pittsburgh Pirates, tries to
stay connected with his for­mer
teammate.
"I keep in touch with a lot
of the guys," Ryal said. "I ran
into a couple of them this
weekend down in Orlando.
Just seeing seme them brings
back good memories."
Ryal tries to impart as
much knowledge from his
professional experiences to
his players.
"I try to cross some of that
over into the softball world
and try to teach them the
mental part of the game,"
Ryal said. "Because at that
level things happen different­ly.
We have a great group of
girls here and some of them
are really good students of
the game."
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Trading basketballs,
batons for books
Southern food not so traditional
LEIGHTON LINDSTROM
WRITER
When basketball player Blanche Alver-son
and majorette Sara Beasley met their
freshman year at Auburn, they had no idea
similar interests and passions would lat­er
unite them to make a big difference in a
small community.
Being in the same sorority recruitment
group brought the two women togeth­er.
However, they would go their separate
ways until more, than two years later when
Beasley decided to put her passion for ed­ucation
into action.
As a junior in elementary education,
Beasley said her belief in the importance
of reading and the impact it can have on
all ages encouraged her to devote her ef­forts
to establishing a public library for the
Loachapoka community.
Beasley has known about the lack of li­brary
resources in Loachapoka for a while.
She first noticed it as a senior at Auburn
High School when she took the ACT at
Loachapoka High School and realized
there wasn't a library in the town to use for
research.
"It just made me really sad to know that
Auburn had
versity library, and Loachapoka didn't
have a public library," Beasley said.
Four years later, she would begin her
quest to bring books and higher lev­els
of literacy to the people who live in
Loachapoka.
Meanwhile, junior guard Alverson was
focusing on making three-pointers and
foul shots.
Since her freshman year, Alverson,
who was recently named the SEC Schol-ar-
Athlete of the Year, has had to learn
to balance demanding basketball prac­tices
with her academics. Now in her ju­nior
year, she has added community ser­vice
to the list.
Alverson decided to help Beasley with
the library in Loachapoka because she
desired to support a community that has
supported her and her teammates.
"I've done a lot of community service
with the team, but I wanted to do some­thing
where I felt like I was making an
impact," Alverson said.
That's when Alverson decided to lead
Ballin' for Books, a book drive that would
be held before the Alabama and Ole Miss
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KRISTEN OLIVER
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Most people don't know
what truly historical South-
Food staples like fried
chicken, okra, sweet tea and
lemonade aren't the most his-torically.
traditional Southern
foods.
"What I can tell you about
is (food) from the 18th centu-particularly
from the low­er
South: Georgia, the Car-olinas,
the Indian nations
that time," said Kathryn
Braund, Hollifield professor
history. "It's quite differ­ent
from what we eat today in
many ways."
Braund said chicken, the
most stereotypical South­ern
meat, wasn't what early
colonists were eating in the
South.
"What most colonists
were eating was a lot of{ ven­ison
and things like that,
and along the sea coast a lot
of fish and birds and things,"
Braund said. "It's only later—
and by the 18th century they
do have cattle coming in—
that you get beef.
Braund said meat con­sumption
has changed
throughout the course of his­tory.
"Of course the beef wasn't
as nice as what we have, and
thg venison was primarily
what they were relying on up
through the American Revo-u
A lot of what
we think of as
quintessential!:/
Southern
developed from
things earlier
on, but then it's
been exaggerated
by the modem
period." A
—KATHRYN BRAUND
HOU.IFIEU) PROFESSOR OFHISTOHV
lution," she said. "There is a
later shift to cattle and hogs
and chickens and things like
that."
According to the Encyclo­pedia
of Southern Culture,
the per capita rate of chicken
consumption has increased
markedly in the South since
1900, outstripping demand
for beef and p&rk.
Some current preparation
techniques for Southern food
were also handed down from
other methods and can be
traced to cooking activities
that began in the 18th cen­tury.
"I think the origin of barbe­cue,
and particularly of ribs,
goes back to Native Ameri­can
customs of having feasts
of bear ribs," Braund said.
Braund said the bears in­Blanche
Alverson has been campaigning for an increase in community literacy with friend Sara Beasley. They
have collected computers, DVD players and books for a public library in Loachapoka.
Here come the brides
JP Dailey and Michelle Knowles, senior in communication disorders, continued to
their first date at an Auburn football game in 2008. They are now engaged to be
habited the same areas that
would later become inhab­ited
by pigs, leading to these
traditional feasts being al­tered.
"The same kind of ecolog- *
ical niche the bear had, the
pigs take over," she said.
Braund said the most in­teresting
aspect was the way
the bear was replaced by the
pig in Southern cuisine and
native environment.
The two animals ate many
of the same types of foods
and were prepared by Native
Americans during feasts, in
similar ways.
Braund said she's also re­searched
the 18th-centu­ry
Southern traveler Wil-liapi
Bartrop, who was often
served honeyed water in his
travels through South Caroli­na,
Georgia and Native Amer­ican
territory:
"Sometimes honeyed wa­ter
had rum in it," Braund
said. "It was sort of an early
mixed cocktail."
By the late 1600s, cheaply
imported rum had confirmed
colonial preferences for hard
liquor. Scottish and Irish im­migration
in the mid-1700s
widely popularized whiskey
making, according to the En-cylopedia.
Braund said honey became
an important commodity as
it made its way up the coast
» See FOOD, B6
KATELYN GAYLOR
WRITER
JP Dailey and Auburn senior Michelle
Knowles are both Italian, or as JP puts it, "al­ways
late."
This is how both of their families landed
seats in the last pew of Holy Infant of Prague
Catholic Church every Sunday morning.
But this year, the Trussville couple will re­deem
their families after years of back-pew
church sitting when they profess their vows at
the front of their home church.
And just in case one wedding doesn't do the
trick, between the two families there are three
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from Florida, where the Span­ish
acquired the honey bees. .
"In fact, that was one of
George Washington's favorite
snacks," Braund said.
Many of the ingredients typ­ically
used in Southern dishes
were imported from Europe.
Braund said the Spanish
brought watermelon and or­anges
to Florida, marking the
beginning of a large fruit mar­ket
for the state. The French
also brought fig trees to Mo­bile.
"The way watermelons and
BOOKS
» From B5
basketball games to benefit
the Loachapoka library.
Being an Auburn basketball
player helped Alverson be­cause
she could reach a large
audience and have the sup­port
of her team at the same
time. And just as on the court,
her teammates had her back.
"Everyone was excited for
Blanche's Ballin' for Books
project," said sophomore
guard Courtney Strain. "We all
tried to help out the effort by
telling our family and friends
to donate their used and old
books as well."
Alverson's experience
with various community ser­vice
projects with her team
and Beasley's planning of the
alumni majorette reunion last
November helped prepare
them for this new task.
"I had never really planned
a huge event before," Beasley
said. "I learned how to net­work
and get in contact with
people and stay organized,
which taught me a lot."
Beasley has been working
on this project since speak­ing
with Loachapoka Mayor
Jim Grout last fall. Grout was
skeptical at first because of the
existing library at Loachapo­ka
High School and the book­mobile
that comes around
peaches and things like that
got spread throughout the
South was by Indian agricul­turalists,"
Braund said.
Peach trees, which originat­ed
in China and were brought
to Persia and Spain, were so
commonly seen in the South
that early botanists and set­tlers
thought the plant was in­digenous
to the continent, ac­cording
to the Encyclopedia.
The foods that were brought
to the South laid the founda­tion
for cooking techniques
that would evolve as technolo­gy
developed and as more eth­nicities
entered the country.
"You have a wonderful corh-the
town on Tuesdays, but af­ter
considering the educa­tional
benefits it would bring
to the community, he said he
couldn't help but come on
board.
"The more 1 thought about
it I realized, 'Now that is a darn
good project,'" Grout said. "1'
thought Sara would probably
succeed."
Along with gaining contacts
and keeping everything in or­der,
Alverson said leading a
service project of this magni­tude
takes communication
and leadership skills.
According to Alverson, the
main task is to convey one's
ideas effectively to others so
they can believe in the mis­sion.
She said she has learned
effective leadership skills
which have helped her per­suade
people to donate books
to her campaign.
Strain knows the impact Al­verson
can have both on and
off the court.
"Blanche's leadership is
what I believe makes her the-great
player that she is," Strain
said. "She leads by example
and has earned the respect
of her teammates during her
time at Auburn."
In addition, time manage­ment
is a skill that both Alver­son
and Beasley have learned
well through the experience of
earlier pursuits.
bination of Indian crops and
food ways of African influence
and then European stuff com­ing
in to create unique food
ways," Braund said.
Braund said while there is
a specific idea of what South­ern
food is today, those foods
are not the truly traditional
foods of the South. Prepara­tions
such as frying and bread­ing
derive from itiodern influ­ences.
"A lot of what we think of as
quintessentially Southern de-velopecUrom
things earlier on,
but then it's been exaggerat­ed
by the modern period," she
said.
"I just have to focus on prac­ticing
a lot for majorette, but
also make time to study," Beas­ley
said. "That was something
that I really had to learn fresh­man
year. I'm sure Blanche
had to learn that, too, for be­ing
a basketball player."
Although Alverson and
Beasley have given back to
the University through their
involvement, they have still
made the effort to give to oth­ers
outside of Auburn. They
will soon see all their hard
work pay off when the library
opens to the public in mid-
April.
"I'm just excited to see
all the kids and citizens of
Loachapoka that will be us­ing
this library," Beasley said.
"Hopefully it will make a real­ly
big difference in their test
scores at school and in the lit­eracy
rates in Loachapoka."
As donated computers,
DVDs, books and education­al
materials are moved into
three empty rooms of the
Loachapoka Community Cen­ter,
the people of the town can
look forward to seeing their
public library come to life.
"Having this available to the
community without any re­strictions
on age will be a win-win
situation," Grout said. "It
will be good for the public; it
will be good for Sara; and it
will be good for the town."
BRIDES
» From B5
weddings in the works for
this year, and a fourth one is
on the wjiy.
Melissa Knowles, Mi­chelle's
sister, and David,
Gilmore will have their wed­ding
March 17.
Michelle and JP will mar-ry
July 21.
D^/id Dailey, JP's brother,
and Melina Knight will mar­ry
Aug. 24.
Sean Dailey, JP's other
brother, and Jordan McCul-ley
are now engaged, but
have not yet decided on a
wedding date.
JP and Michelle didn't
have much in common but a
church pew at first, especial­ly
with a four-year age gap
getting in the way of a rela­tionship.
"This is funny, but I can ac­tually
remember when her
mom was pregnant with her,"
JP said.
So other than the occa­sional
"peace be with you" at
church, JP and Michelle re­mained
apart.
That is until Aug. 30,2008:
Auburn's first football game
of the season against Loui­siana-
Monroe and the first
time JP and Michelle went
on a date.
"I was a freshman in col­lege,
so I guess he decided
it was the right time to call
me," Michelle said. "It's the
motto our families live by:
better late than never."
Two years, four months
and 21 days after their first
date, JP led Michelle to -a fa­miliar
spot: the back pew of
Holy.Infant of Prague Cath­olic
Church', where he asked
for her hand in marriage.
The couple will soon be
married at the church's altar,
• as will other members of the
two families.
"I'm in five weddings this
year," Dailey said. "I think it
just became trendy."
Although exciting for
the families involved, hav­When
I say I have a big Italian
family, I mean it's really big. I really
think that there will be at least
200 to 300 people on my side
alone that will show up, so we have
to cut that list and really get the
people that we want to be there."
ing three, and possibly four,
weddings in the same sum­mer
means three times the
stress, Michelle said.
The extra competition be­tween
wedding parties for
the same locations, color
themes and decorations also
posed a problem.
"It's hard," she said. "When
we began planning, Melis­sa
and I liked all the same
things. We fought over colors
and venues, but it all ended
up working out."
Maria Knowles,' moth­er
of Melissa and Michelle,
said planning the weddings
simultaneously has actually
been beneficial.
Though the sisters will
share the same DJ, photog­rapher,
florist, cake baker
and church, they have found
ways to personalize their
wedding days.
"Melissa was all antique
and lace oriented, and Mi­chelle
goes more for the prin­cess
look, so it's been funny
to see how close they are in
age, but how different they
really are," Maria said. "The
weddings will be the same
way* they will be close to­gether,
but they are going to
be entirely different."
The Daileys and Knowle-ses
have more factors to con­sider
for all four weddings:
crowd and wallet control.
"When I say I have a big
Italian family, I mean it's
really big," JP said. "I real­ly
think that there will be at
least 200 to 300 people on
my side alone that will show
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up, so we have to cut that list
and really get the people that
we want to be there.
"These things do cost
money, I've learned."
Maria agreed, but said she
could see a bright side in the
situation that made all of the
extra effort worthwhile.
"It is very expensive,"
she said. "But, in the grand
scheme of things, it was go­ing
to cost us this much any­way,
so we might as well just
get it all over with in one year
and then try to recover."
Maria said when search­ing
for photographers, ca­terers
and florists for her
daughters' weddings, she
tried not to let prices rule
her decisions, saying a few
hundred dollars saved just
wasn't worth it to her in the
end.
"We went with people who
had really good reputations," '
she said. "Now I'm going to
step back and fet them do
their job because I am con­fident
they know what they
are doing."
Despite the cluster and
chaos of "wedding season,"
a term the two families have
redefined, Maria said every­thing
is under control, and
everyone is prepared.
The only thing that's wor­rying
the families now is
making sure they arrive to
the weddings on time.
"Oh gosh, I'm very wor­ried
about that," Maria said.
"I'm wondering if both fami­lies
can't just spend the night
there the night before."
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KENDALL WANGMAN
WRITER
Packing for a study abroad
trip can be challenging, and
it can come down to an exact
science for some.
Meghan Gaudet, Auburn
alumna in psychology, took
her packing seriously when
she decided on a trip to Ita­ly
the summer after her junior
year.
"I even used space bags,''
Gaudet said. "They're vacuum-sealed
and you can fit proba­bly
three times as much than
you would when just packing
normally."
Gaudet also said the way
you position and pack cloth­ing
in the suitcase can allow
for more room.
"Definitely roll your clothes .
and put heavier items, like
denim, at the bottom of the
suitcase," Gaudet said.
She said the key to smart
packing when studying abroad
entails bringing clothing items
that can mix, and match and
which can be used in multiple
situations.
"I brought a lot of clothes
that I could hand wash in the
sink and hang dry so-1 could
maximize my options and suit­case
space," Gaudet said.
Jordan Montet, senior in
Spanish and sociology, went
to Salamanca, Spain, this past
summer.
"The suitcase weight lim­it
was definitely a pain, so I
packed items you could layer
and things that were lighter in
weight," Montet said.
. Despite a limit on how
much she could pack, Mon-
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with what they had.
"The girls on the trip would
exchange clothes since we
couldn't bring as much," Mon­tet
said. "The girl I lived with
was the exact same size as me,
so that was really convenient"
Montet said coming back to
America was the biggest chal­lenge
in packing.
"I had to put my stuff in oth­er
peoples suitGases because
I didn't anticipate how much
stuff I would buy on the trip,"
Montet said. "I went a little
crazy at the European H&M."
Montet's group took week­end
excursions during the trip,
which presented another chal­lenge
in packing a bag.
"We were staying in a ho­tel,
so you never knew what
to bring exactly because half
the day would be exploring
cathedrals and the other half
we would be going out," Mon­tet
said.
"I didn't pack any toiletries
because you could buy pret­ty
much everything there. By
the end of the trip you'd use up
pretty much all of the toilet­ries,
so you could just, throw it
away."
Although Montetc bought
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one essential item.
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they did not have in Spain was
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make sure you bring some,"
she said.
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Joe McDonald, right, senior in aviation management, checks the oil of a single-engine propeller plane with instructor Matt Jones. Auburn Avia­tion
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An Auburn department i s giving people
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the passenger as it makes aviation lessons
available to all.
The Auburn University Department of
Aviation Management and Logistics is
offering an introductory flight lesson for
$80.
Dale Watson, director of aviation edu­cation
at Auburn, said the introductory
lesson is to give people a chance to expe­rience
flying and learn about the program
without having to make a huge financial
commitment.
"Some people are a little anxious and
aren't sure if they'll like it or not, so this is
a really economical way to see if they en­joy
it," he said.
Watson also said it provides an oppor­tunity
for people who have always want­ed
to fly, but have not had the means or
know-how to go about learning.
"A lot of times people go through life
and never have the opportunity to give it
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ght time. terference for neighbors."
Watson said learners are taught to pi- Petrovich said people usually have
let a Cessna 172 single-engine aircraft that some safety concerns, and occasionally
takes off from the Auburn University Re- individuals are very nervous.
gional Airport. "It's just a matter of calming them down
He said the goal of the lesson is to give and assuring them I'm a professional," he
the learner the experience of being a pilot said. "Flying is very safe. Safety is always
with instructors there to guide and assist, the number one goal."
primarily during takeoff and landing. Watson said those who really enjoy the
"The person actually flies the airplane," introductory flight lesson can take addi-
Watson said. "It's not just riding along." tional lessons and work toward becoming
David Petrovich, junior in aviation certified pilots themselves.
management, said the introductory flight "Most people are just turning flips
lessons give him an opportunity to give they're so happy," he said. "They say it's
back to the aviation community and to the most fun they've ever had and want to
sha re the gift of flying with others. keep doing it."
"]!'m taking benefits from people who The introductory lesson is open to the
wanit to give, and this is my chance to give public. Watson said University students
back," he said. "This is my opportunity to can also take the flight orientation class
share my passion and love of flight." which includes approximately six ground
P etrovich said there is no specified instruction classes and four flights.
route for the introductory lesson. Anyone wishing to book an introducto-
"It's up to the individual," he said. "Typ- • ry flight lesson can call 334-844-5766 for
ically we'll fly over campus and see the more information.
Ingredients:
4 bell peppers (any
color)
1 cup quinoa
1 Vi cups water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 zucchini, grated
2 carrots, grated
2 cups fresh spinach,
roughly chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 (15-oz.) can diced
tomatoes, no salt
added
1 (8-oz.) can tomato
sauce, no sail added
'/.> cup feta cheese,
crumbled
salt and pepper, to
taste
1/3 cup Parmesan
cheese .
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Directions:
Preheat oven to 400° F.
Cut the bell peppers in half lengthwise and
remove the stem, ribs and seeds. Wrap all of
the hell pepper halves in aluminum foil and
bake for 15 minutes. Then, place the peppers
in a casserole dish that has been sprayed
with cooking spray and set aside. Bring