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Ralph Foster

Writer

Th e U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded an Auburn University outreach initiative $4.6 million to expand the avail-ability of broadband technology in Ala-bama’s rural libraries and schools.

In announcing the awards, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said that when you don’t have access to high-speed Internet, you don’t have access to all the educa-tional, business and employment oppor-tunities it provides.

Overall, the initiative will deploy 1,000 new computer workstations and replace nearly 500 more at 94 rural libraries and 21 public schools across Alabama. Au-burn plans to use the new equipment to off er online training programs and tele-medical applications to underserved ru-ral areas.

Auburn received one of only 35 Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants recently awarded to expand broad-band Internet access to citizens through key anchor institutions such as schools and libraries.

“Too many Alabamians are without broadband Internet access and the learn-ing resources it provides,” said Auburn University President Jay Gogue. “Th is project will help bridge the technological divide and open doors for thousands of students and adults.”

University Outreach will provide over-all leadership for the Broadband Technol-ogies Opportunities Program initiative. Campus partners include Outreach’s Cen-ter for Governmental Services, the Wire-less Engineering Research and Education Center, University Libraries, the Offi ce of Information Technology and Harrison School of Pharmacy. External partners in the project include the Alabama Public Library Service and Tuskegee University.

“Supporting Alabama’s educational in-frastructure through innovative outreach is a key objective of Auburn’s strategic plan,” said Royrickers Cook, assistant vice president for University Outreach. “I com-mend center director Don-Terry Veal and the dedicated team of campus and exter-nal partners for their eff orts in develop-ing such a far-reaching and high impact project.”

Th e Center for Governmental Services will coordinate the overall project, and directly implement technological train-ing of library personnel that will prepare them to do much of their own tech sup-port.

Th e center’s faculty and staff , along

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Sky’s the limit at Auburn University Regional AirportKatie Brown

Writer

With the quick snip of a ribbon Friday, several Alabama govern-mental fi gures and President Jay Gogue offi cially declared Auburn University Regional Airport open.

Th e dedication ceremony cel-ebrated the opening of the $5.5 mil-lion, 26,000-square foot facility.

“Today we are celebrating for many reasons,” said Mayor Bill Ham. “We all realize the importance of having a fi rst-class airport in our community to serve the University and the business community. We know that our chances of bringing really good jobs to our county are greatly reduced without a good air-port.”

Funding for the project came from a collaborative eff ort among local governments.

“Today, with this great new fa-cility, we have something we’re all proud of, and it’s certainly a positive refl ection on Auburn University, the city of Opelika, the city of Auburn and Lee County,” said Opelika May-or Gary Fuller. “It is proof positive of what we can accomplish by work-ing together. Th is asset, indeed, will pay signifi cant dividends for many years to come.”

Th e new terminal is equipped with a fl ight-planning room, fl at screen televisions, comfortable seating and conference rooms.

Th e previous terminal was built in 1950 and was outdated.

“We only get one opportunity to

make a good fi rst impression, and I want to tell you something,” Fuller said, “that old terminal building was a pretty good challenge for making a good fi rst impression.”

Planning for the new facility be-gan in 2002.

“While the University owns the airport, it has, for many years, in-vited the local offi cials to partici-pate in the oversight of the airport through the airport advisory board,” Ham said.

Th e airport also serves aviation students as well as fans fl ying in for home games.

Th e new terminal and facility are not the only changes the airport has seen since its creation in 1930.

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The Auburn University Regional Airport celebrated the opening of a new terminal Friday afternoon.

AubieSat–1 goes to infinity and beyond

Alison McFerrin

Writer

Th e Auburn University Stu-dent Space Program will be making one giant leap for the University when its CubeSat is launched into space next fall.

“So far, no student-built CubeSat was launched on an American rocket,” said Jean-marie Wersinger, phys-ics professor and mentor for the program. “It puts us on the map.”

Wersinger started the AUSSP in 2002 because of his work with the NASA Space Grant program.

“Being there and seeing all these eff orts around the country for students, I said, ‘Darn it, we’re going to do the same thing at Auburn,’” Wers-inger said. “So I initiated this

AUSSP thing.”AubieSat–1, AUSSP’s

CubeSat, is a 4-inch cube sat-ellite built by approximately 35 undergraduate students.

“Th e entire cube satel-lite is built by students from scratch,” said Aurie Adams, junior in aerospace engi-neering and public relations offi cer for the project. “And it’s going to be launched. It’s actually going to be in space. I think that’s so cool. And hopefully we’ll be able to talk to it.”

Communication with the satellite is a main focus for the group. Th e CubeSat’s scientifi c purpose will be to measure gamma rays produced by high-altitude thunderstorms. Radio waves produced by antennae on top of Allison Laboratory will carry commands in the form

of strings of zeroes and ones to microcon-trollers on the satel-lite, which will then execute the given com-mands, Wersinger said.

Th e project idea start-ed to become a reality two or three years ago.

Wersinger said AubieSat–1 was cleared for launch in August, with an anticipated launch in October 2011. NASA will be conducting bi-weekly teleconferences with AUSSP to determine the CubeSat’s status and to start integrating it into NASA sys-tems.

“We also have to go through quite some testing,” Wersinger said. “Once they get it, they’re going to test the satellite, and it better survive their tests. So we’re going to be testing, and maybe even

more strin-gent than their tests, to make sure it survives.”

Students in the program will test components of the CubeSat in Auburn labs to make sure they respond to commands. Further test-ing will take place at Mar-shall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to ensure Aubie-Sat–1 can survive the envi-ronmental conditions on the

Jillian Clair

Associate News Editor

Courtney Lockhart’s defense an-nounced Monday at a status confer-ence that it is seeking to appeal Lee County Cir-cuit Court Judge Jacob Walker’s decision to deny a change in venue for the capital murder trial.

Th e defense has sub-mitted a petition to the Alabama Supreme Court to appeal the lower court’s decision and is awaiting a verdict.

However, if the Supreme Court de-nies the change in venue, Lockhart’s

trial will be held Nov. 8 in Lee County Circuit Court. Both the defense and the prosecution are still preparing for the trial, regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision.

Lockhart was indicted for the March 4, 2008 mur-der of Auburn freshman Lauren Burk and is facing charges of capital murder during a kidnapping, capi-tal murder during an at-tempted rape and capital murder during a robbery.

Burk, 18, a native of Marietta, Ga., was found shot on Ala. 147/North

College Street near U.S. 280 and was pronounced dead at East Alabama

Medical Center. Her Honda Civic was later found on fi re in the Hinton Field parking lot.

Lockhart, 23 at the time of the mur-der, is from Smiths Station. He con-fessed to Burk’s murder March 9, 2008.

Lockhart’s defense also asked to add more specifi c questions concern-ing juror bias to the questionnaire sent to potential jurors, but Walker denied the request.

Th e questionnaire used in the past for capital murder trials in Lee Coun-ty will be sent to the potential jurors on the Lockhart case, Walker said.

Another status conference is sched-uled for Oct. 19.

If convicted of Burk’s murder, Lock-hart could face the death penalty.

March 4, 2008Burk murdered

March 7, 2008Lockhart arrested

March 9, 2008Lockhart’s fi rst appearance in court, confession

March 5, 2010Lockhart’s defense asks for change in venue

April 14, 2010Judge Walker issues court order denying change in venue

Sept. 27, 2010Lockhart defense sub-mits petition to appeal Walker’s decision

Nov. 8, 2010Trial date pend-ing Supreme Court’s decision

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DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn Sept. 24 – Sept. 30, 2010

Lenore M. Bacek, 31, of Belleville, N.J. Twin Forks AvenueSept. 24, 1:19 a.m.

James M. Kilpatrick, 23, of MontgomeryShug Jordan ParkwaySept. 25, 6:12 a.m.

James T. Strange III, 24, of Winston-Salem, N.C.North College Street and East Glenn AvenueSept. 26, 3:06 a.m.

Crime Reports for Sept. 24 – Sept. 30, 2010

Sept. 24, South College Street – Breaking and entering of a vehicle and theft reported. One 9mm Glock handgun, one .22-caliber derringer.

Sept. 24, South College Street – Breaking and entering of a vehicle and theft reported. One .40-caliber Glock handgun, one Blackhawk handgun holder, ammunition.

Sept. 24, South College Street – Th eft of property reported. $9,400.

Sept. 25, West Th atch Avenue – Breaking and entering of a vehicle

and theft of property reported. One Brahn purse, one cell phone, one coach wallet, various credit cards, keys to residence and a vehicle.

Sept. 25, Opelika Road – Break-ing and entering of a vehicle and theft of property reported. One iPod, one Sony CyberShot digital camera.

Sept. 25, South Donahue Drive – Pickpocketing reported. One handbag, various credit and debit cards.

Sept. 25, South College Street – Automobile theft reported. One white Cadillac Deville.

Sept. 25, Opelika Road – Break-ing and entering and theft of property reported. One TomTom GPS, $200.

Sept. 26, 400 Block of West Glenn Avenue – Burglary and theft from a residence reported. One Rolex Sub Mariner watch, one .45-caliber Kimber pistol.

— Reports provided by AuburnDepartment of Public Safety


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with the Wireless Engi-neering Research and Education Center, the Uni-versity Libraries and Infor-mation Technology, will provide Alabama libraries and schools with a de-tailed evaluation of their technological needs and service options. Th e Har-rison School of Pharmacy will provide advice and consultation regarding the installation of 20 audio-visual conference facilities at library locations.

Auburn will work with Tuskegee University

personnel to install the new Internet workstations and with the Alabama Public Library Service to provide continuing tech-nical support of these resources. Th e Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center will oversee the installa-tion of Rural Connectivity Platforms that will expand broadband Internet ac-cess in approximately 30 communities.

Th e project will also pro-vide practical experience for a number of Auburn and Tuskegee student in-terns in information tech-nology.

A runway was length-ened to accommodate larger aircraft in 2001, new lighting was installed in 2008, and the airport

changed its name in 2009.In response to State Rep.

Mike Hubbard’s dedica-tion and commitment to improving the airport, the entrance road was named Mike Hubbard Boulevard.

“I do appreciate the city

naming the road after me,” Hubbard said. “Th at was a real surprise.”

Hubbard, who secured $4.7 million in funding for the project, said he be-lieves the upgrades at the airport are unbeatable.

“Just imagine what we will be able to do now that we have what I believe is the fi nest terminal and fi xed base of operation for any city of our size in the entire state of Alabama,” Hubbard said.

rocket’s fl ight.Because AubieSat–1 is

a small satellite on a small bandwidth, AUSSP may not be able to learn much from the measurements taken by the CubeSat.

“It’s more like for us to learn how to do these things than to contrib-ute, really, to the science,” Wersinger said. “Contrib-uting to science is the next step.”

Th at next step might be yet another CubeSat, Au-bieSat-2. Wersinger said planning for AubieSat-2 might start as early as spring 2011.

Th ese eff orts of the AUS-SP will bring recognition not only to the program, but also to Auburn as a whole.

“Being a NASA research program and a NASA-launched science experi-ment, it gives the Univer-sity a lot of prestige on the national level because we have a satellite program now,” said Matthew Gill, sophomore in physics. “Th at’ll make us stand out in the crowd.”

Th e AUSSP is funded by the Alabama Space Grant Consortium as well as the University. About 75 per-cent of the funds go to-ward AubieSat–1.

Carol Nelson

Writer

Auburn University and Auburn Montgomery were jointly awarded an Emer-gency Management for Higher Education grant by the U.S. Department of Education.

Public safety and emer-gency management of-fi cials from Auburn and Auburn Montgomery, along with the Auburn Montgomery Center for Government, or CGOV, will use the funding to enhance emergency pre-paredness planning eff orts on both campuses.

Th e two-year grant is in the amount of $708,471 and is one of just 17 awards given nationwide. Th e Au-burn University system is the fi rst in the state of Ala-bama to receive funding through the grant.

“Th is is a great oppor-tunity to better prepare our university system as

a whole and to show the collaboration among the two campuses and our community partners,” said Chance Corbett, associate director with the Auburn University Department of Public Safety and Security.

“In recent years, Au-burn has shown great improvement in the area of emergency prepared-ness,” Corbett said. “Th is funding will give us the opportunity to continue to update procedures, ad-dressing the emergency operations plan, evacu-ation plan and other key emergency preparedness plans that are currently, or soon will be, in place. We also plan to implement systems to manage and track emergency incidents and events that occur on campus, which will pro-mote a more coordinated response and recovery.”

Additionally, the grant will provide for the map-ping of buildings on both

campuses into Virtual Alabama, a 3-D geospatial imagery toolset based in Google Earth technolo-gies, which serves as the state’s common operating platform for disaster plan-ning, response and recov-ery.

“Th e fl oor plan maps we create in Virtual Alabama will identify a number of critical features found in and around the buildings, such as where hazardous materials are stored and where the various emer-gency staging areas are located,” said Matthew L. Duke, senior director of the Center for Govern-ment at Auburn Mont-gomery. “Th rough this vir-tual environment, we can provide fi rst responders the information they need, including the location of and access to live security camera feeds, anywhere they have Internet con-nectivity. Having this in-formation, at the time and

point of need, is essential to saving time and saving lives.”

Th e Emergency Man-agement for Higher Edu-cation program supports institutions of higher edu-cation projects designed to develop, or review and improve, and fully inte-grate campus-based all-hazards emergency man-agement planning eff orts. Th e planning process uti-lizes the framework of the four phases of emergency management including prevention-mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

“Th e public safety col-laboration between Au-burn and Auburn Mont-gomery continues to build, and as a result, we have been able to make huge strides in being prepared for anything that could happen on our two cam-puses,” said Ricky Adams, director of Public Safety at Auburn Montgomery.

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Daniel Chesser

News Editor

Th e budget for the Board of Trustees fi scal year totaled $937 million, as decided upon during its fi rst 2010-2011 meeting Fri-day.

C r u m b l i n g classrooms con-structed in the ‘50s and ‘60s on campus are sup-posed to receive attention in the next decade, while other fa-cilities’ budgets were discussed at the meeting.

“While there has been a good bit of construc-tion here at Auburn over the last couple of decades, there re-ally hasn’t been a tremendous amount of investment in class-room facilities,” said Dan King, Auburn’s assistant vice president of facilities.

An excess of $200 million dol-lars in upgrades, renovations and existing structure replace-ments on campus were pro-posed to the board.

“If this was a perfect world and money was no object, re-placement would be the desired

option,” King said. “But we are not in that perfect world, and money is an issue, particularly in the diffi cult economic times.”

All of Auburn University’s campus needs were approved.

“We built 2 million square feet here at Auburn over the last 25 years,” King said. “About 5 percent of that was in classrooms.”

Haley Center, Funchess, Up-church, Spidle, Parker and Al-lison halls are some of the buildings being looked at for up-

grades.“From an academic stand-

point, these facilities are prob-lematic because they really no longer work that well as instruc-tional spaces,” King said. “Spe-cifi cally, the classrooms are the wrong size. Th ey are too small, made for about 25 students and the standard lecture.”

From a facility standpoint, these buildings are in the worst condition, according to King.

“All these buildings still have their original main-building sys-tem,” King said. “Th e roofs, the

heating and ventilating system, fi re alarms, windows and exteri-or are at the point of being worn out and need (to be) replaced or changed in a major fashion.”

Th is conclusion was met through extensive research that showed the No. 1 academic pri-ority was restoring the deterio-rating buildings in the core of campus because they support the majority of the core credit hours, King said.

Other budgets were ap-proved after the proposed $200 million in upgrades to the six core academic buildings.

Th e Department of Kinesiol-ogy’s budget of $21.6 million was approved, and the department is supposed to move out of Beard-Eaves Coliseum because of mold and other hazardous surround-ings.

Th e Coliseum will be torn down to construct a parking deck for daily and game day use.

Th e Small Animal Teaching Hospital’s budget increase of $70 million to $74 million was approved, as well as proposed renovations to Sewell Hall, Hill residence halls and the Caroline Draughon Village.

Another $2.5 million was ap-proved for pedestrian safety in

response to the high number of pedestrians struck by vehicles.

After three years of no cam-pus-wide salary increases for faculty, $13.7 million has been allocated to provide a one-time pay supplement to Au-burn professors, ac-cording to Don Large, ex-ecutive

vice president and chief fi nan-cial offi cer.

“Enrollment continues to be strong, right at a little over 25,000 students,” Large said. “So we were able to balance (the budget), and that is pretty re-

markable with $94 million in permanent cuts and $270

million in cumula-tive cuts.”

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Ariccia’s “Veni, Vidi, Vino” buffet offered dishes featuring local food Sept. 23 at the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center.

“Veni, Vidi, Vino” features local food

Libby So

Writer

Ariccia, an Italian trattoria and bar located inside the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center, is hosting its last Farm-to-Table dinner for this year tonight at 7 p.m.

“Veni, Vidi, Vino” night, a wine-pairing event, however, will contin-ue Th ursday nights after this week.

Th e Farm-to-Table special fea-tures a fresh-produce menu, which consists of three courses and a se-lection of half-priced wines for $29 per person.

Cooked with fresh, local ingredi-ents picked earlier in the day, these delectable dishes provide a fresh ex-perience to a fast-paced society all too familiar with poor-quality, mass-produced foods.

“Th ere is a marketing group that helps out with the marketing pro-cess, and we throw ideas out in the middle of the table,” said Chef de Cuisine Miguel Figueroa. “Th e fresh market was about to start. We won-dered, ‘How can we help the com-munity? How can we have the fresh-est ingredients for the hotel?’”

Every Th ursday at 3 p.m., Figueroa and Executive Chef Andrew Lither-land personally pick out all the in-gredients needed for the dishes that night from various local farms: Bur-nadette, Randle, Moore’s Mill, Pick and Point and Bulger Creek Farms.

“Miguel brings back the products,” said Marc Osier, chef de partie. “He carries it out for the culinary team. He communicates the vision, and we execute it.”

On account of the weekly specials

and Tiger Talks, the restaurant teems with well-dressed men and women, the clinking of utensils and wine glasses and delicious scents wafting through the air.

Th e kitchen usually receives 15 to 20 orders a night, and the special lasts until closing time.

Because most of the guests are Auburn students, professors and local residents, the Farm-to-Table menu gives these recurring custom-ers an extra option.

“Th ere is a lot of feedback from it,” said Michael Smith, operations manager. “People come and see the chefs at the farmers’ markets or just hear about it word of mouth. It’s such an exciting idea.”

Last week, Ariccia served eggplant

Health offi cials predict subdued 2010 fl u season

Jake Cole

Writer

It’s that time of year.Th e incessant sounds

of coughs and sniffl es announce its arrival like a herald’s trumpet.

Flu season is here again.

Th is year’s fl u season looks considerably less dangerous than last year, with some offi cials u n c o n c e r n e d about another outbreak.

“Th e World Health Organization has declared the pan-demic over and, as far as I know, there have not been any recent cases anywhere near here,” said Shannon Cason, doctor at the AU Medical Clinic. “We’re expect-ing this year’s season to be more of a season-al fl u than H1N1.”

Even state health departments do not seem particularly worried about anther problem.

“I wouldn’t say [swine fl u] is not going to be a problem, but it’s not

going to be a big prob-lem,” said Seratia John-son, a nurse who works for the ADPH. “We ex-pect it to circulate this year like last year, but it’s been incorporated into the vaccine.”

It is important to re-member swine fl u is just an alteration in the virus code, not a plague, John-son said.

“It’s just like any strand of fl u,” Johnson said. “It starts out as some-

thing novel and eventually it becomes part of the annual

strain you see.”Last year’s fl u

season made headlines around the world with the outbreak of H1N1, and es-timates of fl u-related deaths in the United States

last year ranged from about 8,300 to 17,000,

according to the Centers for Dis-

ease Control.Th e Alabama Depart-

ment of Public Health confi rmed 52 fl u-related deaths in the state last year.

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Alison McFerrin

Staff Writer

One cable TV provider has

ruled the market in Auburn

and Opelika for 51 years. Th at’s

about to change with the com-

ing of Knology of Alabama Inc.

Knology, a cable TV, high-

speed Internet and phone pro-

vider, will soon be off ering its

services in both Auburn and

Opelika.

Auburn customers can ex-

pect to have Knology as an

option in October, but Opelika

will have to wait until the sec-

ond quarter of next year.

“Knology’s wanted to go

into Auburn and Opelika for

quite some time,” said Royce

Ard, regional general manager.

“Because of the business atmo-

sphere and the ability to go out

and raise money so that we can

build the cable plant, it just be-

came apparent that now was a

great time to do it.”

Th e fi rst cable company in

this area was Lee County TV

Cable Company in December

1959, according to a franchise

history from the Auburn city

manager’s offi ce.

Since then, the company

has been bought and sold,

fi nally becoming Charter in

2001. Th ere has always been

only one cable provider in the

Auburn-Opelika area.

“Th e city never granted

monopoly rights to any cable

company,” said Charlie Dug-

gan, city manager of Auburn.

“We’re excited that Knology’s

coming.”

Duggan said the reason

only one company has ruled

the market is the amount of

money it costs to set up a cable

company.

“It’s going to cost millions

and millions and millions of

dollars for any company to

come in and string cable,”

Duggan said. “And the fi rst

thing that’s going to happen

will be a competition war,

which is really good for the

customers, but it’s diffi cult for

the company.”

John Seymour, city admin-

istrator of Opelika, said the

greatest impact Knology can

have in the area will be the eco-

nomic competition the com-

pany will create with Charter.

“I’m hoping that this will

lead to improved service by

Charter,” Seymour said, “that

they will be competitive in

their prices, that they will im-

prove their quality, that the

mere fact that they have an

economic competition now

will cause both of them to fo-

cus on service to customers.”

Skip James, Charter Com-

munications government re-

lations director, said they wel-

come the competition from

another cable provider.

“We’ve always had to com-

pete,” said James, citing the

competition between Charter

and satellite TV providers.

James said Charter already

competes with Knology in oth-

er markets.

James said off ering better

services is always a focus at

Charter.

“We’re always trying to im-

prove customer service and give

more products and services to

choose from,” James said.

Seymour said people have

said they are already getting

better service from Charter

since the decision to allow

Knology into the area.

“Citizens in the community

have a choice for a change,”

Seymour said. “I hope that

they will actively pursue put-

ting other cable service into

many of the neighborhoods

which may not even have cable

service.”

Ard said Knology’s advan-

tages over Charter include its

customer service as well as the

benefi ts that come with the

brand new cable system, like

faster Internet speeds and ease

in adding additional channels.

“Knology is very well known

for the customer service that

we provide our customers,

whether that’s over the phone,

or just the way the technician

treats the customer in the

house,” Ard said.

Knology has already been

constructing in Auburn for

about three months, whereas

the franchise agreement was

signed Sept. 27 for Opelika,

Ard said.

“We’ve still got to do the

mapping, and we’ve still got to

do the engineering,” Ard said.

rolatini, roasted

chicken with fried

okra and sweet po-

tatoes, french toast

with goat’s milk ice

cream and caramel-

ized peaches and a

selection of red or

white wine.

Th e appetizer, en-

trée and dessert were

all made with local

produce.

Th e herb garden,

created by the Col-

lege of Agriculture,

completes not just

the Farm-to-Table

items, but just about

all selections avail-

able at Ariccia.

“I think it’s incred-

ibly important on a

local and national

scale to use organic

and locally grown

foods,” Osier said. “I

have a lot of history

using seasonally and

locally grown foods.

It’s good for carbon

foot printing. You’re

supporting the peo-

ple who eat here. For

instance, the people

of Randle Farms eat

here. We buy from

them, and they eat

from us.”

Organic foods are

used in many of Aric-

cia’s other dishes and

events, Smith said.

For reservations,

call 334-844-5140.

ARICCIA» From A3

Even the number

of fl u shots available

inspires optimism for

the fl u season.

Compared to pre-

vious years, in which

the supply of fl u shots

never met the de-

mand, doctors in Au-

burn’s medical clinics

sound positive about

their inventories.

“Th e CDC said we

have plenty this year

for everybody and

that there wouldn’t

be any shortages,”

said Helen Dudas, of-

fi ce manager at Au-

burn Urgent Care.

Flu shots on cam-

pus will cost $25.

Still, no doctor at

the AU Medical Clinic

wants anyone to take

chances.

“By far the most

eff ective method [of

prevention] is still the

vaccine,” Cason said.

Cason urges all

students to attend

one of the fl u clinics

to be set up around

campus in the com-

ing weeks, starting

with inoculations at

the Medical Clinic

from 8-11 a.m. Oct. 8

and 13.

With the campus

population so cen-

tralized and growing,

preventative steps

are a must to avoid

the fast spread of dis-

ease.

“When school

started back, I started

having lots of colds

and sore throats, so

you can tell there’s

closer contact and

greater spread,” Du-

das said.

Besides getting the

vaccine, students

should take precau-

tions to avoid getting

sick.

“Washing your

hands is very impor-

tant,” Cason said.

“Flu is transmitted

primarily by hand

contact. I’d also ad-

vise people to stay

away from public wa-

ter fountains. Th at’s a

pretty good place for

people to be leaving

viruses.”

FLU» From A3

Auburn Weekly Gas Monitor

Week of Sept. 30

Location Reg Mid PremWalmart–South College $2.519 $2.639 $2.759Circle K–Glenn and Gay $2.519 $2.659 $2.799Shell–Glenn and Gay $2.529 $2.649 $2.769Shell–Wire $2.579 $2.719 $2.859Chevron–South College $2.699 $2.899 $3.099BP–Gay and Samford $2.699 $2.899 $3.099Chevron–University $2.699 $2.799 $2.899Chevron–Wire $2.749 $2.899 $3.049Exxon–Wire $2.749 $2.849 $2.999Chevron–Glenn and College $2.799 $2.959 $3.099Average $2.654 $2.797 $2.943

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EVENT CALENDAR: THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 – SATURDAY, OCT. 9

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY30

Weston Burt Band @ Kie-sel Park, 6 p.m.

1

Downtown Auburn Friday Night Block Party, 6 p.m.

2

Football v. Louisiana-Monroe, 11 a.m.

3

Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum 1-year celebration,1 p.m.

4

Lecture: Juan Cole, author of “Engaging the Muslim World” @ Haley Center 2370, 4 p.m.

5

Trivia @ Th e Independent, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

6

Volleyball v. Georgia @ Student Activities Center, 7 p.m.

7

Th e Auburn Knights Orchestra @ Kiesel Park, 6 p.m.

8

“On the Tracks,” a food and wine event @ downtown Opelika, 6 p.m. to midnight.

9

Football @ Kentucky, 6:30 p.m.


Ariccia’s buffet Thursday evening at the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center features pizza and many other options for customers.

Don’t touch that dial: new cable TV options

Rachel Shirey

Writer

Louie’s Chicken

Fingers launched

into business Aug.

27 in Hamilton Place

on Moores Mill

Road.

Louie’s is owned

by Auburn resident

and contractor

Doug Cannon.

“It’s probably

similar [to Zaxby’s

and Guthrie’s], but

I want mine to be

better,” Cannon said.

“I’ve been a builder

for 25 years. I’m not

the best builder, but

I try to be the best.

Even here, I want to

use the best prod-

ucts that I can use to

make the food bet-

ter.”

Family is also im-

portant to Cannon.

“I want to eventu-

ally give this place

to my daughter,”

Cannon said. “My

daughter has what is

called Schmidt’s dis-

ease. She’s got dia-

betes and Addison’s.

She stays sick all the

time, so I’m going to

give it to her. I’m do-

ing this for my kids.”

Th at care and con-

cern for family ex-

tends to customers

as well.

“We have a lot of

repeat customers,”

said Ryan Willis,

general manager.

“We try to take care

of everybody just

like they are family.”

Despite its name,

Louie’s Chicken

Fingers off ers a

wide variety of food

items, such as cat-

fi sh, burgers, wings,

salads and wraps, in

addition to chicken

fi ngers.

Prickette said she

thinks the burgers

have actually be-

come the most pop-

ular menu item.

Louie’s off ers

sides with meals,

including coleslaw,

steamed vegetables

and onion rings.

Louie’s also makes

its signature sauce

and ranch dip by

hand, and it doesn’t

charge for extra

sauce.

“We’ve got people

who drive through

the drive-through in

their golf carts,” Wil-

lis said. “So people in

this area have really

enjoyed it because

it’s close by.”


Ryan Johnson, 13, of Drake Middle School, munches on some chicken fi ngers Sunday at Louie’s Chicken Fingers.

Louie’s launches, offers more than just plain chicken fingers

The Auburn PlainsmanThursday, September 30, 2010 News, A5

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COMMENTARY A6The Auburn Plainsman

Thursday, September 30, 2010Our View

Auburn is a special place. Live here for any extended length of time and it’s easy to forget just how special.

As kitschy as the University-sponsored commercials can be, Auburn truly is a family.

And it’s not just Auburn students or alumni recogniz-ing this.

Opposing fans of SEC and non-SEC schools have taken notice.

Numerous letters, such as the ones on the opposite page, have been written to Th e Plainsman for years, praising Auburn—the friend-liness of the fans, the austere architecture, the small-town feel and everything else which makes Auburn, Auburn.

Th e Daily Gamecock, South Carolina’s student newspa-per, even wrote an editorial encouraging South Carolina students and fans to be more like Auburn’s.

“Th ank you, Auburn. You set the standard for what SEC football should be. If we have to lose, we’ll lose there every time. From what we saw, you gave us the best of the South and the best college football has to off er.” (Read it in its en-tirety on the opposite page.)

Th ese types of testimonials, more than any commercial about the Auburn Creed or “War Eagle” moments, ex-plain the rare oasis of class and character that is Auburn.

Auburn students and alum-ni are not alone in believing in Auburn and loving it.

Th ere is an exception be-yond even occasional out-lier situations involving angry and intoxicated Auburn faith-ful, of course.

We don’t love everyone here at Auburn.

Auburn isn’t some sort of pseudo-utopian community banging bongos and smok-

ing peace pipes. We do have enemies.

Well, mainly just an enemy, singular—the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

We have no love for those pee-brained, Bear-worship-ping, Walmart-trophy-view-ing, obstinate redneck buf-foons with which we share this state.

And the feeling is mutual.Taking a rational view,

there is little diff erence be-tween Auburn and Alabama fandom.

Trace the history of any fan ,and you’ll see how arbitrary the decision of Tigers or Tide is.

Perhaps Auburn is picked because of family or friend ties.

Perhaps Alabama is picked because of peer pressure or bandwagon appeal. (Bias ac-knowledged and recognized. Suck it, Alabama.)

Th ese decisions are rarely, if ever, based on rational, logi-cal decision-making.

Which is fi ne, because sports aren’t rational, and they shouldn’t be.

Rational thought would destroy the ability to vilify sports enemies.

With rational thought, your neighbor or friend or uncle would cease to be a foolish and mildly evil Alabama fan.

Instead, they would just be some obnoxious, crimson-clad person yelling non sequi-tur “Roll Tides” at innocent bystanders.

Sports need irrational thought to survive. Other-wise, it’s just some dudes (or ladies) running around chas-ing balls.

Rivalries and ribald hate are the reason sports are what they are.

Prime example: SEC foot-ball.

Poor-sport.com has real-ized the power of hate in sports. Th e site, whose logo is a cartoon character kicking another cartoon character in the crotch region, will fl y a

plane trailing a “(Nickname or school name) Sucks!” over and around the stadium of a rival team.

To get a hateful fl yover, fans of rival teams must register on the site and assign points (purchased on site, $10 = 25 points) to a certain team on a certain date.

As of now, Alabama has 3,364 points toward an Iron Bowl fl yover, which is third behind Oklahoma during the Red River Rivalry and Ohio State during the Ohio State-Michigan game.

An “Alabama Sucks!” fl y-over requires 5,000 points.

Th is is your chance, reader, Auburn fan, irrational-hater of all things crimson and white.

Give all of Bryant-Denny the proverbial middle fi nger.

Momentarily set aside the Auburn ideals of class and character. Let the hate fl ow through you.

Remind Alabama fans how much they suck.

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Th is weekend, I went to a pre-South Carolina football party a friend of mine invited me to. Th is particular male and I have been acquaintances for more than a year, seeing each other mostly at social events and bars.

I didn’t know a lot of people at the party, and I didn’t want to feel like a crasher, so when I saw him I said hello, gave him a quick hug and said hi to his girl, who was by his side.

For me, this was totally acceptable be-havior. Th e girl immediately went into bitchmode.

While I’m fl attered that you—what with your adorable hair and big eyes and skinny jeans and long legs and amazingly gorgeous cool female friends and general hip trendyness, all of which I’ve always coveted, but never been able to make work for me—think I’m a threat to your man, I’m not.

It is possible to have male friends with-out wanting to seduce all of them (I think).

And I’m a pretty aggressive fl irt. Th is is not my idea of fl irting.

Furthermore, while my track record with dudes with girlfriends has not been stellar recently, it hasn’t necessarily worked out well for me either, and I’m un-likely to follow that road again.

In her defense, she had been drinking, but it was clear she did. not. like. me.

Based solely on what I’ve gathered from the ever-reliable Facebook, he and his girlfriend have been having relationship problems as of late.

But I can understand why. Th at level of protective jealous clingyness is not attrac-tive on anyone.

In that vein, this weekend I went to the South Carolina game with some male friends of mine.

One of them had one too many beers and barfed up all the chili and hotdogs and beer with which he had stuff ed him-self before the game. Ohhhh, the smell.

One of our crew decided to help him down the stairs, like a friend should do.

His girlfriend? Not pleased.Because of the smell and the unsightly

appearance now invading our section, she ended up sitting by herself a few rows up and a section over from our group.

I was nice and asked her to rejoin us while her man took care of our sick friend.

In her defense, she was from out of town and didn’t know us, but if my (imaginary) boyfriend had to deal with this, I hope I would choose the supportive, laugh-it-off role, rather than the clingyness and de-pendence and annoyance this girl chose. It’s college. Th is shit happens.

She decided isolate herself rather than make the best of a bad situation, mak-ing it more tense for everyone. (Since our friend’s vomit splattered on a belligerent frat boy, the section was tense as it was.)

Seriously, women need to fi nd a way to cope without boyfriends attached to their hip. A little hand-holding and PDA is ac-ceptable, but a little independence can also be super hot.

And don’t get hostile with me when I’m trying to be a nice person.

Emily [email protected]

Your boyfriend is safe with me

Auburn loves everyone, except Alabama

Construction on campus is generally a signal of new buildings.

In the last fi ve years, the Student Center, Auburn Are-na, Shelby Center and the Vil-lage have all been built, bring-ing freshness to campus, but also clutter and confusion.

Older buildings, such as Haley Center, Beard-Eves Me-morial Coliseum, Sewell Hall, Funchess, Spidle, Parker and Allison, have been ignored.

As often happens, the old and worn is forgotten and pushed aside to welcome Progress, especially at Au-burn, where aesthetics are an all-important part of the mys-tique.

Th ese geriatric buildings, many constructed in the ’50s and ’60s, are starting to look their age.

Stairwells in the Haley Cen-

ter have visible cracks, with a portion of the 2nd fl oor stairs even closed for safety issues.

Th e Coliseum has danger-ous levels of mold in its base-ment and “pipes burst on a regular basis.” ( from “Campus buildings in need of major overhaul,” A7, 9/16/10)

Th e Coliseum locker room, used by professors and other faculty, will close tomorrow.

Th e L building was recently condemned.

Most of the crumbling buildings are classrooms—something Auburn has ne-glected the last couple de-cades.

“While there has been a good bit of construction here at Auburn over the last couple decades,” said Dan King, Auburn’s assistant vice president of facilities, “there really hasn’t been a tremen-

dous amount of investment in classroom facilities.” ( from “Board of Trustees discuss core academic classrooms,” A3)

More than $200 million dol-lars in “upgrades, renovations and replacing existing struc-tures” was suggested at the Board of Trustees meeting to many of the aforementioned buildings.

Make no mistake: the Uni-versity should be commended for improving research facili-ties and assorted athletic and student-centric buildings.

But Auburn is, fi rst and foremost, one would hope, a center of higher education focused on learning and the betterment of its students.

And learning, in the realm of higher education at least, requires classrooms—class-rooms large enough and with

enough modern amenities to engender the learning pro-cess.

Th e Haley Center, to use just one example, is full of classes too small and not stocked with modern equip-ment—computers, projec-tors, etc.

Of course, trying to replace or perhaps even demolish that behemoth of poorly-planned modern architecture would take years of planning.

Th e zaniness of campus construction will triple when the Haley Center eventually falls.

No clear-cut answer is read-ily apparent.

We can only hope the thoughtful, generous, always spendthrifty members of the Board of Trustees have the students’ best interests in mind.

Campus classrooms in need of upgrade

A7COMMENTARYThursday, September 30, 2010

Your View

Put your seat back upright and store your tray table as we prepare for liftoff .

Next week you will see a dif-ferent version of Th e Auburn

Plainsman, one that hasn’t been showcased since 2009.

We will be switching to four six-page sections, giving you a 24-page paper.

While the campus (B) and intrigue (C) sections have gone through this change al-ready, the news (A) and sports (D) sections have not.

Fear not.It is not our intention to

disrupt the ebb and fl ow of your award-winning collegiate newspaper.

Th is change is absolutely necessary to combat econom-ic hardships while still main-taining journalistic integrity and tradition.

A large change you will no-tice will take place on these two pages, the commentary section.

Th is section will be reduced to one page, eliminating staff columns and the editor col-umn.

While these spaces have the ability to reappear during con-troversial issues or dire times of soap-box rants, we will ded-icate this space to our editorial board issues and commentary from our readers.

All sections will feature the same level of reporting, pho-tography and storytelling, but these things will merely be compressed into a more con-densed design and layout.

Page counts have fl uctuated through the years, spanning from a massive 40-page paper to the consistent 32-page pa-per we kept last fall and spring.

Struggling business models and uncertain economic fu-tures are a part of journalism.

Th ey are often overlooked by journalists themselves, but must be addressed at some point in time.

Sept. 13 marked the fi rst day for Th e Auburn Plainsman’s new general manager, Judy Riedl.

Riedl’s career experience includes 20 years as general manager of Th e Oregon Daily

Emerald, the independent stu-dent newspaper at the Univer-sity of Oregon.

With extensive past experi-ence, coupled with dedication and enthusiasm, Riedl will begin to reshape the business side.

“I think we are going to build from what we already have,” Riedl said, “while continuing to provide a quality newspa-per for our readers, University and community.”

Without the constant pres-ence of a general manager for the past two years, former

Plainsman editors and busi-ness managers were often called upon to fi nd solutions to pressing fi nancial issues.

Th ese issues will still be ad-dressed to Tom Hopf, business manager, and myself, but the support available from Riedl and Kim Rape will allow us to use all resources available to fi nd the solutions.

Th is column is meant to in-form and implore.

You’ve been informed on our current situation, now I implore you to brace with our changes.

Continue reading the paper week after week.

Send in letters, e-mails or stop by our offi ce to rant, com-plain or praise.

Most of all, don’t forget this is your paper.

Take pride in it. War Eagle.

Rod [email protected]

“When we found out that we picked each other as a big sis-ter and little sister, she literally tackled me down to the ground, and everyone was staring at

us.”

-Allison Chiarellafrom “Phi Mu women fi nd life-long friend-

ships in Big Sis-Little Sis” B3

Last week’s question:

“Do you text and drive?”

» Of course, doesn’t every-one?: 20 percent

» Sometimes: 13 percent » Try not to: 33 percent » Never: 34 percent

Th is week’s question:

“Do you support an ‘Ala-bama Sucks!’ banner being fl own at the Iron Bowl?”

» Yes » No » Alabama Sucks!

Go to www.theplainsman.com to vote.

Rod Guajardo is editor of Th e Auburn Plainsman. You

can reach him at 844-9109.

And the beat goes on, basically

If the Tea Party has an image problem, the mainstream media ought to collectively polish its glasses.

Last week’s contributor Brian Woodham implied the involve-ment of a few wealthy Ameri-cans with the Tea Party makes it merely an instrument of robber-barons intent on furthering their own greedy agendas.

Th is attempt to marginal-ize the movement, which en-compasses nearly one quarter of Americans according to an April Rasmussen poll, misses the point.

What he does get right is the amorphous nature of Tea Party participants and their organiza-tion.

Th e movement encompasses

a diverse group of people from all regions of the country and all income brackets.

Although the movement has a few conspicuous proponents, it has no formal leaders or struc-ture.

Th e main issue the Tea Party addresses is the proper role of government in this country.

Must we look to it as the solu-

tion to all the problems our soci-ety faces?

Are we, as a nation, willing to accept permanently higher lev-els of taxation, government in-terference and lower economic growth in order to sustain the social spending projects which have been hoisted upon us?

Ask any Tea Partier and you can be sure of their answers.

Disagree if you like, but don’t discount their fervor, and don’t insult them by questioning their motives.

As to their electoral eff ective-ness, that question will be an-swered in two short months.

Sean Powers

administrative business,

grad student

One quarter of America understands Tea Party

Welcome to Auburn.Seriously. Welcome to Auburn.Everyone said it—while giving

directions, off ering food, serving free drinks and speaking to all.

Th ey shook hands. Th ey thanked you for visiting.

And some even apologized just in case someone else was mean to you. It almost felt like there was a planned hospital-ity committee in this gorgeous, quaint town on the Plains. We all were in awe—the only rude fans we saw were wearing garnet and black.

Jordan-Hare Stadium was an incredible experience due to a

raucous crowd, a fantastic game day environment and a gorgeous eagle that swooped over the sta-dium and sat on the sideline.

Th e crowd chanted the entire game, but there were no rude catcalls toward USC or untow-ard motions to the fans, at least from our vantage points.

Th is small town was the best of the best. Before the game, friends told us all the campus was like Clemson. Not true. Th is place was pristine with class. It had character. And the people had character. Th ey even recy-cled.

Contrast that with nine days

ago during the USC-Furman game. Our students screamed obscenities at a measly out-of-conference opponent. Th ere were boos when the other team took the fi eld. We were rude to Furman. Yes—Furman.

And that’s not even consider-ing Georgia. We all saw horrible exchanges during that game, from our students cursing out older fans to belligerent drunks throwing up in the student sec-tion to security guards escorting our students out by the multi-tudes.

Sure, other schools are rude. LSU and Georgia are among the

worst. But as some of us have noticed, we’re getting a reputa-tion for being among the worst, too. Do we want that? Football is fi erce and intense. But we believe our student body should desire to be above the fray—above the substandard, juvenile conduct of others. What does that say about us? Are we holding to our ideals?

Th is is not to say we should care less. Let’s care more. But let’s show some class, some re-spect and some South Carolina hospitality. Let’s not scream ob-scenities or racial slurs at the other team.

It’s sometimes said football is

a lot like life. If so, we’re leaving a lot to be desired.

Th ank you, Auburn. You set the standard for what SEC foot-ball should be.

If we have to lose, we’ll lose there every time. From what we saw, you gave us the best of the South and the best college football has to off er. Let’s do the same for Alabama in two weeks.

Editorial originally printed in

9/27 edition of the University of

South Carolina’s student newspa-

per, Th e Daily Gamecock.

Daily Gamecock praises Auburn ‘class,’ ‘character’

According to data from the “Uni-form Crime Reporting Program, Florida 1960–2008” available from the FBI, violent crimes commit-ted with handguns decreased after right-to-carry laws were passed.

Data from the “Uniform Crime Reporting Program, District of Co-lumbia 1960–2008” also available from the FBI shows that after D.C. passed a handgun ban (in 1977), the murder rate increased from 30 to 80 (per 100,000).

Shortly before the ban was re-moved in 2008, the murder rate re-turned to 30, and since the ban was removed, has decreased still further.

Ms. Schneider (last week: ‘I will never feel safe on campus again’)also proposes an entirely hypo-thetical situation in which a student (who is possibly intoxicated) with a fi rearm shoots someone behind them because the shooter believes that the individual was following them.

Ms. Schneider has apparently never met anyone who has gone through the legal process to obtain, register and carry a licensed fi re-arm.

Th e fi rst fl aw in Ms. Schneider’s situation is that legally armed citi-zens (LAC) are taught not to draw unless it is an obviously life-or-

death situation. Th e second fl aw is that LACs are

generally prohibited from entering bars while carrying, much less actu-ally ingesting alcohol.

Ms. Schneider then asserts that pepper spray is a preferable means of self-defense. Th is is simply un-true.

Pepper spray, while useful in cer-tain situations, is fl awed for a num-ber of reasons. If there is any wind, the stream of spray will be dramati-cally aff ected.

Th e number of shots available in the typical container of pepper spray is limited, so anything ad-versely aff ecting aim is severely lim-iting. Pepper spray is only eff ective if it is used in a very specifi c area (the eyes).

Finally, Ms. Schneider argues that “Even if guns are permitted as a means of self-defense only, there is certainly a risk that they will not be used as such.”

She then goes on to list a few school shootings, and state that “it would be easier for a large-scale shooting to occur.” Th is is a baseless argument, one that is simply not supported by any available data.

Every shooting listed by Ms. Sch-neider occurred in schools where concealed carry is prohibited.

In fact, the available data would imply that allowing concealed carry on campus would deter potential shooters.

Arguably, we would all be safer if LACs were allowed to have their fi rearms on campus. I base this on the fact that in 1995 Utah passed laws involving concealed carry. Utah did not create “gun-free zones” in schools.

To date, we have zero incidents in Utah involving misuse of a lawfully carried fi rearm in a school.

Anecdotally, in 1997 a Mississippi principal at Pearl Junior High ap-prehended a school shooter after retrieving his lawful .45 from his truck. When confronted with armed resistance, the shooter stood down.

School shooters select schools as their targets because they know that there will be no resistance. It is a cowardly act by cowardly individ-uals, and if they thought that their targets might fi ght back, they would select a diff erent target. I contend that Ms. Schneider has nothing to fear from LACs and would be a much safer individual were her classmates permitted to have their fi rearms with them.

Tom Dowling

senior, sociology

We would like to let you know of the wonderful experience we had at Au-burn this weekend.

We have a junior at Au-burn and also a freshman at USC.

Th is weekend we ar-rived at Auburn expecting a wonderful reunion of our family (sons) and also we were, for the fi rst time, meeting the parents of a special girl.

Our experience was the best!

We attempted to be impartial for the game, wearing USC shirts and Auburn shorts, earrings, hats and buttons!

At the end of the game, we had more than several gentlemen (and I do mean gentlemen students) from Auburn approach us at diff erent intervals during our walk back to the AGR house to tell us the Game-

cocks had put on a fi ght and wish us a safe trip home.

Little did they know that we also have the heart of and love for Auburn as parents of an Auburn stu-dent.

We want to congratu-late you and your Univer-sity on the sportsmanship and hospitality that was shown to us and, we are convinced, many other Gamecock fans: parents and students alike!

Please let your students know how much their kindness and gentle na-ture was appreciated!

Th e JD Smith family

Sarasota, Fla.

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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30, 2010

Katie Brown

Writer

When Megan Abato be-

came involved with the

organization Invisible

Children her junior year

of high school, she never

expected to be serving as

Auburn’s representative

for the nonprofi t organi-

zation.

Abato, junior in early

childhood education, be-

came interested in Invis-

ible Children after two

childhood friends encour-

aged her to join.

“Th ey were really pas-

sionate about it,” Abato

said. “And I was like, ‘Wow.

If they are that passionate

about it, it must really be

awesome.’”

Invisible Children was

created in 2003 after three

young fi lmmakers from

Southern California trav-

eled to Africa searching for

a story to tell.

Th ey found out and

made a fi lm about a

23-year-old war raging in

northern Uganda, which

has aff ected nearly 2 mil-

lion civilians.

Because children were

being taken from their

homes at night and forced

to fi ght, the war in Uganda

diff ered from what the U.S.

usually experienced dur-

ing times of war.

“You think of war as old-

er adults and men fi ght-

ing,” Abato said, “but this

is 7- to 14-year-old chil-

dren who are fi ghting.”

With progress being

made in Uganda thanks to

Invisible Children, Abato

hopes to see more of Au-

burn’s campus involved.

Th e meetings, held ev-

ery other Sunday, are laid-

back dinners that take

place in Abato’s basement.

“We just get together

and talk about what we

want to do,” Abato said.

“Th ere is no set plan. We

just go with what we feel

like.”

Auburn is currently

working with a school in

Uganda that is benefi ting

from the eff orts of Invisible

Children.

Whether it is a bake sale

to raise money or dona-

tion jars at local business-

es, seeing the nonprofi t’s

dedication and hard work

is the most rewarding for

Abato.

Abato invites any stu-

dent to get involved.

For anyone who is inter-

ested, Abato suggests they

contact her through e-mail

or Facebook.

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Megan Abato, junior in early childhood education, partici-pates with the organization Invisible Children, which helps educate children in Uganda.

Auburn woman helps Invisible

Children get an education

Tysonn McKinnon

Writer

Th e global fi nancial cri-

sis, characterized by the

collapse of the American

housing market, is said to

have come to an end in

June 2009, making it the

longest recession since the

1930s.

Th e National Bureau of

Economic Research re-

gards a recession as be-

ing over when a n

economy

b e g i n s

to re-

c o v e r ,

i n s t e a d

of when an

economy is ac-

tually restored.

According to the

Alabama Department of

Industrial Relations, Lee

County had an unemploy-

ment rate of 7.8 percent in

August 2010.

Th at is lower than the

8.9 percent reported last

year and the August na-

tional unemployment rate

of 9.3 percent.

By NBER standards,

those numbers suggest

that, for Lee County, the

recession is over.

However, industries af-

fected by the housing mar-

ket are still feeling the ef-

fects of the recession.

“Th e housing market

is terrible,” said Jordan

Latimer of J L Remodeling

& Home Repair of Auburn.

Latimer said construc-

tion has been hit particu-

larly hard.

“Th e economy has been

awful,” Latimer said. “I’ve

known guys in business

for 30 years that have had

to shut their doors.”

On the other hand, Re-

nee Winkler of Harper’s

Grocery, an interior design

business in Opelika, said

business has increased

since June 2009, when the

recession began to fade.

“ W e ’ v e

m a n a g e d

to stay

f a i r l y

busy,”

W i n -

k l e r

said.

Local

businesses haven’t been

the only ones aff ected,

however.

Twenty-fi ve to 40 homes

are in foreclosure around

Lee County.

Th at computes to about

one in every 3,468 houses.

Foreclosure rates in Lee

County, however, are rela-

tively low compared with

other counties in the state.

According to the U.S.

Census Bureau’s most re-

cent data, 510 new resi-

dential building permits

have been issued so far

this year in Lee County.

Effects of recession still felt by housing-related businesses

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Th e 2010 midterm elections have the potential to be a Republican tsu-nami, as the GOP is poised to take advantage of voter frustration and ride the wave of discon-tent to congressional victories in November.

Th is year, College Repub-licans are 180 members strong, making them the largest student political or-ganization on campus.

“Every time we get on the concourse or have a meet-ing, we’ve increased our membership,” said Allison Kajs, senior in psychology and chair of AUCR.

While they have the ma-jority among student or-ganizations, Republicans don’t have the majority in the state Senate or state House of Representatives, which is something AUCR is trying to change in No-vember by helping students get to know candidates and

register to vote.“I think the most local

initiative we can take on is getting our students reg-istered to vote,” Kajs said. “We also have good connec-tions with all the local state campaigns.”

Local campaigns with which AUCR is involved are Luther Strange for at-torney general, Kay Ivey for lieutenant governor, Robert Bentley for governor and Young Boozer for state trea-surer.

“When it comes to the footwork and the man-power, that’s a lot of what

we help them with,” said Michael Lee, senior in

accounting and trea-surer of AUCR.

AUCR helps Re-publican candi-dates any way it can and has stu-dent represen-tatives who are

active in multiple campaigns on the

state level.“(We) help them out

whichever way they re-quest us to, whether it’s putting a link on our web-site or passing out water bottles for them at game days or attending meet-ings, debates or fo-rums,” Kajs said. “All students can give is their time and their hard work.”

AUCR urges anyone with interest to consider the or-ganization and encourages open debate about con-servative issues.

“I feel if you have that

narrow set of ‘Th is is what we believe in,’ you might shut someone out,” Lee said. “We try to be a group that accepts and allows everyone to come in and sort of get a feel of the general idea of what a conserva-tive and Republican means.”

Diversity is also a concern for the or-ganization, with the next round of

Eric Austin

Campus Editor

While Democrats and Republi-cans slug out their election-year battle in standard partisan fash-ion, the Auburn Young Americans for Liberty are seeking to tear down the system entirely.

“We want people to ask ques-tions,” said Bryant Haley, senior in software engineering and presi-dent of the club. “Th at’s what cre-ates the dialogue. You don’t get a single point across with a bull-horn.”

Th e club is a chapter of the na-tional Young Americans for Liber-ty, which spun off from Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) 2008 presidential campaign.

While the views of individual members may vary, the organiza-tion generally argues that the fed-eral government is out of control, taxing excessively and spending far beyond its means.

“Th e way money is taken from us now through taxation is in-voluntary,” Haley said. “You don’t have a choice. We stress voluntary, whether it be through voluntary service or voluntary exchange in a free market.”

Th e group’s leaders envision an America where the govern-ment does not provide social ser-vices such as welfare and Social

Security. Th ey see these pro-grams as ineff ective and unfair to taxpayers.

“Th e whole premise of liberty is voluntary action and personal responsibility,” said Josh Jackson, gradu-ate student in chemi-cal engineering and co-founder of the Au-burn chapter. “Society should voluntarily accept responsibility for its bad choices.”

Although they advocate the abolition of many social services, the club’s leaders stress they are not advocating throwing people on the street.

“If we think that the govern-ment should do less in terms of helping people, you obviously have to replace that,” said Michael Marsocci, senior in civil engineer-ing and co-founder of the club.

For YAL, this replacement will come in the form of volunteer ef-forts.

Th ey see helping people on a grassroots, one-on-one level infi -nitely more eff ective than large-scale government programs.

“It’s your duty to volunteer, to help with a boys and girls club, to tutor and do things like that,” Mar-socci said. “And that’s what we try to do is organize these things.”

Bryant said they consulted with the IM-PACT program on how their members could get involved in the community.

While the YAL feels govern-ment is out of touch and out of control, they are not neces-sarily fi red up about the No-vember elections.

“Especially in Alabama, there are no real liberty can-didates that we could en-dorse,” Jackson said. “What we do want is for people to know enough to where they feel responsible enough to vote if they choose to do so.”

Th us, YAL’s major goal is education. Th ey can

Darcie DyerDarcie Dyer

WriterWriter

Th e Auburn Uni-Th e Auburn Uni-versity College versity College

Democrats are Democrats are kicking off kicking off

the semes-the semes-ter and ter and midterm midterm election election season season w i t h w i t h an in-an in-c r e a s e c r e a s e in mem-in mem-

b e r s h i p b e r s h i p and en-and en-

thusiasm.thusiasm.“We had a “We had a

great response at great response at O-Days this year, signing O-Days this year, signing

up over 100 new mem-up over 100 new mem-bers,” said Beth Clayton, bers,” said Beth Clayton, junior in nutrition and junior in nutrition and food sciences and College food sciences and College Democrats treasurer and Democrats treasurer and public relations liaison. public relations liaison.

Clayton said the club Clayton said the club has a clear plan leading up has a clear plan leading up to the November elections. to the November elections.

“Th ey have a great sense “Th ey have a great sense of what they want to do of what they want to do this fall,” said David Carter, this fall,” said David Carter, the College Democrats ad-the College Democrats ad-viser. viser.

Th e organization is in-Th e organization is in-volved with state and local volved with state and local campaigns, including Ron campaigns, including Ron Sparks for governor, Ted Sparks for governor, Ted Little for state Senate (27th Little for state Senate (27th District) and Joanne Camp District) and Joanne Camp for family court judge.for family court judge.

“Th is is an important year “Th is is an important year for the Democrats,” Clayton for the Democrats,” Clayton said. “We are working hard said. “We are working hard to keep our energy up and to keep our energy up and push through the elections. push through the elections. Th e media has painted a Th e media has painted a grim picture for the Demo-grim picture for the Demo-crats this year, but I think crats this year, but I think our usual voter base will still our usual voter base will still turn out in full force for the turn out in full force for the November elections.”November elections.”

Alex Roberson, junior in Alex Roberson, junior in history and president of the history and president of the club, plans to help deliver a club, plans to help deliver a strong voter turnout. strong voter turnout.

“Come election day we’ll “Come election day we’ll have a big push to get out and have a big push to get out and vote,” Roberson said. “We’ll vote,” Roberson said. “We’ll knock on doors and we’ll knock on doors and we’ll probably have a get-together probably have a get-together as well.” as well.”

Th e College Democrats said Th e College Democrats said they are attempting to convey they are attempting to convey

the importance of this the importance of this election to Auburn stu-election to Auburn stu-dents. dents.

“If we don’t step up to “If we don’t step up to the plate now, we will see the plate now, we will see the eff ects for years to the eff ects for years to come,” Clayton said, reit-come,” Clayton said, reit-erating the organization’s erating the organization’s motto made famous by motto made famous by President Obama’s cam-President Obama’s cam-paign for president: “If not paign for president: “If not now, when? If not us, who?”now, when? If not us, who?”

Roberson said he hopes Roberson said he hopes Democrats will continue to Democrats will continue to make their presence known. make their presence known.

“I think Democrats on “I think Democrats on Auburn’s campus need to Auburn’s campus need to know that we are here and know that we are here and we will absolutely welcome we will absolutely welcome whatever diff erences you whatever diff erences you have, but we have to stand have, but we have to stand up for these diff erences,” up for these diff erences,” Roberson said. “We can’t Roberson said. “We can’t just back down because we just back down because we feel like we’re the minority.”feel like we’re the minority.”

Roberson and Clayton feel Roberson and Clayton feel the Democratic infl uence in the Democratic infl uence in Alabama is understated.Alabama is understated.

“I think a common mis-“I think a common mis-conception is that we are conception is that we are outnumbered both in Au-outnumbered both in Au-burn and in Alabama, in gen-burn and in Alabama, in gen-eral. However, the numbers eral. However, the numbers show we really aren’t.” Clay-show we really aren’t.” Clay-ton said. “We currently hold ton said. “We currently hold majorities in both the state majorities in both the state Senate and state legislature, Senate and state legislature, as well as on a national level.”as well as on a national level.”

Th e organization plans on Th e organization plans on staying in force all year. staying in force all year.

“So far, we’ve been focus-“So far, we’ve been focus-ing most of our energy on ing most of our energy on the campaign season, but the campaign season, but we will also be active after we will also be active after the elections, keeping peo-the elections, keeping peo-ple informed about current ple informed about current events, hosting roundtables events, hosting roundtables and book clubs and starting and book clubs and starting a community service project,” a community service project,” Clayton said. Clayton said.

Meetings are held every Meetings are held every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Student Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Student Center Room 3163. Center Room 3163.

Th e leadership is lacking Th e leadership is lacking no enthusiasm for the task no enthusiasm for the task ahead.ahead.

“My biggest goal with col-“My biggest goal with col-lege Democrats is to encour-lege Democrats is to encour-age everyone, liberals, con-age everyone, liberals, con-servatives and moderates, to servatives and moderates, to learn about the issues and quit learn about the issues and quit relying on media buzz-words relying on media buzz-words to shape opinions,” Clayton to shape opinions,” Clayton said. “Th e world is changing said. “Th e world is changing fast, and we’re at a time where fast, and we’re at a time where we all have to care.”we all have to care.”

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elections closing in fast.“I guess my favorite

thing about AUCR is that we all have diff erent stanc-es: you know, you’re not going to agree 110 percent with everyone you meet,

so I like the diversity,” Kajs said.

Getting the student body involved and voting are main concerns of the AUCR, but behind those, the need for voters to be informed and well-versed in issues and candidates is a top priority.

“I just think it’s really

important for people our age to be aware because you know this is our country, this is our future and it’s up to us to get in-volved,” said Haley Th rift, junior in public relations and public relations liai-son for AUCR. “I think Col-lege Republicans is a good way to do that and to make

people aware.”AUCR is holding a voter

registration drive in Octo-ber and a tailgate Oct. 16 to which they have invited local GOP candidates.

With elections less than two months away, they also plan to be on the con-course frequently, encour-aging students to vote.

usually be seen on the Haley Center concourse at least once a week, having conversations with pass-ing students. Th ey also have a book club of sorts,

encouraging members to peruse literature about social, political and eco-nomic theory.

“We want people to come, be involved and learn as much as they can,” Bryant said.

Th ough their politics

may not fall into the two-party mainstream, YAL is merely seeking to open a dialogue and advance its positions of small govern-ment and what they see as individual liberty. Th ey said college students can sometimes lose sight of

what really matters.“You’re in a bubble when

you are in college,” Jackson said. “Th ere could be a war going on, and you’ve got your meal plan and your classes and parties to go to. And it’s easy to ignore what’s going on.”

Mary Gillman

Writer

While many students can’t wait for their chance to get a bid from a frater-nity or sorority, there are many others who choose to stay independent and away from the Greek scene.

“I don’t think people should be lined up, judged, labeled and then told whether they are accepted into something they have to pay to be in,” said Rachel Edgar, senior in industrial and systems engineering.

With 28 fraternities and 17 sororities on campus, students have a wide fi eld to choose from if they re-ceive a bid.

“As a freshman, I thought about doing it, but now, because of the re-quirements, I just wouldn’t be able to keep up with it,”

said Bethany Bertovic, se-nior in communications.

Th e thought of having other requirements to ful-fi ll beyond those expected with school or work seems to be a common turnoff among independent stu-dents.

“I chose to be non-Greek because of the cost associ-ated with joining a frater-nity, as well as the time dedicated to pledgeship,” said Sam Th ompson, se-nior in materials engineer-ing.

One of the requirements that may shy potential pledges away is the cost.

In general, a student will pay about $1,600 her fi rst year in a sorority.

For fraternities, the cost can vary, but can reach up-ward of $3,000.

Time constraints may also fall on the list of rea-sons why some students

chose to be non-Greek.

“I de-c i d e d to be in Th e A u b u r n University Ma r c h i n g Band as a freshman and didn’t really have time for anything else,” Edgar said. “Also, I didn’t feel like I would fi t too well in the Greek sys-tem.”

Although not as prominent, some indepen-dent students feel there is still a split between them and the Greek students.

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“I think the Greek sys-tem at AU is something that is necessary, and it serves a good purpose be-cause it encourages stu-dents to get involved in organizations on campus,” Th ompson said.

According to the Au-burn Greek Life website, the positive benefi ts of joining a fraternity or so-rority include networking, leadership opportunities and philanthropy.

“Greek Life defi nite-ly forces you to meet a certain group of people through social events and formals,” Th ompson said. “I feel that independents don’t usually have access

to that type of atmosphere, so independents hang with other independents.”

Th e “college experience” can change dramatically depending on if you are Greek, Edgar said.

“Th e experience is com-pletely diff erent,” Edgar said. “Whether you are non-Greek or Greek de-termines how you meet friends, what music you are exposed to, where you hang out and what your priorities are.”

For Edgar, the Greek at-mosphere is not one that stimulates individualism and personal growth.

“I’ve always felt like col-lege is a place to fi gure out who you really are,” Edgar said. “I feel the Greek sys-tem would have stunted this growth and made it impossible for me to enjoy my college experience at Auburn.”

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New Copycat center brings speedEric Austin

Campus Editor

No longer will students be forced to fi ght discouraging lines and long waits at the Copycat printing center on the bottom fl oor of the Student Center.

Copycat is opening a second station this week around the corner next to Outtakes to facilitate the fl ow of students that often re-sembles interstate traffi c during rush hour.

“We’ve been getting so busy, especially in the mornings, since we’ve moved to the Student Center,” said Glenda Miley, Copy-cat manager. “We really didn’t have enough room to do what we wanted to do.”

Miley said the layout of the current Copy-cat center causes a small crowd, which can extend wait times, making the jobs of her staff more diffi cult.

“It’s going to make students’ lives a lot eas-ier,” said Chandler White, graduate student in geography and Copycat employee. “We would get really congested in here, and this will make things easier for the students and the employees.”

Th e new center opens this week.

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Th e Big Sis-Little Sis aspect of sorority life is a beloved and timeless tra-dition that brings the girls closer.

“After I graduate, I am going to miss seeing ev-eryone all the time, but I know our sisterhood bond will forever keep us close,” said Lauren Baggett, se-nior in communications.

Both members of Phi Mu sorority, Allison

Chiarella, junior in ac-counting, and her “little sister” Meighan Julbert, sophomore in undeclared math and science, knew they were meant for each other from the beginning.

Chiarella said after recruitment, the sopho-mores were paired with a freshman for the fi rst week of classes.

Chiarella took her po-tential little sisters out to dinner to get to know them better.

Th e girls then listed

their top choices.Chiarella and Julbert

were both excited when they found out they had chosen each other.

“It was ironic because we were from the same small town of Trussville, Ala., knew all the same people and lived about fi ve minutes apart all of our lives, but just never met each other,” Chiarella said. “When we found out that we picked each other as a big sister and little sister, she literally tackled

me down to the ground, and everyone was staring at us.”

Chiarella and Julbert are always around each other for a good laugh and sometimes just to talk.

Julbert also has a great deal of love in her heart for her big sister.

“We do not just have the sister connection, but the best-friend kind, too,” Julbert said. “Whenever one of us needs advice, the other is right there to listen.”

Phi Mu women fi nd life-long friendships in Big Sis-Little Sis

Jeremy Gerrard

Writer

Th e women of Alpha Xi Delta sorority are hosting the fi rst AmaXIng Chal-lenge, an event which will benefi t Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism sci-ence and advocacy organi-zation.

Th e event will promote awareness of the disorder within the community.

Th e challenge, which is a one-mile walk or a fi ve km run, will take place 11 a.m. Oct. 8 at Ogletree Vil-lage in Auburn.

Th e Auburn sisters will be one of three Alpha Xi Delta chapters from across the state to put on the event.

Th e other chapters are from the University of Ala-bama at Birmingham and Jacksonville State.

Autism Speaks was not the sorority’s national phi-lanthropy until 2009.

Statistics from the Au-tism Speaks website state that autism aff ects one in 110 children, with rates higher among boys.

“With numbers like that, you are going to know someone in your life that is aff ected by autism,” said Erin McCreary, junior in psychology and presi-dent of Alpha Xi Delta. “Th at’s kind of why we call it the AmaXIng challenge, to really challenge people to look around them and relate to their community.”

McCreary, whose broth-er was diagnosed with As-perger’s syndrome, a form of autism, three years ago, said the event is signifi -cant and personal to her.

She said she is excited to see so much support from the University, other Greek organizations and the community.

Alpha Xi Delta already has more than 500 partici-pants signed up for this weekend’s event.

Registration will remain open until the event be-gins Sunday,

“Our partnership with Autism Speaks has al-lowed us both as a sorority and as individuals to make a life-long impact on the lives of children aff ected

by autism in the Auburn community as well as all over the country,” said Brittany Henderson, ju-nior in political science. “Knowing this gives me an incredible feeling of pride in each and every one of my sisters every day.”

While the AmaXIng Challenge will be the fi rst event for the soror-ity, members have begun making a diff erence in the Auburn community by helping out at Little Tree Preschool, where they of-fer their time and friend-ship to kids with special needs, many of whom have autism.

Th e Little Tree Pre-school will join Alpha Xi Delta at the event.

Other attendees will in-clude members from the Lee County autism sup-port group, Auburn au-tism advocate group and representatives from the psychology department who have been research-ing disorders within the autism spectrum.

As this project is in its fi rst year, McCreary said she is glad to see the ex-citement and attention her sorority is giving this cause.

Everyone from fresh-men to seniors are pitch-ing in, McCreary said.

“I love our philanthropy because we are so involved with the Auburn autism community, and we get to see the faces of the people

we work so hard for,” said Brooke Molnar, sopho-more in special education. “We are extremely hands-on.”

While McCreary and her sisters said they are happy with the response the community has shown thus far, she stresses how important this issue is to-day.

“It’s not just about rais-ing money—it’s about raising awareness so peo-ple can be informed and catch these cases early on so children can get the help they need,” McCreary said.

Autism Speaks was founded in 2005 by grand-parents of an autistic child.

Alpha Xi Delta fi ghts for autism awareness

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Sophomore Meighan Julbert (left) and junior Allison Chiarel-la (right) formed a friendship after becoming sisters.


Maddy Hall

Writer

Stress reduction class

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to achieve the balance of

school, work and social

time.

Mary Sandage, clinical

supervisor for graduate

students in speech lan-

guage pathology, leads the

class.

Her goal is to help stu-

dents become “mindful.”

Mindful eating and

breathing, as well as

awareness of the body, are

techniques she teaches.

“Being mindful is learn-

ing to be in the present

moment,” Sandage said.

“Train the mind to pay at-

tention to what is happen-

ing now.”

Sandage said some of

her students who previ-

ously suff ered from weekly

migraines fi nish the se-

mester without them.

Similarly, students have

reported they were able

to stop taking blood pres-

sure medicine because of

the lessons learned in the

class.

Lauren Th omas, junior

in communication disor-

ders, already notices the

changes in her lifestyle.

“I have become very

mindful about life and

what is going on right

now,” Th omas said. “I

am learning not to stress

about the future, especial-

ly schoolwork and tests,

but to concentrate on my

life day to day.”

A typical class period

begins with sharing on

how the students did on

their challenge from the

previous week.

Next, they begin the

yoga portion, which in-

cludes a variety of poses,

all while still focusing on

breathing.

“Th is is not your typi-

cal athletic yoga; it is an

awareness of your physi-

cal self,” Sandage said.

“Mindfulness isn’t just go-

ing through the motions:

it is being there for every

millimeter of movement.”

Flexibility is not an issue

because most positions

can be done in alternate

ways to accommodate the

diff erent abilities of the

students.

“I’m not very good at

the yoga part, but it isn’t

diffi cult,” Th omas said.

Th e class cools down

with a series of breathing

exercises, usually followed

by a passage of reading.

Th e reading ends with a

challenge for the students

to watch their reactions

for that week and try to

understand why they re-

acted the way they did, be

it positive or negative.

“Taking time to think

about the situation helps

us see what is important

and what is not,” Sandage

said, “or see when it is just

a diff erent point of view

than ours that makes us

react the way we do.”

T.R. Amason, senior in

social work, has a lot on

her plate. She said the

class has helped her tackle

her busy schedule.

“I think it is awesome,”

Amason said. “I do school

and work full time, and

I have learned so many

techniques that have

helped me to stay focused.”

Stress reduction has

even helped her eating

habits.

“I’ve learned about

mindful eating, which

is when, as you eat, you

notice the textures and

fl avors of the food,” Ama-

son said. “Th inking about

what I was tasting and

what I felt in my mouth

helped me to feel fuller

faster.”

Th omas recommends

the class to fellow stu-

dents.

“It is an easy class, and

if you fully engage, it can

really be helpful,” Th omas

said.

Charlie Timberlake / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Leg stretches are performed during stress reduction class last Thursday. The class combines mental and physical training.

Class of the week conquers stress

Rachel Shirey

Writer

Th e PINK winter line

from Victoria’s Secret is

on the Haley and Th ach

concourses today as part

of its fall tour.

Auburn’s PINK campus

representatives are Sara

Trowbridge, sophomore

in public relations, and

Haley Porter, junior in bio-

systems engineering.

“When PINK came out

with the collegiate line, it

really took off , and they

decided they wanted the

schools more involved,”

said Melanie Chitwood, ju-

nior in apparel design and

production management.

“It’s a way to show your

college spirit and have an

alternative option to your

typical T-shirts.”

Chitwood is a member

of the PINK street team.

Th e street team assists

campus representatives

with advertising and pro-

motions.

Porter and Trowbridge

have been advertising

around campus and pass-

ing out freebies and cou-

pons.

“It’s their whole winter

collection, and you can

buy anything there,” Porter

said. “It’s also not in stores,

in the catalogs or online.

We get the fi rst-hand pick

at it.”

Th ere will also be

chances to win free prizes,

including the Victoria’s

Secret signature PINK dog

and merchandise.

Trowbridge said the

winter collection will

become available nation-

ally in December.

Victoria’s Secret will

drive a pop-up shop to sev-

eral universities across the

nation.

“Th ey are very selective

of who they chose to visit,”

Trowbridge said. “Th e last

time they came to Auburn

was two years ago.”

Porter said the fall tour

is going to 13 campuses

out of 59 participants.

Th e fall tour is not visit-

ing the University of Ala-

bama this year.

Th e fall tour pop-up

shop will be open from 10

a.m. to

5 p.m.,

a n d

s h o p -

p e r s

will be

able to

use the

coupons

w h i c h

h a v e

b e e n

handed

out.

“ I t ’ s

just a way to show your

involvement and to show

your school spirit,” Chit-

wood said. “We are all

about bringing girls to-

gether.”


also received free items

to pass out to students on

campus.

Porter said they were

given approximately 500

ID cases, 200 Frisbees and

100 can huggers and water

bottles.

Trowbridge said Vic-

toria’s Secret is trying to

promote its new line and

encourage girls to sign up

for PINK Nation.

“We try to get the word

out about PINK Nation,

which is like a discount

program and club for their

members,” Trowbridge

said.

Porter said they are of-

fering incentives for stu-

dents who sign up.

“We also try to do diff er-

ent random events,” Por-

ter said. “Two weeks ago,

our event was Proud and

PINK.”

Anyone who wore cloth-

ing from the PINK line re-

ceived a free

item. Th ose

who didn’t

wear PINK

were able to

sign up.

Both Por-

ter and Trow-

bridge said

they hope the

fall tour will

e n c o u r a g e

people to vote

for the Col-

legiate Show-

down in the spring.

“People will vote online

to have a big concert come

to their school, and Vic-

toria’s Secret models will

come,” Trowbridge said.

“Th ere will also be more

giveaways.”


said they want Auburn to

win this year.

PINK also has a Face-

book page where they

send updates about the

upcoming events on cam-

pus to more than 400 fol-

lowers.

PINK is the new orange

with Victoria’s Secret

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It’s a way to

show your college

spirit and have an

alternative option to

your typical T-shirts.

Melanie Chitwoodjunior, apparel design and

production management

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Christen Harned / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Comedian Martin Morrow cracks a joke for a laughing crowd at The Gnu’s Room Friday night.

Gnu’s hosts night of laughsJ.P. Kelsey

Writer

Amateur comedians

braved the microphone

and a live crowd Friday

night at Th e Gnu’s Room.

Th e café/bookstore pro-

vided a venue for young

comedians to display their

comedy prowess as they

performed in the “Who

Gnu It’d Be So Funny Com-

edy Show.”

Friday’s show was the

second hosted by the Gnu’s

Room, and coordinators

said they hope there are

more to come.

“It was such a success

last time that Th e Gnu’s

Room asked if we wanted

to come back,” said An-

thony Dannar, the show’s

organizer. “We are look-

ing for this to become a

monthly thing.”

Th e show presented four

performers, all current

students or alumni who

returned for the event.

Dannar, Auburn alum-

nus and emcee of the com-

edy show, also hosts a ra-

dio show on WTGZ, Th e

Tiger.

Th e show aims to pro-

vide an alternate form of

entertainment for the Uni-

versity and the surround-

ing community.

“It gives people

something to do other

than a frat party or just

another bar,” said Mario

Carreras, one of the per-

formers.

Carreras, a 2008 Auburn

graduate, said he has done

shows at other venues.

“I have done a few plac-

es around the Southeast,”

he said. “I host a show in

Tuscaloosa called Comica-

ze, and I’ve performed in

Birmingham and Atlanta.”

John Brasseale, senior in

economics, was one of the

acts at the show. Brasse-

ale was the winner of Au-

burn’s “Last Comic Stand-

ing” two years ago.

“Winning ‘Last Comic

Standing’ gave me the con-

fi dence I needed,” Brasse-

ale said. “I used to think

things were funny only in

my head, but, thankfully,

those things are funny to

other people, too. All of

that has led me to pursue

other opportunities to

perform.”

Auburn has provided

several opportunities for

comics and other talents

to test the waters of their

craft. Martin Morrow, 2010

graduate, began his ca-

reer on campus and has

since been able to perform

around the country.

“I started doing stand-

up when I was a freshman,”

Morrow said. “I performed

at UPC Open Mic nights

and a few other events. I

have since performed in

Birmingham, Atlanta and

New York. I perform in

Birmingham pretty often,

and I’m going to be travel-

ing to New York again next

month.”

Kevin Saucier earned

his degree from Auburn

in August, but was moon-

lighting as a comic while

in school.

“I have been doing open-

mic stuff in Birmingham

and Mobile since July,”

Saucier said. “Th is is the

fi rst offi cial show that I

have done, and I think it

went well. I just try to do

what is funny and hope

other people think it’s

funny.”

Tina Tatum, owner of

Th e Gnu’s Room, was glad

to see people come out

and show support for tal-

ent that may not be well-

known.

“We are always open to

providing a venue for peo-

ple interested in the arts,

whether it be music, com-

edy, dance or theater,” Ta-

tum said. “Th e show was

a lot of fun and we hope

there will be others.”

Danner said there

should be another show

sometime in October.

Th e article “Engineering program off ers students free summer in

India” in the Sept. 23, 2010, edition of Th e Auburn Plainsman listed

Rachel Shirey as the author. Th e article was written by Katie Brown.

The Auburn PlainsmanThursday, September 30, 2010 Campus, B5

No pilot, no problem: Auburn studies unmanned fl ightChelsea Harvey

Staff Writer

Auburn researchers will

spend the next year con-

ducting a project that will

analyze the risk associ-

ated with Unmanned Aer-

ial Systems for the Federal

Aviation Administration.

“Th is project is part of

an overall eff ort to deter-

mine how to incorporate

unmanned aerial vehicles

into the nation’s civil air-

space,” said Larry Bene-

fi eld, dean of the College

of Engineering. “It is ex-

pected to provide valuable

information in planning

regulations that will apply

to UAVs, in applications

such as the observation

of hurricane damage, oil

spills and remote sensing.”

Th e FAA awarded a

$300,000 grant for the

project, an interdisciplin-

ary collaboration among

the College of Science and

Mathematics, the College

of Engineering and the

College of Business.

“Like most grants, this

proposal was submitted in

response to a Request for

Proposal put out for the

FAA,” said Cheryl Cobb,

assistant director of Com-

munications and Mar-

keting for the Engineer-

ing Administration. “Th e

FAA evaluates incoming

proposals and makes the

award to the one that best

meets the requirements

outlined in the RFP.”

Cobb said the funding is

for one year.

Lead participants in

the project are Wesley

Randall of the College of

Business, Mark Carpenter

of the College of Science

and Mathematics and Roy

Hartfi eld of the College of

Engineering.

Th e combined eff ort of

the three colleges is nec-

essary for the depth of

research the project re-

quires.

In a letter to Th e Auburn

Plainsman, Randall, Car-

penter and Hartfi eld said,

“Th is eff ort will help to

amalgamate FAA’s exper-

tise in operational safety,

in the area of identifi ca-

tion and quantifi cation of

UAS risk. Armed with a

risk typology, and predic-

tive modeling capability,

the FAA Technical Cen-

ter will be able to evalu-

ate risks and propose risk

mitigation strategies.”

According to the letter,

UASs are used by the U.S.

military, as well as by gov-

ernment and commercial

agencies.

Th ese UASs may be

widely used in the future.

“Th e key advantages

of a UAS are relatively

smaller size and weight

over manned aircraft due

to the fact that a UAS does

not require onboard hu-

man control interfaces,

and that environmental

systems to support human

life are not required,” the

letter said. “Th is reduc-

tion in size allows UASs

to operate more effi ciently

and with a lower environ-

mental footprint.”

UASs also minimize risk

to human life by eliminat-

ing the need for a pilot in

hostile environments.

After the aircraft have

proven themselves under

research that will be con-

ducted at Auburn, the

possibilities for their uses

are many.

“As far as application,

once UAS have proven

their safety, it is easy to

consider a fl eet of un-

manned cargo aircraft

fl ying long hauls over the

Pacifi c Ocean, bringing

goods to and from global

markets,” the letter said.

Th is project is not the

fi rst that has been con-

ducted in cooperation

with the FAA.

“Auburn has worked

with the FAA in a number

of ways over the years,”

Benefi eld said.

Game day buttons remain important fan-based traditionAlison McFerrin

Staff Writer

One game day tradition

has stood the test of time

for more than 20 years:

game day buttons from the

University Bookstore.

“We start giving them

out on Friday afternoon,

and then by about 11 a.m.,

they’re gone pretty fast,”

said Michael Behel, junior

in exercise science and

bookstore employee.

Th e catchy slogans on

these game day keepsakes

are the creations of fans,

said Jennifer Edwards,

marketing and communi-

cations specialist for the

bookstore.

“We hold a contest each

year, and fans submit slo-

gan suggestions for each

game,” Edwards said. “We

put all of the suggestions

in a spreadsheet and pass

it around the store to

choose the winners.”

Th e contest is usually

held late in the spring se-

mester.

Students, alumni and

other fans snatch up the

buttons to add a little ex-

tra fl air to their game day

attire.

“I love them,” said Molly

Anne Dutton, freshman

in landscape horticulture,

who even picked up a

couple extras for her visi-

tors to Saturday’s game. “I

think it’s a good Auburn

tradition.”

Many students collect

the buttons and keep them

as mementos of previous

games, especially close

victories.

“I have a big jug of the

buttons,” said Tyler Chess-

er, senior in supply chain

management.

Th e bookstore’s game

day buttons have been an

Auburn tradition since

1987 when Bob Riten-

baugh, assistant vice presi-

dent for auxiliary services

and the bookstore director

at the time, implemented

the idea.

Th e fi rst game day but-

ton sported a white back-

ground and the phrase

“Rope Texas” for Auburn’s

opening game that season.

Since then, about

736,000 of these keepsakes

have been distributed to

Auburn football fans.

Between 3,000 and 5,000

buttons go out each game

day.

Katie Wittenbel / PHOTOGRAPHER

Game day buttons display slogans generated by fans, often witty comments about the opposing football team.

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CINTRIGUEFeeling the pressure

Laura Maxwell

Managing Editor

Forty million adults in the United States suff er from an anxiety disorder, with 75 percent experiencing their fi rst episode by age 22, according to Anxiety Disorders As-sociation of America’s website.

“I don’t know if stress-related disorders are more common in college towns, but college tends to be a particularly stressful time of life,” said Jenna Sil-verman, senior staff clini-cian at Student Counseling Services.

She said students are under pressure to succeed academically and balance time with work, friends, ex-tracurricular activities and their families.

Silverman said anxiety and depressive symptoms were the most common concerns of students seek-ing counseling, but those are also the most common concerns for the general population.

“College age is generally the time with most mental health issues present,” said Alison Malmon, founder and executive di-rector of activeminds.org.

Active Minds is an organization that tries to remove the stigma about mental health issues and encourages open com-munication about mental health on col-lege campuses.

“A lot of people believe that you should be able to solve all your problems yourself,” Silverman said. “Th at’s simply not true.”

Silverman said many students believe they have to have major problems to merit the use of psychotherapy, but the

psychologists at Auburn’s counseling ser-vices treat students with a wide range of concerns, from homesickness to thoughts of suicide.

Malmon said anxiety is a real issue that can profoundly aff ect school, life and work, but there is help.

One of her suggestions is to be true to yourself and be true to things you like to do.

“Basically, stress puts us in a fi ght-or-fl ight situation biologically,” said Sheila Patel, staff clini-cian at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. “What we believe is a major cornerstone for stress reduction is medita-tion.”

One of the founders of the Chopra Center, Deepak Cho-pra, was coined by Time Mag-azine as the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine.”

He has written numerous books on mind-body health.

Free guided meditations are provided on the Chopra Center’s web-site, www.chopra.com.

Exercising, practicing yoga, eating well-balanced meals, limiting alcohol and caf-feine intake, getting involved and main-taining a positive attitude are among the suggestions for managing stress, as listed on the ADAA’s website.

Patel said she also suggests journaling.She encourages students to journal

about their stresses, particularly before exams.

“Having a good social support system is really important as well,” Patel said.

Silverman said scheduling time for fun activities can be just as important as

If you are stressed and it’s in-terfering with your everyday life, you should talk to some-one about it.”

Alison Malmon, executive director of

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For some people, not having coff ee in the morn-ing is a grande problem.

With coff ee being one of the main sources of the average person’s caff eine intake, it is a good idea to know the benefi ts and risks involved.

“About 10 minutes after I drink the fi rst cup, I feel a little pep in my step,” said Nick Parsons, senior in building science.

According to mayoclin-ic.com, drinking 500-600 milligrams of caff eine, or 4-7 cups of coff ee, a day may be too much.

To put this in perspec-tive, 8 ounces of brewed, generic coff ee contains 95-200 milligrams of caff eine, whereas a 16-ounce Star-bucks vanilla latte con-tains 150 milligrams.

Consuming 4-7 cups of coff ee a day can cause problems sleeping, irrita-bility, upset stomach and

headaches.Parsons said he drinks

an average of 2-3 cups daily.

“I started drinking cof-fee when I got to college,” Parsons said. “I was tired from staying up all night, so I started drinking coff ee to get though the next day.”

Research theories say caff eine can cause appe-tite suppression, can stim-ulate thermogenesis (the

process that generates heat and energy from digesting food) and act as a diuretic, which

means it speeds up the rate of urina-tion, causing the body to rid itself of water faster.

Coff ee also has the a b i l i t y to tem-

p o r a r -ily increase

blood pressure.Th e amount

of caff eine found in 2-3 cups of coff ee can raise both the systolic (top number) and diastolic (bottom number) pressures in blood pres-sure readings, mayoclinic.com said.

Parsons said he brews Starbucks coff ee at home every day and drinks it black.

But for those who prefer coff ee with a little something extra, using sugar or artifi -cial sweeteners also has its risks.

“Using regular sugar in your coff ee isn’t bad for you if you use it in moderation,” said Kristen Wheeles, a fi rst-year pharmacy student. “Sugar is natural and metabo-lizes in your body at a normal rate to become glu-cose, which is the body’s purest form of sugar. Too much of

it has obvious side eff ects like a sugar rush, quickly followed by a crash in en-ergy.”

Artifi cial sweeteners are also on the list of potential health hazards.

However, they aren’t as bad as one might think.

“Artifi cial sweeteners,

like sugar, are OK in mod-eration,” Wheeles said. “Sweeteners such as Equal, Sweet’N Low and Splenda don’t metabolize at a normal rate. Th ey also don’t metabolize into glu-cose, which is what’s best for your body.”

While sugar is healthier

than artifi cial sweeteners, artifi cial sweeteners of-ten contain zero calories, making them more desir-able to some people.

But, if the personal health risks of coff ee con-sumption don’t keep you away, maybe the taste will.

“Coff ee tastes like dirt,” said Andrew Wenzler, senior in biomedical sci-ences.

Wenzler said he tried coff ee for the fi rst time in high school, and then again his sophomore year

of college. While some students

need coff ee to stay awake, Wenzler said he

just gets enough sleep ev-ery night.

“I’ve been miserable enough in situations when I just had to fi ght through the nastiness,” Wenzler said.

Th e big boys like Star-bucks and Caribou Coff ee have even gone global, so everyone can enjoy a bev-erage with fi ve words in the title.

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Whether it’s for an early morning boost or an afternoon pick-me-up, coff ee drinkers should watch how much they drink

Emily Adams/ PHOTO EDITOR

Kayla Burke begins to crack under the pressure of graduate school classes.

The Auburn PlainsmanIntrigue, C2 Thursday, September 30, 2010

War EagleSmoothie

Kerry’s recipe of the week:

Written by Kerry Fannon / WRITER

Directions:

In a blender or food processor, combine

the yogurt, blueberries, peaches and

milk. Puree until smooth.

Serves: 1-2

Ingredients:

1 cup plain yogurt

1 cup blueberries, frozen or fresh

1 cup peaches, frozen or fresh

½ cup milk

Do you drink coff ee? Why or

why not?

Yes. I love Starbucks coff ee. I

like mocha and iced coff ee.

Do you use Mac or PC? Mac

Who is your favorite pro-

football team?

New England Patriots

Who is your least favorite

team?

Indianapolis Colts

What tip do you have for

networking?

Do a background check on

people fi rst.

Do you enjoy dance clubs?

Yes. I love to dance and hang-

ing out with my friends.

Where do you go to dance?

SkyBar Café

Are you a Coke or Pepsi per-

son? Coke

What fall show are you most

excited about?

“CSI Miami”

What is the weirdest dream

you have ever had?

I don’t know—there are so

many.

What causes you anxiety?

Nothing causes me anxiety.

What fads do you not like?

None

Age:20

Hometown:Roanoke

Greatest fear:Snakes

Hobbies:Drawing and sing-ing

Random fact:I was at the dance show at Southern Union last month.

Availability: Single

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setting aside time for schoolwork.

“View these activi-ties as self-care in-stead of procrastina-tion,” Silverman said.

Women are twice as likely to have an anxiety disorder as men, according to the ADAA’s website.

“I feel it has a lot to do with just how both men and women view the world,” Patel said.

Silverman said some research sug-gests women are more likely to internalize stress, such as through anxiety disorders.

Men, on the other hand, appear to ex-ternalize stress by be-ing irritable or getting

into arguments.“If you are stressed

and it’s interfering with your everyday life, you should talk to someone about it,” Malmon said.

Student Counseling Services off ers 10 free individual counseling sessions for Auburn students.

Unlimited free group psychotherapy is also provided for those who are inter-ested.

To make an ap-pointment, call 334-844-5123 or go by the center located on the second fl oor of the Au-burn University Medi-cal Clinic.

For more informa-tion, visit the counsel-ing services website at www.auburn.edu/scs.

Damarius Nolan-Wattssophomore, architecture

Annie Faulk

Writer

High fructose corn

syrup is sweeter than it

sounds.

Th e Corn Refi ners Asso-

ciation recently petitioned

the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration to change

the name of “high fructose

corn syrup” to “corn sugar.”

Th e CRA claims vague

scientifi c reports and fal-

lacious media reports on

the health risks of high

fructose corn syrup leave

the average consumer

puzzled.

“High fructose corn syr-

up is developed from corn

sugar, which contains half

glucose and half fructose,”

said Jean Weese, poultry

science professor and co-

ordinator of Extension

Food Safety Programs.

“But most of what you

read about high fructose

corn syrup is not true—it

is actually better than ta-

ble sugar.”

Th ere are many inaccu-

rate perceptions pertain-

ing to the health risks of

high fructose corn syrup,

perpetuated especially by

commercials and ads.

As a result, high fructose

corn syrup has a negative

reputation.

“Well-renowned nutri-

tionists question whether

s w e e t -

ener con-

f u s i o n

c o u l d

lead con-

s u m e r s

to make

m i s i n -

f o r m e d

decisions

a b o u t

s u g a r s

in their

diets,” ac-

c o r d i n g

to the

CRA press release.

Some researchers and

consumers associate corn

syrup with the “obesity

epidemic” in the United

States.

“Somehow this has

become the evil sugar,”

Weese said. “Th ere have

been some studies that

have shown that it reacts

diff erently in the body,

which we knew from the

onset of adding it to foods.”

Th e CRA said they pri-

marily want consumers to

be aware of what they eat.

“Consumers need to

know what is in their foods

and where

their foods

come from,

and we

want to be

clear with

them,” said

CRA presi-

dent Audrae

Erickson in

the press re-

lease.

Th e diff er-

ence in high

f r u c t o s e

corn syrup

and sugar is chemical.

“I believe that the main

factor is just the amount

of calories taken in versus

calories used in our lives

and that there is little dif-

ference between high fruc-

tose corn syrup and table

sugar in the way that our

bodies use them,” said

Dennis Delaney, extension

specialist in agronomy

and soils.

However, altering the

name of high fructose corn

syrup to corn sugar does

not change the chemical

makeup.

“Changing the name

doesn’t change what you’re

taking in,” said Douglas

White, associate profes-

sor in nutrition and food

science. “It’s more of a PR

thing to me. Th ere are no

health risks as long as we

take it in moderation.”

Changing the name is

also unlikely to alter corn

production in Alabama,

according to the National

Corn Growers Associa-

tion.

Approximately 3.5 per-

cent of all U.S.-produced

corn is for the produc-

tion of high fructose corn

syrup.

“Most corn utilized

in the U.S., and particu-

larly in Alabama, goes for

animal feed—especially

chickens here,” Delaney

said. “Corn syrup is an im-

portant, but not huge part

of the market.”

Some-

how this has

become the evil

sugar. ”

Jean Weese,poultry science professor

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Getting a taste of creativity Elaine Busby / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Rebecca Simmons, second-year pharmacy student, applies the last-minute touches to her fi nal project in last week’s cake-decorating class.

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Caitlin Myles

Writer

Music is an inherent part of Auburn nightlife, and Th e Independent has taking it upon itself to promote Auburn’s dance scene.

Th e Independent, locat-ed just outside downtown at the intersection of Gay Street and Opelika Road, beside Scooter Groove, is home to TKO and Inde-penDance, two events that off er locals an opportunity to not only listen and en-joy good music, but also to actively participate in the event.

“I would describe TKO, in its most basic sense, as an indie dance party,” said Andy Belsterling, one of the creators of TKO.

Belsterling said TKO got started after he and some friends visited cities like Atlanta and Orlando on the weekends and partied at what he called “true dance clubs”.

“I would go to these dance parties and just have such a good time,”

Belsterling said. He explained that there

wasn’t anything like it near downtown Auburn.

TKO stands for Techni-cal Knockout, according to Belsterling, and is just a unique way of describ-ing the mix of high-energy music and dance at these events.

“It’s dance music that you would hear if you went to a bigger city with real dance clubs rather than just like Top 40 music,” said Heath Truitt, owner of the bar and eatery.

TKO has been hosted at the Independent for more than a year and is held on the fi rst Friday of every month.

When the group origi-nally started, Belsterling said other venues in the area didn’t understand it.

Truitt added that at oth-er places, the movement of the whole thing wasn’t allowed to develop into something bigger.

“Th e Independent is very focused on having new, original, relevant mu-sic,” Belsterling said, “and

we just fi t perfectly with what they wanted to do and what we wanted to do.”

IndepenDance is anoth-er event the venue is hold-ing every Wednesday with the same idea in mind.

Truitt, who DJs along with Belsterling, said there is a lot of freedom with this genre of music and that those attending will hear anything from indie elec-tro to music from the 70s and 80s, depending on the DJ.

“We feel like we have a little bit more leeway be-cause people aren’t used to what we’re doing on Wednesday yet, so there-fore, we’re not boxed in to one specifi c type of music,” Truitt said.

Diff erent DJs, including those who produce their own music, music blog-gers and creators of other events, are invited to the Independent to perform on various nights.

Truitt said this type of event brings out a lot of design- and art-oriented people, but that what they

are promoting with these events is something any-one could enjoy.

“Nobody ever complains about not having a good time here,” Truitt said.

Missy Hazeldine, sopho-more in apparel merchan-dising, said she enjoys attending these events because of the atmosphere and people at the Indepen-dent.

“Everyone that goes is really laid-back and down

to earth,” Hazeldine said.Hazeldine said she feels

like she can walk in wear-ing whatever and just hang out and enjoy being there.

“Th e gathering in itself is just pleasing,” said Mike Leigh, senior in theatre.

Leigh described the mu-sic as magical and said the dancing is sometimes overwhelming.

“If you just come and if you just let yourself dance and not judge or be judged,

that really is the key,” Leigh said.

TKO will be held twice in October, once on the fi rst of the month and then again Oct. 30 for Hallow-een instead of Nov. 1.

Truitt and Belsterling both encourage everyone to come out and experi-ence the atmosphere at the Independent at least once, if not for the music and dance social, then just for the atmosphere of it.

Dance parties sashay onto nightlife scene

Hobby Lobby’s weekly cake decorating class is off ered for $20

Asia Ashley

Writer

During the course of Hobby Lobby’s cake-decorating class, participants will learn dimen-sional cake decorating, how to write on cakes and how to make fl owers and borders.

Each class is two hours long, once a week, and lasts a month.

Participants have the op-tion of choosing between two days a week to attend the class.

On the last week of the class, students take their fi nal exams and receive their cake-decorating diploma.

During the process of four sessions, they learned to

“basket-weave” the sides of their cakes and make sugar fl owers.

Th en for the fi nal class, the students used everything they learned in the previous weeks by adding their own borders, fl owers and other décor.

Rebecca Simmons, second-year pharmacy student, is ex-cited to have completed the course.

“Th e coolest thing I’ve learned in here was how to smooth my icing with a paint roller,” Simmons said.

Aside from the joy that she gets from being able to eat ev-erything when she’s done, she said she also loved the classes because they made fun study breaks.

“I liked learning how to make diff erent fl owers for the cakes,” said Jessica Price, Au-burn alumna. “I’m excited that I know how to make them, so I can use it if I make a cake for someone’s birthday.”

Price said she looks forward to the class as a break from a kindergarten class she teach-es.

Virginia Crouch, the class instructor, has been teaching the class since February.

She said she loves having the experience of teaching others her passion.

She fi rst discovered her love for cake decorating when she designed her younger broth-er’s guitar cake years ago.

“He was 10,” Crouch said.

“He’s 50 now. So a little over 40 years ago.”

In the upcoming sessions, students will learn the basic essentials of cake decorating.

Th is involves making icing, learning about icing bags, leveling a cake and designing simple tops.

At the end of this class, the students will decorate cookies they have brought in.

Crouch encourages anyone who wants to indulge in a fun and creative activity to sign up.

Sign-up sheets for the cake-decorating class are located at the registers in Hobby Lobby.

Th ey are now off ering the class for $20, possibly through June 2011.

Th ursdaySkyBar Café - Brantly GilbertSupper Club - Revival (an Allman Brothers Experience)Bourbon Street - Th e Last Waltz Ensemble

FridaySkyBar Café - Groove FactorSupper Club - Splendid Chaos, with Chris Posey in the Snapper Dome

Saturday

SkyBar Café - Az-IzzSupper Club - Rollin’ in the Hay, with Zig in the Snapper DomeTh e Independent - No Fuego-KarBombBourbon Street- Noise Org

Elaine Busby / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

The dance party continues downtown at places like SkyBar Café. The dance fl oor, located in the back room, is usually packed with students dancing the night away.


Networking is intimidat-ing, yet necessary for any

aspiring professional. Pre-pare yourself with these

10 tips.

tips formaking

connections

Miranda

Dollarhide

Associate Intrigue Editor

Move over Rainbow san-

dals, silly bands and Nike

shorts—the newest fad to

step its way into the spot-

light is active footwear.

With the slogan “Fit for

Adventure,” Chacos have

slid their way into becom-

ing the most popular san-

dals on campus.

Selling 20 to 30 Chacos

a week, Josh Gamble, Kin-

nucan’s assistant man-

ager, said they are popu-

lar among both men and

women, adventurous and

nonadventurous.

“Th ey are comfortable,”

Gamble said. “You don’t

have to be the adventurous

kind to wear them.”

Active footwear are de-

signed to support your feet

for whatever you may be

doing.

Originally created for

those playing water sports,

Chacos have expanded to

all walks of life.

Gamble said the popu-

larity of Chacos has come

from the sandals’ durabil-

ity and ability to be easily

worn.

“I love my Chacos,” said

Sydney Murphy, junior in

communication disorders.

“I like them because they

are comfortable. When it

is raining, they get wet, but

dry easily.”

For some students, how-

ever, comfort does not

come from easily being

able to slip a pair of shoes

on, but from the feeling of

not wearing shoes at all.

Vibram’s FiveFingers do

just that.

According to Vibram’s

website, FiveFingers are

designed to give a sensa-

tion of walking barefoot

while strengthening the

muscles in the feet and

lower legs during physical

activity.

Brad Hambrice, junior

in psychology, said he

bought FiveFingers after

doing research and fi nding

out they help people with

fl at feet.

“My primary purpose for

wearing them was to run,

but after I started wearing

them, I became addicted,”

Hambrice said.

FiveFingers’ odd ap-

pearance may have some

turned off about wearing

them.

Hambrice admitted he

thought people were weird

for wearing them, but

he got used to them very

quickly.

“It becomes where you

don’t want to wear regu-

lar tennis shoes anymore,”

Hambrice said.

However, with the pop-

ularity of Reebok’s Easy-

Tones, students have not

given up on the “regular”

tennis shoe.

EasyTones are designed

with balance ball-inspired

technology to create natu-

ral instability while toning

thighs and glutes.

Gamble said they are

made for daily use.

“You can wear them

walking to class and still

get a workout,” Gamble

said.

Jessica Howard, sopho-

more in business admin-

istration and theatre, said

she likes her EasyTones,

but she doesn’t notice

them working exactly like

the company claims in

their ads.

“It is something you

can’t notice unless you are

walking long-distance,”

Howard said.

Be prepared. Have a set of questions and personal pitch for yourself in mind before attending any kind of professional networking event. Everything from ice-breaking questions to a concise statement about what your skills are can come in handy during those awk-ward silences.

Ruth Fisher fraternizes with the brothers of Alpha Gamma Rho

A day in the life of a house motherA day in the life of a house mother

Chelsea Pound

Assistant Intrigue Editor

Spending every day with

a house full of fraternity

boys may not sound like

an ideal job for many, but

Ruth Fisher would have it

no other way.

“I raised two sons and

grew up with six brothers,

so I've been around guys

all my life, and I am still

able to stand my ground

with them,” Fisher said.

She acts as somewhat of

a stand-in mom for the 33

boys that live in the Alpha

Gamma Rho house.

From listening to per-

sonal problems to decorat-

ing for holidays, Fisher is a

fi xture in the fraternity.

She begins an average

day around 8 a.m. with a

devotional and exercise.

Breakfast is shared with

whichever boys happen to

be awake and not in class.

Th e duration of her day

is spent tidying the house

and chatting with the boys.

“I want them to know

that I’m concerned with

their lives,” Fisher said. “I

try to make this a home

away from home.”

Whether keeping up

with their social lives or

keeping them in line, Fish-

er stays involved in the

guys’ daily routines.

She tries to be available

anytime they need a help-

ing hand or a good listener.

“I go around house dur-

ing breakfast and lunch,

sitting in parlor, the porch,

laundry room, wherever I

can be in middle of them,”

she said. “But I respect

their privacy, and I like

mine too.”

Th e most frustrating

part of her job is dealing

with the boys’ “ugly talk.”

“I hear more than

they think I do,” she said.

“Sometimes more than I

want to.”

Because of the talk, the

music, the parties or any

other shenanigans that

may be happening, Fisher

said she may go to sleep

any time from 11 p.m. to 4

a.m.

Outside the house,

Fisher sings in the choir at

Farmville Baptist Church,

plays cards with other

house moms and attends

Auburn football games.

“I love Auburn and be-

ing here at the fraternity

house,” she said. “It has

been quite an experience

for me.”

Functional footwear


Five Finger Shoes have become a popular among students accessory on campus this year.

Shoes intended for active, outdoor types fi nd their way onto campus for daily use

Follow through. Once you make a contact or receive a referral, follow through with your actions to show re-spect and responsibility. Not following through in a timely manner could cost you in the future.

Get involved. From volunteering to joining a school club, getting involved with diff erent organizations makes you more visible to potential employers and can help you make more contacts in the professional world.

Don’t be shy. Successful networking means meet-ing lots of people from diff erent fi elds, making good fi rst impressions and building relationships. Rather than waiting on people to talk to you, make the fi rst move, and always be genuine.

Keep an address book. Every time you receive a business card or make a contact, put it in some kind of Rolodex or address book. For important contacts, periodically check in with them so you and your skills won’t be forgotten.

Join a networking site. Websites like LinkedIn and XING allow users to make professional contacts, share resumes and even fi nd a job.

Know yourself. Have a clear understanding of what you do and why you are good at it. Th e best way for people to know how valuable you are is to tell them yourself.

Ask for it. Don’t be afraid to ask to be introduced to people. Ask people already in your network for other contacts they think would be benefi cial to you.

1Don’t fear rejection. Not everyone will be able or willing to help you. Don’t take it personally or dwell on it. It is simply part of the process.

6.7.8.9.

1.2.3.4.5.

Articulate what you want. Have a clear idea of exactly what you want from people, and don’t be afraid to ask for it. Confi dence in oneself can go a long way.

Kelly Johnson / PHOTO STAFF

10.

The Auburn PlainsmanThursday, September 30, 2010 Intrigue, C5

Adam Bulgatz

Design Editor

Research in Motion has released onto AT&T’s 3G network a new smart phone called the Black-Berry Torch 9800.

Th e Torch is RIM’s fi rst portrait touchscreen slider and comes with an updat-ed operating system and a new modern Web browser.

Hardware-wise, the Torch looks much like oth-er BlackBerry devices.

Th e phone feels very solid and well-made, al-though it also feels a little squat and bulky.

Th e phone’s design is due for an update.

It looks old compared to the current crop of smart phones.

Th e screen slides along an invisible track, and the

action feels smooth and solid. Sliding the screen up reveals the much-loved BlackBerry keyboard.

Th e Torch’s keyboard is the typical BlackBerry af-fair and is a joy to use.

Th e front of the phone is dominated by a 480 x 360 pixel touchscreen. Th e screen’s colors are vibrant, but the screen is already a generation behind other smart phones when it comes to resolution and pixel density.

Touch sensitivity is me-diocre. Th e phone some-times has trouble tracking fi ngers accurately, such as misinterpreting swipes as taps or pinches as swipes.

Th is can lead to strange visual glitches and cause things to jump across the screen. It is possible that a future software update could improve the touch experience.

Text rendering was me-diocre, with smaller text appearing blocky and hard to read. A higher resolu-tion screen would have helped improve text leg-ibility.

Inside, the Torch comes with 4 GB of storage space in the form of a microSD card, which can be re-placed with up to 32 GB of storage. Th e phone also comes with 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS support.

RIM chose a 624 megahertz CPU.

Th at’s slow com-pared to most cur-rent generation smart phones, which have at least a 1 gigahertz CPU (there are 1024 MHz in 1 GHz). Th at’s almost 40 percent faster. Th e phone sometimes felt slow, although it is diffi -cult to know wheth-er that is a fault of the slow processor or the software.

If it is the latter, a free software up-date could fi x the problem.

Th e Torch has a 5 megapixel camera and LED fl ash. Th e camera app is easy to use, and the pic-

ture quality is good.Th e phone can shoot

video up to 640 x 480, which doesn’t compare to the 720p (1280 x 720) vid-eo that most current top smart phones can shoot.

Th e call quality was generally good. Calls were

crisp and clear on both ends, although some call-ers on the other end re-ported that voices came across sounding slightly unnatural.

Occasionally, a slight metallic ring came through the ear piece.

Th e Torch comes with BlackBerry OS 6, RIM’s new operating system. OS 6 is arguably the biggest selling point of the Torch.

RIM has taken some radical steps to solve the problems that have plagued past BlackBerry smart phones. Changes include a modern Web browser, a new e-mail framework, universal search and social network-ing tools.

Th ere are some notable diff erences from Black-Berry OS 5. RIM has sig-nifi cantly cleaned up and smoothed out the user interface, and it now feels more polished and cohe-sive.

One of the biggest changes is the revamped home screen. Th e new home screen provides

quick access to messages, sound profi les, network settings and an all-new universal search.

Th e new home screen also contains a drawer that slides up from the bottom of the screen, containing all of the phone’s apps. Th e drawer is separated into diff erent categories that can be swiped left or right.

Navigating the phone can be somewhat confus-ing. You can use the touch-screen or trackpad, and the phone often utilizes long presses, but it is not always clear where.

Th e user interface gen-erally feels snappy, but there are occasional slow-downs, and sometimes the phone will appear to freeze without giving any indication that something is happening.

Th e new universal search, accessed from typ-ing the name of anything on the home screen, is easy to use and works well.

Tech review: BlackBerry Torch heats up phone market

RIM’s fi rst portrait touchscreen slider Updated operating system:

BlackBerry OS 6 New modern Web browser with pinch-to-zoom that renders web pages correctly

5 megapixel camera with LED fl ash 4 GB of upgradeable storage space

For the complete story, go to www.theplainsman.com

Photos By Adam Bulgatz / DESIGN EDITOR

Th e Torch is the best BlackBerry to

date, but it is a year behind current top

smart phones.


Wasting Time

Across

1 Gallery7 Vain fellow10 Physiques, slangily14 Wonderful thing15 Unseal, in poetry16 Huron neighbor17 Police brass18 RR stop19 Madonna ex20 Goodies from the farm (2 wds.)23 Jaded26 Common Market, briefl y27 Change color28 Vex29 Space station30 Muscle for push-ups31 Geisha’s attire32 Hijinks33 Drip catcher (2 wds.)37 TV comic Louis __38 Unhatched fi sh39 Swelling reducer40 Longbow wood41 Moulin Rouge dances43 Shinto or Zen (abbr.)44 Prior to45 Harvest goddess46 HMO workers47 __ -dieu (kneeler48 Acute51 litigate52 Money in the bank53 Flipped (2 wds.)56 Ms. Sommer of the screen57 Sheep58 Men and women62 Socks purchase63 Arg. neighbor64 Petty scholar65 9-digit IDs66 252 calories

67 Putting on airs

Down

1 Co. that made Ramblers2 Bleacher shout3 Dernier __4 Reluctant5 “Moll Flanders” author6 Adamson’s pet7 Promote8 Fiber- __ cable9 Quaker colonist10 Request earnestly11 Mountain nymph12 Pepys’ book13 Detect21 Trawler nets22 Grimm maiden23 Semiwild horse24 Where Tripoli is25 UFO pilot29 Subatomic particles30 Acts worried32 Slushy drink33 Ornithology buff 34 “Broom Hilda” cartoonist35 Hawk’s lair36 Whistle sound42 Intersections46 Wakiki wear47 Fake48 Porch adjuncts49 Luau numbers50 “Popi” star51 Hit the trail52 Priscilla’s suitor54 Defeat badly55 Shoe savers59 Philosopher __ -tzu60 Blaster’s need61 Messy place

Aquarius: Prepare for a lucky break early next week. But don’t get too excited. It won’t last long.

Aries: Anxiety disorders and an overactive bladder are NOT the same thing. Gross.

Cancer: Kittens and puppies and rainbows and glitter and ice cream and kisses!

Capricorn: What mother doesn’t know, won’t hurt her.

Gemini: Pick up the pieces and start moving on. Th ere is noth-ing else you can do.

Leo: People are beginning to ask questions about that smell. Maybe it’s fi nally time to wash those dishes.

Libra: Just because you’re broke doesn’t mean you can’t have nice things. Go top shelf, baby.

Pisces: See? TLC says polygamy is OK, so why not give it a try?

Virgo: Karma has got it out for your worst enemy this week. Just make sure you aren’t your own worst enemy.

Sagittarius: You drank the Kool-Aid. Conform. Conform. Conform.

Taurus: Th ere is no such thing as too much Golden Girls.

H o r o s c o p e s

Scorpio: Let’s address the elephant in the room. No one else likes that stupid hat. Please take it off .

Written by Brian Desarro / INTRIGUE EDITOR

Instructions

1. Place the numbers 1 to 8 in each of the oc-tagons such that the numbers are not re-peated in any row, col-umn or diagonal.

2. Th e numbers along the edges, top and bottom are the sums for the numbers in the diago-nal that begins or ends at that number.

3. Th e number in each diamond is the sum of the numbers of each of the four faces that bor-der that diamond. Th e numbers that border the diamonds do not have to be unique.

4. Number of numbers provided in this Octo = 58

OCTO

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DSPORTS

Th is Week

in Sports

Friday:

Volleyball, 7 p.m.

v. Mississippi State

Saturday:

Football, 11 a.m.

v. Louisiana-Monroe

Sunday:

Volleyball, 1:30 p.m.

v. Alabama

Wednesday:

Volleyball, 7 p.m.

v. Georgia

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Th e Auburn Tigers are 4-0 for the second straight year and back in the top 10 for the fi rst time since Sept. 14, 2008.

A week ago I was skep-tical about how this team would react to adversity, but this Tiger team has proven to be resilient.

Th e Tigers fought back from double digits in consecutive games, mak-ing it the fi rst time since 1970 that Auburn had two wins in the same season in which they had to over-come double digit defi cits.

Head coach Gene Chizik challenged the off ensive line to play physically against the Gamecocks, and that’s exactly what he got.

Auburn dominated the running game, rushing for 334 yards against the Southeastern Conference’s leading rush defense.

Auburn’s defense, led by


Junior quarterback Cam Newton jumps to a touchdown against South Carolina. Newton now leads the SEC in rushing, averaging 121.3 yards per game.

Newton wins SEC honor againCrystal Cole

Sports Editor

Junior quarterback Cam Newton contrib-uted to every score in Saturday’s win over South Carolina, a feat which earned him SEC Off ensive Player of the Week.

Th is is the second time this season Newton has earned the honor, the fi rst being in week one’s win over Arkansas State.

Head coach Gene Chizik said he feels New-ton is dealing with the attention well.

“I don’t think it’s been a distraction for him, and I don’t think it’s going to be a dis-traction for our team,” Chizik said. “It’s some-thing that I just feel like he’s very grounded when it comes to that. It’s about our team, and it’s about continuing to win, and people are going to talk and have ideas about all the awards.”

Saturday, Newton rushed for 176 yards and three touchdowns while passing for 158 yards and two more scores.

South Carolina linebacker Shaq Wilson said even with Newton’s numbers, he wasn’t

hard to tackle.“It’s not hard at all—he’s a good athlete and

all, and he deserves what he gets, but it’s not hard at all,” Wilson said.

In addition to the SEC honor, Newton has been named the Davey O’Brien Quarterback of the Week and the rivals.com National Player of the Week.

But despite the acco-lades, Newton is staying humble.

“I think I could have played better, but all the credit goes to the off en-sive line for stepping up to the challenge,” New-ton said. “Th e defense and the off ensive line did what they were supposed to do, and it showed statistically.”

Of Newton’s 25 rushing attempts, 11 went for fi rst downs, and he threw for eight fi rst downs.

Of his 46 off ensive plays, only six did not

gain yards, and only one lost yards.An Auburn player has been named the

league’s top off ensive or defensive player for four consecutive weeks.

Chizik said Newton is a great addition to the football and feels the quarterback handles himself well.

“He was a huge reason we won the football game to-night,” Chizik said Saturday. “Let’s not make any mistake about it, but there were a bunch of others out there that did it, too, and let’s not lose sight of that. I am very proud of him and just proud of the whole team.”

Newton gives the credit for the win to the whole team.

“We have a lot of guys that are relentless,” Newton said. “I am truly blessed to be a part of this team, and we are a special bunch of guys. We are truly blessed to be on a team like this with teammates that want to get better each week.”

J.P. Kelsey

Staff Reporter

Th e Auburn women’s soccer team kicked off SEC play last weekend as it hosted the Mississippi State Bulldogs Friday and the Ole Miss Rebels Sun-day.

No. 25 Auburn is now 1-1 in SEC play, with a 3-1 win against Miss. State and a 2-1 loss to Ole Miss.

Auburn has had trouble holding off Ole Miss the past few times the two have met.

“Friday’s game was a diff erent opponent and a diff erent game,” said head coach Karen Hoppa. “It’s

hard to compare the two.”For the next competi-

tion, the team will make a road trip to Fayetteville, Ark. to face off against the

Arkansas Razorbacks. “We’ve got to get our-

selves healthy and fresh,” Hoppa said. “Th is will be our fi rst road trip.”

Ole Miss gave Auburn the preparation they need-ed to face another SEC challenge, but that doesn’t mean Arkansas should be taken lightly.

“We have to go back to the drawing board and put in a good week of prac-tice to prepare for Friday’s game,” Hoppa said.

Last year, Auburn host-ed the Razorbacks and came away with a 2-1 vic-tory.

Th is year, Arkansas will bring a 3-5-2 overall re-cord and a 0-1-1 confer-ence record against Au-burn’s 7-3-0 overall record.

Arkansas suff ered a 2-1 loss to Tennessee last

weekend, but managed to play No. 17 Georgia to a draw.

Arkansas will bring ex-perience to the fi eld with 10 seniors, while Auburn is holding strong with fi ve.

Auburn junior midfi eld-er Katy Frierson will keep Arkansas on its toes.

She leads the team this season in scoring with fi ve goals.

As a team, Auburn has managed 20 goals out of 186 shots taken, with Ar-kansas weighing in at 6 goals in 129 attempts.

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senior defensive lineman Mike Blanc, stepped up as well.

Th e Tigers held the Gamecocks to only 79 rushing yards and forced turnovers on each of South Carolina’s last four posses-sions.

Following the 35-27 win, junior quarterback Cam-eron Newton was named Southeastern Conference’s Off ensive Player of the Week while Mike Blanc was named SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week.

Along with top off ensive honors, Newton was also named National Player of the Week by Rivals.com and added to the Manning Award watch list.

It is the fourth consecu-tive week an Auburn play-er was named the league’s top off ensive or defensive player.

Th is week the Tigers host to the Warhawks of Louisiana-Monroe.

Auburn should win this game without a problem as long as the Tigers come out and “do what they do.”

If there is anything we’ve learned from college foot-ball the past few years, it is to never underestimate any opponent.

ULM is the only team to play a ranked opponent in its fi rst game each of the past three seasons and is the last team to beat Alabama in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

ULM knocked off the Tide 21-14 Nov. 17, 2007.

Th e Warhawks held eight of their last 14 op-ponents to fewer than 100 yards rushing and 11 of their 14 opponents below their season average.

Last year, the Warhawks tied a school high with six wins, but it wasn’t enough to keep seven-year head coach Charlie Weatherbie around.

Todd Berry returns to ULM, this time as head coach.

Berry previously served

as the Warhawks’ off ensive coordinator in 2004-05 and helped lead them to the 2005 Sun Belt Confer-ence Championship.

ULM got its fi rst win of the season last Saturday against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions.

Redshirt freshman quar-terback Kolton Browning threw for 249 yards and rushed for 75.

Browning led his team in rushing for the second straight week after rush-ing for 83 yards on 18 car-ries last week against Ar-kansas State.

Browning’s perfor-mance marked the fi rst time since 2004 that a ULM quarterback led the team in rushing in consec-utive games.

Other notable players include junior wide receiv-er Luther Ambrose and senior running back Frank Goodin.

Ambrose is the third fastest man in college ath-letics, fi nishing third at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100-meter dash to earn All-America honors.

Ambrose ranks 16th in the NCAA with 163.3 all-purpose yards per game.

Running back Frank Goodin was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list and is currently second all-time ULM rushing and rushing touchdown list.

Goodin ranks 15th among active players in the NCAA with 2,606 ca-reer rushing yards and needs 773 yards to be-come ULM’s all-time rush leader.

Th e Warhawks and the Tigers will meet for the eighth time in the series’ history, with Auburn win-ning the previous seven.

Th e Tigers have deliv-ered shutouts in the last two games and won the last three meetings by a combined score of 138-7.

ULM is 3-34-1 all-time in games against the SEC with wins against Ala-bama, Kentucky and Mis-sissippi State.

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Th e Razorbacks have 80 this season, while Au-burn has managed with 79.

Arkansas defenders will have to be on-point and will need to keep a close eye on sophomore forward Mary Coff ed and senior forward Ashley Marks.

Th e pair is No. 2 and 3, respectively, in scoring for Auburn.

Both have kept a steady pace with three goals apiece.

On the other side of the fi eld, Arkansas’ Ally At-kins will have to be kept under control by the Au-burn defense.

She leads the Razor-backs in goals scored, accounting for two of Ar-kansas’ six goals during the season.

Defensively, Auburn sophomore goalkeeper Amy Howard will be evenly matched against her Razorbacks counter-part, Brittany Hudson.

Howard has a 74.4 cu-mulative save percentage

for the season, while Hudson’s quick hands have managed her a cu-m u l a t iv e average of 85.3 per-cent.

P l a y -ers and c o a c h e s agree that they have to be con-s i s t e n t , take ad-vantage by following t h r o u g h with op-portunities and keep the energy going for an entire 90 minutes.

In Friday’s game against Mississippi State, Auburn got on the board early, with an 11-minute goal by Coff ed.

Coff ed was able to get a shot in the back of the net, with an assist from Marks.

“I was looking to serve it in the box and fi nd an-other runner,” Coff ed said, “but I didn’t see anyone, so I cut it in and was able to put it in near-post.”

Auburn continued to dominate throughout the game and managed

another goal only 12 min-utes after the fi rst.

Frierson added anoth-er point to her r e s u m e when she went one-o n - o n e with a Mississip-pi State d e f e n d -er and drilled in a goal.

T h i s w i n marks the

ninth consecutive time Auburn has defeated Mis-sissippi State.

Th e Bulldogs were able to avoid a shutout when freshman forward Elisa-beth Sullivan scored her fourth goal of the year in the 81st minute.

Th e goal ended How-ard’s scoreless streak at 261:47.

Th e Bulldogs are now 0-2 in SEC play after los-ing 2-0 to the University of Alabama in a Sept. 26 match.

Th e Tigers then played the Ole Miss Rebels (5-5-1, 1-1-0 SEC) on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Th e Rebels took the lead in the 22nd minute when an Auburn foul re-sulted in a free kick.

“It was a tough game for us and, obviously, the conditions played a role,” Frierson said. “It’s always an emotional game with Ole Miss. Th ey came out in the fi rst half and got a good goal. We came out strong in the second half, but didn’t fi nish with the chances we had.”

It was Marks who scored the only goal for Auburn.

She scored in the 69th minute with help from Coff ed and freshman Maddie Barns.

Th e goal tied the game 1-1 and provided the Ti-gers with some hope.

“Th e second half, we had a lot of heart and we really wanted it,” Marks said. “But if you don’t fi nish chances, you don’t win games and that was the diff erence.”

With a tie going into the latter portion of the second half, Ole Miss took the lead and the win in the 81st minute after Dylan Jordan was able to take advantage of a cor-ner kick.

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Rowing club works hard, looks to expandNick Van Der Linden

Associate Sports Editor

Founded in 1992, the Auburn Uni-versity Rowing Club has grown to more than 50 people and is looking to expand.

“Th e club is open to everyone,” said Emily Brennan, club president. “Most people that come to try out have no experience, but we learn how to row, we compete and have fun.”

Unlike last year, Auburn will have a big varsity team, giving them the chance to be more competitive.

“Th e key is to have a big team,” Brennan said. “Having a bigger team allows us to enter in more races and have more competition for each boat.”

Having a bigger team is crucial dur-ing the Southern Intercollegiate Row-ing Association Regatta in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Unlike other regattas, during the SIRA regatta Auburn will compete against both club and varsity sports.

“Sometimes we’ll compete against Alabama or Kansas, which is the mo-ment of truth for us,” Brennan said.

During the last SIRA, Auburn men’s heavyweight four plus class fi nished second overall.

Brennan said although they are pleased with the performance, their goal is to have three or four boats that consistently place in the top fi ve.

Auburn practices 15 miles from

campus at Lake Harding, meeting four to fi ves times a week for both land and water practices.

“Th ere are a lot of things you need to be aware of while you’re rowing,” Brennan said. “You need power to help your speed, you need to make sure your oars are at the same level,” you’re not allowed to touch the water with your oar while it’s going back, so there is a lot to work on.”

Land practices often consist of runs, push-ups, sit-ups and working on the ergometer, a machine that imi-tates the action of rowing.

Brennan said the club would love to grow and become a varsity sport, but the funds are simply not there.

“Someone vandalized some of our boats, which will cost at least $8,000 dollars,” Brennan said. “So when you collect dues that only cover our race gear, it’s easy to go into debt.”

Joining the rowing team has changed Brennan’s life. She said she applies what she’s learned to her ev-eryday life.

“After my fi rst day of running, I told myself I wasn’t coming back, but my dad told me to stick with it,” Bren-nan said. “It’s always a challenge, but when you work hard you feel very ac-complished after a race or workout.”

Th e crew will travel to Nashville, Tenn., this weekend for a scrimmage against Vanderbilt University and the University of Georgia.

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Writer

Th e Auburn equestrian team’s recent victories have given its coach a renewed confi dence about the upcom-ing season, and that’s straight from the horse’s mouth.

After a 14-4 win against Kansas State Th ursday and a 15-4 win over South Dakota State Friday, coach Greg Williams said he feels more confi dent about the remain-ing meets.

“We’re excited about this,” Williams said. “You just don’t know till you get playing. We hope we’re good, but tonight we look like we’re going to be really good.”

Williams said the women on the team never cease to amaze him with their work ethic, which they displayed throughout the meet against Kansas State.

“Our strength was their desire to win,” Williams said. It’s a strength Williams said Auburn is going to need in

its upcoming meet against South Carolina. “Because it’s an SEC meet, we’ve got to increase our in-

tensity,” Williams said. “South Carolina’s desire to win is going to be something that a lot of the young ones have never seen before.”

South Carolina opened its season with wins against Southern Methodist University, 8-4, and South Dakota State, 12-7.

Kimberly McCormack will be the South Carolina rider to watch.

McCormack won both hunter seat MVP awards in the meet against SMU, had 15 total wins last season and won one MVP in equitation on the fl at and two in equitation over fences.

Auburn’s Maggie Fortune, junior, earned seven wins and three MVPs in horsemanship last season and two MVPs during the 2008-2009 season.

Junior Taylor Singmaster won an MVP in horsemanship

against South Dakota. Singmaster had four wins in horsemanship during the 2009-2010 season and two MVP awards.

Indy Roper, sophomore on the western team, said she is excited about the upcoming season.

“We have a solid group of girls,” Roper said. “We have great chemistry. It’s just going to be a really fun year.”

Acknowledging the rivalry between Auburn and South Carolina as SEC teams, Roper pointed out South Caro-lina beat Auburn’s western team at nationals last year.

“Hopefully our western team can go in there and try and get some revenge,” Roper said.

Sophomore hunt seat rider Lindsay Portela was named MVP of equitation at the Kansas State meet.

“Th e freshmen were really good,” Portela said. “I think everybody’s really together, and we were really united this fi rst meet, which is really big.”

Portela said she thinks the way the team handled itself is an encouraging preview of its future this season.

“It’s going to be the best against the best,” Portela said. Portela said the team needs to buckle down to prepare

for the meet against South Carolina . “I think we just need to work on getting stronger as a

whole unit and not just letting one person get stronger and the other people stay the same,” Portela said. “I think we just need to keep pushing each other to do our best every time we go out there. We’re just going to have to go in there strong and start beating them from the begin-ning.”

Th ough he remains positive, Williams also remains realistic about the diffi culty in facing conference teams like South Carolina.

“Th e SEC meets always get really tough,” Williams said. “I mean, it doesn’t matter if you’re having kind of a rebuilding year or you’re kind of at the top of your game: when two SEC schools play, it’s anybody’s game.”

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Senior Anna Schierholz rides Clifford in equitation over a fence against Kansas State Thursday. Schierholz scored a 74 in the event, and the Tigers defeated the Wildcats 14-4.

Tennis team raises rackets

Chelsea Harvey

Staff Writer

Th e men’s tennis team participates in two tourna-ments this weekend.

Th e Georgia Tech Fall Classic will take place in Atlan-ta, Ga., Oct. 2 to Oct. 4.

Th e D’Novo Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Tournament in Tulsa, Okla., also begins Oct. 2 and will last through Oct. 10.

Associate head coach Gabor Pelva said he is optimis-tic for the team’s future tournaments.

“I expect us to play better and better,” Pelva said.Participants in the ITA tournament will include play-

ers from member schools across the ITA, including rival SEC schools Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

Senior Tim Puetz was selected to play in main draw singles for the ITA tournament and will join junior Alex Stamchev for doubles. Stamchev also qualifi ed for sin-gles play in the tournament.

Last weekend, both competed in the HEB Baylor Invi-tational in Waco, Texas, along with several teammates.

Th e tournament took place Friday through Sunday and resulted in several successes for Auburn.

Stamchev secured a win for Auburn the fi rst day. While Puetz won two matches the fi rst day, he was forced to withdraw after the second win because of an injury.

Th e two played a successful doubles match against Slah Mbarek and Daniel Sanchez of TCU on the second day, securing a 9-8 (5) win.

Sophomore Lucas Lopasso advanced to the fi nals in singles on the last day.

However, because of a scheduling confl ict, he was un-able to continue the competition in singles, focusing in-stead on doubles play with partner Tim Hewitt, sopho-more.

According to Hewitt, the doubles tournament was the highlight of the weekend.

“I played doubles because I improved over the sum-mer,” Hewitt said. “I’m quite excited to be playing dou-bles this year.”

Hewitt and Lopasso won the tournament title in dou-bles play after defeating TCU’s Soren Goritzka and Cam-eron Nashwent in their last game.

Th e pairs played to an 8-8 tie, but the Tigers managed to pull a 9-8 win in the tiebreaker.

“Th ey were down in the break, but they kept fi ghting and believed they could win the match, and they came back 9-8,” Pelva said.

Hewitt said he was happy with the results of the tour-nament.

“I’m really proud,” Hewitt said. “I’m happy with myself. I think Lucas was exceptional this weekend. I was really happy with how he played.”

Pelva said his ultimate goal is to win the SEC this year.“First of all, the fall season we play only tournaments,

and our goal is to win as many matches as we can that will help us in the preseason rankings next year,” Pelva said. “We hope we’ll be able to play at least four or fi ve tournaments and do the best we can.”

Lopasso said the goal of the whole team is to improve for the next season.

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Senior Mike Blanc receives SEC player of the week honors

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Saturday marked the fourth week in a row one or more Au-burn Tigers were hon-ored by the South-eastern Conference as Player of the Week.

Senior defensive lineman Mike Blanc received his fi rst SEC weekly award and is the second defensive lineman to be hon-ored this season.

Blanc was named the SEC Defensive

Lineman of the Week after recording a sea-son-high seven tack-les, a recovered fum-ble and a batted pass.

“Defensively, we made it our goal that they would have to beat us with the run, and we weren’t going to let them pass on us,” Blanc said after Saturday’s game.

Junior quarterback Cameron Newton earned SEC Off ensive Player of the week honors.

It is his second weekly award this season.

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Chizik seeks improvement against ULMBlake Hamilton


Hot on the heels of its 35-27 comeback win against South Carolina, the Auburn Tigers must now turns its sights to Louisiana Monroe.

Auburn faces the Warhawks Saturday in Jordan-Hare Stadium at 11 a.m.

Junior quarterback Cam Newton contributed to all fi ve Auburn touchdowns Saturday and had 158 passing and 176 rushing yards.

“It was a big game for us,” Newton said. “We knew it was going to be tough. A lot of guys had to block on the perimeter and make big plays. We knew we had to have a good running game, and that is what we did.”

Newton’s stats against the Gamecocks earned him several awards this week, including Rivals.com Na-tional Player of the Week and his second SEC Off en-sive Player of the Week title.

“I think that Cam Newton is running the ball ex-ceptionally well,” said ULM head coach Todd Berry. “He’s a very aggressive runner in the sense that, in-stead of running out of bounds, he’s going to try to run over you. We’re going to have to do a great job of tackling and containing him.”

In addition, freshman tailback Michael Dyer gained 67 yards in the second half, totaling 100 yards in 23 carries.

“Coach called the right plays at the right times,” Dyer said. “Guys responded well, and we did every-thing we were supposed to do tonight. In the second half, we went out there and did what was asked of us. Our off ensive line just dominated in the second half.”

Auburn coach Gene Chizik said although the Ti-gers face another specialized version of the spread off ense Saturday, it’s ULM’s defensive pressure that could prove to be the real test.

“Defensively, it can get quite challenging,” Chizik said. “Th ey’re moving everywhere—and diff erent blitzes from all directions, which can be very chal-lenging as well.”

Th ough Chizik said the game will be used to keep improving team performance, he also mentioned the possibility of playing time for sophomore quar-terback Barrett Trotter.

“We’ll play that by ear,” Chizik said. “We expect every game to go down to the end. Th at’s what’s hap-pened the last three weeks, so if it does get to that point, we’ll obviously have a plan for it.”

One specifi c area Chizik said the team needs to improve in is speeding up the fi rst half.

Th e coach noted that Auburn’s wins the past few weeks have come after halftime adjustments, and that the balance between off ensive and defensive ef-fort is pivotal.

“Th ere’s some give and take in there, where you’d like the defense to be right on point and the off ense is moving the ball,” Chizik said. “We can get some fi rst downs and score some points, and I said earlier, I just don’t think we’ve done that for four quarters.”


TOP: Zach Clayton makes a tackle against South Carolina Saturday. LEFT: Darvin Adams rushes past USC defenders. RIGHT: Philip Lutzenkirchen celebrates his fi rst touchdown of the season with his teammates.

The Auburn PlainsmanThursday, September 30, 2010 Sports, D7

Sara Weeks

Writer

Competitive. Passionate. A winner.

Th ese are some of the words the Auburn

women’s soccer team uses to describe as-

sistant coach Amy Berbary.

Originally from Alpharetta, Ga., Ber-

bary began playing soccer

at age 7.

“My dad was a goal-

keeper in college, so when

I was little, we used to play

in the backyard,” Berbary

said.

Berbary learned her

love and appreciation for

coaching as a junior in

high school when she was

forced to sit on the side-

line for a whole season

after suff ering an anterior

cruciate ligament injury.

“I think that’s what really got me to see

the game in a diff erent way,” Berbary said.

“By sitting on the sideline, I began to think

that coaching may be a career path I’d like

to take.”

Later, Berbary played soccer at the Uni-

versity of Georgia, where she was the lead

scorer for three straight seasons.

She graduated with a degree in health

promotion and wellness education in

2002.

After leaving UGA, Berbary offi cially

began her coaching career at Gainesville

High School in Gainesville, Ga., where

she led her team to a 19-0 record during a

span of two seasons.

In 2004, Berbary went to coach at the

University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio,

where she remained until 2008.

After networking within the coaching

realm of collegiate soccer, Berbary met

Karen Hoppa, Auburn’s current head

coach.

Berbary joined Auburn’s coaching staff

in February 2008.

She said she is particularly interested in

the coming season’s potential.

“I’m most excited about the start we

have already had, Berbary said. “We’re

6-2. We’re a fairly young team, but we have

great leadership from our juniors and se-

niors this year.”

Th e Tigers are taking it one step at a

time as the pace of the sea-

son picks up.

Th e “second part of the

season,” as Berbary refers

to the start of SEC play, is

getting underway.

“I’m looking forward to

the rest of the season,” said

Tony Montanaro, junior in

civil engineering. “It’s going

to be fun to watch. Th ey are

looking good, especially in

those orange uniforms.”

Although Berbary is seri-

ous when it comes to soc-

cer, Julie King, junior defender who joined

the program the same year as Berbary,

said the assistant coach has a silly side.

“Amy is just a funny person: she likes

to have fun and goof around,” King said.

“When it comes to soccer, she gets seri-

ous, but we can even get some laughs out

of her at practice.”

Berbary is particularly fond of compar-

ing the team to cartoon characters.

For example, she said she believes King

moves like the Claymation character

Gumby.

“We have this superstition before the

game,” King said. “I have a Gumby fi gurine

that I put in my cubby, and we both have

to, at some point before the game, go over

to it and touch it.”

Regardless of what makes her special to

the team, Berbary’s players fi nd her irre-

placeable.

“She really has a quality personality

that makes you want to win,” King said.

“I’ve personally felt very fortunate to have

her as my coach.”

Ballin’ with Berbary

Courtney Smith

Writer

Few people can appreci-

ate the value of teamwork

better than Morgan Johns.

As an outside hitter for

the women’s volleyball

team, Johns is thankful

for the camaraderie she

shares with her team-

mates, both on and off the

court.

In volleyball, she said,

being able to depend on

the support from her fel-

low players makes games

more enjoyable than if she

were playing a sport indi-

vidually.

“It means more know-

ing you have someone

else there with you,” Johns

said. “Someone who helps

pump you up during the

game and gives you energy

to feed off of.”

Johns, senior in commu-

nications, transferred from

Florida Atlantic University

as a junior and soon after-

ward joined the volleyball

team.

During the past year,

she has emerged as one of

its top players, making a

name for herself as a force

to be reckoned with.

Last year she recorded

the second highest num-

ber of kills for the season,

and her attack percentage

ranked fourth overall on

the team.

She led the Tigers with

17 kills and had a .429 at-

tack percentage against

the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Coach Wade Benson

believes Johns was a major

contributor to the team’s

success last year and is

confi dent she will do the

same again this season.

Benson said she has al-

ready been the go-to player

for the team this year and

thinks Johns might even

end up being the athlete

of the week for the SEC as

well.

“She has defi nitely

earned that right with her

great hitting performances

for the last two matches,”

Benson said. “She always

has a go-to and can-do at-

titude during the games.”

Teammate and defen-

sive specialist Liz Crouch

agreed that Johns is a vital

and powerful member on

the team.

Crouch, senior in exer-

cise science, has played

volleyball for the Univer-

sity for four years and has

known Johns for a year.

“Morgan is the kind of

person that, no matter

what, I would always want

to get the ball,” Crouch

said. “If it’s game point,

then she’s the one I would

want playing for us.”

Crouch said Johns is a

dependable person and

teammate and is a valu-

able player to have on the

court.

“Many of the points

from previous games were

scored by her, and she has

consistently blown away

the competition all sea-

son,” Crouch said. “She was

the one who kept going

after the ball and putting

it down. I think that she

defi nitely deserves to be

athlete of the week.”

Johns said she does not

consider her greatest ac-

complishment to be the

amount of points she has

scored or the games where

she helped lead the team

to victory. Instead, she

said she feels proud know-

ing that her teammates

look to her as the person

who can get the job done.

“Th eir trust means the

most to me,” Johns said.

Getting to know Berbary

What is your all-time favorite food?

Mellow Mushroom pizza (Mighty Meaty)

If you could be an animal, what would you be and why?

Puma (31 and single)

Describe yourself in one word:

Winner

What do you like to do in your free time?Shop in Atlanta, play sports, go to the movies and GTL

How many siblings do you have?

Two brothers

What is your favorite genre of music?

Gaga

What is your favorite holiday?

Christmas

PLAINSMAN ARCHIVES

Morgan Johns goes up to strike the ball during the Ole Miss game Oct. 2, 2009. Johns recorded a total of 266 kills last year.

Johns spikes the competition

10 Morgan JohnsClass:

Senior

Position:

Outside hitter

Height:

6-1

Major:Communications

Hometown:

Mobile

Last college:

Florida Atlantic

Assistant soccer coach Berbary brings excitement and personality to her team

BERBARY


Erik Yabor

Writer

“Battle on the Plains” is a

three-on-three basketball tour-

nament beginning Oct. 9 that

will create an opportunity for

the basketball team and the

Auburn family to form a more

unique bond.

“We want our

students to look

to the University

as a place to turn

for events such

as these,” said

head coach Tony

Barbee. “As we

become estab-

lished on campus,

the students will

in turn become

more involved in

our athletics and

come out to sup-

port Auburn basketball.”

Th e tournament is three-on-

three, half court and will be

played outside and inside the

new Arena. Each team will be

guaranteed four games—three

games in a pool play for seeding

before the tournament becomes

single-game elimination.

Th e fi nals will be played in the

new Arena opening night, Oct.

15. Trophies and prizes will be

awarded that night, though the

prizes were unspecifi ed.

All full-time students and em-

ployees are eligible.

All teams will

receive free T-

shirts.

Th e entry fee

for individual

teams in the

tournament is

$25, though it

is not being run

for profi t.

Steve Smith,

executive di-

rector of men’s

b a s k e t b a l l ,

said he hopes

this event will

become annual and will attract

fans for games. He said he hopes

it will make the Arena one of the

best home court advantages in

the nation as the team prepares

for its season.

“Having our players and

coaching staff

around and of-

fi ciating the

games will help

us connect

and form a

bond with the

student body,”

Smith said.

“Hopefully this

will help to

generate sup-

port in the up-

coming season

and fi ll the student section on

the fl oor.”

Smith said if any money is

raised, it will be donated to

charity.

Smith said he is unsure how

many teams will participate, but

said similar tournaments held

on college campuses across the

nation have attracted more than

200 teams. Smith said he be-

lieves Auburn may have hosted

such a tournament in its history,

but is not certain.

Smith said the opening of the

Arena creates a new era for Au-

burn basketball.

“Th ere will always be

memories of good times in the

old Coliseum, but I don’t think

its closing will decrease fan in-

terest,” Smith said. “Th e new

Arena will now begin to make its

[own] memories for fans. I think

everybody is looking forward to

the new arena and what a new

arena brings: Better seating,

improved game productions,

better concessions and sellout

crowds.”

But an $86 million basketball

court is useless if there are no

fans to liven it up.

“We need the support of the

students,” Smith said. “We want

to hear what type of experience

they are looking for in the Arena.

We take our student body needs

very seriously.”

Auburn men’s basketball be-

gins Nov. 3 against West Ala-

bama University at 7 p.m. in the

Arena.

Women’s basketball begins

Nov. 11 against Mercer Univer-

sity at 5 p.m. in the Arena.

Mackenzie Helms, freshman

in pre-business, said the tourna-

ment is a good way to get stu-

dents excited for basketball.

“It will be fun to go and ex-

perience a basketball game in

the new Arena and see the new

coaching staff ,” Helms said.

Tony the Tiger’s “Battle on the Plains”Auburn head basketball coach Tony Barbee’s three-on-three tournament

promotes spirit, charity

We want to

hear what type of

experience they are

looking for in the

arena. We take our

student body needs

very seriously.Steve Smith,

Executive director

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