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parking services, or as some may call them the vultures of campus, explain their reasoning behind ticketing.

“if this university didn’t have us out here on foot patrolling, these students would be parked everywhere,” said Bar-bara Barnes, parking enforcement officer. “(students) would be on top of the build-ings.”

the strangest place that Barnes has seen someone park in is right off of Biggio drive by the intramural fields.

“He had jumped the curb and his front end was stuck down in the ditch,” Barnes said. “His butt was sticking up in the air.”

manager of parking services, don an-drae, said safety is the number one factor that parking services revolves around.

parking services is also improving their system of educating students on rules and regulations.

“it’s obviously working because the number of tickets is decreasing and same with the appeals,” andrae said. “The num-ber of appeals decreasing to me means that the students understand the rules and why they are getting the ticket.”

Between fall 2011-12 students have received a total of 7,645 tickets and that

number has since decreased from fall 2012-13: students have only received 4,301 tickets total.

Next Camp War Eagle sessions, park-ing services will have a break out session with incoming freshman.

“We’ll be able to get them right away and let them and their parents know the rules of parking,” andrae said.

parking services stresses that although some students may feel targeted, they are just doing their job.

“This one student, who received a tick-et, happened to be an athlete, so i went to the athletic department and told them ‘i just want to let you know that this person did this. and all we’re asking for is respect. We’re only doing our job,’’ andrae said. “We’re not trying to pinpoint anyone for race, color or athletics. all we’re trying to do is our job and it’s a job we have to do and we want people to respect us for it.’”

parking services does not come up with its own rules and regulations.

“Whatever the traffic and parking committee says is a rule, we have to en-force, whether we think it is right, wrong, just, it doesn’t make a difference to us,” andrae said.

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Ho l l a n d Brow n w a s crowned the 2013 miss au-burn university in front of a packed house at auburn High school’s performing arts Cen-ter on saturday, Jan. 26.

“i’m really excited,” Brown said. “it’s representing au-burn, my school and it’s schol-arship money straight to au-burn so it’s great.”

placing in the pageant was first runner up ashley Willis, second runner up and talent winner meg mcGullin, third runner up sydney Waid and fourth runner up Jessica dyk.

Brown was also selected as miss Congeniality.

“Honestly i think i’m more excited about congeniality,” Brown said. “That means so much more to me because it’s not so much based on what i did on stage necessarily which is great.”

Brown is not new to the miss alabama pageant cir-cuit.

Brown has participated in several pageants, but this was her first time being crowned the winner.

“i have done almost 25 miss alabama preliminar-ies, but i have always want-

ed to be miss auburn univer-sity more than any of the oth-ers,” Brown said. “i’m looking at all of the others as 25 prac-tice rounds.”

Brown chose as her plat-form, Walk for a Cure: sup-port for the Juvenile diabetes research Foundation.

this foundation means a lot as juvenile diabetes has af-fected people close to her.

“my two best friends were diagnosed with diabe-tes when we were in middle school, within the same year,” Brown said.

Tickets GivenFall 2011 - Jan. 22, 2012 10,485Fall 2012 - Jan.22, 2013 7,009

Tickets ProfitsFall of 2012 - today $400,000

AppealsFall 2011 - 2012 1,808Fall 2012-2013 493

Permit ProfitsFall of 2012 - today $1.3million

1. Go in to parking servic-es office to appeal ticket,reduce to $10 or excuse ticket depending on circumstance. 2. Go on tigeri and click the parking services tab to look at outstanding citations.

3. put in appeal and why you are appealling.

4. meet with appeal board and plead case.

5. if denied you can appeal to up to two boards.

if you have a permit, after your fifth ticket you either get wheel-locked or banned from parking on cam-pus. By the third wheel-lock it is taken to the commit-tee and parking services recommends the student be banned from campus because of clear intentional vi-olations; if you do not have a permit your car will get wheel-locked after the second ticket.

Wheel-Locking Rules

How to Appeal a Ticket

Holland Brown crowned Miss Auburn

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‘We’re not out to just

give tickets’

Emma Goddard / PhotoGraPhEr

holland Brown, left, and Emily Jordan stand together after Brown was named miss auburn Saturday, Jan. 26. Jordan was named miss au-burn in 2012.

Tickets & Permits

Parking Services has made $400,000 from tickets since

Fall 2012 and insist they are only doing their job

EAO launches campaign for sustainable investment fund

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Twinkle, Twinkle

Cavanaugh

Should utility rates in al-abama be re-evaluated

at regular intervals?

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Cheesecake goes local with the opening of the Cheesecake Cottage in

downtown opelika.

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the tigers have lost four conference games in a row. Is there any hope for future victories?

Students Speak Out

Students share their thoughts on obama’s

second inaugural address and hopes for

the new term.

These Colors Don’t Run

the draughon Library recently received an ex-tensive collection of Civil War artifacts. What’s in-

side the collection?

Chelsea HarveyassistaNt oNliNE Editor

it turns out $5 can go a long way.

The Environmental aware-ness organization is spear-heading a campaign to add a sustainable investment fund to the university. the pro-posed fund would be the re-sult of a $5 fee added to tu-ition each semester and would be used to fund proj-ects related to sustainability on campus.

“so the goal is it’s a stu-dent-controlled, student-funded program for green in-

vestment on campus,” said daniel martinez, junior in materials engineering and physics and Eao vice presi-dent.

The project comes as part of a collaboration with a statewide initiative called the Coalition of alabama students for the Environ-ment, or CasE, which unites alabama college campuses in sustainable projects. Cur-rently, ua, uaH, uaB and au-burn are each involved in ef-forts to add sustainable in-vestment funds to their cam-puses, while montevallo has

already succeeded in estab-lishing such a fund.

“Each investment fund will be unique to its campus,” martinez said. “Each one will be different, but the idea is between all of them basically to have a million dollars go-ing toward the green project among all the campuses.”

according to martinez, some campuses will have larger green funds than oth-ers, depending on the total number of enrolled students. The a $5 fee per student each semester, with approximate-ly 25,000 students, would add

up to about $125,000 per se-mester.

The Eao is in the process of completing a proposal for the fund, which will outline details for the creation of a committee to manage the fund and rules for the sub-mission of project propos-als. Currently, the vision is a committee composed of mostly students with a facul-ty chairperson. The commit-tee would be in charge of re-viewing and approving pro-posals for sustainable proj-ects.

“so students and facul-

ty and staff are all allowed to propose whatever proj-ect, and it goes to commit-tee, they discuss it,” marti-nez said.

Each investment fund will be unique to its campus.”

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Jan. 20 – Webster RoadThird-degree theft of miniature vodka bottles between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Jan. 20-21 – War Eagle WaySecond-degree theft of a road bike between 11 p.m. Jan. 20 and 3 p.m. Jan. 21

Jan. 23 – East University DriveSecond-degree theft of a utility trailer between 9:10 a.m. and 11:35 a.m.

Jan. 24 – Loftin DriveThird-degree burglary of an iPod touch, U.S. currency and jewelry between 9 a.m. and noon

Jan. 25 – Richland RoadThird-degree burglary of a television and U.S. currency between 5 a.m. and 4:20 p.m.

Jan. 25 – Lee Road 84Third-degree burglary of three televisions between 12:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Jan. 26 – Lee Road 18Second-degree theft of a transmis-sion and hydraulic engine host between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Jan. 26 – East University Drive and An-nalue Drive Left the scene of an accident be-tween 5:30 p.m. and 5:43 p.m.

Jan. 27 – Holmes AvenueThird-degree theft of a kitchen stove between 1:45 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Jan. 28 – West Veterans BoulevardHarassment Report.

Jan. 29 – Commerce DriveThird-degree criminal trespass report.

Jan. 29 – Alabama Highway 147Third-degree burglary of two televi-sions, and jewelry between 8:15 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.

— Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

Crime reports for Jan. 20 – Jan. 30, 2013DUi arrests in the City of aUbUrn Jan. 23 – Jan. 30, 2013

■ William Powell, 25, AuburnSaturday, Jan. 26, 1:42 a.m. at Richland Road and Shug Jordan Parkway

■ Kevin White, 41, AuburnFriday, Jan. 25, 12:19 a.m. on East University Drive

■ Donald Menifee, 52, AuburnSunday, Jan. 27, 2:12 a.m. at Washington Court and Pitts Street

■ Stephen Atkinson, 31, OpelikaMonday, Jan. 28, 1:29 a.m. at Webster Road and Alabama Highway 14

■ Leon Shirley, 23, AuburnWednesday, Jan. 30, 1:34 a.m. at North Dean Road and Aspen Heights Lane

Lunch with the Munch truck

Amber FranklinWriTer

Parked on the roosevelt Concourse, Munch is the newest food truck to roll onto Auburn’s campus.

Munch specializes in Asian cuisine and is bringing a fresh healthy variety to students.

“i’ve been twice,” said Anh Duong, senior in internation-al business. “The first time i had the thai curry and the next time i had the Korean rice bowl. They were both re-ally good.”

Glenn Loughridge, director of dining services, said that Munch was chosen to come to campus for many reasons.

“Thai was a variety that was missing,” Loughridge said. “We didn’t want just another burger or hot dog stand. We’re open to innovation and inter-

esting new concepts.” Additionally, Loughridge

said there had been student requests for healthier op-tions and vegetarian options, Munch offered both.

Munch’s menu includes dishes such as thai cucum-ber salad, pork or veggie pot-stickers and bahn mi, an Asian sandwich with custom-er’s choice of pork, chicken or tofu topped with carrot, rad-ish, cucumber, cilantro, may-onnaise and pate.

“it definitely had the food-truck feel to it,” Duong said. “But the truck tried to stay as close to the actual Asian dish as they could.”

On their search for new food truck options, Loughridge and Gina Wells, marketing director for dining services, first went to Atlanta’s

Food Truck Park. Yielding no results, Loughridge and Wells headed to Underground At-lanta, a well-known enter-tainment district in the down-town area.

“There were six or seven food trucks, and we checked each of them out,” Loughridge said. “(Munch) had enough variety and they were prepar-ing good quality food.”

Wells said they particularly

enjoyed a dish called bim bim bap, which is a bowl of rice, topped with vegetables, spe-cialty items and a poached egg.

“i wouldn’t have expect-ed to like it as much as i did,” Loughridge said.

Many trucks have come through campus in the past year, but Loughridge and Wells believe that Munch will be successful.

“Students are the ultimate drivers of success or failure,” Loughridge said. “But it also depends on freshness, porta-bility and the personality of the truck owners.”

Loughridge also said that it can be challenging for food truck drivers to relocate to Auburn’s campus.

“You have to be all in,” Loughridge said. “We only have one ‘home-grown’ food

truck (Momma Goldberg’s), and everyone else has to come from somewhere else.”

Loughridge said he’s hop-ing that Munch is going to catch on with Auburn’s stu-dents.

“i know James [Dimacula-gan, owner of Munch] really wants to be here,” Loughridge said. “And you know, variety is the spice of life, and they’ve brought something different.”

Getting hitched? New initiative may help couples take next stepTrent erwinWriTer

For the second year, the Alabama Healthy Marriage and relationship education initiative is helping Auburn couples prepare to take the plunge into marriage.

engaged, dating, consid-ering marriage or any oth-er status, couples can at-tend the ‘ready to Take the Plunge?’ workshop through AHMrei to better prepare for life after the wedding.

“We don’t want to focus on the rings, the dress, the honeymoon or getting en-gaged,” said Ami Landers, AHMrei direct partner and

public relations coordinator. Landers said the work-

shop encourages couples to consider how they will re-solve issues and questions for life after marriage, such as future employment, high-er education, number of children and extended fam-ily.

“(Couples) tend to forget about the life after the wed-ding day,” Landers said.

The workshop is a mix of lectures, activities, discus-sions and role-play, and is meant to be interactive for everyone involved.

The workshop addresses numerous topics that peo-

ple in any stage of a relation-ship will find useful.

emily Burch, a campus minister in Auburn, was in-terested in the workshop to further her ability to counsel couples preparing for mar-riage.

“it was presented in a very engaging way,” Burch said. “it was not boring at all.”

The workshops are offered to the public free of charge, and include food and child-care. each workshop covers two days, a total of six hours, with the first starting on Fri-day, Feb. 1 from 6-9 p.m. and continuing to Saturday, Feb. 2 from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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“it’s something that re-ally struck a passion in me. We started doing walks with them in Birmingham and now that i’m in Auburn, i’m con-tinuing to do work with the foundation.”

SGA was responsible for coordinating the Miss Auburn pageant.

“it was packed and i have never been to a preliminary where there was not an emp-ty seat,” Brown said. “it really shows how many people were here to support Auburn and that this is a big deal to peo-ple at Auburn.”

President of SGA, Owen Parrish, was pleased with how the night turned out.

“Our winner is exception-al and i’m sure she’ll do great with her new roll,” Parrish said.

Brown will represent Au-burn in June at the Miss Ala-bama pageant.

“if there’s a rule we have to enforce it. Some of the rules are not very good and we’d have to write a ticket, but a rule is a rule.”

Permits are important to parking services.

“We have no idea who they are (with no permit), so what are they doing on campus?,” Barnes said. “We want to know who they are.”

For those who have gotten tickets at 4:59p.m. here’s why.

“The reason we do it up to exactly 5:00 p.m. is because the faculty staff are the ones that told us that they would like us to patrol at that time, simply because they would like to go home at 5:00 p.m.,” Andrae said. “We have been working towards two things; trying to get faculty to change they’re going home time to

4:30p.m. or changing class times to start at 5:15p.m.”

As for the answer to addi-tional parking for campus, Andrae said it’s unfortunately not going to happen any time soon.

“An example i always use is if i went to the Board of Trust-ees and said i need $7.5 mil-lion to buy a parking deck and Dr. Jones comes behind me and says he needs money for a academic building, he’s go-ing to get the money,” Andrae said.

Parking services does a lot more than just give out tick-ets.

“We handle all the park-ing that has to do with gradu-ations, even if it’s on a Satur-day we’re here,” Barnes said. “if there’s a special event coming up we have to monitor park-ing in lots and we direct traf-fic.”

even after 12 years of work-

ing for parking services and handling the students harsh opinions, Barnes believes parking services improves ev-ery year.

“i know this sounds cra-zy, but during Camp War ea-gle, you can tell what students are going to be your trou-ble students and what stu-dents are not by the way they act,” Barnes said. “Not trying to single anyone out, i’ve just done it so many years i just know what i’m looking for.”

Students are recommended to talk to the parking officers or parking services directly if they have any questions.

“i listen,” Barnes said. “That’s what we’re supposed to do. if a student asks me something i’m going to stop long enough to give them my opinion on what i think it is; not only the students, but the parents too. We’re not out to just write tickets.”

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“And you have to have a budget, you have to have a sponsor, you have to have the cooperating, interest-ed parties already informed and aware and accepting of cooperation. So you don’t just come with an idea; you come with a plan.”

Martinez said Monteval-lo has already used its sus-tainable investment fund to sponsor a bike-sharing pro-gram on campus.

Although the proposal has not received Universi-ty approval, the eAO has al-ready contacted the Office of Sustainability in search of support.

Acc ording to Mi ke Kensler, director of cam-pus sustainability opera-tions, the Office of Sustain-ability will not be involved in the advocating of the fund in order to preserve the campaign’s student-run ap-

proach. However, Kensler said the office was able to of-fer some advice about seek-ing University approval.

“We just raised those types of questions about timing and process to make sure that the timing was right, whatever they deter-mined that to be, and that the process was good in making sure that the cam-pus was fully informed about it and could make an informed decision,” Kensler said.

The eAO is also planning to garner student support by distributing a petition in fa-vor of the fund.

“We haven’t been told by administration that we need to come to them with a pe-tition yet, but we feel to be armed with a petition will be beneficial,” said Stepha-nie Ard, senior in hotel and restaurant management and president of the eAO.

The eAO will begin peti-tioning on Saturday, Feb. 3.

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Civil War artifacts donated to Ralph Brown Draughon libraryAustin Lankford CAmPus WriTer

The Auburn university special Collections and Archives Depart-ment recently received a donation on behalf of John Vick, a 1962 Au-burn graduate, and his wife Faye. The donation has been named the Vick Collection in their honor.

“John and Faye have been very generous toward Auburn over the years,” said Dwayne Cox, the head of special collections at Auburn. “And this collection is a great ex-ample of that.”

Hester montford is a graduate assistant in the history depart-ment and is in the archival educa-tion program.

“The collection ranges from revolutionary Colonialism all the way up to the Kennedy era,” mont-ford said.

The collection includes three main aspects, manuscripts, rare

books and a postal collection. Among the manuscripts are signed papers by Jefferson Davis and raphael semmes, who was an officer in the united states Navy and captained the Css Alabama during the Civil War.

“One of the main subjects the col-lection touches on is the Civil War,” Cox said. “The unique manuscripts and postal material are a great addi-tion to our sizable Civil War collec-tion.”

montford was hired on as a gradu-ate assistant to arrange the material in a logical order.

“We are doing things to preserve it such as putting things in acid free folders,” montford said. “We are also arranging it into an order so research-ers will be able to find things easily.”

Cox said that montford is the most knowledgeable on the collection be-cause of the time she has spent orga-nizing the material.

“i have not seen a donation of this

size come through,” montford said. “We are really grateful for this type of collection because we depend on do-nations and i think researchers will find it invaluable.”

montford is an archival education student that it has been a great per-sonal experience to work with the collection.

“it is really intense because it is so many different history topics,” mont-ford said. “But i am learning a lot while working with the material and i think it is very interesting.”

Cox said he is also grateful for the donation from John and Faye Vick and it is a major gift not only because of its informational content, but the fact that it goes well with their cur-rent collections. Cox also said he is happy to have the collection so it can be used by students, faculty and re-searchers.

The material will be open for re-searchers by the end of the semester.

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the flag for the 37th alabama infantry Regiment of the Confederacy is kept in the ar-chives department of the Ralph Brown draughon library.

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Campus Kitchen brings food to AuburnKailey MillerCAMPus RePoRTeR

Hunger is a growing prob-lem in Auburn and its sur-rounding communities, but Auburn students have taken the issue into their own hands and are fighting against it with Campus Kitchens.

Campus Kitchens was start-ed by a hunger studies class. The team gets leftover food from places on campus in-cluding Foy, the student Cen-ter, Terrell and the Village din-ing hall to distribute to places throughout the community.

“ We serve dinner-like meals, but we serve them at different times of the day and they aren’t hot for sanitary rea-sons and different guidelines we have,” said emily scammell, co-founder and president of Campus Kitchens.

Campus Kitchens is a stu-dent led program that is run purely by volunteers. The team serves anywhere from 150 to 250 meals per week.

The food is distributed based on the number of people

in a family, but when they have extra food they allow people to take as much as they want.

“This one woman came in to the food pantry at Auburn and she took home four boxes and you could tell that she was so happy,” said Nicole Nabozniak, a Campus Kitchens volunteer. “she was expecting to get may-be one box of food when she came in but she left with four.”

The team delivers to the Auburn united Method-ist Church food pantry, east House, His Place and retire-ment homes.

on Tuesdays and Thursdays the team gathers the food from the dining halls and on Thurs-days they cook the food and assemble it into the take out boxes. Friday is when the food is distributed.

“There are a lot of families in Lee County who really need food assistance who might be single mothers or people who are working a low paying job and really need that extra help,” scammell said.

As Campus Kitchens is

growing the need for volun-teers and extra hands is too. The staff has about 40 volun-teers, but they are hoping to gain more.

Campus Kitchens is spon-sored by the office of Public service.

“Campus Kitchens has been around for the last cou-ple of years and it was kind of the brain child of the hunger studies minor about four years ago,” said Jennifer Command-er, program assistant of Cam-pus Kitchens. “I anticipate it growing and continuing to grow over the next few years.”

Recently, Campus Kitchens has received positive publici-ty that the team hopes will in-fluence more students to vol-unteer.

“We are just now getting a lot of attention its awesome and sometimes I don’t feel like we even deserve it,” scammell said. “It has been pretty hard especially in the beginning get-ting things running and keep-ing a steady supply of volun-teers and leadership mem-

bers.”To Nabozniak said the most

rewarding aspect of volunteer-ing with Campus Kitchens has been seeing the people that they serve have a positive out-look on life.

“I saw people laughing and giggling and they didn’t seem to have a worry in the world even though they were there to get food,” Nabozniak said.

Many of the people who are served are older and have trou-ble going out to get their gro-ceries or are retired and don’t have a steady income.

“The meal provided by Cam-pus Kitchens may be the only thing that they eat for the en-tire week or weekend,” Naboz-niak said. “I saw one of the people who seems to be well known at the united Method-ist Church and he looked like he was going to a janitorial job afterwards. He joked around with us a lot like he had known us for years, but then right when he got his food he almost started crying because he was so happy.”

Quarterly journal makes name for selfLance DavissPoRTs WRITeR

Nestled in the corner of the Haley Center’s ninth floor are the offices of the southern Hu-manities Review, a quarterly journal published by Auburn university.

Founded in 1967 by the Au-burn College of Liberal Arts and southern Humanities Council, southern Humani-ties Review publishes works of fiction, poetry, critical essays and book reviews on a variety of topics.

“It’s considered a presti-gious thing for a university to have a journal,” said Kar-en Beckwith, sHR’s managing editor, who has been with the journal in some capacity for al-most 25 years. “We’ve had over the years calls and queries from other schools wanting to start one. It’s something that is considered to be valuable.”

Writers typically submit material to be included in the

journal. It then goes through a multiple-round process where the editors decide whether the piece should be published.

“Anyone can submit to it,

and then it goes through sev-eral layers of readers,” Beck-with said. “The first round of readers rejects the stuff that is obviously bad and simply not ready for publication. Then several of us will get togeth-er and discuss stuff that made the first cut.”

southern Humanities Re-view added skip Horack to its staff last year. Horack is cur-rently in his first year as an english professor at Auburn and fiction editor for sHR.

“I’m pretty new to it, but I was certainly aware of it before I came here,” Horack said. “It’s pretty well-known and well-re-spected. It has a good reputa-tion throughout the country as a publisher of literary fic-tion and poetry and criticism.”

Horack, who has also writ-ten two award-winning books – “The eden Hunter” and “The southern Cross” -- says work-ing with southern Humanities Review gives him an opportu-nity to see what other writers are doing.

“You get a real sense of what’s out there and what people are doing,” Horack said. “It’s really interesting coming at it as a writer.”

Literary review journals battle a stigma that the edi-tors are searching for reasons to turn down submissions, but Horack says it is the opposite at southern Humanities Re-view.

“With everything that comes in, as soon as I turn to page one, you’re hoping it’s go-ing to be something you’re re-ally going to connect with and want to publish,” Horack said. “Who doesn’t want to have a great reading experience?”

southern Humanities Re-

view also has student editors, giving them an opportunity to read what other writers from across the country are writing.

“I’ve used this as an experi-ence that whenever we’ve re-acted negatively to a piece, I’ve taken that as something not to do,” said savannah Harrison, a first-year master’s student in creative writing.

students also find seeing what people submit to jour-nals fascinating.

“It’s useful to see what peo-ple are doing, trying to do and sending to journals,” said Mi-chelle Hopf, a second-year master’s student in creative writing.

southern Humanities Re-view is available at the univer-sity bookstore. People can also submit a subscription form on the journal’s website.

“You can learn something from anything you read,” Horack said. “There’s a lot of really great writing out there.”

Whistleblower tour brings prestigious individuals to AuburnCorey ArwoodCAMPus RePoRTeR

The American Whistle Blower Tour stops at Auburn on Thursday and brings with it two speakers that exemplify cases of first amendment vic-tories.

The tour will bring to cam-pus speakers Frank Casey and Dr. Jon H. oberg, and will be moderated by Dana Gold.

The tour was brought to Auburn by Dr. sarah stan-wick, associate professor in the Business College’s school of Accountancy.

“It’s a great opportunity for our students to hear from in-dividuals who have done the right thing. And when I say doing the right thing, I mean speaking up against fraud in an organization when no one else would,” stanwick said.

Casey was a key component in exposing the Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff, which lost investors upwards of $50 bil-lion and secured Madoff 150 years in prison; the maximum sentence for his crime.

It might also be of interest to note that Madoff, a money manager, attended the uni-versity of Alabama during his freshman year.

oberg, a researcher for the Department of education, dis-covered that certain student loan lenders were defrauding the government, or taxpay-ers, by overpricing the govern-ment for its subsidies on the loans.

After some time of resis-tance from his superiors oberg successfully had the case brought to trial, and won. The victory resulted in sav-ing the Federal Government tremendous sums of money where the over price on the subsidies had been paid.

“What we’re trying to do is really be sensitive to the per-sonal challenges associated with whistleblowing, and we do that by representing folks legally,” Dana Gold, a GAP se-nior Fellow and tour director, said.

“We do litigation to protect them through counseling, but

also we do legislative reform; we do a lot of media outreach. We take the information; it’s not just about the whistle-blower. It’s about their infor-mation, and trying to effect change around it,” said Gold.

The Government Account-ability Project, formed in 1977, was created partly as a response to Daniel ellsberg’s dogged attempts, and even-tual success, in releasing in-formation that outlined de-ceptive motives behind enter-ing the Vietnam War, among a slew of other information.

That information is now fa-mously known as the Penta-gon Papers, and is thought by some to be a critical factor that helped to end the war in Vietnam.

It was formed in 1977 and continues to herald the cause of whistle blowers every-where.

GAP, which once focused primarily on protecting gov-ernment employee whistle-blowers through legal mea-sures, now spans the broad spectrum of private and pub-

lic sector whistleblowers, such as Casey and oberg.

The services GAP provides span the broad spectrum of private and public sec-tor whistleblowers. one of its most recent clients is former CIA official and case worker, John Kiriakou.

on Friday, Jan. 25, after ac-cepting a plea bargain, Kiriak-ou was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison because of his communication in 2007 with a journalist over inqui-ries regarding CIA interroga-tion methods.

The agency called the meth-ods “enhanced interrogation

techniques.” Kiriakou said that they equated to torture.

The aggressive prosecution of federal employee whistle-blowers in recent years under the espionage Act has been unprecedented, with at least six known cases.

This is more than all of the previous administrations combined.

on Wed. Jan. 23, two days before Kiriakou’s hearing, the Government Accountabil-ity Project cosponsored an event honoring Kiriakou, in which his portrait from the se-ries “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” by Robert shetterly

was presented.Throughout its running his-

tory this will be the American Whistleblower Tour’s second stop at Auburn.

stanwick said that she would want all of her students to maintain their integrity in the professional business world, and if the case were to arise she would hope that they would report instances of fraud.

“I am firm believer in stand-ing up for what is right and doing what is ethical,” stan-wick said. “To me standing up against fraud is the most ethi-cal thing that you can do.”

Contributed

by blowing the whistle on fraud from student loan companies, dr. Jon H oberg, while he was a research-er for the department of education, potentially saved billions of dollars for taxpayers and the Federal Gov-ernment.

“it’s a great opportunity for our students to hear from individuals who have done the right thing.”

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New English professor adds creativity throughout department

Austin LankfordCAmPus WriTer

Auburn’s Creative Writing department may be small, but that doesn’t reflect the size of the ideas and passion that come from it.

Keetje Kuipers, assistant english professor, who arrived in Auburn in August of 2012, is one of the new professors in the department and

wants to see the creative writing culture spread on campus and the community.

“We want to get visibility and reach out even to people on campus who aren’t studying cre-ative writing,” Kuipers said. “We want to do things to get all sorts of groups together that are fun and creative.”

Kuipers was a theatre major at swarthmore

College and did not always know she wanted to be a writer.

“i took creative writing classes in college and wrote a lot of poetry and loved it, but i didn’t see it as what i was going to do with my life,” Kuipers said.

she went to New York to be an actress for a couple years, but wasn’t happy doing that and decided to go to graduate school for poetry.

“Almost as soon as i began, i knew this is what i wanted to do because i love writing and i also love teaching,” Kuipers said.

After a two-year masters program, Kuipers went on to teach at the university of Oregon, the university of montana and Gettysburg Col-lege before landing in Auburn.

“i also did what a lot of poets do by doing res-idencies and fellowships,” Kuipers said.

As part of the margery Davis Boyden writing residency in 2007, Kuipers spent seven months in a cabin in a wilderness area in southwest Or-egon.

“i was all by myself, except for my dog,” Kui-pers said. “it was totally off the grid and it was fantastic.”

Kuipers said she wrote her first book of po-etry, “Beautiful in the mouth,” during this res-idency.

in 2009 she became a stegner Fellow at stan-ford university where she continued to write.

“All the fellowships and residencies were op-portunities where i didn’t teach or work,” Kui-pers said. “They just basically gave me money and a place to live so i could write.”

After it was over, Kuipers decided she want-ed a more permanent position where she could get back to teaching. she applied and came to

Auburn.“The thing about Auburn is that it has a re-

ally excellent reputation for creative writing,” Kuipers said. “Natasha Tretheway is a very fa-mous poet who began her career at Auburn and when people hear her name they think of Auburn.”

Kuipers is an editor of the southern Human-ities review, which is a quarterly magazine put out by Auburn’s english department.

“it is a nationally recognized publication and it kind of goes under the radar here on campus,” Kuipers said.

Kuipers also works closely with students to promote creative writing around campus.

michelle Hopf, graduate student in the cre-ative writing program, helps head the Poetry Out Loud program, which is a poetry recita-tion contest for high school students.

“From the first time i met Kuipers i liked her a lot because she brings an interesting perspec-tive for us,” Hopf said. “All her students adore her and it is cool to be around someone so pas-sionate about poetry.”

Kiersten Wones, senior in english with a cre-ative writing focus, enjoys Kuipers’ involve-ment in the program.

“she is so confident in who she is as a writer, teacher and a woman and has been very sup-portive of me and my work,” Wones said.

Along with people in the department, Kui-pers wants to see creative writing grow around Auburn.

“We want to do a good job of letting people know what we are doing and the things avail-able to them as far as writing goes,” Kuipers said.

Contributed

Keetje Kuipers, an Auburn english professor, has written a book, beautiful in the Mouth, and is currently working on her second book of poetry.

Annual symposium emphasizes ‘Goodly Land’ of Alabama

Hilary mearesWriTer

The Hotel at Auburn uni-versity and Dixon Conference hosted the Third Annual “Be-coming Alabama: This Goodly Land” symposium Jan.25 and Jan.26.

The symposium, which has a different topic each year, fo-cused on the environmental features of Alabama. Geolo-gists, ecologists and anthro-pologists from around the state traveled to speak and to

network with others with sim-ilar interests. several of them are faculty members at Au-burn. The subjects covered ev-erything from the Long-Leaf Pine to sylacauga marble.

several who attended say the symposium would bene-fit anyone. “Whether you’re in-terested in history, or whether you’re interested in the natu-ral environment, there’s some-thing here for everyone,” mark Wilson, Director for the Cen-ter of Arts and Humanities,

said. Wilson worked with stu-dents through different classes

Laura Hill, Communica-tions editor for The encyclo-pedia of Alabama, said her fa-vorite part of the event was meeting people she otherwise would have never known.

maiben Beard, outreach as-sociate at Auburn universi-ty, said she hopes to help plan many more “Becoming Ala-bama” symposiums, each with a different area of focus about the state.

rAye MAy/photo editor

Maiben beard, outreach associate, helped organize the entire event.

rAye MAy/photo editor

Chuck hemard, assistant professor in art, photographs the natural world.

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The Ole Miss game was tied with 36 seconds left on the clock. Auburn had the ball with 28 seconds on the shot clock. The team looked calm, searching for a good shot, sharing the ball. With ten sec-onds left on the shot clock, the Auburn Pep band began yell-ing, “ten…nine…eight…” and

Auburn morphed into a team that looked desperate to get a shot off.

they threw up a hurried shot with eight seconds left on the shot clock. it missed. This is what “the countdown” does. it makes a team think they are running out of time so they hurry to get a shot off before

the shot clock expires. it’s used by home team fans as a tactic to rush the opposing team.

i understand the band thinks they are informing the players of the time left on the shot clock but the countdown is doing what it’s supposed to do. it’s rushing the team. Multiple times throughout

the game when the band be-gan the countdown, the Au-burn team changed from a composed group into a fren-zied five scrambling to get a shot off. The players are aware of the shot clock without our help.

even if they weren’t at the end of last night’s game, the

outcome would have been better. Auburn would have re-ceived a shot clock violation but Ole Miss would have been left with eight seconds instead of 16. The band is great and i appreciate everything they do to hype up the crowd and sup-port our team.

if it’s necessary to do the

countdown for our team, try starting it when the shot clock gets down to three seconds. ten seconds is a long time in basketball. the countdown is causing our players to rush and give away valuable sec-onds in close games.

ben teetergraduate Student

i can’t be sure exactly who said it, but it’s caught my attention.

Shortly after shutting down the website of the united States Sen-tencing Commission on Saturday, Jan. 26, internet ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous released a video titled “Operation Last Resort” in which the group expressed its frustration at the u.S. justice system as a whole, specifically relating to the suicide of

internet activist and Reddit employ-ee Aaron Swartz.

if you haven’t seen it yet, i’d put it on your “to do” list.

Suggestively spliced with foot-age from the 1983 film Wargames among graphics of Wall Street and other political propaganda, the nine-and-a-half minute video begins with a statement (read by a com-puterized, anonymous voice) that the group has “…observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the united States with growing con-cern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined.”

it then acknowledges a silent fury

in Swartz’s death, blaming the cur-rent justice system in the u.S. as stacked against those who try to bat-tle it in any way.

“two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. two weeks ago today, Aar-on Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.”

the video continues to criticize the united States for its highly dis-proportionate sentencing of certain crimes including, but not limited to, hacking.

it then details how Anonymous has information related to the cur-rent nine Supreme Court justices that has been released in encrypt-ed form over the web to form a ‘war-head’ which could potentially de-stroy the fabric of the justice system.

i’ll admit that the video is well done and highly convincing from the first watch, but any healthy skep-tic has to wonder if the group is sim-ply fronting data muscle. There’s not many resources to accurately con-firm the information.

is this really the last resort, Anony-mous? Will a swift blow to the justice system as we know it magically solve all our problems?

Support from the internet com-munity has seemed to sway either way since Saturday, with some still referring to the group as ‘hacktivists’ in celebration while others labeling it as full of cyber terrorists, threaten-ing simply to demonstrate an upper hand.

to my knowledge, officials in Washington d.C., have not respond-ed to the group’s claims publicly. i’ve often wondered if the current ad-ministration considers them a threat at all.

Operation Last Resort ends with a chilling quote: “This time there will be change, or there will be chaos...”

Sounds like a threat to me.

Has ‘hacktivist’ group, Anonymous, named a plan of action?

Utilities companies on a power trip

Basketball countdown hurting team’s overall performance

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As i read Alexander Roberson’s commentary, “Republican’s need to show they care, stop being do-noth-ings,” in a recent edition of The Au-burn Plainsman, i am not sure if the expression on my face was a smile or a grimace.

unfortunately the author begins with a three paragraph tirade de-crying required state redistricting following the 2010 census as a dis-graceful ploy of Republicans. the history of gerrymandering is long and, contrary to the author’s impli-cation, is legally used at the state-level by both democrats and Repub-licans. After each u.S. census, every state is required to accomplish re-districting to accommodate chang-es in their new congressional appor-tionments. This is a state respon-sibility upheld by the u.S. Supreme Court. The author’s implication that gerrymandering is a reprehensible tool used by only by Republicans is, at its best, wonderfully disingenu-ous, at its worst is a disgraceful false

representation. What the author’s title correctly

implies is that actions speak louder than words. With that in mind, let’s look at three recent words versus ac-tions comparisons for recent politi-cal events and the actual results cre-ated by the actions.

the Words: As the fiscal cliff neared, President Obama public-ly stated he wanted a balanced ap-proach to tax increases and spend-ing cuts to solve the Nation’s huge budget problems.

The Action: The final position es-tablished by President Obama and the democrats advocated $90 in tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts…no i mean $10 in planned de-creases in future spending growth over the next 10 years. We will still increase government spending ev-ery single year.

The Result: Contrary to the Pres-ident’s words, the action creates an unbalanced solution and more run-away spending.

The Words: The President stated he just wanted “rich” Americans to pay their fair share of taxes. The con-stant campaign mantra was those earning less than $250,000 each year would not pay more in taxes.

The Actions: The final fiscal cliff position established by President Obama and democrats raised tax-es on every single American. trea-sury department and iRS data show that the taxes of every American will rise at least 2 percent. And remem-ber, these new taxes do not include the increased taxes everyone now pays to support Obamacare revenue schemes.

The Result: Contrary to the Pres-ident’s repeated campaign promis-es every American now pays high-er taxes.

The Words: The President prom-ised he would not sign any health-care reform legislation that was not budget neutral. in fact, in a speech to a joint session of Congress, the price tag he put on his deficit neutral

idea was $900 billion for 10 years of Obamacare coverage.

The Actions: based on Congres-sional budget Office data, Obam-acare expenses will now cost Ameri-ca $2.6 trillion over the first 10 years of health service. Additionally, Con-gress continues to undercut revenue generating portions of Obamacare causing the health system deficit to grow even worse.

The Result: The President’s solu-tion creates another program with runaway expenses further exacer-bating the Nation’s debt problems and encumbering our future.

The most important issue that faces America is out of control spending. Neither political party, has shown the leadership needed to place our great Nation on a path to-ward a strong future. There is plenty of political talk of controlling spend-ing, reforming entitlements and liv-ing within our means but current political actions do not back up the talk. The author’s implication that

one party is more to blame than for our Nation’s plight is simply an irra-tional rant. The actions of all poli-ticians in Washington d.C. show ev-eryone involved in the political pro-cess is culpable. We are at a criti-cal crossroads. Our current path is a Federal debt of over $22 trillion in the next 5 years. That debt comes with an annual price tag of nearly $500 billion just to pay interest on the debt.

during these challenging times, i would hope for a better set of de-bate points from one of such high esteem within the Auburn College democrats. until the finger point-ing and politics stop, our Nation will continue on its path to oblivi-on. Many words continue to be spo-ken but the ineffective actions of all America’s political elements show they are not up to their responsibili-ty as stewards of our future. Actions matter, not words.

Mike Callis, ‘82

Actions speak louder than words, President Obama

“extremist groups” with “fancy San Francisco en-vironmental lawyers” are launching a “full frontal as-sault” on you and i and this great state.

if her own adjectives and nouns are true it’s truly a blessing that we have Public Service Commission Pres-ident twinkle Cavanaugh fighting on our side.

Or is that the story? As a growing number of voices in state media outlets are no-ticing, Cavanaugh’s stand in the electrical power compa-ny’s door appears to be a lit-tle less about protecting the “public” whose collective name is in her title, and a lit-tle more about protecting the record-profiteering util-ities companies of Alabama.

Commi ssion er terr y dunn, a Republican as are the other two PSC members, asked his colleagues for hearings to review the rate structures for utilities com-panies like Alabama Pow-er Company, Alabama gas Corporation and Mobile gas

Service Corporation. He also had the audaci-

ty to suggest a review every six years.

Cavanaugh, elected in November 2012 along with Roy Moore as the final two triumphs in the Republi-cans’ statewide office take-over, and Jeremy Oden, the third commissioner, reject-ed the suggestion, even be-fore dunn had actually filed his motion.

Cavanaugh put on a show about fighting to save the 5,000 coal industry jobs Al-abamians need and leaving rates flat through the end of 2014 at least.

Oden said hearings would just be “lawyers talking to lawyers.”

Companies are entitled to get between a 13 and 14.5 percent return on their equi-ty, far more than many other of the same type companies in America, and even larg-er than many companies in other industries ever sniff.

Meanwhile, dunn has said it’s been decades since

the rates were set, with bir-mingham News columnist, John Archibald, noting that it was around the time of bear bryant’s funeral.

Cavanaugh, as well as lawyers and lobbyists for groups like JobKeeper Alli-ance, a coal industry group, called dunn and his staff Obamaphiles who wouldn’t stop until they had hand-ed over Alabama’s jobs and children on a platter to the communists and tree hug-gers.

there were online cam-paigns full of smear litera-ture against dunn and his assistants, including a vi-cious post from Cavanaugh herself.

Multiple reports say Ala-bama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, a Republican from Auburn, even told dunn he was “taking his job too seri-ously.”

Perhaps he’s just doing his job how it should be done. Natural gas rates have been dramatically decreasing in recent years (38 percent says

Henry Hub terminal), while surprisingly, Alagasco rates have gone up (20 percent notes Archibald).

the News’ ben Raines produced a study showing that between 2006 and 2011 Alabama Power sold elec-tricity that it created cheap ($1 billion less than what georgia Power would have spent) for more than any-one else would dream of ($1.5 billion more than what georgia Power could have sold it for).

in 2010, Alabama cus-tomers paid Alagasco and Mobile gas two times what their counterparts in Missis-sippi did.

A handful of business leaders, particularly in heavier industries like steel manufacturing and coal companies, have spoken out against any possible review, saying it would mess up a system that is already work-ing fine, bringing the un-wanted environmentalists (still unnamed and in the shadows) to the forefront of

some litigation warfare.While there are almost

certainly better avenues for the legislature to ex-plore about who should ar-bitrate or litigate any rates, the review system in place now was almost utilized by a state officeholder look-ing out for what is right and what is his job.

The rate reviews are about fairness, from a variety of angles. Companies should not be allowed and endorsed by the state to run up huge profits they don’t deserve and couldn’t get in a fair market.

even on and nearer to campus, we are affected by a seemingly pointless Mont-gomery political dance. Stu-dents, whether from bir-mingham or Atlanta or Seoul, are paying these rates after all, month after month that we live here.

So why not have the rates reviewed, see where that lands us and stop the ridic-ulous and paranoid unipar-tisan name calling?

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The Cheesecake Cottage: everybody wants a pieceMICHAEL HILLWrItEr

Just like a rare gem found deep within the grounds of nature, you find The Cheese-cake Cottage amongst the treasures of downtown Ope-lika.

the Cheesecake Cottage, located at 109 S. St., opened July 2011.

tara Sanders, owner and operator, was an elementary teacher for several years be-fore opening The Cheesecake Cottage.

“We love to cook and just thought we would give it a shot,” Sanders said.

the Cheesecake Cottage features about 60 flavors of cheesecake that they creat-ed andoffer five to 10 of those flavors on a daily basis.

“the Chocolate turtle Cheesecake was delicious,” said Kelcey Coyne, customer. “It’s the best cheesecake I’ve ever had.”

Sanders said that many of the ideas for the cheesecakes are thought of by her chil-dren after eating candy bars or s’mores.

“Our popular flavors are red velvet, peanut butter cup, banana pudding and cook-

ies and cream,” Sanders said. “Those are probably our best sellers.”

The most creative cheese-cake that Sanders said she has made is the Italian Cream Cake Cheesecake, but they are pretty proud of the peanut butter cup cheese-cake as well.

Sanders said that making the cheesecakes is about a two-day process.

the Cheesecake Cot-tage also offers a variety of homemade goods including fudge, toffee, pralines, tur-tles, cheesecake minis, cook-ies, brownies and homemade ice cream.

Sanders said she also ca-ters events, bakes wedding cakes, takes orders and walk-ins and if there is any cheese-cake that you would like, you can always call ahead and let her know when you are com-ing and she will be glad to make it.

Local restaurants in down-town also order cheesecakes from the Cheesecake Cot-tage including the Irish Bred Pub, Ma-Fia’s Italian ris-torante and Pizzeria and Eighth & rail.

“We decided to go with

them based on custom-er opinion,” said Jonathan Stripling, general manager of Ma-Fia’s. “They are amaz-ing people.”

Stripling said that they used to get cheesecake from another company and de-cided to go local and just about every other table rec-ommended The Cheesecake Cottage.

Both the Irish Bred Pub and Eighth and rail said that they support the Cheesecake Cottage because it is a local business.

“People who know her know what to expect, but customers who don’t have been positive,” said Mike Pat-terson, owner of Eighth and rail. “Her hazelnut layered cheesecake is a big hit.”

the Cheesecake Cottage facility itself can also be rent-ed and Sanders says that it is a great location for wedding and baby showers and birth-days.

The Cheesecake Cottage is open tuesday through Sat-urday.

Sanders said that she would eventually like to ex-pand the Cheesecake Cot-tage, even creating a chain.

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the Cheesecake Cottage in downtown opelika features more than 60 homemade flavors.

Artists, authors, musicians, oh my: Transformation Life Center celebrates creativityJherrica LuckieWrItEr

Local musicians, artists and authors will be com-ing together to celebrate the creativity in the Lee Coun-ty area.

The transformations Life Center, located in downtown Opelika, is holding a Cele-brating Creativity event on Friday, Feb. 1 from 6 –9 p.m.

The transformations Life Center, which store owner, Bridget Smith, and patrons refer to as tLC, is a gift shop, book and toy store located at 824 Ave. A.

Stasia Dunlop, store man-ager and a creative influence behind tLC and Celebrating Creativity, said the event is a chance for artists to meet other artists, musicians and authors in the area and also share their inspirations while showcasing their arts and talents to guests. The event will be held inside the store and is free to the public.

“It just seems to be that Lee County is this pocket of creativity, and I want that to grow,” Dunlop said.

Dunlop said what start-ed out as a book signing for The Mystic Order of East Al-abama Fiction Writers, a group of six local women who recently published their second book, “the Ploy of Cooking,” transformed into what will be a night featuring at least a dozen local talents.

“We try to celebrate peo-ple here,” Dunlop said.

Some of the other authors attending the event are Kel-ly Kazek, author of “Hidden History of Auburn,” Faith Se-

rafin, author of “Haunted Au-burn and Opelika” and Ann Pearson, co-author of “Lost Auburn: A Village remem-bered in Photographs” with Delos Hughes and ralph Draughon Jr.

“It sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun,” said Gail Langley, one of the six au-thors from the Mystic Or-der of East Alabama Fiction Writers. “I am looking for-ward to visiting with the oth-er artists there.”

In addition to these au-thors, the event will also fea-ture local watercolor art-ist, Sarah Scott; woodwork-ing craftsman, Jimmy Camp; process artist, Debora Myles; puppet maker, Lesean Spen-cer and owner of the Gnu’s room, tina tatum.

“So many small town writ-ers go unnoticed,” tatum said. “Auburn and Opelika have a lot of really talented writers. People need to take the chance and go check them out.”

Local banjo player, Phillip

Stroud, will also be in atten-dance at the event.

“Bridget wanted to give back to the community,” Dunlop said. “We try to sup-port local creativity whenev-er we can.”

Celebrating Creativity will be held on the same night as Opelika Main Street’s First Fridays, which is when stores in downtown Opelika stay open late on the first Friday of every month.

“Even if nobody else comes, we sure are going to have a great time here,” Dun-lop said.

When she isn’t planning large events like Celebrating Creativity, Smith, an Auburn University alumni and clini-cal psychologist in Auburn, hosts workshops in her store on a regular basis.

the workshops are de-signed to promote develop-ment of participants’ emo-tional and social wellness. Some workshops offered at tLC are Mindful Eating, Life in the Stress Lane and Cele-brate yourself.

the workshop calendar can be viewed on the tLC website, and tickets can be purchased online ,as well.

“We want people to grow and become who they want to be,” Dunlop said.

According to Dunlop most of the items in the store are either handmade, fair trade, non-profit and all have inter-esting back stories.

“When most artists hear what we are about, they love it and want to support it and the whole idea of this store,” Dunlop said.

“it just seems to be that Lee County is this pocket of creativity, and i want that to grow.”

—Stasia Dunlop MAnAGEr OF trAnSFOrMAtIOnS

LIFE CEntEr

Group working to turn Opelika into next great art hubAbigail O’BrienCOMMUnIty WrItEr

As richard Patton, rob Slocumb and Chan-dler Jones sit around the table at an Opelika coffee shop, they talk of their plans and vision for the budding downtown area.

For now, a passerby through the historic Southern town may see quaint antique stores, growing restaurants, dated city government buildings and an antiquated railroad track that runs the length of the downtown.

But for these three creative visionaries and others on their team, their dream for Opelika is much bigger.

“We believe that to really change our area and our city, we need to make ourselves the next great art capital of the south,” Patton said, previous owner of the venue Eighth & rail and now owner of the railyard, a recently-opened recycled cotton warehouse used as a venue for art, music, food and film.

Patton opened the railyard summer of 2012 after spending about five years gradually buy-ing some old cotton warehouses that sat across the tracks from his old venue, Eighth & rail, he said.

Patton now owns close to two city blocks of the historic warehouses which he said date to between 1870 –1910.

Patton and his team have studied other suc-cessful cities like Greenville, S.C., Asheville, n.C. and Florence, and reported a pattern of city life and culture spreading out from cities who have a foundation of an art culture, Pat-ton said.

“If you have a dream list of what you want in your city, they would have that,” Patton said. “I don’t care what the dream list is: whether it’s night life, food, restaurants, good schools, bike paths, green spaces, safe, whatever- they would all have that.”

Their dream is to have places for people to create and live and work, whether that is a roof-top or garden or studio warehouse Patton said.

Patton said he is opening another ware-house this week which will act as an incubator studio for local artists to come and create and have community.

Patton said he hopes the space will be a launching pad for local artists who need some-where to begin.

For Chandler Jones, junior in radio, televi-sion and film and lead singer of the local band Adventure the Great, the incubator will act not

only as a much-needed space for band practice opportunities, but as a collaborative space, Jones said.

“At the same time, there may be a band hav-ing practice and there may be a painter over there painting and so again, it all feeds off of one another and it’s about, sort of restoring creative energy into those warehouses that have just been sitting there for so long,” Jones said.

For their dream to happen, it is essential that some of the creatively-inspired settle in the Opelika area and invest their lives in that community.

“More and more are wanting to stay here, as opposed to them moving to nashville or Atlan-ta where art communities are already planted, and it’d be difficult to sort of jump right in, but in this case, it’s just starting and so these cre-atives have the opportunity to really put their

hand print on it and shape it to how they want it to be,” Jones said.

rob Slocumb is one such musician who be-lieved in the vision of Opelika when he moved here eight years ago from Canada with his wife. Slocumb and his band, Martha’s trouble toured the Southeast frequently before moving here and even a few years ago he saw the poten-tial in Opelika he said.

“right now, we’re on the verge of something special happening,” Slocumb said.

not only has the team been dreaming, but Patton and Slocumb have spent the past two months making presentations city-wide to lo-cal task forces and city groups to spread the vi-sion and gain support.

Both said they have had overwhelming sup-port.

Along with the railyard and the incubator, the group will soon be launching Cotton Seed

Studios, another creative nucleus that will serve as a film and recording studio as well as a venue, Slocumb said.

While the movement will affect the art com-munity of Opelika, their hope is that it would ultimately bring life and vitality to all different parts of the city, including families and couples.

“They all need things to do, they all need things that they enjoy,” Patton said. “For people to want to stay here, there’s got to be activity, there’s got to be life. And there are a lot of peo-ple that want more than what we have to offer at this point, whatever that is- whether it’s art studios or more music or better restaurants or more restaurants.”

Patton said the group is a movement of cre-atives, not a board or task force.

“This can’t happen alone,” Patton said. “It’s going to be a lot of people using their gifts to put it together and make it happen.”

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Guns, education hot topics for 2013 legislatureSydney CallisCommuniTy ediTor

in preparation for the upcoming legislative session, Alabama House of representatives republicans and democrats are discussing and planning their agendas.

Both agendas can be found on each party’s respective websites and cover an array of dif-ferent topics affecting the people of Alabama.

The republican’s proposed agenda, “We dare defend our rights,” announced Thurs-day, Jan. 17, utilizes the state motto to reiter-ate the need to defend against an encroaching government.

The agenda covers a variety of topics in-cluding abortion, the Second Amendment, school safety and economical issues, like tax-es and paying back the money borrowed from the Alabama Trust Fund, in the state.

rep. mac Buttram, r-Cullman, said that he anticipates the Women’s Health and Safe-ty Act and the Gun Control Laws to be most controversial, but he is also invested in what the government does to support job growth in the state.

“Job creation is still an issue on my mind,” Buttram said. “We need to get the equipment up to standards for the industries we have in Alabama. These are the things that we need.”

Job creation is an issue on the minds of pol-iticians across the spectrum.

“i want jobs in my area,” said rep. elaine Beech, d-Choctaw, Clarke, Washington. “i’m on Gov. Bentley’s bandwagon on jobs. i’m in rural Alabama and we’ve lost so many jobs.”

Protecting Alabamians right under the Sec-ond Amendment is also expected to be dis-cussed and is the second topic listed on the republican’s agenda.

“We want to make sure that our rights are defended under the Second Amendment,” said rep. Jim Carns, r-Jefferson, Shelby. “We want to be able to protect gun owners in Alabama. We want to have a fertile field already preset in case the feds do something that we think is not in accordance with what our state rights are.”

education and repaying the money bor-rowed from the Alabama Trust Fund are both large issues discussed in each party’s plan.

“There are a lot of people that are con-cerned about education, that are concerned about the common core standards,” Carns

said. “We have 132 different school systems, and we think that decisions can be made bet-ter at the local level than at the state level. Just like the state can make better decisions for us than the federal government, miles away.”

The democrats in the house released an ar-ticle monday, Jan. 14 discussing the process of setting their legislative agenda for the upcom-ing session, and said one of the their top prior-ities this session is going to be school security.

“The schedule has been driven in part of the response of the tragedy in newtown,” said rep. Christopher england, d- Tuscaloosa. “School safety and similar concerns are always of par-amount. making sure our children are safe at school is always going to be a concern.”

However school safety is not the only ed-ucation issue that is a priority for the demo-crats.

“Always you want to explore as many pos-sibilities as you can to incentivize individu-als and teachers,” england said. “over the last

couple years our teachers have seen their sala-ries decrease and their benefits decrease.”

england said the cost of health insurance has gone up and the amount teachers are con-tributing to their pension has risen so teach-ers’ take home pay has decreased.

“We’re interested in finding other ways to spread some of the cost of doing government so we don’t have to punish our teachers and our state employees,” england said. “in or-der to make Alabama competitive, we have to have some sort of incentives to make sure we can train and retain teachers that we train. if you look at mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia or Florida, and you can get paid more for do-ing the same job, why would you come to Al-abama?”

Helping Alabama educators is an impor-tant topic for Beech, as well.

“if we can come back with some type of bill that helps the teachers themselves, i would be all for that because i think they’re the ones that took the blunt of the blow,” Beech said. “i would like to see a pay raise come to our teachers if the money is there.”

The issue of education reform and school safety is only two of the topics expected to ap-pear before state lawmakers.

Although there are a variety of topics ex-pected to be discussed, Speaker of the House rep. mike Hubbard, r-Auburn, said in a press release that the first topic to be discussed has already been decided.

Legislation regarding the reimbursement of the $437 million borrowed from the Alabama Trust Fund will be first on the list.

The House convenes Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 in montgomery to begin the 2013 legislative session.

“We want to make sure that our rights are defended under the Second Amendment. We want to be able to protect gun owners in Alabama”

—rep. Jim Carns r-JeFFerSon, SHeLBy

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Chewacla Creek Bridge being renovated, roads closedBenjamin HohenstattWriTer

robert Frost advocated taking the road less traveled, and Auburn residents may find themselves doing exactly that in the near future.

on monday, Jan. 21, Chewacla Creek Bridge closed for the six-month ren-ovation period, creating de-

tours.The detours will run

through Pierce Chapel road, Highway 51, Lee road 112 and Lee road 146. detour and construction signs will be placed to help direct mo-torists while the bridge is closed.

The portion of Society Hill road from Pierce Chapel

road to moore’s mill road will also be closed during the renovation period.

“it’s a county road in city limits; we just want to get the word out,” said david dorton, Auburn’s director of public af-fairs.

The bridge, originally built in 1935, is part of Lee road 54 and will be closed for six

months during the renova-tion project.

Although the project is considered a renovation the bridge will essentially be re-placed with an entirely new bridge.

“The new bridge should be a little bit wider and a little bit longer,” said Ken mcConnell, county engineering techni-

cian.The bridge’s size will be

slightly increased from the old bridge size of 80.1 feet in length and 12.1 feet in depth.

The new bridge will also be stronger than the old bridge and be capable of support-ing more weight than the old bridge’s limit of 15 tons.

The Chewacla Creek Bridge

had no specific deficiencies, and the renovation project is part of Lee County’s efforts to keep roads in good condi-tions.

This process is a neces-sary part of upkeep for the 77-year-old bridge.

in the meantime Auburn motorists will have to take al-ternate routes.

Sports B1Thursday, January 31, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Sports

The Auburn men’s basketball started conference play strong by winning at home against LSU and narrowly edging South Carolina in Columbia.

That’s where the good news began and ended so far this season.

Since the victory at South Carolina, Tony Barbee’s team has dropped two heartbreakers and suffered two more relative blowouts to kill all momentum the team had after winning their first two SEC games.

All of this came after a 6-7 out-of-conference record.In short, Auburn basketball is going through rough

times right now, and while there are certainly some glar-ing disappointments, there are a few reasons to have cautious optimism for the remainder of the season, but only a few.

The game Auburn played against Kentucky was all but embarassing.

If the Tigers had not at least hung close for one half in front of a sellout home crowd it would have turned the game from disappointment to embarassment.

The loss at Vanderbilt was not as bad as the Kentucky defeat, but it still stung because that game marked Au-burn’s third loss in a row.

While Auburn largely collapsed in the second half against the Wildcats and Commodores, the Tigers hung in there quite well against Arkansas and No. 16 Ole Miss.

The team was in the thick of both of those games un-til the end.

At Arkansas, Auburn took the Razorbacks to double overtime where they eventually lost by eight points. They still took an in-conference team to two periods beyond regulation on the road.

The Ole Miss game last Saturday was similar except at the end of the second half Auburn had a golden opportu-nity to win the game in the last seconds until Chris Den-son’s drive to the basket was stuffed and Ole Miss took hold of the basketball.

It should be noted that Denson had the hot hand in the game, scoring 18 points, but just came up short at the end.

Auburn sent Ole Miss player Marshall Johnson to the line where he put the Tigers away with only seconds re-maining.

That’s enough about the past though. It’s over, and while it leaves a bad taste in any Tiger fan’s mouth, Au-burn is forced to look only to the future.

There are still 12 games to be played in the regular season; that’s more than enough time for any team to change its season for the better, especially a team like Auburn that has proven it can at least hang with good teams.

The team will have hang in there with good teams and more in the coming weeks as the future holds games against No. 17 Missouri, Kentucky, No. 4 Florida and No. 16 Ole Miss in February.

I’m not even going to talk about the NCAA Tourna-ment right now because as it stands Auburn may not even make the NIT Championship.

But if Barbee can get the players to feed on some good play and earn quality wins down the stretch, nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

Courtesy of todd Van emstChris denson attempts a layup against ole miss saturday, Jan. 26.

Basketball turns from hot to cold

After beginning SEC play 2-0, the men’s

basketball team has lost four in a row

Anna Claire Conrad WRITER

Twelve Auburn seniors com-peted in their last home meet at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center Saturday, Jan. 26, when the Florida Gators left their swamp to continue one of the longest rivalries in collegiate swimming and diving.

The Auburn University wom-en’s swimming and diving team continued its undefeated sea-son Saturday with its win over SEC rival Florida. The men’s team, however, fell short to the Gators during this dual meet in its pursuit of a similarly victori-ous season.

This was the 33rd meeting between the two men’s teams and the 31st meeting between the women’s teams. Florida led the all-time men’s series 17-15, but Auburn won 11 of the past 13 meetings. Florida women’s team led the series 17-13. The Gators entered Saturday’s meet 5-0 in dual meet competition and 3-0 against SEC opponents on the men’s side. On the wom-en’s side, the Gators were 2-3 overall and 1-2 in the SEC.

Auburn finished with a 161-138 win in the women’s meet whereas the men lost 167-133 to the Gators.

Auburn head coach Brett Hawke said he had mixed feel-ings about Saturday’s meet.

“It was great for the women to go through undefeated, and it’s great the way they fought as a team. They had some re-

ally good swims out there, and I’m just proud of them to come out victorious,” Hawke said. “On the men’s side, we knew this was going to be a tough battle. We’ve lost this dual meet be-fore, and it’s one of those situ-ations where the men are ob-viously very tired. We’re losing some close races, which were disappointing, but overall I was happy with most of the swims. There are a few areas where we need to go back and figure it out.”

Despite Hawke’s feelings about the outcome of the meet against Florida, he said there isn’t anything he would have done differently to prepare.

“I thought they did a great week of training. I’m really hap-py with their attitude and their effort in the lead up to this meet,” Hawke said. “Obviously there’s just a few guys that are very tired, but we’ll start focus-ing on the SEC championship

now.”Although his team lost, junior

Marcello Chierighini remains positive about the outcome of the meet.

“It’s never good to lose a meet, especially against Flori-da, but we had some really good performance,” Chierighini said. “I swam really good. These were the best times in the season for me.”

Chierighini tied for first place with Florida’s Bradley DeBorde in the 50 meter free, both finish-ing in 19.84 seconds. He then led a 1-2 Auburn finish in the 100 meter free with a 43.36 as soph-omore Alex Hancock finished second in 44.35.

Five men and seven wom-en competed for the last time in their home pool. The wom-en’s seniors are Katie Gordocki, Laura Johnson, Micha Law-rence, Becca Jones, Lauren Nor-berg, Lindsey Norberg and Han-nah Riordan. Auburn’s men’s se-niors are Stuart Ferguson, Chris Kramer, Brandon Siemasko, Chandler Gerlach and Kyle Ow-ens. Ferguson, Jones and Law-rence were named team cap-tains prior to this season.

Senior Lauren Norberg post-ed a 1-2 finish in the 100 breast, clocking in at 1:00:75 and her twin sister posting a career-best at 1:00:89.

“It’s really sad (this being my last home meet) because I’ve been here the last four years, and this is kind of my life, but today was really good for me,”

Norberg said. “Personal bests in both events; so, no complaints. They’re a really good group of kids, and I’m really glad I got to finish like this.”

Saturday’s Senior Day meet meant a lot to Hawke as well.

“This is the group I came in with as head coach,” Hawke said. “So, I’m very close to this group. I’m proud of the way a lot of them fought today.”

The Auburn divers played a huge role in Saturday’s meet on both sides. Sophomore Cinzia Calabretta earned a sweep of the women’s 1-and-3-meter events, finishing up with a win in the 1-meter event with a score of 285.68 and winning the 3-me-ter with a final score of 315.30. In men’s diving, sophomore Fra-sier McKean swept both boards as well, scoring 348.68 in his 1-meter and 392.70 in his 3-me-ter. Junior John Santeiu placed second in both events.

“My favorite dive today was probably my reverse on 3-meter and also at 1-meter,” Calabretta said. “I’m definitely pleased with how everyone did today. All of our girls went personal best, so I think it was a really good day.”

The Tiger women claimed 10 of the 16 events, while Auburn and Florida’s men each claimed eight events.

The Tigers will now begin training for the 2013 SEC Cham-pionships, which will be at the Texas A&M Student Recreation Center in College Station, Texas on Feb. 19-23.

Courtesy of todd Van emstChandler Gerlatch swims the breaststroke against the florida Gators in the last home meet of the season.

Perfect seasonThe women’s swimming and diving team finish

season undefeated with a victory over rival Gators

Jordan DaleWRITER

Auburn University baseball has recently acquired Terrance Dedrick, a pitcher/outfielder and winner of the 2012 Alabama Ju-nior College Player of the Year award.

“I felt really honored. There is a lot of talent in Alabama and a lot of great players,” Dedrick said. “I was really excited and my parents were the same. They have always supported me in ev-

erything I did.”Shelton State Community

College, under the direction of

coach Bobby Sprowl, provided Dedrick with two years of expe-rience prior to the start of his ca-reer at Auburn University.

“It was a really good pro-gram,” Dedrick said. “Our coach had been around the game for a long time and he knew what it took to get to the next level.”

Shelton State finished third at the JUCO World Series and won the Alabama Junior College State Championship in 2012.

“The experience he got at the

World Series playing in front of 10,000 people is going to help out,” Sprowl said. “That’s one thing you always worry about: how is a kid going to react play-ing at LSU on a Friday night?”

Auburn began the process of recruiting Dedrick when he was still in high school, but was un-sure how he would fit into the team.

Pitcher given Junior College Player of the Year award

“It was great for the women to go through undefeated, and it’s great the way they fought as a team.”

—Brett Hawke SWIM AND DIVE HEAD COACH

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“I felt really honored. there is a lot of talent in alabama.”

—Terrance Dedrick AUBURN PITCHER/OUTFIELDER

John BurnsSPORTS EDITOR

Sports B2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 31, 2013

After Dedrick’s freshman year at Shelton State, Auburn University coach John Paw-lowski and assistant coach Scott Foxhall heated up their recruitment efforts.

“It became apparent what type of hitter he was going to be and what type of pitch-er he had turned into,” Fox-hall said. “We are ecstatic that he’s here.”

Playing at the next level presents other challenges that Dedrick will have to over-come.

“He’s going to have to slow the game down a little bit and not get anxious,” said Sprowl.

“And he’ll have to under-stand it may take him a game

or two to get comfortable.”Foxhall said that the talent

and difficulty of Dedrick’s op-ponents will change.

“There is less margin for er-ror,” said Foxhall. “His good pitches are going to have to turn to great pitches, and his average pitches are going to have to become good pitch-es.”

Foxhall and Sprowl both said that Dedrick is the type of person who can shut down an opponent late in the game.

“His arsenal is ideal for being at the back end of the game,” Foxhall said. “It’s go-ing to be when the game is on the line, whether that’s in the 7th inning or the 9th inning.”

Dedrick has a stellar repu-tation both on and off the field, and was a leader on Shelton State’s team.

“I’ve seen Terrance grow since he was about 7 or 8 years old,” Sprowl said. “He’s a great kid from a great family. He’s what you want your son to grow up and be like.”

Sprowl said that Dedrick was the ultimate team player.

“We have every bit of confidence and faith in him, and we’re looking forward to him being out there for us,” Foxhall said. “He has a lot of intangibles that make a team better and that make him a great person. That’s why we’re glad he’s a Tiger.”

Courtesy of Daniel froehliChterrance Dedrick accepts his award for Junior College Player of the year.

Men’s Basketball: The men’s basketball team had a rough go of it this week. The Tigers traveled to Vanderbilt last Wednesday and was defeated 73-61. On Saturday Au-burn played host to then No. 23 Ole Miss and lost a heartbreaker 63-61.

Football: Auburn has received the verbal commitments of three recruits this week-end. Included are four-star wide receiver Dominic Walker, three-star outside linebacker Ken-ny Flowers and three star athlete Marcus Davis. With these additions Auburn’s class is up to 19 members.

Baseball: Eight former Auburn Tigers have been invited to spring training camps of major league teams. Tim Hudson will be with the Braves, David Ross will attend camp with the Red Socks, Evan Crawford will set up shop with the Blue Jays, Josh Donaldson will be returning to the Athletics, Grant Dayton will be joining up with the Marlins, Hunter Morris will be with the Brewers and Clete Thomas and Justin Christian will attend the camps of the Twins and Cardinals, respectively, as non-roster invitees.

Men’s Swimming & Diving: The men’s swim and dive team fell short of an undefeated season by the one meet they lost to Florida this weekend. The men finished their regular season with a record of 5-1 (4-1 SEC).

Women’s Swimming & Diving: The women’s swim and dive team finished their season in undefeated fashon after a day of strong competition against rival Florida Ga-tors. The men and women’s teams will focus their attention on training for the SEC Champi-onships Feb. 19-23 at the Texas A&M Student Recreation Center in College Station, Texas.

Men’s Tennis: The No. 21 Tigers defeated No. 23 Indiana Saturday, Jan. 26 to im-prove to 4-0 this season. The next day the Tigers played against No. 11 Mississippi State and were narrowly defeated to bring Auburn down to 4-1 this season.

Women’s Basketball: The women’s basketball team traveled to arch rival Alabama last week and came up short with a final score of 62-52.

Women’s Tennis: The women’s tennis team defeated DePaul 4-0 Sunday, Jan. 27.

Gymnastics: The gymnastics team fell to Florida 197.650-196.025 Friday, Jan. 25.

A week of Auburn sports

Courtesy of toDD Van emstfrankie sullivan shoots over an ole miss player in the loss to ole miss. saturday, Jan. 26.

DeDrick» From B1

“We have every bit of confidence and faith in him and we’re looking forward to him being out there for us. he has a lot of intangibles that make a team better and that make him a great person. that’s why we’re glad he’s a tiger.”

—SCOTT FOXHALLASSISTANT BASEBALL COACH

Katherine mCCahey / assistant Photo eDitorthe Jungle gets pumped up before the Kentucky basketball game Jan. 19.

It’s a JungleThe Jungle is the official student

section of Auburn basketballJohn BurnsSPOrTS EdITOr

The Jungle is Auburn’s official student section for basketball, and while the basketball team may not be rolling along, the student section is.

Every time the men’s bas-ketball team has hosted a SEC opponent there has not been an empty seat in the 1,500 person capacity stu-dent section at the Auburn Arena.

Obviously that means more students want entry to the section, so Athletics director Jay Jacobs came up

with a solution.Until the tickets are sold

out students can get into emp-ty arena seats for free until the arena is filled to its capacity.

Becoming a member of The Jungle costs $10, but for that money students receive a Jun-gle T-shirt, and early admit-tance to all home basketball games.

By weaing The Jungle T-shirt, students can also get a buy one get one free sandwich deal at Momma Goldberg’s deli and priority post season tickets.

The Jungle is sponsored by Momm Goldberg’s deli.

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Auburn women’s tennis kicked off the 2013 season by picking up their first victory against DePaul this weekend at the iTA kick-off tourna-ment, but the Tigers also got their first loss.

The Tigers performed well on Sunday, going 4-0 by win-ning both the singles and doubles points handily. This came after a 4-0 loss to 8th ranked UNC Tar Heels on Sat-urday.

“it was a positive week-end for us. We showed a lot of toughness on an indoor sur-face,” said Lauren Longbo-tham, coach of the Auburn women’s tennis team.

Normally, Auburn’s team practices outdoors on clay, a completely different surface than the hard indoor courts they faced this weekend. Style of play completely changes from clay to hard courts.

Notwithstanding, junior Jackie Kasler and sophomore

emily Flickinger highlighted the weekend by winning their doubles matches against both UNC and DePaul. Flickinger also completed the week-end by besting Depaul’s Ana Vladutu, 6-2, 6-2 in singles play.

Meanwhile freshman Mi-chala Kucharova came back from a 4-1 deficit to win her match against Depaul’s Patri-cia Fargas, winning the over-all match as well. UNC’s Gina Suarez-Malaguti is the 11th ranked player in the coun-try, but freshman Pleun Burg-mans, up 6-3, 4-3, at one point, nearly pulled off an up-set during their match.

This kind of fire and abili-ty encourages Longbotham. With freshmen in the one and two spots on the team, the women’s tennis team is young, but Longbotham said leadership from a returning core of upper classmen is the team’s greatest strength.

“it’s good to have that kind of support and guidance from

older players, especially with a young team,” Longbotham said.

Another factor is the team’s depth.

“in my 10 years here, this is by far the hardest time i’ve had picking a line-up,” Long-botham said. “it’s a good problem to have.”

it seems both the future and present are bright for a youthful team brimming with talent.

The final confidence boost-er for the team going into Feb-ruary is their schedule, which boasts home games for the rest of the month.

Next weekend, the wom-en’s tennis team will take on Georgia Southern Saturday, at noon, and Alabama A&M Sunday, at 6 p.m. Admittance is free, and the matches are at the Yarbrough Tennis Center on richland. For those want-ing to watch the Super Bowl as well, the football game will be displayed on televisions at the match.

John BurnsSPorTS eDiTor

With National Signing Day looming head coach Gus Malzahn and his staff are fill-ing up the recruiting class just in time.

Last weekend Auburn had three players commit to play football next year.

on Friday, Jan. 25 the Ti-gers received verbal commit-ments from four-star wide receiver Dominic Walker and three-star linebacker Kenny Flowers.

Walker had been commit-ted to play for Nebraska, but flipped to Auburn, citing the weather as his deciding fac-

tor. He will also be much clos-er to his home in orlando.

Walker’s current team-mate, four-star wide receiv-er Tony Stevens, performed a similar flip to Auburn from Texas A&M Jan. 20.

Flowers was also a Texas A&M commit until the Ag-gies realized he would not be able to enroll in early classes and dropped him.

Malzahn swooped in and got a commitment from the linebacker.

Flowers is the third play-er from Hutchinson Commu-nity College that Auburn has received a commitment from. The other two are offensive

guard Devonte Danzey and defensive tackle Ben Bradley.

The final commitment of the weekend came from three-star athlete Marcus Da-vis Sunday, Jan. 27.

Davis should fit in well with Malzahn’s high-octane offense as a wide receiver.

Auburn is beginning to rake in wide receiver recruits and seem to be stable at the position for now, but there are still six solid days to se-cure depth at other positions.

The Tigers now have 19 commitments and are con-sidered the No. 15 recruiting class in the nation by eSPN.com.

Tigers add three more recruits

Rebecca cRoomes / PhotogRaPheRsenior Plamena Kurteva returns a serve at the Yarborough tennis center.

Women’s tennis begins season with a split

The next week in sportsJanuary 31Women’s basketball vs. LsU, auburn, ala. at 6 pm.

February 1Women’s gymnastics at missouri at 6:30 pm.

Women’s equestrian vs Fresno state and Kansas state in Fresno, calif.men and women’s track, husker Invitational, Lincoln Neb.

February 2Men’s basketball at missouri at 12:30 pm.

Women’s equestrian vs. Fresno state and Kansas state in Fresno, calif.

Men’s Tennis at Uab

Men and women’s track, husker Invitational, Lincoln Neb.

Women’s Golf, georgia Individual tournament, athens, ga, all day.

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Women’s basketball at south carolina, 2 pm.

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With only a week left until National Signing Day on Feb. 6, the Tigers have built an im-pressive 2013 class ranked No. 13 in the nation by rivals.com. With top targets and commits visiting the Plains this week-end, Auburn hopes to con-tinue their momentum after multiple flips from rival SEC schools earlier this week.

After co-offensive coordi-nator Dameyune Craig and company managed to flip 4-star wide receiver Tony Ste-vens from Texas A&M, the Ti-gers’ super crew of recruiting have gained four new com-mitments, three flipping from other programs. Khari Hard-ing, Kenny Flowers, Domi-nic Walker and Marcus Da-vis all pledged to play football at Auburn over the week and numerous high rated recruits have the Tigers moving up on their list of choices as well.

After an official visit last weekend from ESPN’s No. 4 overall ranked five-star Mack-ensie Alexander, a defensive back from Florida, the Ti-gers look to be moving up his commitment choice list. 24/7 Sports national recruiting di-rector JC Shurburtt projects that Alexander will land at Au-burn come Feb. 6. After his vis-

it he told Auburn Undercover he was really impressed with the school and its coaches. A recruit of his caliber could ulti-mately change the entire 2013 class for the Tigers. If he com-mits on national signing day, a string of commitments could come the Tigers’ way through-out the afternoon.

This upcoming weekend will feature a star-studded vis-iting group of players that in-cludes five-star defensive tack-le Montravius Adams, five-star defensive end and Auburn commit Carl Lawson, and five-star linebacker reuben Fos-ter. Having some of the na-tion’s best high school play-ers save their final official vis-it for Auburn says something about the quality of recruiting the new football staff has been doing recently. It will also ben-efit the Tigers because they have the chance to give the final pitch for many of these athletes before they sign next Wednesday.

After a hectic past week of recruiting across the country, Auburn has some new targets that are strongly considering the Tigers heading toward Na-tional Signing Day. A de-com-mitment from Vanderbilt by New Hope High School four-star running back Jonathan Ford puts Auburn at the top of

the running for his talent fol-lowed by offers from Georgia and Florida State. He recent-ly visited Auburn and soon de-committed from Vanderbilt.

Also a de-commitment from four –star offensive line-man Austin Golsen from Flor-ida St. gives the Tigers a great chance of landing him on sign-ing day. originally Golsen was committed to visiting Auburn this upcoming weekend but has since backed out yet will continue to keep the Tigers at the top of his commitment list.

Khari Harding, a three-star defensive back from oklaho-ma who committed to the Ti-gers Jan. 21 after flipping from Arkansas, is a strong physi-cal playing safety that will be a great addition to the Tigers struggling defense. Four days later Auburn received com-mitments from two three-star recruits.

Wide receiver Dominic Walker flipped his commit-ment from Nebraska to Au-burn.

“It was a very tough deci-sion. They were [mad]. They were very mad. But I thought I had to call them like a real man should,” Walker said to the orlando Sentinel. “But yeah, they were mad. Coach Pelini said, ‘Best of luck, you’re going to need it.’”

The second commitment on Jan. 25 was JUCo linebacker Kenny Flowers, who pledged to the Tigers after flipping from Texas A&M. Flowers high school head coach told rivals the tradition of Auburn histo-ry and football attracted him to the school along with its proximity to his home. He will be enrolled in classes in May.

Auburn’s most recent commitment is from Delray Beach, Fla. three-star athlete Marcus Davis who could play a number of positions for the Ti-gers. After his official visit last weekend Davis said, “From the moment I got here, it feels like family. I’m committed to Au-burn.” Davis chose Auburn over Arkansas who he was go-ing to visit on Feb.1 but has ended his recruitment saying he is 100 percent committed to Gus Malzahn and the Tigers.

Next week could be huge for Auburn after having some of the nation’s best high school football players vis-it campus this weekend. Ex-pect signing day to increase Auburn’s 2013 class with po-tential five-star commitments and move them up the ranks in overall recruiting charts across the nation. Gus Mal-zahn and his assistants are looking to finish strong in the final week before Feb. 6.

Malzahn seeks a top 10 class

Courtesy of todd Van emstmalzahn pumps fans up at the ole miss basketball game saturday, Jan. 26.

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The Auburn gymnastics team suffered their third con-secutive loss last weekend in an away meet against the Florida Gators, with a final score of 197.650 - 196.025.

The Tigers are staying pos-itive, however, given that the team achieved its second sea-son high.

“It was our best meet so far in the season, though going into it and during it we proba-bly didn’t think it was, just be-cause we’re that hard on our-selves. You can’t be perfect, but we always want to be,” said Bri Guy, sophomore.

Guy scored second highest all around on the team with a score of 39.250, and led on the vaulting event with a score of 9.850.

Being on the road for two weekends straight, with a third away meet coming up this Friday in Missouri pres-ents a different set of chal-lenges for the players.

“Probably the most diffi-cult thing is that it’s the third road meet in a row, so we’re all just kind of tired of traveling, but once we get to the meet I think we’ll be fine. We’re going to tune it out and do what we normally do,” said Caitlin At-kinson, freshman.

Atkinson led the team overall, scoring 39.250. She also led on floor events, scor-ing 9.825, which is where the team posted a season high.

The Tigers are still work-ing through certain growing pains with competing, con-sidering half of the competi-tive line up is brand new. This

was a struggle head coach Jeff Graba foresaw, and knew would have to be worked through.

“We don’t need any one person to step up as a leader, we need every one to step into their role. For the freshman, a lot of that was just figur-ing out what that is for them,” said Graba.

Because of the amount of new players on the team, per-formance dynamics are still being based on trial and er-ror, leaving room for improve-ments with each meet.

“I don’t think we’re even close to what we’re capable of. We had a good meet at Flori-da, and we hit 24 routines, but we’re still trying to figure out our line ups. We’re looking for who scores best in what area, and in what position in the line up. We’ve done some rou-tine changes, and changed some skills around to see who is going to score better where,” Graba said.

After each meet, the team requests inquiries from the judges on the scores that four different routines received. The inquiries show where points were deducted, and help the team pin point what needs to be corrected.

“Hopefully for the next two or three meets, we’re going to be able to implement some of that,” said Graba.

Despite the losses that The Tigers have faced, personal bests and seasonal highs con-tinue to occur, showing great potential in the young team.

“I believe if we’re on top of our game,” Graba said. “We’re a top ten program.”

Gymnastics falls to Georgia, drops last three meetsAuburn traveled to Gainsville

Friday, Jan. 25, but failed to bring home a victory

Lance Davis and John BurnsSPorTS WrITErS

Auburn special teams and running backs coach rich Bisaccia left Auburn Friday, Jan. 25 to take a job with the Dallas Cowboys, according to the university.

He had only been an Au-burn employee for 22 days before abandoning the Ti-gers in the heart of recruit-ing season.

Bisaccia is a highly re-spected special teams mind that many teams both on the collegiate and professional level would like to add to their staff.

“rich had an offer that he felt he could not turn down and we wish him nothing but the best,” head coach Gus Malzahn said in a statement.

Bisaccia’s departure could not have come at a worse time for the Ti-gers, as he left the day be-fore 5-star running back Derrick Green announced where he would play foot-ball.

of course, he did not end up choosing Auburn, but who’s to say if it was a result of the running back coach’s swift departure from the Ti-gers.

Malzahn was forced to move swiftly to tweak the coaching staff after the abrupt departure.

Former tight ends coach Tim Horton will now coach the running backs, and Scott Fountain will coach tight ends and special teams.

Horton was the former running backs coach at Ar-kansas where he sent both Darren McFadden, who now plays for the raiders, and Felix Jones, a Cowboy, to the NFL.

“I’m really excited that Tim will be coaching our running backs,” Malzahn said. “He has a tremen-dous record coaching some great backs and I’m ex-tremely confident that will continue at Auburn.”

As for Fountain, he is an experienced recruiter who was partially responsible for the top-ranked Auburn recruiting class in 2011 ac-cording to Scout.com.

“Scott is someone I tried to hire as an assistant coach a year ago at Arkan-sas State,” Malzahn said. “He is a great coach with a tremendous work ethic, and his strong ties in the state of Alabama will be an asset to our program.”

Courtesy of the san diego Chargersrich Bisaccia left auburn after 22 days.

Bisaccia BailsAfter being an Auburn Tiger for 22 days, Rich Bisaccia left to join the Dallas Cowboys

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For a night of great music, the Hound is the place to be this Sat-urday, Feb. 2. rock n’ roll band tea-cup and the Monster will play at The Hound, along with Atlanta based band, The red Sea.

“We’ve played at The Hound sever-al times, including our album release last year,” said Jake Carnley, lead sing-er of teacup and the Monster. “We’re family—it’s a cool environment to play and chill. They have a lot of good food, a lot of good beer and a lot of good people.”

Carnley added that the environ-ment is relaxed and there is some-thing for everybody to enjoy. “There’s a lot of culture there,” Carnley said.

While teacup and the Monster is taking most of the semester off of some gigs, the band does plan to play certain shows.

“We’re working on an album right now, so we’re going to do a lot of sparse shows. We’ve been called for a festival in Birmingham, and we want

to be strategic about the shows, in-stead of just playing all the time,” Carnley said.

teacup and the Monster has been in the studio gearing up for a suc-cessful fall and a successful release of its second album—all the while surrounding itself with the evolving sound of Auburn’s music and arts scene.

“There’s been some really neat op-portunities opened up in opelika with a gentlemen named richard Pat-ton,” Carnley said. “It looks like we’ll be here for the next few years to see this art movement through because (Auburn is) definitely developing into a place where there’s a lot of creativity, original art, music, poetry and paint-ing.”

And because the band’s sound has changed so much, its main focus is the upcoming album, which will be released in September.

“What we were playing was fine and good for the time, but it just didn’t represent us as well,” Carnley said. “We love rock ‘n’ roll, we love

southern music and southern culture, so we geared our sound into more of an open book into who we are and what it is that creates us.”

teacup and the Monster plans to stay in Auburn for a while not only be-cause of the developing art scene, but also because of the people.

“There’s an endless supply of peo-ple here, and an endless supply of art-ists,” Carnley said.

the red Sea, out of Atlanta was in contact with mutual friends of teacup and the Monster, so the two bands worked together to book the show at The Hound.

“They’re a really cool band,” Carn-ley said. “They’re a trio that does a lot of rock ‘n’ roll meets psychedelic—it will be interesting to see how our sounds mesh.”

While The red Sea will play first, Carnley said no one is really opening for the other.

“It will be even. We’re excited to hear them, and they’re excited to hear us. It will just be a good night of mu-sic,” Carnley said.

Carnley expects a big turnout, and is excited for the band’s new sound to be heard, as well as to get feedback from the audience.

“This sound is more of what I like to do, and more of what I hear in my head when I hear music, and I’m ex-cited to get this new sound circulat-

ing,” Carnley said.The red Sea will play first at 9 p.m.,

followed by teacup and the Monster at 10 p.m. teacup and the Monster’s second album will be released in Sep-tember 2013, and the band plans to tour and play more gigs shortly after the release.

Teacup and the Monster to rock at The Hound this Saturday

Courtesy of Jake Carnley

Band members Josh Carnley, tommy kratzert, lydia Cash, Jake Carnley and Brian keyser in their upcoming album cover.

Finding a well-balanced snack on campus

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Many students find it difficult to eat a healthy snack on campus.

“I always have trouble eating a healthy snack when I’m on campus,” said Lindsey Heim, ju-nior in biomedical sciences. “It seems like ev-erything is so expensive, and there aren’t that many options. It’s really inconvenient.”

However, eric Smith, the director of Health Promotion and Wellness Services on campus, said various vendors around the university of-fer healthy options for students who are look-ing for them.

“There are some great things, you just have to look for it. It may not be the first bag of chips that jumps off the aisle at you,” Smith said.

Smith said there are a number of points to consider when weighing options for a quick snack.

Smith said it’s best to stick with natural foods and to try to eat as well balanced as possible be-tween protein, carbohydrates and fat.

“obviously you’re going to want to steer clear of the processed foods like candy and chips,” Smith said. “A well-balanced snack, whether it’s almonds, whether it’s pistachios with a lit-tle dried fruit thrown in there, that’s a great way to go.”

While it’s important to have a snack to tie the appetite over until the next meal, Smith said it’s also about maintaining energy.

“I do food a little bit differently. I kind of look at it as fuel,” Smith said. “to me, it’s more of an energy source. So if I start to get a little tired, sometimes I’ll grab a little snack to fire up my metabolism and give me a little energy boost. to get through, a little bit.”

As far as ideal caloric values for snacks go, Smith said it depends on weight management goals. on average, those who wish to maintain their weight should eat between 150 and 220 calories for a snack.

Smith urges that variation in snacks is key as well.

“I think one of the most challeng-ing things people talk about when they talk about their food choices is people get stuck in these ruts and stuck in these patterns where every day at 10 a.m.

“I have this, this and this,” Smith said. “And even if it’s something healthy, it may not be the best thing. Just add some variety and pick out something else healthy.”

Madeleine Holmes, senior in nursing, said she always has snacks with her because of her busy on-the-go schedule.

“I have to go to clinicals several days a week, so it’s important to take lots of snacks with me because we’re there all day. I like things like granola bars or the hummus cups that come with pretzels,” Holmes said.

even with seemingly healthy options like granola bars, Smith said it’s impor-tant to look at the nutrition facts and serving size to check for hidden sug-ars or fats.

“obviously campus does have quite a bit of the quick fix kind of snacks. even quick fixes like CliffBars or stuff like that, those are chock-full of cal-ories, fats and sugars, and those are really designed to keep you out there when you’re riding your mountain bike,” Smith said.

“If you’re choosing something along the lines of a quick fix, realize that portion size is very important and eating half of it may be the way to go.”

Here is a list of healthy options that can be found around campus. It’s im-portant to note that caloric values are based on one serving size.

Some students find it difficult to uphold a healthy lifestyle under the restrictions of Tiger Dining. Here are ways to snack healthy on campus:

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fresh fruit, kind bars, hummus and pretzels and healthy soups are among the many high-energy, low-calorie snacks that students can find in the student Center and other campus dining locations.

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Parkerson Mill Creek project aims to increase sustainabilityKelsey DavisInTrIgue WrITer

The typical Auburn stu-dent has driven down South Donahue a thousand times. The majority have probably noticed a ditch in the area around the Coliseum. Most likely no one knows that this ditch is actually part of a nine mile creek that runs through Auburn.

Parkerson Mill Creek starts on the north side of cam-pus, and lets out into Chewa-cla Creek just by the Water Waste Treatment Plant. Parts of it have been built over by the stadium or other build-ings, and parts of it look like a ditch.

To try and better the wa-ter quality and appearance of Parkerson Mill Creek, Dr. eve Brantley and Kaye Chris-tian with the Alabama Co-operative extension System and Department of Agrono-my and Soils began the Park-erson Mill Creek Project.

“We definitely would not be able to accomplish as much as we do without the help of many other groups on cam-pus that provide support - Fa-cilities, Office of Sustainabili-ty, Office of risk Management and Safety, Alabama Water Watch, plus many others,” said Christian.

“The PMC project is a joint volunteer effort to moni-tor the chemistry of the wa-ter, how it looks and how to detect what outside sourc-es may be hindering the wa-ter’s quality,” said Wesley Ca-puto, junior in biosystems en-gineering.

The Alabama Department of environmental Manage-ment watches all the rivers, streams and creeks in Ala-bama and test them to see

what the water quality is. Throughout years of test-ing, ADeM noticed that there were a multitude pathogens living in the creek, specifical-ly e. Coli.

“They realized that it was a problem and it wasn’t go-ing away. We needed to figure out where it was coming from and how to stop it,” said Kaye Christian, water program spe-cialist in the Department of Agronomy and Soils.

Several sources of pollution were identified in the tests.

“We noticed that when tail-gates come around, especial-ly around the coliseum, trash from people’s tailgate will wind up in the water and de-stroy its composition,” said Caputo.

even when it’s not foot-ball season, basically every piece of trash that doesn’t get placed in a receptacle will eventually wind up in a storm drain, which leads to the creek.

“The idea is to try to clean it up and deal with storm wa-ter so that we can restore the creek,” said Mike Kensler, di-rector of the Office of Sustain-ability.

The PMC projects aims to take preventative measures

to try and stop furthering pollution of the creek. They have installed rain gardens and storm water wetlands on campus which will help to filter out some of the waste. Also, whenever erosion along the creek begins to occur, vol-unteers will plant plants in the soil that will grow and pre-vent erosion from worsening.

Though the PMC project is taking steps toward prevent-ing the creek from further de-terioration, there is only so much they can do.

Because all trash littering the ground eventually winds up in Parkerson Mill Creek, it’s up to students and resi-dents of Auburn to be mindful of where waste winds up.

If anyone is interested in helping out with the PMC project, there will be a clean-up event on Feb. 23 from 9-12 that will end with a chili lunch.

Also on Feb. 26, IMPACT will be working to clean out the creek from 2-4 p.m.. The group for both events will meet at the parking lot by the women’s softball field. Any additional information about clean-up events or the PMC project in general can be found at www.aces.edu/pmc.

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Waaaaarrrr eagle, hey!Have you ever wondered where the eagles

that ceremoniously circle Jordan-Hare Stadi-um before every Auburn football home game are kept?

The Southeastern raptor Center is a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center for birds of prey that need a second chance at life in the wild. It has been around since the mid-1970s, found-ed by Dr. Jimmy Milton, and has developed into the rehabilitation hub for any injured, ill or or-phaned raptor gathered within the Southeast.

“To me, eagles are a symbol of our American heritage,” said reaves Coker, senior in finance. “every time I wave my hand in the air, yell ‘war eagle’ and see nova or Spirit soaring overhead, the hair on the back of my neck stands up.”

Although nova, a golden eagle, and Spirit, a Bald eagle -- the two eagles that are recog-nized for one of college football’s greatest tra-ditions -- may be the focal point in the pub-lic’s eye, the center is also home to many oth-er breeds of raptors.

The center will take in any bird of prey -- a bird with sharp talons to grab food and sharp beaks to pick food apart -- including owls, hawks, eagles, falcons and a few other species within the region.

“Our mission consists of three things,” said Marianne Murphy Hudson, a raptor special-ist at the SrC. “rehab, education and conser-vation.”

The main goal is for the veterinarian staff to treat the birds and release them back into the wild. However, if the staff deems that the bird is not fit for life in the wild again, it lives in the facility and is used for educational purposes such as demonstrations in front of schools, civ-ic, scout or church groups.

The raptors are kept in their own carrier and are fed once a day, the normal daily intake for birds of prey. Their meals consist of other an-imals including rats, mice, chickens, fish and quail.

The staff trains the birds to become desensi-tized to noise and crowds by using them in the before-mentioned educational presentations.

However, nova and Spirit must also be trained to make their flight over Jordan-Hare. From June to December, they are taken to the stadium and practice almost daily. When it comes to game day, the bird chosen to fly is picked based on their current behavior.

As with any other professional occupation, the eagles must “retire” at some point. Tiger,

also known as War eagle VI, made her last flight over Jordan-Hare at the georgia game in november 2006. She is now solely used in the educational and research programs.

The center also accepts student volunteers who wish to help out with the rehabilitation process.

“Without the help that we receive from our volunteers each year, our job would not be pos-sible,” said Dr. Jamie Bellah, director of the SrC.

Dr. Bellah also explained the raptor medi-cine rotation elective that senior veterinarian students are able to take. The course is a two-week period of instruction and participation in training in which the student gains avian expe-rience. The instruction also includes the legal issues of the practice because without a per-mit, a vet cannot perform rehabilitation.

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nova flies around Jordan-hare stadium during the fall football season.

‘War eagle’ training revealed

CourteSy of Kaye ChriStian

the primary purpose of the Parkerson mill Creek project is to pre-vent pollution and promote sustainability.

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Kelsey Cardinal is passionate. As a junior in biomedical sciences and public health, she has worked as a scribe in an emergency room in Montgomery and is currently serving as the national president for Silver Wings, a non-prof-it student organization that supports the unit-ed States Air Force.

Cardinal originally majored in aerospace en-gineering, although quickly found her interest lie in medicine once she started taking classes.

After shadowing for two years in Bap-tist Health facilities in Montgomery, Cardinal moved onto a paid scribe position. As a scribe, she was the first person a patient saw in the Er and would ask them questions about their con-dition and medical history.

“We saw anything from kids breaking their arm to a 911 trauma gunshot wound, so you have to be prepared for anything. You get an adrenaline rush because scribes are in the room when they come in,” Cardinal said.

Cardinal said she had to work a minimum of five 10-hour shifts per month, although she of-ten ended up working up to 16 hours at a time. The night shifts were her favorite, because they were more exciting and allowed her to attend class during the day, despite lack of sleep. Still, keeping up with school was difficult.

“The thing that made me really want to do the job because it was so much fun. It was like, ‘wow, this is what I want to do, this is my fu-ture,’” she said. “You get to Auburn and you take all these classes, and it’s just kind of ho-hum. But you go on the weekend and you see all this knowledge being used. It’s what motivated me to stay on this med school track. The most im-portant thing for me is to see the other side,” Cardinal said.

despite her passion for her work as a scribe, she had to put the brakes on the job in order to make time for other commitments like her po-sition in Silver Wings.

“It was a lot of fun, but you get to the point where it’s 45 minutes away, I was traveling a lot, and traveled even more with Silver Wings, so I had to put the breaks on it to make sure my grades were okay, stay sane with my life,” she said.

As the national president of Silver Wings, Cardinal runs the day-to-day operations with her Auburn-based staff. She spends a lot of time coordinating her staff with people all around the country and is constantly in conferences and making phone calls throughout the week.

“For me, it’s a fun job, it’s something different from everything I do. All this medicine stuff is cool, but when I find something I’m really pas-sionate about, I go for it,” she said. “In a sense, I run the entire thing with my staff. I make sure my staff has what they need to carry out their processes. If public affairs need pictures of something, I make sure someone gets those pic-

tures to them. If my secretary needs addresses, I will email the region to get those.”

Cardinal is in charge of more than 60 chap-ters around the country each with 10-20 mem-bers, amounting to more than 600 national members.

Cardinal said one of her favorite things about Silver Wings is how different all the chapters across the united States are, but they are still united under one common goal: support air power.

“Each chapter ranges differently. Silver Wings is a professional non-profit organization. Any initiative that might promote education in sci-ence in math, that’s our mission, to promote that. Auburn’s chapter concentrates on promot-ing roTC around campus,” she said. “But there are some chapters out west that concentrate a

lot on volunteering, because that’s a big part of our organization too. It’s up to a lot of chapters to decide on what they what they want to do.”

despite differences in working in the Er and Silver Wings, Cardinal said the underlying con-nection between the two is service.

“In the Er, you serve patients regardless of where there from, what they do. I think that overlaps with Silver Wings,” Cardinal said. “Yeah, it’s completely different, and yeah, they have nothing to do with each other in any oth-er way other than service, but you are still doing something to improve someone else’s life, and that will never ever be lost on me.”

Aside from serving the members of Sil-ver Wings as president, Cardinal also serves through the organization with volunteer proj-ects. This year, Silver Wings supported the Sci-ence, Technology, Engineering and Mathemat-ics (STEM) Education Coalition.

“We went into underprivileged schools and helped teach these subjects. There are five mil-lion things you can volunteer with. You walk on every college campus and there’s some sort of club,” she said. “We went to a school in rural Birmingham and taught these kids with proj-ects. The kids were so excited about it all. I don’t think I’ve ever found myself so drawn to a volun-teer project like that.”

Cardinal plans to attend medical school when she finishes at Auburn, and has hopes to practice emergency medicine full time when she graduates from medical school.

“There are some days I forget to step back and look at everything,” Cardinal said. “That’s some-thing that you have to take time to do. Because otherwise, why are you doing what you’re do-ing? Why would I put myself through this much stress? You have to sacrifice things in order to give back. You are given an opportunity, so you better grab it, and use it in a positive way.”

Student makes a difference one person at a time

Courtesy of Kelsey Cardinal

Kelsey Cardinal’s silver Wings presidential term ends in March 2013.

“Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why would i put myself through this much stress? you have to sacrifice things in order to give back. you are given an opportunity, so you better grab it, and use it in a positive way.”

—Kelsey Cardinal

Anna Beth JagerInTrIguE rEPorTEr

Have you every wanted to swim with manatees? What about go sky-diving, whitewater rafting, or back-packing through the Appalachian Trail with a group of fellow adven-turers? If any of these things caught your eye, then you’re in luck, because the outdoor Adventure Club has plans to do it all.

A club dedicated to creating new adventures for Auburn students, the oAC gives anyone the opportuni-ty to join in on various trips around the south.

Club member Kelly Herman, a California native studying environ-mental science, talks about why the oAC stood out to her when she first arrived in Auburn.

“Coming from an outdoorsy back-ground, I wanted some sort of an outlet and there really wasn’t any other group on campus like the out-door Adventure Club that would al-low me to have that,” she said. “When I went on o-days, they had a table out and they were talking about all the cool events they were going to do and it was all very appealing to me. They weren’t like any other club at Auburn that I had seen.”

oAC president derrick Stone, a senior in mechanical engineering, said, “College is about meeting new people, discovering new places and ideas, and engaging in brand-new experiences all while having a blast. rather than restrict yourself to just chilling with people of a certain ma-jor, sex, hobby, or political affiliation, the oAC allows you to branch out and explore the rich social diversity of Auburn university.”

“You can meet girls and guys from all different majors, states, and grade-levels while having fun explor-ing all the beauty and excitement the world has to offer as you create memories that will last a lifetime,” Stone said.

The most recent trip taken by the oAC was to Beech Mountain, north Carolina, where a group about 40 people spent the weekend skiing and snowboarding.

“We had all access passes to the slopes, so once the sun was down, many of us went night skiing as well,” Stone said. “When we weren't on the slopes, we were killing time by play-ing pool, watching movies, or relax-ing in the hot tub.”

Audra graham, head of Pr for the outdoor Adventure Club, said, “We stayed in three separate cabins and we skied for all day Saturday and all day Sunday. We were there from Fri-day to Monday morning. It was a great time. We had people who were beginners and there were also peo-ple who had skied since they were three years old. So all ranges of lev-els,” she said. “our club is just total-ly adventure based and individual based and I just think it’s awesome.”

The oAC is a unique club because there isn’t a specific time commit-ment involved with being a member.

“The oAC is one of the only truly non-committal clubs. no time, mon-ey, or participation commitments are required,” Stone said. “You only go on the trips you want to go on. If you have a tough semester, you don't have to go on any trips. If next se-mester you have tons of free time, you can go on all of the trips if you so desire. We only have one hour-long meeting a month, and even that is optional.”

“Whether it's skydiving, snow-boarding, caving, backpacking, rock climbing, ziplining, whitewater raft-ing, or simply overnight camping, the oAC offers something for ev-eryone and for all skill levels,” Stone said.

The oAC is always open to new members and the schedule of meet-ing times all future trips can be found on their websit, auburn.edu/oac.

Adventure club hits the slopes

Courtesy of audra GrahaM

outdoor adventure Club members spend Martin luther King weekend skiing in north Carolina.

Caitlin WagenseilInTrIguE rEPorTEr

As an art professor, Wendy de-schene helps students to creative-ly express themselves in a variety of forms.

deschene teaches painting, draw-ing and intermediate art classes.

Her main goal, as well as her big-gest challenge as a professor, is en-couraging students to choose for themselves what art means to them.

“The hardest part about being an art teacher is getting students to be who they’re going to be—to have a voice,” deschene said.

While this may be the hardest part of teaching for deschene, it’s also proven to be the best.

“When (students) clearly saying something that’s true, close to their heart and something they’re pas-sionate about, and that they have the skills to do it well—that’s the most rewarding part of my job,” deschene said.

“We don’t want all art to look alike, and we want all the art in the world to have something to say, and hope-fully what the art says is a reflection of the people making it,” deschene said.

She believes it takes a lot of hard work from students who plan to graduate with a Bachelor in fine art.

“It is hard. It’s like for anything that is going to end up as a career, it takes work and it takes dedication—if you’re in it and you’re not dedicated

to it, then it’s going to be a lot hard-er than if you really love it,” deschene said.

And if you love something, de-schene said it’s easy to dedicate your-self to it.

Additionally, she believes every-one should take an art class at some point just to see what it’s like. de-schene said that many people haven’t had the opportunity to take art class-es, so they don’t know if it’s some-thing they would want to be dedicat-ed to or not.

deschene said she feels that much of what she teaches is practical and hands on, and the students prove they’ve learned the material by do-ing it.

“In art history, there are exams, pa-pers and all the things you would ex-pect in any history course,” deschene said. “In studio art, the projects are based on the studio—if it’s a draw-ing class, the final project is based on the creation of a drawing where you use or show the teacher all the things that you learned.”

deschene also keeps in touch with many of her students after they leave Auburn because of the close relation-ships they form with one another over the years.

deschene said that the professors work closely with the students be-cause they are encouraging students to become who they are.

“After spending four years with them, we get to know them and they

get to know us,” deschene said.She added that a couple of her for-

mer students are interning or work-ing in museums or art galleries, some have started their own galler-ies, some plan to be artists and one is working as a jewelry maker.

There are many job opportunities available to those with a BFA, and deschene said she believes that to be the biggest misconception about the art program.

“A BFA is a creative degree,” de-schene said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be an artist, but it means that you are trained to be a creative thinker, and tons of jobs in the world want creative thinkers.”

She added that those graduating with this degree can go on to receive their masters and move into many different fields from there.

deschene said that receiving a Masters in fine art is very desired for anyone attempting to become an art-ist or a professor of art.

As for the future, deschene plans to stay where she is—at least for a while.

“At this moment, I’m a tenured professor at Auburn,” deschene said. “That means I can dedicate myself to my work and research, and keeping the students who I think are fantas-tic.”

deschene said she will stay in Au-burn while she continues to work on her international and national art project.

Art professor encourages creative voice through student works

Courtesy of Wendy desChene

Wendy deschene, tenured professor in the art department, displays student Kathryn Beck’s senior studio project.

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Students weigh in on inaugural address, Obama’s second termAnna Beth JagerInTrIgue rePorTer

Whether you like him, there’s no denying that President Barack obama knows how to capti-vate his audience. He’s proved that time and time again, the most recent example being his second inaugural address.

While the speech itself was effective and well delivered as usual, most of the world’s attention seemed to go to Beyonce’s lip-synching and the actual cost of the spectacle, which ranged up to $170 million. But what about the issues?

How are Auburn student’s reacting to obama’s inaugural address, the issues he ap-proached and the reality of the upcoming four years?

We’ve asked different students with varying political views from all around Auburn’s cam-pus what they believe is in store for America with obama’s next term, and how they felt over-all about his second inaugural address.

Jacob Taunton, sophomore in Pre-Med, ac-knowledges obama’s charismatic nature as a public speaker and the delivery of the address.

“There is no denying that Barack obama is a fantastic public speaker, and I think a lot of his success as a politician is accredited to this fact,” Taunton said. “If you voted for him or not, his in-auguration speech was very good and promot-ed a theme of unity among the nation, which I think we all needed to hear after arguably one of the most divisive elections in recent memo-ry. Hopefully he can continue to put efforts to-wards further unifying the country throughout his next term.”

Liz Conn, a senior in journalism and Spanish, also gives input on the address.

“I thought that his inaugural address ad-dressed more liberal topics than I was expect-ing. He talked about global warming, he also talked explicitly about gay marriage which is something that I think he’s tended to shy away from before,” Conn said “now that he’s in his sec-ond term, he doesn’t have to worry about get-ting re-elected, so I think he’s more likely to go after a liberal agenda. I can’t say I’m entirely shocked. I was more upset about Beyonce lip-synching the Star Spangled Banner than I was about his address.”

Sam Wilcox, sophomore in economics and history, had the unique opportunity to attend this year’s inauguration. on how he scored the tickets, Wilcox said,

“I’ve worked with a congressman in nash-ville, Jim Cooper, for the last two summers and I just sort of entered a pool for tickets for con-stituents and got them. Then, through mutual friends and a couple connections, I was able to

also get tickets to the parade and the Tennessee Delegation Inaugural Ball. It was cool.”

When asked about any policies he was inter-ested in seeing changed or enacted, Wilcox said “I think there should be tighter gun control. I’d like to see some of those policies enacted. We’ve also got to get our economy under control, we’ve got to get climate change under control–there’s no shortage of problems. I’d like to see these en-acted, realistically though, it’s anyone’s guess.”

Most students had similar concerns about the fate of the economy and what gun control laws will be put in place.

Will McManus, secretary of College republi-cans, said, “I think the policies I am most inter-ested in seeing enacted probably won’t happen in the next four years. However, I am interested in seeing what policies Congress and the pres-ident can agree on to fix the economic state of the nation. I also think it will be interesting to see the future of gun control and how that issue is going to evolve.”

Jacob Dean, the president of College Demo-crats, is optimistic about obama’s next term.

“The country is still improving and he laid out his vision for what he wants to do with the next four years which is making sure women get equal pay for equal work, making sure that peo-ple can marry who they love, making sure our soldiers who come home from war are treated with respect...those kinds of things are all things

that American people can subscribe to,” Dean said. “one thing that I think would be a great policy would be the enactment of the Dream Act. I would also like to see an investment in in-frastructure in building our roads and bridges, more investment in education and I’d like to see a balanced way of reducing our debt.”

Wesley Clendinen, junior in pre-vet, is hoping for more unity between parties.

“I believe that one goal of obama’s next four years should be to try and mend the relations between the Democratic and republican par-ties. our government has become so partisan that it is almost impossible to pass any major legislation. This was especially apparent in the past months with the difficulty republicans and Democrats faced in agreeing on the correct path on which to proceed regarding the “fiscal cliff ” and the united State’s debt ceiling,” Clendinen said. “I know that pushing our government in a more bi-partisan direction is not necessarily a concrete idea or policy, however, I feel that it is a necessity if we are going to continue to be a powerful force in the global theater as well as have a strong and effective governing system.”

Whatever your political belief, the hope that this term will produce positive change is always there. But with that hope, there is also a fear that this term will just be an extension of obama’s last term.

Conn said, “I think it will definitely just be

an extension of his last term. I think his leader-ship style is very hands off and while some peo-ple might think that’s a good thing, I don’t real-ly think that it’s the most efficient way to run a government.” Conn said. “I think he’s going to re-ally pursue the more liberal agenda because he doesn’t have to stay in the middle of the road to try to appease voters.”

Clendinen also believes obama will contin-ue into his second term in a similar fashion as his last.

“For the most part, I feel that President obama will proceed into his second term with the same general goals as his last term. He’ll most likely utilize the next four years to try and complete anything he was unable to finish during his past term in office,” Clendinen said “granted, with each new term there come un-foreseen challenges that he will have to face and these can delay the progress he makes with his personal agenda.”

Wilcox is hopeful for obama’s second term in office.

“I think we’re gonna see a lot of carry over from his last term but I mean, he was re-elect-ed. We live in a place in Alabama where it went to romney, like, 75–25 and we live in this sort of vacuum of conservatism in Auburn but I think the country is open to obama’s ideas right now,” Wilcox said. “I don’t think it’s going to be radi-cal. I don’t think it’s gonna be as radical as may-be Fox news paints it out to be or as progressive as MSnBC paints it out to be, but I do think it’s going to be sort of an extension of his first term. I hope so, at least.”

“Personally, I do think obama will do things a little different. I think he will be more aggressive pushing forward his ideas of what he thinks is best for the nation because he does not have to fear another election,” Taunton said. “In regards to the nation’s financial woes, I do not think he will change much because none of his previous actions have proven to me that he feels the need to. our debt is absolutely massive and growing by the second and he has not done much to aid with the reversing of that trend.”

There are many who believe that this term will have similar aspects as the last, but that America will also see change with the things presented in the inaugural address.

McManus expands on this idea. “I believe obama will do most things differ-

ently this term. obama is a President that ran for re-election from the moment he first swore in four years ago. It will be interesting to see obama the President without his re-election de-termining his policy moves,” McManus said. “I believe that most of the Inaugural address fore-shadowed what is to come.”

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