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The Auburn Plainsman� ursday, November 11, 2010 www.theplainsman.com Vol. 117, Issue 12, 24 Pages

Jillian ClairAssociate News Editor

Professionalism, intelligence, pas-sion and personality—these were qualities College of Sciences and Mathematics Dean Marie Wooten embodied.

Wooten, an Auburn faculty mem-ber since 1987 and newly appointed dean of COSAM, died Nov. 5 after be-ing struck by a vehicle while jogging at the intersection of South Dona-hue Drive and South College Street.

“Marie, in my opinion, was one of the most talented faculty members I’ve ever met,” said Lawrence Wit, associate dean of COSAM. “She was good at everything—whether that was teaching, or her research pro-gram, or her outreach to the com-munity at large—everything she did, she did a superb job.”

Wooten, who began her tenure as dean Aug. 1, was interested in researching cellular and molecular developmental neurobiology and neurodegeneration and had recently discovered a genetic link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.

She earned two patents and com-mercialized one technology.

Passionate about women in sci-ences and mathematics, Wooten also co-founded the Institute for Women in Sciences and Engineer-ing.

She also held grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association, NASA and the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture.

Despite her accomplishments and numerous responsibilities, Wooten remained humble, approachable, energetic and organized.

“She was one of those people that even though she was giving to so many di� erent relationships and so many di� erent commitments, she was never spread too thin,” said Dana Woods, senior in biomedical

sciences and president of COSAM Leaders. “She was wholeheartedly giving to whatever it was at that time.”

Wooten cared deeply about un-dergraduates, even after she was chosen as dean.

Shaista Walji, junior in molecular biology, worked with Wooten in her research lab.

Whereas most other research labs rely on graduate students to do most of the research, Walji said Wooten had a di� erent perspective and en-couraged her to not only assist grad-uate students, but to pursue her own research as well.

“I just know per-sonally it’s a loss for me because I’ve always looked at her as a role mod-el,” Walji said. “She was kind of like that other mother-ly � gure over here, where you know, if you had any con-cerns or anything, you know you could go to her.”

Wooten often mentioned focus-ing on three P’s—planning, persis-tence and passion, said Jack Femi-nella, professor and chair of the department of biological sciences.

“� ere’s a fourth P that I think re-ally personi� es what Marie is and what she’s meant—and the fourth P is people,” Feminella said. “Very few deans have the combination of intel-lect, passion and people skills, and she had that.”

President Jay Gogue remembers Wooten for her energy and humor during meetings, as well as the fresh ideas she presented.

“� e part that I’ll always miss is her smile and her sense of humor,” Gogue said. “If she was gonna meet

with you, you were excited about the meeting because you knew it was gonna be a fun meeting. You could tease and kid her, and she would tease and kid you back. When I think of Marie, I think of a smiling face.”

When someone young dies unex-pectedly, there is a deep sadness and a sense of lost potential, said Sharon Roberts, associate professor of bio-logical sciences.

However, Roberts said she feels the same sadness when she thinks about Wooten’s death, even though she was 53 years old.

“All this po-tential, all of these ideas, all this excite-ment—and now it’s gone, and it seems unfair to us, and I also have a sense of it being incred-ibly unfair to Marie,” Roberts said. “She had done so much. She was look-ing forward to this, she knew what she want-ed to—I just

feel like she should have gotten the chance. � ere’s kind of a little sense almost of anger that way—real dis-appointment.”

Before her death, Wooten laid foundations for many ideas for the future of COSAM that Wit said are important for the college to contin-ue to strive to ful� ll.

“I think she would want us to move on with the vision she had, and I think that is what everyone’s inten-tion is—that is, to pursue toward ex-cellence individually and collective-ly,” Wit said. “� e vision was bigger than herself—it was the institution, and the institution has to pick it up and go on.”

Auburn mourns death of beloved dean

Eric AustinCampus Editor

W EGL station manager Cheeano Cambridge, junior in English, began the semester with a vi-sion of change. He is seeking to

expand the listenership of FM 91.1 by stream-lining the station’s content and expanding the station’s community presence. However, his big ideas and aggressive approach have creat-ed backlash both within and without the sta-tion from those who feel WEGL’s traditional college radio identity is being lost.

A new direction:Cambridge said he is seeking structure in

what he felt was a structureless organization.“You have a person at the top, and then it

goes down,” Cambridge said. “You can no lon-ger be competitive with other schools without some kind of structure.”

Cambridge has proposed a station model organized around “blocks,” where listeners can expect to hear the same genre of music for a set period of time each day.

“If you like jazz, you have a certain time to listen to jazz,” he said. “If you like alternative, we have a time to listen to that. If you like R&B, if you like country, I think we even have that as well.”

Within these blocks, he is pushing for his DJs to play at least one “mainstream” song for every few “up-and-coming” songs. Cambridge said he believes this structure will bring in new listeners to a station dominated by indie music.

Cambridge’s push for a more streamlined

approach to the station has made waves with-in WEGL’s studio, leading veteran DJs to be-lieve his vision is a clear move toward mold-ing WEGL into a Top-40 station.

In response, a group of DJs have created “Keep WEGL Weird,” with the sensational slogan “Top 40 is Tyranny.” � e group’s Face-book page has received more than 800 hits in a week.

“College radio, for me, is the ability of any DJ or any student at the station to come on and express themselves by the music they play,” said Alessio Summer� eld, sophomore in radio, television and � lm and a leader of the group.

Summer� eld and Isaac Lim, junior in com-puter science, cohost “Elephant with a Mo-zart Soul” Tuesday nights on WEGL. � ey assumed leadership of the KWW movement after Rivers Langely, an alumnus, created the group in response to what he saw as a wor-risome change in the direction of the station.

“He (Cambridge) basically said we don’t want it to be dark and underground,” Lim said. “We need to bring more of the main-stream stu� to compete.”

Competition is something Cambridge will-ingly acknowledged he is trying to address. He said he sees WEGL as an opportunity for students of all majors to receive real radio ex-perience while they are in school.

“We’re in college to get a degree and � nd a job,” Cambridge said. “You create a lab so that once you leave here, you can transfer into cor-porate America more easily.”

Cambridge said he wants to improve the professionalism of the station. He no longer

Station manager’s push for change faces scrutiny

Keeping WEGL weird

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Liz ConnAssistant Copy Editor

� ough Erica Meissner and Krissy Voss will soon have Auburn in their rearview mirrors, the “Rhode” ahead is bright.

As � nalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the two stu-dents will interview with district committees Nov. 19-20. Scholarship win-ners will be announced following the interviews.

� e Rhodes Scholar-ship covers tuition and fees and provides a living stipend for two years of study at Oxford Univer-sity in Oxford, England.

Each year, 32 students in the United States re-ceive the award.

Meissner, senior in an-thropology with a minor in sustainability, is cap-tain and four-year mem-ber of the swim team.

“Not only is she a world-class athlete, but she is also a leader among her peers that are doing the same things she is,” said Caleb Rotton, senior in psychology. “I think that sets her apart from anyone I know.”

Meissner is working on her honors thesis, and while she has not picked a de� nite topic, she said her thesis will combine her passions for sustain-ability and anthropology.

Potential Rhodes scholars compete

A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID

Emily Adams / PHOTO EDITOR

Erica Meissner and Krissy Voss stand in front of Samford Hall. Both are fi nalists for a Rhodes Scholarship.

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DUI Arrests in the City of Auburn Nov. 5– Nov. 11, 2010

Walter J. Weatherly, 39, of AlbertaSouth College Street at Veterans BoulevardNov. 5, 2:27 a.m.

James A. Crawford, 39 Shug Jordan Parkway at Highway 14Nov. 6, 7:39 p.m.

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Crime Reports for Nov. 5 – Nov. 11, 2010Nov. 5 — West Farmville RoadTheft of property reported. One fl atbed equipment trailer.

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Nov. 5 — Rockledge CourtBurglary of residence reported. One Apple MacBook, one pair of iPod headphones.

Nov. 6 — East University DriveTheft of property reported. One Nintendo Wii controller, one XBox 360 video game system.

Nov. 6 — Harmon DriveBurglary and theft reported. One Dell laptop computer, one HP camera.

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Nov. 7 — North Donahue DriveBurglary of residence reported. One Apple MacBook, one HP laptop computer, one Canon Powershot camera, one Apple iPod mini.

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wants DJs to simply come in with their MP3 players or laptops, play for an hour and leave.

He believes this format creates a greater probabil-ity for incidents such as profanity to occur on air.

Nonetheless, he insisted the station is not headed in a Top-40 direction.

“I think it’s the fear of change because people don’t like change,” Cam-bridge said. “I don’t see what the problem is.”

Managerial Shakeup:While the music chang-

es have spawned the KWW movement, Cambridge has also faced scrutiny from his own sta¶ about the direction of the sta-tion.

Patrick Schultz, sopho-more in agriculture, began the fall semester as music director for the station.

“� e music director is in charge of putting together the overall playlist and setting the genre theme for the station, as well as dealing with outside agen-cies like record labels,” Schultz said.

While Schultz said he was alarmed at Cam-bridge’s rhetoric regarding the music changes, he was pleased Cambridge was

looking to push the sta-tion in a more profession-al direction. Cambridge chose to give Schultz more responsibility by allowing him to seek out new op-portunities for WEGL to expand its listenership.

“I was inquiring about getting a series of live con-certs,” Schultz said. “I was looking to get it at a venue like the Independent o¶ campus.”

Schultz said Cambridge and station adviser Dafni Greene were not receptive to his ideas, so he e-mailed James Mantooth, director of student development, and Ainsley Carry, vice president of student af-fairs, about his ideas.

In the e-mail, Schultz asked the two for help in getting his idea for the live shows started.

Cambridge was not happy with Schultz’s ac-tion, and following a dis-cussion between Schultz, Cambridge and Greene, Schultz said he was re-moved from his position on WEGL’s sta¶ .

“� e part that got him in trouble was because he went so far,” Cambridge said. “He didn’t go through the chain of command. He didn’t go through me, through my boss, so I couldn’t cover him.”

Schultz insisted he was merely doing the job

Cambridge asked him to do.

“I’m upset primarily be-cause I got forced out for taking the time and initia-tive of looking for di¶ erent ways to promote the sta-tion,” Schultz said.

Greene said Schultz knew WEGL could not broadcast live from bars due to liability issues.

Sydney Fagen, senior in journalism and promo-tions director for WEGL, said she feels that Cam-bridge’s push for profes-sionalism is a needed change, but saw the � ring of Schultz as a step too far.

“I feel like they were looking for a reason to � re him,” Fagen said. “� e reason they gave me for � ring him was when they were having this meeting, he got up and walked out. � at’s not a � ring o¶ ense.”

Fagen said some on the sta¶ are concerned about the direction in which Cambridge is moving the station, but said many are now afraid to speak out.

She also said sta¶ mem-ber Hayley Cox, sopho-more in Spanish, resigned following Schultz’s remov-al and after learning she had not been receiving pay for her position.

Greene declined com-ment on the � ring of Schultz, but said in a stu-dent organization like

WEGL, everyone has “to be a team player.”

Fagen said Cambridge has even brought in new sta¶ members who are in line with his vision.

“It was supposed to be my responsibility to get my assistant, but Chee found one for me,” Fagen said. “He hires cute girls. � ere’s like an onslaught of cute girls now at WEGL because Chee hires them.”

Regardless of the mana-gerial rollercoaster and the potential musical mu-tiny, Cambridge is moving ahead with his plans to make WEGL legitimate on a national scale.

� e purpose is “to keep WEGL forward,” Cam-bridge said. “To keep WEGL pushing forward to expand our audience, our involvement in the com-munity and expand WEGL on a national basis. We’re going to challenge other major universities.”

Despite Fagen’s con-cerns, she believes Chee has WEGL’s best interest in mind, and that changes in the station come and go every year.

“I don’t think it’s the end of the world,” Fagen said. “It’s not the apoca-lypse. It’ll go back. WEGL is an institution. WEGL has been around for a long time, and I think it is going to go back. It always does.”

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(Left) Creole Shack owner and head chef Jimmy Stinson prepares Creole food for the restaurant’s customers. (Right) Customers enjoy Creole food at the Creole Shack’s new location on Martin Luther King Drive. (Below) The Creole Shack menu displays the daily specials and a note to the power above for another year of business.

Seafood restaurant thrives despite oil spillAndrew Yawn

Writer

Giving up was never an option for Jim-my Stinson, owner of the Creole and Sea-food Shack.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill threatened to cripple the seafood indus-try, Stinson, an Alabama native, knew he had to prepare.

Determined to outlast the adversity that forced other seafood restaurants out of business, Stinson bought as much fish and shrimp as possible and braced for im-pact.

“You’re not backed by nobody but your-self,” Stinson said.

These words held true as Stinson man-aged to not only survive the oil spill, but thrive.

With no financial aid, the Creole Shack stayed in business and even moved out of the namesake building into a larger, more customer-friendly location on Martin Lu-ther King Drive the first week of Septem-ber.

The new location offers more dining

space, more parking and a well-stocked bar.

As the Creole Shack makes the transi-tion from a cramped, bustling café to a more legitimate, restaurant-style estab-lishment, Stinson and his wife are excited about the progress being made.

“(The restaurant) is Jimmy’s dream, and we’re just trying to live it out,” said Stin-son’s wife, Ernestine.

The move, however, also provides an added challenge for the business.

During the first month at the new loca-tion, the lack of a working phone line and poor service plagued the restaurant.

“The problem with that was 90 percent of the people on the floor were green,” Stinson said. “Some had waited tables be-fore, and some had never waited a table in their lives.”

Stinson and his employees fixed the phone lines, and the staff is now more ex-perienced.

As the oil spill fades into the past, things are looking up for the Creole Shack.

First-time customers Roy and Susan Price of Mobile agree.

“We had good service,” Roy said. “They were very nice.”

Susan, who ordered the jambalaya and fried green tomatoes, said she enjoyed the authentic Creole cuisine.

Stinson, a self-taught cook, perfected his craft while living in Florida and New Orleans.

“I lived in New Orleans for several years, just eating the food, tasting it, com-ing back, playing with it, learning how to cook,” Stinson said. “I have a passion for cooking.”

The restaurant has a healthy lunch and dinner crowd and looks to gain more no-tice from people searching for a home-made Southern meal.

Although the oil spill had the potential to shut down his business, Stinson said he would not have let it keep him down.

“I’d start pushing chicken and pork and everything else,” Stinson said. “I’d still be in the food business.”

Despite the threat to his business, he made all the right moves to avoid the fate suffered by so many other Gulf Coast res-taurants.

But even with his success, Stinson is not taking anything for granted.

Above the daily specials is a single quote: “Thank you, Almighty, for another day and another year.”

For Stinson and his restaurant, his fore-sight, perseverance and passion equal a recipe for success.

College of Ag rounds up scholarship fundsBrent GodwinAssistant Campus Editor

Those who came to town for the Homecom-ing game had the oppor-tunity to experience the Ag Roundup—a large tail-gating event that not only provided food, but also raised money to help stu-dents pay for college.

Themed a “Taste of Ala-bama Agriculture,” the

roundup featured food and products produced throughout the state.

The Ag Alumni Board sponsors the roundup ev-ery year as a scholarship fundraiser for the College of Agriculture.

Attendees enjoyed an all-you-can-eat buffet, with corn dogs, sweet po-tato fries and, despite the frigid temperature, ice cream.

“It is a really fun tailgate every year,” said Kate Der-by, Ag Council president.

In addition to the $5 ad-mission fee, the roundup also featured silent and live auctions to raise mon-ey.

“I’m a senior this year, and I have done the round-up the past few years,” Derby said. “It is the most fun event we have. You get to eat really good food,

and it’s fun to be able to hang out and tailgate with people that you see on a day-to-day basis on a more relaxed level.”

Derby said she also enjoyed getting to meet alumni of the College of Agriculture.

About 1,300 people came out to the Alabama Farmers Pavilion before

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Corey Courtwright and Jeremy Pickens, Ph.D. students in fisheries, fry catfish for visitors at the 31st annual Ag Roundup Nov. 6 before the homecoming game. The event’s proceeds contribute to scholarships within the college.

Chelsea HarveyStaff Writer

Every five years, the U.S. Department of Hous-ing and Urban Develop-ment allocates funds to cities in the form of a Community Develop-ment Block Grant.

The city of Auburn must come up with an action plan relating to the allocation of funds every year.

Two projects totaling $48,000 are being added to the 2010 plan.

Sharon Tolbert, direc-tor of community de-velopment, has led two community hearings concerning the addition-al projects, as well as an amendment to an exist-ing project.

The Nov. 8 hearing at the Boykin Community Center began with an overview of the two pro-posed additional proj-ects.

The first is a $43,000 drainage improvement project proposed for

Darden Avenue to reduce the possibility of flood-ing.

Tolbert said the proj-ect is necessary, but it comes with certain re-percussions.

“We’re adding that as a new activity, but what we have to do is reduce funding in another proj-ect, which is project ad-ministration and hous-ing rehabilitation,” she said.

The second proposed addition, estimated at $5,000, is a stream miti-gation project at Sam Harris Park.

Mitigation is a process that counters potentially environmentally de-structive actions.

In this case, a mitiga-tion plan was developed to offset construction on the Northwest Village subdivision.

“We have to plant ad-ditional trees to com-plete that mitigation,” Tolbert said.

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Auburn Weekly Gas MonitorWeek of Oct. 7

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Shell — Glenn $2.689 $2.809 $2.929

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Veteran’s Day

Veteran’s Day service in Auburn @ Veteran’s Memorial on Glenn Avenue, 10 a.m.

12Board of Trustees meeting, Auburn Uni-versity Hotel, 9 a.m. to noon

Men’s basket-ball vs. UNC Asheville @ Arena, 8 p.m.

13Football vs. Georgia, 2:30 p.m.

14Volleyball vs. Mississippi @ Student Activities Center, 1:30 p.m.

15East Alabama Arts presents: Remember Me @ Opelika Center for Performing Arts, 7 p.m.

16Free outdoor Zumba @ East Alabama Medical Cen-ter parking deck, 5 p.m.

Domestic vio-lence panel discussion @ Haley Center Room 3195, 5 p.m.

17Poultry Sci-ence Club smoked chicken sale @ poultry science build-ing, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

18Women’s Basketball vs. Duke @ Arena, 6 p.m.

19Men’s Basket-ball vs. Sam-ford @ Arena, 7:30 p.m.

20Saturday Art Club @ Jule Collins Smith Museum, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Men’s Bas-ketball vs. Campbell @ Arena, 4:30 p.m.

Opelika businesses kick off holiday shopping

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Sheila Carter shops at Fringe during the Historic Downtown Christmas Open House Nov. 7. For 15 years, downtown Opelika businesses have held the event at the start of the holiday season.

Rebecca CroomesWriter

Droves of shoppers turned out in Opelika Sun-day afternoon to stock up on early savings for the holiday season at the His-toric Downtown Christ-mas Open House.

Snacks, savings and an ample supply of hot apple cider greeted the rosy-cheeked patrons as they walked into stores from the windswept streets.

In addition to Christ-mas gifts and decorations hitting the shelves, busi-ness owners used their special Sunday hours to offer deals on leftover spring and summer items to make way for the rest of

their Christmas fare.“A lot of the gift stores

like to use this event to showcase new things,” said Stacie Money, owner of the clothing chain Fringe. “Even though we’re not a gift store, we still like to participate.”

Fringe’s location on South Eighth Street in downtown Opelika was buzzing Sunday with cus-tomers enjoying chocolate cupcakes and trying on new coats for the sudden chilly weather.

Money has experienced success in the clothing and clothing consignment-business since 2005.

The spacious location on South Eighth Street is special to Opelika because

it is one of several busi-nesses taking residence in the historic district.

One of the main reasons the Historic Downtown Christmas Open House was initiated was to get consumers interested in shopping at locally owned and operated businesses like Fringe.

Money was not the only business owner with a good turnout—stores like Downtown Printing & De-sign, Frou Frou on Eighth and Heritage Gifts and Gourmet were also packed with holiday shoppers.

Cashiers at Taylor Made Designs, also known as TMD2, were busy wrap-ping gifts as owner Lynn Bradakis chatted with

customers and served the refreshments.

Bradakis and her daugh-ter Taylor, senior in fi-nance who works at the store with her mom, said business has been steady despite the economy.

“We’ve been OK for 10 years,” Bradakis said. “We’ve been faring good because we are the reason-ably priced store.”

Bradakis said she attri-butes the low prices TMD2 offers to making most of the products they sell themselves.

Denise Haynes, member of the Friends of Interna-tional Students, brought along graduate student Bing Liang to see what American Christmas

shopping is all about in a small town like Opelika.

“It’s a wonderful atmo-sphere,” Haynes said. “It just kicks off the season. I also come to support the businesses.”

Atmosphere and sup-porting local businesses are the two main arteries of the event, said Kathy Penton, cofounder of the event and co-owner of Southern Crossing, a gift shop.

“We’ve been doing this for about 15 years,” Penton said.

Originally, the down-town open house was planned to attract custom-ers to a failing downtown business, but it has be-come a staple tradition for

all businesses in the area. “It’s a fun time,” Penton

said. “Small-town America at its best.”

Scheduling the His-toric Downtown Christ-mas Open House is usu-ally based on a big Auburn game, Penton said.

Most years, it happens to fall somewhere around the Georgia game, but this year it was sched-uled around Homecom-ing, which gave locals the chance to enjoy the shopping while seeing old friends.

“We want everyone to have fun,” Penton said. “Someone told me it’s like going to a psychiatrist—you get to laugh and have fun.”

the Homecoming football game.

“We still had a great turn-out this year, despite the colder weather and the new location,” said Robert Hen-sarling, director of the Ag Heritage Park.

Hensarling said the ten-tative amount of money raised this year is $6,500 at the gate and $7,000 from the auction.

“It didn’t used to generate as much excitement as it

does now,” Hensarling said. “It has become a great way to stay engaged with the ag-riculture community.”

The roundup has become one of the most popular tailgates of the year, Hen-sarling said.

This year, the roundup was moved to the Ham Wilson Livestock Arena, in hopes that it would give the event more exposure and space to expand.

“I think people always have fun trying the food,” said Paul Patterson, associ-ate dean for instruction for

the College of Agriculture. “The roundup is always a great opportunity for peo-ple to learn more about Alabama agriculture.”

Patterson said this year’s roundup also featured some livestock animals, such as a dairy cows and sheep.

“My favorite part is watching the families and children get the chance to experience all that agricul-ture in Alabama has to of-fer,” Hensarling said. “The food is beyond imagina-tion.”

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In this case, funding will go toward the plant-ing of approximately 50 trees in the park.

The third item on the agenda was a proposed amendment to an exist-ing project scheduled to install streetlights in various locations around the city.

Although the project was already listed on the 2010 Action Plan, Tolbert said a change in

location constitutes an amendment to the proj-ect, which must then be reviewed for final ap-proval.

It has been proposed that three additional streets be added to the streetlight project: West-view Drive, Dunford Ave-nue and the intersection of Donahue and Martin Luther King drives.

“In the original plan, we had to identify where we’re going to put the streetlights,” Tolbert said. “They were not

originally identified.”Tolbert said there

have been no objec-tions related to any of the proposed projects or amendments.

Residents who couldn’t be present at the meetings have until Nov. 17 to submit writ-ten comments to the city of Auburn regarding the proposed changes to the action plan.

The comments will be reviewed, and the final plan will be submitted to HUD Dec. 8.

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Last week’s question:Will you be voting in the Miss Homecoming election?

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56%No

Miss Homecoming?

This week’s question: Should WEGL play more mainstream music?

❍ Yes ❍ No ❍ I don’t listen or care

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“We’re in college to get a degree and � nd a job. You create a lab so that once you leave here you can transfer into corporate America more easily.”

Cheeano Cambridge, junior, English

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Editor, � e Auburn Plains-man

Let me start by saying that, although I’m current-ly a senior at the University of Illinois at Champaign, I’ve grown up watching Auburn football and have always admired the way the program there is run.

In fact, I was devastated when our athletic director refused to � re Ron Zook last year because I was hoping we could scoop up Tommy Tuberville.

I’m a student reporter for our campus TV sta-tion (UI-7 TV) and was our student newspaper’s (� e Daily Illini) football col-umnist last season.

Yet right now, I really wish I was working for a media outlet in Alabama because you guys have an opportunity to speak out

about something disgrace-ful.

I hope that someone at � e Auburn Plainsman is writing a column to tear apart ESPN’s recent cover-age of Cam Newton.

� is morning, Joe Schad was live on ESPN’s set re-porting on Newton “alleg-edly” cheating on an exam while at Florida. � is has Florida sour grapes writ-ten all over it—and the media should not be taint-ing Newton’s Heisman campaign (not to mention his eligibility and entire fu-ture) with something that happened years ago.

� e young man made mistakes, but that’s why he went the junior college route and got his act to-gether.

� e fact that this stuÀ is surfacing is disgraceful. ESPN should be covering

things that are current—that’s why it’s seen as a credible sports news sta-tion.

College football players make more mistakes than athletes in any other sport in the world. Trust me, I’ve seen the things that go on at Illinois.

But that’s why they’re student-athletes (empha-sis on the student). At the end of the day, they should have the chance at redemption—and Cam Newton’s road to redemp-tion shouldn’t be undercut by arrogant members of the national media.

I really hope someone at � e Plainsman comes to his defense.

Pete ZervakisUniversity of Illinois

senior, broadcast journalism

Editor, � e Auburn Plains-man

I don’t understand all the fuss about Four Loko.

People have been mix-ing energy drinks and alcohol for probably al-most a decade now, and frankly, banning Four Loko will just force col-lege kids who drank them to mix their own alcohol and Monster or Red Bull.

And the media is tak-ing the small increase in deaths and hospitaliza-tion because of alcohol poisoning and sensa-tionalizing them because some (not all!) of these kids drank one Four Loko during the course of the night.

Check this out—Four Lokos are 12% alcohol by volume.

If we are drinking Mon-ster (16 ounce can) and vodka, which let’s say is 40% ABV, and we mix them, we get: one shot (1.5 ounce) -> 3% ABV two shots (3.0 ounce) -> 6.3% ABV three shots (4.5 ounce) -> 8.8% ABV four shots (6.0 ounce) -> 10.9% ABV. And so on.

If we were drinking 24 ounces of Monster, it would only take some-where between four and � ve shots of 40-proof alcohol to make them equivalent to Four Loko.

In addition, Monster contains 160 milligrams of caÀ eine per 16-ounce

can, so 240 for 24-ounce Four Loko contains (ac-cording to its website, w w w. d r i n k f o u r. c o m) the same amount of caf-feine “as a tall coÀ ee from Starbucks”, which is ap-proximately 200-250 mil-ligrams.

A 24-ounce can of Monster would contain the same amount of caf-feine as 24 ounces of Four Loko, if not a little more.

So stop banning Four Loko unless you’re going to make it illegal to drink energy drinks and malt li-quors together, too.

Kirstin DeRosasophomore,

microbiology

Auburn fan wants answersFour Loko fad nothing new, plenty of other ways to get equivalently jittery, sauced

WEGL is at an ideological crossroads.

On one side sits new sta-tion manager Cheeano Cam-bridge.

He wants WEGL to be more professional.

He wants music to be ar-ranged in recognizable blocks—jazz, alternative, hip-hop, even country—and the indie and “weird” music of WEGL to be oÀ set with more “mainstream” songs to “bring in new listeners.”

“We’re in college to get a degree and � nd a job,” Cam-bridge said. “You create a lab so that once you leave here you can transfer into corpo-rate America more easily.”

And then there’s the other side—those who want to “Keep WEGL Weird,” a group that is now 800 strong on Facebook.

� ese current and former DJs and WEGL fans like Au-burn’s college radio station just the way it is—impromptu ragtime music and all the rest.

� ey have no desire to turn WEGL into a business or pre-

pare themselves for corpo-rate America.

� ey want to play music and express themselves.

But that’s irrelevant now that Cambridge is the boss.

“You can no longer be com-petitive with other schools without some kind of struc-ture,” he said.

He wants WEGL to be a business.

And he has every right to take this stance. He is, after all, the boss, for a bit anyway.

But here’s the thing: WEGL isn’t a business.

WEGL’s funding comes di-rectly from student activity fees.

� e station doesn’t have to kowtow to advertisers or please station producers. It is its own entity, free to more or less broadcast what it pleases.

Which is what it does, or did at least, in true college ra-dio fashion.

But Cambridge wants to “challenge other major uni-versities” and make WEGL the best, which is where more mainstream music and more

“traditional” radio activities like an expanded community presence � t.

Should WEGL even be con-cerned with challenging oth-er major universities?

What good does that do beyond boost résumés and induce back-patting?

Making WEGL more pro-fessional and getting rid of dead air and lazy plug-and-shuÇ e iPod shows is a good idea. Props there.

But trying to sully WEGL, a college radio station, with

attempts at expansion and market domination under-mines the foundation of the station.

Not every endeavor un-dertaken in college or life is about making money or being the best.

Sometimes, believe it or not, people pursue interests out of pure passion.

We only hope Cambridge � nds the right balance be-tween professional and weird.

Regardless, Keep WEGL Weird.

� e Cam Newton re-cruiting allegations per-petuated by � e New York Times’ Peter � amel, ESPN and a “journalist” for FOX-Sports.com named � ayer Evans are a new low for the � eld of journalism.

Instead of thorough re-porting involving numer-ous credible sources and attempted fairness and balance—you know—the founding tenets of journal-ism, these jackals, these self-serving leeches, are trying to sink the hopes and dreams of a student-athlete.

Hacks like � ayer Evans

and Peter � amel, who broke the “sociology class-es are easy at state uni-versities” story involving Auburn football athletes back in 2006, are more in-terested in creating a per-sonal brand and garnering hits than actually using and obeying key journalis-tic principles.

Fabricate, exaggerate and wait for the hits and “buzz.” � at’s their kind of journalism.

And their chosen me-dium, the medium forced upon today’s journalists, the Internet, lends itself to sloppy journalism.

Today’s news is all about immediacy and breaking stories.

Is this what journalism has become?

Former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond, who was said to have had contact with Kenny Rog-ers, the man who suppos-edly asked for $180,000 from Mississippi State on behalf of Cam Newton, said on the Atlanta radio station WCNN that there “were two people in be-tween, but, basically, yes, that’s what happened.”

� at was ESPN’s, � amel’s and Evans’ main

source—“two people in between, but, basically, yes, that’s what happened.”

And somehow that’s enough to crucify the Heisman frontrunner and a key player on an Auburn team 10-0 in the midst of a potential national cham-pionship run.

Not to mention this lat-est hubbub about Cam’s academic record at Flor-ida, which is all based oÀ an unnamed source from the University of Florida.

Rightly, Auburn has started to � ght back.

“I’m trying to defend something that is quite

frankly garbage,’’ said coach Gene Chizik in a press conference Tuesday morning.

Watching the video, you can see Chizik’s barely controlled anger.

Auburn Athletic Direc-tor Jay Jacobs released a similar statement: “Any discussion of academic records is a clear violation of federal privacy laws. We will not go down that path or stoop to that level as others have apparently done. We will, however, emphatically say that Cam is eligible to play football at Auburn University both

academically and athleti-cally.”

Perhaps, sometime in the future, truth will emerge from this ever-more confusing situation, truth which will no doubt be brought to the public by actual journalists con-cerned with integrity and truth.

But until that day comes, we will stand with Cam Newton, not because he’s Cam Newton, Heis-man hopeful, but because he wears orange and navy and plays for Auburn.

And Auburn is a family who looks after its own.

Newton scandal sad day for journalism, future journalists

WEGL manager goes corporate, weird revolt

News A6 The Auburn Plainsman � ursday, November 11, 2010

Daniel ChesserNews Editor

� omas Randall is get-ting in the holiday spirit early by giving back to a lo-cal family in need.

For the third year in a

row, the owner of Against All Odds tattoo art studio is selling ra� e tickets for tattoo discounts.

“We are doing it to buy Christmas for a family through the Domestic Vio-lence (Intervention) Cen-ter,” Randall said. “I want-ed to help the community out that supports us.”

Randall said he is ex-cited about giving to one family because it is more personal than just donat-ing money to a fund.

“I want to directly in� u-ence a family’s life,” Ran-dall said. “� at way, I actu-ally know where it is going to also.

“Tickets are $5 a piece, and you can buy as many as you want.”

Tickets are available at the shop through Dec. 11, with the prize being $300

toward a tattoo.Randall’s business has

been operating for three years on Opelika Road, and a party is held each year at the Independent to celebrate the end of the ra� e.

Tickets will also be on sale the night of the party, where the prize will be awarded at midnight.

“We will let it ¡ ll up and see how many people show up because that is our last little push to sell tickets,” Randall said.

Randall is not just an artist, but an entrepre-neur.

He prides himself on custom tattoos, but also sells his artwork, known as “� ash,” to other parlors.

“We do a lot of custom work,” Randall said.

People are welcome to

come in with ideas of tat-toos for Randall to work with after a consultation to discuss what the cus-tomer wants.

“When I have it drawn, I give you a call, and you can come by to check it out,” Randall said. “If you like it, we tattoo it. If you don’t, we change it till you like it.”

Randall is originally from Memphis, Tenn., but traveled all over the Unit-ed States in his 10 years as a professional tattoo artist.

“Probably like 20 states in the U.S. I have tattooed in,” Randall said. “I used to do black rallies and con-ventions—go to Sturgis and do the Sturgis Bike Rally.”

For more information on Randall or his studio, visit his website at thom-asrandall.com.

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� e Villager, known for its unique collections of art and jewelry, has a new location, as well as a new collection of handmade accessories.

Jewelry designer Jill Schwartz showcased her designs Nov. 5 and 6 at � e Villager’s new loca-tion at 104 N. College St. in downtown Auburn.

Schwartz’s current col-lection, “Elements,” was started in the late ‘80s.

“I just keep adding new things to it as the years go by,” Schwartz said.

At the age of 3, Schwartz glued beads to her ears be-cause her parents wouldn’t let her get her ears pierced.

“� at was quite the mo-tivating thing,” Schwartz said. “I became obsessed.”

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in design and environmental analy-sis from Cornell, Schwartz went to Europe for a year.

“I found myself wander-ing into little bead shops, and I started to make my

own creations,” Schwartz said. “I got so many com-pliments that I decided to start selling my work on the trains. Twenty-eight years later—here I am.”

After returning from Eu-rope, Schwartz completed her master’s degree in in-terior design at Pratt Insti-tute in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Schwartz does licensed work for big companies like Urban UK, Nordstrom and Anthropologie.

“I still do one show in Europe every year, and I sell to all di² erent sizes of stores,” Schwartz said.

Ingrid Brown, owner of � e Villager, met Schwartz at an Atlanta gift show in 2001.

“(Ingrid) has been buy-ing from me ever since,” Schwartz said.

� e Villager, once locat-ed at 824 E. Glenn Ave., has been at its new location for about a month, Brown said.

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Christen Harned / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Jewelry designer Jill Schwartz stands by some of her pieces being showcased at The Villager Nov. 1.

� e Villager hosts jewelry designer

Daniel Chesser / NEWS EDITOR

Thomas Randall of Against All Odds tattoo art studio, stands next to some original artwork in his studio on Opelika Road.

� omas Randall believes

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Sara WeeksWriter

� e Department of Foreign Languages and Literature has an-nounced that it is re-vamping one of its most popular summer abroad programs.

� e summer Spanish immersion program in Salamanca, Spain, is un-dergoing changes that will be implemented next summer.

� e program o� ers students an intensive study of the Spanish language and culture of Spain.

“� e Salamanca pro-gram is one of Auburn’s oldest study abroad pro-grams,” said Jana Guti-errez, program director. “Its popularity was grow-ing beyond its means, so they forced us to � nd a solution that would solve the problem of overcrowding.”

Students will study at the Universidad de Sala-manca, which was built in 1230 and is Spain’s oldest university. Lo-cated 120 miles west of Madrid, Salamanca is a city rich in culture and

history and is home to the Plaza Mayor.

“Salamanca was a beautiful place to be,” said Laurin Lee, junior in elementary education. “I really enjoyed getting a chance to experience liv-ing abroad.”

� e focus of education has been intensi� ed for the Salamanca program.

“� e quality of learn-ing has been vastly im-proved,” said Jorge Mu-ñoz, one of the three program directors. “Stu-dents will be taught by professors from the Uni-versidad de Salamanca, and they are some of the best in their � elds.”

In order for students to develop their linguis-tic pro� ciency, they are placed in classes that are in accordance with their level of Spanish.

Students are expected to take six credit hours dealing with conversa-tion, syntax, composi-tion, literature, Hispanic � lm and others.

“Being totally im-mersed in the culture really improved my Spanish communication

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Student Center In Review

After two years, the Student Center’s expanding versatility receives recognition as a hub of student life

Brent GodwinAssistant Campus Editor

In the two years since its in-ception, the Student Center has quickly become the center of student life on campus.

Ainsley Carry, vice president of student a� airs, said the Stu-dent Center has served its pur-pose exactly as the University hoped it would.

“I wasn’t here for the Foy days, but I am told the tra ̈ c that is in this building and the amount of students that just hang out here is totally di� erent than how it used to be in Foy,” Carry said.

Carry said students use the building as a hangout during the day, before and after classes.

Students also use the build-ing to study, take naps, watch TV and socialize.

“For my � rst two years at Au-burn, I was in Foy all the time,”

said Anna Lee Alford, graduate student in � nance.

Alford said she remembers Foy as feeling cramped.

“I loved Foy, but the building just wasn’t meeting the campus’ needs,” Alford said.

� e Student Center opened in August 2008, just in time for use for the fall semester.

� e grand opening was in No-vember 2008 and featured Au-burn administrators, faculty and beloved former dean of students Dean Foy for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

“We have not added any ad-ditional food space,” Carry said. “We have tried, through din-ing services, to pay attention to what students are saying, and we have adjusted venues to meet student demands.”

Venues such as Coyote Jack’s and Mama Leone’s have been replaced with more popular

choices, such as Nathan’s Hot Dogs and Papa John’s.

One aspect of the Student Center planned for improve-ment is the amount of seating, Carry said.

“� ere are times when you can walk into this building in mid-day, at our peak, and there are people sitting on the ¬ oor,” Car-ry said. “If we’re going to be the premium dining venue, we’ve got to have places for people to sit down. In the near future, be-fore this semester is over, we’re bringing in some more leisurely, comfortable seating throughout the building.”

One aspect of the building that has come under scrutiny has been how many hours it is available for student use.

Carry said student govern-ment is going to start exploring the possibility of the Student Center being open for 24 hours.

� e building currently closes at midnight and opens at 6 a.m.

“If we didn’t have the Student Center, the campus would be lacking,” said Eric Hayes, � fth-year in business administration.

Hayes said he feels the Student Center is valuable to students as a place to study other than the dorm or the library.

“It’s one of the biggest, nicest buildings I’ve seen on any col-lege campus,” Hayes said. “I like the third story—it’s a good place to � nd a quiet spot to study.”

Hayes said one of his favorite parts of the building is the game room located on the � rst ¬ oor.

“Foy de� nitely didn’t have any-thing like that,” Hayes said.

Carry said one of the things he wishes he could change is the ballroom space.

“It is not adequate,” Carry said. “� e ceiling is not high enough to hold a major event. I wish we

could go back and rethink that space, but it is too late for that.”

Some minor problems have occurred in the building from time to time, but Carry said that is normal for new buildings.

� ere were problems with the student media o ̈ ces, including lack of sound proo� ng at WEGL and a leaky ceiling in � e Plains-man o ̈ ce, among other issues throughout the building.

“We’ve had some minor issues like that, but nothing major,” Carry said. “It has been a very well built building.”

Carry said they probably could have done a better job mak-ing the design easier for people to � nd their way around in the building.

Despite the complications, the building is heavily used.

Many student organizations

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Alexis Janosik, Ph.D. student in marine biology, shows visitors marine creatures in jars in the new climate change laboratory.

New lab addresses climate change

Spain programshifts its focus

Abby TownsonWriter

� e biological sciences department of the College of Science and Mathemat-ics dedicated the new Mo-lette Environmental and Climate Change Labora-tory Friday.

� e lab, located in the Rouse Life Sciences Build-ing, was named in honor of William Molette, a 1927 electrical engineering graduate of Auburn, and his wife Ruth.

� e Molettes left a $2.7 million estate to COSAM to be used for scienti� c re-search.

Faculty member Scott Santos said approximately $142,000 of the bequest was apportioned to reno-vate an unused classroom, expand the old laboratory and create the Molette Laboratory.

“When this space be-came available as a poten-tial area to expand the lab into, the department and COSAM were, again, very supportive in providing the funding for the renova-tions,” Santos said.

Larry Wit, associate dean of COSAM, opened the dedication with a wel-come and a memorandum on the late Dean Marie

Wooten’s involvement with the venture.

“She was a person that had great vision,” Wit said. “She was also the master at bringing groups togeth-er on a project and getting them to cooperate to get something done.”

Department faculty members Santos, Kenneth Halanych and Kevin Fiel-man will be co-directors of the Molette Lab, where their once-separate labs will be conjoined for coop-erative research.

� e three professors were integral in acquiring research grants that will support the new lab.

“� e three of us had al-ready started working a lot together, and our students interacted a lot,” Santos said. “We started talking about, ‘Well, why don’t we combine forces?’ and that makes a bigger stronger lab.”

Santos’ research fo-cuses on the conservation of tropical habitats. Ha-lanych’s research focuses on the evolution of marine invertebrates, and Fiel-man’s research focuses on physiology, the function of organisms.

Halanych said it is both

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Campus B2 The Auburn Plainsman � ursday, November 11, 2010

Courtney SmithWriter

� e Master of Business Administration program ranked 35th in the nation and 75th worldwide in a recent survey by the Finan-cial Times.

� is is the second time Auburn has made the list, last year ranking 40th na-tionwide and 84th interna-tionally.

Auburn is one of four universities from the SEC to be included in the rank-ings.

“It reports to others the quality of your program,” said Jackie DiPo� , director of the Small Business De-velopment Center. “It’s a major factor in marketing the program nationwide.”

Daniel Gropper, associ-ate dean of Auburn’s MBA program, said he often meets members of re-spected universities from Asia, Europe and South America at conferences with other major busi-ness schools and that the importance of rankings is obvious.

“� ey know and recog-nize Auburn’s name just from being in the rank-ings,” Gropper said. “It helps Auburn build bridg-es and creates potential for future partnerships be-tween universities.”

Gropper said the rank-ings are mainly decided by

surveying former graduate students on their measure of success with the pro-gram and how their ca-reers have been a¥ ected by it.

Alumna Casey Zito, se-nior vice president and chief retail banking o§ -cer at the United Bank in Minette, said the program has de� nitely been ben-e� cial for her, especially when she applied for her current position a few years ago.

“� e MBA is what I think gave me the edge,” Zito said. “It was a step up and helped me reach the next level of my career.”

After the rankings were released, Zito said her ac-complishments seemed greater because the pro-gram is nationally and globally recognized.

“I am extremely proud of Auburn,” Zito said. “� e people who put on the program are very near and dear to my heart.”

Alumnus Robert Muller said the program helped him gain valuable insight into the business world.

Muller, gynecologist at a private practice in New Or-leans, also acts as a quality insurance medical director and special interest group medical adviser to the FBI.

“I’ve been pretty much in the scienti� c world all of my life,” Muller said. “I had no knowledge whatsoever

of the business world.”Muller said being in the

MBA program taught him many business-related skills that he now � nds bene� cial.

� e program taught him how to deal with � nancial situations and how to run his business.

“I would never have been able to do all the things I do now and basi-cally juggle three di¥ erent careers without having this education behind me,” Muller said.

What makes a good business school, Muller said, is its ability to meet

the needs of its students and o¥ er programs dedi-cated to those needs.

With the combination of online learning and cam-pus visits, Auburn success-fully caters to those needs, Muller said.

Gropper said he credits the program’s overall suc-cess to its top-notch facul-ty members and excellent students.

“We basically started this program from scratch 10 years ago,” Gropper said. “We’re very pleased that we’re getting this kind of international recogni-tion.”

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skills,” Lee said.Classes begin in the

morning and are in ses-sion until mid-afternoon, so students have half of the day and weekends to explore Salamanca.

“For the � rst time, the students will have the choice to either stay with a family or in a dorm,” Mu-ñoz said. “If they choose to stay with a family, which I highly recommend, they will have a more immersed cultural experience.”

An additional improve-ment the program made is a limited number of par-ticipants.

In previous years, the trip has never been capped, but this year there is only room for 80 partici-pants.

“I think this will de� -nitely be an improvement,” Lee said. “Last year there were more than 100 stu-dents there. It was a really big group.”

Muñoz said this year’s trip is also the cheapest it has ever been.

Muñoz stresses while the changes are academic, the program is the same.

“It’s the students who are going to realize that everything they loved about the Salamanca pro-gram are still there,” Guti-errez said. “� ey just im-proved the quality of the program.”

� ere will be an infor-mational meeting at 4 p.m. Nov. 17 in Haley Center 2370.

Gutierrez said the de-partment is introducing a Costa Rica program and a summer program in Ma-drid, which was previously only available as a semes-ter-long program.

the compatibility of their � elds and their use of similar research tech-niques that enable them to work together e¥ ec-tively.

Santos said one prac-tical bene� t of the col-laboration in the Molette Lab is their research can be more competitive for funding.

“� e more interest-ing and actually exciting side is, by combining ef-forts, we can ask di¥ er-ent types of questions and we can answer ques-tions more thoroughly and meaningfully,” San-tos said.

In his address to the dedication’s attendees,Jack Feminella, chair of the Department of Bio-logical Sciences, said the lab and its directors were a student-centered col-laboration.

“I think more than any-thing else, what made us start talking about com-bining labs was getting the students together so

they could interact with each other and learn from each other, as well as us,” Halanych said.

Joie Cannon, graduate student in biological sci-ences, said the new lab fosters teamwork and e¥ ectiveness in research.

She also said that the space and new equip-ment created a more helpful work environ-ment.

“During the transition, we had been using the classroom as sort of tran-sient lab space, but this is much more e§ cient,” Cannon said.

Santos said he hopes they advance the work they have begun with the Molette Lab.

“� e other hope I would have is that we can be a successful group, such that we can provide a role model to the Auburn community,” Halanych said. “Not that we’re the center of atten-tion, but that by us being able to come together and do this, hopefully it will help other aspects of Auburn research go up.”

are reserving space in the meeting rooms.

“We wish we could step back three years ago in the design phase, and add more meeting rooms for student organiza-tions,” Carry said. “Right now we are bursting at the seams.”

Carry said the building now features door coun-ters at the exits.

“We reached a point in October where we saw half a million peo-ple in and out of the

building,” Carry said. “I think that’s astronomi-cal. � at’s wear and tear on the building, on the restrooms, the furniture, the carpet, so we are con-stantly trying to keep the building clean.”

� e Student Center seems to have brought the Auburn family to-gether under one roof in just two years.

“� at is one of the biggest changes that it has brought to campus,” Carry said. “It’s a place for students to just hang out. It’s exactly what we want in this building.”

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Chelsea HarveySta� Writer

Professor Marc Silver-stein lets nothing keep him down, even a vision im-pairment that inhibits his ability to read the books he teaches.

“I don’t think it really impaired him at all,” said Kimberly Roberts, junior in animal science. “I think it would be essentially the same.”

Silverstein said his pas-sion for his work overrides the di� culties that come with it.

“� ere are certain cor-ners I have to cut for my-self,” Silverstein said, “but I don’t feel I ever short-change my students be-cause I feel a high degree of responsibility to them.”

Silverstein said he has learned to accept certain concessions that make his work easier.

For example, he listens to many of the books and plays he assigns on CDs, rather than straining to read them.

Silverstein said his favor-ite part about teaching is its immediacy.

“I like to see students en-gaging with the material,” he said. “I like to see their responses.”

Silverstein said the � rst thing he does when plan-ning a course is develop a theme for his students to follow throughout the se-mester.

“I don’t use an an-thology,” he said. “I don’t want this to seem like an

anthology course. So I usu-ally pick a theme for the course and ask a question.”

� e question, which fo-cuses the theme for the course, di� ers from one semester to the next. � is semester’s theme is what it means to be human.

� roughout the semes-ter, students are assigned to read a number of works that are consistent with the course’s theme.

� ey will be required to write two papers as well as complete a midterm and a � nal.

Stephanie Perkins, soph-omore in animal science, said the class also empha-sized the historical context of the literature.

“He talked about the Ho-locaust a lot,” she said. “He talked about the French Revolution a lot in connec-tion with ‘Tartu� e’ (a play by Molière).”

Roberts said she found the course challenging.

“I guess the works that he picked weren’t really things that you would usu-ally think of. � ey’re kind of obscure, out there,” she said.

Silverstein said he tries to focus on literature that doesn’t provide too many answers.

“� e important thing about literature, about the best literature, is that it raises questions,” Silver-stein said. “It doesn’t an-swer them. I don’t want to read a book that provides answers for the reader.”

Although Silverstein’s e� ectiveness of teaching

remains untouched by his disability, he says there are challenges he does face.

“I think the biggest chal-lenge for me is learning to ask for accommodations,” he said. “I was very loath to ask for help because, like a lot of people with disabili-ties, I didn’t like to think of myself that way.”’

Silverstein said it is sometimes di� cult for professors with disabilities to secure the accommo-dations they need, even if they ask for them.

“If you’re able to function in the classroom, if you’re able to do research, then people don’t think you may need accommodations,” he said.

Despite these di� culties, Silverstein said there are

upsides to the situation.“It’s opened up a level of

intellectual inquiry for me,” Silverstein said.

For example, Silverstein is working on a book that discusses the emphasis placed on vision in plays.

“� ere are certain play-wrights who question the way we give sight prior-ity over the other senses,” he said. “Why is it that we have to base so many of our categories on sight, even our metaphors?”

Silverstein’s impaired vi-sion allows him an insight into this topic of research that most people do not have.

“Some people say there’s a certain autobiographical element in that,” he said. “I think there is.”

Silverstein’s students gain a unique perspective on works of literature

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UPC’s Open Mic Night brought the talented of Auburn’s student popula-tion out of the woodwork, as aspiring bands, come-dians, poets and even ma-gicians took advantage of the free stage time.

John and the Conners highlighted Open Mic Night with a performance of their original, self-de-scribed “vanilla” music.

“Alternative folk,” said Chris Williams, sopho-more in prelandscape ar-chitecture. “We write all our own stu� , and that’s

what we like to sing. I’m really in� uenced by Ryan Adams and Wilco and stu� like that.”

� e band features a Ca-jon drum, played by Tyler Wallace, sophomore in visual communications, acoustic guitar and vocals by Williams, banjo by Tra-vis Widner, senior in wire-less hardware engineering, and guitar and harmonica by Andy Cox, senior in graphic design.

Playing regularly at the Olde Auburn Ale House, the band also plays shows at the Irish Bred Pub, where they will be per-forming Nov. 27.

“� e Ale House is our home,” Williams said. “� at’s where we started, and that’s where we’ll al-ways be.”

A welcome change of pace came from Chris Ko-lar, freshman in electrical

engineering, who stepped up to the microphone to perform a few card tricks.


John and the Conners perform an original song at UPC’s Open Mic Night Thursday at the AUSC Starbucks.

Helping Haiti: Auburn alum uses ¥ sheries to feedAlison McFerrin

Sta� Writer

Something was a little ¥ shy about the E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer on � ursday—but not in a suspicious way.

Valentin Abe received his doctorate in ¥ sheries in 1995 and returned to give a lecture for the E.T. York Distinguished Lec-turer Series through the College of Agriculture.

Abe, one of Time maga-zine’s “100 most in� uen-tial people in the world,” has been developing ¥ sh farms in Haiti for the past 13 years.

“When he came to national attention and we could claim him as our own, it was an ob-vious choice for him to come here,” said Katie Jackson of the O² ce of

Agriculture Communica-tion and Marketing and a member of the York Lec-turer Committee.

Abe’s lecture centered on the conditions in Hai-ti.

He said recent natural disasters and govern-ment corruption have made Haiti into the country it is today.

After Abe ¥ nished his Ph.D., a professor en-couraged him to sign on to a short-term ¥ sh-farming project in Haiti.

“I thought he told me that I was going to Ta-hiti,” Abe said jokingly. “When the plane landed in Haiti, I was sitting there waiting to catch the next plane. It never came. And for 13 years, I’m still waiting for that plane.”

In his lecture, Abe said

many di� erent organiza-tions and governmental agencies have tried to help Haiti, and yet there are still many problems.

He said that was puz-zling to him until he real-ized the reason.

“It’s not because we didn’t know what to do,” Abe said. “It’s because we didn’t know how to do it.”

Abe said they had to realize how to work with the geography and natu-ral resources available in Haiti, as well as the high poverty level of the people.

“How do you fos-ter economic develop-ment?” Abe said. “You have to rethink Haiti.”

Abe worked with oth-ers to “rethink” the coun-try by starting a program called Caribbean Har-vest, which is now one

of the most successful tilapia hatcheries in the Caribbean.

By employing Haitian people to work on the ¥ sh farms, they have been able to help many Haitians have incomes and provide for their families.

“It was pretty inspira-tional,” said Alicia Den-ning, president of Engi-neers Without Borders. “I started working with (EWB) because I wanted to save the world, and he just kind of reminded me that that was still in my heart.”

Abe said when he found out he had been chosen as one of Time’s 100 most in� uential people, after a nomination by former president Bill Clinton, he was surprised.

“I didn’t think the work

that I was doing in Haiti was being noticed,” Abe said.

Abe said future plans include working with the Clinton Foundation to ex-tend the project into Af-rica and Nicaragua.

For now, Abe said he will return to Haiti to con-tinue his work.

“� e people of Haiti didn’t choose to be there, and they didn’t choose to go through what they’ve been through,” Abe said.

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Valentin Abe, Auburn alum, implements fi sh farms in Haiti.

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Annie FaulkWriter

Gluten-free meals are now available in the Cub Stop at � e Village, Outtakes in the Student Center and Terrell Hall on � e Hill. According to Tiger Dining, options include an assortment of pastas and breads which all are gluten free.

Gluten is a protein found in ev-eryday foods containing wheat, rye or barley.

Gluten intolerance, or celiac disease, is a hereditary diges-tive condition that damages the small intestine. To prevent this damage, people with celiac dis-ease avoid foods containing glu-ten and watch their diets to en-sure a limitation of the protein.

Foods which are labeled “glu-ten free” or are made with rice, corn or soy are deemed safe for

people with celiac disease to consume.

“As the demand for gluten-free items continues to rise, Ti-ger Dining is taking a huge step toward those battling the issue of eating glu-ten-free items on AU’s cam-pus,” said a Tiger Din-ing press release.

By pro-v i d i n g students with more dining op-tions, Dining Services can better cater to the needs of students.

“Tiger Dining continues to grow with Auburn’s campus and is always here to not only be

proactive in providing the lat-est food trends, but to listen to the needs and wants of students and respond in any way possi-

ble,” said Gina Groome, Tiger Dining mar-

keting manager.G l u t e n - f re e foods are not

necessari ly bland or a torture to taste buds.

“I have had gluten-

free meals before because

one of my good friends has celiac

disease, and not all of them are bad,” said Mary Katherine Dlugos, freshman in political sci-ence.

� e recent dining changes

bring good news for students with celiac disease, but even stu-dents who don’t su� er from the illness will have new dining op-tions.

“It is very important to bring gluten-free options to campus because many people are begin-ning to choose to eat gluten free or have medical issues that force them to,” said Colleen Walter, freshman in communications.

Dining Services provides av-enues of cooperation with stu-dents to suit dietary concerns.

“We also provide the oppor-tunity for students to meet with any one of our team members, especially our executive chef Emil Topel, to help guide them around campus based on their personal diet needs or other personal situations, such as the need for gluten-free meal op-tions,” Groome said.

Students who wish to pur-chase gluten-free meals can rest assured their foods are not taint-ed by the gluten protein.

“Due to the risk of possible contamination and the inabil-ity to provide a fully separated gluten-free kitchen, prepack-aged meals were a great way to expand upon current gluten-free options to better meet the needs of our students,” Groome said.

While Dining Services is re-sponding to students’ requests, frustration with the mandatory meal plan has not been eradi-cated.

“Why is this just now coming to the dining administration’s attention?” said Micah O’Dell, freshman in psychology. “I think all things should have been taken into account when implement-ing and enforcing a mandatory meal plan for students.”

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more mainstream music?

“I like it the way it is. � ere’s plenty of top-40 stations out there already.”

–Brandon Stewart, freshman, chemical engineering

“I think they should stay how they do it now. It just adds to how unique our campus is.”

–Heather Jones, freshman, indus-trial engineering, mathematics

“I want to keep it like it is. I think it’s original.”

–Cody Parker, freshman, English

“I want to keep it weird because I don’t want to hear the same thing all the time —I want to keep it di� erent.”

–Meghan Bowser, freshman, undeclared

“I’d rather it stay the way it is. � ere’s too many top-40 stations out there already.”

–Hunter Brooks, freshman, pre-building science

“I don’t think it’s weird; I think they’re trying to have a good balance. Everybody listens to something di� erent.”

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ENTERTAINMENTIf you want to go shopping or have

some fun, you may think you are lim-ited to Tiger Town—but you would be wrong.

In downtown Opelika, there are at least a dozen shops within walking dis-tance of one another.

One such shop is Picket Fence, which has been in business on South Railroad Avenue for 11 years.

“Being a small town, we have a little bit for everybody,” said Mary Skinner, co-owner of the gift shop. “It brings a whole di� erent atmosphere when peo-ple come here. � ey’re wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle.”

Gift shops and antique shops are prevalent in the downtown area, but clothing stores also make an appear-ance.

Fringe, for example, is an upscale con-signment shop on South Eighth Street.

“It’s de� nitely the thing these days,” said Stacie Money, owner, of consign-ment shopping. “We have people that come in almost every day of the week.”

Shopping isn’t the only attraction. Recently opened in downtown Opelika is the Event Center Downtown, which is located in the old Coca-Cola bottling plant on the north side of the railroad.

“We’ve been operating and hosting some events since April,” said Lisa Beck, owner of the Event Center Downtown.

� e center hosts everything from wedding receptions to company semi-nars to plays and concerts.

If you’re looking for a night on the town, downtown Opelika has that cov-ered, too.

Eighth and Rail is a dessert café and tavern that has been entertaining young and old for eight and a half years.

“Our live music is a big part of what we do,” said owner Richard Patton. “We do mostly national acts. We prefer original

music—we’re more of an original-music spot than a cover-band spot—but as far as styles of music, we do everything.”

Eighth and Rail is 21 and up, and Pat-ton said this makes the venue more mel-low.

“We’ve been here from when there was nothing here to when we’ve kind of

started to explode recently,” Patton said.Another option is the new kid on the

block, the Irish Bred Pub, which has been open since August and is already a hit with students.

� e Pub opens at lunchtime, but stays open into the night to o� er food, bever-ages and a variety of entertainment.

Guide to Historic Downtown Opelika


South Railroad Avenue is home to numerous restaurants and shops housed in historical buildings, adding to the charm of the downtown area.


With a wide variety of food and beverages, the Irish Bred Pub is a great place to hang out.

HISTORICAL“Certain standards,

guidelines, are drafted up to make sure that all future developments in the downtown abide by a certain historical-ly accurate standard,” said Luis Gallardo, ad-ministrator of the com-munity development o� ce, part of the plan-ning department.

� ese standards may increase everything from tourism to cul-tural development.

� ey ensure Opelika is able to hold onto its heritage.

Much of its heritage is from being a railroad town, Gallardo said.

“� ere’s a lot of his-tory in that street,” Gal-lardo said. “� at par-ticular street features a

number of little monu-ments and parks built by the city to com-memorate historic events.”

Monuments and parks aren’t the only things commemorat-ing Opelika history.

“Every couple cor-ners of the downtown district, there are little plaques that detail the historic background of some of the more popular buildings or sites, railroad points, stu� like that,” Gallardo said.

One popular build-ing is the Lee County Courthouse, which was built in 1896.

“� e courthouse is quite typical of that Paris architecture and has lots of history, and our town was built

around it,” Gallardo said. “It’s on our seal.”

Gallardo said he thinks the most impor-tant thing in retaining historic downtown is keeping it pedestrian friendly.

“Lots of people like the concept of being able to walk up and down the his-toric downtown area and shop at all kinds of tiny, historically friendly stores,” Gallardo said. “I think that that style of commerce of the old d ay — litt l e shops and little restau-rants—need a pedestrian-friendly envi-ronment.”

DININGTo tempt your taste

buds, downtown Opelika is home to elegant din-ing rooms and cozy cafés, along with other eateries.

Jimmy’s serves New Orleans fare for lunch

every day and for din-ner Tuesday through Saturday.

Owner Jim Sikes said downtown Ope-lika has changed in

the past � ve years.“� ere’s night-

time tra� c here now,” Sikes said. “You see people on

the streets w a l k i n g ,

and that wasn’t true

� ve years ago. Come 5:30, unless they drove here, they weren’t

coming. And now there are people here, and it is a nicer, safer environment.”

Jimmy’s New Orleans menu includes every-thing from crab cakes to po’boys.

� e sophisticated at-mosphere lends itself to a nice evening out—maybe on a date or entertaining company.

“We’ve got gumbo and bread pudding,” Sikes said. “� ose two things are probably our most popular items.”

Breezeway is another Opelika favorite, sitting on South Eighth for al-most 20 years.

“Everybody loves our grilled chicken � ngers,” said owner Gena Henley.

In addition to chicken, Breezeway o� ers salads, Boar’s Head sandwiches and burgers, and they have just recently started

serving breakfast.“I think that people

should support local businesses instead of the big chains,” Henley said. “Twenty years ago, I was probably the only place to eat downtown, but now we’ve got several re-ally good restaurants.”

Another restaurant is Cottage Café, which isn’t your typical sandwich shop. It’s boxed in by four specialty gift shops, all collectively known as Cottage Walk.

Sandwiches with made-fresh-ever y-day � llings, soups and des-serts are the features for lunch at Cottage Café.

“We’re just tickled to be here in one spot in the historic downtown Ope-lika,” said Tim Gore, one of the four owners. “Peo-ple love it, and they come every day to enjoy it.”

Retaining an ‘old-timey’ feel in the midst of a large-scale revitalization, historic downtown Opelika is a neighborhood hot spot for shopping, dining and nightlife you won’t want to miss


Eighth and Rail, a dessert café and tavern, is the perfect place for an evening out.

– by Alison McFerrin / Sta� writer

Intrigue C2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 11, 2010

Katie BrownWriter

Things are getting a little hairy on campus as men continue to avoid us-ing their razors and grow beards for No Shave No-vember.

The event has one sim-ple rule to determine the manliest of men: do not shave.

Since shaving is forbid-den, other forms of up-keep, such as trimming or waxing, are also not al-lowed.

While No Shave Novem-ber may help people save money from no longer buying shaving cream, not everyone can handle the commitment.

“I gave it a try for a few days, but I had to give up last week,” said Spencer Brown, sophomore in po-litical science. “I guess I just wasn’t cut out for it. It is a much harder process than you might think.”

While Brown had to for-feit the competition, he said he was happy to par-ticipate.

“I’m glad I got to give it a try, though, because some of my friends didn’t even try No Shave November,” Brown said. “They either can’t really grow facial hair or are too embarrassed with the facial hair they do grow.”

Avoiding the temptation to shave when the beard begins to get uncomfort-able or itchy is another obstacle.

“It can definitely be un-comfortable growing a beard,” said Chris Agness, senior in finance. “A lot of guys let it get to them, and they end up shaving.”

Agness, who had p r o u d l y b e e n growing a beard until he shaved it for a Halloween c o stu m e , d o e s n ’ t think No Shave No-v e m b e r s h o u l d only per-tain to the month of No-vember.

“I have a couple of friends who pretty much participate in No Shave November year-round,” he said. “It gets to be a com-petition with your friends.”

While men see No Shave November as a competi-tion and sign of status for being able to grow the bur-liest beard, the women of Auburn’s campus also have something to say about it.

“I don’t mind it too much,” said Amelia Chee-ley, senior in international

business. “I actually think it’s pretty funny to watch some of these guys give it a try, especially toward the end of the month. I’m just glad girls don’t have par-ticipate in something like this.”

Even though No Shave November is the most popular month for men to

celebrate t h e i r m a s -c u l i n -ity, other variations i n c l u d e D o n ’ t S h a v e D e c e m -ber, For-get to S h a v e February and Mas-c u l i n e

March.Movember, a combina-

tion of the words “mus-tache” and “November,” aims to raise money for cancer affecting men, spe-cifically prostate cancer.

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Rachel ShireyWriter

Although most students look forward to traveling home for Thanksgiving to enjoy homemade cas-seroles and sweet pump-kin pies, others envision Thanksgiving dinner dif-ferently.

For some, it is an oppor-tunity to create their own meals and enjoy this spe-cial time with friends.

Jenny Meyer, junior in prepharmacy, said she and her friends made a potluck dinner last year.

“I have friends who are from other states, like Texas and stuff like that,” Meyer said. “Me and my parents had Thanksgiving lunch—we always have Thanksgiving lunch—and so afterwards my friends were having a Thanksgiv-ing dinner in Auburn.

“So what I did was I brought some of the tur-key that my family made to that dinner, and we all just kind of had a big Thanksgiving potluck kind of thing.”

Meyer said people con-tributed items like turkey, mashed potatoes, peas and several other Thanks-giving-themed dishes.

She said they wanted to contribute food that was easy to make and inexpen-sive.

Hannah Yon, sopho-more in interior design, said she plans to stay in Auburn for Thanksgiving so she can attend the Iron Bowl game in Tuscaloosa.

“Basically, I’m going home and coming back on the day before Thanksgiv-ing because we wanted to go to the Iron Bowl,” Yon said.

“So we’re going to one of my boyfriend’s friends’ apartments, and I’m go-ing to cook Thanksgiving lunch that day, and then we are going to head down to Tuscaloosa for the Iron Bowl game.”

Yon hasn’t decided ex-actly what she plans to cook, but anticipates hav-ing Thanksgiving classics, including turkey and stuff-ing.

Yon said she plans to have the turkey made at home beforehand to avoid the hassle.

Restaurants also take measures to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday.

“This Thanksgiving is a little bit different than last year,” said Arif Kor, execu-tive assistant manager at

Ariccia in the Auburn Uni-versity Hotel and Confer-ence Center.

“If you remember, the Alabama game was ac-tually on Thanksgiving weekend, so Thanksgiving is going to be a lot quieter because last year actually all the businesses down-town were asked to stay open.”

Kor said hosting the Iron Bowl allowed for more ac-tivities last year than are planned for this year.

However, Ariccia will host two Thanksgiv-ing activities despite the amount of students re-turning home or attending the Iron Bowl.

They are offering a brunch buffet and the traditional, three-course Thanksgiving Dinner.

“We will have, obvious-ly, carving stations, fried turkey with all the trim-mings,” Kor said. “We will have a pork-carving sta-tion, omelet station and waffle station.”

Kor said they look at the city’s historical data from past years before they make their decisions.

They looked at their business rate for the last several years when Au-burn played away, and

they had enough business on the holiday to justify staying open again.

“Typically in hotels, we find out that these special religious holidays—like Christmas, Easter, Thanks-giving—we are always the busiest because most peo-ple are closed,” Kor said. “We always find out that we are usually the social center when it comes to restaurants in the com-munity, so it’s a pretty easy decision for us.”

Although the option is

there for a college-style Thanksgiving, not every-one has the best luck at-tempting it.

“The first year I stayed home, it was just me and a buddy, and we ended up ordering Little Caesars on Thanksgiving Day,” said John Burleson, senior in architecture. “That was kind of depressing. Now, I stay here and work up till Thursday.”

Burleson said this year he plans to travel to Tus-caloosa Thanksgiving Day

because he has family there.

He also plans to attend the Iron Bowl game.

This year, various res-taurants around Auburn also plan to incorporate Th ank s g iv in g-th em ed items into their menu be-fore and after the holiday.

For example, Mike and Ed’s will have smoked boneless turkeys and hams before they close for the holiday, and Niffer’s Place will have a turkey burger.

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Sarah Morriss, sophomore in pregraphic design, uses her mother’s recipe to prepare a com-mon Thanksgiving dessert—an apple pie.

Food

The very best of… soupsAs the temperature drops and coats become a must, soup is the perfect food to combat the

winter chills —all you need is a big spoon, a thick napkin and our list of the best soups in Auburn

Best classicAu Bon Pain’s

chicken noodle soupA classic chicken noodle soup just like mom

makes, with egg noodles and chunks of hearty chicken. Available in medium for $3.79 and

large for $4.89.

Best all-naturalEarth Fare’s

carrot and ginger soup Whole carrots, orange juice and ginger give this creamy soup a surprisingly tangy taste.

Available in 16 ounces for $4.49 and 32 ounc-es for $8.49.

Best stewPrice’s Barbecue House

Brunswick stew With tomatoes, corn and three types of meats– chicken, beef and pork–Brunswick stew is the

best mate to any barbecue sandwich. Available in 8 ounces for $2.43 with tax.

Best instant Campbell’s

tomato soupCreamy tomato soup is the perfect companion to any sick day. Just add water and heat. Avail-able at most grocery stores for less than one

dollar.

Best south of the borderMcAlister’s

chicken tortillaTopped with tortilla strips, it is like a fiesta in your mouth, with Mexican spices and savory

pieces of chicken. Available in cup for $3.49 or bowl for $4.69.

Best seafoodAu Bon Pain’s clam chowder

Made with huge chunks of potato and whole clams, its authentic taste is comparable to New England’s best. Available in medium for $3.79

and large for $4.89.

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Intrigue C4 The Auburn Plainsman � ursday, November 11, 2010

Elizabeth FiteWriter

After a century of antici-pation from fans around the world, Mark Twain’s autobiography hits stores this month.

� e � rst volume of the three-volume edition comes out Nov. 15.

� e famed author of American classics “� e Adventures of Tom Saw-yer” and “� e Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” be-gan drafting his autobiog-raphy in 1870.

It remained a work in progress until shortly be-fore his death in 1910.

As one of his dying wishes, Twain asked for the publication of his au-tobiography to be delayed for 100 years.

“� e fact that now you can go into the bookstore, hopefully, and pick up the autobiography and read it should make it a lot easier to incorporate this kind of material into our thinking and our scholarship,” said Erich Nunn, assistant pro-fessor of English.

� e delayed release of the autobiography should increase the excitement among fans, said Katy

Goodman, junior in Eng-lish.

“I also think it will dras-tically change the way we analyze his texts because we will k n o w m o r e a b o u t where he is writing from and will also i m p a c t many of his fans,” G o o d -m a n said.

N u n n said he a n t i c i -pates this text will be valu-able to the study of Twain’s works.

“It helps us to gain a much broader, but also deeper understanding of Twain’s political invest-ment,” Nunn said. “I think that the standard line on this is that Twain in this autobiography was far more politically outspo-ken than he had been in his � ction, which tended to be satirical.”

Nunn, who regularly teaches Twain’s works in his American Literature

classes, said students of-ten come to class having read “Huckleberry Finn” in high school, and the challenge is to teach them

a new, d e e p e r u n d e r -s t a n d -ing of the nov-el.

A l -t h o u g h the in-f o r m a -t i o n f o u n d in the a u t o -biogra-phy has

been available to schol-ars in archival form for quite some time, this new edition is the � rst time Twain’s autobiography will be available to the public.

“� is is far and away the most complete version of the autobiography, and this should end up being the de� nitive edition of this important text,” Nunn said. “What this publi-cation represents is the opportunity for nonspe-cialist people who aren’t scholars of Twain to have

greater access to that ma-terial.”

Nunn described the in-tense editorial process that the new, publicly ac-cessible form of the auto-biography went through.

“Versions of the auto-biography had been pub-lished before, but they’d always been highly ed-ited,” Nunn said. “� e edi-tions of the autobiography that had been out often re¥ ected the political or aesthetic concerns of their editors.”

Adam White, senior in English, has several ideas as to why Twain wanted to wait 100 years to publish his autobiography.

“I think he decided to hold its release for 100 years either because he wanted to talk to the future, which is pretty cool, or he wanted to let us overanalyze his work for 100 years before he slapped us with the truth,” White said.

� e autobiography will impact classes as well.

“I think that this mate-rial may certainly show up in future classes that I teach and would imagine the same is true for other people as well,” Nunn said.

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Jake ColeWriter

When Bobby Hoppe proposed to Sherry Lee in 1971, he told her about a grand jury hearing a few years back in which he’d been brie¥ y considered a suspect in the death of a Chattanooga man named Don Hudson.

“He looked at me and said, ‘Sherry Lee, I want you to know that I have never murdered anyone,’” Sherry Lee Hoppe said.

Sixteen years later, whispers of a reopening of the case prompted Bobby to meet Sherry on their af-ternoon walk and confess that, on July 20, 1957, he shot and killed Hudson.

Now, two years after her husband’s passing, Sherry Lee Hoppe is telling his story in “A Matter of Con-science: Redemption of a Hometown Hero, Bobby Hoppe.”

Before the Homecoming game last Saturday, Sherry Lee signed copies of her b i o g r a -phy in the c a m p u s b o o k -store.

“ S o m a n y p e o p l e k n e w bits and p i e c e s or heard r u m o r s , but they d i d n ’ t know the truth,” Sherry Lee said on why she chose to write about their ordeal.

Upon returning to Au-burn University, Bobby suf-fered mental anguish from the incident, and the play-ing � eld became a place to exorcise his demons.

Bobby helped the Au-burn Tigers to the national championship, gaining a reputation as a brutal blocking back and also placing � fth on the team’s all-time rushing list.

“When he was on the football � eld, he was able to totally focus on that,” Sherry Lee said. “It was the only escape he had for this terrible secret he held inside.”

A 1966 grand jury hear-ing collected evidence against Bobby, but the case never went to trial.

� en, 22 years later, Chattanooga police in-dicted Bobby on charges of � rst-degree murder in one of the � rst cold-case trials in the country.

� e Hoppes hired Bobby Lee Cook, one of the most prominent attorneys in the nation.

Cook’s ability to catch the discrepancies in tes-timonies, combined with the absence of records from the 31-year-old case, resulted in a hung jury

that nev-er led to any more court bat-tles.

A f -ter the trial, the H o p p e s m o v e d so Sherry Lee could take a job as presi-dent of R o a n e

State Community College in Harriman, Tenn. Living in a more rural area al-lowed them to escape the notoriety of the publicized trial and to quietly move on with life.

Yet Sherry Lee wanted to tell the truth about her

husband’s tribulations, obtaining his blessing to write his story weeks be-fore his death in July 2008.

Returning to the cam-pus where her husband helped win a victory he could never fully enjoy, Sherry Lee signed copies of her book, coauthored with Dennie Burke.

Burke was her colleague from Austin Peay State University, where Sherry Lee served as president from 2001 until her retire-ment in 2007.

� e event was organized by the campus bookstore.

Among those who stopped by Sherry Lee’s signing were fans of her husband and the ’57 Ti-gers, as well as some with more personal connec-tions.

“My mom e-mailed me an article about the event,” said Jennifer Wilson Mc-Craw, holding a signed

copy dedicated to her fa-ther, Jerry Wilson, who played with Bobby. “I had been interested, and since I was here for Homecom-ing, I just stopped by.”

Sherry Lee described her book as being “80 per-cent courtroom drama,” but said the central theme can be found in the title.

Bobby’s conscience, which haunted him for de-cades, is the focus.

Yet there are others re-marked upon as well, from the preacher who accept-ed Bobby’s confession in con� dence, but could not stay silent, to the witness who lied repeatedly on the stand even after she gave herself away, to an IHOP waitress who unexpected-ly provided the key to the entire trial.

“I hope readers take away that conscience can come in many forms,” Hoppe said.

Football murder mystery revealed

Graphic courtesy of Hal Holbrook

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about the life and secrets of her late husband, Bobby Hoppe

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After 100 years, Mark Twain’s newly released autobiography sheds light on his mysterious literary identity

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bits and pieces or heard rumors, but they didn’t know the truth.”

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Blake HamiltonAssociate Sports Editor

The women’s soccer team will appear in the 2010 NCAA Soccer Tour-nament.

This will be the ninth total tournament appear-ance and fifth consecutive year the team will have appeared in the postsea-son, a school record.

“We were really excited to see our name come up on the board,” said coach Karen Hoppa. “We defi-nitely knew we were on the bubble.

“We felt like we had done enough to get in the NCAA Tournament, but you just never know for sure until your name comes up in the selection show. We were all very ex-cited.”

Auburn was named an at-large team in the tour-nament after being elimi-nated from the SEC Tour-nament, losing to Georgia 2-1.

Hoppa attributes the selection to Auburn beat-ing Florida State, then No. 5 in the country, as well as Florida, then No. 6 na-tionally.

“In soccer, they only

seed 16 teams, and the rest is paired up region-ally,” Hoppa said. “So the fact that we had beaten two seeded teams really

carried a lot of weight to get us in. We had a couple of good wins right there at the end of the season.

“Beating Georgia, then

beating Alabama to win the SEC West was a major accomplishment for us as well.”

Nationally recognized

players also contributed to Auburn’s selection.

Among these is junior

This Week in Sports

FRIDAYMen’s basketball8 p.m. v. UNC Asheville

Women’s basketball5 p.m.v. Mercer

Soccer6 p.m.v. South Florida

Equestrian3 p.m.v. Georgia

SaturdayFootball2:30 p.m. v. Georgia

SUNDAYVolleyball1:30 p.m.v. Mississippi

For those who forgot amidst all the Cameron Newton allegations, the Auburn Tigers face the Georgia Bulldogs this Sat-urday in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry.

With a win, the Tigers will clinch the SEC West and play in the SEC title game.

The Auburn-Georgia series is tied with Oregon-Oregon State as the sev-enth-most played series in the nation.

The two teams first played in 1892 and have continuously played since 1898, except during World Wars I and II.

The Tigers hold a slight edge in the series, which stands at 53-52-8.

Strangely enough, in the past, the visiting team has had the edge.

Auburn has a winning record (18-11) in Athens, while Georgia has a win-ning record (14-9-2) on the Plains.

The Bulldogs have won five out of its last seven trips to Jordan-Hare, but look for no upset here.

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Freshman safety Ryan Smith tackles wide receiver Brian Sutherland.


Will the West be won?Coach Gene Chizik asks this

question in preparing for the 2010 edition of the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry against Georgia.

A win would earn a trip to At-lanta for the Tigers.

“We have our work cut out for us,” Chizik said. “Offensively, (Georgia is) hitting on all cylin-ders. I think their quarterback certainly has enough games un-der his belt right now where he’s really becoming a really good SEC quarterback.

“Defensively, they’re playing much better. They’re probably in the top four in probably just

about every category defen-sively in the league, and they’re going to come in here ready to play.”

Chizik said a major concern will be Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green, entering the game with 32 catches for 510 yards.

Green missed the first four games of the season after being suspended for selling a jersey, but since his return, the Bull-dogs have averaged 40 points per game.

“When you have one guy that commands so much attention,” Chizik said, “you spend hours trying to figure out how you’re going to cope with him.”

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Team bonding takes center ice

Erik YaborWriter

The burgeoning Auburn ice hockey team has far exceeded the expectations of many in its inau-gural season.

After finding themselves as the only SEC school without a hockey team, co-captain Justin Nabors and James Florkiewicz worked diligently last semester to bring the sport back to Auburn after a 27-year hiatus.

The original Auburn ice hock-ey team was founded in 1980, but lasted only three years before being disbanded.

“Hockey play-ers share a bond that is hard to describe in words,” said team captain Anthony Gen-erotti. “I feel that having this team at Auburn University in the South makes this bond even stronger because hockey is not very prevalent in the South. We formed this team to help spread the word of our sport as well as play the game we love for the school we all love.”

So far the Tigers have over-come the obstacles typical of many first-year teams.

“Thus far, the season has ex-ceeded my initial expectations,” Nabors said, “We have been told

many times that for a first year team, we are doing a great job. Normally, first season teams have no wins and minimal amount of players.

“We have been extremely lucky with the amount of talent and de-termination present in our first team, not to mention enough players to fill three lines and then some. So we have done much bet-ter then I had initially expected.”

However, Nabors stated that their objective is not to be a good first-year team, but “a good team,

period.”SEC hockey

teams often have difficulties in starting because of a lack of support, though Nabors believes that last weekend’s game at Mississippi State had around 2,800 supporters for the Bulldogs.

The Tigers have had a string of

luck when it came to support.When it was announced that a

hockey team would be forming, at least 70 people showed interest in joining. A week after the team Facebook page went up there were over 1,200 fans.

Despite their most recent matches versus Mississippi State and Arkansas being losses, Nabors said he finds the high level of competitiveness in the

“ Everyone on the

team can see the improvement that we show every time we take the ice”

Anthony Generotti, hockey team captain

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players to be a sign of a bright future for the team.

“We played to the best of our abilities,” Nabors said, “and I was extremely proud to see the continual � ght still present in each and every player.

“Even though it isn’t re-� ected on the scoreboard, we played a hard-hitting,

good and quality hock-ey game against a team whose level of play far ex-ceeded our own.”

Generotti agrees with Nabors, saying, “Although we did not come away with a win in Tupulo the attitude among the team was very up beat.

“Everyone on the team can see the improvement that we show every time we take the ice.”

Hockey is very impor-tant to these players, with Generotti having played the sport since he was 8 years old, and Nabors hav-ing played it since he was 5.

With the way the Au-burn hockey team has been playing thus far, the team members believe that hockey will be im-portant to everyone very soon.

ing o� a 55-7 thrashing of Idaho State last week, but are still looking for a signature win in a season that has been anything but successful.

With a win, the Bulldogs become bowl eligible, and coach Mark Richt could secure his job for another year.

� is is easier said than done.

Once kings of the road, the Bulldogs have now lost four out of its � ve road games this season and are 4-8 against ranked oppo-nents since 2008.

� e best chance the Bulldogs have at a win will be a shootout, since the Bulldogs are averaging 42.8 points per game over its last � ve games.

� is also marks the � rst time in school history Georgia has scored more than 30 points in � ve con-secutive games.

� e Bulldog o� ense is averaging 240.9 yards per game passing, which ranks 45th nationally, while they rank 61st in rushing.

Georgia freshman quar-terback Aaron Murray must have another solid passing performance, since running it up the gut will do them no good.

� e Tigers defense ranks 18th nationally against the rush, giving up only 114.6 yards per game.

Special teams will be key for Georgia.

Junior cornerback Bran-don Boykin leads the SEC in kicko� returns, averag-ing 28.6 yards per return.

Assisting Boykin in spe-cial teams play are junior punter Drew Butler and

junior placekicker Blair Walsh.

Butler ranks second in the league, averaging 45.2 yards per punt while Walsh has made 17 of 20 � eld goals.

For the Tigers, junior defensive tackle Nick Fair-ley will once have to be a dominant force.

� e 6-foot-5, 298 pound Mobile native leads the SEC with 18 tackles for loss and is second with 7.5 sacks, just a half sack behind Georgia junior defensive lineman Justin Houston.

Fairley’s job will be to get plenty of pressure on Murray, preventing the big pass to junior wide receiv-er A.J. Greene.

Greene has averaged 5.3 catches and 85 yards re-ceiving per game.

As far as the Newton al-legations are concerned, I couldn’t tell you what’s true anymore.

According to ESPN.com, one of the recruiters for Mississippi state said Cameron’s father Cecil Newton told him it would take “more than a schol-arship” to bring his son to Mississippi State.

� en there are other al-legations regarding Cam-eron Newton cheating several times on tests and or papers while at the Uni-versity of Florida.

All I know is Newton is innocent until proven guilty, and I hope most Heisman voters will also consider this.

Also, as long as Auburn keeps winning, they’ll go to the national title game.

For now, Newton is eli-gible to play at Auburn. For how long, we’ll � nd out soon enough.

“Certainly, with him, they do a great job with some short screen-game things with him, and he can turn those two- or three-yard gains into 30-yard gains or touch-downs,” Chizik said. “� ey throw a great deep ball to him and always have.”

However, Auburn’s answer to Green is also Georgia coach Mark Richt’s greatest fear: ju-nior defensive lineman Nick Fairley.

“� e biggest problem, in my opinion, is Nick Fairley because he makes it very di® cult,” Richt said. “We talk about getting the ball down � eld to A.J. (Green), but to do that you have to hold the ball a little while.

It’s hard to hold the ball a little while when that guy is coming because he is relentless. Fifteen quar-terback hurries, 18 tackles for loss, seven and a half sacks—those are huge n u m -bers for a interior defensive lineman. T h o s e are War-ren Sapp kind of n u m -bers.”

Defen-sive co-ordinator Ted Roof will no doubt utilize Fair-ley to stop Georgia quar-terback Aaron Murray and, thus, stop Green.

“It seems like

everybody’s got at least one of those 6–4 guys who run like gazelles and can jump and take the ball away from you,” Roof said. “One of their big things is that they throw the

f o o t b a l l d o w n the � eld. � ey take v e r t i c a l shots in the pass-ing game. � e best way to c o m -bat that is pass rush.”

Ju ni or quarterback Cam Newton said Georgia’s defensive prowess will be a force to be reckoned with, speci� -cally against the Auburn

receiving corps.“We know that Geor-

gia is a dangerous team as a whole,” Newton said. “� is defense has some talented players, from the defensive line position, the linebacker position and also the secondary, and we have to have an excellent week of prac-tice. � ey’re very talented, like I said earlier, and if we don’t prepare like we have been, it could be real ugly.”

Still, senior defensive back Zac Etheridge said he thinks the Tigers’ of-fense will stand up as well.

“� ey’ve got a great receiving corps. We’ve got great receivers, too,” Etheridge said. “Darvin, T-Zach, all those guys that we see every day in prac-tice. So we’re up for the challenge.”

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defender and team cap-tain Sammy Towne, named second-team All-SEC.

“We were all biting our nails,” Towne said. “Of all the years I have been here, I think this is the closest we were to sitting on the fence. We are all excited to be one of the 64 teams that gets to prac-tice today.”

Named � rst-team All-SEC were junior defender Julie King and junior mid-� elder Katy Frierson.

“We are very lucky to be in this position,” Frier-son said. “We were very nervous coming into the selection show.

“When we saw our name up there, it was a huge reward. It’s a

testament to how great of a season we have had.”

� e tournament will be in Tallahassee, Fla., where the team previously par-ticipated in postseason play in 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2009. � e team’s re-c o r d there is 2-4-0.

S t a n -ford (18-0-2) was awarded the No. 1 spot, w h i l e F l o r i d a S t a t e (13-5-1) is No. 2, and Marquette (15-4-2) is No. 3.

Auburn will play South Florida, the other at-large selection, at 6 p.m. Fri-day.

� e other selections in

Auburn’s region are Flori-da State and Middle Ten-nessee State. Whoever wins the match between those two teams will go on to play Auburn in the next round of the tourna-ment.

� ough her team has al-r e a d y been se-l e c t e d , H o p p a s a i d t h e r e ’ s need to improve, p a r t i c u -larly in

ball possession.“I think you’ve always

got to improve, especial-ly in tournament time,” Hoppa said. “We’ve got to play much better in possession than we did

in the SEC Tournament. We’ve got to do a better job of � nishing opportu-nities. � at’s something—we’ve had a lot of scoring chances, but we haven’t actually scored the goals, so that’s something that’s going to have to be better in the NCAAs.”

Still, Hoppa said the team’s selection is an honor, both because of the now-broken school postseason record and the distinction of being picked among other qual-i� ed teams.

“It never gets old,” Hop-pa said of the selection. “You play all year to be able to have an opportu-nity to play in the post-season. Only 64 teams out of 300-some women’s soc-cer teams get to practice today, and we are excited to be one of them.”

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“ � ey’re very talented, like

I said earlier, and if we don’t prepare like we have been, it could be real ugly.”

Cam Newton, Auburn quarterback

“ When we saw our

name up there, it was a huge reward.”

Katy Frierson, junior mid� elder

good and quality hock-ey game against a team whose level of play far ex-ceeded our own.”

Generotti agrees with Nabors, saying, “Although we did not come away with a win in Tupulo the attitude among the team was very up beat.

“Everyone on the team can see the improvement

Hockey is very impor-tant to these players, with Generotti having played the sport since he was 8 years old, and Nabors hav-ing played it since he was 5.

With the way the Au-burn hockey team has been playing thus far, the team members believe that hockey will be im-

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Taking to the mat with Rowland

Jessie SimsWriter

Jenny Rowland has one life lesson she wants every Auburn student to follow.

“Work hard at whatever you do, and do something you love,” said Rowland, Auburn’s new assistant gymnastics coach. “Life is short; when an opportu-nity comes around, take it.”

Rowland said her love of gymnastics developed at an early age in her home state of Indiana.

“I was seven, and a neighbor convinced me to come along to gymnastics practice at a local YMCA,” Rowland said.

Rowland would go on to compete both nationally and internationally on the U.S National Team.

Following her success-ful stint as a U.S. gymnast, Rowland began competing on a collegiate level with Arizona State University, where she was named an All-American.

When Rowland’s career as an athlete ended, she continued to work with the sport she loved by coaching club gymnastics teams.

Rowland was then of-fered a chance to coach at the University of Okla-homa.

Her success in the sport continued as she helped lead the Oklahoma team to a Big XII Championship.

“After Oklaho-ma, I worked in a

nongymnastics-related � eld, but to stay involved with gymnastics, I started to judge,” Rowland said.

Prior to � nding out about the position at Au-burn, Rowland was still working as a judge on the national and international level.

However, when Row-land heard there was an opening at Auburn, she knew she wanted to get back to working with the sport full time.

� ough Rowland was excited about the oppor-tunity, she w a i t e d until she was able to bring her family to Auburn for a visit to make any deci-sions.

“I had a good feel-ing about what was to come, and my girls were really ex-cited,” Rowland said.

Rowland was hired as the assistant for head coach Je£ Graba.

As the assistant coach, Rowland has a part in all of Auburn gymnastics, but is also responsible for coach-ing beam.

While Rowland just ar-rived in Auburn Oct. 18, she puts in nine to 10 hours of work each day on average.

She is already hitting the recruiting trail.

“I am very excited to be adding Jenny to our sta£ ,” Graba said. “She has a vast knowledge of gymnastics, and her experience as a judge, coach and competi-tor at the highest levels of our sport will be invalu-able to our program.”

Rowland said she is also enjoying working with the rest of the new coaching sta£ .

“We have very similar ideals,” Rowland said. “We think the same, and have

the same p h i l o s o -phy. We are very cohesive.”

Accord-ing to Rowland, all the c o a c h e s want the a t h l e t e s to work hard, but also � nd the fun in

gymnastics.Rowland’s personal

dreams for the Auburn team include more than just championships.

Rowland wants her ath-letes to become not only better gymnasts, but also better students and well-rounded individuals.

Rowland said she be-lieves her experience in all areas of gymnastics will help Auburn de-velop a more successful

gymnastics program. “My prior experiences

allow me to give ideas on what works and doesn’t work in the attempt to be successful,” Rowland said.

Kylie Shields, a junior all-around gymnast, said she has already begun to see the bene� ts of such a well-rounded coach.

“I think Jenny’s suc-cess as a gymnast will di-rectly in§ uence our team in so many positive ways,” Shields said. “Not only does she have the exper-tise in this sport through her accolades, but she also has the eye and the feel of what we are doing.

“She knows what it takes to be a top performer and will be able to teach us through her experiences.”

To be a successful gym-nast, one must put in a lot of hard work.

In addition, one of the most important skills a gymnast must develop is time management.

Rowland said she feels most gymnasts have al-ready developed this skill prior to college, but wants to remind them how life outside of the gym is also important.

“I want the girls to learn to leave life at the door on the way into the gym and enjoy it when they leave,” Rowland said.

� e Auburn Gymnastics team will face LSU in its � rst home meet of the sea-son at 7 p.m. Jan. 14 in the Auburn Arena.

New assistant gymnastics coach hopes to use idealism, experience to continue to build a successful program

“ I want the girls to learn

to leave life at the door on the way to the gym and enjoy it when they leave.”

Jenny Rowland, assistant gymnastics

coach

Rollin’ with Rowland

■ What is your favorite book?“The Girl With the Dragon Tat-too”

■ Do you have a favorite sport other than gymnastics?Figure skating

■ Favorite Auburn tradition?Rolling Toomer’s Corner after a home meet

■ What is your favorite sea-son of the year?Fall

■ If you were stranded on an island and could only bring three items, what would they be?A picture of my family, a Bible and a computer for Skyping

■ What is your pet peeve?Being unorganized

■ What is your favorite mov-ie?“Far and Away”

■ What is your biggest fear?Being underwater—it’s some-thing I would like to over-come.

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Late-game heroics weren’t enough to salvage a win in Auburn’s final exhibition game against Columbus State Monday night in the Auburn Arena.

After falling behind 50-42 with 3:46 left in the game, sophomore forward Kenny Gabriel scored twice, followed by a three-pointer by sophomore guard Earnest Ross that tied the game at 50.

However, Columbus State’s Steve Peterson sank a fade-away with 15 seconds left that gave the Cougars the win.

“We know we’re not satisfied by what hap-pened,” Gabriel said. “But one thing we’re satisfied with is that we played with poise at the end of the game, and we showed that we had heart. But yeah, it doesn’t count on our win-loss record, and we’re still showing that we’ve got a lot of stuff to work on in practice.”

As the game began, Au-burn quickly drove up the score 10-2.

However, Columbus State scored 11 unan-swered points, ending the half with a 32-27 lead.

“With this team we are going to be offensively challenged this year,” said coach Tony Barbee. “I thought we did some good things defensively. We did hold them to 29 percent shooting from the floor, which is a great number, but then we gave up 15 offensive rebounds. If you cut that number in half, that is probably 22 per-cent.

“We are a team that is not going to out-jump people. We better put bod-ies on people.”

Auburn continued to struggle going into the second half, scoring only once as the Cougars built a 41-29 lead.

The Tigers fought back, scoring eight straight to put the score at 41-37, but Columbus State continued to capitalize on Auburn’s mistakes to make it 50-42.

“We talked about play-ing your role and doing what you need to do to

make this a successful team,” said Columbus State coach Robert Moore. “I thought we played well and built some great mo-mentum. Auburn did not quit tonight and kept fighting back.”

Despite the loss, Auburn held the Cougars to a 29.6 shooting percentage from the field which Barbee at-tributed to his team’s ag-gressiveness on defense.

He acknowledged that improvement is needed before the Tigers begin the

regular season Friday.“We have a long way

to go,” Barbee said. “Like I told our guys, the best thing about this game to-night: It doesn’t count.

“I thought we did some good things when we got down 12. I thought at that point, we played with a lit-tle bit of desperation and a sense of purpose that we have to from the tip.”

Auburn opens the sea-son against UNC-Asheville at 8 p.m. Friday in the Au-burn Arena.

Tigers fall prey to Cougars of Columbus in exhibition

Emily Adams / photo Editor

Sophomore guard Andre Malone takes a shot during Monday night’s exhibition game against Columbus State.

Volleyball prepares for last home match of seasonJeremy Gerrard

Writer

The Auburn volleyball team (17-11, 8-8 SEC) will finish the last of a three-game homestand Sunday against the Ole Miss Rebel Black Bears (17-8, 11-5 SEC).

The two teams last met Oct. 8 in Oxford, Miss., where the Rebels defeated Auburn in three sets de-spite a consistent effort from the Tigers.

Sophomore outside hit-ter Sarah Bullock led the Tigers that evening with 11 kills, and senior defen-sive specialist Liz Crouch broke the all-time dig re-cord for Auburn, which now stands at 1,587 af-ter last weekend’s games against South Carolina and Florida.

The Rebel Black Bears are led by sophomore out-side hitter Whitney Cra-ven, who leads the team

in kills on the season, and junior defensive special-ist Morgan Springer, who leads the team in digs.

However, after a big win against South Carolina in three sets and a close loss to No. 1 Florida in five, the Tigers are motivated to conquer the rest of its schedule.

“Our confidence is up there,” Bullock said. “I’m just going to say to the rest of the teams, they better watch out because we’re coming for them.”

Coach Wade Benson echoed his player’s en-thusiasm after the match against Florida and shares the same optimism about Ole Miss and the rest of the season.

“They are another really good team coming in here,” Benson said after Sunday’s game against Florida. “But we love playing at home, and the crowd has been great, and if we play at

this level or close to it, we should have no problem being successful.”

Playing with emotion is a key factor for this team, and it’s something they are not short on these days.

After every point, Bull-ock likes to let out an elated scream and con-gratulate her teammates, which also ignites the home crowd to cheer on the Tigers.

“One of my roles on the team is the attitude leader, and I love it,” Bullock said. “The other team hates it—you can ask any one of them—but the team and our fans love it.”

While the home crowd is an advantage, senior outside hitter Morgan Johns, who had 14 kills against Florida, said there is something special about Auburn.

“It’s family, and it’s com-fortable,” Johns said. “You know they always have

your back here.”This week, the team said

they would practice all the important parts of the game they usually focus on, but that last weekend’s games have given them the edge going into Ole Miss.

“I think we are going to play with the same attitude and finish going out with a bang,” Johns said. “It’s our last home game, and we’re going to be ready”

As the last game at home for the Tigers this

season, seniors Jonelle Wallace, Alyssa Davis, Lauren Mellor, Liz Crouch and Morgan Johns will be recognized for their con-tributions to the team.

Sunday’s match against Ole Miss starts at 1:30 p.m.

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Junior Christina Solverson prepares to set the ball for freshman Camila Jersonsky.

Thursday, November 11, 2010 The Auburn Plainsman Sports D5

Nathan KellyWriter

The highly anticipated basketball season in the new Auburn Arena will start Friday, Nov. 12 when the Tigers take on the UNC Asheville Bulldogs at 8 p.m.

Expectations are cer-tainly rising for this sea-son with the opening of the Auburn Arena, which is “up there with the best of them,” according to Josh Wallace, Auburn’s sopho-more walk-on 5-foot-10 point guard.

Wallace led the team in assists, with nine in a 79-66 win against West Alabama in an exhibition game Nov. 3.

Maybe the biggest ques-tion for the season is how well coach Tony Barbee will do in his first season at Auburn.

“He’s a great coach, great coach,” Wallace said. “He’s fiery, he has a sense of humor, but he won’t hesitate to get on you. I like him a whole lot.”

There have been many new faces in Auburn ath-letics the past few years.

Last year, the Chizik era began for Auburn’s foot-ball program.

Now it is Barbee’s turn to start his legacy with the Auburn family.

Barbee started his

coaching career as an as-sistant at the University of Massachusetts and Mem-phis.

Barbee later became head coach at the Univer-sity of Texas at El Paso, finishing his career there with a record of 82-52.

After finishing 15-17 last season, the Tigers were left

with a very young team. Eleven out of the 17

players on Auburn’s ros-ter are either freshmen or sophomores.

Doug Merrell, the 6-foot-9 forward, is the lone senior on the team this season.

When asked about strengths of our team,

Wallace said, “Our strength would have to be speed, just pushing the ball nonstop, relentless, in-your-face defense.”

Wallace said size would be a weakness for the team because “we’re not the big-gest team out there.”

After getting 25 minutes of playing time against

West Alabama, Wallace promises to be a factor in the opener when Auburn hosts an eager Asheville team Friday.

After finishing with a 15-16 record last year, Asheville returns all five starters from last year.

The Bulldogs routed the Belmont Abbey Crusaders

94-70 Monday. The Bulldogs’ leading

scorer, guard Matt Dickey, put 30 points up against the Crusaders.

Auburn had a different outcome after its exhibi-tion game Monday night against Columbus State University.

The Tigers trailed by 12 points, but rallied back to within two, only to miss three attempts at the ty-ing shot to lose in the final seconds 52-54.

At times, the Columbus State fans made it feel like a Cougars home game, and their team played like it.

“We’re a team that’s got to play harder than our opponent all year long, just to survive,” Barbee said. “We can’t let a team play harder than us in our own building.”

The Tigers also strug-gled at the free-throw line, going seven for 20.

“It’s the little things that make the difference,” Barbee said. “When your margin of error is not that high, you’d better do those little things.”

Arguably the biggest games of the season are Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Florida State and a road game to Kentucky.

“We’re very excited,” Wallace said. “We wanna bring it in the right way.”

Equestrian prepares to take on undefeated GeorgiaDarcie Dyer

Writer

The Auburn equestri-an team, now 6-8, rides against undefeated Geor-gia at 3 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Auburn University Horse Center.

The team returned from its away weekend undefeated in hunt seat, but with two overall loss-es and one win.

Auburn’s undefeated record was broken Fri-day with an 11-8 loss to No. 2 Texas A&M and an 11-7 loss Saturday to No. 6 TCU.

The hunt seat defeated SMU 6-4 Sunday at Buck Branch Farm in Wilmer, Texas, maintaining their undefeated record.

Auburn won 4-1 in eq-uitation on the flat, with senior Ali Loprete receiv-ing MVP.

The Mustangs defeated the Tigers 3-2 in equita-tion over fences, finaliz-ing the 6-4 score.

Coach Greg Williams is feeling strong about both the hunt seat and western’s performance at all three meets this past weekend.

“The hunt seat squad had a really strong show-ing all weekend,” Wil-liams said. “They proved no matter how we mix them up in the line up, they can win. We also won against two of the strongest western teams in the country at their place. We just didn’t to-tally get the job done.”

Williams said he feels confident about the standing of Auburn’s hunt seat and thinks it will be tough competi-tion for Georgia.

“I feel like, right now I would just have to say our hunt seat is, if not the toughest in the coun-try, I don’t know anyone tougher,” Williams said.

The next meet is against five-time nation-al champions and confer-ence rival Georgia, which Williams said has the team energized.

“It’s definitely a big meet,” Williams said. “They’re No. 1 in the country, they’re defend-ing National Champions, they’ve been the No. 1 dy-nasty, and they’re still No. 1 right now.”

Senior hunt seat rider

Anna Schierholz went undefeated this week-end and said she feels the team is geared up to take on the Bulldogs.

“I think that we’re re-ally well-prepared,” Schi-erholz said. “Competing at home is going to feel like a breeze because we know the horses, and it’s our home turf, and we want to protect it, and we can,”

The Bulldogs currently stand 5-0, finishing a road victory with a 11-8 win over Baylor.

Georgia also recorded a 16-4 victory over Kan-sas State, an 11-1 victory over SMU, and a 15-4 vic-tory over South Carolina.

Auburn’s last meet with Georgia was the fi-nal meet of the fall sea-son.

Georgia defeated Au-burn 12-8 Nov. 18, 2009.

Auburn still holds the No. 3 spot in the current NCAA Equestrian Coach-es Poll, but Schierholz said the team is ready to take on the No. 1 rival.

“I think we really need to buckle down and give Georgia everything we’ve got,” Schierholz said.

Emily Adams / Photo Editor

Sophomore guard Josh Wallace races past a Columbus State defender Monday night. Auburn fell to the Cougars 54-52.

Barbee prepares his team for season opener

Elaine Busby / AssistAnt Photo Editor

An Auburn rider competes in a meet against Fresno State at the Horse Center Oct. 9.

Sports D6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 11, 2010

Coleman McDowell

Writer

While the football team attempts to secure a spot in the SEC Championship game by defeating Georgia this weekend, the women’s equestrian team is looking for a win over the Bulldogs to further boost its chanc-es to repeat as SEC Cham-pions.

One of the many bright spots for the Tigers has been western rider Casey Fowler.

Fowler, sophomore from Azle, Texas, has been around horses her entire life.

“My mom has been rid-ing since before I was born, so I grew up around horses,” Fowler said. “When I was 10, I got my first pony.”

Equestrian is one of the most expensive sports to get into as a young athlete because of the countless hours on the road for tour-naments.

“I was really lucky that my parents were able to support me,” Coleman said. “It is really expensive, but it is kind of like our family hobby.

“We only take one va-cation a year other than horse shows. We even spend our Christmases at horse shows.”

Fowler played volley-ball until her sophomore year, but then decided

to pursue her interest in horses.

That year, she visited Auburn and knew it was the place for her.

“I visited sophomore year and loved the cam-pus,” Fowler said, “and when I had an opportunity to be on the team, I knew it was the place I wanted to go.”

Fowler’s typical week is a busy one, as the team works out three times a week, practices five times a week and has meets on the weekends.

With little free time dur-ing the week, Fowler has time for a few hobbies, but not too many away from the Equestrian Center.

“I love being outside with animals, and I love to cook, too,” Fowler said.

Equestrian coach Greg Williams said he thinks Fowler is one of the main reasons for the team’s cur-rent success.

“Her desire to succeed may be one of the greatest attributes for her personal accomplishments, but we coaches like the way she pulls all members on the team together,” Williams said. “Casey is driven to focus on details and does not give herself any slack.

“Her drive and work ethic will stand her well as a collegiate athlete during her collegiate years.”

The team visited Fowl-er’s home state of Texas last weekend and came away with a victory over

SMU (6-4), but lost to TCU (11-7) and Texas A&M (11-8).

“The win was really good for the hunt seat,” Fowler said. “They rode really hard. Our western team rode hard, too. We were going up against some really good schools. A&M was No. 2, and TCU was No. 7. SMU was a good win for us, too.

“It’s hard to win on the road because we can’t take our horses with us, so it’s a definite advantage for the home team. At the collegiate level, most of the horses are donated, so they all have their little quirks about them.”

The team is at the half-way point of the year.

Fowler said she expects the team to continue its success because of their closeness as a team.

“Our chemistry is really good,” Fowler said. “We’re all getting along really well, and everyone is posi-tive and upbeat about the rest of the year.”

Fowler said she has many memories of Au-burn, but her fondest is winning the ring.

“The highlight of my ca-reer at Auburn was win-ning the SEC Champion-ship last year and being able to go on the field and get our rings,” Fowler said.

The Tigers face Georgia in its last meet of the year, then enjoy a long break until they meet Tennes-see-Martin Jan. 28.

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