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Marching in formation Gibbs returns to podium, The Plains to give commencement
Alexandria SmithWrIter
Army rOtC is more than just a way to “get involved” on Auburn’s campus, it is an opportunity to be trained in skills that can be used throughout a lifetime.
The War eagle Battalion, Auburn’s branch of Army rOtC, is consistent-ly rated as one of the top programs in the Sixth Brigade, which includes 39 schools located in Alabama, Missis-sippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida.
Auburn’s Army rOtC received the highest leadership rankings of the bri-gade as well.
One common misconception about the rOtC program is that students who enroll will be required to commit to the military, but in fact, students can enroll in a military science course without any sort of obligation.
The Military Science/Army rOtC courses focus on educating the stu-dents in leadership skills, time man-agement, organization, assertiveness, confidence, decision making in high-pressure situations and communica-tion skills.
Lt. Col. richard Hoerner is the com-mander of the War eagle Battalion that includes 166 cadets this year.
“When students in rOtC get to be seniors, they have a lot expected of them,” Hoerner said. “We let the se-
niors be in charge of planning out ev-ery part of our events or trips that we take.”
Hoerner said being in rOtC is a big job, but is not without reward. Stu-dents who graduate from the rOtC program are commissioned as lieu-tenants in the Army. As lieutenants, these young people are in charge of around 40 people, including during combat.
“What a lot of people don’t under-stand about rOtC is that, yeah, it is about all the drills and things we do, but the bottom line is that we are training to be an officer and to lead in combat,” said Kevin randolph, senior in public relations and rOtC.
As a student enrolled in the War eagle Battalion, freshmen must be up and ready for physical training at 6 a.m. twice a week. There is also one credit hour class and a lab they must attend. through these classes stu-dents learn concepts and values of the Army.
Army rOtC students also display the state flags at Auburn’s home foot-ball games as well as present the na-tional colors.
“rOtC is not a club, and it is not a sport. I like to say when you join the Army, you have joined the biggest fra-ternity or sorority in the world,” Ho-erner said. “It is about camaraderie and teamwork and serving this coun-try.”
rOtC participates in many differ-ent activities around campus, Hoern-er said.
“the entire War eagle Battalion ran the battalion run benefiting the
Plainsmen in Action for Wounded Warriors campaign,” Hoerner said. “They ran the entire race in formation on an early Sunday morning.”
Although Army rOtC is a very de-manding program, students are also involved in fraternities and sororities, as well having one student nominated for the Harry S. truman Scholarship.
“Camaraderie is the most beneficial thing about the War eagle Battalion,” said Stephen Sampson, senior in busi-ness administration. “We learn that only by relying on each other can we succeed in a successful world.”
Hoerner said the War eagle Battal-ion is preparing and teaching these students skills needed in the real world. As officers in the Army, stu-dents will need to know how to think three steps down the road, and that is what they learn in rOtC, Hoerner said.
“I think these students deserve some respect,” Hoerner said. “they hold a very tough, full-time job on top of being students, and that is some-thing that needs to be recognized.”
eric AustinMAnAGInG edItOr
this semester’s gradu-ating class will be sent off by a speaker who has liter-ally been the voice of the President.
Former White House Press Secretary robert Gibbs will give the com-mencement address at the ceremony Monday morning.
“I couldn’t be happier to give something back by speaking to Auburn’s 2011 graduating class, who en-ter an exciting world at an exciting time,” Gibbs said. “to me, Auburn University is the heart of the commu-nity I was born and raised in and where I will always call home.”
Gibbs is an Auburn na-tive who rolled trees on the White House lawn fol-lowing Auburn’s national Championship victory.
“We put together a list
with the SGA of who the students would like to come and give a speech without considering whether they’re available or cost, just who in the big picture,” said deedie dow-dle, executive director of the Office of Communica-tions and Marketing.
dowdle said Gibbs was appealing not only be-cause of his work in the Obama administration, but because of his strong ties to Auburn.
“We had the added in-centive that he was from
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Carson Filipowski, senior in art, and James Reed, junior in public administration, stand in formation.
Auburn ROTC offers opportunity for involvement
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Liz ConnASSOCIAte CAMPUS edItOr
The cause of Mary Beth Goodner’s death March 17 was positional asphyx-ia, according to a report by the Office of the Med-ical examiner in Mara-thon, Fla.
the report said the death was accidental and acute ethanol intoxica-tion was a contributing factor.
According to the re-port, Goodner fell down a flight of stairs at Peli-can Landing resort in Key West, Fla., and landed in a position that restricted the flow of oxygen to her brain.
district 16 medical ex-aminer e. Hunt Scheuer-man said Goodner’s blood alcohol content was .266 percent.
Scheuerman said such accidents are not com-mon.
“I think to expect col-lege students to be absti-nent ( from drinking) on Spring Break is unreal-istic,” Scheuerman said, “but if they are going to drink, they should try to drink in moderation, and they should definitely have a buddy system.”
Goodner, 22, was a se-nior in elementary educa-tion from Opelika. She at-tended Lee-Scott Acade-my in Auburn.
She was active in Proj-ect Uplift and her sorority, Kappa delta.
Goodner autopsy report released
Goodner
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The Auburn tigers have won two national and four conference titles since the beginning of the 2010–2011 athletic season, and the country is taking notice.
Auburn is one of 63 men’s and 47 women’s athletic programs that have earned points so far while com-peting for the Capital One Cup and is currently in first place in the men’s stand-ings.
the Capital One Cup is based on a points system and is awarded annually to the top men’s and women’s division I college athletics
programs in the country.The Cup is sponsored by
the Capital One Financial Corporation and rewards athletic programs for their cumulative on-field per-formance across men’s and women’s sports.
A national football ti-tle and a sixth place finish in swimming was enough to propel Auburn into first place in the men’s stand-ings, 10 points ahead of eastern Washington and Connecticut.
“ We are obviously pleased that our men’s pro-grams are currently ranked first in the national Capi-tal One Cup standings,” said
director of Athletics Jay Ja-cobs.
“A lot of competition re-mains in the current aca-demic year, but any time you are ranked no. 1 it is a great tribute to our coach-es and student-athletes. Winning is one of our top goals at Auburn athletics, along with graduating our student-athletes, and we are obviously faring well against the competition. I could not be prouder of our student-athletes and coaches.”
Schools will have a few more months to rack up any points before the win-ner is determined at the
end of the spring season and announced at the eSPY Awards in July on eSPn.
The winning school will earn the Capital One Cup trophy along with a schol-arship for student athlete post-graduate studies.
Sports are grouped based on fan interest and school participation, and points are given based on top 10 finishes in nCAA Champi-onships and final official coaches’ polls.
Men’s and women’s sports are totaled separate-ly and will be given separate awards.
“Capital One strives to
Auburn leads college athletics’ premier award
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Capital One Cup
standings1. auburn 702. Connecticut 60
2. Eastern Washington 60
4. Stanford 55
5. Cal 52
“RotC is not a club, and it is not a sport. i like to say when you join the army, you have joined the biggest fraternity or sorority in the world.”
—Lt. Col. richard Hoerner WAr eAGLe BAttALIOn COMMAnder
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april 22 — tulip courtTheft of property reported. One refrigerator.
april 22 — west Magnolia avenueAuto theft reported. White Chevrolet Tahoe with one pistol and two rifles.
april 22 — east Magnolia avenueTheft of property reported. One gold chain necklace with pendant, one gold bracelet and $80.
april 22 — lee road 84Burglary of residence reported. One Raymarine Fish finder with GPS, 20 freshwater fishing poles, one marine battery, one marine battery charger and various craftsman tools.
april 23 — south college streetTheft of property reported. One Auburn shirt, one National Champi-onship shot glass, one War Eagle tumbler and postage for a package.
april 23 — shug Jordan ParkwayBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. One car radio face plate.
april 23 — north donahue driveAuto theft reported. One silver Infiniti G20.
april 23 — south college streetTheft of property reported. One woven purse and $5.
april 24 — east university driveBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. One GPS.
april 24 — Bragg avenueTheft of property reported. Copper wire.
april 24 — northlake driveBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. Prescription medication and $25.
april 25 — west glenn avenueBurglary of residence reported. One 32” TV.
april 25 — east university driveBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. One in-dash radio, one iPod and one Eminem CD.
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recognize student-athlete achievements both on and off the playing field, with the $200,000 schol-arship that goes to the winning schools for stu-dent athlete post-gradu-ate studies,” said Capital One Cup Advisory Board member Clark Kellogg. “it’s great to see a vari-ety of schools such as Au-burn and California com-peting against the likes of Eastern washington and Akron for the Capital One Cup. we’re in for a truly exciting spring season as the race for the men’s Cap-ital One Cup goes down to the wire.”
in the women’s stand-ings, there is a change at the top; Stanford has tak-en the No. 1 spot follow-ing top five finishes in basketball and swimming and diving and has taken a six-point lead over sec-
ond place California and Notre Dame. The Auburn women are in 32nd with six points but will likely move up following eques-trian and golf champion-ships.
“The winter athletic season was full of excite-ment, culminating with Texas A&M’s first-ever women’s basketball na-tional championship,” said Capital One Cup Ad-visory Board member Lisa Leslie. “The athlet-ic programs that have ex-perienced success across multiple sports in the fall and winter sports, such as Stanford and Notre Dame, are starting to rise to the top of the women’s Capital One Cup standings. we’re in for a thrilling finish this spring with six women’s championships still re-maining to be played.”
The standings in their entirety can be found at CapitalOneCup.com/standings.
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Auburn University and Tiger Dining are asking stu-dents to go “All in for Toom-er’s Trees” friday for an Ar-bor Day event.
Tiger Dining has been planning this event since learning the trees had been poisoned.
Gina Groome, market-ing manager for Tiger Din-ing, has been in charge of a team of Tiger Dining em-ployees putting together the event.
“The idea came from the poisoning of the trees, and we wanted to do some-thing to show our appreci-ation and support for the students and community,” Groome said.
The Arbor Day event will be held on Samford Lawn and will include a silent auction, jambalaya lunch, inflatables and a Toomer’s tree update.
it is open to the public, and all proceeds will go to-ward the Toomer’s Trees and Traditions fund.
Lauren Goetsch, junior in international business and Tiger Dining marketing intern, has been the mar-keting intern for Tiger Din-ing and one of the main stu-
dents to help Groome and her team.
“(Gina and i) just have an incredible love for the Au-burn family,” Goetsch said.
Goetsch said she remem-bers going into Groome’s office right after she heard about the poisoning and deciding that they had to do something to help the trees.
“we weren’t sad, but we said we just have to do something,” Goetsch said.
The event will feature nu-merous speakers includ-ing Gary Keever, professor of horticulture and head of the Toomer’s Oak task force.
Keever said they have re-ceived the test results from five trees that were thought to have received the most damage.
The tree on Magnolia Av-enue is showing no signs of poisoning, Keever said.
“if you look up in the tree and say, ‘it doesn’t look that good,’ well it hasn’t looked good for a number of years because we, in our exu-berance, do damage to it,” Keever said. “we light it on fire, we roll it, so we get the fire hoses and blow that toilet paper off, people run into it, all sorts of things
that we do to things that we love.”
Even though one of the trees is dying, Keever said he sees a lot of good com-ing out of this event, such as the relationship with people at the University of Alabama.
“All in for Toomer’s Trees” is all about showing sup-port for the Auburn family.
“i took it personally as a member of the Auburn family when this hap-pened, and it is about tak-ing time out of our day and giving back to a great com-munity,” Goetsch said.
Goetsch has helped pub-
licize the event through facebook, Twitter and word of mouth.
“i am so fortunate to have so many friends and be involved in a variety of groups on campus, and i have been telling anyone and everyone.” Goetsch said.
Goetsch has been able to use her expertise in plan-ning an event on Samford Lawn because of her in-volvement in SGA’s Holiday Celebration.
“Our team is passion-ate about helping the stu-dents and the University,” Groome said.
Tiger Dining goes ‘All in for Toomer’s Trees’
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for graduating seniors, the stadium will no longer be a symbol of a perfect sea-son, but a closing of their college careers.
Typically held in the Beard-Eaves Coliseum, this year’s graduation will be held in Jordan-Hare Stadi-um.
“when Auburn Univer-sity used to be in the coli-seum, we always had the tradition of allowing grad-uates to bring as many guests as they like,” said Te-resa whitman-McCall di-rector of campus and com-munity events. “ when they built the new arena, we lost about 4,000 guest seating. we had to start looking for a new venue.”
whitman-McCall said if they used the arena they would have to limit the amount of guests allowed
in, so they started doing research on what other schools have done.
“ we thought, ‘Other uni-versities use their stadiums, what if we pursue that?’” whitman-McCall said.
“we did an evaluation on it, and we put it before the Student Government Asso-ciation with the proposal of one ceremony in the sta-dium, or four ceremonies over two days in the arena.”
SGA polled the students, and it was unanimous to move commencement into the stadium.
with graduation in its new venue, graduates will take part in a two and a half hour ceremony with as many guests as they choose.
Moving graduation into the stadium also minimiz-es the amount of times the speaker has to present.
“it works better doing
it one time, because the speaker only has to speak one time,” said Mike Clardy director of communica-tions. “you don’t tie them up. They are going through the pre-walk one time.”
with the stadium being an outdoor venue, whit-man-McCall said the big-gest disadvantage of the venue change is not being able to predict the weather.
“About a week prior to graduation we will began doing an evaluation of se-vere weather,” whitman-McCall said. “if it looks like we’re going to have bad weather, we have to keep our families and our gradu-ates safe, so we would move into the arena, (on gradua-tion day), with a 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock.”
Graduates will be given four tickets for guests with their cap and gown in case of severe weather.
Graduation moves to stadium
Auburn, native of Auburn, went to Auburn High School and both of his parents were long time faculty members,” Dowdle said. “He was very excited and said whatever hon-orarium fee that we pro-vided that he would not charge us, but would do-nate it back to the Univer-sity in the form of a schol-arship in the name of his parents.”
Dowdle said any speak-er at graduation should not be judged on his or her political affiliation, but for the content of the speech, intended to pro-vide the graduates an up-lifting message.
“i think the University
would want to encourage anyone who thinks nega-tively of a speaker because of their political affiliation needs to remember that this speech is not about politics,” she said. “This is about someone who has had a successful career, who is a huge Auburn fan that is giving an inspira-tional speech.”
Regardless, Dowdle said her office had re-ceived complaints.
“we have people who complain; we’ve also had good responses,” she said. “But that’s been true with every speaker. A couple years ago we had Dick Cheney, and we had a lot of complaints and a lot of people who were hap-py, but again it is not po-litical.”
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With an increase in re-cords being produced dig-itally, the possibility that a mass of information can be wiped out by a natural di-saster or other catastrophe is a prominent threat.
The need to protect and store digital information is imminent, and Auburn has emerged as a leader in the new field of Distributed Digital Preservation, which finds ways to preserve this information.
“Digital preservation is a combination of tools and practices and policies that are aimed at making sure the digital content we are producing today will be around in its original form years from now,” said Aar-on Trehub, assistant dean for technology and techni-cal services.
Preserving digital infor-mation is a complex pro-cess, and while there are different strategies, the most common involves multiple copies of files stored in different places.
“Preservation of digital objects is not just a matter of backing things up,” said Katherine skinner, execu-tive director of the Educo-pia institute, an organiza-tion dedicated to furthering digital preservation efforts.
“You really have to think about the life of the object, what file format it’s held in and what kind of repository system it’s held in, the type of computer and operating system it was built on—all sorts of qualities of the file have to be taken into con-sideration before you can save it.”
Trehub was a driving force in the founding of Al-abama Digital Preserva-
tion Network, or ADPnet, which is the first statewide DDP network in the united states.
Auburn university and Trehub were pivotal in creating the first multi-state DDP network, meta-Archive, which has now grown international.
“Digital preservation will continue to gain impor-tance in the world as more and more of our collec-tive knowledge and culture is published in the digital realm,” said Bonnie macE-wan, dean of Auburn uni-versity Libraries.
Trehub is taking his am-bitions global with an inter-national conference aimed at encouraging digital pres-ervation across national lines.
“Aligning National Ap-proaches to Digital Preser-vation” will be held at the Estonia National Library in Tallin, Estonia may 23–25.
“The goal is to start talk-ing about this in a collabor-ative way,” Trehub said. “To share experience, to share
information, to share tech-nical approaches that may be especially effective.”
The conference aims to enable international coop-eration in the field, create an “international steering Committee” and will focus on a range of topics includ-ing organizational, techni-cal, legal and economic ap-proaches to digital preser-vation.
Estonia was chosen for the conference for a num-ber of reasons, including Trehub’s personal relation-ship with Estonian presi-dent Toomas Hendrik ilves, whom he met while work-ing as a soviet specialist for radio Liberty.
martin Halbert, former director of digital innova-tions for Emory university libraries and now dean of the university of North Tex-as Libraries, was also a key player in planning the con-ference.
A colleague of Trehub’s, Halbert also had personal and professional contacts from doing work in Estonia
and helped to arrange and organize the conference.
The birthplace of skype, Estonia is a fitting place for the conference for its ac-cessibility to the rest of the world, its affordability and its level of technological advancement, described by Trehub as “the silicon Val-ley of the Baltic.”
“We’re very proud of the cutting-edge work Aaron is doing with digital preserva-tion and the organization of the global conference in Es-tonia,” macEwan said.
skinner has worked with Trehub for more than a de-cade and said Auburn and Trehub are some of the leading voices in the field of digital preservation.
“i think that Auburn should be celebrating the fact that it’s at the forefront of this work,” skinner said. “i mean, this is a big deal. To be sitting in one of the real transitional spaces and occupying that as a leading voice is something that Au-burn should be very, very proud of.”
Saving information in the digital universe
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aaron trehub, assistant dean for technology and technical services at Rbd Library, is a leader in digital preservation, helping to organize an international conference.
SGA SenAte RecAp
Monday, April 25 meeting
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The sGA senate approved two reserve Fund re-quests and eight o-Fund requests at its final meet-ing of the semester. The reserve Fund requests were requests made by organizations to cover unforeseen or unexpected expenditures. The o-Fund requests were made by organizations for predicted expendi-tures.
The senate also approved the provisional status of six student organizations and the permanent status of three organizations.
Two o-Fund requests and one request for provi-sional status were tabled until fall because of the ab-sence of a representative from each organization.
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Marie Wooten honored with memorial 5KEllen WeathersWriTEr
The College of Science and Mathematics is racing to achieve a longtime goal of former dean Marie Woo-ten.
COSAM will host the Ma-rie W. Wooten Memorial 5K May 7. The 5K will begin at 8 a.m., and the one-mile walk will start at 8:45 a.m.
Brook Moates, develop-ment coordinator for COS-AM, said the college was “completely shocked and devastated” by Wooten’s death.
Moates said strong lead-ership throughout the Uni-versity has helped them move forward.
Hosting a 5K for scholar-ships was a longtime goal for Wooten.
All proceeds from the race will go to the Marie W. Wooten Memorial Scholar-ship fund.
“We thought that this would be the perfect way to honor her and continue her legacy in COSAM,” Moates said.
Auburn-Opelika running and Track Association will also help honor Wooten’s memory in their organiza-tion by tabulating results and assisting with race reg-istration.
Alvin Walls, member and former president of AOrTA, said he remembers Woo-ten participating in most of AOrTA’s races, and add-ed that she usually placed in the top three within her age group.
“We’ll have people there helping at the finish line and wherever they’re need-ed,” Walls said. “Volunteers are a big part of it.”
Anyone wanting to vol-unteer at the event or make donations should contact Moates at 334-844-2931.
registration is $20 for the 5K and $15 for the one-mile walk.
Applications may be completed online at www.auburnrunning.org or by submitting an application in 229 Science Center Class-rooms.
Participants are encour-
aged to preregister by April 29 to ensure they receive a T-shirt. race day registra-tion will begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Beard-Eaves Colise-um.
“This is something that she always wanted to do,” Moates said. “i think she’d be very excited to know that we’re making it hap-pen.”
Charles Savrda served as a professor and chair of ge-ology and geography before being named interim dean of COSAM.
“He filled a void we really
needed,” Moates said. “He’s sticking with what her out-look for the college was and trying to make sure that ev-erything she envisioned for the college continues com-ing to fruition.”
Wooten was killed Nov. 5, 2010 after being struck by a car while running on cam-pus.
Wooten was named dean in August 2010—twenty-three years after joining Au-burn’s faculty.
Wooten was hailed in the science community for her discovery of a genetic link between obesity and Al-zheimer’s disease.
in Auburn, she is remem-bered for her contributions to COSAM and her disci-pline as a runner.
“She ran every day,” Moates said. “She partici-pated in races and was very proud of her abilities as a runner.”
“She was always pretty busy and obviously very dis-ciplined,” Walls said. “She cared about her fitness and made time to run.”’
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the late coSaM dean Marie Wooten was struck by a vehicle last semester while going for her daily run.
The graduation checklist: everything a departing senior needsMadeline HallWriTEr
Graduating from college is one of the most impor-tant days of a student’s life, and with all the necessary preparations, it’s easy to fall behind.
To help things go as smoothly as possible, Au-burn University makes a checklist to keep seniors on track.
“Graduation day is such a big day,” said Laura Ann Forest, University registrar. “We want everything well-planned out in advance and completed before the day of the event.”
Forest said waiting until the last minute when deal-ing with graduation only causes trouble.
“Students tend to put off picking up their caps,
gowns and cords because they’re in the throes of fi-nals,” Forest said. “All of it is at the bookstore the Thursday and Friday prior to graduation. People don’t pick them up and then ex-pect them to be at gradu-ation, and it’s not going to be.”
For students who fail to pick up their caps, gowns and cords up on time, their day becomes significantly more stressful.
“They’ll show up to the stadium, and yes, we’ll have extras laying around, but it’ll be a hurry-up-and-wait situation,” Forest said. “We won’t be headed the right way to pick them up for an-other 20 minutes and the ceremony starts in 30 min-utes, and now we’ve got a time crunch.”
Students should also keep their parents in-formed of graduation day details.
“The traffic is outra-geous, and if you or your parents haven’t looked at the maps on the website, you’re going to have prob-lems,” Forest said. “Or if you have grandparents who need a wheelchair or to be dropped off, these are con-siderations that need to be taken care of in advance.”
Serious planning for graduation begins a stu-dent’s second-to-last se-mester.
“i changed majors a cou-ple of times, which made my credits more complicat-ed,” said Sara Humphreys, senior in English. “i met with my adviser, and we made sure i knew exactly
what i needed to take next semester to finish on time.”
Lacy Knight, senior in history, said it was impor-tant to check with a depart-ment adviser and a college adviser.
“Because my department adviser knew the classes better, he was able to catch a mistake in my sched-ule that my liberal arts ad-viser missed,” Knight said. “Always double-check be-cause if i had signed up for the wrong class, i wouldn’t have enough credits to graduate.”
Because professors have to turn in their grades ear-lier for seniors, students should make sure their in-structors know they are graduating that semester.
“Most of my professors know me well by now since
i have taken a lot of upper-level courses from them,” Humphreys said. “But it is still good to let them know so that turning in grades is not a pain for them.”
Another surprise delay could come from holds on students’ accounts.
“Because students aren’t registering for another se-mester, they don’t realize they have holds on their accounts,” Forest said. “it could be a parking ticket or some other fine, but your degree won’t be given until that is paid off.”
Knight said she is not let-ting the stress of graduation and what comes after keep her down.
“Graduating from col-lege is a once-in-a-lifetime event,” Knight said. “it is a huge accomplishment, and i can’t wait to celebrate the day.”
A link on the home page of Auburn’s website con-tains the checklist, along with other graduation de-tails. For anyone with ques-tions, contact the Office of the registrar.
“graduation day is such a big day. We want everything well planned out in advance and completed before the day of the event.”
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Munch exhibit is a screamElizabeth FiteSTAFF WriTEr
The art exhibit of Edvard Munch, 19th- and 20th-cen-tury Norwegian artist fa-mous for rendering human emotion through painting and print, ends April 30 at the Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art.
“it’s great to have such an important artist come,” said Kathryn Floyd, art history professor. “it’s a small show, but the works are excellent.”
According to Colleen Bourdeau, marketing and events manager at JCSM, having these types of works on display in this region is rare.
“Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944, remains among the most popu-lar and most critically ac-claimed artists of that peri-od for his evocative depic-tions of universal human emotions and experienc-
es—love, attraction, separa-tion and death,” said Dennis Harper, museum curator.
Munch’s most famous painting “The Scream” cre-ated in 1893, depicts an anxious, overwhelmed man standing on a bridge sur-rounded by water, people and an orange and red sky.
The exhibit features sev-eral of Munch’s other prom-inent works including “The Kiss,” “The Dead Mother and Her Child” and “Melan-choly iii.”
Floyd said not only are Munch’s works historically important, but they are also beautiful, evocative and ex-pressive.
“He’s somebody that ev-erybody knows, of course, for ‘The Scream,’ but he’s actually a really important artist in a lot of different ways.
“He’s an expert printmak-er—his works capture these
universal human themes like love or anxiety that are themes that resonate throughout the history of art, but they’re also themes that are very modern.”
According to Floyd, Munch influenced the ex-pressionist movement in the early 20th century though he was a symbolist.
“He was incredibly im-portant and groundbreak-ing, and he’s also just very unique in that his style is very recognizable,” Floyd said.
Bourdeau said people recognize Munch as an artist, and the exhibit has brought many visitors to the museum.
Harper and museum di-rector Marilyn Laufer were instrumental in getting this exhibition to JCSM, Bour-deau said.
Admission is free to the public.
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visiting his son who attends Auburn, richard ramhold views a piece from the Ed-vard munch exhibit Friday at the Jule Collins smith museum of Fine Art. munch is fa-mous for his paintings “the scream” and “the kiss.”
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30-hour fast shows world hunger on local scale
Annie FaulkSTAFF WriTer
Alabama women are climbing the leadership summit.
Auburn’s Women’s Lead-ership institute in the Col-lege of Liberal Arts is spon-soring “Alabama Women running and Winning,” de-signed for women seeking to run for public office. The institute is bringing 25 fe-male candidates seeking of-fice to Auburn May 6.
“We intend to create a solid network for women who are serious about run-ning or supporting women to run,” said Barbara Bak-er, executive director of the Women’s Leadership insti-tute.
The summit will last all day and feature women
from major political parties. Women who have suc-
cessfully run for office will also be featured.
The purpose of the sum-mit is to bring awareness to the lack of females in office.
Alabama is ranked 48th in the United States for the number of women holding public office positions.
Auburn’s Women’s Lead-ership institute, Vision 2020 and 2012 Project are coordi-nating the summit.
“The three groups will work together to offer re-alistic advice and support for women running and to build a network to support these women,” Baker said.
Participants were sent in-vitations by various wom-en’s groups such as Ala-bama Women’s initiative,
American Association of University Women, Wom-en of Will and the Women’s Fund.
“We are training women to run and campaign and to win them,” said Janet Beil-stein, Alabama represen-tative for Vision 2020. “We have people coming from several parties —the Dem-ocrats, republicans and lib-ertarians.”
Vision 2020 is a nation-al program with the goal of having a 50 percent repre-sentation of women in pub-lic office by the year 2020.
“We have been focusing on targeting women who are running for public of-fice,” Beilstein said. “So we can change the items that are brought up on the agen-da for possible legislation
and hopefully determine outcomes.”
Vision 2020 has delegates in all states and the District of Columbia, Beilstein said.
“They are all working on various aspects of try-ing to advance women into leadership roles and to strengthen their voice and their decision-making abil-ities to get on corporate boards, volunteer boards,” Beilstein said.
The 2012 Project is part of the Center for American Women and Politics at rut-gers University. Their goal is to elect as many women as possible in the upcoming 2012 election.
“ Women candidates clearly have the best inter-est in the community and society at heart because of
the way they see the world,” Beilstein said. “it is not just about them. Because wom-en have roles as nurturers, they are not just voting for themselves; they are voting for their kids; they are vot-
ing for what is best for their families.”
in October, the Women’s Leadership institute is hav-ing a summit featuring Ma-rie Wilson, executive di-rector for the White House Project.
The White House Proj-ect is an organization that works to encourage wom-en into politics at the local, state and national levels.
“We are working for women to have a greater say in the governing say in this country,” Beilstein said. “Women represent 51 per-cent of the population, and yet the percentage of wom-en that are presented in de-cision making bodies is much lower than their pro-portional representation in the population.”
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“Women candidates clearly have the best interest in the community and society at heart because of the way they see the world.”
—Janet Beilstein ViSiOn 2020, STATe rePreSenTATiVe
Annie FaulkSTAFF WriTer
People are starving for a cause.
April 29–30, students at St. Dunstan’s episcopal Church will raise hunger awareness on campus.
“We are trying to bring awareness to world hun-ger,” said Savannah Hein, junior in health promotion. “We are going to be on the concourse raising mon-
ey and raising awareness about world hunger.”
There are 20 students participating in a campout on Cater Lawn where they will fast for a campaign called 30-Hour Famine.
Participants are allowed only Gatorade, water and crackers if they feel faint.
“We just want to add a little reality, so it is not like we are in a king-sized bed and not eating,” said Jas-mine rodgers, sophomore in special education in ear-ly childhood. “There are people who really go to bed hungry, and we just want to make people aware.”
Hein said the partici-pants will talk to passersby about what they are doing.
The campout is open to all students.
According to rodgers,
the campout will take place on campus so any student can participate.
The students plan to camp out all night in card-board boxes.
“ W e wi l l b e o u t o n the lawn i n t h e boxes for the whole 30 hours,” H e i n said. “it is just a way to b r i n g attention to the cause and tell more people about it and get more donations.”
The students hope to raise $720.
The money raised will go to World Vision, a Chris-
tian ministry that benefits people in need all over the world.
if the students raise the desired funds, they will be able to help feed and clothe
two chil-dren for a year.
“ W e just want to make p e o p l e a w a r e of h ow b l e s s e d w e a re here in Auburn,”
rodgers said. “Donating just a few dollars will go a long way.”
World Vision benefits about 100 million people in need, said Megan Chard, sophomore in psychology.
“Students raise money to help feed children and help families overcome poverty and injustice,” Chard said.
each year, the students of St. Dunstan’s commit to one project a year. The 30-Hour Famine is one of their main projects for the year.
Hein said the students are trying to help out the church and people around them by doing good works.
“Because of the efforts like the 30-Hour Famine, since 1992 the total num-ber of kids who die each day, most from prevent-able causes such as hun-ger, has fallen from 40,000 to 24,000,” Chard said.
According to the U.n. World Food Programme, there are more people with-out enough food to eat than the populations of the U.S.,
Canada and the european Union combined.
“One-sixth of the world goes hungry every day,” rodgers said. “it is not be-cause they don’t work hard. Droughts and floods can change the way food is grown, and people can work as hard as they want, and food is still to expen-sive to feed the whole fam-ily.”
According to Chard, the students are camping out to bring students closer to God while raising aware-ness.
“if people know what is going on in the world, hopefully they will feel thankful for what they have,” rodgers said, “and maybe contribute to peo-ple who don’t have what we have.”
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A former Auburn histo-ry professor, David Lewis loved aviation.
His research notes on World War I airplane ace eddie rickenbacker re-cently flew into the library’s special collections and ar-chives.
Lewis used these notes to write the biography “eddie rickenbacker: an American hero in the twentieth cen-tury,” which also resides in special collections.
“no one had written a biography about him, al-though he was a World War I hero,” said Pat Lewis, Da-vid’s wife.
rickenbacker was coined the “Ace of Aces.”
Dwayne Cox, head of special collections and ar-chives, said he shot down more planes than anyone else.
“He was a daredevil,” Cox said. “After the war, he founded eastern Airlines. He was in on the early days of commercial aviation.”
Pat said Lewis’ interest in rickenbacker came from his love of aviation.
“That brought my hus-band his interest and un-flagging research, thrills, interest and enthusiasm.”
David originally wrote only a short article about rickenbacker for a book, but then decided to turn it into a full biography.
Pat said collecting infor-mation for rickenbacker’s
biography became David’s passion.
She assisted him for 15 years while they traveled in search of rickenbacker’s relatives and collected re-search.
“We would go to France and stand on the battle-fields where he used to fight on to get a real sense of the person,” Pat said.
Pat said David was quite the investor and was the last person to interview rickenbacker’s son, Bill rickenbacker, before he died.
“He spent a great deal of time with him and got a lot of information about eddie that he couldn’t have gotten anywhere else, but from his son,” Pat said.
In addition to having his research notes added to special collections, Da-vid helped bring rare books and other materials about rickenbacker to the library.
“David deeply appreci-ated everything we did to build up the history of flight collection,” Cox said. “He reciprocated. He helped us identify things. He even used some of his own mon-ey to collect things for the rickenbacker collection.”
David was able to collect rickenbacker’s letters, pho-tographs and a diary to be added to the archives.
“He was working on the biography, so it helped for him to have the materi-als here,” Pat said. “He also wanted to have the materi-
al here because they were rich in World War I ma-terial, and they would be available to future students working on degrees to have possible topics and catego-ries to work on.”
Pat said David loved Au-burn.
David came to Auburn
after working in Buffalo, n.Y., where Pat said he was dealing with student riots.
“He thought this South-ern town was the best that there was, and the friend-liness of the people here at Auburn university and the camaraderie was the best he had ever seen,” she said.
Colton CampbellWrITer
one Auburn professor is using many people’s least favorite subject—chemis-try—to find a cure for hu-man diabetes.
Christopher easley, pro-fessor of chemistry, is part of an interdisciplinary group of 28 Auburn profes-sors with the central goal of curing diabetes in both hu-mans and animals.
The Boshell Diabetes and Metabolic research Pro-gram was established in 2003 to honor the late Buris r. Boshell, a 1947 Auburn graduate.
easley, the only mem-ber of the group from the chemistry department, said his department helps the group by focusing on fundamental research. He works in a laboratory with four graduate students and a post-doctoral student.
“We focus on methods to detect hormones and the secretions that may cause diabetes,” easley said. “This helps us understand the bi-ology better.”
The program is based in the College of Veterinary Sciences.
The program’s mission found on its website reads,
“The Boshell Diabetes and Metabolic research Pro-gram at Auburn university is dedicated to improving the lives of all people with diabetes through world-class basic science investi-gation into the etiology and treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.”
easley said the existence of the program attracted him to Auburn in 2008.
“Also, the quality of re-search at Auburn univer-sity is good and the young-er faculty is impressive,” he said. “Plus, I just love the area and the town.”
The 31-year-old went to high school in McComb, Miss., and has attended Mississippi State, the uni-versity of Virginia and Van-derbilt university.
easley teaches analyti-cal chemistry this semester and will be teaching fresh-man-level chemistry in the fall.
easley said he likes to strike a balance between being strict and laid-back.
“I understand what it’s like to be a student,” he said, “but I also know that students need to know this material. I have to cover the material, and I’m not going to be lenient on someone
who is not putting in an ef-fort.”
Aaron owens, senior in laboratory technology, is currently a student in ea-sley’s analytical chemistry class. owens said easley is relaxed, straightforward and personal.
“He keeps the material so it’s neither above our heads nor dumbed down,” owens said.
owens said easley’s tests exemplify how straightfor-ward he is.
“He gives us plenty of practice problems, so when he gives a test, you know what to expect,” ow-ens said. “You aren’t sitting there saying, ‘oh my god, what is this?’ He’s much more focused on concepts than specifics, and I really like that about him.”
easley has a 4-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter who keep him busy when he isn’t at work. He has pictures of them and drawings they’ve made taped to a cabinet by his desk.
“In my spare time, I’m usually running around with them,” easley said. “They like to go outside and play, and I love spending time with them there.”
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On the ConcourseQuestion:
How do you feel about graduation being held in the stadium instead of the arena?
“I’d probably put it in the arena, but I’m not grad-uating, so I don’t real-ly care at the moment.”
—William Latta, senior, civil engineering
“Well I think it’s still good because it still keeps the traditional way we’ve been doing things, so it wouldn’t hurt that much.”
—John Johnson, junior, electrical engineering
“I think it can be a more lighthearted and fun thing, a little less for-mal, a lot more fun for those involved and more of a party atmosphere.”
—Ron Mau, sophomore, applied mathematics
“It’s more open; the sta-dium has more meaning to Auburn for football.”
—Chris Barefoot, junior, psychology
“I like the stadium. The outside feeling is nice. Other than that, I’m not graduating, so I’m not too decisive on it.”
—Lyndi Minott, freshman, sociology
“There’s more space, I think, than the are-na, which would just be too crowded.”
—Amalia Otero, freshman, sociology
Think you know an Auburn woman who has what it takes to be the Loveliest Lady on the Plains? Send submissions, with names
and contact information, to [email protected]
Christina Walton, 22rounding out a year of lovely, our gal is working toward
constructing a tower of good for the less fortunate. a senior in architecture, Cydney will be building and
repairing homes in rural livingston this summer with the auburn-based alabama rural Ministries.
“i want to do it for something bigger than myself, not just design big skyscrapers that don’t mean
anything,” she says. With Cydney drawing up blueprints, architecture will be a little more beautiful after her
graduation.
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Elizabeth FiteStAFF WritEr
As a lifelong Auburn fan, 29-year-old Sgt. ian Hogg has lived the words, “i believe in a spirit that is not afraid.”
Hogg became known for fight-ing as a Marine in the iraq War, but today he is fighting against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s dis-ease.
ALS is a disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement.
“When they first told me it was ALS, i didn’t know a lot about it, but i knew it was bad,” Hogg said. “in my mind, the minute they told me the first thing i thought was, ‘i can beat it’—that’s just the way i am. The sad thing is there is no beating it, and i fight it every day.”
Hogg was diagnosed with ALS in September 2009 after showing symptoms for several years.
“Even though i consider my-self pretty tough, it just slow-ly but surly has taken everything that i am able to do,” he said. “For somebody like me, it’s really hard to deal with being up in a chair—i’ve always been able to do every-thing on my own.”
He has not been able to walk or use his arms for a year.
Hogg, who lives with his wife Misty and daughters Bailey and Addyson, said Auburn has always played a role in his life.
“i had my nose broken right across the road from the stadi-um playing football—it’s always been a big part of my family and my life,” Hogg said.
Hogg, a Birmingham native who lettered in football, baseball and wrestling in high school, said he always had a desire to be great. This desire is what inspired him to join the Marines.
“Going to iraq and fighting for my country has to be one of the single greatest things any man could do,” Hogg said.
“i believe that i proved to my-self and my family that i was capa-ble of greatness—better than be-ing an NFL football player or Ma-jor League Baseball player—i did something that wasn’t a God-giv-en talent, but it was just me look-ing within myself and knowing
that i could do it.”Hogg was among the first Ma-
rine infantrymen to arrive over-seas in Kuwait Jan. 24, 2003. His term took him across iraq, where he remained until June.
While he was overseas, Hogg was responsible for leading 18 Marines into combat and bring-ing them back alive.
During his time in iraq, Hogg became known for flying an Au-burn flag from the antenna of his humvee.
“i put the flag up at first as a way for my section of guns to lo-cate me on the battlefield,” Hogg said.
Hogg’s commander told him he had to take his flag down, but it remained on the back rack of his humvee until the night they in-vaded Baghdad.
“i said, ‘the hell with it,’ and ran the flag back up the antenna de-
spite being told by a Lt. Col. not to do it—that’s the way i was—i was a sergeant, and nobody was going to tell us what to do,” Hogg said.
“if the battalion command-er wanted the flag down he was going to have to come up there around all those people that were trying to kill us, and i knew that wasn’t going to happen, so i flew the flag.”
A picture of Hogg and his Au-burn flag made its way back home to Alabama.
“The word got back to my bat-talion commander that the flag he told me not to fly had made me famous and got me a scholarship to go to Auburn,” Hogg said.
today, Hogg’s health has forced him and his family to move closer to relatives.
“if i was able to be where we wanted to be, we would be in Au-burn—we love it—our hearts are in Auburn still,” Hogg said.
Hogg’s house in Auburn is cur-rently for sale.
“right now, what we want is for the house in Auburn to sell so they can have a house built that’s more suited for his needs,” said Charles Ann Muro, Hogg’s mother.
Muro said her son is proud of his service and still holds his head high.
“Despite this disease he’s still a very proud person and a very strong person—even more so
now,” Muro said. “He’s a loving husband and a wonderful father, and his wife and his children are the most important things to him.”
More information on ALS, how to help ian and his family and in-formation on Hogg’s house in Au-burn can be found on ianHogg-Benefit.org.
“i believe that one day they will find a cure, but unfortunately you have to have money to do it. No matter how bad i want it or my kids deserve it, the only way to do it is research and we’ve got to have money,” he said.
“My hope is that i’m able to fight the disease long enough so that they find a cure, and the more money they have the better chance i have of seeing my girls grow up and maybe even walking on my own one day—i will never ever quit believing that.”
Liz ConnASSoCiAtE CAMPuS EDitor
Gov. robert Bentley said April 21 he would sign a resolution es-tablishing the Constitutional re-vision Commission.
the resolution, sponsored by Senate President Pro tem Del Marsh, r-Anniston, will allow the 16-person commission to pro-pose revisions to parts of the 1901 state constitution.
the revision-ary plan will take place over three years, and all pro-posed changes will have to be passed by the legislature, governor and state voters.
the resolution states the com-mission will in-clude Bentley and three people he appoints; Marsh and three people he appoints; House Speaker Mike Hub-bard and three people he appoints; and the chairs of the Judiciary Committee and Consti-tution and Election Committee.
With more than 800 amend-ments, the Alabama Constitu-tion is 12 times longer than the average state constitution and 40 times longer than the u.S. Consti-tution, Marsh said.
“it’s just time to get the thing cleaned up and condensed,”
Marsh said. “it’s been talked about for years, but it’s never been undertaken.”
The commission will not be al-lowed to revise Article 11 on tax-es. Marsh said the article has been the “stumbling block” for past rewrite attempts.
“By taking that off the table, it allows us to do all the other work that needs to be done on the con-
stitution,” Marsh said.Joe Sumners, direc-
tor of Auburn’s Eco-nomic and Communi-ty Development insti-tute, said one of the
main problems in the constitution is
the concentration of power in Mont-gomery instead of
local communities.“there’s a lot of
antiquated lan-guage in the con-stitution, a lot of
provisions that have been superseded by federal law,” Sumners said.
Sumners is the former chair of the East Alabama chapter of Ala-bama Citizens for Constitutional reform.
“it’s not like the u.S. Constitu-tion, which is an enabling docu-ment which sort of gives the ba-sic framework for government and lets the elected officials fill in the details,” Sumners said.
“What the Alabama Constitu-
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Whether you have two left feet or the grace of a ballerina, the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center has a dance class for ev-eryone.
the arts center offers dance classes each week for Auburn
students and community mem-bers.
Classes range from salsa to swing to line dancing and cover a multitude of age groups and in-terests.
“We’ve been offering dance classes ever since we opened our doors,” said Sara Hand, director of the arts center. “That was 11 years ago.”
Some of the classes are free to the public and some are not, de-pending on the instructor’s pref-erence.
The arts center provides the building for the classes and re-ceives a commission from each instructor if the class has a cost.
“i think this community real-ly takes advantage of free class-es at the art center,” Hand said. “i know our college students do.”
Five classes are offered this semester including “Practice Dance!,” “intermediate Line Dancing,” “Salsa!,” “AuSDA Swing Friday” and “Lindy Wednesday.”
Both the Swing Friday and Lindy Wednesday classes are taught through the Auburn uni-versity Swing Dance Association by president Chip Self, senior in electrical engineering.
the class meets from 7 to 9 p.m. both nights and includes one hour of instruction fol-
Some days, you gotta danceJan Dempsey Community Arts Center offers weeknight dance lessons
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ian Hogg (far left), a sergeant in the u.S. Marine Corps, oversees members of his unit lifting an injured man into Hogg’s humvee, on which he displayed an Auburn flag. Hogg served in iraq from January to June of 2003. He is now fighting Lou gehrig’s disease.
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Abigail Cutchen, junior in marketing and recruiting, and daniel Cordell, senior in history, end a dance with a dip at the Auburn university Swing dance Association.
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“The plainsman is more than that ragtag assort-ment of people in the of-fice the years you happen to pass through. it is a nev-er-ending line of souls who are devoted to the proposi-tion that telling the truth in a newspaper is important.”
Reading that state-ment three years ago in my plainsman staff man-ual didn’t mean nearly as much as it does now, but it is something that i read be-fore starting each semester at this publication.
there is no statement that could be more true about The Auburn plains-man and its staff of student journalists.
These are the same stu-dents who balance work, school and some attempts of a social life to bring you a newspaper each week.
From budget meetings to pagination days, these students put in early morn-ings and late nights to keep Auburn university stu-dents, faculty and staff in-formed.
i’ve had the privilege to
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whether they were re-porters, photographers or designers, we all shared one thing: a love for this newspaper.
while some are moving on and others are staying to continue pushing this paper forward, we will al-ways have The plainsman to keep us united.
therein lies the beau-ty and the beast of ending a semester and starting a new one.
The beast: Veteran staff members take with them a plethora of plainsman and journalistic information, while leaving behind stale jokes that will soon be for-gotten (many of which are scattered across these two pages).
The beauty: A new staff arrives to bring fresh ideas and a positive forward atti-tude.
As scary as it may be for those in the beauty cate-gory, the latter far exceeds the former.
the sky is the limit for the new batch of plains-man staffers currently be-ing selected and to those who have yet to wander into the newsroom.
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i feel fortunate to have come to Auburn as a jour-nalism major.
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A look back at a year to rememberAs cramming for finals is in
full swing, take a study break and look back on the past year.
And oh, what a year it’s been. For such a small town, Au-
burn made big news time and again. From the victorious to the wacky to the tragic, the Loveliest Village was on the map this year. And of course, the plainsman was there every step of the way.
Following a mediocre sea-son that ended in one of the wildest overtime finishes in Outback Bowl History, who could have predicted our ti-gers would be crowned na-tional Champions just one year later?
Then came no. 2, no. 90 and one of the most resilient teams in Auburn history. A sea-son that produced more than several heart-pounding mo-ments of anxiety culminated in a crystal football being lift-ed over the plains.
But far before the victorious joy of the championship had worn off, we were given the news that our beloved oaks
had been poisoned. triumph turned to tragedy,
but in the ensuing days, it pro-duced goodwill—the likes of which the state had never seen —between Auburn and our ri-val.
perhaps a rivalry more alive than ever will emerge out of death.
while the tree poisoning was a historic tragedy, Auburn faced even greater tragedies in the deaths of its family mem-bers.
Just as the craze of Spring Break was winding down, the student body was hit with the shocking news that two of its students had passed.
This came less than a semes-ter after the loss of dean Ma-rie wooten and the legendary icon dean James Foy.
And the semester would not end before a shooting at Southern union’s campus rat-tled the community.
not all news was trium-phant and tragic though.
Some even bordered on the humorous.
The plainsman managed to offend the entire Greek com-munity with less effort than it takes to swallow three Cocoa Krispees, and overnight Kel-ly tsaltas became a household name.
Controversy wasn’t only cre-ated by the plainsman.
wEGL had a managerial shakeup.
Smokers suddenly became an oppressed minority under attack by grandstanding uni-versity officials.
The Auburn university Re-publicans chair made some shady money moves.
And to the chagrin of par-tygoers everywhere, the over-caffeinated 4 Loko beverage lost a bit of its buzz.
Some news just made the reader go, “Awwww.”
The first football game was not only the debut of Cam, but also love was cemented as a marriage proposal hap-pened before 87,000 fans at the 50-yard-line.
Meanwhile, Kirby turnage rode a popular wave to elec-
toral victory with a smile wid-er than the front page of The plainsman.
Football players got arrest-ed and a basketball player punched a cop.
Speakeasy closed while the Balcony Bar and Moe’s Barbe-cue popped its top.
if this year showed anything, it’s that this quaint college town is anything but sleepy.
things changed and tradi-tions continued.
no matter what the story was, though, it was always an Auburn story.
A year of news is in the books, and next year’s got a lot to live up to.
Somehow, we don’t think it’ll have any trouble.
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I came in as a kid, I leave as a journalist
during my time at the plainsman, i’ve become well-acquainted with life and death.
i’ve written stories about interesting people who live their lives to the fullest, peo-ple who dedicate their lives to causes most of us don’t understand, people who made bad choices and peo-ple whose lives were cut short.
Each story i’ve writ-ten, each person i’ve in-terviewed and each event i’ve been to has taught me something valuable.
Covering events like the Syrup Sopping Festival, the Lee County Fair and pope’s Haunted Farm showed me how pleasantly simple and enjoyable life can be.
Covering the Victoryland gambling scandal was my first exposure to corrup-tion.
Breaking news events like a train wreck and a shoot-ing taught me life is frag-ile—tragedy can strike at any second.
talking to Forrest tus-sey about playing guitar, Mr. penny about his love for Auburn football and Victo-ria Gulley about guns and showed me everyone is pas-sionate about something.
An article about a con-troversial bar fight taught me to always get all sides of the story. Sometimes it isn’t what it looks like. Some-times it is.
Harvey updyke taught me that some people just need attention, no mat-ter if it’s good or bad. i also learned the Auburn spir-it isn’t a tangible thing em-bodied in two trees.
Courtney Lockhart’s tri-
al made me think for a long time about how every-thing isn’t simply black and white. watching a murder-er’s mother and a victim’s father for a week makes you think about the gray area—people who kill people are still people—people who made a terrible choice.
The death of isiah “Buddy Ball” Thomas and my inter-actions with his brother, Si-las, gave me a window into the world of those we so of-ten take for granted or ig-nore completely.
dean James Foy’s death was a reminder that death isn’t always sad. He will for-ever be memorialized in the hearts of thousands after living a life full of love and purpose.
However, dean Marie wooten’s untimely death rocked me into the sad real-ity of our world.
i never met her, but af-ter learning about her from so many after her death, i mourned the loss of such a wonderful person.
Every article i write is someone else’s story. Some are sad, and some are hap-py, but they’re all poignant-ly human.
As a journalist, my job is to tell stories, but my pas-sion is hearing them.
Giving people the oppor-tunity to talk about their achievements, their family members who have passed away, their side to a con-troversial story or how they feel after a verdict is issued is what brings me the great-est satisfaction.
Everyone has something to say, and i get to help them tell their stories.
And to my wonderful, cooky plainsman fami-ly, don’t forget what we’ve learned here from each oth-er and from our stories.
no matter what you do in life, do it plainsman style—with a spirit that is not afraid.
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The great T.I. once said, “It’s amazing, so amazing, baby, baby.”
I can think of no bet-ter words to describe my time at The Plainsman than those.
During the last three se-mesters here, I have man-aged to build meaningful relationships in and out of the office while greatly im-proving my photojournal-ism skills.
Anyone who remembers my first published photo, which is hopefully just me, knows I have come a long way since I began.
For that, I have my co-workers to thank, who cri-tiqued and challenged me every week.
Although I still have a lot to learn, I hope my com-mitment to the paper has shown through in my work.
More importantly, I hope that, through all my sarcasm, my Plainsman
friends know how much I care for them and how much I will miss them when I have to go into the world and be a real person.
My college experience would have been entire-ly different without the friendships I made in our beloved, windowless, cof-fee-stained office.
I doubt I will ever know a more open or honest group of people. I mean, really – some of the things we’ve shared with each other are ridic.
Never again will I have the opportunity to learn and work with so many journalists my age who have the same goals.
Working here was un-doubtedly one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I cannot begin to name all the things I will miss about The Plainsman.
OK, fine…I will miss Burger Nights
and Pasta Mondays.I will miss Jill’s random
hugs that always happen to come on the days you need them.
I will miss Liz’s cheesy 90s playlists that always happen to come, well, pret-
ty much every day.I will miss Rod’s constant
critiques and visions, which (it hurts me a little to say this) have made me a much better photographer.
I will miss life shenani-gans with Crystal, although I am sure those will contin-ue.
I will miss Miranda’s sass, Clever’s inability to breathe properly when she’s on a rant and that one time we got to e-board at the Q.
Although I would love to hang around The Plains-man office forever, I’m hap-py this is my last semester. It was by far the best.
One time in New York City, Kenny Rogers said to me, “You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.”
He was totes right.It’s my time to fold ‘em,
and however sad it may be, it is also awesome to leave knowing I did my best and had way too much fun in the process.
I will surely carry the memories and lessons learned here with me for the rest of my life.
To next year’s staff—make my face fall off.
That headline has been a year and a half in the making.
So, needless to say, the Plainsman office has been my home for about the past two years, and I could not have asked for a better one.
I came to Auburn like most other people, know-ing few people and zero friends.
I dreamed about work-ing in this office freshman and sophomore year, too timid/intimidated to walk in the door more than a few times a semester for a lousy volunteer article.
I wanted SO BADLY to be a part of the “club” dur-ing practicum.
Ellison Langford asked me if my last name was “Clever” or “Cleaver” dur-ing some sorority-filled practicum assignment, and I knew I had arrived.
I finally joined The Staff.I got my first legit nick-
name (even though it was just my last name).
I passionately sang the words to “Colors of the Wind” in an office full of mostly strangers.
I ate fondue and watched movies with my boss AND friend, Lind-sey Davidson. We learned each other’s Nihon orders. We smoked hookah.
I met some of the most
talented people. I had crushes, romanc-
es, shifting loyalties, best friends.
We stayed in the office until 2 a.m. when we had gotten here long before noon.
We joked about sleep-ing here—but the joke was that we might actually do it.
We did illegal things, some of the best stories stemming from them. (Props to Crystal Cole.)
I danced like a spastic white girl at Bandar-log shows and thought my heart was going to burst with happiness.
I kissed a stranger on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras.
And then that family moved on, and I was faced with a new one.
I pissed people off. I be-came the office “bully.” I became a “passive-aggres-sive bitch.”
I got into vehement ar-guments over copy.
One of the equestrian riders was 10 when she got her first pony.
Yes, we did put together an actual paper each week. But I can proudly say I was never truly a “professional” in this office.
I yelled. I swore like a sailor. I threw pens, highlight-
ers, pencils and other var-ious objects.
I ate way too much can-dy and baked goods—my compliments to Emily Ad-ams and Michelle Wilder.
I insisted on using the office printer for personal
means and saving random stuff to the server.
I annoyed Rod Guajardo to the best of my ability.
I got drunk with Miran-da Dollarhide in the New York subway.
I cried on the phone to Cliff McCollum when I wanted to quit—and thank God he talked me out of it every time.
I gossiped and freaked out over AP Style with Liz Conn, who I’m sure will find tons of copy mistakes not only in this column, but in every article she reads as copy editor next year. (Make me proud.)
I discussed the intrica-cies of beer with Jill Clair, who is the most nonjudg-mental and surprising per-son I have ever met.
I bluffed my way through deep conversa-tions about photography with Chris Walker and Phil Smith.
I talked about sex. I shared one too many
personal details.My grades slipped. I no
longer maintained my 4.0. But I experienced things
in this office that prepared me for the real world on a much different level than any lecture, any classroom ever could.
I learned things about myself, and I learned things about humanity.
And now it’s time for me to move on. Thanks to everyone who made this place of work a fami-ly business (you know who you are).
So long, Plainsman. It’s been fun. And good.
I remember coming to Auburn when I was in high school, meeting friends that had moved here from my hometown of Gun-tersville, Ala. and driving around in the middle of the night, not recognizing the buildings and the streets that I now call home.
Those were good times, when Auburn was the mys-terious, glorious, shining city upon a hill where stu-dents escaped their parents and surely did nothing but party till sunrise and have adventures reminiscent of “Animal House” and cause all kinds of free-hearted mischief.
In those days, I wanted to come to Auburn because it was the land of dreams, where anything was pos-sible. I stayed because of what Auburn really is: a place of tradition and hon-or, family and friends, aca-demia and sport, love and pride, a place where you can make yourself anew,
but still connected to the likes of great Auburn men and women that have come before.
And this, the last piece I’ll write for The Plainsman, comes with a twinge of pain and a glimpse of hope.
The Plainsman has been what I wanted college to be on those scandalous Sat-urday nights after a three-hour drive where I first ex-perienced the keg stand.
The Plainsman has giv-en me my sense of purpose, my sense of belonging and has shown me the inside of Auburn that most people never get to see.
I’ve interviewed SGA presidents, many clubs and organizations; ridden in the front seat of the “Drunk Bus,” interviewing partygo-ers until the wee hours of the morning, and I’ve heard so many dark rumors from random unnamed sources that I may or may not know some serious secrets.
Because of The Plains-man, I have pushed myself, and have found my most crippling character flaws.
And now, as I sit in the office, trying to formulate the last of my Plainsman-published words, I realize the value of being involved
with this publication: the friends, the experiences, the long nights, the early mornings all have served to make me a better jour-nalist, a better person and hopefully, an Auburn man.
I will forever be grateful to The Plainsman and the people that have worked its pages during the last year in helping to shape my life, my career and my world-view for the better.
So thank you Auburn University, thank you Au-burn Plainsman, thank you Liz, Chelsea, Rod, Eric and Clever; thank you Chris Walker ; thank you stu-dents, faculty and friends.
I will part ways with a smile on my face and an or-ange T-shirt on my back, ready to take down the Har-vey Updykes of this world with my pen and camera.
Farewell Auburn, and may we meet again on sun-ny fall afternoons, cook-ing barbecue and remem-bering the times we’ve had watching Cam Newton catch a touchdown pass, running to Toomer’s Cor-ner after a close game, toi-let paper in hand and ad-miring all that is orange and blue, all that is the love-liest village on the plains.
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lowed by one hour of so-cial dance.
“Friday night is typically an easier, beginner intro-duction to swing—what we call East Coast swing,” Self said. “Wednesday night we do some more in-termediate, advanced kind of swing called the Lindy Hop and the Charleston.”
Hand said she enjoys the social aspect of the Friday night classes as well.
“It’s actually really great because they teach les-sons from about 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and then they have social dancing from 8 to 9,” Hand said. “You don’t have to have a partner—it’s a lot of fun.”
Each dance class at the arts center teaches stu-dents a different skill.
“Practice Dance!” is a be-ginner’s line dancing class taught by Wartan Jemi-an. It features line dances choreographed to popu-lar country music artists. The class meets Monday through Friday at 8 a.m.
“It is line dancing for fun and exercise,” Hand said. “Dr. Jemian has been line dancing here at the arts center every morn-ing since we opened our doors. He is an art center jewel.”
For those interested in Latin dance, the salsa class offers a beginner level in-troduction to salsa. Stu-dents do not have to bring a partner, and there is no previous experience re-quired. Salsa classes meet Thursdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Self said beginners should not be concerned
about being behind if it’s their first visit.
“We always try to cater to whoever arrives,” Self said. “Some weeks we’ll have no beginners, and some weeks we’ll have nothing but beginners.”
Mery McMillan, senior in elementary education, said she enjoyed attend-ing the Friday night swing class.
“It’s a fun experience,” McMillan said. “It’s differ-ent, and I think it’s defi-nitely something everyone should try at least once.”
McMillan has previous dance experience, but she said beginners would not have trouble keeping up.
“They really take time to explain everything to you,” McMillan said. “If you get lost or need help, they will make sure you get it.”
“Practice Dance!” will be
offered Monday through Friday from 8 to 10 a.m. during the summer.
Three other classes will also be offered.
“Square Dance with the Village Squares” will be of-fered Wednesdays from 6:15 to 9 p.m. and will cost $12.50 per person per month.
“Square Dancing with the Auburn Allemanders” will take place Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. and will cost $15 per person per month.
A free intermediate line dancing class will be of-fered Tuesdays, Wednes-days and Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m.
“We also offer theater classes, visual arts and music classes along with dance,” Hand said. ”We re-ally try to cover every ave-nue of the arts.”
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Two brothers are using volleyball to serve up meals for those in need in Lee County.
Will and ryan Con-well founded The Conwell Sports League, and are planning its first volleyball tournament and canned food drive at Copper Beech townhomes April 30 at noon. The single elimina-tion tournament will ben-efit the East Alabama Food Drive.
Will and ryan founded the sports league to provide a laid-back atmosphere for sports like dodgeball, kick-ball and volleyball.
“It’s a league designed for everybody that is 19 and up in the Auburn-Opelika
area,” Will said. “It’s a place to come out, play and have fun—it’s a social league.”
Will said using the vol-leyball tournament to ben-efit the food bank was ry-an’s idea.
“I just wanted to work with the East Alabama Food Bank,” ryan said. “I had talked to them a few different times, and they said their summers are re-ally low on food and they really need the extra help.”
The league’s volleyball season begins in May, and all skill levels are invited to participate.
“We have a dodgeball season, a kickball season and now we’re coming into a summer volleyball sea-son,” Will said. “The tour-nament is kind of a kickoff
for the season.”This is the first time the
league has combined a sports tournament with a service objective.
“We also wanted to do something in the com-munity that would help the community instead of something that would just go out to who knows where,” ryan said.
There is no cost for reg-istering a team, and music and food will be provided.
Donna Demous, opera-tions manager at the East Alabama Food Bank, said donation needs are high-est between June and Sep-tember.
“We need things like macaroni and cheese and canned meat and fish,” De-mous said.
Donations for the East Alabama Food Bank should be canned or nonper-ishable.
“A nonperishable item is something that doesn’t have to go in the refrigera-tor or the freezer,” Demous said. “Food drives are usually just nonperishable items.”
Since participa-tion in the volleyball tour-nament is free, teams are encouraged to bring dona-tions to the games.
“We suggest three or more nonperishable food items per person,” Will said. “We don’t have a specific goal, but anything is more than what they have now.”
The East Alabama Food Bank also accepts dona-tions at its warehouse.
“The only other collec-tion point right now is at the food bank, and we are here from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.,” Demous said. “We also have a collection bin outside where people can
leave their dona-tions when we’re not here.”
T h e t o u r n a -ment is designed for teams of three to five people, and there will be first and second place prizes.
“The big prize is an Auburn Univer-sity signed football with Cam Newton and Zach Clayton
and several other players from last season,” Will said. “That will go to the first place team.”
Teams can register on-line at the Conwell Sports League website, conwell-sportsleagues.com, or in person at 11:30 the day of the tournament.
Sports league tournament spikes hunger
tion does is it very specifi-cally and restrictively says what the government can and cannot do.”
Every time the govern-ment wants to do some-thing different from what is outlined in the constitu-tion, another amendment gets added, Sumners said.
“That’s why we have amendments relating to things like cemeteries and animal control—things that should be left to local communities to decide,” Sumners said.
According to the resolu-tion, the Alabama Law In-stitute will give guidance to the commission by analyz-ing each article of the con-stitution.
The Institute will then recommend revisions on
items that are “antiquated, unnecessary or duplicative of other provisions.”
Marsh said within the commission’s first year, it will remove racist language still remaining in the docu-ment.
In 2012, the commission will look at articles 3, 4 and 9; 1, 5 and 14 in 2013; and 7, 10 and 17 in 2014.
“There are a lot of chang-es that are needed,” Sum-ners said. “It’s hard to do much damage to the con-stitution we have.”
Constitution» From B1
DAnCE» From B1“It’s just time to
get the thing cleaned up and condensed.”
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Let’s face it—moving out is hard work.
Summer is on the horizon and lugging around furniture is not what most of us have in mind.
“The most difficult part of mov-ing out will be hauling all of my possessions from the third floor to a car in the parking lot in nu-merous trips,” said Jared Batte, junior in agricultural economics and resident assistant in talon Hall in the Village.
He isn’t taking everything home, though.
Batte said he will be moving all of his belongings out for sum-mer and storing everything at his grandmother’s house in La-Grange, Ga. Because he lives on campus, he doesn’t have much furniture to move out.
“Instead, I just have to move lots of smaller things,” Batte said.
Batte said he’s not worried about the amount of time it will take him to move out.
“It’s more of a problem that I have five finals and then have to move out the very next day,” Batte said. “that will be somewhat stressful.”
More likely than not it will be hot outside, too, but elene Weav-er, freshman in pre-industrial de-sign and resident in Dunn Hall, is not too worried about moving out of her dorm in the heat.
“It was raining on move-in day,
and we got settled in fine,” Weav-er said.
Weaver said parking probably will be a problem though.
“I was planning on pulling my car up to the 15-minute spot and go from there,” Weaver said.
Katelyn Boston, sophomore in biosystems engineering and resident in Magnolia Hall in the Village, said parking is always a problem.
“Since I am not under a time constraint, we will just wait un-til the majority of people have al-ready moved out and then do so,” Boston said.
Boston will be moving to the Quad for the summer as a part of her Camp War eagle counsel-or responsibilities and then into a house in the fall.
She said she will be able to leave her stuff in her room in the Village until she moves to the Quad so she won’t be moving out with the other Village residents.
“Having to decide what to take there and what to take home will be difficult, especially since I haven’t lived in the Quad before,” Boston said.
Boston’s biggest concern about moving is lack of help.
“My younger brother plays high school soccer,” Boston said. “He may be playing in the Final Four tournament the weekend I am supposed to move into the Quad, so my parents wouldn’t be there to help.”
Mitchell Holston, junior in marketing, lives in the exchange.
He doesn’t anticipate his par-ents coming to help him move out.
“Whoever can help really,” Holston said. “Probably friends.”
Holston’s apartment in the ex-
change is furnished—the bed, dresser and desk was provided.
“I will be moving my tV—that’s the biggest item—and my tV stand,” Holston said.
Holston also said he will be moving a large amount of clothes.
“I have way too many clothes,” Holston said.
Holston said his biggest con-cern is where he will go once he moves out.
“I currently don’t have any con-crete living plans for next year,” Holston said.
“It’s kinda scary at this point but hopefully I will find an apart-ment to move into this fall.”
The general consensus is that everyone is ready to be out of
their dorms for the summer.“One year is enough in these
dorms,” Weaver said.However, Boston said she will
miss her roommates and sorori-ty sisters over the summer.
“But I am very ready to be out of the dorm and ready to be in a house in August,” Boston said.
Mattie Magill, freshman in pre-early childhood education, said she enjoyed her experience on campus this year, though.
“I liked living in the dorm this year,” Magill said. “It was a great way to meet people, and I think it is just a part of the whole fresh-man experience in itself.”
regardless of whether students are looking forward to mov-ing out or not, doing the work to move everything is difficult.
Holston said he may try to do something to make his move fun.
“I guess I could sing while I’m moving,” he said.
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Girls burnin’ up the skating rink
Kala BoltonWrIter
It involves knocking girls onto the ground. It involves racing. It involves roller skates.
“We are a really diverse group of women who defy categoriza-tion,” said Cho Cold, head coach of the Burn City rollers, Auburn’s roller derby team.
“We come from all walks of life, but we are all athletic, hard-work-ing and we enjoy knocking other chicks down.”
While the team lost Saturday to the Greenville Derby Dames, Cold said they hope to jump back in the next bout May 7 against the red Stick roller Derby of Baton rouge, La.
Although the team is not affili-ated with the University, many of the team’s skaters either work or study at Auburn.
“In that way, we are truly part of the Auburn community,” said Neecee Matthews-Bradshaw, fourth year Ph.D. student in eng-lish.
Originally from Macon, Ga., Matthews-Bradshaw said while she had been skating since she was 5 years old, roller derby is something that she recently be-came interested in.
“I joined Burn City rollers in August of last year,” Matthews-Bradshaw said. “2011 marks my first bout season. I’ve only been in a few bouts, but I definitely love it and want to get better at it.”
Others on the team are veter-ans. Suzanne Samples has been a part of the team since its found-ing.
“I’ve been with the Burn City rollers since our inaugural prac-tice in September of 2008,” said
Samples, a native of West Virgin-ia and fourth year doctoral candi-date in Victorian literature.
the team will compete in 13 matches, called “bouts,” during the 2011 season with teams from around the South.
The team also has official skat-ing practices Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights.
“We have two mandatory prac-tices a week, and then there are probably four other times we can practice on or off skates as well,” Matthews-Bradshaw said.
“I love to push myself physical-ly, even when it hurts. We do a lot of endurance and scrimmage drills. A lot of those extra practic-es help us to focus on individual skills training.”
While the team only has a few scheduled practices a week, team members are constantly training and trying to improve their skills.
“We do much more than just skate,” Samples said. “We also do plenty of suicides, plyometrics,
strength training and endurance drills.
“We have optional off-skates
practices, and a lot of us do strength, endurance and skate training on our own time.
I’m doing something related to derby at least six days a week.”
With a season that lasts nearly year-round, members said roller derby is too much of a time com-mitment to be just a hobby.
“Derby is more of a lifestyle than a part-time hobby,” Samples said. “Burn City rollers basically skates year-round.
“We take a month off in De-cember, but it’s back to practice come January.”
Samples said roller derby has played a huge role in her every-day life during the past few years.
“I’m also a writer, and I use derby for my stories and novels,” Samples said.
“My boyfriend is the bench coach. It’s safe to say that derby has weaved itself through every aspect of my life.”
For those who may have mis-conceptions of the sport, team members are looking to set the record straight.
“I heard a really good analogy at my first scrimmage that boiled down to derby being like football with the jammer as the ball and the blockers as the players,” Mat-thews-Bradshaw said.
“Players can’t get a touchdown without the ball; blockers can’t score in derby without the jam-mer.
“As well, though many peo-ple are familiar with derby of the past, today’s derby teams, for the most part, have really profession-alized the sport and most derby players look down on dirty der-by, like elbows, fighting, etc. We are here to compete, but we also want to have fun.”
Samples stresses, however, that nothing is staged.
“roller derby is a full-contact sport,” Samples said. “everything you see is real; we’re taking hits, giving hits, falling, getting up, strategizing and going full speed.
Residents prepare to ‘move it, move it’
Emily AdAms / PHOTO EdiTOR
saintly Vicious, scarChasm and Paina skully of the Burn City Rollers skate in the roller derby Friday.
Emily AdAms / PHOTO EdiTOR
Amyn Atcha cheers on the Burn City Rollers. The all-girl roller derby team will compete in 13 bouts in the 2011 season.
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Burn City Rollers, Auburn’s roller derby team, discuss season, training
Students share their strategies for moving out for summer
“i currently don’t have any concrete living plans for next year. it’s kinda scary at this point, but hopefully i will find an apartment to move into this fall.”
—Mitchell Holston JUNIOr, MArKetING
Intrigue C2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, April 28, 2011
Black Bean Burgers
Kerry’s recipe of the week
Ingredients:Cooking spray½ onion, chopped½ bell pepper, chopped1 clove garlic, minced½ cup frozen corn1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed1 egg white¼ cup bread crumbssalt and pepper, to state¼ cup parsley, chopped
Directions:
Heat a sauté pan over medium heat. Spray with cooking spray and add onion, bell pepper, gar-lic and corn. Sauté for 5-7 minutes, or until vegetables are softened. Remove form heat to cool. In a large bowl, add the black beans and mash them up. Then, add the egg white, bread crumbs, salt, pepper and parsley. Mix and stir in cool vegetables. Shape into 4 patties. Heat the same pan the vegetables were cooked in over medium-high heat. Spray with cooking spray and add burgers. Cook for 5-6 minutes per side. Serve hot.
Serves: 4
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“Another plus is that roll-er derby allows players to express a feminized tough-ness that simply can’t be found elsewhere.”
Roller derby gives mem-bers an opportunity to par-ticipate in a competitive sport they could not find elsewhere.
Matth ew s-Brad shaw said she was on the track and dance teams in high school and participated
in intramural flag football while earning her under-graduate degree.
“Though it’s been a while since I’ve participated in an organized sport, derby real-ly appeals to me because it combines something I love with a fast pace and con-tact,” Matthews-Bradshaw said.
“I love the women on my team; they come from so many different walks of life. There isn’t one thing I like or love about it. There are many things.”
Jenna MoranASSoCIATe CoPy edIToR
one of the scariest as-pects of college life is the inevitable reality of job hunting. Look for jobs that can provide experience and even become future career paths.
elisabeth Johnson, who works with Student em-ployment Services—a sec-tion of Career develop-ment Services—advised searching Auburn’s Tiger Recruiting Links website to find summer jobs both on campus and off campus (www.jobs.auburn.edu).
“TRL is hosted by us,” Johnson said. “We approve the jobs on the site, and it’s only for Auburn students and alumni.”
Companies worldwide looking for Auburn stu-dents and graduates post job applications on the website.
“It’s a great resource,” Johnson said. “All students have to do is create a stu-dent account, and they
can use the website.”TRL isn’t the only way to
find a summer job, though.“If you’re wanting to
work and can’t find some-thing in TRL, go around and talk to different com-panies, even for part-time positions,” Johnson said.
She said many students find jobs by asking for ad-vice from friends.
“It’s all about word-of-mouth,” Johnson said.
Johnson said Career de-velopment Services rec-ommends trying a fun job that interests you during freshman or sophomore year. But by junior year, students’ jobs should fo-cus around their majors.
“Center your work so you have experience for your resume,” Johnson said.
Lauren Murphy, junior in communication, found a job that is both fun and beneficial to her major.
Murphy spent the past few summers on the beaches of destin,
Fla., working at an ocean sports camp called RyNo (Realize your Natural ob-session).
“In the morning I teach kids to surf, swim, kayak, paddle board and snorkel,” Murphy said. “In the after-noon I schedule private lessons and rent all of our equipment.”
Murphy said working in the destin area is helping her prepare and make con-nections for her future.
“It’s led me to meeting many diverse and success-ful people,” she said. “I’ve learned how to communi-cate and welcome strang-ers.
“I’ve also learned how to deal with unhappy cus-tomers as well.”
Murphy learned one of the most difficult aspects of working with a compa-ny is learning how to keep customers coming back.
“during the slow weeks, I learned different ways of drumming up business through advertisement
strategies such as pass-ing out flyers and decorat-ing and putting up signs to draw more attention,” she said.
Murphy had the oppor-tunity to put her graph-ic art minor to use while working with RyNo. She helped design T-shirts, can huggers, rash guards and keychains for the compa-ny.
Not only has Murphy been given the chance to gain experience in her ma-jor and minor, but she’s also had the chance to meet some of the compa-ny’s more high-end cus-tomers.
“I had the chance to meet and work for the head coach of the New or-leans Saints, Sean Payton, which also led to me bab-ysitting his kids in the eve-nings,” Murphy said.
“I really believe that hav-ing experiences like the ones I’ve had at RyNo will be very beneficial to my fu-ture career path.”
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Getting an interview for a job or internship is hard enough, but nailing tough questions and learning to control preinterview jitters is a different story.
Jack Walls, career de-velopment adviser, said the first step in preparing for an interview is decid-ing how you are going to answer the common first question, “Tell me about yourself.”
“The best answer is not all about you,” Walls said. “Talk about your passion, knowledge, talents and skills as they relate to the company and job.
“This is what we refer to as your one to two minute self-marketing pitch.”
Torey Palmer, graduate assistant career adviser, agreed preparation is key in going into an interview.
“You absolutely should not go into an interview not knowing about the or-ganization to which you are applying,” Palmer said. “Not
only what the organization produces materials- and services-wise, but also their community involvements and charitable works.”
Palmer said an appropri-ate and professional outfit is also important.
For women, he suggests a conservative pantsuit or skirt suit in dark colors, typically dark blue or black.
For gentlemen, a dark blue or black suit is appro-priate, along with a coordi-nated dress shirt and tie.
“Your interview is not the time to wow the pan-el with your fashion savvy and edginess,” Palmer said. “Stick out based on your exceptional words, not on the faux pas you may have unintentionally made by wearing a visually striking outfit.”
Above all, Palmer said he believes the most impor-tant thing to do during an interview is to just be your-self.
“employers have inter-viewed long enough to rec-ognize insincerity,” Palmer
said. “Be genuine with your responses, and you and your interviewer will en-joy the experience to a far greater degree.”
Meredith MacLean, Pan-hellenic president, hosted interview workshops as ac-tivities chair for her soror-ity.
As Panhellenic president, MacLean has also been giv-en the chance to sit on the other side of a lot of inter-views.
“i’ve personally gotten a lot out of these opportuni-ties because i’ve seen first-hand what really matters,” MacLean said. “it’s so im-portant to be yourself and to figure out ways to let your personality come out in the interview.”
Career Development Ser-vices provides a mock in-terview service.
Students can speak di-rectly with career develop-ment counselors in room 303 in Mary Martin Hall.
“This can be considered as your dress rehearsal,” Walls said.
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With graduation quick-ly approaching, seniors’ heads are stuffed with thoughts of the future. But what they’ve learned throughout college should be passed along to those who will still be here when they have gone.
“Don’t let school get in the way of college,” said Josh Sells, senior in horti-culture.
Sells said one of his problems starting out as a freshman was he was too concerned about his class-es.
“i was really focused on not messing up because i was from out of state,” Sells said. “So i was real-ly focused on grades and not as much focused on getting out there and try-ing to see all the clubs and what they had to offer.”
Nikhil Jha, senior in electrical engineering, also found that being too
focused on school can be a problem.
“You’re not nearly as smart as you think you are,” Jha said. “i overload-ed on courses, activities—you can’t do everything.”
Charley Gaines, senior in journalism, said one way she found to balance out schoolwork was to take everything one step at a time.
“Don’t look to the fu-ture; just get one thing done at a time,” Gaines said. “That’s a life lesson, too.”
Jha said he had to learn to say “no” in order to counteract his ambition—or to at least occasionally say no to class work.
“Sometimes it’s oK to take a break and put something on hold, even if it’s a big project,” Jha said. “You’re going to burn out really fast if you don’t take breaks, go out to lunch with people and just stop and be like, ‘Yeah, i’m not
going to do this for a few hours. i’ll come back and do it later.’”
But that doesn’t mean say no to everything. Gaines said she recom-mends getting involved in a campus club or other or-ganization.
“You meet a ton of new people when you get in-volved in things,” Gaines said. “it exposes you to different things that you might not have been ex-posed to otherwise. Hon-estly, Auburn has any-thing and everything that you could get into.”
When it comes down to it, you will get plenty of emphasis on school from your professors and ad-visers, but fellow students say there’s more to life.
“it ’s not all about school,” Gaines said. “Col-lege is a time for you to en-joy and grow as a person and to really find out who you want to be and who you can be.”
Seniors reminisce
The Bucket ListSeniors Nikhil Jha, Josh Sells and Charley Gaines offer underclassmen a list of things to do before graduation
■ Join a volunteer club.■ Go to the rodeo.■ Go to all the football games you can.■ Go to nonfootball sporting events.■ Go to a party that’s not your scene.■ Walk through the aboretum.■ roll toomer’s.■ Go exploring on campus.
■ take advantage of the city parks like duck samford.■ Go to the library during fi-nals, and try to study.■ Go eat at Provino’s.■ skip a class.■ Get involved with things that you love.■ Go for a walk early in the morning when auburn’s real-ly quiet.
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counselors’ lives can be enriched as much as the campers’ through summer camps.
Allyson Houlton, senior in elementary education, spent last summer volun-teering with camp smile-A-Mile, or camp sAM, on Lake Martin.
Houlton, a member of Tri delta sorority, said the camp is one of her sorority’s philanthropies.
“it’s just a summer camp where kids with cancer can go and have fun and ride on boats and do all the things they normally wouldn’t be able to do,” Houlton said.
Houlton volunteered last summer with her sorority sister, elizabeth d’Amico,
and worked with children ages 6 to 12.
“i wanted to become in-volved in camp sAM be-cause my uncle passed away from melanoma two years ago, and i saw the ef-fect it had on my family,” d’Amico said.
“i could only imagine how harder it would be for a child to go through some-thing so terrible.”
The children travel in buses from a hospital in Bir-mingham to the camp.
Houlton said she met campers in all different stages of cancer ; some of the children were go-ing through chemothera-py during the camp session and others were in remis-sion.
“some of them have been coming for years; they had cancer when they were 7 or 8 years old … and they’re doing great right now, but there’s always that fear that it’s going to come back,”
Houlton said.camp sAM includes ac-
tivities like snorkeling in the lake, paintball and archery.
There is a memorial gar-den on the campsite in hon-or of children who previ-ously attended the camp, but have passed away. dur-ing the week, the children are given the chance to talk about camp friends they have lost to cancer.
“Just hearing them talk—7-year-olds that sound like 30-year-olds—they’ve had to grow up so fast, and they always have the biggest smiles on their faces,” Houl-ton said. “it just makes you realize how blessed you are to have every day and to have your health.”
she said the volunteers and campers formed strong bonds and a “camp family” during the short week they experienced together.
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seniors say farewell to their four or more years at auburn with a final party.
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college is filled with parties for any occasion under the sun, and gradu-ation is no exception.
Graduation parties are a right of passage for some, and planning them can add unnecessary stress to a joyous time.
Jon Thompson, direc-tor of special events, said a good starting point for students would be to flip through magazines and get ideas.
“do your research in ad-vance so that you come to the table prepared once you do get your ideas to-gether,” Thompson said.
Picking a venue early will help other plans fall into place. Thompson said to keep in mind how for-mal the party should be.
“you can have it at a res-
taurant or at your home, it really depends on what the graduate wants,” Thomp-sons said. “Just keep in mind what you want, but also the comfort of the other guests.”
The guest list is anoth-er worry when party plan-ning.
some graduates may be confused on who is appro-priate to invite.
Thompson said the best way to go is to invite friends, family and people who have helped you dur-ing your college career.
“Any faculty members who may have mentored graduates, especially if the graduate feels strong-ly about someone who was instrumental in get-ting them through school,” Thompson said. “it really all depends on what kind of party it is.”
Party favors are some-thing Thompson said can be tricky.
it’s important to not go over the top, but to show guests appreciation.
“The type of event and
guest list should drive the take-away gift,” Thompson said. “i think you can be creative with it. it may be a book that was instrumen-tal to their college experi-ence, or a photograph that inspired them.”
The menu of the par-ty should be a reflection of the graduate’s prefer-ences, but take care not to provide too much alcohol.
No graduate wants to babysit a drunk at their own party.
Thompson said it’s gen-erally best to stick to a small wine and beer selec-tion.
As for food, many cater-ing options are available in and around campus.
some restaurants and hotels even have their own catering service, so be sure to call around.
At the end of the day, a graduation party should be enjoyable for all in-volved.
“This is a huge mile-stone in a person’s life,” Thompson said. “it should be celebrated as such.”
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Graduation is a fun occasion, but it is also a dig-nified occasion, so make sure you dress the part! The ceremony will take advantage of the cool-er morning weather, so dress with versatility. La-dies, a sweater can be worn before the ceremo-ny and ditched when putting on the gown. Guys, a suit is appropriate, and the jacket can be tak-en off as well. To maintain the dignity of the oc-casion, graduates are asked to wear dress shoes (no athletic shoes or flip-flops); men are asked to wear dark trousers (no jeans). Ladies, also con-sider your accessories—a piece or two of jewel-ry is nice, but dangling earrings may get caught in your tassel! Heels can be worn, but make sure you have good footing in them. You should feel confident while walking across the stage, not clumsy.
Regardless of the clothes you choose, don your cap and gown with pride!
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Megan hill, former gymnast for Auburn university, is now a member of the u.s. olympic bobsledding team. her sled weighs approximately 250 pounds.
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Megan Hill used to push herself to be a better gymnast, but now she is pushing herself and her sled to olympic gold.
Hill, a gymnast all her life, walked on Auburn’s gymnastics team and participated for two years before making the switch to pole vaulting.
“i was cut after my second year,” Hill said. “i guess i just wasn’t what they were looking for. i wanted to continue my athletic career, so i went out for track and field.”
Hill said her track and field coach, Jerry Clayton, has a few of his athletes go on to bobsled and was curious about the sport.
Hill found out about a bobsled combine in orlando, Fla., last summer and decided to try out.
“i went to the combine and did well and was then invited to the olympic training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. for a rookie camp,” Hill said. “Just a few months later, i found myself on the U.S. Nation-al team.
“i fell in love with the sport, and
it is now my main focus.” Last week, Hill was picked up
by sports medical and protective performance apparel provider McDavid.
Hill said having a sponsor has been an overwhelming relief.
“it’s something i’m not used to, even in college and the sports i did at Auburn i was a walk-on and didn’t really have any help,” Hill said. “to actually have some kind of help is such a blessing.”
Part of what McDavid provides Hill is her protective gear.
Hill wears HexPad protective shorts during her runs, which help in a rare, but harmful crash.
HexPad technology bonds small pads directly to fabric, al-lowing athletes mobility and pro-tection.
“Megan has hopes of represent-ing the U.S. in the 2014 and 2018 Winter olympics, and we want to do everything we can to keep her body protected during her work-outs so she is healthy for compe-tition,” said rey Corpuz, director of marketing for McDavid. “Al-though our roots are in football and basketball, HexPad technol-
ogy is already making a huge im-pact across winter sports like skating, snowboarding and ski-ing, and we are looking forward to seeing it take off across bobsled-ding next.”
HexPad technology is current-ly used by more than 90 percent of NBA teams and almost half of NFL teams.
Hill has competed in many sports during her lifetime, but said bobsledding has been the most grueling on her body.
Because of the physical de-mands athletes experience dur-ing a run, Hill said it’s only possi-ble to do two or three runs daily in practice.
“the sleds weigh about 250 pounds and we have to move them ourselves,” Hill said. “You definitely have to be in good sprinting shape and keep up your weight lifting.”
Hill said some tracks can get sled speeds up to 85 miles-per-hour. if the sled pops a wall, Hill said it can feel like taking a hit.
“When you go around a curve, the G-forces push you back into the sled, and it can be demanding
on your body,” Hill said. “it’s defi-nitely something you have to get used to. The first time i ever went down in a sled i thought i was dy-ing.”
Hill has crashed four times since she began her sledding ca-reer and said her desire to get back into training and competing was a championship moment.
Since making the nation-al team, Hill said she has gained a greater sense of pride for her country.
“it’s international competi-tion, so the Germans are there, the russians are there,” Hill said. “it makes me really proud to be an
American, and i realize how lucky we really are.”
Hill said making the national team so quickly was something she never expected, and she is ex-cited to see what the future holds for her.
“it still hasn’t sunk in yet that i am on an olympic team,” Hill said. “it’s something i never would have expected from myself, but i’m very lucky to be a part of it.”
Hill had the opportunity to travel in Europe for two months competing and came home with a second-place finish at the Euro-pa Cup in Switzerland.
Hill also said many of her team-mates were in the military previ-ously, which is something she has learned about from them.
“We had one guy who was in the last olympics in 2010 and as soon as the olympics were over, went over to Afghanistan,” Hill said. “He was there for six months and when he came back started bobsledding again.
Not only was he representing our country by bobsledding, but also by fighting for us. it has really opened my eyes.”
“(bobsledding) is definitely something you have to get used to. the first time i ever went down in a sled, i thought i was dying.”
—Megan Hill US BoBSLED tEAM MEMBEr
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Brian WoodhamAssisTAnT sPorTs EdiTor
While senior diver dan Mazzaferro had to avoid making a splash in the pool to become a nine-time All-American, a finalist at the 2008 U.s. olympic diving Trials and a two-time sEC Player of the Year honoree, he performed the equiva-lent of a cannonball when he stepped away from the water.
A member of the College swimming Coaches Asso-ciation scholar All-America Team from 2007–09, Maz-zaferro was one of only six student-athletes from the nCAA’s three divisions to be selected as a finalist for the 2011 Walter Byers schol-arship, which is annually awarded to one male and one female student-athlete who exhibit outstanding academic achievement and the potential for success in postgraduate study.
“Being within those six fi-nalists is a great honor on its own,” Mazzaferro said. “i know that the level of com-petition throughout the whole country is at an un-precedented high.”
named in recognition of the contributions made by former nCAA execu-tive director Walter Byers, the postgraduate scholar-ship is intended to recog-
nize student-athletes who have combined the best ele-ments of mind and body to achieve national distinction for their achievements and show the potential to be fu-ture leaders in their chosen field.
The nCAA is expected to announce the two Byers scholars soon.
Mazzaferro, who already
earned a Bachelor of sci-ence degree in chemistry in May 2010, said he felt hon-ored the committee saw the potential in him for a great future.
He said he has big plans and expects to earn a Mas-ter of Business Administra-tion degree in december.
But before Mazzaferro walks across the stage to
receive his M.B.A., he will travel in May to Prague for an internship, where he’ll rotate for seven weeks be-tween three medical clinics to get a better understand-ing of the business aspect of the health care industry in the Czech republic.
Mazzaferro said he’ll then return to Auburn in June to work at the East Ala-
bama Medical Center to get a better understanding of the U.s. health care system,
“in the end, i really want to work on a project and write a paper comparing the two health care sys-tems,” he said.
After earning a M.B.A., Mazzaferro said he wants to travel abroad before go-ing to medical school.
“Beyond this, i want to contribute both locally and afar for global outreach in terms of medical preven-tion,” he said. “There’s tens of millions of people who are without basic medi-cal needs throughout the world.”
Last summer, Mazzaferro extended his reach, traveled to Africa with the program Unite For sight.
He said he worked with six others for 10 days in re-mote areas of Ghana, where he helped screen a 1,000 pa-tients’ eyes and even treat-ed patients who were al-most blind from cataracts.
“This is a specific need that millions of people don’t have in the world, whether it’s dentistry, whether it’s eye care or if it’s just ba-sic medical needs” he said. “But it’s not just in Africa, it’s not just in india, it’s not just in third-world coun-tries: it’s also in our local communities.
“Here in Alabama, there are thousands of people that do not have basic med-ical needs.”
Mazzaferro said he feels blessed with all of the re-sources and help he’s got-ten and would like to give back to others, whether it’s through working with doc-tors Without Borders or by starting his own nonprofit.
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The Tigers baseball team will take the diamond Fri-day to play the fifth-ranked Gamecocks at Carolina stadium in Columbia, s.C., at 6 p.m.
The game will be the first of a weekend-long series, preceding their second game on saturday at 6 p.m. CT and their third, sunday at 2 p.m. CT.
With a devastating eight point deficit to samford with not one run to show this past Tuesday at Plains-man Park, the Tigers will have to enforce a new strat-egy if they wish to pick up the season.
“it’s just frustrating,” said John Pawlowski, Auburn head coach. “You don’t get out of the gates, and you struggle from the very be-ginning of the ballgame.
“on top of that, we didn’t get anything going offen-sively.”
The Tigers’ performance since February has been inconsistent and just as much up as it has been down.
With an overall of 22–18, 9–9 in conference, 13–12 home and 6–6 away, Au-burn lacks stability.
“i think we’ve been hav-ing really good weekends lately,” said junior Casey McElroy. “Maybe we’ve just been getting down and not really getting up for these midweek games, which is really no excuse.
“Lately, during the mid-week we just haven’t been bringing our ‘A’ game at all. it’s definitely frustrating when we don’t play well, and we don’t come out here really ready to play.”
Even with 22 wins for Au-burn, many of them were low-scoring games and vic-tories in which the Tigers barely surpassed the op-posing team.
“i think the biggest thing is that we’ve got to find a way to improve in a lot of different areas,” Pawlows-ki said. “We’re trying to get better, and we’ve got to con-tinue to work at it.”
With a 2010 national Championship under their belts, the Gamecocks are
still the team to beat. “obviously they’re a very
good ballclub,” Pawlows-ki said. “Going on the road versus one of the top teams in our conference and the country—it’ll be a great test for us, that’s for sure.”
The Tigers plan on im-proving their offensive strategy.
instead of batting low into the outfield, they have also had a lingering issue with fly balls.
“We’re just gonna go out like our game plan’s been all year and try and get on base,” said junior dan Gam-ache. “Focus on that, focus on our short game more and move guys over.”
The Gamecocks have had an immensely success-ful season thus far, with 32–8 overall, 14–4 in con-ference, 23–3 home, and 8–5 away.
Compared to Auburn, a win would be assumed in south Carolina’s favor based primarily on season performance.
“ it ’s goin g to b e competitive,”Gamache said. “Just like any game in the sEC.”
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senior tony Caldwell slides to third as ole miss’ Austin Anderson kneels to tag him out at the game saturday. Auburn won the series 2–1.
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Auburn senior diver dan mazzaferro has been named one of six finalists for the prestigious Walter byers schol-arship. A male and a female recipient for the $24,000 renewable scholarship will be selected later this month.
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After earning All-sec First Team honors in 2009 and NcAA All-American honors in 2008, time at Au-burn has almost run out for senior distance runner Hol-ly Knight.
Knight grew up in the small city of Devon, locat-ed on the southern coast of england, and said she has always enjoyed staying ac-tive and being outside.
“i enjoyed doing outdoor things, and Devon was a nice place for that,” Knight said. “it was a great place to grow up. There are a lot of beaches, farmlands and national parks—just kind of green area.”
Like many athletes, Knight developed an early love for sports and decided to try out for a team.
“i was quite young when i first started,” Knight said. “i was about 9 years old when i first joined the track club. it was just fun at first, but it grew from there. Things slowly became more
competitive, and i started competing in races.”
Knight attended ivy-bridge High school, where she took third at the 2006 Devon schools cross coun-try championship and placed fourth at the 2007 senior Athletics champi-onships in the 3,000 meter.
Knight then came to the United states and Auburn in 2007 for her freshman year, and decided she was going to major in psychol-ogy.
After graduation, Knight plans to attend graduate school also for psycholo-gy, but said she is not sure yet which route she wants to take.
“i’m not sure if i want to teach or go into clini-cal practice,” Knight said. “But it will probably be one of those two. Hopeful-ly this will allow me to stay in the states a little bit lon-ger. i’m not sure if i want to go home yet because i like it here a lot.”
The life of a student-ath-lete can be demanding, and
Knight admits she doesn’t have a lot of spare time.
When she does have time off, however, Knight said she spends time with friends from the team and enjoys some of the simple things in life such as nice weather.
Knight was Auburn’s top finisher in each of her first five competitions in 2009 and leads the team by ex-ample, according to head coach ralph spry.
“she has been a role
model to the program,” he said. “she does every-thing the coaches ask her to do; she has just about a 4.0 GPA—so really just a coach’s dream.”
Besides her on-the-field-results, Knight’s coaches said she is a sheer joy to be around.
“No matter what hap-pens, whether it comes to injuries or if some race did not go her way, she always stays positive,” spry said. “she always has a smile on her face. i don’t think i have ever spoken with her or crossed her path when she was not cheery and had a great smile on her face along with that english ac-cent.”
Distance coach Mark carroll said Knight also has great energy which feeds the rest of the team.
“she takes care of all the little stuff such as stretch-ing so that she can com-pete at the highest level,” carroll said. “This year has been another great year for her.”
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The track and field team’s annual trip to the Penn re-lays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pa., begins April 28.
The event attracts more than 22,000 track and field stars from junior high school, high school, college, senior and professional lev-els. Athletes from more than 60 countries will be participating in the three-day event.
coming off a three-event win at the Mississip-
pi open, Auburn’s track and field team approaches this weekend with determina-tion.
“The Penn relays is the last competition before the sec championship,” said head coach ralph spry. “it’ll give us a chance to be sharper and be at our best for the sec champion-ships.”
The Penn relays is the oldest meet in the Unit-ed states, with this year’s event marking the 117th meet.
“it will be a very compet-
itive meet,” spry said. “Top teams will be there.”
A few of these top teams are Penn, Villanova, ore-gon, Tennessee and south carolina.
Many NcAA champs are expected to succeed in the relays.
Women’s 60-meter re-cord setter LaKya Brookins of south carolina and Tex-as A&M’s Jessica Beard are among the leaders for past Penn relays.
Brookins won the college women’s 100-meter at Penn last year.
on the men’s side, Flor-ida’s sprinter Jeff Demps, who won the NcAA 60-me-ter, and 400-meter champ Demetrius Pinder of Texas A&M set the bar high.
“ole Miss and Mississippi state are both very compet-itive teams,” said clay Por-ter, freshman on the team. ”Mississippi state has great runners, as well as ole Miss and Alabama.”
The team is preparing by focusing on their bodies and overall health.
“We’re coming out ev-ery day and listening to the
coaches and training as hard as we can,” Porter said. “staying healthy is the goal.”
The team is practicing at Auburn’s Hutsell-rosen track in preparation for the relays.
“coach is giving us time to treat our bodies right,“ said Maya Pressley, soph-omore on the team. “We’re not running practice as hard so we can prepare our bodies for the relays and go for it.”
Pressley is an sec cham-pion and All-American who placed first in the women’s
high jump at the Mississip-pi open last weekend.
“i think we’ll do good at the meet,” she said. “We’ve been training hard, and ev-eryone’s ready for the com-petition and once the com-petition comes, everyone will step it up. “
During the Penn relays, there is an average of one race every five minutes.
“The thing i like about the Penn relays is the fans in the stands,” spry said. “it gives us a chance to com-pete with a great crowd in a great environment.”
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“she has been a role model to the program. she does everything the coaches ask her to do; she has just about a 4.0 GPa—so really just a coach’s dream.”
—ralph spry HeAD coAcH
Sports D4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, April 28, 2011
Brian WoodhamAssisTAnT sPorTs EdiTor
sophomore Blayne Bar-ber, the 17th-ranked world amateur golfer, jotted down one more obligation to his busy June scorecard.
Barber became the first Auburn golfer selected to represent the United states in the Palmer Cup June 9–11 at The stanwich Club outside Greenwich, Conn.
“Anytime you can repre-sent your country, i think it’s a great honor,” Barber said. “it’s a great feeling. i feel very blessed and hon-ored to have that opportu-nity and hope to represent
Auburn well in that pur-suit.”
named after legendary PGA golfer Arnold Palm-er, who hosted the inaugu-ral event in 1997 at his Bay Hill Club in orlando, Fla., the 2011 Palmer Cup will pit the top eight collegiate golf-ers from the United states against the top eight col-legiate golfers from Great Britain and ireland in a ry-der Cup-style competition.
“i think that’s a big testa-ment to Blayne,” said dustin roberts, director of external affairs for the Golf Coaches Association of America.
“With all the good players
out there that could have been selected to represent the United states, he’s one of the eight picked.
“When you’re trying to pick a group of guys that are going to represent your country, you certainly want to do all your due diligence and make sure you find guys that not only are great players, but people you’ll be proud to have represent your country.”
Team UsA will consist of Blayne Barber of Auburn, UCLA’s Patrick Cantlay, Abilene Christian’s Alex Carpenter, russell Henley of Georgia, oregon’s daniel
Miernicki, Bank Vongvanij of Florida, Washington’s Chris Williams and stan-ford’s Andrew Yun.
The U.s. team will be led by head coach Tim Poe of Central Missouri and assis-tant coach Michael Burcin of south Carolina.
“We’re very proud of Blayne for his selection to represent the United states at the prestigious Palmer Cup this summer,” said di-rector of Athletics Jay Ja-cobs. “This will be a tre-mendous opportunity for Blayne to play against some of the best amateur players in the world. We know he’ll represent Auburn well.”
Barber’s solid play this season in collegiate compe-titions and last summer in amateur events stood out and led to his inclusion on the team, said dustin rob-erts, director of external af-fairs for the Golf Coaches
Association of America. “He’s a guy that will come
out there and, regardless of what day it is, is going to put together a solid round,” roberts said.
Barber won’t have an op-portunity to practice with his Palmer Cup teammates, as he’ll fly straight to Con-necticut after competing in the U.s. open section-al Qualifying tournament June 6 in Florida.
The U.s. Team will try to build on its 7–6–1 lead over its European counterparts in the Palmer Cup series as it goes for a second-straight win.
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The Auburn Universi-ty men’s and women’s la-crosse clubs have teamed up with parents in the com-munity to start the Auburn Youth Lacrosse League.
“Last summer i was in Auburn taking a couple classes and was kind of bored,” said Marshall Clark, senior in economics and member of Auburn men’s lacrosse club. “so i put up on the Auburn lacrosse website anyone who is in-terested in lacrosse to con-tact me.”
Clark was contacted by an Auburn mom and was soon giving lessons to a couple kids in her back-yard.
“We started doing week-ly lessons last fall, and it got bigger and bigger and had
more and more kids,” Clark said.
Then, Clark and a few other members from the lacrosse team went to schools to get local kids in-terested.
“When we pulled up to dean road Elementary one day, the men’s college club team was there in their la-crosse gear,” said league coach damon Grimes. “My son broke out into a big smile, and i thought, ‘We are finally gonna have la-crosse here.’”
There are 129 kids in the league, which is divided into the lightning division for kids ages 6–9, the junior division for 9–12-year-olds and the senior division for 12 and older.
There are separate teams for boys and girls.
“The boys teams have a
few men that have actual-ly played lacrosse or their sons have played in a dif-ferent city,” said Aimee ow-ens, coach in the girls divi-sion. “But me and the oth-er two parents that are kind of coaching have no knowl-edge of lacrosse at all.”
on each team is a par-ent-coach and also a play-er from the Auburn men’s or women’s team.
“if we didn’t have (the Auburn players), the kids would not have half the skills they have now,” Grimes said. “The support they’ve given has been phe-nomenal—taking three to four hours of their day on a saturday to come out and teach from 6–16-year- olds—they’ve been fantas-tic, and that’s our advan-tage.”
Kids don’t need to have
previous knowledge of la-crosse to get involved. ow-ens and her 8-year-old daughter Maggie watched videos on the internet to get an understanding of what the game was and how it was played.
“We are learning togeth-
er, which makes it excit-ing and fun,” owens said. “There is a lot of finesse to it because we are trying to match them up according to size so the tall girls aren’t taking over the little girls.”
Few high schools in Ala-bama have lacrosse teams, whereas in Atlanta lacrosse is popular among high school athletes. Grimes and his family moved to Auburn a year ago from Marietta, Ga., just north of Atlanta.
“High schools are using lacrosse to keep their ath-letes conditioned,” Grimes said. “(The athletes) loved it, and now that’s why high schools in Atlanta have it.”
Auburn High school does not have a lacrosse team, so kids in the com-munity can come play with the youth league to learn
more about the sport.“The kids from Auburn
are volunteering their time,” owens said. “They aren’t getting compen-sated; they’ve just volun-teered. The reason they said they wanted to help was to increase awareness and build the sport up.”
The league will be play-ing against teams from Mobile that will be travel-ing to Auburn in the next two weeks, and May 14 the Auburn teams will travel to Birmingham to try out their new skills.
“i just want (my daugh-ter) to try whatever she wants to try and learn,” owens said. “it has been a great experience for me and my daughter, and ev-eryone has really enjoyed learning the game. it has been really fun.”
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The Auburn Tigers soft-ball team (34–14, 11–11 sEC) will turn to its offense to try and snap a five-game conference losing streak as it hosts no. 3 Georgia (40–7, 14–6 sEC) this weekend.
The Bulldogs will bring a potent offense to the Plains with four players hitting .368 or higher.
These players are junior infielder Ashley Pauly, se-nior infielder Megan Wig-gins, senior infielder Alisa Goler and senior infielder Brianna Hesson.
“They come in here, and they are ranked second in the conference in terms of run production and offen-sive production,” said head coach Tina deese. “so we are not looking for a shut-out.”
Pauly leads the Bulldogs with a .391 batting aver-age, while Hesson is anoth-er threat who should not be overlooked. The sugar Hill, Ga., native is hitting .368, has 12 home runs and 15 games with at least two or more hits.
Hesson also has 15 multi-ple rBi games.
deese said the Tigers will have to see what Georgia’s pitching is like as well as prepare a solid game plan. deese also said the idea to earn a win against Georgia
sounds simple: get hits.“We are going to have to
maximize our opportuni-ties,” deese said. “When we get chances and get run-ners on, we are going to have to do everything we can to score runs.”
in their last outing, the Tigers completed a sweep of Mississippi Valley state, a much needed win for a team that has its eye on post-season play, deese said.
“We are looking forward to nCAA regionals,” she said. “i think this is a step forward. A loss (to Missis-sippi Valley state) could have been detrimental to those hopes and aspira-tions.”
The Tigers earned 25 runs on 29 hits and had a season-high 14 runs in the second game while also
registering 16 hits. The 14 runs and 16 hits
are the most by Auburn since scoring 15 runs and 18 hits against Jacksonville state on May 22, 2010.
Junior pitcher Lauren schmaltz earned the vic-tory after allowing one earned run on four hits and 10 strikeouts.
We came out swinging and putting some runs on the board,” deese said. “i thought we were selectively aggressive at the plate, and that proved to be good for us. i am very proud of my seniors, and it was fitting that the rest of the team stepped up around them.”
senior infielder Kelly smiley was one of many Ti-gers who recorded hits.
smiley scored a double and two rBis in the first in-ning of the second game, and said the atmosphere was one of many contrib-uting factors to the sweep.
“We were seeing the ball well, and we were pumped,” smiley said. “Knowing that it was senior day, the un-derclassmen always try to pick the seniors up and have their backs. We all made sure we were on our ‘A’ game today so that we could get the wins.”
Auburn will host Georgia for a three-game series.
The first game will start Friday at 6 p.m.
Athlete quick hits
Tigers complete sweep in preparation for Bulldogs
Players and parents team up for Auburn Youth Lacrosse League
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Junior infielder Lauren Guzman hits during saturday’s game against MVsU. strong hitting will be a key to earning wins against Georgia, according to deese.
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Kelly smiley touches first base to earn the out against shana Ladner saturday.
Auburn golfer Blayne Barber to represent US in Palmer Cup
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“they come in here and they are ranked second in the conference in terms of run production and offensive production.”
—Tina deese HEAd CoACH
“if we didn’t have (the auburn players), the kids would not have half the skills they have now. the support they have given has been phenomenal.”
—damon Grimes LEAGUE CoACH
Thursday, April 28, 2011 The Auburn Plainsman Sports D5
Victoria RodgersWRiTeR
While Paige Monfore, se-nior in premedicine, is rid-ing out her last year on the Plains with a bang, she still believes in Auburn and loves it.
“i chose Auburn because of the family and the goals of the team,” Monfore said. “They were so nice and so welcoming. i just really felt like i fit in.”
Monfore, a highly regard-ed rider, helped spur the equestrian team to win the SeC Championship and the National Championship, which she said made 2011 a year she will never forget.
“This year has been abso-lutely great,” Monfore said. “We’ve worked so hard to-gether as a team and re-ally became a close-knit group of girls. everyone had a great work effort and we all had one goal in mind,
which was winning a na-tional championship.”
Monfore received a call Tuesday from the National Reining Horse Association and was informed that she was the No. 1 rider select-ed to compete in front of
well-known trainers at the 2011 NRHA Collegiate Ring Championships in Oklaho-ma City, Okla.
“it’s a pretty big deal,” Monfore said.
Monfore made her mark as a senior on the eques-
trian team as one of the three Auburn riders who earned MVP awards at na-tionals, taking the reining MVP award and earning the highest score.
“Being third in the coun-try my sophomore year was amazing,” Monfore said. “This year i had the high-est score at nationals with a 150.5. i was also named the reining most valuable play-er at nationals. And we won SeC and the overall titles at nationals.”
Monfore has created a bond with the girls on the national championship team and appreciates the importance of having great teammates.
“it was just special to have a group of girls who are so close like we’re sis-ters,” Monfore said. “We always have each other’s backs, and we treat each other really well.”
Head coach Greg Wil-liams also sees the strong bond between teammates.
“This national champi-onship for the Auburn fans is due to the hard work of coach Neubarth and coach Helfer and a group of girls that will do anything for each other,” Williams said after winning the champi-onship.
While she has grown as a rider and competed at
higher national levels while on the Plains, she has also grown as a person.
“i think the greatest growing experience i’ve had at Auburn is the tran-sition of becoming an up-perclassman versus a low-erclassman and becoming a leader,” Monfore said. “i really learned how to lead a group of people.”
She has excelled not only as an athlete, but also as a student.
A member of the Chi Al-pha Sigma Athletic Honor Society, Monfore has been named to the SeC Academ-ic Honor Roll.
She was one of 235 stu-dent-athletes honored Monday as Top Tigers at the Athletic Department’s inaugural “AUSPY Awards,”
which recognized the top athletic and academic achievements by student-athletes during the 2011–12 academic year.
Top Tigers awards go to student-athletes who achieve a minimum 3.0 grade point average for the last academic year or for their career.
Monfore has done a lot in her college career, and plans to continue to do more after crossing the stage at graduation.
“i’m planning to take a year off and show a lot more and hopefully ride horses in italy,” Monfore said. “Then i would like to go to medical school.”
The senior said she has always wanted to travel abroad, but never had time because of her responsibili-ties as a college athlete.
in italy, Monfore wants to become a horse trainer and later return to the states af-ter a year overseas to attend a medical school near her home.
“i would like to special-ize in something involving surgery, but i’m not exact-ly sure of what i want to do,” Monfore said. “i would like to get into (school) in my home state, which i’m from Nebraska, so i would like to get into the University of Nebraska Medical Center.”
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senior Paige Monfore rides to a win Feb. 19 against south Carolina in auburn.
“it was just special to have a group of girls who are so close like we’re sisters. We always have each other’s backs, and we treat each other very well.”
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Graduating senior reflects on successful equestrian career and looks to the future
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Freshman running back Michael dyer won Male rookie of the Year at the first ausPY awards. the ceremo-ny, held Monday night at the auburn arena, celebrated all student athletes and their achievements this sea-son. the football team was awarded Male team of the Year while volleyball took the honor for female team. soccer recieved the spirit award for supporting their fellow student-athletes.
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