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Since track star Snitz Snider participated in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Auburn has seen more than 100 of its former athletes become Olympians.

Thanks to the efforts of those Olympians and the School of Kinesiology, Auburn has a chance to become home to dozens of first-time Olympic participants at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Representatives from USA Team Handball will visit The Plains July 12-13 to see if the University could become the new residency program for the United States’ national handball teams.

The residency bid, led by former Auburn Tiger and handball Olympian Reita Clanton, could make Auburn the new home for Olympic team handball in the U.S. “Essentially what they need is a gym to train in, adequate housing for their athletes and opportunities for their athletes to work or contin-

Editor’s note: Although sharing the same last name, Jeffrey Moore and firefighter Tom Moore are not related.

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Essentially what they need is a gym to train in, adequate housing for their athletes and opportunities for their athletes to work or continue their education. Auburn has all of these things and more.

—Reita Clanton Auburn alum and handball olympian

Clanton said. “Team handball combines all these skills we use in American sports—running, jumping, throwing and catching—so it could be something a really great ath-

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ue their education,” Clanton said.

“Auburn has all of these things and more. We have the infrastructure for support services like athletic training and strength and conditioning.

Through the school of kinesiology and the Performance Optimization Center, we have possibilities to collaborate with the team and provide them new opportunities.”

One of those new Olympians living and training in Auburn could be a current University student.

As part of USA Team Handball’s visit, there will be an open tryout for the men’s training squad for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Participants will be evaluated on ball handling skills, throwing ability, physical abilities and teamwork.

Since team handball is a relatively unknown sport in the United States—no American national team has qualified since the 1996 Games in Atlanta—no experience with the sport is required to tryout. “(The national team coaches) are always looking for great athletes,”

The Auburn Family asked for it, and University officials delivered.

Athletics Director Jay Jacobs announced Friday, June 28, the addition of 2,000 free gameday parking spaces and the opening of tailgating spots near campus set for the 2013 football season.

Jacobs also announced the opening of 800 new, paid parking spaces for fans willing to pay for a hassle-free game day experience.

The initiative began after a survey of football season ticket holders made clear the availability of parking and tailgating spaces is a major concern among Auburn fans.

“Auburn football fans now have a full range of options for game day, from free parking and tailgating in a number of new or expanded locations, to all-inclusive tailgating packages available for a fee,” Jacobs said in an open letter. “A number of fans told us they want pre-paid parking or tailgating packages so they can enjoy a hassle-free, guaranteed space on game day, so that option was increased as well.

“The changes we are implementing for the 2013 season are just the start. This is the beginning of our efforts to improve the game day experience, not the end.”

To open up new tailgating areas, the University is removing bollards and chain fences in certain spaces to allow more fan access. Restrooms and additional lighting will also be added to a number of lots, and new drive-through tailgate drop-off locations have been designated to allow fans to drop off their tailgate supplies closer to their spots.”

Meanwhile, paid options include The Tailgate Guys, Tailgate at the Park offered by the College of Agriculture at the Ag Heritage Park, and AAA Parking’s reserved parking lots.

“Most of our focus was on adding more free parking spaces and opening up more space for tailgating, but some fans have told us they want hassle-free, reserved tailgating spots, so we are increasing those options as well,” said Scott Carr, senior associate athletics director.

Nineteen firefighters lost their lives battling wildfires in Yarnell, Ariz. June 30. This disaster marked the deadliest wildfire in 80 years and the worst firefighter tragedy since September 11.

While the firemen of Auburn Station No. 1 will certainly not be combatting any forest fires with flames reaching 40 feet high, as they did in Arizona, they still face dangerous situations every day that make the job just as life-threatening.

Auburn firefighter Tom Moore commended the fallen Arizona firemen for their service.

“I think that what they were

doing was pretty extraordinary. That’s a very difficult job.

It’s extremely physical, and you have to have a lot of endurance for that kind of firefighting,” Moore said. “But that was a calculated risk they took, going out there and trying to put out a forest fire. They all knew the dangers, but they’ve also been trained to respond to that danger.”

Corey Donaldson, also an Auburn firefighter, said the Auburn firefighters know the risks involved with such a dangerous profession.

“It’s tragic. It’s something that’s hard to handle for the families, but when we sign up for the job, when we sign that paper work to work here, it’s something that everybody knows about. But it’s a risk that we’re willing to take for the city,” Donaldson said.

Even though the Auburn

Fire Department responds to more house fires than forest fires, the conditions are just as dangerous. Moore said having a good plan is the best way to ensure their safety.

“It’s all calculated. We’re not just going to run into some situation,” Moore said. “If we go into a structure fire, we have a plan. We know what to do.

We’ve been trained. We’re going to have a strategy of how to get out of dangerous situations. Those (Arizona firefighters) did too; it’s just one of those things you can’t control.”

One similarity between combatting forest fires and structure fires is the effect wind can have on the flames.

Donaldson said a change in wind direction can turn the blaze on the firemen in an instant, as it did in Arizona.

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lete out there could play well.

There might be some young people here that have what it takes to train with the national team.”

Clanton, the director of the new Performance Optimization Center, would know what it takes to be a member of the national team. A native of nearby Lafayette, Clanton was one of the first multi-sport athletes in Auburn’s budding women’s athletics program.

After playing and coaching women’s basketball, volleyball and softball at Auburn, Clanton received a letter from the United States Olympic Committee asking her to try out for the country’s newly formed team handball program.

“I had no idea what team handball was—I thought I was going to go whack the little ball up against the wall,” Clanton said with a chuckle. “When I got to Iowa State University and saw the sport for the first time, I was like, ‘This is a gift from heaven!’ It

was all of my favorite sports rolled into one.”

Despite missing out on the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Clanton and her teammates qualified for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. At those Games, the United States women’s handball team placed fourth in a campaign that included an opening-round upset of No. 1-ranked China.

Clanton went on to coach the national team at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, just 100 miles from her hometown.

After her coaching days were over, Clanton continued her close ties to the program, which led to Auburn’s bid for the residency program.

“One of my former coaches, Javier Garcia Cuesta, called me back in late April to tell me he was back in the States and that he had taken the men’s national team coaching job,” Clanton said. “We were just chatting, and I asked him where the national team was now. He said they were kind of in limbo at that point, and they were looking for a resi-

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“The wind can change the direction of a fire going through a house too,” Donaldson said. “One of the ways we try to avoid those kind of problems is to have a designated safety officer for every big call we go to. He’s set aside to watch and make sure that if anything changes significantly, he can tell the commander that’s in charge and we can get everybody out or take the necessary steps to fix that problem.”

Moore added staying attentive is also key when fighting fires.

“You want to always have all the information before you go in to a dangerous situation to form a (mental) picture, and then color everything else in as you go,” Moore said. “We’re very safety oriented. You’ve always got to be thinking ‘stay focused’ and keep your situational awareness and be aware

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A handball player takes a shot from behind the arc at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

dency program for their men’s and women’s national teams.”

Clanton said her wheels started turning when Cuesta, who will be at the open tryout July 13, described the places the national team was looking at for the residency program.

While he named off places such as Boston, Los Angeles and Colorado Springs, Clanton decided to throw Auburn’s name into the hat.

“Auburn can offer just as much more than a regular training center because we are a university,” Clanton said. “We have one of the top Schools of Kinesiology in the country and we have a Per-

formance Optimization Center. We have cutting edge research, expert skills and emerging technology to help the national teams with performance enhancement.”

Clanton went over the plan with Mary Rudisill and David Pascoe, the head and assistant head of the School of Kinesiology. They and the rest of the school thought the bid would be great for Auburn, and a date was set.

During the visit, USA Team Handball will outline its vision for the national team in 2013 and beyond. Clanton believes Auburn could play a huge role in the future success

of all the different factors going on around you. We’re very good about that in this department. We all take care of each other to make sure we’re not putting ourselves in a dangerous situation.”

The firemen of Auburn Station No. 1 are all highly qualified and trained public servants. They engage in training exercises every day and always take the steps necessary to ensure their safety, no matter the severity of the call.

But as evidenced by the tragedy in Arizona last week, sometimes things don’t always go according to plan.

Auburn Deputy Chief Rodney Hartsfield said taking risk is all part of the job description.

“You never know what kind of situation you are walking into,” Hartsfield said. “We can do everything right and still get hurt. You can have all of the safety officers and all the training in the world, but it’s just the nature of the job.”

of the program.

“I’ve always said that handball doesn’t have to be a major sport in the United States in order to be successful,” Clanton said. “It could be just a regional sport because we have enough good athletes around that if we built a culture of team handball here in the Southeast, we could gain an international level of competitive excellence.

“A residency program here in Auburn would be great for the game at the national team level and at a grassroots level.

It’s all about building awareness and developing that culture,” Clanton said.

The move comes as a reversal from several years ago when the University added bollards and chain fences, ultimately inhibiting fans’ tailgating experience.

“For those of us that have been around Auburn for a long time, we realize when some changes were made several years back we had gone a little too far,” said Jeremy Roberts, Auburn’s assistant athletics director for operations.

“We knew we needed to get the arrow pointed back in the other direction and get it opened back up.”

Fans are encouraged to send feedback and suggestions as to how the changes affect their game day experience as the season begins with Washington State.

“This is just the first step in a process that will be a couple of years long,” Roberts said.

“We’ll continue to look at and identify areas on campus that we can turn back over to the fans and continue to improve our game day experience.”

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All in: Auburn senior cashes in at World Series of Poker Jeffrey Moore Writer

Auburn senior Stephen Darby played in his first World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas June 16, and walked away a winner.

While the event Darby placed in is part of the WSOP, it was not the “main event,” which has become famous after being aired on ESPN. “The most common question I get when I tell people I played in the World Series is ‘Oh, the $10,000 event?’” Darby said. “I have to explain to people that it’s called the World Series of Poker because it’s literally a series. There are around 70 tournaments and I played in the 28th one, which was a $1,000, no-limit Texas Hold ‘em tournament with 2,108 entrants.”

Darby placed 187th out of the 2,108 entrants and walked away with $1,935 for his effort.

Only 216 entrants, including Darby, would “make the money” in Darby’s event. At the end of day one, the entire room knew how close the cash was.

“Everyone was watching the table next to us, and as soon as we saw the last guy get knocked out we knew we had made the money,” Darby said.

“So everyone in the room started celebrating and clapping when they announced that we were in the money.”

Chris Authement, a longtime friend of Darby’s and a semi-pro poker player, has cashed in twice at WSOP events. Authement said cashing at tournaments such asthese is no small feat.

“It’s a great feeling for everyone in the room, and everyone feels a little bit better after hours of nonstop poker,” Authement said. “But that’s certainly not the end all be all. We all do this to win, but cashing for your first time is certainly a special feeling.”

While Darby said cashing in at his first WSOP event was a dream come true, making friends during the tournament was just as satisfying.

“I sat next to a professional (poker player) at one of my tables,” Darby said. “He let me watch the British Open with him on his iPad. That table was really rowdy. Everyone was joking around and having a good time.”

Darby also met some Auburn fans during his time in Las Vegas.

“I met a fellow Auburn fan at my second to last table. He kind of mentored me on a couple of our breaks and texted me the next day to wish me luck because he didn’t make it,” Darby said. “I met another Auburn fan later and we talked about Auburn football. He was telling me about some poker games in Atlanta and invited me to drive over from auburn to play in an American Legion game there.

I met some really good people on my trip.”

Darby’s road from his hometown of Andalusia to playing beside professional card players in Las Vegas started at an early age.

“Ten years ago they started playing the World Series Main Event on TV and I was just instantly mesmerized. We set up a game that weekend at a friend’s house, and we would play no-limit tournaments with nickels and dimes,” Darby said. “After that, the games became a lot more frequent. We moved from dimes to quarters and quarters to dollars pretty quickly.”

When Darby reached the age to legally gamble, he started playing in casinos.

“When I turned 18 I started going to the dog tracks in Florida, because you can (legally) play poker at dog tracks down there. I would play the $200 buy-in games,” Darby

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It’s a great feeling for everyone in the room, and everyone feels a little bit better after hours of nonstop poker, but that’s certainly not the end all be all.

We all do this to win, but cashing for your first time is certainly a special feeling.”

—Chris Authement Semi-pro Poker player

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Senior Stephen Darby finished 187th out of 2,108 entrants in one of approximately 70 tournaments held at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Darby walked away with $1,935.

said. “Then I started playing online, where I won back-toback tournaments one night for $1500 a piece.”

Darby plans on playing in three WSOP events next year.

Meanwhile, he will enter in tournaments around the South to prepare himself.

“I hope to play in a tournament in Hollywood, Fla., at the beginning of August. They also have a big series in Biloxi, Miss. in January that I plan on entering, and I plan on going to a World Series of Poker circuit event in New Orleans next year right before the World Series starts,” Darby said.

Darby is pursuing a double major in Political Science and Economics with a minor in Psychology. After graduation in May 2014, he hopes to begin a career practicing law.

“I hope to get into law school in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area,” Darby said. “As far as long-term, I want to work for a big law firm for a couple of years, and then dedicate my service to those who cannot afford adequate representation.”

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Oskar Blue and Orange: How an Auburn alumnus revolutionized the beer industry Andrew Yawn News EDitor

For Dale Katechis, founder and owner of Oskar Blues Brewery, the bathtub is only the second strangest place he’s ever put craft beer.

Many bar-goers and hopheads in Auburn know the story of Katechis.

A 1992 Auburn alumnus, Katechis began brewing beer in 1990 in a trailer off Wire Road after getting a home brew kit for Christmas.

Then he began perfecting it.

Katechis’ experimental brew became popular with a local home brewing club, and he eventually started brewing larger quantities of beer in his bathtub. Katechis earned a degree in finance from Auburn and moved to Colorado where he started Oskar Blues Restaurant. That restaurant became a brew pub, that brew pub expanded into a brewery, and like a beer poured too quickly into a glass, Katechis’ success was soon foaming over the rim.

Oskar Blues’ rise to pub prominence from a homebrewing kit is remarkable enough, however, Katechis was not just trying to get into the business. He was trying to change it entirely.

In a market where product is heavily judged by the package, Katechis began canning his prized pale ale in 2002, a head-scratching move considering the top beers at the time were all sold in bottles.

“Nobody was doing it at the time,” Katechis said. “Cans were frowned upon. The consumer in our industry believed it was an inferior package for craft beer, mainly due to the fact that large domestic brewers that were brewing lager-style beers (were canning) their beer. And craft brewers

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believed that in order for beer to be high quality, it had to be in a brown bottle only because that’s the only vessel a craft beer had been served in other than a keg.”

That bathtub brew, now known as Dale’s Pale Ale, is the flagship beer of Oskar Blues, and although it’s no longer made in the tub, it’s recipe has not changed much, according to Katechis. Dale’s Pale Ale was named the Top American Pale Ale by the New York Times in 2005 and won a gold medal at the 2010 World Beer Championships.

It was also named World’s Best Canned Beer by Details Magazine.

Since first releasing Dale’s Pale Ale, Oskar Blues has introduced six more beers. All of them are aggressively hopped, all of them come in cans, and all of that is good for the beer, according to Katechis.

Now he’s trying to pour a pint of that knowledge for the consumer.

When beers were first mass-produced, many craft breweries favored green glass bottles. And yet, if a beer sat in those bottles for too long, it would acquire what Katechis called a “skunky taste” as a result of too much sunlight.

Brown bottles then took over the industry and are still a staple of many craft brewers today. However, Katechis argues that cans are the superior way to store beer.

“Brown bottles eliminated a lot of that light,” Katechis said. “Well aluminum cans eliminated all of it. It was just the perception that we had to get over.”

Since finding this out, he has begun a “debugging process” to show America that a great beer can be bought in a can.

“We decided to dispel that myth once we decided that cans were actually a superior package due to the fact that the beer had never seen sunlight, and the dissolved oxygen levels were lower, and the package was more environmentally friendly than a bottle,” Katechis said. “The modern-day aluminum can has always had the water-based lining inside to keep the beer from sitting on metal. The package was really draft-like, and our job once we learned that was to educate the consumer that that was the case, and that’s when we began this mission in 2002.”

The Hound tavern and restaurant in downtown Auburn

was the leading seller of Oskar Blues products in Auburn in 2012, according to owner and beverage director Matt Poirier.

Poirier said Katechis is a pioneer, and he has seen a similar consumer perception problem with wine.

“People have known for years that screw-tops are better for the wine,” Poirier said. “They preserve it better.

There’s no loss of quality. The cork is more likely to fail. All kinds of things can go wrong with the cork. But for hundreds of years, it’s been the cork. The idea is that screwtop wines are cheap wines and can’t be good. Same thing with cans. Cans have been Budweiser and Bud Light, beers that aren’t necessarily known for their quality.”

In addition to blocking almost all sunlight and oxygen, the cans’ size and shape makes them easier for retailers to store, all the while holding the same amount of beer as a heavier glass bottle.

These days, it seems Katechis’ message is catching on.

“A lot of the big guys are following suit now,” Poirier said.

“A lot of the old-guard craft beer companies are now turning to cans.”

And why not?

The modern day can is not only better for the brewery’s bottom line, it’s better for the beer and all who drink it.

Oskar Blues just recently celebrated its “Canniversary” honoring 10 years of mass producing its beers solely in kegs and cans. The brewery also just opened a new branch in Brevard, N.C. Despite this success, however, Katechis said he will continue to fight America’s “brainwashing.”

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Columbus farmer makes career out of his love for dogs through raising, training and boarding Anna Claire Conrad Writer

Stewart Harvard is a 57-year-old native of Columbus, Ga., who spends his free time with his wife Candy, their three corgis and their 25-year-old son, who’s working toward his master’s degree in public administration at Auburn.

However, when he’s working he raises border collies, grass-fed sheep, chickens and turkeys. He also trains collies for herding and German shepherds for police work and races pigeons at Marengo Creek Farms in Crawford, his fully-operative, 265acre sheep farm and dog boarding facility.

When he’s not working from his home at the farm, he’s traveling on business to Germany to buy German shepherds to sell to police departments across the nation to work as patrol, search and rescue, drug, tracking and officer protection dogs.

The farm once belonged to Stewart’s grandfather, who raised and sold cattle, and Stewart knew from an early age he would want to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps as a farmer and work with animals.

“I went one quarter to college, and then I said, ‘No, I’m going to go to work,’ and I’ve been working ever since,” Harvard said.

Directly out of high school he decided college wasn’t the right path for him. After working in one of his father’s paint stores for a week and deciding that wasn’t right for him either, he went to work for his uncle in his insulation business. Stewart bought the business on a 10-year payment plan and satisfied the plan in a year and a half with only himself and four other men on staff.

After three years in the insulation business, the three fiberglass industries that existed at this time went on strike. Stewart was left without a

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product. In 1978, he used this as an opportunity to consolidate the company and go to the American Canine Training Centers in Nashville, Tenn., to learn how to be a professional dog trainer.

“I grew up an animal lover… and I always knew that I wanted to do something with animals,” Harvard said. “So, I did that and I wanted to get back here. It was my way to get back to this farm.”

Harvard’s neighbor, Bill Cantrell, owns a horse-training facility directly behind his property, and it was the influence of this man and the success of his animal training business that inspired Stewart to pursue his dream of making a living as a professional dog trainer.

“The key is finding out what you’re passionate about and making a career out of it,” Harvard said. “I thought that if Bill Cantrell can make a living training horses, and since more people are working on dogs than they’re working on horses, why couldn’t I make a living training dogs?”

Jade Dwelley, Harvard’s former client, said she and her dog benefitted from his training.

“She definitely listens to me better,” Dwelley said. “I know how to coax her into getting her to do stuff with the help of what Stewart’s taught me.”

By the time he was 22 years old, Harvard married Candy and opened a training facility on his family’s farm.

“When I came back in 1978, my dad wanted me to go back to rebuilding houses with him, and I said, ‘No, I want to be a dog trainer,’” Harvard said. “So, my grandfather loaned me some money to build Harvard’s K-9 Training Center, which is the front half of the kennel, and I was able to pay him back in half the time.”

Because many people did not board their dogs, Stewart had to gain the community’s interest through

print advertisement, but his main means of promoting his business was through presentations at local civic clubs.

“Word of mouth has been a major part of our success in advertising for the business,” Candy said. “Most of the vets around town in Auburn and Opelika know Stewart on a personal level, as well as a professional level, so they can recommend him to their clients that complain about having trouble with an unruly dog. It’s personal connections like that with local police and vet offices that have made us and the farm what we are today.”

In 1980, Stewart moved to Illinois to be an apprentice to Arthur Allen, the best border collie trainer in the United States at that time. By 1982, he began traveling to Germany for two weeks at a time to buy dogs to import to buyers in the states.

Through the breeders and trainers he met on these business trips, Stewart got involved with Schutzhund, which is a sport that was developed in Germany to determine the appropriate traits and characteristics of a proper working German shepherd dog. He even served as a judge at several Schutzhund competitions throughout the years in Germany and Brazil, where the sport is also popular.

After years of importing dogs from

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TOP: Harvard works his 2-year-old border collie, Moss, in the field.

BOTTOM: Harvard showers off his German shepherd, Zeke, in the dog kennels.

Germany and training them on his farm, along with the dogs of private owners, Stewart and Candy are finally able to enjoy themselves.

One of their favorite pre-retirement activities is pigeon racing, which includes releasing marked birds from one location and recording how long it takes them to fly home to Marengo Creek Farms via a tracker attached to one of their legs.

Stewart and Candy host border collie competitions and other herding dog competitions on their prop-

erty, including events for the local Schutzhund Club.

“I still train dogs and import a few from Germany every year, but I’m getting old,” Harvard said. “I’ve done well enough for myself so that I can do and enjoy all of what I’ve worked so hard to get.”

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Opelika’s 8th & Rail brings together musicians of all genres Reese Counts Writer

Opelika restaurant Eighth & Rail provides a chance for local musicians to try their hand on stage as well as meet and perform with other local artists.

The restaurant hosts The Benjamin Sessions, an openmic night every Wednesday starting at 7 p.m.

The stage is open to all performers willing to play. Sign up begins at 6 p.m.

The event is free for musicians and audience members, and it is a great opportunity to see some local musicians in action.

Musical styles vary great-

ly, as do the ages of the performers. Most sets consist of no more than three people, though the end of the night turns into a jam session with the night’s performers switching instruments and joining each other on stage.

Alaina Guzman has been hosting the event for the past two months.

“It gives musicians a chance to play with people they never would play with,” Guzman said.

Performers include Guzman, Sylvia Novak, Jackson Gafford, Doug Knight, Scott Ashcroft and Grammy-winning producer Larry Mitchell performing with his group The

Larry Mitchell Trio.

Guzman said its nice having different generations all on stage together.

Performers are given roughly 20 minutes to perform, though that isn’t an unyielding limit, depending on the number of performers in a given night.

Novak said this is one of the few places in the area where someone can get onstage and play. Her performances consist of original material, as well as a few popular covers on both acoustic guitar and fiddle.

Gafford, an 18-year-old Opelika High School graduate, performed a number of songs,

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sometimes playing multiple instruments in the same song, aided by a sample board to loop one instrument behind another.

Gafford performs at Eighth & Rail every week, usually with Josh Jackson, another Opelika High School graduate and local performer. Jackson records works under the Fiery Crash moniker.

Both Gafford and Jackson perform a number of original songs, by themselves or as a duo. The two are occasionally backed by drummer Trenton Hilyer.

“This kind of stuff is happening in garages all across the country,” Guzman said.

Guzman herself performed a number of original songs, singing and playing piano. She was eventually joined by many of the night’s performers, accompanying her on different instruments.

Performers jammed at the end of the night, playing instruments ranging from guitars to saxophones to electronic sample boards and even a melodica, a hand-held, mouth-blown, keyboard.

The stage is located in the back of the restaurant, slightly elevated and lined with old wooden doors on the left and right walls. The restaurant provides excellent acoustics for the performances.

Anna Grafton / associate Photo editor

Performers played instruments across multiple genres, including the fiddle, drums, electric and acoustic guitar and saxophone.

Snapshot

Auburn-related chatter on Twitter from July 4-10 @jonsol: Alabama talks college football on Twitter more than any state, 43% more than No. 2. @CoachMcCombs: Love watching future AU Tigers on the court.

Sometimes it’s hard to hold back my emotions in these close games! Letsssss goooooo #WarEagle @AUBlog: Hey, look, Bo Jackson is doing a 5-hour energy commercial. Which is fitting, since he’s probably the one man who doesn’t need energy. @GeorgeSchroeder: Michael Dyer hopes to shed baggage, return to college football. @AUFAMILY: #StatTiger: Since 1970, #Auburn’s average margin of defeat during it’s 164 losses has been by 13.7 points ... @AU_Beards: I can spell Lutzenkirchen no problem but never can remember if Philip has one or two l’s. #auburnproblems @AU_History: 7/3/1943: Auburn President L.N. Duncan announces the school will abandon all athletics for the duration of the war. @VanAllenPlexico: “Mal” in French means “Bad” so I’m gonna go ahead & figure “zahn” means “ass.”

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Right vs. race: Jumping off the bandwagon If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, or really even just been cognitively present at all, there are two recent happenings that have been hard to ignore: the Paula Deen scandal and the Trayvon Martin case.

With these happenings come two glaring elements that we can’t help but notice: both have been blown out of proportion by the media, and both have largely been defended on either side according to race.

Of course there are intricacies to these stories that reach far beyond the color of our skin, and there are exceptions to every blanket statement.

That being said, we continue to see a pattern of aid being blindly delivered based solely on race.

When Paula Deen got ravaged by the media for using racial slurs, we observed masses – mostly Caucasian masses – rushing to her defense. Copies of her testimony circulated throughout the Internet and butter-themed memes insisting we leave Paula alone cropped up in every social media

outlet.

Now that The Project of Excellence in Journalism has reported the Trayvon Martin case to be the first story in 2012 featured more than the presidential race, we see the same pattern arising.

When thousands gathered in New York to rally for justice over the death of Martin, photos went viral, primarily of African Americans, standing in his defense. Shirts were donned reading, “Am I next?” and shouts of “we want arrests” were heard in reference to one of the most complicated cases the justice system has seen.

So the question we want to ask is why?

Why do we still choose to blame or defend national figures outside of our personal reach based on race instead of who we believe is right?

If racism is something we’re actively trying to combat, why does it seem like the vast majority is still automatically siding with its skin color when controversy arises?

Maybe it’s an ingrained instinct of generations past we’re still trying to shake, may-

be as a society we’re failing to evaluate a situation fully before taking a stance, or maybe we (the media) have ourselves to blame.

We can’t say if Trayvon was murdered in the first degree or if Paula’s comments truly were made in poor taste, but we can say these stories have received mountains of media attention.

And though racial conflict is a focal point of attention given by the media in both of these stories, we don’t see light necessarily being shed on racial injustices. Instead, we see divisions forming because of the nature of the constant coverage.

In placing such a fierce emphasis on stories involving bigotry within specific situations, we have created a much more encompassing conflict by fueling a flame social activists and ordinary citizens have tirelessly been trying to stamp out.

If we want these issues to subside, we have to stop jumping on the bandwagon that’s most fitting to our racial profile.

RACHEL SUHS

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Her View

Tennis: the spectator sport for all Rock out with your ewok out

and embrace your inner nerd

tic, the men’s semifinals were anything but.

The first match last Friday, July 5, saw Djokovic pitted against top ranked Argentinian Juan Martín Del Potro.

It was the match of the tournament, there’s no doubt about it.

It went to five sets, and two of the sets were determined by tiebreakers, with each competitor taking one of those.

The match lasted four hours and 43 minutes, which was the longest semifinal ever at Wimbledon.

It was back and forth the whole way, but in the end the conditioning of Djokovic paid off, and he emerged victorious over a completely gassed Del Potro.

The other men’s semifinal was exciting as well, coming later in the day.

Murray faced Polish international Jerzy Janowicz in Friday’s second semifinal, and while Murray showed some obvious frustration when he lost the first set, he pulled his game together and won the next three sets and consequently, the match.

All that being said if you got to watch a large share of Wimbledon, good for you. Tennis is one of the oldest sports in existence, and has been around this long for a reason.

It’s spectacular, and those who play it at the highest level can do some incredible things on the court that you have to see to believe.

If you missed Wimbledon, that’s a bummer for you, but hey, it comes around once a year. Plus, the U.S. Open Grand Slam event will begin August 26, and it’s held in Queens, N.Y. So I urge you to watch, if only one semifinal match. You never know, it might hook you on a new (to you) fascinating sport.

John Burns SPORTS@THEPLAINSMAN.COM

Two weeks ago and a few days’ change, our mates across the pond hosted the biggest and best Grand Slam in tennis: Wimbledon.

I’m not going to lie, I don’t really keep up with the women’s side of the tournament, and that’s nothing against the ladies out there. It’s just a lot easier to tune in to a five set match (men’s) than a three set match that could be over in less than an hour (women’s), so I’m going to be focusing on the men’s singles.

For those of you who didn’t keep up with the tournament, Andy Murray, who is Scottish and British, became the first British man to win their home Grand Slam in 77 years.

I mean, most of the British people alive don’t even remember the last male champion, Fred Perry, who won in 1936. That’s way back when Hitler was in power, people, but I digress.

While Murray’s victory in three sets over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic was immensely impressive, it was also a bit disappointing.

When I, and many other Americans, woke up early Sunday morning to watch the finals, we were hoping for a four, and if we were lucky, five set match that would see both players pushed to their limits.

Unfortunately that was not the case, and the British wait was over in the minimum three sets.

Where the men’s final was a bit anticlimac-

Raye May DESIGN@THEPLAINSMAN.COM

The first step is admitting you have a problem. My name is Raye, and I’m a nerd. Well, allegedly, anyway. Hardly a day goes by when that adjective isn’t thrown my way for some reason or another.

I could quote Lord of the Rings to you in three different Elvish languages, and my wedding rings are replicas of the ones worn

by Galadriel in the movies. In high school, I wore Arwen’s necklace to homecoming.

I reference Star Wars almost daily, and I have a Deathly Hallows bracelet. I dressed up in costume with friends for the midnight release of The Hobbit. I still play all my old Nintendo 64 games, and I could school you in Mario Party.

Lately, though, I’ve noticed the word “nerd” is becoming synonymous with “hipsters who want to seem smart.” I saw a chick in a Death Star t-shirt and frameless black glasses on Facebook with the caption, “live long and prosper.” I almost died.

Loving the new Star Trek movies doesn’t make you a nerd. Popping the lenses out of plastic black glasses doesn’t make you look smart.

We’re all making fun of you. Well, except the people who are doing it with you, but they think you’re a poser, and they were do-

ing it before it was cool.

I get it; I really do. People want to be trendy, and that’s fine. I bought a pair of wedges the other day because every girl at Sky Bar last week was wearing them, and they look pretty cute. I can’t walk in them, but that’s another column for another time.

My question is this: why do you have to sacrifice your individuality to be in fashion or cool? And why is “nerd” the new thing?

Being a nerd has been historically the opposite of cool, and the true nerds out there are still being shunned.

How many of you would be willing to openly talk about your World of Warcraft raids or your character in Dungeons and Dragons? Anybody? I didn’t think so.

Pop-culture knowledge and Internet memes do not a nerd make. Leave me and the other true nerds alone, hipsters. Stop stealing the only thing that’s ours. Go take more Instagram pictures of that vegan dinner you had last night. (By the way, we know you ate a hamburger afterwards. That couldn’t feed a hamster, and you’re not fooling anyone.)

Just be you. Why would you want to be anybody else? When you stop giving a damn what the rest of the world thinks I promise you’ll be happier. Stop doing things because it’s what’s “in.” If you like it? Great. But don’t just do it to fit in.

There are a million squares and circles and triangles out there. You don’t have to be one of them. Embrace your weirdness, be amorphous and may the Force be with you.

Social Media on The Plains: DaddAuburn in response to the article “His view: Champsionship games played on campus?”

That would be a terrible idea. There wouldn’t have been more Auburn fans at the 2010 championship game if it was held at Auburn because the schools only get a certain amount of tickets to distribute from the NCAA. It would just mean that more people would have been outside the stadium and in the city of Auburn. The number of tickets each school received wouldn’t have changed. Not sure “easier to attend” is true either. It all has to do with how loyal the fan base is. I went to the 2010 game in Glendale and I would say Auburn had just as many if not more fans than Oregon and we had to travel much farther. And the fans who didn’t get to go got to roll the hell out of Toomers, which is special in its own way.

Taylor Hill in response to the article “Editorial: Harbert’s donation should rescue aviation” I’m glad you’re so willing to tell someone else what to do with the $40 million they are giving to Auburn academics. The correct thing to say is “thank you.”

In response to our post “Grandsons of city council member arrested on alleged rape charges:

In respone to our article “Auburn: American’s home for team handball?”

Chandler Jones:

@maffewsmitty:

This can’t be happening In response to our post “Former APD Chief Dawson honored other news from Auburn City Council”

Daniel Patrick: These people make me sick parading around giving one another commendations while the AUPD runs around town violating the civil liberties of the Auburn community and generally acting like a rabid dog off of a leash.

In respone to our tweet “Auburn opens new tailgating parking spaces for gameday”

In response to our article “Home grown, market fresh”

Interesting...

@jumaro_watt:

@JerryHinnen:

WHAT?? A #miracle has just happened!

Great article on the @ AuburnAg Market! #ShopLocal

In respone to his tweet appearing in our June 27 print edition

In respone to the tweet “Dee Ford is on the Bednarik Award watch list.”

In response to our tweet “Athletics department redesigns website”

@codyAUsanders:

@iampaulieg:

This needs to happen

Even @TheAUPlainsman agrees. Change the Lowder Lounge to @macyfinck Mini-Bar.

Does he want it bad enough? I sure hope so and he plays lights out this year WDE

@AU_Recycles:

@MeanAuburnTiger:

It’s about damn time. I used to get it mixed up with the Brazzers website every single day.

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Junior guard K.T. Harrell exercises in the Auburn weight room in order to bulk up for the upcoming basketball season. The Tigers will hope to improve on a three-win SEC campaign last year.

Tigers ‘going to be a better team’ Justin Lee Writer

When the men’s basketball team gathered for practice Monday afternoon, the Tigers looked like a completely different team than the one that bowed out in the first round of the SEC Tournament last March as a last-place seed.

A host of fresh faces took to the practice floor clad in orange and blue, some of them signees straight out of high school and others transfers from schools across the country with years of eligibility left, all with opportunities ahead of them to earn their way into playing time in Auburn Arena this fall and spring.

Returning players had a different look about them as well, after a summer in the weight room with a challenge to get bigger. Senior forward Allen Payne stepped onto the court with bigger arms and broader shoulders, adding 20 pounds to his 6-foot-6 frame this off season.

It certainly looks like a new team from the one that was on the court one year ago, but for newcomers and returning veterans, the biggest difference with these new-look Tigers lies with something intangible.

“The chemistry wasn’t there,” said junior guard K.T. Harrell. “I think that played a big role in it. Everybody wasn’t buying into it, but I think this year we’ve got a group of guys who are committed to winning. And we all get along with each other, the chemistry is there, and that’s important. We’ve got a group of guys who are com-

“

I don’t think guys look back at (last season) and hold their heads down, be ashamed or anything like that. I think they look back at it, we all look back at it and say, ‘We’re going to improve. We’re going to be a better team.”

—K.T. Harrell Junior Guard

petitive.”

Harrell will make his Auburn debut this fall, after sitting out last season per NCAA rules following his transfer from Virginia. After redshirting last year, the Montgomery native from Brewbaker Tech will have two years to play once the season begins.

Harrell is only one part of the new talent ready to shake things up as the Tigers reset from last season’s disappointing performance, but according to head coach Tony Barbee, each of those newcomers has found a way to fit in with the team and build chemistry through summer

workouts.

“It’s still early,” Barbee said. “It’s still developing. But the energy and the camaraderie in the practices has been night and day from what it has been. It’s at a high level. The guys are not only competing, but they’re competing together, they’re having fun, they’re cheering for each other.”

The Tigers started practice earlier this week, getting a head start on most of the country thanks to an NCAA rule allowing them to begin practice early and prepare for an upcoming set of exhibition games in the Bahamas in August.

“Even though it is July, it’s on such a different level right now,” Payne said. “We’re doing stuff.

We’re not having to force guys to be with each other off the floor. We all like each other, and we all respect each other. Even when conflicts come up -- because it’s a group of 15 guys, it’s going to happen -- we’re able to solve those because we like each other so much.”

Payne and the Tigers will first put that to the test in the Bahamas in exhibition games against a pair of professional teams from the Bahamas Basketball Federation. Auburn will face the Real Deal Shockers at 9 p.m. Aug. 6 and the Bahamas All-Stars at 7 p.m. Aug. 8.

The Auburn women’s basketball team took on a similar series of exhibition games last summer in Australia.

Thanks to that upcoming trip to the Bahamas, the men’s team can get started early trying

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Senior forward Allen Payne Poses with a basketball.

to erase the disappointments from last season.

“I think there’s definitely motivation,” Harrell said. “I don’t think guys look back at (last season) and hold their heads down, be ashamed or anything like that. I think they look back at it, we all look back at it and say, ‘We’re going to improve. We’re going to be a better team.’”

Ford, Uzomah named to Malzahn inducted to hall of fame position award watch lists Ethan Brady Sports Reporter

Will Gaines Sports Reporter

Senior defensive end Dee Ford and junior tight end C.J. Uzomah were both named to the Chuck Bednarik and John Mackey awards preseason watch lists for 2013 this week.

Ford was one of 75 players to be named on the Bednarik Award watch list, which is given to the top defensive player in college football.

“I’m very surprised to hear that I’m on the Bednarik Award list. This just makes me want to solidify my qualifications and work even harder to show that Auburn should be represented on this list,” Ford said.

Ford, a native of Odenville, is a three-year letterman at defensive end and has emerged as a veteran leader not only on the defensive side of the ball, but for the whole team. He has 64 career tackles, 13 tackles for loss and 10 career sacks.

“It’s been a long journey for me, and I owe any success to my strength coaches, football coaches, and teammates for being patient with me while I developed,” Ford said. “I’m very thankful for this new responsibility and the opportunity we have this season.”

Ford also earned preseason all-SEC recognition

from Athlon Sports. The semi-finalists will be named Oct. 29, and the three finalists will be named Nov. 3.

The winner will be announced as part of the Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards Show held Dec. 5.

The formal presentations of the Bednarik Award will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala hosted by Harrah’s Entertainment Atlantic City March 7, 2014.

Uzomah was also among 37 players for the Mackey Award preseason watch list, which is given to the most outstanding tight end in college football.

“It’s an honor to be mentioned among the top tight ends this preseason, but I realize there is still a lot of work to be done,” Uzomah said. “Individual achievements are a blessing and I give the glory to God, but more important is what our team can achieve in the season ahead.”

Last season, he became a late season starter after Phillip Lutzenkirchen’s season ended because of injury, but then his season was cut short also because of a broken bone in his hand.

A 6-foot-4 253-pound native of Suwanee, Ga., Uzomah recorded seven receptions for 136 yards, including a 27-yard

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This just makes me wanto solidify my qualifications and work harder.

—Dee Ford senior defensive end

touchdown catch from Jonathan Wallace against Texas A&M. Even though he only played briefly last season he showed he has the tools to be a weapon in Gus Malzahn’s offense.

Uzomah will likely be sharing time with fellow tight end Brandon Fulse. Malzahn’s hurry up no huddle offense allows the tight end to play as a base tight end, an Hback and a slot receiver. This allows the tight end to have more opportunities to make plays in the passing game.

A midseason watch list for the award will be announced Oct. 14, the semifinalists Nov. 18 and the finalists November 25.

The recipient is selected by vote of the John Mackey Award Selection Committee; the award will be presented live Dec. 12 at The Home Depot College Football Awards Red Carpet Show.

Gus Malzahn’s prolific high school coaching career will be honored as he is inducted into the Arkansas High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame Friday, July 12, in Hot Springs, Ark. Malzahn coached high school in Arkansas for three different schools from 19922005 with a career 133-26 record, but his success at Springdale High School earned him the induction.

“Coach Malzahn was nominated because of his success in the state of Arkansas in high school football and the effect he still has on the sport in this state,” said Don Brodell, Associate Executive Director of the Arkansas Activities Association.

Beginning in 2001, Malzahn coached the Bulldogs for four years going to the state championship twice and winning in 2005. The 2005 Springdale team is considered to be one of the greatest high school teams in Arkansas history.

Led by quarterback Mitch Mustain, the eventual USA Today National Player of the Year, the Bulldogs averaged nearly 50 points per game and won by 39 points per game en route to their state title. Both Malzahn and Mustain went to the University of Arkansas following the 2005 season.

Prior to his tenure at Springdale, Malzahn created one of

the most forceful and respected offenses in the county at Shiloh Christian School, scoring a national record 66 passing touchdowns in 1998. He led the Saints to back-to-back state titles in 1998 and 1999 before taking over as head coach at Springdale.

“Coach Malzahn’s offense is hard to defend because of misdirection and the pace,” said Ryan White, senior defensive back for Auburn. “You have to pay attention to your keys, one slip up and it’s six points on the board.”

Malzahn’s passing scheme was nearly impossible to defend in a state where most schools ran a run-first offense.

Defenses scrambled with the fast-paced hurry-up Malzahn implemented and it drew attention from across the state and beyond.

To show how innovative Malzahn’s offense is, Chad Morris, a high school coach, learned the dynamics of Malzahn’s scheme. The western Texas high school won backto-back state titles and now Morris can be seen on Saturdays, coaching Clemson’s successful offense as its coordinator.

Growing up in Fort Smith, Ark., led Malzahn to a career of football beginning at Fort Smith Christian High School.

After graduation Malzahn walked on as a wide receiver at the University of Arkansas in 1984 before transferring to

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Auburn coach Gus Malzahn.

Henderson State, where he became a two-year letterman.

“Coach (Malzahn) is a lead by example guy. He starts with the little things because he knows they control the big things,” White said.

The Arkansas Activities Association that oversees all high school sports is the organization behind Malzahn’s induction.

“The coaches are nominated by a Hall of Fame committee and voted on by members and current high school coaches,” Brodell said.

The Arkansas Activities Association and the Hall of Fame will be inducting five other coaches along with Malzahn at a ceremony Friday, July 12, in Hot Springs.

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Pictured from left to right are Dameyune Craig, Rodney Garner, Melvin Smith and J.B. Grimes.

Making the big bucks John Burns Sports Editor

Head football coach Gus Malzahn will make $2.3 million per year, excluding incentives until at least 2017, according to the details of his new contract.

Along with the $2.3 million the University will pay the head football coach, it will pay defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson $800,000 annually through June 2016, and defensive line/recruiting coordinator Rodney Garner $500,000 per year until June 2016.

While Johnson and Garner are the highest paid assistant coaches, cornerbacks coach Charlie Harbison is not far behind. His contract states he will earn $425,000 each year until at least the end of June, 2015.

Both Rhett Lashlee, the offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach/co-offensive coordinator Dameyune Craig will earn $250,000 annually through at least the end of June 2015 and 2016, respectively.

J.B. Grimes, the offensive line coach, will take home $270,000 per year through June 2015, and both running backs coach Tim Horton and tight ends/special teams coach Scott Fountain will make $250,000 annually through June 2015.

Along with his lucrative salary, Malzahn will have bonus incentives should he do particularly well during a season.

If his Tigers win 10 games he will make $75,000 extra, and every win after that will earn the coach an extra $25,000.

If the Auburn football team plays in the SEC Championship, Malzahn will earn $100,000 and if they win he takes $150,000.

That $150,000 is the same amount he will win if his Tigers lose the BCS Championship, but $500,000 will be deposited into his checking account should the football team emerge victorious in the BCS Championship game.

Malzahn will earn $100,000 for earning an at-large BCS bowl bid, taking a final ranking in the top 5 of the AP or coaches poll, earning SEC Coach of the Year from the AP or coaches survey and earning a National Coach of the Year award from the AP, Home Depot, Walter Camp Foundation, the AFCA or by winning the Bryant Award.

His buyout protection is $500,000 per year through the conclusion of his contract in 2017 and his buyout fee is $500,000 for every year remaining on his contract, payable in two installments.

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RELEASE DATE– Saturday, October 27, 2012

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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