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School-record 1,813 rushing yards • School and SEC-record 23 rushing touchdowns • School-record 2,374 all-purpose yards • Heisman Trophy finalist • Associated Press SEC Offensive Player of the Year • SEC Championship Game MVP • Averaged 7 yards per play in 2013 • 1,165 rushing yards against ranked teams • Fifth-most rushing yards in the country • Finished career with six 100-plus yard games • School-record 46 carries in the SEC Championship Game School-record 1,813 rushing yards • School and SEC-record 23 rushing touchdowns • School-record 2,374 all-purpose yards • Heisman Trophy finalist • Associated Press SEC Offensive Player of the Year • SEC Championship Game MVP • Averaged 7 yards per play in Justin Ferguson teams •Heisman Trophy voting, Mason had 2013 • 1,165 rushing yardsagainst ranked Fifth-most SPORTS EDITOR 1,816 yards on the ground in 2013, rushing yards in the country • Finished career breaking with six 100Tre Mason is a dream chaser. a school record set by legMalzahn saw it time afterthe endary SEC running back Bo Jackson— plus yard games • School-record 46Guscarries in Chamtime both during his tenure as Au- who set the record during his 1985 pionship Game School-record 1,813 rushing yards • School burn’s offensive coordinator and lat- Heisman-winning season. er as the head coach.

For Mason, breaking Jackson’s and SEC-record 23 rushing touchdowns • School-record 2,374 He saw it in Mason’s transforma- record was another bullet point of a all-purpose yards • Heisman Trophy • Associated tion fromfinalist an undersized speed back list of dreams he has realized on the intoYear a powerful, • record-breaking gridiron.

Press SEC Offensive Player of the SEC Championship starter who helped lead his team to a “Everyone has goals for themGame MVP • Averaged 7 yards per play in 2013 • 1,165 rushing remarkable turnaround. selves, and one of mine is 1,500So it came as no surprise to Mal- plus (yards),” Mason said in Auyards against ranked teams • Fifth-most rushing yards in zahn when the Tigers’ star running gust 2013, weeks before Auburn’s the country • Finished career with six yard games back told him his100-plus plans for the fu- season opener against Washington ture.

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“I heard the rushing record • School-record 46 carries in the SEC Championship Game After a dream junior season on here is around 1,900 yards, and I School-record 1,813 rushing yardsThe • School and 23 Plains, Mason was headed toSEC-record would love to be the one who breaks chase a boyhood dream of playing that mark.” rushing touchdowns • School-record 2,374 all-purpose yards in the pros.

Mason did just that, and he broke • Heisman Trophy finalist • Associated Press Offensive “I recruited Tre, and going to SEC the Jackson’s record in a game virtually NFL was a goal of his,” Malzahn no one thought the Tigers would be Player of the Year • SEC Championship Game MVP • Averaged said. “I’m very proud of him reach- back in fall camp.

7 yards per play in 2013 • 1,165 rushing against ranked ing his goal. yards He did a wonderful job Now with his draft stock at an for us, not only this year, but his all-time high following a legendteams • Fifth-most rushing yardswhole incareer.” the country • Finished ary season, Mason will take the next career with six 100-plus yard games • School-record 46 carMason spearheaded the nation’s step. top rushing attack in Auburn’s sto“He’s coming out either the best ries in the SEC Championship Gamerybook School-record 1,813 rush2013 season while shatter- running back or one of the best runseveral individual schooltouchdowns and ning backs,” said head coach ing yards • School and SEC-record ing 23 rushing • Gus conference records.

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After Sigma Chi fraternity was kicked off campus starting January 2014, the University’s Greek life programs have continued to work to eliminate the hazing culture.

Although no hazing policy has changed, the University does not tolerate hazing of any kind, said William Whittelsey, Interfraternity Council (IFC) president.

“The definition of hazing is pretty black and white these days, and we do our job to educate all the fraternity officers and fraternity members to tell them it’s not right,” Whittelsey said. “We have the Greek Leadership Summit at the beginning of every spring [and fall] semester.”

Another program IFC has implemented within the last year is the Pledge Council.

“This past year we put together a council of pledge trainers,” Whittelsey said.

“Bringing them together biweekly for a round table to discuss their policies and create a little pot of ideas that will work (and) will continue to promote a pledgeship without the hazing.”

In regards to allegations of Sigma Chi brothers forcing their pledges to complete long study hours, Whittelsey

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It’s more of a culture that exists, and that’s our job to get rid of that culture.”

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said the hazing involved the amount of hours forced, rather than telling the pledges to study.

“We allow a fraternity to conduct a program 35–40 hours a week where members are expected to be doing activities for their pledge program,” Whittelsey said.

Whittelsey said the action of hazing is not the entire issue at hand. ”It’s more of the culture that exists, and that’s our job to get rid of that culture, where some guys think things are acceptable when they are clearly not acceptable,” Whittelsey said.

Jill Moore, director of Greek Life, said there are two main causes to hazing.

“The first is culture,” Moore said. “Many people

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University holsters guns on campus Kyle Nazario CAMPUS WRITER

Everyone who walks onto Auburn University’s campus must leave behind all shotguns, revolvers, swords, crossbows, brass knuckles, fireworks and anything else that shoots, stabs or explodes.

“Traditionally, Auburn University has not allowed anyone other than law enforcement to have weapons on campus until this year,” said Lieutenant Keith Walton of the University’s Department of Public Safety and Security.

“The state legislature has passed a new gun law, and when they implement the new law it requires that you can

have a weapon in your vehicle at all times, as long as you got a permit to carry the gun.”

The law Walton refers to, Senate Bill 286, took effect in Alabama on Aug. 1, clarifying and expanding firearms laws.

Employees may now keep properly secured weapons inside their car at their workplace, although employers may still prohibit firearms within the business itself.

Auburn University plans to comply by the new rules, but has also exercised its right to prohibit all weapons within its buildings.

The Department of Public Safety and Security’s second response to the new law

is a room-sized gun locker for students to store their firearms while on campus.

The locker, which will be monitored at all times and be completed by January, will require photo identification for use.

Although the new rules allow gun owners more leeway, groups like Auburn University Students for Concealed Carry on Campus are still working for students right to carry firearms everywhere else at Auburn University.

“I think it’s important that we not lose our right to protect ourselves when we come on

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Malzahn. “Of course, in my opinion, he is the best running back in college football right now.”

But success in the college game does not directly translate into professional success, especially at Mason’s position.

Because the average career length of an NFL running back is almost two full seasons—a fact Mason mentioned as part of his reasoning to go pro a year early—franchises rarely pick a running back in the early rounds of the draft.

But the 5-foot-10 Mason, a player who constantly refers to himself as a runner “fueled by doubt” who “loves being an underdog,” remains calm about his future.

“You know I came in small, frail,” Mason said. “I was recruited as a speed guy, and I always had people tell me I was too small to be a running back.”

After primarily running the speed sweep and kick returns in his freshman season, the speedy Mason put on weight and worked to become more of a hardnosed runner.

By the time he got the starting job in Auburn’s dismal 2012 season, he was a lone bright spot in a largely ineffective offense, rushing for 1,002 yards in his sophomore year.

When Malzahn came back to The Plains, Mason took charge and helped the team through the tough transition process.

While it seemed like a longshot during fall camp, Mason repeatedly talked about the team’s belief that the Tigers could be one of the best teams in college football in 2013.

Mason turned out to be absolutely correct.

Malzahn attributes a lot of Mason’s

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see hazing activities as something that should happen to everyone and deem those things as a right of passage. The other is when someone uses a position in an organization to exert power and control over others.”

Although IFC has not made any policy changes regarding hazing, Tau Kappa Epsilon has.

Tyler Kroeschell, TKE president, said the fraternity has given up hazing completely ever since the fraternity heard about Sigma Chi had been kicked off campus.

“There was an incident about three or

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personal and Auburn’s corporate turnaround to the junior’s desire to win.

“He’s a great competitor, and he wants to win,” Malzahn said. “That’s the thing about Tre Mason—he wants to win, and he doesn’t get distracted by all the other stuff.”

Although Mason has already accomplished some of his dreams, one will continue into the professional ranks—the dream to win a championship.

While some underclassmen who leave school early can be focused on the early financial rewards of being a professional football player, Mason’s NFL dreams

are not based on multimillion-dollar paychecks. “(The NFL) will get somebody that’s a hard worker, willing to do whatever it takes to win,” Mason said. “My mind’s not just set on money. It’s set on championships. I have yet to win a championship, and my mindset is not going to change.”

So, no matter which franchise picks him up or where he will stand in his first NFL depth chart, you can be certain that Tre Mason will be going after what he wants—a championship—as hard as possible.

four years ago when the hazing hotline was called on us,” Kroeschell said.

“We don’t want to have to deal with anything like that, and we don’t think it’s worth it to haze.”

Kroeschell said switching to this policy has caused some conflict among the TKE brothers.

“There has been animosity between different pledge classes that have been hazed by other ones,” Kroeschell said.

“The way we did rush in the past was we would just get as many guys as possible and through hazing we could cut the guys out we didn’t want. Now, we’re focusing on getting guys with the personality traits that would help benefit the fraternity.”

TKE has also weighed the risks and

benefits of hazing and concluded that it is not worth it.

“We think that having a no hazing policy will really strengthen our brotherhood,” Kroeschell said.

Kroeschell also said he wants his fraternity to be an example for other fraternities across campus.

“We want to be proactive and have this done before it becomes a problem,” Kroeschell said.

“With fraternities cracking down on hazing, it’s not worth it to be a fraternity with hazing.”

To report a hazing incident contact the University Hazing Hotline, 334844-4564 or email StopHazing@Auburn.edu

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“As the rules are now, any student or faculty who come on campus with a firearm can be fired or expelled.”

David Shamp, president of Auburn Students for Concealed Carry, said he wants to keep his weapon with him for similar reasons.

“I feel [concealed carry] is really important because Auburn is obviously a very safe campus overall, but there’s no guarantee of student safety,” Shamp said.

“To think that a sticker on a door is going to stop someone from coming and committing violence... just doesn’t make sense.”

Branches of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus have been working to change university policies across the nation since the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

Despite its efforts, the group’s Auburn chapter has made little progress with the University.

“The administration has been very good about contacting and connecting with us, but changing policy is probably gonna have to be at the state level,” Shamp said.

Shamp’s group is working with Alabama Gun Rights, a Second Amendment advocacy group.

It is also looking for more partners.

“It’s kinda hard to get a law passed for something that’s already legal,” Shamp said.

John Merrill, a Republican state representative from Tuscaloosa who voted for the new gun law, did not express support for bringing guns onto college campuses.

“If people are leaving their personal property in their personal vehicles, there shouldn’t be a problem with that,” he said.

“It’s another thing when you start to remove that... any time you’re introducing a weapon in that capacity, that could be a problem.”

He suggested students look to alternative, legal security measures, such as the Auburn po-

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“This is a great institution,” Merrill said. “It’s not like you’ve got a lot of incidences of violence where people feel like they’re threatened just walking to class or going home.”

Merrill said he would be open to changing the law if Alabamians wanted.

“When the law needs to be changed, people let us know,” Merrill said. “People always let us know.”

However, opinion varies on allowing guns on campus.

“If you just went down the concourse and asked every other person, I would say two out of three would support the idea, but you know there are people who are very adamantly against it,” Shamp said.

Auburn College Democrats president Sergio Gallardo disagrees.

“I think it comes ultimately down to the kind of environment we want to produce, and I’m satisfied with the environment we have here,” Gallardo said.

“I would say the vast majority of students are.”

Gallorado said instead of using guns for self-defense, Auburn students should focus on solving problems that would cause a crime.

“I think in the long term that would go a long way more than allowing every kid to carry a gun to class,” Gallardo said.

In either case, the University isn’t budging on the issue.

“President Gouge has made clear that he wants to keep this a gun-free campus and to use appropriate measures where they are fit,” Gallardo said.

The University is keeping guns off campus and addressing changing laws with Public Safety’s new locker.

Shamp, however, said he won’t use it.

“That’s definitely a step closer to the direction of firearms on campus, but definitely not something that Students for Concealed Carry on Campus would support since that’s still restricting our individual capacity to defend ourselves,” Shamp said.

“That’s just one more piece of red tape you’d have to go through.”

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College of Engineering expands with a tribology minor Keely Shearer Campus Writer

Last year, RCS Chemical Solutions donated $50,000 to the College of Engineering in order to fund a new tribology minor and scholarship support.

The donation was announced on Dec. 13, 2013.

“The minor started because people in the industry wanted undergraduates to have a background in this area,” said Robert Jackson, associate professor in mechanical engineering.

“There’s really no one coming out with that in their education right now, especially at the undergraduate level.”

The new tribology minor specializes in the study of contact, friction, wear and lubrication of surfaces.

In today’s world, two main ongoing concerns are energy efficiency and global warming.

Tribology has a direct impact on both.

“We can design lubricants that will allow equipment to run more efficiently, therefore saving fuel,” said Ralph Beard, global technical and business development manager of Lubricant Additives. “And if we save fuel, we reduce carbon

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Auburn is at the forefront now in terms of being able to create value around the world with this education program.”

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global technical and business development manager of Lubricant Adittives

footprints.”

Auburn is the first university to incorporate a tribology minor into their program on a national level.

“It’s a difficult science to teach at the undergraduate level because most universities have not figured out how to get different schools talking to each other,” Beard said. “It is new and unique.

There is nothing else like it anywhere in the entire western hemisphere.”

There was not a demand or need for the universities to teach tribology, until now, according to Beard.

Today, many of the workers in industry businesses with knowledge of how tribology works are retiring, leaving no one to train incoming employees.

“It’s everywhere,” Jackson said. “It’s in every industry. It often gets overlooked because it’s very multidisciplinary in nature, and that’s why we created the minor.”

The few students who have taken an interest in tribology are helping to build a bridge between the different colleges of COSAM (College of Science and Mathematics) and the engineering school.

“What Dr. Jackson is trying to do, and what I think a lot of people are now realizing, is get a lot of the other majors that can get involved in tribology to try it,” said William Ferguson, senior in mechanical engineering with a minor in tribology. “Chemistry majors shouldn’t be afraid of mechanical classes because (Jackson’s) not going to let you fail. He’s going to help you out and if you don’t know the basics, he’s going to teach it to you first.”

Ferguson said the College of Engineering is looking for more students to get involved.

Although most people who work in tribology

are mechanical engineers, the minor also calls for other numerous fields to participate.

There are people in chemical engineering, material science, physics, chemistry and many other fields that are able to minor in tribology.

“We’re really trying to find more students to get involved in the minor,” Jackson said. “It’s a pretty exciting area. I think it’s a good thing to get into to build a promising career off of.”

The hopes for more support from alumni and from companies who have an interest in the area are still high and the search for more students continues.

“Auburn is at the forefront now in terms of being able to create value around the world with this education program,” Beard said. “It’s going to benefit Auburn by giving Auburn students an opportunity to lead an industry that needs new leaders.”

There is a tribology minor industry open house coming up in March where guests are able to meet with industry leaders and future employees in the field.

For more information about the tribology minor, visit the Auburn University website and look under the College of Engineering page.

Top ranked psychology program seeks expansion and development Derek Herscovici Campus Reporter

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Jessica Terrell and her buddy, Akari Ogawa, talk every day.

International students buddy up with locals Corey Williams Campus Reporter

With almost 1,000 international students representing over 80 countries, Auburn University is home to an incredibly diverse student body.

Cultural differences and language barriers, however, have made it difficult for some international students to find their place on campus.

Beth Anne Dawson, administrative support associate for Auburn’s English as a second language program, is the International Buddy Program’s coordinator.

“After every term we give the international students a survey,” Dawson said. “It’s heartbreaking how many of them say they wish they had made just one American friend.”

The International Buddy Program’s goal is to help students bridge the gap between cultures by pairing an international student with a local student.

Before joining, participants are asked to fill out an application with basic personal information.

Buddies are then paired based on similar interests.

Katherine Williams, Auburn graduate in communications, is the International Buddy Program’s president and coadvisor.

“I have been around international students for my whole life,” Williams said. “I’ve always seen them around campus and in my classes. I guess I just saw a real need for these students to make a connection with other students.”

According to Williams, all members of the organization are treated as equals.

“The last thing we want is for this to be a mentoring program,” Williams said. “We just want people to develop genuine friendships with each other.”

The program is meant to

benefit international students by making the transition into American life a bit easier.

Interacting with and befriending local students is proven to motivate participants to become fluent in English and more involved on campus and in the community.

While the international participants are exposed to the English language and American culture, their buddies are also gaining a valuable education.

Even though her buddy moved back to Japan a month ago, Jessica Terrell, junior in public relations, talks to her every day.

“It’s really cool whenever you get to meet somebody that is new to everything American,” Terrell said. “My buddy had never even cooked cupcakes before. I taught her how, and she taught me how to make Japanese food.”

Each pair is expected to get together at least twice a month and remain in contact through email, phone calls or text.

However, most pairs choose to exceed that.

“One of my favorite memories with my buddy was when we went to the Montgomery fair together,” Terrell said. “Her first time driving in America was that night, when she drove a go-cart.”

Linda Wu, sophomore in human resource management, is originally from China.

A little over a year ago, she made the decision to attend Auburn University.

“I heard about the International Buddy Program in one of my classes,” Wu said. “I joined because I just wanted to make more American friends.

It has helped improve my English and I’ve also made a really good friend.”

The program is accepting applications in Foy 316 until Jan. 27.

Not everything has to break in order for it to need fixing.

Auburn’s graduate psychology program, despite placing 15th in student rated top-25 graduate programs in the country, supports about two-thirds of its students on outside grant money, shrinking the pool of possible candidates the school can accept every year.

“It’s not that we’ve lost any money or anything like that,” said Daniel Svyantek, chair of the Auburn graduate psychology program. “We’re just trying to get more money and we’re being frustrated by the same forces that are affecting everybody else in the U.S. right now.”

The ranking comes from GraduatePrograms.com, an online guide to graduates programs and opportunities around the country for students.

“I think its a testament to the dedication our faculty show to the mentoring role and all aspects of graduate training,” said Steven Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology.

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The hard part is finding ways to make the program more economically efficient while not losing any of the progress it has already made.”

—Daniel Svyantek

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It was created by and for college students based on a schools combined score out of 15 categories, which include academic competitiveness, career support, network quality, and financial aid.

The recent sequester and subsequent government shutdown severely constricted the amount of grants available for graduate programs across the country, forcing most schools to raise the competitiveness of their programs and reducing the number of possible graduate students.

While Auburn continues to be thrifty in terms of budgeting its graduate program, some view the online ranking as misleading.

“We basically do not belong there [in the top 25], to be honest,” said Jinyan Fan, associate professor of industrial organization psychology. “The ranking is basically completed by graduate students, not completed by some authoritative agency. It says graduate students like our programs a lot, but does not speak to the quality.”

State money provides stipends for graduate teaching assistants, who proctor the expanding undergraduate programs and are used to attract grant money from around the country for the University programs.

Svyantek said he is confident Auburn will maintain its average graduate student population of about 85-90 for the next year while still finding ways to develop and continue to expand.

“The hard part is finding ways to make the program more economically efficient while not losing any of the progress it has already made,” Svyantek said.

Auburn professor perfects the sport of writing Kyle Nazario Writer

More than 150 journalists from across the country jammed themselves into a locker room in Dallas, Texas. They had come from as far away as New York City and Washington, D.C. to talk to Major Ogilvie, the talented running back from the University of Alabama.

Ogilvie had just scored a touchdown in the 1981 Cotton Bowl, helping seal the Crimson Tide’s 30-2 victory over Baylor.

Every reporter in the room wanted to talk to the star running back who had rushed for the second-most yards that season.

Rich Donnell fought to get in, jockeying for space with sportswriters from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

The running back noticed Donnell’s badge identifying him as a representative of the Birmingham Post-Herald.

“Wait a minute, I wanna hear what the guy from Alabama has to say,” Ogilvie said. The two left the room to talk, ditching the other reporters.

Donnell, 58, looks back on the incident as one his favorites while working at a newspaper.

The occasional Auburn journalism instructor has graying hair and speaks without a Southern accent, despite spending most of his adult life in Alabama.

He has worked in sports journalism since his teenage years when he covered high school sports for the St. Louis County News in Missouri.

Athletics are Donnell’s passion.

“I just grew up with [sportswriting],” Donnell said. “I was just wanting to do that. Sports Illustrated was like the Bible.”

The young fan enjoyed reading biographies of famous athletes like Mickey Mantle, Knute Rockne and Vince Lombardi.

Donnell learned journalism at Auburn in the ‘70s.

Back then the department ran under former news professionals such as Jack Simms, Mickey Logue and David E. Housel.

“They were very real-world oriented,” Donnell said. “They had the experience and knew what they were talking about.”

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You couldn’t make mistakes. [You] had to make sure what you’re writing is accurate.”

—Rich Donnell

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Donnell’s professors expected highquality work from their students and accepted nothing less.

“You couldn’t make mistakes,” Donnell said. “[You] had to make sure what you’re writing is accurate. That sounds simple enough, but it’s the fundamental of the whole thing.”

Like many journalism students, Donnell worked at The Auburn Plainsman, writing under sports editor Mark Murphy.

He contributed 10-12 feature stories per year, but preferred not to join the staff officially.

“I wanted to have a good time in college,” Donnell said. “I knew when I got out of school that’s what I’d be doing full time. I didn’t want to give over that time.”

The journalism major was a member of Sigma Chi, an Auburn fraternity. He had as much fun as he could on a campus with one local bar and a casino bar on US-29.

“You couldn’t party a lot, but there were a lot of keg parties,” Donnell said.

After graduation, Donnell found a job with the Eastern Shore Courier as sports editor.

The news came as a relief to the new graduate, who found out he had a job the day before graduation.

The paper covered Fairhope, Ala., and published twice weekly.

Donnell covered sports, city council meetings, speeches, and everything else necessary. “[At a ] paper like that, you kind of do a lot of things,” Donnell said.

Donnell moved to Birmingham in 1977 to write for the Post-Herald as a sports editor, covering high school and college sports.

Donnell talked with sportswriters for other newspapers, and these young reporters built friendships atop a common love

of athletics.

“Back then, it was a real passion,” said Mike Tankersley, former sports editor for the Montgomery Advertiser. “We would get together on Friday nights, talk about the next week’s football games... we all socialized.”

Tankersley appreciated his friend’s writing.

“He knew what he was doing... Rich rarely got things wrong,” Tankersely said.

Donnell never let his passion for sports spiral out of control, despite following his teams with the obsession of a true fan.

“He’s not one of these outrageous sports fans,” Tankersley said.

Donnell put his love of sports temporarily on hold to attend Penn State University to earn a master’s degree of journalism with an emphasis in business journalism.

“I felt like I needed a master’s if I needed to part-time teach at Auburn,” Donnell said.

Auburn University reached out to Donnell, asking him to help teach magazine and feature writing classes.

“I tried to teach it the way those guys taught me at Auburn,” Donnell said. “The students seemed to appreciate the fact that I had a lot of experience to know what I was talking about.”

He also used the time to reconnect with Dr. John Carvalho, an Auburn journalism professor and long-time college friend while at Auburn.

“There’s always kind of a strong bond within the Plainsman fraternity,” Carvalho said.

In addition to teaching, Donnell found time to write a series of sports memoirs about famous Auburn sports figures such as Shug Jordan, Lewis Colbert, George Petrie and Terry Beasley.

“His self-published books that he does about Auburn sports, I think they’re kind of [how] he’s always been ahead of the game,” Carvalho said.

Tankersley said he enjoys his friend’s books.

“Rich’s strength is his ability to research things and put them down in a very readable fashion,” Tankersely said.

Donnell plans to keep writing.

“I’ve always loved the challenges, and the work involved,” Donnell said.

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Spirit of Sustainability recognition open to all Derek Herscovici Campus Reporter

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The Auburn Chapel served as the Auburn University Theatre from 1926-1972.

AU Players set the stage for centennial celebration Corey Williams Campus Reporter

Auburn University’s theater program celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

To mark the occasion, the AU Players will host a reunion for past and present members.

The three-day event, scheduled for Feb. 28 through March 2, will feature a performance of “9-to-5: The Musical” by the AU Players, as well as performances by the Mosaic Theatre Company and Radio Flyer Theatre.

Diana Freeberg, senior in theater, said she hopes this event will attract a wide variety of people from the University and the community.

“Of course we want theater majors to come, but we are also inviting anyone who minored, or just has an interest in theater,” Freeberg said. “Octavia Spencer, for example, was involved in a theater production at Auburn, but she was never actually a theater major.”

Fifteen men and an English professor founded the AU Players, originally called “The AU Footlights,” in 1913.

The name was changed in 1919, when women were first introduced into the group.

Taylor Dyleski, senior in production management and president of the AU Players, did extensive research on the history of the theater troupe to prepare for the centennial celebration.

“I first started my research this summer,” Dyleski said.

“We actually know quite a bit about the original AU Players because of the Glomeratas. We also have a lot of newspaper articles from back in the day.”

The reunion will feature a walking tour of many historic landmarks with connections

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Group of 1975 AU Players on the Telfair Peet Stage.

to the AU Players, including the Chapel, Langdon Hall and Samford Hall.

“Since the AU Players are so old, they have a lot of really strong ties to a lot of historic buildings in Auburn,” Dyleski said.

The AU Players current home, Telfair Peet Theatre, was not built until 1972.

“They even spent some time in the attic of Samford Hall,” Dyleski said. “When you think of Auburn, you automatically think of Samford. So I think it is really interesting that this theater organization has a tie to that. There was a really funny article written in the paper when they performed there. It said the actors had to stop the performances every so often so the bell could ring.”

In addition to the performances and the walking tour of the theater program’s histo-

ry, the reunion will also include a dinner banquet at Zazu Gastropub and a panel of Auburn scholars discussing how theater continues to impact Auburn University.

Anna Claire Walker, senior in musical theater, is the vice president of the AU Players.

Walker said she is most looking forward to meeting graduates of Auburn’s theater program.

“I am excited to see all of the alumni come together,” Walker said. “Auburn has a big network of people out there doing different things with their theatre educations. It can be very daunting to head out into the real world without really knowing what to expect. I think it’s going to be very inspirational to see all these people who used Auburn’s theater program to help them do what they want to do.”

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Samford Hall attic theater (1926) shows had to stop every hour for tolling of the Samford Tower Bell. The bell tower was also used as a dressing room during performances.

The age of excess is over. Now is the time to live sustainably.

On April 22, the second annual Spirit of Sustainability awards, hosted by Office of Sustainability, will recognize certain individuals and groups for their contribution to improving sustainability and outstanding environmental work in Auburn and around the country.

“Engagement, passion and impact; that’s what we’re looking for in the awards,” said Jennifer Morse, communication and outreach manager for the Office of Sustainability.

“The initiative that they’re working with has actually made an impact [on the environment] and the degree to which it has engaged and involved other people. That’s what we’re looking for.”

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and other distinguished affiliates of Auburn are eligible to be nominated by their peers and to receive recognition by the school for their work in all forms of sustainability, which includes issues like social justice, hunger and personal well being.

Charlene LeBleu, associate professor of landscape architecture, was a Spirit of Sustainability finalist in 2012 for her work to integrate sustainability research into classes, such as landscape ecology and stormwater construction.

Working with natural systems rather than to control them is visible in projects LeBleu directed around campus, from water-permeable concrete to rain gardens and cisterns.

“Last year we did the cistern and rain garden at the Auburn Raptor Center and rain garden at Dudley Hall, the architecture building,” LeBleu said. “The cisterns hold a thousand gallons of water collected from the roof. The interesting thing about the one at the raptor center [is] the water is used for flushing the toilets.”

There were eleven finalists for the first Spirit of Sustainability Awards in 2012, including Emil Topel, senior executive chef of Tiger Dining; Dee Smith, curator of the Davis Arboretum; and 1988 Auburn alumna Jacquelyn Overbey Hart.

One of the Spirit Award’s most prolific groups was the Auburn chapter of the Real Food Challenge, an organization based on its members’ commitment to getting Auburn’s dining programs to use 20 percent “real” food by 2020.

“The organization defines ‘real’ food as locally produced, ecologically sound, fair and humane,” said Rosco Davis, founder of and former president of the Real Food Challenge’s Auburn chapter. “It’s food that’s good for people’s bodies, and it’s also good for the planet and the community. So it’s food that meets that triple bottom-line standard of sustainability: it supports well being, the planet and it’s ecologically stable also.”

Davis and other members of the Real Food Challenge met with the heads of Tiger Dining to figure out what Auburn consumed the most

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Anyone related to the University can be nominated for the Spirit of Sustainability award.

and how to bring more locally grown food, as well as bringing reusable silverware into dining halls around campus.

The Real Food Challenge established a permanent presence on campus through the community garden located at the intersection of Donahue and Samford, which is available to anyone interested in growing their own food.

“When we went to the award ceremony and we got the award, that felt like graduation for me,” Davis said. “There’s plenty of food on campus. So people don’t really realize that there’s anything wrong until you start talking about it and raise awareness. That’s all we wanted to do was raise awareness and figure out how Auburn could get more local food.”

There is no limit to the number of awards given out, but there is one award reserved for students who, according to the Office of Sustainability’s website, “exemplify the level of passion and commitment to sustainability as the award’s namesake, William L. Olsen.”

Olsen, who passed away in 2012 after an eleven-year battle with cancer, was involved with sustainability at Auburn since his freshman year and was the founder of Auburn’s current recycling program as well as initiatives in organic gardening, waste management and alternative fuels.

The first recipient of the Olsen Award was Nathan Warner, 2012 graduate in ecological engineering, who was recognized for his achievements in sustainability.

Warner was also voted Outstanding Biosystems Engineering Student in 2012. “[Olsen] was in chemical engineering, and he was one of our office interns,” Morse said.

“Just a very wonderful passionate person with a very positive outlook. We kind of share his story through this.”

The second annual Spirit of Sustainability Awards will be held on Cater Lawn Tuesday, April 22, at 6 p.m.

To nominate someone, visit www.Auburn. edu/Sustainability.

Student Government Association student senate gets back to business Ben Ruffin

Campus Writer

The Student Government Association’s first meeting of the spring semester was held Monday, Jan. 13.

The agenda, which listed a number of amendments, aimed at amending Title XI of the constitution, which pertains to school officers and school council.

Four amendments brought to the table changed the wording of the Code of Laws, but will have little impact on Auburn students.

Among other new business, a resolution in recognition of Amy Hecht for her tremendous impact on Auburn University students carried without opposition.

Before leaving Auburn University, Hecht supervised and managed a variety of student life areas including, Greek life, leadership development, parent programming, judicial affairs, orientation, student media and assessment.

Hecht served on executive leadership teams within student affairs organizations and had extensive experience leading and managing in higher education.

Hecht also earned her bachelor’s degree in mass communication at Florida State University and her master’s and doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

The SGA Senate also fielded a resolution in appreciation of a Five-Star award from Camfil Farr to Auburn University Facilities Management Preventive Maintenance Department.

This past year, Facilities Management’s Preventive Maintenance Department partnered with Camfil Farr, the largest filter manufacturer in the world, and reduced a significant amount of waste, realized cost savings for the University, conserved electrical energy and improved the air quality for everyone on campus.

This was all possible for the University beacause of the utilization of a new style of air filter.

In the past, the University used between

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Four amendments changing the wording of the Code of Laws were brought up at the Monday, Jan. 13, Student Government Association Senate Meeting. This was the first senate meeting of the semester.

25,000 and 30,000 filters per year.

In 2013, only 4,549 air filters were needed on campus.

In other SGA orders of business, two new students were appointed to fill open Senate seats.

Lucas Tribble, junior in industrial engineering, and Collin Myrick, sophomore in the College of Science and Mathematics, will serve the remainder of the year on Senate prior to upcoming elections.

“I’ve worked in other parts of the Student Government Association,” Myrick said. “I would just like the opportunity to see another part of SGA, and I think I can really bring something to the table, although it’s just for the remainder of this SGA year. I am running for Senate this coming up election, though.”

Opinion

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Social Media Bookstores now accepting limbs as payment on The Plains

In response to our post “Is Snapchat worth the risk?”

Josue Rios:

“Oh no, my number can be accessed? I dont care. If youre putting a picture that is risky, shouldnt be putting it on a social media app anyways.”

In response to our tweet “OPINION: Her view: Auburn University needs a ‘Come to Jesus meeting’” @whduncan:

“An opinion column I can get behind”

@firstaubiegirl: “Entitled generation!”

In response to our tweet “Poor late game execution a concern in Tigers’ 0-2 SEC start” @EthanDaAmerican: “While we didn’t execute great, we played a top 25 team and defending sec champ in those loses. We will be fine.”

We value our limbs. But when we see the price of textbooks skyrocketing, we start to fill our bathtubs with ice. The rate at which textbook prices increase double the rate of inflation. We are starting to get the feeling that buying college textbooks is a scam. We’re also getting the feeling that we shouldn’t take medical advice from a guy in an alley.

Students don’t exactly have a wide array of options when it comes to purchasing books. There are the local bookstores, but many of them seem to have become more of a tourist attraction than a bookstore.

It seems odd that off-campus bookstores have the gall to call themselves “bookstores” when you have trek through Auburn memorabilia to get to the books at the back of the store.

The only option outside bookstores is the Internet. Students can order books from sites like Amazon or Chegg, but there seems to be a quality control issue with ordering textbooks over the Internet. We would prefer our books in one piece and free of promiscuous stains and drippings.

Surely, we thought, the Auburn University Bookstore is at the center of this scheme.

But upon further investigation, we found they are doing more to save students money than what we initially gave them credit for… Oops. The bookstore complies with the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which addresses the cost associated with higher education.

The Bookstore has partnered with software companies that allow them to buy books in bulk online to pass on savings to students. They also offer students rental options, used books, a buyback program and instore credit. Through this effort, the Bookstore has saved students $1.7 million over the past two years and is still looking for ways to save students money, according to Assistant Bookstore Director Rusty Weldon.

We honestly had no idea. To be fair, $10 for a book that costs over $100 hardly seems

How much did you spend on textbooks this semester?

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Years of debate over whether or not video games are art might finally be over. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has recently added “Flower,” by Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany, and “Halo 2600,” by Ed Fries, to their permanent collection.

Controversy started in 2005 when Roger Ebert proclaimed that video games can never be art after reviewing “Doom,” a movie based on a popular video game from 1993.

Other factors have caused resistance to video games being accepted in the art world. Growing up, my parents taught me that playing them would rot my brain. Many other children are taught that video games are bad from an early age as well. I understand I could be doing something more productive, but the shaming doesn’t end there.

With recent shootings and terrorist attacks, the media and government are quick to use vid-

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Everyone has bad days. Everyone has those mornings where your alarm clock goes off, and you hit snooze twenty times and then finally drag yourself from bed to shower to class in a daze that, for once, probably has nothing to do with a hangover.

It’s just how life is. We’re all sleep-deprived college students. We all get grumpy sometimes.

We all have days where we’d rather pretend humanity doesn’t exist, and the only world we know is Netflix and drawn curtains.

I get it. I do. I’m totally there approximately 97 percent of the time.

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that might break social norms and procedure, video games can lead to dramatic evaluations of ethics and morality. By combining manipulation with cinematography, music and literature, video games create an artistic experience like no other.

“Flower” allows players an escape to nature.

The audience takes control of a sweeping wind as it picks up flower petals.

“Flower” brings about relaxation with all the Zen, therapeutic remedies that looking at a piece of landscape art has. Finally, the ability to watch art unfold just as fast as Bob Ross can paint it!

However, “Flower” goes beyond aesthetic value. The game slowly transitions from a rural to metropolitan setting. With the same task of traversing the land and making flowers bloom, “Flower” communicates a need to find harmony between nature and urban life.

It is clear that “Flower” is an aesthetic medium used to express ideas and shared feelings in a visually compelling way. In other words, it’s art. And there are other good, artistic games out there created by inspired thinkers with artistic minds trying to share their message with an audience.

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eo games as a scapegoat. These groups cite games displaying gratuitous violence and sex, such as “Call of Duty” or “Grand Theft Auto,” to back their claims. These claims are inaccurate and assume what might be true about one part holds true of all of its parts.

Could I convince you that all books are turning people into sadistic nymphomaniacs by citing “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the genre of erotic literature? Such a claim would be taken as a farce.

These factors are used as fodder for people to not take video games as a serious anything, much less art.

Though some video games might feel like Dadaism, it would be a shame to assume this medium is being created to satiate the lust of a debased generation determined to spoil itself.

This relatively new and controversial form of art exposes audiences to new trains of thought and empathy. Video games break the fourth wall by allowing the audience to experience through action and manipulation.

This new mode of art manipulation helps in fostering a deeper understanding of concepts and feelings the game is trying to express. Forcing audiences to make decisions

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a result, publishers set whatever price they want.

New editions published every year with little variation force students to needlessly rebuy books.

Publishers justify raising prices by bundling digital content with their textbooks.

This software often has an expiration date, which undermines the resale of the book.

The publishers control the market. They raise prices and republish their textbooks on a whim.

Professors can help by encouraging students to buy older editions of textbooks.

Until then, keep your extra kidney on ice.

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like enough. That’s barely enough money to go to Skybar and drown our sorrows in…

Root beer.

We have discovered the real villains are the publishers.

They would have us think used books, the printing expenses and the increased demand for digital content are causing prices to spike.

While these claims might loosely be based on reality, the blatant attempts to gouge prices and manipulate their consumers are unacceptable.

Publishers know they have their consumers trapped. Students are, typically, forced to buy the textbook their professor assigns.As

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That does not, however, give you, me or anyone else permission to be a total ass to other people.

The South is generally a pretty friendly place, and from my experience, Auburn tends to be really good about exemplifying southern hospitality.

But, it’s week two, and I’ve already found myself angry and without a lot of residual hope for humanity due to some of the interactions I’ve seen on this campus.

Don’t be rude to the men and women who drive the Tiger Transit. Don’t talk down to the people working in campus dining; they’re all working and just doing their jobs.

Hell, don’t talk down to anybody. The moment you think you’re better than someone else is the moment you’re decidedly the opposite.

That’s the moment you lose my respect.

You’re here in college presumably to, like

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me, get an education that will help you try to make your dreams into a reality.

Do you really think someone dreamed up standing behind the counter of a Starbucks counter all day? I mean, maybe, and if so I’m not dissing that, but seriously—just think about people.

Take two seconds to consider someone’s life other than your own.

You don’t know what everyone else has been going through. There’s literally (not figuratively, just so we clear up that little discrepancy right off the bat) no reason to be rude to anyone, even if they were rude to you first. It’s unnecessary and childish.

Auburn, we’re all tired. We’ve all got things outside of school and work to deal with. We could probably all use more sleep. But we can all definitely put forth a little more effort to be kind to everyone we meet.

Policy The opinions of The Auburn Plainsman staff are restricted to these pages. This editorial is the majority opinion of the 13-member editorial board and are the official opinion of the newspaper. The opinions expressed in columns and letters represent the views and opinions of their individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the Auburn University student body, faculty, administration or Board of Trustees.

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Auburn diagnosed with a cold Recent cold front leaves pipes bursting, houses flooding and citizens hibernating Ashtyne Cole

Community Reporter

The seasonably cold weather, or what some meterologists are calling an “Arctic Freeze,” blew through Auburn last week, and had residents bundling up and staying indoors. What many citizens didn’t know was they should have been bundling their pipes instead.

With the weather dropping to the low teens last week, residents sought shelter in the warmth of their homes, not realizing the weather could have detrimental effects on their plumbing.

Water Resource Management Director Eric Carson explained the different ways cold weather can affect water and pipes.

“As far as water goes, the pipes themselves will contract, and the joints of the pipes will pull apart and cause leaks,” Carson said. “They expand, and they can cause problems, even causing the pipes to move in the

didn’t see any notices or receive any emails about leaving my water on in case of the pipes freezing. I’m just glad my apartment wasn’t flooded. ” In the apartment complex 221 Armstrong, residents were sent emails, texts and signs were set up in the complex warning students of freezing pipes.

Jayne Ohlman, sophomore in poli-science, resides at 221 said she remembered seeing signs and pamphlets everywhere.

“After all the information they sent out, we still had a pipe burst,” Ohlman said. “It definitely put a damper on some of the residents, literally.”

Building 2 of 221 suffered a pipe burst, and residents had to vacate their apartments temporarily and have their carpet replaced.

221 warned residents, but other apartment complexes did not address the cold weather threat.

Attempts to reach 221 were unsuccessful.

In the past week, Carson said he estimated he receieved 15 to 20 calls per day to turn off the water because of damaged or shattered pipes.

ground.”

When the pipes freeze and move underground, they make weak points in the entire system of the pipes, causing them to leak or burst, which causes water to spread.

Water freezes and expands. When water is at rest in the pipes, it will begin to freeze.

When the water freezes, it splits the pipe because of the expansion.

As far as prevention goes, there a few ways to keep the cold weather from damaging pipes, such as burying pipes deep in the ground when a home is built, insulating exposed pipes with heat tape and keeping water on helps prevent freezing.

Students such as Payden Evans, sophomore in RTVF, and resident of Court Square Apartments, are usually not aware of this problem.

“I had no idea that the cold weather could be a problem with the pipes,” Evans said. “I

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Water expands when frozen, leading to potential plumbing problems.

POWs feel at home in Opelika Nick Hines

Contributing Writer

Sarah May / Assistant Photo Editor

Al Killian sits to talk about the WWII Prisoner of War Camp in Opelika.

Tucked away in sleepy downtown Opelika, pictures and artifacts from the 1940s at the Museum of East Alabama tell the story of more than 3,000 captured prisoners. Elaborately carved cups and plates left behind show the amount of detail people can achieve when they have time on their hands. Worn leather-bound Bibles, handwritten letters and military roll-call sheets serve as the last link to the prisoners’ thoughts.

What sets this exhibit apart from other World War II-era displays is the focus on German prisoners. Specifically, the objects are from German prisoners detained in Opelika from 1942–1945.

“There’s a lot of history around here that people don’t realize,” said Glenn Buxton, museum director.

As the need for prisoner-of-war camps increased, America opened its doors to Axis prisoners. Germans were shipped to ports in New York, Boston and Baltimore, and then brought by train to camps across the United States. Camp Opelika was the second largest camp in Alabama, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama.

“In six months, they were able to build the whole thing,” said local resident Al Killian, retired Lt. Colonel in the Alabama National Guard and author of

the book “Camp Opelika.” “They were like McDonalds’ buildings, one size fit all.”

Prisoners served as cooks, formed soccer teams and staged plays with men starring in all of the roles. An orchestra of prisoners, some of who had been professional musicians before the war, put on shows members of the Opelika community could attend. Camp newspapers detailed these activities and more.

“It was a lot better over here than over there,” Buxton said.

Courses ranging from Spanish to woodworking were taught by the prisoners. Records show approximately 1,400 prisoners participated in coursework, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama.

The camp’s prisoners were also allowed to work in the cotton fields and lumber plants around the community.

“If they worked, they made 80 cents a day,” Killian said. “That’s about what the American soldier was making, too, at $21 a month.”

Former prisoners remember Opelika fondly. Relatives send letters and pictures, and some made a return trip to the city. The relationships they made with the community resonated after they left.

German soldiers were confused when arriving at the major ports of America, since their superiors told them German bombers had destroyed the major cities

on the East Coast, according to Killian.

They had also been informed they would be killed when taken prisoner, and prepared themselves to be shot when taken off the trains.

Bringing enemy soldiers to the home front humanized the Americans in German eyes, and the Germans in American eyes.

“We learned that they weren’t so different from us,” Killian said. “They had wives and kids at home.”

Camp Opelika had a profound impact on the community and marked an important time in local history, yet few artifacts remain to tell its story.

“We were dummies,” said Killian as he talked about the amount of history destroyed or neglected.

“It is important for people to know their history,” Killian said. “People need to know what was done for them.”

German internment camps are preserved for people to learn from the horrors of the Holocaust. The atrocities of how the Japanese military treated American prisoners are taught in schools.

As Winston Churchill said, “history is written by the victors.”

The Museum of East Alabama is teaching how similar our enemies were, and provides insight to the similarities in human nature that we all have through the artifacts from Camp Opelika.

Recreation Center nearing completion Pierce Ostwalt Community Writer

In January 2012, Auburn voters and the City Council allotted a $5 million tax referendum fund to be used strictly for public projects. Two of the withdrawals for this fund have been used for the Frank Brown Recreation Center.

Frank Brown, located at 235 Opelika Road, will soon begin its final phase of renovations.

The final phase of renovations to Frank Brown will complete all of the Parks and Recreations renovations made to the campus located on Opelika Road.

The expansion entails several new changes to the already recently refurbished facilities. The funds will supply a new racquetball court and the conversion of the old racketball court into a new fitness area. This new fitness area includes treadmills, dumbbells, standard weightroom equipment and American with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible weighttraining equipment.

The first round of renovations included refurbishing both the inside and out-

side of the facility as well as adding new classrooms, a conference room and a racquetball court.

“Now, this new phase, which is also the last phase, is redoing the old racquetball court and converting that area into a larger fitness area that is open to the public and again there is no membership fee that goes along with that, it is free and open to the public,” said Meg Rainey, the public relations specialist for the Auburn department of Parks and Recreation.

The Hubert and Grace Harris Senior Center and the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center surround Frank Brown.

The parks and recreation department maintains and pays for the entire campus.

The Hubert and Grace Harris Senior Center provides programs for senior citizens ages 50 and above, and the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center serves all ages in the fine arts.

“Creating a campus feel for everyone, that was one of the major goals and one of the great things about having so many different facilities that serve so many purposes in one location,” Rainey said.

Frank Brown offers a variety of programs to the public without a membership fee.

The only requirement is that patrons must be 16 or older unless accompanied by an adult.

Some of these programs include classes for fitness training, martial arts, yoga, dance, and recreational league sports such as basketball, special Olympics basketball and volleyball.

The center changes its programs, advertised in their quarterly brochure, depending on the season of the year.

The center is always looking for new teachers and new ideas for classes. People in the community are encouraged to share by either participating or leading classes. The center provides facilities for the programs and simply charges a small percentage for building use and program advertisement.

With the last phase of campus renovation close to completiton, the parks department will soon host a grand opening of all of their new facilities for the public to use and enjoy.

Emily Enfinger / Photographer

TOP: Nigel Mitchell sits on a stack of wood outside the Frank Brown Recreation Center.

BOTTOM: Rubble outside the Frank Brown Recreation Center from recent construction doesn’t stand in the way of these basketball players.

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Police Division under fire as citizens voice grievances over an alleged unjustified arrest Ashtyne Cole

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“That’s when I slid out of my jacket and took off running,” Rico said.

He found a nearby neighbor and was taken to the hospital.

He suffered a broken collarbone, accentuated by the full sling he wore during the meeting.

Louise recalled the police invading her backyard and bringing a dog into her home after she agreed to let the police search.

“They were searching for marijuana in my house after they said they could smell it on my son’s clothes,” Louise said. “I told them I don’t let dope in my house, and my son doesn’t do that.”

Louise said she wanted a way to stop the police from returning to her home day after day.

City Manager Charlie Duggan scheduled an appointment with the Cobb’s Thursday to sit down with the police and understand what happened.

“Since there is a case pending against him, we cannot comment,” Duggan said. “But he does have a lengthy police record.”

Councilman Dowdell spoke on behalf of Rico believing he is a changed man.

“I spoke to past police chief Dawson, and he says the police need to use a common sense method,” Dowdell said. “And I agree.”

Repeated attempts to contact the Auburn Police Division were unsuccessful.

Other council news reviewed two alcohol licensces and other city ordinances.

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Rico Cobb and many of his family members addressed the council at citizens communication about issues they have with members of the police department.

Rico’ mother, Louise, presented the family’s issue, a disagreement about Rico’s recent arrest and police actions leading up to it.

The family believed that Rico did nothing wrong and that the arrest was unwarranted.

Rico was allegedly in his car in front of his mother’s home at 1366 Kurt Circle after returning from his son’s basketball game when a police officer tapped on his window.

“I was just charging my phone in my car, and the police came up and asked if I had any weapons in the car,” Rico said. “I said no, gave him my license, which came up clear, and they harassed me.”

Rico said the police then made him step out of the car while they did a search of the vehicle, which Rico first refused, then agreed.

The police then searched Rico, digging through his pockets to which he described as someone taking his rights from him.

He claimed his only weapon was a knife from his work at a tree hauling service.

After another officer brought a canine, the police took Rico by the arms to detain him, according to Rico.

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In the wake of Tre Mason’s announcement that he would forego his senior year at Auburn to declare for the NFL Draft, many questions have emerged about the future of the Tigers’ running game.

In Mason’s announcement, he showed full faith that his successors would be able to carry his success on the ground into the next season.

“Those guys are ready,” Mason said.

“I see a lot of talent in those guys, and they’re very hard workers.”

While losing a gifted back like Mason leaves a hole in the Auburn depth chart, the Tigers have a stable of running backs that look able to do the job.

“If you look at the history of our system, we usually have two, sometimes

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Grant became involved in the Tigers backfield after transferring from Alabama before the 2012 season.

Grant is known for his big-play tendencies. He had a breakout game in Auburn’s opener against Washington State, having a 75-yard touchdown run and 146 yards on nine carries.

Grant finished with 647 yards and six touchdowns on 66 carries in 2013.

Johnathan “Rudy” Ford will try to get his name in the mix at running back after moving to defense to aid a thin secondary this past season.

Ford will have to overcome redshirtfreshman Peyton Barber, who played alongside Carl Lawson at Alpharetta High School (Ga.).

Barber was originally committed to play for the Ole Miss Rebels, but flipped his commitment after being persuaded by the Auburn recruiters and Lawson.

Barber has impressed fellow teammates with his work in practice, especially Tre Mason.

“[Barber] is probably, skill wise, the best out of all of us,” Mason said. “That guy is good. He’s very consistent when he’s scrimmaging.”

Arguably the most intriguing possibility is Auburn commitment Racean “Roc” Thomas.

Thomas, a five-star recruit out of Oxford High School, is listed by Rivals. com as the No. 2 running back prospect and the No. 12 overall prospect in the nation.

Thomas has an incredible blend of rushing skills, with lightning-quick lateral movement, great power and tackle-breaking skills and freakish breakaway speed.

The 5-foot-11, 200-pound back will look to be the next breakout back for Auburn, and will look to be active in his first season on the Plains.

In order to do so, he’ll have to beat out a whole stable of talented backs.

While Mason is tough to lose, it’s comforting knowing that Auburn has no depth issues at running back.

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three backs,” Auburn offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee said during fall camp prior to the 2013 season. “Maybe there will be one who is the feature guy, but there are usually two guys we can definitely count on—and maybe one more who takes on a specific role that can take the pressure off the other guys.”

Both Cameron Artis-Payne and Corey Grant are senior backs who will look to take the lead position.

Artis-Payne came to Auburn last year out of Allan Hancock Community College in California.

In the 2013 season, Artis-Payne split carries with Mason throughout the first part of the season, but saw Mason gain the majority of the carries as the season went on.

Artis-Payne, a 5-foot-11, 210-pound back, had 610 yards and six touchdowns last season on 91 carries.

While Artis-Payne is seen as a power back, Opelika native Corey Grant is well known for being a speedster.

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After an impressive season opening win Friday, Jan. 10, over Division II powerhouse Texas Woman’s University, the No. 13 Auburn gymnastics team has very high expectations for the season, which begins with a visit from No. 1 Florida.

Despite a few mistakes in the beam event, the team outscored its opponent in every other event in its opener.

“What we found about this team is that they have set massive expectations for themselves,” said Auburn head coach Jeff Graba. “We have a couple of things to fix on the beam, but that’s nothing this team won’t be able to fix.”

The few mistakes in the first meet did not worry Graba, who is entering his fourth season as Auburn’s head coach.

Graba said it is normal for his teams to start slower in order to make sure his team stays healthy.

“I want to keep them healthy and strong,” Graba said. “If you do too much too early, sometimes you can jeopardize that. I’m not surprised that we had a couple of hiccups but this team is going to ramp it up a lot faster than the last three teams.”

This year’s team also features many freshmen that have gotten the opportunity to perform in events right away.

Freshmen M.J. Rott competed in beam, floor and vault in her first college meet and came close to scoring a 9.9 on every event. “(M.J.) is a freshman, and I think there’s a lot of pressure on her,” Graba said. “Now that she has one meet under her belt, I think she’s going to rise to the occasion.”

Kullen Hlawek is another freshman that is currently competing in only bars because of a leg injury.

“Kullen is the national floor champ, and we can’t even get her out there in our floor lineup,” Graba said. “For her to rise to the occasion in her worst event and lead off, that’s a tough position for a freshman.”

This year’s team will also have to deal with having the nation’s second toughest schedule, according to the strength of schedule index released by CollegeGymFans. com.

Graba is confident that his team is going to handle the tough strength of schedule “really well.”

“First off, you don’t have a whole lot of choice in the

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Auburn’s gymnastics team cheers on sophomore Kait Kluz before her floor routine against TWU.

SEC,” Graba said. “But we want to compete against the best, and when our fans come out and support us, this team has an immense amount of energy and focus and they want to rise to the occasion.”

Before the Tigers worry about the tough conference

schedule and this week’s visit from No. 1 Florida, they are more focused on working out their own mistakes first.

“This team is extremely talented and right now for the first part of the season we’re really focusing on ourselves, trying to figure out who we are

and how to compete,” Graba said. “But I’m not surprised at our freshmen, this is why we brought them in.

“We know there’s growing pains that first night so it’s really exciting to get that past us and see what they can do the rest of the season.”

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After Auburn’s 12th consecutive SEC loss on Saturday, Jan. 11, head coach Tony Barbee blamed poor lastminute execution as a major factor in the Tigers’ recent SEC struggles.

“Offensively, we executed fairly well, shooting 54 percent in the second half,” Barbee said following Auburn’s 70-68 loss to No. 25 Missouri.

“But when it matters the most in those key moments, your execution has to be at its highest.

“In those key moments, in those last three or four possessions, our execution was at its lowest in this game.”

Auburn’s two SEC opening losses against Ole Miss and Missouri saw the Tigers fail to convert multiple late-game scoring opportunities.

Barbee said the Tigers must focus on the game’s subtleties in order to improve in conference play.

“Whether you’re road or home, it’s the little things,” Barbee said. “These games are too competitive. The teams are too good.

“I’ve got a good team. We’re playing hard. We’re competing at a very high level, but it’s the little things that make the difference in these games.”

Barbee specifically pointed out the Tigers’ recent struggles at the free throw line as a cause for concern.

Auburn has shot just 60 percent from the line in conference play and left 12 points at the charity stripe during Saturday’s two-point loss to Missouri.

“What I’ve talked about to this team from day one: free throws,” Barbee said. “We got 14-for-26. There’s

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I’ve got a good team.

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the game.”

Guard Chris Denson, who is currently the SEC’s second leading scorer at 19.1 points per game, has struggled this season from the charity stripe.

The senior hit just 8-of-20 free throws in the first two conference games this season.

“CD is a confident guy,” junior guard KT Harrell said. “He struggled tonight, but we all believe in him and he knows that we need him to score.

That’s one of his roles on this team as a leader, and we need him to be aggressive.”

Barbee said building confidence in late game scenarios starts with repetition and execution during practice.

“It’s not like we haven’t been in those situations because we’ve been in it hundreds of times,” Barbee said.

“That’s what breeds confidence, is repetition. We just have to continue to work on it.”

Harrell took no issue with Barbee’s game management after Saturday’s loss and agreed with his coach’s as-

sessment of the team’s late game execution.

“Rebounding and making free throws hurt us toward the end of the game,” Harrell said. “We’re really proud of each other just with the way that we fought. I think Coach (Barbee) made the right decisions on the plays to get us good looks, but we just have to execute.”

Despite the tight losses, Harrell seemed confident that the Tigers could right the ship.

“We’ve got a group of guys that are real competitive, and no one wants to lose on this team,” Harrell said. “We believe that we can win every game that we play.

“We got a group of guys that are mentally strong and we’re going to bounce back and come out even stronger the next game.”

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In December 1972, when most Auburn fans were still absorbing the glory following the Tigers’ historic ‘Punt Bama Punt’ Iron Bowl win, 1966 graduate Ray Bean was being transported from one room to the next in a North Vietnam prison of war.

The guards typically confined the soldiers to groups who were brought into the prison at the same time. The purpose was to prevent them from obtaining knowledge from new prisoners.

However, on the day Bean was moved, the guards made a mistake.

“When we moved into this room, there was one guy in there all by himself who had just been shot down, which was unusual,” Bean said.

The group of men drilled the newcomer with questions, thirsting for information from the outside. Answers were given and questions tapered off, but Bean, who was in the company of an Alabama graduate, had one more inquiry.

“Finally, at the end of about an hour, it had kind of quieted down and I said, ‘All right, let’s find out the real important stuff.

Who won the Auburn-Alabama game?’”

After his release as a POW, Ray continued to serve in the Air Force for 30 years. He earned numerous decorations, such as the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He later retired to Montgomery as a colonel.

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LEFT: Vietnam veteran Ray Bean talks at his home. RIGHT: Nosa Eguae rushes Johnny Manziel in the Texas A&M game earlier this year.

Forty-four years later, Bean is still the die-hard Auburn fan he was the year he asked about the Iron Bowl outcome in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp.

“My dad went [to Auburn], my brothers went there, I went there, and then my daughter went there,” Bean said while explaining the Auburn roots that run throughout his family. “My cousins all went there, and all their kids. So, it’s a pretty big family connection.”

Nearly one year ago, Bean braved battle again when he was diagnosed with cancer.

One week when he was out of town visiting family in Atlanta, complications from the illness sent him to Northside Hospital.

He wasn’t in his team’s home state, but in a sea of bulldogs, Bean managed to find an

other member of the Auburn Family.

“He was one of my patients, and I try to see and feel out some stuff with patients and see what they like,” said Jenny Accarino, nurse at Northside Hospital and 2008 Auburn graduate. “Turns out he was an Auburn fan, and since I went to Auburn, we just got on that topic.”

As the conversation naturally turned toward football, Accarino mentioned to Ray she had a friend on the football team— defensive end Nosa Eguae. Accarino told Ray to look out for Eguae when he watched the game that Saturday, but left his bedside wanting to do something more.

“I just thought, ‘What can make him smile? What can

make my patient happy,’” Accarino said. “So, I thought, why don’t I call Nosa? If I could get just him to talk to Ray, that would be awesome.”

As Eguae prepared to enter the Tiger Walk before the Arkansas State game, he received a call from Accarino asking him if he would take the time to call Ray. “I was all for it,” Eguae said.

“Stories like that [Ray’s] put things in perspective for me.

Any time I get the chance to make someone’s day, I want to do it.”

The day following the game back at Northside Hospital, Accarino walked into Ray’s room and told him she had a surprise for him.

“I thought they’d all know that my birthday had just

passed, so I thought maybe it was something to do with that,” Ray said. “Then, she said, ‘Hang on,’ and she dialed her phone and got [Eguae] on the phone.”

Lying on a hospital bed in a room full of nurses, Ray spoke to Nosa Eguae, D’Angelo Blackson, Dee Ford, and Keihl Frazier on speaker phone.

Eguae passes the phone from player to player, saying, “Hang on Mr. Ray, I’ve got one more for you,” between each conversation.

Ray asked the players about how they were doing on defense, how the new freshmen linemen were performing and if they were going to be able to take Mississippi State the following week.

The players assured him that

they would. At the end of the conversation, Equae thanked Ray for letting him and his teammates talk to him and hung up just after saying, “God bless, and War Eagle.”

“At the end of the conversation, everybody was crying,” said Mindy Bean, Ray’s wife. “All the nurses, Ray, me, Jenny—everybody was very choked up.”

Though the phone call was an emotional experience for everyone in Ray’s hospital room, it was compounded for Ray by the state of his health.

“What you’ve got to realize is when you’re sick like I was, your emotions are real thin,” Ray said. “I mean, they’re just like right under the edge of your skin, and so it doesn’t take anything to set you off to get weepy. I was excited to be talking to them, and at the same time, tearing up because it was such a big deal to me.”

Months down the road, Equae remembers the phone call as an opportunity to brighten someone else’s life as well as his own.

“Mr. Ray was so grateful just to be on the phone with us for a few minutes,” Eguae said. “It really put things in perspective and made my day.

“That’s one thing about it that I will remember. It was just another day. We were trying to get better as a team, but at the same time we were trying to get away from it and realize there’s more out there than just football. The chance to make someone’s day and have them make yours is just part of it.”

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It wasn’t an award Alexa Filley was expecting to win.

“I was shocked,” Filley said about being named Gatorade’s National High School Volleyball Player of the Year.

Filley, a senior at Assumption High School, an all-girl Catholic School in Louisville, Ky., has committed to play on Auburn’s volleyball team next season.

“We are extremely proud of Alexa for achieving this honor,” said Auburn head coach Rick Nold. “The Gatorade National Player of the Year award carries with it a great history of success for the previous recipients, and we are excited for Alexa to carry on that tradition here at Auburn.”

The award was recently presented to Filley at her high school.

“They came into my class and had this big trophy,” Filley said.

The 5-foot-9 senior setter said she knew she wanted to play at Auburn after she visited campus.

“I just fell in love,” Filley said. “The girls on the team are amazing.”

Since receiving the award, Filley said her life has become more hectic than usual.

The school volleyball season ended in November with Assumption winning its fourth-straight state championship.

Filley is currently playing club volleyball, and is also dealing with all the attention that comes with receiving the award.

“I’ve been doing interviews with all these different newspapers and magazines,” Filley said.

The senior finished with 1,248 assists, 334 digs, 102 kills, 58 blocks and 41 service-aces during her final season at Assumption in which the Rockets posted a 36-6 record.

“I try and be whatever my team needs me to be,” Filley said. “I try to be the rock.”

Filley’s high school coach Ron Kordes said Filley’s dedication and commitment to the game are a big part of what won her the award.

Alexa Filley is not the only Auburn signee garnering national attention. Filley and two future Tigers for head coach Rick Nold’s 2014 class have been named to All-American teams this season.

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Auburn volleyball signee Alexa Filley receives the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award.

“Even when she was in grade school, she was coming in at 6 a.m. to work with the trainer,” Kordes said. “There’s no place she’d rather be than in the gym.”

The award was presented to Filley not only for athletic performance, but also for her off-the-court service and performance in the classroom.

According to Gatorade’s website, “The Gatorade Player of the Year award is presented to high school student-athletes who have achieved athletic excellence in conjunction with high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character.”

Filley is an assistant in a local secondgrade class, donates time to feeding the hungry, and has volunteered with the Special Olympics, all while maintaining a 3.91 grade point average.

She won the award in its 29th year of existence and is the first player from the state of Kentucky to win the award on a national level.

In December, Filley was named the Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of Kentucky, giving Assumption its eleventh

winner.

Filley will become just the third Auburn athlete to have the national award on her resume, joining Andre Scott (track and field, 1994) and Stacy Martin (track and field, 1999). She will look to make an immediate impact when she joins the Tigers on the court for the first time next season.

The Tigers finished their season in November with a 3-1 loss at Georgia, giving them an overall record of 19-11 with 10-8 finish in the Southeastern Conference.

In addition to winning the award, Filley is also now a finalist for the Gatorade National Female Athlete of the Year.

The winner of that award will be recognized during an afternoon ceremony in Los Angeles on the day of the ESPY Awards in July.

Should she win, Filley will be only the second volleyball player to receive the honor.

The first to receive the honor was Cynthia Barboza of Long Beach, Calif., who won in 2005.

Filley will arrive at Auburn on June 23.

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Hasina Muhammad attempts to dribble past a South Carolina defender.

Swimmer Haley Krakoski competes in a meet at Texas A&M earlier this season.

This Week in Auburn Sports Swimming & Diving

The Auburn swimming and diving team fell to No. 2/8 Texas in its final non-conference dual meet of the season on Thursday, Jan. 9, at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.

The loss marked the first of the season in dual meet action for the 14th-ranked Auburn women (3-1) as the Tigers were defeated by the Longhorns 168.5-129.5. The loss also snapped the Tigers’ streak of 10 straight dual meet wins dating back to the 2011-12 season.

Texas’ men downed Auburn (2-2) 162.5-132.5 as the teams met for the 25th time. However, the Tigers swept the relay events and got a pair of victories from senior Marcelo Chierighini and freshman Joe Patching.

“I definitely thought there was some good swimming,” said Auburn head coach Brett Hawke. “We were rusty in some areas since we haven’t raced since the end of November.

“We practiced through a huge training block and I think that was showing in some of the kids today, but there was definitely some fight out there. I thought as a team we stuck together really well.”

Auburn’s men won seven events in their dual versus the Longhorns, while the women picked up six victories. Auburn’s relay squads combined to win three of the four relays.

The Auburn women opened up the meet with a second-place finish behind the foursome of Em-

ily Bos, Annie Lazor, Megan Fonteno and Allyx Purcell (1:40.47).

The Tiger men won the 200 medley relay with a 1:28.88 behind Joe Patching, Michael Duderstadt, Marcelo Chierighini and James DisneyMay. In the women’s 200 free relay, the group of Purcell, Bos, Fonteno and Aubrey Peacock guided the Tigers, finishing at 1:31.40.

In the men’s 200 free relay, the quartet of Chierighini, Disney-May, TJ Leon and Kyle Darmody went 1:19.05 to take first in the final event of the day.

Three Tigers returned to their home state on Thursday as Jillian Vitarius, Jordan Jones and Sarah Peterson competed for Auburn.

Peterson won the 200 fly and finished second in the 400 IM. Vitarius picked up a win in the 200 free, while Jones finished second in the men’s 400 IM. Auburn returns to conference action on Saturday, Jan. 25, at Florida. The meet is set to begin at noon. The Tigers host South Carolina for Senior Day at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center on Feb. 1.

Women’s Basketball

The Auburn women’s basketball team was handed its second Southeastern Conference loss of the season Sunday, Jan. 12, a 72-66 defeat at

athletics department

Auburn hires former Minnesota AD to new Chief Operating Officer role Staff Report

Director of Athletics Jay Jacobs announced Tuesday, Jan. 14, the hiring of University of Minnesota Deputy Athletics Director David Benedict to the new position of Chief Operating Officer for the Auburn Athletics Department.

“David is a proven, resultsdriven leader with outstanding credentials, and I am pleased to welcome him to our team,” Jacobs said. “This hire is part of our ongoing efforts to become a 21st century, cutting-edge athletics department that can meet the challenges of the growing and rapidly changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics.

“I created this position because our goal is to become the preeminent athletics department in the country, and David’s strong record of success and broad base of experience will help us get there.”

Benedict said he was pleased to become a part of the future of Auburn athletics.

“I would like to thank the search committee, Committee Chair Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ron Burgess and Director of Athletics Jay Jacobs for providing me the opportunity to join the Auburn family,” Benedict said. “It became obvious throughout the search process that Jay is on a mission to do something special at Auburn. His passion and enthusiasm for Auburn is contagious.

“I look forward to partnering with Jay, the senior management team and the coaching staff in creating a world class student-athlete experience and a one-of-a-kind experience for our fans.”

• • • • benedict Benedict’s position was created as part of Jacobs’ new initiatives for the athletics department, which were unveiled last spring.

“I made a commitment last year to position our department for future success,” Jacobs added. “David’s hire is a great complement to my talented and experienced senior staff and our many dedicated employees. He will help our team with ongoing initiatives designed to improve internal operations as well as the development and implementation of our strategic plan. I look forward to David joining our team.”

The department’s current senior staff includes: • Tim Jackson, Executive Associate AD and Executive Director of the Tigers Unlimited Foundation, the department’s fundraising arm • Scott Carr, Senior Associate AD for External Affairs • Kay Hargrave, Senior Associate AD for Development • Bernard Hill, Senior Associate AD • Meredith Jenkins, Senior Associate AD and Senior Woman Administrator

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Rich McGlynn, Senior Associate AD David Mines, Associate AD Dr. Gary Waters, Senior Associate AD for Academic Services Terry Windle, Senior Associate AD and CFO Jack Smith, Senior Associate AD for Communications Ward Swift, CMO

Serving as deputy athletic director at the University of Minnesota since 2012, Benedict led numerous areas of the athletic department including sport supervision and student-athlete welfare.

He partnered with the athletic director and senior staff to develop strategies for attracting external support and major donors including the largest athletic campaign in school history.

Benedict managed Minnesota’s multimedia contract with Learfield Sports, outside ticket sales vendor Aspire and concessions contractor Aramark, generating additional revenue for the department.

Benedict has also held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Long Beach State University and Arizona State University.

“When we announced new initiatives last spring, part of our plan was to hire a COO who would focus on internal operations across the board,” Jacobs said. “We have a dynamic staff and I am confident we are on our way to becoming the best athletics department in the nation.”

the hands of the No. 10 South Carolina Gamecocks.

“We had chances and opportunities,” said Auburn head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy. “We didn’t do everything on every single possession to win the basketball game.”

Auburn jumped out early, taking a 9-2 lead, and the Tigers led by as many as 12 in the first half.

But South Carolina came storming back to tie it at 39 at the break.

“South Carolina is a good team,” WilliamsFlournoy said. “They’re the No. 10 team in the country for a reason. They’re not just gonna stay down.”

Auburn shot decently against the SEC’s No. 2 scoring defense in the first half, going 12-of27 from the field.

In the second half, however, the Tigers went just 11-of-31 and were outscored 33-27 in the game’s final 20 minutes.

“They just weren’t dropping,” WilliamsFlournoy said. “We had good looks.”

Of South Carolina’s 72 points, 23 of them came from free throws.

“That’s a lot of points,” Williams-Fluornoy said. “We out rebounded them. We turned them over 20 times. The difference is at the freethrow line.”

Senior forward Tyrese Tanner led the Tigers with 16 points, but got into foul trouble and

played only 23 minutes.

“I try not to get in foul trouble,” Tanner said.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me. It happens every game. I’m trying to work on it.”

Tanner shared Williams-Fluornoy’s frustration on the way the Tigers finished.

“We should have won,” Tanner said. “In the first half, we proved we could beat them. In the second half, we didn’t follow through.”

For South Carolina, sophomore guard Tiffany Mitchell led the way with 18 points, while freshman center Alaina Coates had 14, all in the first half.

Both said they knew to stay calm when Auburn jumped out early.

“We are not known to freak out,” Coates said.

“We know what to do and we know how to handle situations like that.”

For the Tigers, this is only their second loss of the season inside Auburn Arena.

“They play extremely well at home,” said South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley. “We just had to keep our heads up and stay calm. We just had to wait until our run.”

The Tigers dropped to 10-6 overall on the season and 1-2 in SEC play with the loss.

In their next game, Auburn will travel to Tuscaloosa on Thursday, Jan. 16, to take on Alabama before returning home next Sunday, Jan. 19, to face off against the No. 9 ranked Kentucky Wildcats.

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At 96 years old, Chester Cooper laughs while recounting memories of his family and life.

Morningside resident shares secrets of love and longevity

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“After all, I didn’t get to be 96 because I was lucky,” Chester H. Cooper said on his birthday, January 11.

“I never, ever, ever smoked,” Cooper said. “You know about the Marlboro Man? He died of lung cancer.”

Standing in his apartment at Morningside Assisted Living, the veteran Air Force pilot looks younger than his 96 years. He attributes this to 30 minutes of physical training a day and callisthenic exercises picked up from his Air Force training.

Elected 2013’s Best Dressed Male by his peers at Morningside, Cooper was dressed for comfort in a navy blue Adidas track suit, a Member’s Only jacket draped over his couch.

Born in 1918 in Lancaster County, Pa., Cooper has seen the world transform from horse-drawn carriages to smart cars. Cooper said his father purchased their first family car, a Model T Ford, for $400.

“We took our lives into our hands every time we got in the car with him,” Cooper said. “He didn’t have good instruction, let’s put it that way.”

After enlisting in the Air Force during World War II as an aviation cadet, a young Cooper enrolled in flight school at the University of Massachusetts. He trained as pilot in Montgomery at Maxwell Field, as well as at Arcadia, Fla; Sumter, SC; and Valdosta, Ga. The walls of Cooper’s apartment are hung with photographs and artwork: an impressionist Parisian street scene painted by Caroline Burnett, a handsome photo of Cooper at age 26 in a suit and tie, and framed pictures of his children and grandchildren.

“This kind of tells you the story,” Cooper said.

He waved toward a framed collage of photos in his bedroom with “Chester & Shirley Forever” written across the top of the frame.

Underneath were black and white photos of Cooper with his wife smiling through the years, posing with children, looking down from a balcony in a church.

“It just evolved,” said Cooper, whose wife passed away. “We just cared for each other, and, so, we spent our life together.”

Cooper was introduced to the outgoing Shirley by his sister.

“I wasn’t shy, but I just didn’t have an outgoing personality,” Cooper said. “Living with her and being in love with her. It’s something that just kind of rubs off on you.”

Cooper’s easygoing nature helped the Pennsylvania native adjust when his job as a sales representative for Armstrong World In-

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An award given to Cooper for his work for Armstrong World Industries.

dustries brought him to Alabama in the early ‘50s.

“When we moved here, there was a lot of animosity against people from up north,” Cooper said.

His grandfather fought for the Union under General Sherman.

Two of Cooper’s great uncles became prisoners of war and died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia during the Civil War. “I was considered a Yankee,” Cooper said.

But the differences didn’t stop Cooper from making friendships in the South.

“You can always find something about somebody that you like,” Cooper said. “Why focus on the things you don’t like?”

After 35 years in Alabama and having a son who is an Auburn alumnus, Cooper is a huge Auburn fan.

“That Malzahn—as far as I’m concerned, he hung the moon,” Cooper said. “War damn eagle!”

Jeanne Winters shares a table with Cooper in the Mornigside dining room and has been a resident for a year.

“Everybody here’s a character,” Winters said. “Chester was in the Air Force, and so was my first husband, and we talk about what they went through together.”

Roshunda Lott, a sophomore in psychology and a resident service staff member, said Cooper is a master conversationalist.

“He really likes to talk to the ladies,” Lott said with a smile.

“In regards to how old or young you are, you still have romantic notions, even at 96,” Cooper said. “I have had a couple girlfriends, but I outlive them.”

Hunger Studies Institute preps for annual international summit

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The Hunger Studies Institute does the Harlem Shake at their annual conference last year in Kansas.

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Auburn will be the site of the ninth annual Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit, Feb. 28-March 2 at The Auburn Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.

Each year, the summit is held at a worldwide campus and features keynote speak-

ers. Ideas and tactics are shared to solve hunger on a global scale.

“The theme for this year’s summit is Innovations: so, asking how to solve hunger not incrementally, but how can we quantitatively just take a quantum leap in solving hunger,” said Paula Gray Hunker, director of strategy and policy for Auburn’s hunger

studies institute.

The Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit will feature presentations from former Lost Boy Alfred Orono Orono, entrepreneur Mick Jackson and US International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah.

The Hunger Studies Program is a component of the Auburn War on Hunger Initiative, which began in 2004 when Auburn’s College of Human Sciences was invited by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be its lead academic partner in a student War on Hunger campaign. The institute has developed into a University minor, which Hunker encourages students of all majors to explore.

“Everybody has a part in solving this,” Hunker said. “The concept was really to make it multi-disciplinary and collaborative in terms of bringing people together.”

“As the hunger effort has grown across campus, we’ve had a lot of faculty members express interest in incorporating these topics in their classes,” Dr. Kate Thornton, Director of Hunger and Sustainability Initiatives, said.

Thornton helped develop and teaches most of the courses in the hunger studies curriculum. Even if you aren’t pursuing the

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After airport mayhem, students return from the national championship Adam Wolnski INTRIGUE WRITER

The phrase, “We’re going to the ’ship!” took on an entirely new meaning as airports overflowed with Pasadena-bound travelers in the days leading up to the national championship.

Airports were so crowded, the idea of nautical travel began to sound like a more plausible way home for many Auburn fans.

Planes stranded because of snowstorm Hercules in the North caused a chaotic domino effect sure to be a nightmare on any normal week. Thousands of people venturing to the national championship created a backup in airports throughout the country. This unfavorable weather continued for days, and by the time Auburn fans made their way home, airports were swamped.

“We made it onto our plane out of LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) without any problem,” said Julia Bottcher, junior in biomedical science. “We were sitting on the runway for a long time and everyone started getting worried because we only had a 45-minute layover once we landed in Salt Lake City.”

While Bottcher, her brother and her dad were in the air, their connecting flight in Salt Lake City took off for Atlanta without them.

Tuesday was filled with the unexpected for those en route to the airports, including Elise Mercer.

Mercer, a junior in chemistry, said she woke up to five missed calls on Jan. 7. Her father was trying to tell her that her flight had been canceled, and she would need to get on an earlier one. She rushed out to her taxi still zipping bags shut, only to spend an hour and a half in Los Angeles traffic, where she would rack up a $121 fare.

“I finally got to the airport and just started begging for a flight home,” Mercer said. “The lady said the earliest they could get me out was Thursday afternoon, so I thanked her and started looking for tickets on my phone.”

Mercer found a ticket that would get her to Houston on Tuesday night. After talking to airport personnel and managers for more than an hour, she received the ticket with only the promise of a spot on the standby list in Hous-

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I finally got to the airport and just started begging for a flight home.The lady said the earliest they could get me out was Thursday afternoon, so I thanked her and started looking for tickets on my phone.”

—Elise Mercer JUNIOR IN CHEMISTRY

ton on Wednesday.

“I made it to Houston and was at my friend’s house for a grand total of four hours before I was back at the airport waiting on standby,” Mercer said.

While Mercer waited, she said she listened as airline employees attempted to coax passengers off of the plane with impressive ticket vouchers.

Meanwhile, Bottcher and her family experienced their own headaches in Salt Lake City.

After hours of speaking with various people, Bottcher found a flight to Atlanta with three seats still open.

“We bought the tickets, rushed through security and ran all the way to our gate,” Bottcher said. “Once we got there, they turned us away and said the plane was full.”

Despite the pandemonium, Bottcher said everyone remained calm and tried to make the best of the situation.

She and her family eventually made it on a flight to Charlotte, then to Atlanta and finally back home.

Bottcher was even able to meet ESPN sports broadcaster Lee Corso in the process.

Mercer, luckily, made it onto her flight as a standby passenger.

She said she laughed about an empty seat next to hers as the plane finally lifted off the runway to take her home.

Is Snapchat worth security concerns?

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Everything from money to relationships has moved online, but online security is moving a little slower.

Snapchat is an app used for sharing quick photos and videos that are erased forever after an allotted time; or that least how it is advertised.

Hackers recently shared 4.6 million names, phone numbers and pictures they stole from Snapchat.

“We are sorry for any problems this issue may have caused you, and we really appreciate your patience and support,” the company said in a blog post Thursday morning.

Even a week after their apology, many Auburn students hadn’t heard about the hack.

When Allie Heckel, senior in public relations, heard about the hack, she said, “Blame it on my inner Millennial, but some hacker knowing my username and phone number doesn’t really bother me.”

“I mean, it’s worth the risk for me because I only send selfies and stuff. I don’t have anything important on there,” said Patrick Murphy, junior in industrial design.

To some, losing your phone number to hackers is more a matter of annoyance than personal security, but the world is relying on the Internet more heavily every day and security is lagging behind.

“We just need the good guys to catch up with the bad guys,” Heckel said. “To be honest, I put all my Christmas money in a book. I don’t trust anyone else with it.”

Heckel’s fear was realized in December when more than 70 million people’s information was stolen from Target’s databases. Hackers obtained credit and debit card numbers and caused many credit card companies to issue new cards to their customers.

According to USA Today, many people have stopped shopping at Target following the breach, and if they do, many are choosing to pay in cash.

Grace Howard, junior in biomedical sciences, was worried about the breach, but said it wasn’t going to affect her money habits.

“It bothers me, but I’ll definitely still use my debit card,” Howard said. “The great thing

QuizUp: a type of quiz you won’t mind taking Kailey Miller

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QuizUp is for the days when you get out of every class early, and have a 20-minute period where there isn’t enough time to wait in line for food before class, but you feel too eager sitting outside the classroom door waiting for it to start.

To pass the time, QuizUp is a good alternative to rechecking Instagram and Twitter for the hundredth time in hopes that something new has been added to distract you.

QuizUp’s tagline is “The biggest trivia game in the world.” They have hundreds of different topics and over 100,000 questions to choose from.

This app lets you log in through Facebook or Twitter to play people you know, or make your own username and allow QuizUp to match you up with other users.

You start off by picking a topic. The broad categories offered are: educational, games, arts, literature, movies, history, geography, science, lifestyle, business, nature, sports, music and TV. Under each of these categories are sub categories that get as specific as Johnny Cash or British royals. Once you pick your category, you can either type in a friends name you want to challenge. QuizUp can alsomatches you up with another player from anywhere in the world.

Each match has seven rounds where you are asked a question and given four options for answers. The faster you choose the right answer,

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about knowing where you are on your money is that you notice when something’s off and can report it.”

When money isn’t involved, however, security isn’t on the forefront of people’s minds, especially when using apps like Snapchat.

“It’s just good to physically see people and the funny things going on in their day,” Howard said.

Murphy said he liked Snapchat because it felt more like a conversation by seeing people’s faces, but when they’re gone, they’re gone.

“I think most of us are just used to having no privacy,” Heckel said. “People have been telling us all our lives how there is nothing private on the Internet and how dangerous it all is.

So, when we hear about a hack or something, it just doesn’t surprise us. It does worry me when they start stealing people’s money, though.”

Snapchat and Target are only a couple companies that have recently gotten hacked. So, as 2014 begins, closer attention to cyber security might not be a bad idea.

the more points you get.

The last round is worth double points and can be a game changer in some cases. You can also chat with opponents on QuizUp and challenge them in a rematch.

Each time you answer a question right, you gain points toward a higher level Each topic has a discussion board where you can discuss ideas.

Even if you lose the match, if you got some of the questions right, you will still receive points.

After you’ve played a few times, you can check your rankings to compare your QuizUp knowledge with your friends scores. Users can see their global, country, state, friends and local rankings.

QuizUp gives out different achievement awards for specific accomplishments. Some examples are the “tortoise,” which is received after you win a match after getting the first four questions wrong, or the “zen master,” which is received after you win with a perfect score.

QuizUp is free, but if you want to raise your score faster you can buy boosters that last one hour each. The double is $1.99, the triple is $3.99, and the quadruple is $5.99.

You can make your profile private so you can accept users as friends before they can challenge you, chat you or view your profile.

QuizUp is only available on iPhones right now, but will be available for Android in the future. Users can also check their rankings online, but can only

QuizUp rewards users with badg-

Topics include popular culture.

play the game on a phone.

Unlike other apps, QuizUp doesn’t have a limit to how many times you can play, even if you lose. Some of the questions repeat themselves if you play the category enough times, so the more you play, the better you can get.

If nothing else, QuizUp will teach you random facts you may never have heard of and that you can use in casual conversation to surprise your peers.

Students stay fit, for credit, with Active Auburn classes Kailey Miller

Are mobile apps and credit cards worth the possibility of hacking and identity theft?

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After a month of Christmas parties, eggnog and endless varieties of desserts, working out may be the last thing on student’s minds.

Active Auburn is a class that keeps students accountable to their workout plan, while getting class credit at the same time.

Active Auburn is a two-credit class and is offered in five different sections taught by graduate teaching assistants.

“It really motivates people through a grade to become physically active and explore the different opportunities... that are offered on campus,” said Lorena Salom, graduate teaching assistant for Active Auburn. “It really helps students kind of find their niche and find what they enjoy physical activity wise.”

Students have to take an average of three group fitness classes a week for the semester and finish an online portion.

According to Salom, the online portion includes different modules about physical activity, including how to start exercising and health benefits of exercising. After students read the modules, they take an assessment at the end.

With the new Recreation and Wellness Center came a new policy for Active Auburn students.

In the past, Active Auburn students could just show up to a group fitness class without signing up beforehand.

Starting in fall 2013, stu-

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The goal to me is to give them a whole look at what group fitness offers. ... If it hadn’t been a requirement, I don’t think they would have shown up.”

—Pam Wiggins DIRECTOR OF GROUP FITNESS

dents have to register using a new reservation system for the class they want to take before they show up. Class spots are split between people with group fitness passes and Active Auburn students.

“You have to register... for a spot to take the class, and we split it up pretty much 50-50,” said Susannah Taylor, fitness coordinator at campus recreation. “So, if the class is only open to 20 people, it would be open to 10 Active Auburn [students] and 10 Group Fitness [students].”

Taylor also said if those spots remain available, there is a standby option to fill the extra space.

“There is also a new cancelation policy that says students have to give notice two hours in advance over email,” said Pam Wiggins, director of group fitness. “If the student continues to not show up, then they block their pass for one week.”

Wiggins said although they can no longer reserve classes, it does not necessarily mean they cannot take a class, Wiggins also said Active Auburn started three years ago with only two sections and it has continued to grow since.

“The goal to me is to give them a whole look at what group fitness offers,” Wiggins said.

Wiggins said as a result of Active Auburn classes, students are more likely to take classes outside their comfort zones. For example, she has seen more males doing yoga classes and women taking strength classes, like kettle bells and Tiger Pump.

“If it hadn’t been a requirement, I don’t think they would have shown up,” Wiggins said.

Wiggins also said she thinks Active Auburn students continue to take group fitness classes even after they’re done with the class.

Salom said Active Auburn students are mostly sophomores, juniors and seniors because there is a class specifically offered for freshman that has similar objectives.

Salom also said she never gave any failing grades unless the student never showed up to the classes.

“Most everybody was able to keep up with it quite well,” Salom said. “Everybody who stayed in the class, which was a large majority, was able to finish their classes just fine.”

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hunger studies minor, Thornton explained that the intro class, Hunger Causes, Consequences and Responses, could be valuable to any major.

“It’s a catchall class,” Thornton said. “But I hope that by the end, you’ll be able to to speak intelligently on world hunger and understand news media.”

According to Hunker and Thornton, the issue of global hunger and finding a solution for it is more complex than one might think.

“The good news is huge, huge progress has been made,” said Hunker. “But the bad news is with the growing population and the growing impact of climate change we need to grow more food.”

The estimate from the UN is that 50 percent more food needs to be grown by the year 2050, when the global population is projected to reach 9 billion people.

But the issue of hunger is more complex than simply growing more food. Hunker said the Hunger Studies minor is looking for communications majors, engineering students and political scientists to help solve world hunger

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and poverty on governmental levels.

Last year, the hunger studies capstone course presented hunger solutions to the WFP, UNICEF and The Food and Agriculture Organization in New York City. The presentation was such a success that the class was asked to send representatives to Rome, Italy to present before the WFP there.

Sophomore Sara Raines, a double-major in nutrition and agriculture with a minor in hunger studies, was one of the two students selected to travel to Rome.

“Although the problems are really complex, even the simplest solution can make a huge difference,” Raines said.

Raines pointed out that students can make an impact in Auburn whether they are part of the hunger studies minor or not.

“There’s so much poverty and hunger that are here and people aren’t aware of it, even in Auburn—we’re just in this little bubble,” Raines said. She advised students to get involved at local, off-campus food pantries.

The Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit will be preceded by a pre-Summit conference and will feature international university presidents. All students are encouraged to attend and a student discount will be available.

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Recently, a week in Auburn can have temperatures as low as 10° and as high as 64°. When it comes to Alabama weather, you never really know what you’re going to get.

For the most unpredictable weeks, this is a meal that reminds you of summertime, but can keep you warm when the temperature plummets.

The recipe was inspired by Apron’s Simple Meals; a Publix cookbook.

I took out some of the ingredients I personally didn’t like, and added a few changes of my own.

The recipe said it would feed six people, but

it ended up being enough for five.

I made this meal for myself and my three roommates, and we had one extra serving at the end.

The enchiladas turned out great, and the salad was quick to make and something that could easily be paired with a variety of other meals.

It took about 45 minutes to make by myself.

This is a two-part meal consisting of rotisserie chicken enchiladas and a guacamole-salsa salad.

It was plenty of food for a complete dinner, and I had leftover unused chicken at the end that I could use for another meal the next day.

Rotisserie Chicken Enchiladas 1. First, preheat the oven to 350° 2. Spray a baking dish with cooking spray.

3. Chop 2 tablespoons of cilantro and put it into a medium bowl 4. Chop a small tomato and set it aside.

5. From a rotisserie chicken, remove the breast only from the bones and cut it into bite sized pieces. Add the chicken to the bowl with the cilantro.

6. Stir 1 can of enchilada sauce (10 oz), and 3/4 cups of refried beans into the chicken.

7. Get five whole wheat flour tortillas, and spoon the chicken mixture equally down the center of them. Roll the tortillas around the chicken filling and put them seam side down into the baking dish.

8. Pour a can of green chile enchilada sauce over the enchiladas and then sprinkle the diced tomatoes over the top.

9. Take two cups of Mexican-blend cheese,

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and sprinkle it evenly on top.

10. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the cheese is melted on top. * For variation in this recipe, add olives to the top of the enchiladas along with the tomatoes.

For a spicier enchilada, pick an enchilada sauce that has an extra kick to it if you like that better than mild Mexican food.

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1. Cut three avocados into bite sized pieces and place them in a bowl.

2. Squeeze juice from one lime onto the avocados.

3. Stir in 3/4 cup of mild salsa.

4. Add pepper (different amount depending on your preference).

5. Spoon the mixture over shredded lettuce 6. Enjoy! * The recipe called for 2 tablespoons of fresh cilantro as well, but after using cilantro in the enchiladas I decided to hold off for this part of the meal.

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* This recipe gives you the Mexican restaurant feel, without all the grease and extra costs.