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Brad Cink, a recent graduate from Auburn, was granted a position at Apple, and it all started by sending an email.

Cink, a Mobile native, majored in industrial engineering.

In the summer of 2011, Cink had an internship at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., in product mar-keting.

While in Cupertino, Cink had the opportunity to meet Tim Cook, CeO of Apple. They found they had a lot of things in common. Cook is also from Mobile and majored in industrial en-gineering at Auburn.

After interning, Cink applied for a handful of jobs with the company.

“One Sunday night I sent Tim Cook an e-mail, and by the next morning he had already emailed me back,” Cink said. “People are just peo-

ple. Cook may be the CeO, but he’s ac-tually a very approachable person.”

Spencer Moore, former member of Auburn SGA with Cink, said, “the two had a good report, and when the opportunity to return to California and work at the company arose, Brad jumped at the chance.”

To follow up, Cink flew back out to Cupertino and went through an in-terview process, through which he was able to land a position with the company.

“Maybe it was luck, but it was one of those situations that I’m happy it worked out,” he said.

Currently, Cink resides in San Fran-cisco, Calif.

“Brad’s persistency and dedication led him to where he is today,” said William Hardison, senior in chemi-cal engineering. “Not only is he a hard worker, but his intuitive way of think-ing separates him from other circles of people.”

Cink said while he was at Auburn he “always recognized I needed to be involved.”

During his time at Auburn, Cink was a part of Tiger Tuesdays, the War eagle Girls and Plainsmen, a fraterni-ty and stayed involved with SGA for three years.

Cink has always been a positive person, Moore said.

“This was especially evident in SGA,” he said. “We would often have

meetings where the challenges to certain problems seemed insur-mountable. There would be a lot of complaining and people saying that something couldn’t be done.”

Moore said he never heard that kind of talk from Cink.

Moore also said Cink was responsi-ble for a lot of the dining changes on campus.

Other than being involved with campus activities and other changes, Cink was also a representative for Ap-ple at the Auburn bookstore.

He ran for SGA president in 2010 and lost but was then appointed ex-ecutive vice president.

Moore said he has no doubt Brad is excelling in his new job.

“He was always at his best when he faced challenges, and I imagine work-ing at one of the most profitable com-panies on earth can present some in-teresting challenges,” he said.

Alumnus lands job with Apple with a click of a button

Home ImprovementNew central classroom tops long list of changes to come by 2020

Becky HardyCAMPuS rePOrTer

Haley Center will soon be rivaled by a new building in order to ac-commodate up-to-date facilities and technologies.

A new central classroom facility is among the numerous objectives that facilities management hopes to complete by 2020.

These objectives also include up-dating Haley Center, along with many other older buildings on cam-pus, to add new and more innova-tive features.

The other buildings on campus targeted for improvement are Park-er Hall, Allison Hall, Spidle Hall, Funchess Hall and upchurch Hall.

Comer Hall, the textile engineer-ing building, Mary Martin Hall, Dudley Hall and Greene Hall are expected to be renovated between 2011 and 2020 as well, said Jim Car-roll, committee member represent-ing facilities management.

The central classroom facility does not have a set place for con-struction on campus yet, but is ex-pected to be about 160,000 square feet, which is approximately three times smaller than the Haley Cen-ter, said emmett Winn, chairman of the central classroom facility pro-gram committee and associate pro-vost.

“There are no specific dates of the start or end of the construction at this time,” Carroll said.

The new central classroom facili-ty will have many modern features, including four different styles of learning spaces, such as tiered lec-ture classrooms, flat lecture class-rooms, f lat f lexible classrooms and problem-based learning class-rooms.

The tiered lecture classroom will come in two sizes, one with a

170-student limit, and the other with a 300-student limit and will in-clude a wheelchair-accessible ramp down one side.

The flat lecture classrooms will hold up to 120 students and will give the students more space to work. They will also allow the op-tion to move the tables around to accommodate any teaching style.

The problem-based learning classrooms will hold between 36 and 72 students.

This type of classroom is set up in a group format in which three groups of three students will sit at the same round table to work to-gether in class.

“The committee has looked at many different universities for which types of classrooms work best, including MIT, North Carolina State, emory university and Geor-gia Tech,” Carroll said.

The classrooms in the new build-ing are planned to not only replace the current classrooms in Haley Center and Parker Hall but also to reimagine classroom collaboration for current and future generations of students and faculty at Auburn university, Carroll said.

Core classes from all colleges will be taught in the new building.

“The committee has looked at many different universities for which types of classrooms work best, including MIT, North Carolina State, Emory University and Georgia Tech.”

—Jim Carroll COMMITTe MeMBer FOr

FACIlITIeS MANAGeMeNT

PhoToS CoUrTESy FaCIlITIES MaNaGEMENT

Top left: a possible layout for the problem-based learning classrooms, including round tables with multiple electrical outlets. Bottom left: Possible layout for informal classroom settings. Middle: Possible layout for the tiered lecture classrooms. Far right: a possible blueprint for flat flexible classrooms, which would hold from 32-120 seats.

Auburn University Campus Objectives

■ Improve older Academic Buildings Haley Center Parker Hall Funchess Hall Allison Hall Upchurch Hall Spidle Hall■ Construct new central classroom facility/facilities■ Construct a new Student Wellness and Sustainability Center■ Create the Health Science Center/Campus■ replace the Small Animal Teaching Hospital■ renovate student housing facilities: Sewel residence Hall & Dining replacement, renovation of Hill Dorms■ Construct/renovate Athletic Faclities■ redevelop Old Coliseum site■ Increase Parking■ renovate architecturally significant Acadmeic Buildings Comer Hall Dudley Hall Textile Building Greene Hall Mary Martin Hall■ Construct College/Department specific research facilities■ Construct other facilities as funding may allow

2011–2020

CoUrTESy oF Brad CINk

after completing an internship with apple, Brad Cink, auburn alumnus, emailed apple CEo Tim Cook and was granted a job interview. he currently works for the company and lives in San Francisco, Calif.

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“Maybe it was luck, but it was one of those situations that I’m happy it worked out.”

—Brad CinkAuBurN AluMNuS

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eSPeRoS is a charity or-ganization based in Aus-tin, Texas that began in the fall of 2011 with a goal of spreading hope.

More specifically, eS-PeRoS is an effort to aid less fortunate families of developing countries that cannot afford to send their children to school.

Those involved with the company believe educa-tion provides hope for the future of individuals, as well as families and com-munities as a whole.

It focuses on aiding less fortunate families of developing countries that cannot afford to send their children to school.

eSPeRoS hopes to partner with other organizations that build communities within their respective countries.

oliver Shuttlesworth, founder and Ceo of the organization, said he founded eSPeRoS after witnessing the effects of stag-nancy in rural Central America.

“It was a combination of a few trips I took there to gain ex-perience working at a dental clinic in the Dominican Repub-lic and visiting family in Costa Rica and nicaragua,” Shuttles-worth said. “I thought of creating it after seeing some of the challenges they faced and what they desired for their chil-dren.”

Currently, eSPeRoS is working with Fonkoze, a non-prof-it for children in Haiti.

“Fonkoze was one big draw for us,” Shuttlesworth said about choosing Haiti. “They’ve been on the ground in Haiti for about 20 years now and they work with all Haitians. It is an exciting partnership because we can actually see the im-pact it makes.”

Shuttlesworth said that of the 865 Fonkoze employees, only seven are non-Haitians. This ratio empowers the people of Haiti to build the community.

eSPeRoS sells canvas backpacks made in the uS for $20 each. Profits go to Haitian children of the Chemen Lavi Miyò, or Pathway to a Better Life, a program that is sponsored by Fonkoze.

“each backpack sold sponsors one year of a child’s educa-

tion in Haiti,” said Kathy Recker, vice president of business operations.

According to Vice President of Community outreach Jenna Hutchens, the company hopes to develop partnerships in ar-eas of need in the u.S. as well.

The company also sells T-shirts that sport the eSPeRoS logo, and totes will be available this fall, according to Hutch-ens.

Recker and Hutchens agreed the company’s goal is to get as many people involved as possible.

“We keep the designs simple so that our products appeal to an array of people,” Hutchens said.

According to Recker, eSPeRoS has launched a campus club program to raise awareness of its existence and its platform.

Recker said her responsibilities include making connec-tions with campus representatives to create an eSPeRoS campus club at each interested college or university, as well as connecting with the community to raise awareness of the importance of education and the lack of access to it.

“We are excited to get other passionate people involved with what we do,” Recker said. “We’re always looking for help in spreading the word so that we can impact the lives of even more children.”

eight schools such as georgia State and oklahoma State are already participants of the campus club program.

Hutchens said the company is looking into other opportu-nities through the campus club program as well as in trade shows, farmers markets, and other events.

Charity spreads hope in Haiti

Food Pantry built for students in needBecky HardyCAMPuS RePoRTeR

Alabama is the second hun-griest state in the nation with more than 25 percent of its residents suffering from lack of food security, but a new campus food pantry aims to change this.

“Food insecurity is on the rise and impacts all ages,” said Katherine Hettinger, Coor-dinator of Student Advocacy and Case Management. “Ala-bama is the sixth poorest state with 19 percent of its residents living below the poverty line.”

Hettinger defines food in-security as a person who does not know from where their next meal will come.

The Campus Food Pan-try will provide students with non-perishable food items.

“The Campus Food Pantry will be a confidential environ-ment for students in need to receive assistance,” Hettinger said.

The Campus Food Pantry is an initiative run by the office of the Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs that started in-April 2012.

The goal of The Campus Food Pantry is to take care of the Auburn family.

“The Food Bank of east Ala-bama reports that 15,220 peo-ple in Lee County, about 10 percent of the population, are defined as food insecure,” Het-tinger said. “We know that Au-burn university students are accessing the Food Bank of east Alabama and other food pantries in the area. We be-lieve it is important that the Auburn Family take care of its family members, and that is why we wanted to establish a food pantry on campus.”

The Campus Food Pantry hopes to help the surprising number of students struggling to get food, said King.

“our goal is to help every student who walks through the Campus Food Pantry door,” King said.

King said the new food pan-try can’t succeed without stu-dent contributions as well.

“The Campus Food Pantry combines student advocacy with community service by al-lowing Auburn students to as-sist one another,” King said.

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Another option the com-mittee looked at was add-ing more informal learning spaces.

“It’s a way for the stu-dents and teachers to bet-ter communicate with each other after class, instead of blocking the hallways,” Winn said.

The new building will also be stocked with com-puter plugs for students to charge their laptops while

in class.Along with extra tech-

nological amenities, each classroom in the new build-ing wil l have al l avai l-able wall space covered by whiteboards.

W h en th e committ ee members, including SgA President owen Parrish, visited other universities, they noticed most of the classrooms were covered with writing space.

“There wasn’t any space that you couldn’t write on,” Parrish said.

“Also, on each individ-ual table in lecture halls, there were projectors so you could write on a piece of pa-per and project that.”

Collier Tynes, SgA chief of staff, remarked to the committee about the lack of light in the Haley Center and how important that is to students.

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Winn does not want fac-ulty and students to think they are building another Haley Center.

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The Auburn Alumni Associ-ation and War eagle Travelers are recruiting students for the Fifth Annual Classic european Graduation Tour.

The tour is open to every-one, but it retains an emphasis on alumni and seniors.

The tour is a 10-day trip to London, Paris, Milan and rome. There is also a six-day extension to Pompeii, the Greek islands and Athens.

“Those are the ones ev-eryone wants to go to when they’re in europe anyways,” said Milan Dekich, student travel ambassador. “it is the Classical european Tour, so you’re going to all the classi-cal cities.”

The tour is set for May 14–23, 2013 or, with the six-day ex-tension, until May 29.

The price is $2,225 for the 10-day trip, with an extra $985 for the six-day extension.

The price includes two mu-seum tickets in Paris, fast pass-es through lines at big names such as the eiffel Tour and Big Ben, a boat cruise in Paris, ad-mission into the Coliseum and travel arrangements.

Some meals are included in the tour, but not all. Dekich said this gives the group an op-portunity to try local cuisine.

“They give you a lot of free-dom,” Dekich said. “This is not a hand holding kind of tour.”

The trip also offers experi-ences such as a Moulin rouge show or a recent popular fa-vorite, the London Pub Crawl.

“This is super relaxed, this is just fun,” Dekich said. “i don’t want any learning going on. i just want pure fun, people enjoying themselves and expe-

riencing new culture.”The informal setting for the

trip allows students to expe-rience culture on their own terms. The morning tours show the group where every-thing is, and the participants are free the remainder of the day to explore on their own.

Tanja Matthews, alumni programs coordinator, said there is a level of personal re-sponsibility for those involved with the trip.

“if you calculate everything that you are getting and ev-erything you are doing, if you try to do that on your own it would cost you that or more because you’re trying to figure out personal transportation,“ she said.

“The value is not just mon-etary; it equates to the group experience, the safety of the

group, and some of these guys are really close friends.”

Meredith Jones, Auburn alumna and attendee of last year’s tour, said, “it’s totally worth it. i really enjoyed see-ing everything that was histor-ical, all the sights and making new friends.”

Jones said she wanted an adventure after graduation. On the trip, she was able to en-joy seeing everything in per-son and crossing items off her bucket list, such as explor-ing the Louvre and seeing the Mona Lisa first-hand.

Matthews said she is trying to give that kind of experience to everyone.

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For the past eight years, i have been a smoker. i know the health risks, but i still do it. i know

that i am addicted, but that doesn’t keep me from smoking. Simply put, i don’t feel like quit-ting right now.

When i want to quit–probably after i gradu-ate and finals are no longer a part of my life–i will. That is my decision and no amount of dra-conian anti-smoking rules and regulations will change my mind.

Banning smoking in restaurants, bars, or even in whole towns makes no sense to me.

Why do anti-smokers feel they have the right to be so strict in a society that prides itself on allowing its members some personal freedom?

if you want to create designated smoking ar-eas, that’s fine. But outright bans of tobacco are absurd.

The recent campus regulation that requires smokers to be at least 25 feet away from a build-ing is fine with me. i don’t see how they are go-ing to enforce it, but that’s their problem. This regulation has all the potential, however, of turning into a prohibition of tobacco on cam-pus.

i chuckle a little when i think about how they will enforce that. Maybe they will get more glo-rified mall cops to walk around and hand out arbitrary citations.

The stigma around smokers has gotten out of control. i’ve been called disgusting, crazy and stupid for no other reason than my smoking.

i don’t think drinking is all too smart or healthy either, but i don’t go to Sky Bar and call everyone there a revolting lush.

Cessation programs that are run in conjunc-tion with the school of pharmacy seem like a joke to me. i can understand the motivation be-hind the programs, but their sudden appear-ance alongside the new 25-feet rule looks like foreshadowing to a smoke-free campus.

i may sound like i’m fighting a losing battle, and it is starting to look bleak for smokers like me. i’m 26 years old, but when i hear anti-smok-ers getting in a hissy fit, i feel like a child who is being told what to do. Adults should be allowed to do what they like, that is, within reason.

i hope this regulation will not go any further. But i’m not holding my breath, which is hard to do anyway.

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How to Burn a Smoker

if you have watched our past two games, you know we aren’t doing so hot.

Our loss to Mississippi State was some-what of a shock. Of course, an 0–2 start doesn’t mean we are doomed for the rest of the season. But we definitely need to im-prove.

After our win at the national champi-onship two years ago, we have been in a steady decline. So we think it’s a good time to take a look at what football means to us.

Auburn has just as many, if not more, academic accolades as it does football honors. if you never pay attention to your Au daily tab in Au Access, however, you probably don’t know about all the strides we have made in the non-sports related world.

in the South, where college football has become a religion, saying we should also be proud of our academic achievements is blasphemy. Schools around here are sup-posed to place a priority on football, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretical nerd.

We’re aware some would say the church of college football is just something that has always been around. However, we feel the need to question why this phenome-non exists.

Football is a fun game to watch. it’s fast, violent and loud, especially when you are

in Jordan-Hare. Home games are a boon to the local economy, and Auburn memora-bilia makes a lot of money for any compa-ny that can afford to license the Au logo.

All this is from a high-profile research university, but nobody really cares about that.

Football is a business pretending to be a tradition.

Yes, it makes us happy; it makes us proud; but it also makes us money. Mak-ing money is certainly not a bad thing, and we are definitely not saying our football team is worthless. But we do think it’s im-portant to ask why we care more about a football team that simply produces mon-ey than we do an academic body that ed-ucates, makes monumental scientific dis-coveries and instills valuable life skills.

We think our pride needs to extend past our football team. We should embrace the university many of us call home.

Our faculty roster is great. We have a wealth of bright minds who are experts on everything from Keynesian economics to spiders. Why can’t we celebrate education for a little while?

Auburn football is a great tradition, and we will always stay faithful to our tigers. However, the bloated giant that is the col-lege football industry has overshadowed our academic prowess.

Everybody told me i was “out of line” and “we hired great coor-dinators” and to just wait and see. Really? Auburn could be beat by temple, and you people still be-lieve that Loeffler is the best coor-dinator we could get? it’s not our players (past three years’ recruit-ing classes have been in the top 10 or top five). it’s the coaching staff ! The players gave up! Why? proba-bly because they don’t believe in the system!

Chizik is a joke bringing in a coach from the Big East (worst conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision) to coach Au-burn’s offense and “get back to smash mouth football.” What a (expletive) joke!

Frazier showed one of the worst performances by a quarterback i’ve seen in my 40 years. But Fra-zier isn’t a bad quarterback; i saw him play high school ball.

Our defense is pathetic as well. The dismal 2008 team could beat this team (coached by the current staff) any day of the week!

it’s time to wake up, Auburn! i love Auburn and have all my life, and i will until the day i die; i only want the best for our family, uni-versity, team, students and every-one else alike.

Just think and look back. google it if you have to. Look at programs that had coaching changes because the staff they had wasn’t a “fit” and only pulled them down further. The big-name universities all went out and hired the best coaches available, and look where they are and where they’re headed! Look at our hated in-state rival. They spent the mon-ey, but look at where they were during the “Mike Era” of coaches and look where they are now and what they’ve done and are doing.

Look at Ohio state, LSu, Vander-bilt, South Carolina—the list goes on and on and extends well be-yond the SEC.

if we, as Auburn, are the fami-ly everyone talks about and wears shirts, etcetera proclaiming, then why are we standing idly by and just taking it where the sun doesn’t shine?

Either we get serious about our program and spend the mon-ey and get the best damn coach-es available (and yes, i mean a new head coach as well), or we can just get used to grabbing our ankles and taking a pounding and wait as we let ourselves slide to the literal bottom of the conference behind Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss and al-ready Mississippi State.

Chizik has done nothing any other mediocre coach couldn’t do. He didn’t recruit our nation-al championship team; Malzahn

coached our offense and actual-ly stood on a table fighting for us to recruit Cam newton because Chizik thought we were “well enough with trotter.”

We all saw how that panned out last year. Even our 1998 team, who lost its “piglet” coach after he quit, could beat the team we have now being coached by the staff we have now.

if we are the strong Auburn family we claim to be, and if we want to beat the best and be the best, then we have to have the best damn personnel, coaching staff, assistants and everyone else on down the line all the way to the best fans who demand and will never again settle for anything less for any reason.

War damn eagle!

Ashley ManghamMass Communications

Letter to the Editor

Coaching staff is to blame for Tigers’ woes

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The religion of college football

The adage says “football is reli-gion in the South.”

i’m nowhere near naive or blas-phemous enough to liken athletes to deities or even demigods, but there is some truth in the state-ment as to how it is received by the community.

For half the year, a large amount of people congregate in the same place on almost the same day ev-ery week to chant and cheer—and yes sometimes pray—for vic-tory for whichever team has their allegiance.

Those opposed to the amount of money poured into collegiate and professional football point out that those finances could be applied elsewhere such as roads, schools, etc.

Why follow people from high

school to college to their careers when they do nothing more aca-demic than take classes required to play a sport while the majori-ty of intellectuals go unnoticed by mainstream America?

it’s because football is some-thing to believe in.

Whether your team is a peren-nial championship contender or trying to become one, the act of rooting for your team is unifying.

You may not know the 80,000 strangers sitting around you wear-ing the same colors and singing the same songs, but the fact that you share these things and a com-mon loyalty is gratifying patrio-tism on a smaller scale.

For that day, your social circle expands exponentially and a sim-ple “War Eagle!” will earn a simi-lar reply, high five or even a beer.

Besides being a unifying force, football’s presence in the media makes it accessible to the masses because the results are viewable and tangible.

As valuable as the valedictori-

ans and scholars of our genera-tion are, it’s much more difficult to track the progress of an individ-ual’s mind than the body.

There aren’t channels showcas-ing the country’s greatest engi-neers or doctors and there aren’t stat sheets for the number of structures built or the number of lives saved.

i’m not saying athletes are more important than degreed profes-sions. i’m just explaining why it is popular, and that’s because foot-ball, above all else, is entertain-ment.

Whether it’s Batman versus Bane or Auburn versus Alabama, the act of having somebody to champion and fight for the name stuck on your bumper, embroi-dered on your shirt or tattooed in a place your mother would frown upon is inspiring.

For Southerners, football is just another excuse to do what we al-ready do best.

As for the questions regard-ing the financial side of football,

the proceeds from tickets, jerseys, food, hotel rooms and everything that goes into a game day week-end all go back into the communi-ty, and it’s no secret Auburn gen-erates the majority of its capital from football season.

There is a reason the majority of schools in the South are hesi-tant to dissolve their football pro-grams.

in new Orleans in 2005, the Saints franchise was forced to use San Antonio as its “home field” while the city was rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

The following year, the team re-turned to the Superdome, and its subsequent success brought to-gether a shattered community in a way i had never seen before.

Simply put, people need some-thing in which to emotionally in-vest.

it’s not religion, but for some-thing that inspires that amount of unfailing loyalty, dedication and common interest, why not believe in it?

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Auburn’s new ordinance al-lowing an entertainment dis-trict near toomer’s Corner will be enacted for the first time tomorrow, Sept. 14 .

The event, Downtown Au-tumn nights, will kick off the first home football game weekend of the season from 6 to 9:30 p.m.

“We wanted to sort of ex-pand the game day experi-ence,” said Jennifer Finch-er, vice president of Commu-nications and marketing for the Auburn Chamber of Com-merce.

The event will start with a pep rally led by the Auburn university cheerleaders, Au-bie and the marching band, Downtown Autumn nights will offer students, visitors and community members an alternative way to celebrate Auburn football the night be-fore the game against Louisi-ana monroe.

“instead of starting on Sat-urday with tailgating and the game, we want to start on Fri-day so everyone who’s coming to town, all our visiting fans and our alumni, have some-thing fun to do to start their weekend,” Fincher said.

the Swingin’ medallions will be performing at the event. Formed in 1962, the band, called “the party band of the South,” is still touring af-ter 50 years.

“the band’s been going strong all these years, and we have three sons of original me-dallions in the band,” said Rob-by Cox, drummer for Swingin’ medallions. “plus we have one original medallion left in the band.”

made famous by their 1966 album “Double Shot of my Ba-by’s Love,” the Swingin’ medal-lions’s signature tune has been played on tV shows such as “Ally mcBeal” and “American Dreams,” according to medal-

lions.com, the band’s website.With 50 years in the busi-

ness, the band has played sev-eral notable concerts, includ-ing playing a show with Bruce Springsteen and the e Street Band during Springsteen’s concert in 2009 in Greenville, S.C.

Based in Greenwood, S.C., the band has both Clemson ti-ger and South Carolina Game-cocks fans, but band members said they are looking forward to their performance in Au-burn.

“We play all over the place,” Cox said. “So we’re going to come down and play, and we’ll be glad to be there.”

Downtown Autumn nights is a collaboration between the Auburn-opelika tourism Bu-reau, the Auburn university Athletic Department, the city of Auburn, the Auburn Alum-ni Association and the mer-chants downtown.

Some of the shops down-town will be open later on Sept. 14 for the event, and there will also be a few oth-er vendors set up along the streets for people to visit.

made possible by the new ordiance this is the first time patrons will be allowed to walk around the streets with drinks.

“it allows people to leave restaurants and bars with an open container,” Fincher said. “no coolers are allowed, but you will be able to go into a bar and restaurant and buy a drink and bring it outside. it is just for this event.”

magnolia Avenue and Col-lege Street will be closed for the duration of Downtown Autumn nights, and there will be many public safety officers present, Fincher said.

Downtown Autumn nights will return Friday, nov. 16 with the band Chevy 6 to celebrate in Auburn before the home game against Alabama A&m university.

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Auburn university alumnus Jason Berger is opening a new restaurant on magnolia Street called en Fuego tapas Lounge.

After getting a call from his friend mike Slocum about the open space, Berger decided to return to Auburn to open the restaurant. Berger said Slocum wanted him and his company, escape Restaurant Group, to open the restaurant.

“We thought about what Auburn wanted, or what Au-burn does not have and how to put it in this huge space,” Berger said.

The 11,000-square-foot res-taurant will have two floors, a sit-down fine dining area up-stairs and a lunch, happy hour and lounge area downstairs.

Berger returned to Auburn approximately a month ago for the construction of en Fuego. With football season in full swing, he said he want-ed to open as soon as possible.

“our timeline has been compressed to less than a month,” Berger said. “if you ask anybody to open up a res-taurant in a month they’ll tell you you’re crazy. But we have to do it; we have to work as hard as we can.”

en Fuego will be open this week for a private Vip event with Auburn university bas-

ketball coach tony Barbee, but Berger said he wants to be open for everyone by Sept. 22 for the Auburn vs. LSu foot-ball game.

en Fuego will only have the first floor in use when it first opens, giving them time to fin-ish the second floor.

“it’s stressful just trying to put everything together, but i think it’s going to be so worth it,” Berger said.

the accelerated open-ing schedule makes for more than just stress. The amount of hours and work spent on the job have also been taking their toll.

“i always thought com-ing back to Auburn i’d have so much fun, but it’s not fun,” Berger said. “All i do is come to work from 5 to 12 a.m., go home and sleep and do it again,” Berger said.

even when he is out of the office and restaurant, Berger said he is still working.

“normally i’m on the phone a lot, on the computer a lot, texting a lot and watching to make sure everything is going right,” Berger said.

Despite its Spanish name, Berger said the restaurant is not just a place to come and eat tacos.

“i stand outside on the front and people come by and say, ‘oh, it’s a taco place coming in

here, that’s a big thing,’” Berg-er said. “it’s much, much more than just tacos. it’s not strictly Spanish, but we want to bring something with a spin.”

The menu will feature many different varieties and styles of food on tapas, or small plates.

The tapas allow customers to try a variety of foods and share with their friends and family, Berger said.

Along with having delicious food, Berger wants en Fuego to be known as having a great atmosphere that entices peo-ple to come and spend time.

“We want to have awesome food,” Berger said. “Food that makes people ask if you’ve tried it, and then when you get here make you want to hang out because there’s a cool vibe to the place.”

Berger said while he was at-tending Auburn, there were only three or four bars.

“if you want to get a great meal, come here,” he said. “if you want to hang out with your friends, also come here. it’s not your run-of-the-mill college bar.”

He said if he ever came back it would be to open another bar and restaurant.

“This is us coming back and giving it a shot to see what happens,” Berger said. “i hope we’ll be received well. Get ready.”

Bringing diversity to the downtown sceneTapas lounge to introduce ‘more than just tacos’

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the inside of the newest addition to downtown auburn’s bar scene, en Fuego, is still under con-struction. owner Jason Berger has been working to open the venue by lsU weekend, sept. 22

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A website launched in April by three Auburn universi-ty students provides a forum for students to discuss a wide range of topics.

the website, www.the-handlemedia.com, includes something for everyone: blogs and articles on politics, cul-ture, science, money, sports and even music.

The forum invites people to contribute their own ideas on topics relevant to them.

“Having a discussion is what we want in the first place,” said co-creator Sergio Gallardo, junior in econom-ics and political science. “our discussions are honest and productive.”

Co-creator Zach Welman, sophomore in english and philosophy, agrees.

“What i want is for us to be that starting block for people,” Welman said. “i don’t want people to take our articles as the end-all be-all of what we have to say—we want it to start discussion, not be the end of conversation.”

According to co-creator CJ Jackson, sophomore in phi-losophy and economics, con-structing the website was easier than expected with the help of Wordpress. Com-ing up with the name was the challenge.

“We were so incredibly full of ourselves title-wise,” Gal-lardo said. “We were com-ing up with the most hard-core names like Apollo—just very vague things that meant nothing, but sounded awe-some.”

on a trip to plains, Ga., Gallardo, Welman and Jack-son were in a small antique store when they spotted a wall full of handles. “Some-one just said ‘the handle,’” Welman said.

“i heard it and immediate-ly said that works on so many levels,” Gallardo said. “it’s per-fect actually—it kind of helps us wrap around what we do.”

The Handle has 10 per-manent writers and usually also publishes material from another five to six occasion-al writers. “We’re always look-ing for people to write,” Wel-man said.

Luckily for writers, there isn’t a rigorous selection pro-cess to determine who writes for the site. “our dying prin-ciples in writing are don’t be a jerk, and don’t lie,” Jackson said. “if you can do that, we’re quite open.”

“We just want people to write about what they want to write about,” Welman said.

While The Handle began with just friends of the cre-ators writing, it has now ex-panded far beyond that.

“now we have kids that are at different universities that write for us,” Gallardo said. “While they’re not necessar-ily here at Auburn, they talk about issues that affect us here.”

the website’s copy edi-tor Grace moss graduated from Auburn last year, and is a working editor in new york.

“i very much expected her to stop and move on to her actual paying career,” Jackson said. “But she hasn’t yet, and

we’re grateful for that.”the Handle is a work in

progress, but there are high hopes for the future.

“i guess the big thing i want is for more people to read it and more people to be en-gaged by it,” Welman said.

“At the very end, not ev-erybody is going to have the same interests,” Gallardo said. “But the amazing thing about The Handle is it’s such an easy idea to share, and someone can right away love it.”

New student webzine offers readers variety of content, continued discourse

Daniel oramas / PhotograPher

From left: auburn students Zach Welman, CJ Jackson, and sergio gallardo recently launched a website, the handle, to provide a forum for people to discuss their opinions on a variety of topics, including everything from politics to sports.

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Auburn’s spirit will continue to be felt in a dozen statewide prisons after a $50,000 grant for the school’s prison educa-tion project was awarded on Aug. 30.

The national Endowment for the Arts gave the grant to the Alabama Prison Arts + Ed-ucation Project.

The decade-old project brings approximately 50 art-ists from around Alabama to six different correctional facil-ities to teach approximately 15 courses. Courses include poet-ry, Southern literature, African American literature, short sto-ry writing, and multimedia art.

“in order for people to im-prove their lives, they need ac-cess to opportunities to grow,”

said program director Kyes Stevens in a press release. “The continued support from the nEA allows the Alabama Pris-on Arts + Education Project to support engaged artists to teach visual arts within a pop-ulation who profoundly bene-fit from the experience.”

The APAEP started in 2002 with one poet-teacher as the Alabama Prison Arts initia-tive with support from various groups, including the Alabama Humanities Foundation.

over the years, funds have come from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Ala-bama Arts Car Tag fund, the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and the Alabama Civil Justice Founda-tion.

APAEP won its first nEA

funding in 2003. This is the sixth time it has received a nEA grant. The initiative be-came a full-time part of the Caroline marshall draughon Center for the Arts and Hu-manities in 2004.

in 2008, APAEP moved to the department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and became a part of the out-reach project.

Since the beginning, the project has been a partner of the Alabama department of Corrections. Courses have been offered in 10 of AdoC’s 18 facilities.

The school says nEA Art Works grants are meant to “support the creation of art that meets the highest stan-dards of excellence, public en-gagement with diverse and

powerful art, lifelong learning in the arts and the strengthen-ing of communities through the arts.”

of the roughly 30,000 pris-oners in AdoC’s facilities, esti-mates say about 65 percent do not have high school degrees. For this reason, the teachers try to create the best environ-ment possible for learning in their sessions.

The classes are taught on a college entry level and run 12–14 weeks. Credit is offered for the classes in the form of CEus, or Continuing Educa-tion units.

The program tried to lim-it class size to 15–20 students in the past and now caps all courses at 25. Teachers have come from a broad back-ground, including some that

hold a Ph.d., professionals and graduate students.

“Education is good for ev-erybody,” Stevens said. “Cre-ativity feeds people. it does something on a soul level.”

The program hosted its first public display, “Art on the in-side,” in Biggin Hall in 2009, al-lowing the university commu-nity to see what its professors’ and fellow students’ teaching was helping to produce. many of the works, which include writing and drawing, are por-traits of lives that led to and in-cluded serving prison time.

recently APAEP is an out-reach scholarship created by Barb Bondy, assistant profes-sor of art/exhibitions and lec-tures coordinator.

The school partners with the university of Alabama’s

mFA Creative Writing pro-gram and allows the two col-leges’ students to interact with each other and new profes-sors, while serving Alabama’s inmates as well.

APAEP says “while not ev-eryone is qualified, or even in-terested in teaching a class in a prison, there are a number of ways to get involved with APAEP.”

The Books Behind Bars pro-gram accepts donations for reading and teaching materi-als and is taking books for this semester.

you can contact APAEP if you would like to learn about working more directly with the program and you can also do-nate through a link on its uni-versity website, auburn.edu/apaep.

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dwayne Brown, Auburn 1990 graduate, worked his way up from volunteering to be-coming assistant vice presi-dent of alumni affairs.

After starting to volunteer with alumni affairs about three years ago, Brown put his peo-ple skills to good use to claim his new position.

“i got to know the team very well as i worked at the hospi-tality tents before each home football game and several oth-er alumni events,” said Brown.

“When the assistant vice president position became available, i knew that was where i wanted to continue my career.”

The process of choosing the new AVP was long and com-prehensive, he said.

“The process started with the application, then a search committee was formed to nar-

row down the applicants,” Brown said. “The process end-ed with several interviews.”

Brown and his wife, regina, both graduated from Auburn and returned in 2007. Brown graduated with a bachelor of science degree in civil engi-neering.

Brown started off his ca-reer after graduating from Au-burn’s navy roTC program.

“i served as an officer for eight years before becoming a service manager for Cin-tas uniform company,” Brown said.

Brown later continued per-fecting his leadership skills with more managerial posi-tions at Targets in Panama City Beach, Fla. and Tiger Town.

Brown said the leadership experiences he has had over the past 20 years, in which he has led over 250 people at a time, has prepared him to be the new AVP.

“As part of being a leader, i have had extensive experience in strategic planning, motivat-ing, training and developing personnel and team building,” Brown said.

“i have also trained cus-tomer service representatives, drafted communication and marketing plans, trained in-terns, recruited students, and coordinated events.”

Along with leading large groups, Brown has also gained experience and expertise in fi-nancial management and or-ganization skills.

Brown understands his duty to debbie Shaw, vice president of alumni affairs and the alum-ni board of directors.

“i feel like it is my respon-sibility to provide (them) with the best processes to ensure our association operates effi-ciently,” Brown said.

Brown hopes to bring lots of eagerness and willingness to

help out all Auburn alum while being AVP.

“(i want) to take care of our alumni in every way possible and to get to know them per-sonally,” Brown said.

“i also want to establish a team of dedicated profession-als in our office that will be en-thusiastic and devoted to pro-viding our alumni with the best alumni association in the country.”

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Food, fun and fellowship welcomed more than 70 peo-ple of different cultures and ac-ademic standing to the iranian Student Association’s iranian-American Friendship Barbe-cue on Sept. 8.

The barbecue at Martin lu-ther King Park was an attempt of the irSA to seek new mem-bers of differing backgrounds and become more actively in-volved in the Auburn commu-nity.

President and graduate stu-dent in chemistry dana lash-ley said the irSA was founded to help iranian students find each other in Auburn and help each other adjust to living in the U.S.

“When i first got to Auburn, i had no idea that there were any other iranians in the area,” lashley said. “But then we found each other and it kind of grew to be a family.”

Originally composed of graduate students, the irSA is now seeking to broaden its membership to all students and residents, regardless of po-litical or religious affiliations.

“Originally, all the events were private because we weren’t an official organiza-tion,” lashley said. “Now we want to invite American stu-dents and our other friends to be a part of irSA.”

From 1 to 6 p.m. iranian pop music accompanied food, which included traditional ira-nian dishes such as joje ke-bab (chicken kebab), mast kh-iar (yogurt sauce with cucum-bers, spices and green onions), polo (white rice) and zereshk polo with morgh (rice with sour berries, saffron, spices and chicken).

The “barbecue” of iranian cuisine is typically chicken, instead of pork, that has been marinated for three days and

served with a variety of rices and sauces.

Most attendees learned about the barbecue through irSA’s Facebook page or This Week @ AU, including Moroc-can graduate student in archi-tecture Asmaa Benbaba.

“i found the event through Facebook, and i now plan on going to the other events this semester,” Benbaba said. “i like the (iranian) culture, especial-ly the music…anything that is a mix of cultures and diverse is interesting to me.”

Secretary and gradu-ate student in physics Vahid Mirkhani, who led the irSA’s O-days table to recruit new members, explained the prem-ise behind expanding irSA.

“Americans and iranians don’t know each other be-cause of the political issues that we have,” Mirkhani said. “The irSA is not politically or religiously oriented towards anything. We’re trying to intro-duce our culture and people to Americans and others. We’re a friendly people and we’re try-

ing to show it.”Mirkhani said iran is similar

to the U.S. in that it is a multi-cultural country, with resi-dents who speak Arabic, Turk-ish, Farsi and Urdu, among other languages.

Matthew Bennett, sopho-more in business, said irSA’s enthusiastic table at O-days is what persuaded him to join irSA and attend the barbecue.

“The great thing about this (barbecue) is that it’s a cultur-al rift, in a way,” Bennett said. “This isn’t what you see in the news: these are real, fun, down-to-earth people who are getting an education just like us at Auburn.”

The irSA has more planned for this semester. First, it will host Michael Kozuh of the his-tory department, who will give a speech titled “The Behistun Monument in Kermanshah and early Persian History.”

irSA will celebrate Yal-da Night on dec. 21, a Persian Winter Solstice celebration that dates back to ancient Per-sia.

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The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art opened an exhibit Saturday, Sept. 8 titled, “Art interrupted: Ad-vancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural di-plomacy.”

The exhibition is com-posed of 107 of the 117 orig-inal paintings in the “Ad-vancing American Art” ex-hibition. Assembled in 1946, the exhibition was created to showcase America’s ad-vancements in art.

“We have reassembled the historic exhibition called ‘Advancing American Art’ that was assembled by the United States department of State in 1946,” said den-nis Harper, curator of col-lections and exhibitions at JCSM. “it was part of a cul-tural tool of the state depart-ment where they were trying to confront communism.”

“Back here at home, where there was a very conservative political agenda that was tak-ing place in Congress; they were upset with the idea that taxpayer money was used to purchase these things that many people found objection-able,” Harper said. “Then they found out some of the artists themselves were socialist or communist even, and they got upset.”

After funding for the proj-ect stopped, it was decided to sell them.

However, the closing of “Ad-vancing American Art” pro-vided an opportunity for APi to forge its way into the art world in hopes of creating an art museum.

“Having this extraordinary modernist art collection was

in many ways one of the impe-tuses behind building the mu-seum,” said Marilyn laufer, di-rector of the JCSM, in a press release.

Auburn won 36 of the works from the silent auc-tion, Harper said. Some of the paintings have been together in past shows, but the new ex-hibit puts more together than any previous exhibition.

After the silent auction, the University of Georgia bought 10 paintings and the Univer-sity of Oklahoma bought 36 pieces. Three years ago, Harp-er said they decided to put back together the collection.

“i found receipts and doc-uments from the 1940s in Washington, d.C. in the Na-tional Archives,” Harper said. “We found who had original-ly bought it and tried to con-tact relatives of those people to see what happened with

those works.”Harper said a little luck, re-

search and a lot of time went into finding the paintings in museums, homes and schools across the country. Howev-er, 10 of the original works re-main lost.

Harper said although the works are not the most fa-mous or created by the fa-mous artists, they all present a snapshot of life in Ameri-ca during that time period. Harper believes this is an ex-hibition for everyone.

“even if you don’t think about the history and just want to see some fine paint-ing, i think it’s a nice break,” Harper said.

The exhibition will remain at JCSM until Jan. 5. From there, it travels to the art mu-seums at the universities of Oklahoma, indiana, and Georgia.

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egyptian-born American o. louis Guglielmi’s “subway exit”, 1946

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(from left) former isA Vice President and mechanical engineering research assistant hamed Ghaednia, current vice president and graduate student in industrial systems engineering mohammadnaser Ansari and shahab derhami, Phd student in industrial engineering, cook joje kebab for the barbecue.

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many people leave high school and home for college and immediately want to leave all their old friends behind. They want to start complete-ly fresh and maybe redefine themselves.

nothing is wrong with this mindset. it’s perfectly norma,l in fact, and sometimes is just what someone needs to reju-venate their academic and so-cial lives after they’ve left their parent’s house.

However, sometimes it real-ly pays to hang on to your high school friends.

This past Sunday, two for-mer students of my high school, Pelham, were shot and killed along with a former stu-dent of Huffman High School. Both schools are in the Bir-mingham area.

i wasn’t particularly close with either of the two killed from Pelham, but it was still a very poignant and striking mo-ment. Two 22-year-olds and a 19-year-old, were gone just like that. A fiancée and her two year old baby, mothers and fa-thers and countless other fam-ily members and friends were deeply affected. it happened in a neighborhood where it

seems like half the high school lives.

Word spread relative-ly quickly that another for-mer student, one many of my friends played football with and knew as a generally goofy guy had been arrested as the only suspect in the shooting.

one of the victims’ moth-ers, who in one of many heart-breaking twists to the story lost an older son just two years ago, said she was told the mur-ders were execution styles and over a $40 drug debt.

The fact that i didn’t know any of the four people involved means it was admittedly not as

difficult to deal with as what i know many of my other former classmates are going through, but it still was a weird night and next day, keeping up with news on the investigation at the house on Chandabrook drive.

Being in Auburn with peo-ple from home, particularly Pelham people, made it a little more comforting. Just know-ing you could talk about it to someone and it didn’t come across as an abstract face in a crowded space full of other victims. These friends had con-crete ideas and exact memo-ries of one or two or all of the

Pelham people involved.i was in Little rock last

spring when the April 27 tor-nadoes came through Ala-bama, and even though i expe-rienced that storm in a mild-er form before it came through my home state, i still felt such a disconnect from home that it was enough to be very impact-ful on me until i could just get home and be here.

While these are different cir-cumstances, both gave me that feeling of very much wanting to be home. Being in Arkansas with no one from here to talk to about familiar names, roads and buildings was an alienat-

ing feeling after April 27. in the wake of Sunday’s triple mur-der in Pelham, i’m glad i got to spend even a little time with people from my home town just letting the cold facts and warm familiarity settle in.

Even if you’re not best buds with the people you gradu-ated with, or you say you’ve completely moved on from high school, if you’re lucky enough to have a communi-ty of people from your home-town here in Auburn, stay in touch with them. Shared and storied memories from home are something that you should never move on from.

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it has always been a huge debate which college in the south has the best tailgate. now that question is being put to the test.

Southern Living magazine is hosting the “South’s Best Tailgate Party,” sweepstakes going on from Sept. 15 until 11:59 p.m. oct. 1, 2012.

Auburn, along with 19 oth-

er southern colleges, appears on the list for voters to choose from.

That gives Auburn univer-sity students, alumni, and fans 17 days to vote for Auburn and also to enter for a chance to win a $2,500 cash prize.

“it’s so cool to have our college recognized in the 20 schools because tailgating re-ally does mean so much to us here and it’s good to know that

everyone who reads that mag-azine will see that if we win,” said junior Hayley Smith.

The sweepstakes is appli-cable to any legal uS resident that is at least 18 years of age or older.

you can vote and enter the sweepstakes two ways; by us-ing your mobile device or on-line entry.

The grand prize winner will be selected on oct. 15 and will

be notified by email, but must respond within 10 days to col-lect the cash.

As for which schools might give Auburn a run for its mon-ey in the contest, ole miss and university of Florida has come up.

i’ve heard ole miss has some killer tailgating, the grove is specially catered to tailgates before the game,” said junior natasha niemann.

LSu is also a top contend-er according to other Auburn students.

“Auburn definitely should win, no doubt,” said Sam Kniskern, recent Auburn grad-uate. “i already graduated and still come back for the games. We may call Auburn God’s country, but when it comes to game day it’s all about tailgat-ing and maker’s. it just never gets old.”

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It doesn’t matter if Auburn wins its next 10 regular sea-son games, the Tigers 0-2 re-cord ranks 2012 in the top 10 worst starts in Auburn football history.

Since football came to the Plains in 1902, Auburn has gone 0-2, or worse, only eight times.

But forget about the dismal start; Auburn has a chance to put a strike in the win column Saturday in its home opener against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks.

Yes, those same Warhawks that upset the then-ranked No. 8 Arkansas Razorbacks last week in Little Rock, Ark.

Arkansas went into the game as 30.5-point favorites and came out 1-1. The squad dropped out of the Top-25 completely, leaving Razorback fans, and the nation, wonder-ing, “what just happened?”

Valid question. ULM joined the Football

Bowl Subdivision in 1994; ULM’s last winning season? 1993.

That’s right. The Warhawks haven’t had a winning season since they arrived in Division I. But the losses suddenly seem okay when games like last Sat-urday’s happen.

ULM knows its place. It will never be a title contender, but it doesn’t have to be. By beat-ing top-ranked teams, espe-cially the powerhouses of the SEC, the Warhawks make a statement to the nation: Don’t count us out.

Its win over Arkansas isn’t the first upset ULM has pulled off in recent years.

Think back to Nov. 17, 2007. With one week to go be-fore facing its hated rivals in the Iron Bowl, Alabama had

an easy win at home against ULM, or so they thought.

Then the unthinkable happened. The Warhawks marched into Bryant-Denny Stadium and shocked the Tide nation.

Alabama was a measly 6-4 at the time, but the loss was no more expected than when you order a well-done steak and it comes out rare.

Now it is Auburn’s turn to host the Warhawks.

Coming into the year, this match-up was described as an easy win, a given if you will. Now it’s a must-win.

The last time Auburn start-ed 0-3 was under coach Earl Brown in 1950. Those Tigers finished the season 0-10.

In Auburn football’s 110-year history, only three teams have gone 0-3.

The 2012 Tigers are desper-ately trying to keep it that way.

Last week’s game in Starkville put all of Auburn’s blemishes on display. There was the lack of protection from the offensive line; the missed tackles from the de-fense; the missed routes from the receivers and the sub-par play from the quarterback.

Nothing seemed to go right. In the 28-10 defeat, Auburn’s offense put up just 216 yards, while its defense allowed Mis-sissippi State to run for 166 yards and throw for 222 yards.

In two games, Auburn has just one offensive touchdown. The red zone has become a Bermuda Triangle of sorts, leaving no signs of offensive production in its 20-yard span.

The coaches and players know this. They know the pres-sure that has been put upon them. They know what has to be done. Now they just have to execute.

Come Saturday, the Tigers have two options: lose and be-come the first team in 62 years to start 0-3, or win and begin an uphill battle with all eyes on the SEC Championship.

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Auburn returns to Jordan-Hare Stadium Saturday on upset alert against the upstart University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawks

By the numbersMississippi State vs Auburn

9Senior running back onterio McCalebb had nine touches on offense against the Bulldogs. For a player that ranks 15th all-time among Auburn rushers in yardage and 4th in yards per carry on that list at 6.46, the ball must be in his hands more than nine times a game. he showed his speed and elusive-ness on his 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, but only gained 4 yards on eight carries and had one reception for 7 yards. The last time McCalebb faced ULM, he averaged 14 yards per carry.

5Kiehl Frazier had five turnovers, three interceptions and two fumbles in his second career start. Auburn now ranks No. 118 in the nation with a -2.5 turnover margin a game. Au-burn’s plan to start winning starts with protecting the foot-ball, and the team already has seven turnovers in two games with six of those coming from Frazier and one from run-ning back Tre Mason. Auburn must keep its defense off the field and keep the ball away from ULM quarterback Kolton Browning. Doing so will win the game and not doing so may lose Frazier his job.

18Defensive back Demetruce McNeal led the team with 18 tackles. While Chizik divulged that those tackles aren’t that exorbitant when the scheme calls for a safety in the box, that number also confirms Mississippi State quarterback Tyler Russell’s ability to consistently move the ball past the line-backers and the defense’s inability to wrap up players before the second and third levels.

0Auburn’s red zone blues continued to haunt the blue and or-ange as the team failed to score a touchdown in the red zone for the second game in a row. Auburn’s first drive of the sec-ond quarter went down to the State 6-yard line and ended in kicker Cody Parkey’s seventh consecutive made field goal dating back to last season. on that drive, Auburn rushed 11 times with four different players for 25 yards and had no passing attempts.

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here we go again.It’s a new year and a new

quarterback controversy for the Auburn Tigers, but the scene is somewhat similar.

Last year, Barrett Trotter was named starting quarter-back, and his ball manage-ment and a stout rushing at-tack led Auburn to a 4-1 start.

Then his play began to slip.on the oct. 8 road game

against Arkansas, Trotter fin-ished with his worst stats of the season, completing six of 18 passes for 81 yards and an interception.

Afterward, Gene Chizik brushed off questions of whether there would be a change at quarterback.

“Barrett is our quarterback today and he is our quarter-back Saturday,” Chizik said af-ter the game.

That Saturday, against Flor-ida and under the lights of Jor-dan-hare Stadium, the quar-terback situation was exact-ly as Chizik said it would be – until the second half.

Auburn had been using then-freshman Kiehl Frazier in a wildcat role as a spark plug to Auburn’s stalling of-fensive engine and continued to do so that game.

however, after Trotter completed 2 passes in the first half for 33 yards and a touch-down, Chizik began the sec-ond half with backup Clint Moseley with the team up 7-6.

Moseley gave Auburn fans hope with four of seven pass-es completed for 90 yards in the second half and drove the Tigers to 10 more points in the fourth quarter to ice the game.

Moseley had the fans’ op-timism if not their trust go-ing into the second half of the season with the team at 5-2.

But he was not the answer.Moseley disappointed in

his five starts, never breaking 170 yards passing, having all three of his interceptions re-turned for touchdowns and finishing the season with a 62-yard outing in a 42-14 Iron Bowl blowout at home.

Moseley had a chance for redemption in the Chick-fil-A Bowl against Virginia, but a first quarter ankle injury re-turned him to the bench and allowed Trotter one final vic-tory for Auburn.

Trotter opted not to return for his senior season, and the fans turned to Frazier.

If anybody could take Au-burn back to championship form, it was him.

or so they thought.Frazier beat Moseley out

for the starting job and took the field against Clemson on

Sept. 1 in his first start.You know the rest.Now, the torches and pitch-

forks are out again as fans clamor for a change.

This week, Chizik reiter-ated Frazier was his starting quarterback, and who else could you expect?

Moseley is still recovering from a shoulder injury and Chizik said he could play if needed, but he isn’t 100 per-cent healthy yet.

Zeke Pike is now playing tight end for Louisville and freshman Jonathan Wallace is too green to start now.

The coaches raved about Wallace’s development in learning Scot Loeffler’s of-fense, however the three-star recruit has had too little expe-rience with the first team and no experience commanding a huddle during a collegiate season.

If Chizik pulls Frazier for Wallace and the team con-tinues its current path to the SEC cellar, he risks the confi-dence of two potential quar-terbacks for next season.

If Moseley is promoted to field general, the results may be the same as last year with Auburn yet to play LSU, Ar-kansas, Georgia, Alabama and newcomer Texas A&M.

The Sept. 15 matchup against University of Louisi-ana at Monroe is exactly what Frazier and Chizik need to

evaluate the offense’s prog-ress: a high pressure game at home against a team Au-burn should have the ability to beat.

Emphasis on the “should.”Frazier could reduce his

turnovers and redeem the “dual-threat” moniker that made him such an attractive prospect to begin with.

he could also continue to struggle and watch the defen-sive line more often than the wide receivers.

Either way, by Saturday, Chizik will know exactly what he has in the 20-year-old.

heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan threw five inter-ceptions in his first road game against Tennessee in 1969.

Jason Campbell struggled mightily his first two years be-fore he caught on and eventu-ally helped lead Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004.

Even Cam Newton strug-gled throwing against Missis-sippi State in 2010, when he squeaked Auburn by the Bull-dogs on 11 of 19 passes for 136 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

Frazier could be an even-tual great or another recruit-ing bust, but it’s too early to tell which way the pendulum will swing.

For now, Frazier will con-tinue as the starter and the Auburn faithful should re-main exactly that.

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As the Tigers prowl into Jordan-hare this weekend, a team that began the sea-son with numerous questions is still trying to find the an-swers.

Auburn is 0-2 this season after losses to Clemson and Mississippi State and is look-ing to avoid a third straight loss before they reach the meat of the conference sched-ule.

What would normally be considered a cupcake game has had the stakes raised by their opponents’ stunning upset of then-No. 8 Arkansas last week.

The Warhawks overcame a 21-point deficit in the third quarter and won the game 34-31 in overtime, the first time a Sun Belt Conference team has defeated a top 10 team. Now they look to play the spoiler at Auburn.

Auburn is a 17-point favor-ite to defeat ULM, but Gene Chizik, for one, is not taking the game lightly.

“This was not fluke, this is a good football team,” Chizik said Monday, Sept. 10. “Cer-tainly us being 0-2 right now, the level of urgency for the week is definitely high, but it’s high all the time. They un-

derstand right now that this is not a game that we’re going to walk in and it’s going to be a blowout and that’s good for our team.”

Despite Arkansas’ 31 points, the Warhawks’ de-fense terrorized its oppo-nents’ offense, shutting down running backs Knile Da-vis and Dennis Johnson and knocking starting quarter-back Tyler Wilson out of the game with a barrage of pres-sure.

After watching the film, Chizik is wary of the threat ULM poses to Auburn’s po-rous offensive line.

“Schematically it’s very challenging,” Chizik said. “Their defense is kind of like dealing with an option of-fense. The last two or three years they’ve been tops in their league in rush defense so it’s hard to run the football. Then they get after you really

dialing in on the pass protec-tion and getting to your quar-terback.”

Auburn has allowed four sacks so far this season and countless hurries, giving quarterback Kiehl Frazier lit-tle time to go through his pro-gressions.

After the loss to Mississippi State, Frazier said he was con-tinuously watching the de-fensive line and that he made mistakes on about 75 percent of his passes.

According to Chizik, how-ever, the team’s problems are not only his to bear.

“I would say that’s a young guy putting a lot of pressure on himself and wanting to shoulder the blame, because he feels like he can play bet-ter,” Chizik said. “It’s a team game, and Kiehl is one of many that want and need to play better, but we’ve got to coach better.”

And yet, for a team that re-corded 550 yards of offense – 481 from quarterback Kolton Browning–it may be the of-fense Chizik has to worry about most.

Browning had 412 yards passing and 69 yards rushing, including a 16-yard touch-down scamper on fourth and one in overtime to win the game.

“The thing that he does re-ally really well is he makes plays with his feet, and I don’t mean carrying the ball,” Chizik said. “It’s not just run-ning the ball, he buys a lot of time with his feet giving re-ceivers time to get open.”

Auburn is not lacking expe-rience, though.

onterio McCalebb had four carries for 56 yards and a touchdown when the teams last met in 2010, and senior wide receiver Emory Blake had a 94-yard catch and run for a touchdown. That catch still stands as Auburn’s lon-gest play from scrimmage in history.

one notable roster move was the team’s decision to switch defensive back Roben-son Therezie to running back, although it’s unknown how much he’ll play.

The game is set for 11:21 a.m. at Jordan-hare Stadium.

Danielle lowe / aSSiStant photo eDitoRauburn has made recent additions to Jordan-hare, such as this new illumuniated auburn logo, to attract more fans and enhance the game day atmosphere. the tigers are 3-0 in home openers under Gene Chizik and the team is 20-3 at home the past three seasons.

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drafted fifth overall out of Auburn in 2009 by the Phoe-nix Mercury, deWanna Bon-ner came off the bench earn-ing three straight WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year Awards.

Now in her fourth season, her first as a starter, Bonner is earning even more acco-lades and was awarded the Western Conference Player of the Week Award.

Bonner started the week leading the Mercury to its first win in 10 games with 24 points, 11 rebounds, two as-sists, one steal and a block in a 75-68 win over the Seat-tle Storm.

Bonner followed that game with a 22-point, nine-rebound effort two days later in a win against the San An-tonio Silver Stars.

Bonner’s play was not a one-week wonder, however, and the former Tiger has ex-perienced a mercurial rise to stardom in the starting role.

This season Bonner is sec-ond in the league with 20.8 points per game and ranks seventh in rebounds, steals and blocks.

The season has been less stellar for the team as a whole as the injury-riddled Mercury limped to a 7-21 re-cord. For head coach Corey Gaines, Bonner is a reason for optimism heading for-ward.

“dB is definitely the bright spot here,” Gaines said. “She’s valuable because you can move her around to so many different spots.”  

Bonner, officially listed as a guard and a forward, has shown her versatility at a va-riety of positions and racking up a variety of stats. Gaines said that alone can’t describe Bonner’s impact, though.

“ You’re not even get-ting defensive part of that,” Gaines said. “You can have a five and she can guard a five. Then she can switch off to a

one. it’s something that we thought that about her when i first saw her play at Auburn. i thought that that’s what she’d be able to do and she’s just put it all together.”

While Gaines scouted Bonner at Auburn during her sophomore year, Gaines said he had a tip from an unlikely source: her father.

“i kind of fell upon her by accident,” Gaines said.  “i was coaching the (WNBA devel-opment league)   in Bakers-field, and her father was also there, and he mentioned ‘hey, i’ve got a daughter’ and be-ing a coach you always hear that...but she was the real deal.”

“We had a lot of injuries so it gave me the chance to step up, and i just played bas-ketball,” Bonner said.  “i just stayed aggressive, tried to get the open shots.”

Teammate, two-time WNBA champion and three-time olympic gold medalist diana Taurasi said that, de-spite the team’s record, Bon-ner’s emergence as a leader is a primary reason the team has stayed competitive.

“deWanna has had a break out season and has shown the ability to be a go-to play-er,” Taurasi said.   “Not only with her play but her leader-ship. This is has been a tough season but this team has

come out and played hard every night and she’s been a catalyst for that.”

Bonner has improved each year since 2009 and now ranks among the elite.

As she sits atop the WNBA rankings and continues to add to her skill set, Gaines said Bonner is only just be-ginning to grasp her poten-tial.

“She’s just realizing what she can really do now,” Gaines said.  “She added the three-pointer last year, and she’s al-ways been kind of a great de-fensive player and can guard any position...She’s starting to be a problem for opposing teams.”

“i thank my teammates and all my coaches,” Bonner said.   “it’s definitely a great accomplishment.”

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Senior goalkeeper Amy Howard and junior defender Bianca Sierra had some of the highlights of Auburn’s Sept. 8 win against Texas Tech Univer-sity, with Howard saving 10 dif-ferent times and Sierra scoring two free shots.

Sierra’s first shots of the sea-son were also her first goals of the season, and they both oc-curred in the first half of the game. With a final score of 2-1,

Auburn’s record improved to 4-3-0 while TTU’s dropped to 5-2-0.

overcast weather didn’t de-ter Auburn fans from crowd-ing the stands, even as the threat of rain loomed in the distance, and fans weren’t let down.

The game was a constant pursuit from goal to goal that left neither team in possession of the ball for too long.

“in the first half we were re-ally good offensively,” said head coach Karen Hoppa. “We held the ball. We changed the point. We created a lot of opportuni-ties, and got two good goals.”

Hoppa said she was im-pressed with the team’s de-fense of the narrow lead.

“And i think in the second half our defense stepped up,” Hoppa said. Texas Tech put on the heat, our defense really played strong, and Amy How-ard played fantastic in goal. That was a real strength for us tonight as well.”

Forty-two minutes into the first half, TTU made its only goal, as junior midfielder Jes-sica disabella scored her first goal of the season.

TTU attempted 16 shots throughout the game, while Auburn attempted eight.

Both teams racked up the fouls with TTU getting nine and Auburn reaching 14. Yel-low cards were handed out to one TTU player and to three Auburn players.

After the game, Hoppa said she was proud of the entire team’s performance and that the game was a total team ef-fort.

Auburn began practicing for the beginning of conference play right after the game.

on Friday, oct. 14, Auburn will welcome the Missouri Ti-gers to the SEC at home in the first SEC game of the season for the team.

After that, the Tigers face two teams they defeated in the 2011 SEC tournament with Florida at home and LSU on the road.

From there, the team trav-els to College Station, Texas to challenge the other confer-ence newcomer, Texas A&M, and then returns home for a four game slate at home versus South Carolina, ole Miss, Mis-sissippi State and Tennessee.

Women’s soccer avoids losing record, wins 2-1

Rebecca cRoomes / PHoTo eDIToRsophomore forward mary coffed fights a Texas Tech defender for possession saturday night. auburn would go on to win 2-1.

“Texas Tech put on the heat, our defense really played strong, and amy Howard played fantastic in goal, and that was a real strength for us tonight as well.”

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Josh Peyton was in his third deployment in Iraq when he realized something was miss-ing.

Auburn was in the midst of a national championship sea-son, and Peyton, an Auburn graduate, had no way to talk to his family and friends during Auburn games.

He then began to think of a solution.

“What I wanted to do was create a product that connect-ed friends through football in a tailgate environment,” Pey-ton said.

After two years Peyton’s problem has been solved.

The solution is a new app Peyton created for the iPhone called YellowFlag.

YellowFlag is the only social network app completely de-voted to professional and col-lege football.

users of YellowFlag pick their favorite college and pro-fessional football teams after downloading the app and set up ‘huddles’ with friends and family to discuss and debate their favorite teams during the game.

“using the YellowFlag, app fans can track, connect and share real-time updates of col-lege football games anywhere in the world,” said Scott Rob-ertson, president of Robert-son Communication Corp., a group that represents Yellow-Flag. “It’s kind of like a tailgate party in your pocket.”

Peyton uses the app to keep in touch with college friends, military friends and people in his fantasy football leagues.

“Whether your friends are on vacation, a different part of the u.S., or a different part of the world, they can talk during live football games as if they are at a tailgate,” Peyton said.

“It’s been amazing to be able

to connect with your friends during real time.”

YellowFlag launched two weeks ago and has already found success.

The app has been down-loaded more than 2,000 times in 49 states and 12 countries.

This success has been a long time coming.

“We looked for the leading app developers and social me-dia wizards to try to make sure we put the best product out on the market,” Peyton said. “It was designed in a way that would be cool for people to use.”

YellowFlag has been in de-velopment for the last two years and testing has been go-ing on for eight months.

There is also high incen-

tive to download YellowFlag. A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded by YellowFlag to the school with the highest num-ber of downloads.

The contest ends Dec. 1.Auburn is currently in first

place with 156 downloads. Al-abama is a distant seventh with just 46.

“I would be highly agitat-ed if Alabama has more down-loads than Auburn does,” Pey-ton said.

But Peyton should not have to worry, as interest in a tail-gating social network is ap-pealing to students on cam-pus.

Andrew meagher, freshman in marine biology, sees great use in an app like YellowFlag.

“I’m a Tennessee Titans fan

and that’s pretty far away, and in Auburn most people are Fal-cons fans,” meagher said. “A football app would allow me to connect with other Titans fans back home.”

YellowFlag is only available to iPhone users at the mo-ment, but Peyton says an An-droid version could soon be available.

New features, including re-al-time statistics, should also be available soon.

Peyton’s eventual goal for YellowFlag is a simple one. “We want people to think of Yellow-Flag when they think of foot-ball,” Peyton said.

Additional information on YellowFlag can be found at facebook.com/yellowflagfoot-ball.

Courtesy of yellowflagthe yellowflag app is meant to provide a mobile forum for discussing football with groups of your choosing.

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Sports B4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 13, 2012

John BurnsSPorTS rePorTer

The Auburn women’s tennis team began its season at the Auburn Fall Invitational Sept. 7, and the ladies are already in sharp form.

The Tigers began their schedule Friday and looked exceedingly comfortable on their home courts at the Yar-borough Tennis Center.

The team started hot by winning 14 of 15 matches in both singles and doubles on the opening day of play.

Freshman Ashley Kitchens notched two singles wins on Friday and a doubles win with sophomore partner Lauren Levant.

Not to be outdone, Levant matched Kitchens with a pair of singles wins.

Seniors Plamena Kurteva and Paulina Schippers both celebrated two singles wins and a doubles win.

Junior Jackie Kasler also won both of her singles matches on Friday.

Teaming up with sopho-more Jen Pfeifler the pair won in doubles on opening day as well.

“I am very pleased with

our performance,” said head coach Lauren Longbotham Meisner. “Making five out of six singles finals [after day one] was a great way to start.”

When Saturday rolled around, the Tigers were pre-pared to continue their good work on the home courts.

Kasler had a perfect Satur-day, winning her doubles title with partner Pfeifler and her singles title.

“Kasler stands out as some-one just coming back who’s got a lot of confidence,” Long-botham Meisner said. “She’s really worked hard this sum-mer, so winning her flight as well as winning the number one doubles flight was great.”

“I felt good,” Kasler said, “I felt like I played solid, I played smart. I just felt comfortable and wasn’t nervous.”

Kasler cited being confi-dent in her game as the differ-ence in her performance from last year to this.

“I think I’m more confident in who I am as a player,” Kasler said. “I know my game style and I don’t like to stray away from it. I just play my game, and I think that’s why I was successful.”

Kitchens capped off the weekend and won her singles flight.

She also teamed up with Levant to win their doubles flight on Saturday.

“[Kitchens’] energy was great, her confidence and just her overall play really stood out to me,” Longbotham Mei-sner said. “It could go either way with a freshman, especial-ly with the first tournament, but I think that since we had it in Auburn made it very com-fortable for her.”

Kurteva capped off the vic-tories on Saturday with a sin-gles title of her own.

“I think for the first tour-nament this was very good,” Kurteva said. “My energy was very good. I felt like I was very consistent, and that was ac-tually one of my goals for the weekend… I felt like I was playing with a much better backhand, and something that I have worked on a lot is my return in doubles, and I believe that I have improved that.”

Kurteva said she was pleased with her play this weekend, but she acknowl-edged there is always room for

improvement.“I want to add a bit of ag-

gressiveness to my game,” Kurteva said. “And obvious-ly it’s just the beginning of the season, so more things will probably come up.”

The Tigers finished an ex-cellent Saturday by winning five out of their six singles fi-nals despite a slight delay due to rain.

“I’m very pleased at how fit the girls came back, “Longbo-tham Meisner said. “They’re mentally and physically ready to go, which is always a bless-ing when you have a summer off. They all trained. The re-turners all trained during the summer… We’re going to take it one tournament at a time, and we’re going to keep look-ing at tape because each per-son is more individualized in the fall, but we don’t really have a team goal as yet.”

The Tigers will contin-ue practicing hard until their next tournament, the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 23-25. Shortly after the team will travel to Pacific Pal-isades, Calif., for the riviera/ITA All-American Champion-ships Sept. 29-oct. 7.

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Auburn players in the NFL: Week 1Andrew YawnSPorTS edITor

While current Auburn players struggle in collegiate play, their predecessors began their quest for the Super Bowl last week.

Cam Newton completed 23 of 33 passes for 303 yards, a touch-down and an interception, but lost to Tampa Bay 16-10.

Nick Fairley had his second career sack for detroit against St. Louis and finished with two quarterback hits on Sam Bradford.

Jerraud Powers was named the starting cornerback for the re-building Indianapolis Colts, and he responded with six solo tack-les, one tackle for a loss and two passes deflected.

Tennessee Titans kicker rob Bironas connected on both field goal attempts from 24 and 28 yards as well as an extra point.

Former Thorpe Award recipient Carlos rogers is coming off a Pro Bowl season for the San Francisco 49ers and began his 2012

campaign with four solo tackles and a sack.Minnesota Vikings wide receiver devin Aromashodu caught

all three passes thrown to him and ended the game with 61 yards receiving with a long of 26 yards.

running backs ronnie Brown of San diego and Ben Tate of the Houston Texans saw limited action in the first week.

Brown finished with five rushes for five yards, but caught all five passes thrown his way for 26 receiving yards. Tate had simi-lar numbers and posted 28 yards on eight touches.

Miami dolphins linebacker Karlos dansby had nine tackles, six solo and one for a loss, in Miami’s loss to Houston.

Four former Tigers are out for the season. running backs Tristan davis and Mario Fannin (knee) and offensive linemen Brandon Mosley (ankle) and Lee Ziemba (knee) have been placed on injured reserve.

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Melody KitchensIntrIgue edItor

there’s a law in Alabama that prohibits masks in pub-lic, but that doesn’t drag down the impact the disc jockey duo of dead?Wait! has on Auburn’s music scene.

Their villainous masks and comic book-like origin story on whatisdeadwait.com fit well with their persona on stage.

the pair tore up pages of textbooks at a show after fi-nals week, and they almost ru-ined the stage lighting at Bour-bon Street Bar from the ruckus that ensued.

offstage, they’re a couple of mysteriously reserved, timid guys still in masks struggling to get a few words out at first.

“A lot of people don’t really know this, but they say they’re really ugly underneath,” said manager Alessio Summerfield, junior in radio, television and film.

“I get a lot of panicked phone calls in the middle of the night," he said. “They’ll go through a lot of tracks and then just scrap them.”

the duo seems to strive to protect not only its image (hence the masks), but also its musical image.

“You can’t be afraid to start over,” dead?Wait said. “We don’t suck, but if our tracks suck, we make it not suck and start over.”

dead?Wait! call Auburn their home, and they began creating and sharing their mu-sic through SoundCloud in 2010.

Summerfield and public re-lations represenative Isaac Lim then played some tracks on their WegL91.1 radio show, and dead?Wait! was picked up soon after to dJ live.

“We liked what we had going on,” dead?Wait! said. “We also didn’t have any money.”

Summerfield booked their first show in February 2011 at the former Independent ven-ue. Since then, dead?Wait! has

played about 13 shows around Auburn, from house parties to their personal favorite show at last spring’s Adult Swim Carni-val.

“We’ve never had to ask for a show,” Summerfield said. “dead?Wait! told me not to go begging for shows, and I think that’s pretty cool.”

dead?Wait! holds a book-ing philosophy of only playing one or two shows every couple of months, and according to Summerfield, it creates a sort of forced scarcity.

“It makes it an event, differ-ent from dJ’s that you can ex-

pect to see play four nights a week,” Summerfield said.

dead?Wait! frequently uses dJ equipment like MIdI con-trollers, laptops and ana-log synthesizers on stage or “whatever our brains tell us at the time,” dead?Wait! said. “We like to switch it up every once in a while. We also just throw in some crazy sample and just re-peat it a thousand times. Peo-ple love that.”

dead?Wait! said they pre-fer recording their music in the woods, as their first eP “do You Hate It Yet?” was recorded there because “music has lots

of timbre from the woods.”The collaboration with John

McMeans of H.Y.d.r.A. on “do You Hate It Yet?” is the first of many to come according to the pair, as well as a collaboration with local artist SexChange on the up-and-coming unnamed eP.

“ We like H.Y.d.r .A. ,” dead?Wait! said. “He brings a lot of real music into the equa-tion. He’s really talented, and he mixes and brings his own instrumentation.”

Currently, Auburn’s new Media Club and Charlie Harp-er, junior in radio, television

and film are directing a clay-mation video for driving Hy-brids, a track off “do You Hate It Yet?”

Plans are also in the works for a video of a track off the new eP directed by Brock Hanson, senior in radio, tele-vision and film, videographer John Henderson and Sum-merfield.

P r o m p t e d b y t h e help raised to promote dead?Wait! with videos, t-shirts and shows, Summer-field recently created Project dead?Wait!.

“We’re trying to get peo-ple from the community and students involved in the arts,” Summerfield said. “I kind of used dead?Wait! as a catalyst to get students interested in directing videos.”For upcoming shows and

to download tracks, visit face-book.com/wearedeadwait or whatisdeadwait.com.

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one half of dead?Wait! and John mcmeans of h.y.d.R.a. perform last year at Pebble hill.

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Red flags and merciful dumpings

Some of the red flags in a re-lationship are universal, like if he’s rude to your friends or if she’s an Alabama fan.

There are some indicators that get overlooked, though. As your self-declared guide to affairs of the heart, I have com-piled a cheat sheet of relation-ship deal breakers.

They are terrible at text messaging. Break up with them if they have texted you any of the following. A "good morning" before 11 a.m. A vari-ation of the single-letter "K" as a response. ‘Hey' or 'hey what's up' accompanied by a winky face emoticon.

Furthermore, any text mes-sage without appropriate punctuation will be interpret-ed as a passive-aggressive at-tack and immediate grounds for dumping.

They are destroying your Netflix queue. There are sev-

eral milestones you hit dur-ing a long-term relationship. Celebrating holidays together. Meeting the parents. Exchang-ing SAT scores. There will come a point in every relation-ship when your significant oth-er innocently asks for the pass-word to your Netflix account.

It starts innocently enough, with a couple episodes of “Pretty Little Liars.” But pretty soon, your recommendations are suddenly filled with eeri-ly specific categories that Net-flix claims are based off of your taste preferences.

You have no interest in ‘Ro-mantic Crime Thrillers Fea-turing a Strong Canine Lead’ or ‘Movies Where Two Char-acters Fight A Lot Because of How Much They Feel For Each Other and Also There’s A Scene In An Airport.’ But you know who does.

They are emotionally un-available. You’re looking for a relationship with a future. You don’t want to endure this thing for another six months only to find out they aren’t into the whole “emotional investment” thing. This is sometimes hard

to tell right away, so I’ve de-veloped a foolproof, two-step method to quantitatively test whether someone is a heart-less monster with no capacity for love. Have them watch the Disney-Pixar film “Up.” If they don’t cry within the first 10 minutes, dump them.

They are too emotional-ly available. I know what I said above, but there’s a limit to the amount of sweet noth-ings someone can whisper be-fore you are ready to kick them to the curb.

This kind of overbearing re-lationship is characterized by public displays of affection, baby talk and nauseating nick-names including (but not lim-ited to) any dessert-based com-parison.

Dump them if they’ve ever posted your name online with more than one exclamation mark next to it.

There is a way to conduct a healthy relationship that doesn’t involve posting Face-book status updates about it in 15-minute increments. You deserve someone who realiz-es that.

My father and I get along really well, better than most I think, but recently he's been trying to push a "father/son" hobby on our relationship. I'd probably be all for it if it was paintballing, shooting .45s, going to South America or brewing our own beer. But no, he's hell-bent on making pickles. PICK-LES. He already planted the cucumbers in my parents' garden, bought a whole bunch of seasoning/brine and has been trying it on cucumbers that he's found at farmers markets and Whole Foods.

I want to support my Dad (it seems like he's kind of going through a mid-life crisis), but this obses-sion with pickles is a tad absurd. My mom agrees, and everyone's getting a little sick of the refrigera-tor in the basement being full of pickle experiments. Lane, HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?!

Sincerely,Pickle T. Willyburg

You're lucky to have a father who endeavors to make your life more like the heartwarm-ing films of our childhood. I can't tell you how difficult it is to orchestrate that kind of kooky comedy on your own (trust me, I've planted enough banana peels to know). Did Robin Williams' kids complain when he invented Flubber? Did Eddy Murphy's kids com-plain when he started having in-depth conversations with wacky zoo animals? Did my roommate complain when I kept leaving banana peels outside her bedroom door? Well yeah, she did, but she's a real drag.

You might not be able to see it now through your pickle-induced panic, but you're for-tunate to have a dad with such quirky hobbies. In a world where Snooki's unborn child al-ready has a three-year television contract, there is no story too boring to meticulously doc-ument and then broadcast to the entire nation. This could be your ticket to stardom, kid. So grab your old man, slap on an apron and a smile and film your pilot episode.

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Gray GillWriTer

He dropped out of Auburn University on two different occasions. His childhood was spent exploring São Paolo, Brazil.

As a young adult, he lived in a commune in New York City and hung out with gypsies in Miami. Now, once more, he is calling Auburn his home and his muse.

His name is Mike Leigh, and he may be the most inter-esting man in Auburn.

More specifically, Leigh is an artist who has explored several different modes of art over the course of his life.

Leigh sees different art forms as essential to figuring out his creative life.

“All these modes of art, they’re just tools,” Leigh said. “i guess i’m just trying to find to figure out how to use tools. i’m trying to figure out what the most effective tools are.”

Currently, his tools of choice are paintbrushes, pens, acrylic paint and white cardboard.

Leigh prefers to paint and draw on cardboard rath-er than canvas because it’s cheap and accessible.

Leigh describes his style of painting and drawing as minimalistic. Most recently, he completed a series of por-traits on his trademark white cardboard where the entire picture is drawn with one continuous line.

“it’s a portrait with the purpose of there being some mental triggering between text and visual,” Leigh said. “There’s one that’s blatantly about sororities, about diet drinks, about having sex and having babies.”

Leigh is adamant his goal is not to offend any one person or group, for that matter.

“it’s not offensive,” Leigh said. “it’s just one perspec-

tive on something. What you have hanging on your walls isn’t going to change who you are, but it’s going to affect the things going on inside you.”

As far as promoting his per-spective, Leigh has used the popular picture-editing app, instagram, to take pictures of his art and allow people to easily view it.

recently, he set up a pop-up art show in the alleyway between Moe’s Original Bar B Que and Auburn Hardware. Leigh believes the =unlikely location said just as much as the art itself.

“Some people don’t even want to be in alleyways,” he said. “To just get someone who’s just walking by to step into this alleyway…to see something i drew.”

Leigh cannot recall a spe-cific moment when he real-ized his passion for art and expressing himself creatively.

“i’ve always been draw-ing or painting,” he said. “My mother’s a painter. She start-ed that when i was about 10 years old. So i’ve been around that. i’ve had a few art classes here and there. i lived in São Paolo for a while. There was so much graffiti there and my mind was invaded with all of these strong images.”

Leigh believes his time in Auburn, since he first arrived his freshman year up till now, has been conducive to his growth as an artist.

He fell in love with the Plains when he attended Uni-versity swim camps through-out high school. When he came to Auburn as a fresh-man, he hoped to earn a walk-on spot on the Tigers’ swim team; however, due to over-recruiting, there were no available spots left for Leigh to try out.

instead of being discour-aged, Leigh took advantage of his free time to explore more

artistic outlets.“That’s when things real-

ly started to get weird,” Leigh said.

Throughout the next few years, Leigh said he found friends who had creative goals similar to his own.

They went on to promote and garner respect for local bands, as well as introduce Auburn to outside bands through house shows.

Leigh has been focusing on music lately as well. Over the past summer, he wrote and recorded eight songs using his voice and an electric guitar.

Other than music, Leigh enjoys working with film pho-tography, developing the film himself. While in school at Auburn, Leigh began acting as well. it was theater that called him to Miami and New York, where he attended Circle in the Square Theatre School, an acting program.

Leigh said he approaches life and his art with the desire to be aware of exactly what he experiences in each moment.

He said he strives to em-brace not only the good mo-ments, but the painful ones as well.

“That’s what life is,” he said. “it’s up and down. it’s not be-ing afraid, but just going for-ward.”

Leigh isn’t worried about the future. “it’s always going to be the next five years,” he said. “it’s never going to get here. i’m worried about the mo-ment. i think my job right now is to study human emotion ;through music, through theater, through painting, through drawing, through cooking and drink-ing and spending time with people.”

“There’s something big missing in my life, and i’m try-ing to find it. i’m 24; i don’t have a degree, but i’m doing what i want to do,” Leigh said.

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Former Auburn student mike leigh’s talents range from music, art and acting. he promotes his perspec-tive of art through instagram to allow people to easily view it.

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1. Rebecca Taylor takes what could be the overdone peplum top trend and refines it with a slimmer bodice and pairs it with printed, baggy, cuffed pants. -MK 2. Army green will still be seen next spring, and Boy by Band of Outsiders keeps it fresh with a sheer paneled top and a classic blazer. -MK3. This piece reminds me of something Salvador Dali would’ve designed for his wife, Gala. The spine print and red os-trich feathers are surreal and al-most macabre–the model looks like she’s been gutted–in the prettiest way possible. It’s gor-geous and irreverent as well (just like the famed Surrealist), and high fashion needs a dose of that every now and then. -JS4. Catherine Malandrino’s col-lection exudes femininity. Pas-tels and an overwhelming use of creamy white were paired with detailed knitwork, mesh and sequins. My favorite piece by the French designer used la-ser-cut fabric to create matching geometric patterns on a cream blouse and shorts. The sheer sleeves are ethereal and practi-cal for spring. -JSRebecca Taylor Boy by Band of Outsiders Catherine MalandrinoPrabal Gurung