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Thursday, September 15, 2011 www.theplainsman.com Vol. 118, Issue 4, 18 PagesA Spirit thAt iS Not AfrAid

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A flight interruptedLiz Conn ManagIng EdItOr

at the football game against Mississippi State Saturday, the flight of bald eagle Spirit took a turn for the worse.

On his descent from the flag-pole to the field, Spirit flew into the plastic glass outside a skybox.

“He just slammed right into it,” said Crystal Whitaker, who was

inside the skybox with her three children. “It was hard—it wasn’t grazing by. It sounded like a truck hitting a wall.”

Spirit’s trainers do not know what caused the change in his route, said Jamie Bellah, profes-sor of small animal surgery and director of the Southeastern rap-tor Center.

although he was purely spec-

ulating, Bellah said it is possible that Spirit saw his own reflection in the glass and became confused.

“We didn’t expect him to turn into the window, but we don’t know why he did,” said raptor spe-cialist Marianne Hudson. “Flights are unpredictable each time.”

Hudson was on the field during Spirit’s flight.

“I could tell by the way he was

flying that he wasn’t hurt, so I was glad of that,” she said. “I was def-initely wanting to get him down on the field so that we could take a closer look at him.”

Spirit shows no signs of injury and has been eating and behaving normally, Bellah said.

“We’re just lucky,” Bellah said.

“We didn’t expect him to turn into the window, but we don’t know why he did.”

—Marianne Hudson raPtOr SPECIaLISt

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Spirit, the bald eagle, made contact with a skybox at Jordan-hare Stadium during the auburn vs. Mississippi State game Saturday.

Sarah CookWrItEr

Miss auburn University Emilee Williams has been cooking up ways to fight domestic hunger—literally.

Williams is assembling a cook-book with student-contributed recipes, and the proceeds from its sale will benefit local hunger initiatives.

Williams said she has always had a passion for promoting hun-ger awareness.

When she was in high school, she volunteered at a local food bank and noticed some of her classmates coming in with their

families for food assistance. “This is the first time that I real-

ized how prevalent hunger is do-mestically,” said Williams, junior in civil engineering and hunger studies. “Since then, hunger has always been my passion.”

The cookbook will be released during Hunger Week, Oct. 10–16, which is also the start of the Beat Bama Food drive.

Lindsey Beno, junior in com-munication and marketing, heard about the cookbook and decided to submit her own favor-ite recipes.

“I think this is such a great cause,” Beno said. “I love baking

and all that stuff, so when my sis-ter mentioned it to me, I thought it was such a great idea.”

One recipe Beno submitted is for French doughnuts.

Miss Auburn cooks up a way to help fight domestic hunger

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Throwing a football out of Jordan-Hare could get you more than time on the Jumbo-tron.

The football semi-tradition entails students catching foot-balls from the field goals and extra points scored by the op-posing team and throwing them from the stadium.

Unlucky or conspicuous fans will find themselves es-corted from the stadium by auburn police.

The first ejection occurred during Utah State.

“If that type of behavior oc-curred, as a minimum the per-son would be escorted from the stadium,” said Captain tom Stofer of the auburn po-lice. “But, we could take other action.”

That other action is an ar-rest on a charge of theft of property. no arrests have been made in relation to the prac-tice, but students are still an-noyed by the possibility of

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“this is the first time that i realized how prevalent hunger is domestically.”

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Sept. 9 — Wire roadTheft of property reported. Thirty green metal T-posts and 5 no parking signs.

Sept. 9 — opelika roadTheft of property reported. $300.

Sept. 9 — Shelton Mill roadBurglary of residence reported. Apple laptop, TI-89 calculator and blue bookbag.

Sept. 10 — Magnolia avenueTheft of property reported. Coach purse, digital camera, debit card, keys and ID cards.

Sept. 10 — South college StreetBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. Two digital cam-

eras, 300 mm zoom lens, macro lens, iPad 2, laptop and iPod.

Sept. 10 — West Magnolia avenueBurglary of residence reported. One laptop with charger and one ring with diamonds and aquama-rine.

Sept. 10 — West Magnolia avenueTheft of property reported. One laptop with charger and one The North Face jacket.

Sept. 10 — Drew laneBurglary of residence reported. One 47” TV, one Xbox 360, one laptop, 4 Xbox controllers and 25 Xbox games.

Sept. 10 — u.S. highway 29 South

Theft of property reported. Coach makeup bag, makeup, military ID, keychain and keys, Tiger Card.

Sept. 11 — lee road 394Burglary of residence reported. One 60” plasma flat screen TV, one DVD player, one Playstation 2, two Playstation 2 controllers.

Sept. 11 — thomas StreetTheft of property reported. Brown couch.

Sept. 13 — reede StreetBurglary of residence reported. One Playstation 3, three Play-station 3 games, one 40” LCD flat-screen TV, two laptops.

— Reports provided by Auburn Department of Public Safety

Crime reports for sept. 9 – sept. 13, 2011DUi Arrests in the City of AUbUrn sept. 9 — sept. 13, 2011

■ Jonathon t. Davis, 21, of evergreenSouth College Street Sept. 10, 12:55 a.m.

■ leon Marion, 36, of tuskegeeNorth Gay Street Sept. 10, 4:15 p.m.

■ aaron b. cannon, 32, of MontgomerySouth College Street Sept. 13, 1:22 a.m.

■ charles D. cannon, 52, of cullmanSouth College Street Sept. 13, 11:39 p.m.

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The recipe calls for dip-ping yellow cake cupcakes in melted butter, cinnamon and brown sugar.

“It’s actually the perfect recipe for college kids be-cause it’s really easy,” Beno said.

Along with putting to-gether the cookbook, Wil-liams is taking other steps

to promote hunger aware-ness. She serves as the col-lege of Engineering repre-sentative for the commit-tee of 19. Auburn’s leading organization combating the war on hunger.

“A lot of what we do is fundraising for East Al-abama food Bank and spreading awareness and raising money for the Unit-ed nations World food Programme,” said presi-

dent of the committee of 19 courtni Ward, senior in international business.

Ward said the committee was founded on four basic principles: raising hunger awareness, advocacy, fund-raising and incorporating academic initiatives.

As the college of Engi-neering representative for the committee, Williams said she tries to make hun-ger awareness a priority for

engineering majors. “her whole goal is to

make hunger relatable to engineering students,” Ward said.

After hear-i n g a b o u t the cookbook, Ward submit-ted a few recipes of her own, includ-ing a whoopie pie rec-ipe and an apple pie recipe.

“This cookbook is just a

really cool thing, especial-ly around the holiday sea-son,” Ward said. “We a l w a y s see things

w e w a n -na buy for our family

members and s o m e t i m e s

we can get so caught up in con-

sumerism. It’s re-ally cool to purchase gifts for family and friends that

benefit a great cause.” Williams said she hopes

to not only raise money for local hunger initiatives, but to raise hunger awareness among students.

“I want people to realize that this is not a lost cause and that it is easy for them to get involved,” Williams said.

“I want to pass on the power of advocacy to each person that I can reach.”

punishment.“It’s just a football,” said

Adam Lucy, freshman in biomedical sciences. “It’s just kind of a waste of time for them. It’s not like they need it.”

Kirk Sampson with ath-letic media relations says that police have discretion in the stadium to carry out

the policies in place.The Auburn fan guide

lays out the law on throw-ing anything from Jordan-hare.

“do not throw objects, including cups and ice, from the stands or any oth-er area of the stadium. Any-one caught throwing ob-jects will be subject to ejec-tion from the stadium and/or arrest.”

others feel the University

should do more to keep stu-dents out of trouble than enforce policies.

“If the University doesn’t want students to toss foot-balls out of the stadium after field goals and ex-tra points, there should be nets behind the goal posts,” said Brandon frye, gradu-ate student in materials en-gineering. “Throwing stu-dents out of a game for par-ticipating in a tradition af-

ter they’ve been pressured by the student section and displayed on the Jumbo-Tron doesn’t make much sense.”

Stofer said that although police could charge a fan with theft of property, it’s unlikely they would.

“We have a lot of good fans, and they’ll do what they need to do and return the ball to the field,” Stofer said.

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“despite all our training, he is on his own when he’s up in the air.”

Whitaker said the reac-tion inside the skybox was one of surprise, and even her 4-year-old son, grady, did not scream.

“he’s been telling every-

body the eagle was com-ing to eat his baby brother,” Whitaker said. “That’s what he thought.”

When the eagle is re-leased before kickoff, it flies toward its trainer, who is on the field swinging a lure with a food reward.

The eagles and trainers generally practice this rou-tine Monday through fri-

day before a home game, Bellah said.

“It’s rare, but on some practice days they have flown out of the stadium,” he said. “It’s happened very infrequently.”

If an eagle does leave the stadium, a telemetry unit on its tail allows it to be tracked for about four days or within a 50-mile radius.

Bellah said either Spirit or nova will fly in the next home game Sept. 24 against florida Atlantic, and train-ing for the eagles will con-tinue as usual.

“A lot of people have called in expressing their concerns,” Bellah said. “We’ve really appreciated the concerns of the Auburn family.”

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 The Auburn Plainsman Campus A3

Kristen OliverWriTer

During the Air Force rOTC leadership lab Thurs-day, the entire corps will be working to reingnite their community efforts.

“This week we are going to go out and have the en-tire corps, every cadet, go out and do a service proj-ect,” said ryne Watts, spe-cial activities flight com-mander and junior in in-dustrial and systems engi-neering. “We’ve got five dif-ferent locations we’re going to be at, and we’ll be mak-ing an impact on the com-munity.”

Cadets will serve at Jean

Dean reading is Funda-mental, the Boys and Girls Clubs in both Opelika and Auburn, the Louise Kreher

Forest ecology Preserve and the Denson Drive rec-reation Center.

“We’ve set a goal of 300 cumulative service hours for the detachment,” said ryan Smith, senior in com-munication and public af-fairs officer for AFrOTC.

Smith said one of the best parts of the service project is the opportunity to help his community while in uniform.

“The officers who are in charge of our training are always harping on, ‘Make sure when you are in uni-form, you’re not doing any-thing stupid,’” Smith said. “You are representing the

Air Force to the best of your ability. Most times it’s a neg-ative thing—don’t do this or that—but this is something where we get to be out there in uniform and rep-resent the Air Force, and it’s something that definitely has a positive connotation to it.”

Doing something local-ly is an important aspect of the project, said Margaret Tucker, deputy flight com-mander and junior in exer-cise science.

“it’s good to be in uni-form and giving locally right here in the Auburn area,” Tucker said.

Watts said they started

planning the project at the beginning of the year.

AFrOTC has collaborat-ed with two service organi-zations, Silver Wings and the Arnold Air Society, on past projects, but accord-ing to Smith, the groups haven’t worked together much recently.

The current unit decided to make a change.

“every semester we ro-tate out our leadership,” Smith said. “everyone brings their vision mission goals, the directions they want to move the wing, and one of the main goals is getting involved in the community.”

Tucker said she thinks everyone is looking for-ward to the opportunity.

“it’s the first time we’re doing it, and everyone is re-ally excited,” Tucker said. “A lot of times we’re just sit-ting in Lowder doing pre-sentations. it’ll be good to be outside helping people out instead.”

Smith said he thinks it’s important for AFrOTC ca-dets to help the community whenever they can.

“Being part of the mil-itary means you’re go-ing to be a part of human-itarian efforts,” Smith said. “You are a staple of the community.”

Air Force ROTC lends helping hands throughout community

“Being part of the military means you’re going to be a part of humanitarian efforts. You are a staple of the community.”

—ryan Smith PuBLiC AFFAirS OFFiCer

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in remembrance of the victims of the sept. 11 attacks, the student Center Green space is covered with american flags.

AU VIEWAnna Claire ConradSTAFF WriTer

Coastal cuisine is coming to town.

Allen Davis, professor of fisheries and allied aqua-cultures, confirmed that the Auburn Fisheries So-ciety will be selling never-frozen, farm-raised Pacific white shrimp through Sept. 16.

“The shrimp are being grown in Gulf Shores,” Da-vis said. “They will be trans-ported to the e.W. Shell Fisheries research Center to be sold to the public.”

Davis said over 300 pounds of shrimp will be sold to raise money for re-search and transportation services for the shrimp.

He said the production has been ongoing for 16 weeks. The shrimp will be available in 5-pound orders

for $4.50 per pound, or at $4 per pound for orders of 100 pounds or more.

Orders will be ready for pickup at the Auburn Fish-eries market at 2012 N. Col-lege St. starting Sept. 21 from 3–7 p.m. and Sept. 22 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The market is adjacent to the Fisheries research Cen-ter.

“Two graduate stu-dents have been and still are working in Gulf Shores conducting production re-search on these shrimp,” Davis said. “They are re-sponsible for running this program, keeping the shrimp stocked, monitor-ing the quality of the water, maintaining the equipment and dealing with issues such as tropical storms and power outages. They’ve been doing a great job.”

Davis said he predicts this will be a successful project. He expects stu-dents, faculty and civilians alike to support this re-search project by purchas-ing the shrimp.

“i’m very excited about farm-raised shrimp being sold here in Auburn,” said Jaclyn Wilson, junior in ma-rine biology. “i think it’ll be very successful, and i look forward to buying some for myself.”

Wilson said she hopes this project will raise mon-ey to help fund the Auburn Fisheries Society and the research it conducts.

The shrimp will be har-vested this weekend and brought back to the Plains to be sold. To place an or-der, email [email protected] or call 844-4667 Monday through Friday.

Crustaceans come to the Plains


Anna Claire ConradSTAff WriTer

One of Auburn’s newest professors has brought a universal perspective to his classroom. His work deals with UfOs.

Originally from Seattle, Cade Cannon, professor of anthropology, graduated from Auburn in 2006 with a bachelor’s in psychology.

Cannon said he ob-tained his master’s in cul-tural anthropology from the University of Washing-ton and is currently work-ing toward his Ph.D. in cul-tural anthropology.

Cannon said he holds a special interest in the study of a religion that originated in france in the 1970s and revolves around the belief in UfOs.

“it is an atheistic, sci-entific religion that uses the Bible as a text,” Can-non said. “it supports the idea that all of the messag-es in the Bible did happen, but that these tales are ev-idence of people from an-cient times trying to ex-plain a scientific event to the best of their abilities. So, it comes across as mi-raculous when it actually is the best way they could describe their experienc-es.”

Cannon said he found that people who are re-ligious are more open to things that are beyond comprehension.

“Science has answered a lot of questions, but it also has a particular way of looking at things that

makes it hard for people to think about things that they can’t explain or justi-fy,” Cannon said. “religion, in a lot of cases, is more open to the things that so-ciety sees as being para-normal or supernatural.”

Though he has traveled around the world, most of Cannon’s studies take place in Montreal.

“in france, this religion is seen as a cult, so many people who believe it or practice it are discrimi-nated against,” Cannon said. “in some cases, peo-ple have even lost their jobs. So to escape this prej-udice, a lot of people have immigrated to the Quebec region of Canada so they can freely practice this re-

ligion.”Cannon said he also

studies people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.

Cannon conducts more qualitative work as op-posed to physically exam-ining evidence sites.

“i talk to them and let them explain their story, and then i compare this to what i know about psy-chology and also to the stories of other people i’ve interviewed,” Cannon said. “i often find correlations between several different contactees and the words they use to explain their experience.”

Cannon said he will not be able to delve deep-ly into the subject because

of time limitations, but he will spend a few days in his classes discussing abduc-tions and the UfO religion.

Angel Garrison, sopho-more in anthropology, said Cannon stands out from other faculty members.

“He’s a really good teach-er because he likes what he does,” Garrison said. “He does more than just hand out materials and teach from the book for the tests. He gets a discussion going, and he makes us think.”

Garrison said Cannon does not only teach his students, but has a desire to learn from them as well.

“i want my students to have an open mind,” Can-non said. “That’s the most efficient way to learn.”

Professor’s study of ‘UFO religion’ helps him stand out in classroom

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cade cannon, professor of anthropology, uses his experiences with alternative re-ligions and beliefs to teach his students to have open minds.

elizabeth BonnerSTAff WriTer

University Program Council plans to kick off fall family weekend with its an-nual evening of dinner and dancing.

The event will take place Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. in the Stu-dent Center ballroom.

There will be dance in-struction through the Au-burn University Swing Dance Association, dinner from Tiger Catering and a night of grooving to the songs of Gwen Hughes and the retro Jazz Kats.

“This is an event that we do every fall,” said Anne Smead, UPC president and senior in public adminis-tration. “it’s fun and differ-ent. it’s the one event we do that brings in the entire Au-burn community. Most are geared toward students, but this is an event open to everyone.”

The evening will begin with instruction in this year’s choice dance style: east Coast swing.

The theme changes from year to year, and this year’s theme was chosen by poll-ing students at a previous UPC event.

The AUSDA sends two in-structors—normally a boy and a girl—who spend the first hour of the event in-structing the participants.

“We do our beginner les-sons, so people who have never danced before can get the basics in the first hour and know what to do

during the free dance af-terward,” said Blake Mah-an, sophomore in chemical engineering and secretary of the AUSDA. “We start off with the basic step be-cause it’s a good way to end a song.”

Gwen Hughes and the retro Jazz Kats, a jazz en-semble based out of Atlan-ta, will provide the night’s entertainment.

“We bill ourselves as a swing band that can also play classic rock and Mo-town,” said lead vocalist Gwen Hughes. “We’re jazz musicians that can also get funky and play rock. for this gig it will be straight swing with a little r&B, but we also love requests.”

This will be the band’s first show in Auburn.

UPC has been working with the Parents’ Associ-ation to bring in students and their parents for the first family weekend event.

“We usually have a pret-ty good turnout—around 150,” said Sara Joy richards, senior in health promotion and UPC director of fine arts.

The cost will be $5 for students, $15 for nonstu-dents and $25 for nonstu-dent couples. Tickets will be on sale in Student Cen-ter Suite 3130 throughout the week.

Swingers welcomeUPC hosts night of music, swing dancing

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Hayley BlairASSociATe cAmPuS ediTor

Someone’s got their eye on you.

campus webcams set up by the office of communi-cations and marketing have more than 800,000 hits in the past year and have giv-en viewers a new way to look at Auburn’s campus.

“it’s been kind of interest-ing over the last few years to interact with people through these,” said mike clardy, director of univer-sity communications. “We had a girl whose moth-er was in Afghanistan and it was her mother’s birth-day. She told her mom to tune into the webcam at a certain time and went out there with a sign saying ‘Happy Birthday, mom.’”

The webcams have been used for romantic ventures as well, such as when one student used the Samford Hall camera to propose to his girlfriend.

Sarah Phillips, recent Au-burn graduate and media

specialist at the university, said she understands why people are so interested in the webcams.

“more often than not, people know that Auburn’s campus is beautiful and like to see it for themselves,” Phillips said.

Though students are usu-ally only a quick jog away from places like Samford Hall and cater Lawn, the webcams can still provide unique views of campus.

one month there was an especially interesting view from the Thach Hall cam-era, said Brock Parker, mul-timedia specialist for the ocm.

“The theatre department did an origami art project, and i think it was up there at least over a month,” Park-er said. “They were origami birds, and they made a big, interlocking ‘Au.’”

Phillips said she used the cameras during the time she was a student, especial-ly to see how busy campus was and what the weath-

er was like before she went out. The camera she liked best was the one at Sam-ford Hall.

“You can always look at the Samford Lawn one and see people playing foot-ball,” Phillips said. “You can see people having picnics or hanging in their ham-mocks. That’s probably my favorite one.”

Students aren’t the only ones who use the camer-as, and Parker said there are plenty of Auburn par-ents and alumni who like to check and see what’s hap-pening on campus.

many of these people tuned into the Hargis Hall camera the day of the Na-tional championship foot-ball game.

“The night of the cham-pionship game, back in Jan-uary, we had more than 27,000 hits on that camera, what with everybody want-ing to see the rolling of the trees and everything,” Park-er said. “That was definite-ly the biggest night for that

cam.”With football season here

again, Parker said he ex-pects even more people to use the webcams.

Another reason Park-er thinks people will tune in is because of the wed-dings that will now be tak-ing place on Samford Lawn.

“i think one thing people will really get a kick out of is that we’ve started allow-ing people to get married on Samford Lawn,” Parker said. “So if you take a Satur-day and tune into the Sam cam, you may be able to see someone getting mar-ried out there.”

clardy said the cameras were installed about four years ago, and both he and Parker were pleasantly sur-prised by the number of people who have been us-ing them.

“it’s neat for people to make these kinds of con-nections to each other,” clardy said. “As a backdrop for Auburn university, it’s pretty special.”

Contributed

one of seven on Auburn’s campus, a webcam set up at Samford Hall helps a student propose to his girlfriend.

Webcams offer new look at campus

Find ways to raise money, I guess. It just depends on what they’re interested in and whatever they think they can do on their own personal level to raise money, because money buys more food.

dALe couTure, JuNior iN PoLiTicAL ScieNce

I guess volunteering at food pantries and do-nating canned goods to soup kitchens and stuff. It’s like a small thing that everyone can do, and small things make a difference.

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A lot of people aren’t aware of how severe domestic hunger is, so just basically be more aware of your surroundings and envi-ronment. A lot of people just overlook it and think they can’t help, but they can.

TeSS Burford, JuNior iN reHABiLiTATioN STudieS

On The Concoursequestion: What can students do to fight domestic hunger on their own?

SGA Senate Meeting

• The university registrar proposed a new way to present diplomas to students after graduation. They will be mailed to students after final grades have been verified, degree audits have been conducted, accurate hon-or titles have been established and holds on student accounts have been cleared. She hopes the new practice will save money and even allow graduation to be held dur-ing the weekend, since it will not be neces-sary to wait for professors to post grades.

• A new biking program is in the works that will provide students a free mode of trans-portation on campus. The SgA is in the process of deciding which type of bike stu-dents would like the most and have been al-lowing students to test the bikes being con-sidered. The program is expected to go into effect in 2012.

• The Tiger cub has been deemed irrelevant to the student body and has been officially cut from the SgA budget.

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Graham CarrWriter

Good music outside plus fun means only one thing: the Fall Sundown Concert Series is com-ing back to Auburn.

The free event, sponsored by Auburn Parks and recreation, opens at Kiesel Park off of Chad-wick Lane thursday at 6 p.m. with The Satin Soul Band.

the Satin Soul Band, which plays a mix of soul, jazz, r&B and hip-hop, has played venues in At-lanta, Opelika, Nashville and last year played at a private party in Dallas hosted by Dallas Cow-boys player DeMarcus Ware, an Auburn native.

Band member Bernard rut-ledge said his band is privileged to open this year’s event. rut-ledge said this is five years of hard work paying off.

“We are really excited about playing in it,” rutledge said. “We always love playing at Kie-sel Park. it’s a different venue—it’s one of the few times we get to play outside throughout the year.

“Anytime we can do some-thing for the city of Auburn, it’s extra special. We like the expo-sure and always enjoy playing music.”

Alison Hall, Auburn Parks and recreation community and spe-cial programs director, said the series is held to get the word out about local bands, but also to highlight Kiesel Park.

“A lot of people in the com-munity, especially new students,

don’t know where the park is, so it’s a great chance for us to have events out there in September and October to let them know its out there,” Hall said.

“We have a lot to offer out at the park as far as walking trails and the dog park and a place to just hang out and picnic, and they will see for themselves dur-ing the concert series.”

terrence Patton, undeclared sophomore, said he has attend-ed the concert series before and enjoyed it.

“When i went last year for the first time, i was not expecting much,” Patton said. “But it was actually very relaxing to be outside and listen to some good music.

“i would definitely recom-mend going if people want to just chill and hang out with friends. Just bring something to sit on and sit back and enjoy.”

Patton said the concert series had good bands last year, and he believed this year would be the same.

“They just have one band ev-ery week, so it keeps you from

being overwhelmed with music in one big concert,” Patton said. “The week break gives you some-thing to look forward to.”

Hall said bands are chosen for the concert series by request and popularity. Auburn Parks and recreation likes to bring back crowd favorites while adding new bands every year.

The bands playing this year’s event, other than The Satin Soul Band, are John and the Connors, the Auburn Community Or-chestra, The Good Doctor, Dave Potts, Auburn Knights Orches-tra, Muse and the tony Brook Band.

the series runs thursday nights through Oct. 27.

“it gives you something to do on a thursday late afternoon,” Patton said. “i will definitely at-tend some of the bands, if not all.”

Hall and rutledge said they believe everyone will enjoy the concert series.

“We will definitely have some-thing for the young, the old and everyone in between,” rutledge said.

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automotive parts manufacturer seung chang airtek, located in auburn technology Park north, is adding 200 jobs because of its recent expansion.

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Expansion increases job optionsAndrew YawnWriter

Automotive parts manufactur-er Seung Chang Airtek has com-pleted an expansion of its facili-ties that will result in the creation of approximately 200 local jobs.

SCA, located in Auburn tech-nology Park North, has added about 95,000 square feet to its manufacturing center. The expan-sion comes as a result of increased demand for their products by pri-mary customers Kia and Hyundai, for whom SCA supplies injection-molded plastic parts.

“Because the demand at Hyun-dai and Kia goes up—as in general car sales, or they have more parts per car, or, in this case, Kia start-

ed in September the production of the Optima at Kia Motors Manu-facturing Georgia at West Point—because they started this new car, they need more parts, and SCA is one of the beneficiaries of that ex-pansion,” said Arndt Siepmann, director of industrial develop-ment.

The addition of these jobs pro-vides a welcome boost to the local economy.

“Jobs, as far as growing our economy, are probably the most important thing that’s out there,” said Auburn Mayor Bill Ham.

“in these economic times, any jobs are good announcements, but these are good jobs that are high-paying jobs that will provide

benefits for individuals and bene-fits for families.”

When SCA first arrived in Au-burn in 2004, it employed a staff of 40 people. With this expansion, that number will grow to approx-imately 400.

“two hundred out of the 400 to-tal will come through this expan-sion, so … it’s very significant,” Siepmann said.

The impact of this sudden in-flux of work opportunity is not limited to Auburn.

“We actually recruit jobs from a 50-plus mile radius,” Ham said, “so we’ll be able to supply jobs to a lot of people in Lee County, as well as surrounding counties.”

The company is also offering in-

ternships to local students.“We are looking for many intern

students, good students who want to build a career in the auto indus-try,” said Daniel Yu, SCA president.

SCA is not the only company to add to the growing Auburn work-force. in the past year, expansions by Pyongsan America inc. and CNJ tech inc. have added approx-imately 375 jobs. in addition, con-struction for the new Ge Aviation plant in Auburn has been sched-uled for later this year.

“We’ve had a number of expan-sions already this year,” Ham said. “We’re fixing to have the ground-breaking for Ge Aviation, and that’s going to be 300–400 jobs with a really high capital invest-

ment from Ge.” According to the Alabama De-

partment of industrial relations, Lee County’s unemployment rate is 8.4 percent. As more companies join the Auburn family, that num-ber should remain well below the national average.

As for Auburn and SCA, it seems to be an ideal match.

“Auburn is a very unique city be-cause Auburn has a lot of big re-sources with Auburn Universi-ty, and also it’s located ... between Hyundai and Kia,” Yu said. “it’s the ideal position, and, with good technical resources and invest-ment infrastructure, it’s the per-fect city that (helps us) continue to grow and expand our business.”

Two music choices strike the right chord

elizabeth BonnerStAFF Writer

Grayson Capps and The Stump-knockers are kicking off their cross-country tour in Opelika with a concert for a cause.

The Big Swamp Blues concert will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the event Center Downtown in Opelika and will benefit the Big-House Foundation, a Christian-based, nonprofit organization that serves foster families in Lee County.

The foundation’s mission is to meet the needs and improve the quality of life of these children by showing them unconditional love in practical ways.

BigHouse program director Su-sannah Jones spoke to the center about co-hosting an event later in the year, but the benefit concert came together by chance.

“We were talking about maybe using their space for an event for our families later this year—like a Christmas event or something,” Jones said, “but they found out Grayson Capps was coming, and they offered it to us as a benefit.”

Grayson Capps is a singer-songwriter whose music reflects his Southeastern background and has a New Orleans flavor.

“the style is like if Mississip-pi Fred McDowell sat down with tom t. Hall and they listened to AC/DC and Bon Scott records,” Capps said.

Lisa Beck, co-owner of event Center Downtown, said she is ex-cited to have Capps and his band The Stumpknockers.

She booked Capps at the same time she was talking to BigHouse about its event, and she had the idea to put the two together.

“Within hours of Grayson con-tacting me to tell me he could come, i had an appointment with Micah Melnick, executive director of BigHouse,” Beck said.

“i said, ‘Hey, i just received con-tact from Grayson Capps, whom i’ve been wanting to get here for forever. Why don’t we do some-thing with them?’”

everything fell into place when Capps and his band agreed to do the concert for free. The show will be the first stop on their tour that will take them from Mobile to New York City.

“We’re doing it for free, and she’s just going to give us hotel rooms and stuff,” Capps said. “it kind of gets us where we’re head-ed, and it seems like a good thing.

“i like it when people can have fun and support something cool, especially like foster care.”

tickets can be purchased for $10 at event Center Downtown or the BigHouse Foundation at 211 Samford Ave. in Opelika.

the price includes light hors d’oeuvres, and all proceeds will go to the BigHouse Foundation.

Sundown Concert Series begins at Kiesel Park

Local concert to benefit foster families “the style is like if

mississippi Fred mcdowell sat down with tom t. hall and they listened to ac/dc and bon scott records.”

—Grayson capps SiNGer-SONGWriter

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Melody Kitchensonline ediTor

Authentic Mexican food isn’t just served in restau-rants.

“it feels different from the restaurants because they’re real nice,” said Artemio Trujillo, co-owner of lyly’s Foods, or the “taco truck.” “it’s not real nice here, but it’s fun for people to come out here. it’s easy and sim-ple.”

Trujillo’s father taught him the ins and outs of the food industry, and Tru-jillo worked in the fami-ly business until 2000. He then switched to a concrete

company to try something different.

in April of 2009, he and his family moved to Au-burn, and Trujillo began working with the taco truck again.

“We’ve been in the busi-ness for a long time,” Trujil-lo said. “it’s a good business if you know how to manage it.”

Although food trucks have become increasingly popular, Trujillo said this is Auburn’s first food truck.

The Trujillo family’s in-vestment in Auburn busi-ness has its benefits. Thoughts of opening a res-taurant came about be-cause of slower business in the winter, but for now, Trujillo said the taco truck is their focus.

Parked on Airport road off opelika road, the truck first opened in spring 2010.

The truck is open every night at 7 p.m. and features authentic Mexican cuisine, including tacos, burritos

and quesadillas.Trujillo said managing

the truck can be the hard-est part, from shopping for daily ingredients to sorting and preparing them.

A typical day for Trujillo starts by driving around the city and looking for more potential customers. Tru-jillo said most of their cus-tomers work in construc-tion.

“What’s important is the way the food tastes, along with customers—treating them right and what they think about the food,” Tru-jillo said.

While the bulk of cus-tomers are construction workers, more college stu-dents have heard about the taco truck and continue to spread the word, such as Alex Kistler, senior in com-munication.

“Getting to know the workers has been really neat,” Kistler said. “They are nice and really appreciate their customers.”

Gray Gill, junior in psy-chology, said he appreciates what the taco truck does for the community and enjoys the good conversation.

Crowds gather each night at the taco truck, and the sense of community keeps the scene laid back.

“i love to talk to (college students) because they come from different cities,” Trujillo said. “i ask them all the time, ‘do you like the food?’ and they say ‘Yes,’ and they keep on coming back.”

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Those hungry for a burger and fries will soon have another option to satisfy the craving.

Jack’s, a fast-food res-taurant native to north Alabama, will open a new location in opelika near the beginning of octo-ber.

“i love it that we’re g e t t i n g a Jack’s,” said ope-lika May-or Gary Fuller. “i think it’ll be great, and i believe they’ll be very successful.”

The next closest Jack’s is in laFayette, and regional director Jimmy Mize said this will be his southern-most store.

“A lot of my daugh-ter’s friends went to Auburn, and they used to always tell me they needed a Jack’s down there,” Mize said.

The restaurant is located on Pep-perell Parkway just before the Weste-nd Court split, and Mize said he thinks the proximity to the hos-pital will provide the res-taurant with a good cus-tomer base.

“There’s a lot of doctors’ offices and things behind where the restaurant is,” Mize said. “Also it’s kind of a gateway going into the

downtown opelika area.”Fuller said the Jack’s lo-

cation used to be home to a local fast-food chain called Tyler’s restaurants and then a Veggies To Go.

That building burned down, so the Jack’s build-ing is brand new.

“i appreciate Jack’s making the capital

investment in opelika,” Full-

er said. Besides

p r o v i d -ing burg-ers, fries, s h a k e s and oth-er items,

including breakfast ,

Jack’s will also bring 45–50 jobs

to the area. interested candi-

dates can apply on-line at www.wor-

k a t j a c k s .com or at the Goodwill Ca-reer Center on Pepperell Parkway.“i’m pretty ex-

cited about it,” said Ca-leb Colquitt, senior in agricultural communi-cations. “A lot of Auburn students go out to Tiger Town or other places in opelika to go shopping after classes, so i think it’ll get a lot of business from the students.”

For students who think opelika is too far to travel for a fast-food meal, a so-lution may arise soon.

“We’re currently talking to someone about some property in Auburn,” Mize said.

Jack’s is expected to open on oct. 5.

Jack’s restaurant makes local debut

Trujillo’s taco truck spices things up

MAriA iAMpetro / photo editor

Artemio trujillo owns lyly’s Foods, the taco truck on opelika road. his business is the first of its kind in the area.

“what’s important is the way the food tastes, along with customers—treating them right and what they think about the food.”

—Artemio Trujillo lYlY’S FoodS

Auburn city officials, Chamber of Commerce members and Ware Jewelers employees gathered Friday to celebrate the opening of their temporary location in the Publix shopping center.

Ware Jewelers moved to a new store while rebuilding its South College Street lo-cation, which had received only partial remodeling since the 1930s.

“it was caving in,” said

President ronnie Ware, whose father opened the South College Street loca-tion in 1946 in the existing building. “You could see it cracked down the front, and we had interior wall leak-age.”

South College Street Ware Jewelers will open in early-to-mid-2012 and will feature a 5,000-square-foot show-room, new showcases and a children’s play area.

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USA Patriot Act an unconstitutional bugbearprivacy has begun to seem

like an antiquated notion.it must have been odd to live

in an analog world where we could exist without a digital network of prodding interests and curious eyes peeking over our shoulders.

we live in a world of track-ing. whether it’s our credit cards, cellphones or Facebook and twitter accounts, some-one you don’t know can find you at any time.

if you’re not using these ser-vices, someone you know is, and they’re using them con-stantly.

private companies, along with you, own that informa-tion. you agreed to the terms of service with a party that agreed to keep your informa-tion private. This isn’t a prob-lem, because these are volun-tary services. you can choose to be without a cellphone, Facebook or even a credit card.

But then there’s the patriot Act. the 2001 anti-terrorism legislation, which was extend-ed in May by president Obama,

weakens the wall between the government and the private companies that hold our in-formation.

The legislation was written and signed into law during the panicked post-9/11 frenzy of government action.

those suspected of terror-ist activities have their email, financial, medical and phone records rummaged through at the discretion of the federal government.

More serious is that those deemed unlawful combat-ants, which can be American citizens, can be detained in-definitely and denied access to a lawyer or to those accus-ing them.

it’s curious that the gov-ernment would be concerned with our safety to such an ex-tent that they must reserve the right to rummage through our personal information at will, but our borders remain unse-cured.

it stands to reason that mak-ing it as hard as possible for a terrorist to enter the coun-

try in the first place would be a better course of action than diligently watching if they pur-chase fertilizer at Home De-pot.

we at The plainsman don’t have a problem with our gov-ernment being able to respond swiftly and effectively to na-tional security threats, but the potential for the abuse of this act is obvious.

we must think of the history of this nation.

Our system of government is built on the idea that the peo-ple are the ultimate authority. As such, any growth in power on the part of the government is always at the expense of the people it represents.

whether the act has been used responsibly until now is debatable, but more impor-tant is how it will be used in the future.

How will terrorism be de-fined? what makes a person a “lone wolf ?” At what point is someone worthy of investi-gation?

why should the govern-

ment stop at terrorism when they could prevent domestic violence, kidnapping or mur-der using warrantless investi-gation?

what we’re suggesting is the mission will creep and change, and the scope never narrows, but can only broaden.

Superseding all of this is the Constitutional argument.

the Fourth Amendment states that Americans are free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

The Fifth Amendment states that Americans cannot be de-prived of life, liberty or proper-ty without due process of law.

the Sixth Amendment states that Americans have a right to a speedy and public trial, as well as a right to the assistance of counsel.

The Sixth Amendment also states that Americans have the right to be confronted with the witnesses against them.

the patriot Act is a gross misuse of the people’s authori-ty, and to allow it to exist guar-antees trouble ahead for us all.

in last week’s issue, Jonathan newman wrote that i “never said how yAL was being dis-honest” in my original dis-pute of the group’s recruitment claims, and i can gladly specify.

namely, i disputed their use of the term “nonpartisan” due to yAL’s association with liber-tarianism.

in fact, in disagreement with Andrew McCaslin, who “found no such luck” when he visit-ed yAL’s website at www.yalib-erty.org, i noticed an enormity of libertarian references. Sim-ply view their blog archive and

instances of explicit libertarian citations and promotion—par-ticularly the advocacy of the libertarian free market—are self-evident.

Due to space concerns, i lim-it myself to the one example used below. to begin with, the yAL site boasts a list of social networks. Curiously included in the listis Ludwig von Mises. This link goes to a yAL commu-nity profile at the Ludvig von Mises institute.

At the Mises front page, the “About” link explains, “the Ludwig von Mises institute was

founded in 1982 as the research and educational center of clas-sical liberalism, libertarian po-litical theory and the Austrian School of economics.”

For a purportedly nonpar-tisan political group, it would seem strange for yAL to ex-pand within a self-avowed pro-ponent of “libertarian political theory.”

interestingly, Josh Jackson’s Oct. 11, 2010, blog brings the partisanship locally.

the post covers the Lud-vig von Mises institute’s Sup-porters Summit in Auburn,

prompting Jackson to claim, “young Americans for Liber-ty will serve as a definitive part of the reinforcement that pre-vented (the country’s) collapse. And undoubtedly, this is owed in part to the scholarly founda-tion provided by the Mises in-stitute.”

nonpartisan implies that no interest predominates, and that’s plainly not the case with yAL and libertarianism.

Matt Greenemeiersenior, anthropology

YAL’s associations support accusation of bias

Chick-fil-A’s support of anti-gay groups warrants campus evictionChick-fil-A has recently been outed as a

supporter for known anti-gay groups. Metroweekly.com states, “in August,

Chick-fil-A was listed as the ‘Lunch Spon-sor’ of a Citizens for Community Val-ues event. CCV says it is ‘officially affiliat-ed’ with three of the country’s most anti-gay groups: American Family Association, Family research Council and Focus on the Family.”

According to blogs.phillymag.com, “Chick-fil-A … was also tied to anti-gay con-troversy last year, when it supported Focus on the Family, a supporter of reparative therapy programs to turn gays ‘straight.’”

This is a problem. i honestly can’t believe this establishment is allowed on campus when we have such an active gay communi-ty. it would be like putting a fast-food chain in the Student Center that is anti-women, anti-black or anti-Muslim. That would not go unnoticed for as long as this issue has.

How would you feel if you were deciding what to eat for lunch and you had to stop yourself from going to Chick-fil-A because they actively campaign against something about yourself you have no control over and cannot change?

This isn’t the 1960s where it was OK for water fountains to be segregated. in fact,

we look back on those times and wonder how we could treat anyone that way. And yet we are, legally and now through a chick-en sandwich stigma.

So why is Chick-fil-A even allowed to run its business here at Auburn, who prides it-self on diversity and, according to the creed “protect(ing) the rights of all?”

Even though Chik-fil-A doesn’t refuse service to gay individuals, the support role they play in anti-gay organizations creates an atmosphere of aversion that straight people do not have to consider.

At what price can Auburn be bought out? it’s undeniable that Chick-fil-A brings Au-

burn’s campus a ridiculous amount of rev-enue, which leads one to question whether the moral implications are known but sim-ply insubstantial in the shadow of all that money.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else? perhaps comparable to the slave labor and brutality used to produce diamonds?

we know it’s wrong, but they’re just so damn shiny.

Kate Davisjunior, zoology

Libyan revolution not infiltrated by al-Qaidai recently read, with great interest, raye

May’s opinion piece on nAtO’s interven-tion with Libya, and i have to disagree with her assessment.

Miss May, and Colonel gadhafi, would have us believe that al-Qaida is responsi-ble for the rebellion in Libya. we’ve heard this same rhetoric in Syria, yemen, Egypt and tunisia.

The stated goals of the revolutions that make up the Arab Spring are incompatible with al-Qaida’s jihad and bloodlust for a ca-liphate.

Freedom of expression and the right to choose your own leaders are not high on the al-Qaida agenda. They are, howev-er, high on the agenda of Libya’s national transition Council.

to claim that the rebels in Libya are all al-Qaida trained is, frankly, an insult to the average Libyan worker, intellectual or fam-ily man, untrained in military tactics that

saw it fit to lay his life down for his country. The American revolution echoes in Lib-

ya, and we should be proud of it.Miss May also, though indirectly, calls

Libya “Obama’s iraq” and nothing could be further from the truth. you might as well call Kosovo “Clinton’s Vietnam.”

iraq is a disastrous, deadly, costly and ill-conceived miscarriage of American uni-lateralism and foreign policy. realistical-ly, there will be American troops in iraq for the better part of this decade.

The war in Libya is, as far as western ob-ligations are concerned, almost over.

Furthermore, Libya, as the right-wing pundits will mercilessly point out, was a mission lead primarily by Europeans. The French and nAtO commanders deserve most of the credit in aiding the rebels’ overthrow of Colonel gadhafi. Obama and America have led from the behind the en-tire operation.

Miss May’s last point is that the Ameri-can economy is in too great a mess to sup-port intervention in foreign affairs. Her point is well-taken, but slaughter does not end when the American economy tanks.

There was once a time when our econo-my was in a worse state, and it would have been all too easy to say, “Let foreign prob-lems stay foreign. we must focus on our own problems first.” And Hitler would have conquered Britain.

The Lend-Lease program was successful in the early 1940s, and nAtO’s military in-tervention in Libya was successful now.

raye May’s concern for American sol-diers and the economy is noble, though her conclusions flawed.

Alexander RobersonPresident Emeritus, College Democrats

senior, history

i was watching the Auburn–utah State game on tV and saw some-thing i just couldn’t believe.

when we went down by 10 points with about three and one-half min-utes remaining, many of the fans be-gan to file out of the stadium.

i was completely and utterly dis-gusted by this behavior. if i had been there, i would have said something to them; however, i’m a football coach myself and have responsibilities on the weekends that don’t allow me the luxury of driving three hours one way.

if you are going to be a fan, you have to be a loyal fan.

regardless of the circumstanc-es, you must remain to support the team. it’s not like the players and coaches were trying to lose the game.

i can’t stand bandwagon fans. if you can’t be a fan in both good times and bad, then it’s better to not be there at all. The players and coach-es can’t leave during the game when things seem bleak, so neither should the fans.

Let’s represent Auburn the right way. Are we a family or a nation? Are we All in or not?

Michael Brossetalumnus, 1991

Bandwagon fans disgrace Auburn family

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Auburn is a one-of-a-kind place—a town that prides it-self on community togetherness. there is a saying that everyone here is part of the Auburn “family.”

Once a family member, always a family member. So is the case of Cam Newton, last season’s quar-terback and possibly Auburn’s most recognized and scrutinized face in recent memory.

For those who may be unfamil-iar with Newton’s work in previ-ous months, he was the electric leader of Auburn’s BCS Nation-al Championship football team for Auburn’s 2010 season. New-ton was also a magnet for nega-tive publicity because of claims of a pay-to-play scandle, earning him the nickname “Scam New-ton.” However, no formal charges have been filed against Newton or Auburn.

As with any close family, no sin-gle member is more important than another, but in this case, there is one who certainly attracts more attention.

Newton’s talent and charisma, combined with the excitement and success he brought to fans and his team, led many to estab-lish a lingering interest in his blos-soming career—even though he no longer plays for the University.

it appears as though most,

if not all, Auburn fans still care about Newton and continue to voice their support on social me-dia websites such as Facebook and twitter.

After joining the NFL in the off-season, Newton was drafted first overall by the Carolina Panthers, despite much of the commentary stating he lacks accuracy and the ability to play in a pro-style offense.

As a rookie on the field, expec-tations of Newton’s performance were low.

Many said he would no lon-ger be able to run the ball when things broke down and that he would have to become a better pocket-passer.

in the NFL opening weekend, the Panthers met the Cardinals as the underdogs, where they were supposed to be outplayed and lose big.

But starting quarterback New-ton had a different outcome in

mind. He stood strong in the pock-et against blitz after blitz all after-noon, completing 24 of 37 pass-es for 422 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. He also ran for another 18 yards and a touch-down on eight carries.

That makes Newton responsi-ble for 440 yards of total offense and three total touchdowns, end-ing with a passer rating of 110.4.

to put Newton’s game in per-spective, he became the first play-

er in NFL history to throw for more than 400 yards as a rookie in his debut game. Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks terry Bradshaw, Jim Kelly, Bart Starr and Fran tarken-ton never threw for that many yards in a single game.

the only downside regarding Newton’s stellar performance is that the Panthers lost the game.

it was the first loss he suffered since Oct. 31, 2009, while with Blinn College.

After the game, sitting in a folding chair with elbows on his knees, Newton was quoted as say-ing, “What you want me to say: it feels great? it’s not a comfortable feeling for me.”

Newton’s dismay for losing is an even more encouraging sign for Panthers fans than his stat sheet.

While it was only his first game, the only question remaining is: how many are still “All in” for Cam Newton?

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Once a Tiger, always a Tiger; support remains for Cam Newton

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After a thrilling finish last weekend against Mississippi State, No. 19 Auburn (2–0, 1–0 SeC) faces its first away game as the tigers make a trip to Clem-son (2–0) to play at death Valley.

“We’re excited to start week three and going back and re-evaluating ourselves,” said coach Gene Chizik. “We are getting ready to play a very good football team in Clemson, as we experi-enced last year when we played them. it’s going to be really inter-esting with a very young team, taking them on the road for the first time in a really exciting ven-ue to play in as well.”

despite Clemson’s record thus far, the team struggled in each of its two games.

the tigers trailed 16–13 to troy halfway through the third quarter in the season opener, but eventually scored 30 points to run away with a 43–19 win.

in its second game, Clemson led Wofford by 1 point until a score early in the fourth quarter secured a 35–27 victory.

Auburn heads to Clemson leading the series 34–11–2 and looking for its 15th consecutive win over the tigers.

The two most recent match-ups, last year’s game in Auburn and the 2007 Chick-fil-A Bowl, both resulted in overtime and were decided in the last plays of the games.

The Clemson game last year was the first of many that in-volved Auburn’s opponent tak-ing an early lead, and Auburn fighting its way back in the sec-ond half to be victorious.

“We felt like that was more of a turning point for us as a foot-ball team last year,” Chizik said. “We know it’s going to be a very physical battle, but yes, last year i think it was an eye opener for

us. We know our guys will be very aware of what they’re going to face when they go in there.”

Clemson has 15 returning starters from the team that ar-guably came closest to ruining Auburn’s 2010 perfect season.

However, of the starters Clem-son lost, two were quarterback Kyle Parker and defensive line-man da’Quan Bowers, ACC de-fensive player of the year and the player who sacked Cam Newton more times than anyone else last year.

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Boyd now holds the reins for the tigers offense, which has eight returning starters. So far this season, Boyd has completed 38 of his 59 pass attempts for 525 yards, logging six touchdowns and one interception.

A familiar face on the field, Andre ellington is returning at running back for Clemson.

ellington put up 140 yards on 22 carries and one touch-down against Auburn last year. through two games this sea-

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Linebacker eltoro Freeman and defensive end Nosa eguae take down mississippi State quarterback Chris relf.

do you know why cowbells couldn’t be heard clanging at the game Saturday?

For starters, everyone was par-tially deaf by halftime. Jordan-Hare was so loud it wouldn’t sur-prise me if people in Montgom-ery heard the cheers.

Being loud was the challenge to students from Gene Chizik last Thursday at the pep rally. i think his quote in the pregame video fits the fans’ performance Saturday.

“i will say it again,” Chizik says. “it’s not kind of, sort of, almost … you are the best fans in the Unit-ed States of America.”

everything about Auburn’s vic-tory over Mississippi State de-fined family. Not only was there teamwork on the field, there was support all around, especially from those decked out in “true Blue” in the stands.

And as players stood on the brick wall by the student section after the game, it showed that the Auburn family can overcome anything.

Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, Auburn is 2–0 and still has the longest winning streak in the country.

the turnaround the tigers made from the first game to the second is almost surreal.

establishing a smart running game that avoided State’s de-fensive line and produced 235 yards—157 of which were from Michael dyer—was a key to the victory.

Barrett trotter made his first big mistake of the season with a pick-6, yet he was still 16–23 with 146 yards and two touchdowns. He’s established himself as a ca-pable quarterback and leader al-ready, and that’s what will take Auburn to the next level.

i also think we’ve found this year’s go-to receiver in emory Blake. He has 203 yards on 10 re-ceptions and two touchdowns this year, and he’s scored a touch-down in his last five games.

Lastly, special teams con-tinued its dominance. tre Ma-son racked up 179 yards on sev-en kickoff returns, Cody Parkey forced four touchbacks on kick-offs, and Steven Clark averaged 45.7 yards a punt.

i think the only thing allowing us to sleep at night is that Auburn has actually won both games thus far, the second thanks to the defense.

i’m still trying to figure out how ryan Smith dropped Bull-dogs quarterback Chris relf be-

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Chandler Hillen, sopho-more in special education and goalkeeper for Au-burn’s soccer team, said she is “All in” for Auburn.

“i had that Auburn spir-it the second i stepped foot on campus,” Hillen said. “Being a part of this team, you have to be all in in order to accomplish the goals we’ve set.”

The soccer team is 5–1 this season thanks in part to Hillen’s efforts. She hopes the team’s good for-tune will persist as compe-tition continues.

“The goalkeeper posi-tion, it’s kind of like the quarterback,” said coach Karen Hoppa. “it’s a big, high-profile position. ev-ery mistake that you

make, everybody in the stands can see.”

Hillen won recognition as SeC Freshman of the Week after helping defeat Duke and Wright State.

Assistant coach Keidane McAlpine said the media attention isn’t causing any jealousy amongst Hillen’s teammates.

“it feels great because she’s on our team,” McAl-phin said. “i feel great for Chandler. She’s worked re-ally hard. i think the team feels the same way.”

Hillen moved from Oceanside, Calif., to join the team.

“Auburn’s team was on the rise, and i wanted to be a part of something great,” Hillen said.

Being named Freshman of the Week shows she is

inching toward that goal, and Hillen said she hopes it will propel her to contin-ue playing well.

“She’s a freshman start-ing goal, and she shut out the No. 5 team in the coun-try,” Hoppa said. “i thought it was very well deserved. We’re really happy for her as well.”

The goalkeeper’s consis-tency on the field helps the team’s performance, Hop-pa said.

“When she came up big against that first save against Duke—it was a re-ally big save to her left—you could see the whole team step up our level af-ter she made that save,” Hoppa said. “You could see from that one save that the team’s trust in her just grew and grew.”

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son, he’s continued to pro-duce impressive numbers, averaging 6.4 yards per car-ry with 254 total yards and one touchdown.

A major difference from Clemson a year ago is coach Dabo Sweeney’s hir-ing of offensive coordina-tor Chad Morris from Tul-sa, the same school which Auburn offensive coordina-tor Gus Malzahn left to join the University.

Morris’ “Golden Hurri-cane” offense has Clemson averaging 472 yards a game thus far, up from 334.6 last season.

Chizik addressed con-cerns of Auburn’s defense on third downs, saying the staff was evaulating ways to be more successful.

“We’re very poor on both sides of the ball, converting it and stopping it,” Chizik said. “We know that for us to be able to win this game right now, we have to be much better on both sides

of the ball on third downs.”Malzahn’s and Morris’ of-

fenses have several simil-iarites, Chizik said.

“i think that if you just watch the two offenses, it’s obvious that there is a lot of carryover for each one,” Chizik said. “The connec-tion and the communica-tion that they’ve had over the years in terms of doing the things coaches do. They pick each others’ brains for different things, and there’s a lot of carryover there.”

Morris’ offense may have the resources to make it a long day for Auburn’s de-fense.

On the defensive side of the ball, Clemson has safety rashard Hall returning as a key force. Hall intercepted eight passes in his first two years of play and will have a heavy burden this season as two Clemson defensive backs graduated during the off-season.

The Tigers also feature two five-star linebackers, Stephone Anthony and Tony Steward, starting as

true freshmen.Saturday’s game will also

be a trip down memory lane for Chizik.

He served as one of Clemson’s graduate as-sistants and linebackers coach in 1988 and 1989.

“i had a great two-year experience there,” Chizik said. “i’m very thankful that he gave me an oppor-tunity to work with him and a great staff at the time. i have a lot of very fond memories with a lot of great former players there and a lot of great people that are still there.”

Clemson is similar to Au-burn in that both are start-ing new quarterbacks, both lost their most effective de-fensive linemen, and both are starting young defens-es.

“it’s going to be a lot of fun. We’re looking forward to it,” Chizik said. “Our goal is to get better every week. We’re certainly going to have to do that to have a chance to win in a very, very tough place to play.”

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fore he reached the end zone, especially since MSU rushed for 333 yards during the game.

And that’s where the problem remains on de-fense.

Yes, they stepped up and made plays and returned an interception for a score. However, most games when a defense allows 531 yards, it’s a loss. Not Sept. 10, though, not in Auburn.

i know i said it may be a long season, but things are looking up. A win this weekend will ultimately put Auburn at 4–0 to fin-ish September. That would be huge as the Tigers make their way down the stretch.

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When the Auburn fami-ly walks out of Jordan-Hare Stadium each Saturday, they might stumble upon a popular tailgate located on the Quad behind Lup-ton Hall.

The tailgate has college guys decked out in orange jumpsuits, a smoking-hot grill and two f lat-screen TVs playing college foot-ball games.

These are the Orange Jumpsuit Guys who run The College Kids Tailgate.

Looking to start a tradi-tion of their own, Auburn freshmen Kevin Johnson, Garrett Cheney, Brandon Campbell, Michael Nun-nelly and Kevin McArthur came together in 2007 and decided to host a tailgate.

Because several mem-bers of the group lived in Lupton Hall, the grass be-hind the building was the perfect location for their gameday activity.

The group had no clue that such a small idea would generate such a massive following in so short amount of time.

“We were freshmen and didn’t have anywhere to hang out on gameday,” Johnson said. “The first week we had about 15–20 people and used my friend’s grill and set up a TV as well. Now we serve about 400–500 students a week.

“We were just looking to

find a place and build com-munity and relationships. it’s a great place where peo-ple can hang out and get to know each other.”

Thursdays before home games, the Orange Jump-suit Guys start off their tailgating process by hav-ing a group meeting at Lakeview Baptist Church on east Glenn Avenue to discuss what provisions they will need for the week-end. They then head for a dinner of pizza and soda at Sam’s Club to purchase the supplies, usually filling four jumbo carts.

The supplies include burger patties, Dale’s Sea-soning Sauce, fruit snacks, cookies and sodas. They pack the items in a trail-er and reconvene Friday and Saturday mornings to prepare for the upcoming gameday.

Johnson and Cheney talked about their favorite memories from being Or-ange Jumpsuit Guys.

in fall 2009 against West Virginia, the entire group was soaked from the tor-rential downpour that passed through Auburn that day. Although wet, they said they were happy because they were all root-ing for the Tigers.

The 2009 iron Bowl had a Christmas theme at the tailgate, with lights around the tent enhancing the hol-iday feel.

in 2008 Auburn faced off against UGA, and the guys

wore the jumpsuits to keep warm on the fall afternoon. Since that game the guys have worn their suits to ev-ery game when the temper-ature drops.

The current leaders of the Orange Jumpsuit Guys are Luke Hasha, junior in mechanical engineering, and Ben Mahaffey, junior in entrepreneurship.

“Setting up the tailgate and that boot camp atmo-sphere brings a guy togeth-er with another guy,” Ma-haffey said. “There is noth-ing like getting up at 5 a.m. and getting in line at 6:15 and leading the other stu-dents in a cheer.

“There is nothing like stepping back and look-ing at these 30 guys on an Auburn football Saturday, helping to provide this tail-gate for everyone.”

The group works to serve others as a way to serve Christ. While the tailgate is not connected with any church or denomination, the guys enjoy serving oth-ers as their own work and as a way to thank God for all the blessings in their lives.

“This experience is ful-filling for us, and it’s mean-ingful. We aren’t just serv-ing people for today,” Ha-sha said.

“Once, a few students commented on how awe-some it was that Christian guys were running the tail-gate. i thought that was re-ally cool.”

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Tre Mason named co-SEC Freshman of the Week

Wagner brings championship pedigree to Tigers

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returning kickoffs for touchdowns is nothing new for freshman running back Tre Mason.

in the season opener vs. Utah State, Mason did what he’s been doing his entire career with a 97-yard kick-off return for a touchdown in the second quarter.

“Since seventh grade, i al-ways have taken the open-ing kickoff back,” Mason said. “This past senior year, the first three games, i ran back three kicks for touch-

downs. And no one kicked it to me until the last game of the season, and i took that back for a touchdown.”

For his efforts in the opening game, Mason was named co-SeC Freshman of the Week.

“i was hungry, hungry to play,” Mason said. “i was anxious to get on the field to show everyone what i can do and what we can do as a team.

“i know we have a lot of talent on this team and that we’re underrated. We’re go-ing to be the underdog a lot,

but we’re just coming out to shock everyone.”

For Mason, there is a dif-ference between prepara-tion and practice intensi-ty at the college level, but whenever he touches the ball his goal remains the same: get the ball to the en-dzone.

“Football is going to al-ways be football,” Mason said. “i was excited to get my first carry. When i first got it, i was trying to break it for a touchdown. i al-ways aim to score when-ever i touch the ball. To

me, there’s no such thing as a short-yardage play; ev-erything should lead to a touchdown. if it doesn’t, it should be a big play.”

one of the best at mak-ing big plays is Mason’s fa-vorite running back Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans. Mason notes that he wants to have his own style, but he loves with way John-son plays the game.

“Speed kills, and he’s got it all,” Mason said. “He’s got hands coming out of the backfield, he’s agile, he’s elusive, and everyone

knows he’s fast.”Before each game, Ma-

son has one pregame ritual he never forgets.

“i always call my family,” Mason said, “at least one family member no matter who it is. i try and call my parents. They always get me into my comfort zone.

“Then i listen to my mu-sic. My music gets me in that mindset. it puts me in that mode where i’m hun-gry where i can just go out and fight.”

Mason said he knows Auburn is the place for him

because he can go about his daily activities without any worries.

“ever yon e h ere i s so nice and polite,” Mason said. “it’s no trou-ble on campus. That’s what i love most. i feel like i can get through my day with-out a hassle, without wor-rying about things.”

even though Mason is only playing in his third col-legiate game this Saturday, he has already become a special teams asset for the Tigers—as long as teams continue to kick to him.

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Assistant basketball coach Milt Wagner sim-ply doesn’t know how to lose. Having won cham-pionships in high school, college, the NBA and over-seas, Wagner knows what it takes to be a winner and is hoping to bring his win-ning pedigree to the Au-burn basketball program.

“if you look at all our coaching staff, all of our coaches have been win-ners in their career, so we just try and pass that on to guys that we recruit,” Wag-ner said. “Whatever system you come from, what we try and do here is something special. We’re all about win-ning here. There’s no other way of thinking.”

Wagner has been with coach Tony Barbee for the past 12 seasons dating back to their days at The Univer-sity of Memphis and The University of Texas at el Paso. Wagner was the di-rector of basketball oper-ations at Memphis, while

Barbee was an assistant coach under coach John Calipari.

“in working with (Bar-bee) at Memphis, i saw that he was going to be a great head coach because i saw his work ethic there,” Wagner said. “i knew i was eventually going to be an assistant coach. i watched how he was one of the best recruiters in the country there and did hard work and got some of the best guys in the country to come to the University of Memphis. i knew he had a good coaching mind and would be a very good head coach once his opportuni-ty came.”

After winning a state championship at Camden High School in New Jersey and a national champion-ship at the University of Louisville, Wagner went to the NBA and won a cham-pionship with the Los An-geles Lakers. Wagner’s first season with the Lakers was a memorable experience.

“it was unbelievable,”

Wagner said. “At that time, i was the only rookie on the team. Just being around those guys in practice ev-ery day, i learned so much knowledge of the game. Those guys are Hall-of-Famers. ( James) Worthy, Magic ( Johnson), Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar)—just being around those guys watch-ing them go about their day-to-day, how they pre-pare themselves, it was so big for me.”

even though his coach-ing resume isn’t as estab-lished as his playing re-sume, Wagner has already built a reputation for him-self as being an ace recruit-er on Barbee’s staff. He rel-ishes the opportunity to turn Auburn’s program around.

“That’s why i try and go out and get some of the best players in the country,” Wagner said. “That’s what it’s all about. Coach relies on us to bring in top guys to turn this program around, and i take pride in that. No pressure at all, that’s some-

thing i want to be consid-ered.”

Wagner’s son, Dajuan, was the No. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft, but it was something Wagner didn’t push him to pursue.

“of course, you want your son to do what you do, but i never wanted to put pressure on him,” Wagner said. “i had him at such a young age, at 20 in college, so he grew up watching his father at Louisville and the Lakers, so he wanted to do what i do. And he ended up being better than me. His talent is special.”

Wagner has won almost every title imaginable as a player, but he lacks a title as a coach. With the foun-dation coach Barbee and his staff have built, Wagner hopes to add that to his re-sume as well.

“it’s not going to be easy,” Wagner said. “You’ve got to put in hard work, and we try and show them the ways to get to that next lev-el because we’ve all been there.”

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The toomer’s oaks have found new life on the canvas of Steven Malkoff.

Malkoff was an Auburn student and a walk-on for the football team in 1987 after he was origi-nally denied entrance to the uni-versity because of dyslexia.

“I studied architecture here; I played football here,” Malkoff said. “But my real calling was to be an artist.”

More commonly known as the “tree Man,” Malkofff discovered his gift of drawing when he was in seventh grade.

“I wanted to get into wood-shop and work with wood,” Mal-koff said. “But I procrastinated and turned my schedule in late, and they stuck me in art. It was my destiny. I was destined to be an artist.”

Malkoff ’s love of trees began when he and his then-fiancee used to picnic under a particular tree, called the ole oak in gene-va, Ala.

“I was a starving artist,” Malkoff said. “You go through a starving state in the arts. If you’re a writ-er, a musician, a singer or an art-ist, there’s always that time when you’re creating, but you’re really not being paid for it.”

Malkoff drew the ole oak for his fiancee as a gift because he couldn’t afford to buy her some-thing more. He said drawing that tree turned into a career, and he now draws trees all over the unit-ed States.

“When I started doing the ren-dering of the tree, it kind of honed in on my calling,” Malkoff said. “I

knew I wanted to be an artist.”When Malkoff heard news of

the poisoning of the toomer’s oaks, he was devastated.

“everything on the earth has its time, and unfortunately because of the poisoning of our trees, the time has been hurried along,” Malkoff said. “that’s actually what catapulted me into drawing our trees.”

Malkoff said his phone was ringing off the hook with callers wanting him to draw the trees be-fore they began to die.

“everybody knows I’m an Au-burn man,” Malkoff said. “So it made perfect sense that I should capture the image of our trees be-fore they’re gone … I dropped ev-erything, I grabbed my camera and headed to Auburn.”

Though Malkoff has been draw-ing well-known trees for years, drawing the toomer’s trees was more meaningful to him.

“I’ve drawn some really fa-mous trees,” Malkoff said. “I drew the tree that Walt disney played on when he was a boy. I drew

the tree that overlooks Kenne-dy’s gravesite in Arlington. I drew a tree from Mount Vernon that george Washington planted. I drew all these trees as historic si-lent witnesses, living markers, but I had no real connection to them.”

The poisoning of the trees was a wake-up call for Auburn, accord-ing to Malkoff.

He said he thinks the crime showed the community that they take the trees and the great tradi-tions here for granted, until they lose them, and then it is too late.

“I have a connection to these trees because they’re part of my childhood,” Malkoff said. “I think the reality of us losing our trees made us realize how important they are to us. It’s not just a tradi-tion, it’s part of our college expe-rience.”

Malkoff said the rendering of the toomer’s oaks took three months to draw, and the origi-nal is on a 32-by-40-inch illustra-tion board. Malkoff uses only a no. 2 pencil for his artwork and some supplies from J&M Book-store, where he’s been buying his art needs since he was an Auburn student. Malkoff does not use any color in his artwork.

“I love black and white,” Mal-koff said. “It gives it an antiquity instantly.”

typically, Malkoff does not in-clude man-made structures in his artwork, but for the toomer’s Cor-ner trees, he made an exception, drawing the brick archway and stone eagles along with the oaks.

“When I see the human el-ement of it, and I see the god-made part of it, together I see har-mony,” Malkoff said. “And the curb is important because it’s toomer’s Corner. It’s the historic trees.”

Malkoff volunteers with the Au-burn Raptor Center before every home football game, and his art is on display at the shows.

to view the drawings, visit ti-ger30.com. Malkoff welcomes anyone with an idea of a tree for him to draw to call him at 1-888-410-3559.

Malkoff draws many natural settings, but trees are his calling.

“I’m not a tree hugger,” Malkoff said. “I’m a tree lover.”

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ryan doyle performs his gravity-defying parkour stunts on Auburn’s campus Friday.

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Ryan doyle, a world-champion free runner spon-sored by Red Bull, showed off his daredevil moves—and learned a few—while here at Auburn.

He demonstrated his movements and style of parkour Friday for the stu-dent-run parkour group at Auburn.

doyle started free run-ning professionally when he was 18 years old.

doyle emphasizes that he never started, just nev-er stopped, when he talks about the beginning of par-kour in his life.

His preferred definition of

parkour is his own. “efficient movements to

achieve a goal,” doyle said. “I lived in a soccer-orien-tated area, so I got bored of that really easily, so you’re forced to find something else to do.”

originally from Liv-erpool, england, doyle branched out and is now able to travel the world be-cause of his talent.

He has been named champion at the nation-al extreme tricks in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010.

doyle also appeared on MtV’s ultimate Park-our Challenge, winning in the third episode as well as gaining recognition through Youtube.

doyle started out trying to find movements to incor-porate into his free running. He looked into martial arts, gymnastics and even break-dancing.

doyle emphasizes the im-

portance of freedom in par-kour, contrasting it with gymnastics and its struc-tured movements.

“My mission is to find out what the body can do when it’s not suppressed by what society says is socially ac-ceptable behavior,” doyle said.

While traveling the world and meeting new people, doyle learns new moves that many have been per-fecting for years.

When doyle isn’t prac-ticing free running, he likes to research various topics, insisting that keeping his mind sharp helps with his parkour.

doyle’s main interests in-clude ancient history and philosophy, and he spent four years exploring differ-ent religions.

Recently he has been most intrigued with astrol-

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Alison gopnik, profes-sor of psychology at the university of California at Berkley and author of “The Philosophical Baby,” spoke tuesday as a part of the Littleton-Franklin lec-ture on the psychological development of infants and young children.

As a teenager, gopnik read Plato and was so in-terested in his work, she decided to follow in his footsteps and study psy-chology.

“I also remember think-ing, ‘Why is it that there aren’t any babies that he talks about anywhere?’” gopnik said.

gopnik is the oldest of six children. She was around babies all the time and always found them interesting.

“You know, here were these great thinkers, and babies never occurred,” gopnik said. “And they were asking things like, ‘How do we continue on after we die?’ Well, we have kids. That seems like an obvious thing. They’re not even mentioned.”

gerard elfstrom, pro-fessor of philosophy and member of the Littleton-Franklin Faculty Com-mittee, said many people on campus would be in-terested in gopnik’s re-search, particularly those in the psychology depart-ment and the department of family planning and childhood development.

In the animal kingdom, gopnik said the more in-telligent the animal is, the longer it takes it to reach maturity, similar to hu-man development.

“Some animals learn how to do one thing ex-tremely well,” gopnik said. “other creatures aren’t able to do one par-ticular thing very well, but we are very good at learn-ing new things.”

gopnik said though some animals, like chick-ens, mature in a matter of weeks, they are not very

intelligent. In contrast, humans

can be thrown into an en-vironment and figure out how to survive.

“While you’re learn-ing, while you’re figur-ing out how to deal with this particular environ-ment, you’re helpless,” gopnik said. “evolution’s way of solving that prob-lem seems to be this pro-tective period early in life when all we have to do is learn, and then a later pe-riod when we can take all the things we learned as children and put them to use to solve the problems we face as adults.”

gopnik and her col-leagues formulate exper-iments designed to test

Parkour artist Ryan Doyle performs stunts on campus

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ogy and action choreogra-phy.

When Doyle is not free running or doing research, he spends his time teach-ing students at Airborne Entertainment, an acade-my dedicated to teaching teens ages 15 through 18 the art of parkour and mar-

tial arts. “Teaching is to learn

twice,” Doyle said. He also makes sure to

not teach his students to be exactly like him, emphasiz-ing that a person’s parkour style can only come from within.

“You can’t teach some-one parkour, you can only help them,” Doyle said.

Having broken his shin

in two places and separat-ed his collarbone, among other injuries, Doyle said he hopes to ease out of the parkour scene and into something less harmful to his body.

He said he wants to break into the media indus-try where stunts would not be as harsh.

Despite the pain and risk of injury, however, Doyle is

not leaving parkour behind just yet.

Doyle is always trying to find places to perform that are completely differ-ent from previous stunt lo-cations.

Whether he’s somewhere in Europe, or here on Au-burn’s campus, Doyle con-tinues to make art by cre-ating his own identity through movement.

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and measure the way ba-bies think, and that the number of children tested is usually small.

“One thing about de-velopmental psycholo-gy is, because we can’t go out and test everybody in the internal psych ward, which grown-up psycholo-gists can do, we have to be pretty sure that our effects

are really real to get them,” Gopnik said.

Gopnik said many times, she conducts experiments that do not work or do not get results on the first trial.

“Usually what happens is the kids do something to-tally unexpected that we never would have thought of, and we have to adjust,” Gopnik said. “When we do get effects, it means these kids are really engaged and interested.”

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Arts Entertainment

Kate JonesASSocIAtE IntrIguE EdItor

Art gallery 478 creative and Big Blue Bagel part-nered Friday for the Arts, Bagels & Brew Bash.

Located just past the post office on opelika road, 478 creative pro-duces original pieces of art for personal and commer-cial needs.

Jenna Freed, artist and graduate student in indus-trial design, said she does a little bit of everything at 478 creative.

“I mainly work on our artwork, but I also prepare it and wrap it on the can-vas,” Freed said. “There’s a few of us who work togeth-er, so we collaborate on ev-erything we do.”

the gallery creates its own pieces in addition to unique orders from cus-tomers, who can bring in photographs for 478 cre-ative to integrate into a work.

“We had an aviation guy

come in with his group pictures, and we put them into the piece for him,” Freed said.

The gallery does not lim-it its work to only canvas portraits and prints, how-ever.

“There’s a wide range of things,” Freed said. “We do marketing for people. We design logos and websites, also.”

to market their artwork, 478 creative has a partner-ship with Big Blue Bagel.

“our style of artwork is very vintage, an old-fash-ion kind of feel,” Freed said. “The Big Blue Bagel really suited that with the brick walls on the inside. So the artwork hanging in the Big Blue Bagel now is ours.”

Freed said the collabo-ration is mutually benefi-cial for the two businesses.

“they are advertising our stuff for them, and then we put anything that has to do with Big Blue Bagel on our stuff,” Freed said.

Kevin cash, assistant manager of Big Blue Ba-gel, said 478 creative ini-tially approached the shop to put artwork in the res-taurant.

“We were like, ‘Yeah, that would be great,’” cash

said. “‘Bring us some cus-tomers and have some space to put your art.’”

For the event, 478 cre-ative brought more of their artwork to the event, basi-cally moving their art gal-lery to Big Blue Bagel for the night.

Freed said anyone who came in received a sand-wich and was able to see the artwork.

nicole carter, senior in apparel merchandising, went to Big Blue Bagel to eat dinner and noticed the artwork while she was there.

carter said she liked the print of the scattered wine corks with local Auburn restaurants on each the most.

“I liked how the photo was very Auburn, but in a subtle way,” carter said. “It doesn’t scream Auburn at first glance.”

the event had Blue Moon and Sweetwa-ter beers on draft for 48 cents, the rounded dol-lar amount of 47.8 cents, which is a play on the gal-eries name.

Later in the night, there were musical performanc-es by The Band of Mothers and High Strung dew Sip-pers.

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country singer and songwriter Adam Hood re-turned to his roots Sunday, performing at the War Ea-gle Supper club in Auburn.

growing up in opelika, Hood said he was always influenced by country mu-sic, but he had a slow start getting into the music busi-ness.

After working 10 years surveying land and deliv-ering flowers for his moth-er’s business, Hood got his big break in 2001 when mu-sic producer Pete Anderson watched him play a club in Little rock, Ark.

Hood then appeared on ray Wylie Hubbard’s ra-dio show in gruene, tex-as, and was heard by coun-try singer Miranda Lam-bert. Lambert loved his music, insisted on meeting him and helped Hood ad-vance his career by intro-ducing him to some coun-try music heavyweights.

Hood has since released two albums and two EPs, and also signed with carni-val Music Publishing with Lambert’s help.

“She’s the biggest cheer-leader I got,” Hood said.

Hood said country mu-sic has always been a part of his life.

“The South is kind of the

start of it all,” Hood said. “Southern music is Ameri-can music.”

Hood said one of his fa-vorite places to perform is here, close to his roots.

“I like being back home because it’s low mainte-nance,” Hood said. “I can bring whoever I want to play with and it feels like more of a gig than a show.”

The locals are supportive when Hood comes back to play.

“He’s like a country James taylor,” said daren rasey, 1991 Auburn alumnus. “He’s folksy and fun.”

Another fan had the same feelings about the local country singer.

“His songwriting is real-ly heartfelt,” said Auburn local Bryan Alldredge.

Hood’s most memora-ble show was one of his first out-of-town paid shows in Aiken, S.c.

Hood and his band ar-rived at a cinder block building located in a trail-er park and instantly ques-tioned the legitimacy of the venue. Their suspicions were confirmed when, be-fore they even went on stage, the bouncer was knocked out by a convict.

Looking back, Hood has advice for those looking to get into the industry.

“don’t expect too much too fast,” Hood said. “Work on your craft. If you’re a gui-tar player, focus on that. don’t be afraid to play orig-inal material. And finally, don’t worry how much it pays.”

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Rumors of Blackboard being phased out were con-firmed when a blue icon with a white ‘C’ appeared in AU Access this fall.

The instructional Multi-media Group of the office of information Technolo-gy announced that Can-vas from the company in-strucure will replace Black-board by the end of next year.

Kathy McClelland, man-ager of iMG, said the reason for the switch is the Universi-ty’s licensing agreement with Blackboard expires in 2012.

McClelland said Canvas is capable of doing everything Blackboard does and more.

Canvas and Blackboard are just two of several pro-grams known as learn-ing-management systems, which provide schools with the technology to manage course content online.

The software utilizes inter-net innovations which make sites like Twitter and hulu popular and will help stu-dents learn to use it faster.

While some may be op-posed to the new system, many students are most-ly apathetic to the system changes.

Some, like haley Steger, graduate student in math, don’t give it much atten-tion.

“i don’t use Blackboard except to post grades and

post the syllabus,” said Ste-ger, who teaches a calculus class.

She said she wasn’t aware of everything Canvas can do, but was planning on at-tending a training session for the software.

Students are current-ly able to view Canvas through AU Access, but Mc-Clelland said only a limited number of classes are using the program this semester.

The trial run will help iMG address any problems before the big switch.

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Campus dining has re-cently added Eastern cuisine to the student menu.

Tiger dining welcomed Asian-inspired restaurant Panda Express Sept. 6.

Located in Foy Stu-dent Union, Panda Ex-press offers many Western takes on traditional Chi-nese dishes, including or-ange chicken, Kobari beef and egg and spring rolls, among many other selec-tions.

The restaurant also fea-tures Wok Smart items, which contain 250 or few-er calories per serving.

Two entrees and a side of friend rice or chow mein is priced at $5.99.

“it’s definitely worth the expense,” said Braxton Tanner, junior in environ-mental design.

“ W h e n r e s t a u -rants with a reputa-ble brand name come on campus they tend to be stronger than the oth-er locations on campus to

eat.” The restaurant will be

open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays, closed Saturdays and open from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sundays.

Panda Express is open five hours later than the other restaurants in Foy Student Union with the exception of Take Five, and it will be one of only two restaurants in Foy open Sundays.

“i think the availabili-ty of the restaurant being open on Sundays will def-initely help it stay on cam-pus,” said Samuel Mad-dox, junior in architecture and interior architecture. “There are so many res-taurants that come and go, but with the extend-ed hours and the brand name, it has a stronger chance of staying here. i think it will be as popular and as strong as the den-ny’s is to the Village.”

The line for Foy’s new-est addition grows quickly each day, twisting around the War Eagle Food Court

and extending through the doors in the few min-utes after classes let out.

Some have developed a strategy to beat the wait.

“i’ve got it down to a sci-ence,” said Kaelyn Wedge-worth, freshman in polit-ical science. “i try to get here by the 20 so people will be held up in class.”

Students said they have been impressed by the speed of the Panda Ex-press service.

“Today was my first time eating there, and i was surprised by how fast the line moved and the efficiency of the work-ers,” said Anna hender son, senior in exercise science.

After a much-antici-pated wait, Tiger dining marketing is excited to have the restaurant final-ly open.

“We are happy it is now open and available to stu-dents,” said Gina Groome, marketing manager of Ti-ger dining. “We are also glad the students are en-joying it so much.”

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eager students wait to order lunch at the new Panda express in Foy Student Union.

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