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Natalie YaridASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

In the last two weeks, the Alabama Alcoholic Bev-erage Control Board has seized more than 39,500 packages of synthetic mar-ijuana across the state.

Synth etic mari jua-na, commonly known as “spice” and “K2,” has been available for purchase at convenience stores and to-bacco shops across Ala-bama.

The substance was pack-aged and sold in the form of spice, incense or potpourri.

“These substances have been wrongly presented as a safe and legal alterna-tive to marijuana,” said Don

Williamson, state health of-ficer.

Before the hype sur-rounding it, the substance was available for approxi-mately $9 per packet, but as people began to use the substance inappropriately, and word began to spread the price increased to $29 per packet.

As health issues began to surface resulting from the use of synthetic marijua-na, public officials realized there was a huge problem with this substance.

“It is far more powerful than marijuana,” said Jim McVay, director of health promotions in chronic dis-ease at the Alabama De-

partment of Public Health. “People have taken it and sprayed it with chemicals thinking it is like marijua-na, but these chemicals

are so powerful that a lot of people are ending up in the emergency room.”

ABC Board takes the ‘spice’ out of lifeCONTRIBUTED

Synthetic marijuana, also known as “spice” or “K2,” has recently drawn attention and been seized by the state.

CONTRIBUTED

Bentley signed an executive order allowing law enforce-ment agencies to seize synthetic marijuana.

Engineering students make their mark on the last frontierRobert E. LeeASSISTANT CAMPUS EDITOR

The Auburn family will soon have a place in outer space.

AubieSat-1 wil l be launched from Vandinburg Air Force Base in Lompoc, Calif., Friday.

It is the first satellite built entirely by undergraduate students to be launched into space, and the first stu-dent-built satellite to be ac-cepted by NASA from Ala-bama.

“We want to get Alabama on the map,” said co-en-gineer and junior in wire-less engineering Andrew Slaughter.

AubieSat-1 was built by more than 100 previous students and was finished by six current undergrad-uates in the Auburn space program.

“The program has been in the running for 10 years, but it took about four years to build,” Slaughter said.

The satellite has two pur-

poses: to communicate to Auburn students by trans-mitting a location beacon, and examining the decay of solar cells, the primary cells in outer space, Slaugh-ter said.

If communication is re-ceived, the satellite will transmit “War Eagle” to confirm a successful signal.

Kyle Owen, co-engineer and sophomore in elec-trical and computer engi-neering, said he was excit-ed about building a satellite

that would eventually orbit the Earth.

“Every time the thought came across my mind and every time the cube was in my hand, the sheer thought of that is mind-boggling,” Owen said.

Slaughter said the pro-cess of building the satel-lite was much more appli-cable to the real world than a school assignment.

“It was very industry like,” Slaughter said. “There was definitely a lot of pressure.”

CONTRIBUTED

Not all satellites are huge. The AubieSat-1 is small enough to sit on a desk.

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Hayley Blair ASSOCIATE CAMPUS EDITOR

Since 1948, Better Rela-tions Day has allowed ma-jor organizations from Ala-bama and Auburn universi-ties to share ideas and pro-mote joint causes together.

“This year Alabama is coming to us for the day, and we match up positions within the SGA, so I’ll be with Alabama’s vice presi-dent all day,” said SGA Vice

President Vanessa Tarpos. “We take them around Au-burn and have a lot of dis-cussion to share resources and ideas.”

One of the resolutions they discussed Wednesday with Alabama representa-tives was a petition to the state legislature to increase higher education funds.

“About two weeks ago the University of Alabama equivalent of our SGA vice

president approached me for Better Relations Day about both of our senates passing the same resolu-tion together,” Tarpos said. “We’ll be sending copies to elected officials in Mont-gomery. Gov. Bentley will get one. What we’re think-ing about doing is putting both of the SGA logos on the same sheet.”

Austin Gaddis, senate communications direc-

tor for Alabama’s SGA, said they approached Auburn to help promote this deal in hopes that having both of Alabama’s major universi-ties support the resolution will make an impression on representatives in Mont-gomery.

“It is our hope that this display of unity toward a le-gitimate state policy issue will be able to influence offi-cials in Montgomery to take

our concerns and leverage them toward real progress in funding,” Gaddis said.

The goal for higher edu-cation funding is to have at least one-third of the mon-ey from the education trust fund, and at this point there is approximately 28 percent.

“The budget allocations have already occurred this year in the spring,” said Kir-

SGA petitions to increase higher education funds

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“This is just a general statement of our concern over the decrease in funding over recent years.”

—Kirby Turnage SGA PRESIDENT

Lane JonesSTAFF WRITER

Flu shots may not be as popular this year as they have been in the past.

Fred Kam, director of the Auburn University Medical Clinic, said he es-timates the clinic treats a few hundred cases of the flu every year.

“Generally, we give out more than 600 vaccines,” Kam said. “This year I don’t think we’ve done 200.”

Kam listed several rea-sons students may choose to forego the shot.

“Some people don’t want to get a shot,” Kam said. “For some people

it’s the money. Others just don’t feel they’re going to get the flu. It’s a ‘not-me’ syndrome.”

Meghan Dooley, soph-omore in radio, television and film, said she doubts the effectiveness of flu shots and whether they’re worth the investment.

“They’re pretty expen-sive, and I don’t think they do much,” Dooley said. “I’m not a huge fan of shots in general, but if I thought I was going to get sick this winter or fall, I would get one. But I don’t think I am.”

Cassie Boyd, a pharma-

Nick BowmanOPINIONS EDITOR

Danielle O’Mahoney is recovering with her fam-ily after being struck by a Tiger Transit bus in the early morning of Oct. 18.

O’Mahoney, senior in hotel and restaurant management, was run-ning with a group of more than 100 cadets when she was struck in the head by the driver’s side mirror of a transit bus traveling the opposite direction.

Col. Joseph Fetsch, Air Force ROTC command-er and professor of aero-space studies, said all the necessary precautions

were taken.“We had people up

front with relfective vests, and they go ahead and stop traffic in any inter-section that the group is

Student recovers after bus accident

Number of flu shots decrease

“One staff member went to run after the bus to get it to stop.”

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Oct. 21 — West Glenn AvenueTheft of property reported. One patio end table.

Oct. 21 — West Longleaf DriveTheft of property reported. One 15-foot duckboat, one galvanized trailer and one motor.

Oct. 21 — North Donahue DriveTheft of property reported. Copper wire, 1,800 feet.

Oct. 22 — Lee Road 674Burglary of residence reported. One surveying tool and one laser.

Oct. 22 — Panda CourtBurglary of residence reported. One Xbox and one TV.

Oct. 22 — Tabglewood AvenueBreaking and entering of a vehicle reported. One cellphone and one cellphone charger.

Oct. 24 — West Magnolia AvenueTheft of property reported. One mountain bike.

Oct. 24 — Sanders StreetTheft of property reported. One bag of charcoal.

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CRIME REPORTS FOR OCT. 21 – OCT. 25, 2011DUI ARRESTS IN THE CITY OF AUBURN OCT. 21 – OCT. 25, 2011

■ Juan M. Moreno, 30, of GuanajuatoEast Samford Avenue at East Glenn Avenue Oct. 24, 6:37 p.m.

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Gov. Robert Bentley and Williamson used an emer-gency order to make the possession or sale of the chemical compound found in synthetic marijuana sub-stances illegal.

“We are asking store owners and operators to re-move these products from their shelves,” Bentley said. “And we have instructed our law enforcement agen-cies to take possession of any that they find for sale.

“Since the substances within these products have been scheduled as con-trolled substances, it will be illegal to make, sell, pos-sess or use these dangerous drugs.”

The effects of synthetic marijuana differ from the effects of traditional mari-juana.

“Word got around and people started experiment-ing with it,” said Lee Coun-

ty Sheriff Jay Jones. “Next thing you know it started to become a serious health concern. People were ex-hibiting signs of deliri-um and different types of things that can lead to seri-ous health issues.”

After seizing the remain-ing packages, the legisla-ture will push to make the law permanent.

“What we have done so far is work in conjunction with ABC enforcement divi-sion to seize the substance from the locations where these products were being sold,” Jones said. “No ar-rests are being made in the initial push.”

However, charges will be filed against stores that continue to sell the prod-ucts.

Capt. Tom Stofer with the Auburn Police Divi-sion said the substance has been for sale in Auburn, but it is currently being taken off shelves and seized from businesses.

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by Turnage, SGA president. “This is just a general state-ment of our concern over the decrease in funding over recent years. It has gone up this year ever so slightly, but we’d like to get back to that 33 percent.”

Turnage said student rep-resentatives from both uni-versities often send dele-gates to Montgomery, and he hopes they will see how much they both contribute to Alabama’s economy.

“We believe strong re-search universities like Au-burn and the University of Alabama are a big part of the state’s economy and are a necessary tool for our economy to be healthy statewide,” Turnage said.

The universities are col-

laborating on the sister trees, which have been planned since the poison-ing of the Toomer’s Oaks.

“We’re looking to plant them in the next few weeks,” Turnage said. “There will be one tree planted on Au-burn’s campus and one planted on Alabama’s as a testament to our rivalry and that we’re bigger than what one crazed fan may have done.”

The horticulture depart-ment is looking into which trees will be best suited to survive on the grounds of each university.

“It’s simply a tree that somewhat symbolizes what happened, but more impor-tantly, because it’s located on both campuses it shows that we appreciate each other’s traditions,” Turnage said.

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gonna run across,” Fetsch said. “Everyone is in reflec-tive gear.”

He said there were staff members at the front and back of the three-column group running on the right side of the road. A third staff member followed in a van.

“It was about eight min-utes or seven minutes be-fore sunrise,” Fetsch said. “It was definitely light out, but the sun wasn’t up yet. The run was going to be done before the sun would come up so that nobody would be driving looking

into the sun and maybe not see anybody.”

Fetsch said the bus did not immediately stop after hitting O’Mahoney.

“One staff member went to run after the bus to get it to stop,” Fetsch said. “The bus kept going a bit up the road. They didn’t stop un-til they passed everyone, or even start slowing down.”

Capt. Tom Stofer with the Auburn Police said there is an ongoing ac-cident investigation, but the driver of the bus hasn’t been charged or cited with anything.

O’Mahoney’s fellow ca-dets responded quickly af-ter the accident.

“Initially they made sure to try to comfort the ca-det that got hit,” Fetsch said. “One cadet was talk-ing to her calmly and hold-ing his hand on her face where she was cut badly and where the blood was coming from to put pres-sure on the wound. A staff member was making sure she was in a safe place so that she wouldn’t get run over by the next car.”

Several attempts to reach multiple cadets who witnessed the incident were unsuccessful.

Fetsch said the subcon-tractor who operates the Tiger Transit buses is cov-ering O’Mahoney’s medi-

cal bills, as well as her par-ents’ hotel room.

The group had almost finished the run when she was struck, Fetsch said.

“We ran across cam-pus and ended up on Lem Morrison on the way back to the intermural fields where they started.”

Stofer said the run wasn’t out of the ordinary.

“That’s something that they’ve been doing over there for years and years,” Stofer said.

Fetsch comfirmed this.“A couple of times a

year we run all of our ca-dets as a wing run,” Fetsch said. “It’s more of a morale thing.”

cy resident, has noticed a similar decrease in students and faculty coming in to get the vaccine.

“Last year and the year before there was that big scare with the swine flu,” Boyd said. “Maybe it has dropped off a little bit be-cause people don’t feel as concerned, but it’s still very important to get the shot because the flu is still going around.”

Both Kam and Boyd said they encourage all students to receive the flu shot. The headaches, muscle aches and nausea caused by the flu disrupt daily life, inhibit academic success and ruin holiday plans.

“Imagine that you’ve just spent hundreds or even a couple of thousand dollars for your one-week vacation,

and you lose the three to four days it will take to get over the flu,” Kam said. “For $25, it’s a good investment.”

Kam said some students are concerned the flu shot will actually cause the ill-ness, but he assures his pa-tients that this is not a risk with the injectable vaccine.

“That’s theoretically im-possible,” Kam said. “You can’t get the flu because this is not a live virus in the flu vaccine.”

Boyd said she believes the misconception arises from students who fall ill before the vaccine has the 10–14 days to become ef-fective.

“The flu shot takes about two weeks to start having an effect,” Boyd said. “So if you do get sick it’s not due to the fact that you got the flu shot, it’s that you were exposed to the virus before it kicked in.”

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Megan SmithWRITER

There’s a rattling noise down the hallway. A blast of cold air blows and the floor creaks where no one is standing. It could be the ghost of the Confederate soldier Sydney Grimlett.

John Zaffis, ghost hunt-er from the “A Haunting in Connecticut” episode of the Discovery Channel’s “A Haunting” series, will be doing a presentation on Nov. 1 in the Student Cen-ter Ballroom at 7 p.m.

“It is the day after Hal-loween, but we thought the Halloween spirit would still be there,” said Kaitie Gallahue, special projects director of UPC.

“Ghosts aren’t scary un-less you believe in them; they have as much pow-er as you give them,” said

Nathan Kelly, senior in ac-counting.

There will be lots of new Auburn students there, Kelly said, but probably not many upperclassmen that have been into the brick building on College Street.

The first 40 students who arrive will receive wristbands allowing them to go on a ghost hunt in the Auburn Chapel, Galla-hue said.

Kelly said he’s been in the chapel a few times, but going in with a ghost hunt-er would definitely bring him a new perspective on the place.

The chapel was built in 1851 and is the second old-est building on campus. During the Civil War, the church was used as a hos-pital for Confederate sol-

diers.“I might just go,” Kelly

said. “There might be some eccentric people attending that I’d like to meet.”

Michelle Murphy, UPC adviser, said this is the sec-ond time UPC has brought a ghost hunter to campus since she joined the staff.

A different ghost hunt-er came to Auburn a few years ago, but he is no lon-ger in business.

“One of the committee members brought the idea to us,” Gallahue said. “The member was really inter-ested in what would hap-pen if we found a ghost. We just fell in love with the idea.”

The episode “A Haunt-ing in Connecticut” led to a movie with a similar title.

During the episode, commentators said it was

so horrifying to film that some of the ghost hunters left the profession.

Zaffis will be sharing his experiences as well as the techniques he uses with the attending students.

“They get to use the tools that he uses and get a feel of his work,” Galla-hue said.

Kelly said he expects the 40 students to find lots of creepy stuff, especially if they are using the special tools that Zaffis is bring-ing with him.

“It’s about as creepy as any other old church,” Kel-ly said, “but then again, I never went in there look-ing for a ghost.”

Gallahue said UPC is hoping for about 200–250 people to attend. There will be refreshments dur-ing the presentation.

Ghost hunter brings spooks to Auburn

Lane JonesWRITER

Instead of packing up your costume and settling in for a night of studying, WEGL wants you to go wild at its rave in the Student Center Ballroom.

Starting at 7 p.m. Hallow-een night, the WEGL rave offers students a free opor-tunity to celebrate the holi-day and still make it to their classes the next morning.

Along with black lights, glow sticks and nonstop music, there will be a cos-tume contest with a $100 cash prize.

“I want to do something for Halloween, but I’m al-ways really busy on Monday nights,” said Jordie Keeley, sophomore in biomedical sciences. “An on-campus event would be the perfect balance.”

Darius ‘Slim’ Merchant, senior in hotel and restau-rant management, will be the event’s emcee.

“Halloween’s on a Mon-day this year, so there’s not a whole lot you would want to do,” Merchant said. “You don’t want to go get wast-ed at the bars. I’ve got an 8 o’clock on Tuesday. This way people can get inter-active and express them-

selves.”Brian Long, WEGL pro-

motions director, sees the rave as a chance to capital-ize on recent popularity of dubstep and techno music around Auburn’s campus.

“We’ve been noticing a lot of the music genres that are being played around town lately, especially around downtown,” Long said. “I thought rave music would be perfect with the Halloween vibe.”

The rave will feature the Atlanta group Escape From LA, as well as two local DJs: Backspace and Andy B.

Long hopes that a suc-cessful event this year will make it possible in the fu-ture.

“We’re trying to make this an annual event so that if we get enough aware-ness for it, we could actu-ally start raising money for, say, the general scholarship fund,” Long said.

Long is partnering with other campus organiza-tions to attract as many stu-dents as possible.

“We’re going to have Ea-gle Eye shoot it while we’re doing the event,” Long said. “We’re also going to be streaming it live over the airwaves at the same time.”

Chelsea HarveyCAMPUS EDITOR

An electronic survey may change the way the textbook reserve program operates.

“What we’re trying to do is improve the books in the textbook reserve, making sure we’re up to date and making sure we’re serv-ing the people who use the textbook reserve,” said Kirby Turnage, SGA presi-dent.

The survey is available as a Google document and includes questions such as whether the student has used the textbook re-serve in the past, how the reserve can be improved and whether there are any books the student would

like to see added to the program.

Cara Tupps, creator of the survey, said its results will determine any pos-sible changes to the pro-gram.

“It’s actually not neces-sarily going to be changed too drastically,” Tupps said. “The reason that I creat-ed the survey was basical-ly what we’re focusing on this year is trying to get more people, I guess in-crease the knowledge base that we have about it. ”

Tupps said she had seen about 20 or 30 respons-es so far, and the feedback was mixed.

“Bascially we’ve had some good feedback,” Tupps said. “We’ve also

had a lot of people say they won’t use it because their books aren’t supported, or they just didn’t know about it.”

Tupps said there are no plans to close the survey soon.

“My plan was to keep it open-ended as long as we needed it to be and tell people about it at the re-serve because Google will keep it up as long as we have it,” Tupps said.

“So if they want to refer people who do use the re-serve to go take it and go have a continuous feed-back system, then we can do that. Or if we just need-ed it for this month to try to regroup and see what we need to do as far as

marketing goes, then we can do that, too.”

Turnage said the SGA is emailing the survey to various campus organiza-tions to increase student interest.

Tupps said she emailed the survey to several stu-dent organization listservs as well.

“So if we get an over-whelming response of, ‘We need to add more books,’ or something like that, then of course we will do that,” Tupps said. “But right now the only thing that we’re trying to change is getting more people to know about the program.”

SGA can be contacted for access to the Google document link.

Textbook reserve service invites feedback

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Sloane HudsonWRITER

Auburn University is teaming up with the Amer-ican Cancer Society for the 2012 Relay for Life.

“The American Cancer Society is the largest non-profit health organization in the world, and the many Relay for Life events held nationwide have helped ACS fund over $4 billion in cancer research,” said Luis Rodriguez, junior in politi-cal science and event chair for Relay for Life.

Students are preparing for the relay with Paint the Campus Purple, a booth set up throughout this week on the Concourse by the Uni-versity’s Relay for Life com-mittee.

Students are encouraged to participate in fun activ-ities and receive informa-tive handouts throughout the week.

“It’s a fun, exciting way

to learn more about the American Cancer Society as well as meet other stu-dents that have been affect-ed by the disease in some way,” said Emily Atchison, senior in industrial and sys-tems engineering.

Paint the Campus Pur-ple kicked off Monday with “Relay like it’s 1985,” the year of the first Relay for Life.

“Tata Tuesday” was the theme Tuesday in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Wednesday’s theme, “A World Without Cancer,” was one of the more seri-ous events of the week, ac-cording to Atchison.

“We are out on the Con-course this day to show how cancer affects peo-ple in a global perspective,” Atchison said.

Thursday’s theme is “Making More Birthdays,” which is a slogan of ACS.

It consists of a party on the Concourse to celebrate the many birthdays made possible through advance-ments in cancer care, re-search and medicine.

Paint The Campus Pur-ple will come to an end with “Fight Back Friday” to honor those battling cancer now and in the future.

The weeklong promotion is intended to encourage students to sign up for Au-burn’s Relay for Life, to be held March 30 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day at the Hutsell-Rosen track.

“The event is composed of numerous teams—be-tween eight and 15 peo-ple—that raise money in-dividually,” Rodriguez said. “We are always looking for cancer survivors to attend the event, so we encourage anyone who has beaten the disease to participate.”

Anyone is welcome to sign up for the event.

Anna Claire ConradSTAFF WRITER

There are lots of things to be afraid of during the Halloween season, but calculus shouldn’t be one.

“I think math can be in-timidating for a lot of peo-ple,” said Glenn Hughes, graduate teaching assis-tant for the mathemat-ics department. “I believe that if you approach it and talk about it in a ca-sual way, like you would any other subject, that can take away the fear fac-tor associated with high-er-level mathematics.”

Originally from Hous-ton, Hughes is a graduate teaching assistant for sev-eral calculus classes.

“I got my undergrad degree at the University of Houston, and now I’m working toward my mas-ter’s degree here at Au-burn,” Hughes said.

He said mathematics was not the path he ini-tially wanted to take.

“I had a couple false starts,” Hughes said. “I was in the Army for four years, and I was original-

ly a physics major to begin with. One specific under-grad math course opened the door and showed me that it’s less about just cold, hard computations and that it’s more about interlinking various ab-stract concepts together. I guess you could say it’s more like art.”

Hughes said he strives to help his students view calculus in this way.

“I often hold a lot of of-fice hours,” Hughes said. “Generally, I spend six hours outside of the class-room the week before the test holding informal re-view sessions for my stu-dents.”

Joshua Chu, senior in applied mathematics, said Hughes will work with his students for as long as it takes to solve a problem or understand a concept.

“I had Mr. Hughes for Calculus I, and he was eas-ily one of the best teachers I’ve had,” Chu said.

Hughes said he keeps his standard for success high, but he does not want to exclude anyone from

reaching that peak.“I hold myself respon-

sible for putting forth as much effort as I can to helping the students do as well as they possibly can in the class,” Hughes said.

Chu said Hughes goes above and beyond what is expected of GTAs.

“He tries really hard to make sure you under-stand the information, even if at first you don’t,” Chu said. “He is very ap-proachable. There’s a lot of professors on campus that make it hard to talk to them and get a concise answer to your problem.”

Hughes said he wishes he had been taught in the manner that he teaches.

“I have noticed my stu-dents’ grades have im-proved as a whole, but I make an effort to focus on the individual, not just the class as a single enti-ty,” Hughes said. “I believe that the more comfort-able the student is with the subject and the in-structor is directly relat-ed to the student’s success rate.”

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Hayley BlairASSOCIATE CAMPUS EDITOR

On Thursday, 15 percent of the proceeds from Brick Oven’s sales will go to help Molly Welch, a journalism student who was a junior in February 2008 when she was injured in a debilitating traffic accident.

“A few months ago Mol-ly emailed me and said, ‘My mom and I want to treat you guys to dinner to thank you for everything you’ve done,’” said Judy Sheppard, associate professor of jour-nalism. “Then Dr. Carvalho arranged the fundraiser and we managed to merge that.”

The journalism faculty have done a lot to help Mol-ly graduate as she deals with the disabilities caused by her accident.

“I remember she did practicum in the summer of 2010, and she just insist-

ed on going,” said journal-ism professor John Carv-alho. “Her mother would park and she’d get there early enough to walk, even though it took her an hour to walk from the parking lot. She’d walk slowly, and we’d talk and everything. It’s been a long road for her.”

Molly will be having din-ner with the journalism staff and Aubie at the Brick Oven on Gay Street to thank them.

“They’ve done so many things,” Welch said. “It’s not easy, but they made it eas-ier by making classes that weren’t supposed to be on-line online, and they made classes that were two days a week only one. They’ve just been wonderful.”

Molly worked at Brick Oven for a year before her accident, and her employer, Jeff Finkhauser, was happy

to host the fundraiser. Finkhauser has done phi-

lanthropy nights before, but said he’s working on special student deals from 5–9 p.m. to bring more people in for Molly.

John Welch, Molly’s dad, said the money will go to a special program in the Shepherd Center called Be-yond Therapy.

“It’s a need-based pro-gram that addresses the in-dividual needs of the pa-tient,” John said. “It’s some-where around $90–100 an hour and she’s been doing this program for 3 years now, so it’s been a long, ar-duous road in terms of cov-ering medical expenses.”

Molly said the problems she faces are mostly physi-cal, and, because her vocal chords were scarred when she was getting treatment, speech is an issue as well.

“I have to worry about my speech all the time and if people can hear me cause sometimes they have to just pretend that they can,” Mol-ly said. “Also, because my right side is so much more rigid than my left I have to worry about making sure there’s something on the left to grab onto.”

Molly will graduate this semester and hopes to work in public relations with the Shepherd Center or the Centers for Disease Con-trol.

“I feel like a huge weight will be lifted off my shoul-ders,” Molly said. “It will just be so amazing to be done with school. I’m tired of be-ing a student.”

Molly will be continuing her therapy at the Shepherd Center and hopes to be able to drive a custom-made car by December.

Brick Oven gives part of profits to student

According to J. Emmett Winn, associate pro-vost, the Board of Trustees has expressed support for the building of a new general classroom facility. A meeting will be held to discuss this possibility. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Wednesday, 2 p.m., Langdon Hall

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Kristen OliverWRITER

Looking to adopt a pet? Now’s the time to do it.

The Lee County Humane Society currently has a free-cats and discounted-kit-tens deal, but they are top-ping it with a Halloween adoption party Friday.

“We’re going to do adop-tion fees by the donation of the adopter’s choice,” said Stacee Peer, the shelter’s director of public relations

and development. “If they want to donate $1 or if they want to donate $100, it’s to-tally up to the adopter.”

The shelter is also ex-tending its adoption hours for the event as an addi-tional incentive.

“Our regular adoption hours are from noon un-til 5, and we’re actually go-ing to stay open later until 7, so that’s something spe-cial that we’re doing for it,” Peer said.

The event is open to any-one looking to adopt.

“We’re inviting families and college kids to come to the shelter,” Peer said. “You can wear your costume if

you want to. All staff mem-bers are going to be dressed up for Halloween. Kids can trick-or-treat. We’ll have candy and stuff like that.”

The shelter has approx-imately 15–20 dogs, 10–12 puppies and about 20 cats and kittens.

“We adopted a Maltese,” said Ally Barnes, a sopho-more in psychology whose family lives in Opelika. “Her name is Bella, and we got her in 2008. It was really easy, and I remember a lot of stuff being included, like her shots were all done. It was an easy process.”

Peer said the shelter pro-vides nearly anything the

adopter needs for his or her pet. They have collars for dogs and puppies and $5 cat carriers.

Barnes said anyone look-ing to adopt should consid-er going to a humane soci-ety.

“I would always recom-mend adopting from hu-mane societies over getting dogs that are bred because humane societies have ani-mals that are really in need of homes,” Barnes said.

Some students may think adopting a pet in college is too much responsibility, but many think it’s a good idea for them.

“I want to adopt a pet

while I’m still in college,” said Cheyenne Rudows-ki, sophomore in art histo-ry. “I would definitely adopt

from the humane society because I’d like to save an

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Council concerns delay redistricting Jaimen PerezWRITER

Redistricting plans for Auburn are at a standstill after failing to receive unan-imous consent necessary to vote.

Auburn City Manag-er Charlie Duggan said the U.S. Department of Justice requires Auburn to submit the city’s redistricting plan for review, or pre-clearance.

“Some of the require-ments they’ll be looking at are how the new plan im-pacts incumbents, how it impact voters—specifically minority voters—and how

it changes things with re-spect to geography,” Dug-gan said.

He said the key is making the districts fair in the eyes of voters.

“The main reason for re-districting is to be assured that there’s essentially the same numbers of voters in each one,” said Coun-cilwoman Sheila Eckman. “For instance, we’re grow-ing more to the south and to the north, so (without re-districting) you’d have too many people in one ward, and fewer in another ward.”

The redistricting plan

hit a roadblock at the Oct. 18 meeting when Council-man Arthur Dowdell de-nied unanimous consent to vote on the proposal.

Dowdell said there’s a conspiracy afloat in Au-burn, and he’s considering a lawsuit against the city.

He said the issue is mul-tifaceted.

“It’s more than just about the redistricting,” Dowdell said. “If you look at the de-velopment that’s going on in Auburn, you know that there’s a conspiracy to box in the black community.”

Dowdell said far more blacks are moving out of Auburn than into the city,

largely because housing for minorities is limited.

“It looks to me like there’s an underground conspir-acy to downsize the city of Auburn,” he said, “so that only rich whites and stu-dents can live in Auburn at the expense of poor blacks and poor whites. That’s not right.”

Dowdell said his lawsuit would address both the composition of the coun-cil itself and his claim that while the district he repre-sents is predominately mi-nority, there isn’t a majority of voting-age blacks.

“(The proposal) will show up on the next coun-cil meeting for the second reading, and for the second reading it’s just a majori-ty vote in order to pass it,” Duggan said.

Duggan said Dowdell’s options are to offer amend-ments or to motion to table the item altogether.

“I need more time to look at it,” Dowdell said. “I don’t agree with it. I know that it has to be a unanimous de-cision, and I don’t want it to be a unanimous decision.”

Opelika invites dog lovers to strut their stuffAlison McFerrinNEWS EDITOR

Opelika’s Halloween event is like most, featuring creative cos-tumes and tasty treats. But this party has a twist: the guests of honor are all canines.

The annual Howl-o-ween will feature a combination parade and costume contest for man’s best friend from 5–7 p.m. Mon-day. Pam Powers-Smith, direc-tor of Opelika Main Street, said they originally thought of hav-ing a traditional type of event, but wanted to do something more original.

“At the time we had a dog store down the street, so she was like, ‘We should really focus on dogs only,’” Powers-Smith said. “And all the merchants were for it.”

This year’s event will feature dogs and their owners in a pa-rade beginning at 6 p.m. Before or after, pets can go trick-or-treating and receive dog treats from downtown shop owners. But it’s not only fun for canines.

“Half the people dress up themselves, and half the peo-ple don’t, but the fact that it’s on Halloween this year, I think ev-erybody will probably dress up,” Powers-Smith said.

In addition to being a fun community event, Howl-o-ween serves as a fundraiser for Rescue K911, a no-kill home for dogs in Camp Hill.

“It really encourages us be-cause we get to see pet own-ers with their lovingly dressed- up dogs,” said director Loraine Weaver.

Weaver and her husband Lar-ry began the ministry 14 years ago. They now care for 121 dogs with the help of 12 volunteers,

the operation funded entirely through donations.

“We will keep them until they’re adopted,” Weaver said. “We cannot take in any more until some are adopted.”

Powers-Smith said Rescue K911 will receive all profits from Howl-o-ween. Registration is $10, or $25 to be a V.I.P., or Very Important Pooch, and be placed near the front of the parade. There is no cost to watch.

Weaver said proceeds will help with their latest project: Shadow’s Rest.

“It is going to be a home for our elderly and handicapped dogs,” Weaver said. “We have several dogs with cancer, we have several dogs that are blind, we have several dogs with heart problems.

“It’ll be a big room full of cozy beds and just a more home-like atmosphere.”

People can register for the pa-rade at Taylor Made Designs in downtown Opelika prior to the event, or the night of beginning at 5 p.m.

Powers-Smith said prizes will be awarded for the best cos-tumes.

“I think dogs, pets, are cer-tainly a lot of people’s passion,” Powers-Smith said. “I’m kind of hoping they think about that. It’s not just to have fun. It’s also helping a great cause.”

Lee County Humane Society offers treats, not tricks

CHRISTEN HARNED / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Zaid Kayyali, sophomore in international business, Brandon Batchelor and Seth Clayton plan to travel 12,000 miles across the U.S. to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

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Stacee Peer, LCHS director of public relations, feeds one of the cats available for adoption.

Bikers ride miles of smiles


One Auburn student and his friends plan to go the distance for cancer awareness and preven-tion.

Zaid Kayyali, freshman in in-ternational business, and friends Seth Clayton, Brandon Batchelor and Kyle Sebestyen are trying to prove that a few young men can make a difference in the world.

Kayyali and Sebestyen came

up with their idea in March while riding their motorcycles on back roads and talking about how they would like to positively impact others.

“We have all wanted to change the world,” Kayyali said. “That is one thing that brings our group of friends together. We want to be larger than life.”

The plan is to make a motorcy-cle trip across the United States to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

The trip will begin in June 2012 and last approximately 50 days.

Fundraising events will be held in large cities throughout the trip, including Birmingham, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami.

The goal is to raise $144,000 for cancer awareness, prevention and cures.

The ongoing battle against can-cer was not chosen at random, but had personal meaning for the four men.

“The issue at hand really hit home when one of my best friends, Houston Edwards, was diagnosed with cancer, and I saw the struggle he was going through,” Clayton said. “That is what made us decide we wanted to do something about it.”

Edwards has had cancer twice. He was first diagnosed with tes-ticular cancer and then lymphatic

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LCHS scares up an adoption bargain

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“If you look at the development that’s going on in Auburn, you know that there’s a conspiracy to box in the black community.”

—Arthur Dowdell AUBURN CITY COUNCILMAN

Friends use hobby to change the world

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“It’s not just to have fun. It’s also helping a great cause.”

—Pam Powers-Smith DIRECTOR, OPELIKA MAIN STREET

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cancer of the abdomen. “He has basically been

a hero to all of us,” Kayya-li said. “We saw the type of struggle, pain and misery the cancer has put on him. While the cancer had such a negative impact on him,

he never stopped smiling.”Edwards’ persistence to

be joyful throughout can-cer treatment inspired the men to title their event “12K Miles 12K Smiles.”

During the 12,000 mile journey, they plan to take 12,000 pictures, and the only requirement for each picture is a smile.

Along with the photos, they plan to create a vid-eo documentary to help prove to the world a differ-ence can be made.

Right now the riders are looking for sponsorship, donations and people willing to support a good cause.

The majority of the plan-

ning must be completed before the ride begins, but for now they hope to gain acceptance and support.

“Everyone knows some-body who has been di-rectly affected by cancer,” Kayyali said. “We think this is a great way to touch people’s hearts and bring them together.”

MOTORCYCLE» From A5

animal in need.”Peer said the donated

adoption price is entirely new for the shelter.

“It’s the first time we’ve ever done this before,” Peer said. “We’re really excited to see how people react to the donation amount of their choice for all the puppies and adult kennel dogs and kittens and cats, too. We’re

hoping it’s going to really empty out our cages.”

Rudowski said she thinks the promotion will be a suc-cess.

“I think it’ll show how people love animals and how far they’re willing to go,” Rudowski said. “I think it will be successful because it’s flexible for people who don’t have much. They’re naming their price, but also able to donate what they can in their budget.”

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Dowdell said his main issue is he doesn’t believe there’s a majority of voting-age blacks in his district.

“In looking at the num-bers, we don’t believe it’s possible to create a ward in Auburn that has a ma-jority of minority mem-bers that are above the age of 18,” Duggan said. “Some-one could look at the over-all city and say that what we are achieving is that minorities feel comfort-

able living in all parts of the city.”

Councilman Tom Wor-den said not having enough voting-age mem-bers is common to many districts.

“I just don’t think his dis-trict is any different than others,” Worden said. “I’m supportive of Councilman Dowdell. I just want to hear what he’s going to say.”

Dowdell, however, said he finds Auburn’s inten-tions suspect.

“It’s the greed of the de-velopers along with some

backdoor deals involv-ing city officials that’s go-ing on,” Dowdell said. “I’m planning on voting against anything the developers are doing at this point.

“We know what’s go-ing on, the city manag-er knows what’s going on, and we’ve got to be con-cerned.”

Dowdell said if the redis-tricting plan passes, he will have grounds to file a law-suit.

“I don’t have to accept it,” Dowdell said. “I’m an elect-ed official, and it’s my dis-

trict. I should have had a hand in it, to decide what I want in my own district. And that’s what’s going to make the judge say, ‘He’s right.’”

Worden said if the coun-cil does not adopt an ordi-nance, the current propos-al will go into effect auto-matically in six months.

“It will be the plan we were presented with at the last meeting, which shows the new reapportionment that our city staff worked on tirelessly to get created,” Worden said.

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It looks to me like there’s an underground conspiracy

to downsize the city of Auburn.”—Arthur Dowdell

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Best Halloween tradition growing stale as time passes

I typically start planning my Halloween costume for the upcoming year after the current Halloween festivities. But since be-ing in college, I haven’t wanted to dress up. What is this nonsense?

Anyone who has ever met me knows that Halloween is my favorite holiday. I ab-solutely love everything about it. The 13

Nights of Halloween on ABC Family, haunt-ed houses, Halloween decorations, spooky-themed foods, even that chill that crawls up your spine just before you fall asleep af-ter watching a horror movie. I love it all. More than anything, I love dressing in cos-tume. Or, rather, loved.

Last year I almost refused to dress up at all. My water polo team was competing in a tournament in Atlanta, and the last thing on my mind was what costume I would wear. My friends convinced me that since I’m am a redhead I should go as a lepre-chaun. Even though I didn’t necessarily want to conform to that stereotype, I caved,

and a leprechaun I was.This is the first time I’ll be in Auburn for

Halloween, and I am beyond excited. I have already decked my apartment out with Hal-loween decor. I’ve planned a menu out with lots of creepy delights. I even found a cos-tume for my roommate’s dog. There’s only one thing missing: What am I supposed to be for Halloween?

What hurts the most is that I don’t want to dress up this year. I’ve bought a costume that I don’t even like just so I have some-thing to wear. I’d much rather wear a nice outfit, have people over to celebrate at my apartment and have a good time minus the

need to dress in a goofy or overly sexy cos-tume.

When I was younger, I would have a cos-tume planned out a whole year in advance. Now, I’m reluctant to dress up at all. What has happened to me? Where did the youth-ful, eager, hold-nothing-back attitude I once boasted go?

I sincerely hope this doesn’t mean I’m growing up.

Next thing you know, I’ll start balancing my checkbook and going to bed at 8 p.m. Maybe I should dress as the hit 1954 Mary Martin version of Peter Pan, because I don’t wanna grow up.

Anna Claire [email protected]

Arthur Dowdell has a his-tory of taking action without thinking.

He’s the Auburn City Coun-cilman of Ward 1 who in 2009 removed rebel flags from the graves of Confederate soldiers and was forced by the City Council to apologize for des-ecrating gravesites, which are private property and protect-ed by the First Amendment.

He also has a history of speaking without thinking.

In the midst of his celebri-ty as a desecrator of graves, he laid out his idea for a new City Council.

“If (the mayor is) going to have to have voting powers, then we should have a sev-en-member council with the mayor voting and being one of those seven. I think that would be fair, with two of the council members being black.”

Dowdell has now graced us with more racially charged inanity.

“It looks to me like there’s an underground conspiracy to downsize the city of Auburn,”

he said, “so that only rich whites and students can live in Auburn at the expense of poor blacks and poor whites.”

It seems only logical that the chief concern of the City Coun-cil and developers in Auburn would be conspiring to under-mine the livelihood of minor-ities and the poor in Auburn. Thank goodness our social crusader has come along to rid our town of the Illuminati.

Does Dowdell really believe that his constituents are un-der attack in Auburn? If so, then we have a deeply para-noid man on the council.

We do not accept Dowdell’s ideas. At best, they’re ridicu-lous, irrational and irresponsi-ble. At the heart of it, we have a difficult time convincing our-selves that this man can even truly believe these things.

We think the councilman is using this game of “us ver-sus them” to secure his voters on his side. What better way to keep winning reelection than to become the champion against the spectre of a villian?

Even more concerning is that he’s leveling part of the blame on fellow city offi-cials, rather than just the ev-er-contemptible land devel-opers with better things to do than concern themselves with Dowdell’s petty politics.

Making accusations against hardworking members of our community with no support for your claims is unaccept-able behavior from a man who represents part of our town.

“It has become too expen-sive for the black community to continue living in Auburn, so they are moving out to Ope-lika,” Dowdell said in 2009. “Opelika is welcoming them with open arms.”

This is a statement from 2009. The numbers just don’t back it up. In 2000, the black population of Auburn stood at 16.8 percent. In 2010 it stands at 16.6 percent. Those fig-ures certainly don’t reflect the Trail of Tears-style exodus he’s claimed.

Even more concerning is Dowdell’s lack of respect for

the minority population of Au-burn he claims to represent.

“The poor just can’t afford to live in Auburn,” he said. “The city hasn’t been fair in regards to providing housing for mi-norities.”

This statement also comes from 2009. What exactly is mi-nority housing? Is he referring to low-income, government-subsidized housing? Are the minorities he claims to repre-sent not offended and insulted by the idea that they need as-sistance because of their skin color?

The simple truth is that the ideas Dowdell has expressed in the past and continues to express do nothing for the city of Auburn. They are regressive. They are fearful. But most im-portantly, they are false.

We can’t be certain about Dowdell’s intentions, but we do know that until he provides the community with quaniti-fiable proof to back up these wild accusations, his yammer-ing about lawsuits and con-spiracies will remain just that.

Public office not the place for paranoia

On the fence about ‘Occupy?’ Wait a while and watch

The Occupy movement is a new, exciting thing for a lot of people.

There are certainly those who have pro-foundly negative things to say about the movement. However, this hasn’t stopped a large number of people across the United

States from siding with the protesters.To me it looks like a fresh coat of paint

for a house that people have, time and time again, refused to live in. This is the big American sale for socialism and state pow-er cloaked in a cheerful populist message. We’re on the people’s side, they say. We’re the 99 percent, they say. We want to bail out people not banks, they say.

These are all very nice messages. They give the people prepared to commit to the cause the ammunition they need to carry out the big sell to you undecided.

The problem is that these are also vague messages, and probably untrue messages. To say that there aren’t radical influences floating about the tent city of Zuccati Park would be untrue. To say that there aren’t entities ready to supply this movement with serious cash would be untrue.

What I’m suggesting to those of you that are undecided about the group, just wait and watch. Read about these people. Keep an eye on the protests, the arrests, the groups taking part, the shifting message, the overarching goals. I don’t want you to

come to my side, I want you to think for yourself before you grab some paper and write your own “I am the 99 percent” sob story.

All I ask is that you give this move-ment, which has now spread globally, the thoughtful scrutiny worthy of any force ca-pable of drastic, fast-paced global change.

Ask yourself, “Who is responsible for success and my failure? Does someone else hold me back? Is the American way unfair? Is capitalism unfair? Is there a better way?”

Just, for a little while, wait and watch.

Nick [email protected]

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After dropping from the Asso-ciated Press poll following a 45–10 loss to the No. 1 LSU Tigers away in Baton Rouge, La., last weekend, the Auburn Tigers are looking to heal bruised spirits with a victory over the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday evening.

“We’re excited about being able to come back home and play another night game here at home,” said coach Gene Chizik. “It’ll be exciting. We’ve been gone the last three out of four weeks against some tough road opponents, so it’s always nice to come back home and play in front of our home crowd for a 6 o’clock game.”

Since 2000, Auburn is 24–4 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in night games that kick off at 6 p.m. or later.

The Tigers return home for only the second time in five weeks to enter their 36th meet-ing with the Rebels. Auburn leads the series with a 29–6 re-cord.

“We have a great challenge for us this week,” Chizik said. “We’re playing an Ole Miss team that is extremely talented. It’s the best 2–5 team in the country. They’re very dangerous, and they’re very good in a lot of different ways.”

While Chizik had only posi-tive things to say about the op-posing team, Ole Miss is 0–4 in the Southeastern Conference so far this season.

The Rebels have lost 10 straight games against SEC op-ponents dating back to last sea-son.

Auburn has won eight of the last 10 games against Ole Miss and shut out the struggling team 51–31 away in Oxford last Octo-ber.

“This is a very good football team,” Chizik said. “They were probably a play here or a play there away from winning five or six football games.

“They had a touchdown against Georgia called back on a punt return. They were a play away from beating Arkansas and BYU, so again, I think the record is not indicative of how good they are.

“They have a lot of speed, a lot of athleticism, and we’re going to have to play really well to be able to come out with a victory, but we’re excited about the chal-lenge.”

Based on Chizik’s comments at Tuesday morning’s weekly press conference, it seems soph-omore Clint Moseley will contin-ue as the starting quarterback ahead of junior Barrett Trotter against Ole Miss.

Moseley had been on the bench until two weeks ago, when he replaced Trotter at half-time during the Florida game.

“I think when we gave him

time to throw, he did some nice things,” Chizik said. “I think there are some things he could have done better and improved on, obviously.

“For his first game and being in an environment like that play-ing against a defense that was as good as they were, and him be-ing under stress as much as he was, I think when he had oppor-tunities to make plays, I thought he did a nice job of that.

“He’ll continue to improve, I don’t think there’s any question about that, and we expect him to

do that this week.”Chizik is hopeful that Mose-

ley’s confidence will enable him to make smarter desicions on the field and to remain collect-ed under stress.

“That’s one thing that I can say I’m extremely proud of him,” Chizik said. “During the game when things didn’t look good and things weren’t going our way, I never saw anything in the game that indicated to me that he was losing confidence or didn’t feel like he could get the job done.

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Auburn drops from polls after LSU loss, confident for Saturday against Ole Miss

Auburn soccer prepares for season finale against rival Alabama Christina SanteeSPORTS EDITOR

The No. 22 Auburn soccer team will enter its final regular-season match Friday evening, traveling to Tuscaloosa to challenge the No. 78 Alabama Crimson Tide in their annual soccer Iron Bowl at 7 p.m.

The Tigers (11–8–2) are 5–4–2 in conference while the Crim-son Tide (8–7–3) are 3–5–2 in the SEC.

“I think going into Tuscaloo-sa is always a very difficult place to play,” said coach Karen Hoppa. “Our defense needs to have an ef-fort like we did against Georgia for sure because they’re going to be dangerous and high energy at their place.”

Following a scoreless draw with the Georgia Bulldogs Thurs-day evening that went into dou-

ble overtime and a loss to the No. 19 Tenneesee Volunteers Sun-day, the Tigers are eager to bring home one final conference win to end the season.

Including Georgia, Auburn has played in seven overtime matches this season, going 2–3–2 in those seven matches. Five of those overtime matches have come in the final seven matches of the season.

And despite two ties for the season, Auburn has completed its fifth 10-win season in the last 11 years.

Auburn failed to score Sunday night after struggling offensively for the majority of the match.

The Volunteers outscored the Tigers 2–0 thanks to an effective defensive performance.


Senior midfielder Katy Frierson keeps the ball from Georgia’s Susannah Dennis and Jamie Pollock.

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Freshman wide receiver Trovon Reed escapes LSU’s defense in the first half of Saturday’s game.

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Rueben Randle is chased by Neiko Thorpe while scoring LSU’s third touchdown in the first half.

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“We have a great challenge for us this week. We’re playing an Ole Miss team that is extremely talented.”

—Gene Chizik FOOTBALL COACH

Clark rises to challengeColeman McDowellASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Steven Clark isn’t your typical punter. Standing at 6-feet, 5-inch-es and 226 pounds, Clark resem-bles a pass-catching tight end more than special teams stand-out. But for Clark, his size doesn’t necessarily translate into more powerful punts.

“Because as far as punting goes, it’s more of a technique than ac-tually power and stuff like that,” Clark said. “Because some of the best punters are guys who don’t have a ton of muscle on them.”

Clark has been working on that technique this season, which has led to him being named SEC Spe-cial Teams Player of the Week twice this season.

“I’ve learned through coach-ing what it’s supposed to be, so it’s just a matter of doing it every time,” Clark said. “It’s different be-tween knowing what to do and actually doing it, so I’m just trying to do it. I’ve been really trying to get the technical part down first this year.”

Clark stood at 6 feet entering his freshman year of high school, which he said was big for his high school’s standards. With his size he was shuffled around from of-fensive tackle to defensive end to tight end throughout high school, but knew his future was at punter.

“I saw a guy kicking a ball at our first practice freshman year, and I had kicked a little before, and I thought I could kick it farther than that,” Clark said. “I did good that year for our freshman team at punter. After that season was over, my high school coach told me to go to a couple of camps, and I might could start next year. I went to one camp that summer, and I started the next year.”

With no offers from any col-leges entering the summer of his senior year, Clark decided to at-tend Jamie Kohl’s kicking camp. Clark credits Kohl, the director of one of the most prestigious kick-ing, punting and snapping camps in the nation, with helping him through his recruiting process.

“Jamie Kohl kind of coached me through the recruiting pro-cess because I didn’t know how the recruiting process worked,” Clark said. “I went to his camp, and that’s how I started getting offers. Going into my senior year, I didn’t have any offers. I went to that camp at the end of July, and I think I got my first offer from Purdue the first week of August. Then, in September I came down for the West Virginia game and was offered (by Auburn).”

Far away from his hometown of Kansas City, Mo., Clark wasn’t concerned about the distance between Alabama and his home state.

“I came here and really liked it. I wasn’t worried about how far away from home it was,” Clark

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Despite the 2011 Auburn baseball team only hitting 39 home runs on the sea-son, which was 47 fewer than the national leader, baseballs are guaranteed to be soaring out of Plains-man Park Friday night.

The baseball program is hosting its eighth annual Celebrity Home Run Derby, which is partnered with the Hudson Family Foundation and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Lee County, at 7 p.m.

“My hope is that the Au-burn family will come out to watch some of the great players that have come through Auburn in the re-cent years hit some home runs and raise some mon-ey,” said coach John Paw-lowski.

Admission is a minimum $2 donation at the gate.

“Our goal is to make this into a premiere fundrais-ing event for both the Au-burn baseball team and the Hudson Family Foun-dation,” said Atlanta Braves pitcher Tim Hudson. “Hav-ing moved back into the Auburn area and raising a family here, we want to give back to the community as much as we can.

“This is a win-win for our foundation and for the Au-burn baseball program.”

The participants will in-clude some Auburn greats from the last decade.

Hudson, a former Tiger and national player of the year, will be one of the two Atlanta Braves competing, along with former Auburn

catcher David Ross. Both Hudson and Ross played for Auburn in 1997 when the Tigers went to the Col-lege World Series.

Others involved in the event include manager of the Gulf Coast League Braves and former Auburn letterman and Mississip-pi Brave Jonathan Schuer-holtz, former Atlanta Brave Wes Helms and recent Au-burn players Hunter Morris and Brian Fletcher.

Last year’s individu-al home run derby winner Kevin Patterson and retired seven-year MLB veteran and current Tigers under-graduate assistant coach Gabe Gross will also play.

The format of the derby will remain the same as last year, with two teams con-sisting of four sluggers each competing in four innings. Each team will have one hitter per inning.

Once everyone has hit, the participant with the most home runs will be named the individual champion, and the team

with the most home runs will be the overall champi-on.

Last year, then-senior Patterson hit an individu-al-high 11 homeruns that led the Blue Team to a 36–15 victory over the Orange Team.

More than $2,000 were given in donations from the crowd, alumni home run hitters and sponsors.

This year’s sponsors are the Auburn/Opelika Tour-ism Bureau, Cooks Pest Control, King Family and Cosmetic Dentistry, Mar-co’s Pizza and Tiger Rags, which all made a minimum $500 donation.

There will be raffle tick-ets sold for $5 before and throughout the event by Di-amond Dolls.

Scott Duval, director of baseball operations, said there will be 12–14 prizes, including two foursomes of golf, four tickets to the Hudson Family Foundation Benefit Concert the week-end of the Samford football game and a Braves ticket package.

Duval also said there will be raffle winners assigned to each participant in the competition to receive an autographed item from that competitior.

“Partnering with Tim and Kim and the Hudson Family Foundation takes our event to a new lev-el,” Pawlowski said. “At the end of the day, we want to blow our past efforts out of the water, and we certain-ly have an all-star cast par-ticipating in the home run derby.”

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said. “People back home would ask me why I liked Auburn, and I told them there were just a lot of nice people here. Just in the South in general, everyone always is really nice if you give them the time.”

Clark noted the intensity for football is greater in Au-burn than in Missouri.

“It’s a different atmo-sphere,” Clark said. “It was nothing like I had ever ex-perienced. That’s why I liked it, though. I like the fans, how passionate they are about football. In the Midwest, we like our foot-

ball, but it’s just a differ-ent level here. I’ve seen lit-tle kids crying here after losses, and that’s not some-thing you see back home.”

An example of that pas-sion was on display as Au-burn took on the Florida Gators in Jordan-Hare Sta-dium Oct. 15. Clark was an integral part to the Tigers’ victory.

The lack of strong offen-sive play put a premium on field position and special teams, and Clark provided a spark for the Tigers by av-eraging almost 40 yards per punt and forcing the Ga-tors into an average start-ing field position on their own 26-yard line.

Clark’s biggest punt was his last, which was fumbled by Robert Clark of the Ga-tors. The fumble allowed Auburn to regain posses-sion and drive for a field goal that put the game out of reach for the Gators.

“I don’t know how much I have to do with all of that stuff,” Clark said. “There’s nothing I did special to those balls that he dropped. I just kicked them. I kicked them well, though. I didn’t realize how big of a turning point that last one was until we were lining up for Cody to kick, and I thought they were about to have the ball, but now Cody is about to ice the game. It was great.”


Sophomore forward Kim Spence attempts to keep possession of the ball.

“We’ve got to be really good at possession so we can keep the ball for long periods of time and cre-ate quality chances,” Hop-pa said.

Following the shutout, Tennessee improved to 13–5–0 overall and 6–4–0 in the SEC and jumped over Auburn in the SEC stand-ings with one regular sea-son match remaining.

Friday could prove to be more of a challenge than the Tigers bargained for, as the Crimson Tide shut out the Volunteers 1–0 Thurs-day.

Alabama also tied Geor-gia with a score of 2–2, all the more reason for the Tigers to be determined heading into Friday night’s match.

The Tigers will have to

perfect their approach in order to score goals and defer others attempted by the opposing team, a task the Tigers have struggled with.

“For the Alabama game, obviously, we want to win,” said sophomore defender Bianca Sierra. “I think we’ll just focus on coming out hard on defense.”

Following Alabama, which takes place at 7 p.m. Friday, Auburn will play Georgia for a second time Nov. 3 at the SEC tourna-ment in Orange Beach, Ala.

The Tigers will then trav-el to Tallahassee, Fla., for the NCAA Tournament scheduled for Nov. 12.

“For the Alabama game, obviously we want to win. I think we’ll just focus on coming out hard on defense.”

—Bianca Sierra SOPHOMORE DEFENDER

“I felt the same way Sun-day just watching him. I expect the same thing in practice today. I’m real proud of the way that he carried himself and han-dled all the adversity that we had and encountered Saturday. I feel like he did a great job with that.”

Junior wide receiver Emory Blake will remain out for his fourth consec-utive game after sustain-ing an ankle injury against South Carolina earlier this month.

Chizik was reluctant to state that Auburn’s active receivers have been able to effectively compensate for Blake’s absence.

“I think it’s been too sporadic,” Chizik said. “I think it’s been very spo-radic. At some points, you see these really nice catch-es, and other times you see

them drop balls in their hands.

“I would like to see more consistency in terms of catching the football from all of our receiving group.

“The fact of the matter is, like any place on your team, when somebody is out, somebody has to step up to the plate with con-sistent play.

“I’m not saying they haven’t done anything good, I’m just saying the level of consistency from that group that we are go-ing to need to win games needs to be better.”

The fact that sopho-more safety Demetruce McNeal and senior safe-ty Neiko Thorpe lead the team in tackles isn’t an is-sue for Chizik, but it does question the effectiveness of the rest of the defensive front.

“Our goal is obviously to get better every week,” Chizik said. “Whether our

safeties are the top three tacklers or they’re in the bottom three, I don’t think that necessarily tells the tale because a lot has to do with what type of offense you’re facing or tackles down the field after com-pletions, or are they tack-les ‘cause their runs broke the line of scrimmage con-sistently or are they runs that they are making at the line of scrimmage ‘cause they were outside the wide plays and they did what they were sup-posed to do?

“So I’m not really into all the stats and who gets what particularly when it comes to the tackles be-cause you don’t really know how they unfold.

“I’m concerned when the other team is scoring points. I’m not really con-cerned with who’s making the tackles.”

The game will be tele-vised by ESPNU.

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Cross-country resting for conference championshipBianca SewardWRITER

The Auburn cross-coun-try team will head to Maryville, Tenn., for the SEC Championship Mon-day.

Coming off strong fin-ishes for both the men and women at the Oct. 15 Crim-son Classic, the team is tai-loring its practices to allow for more rest with the hope of finishing strongly at the Halloween weekend cham-pionship meet.

Kane Grimster, fresh-man in pre-journalism and SEC Freshman of the Week the last week of Septem-ber, said he believes the strength of the competing teams will challenge the Ti-gers.

“ We’ve encountered teams of this caliber earlier in the season, so we are def-initely prepared and look-ing forward to the compe-tition that the SEC will of-fer us,” Grimster said.

The men finished second at the Crimson Classic in front of Ole Miss, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.

The women came in sev-enth place, but Alissa Fish-er, junior in physics, and Elizabeth Briasco, sopho-more in nutrition and di-

etetics, each achieved per-sonal bests.

Although half of the team are freshmen, they feel con-fident in the training pro-vided by coach Mark Car-roll.

“I feel confident that the training coach Carroll has given us and the schedule we’ve had this season will give us the best opportu-nity to perform well at the SEC championship,” Grim-ster said.

Grimster said because the Tigers have already competed against the best teams in the nation, the level of competition the SEC will present won’t be anything unfamiliar to the team.

He said he feels the team has learned a lot through-out the season and gained valuable experience that will be helpful at the SEC Championship and future meets.

Briasco said that while cross-country primarily places its focus on individ-ual performance, the team works hard to run for each other.

And as a member on one of the youngest teams com-peting in the SEC, Briasco said the amount of training

they have received this sea-son builds confidence.

“It’s difficult racing against girls who have two or three more years ex-perience on us, but that’s where heart and determi-nation come into play,” Bri-asco said. “When it comes down to guts and running not only for yourself, but for your family, I know our girls will pull through with some amazing times.”

In his three years as coach, Carroll has led the women’s side to a seventh place finish at the SEC Championship in 2009.

“On the men’s side, if ev-eryone has a good day, we have the potential to be a top three or four team,” Carroll said. “On the ladies’ side it’s a little more un-clear where we stand, but everybody is in good health and a good place to run.”

In regards to prac-tice, Carroll said he be-lieves there is nothing to be gained from excessive training the week before.

“This week is about rest-ing up and getting ready for the race,” Carroll said. “The work has already been done this season, and we believe we have the poten-tial to finish strongly.”

Class would ‘geaux’ a long way

I learned two things about myself last weekend: I’m “tiger bait,” and I nev-er want to go back to Baton Rouge.

It didn’t matter if it was before, during or after the game, LSU fans were going to taunt me. And 99 percent of the time it was with two words: tiger bait.

My previous trip to Ba-ton Rouge, which was for the 2007 game, didn’t allow me the full effect because we arrived late and left im-mediately after the game. With that said, I was excit-ed to experience a gameday on LSU’s campus.

We arrived early enough Saturday to tailgate and get an idea of what Baton Rouge is all about. In hind-sight, I wish I had just be-lieved the stereotypes and stayed in Auburn.

There weren’t any urine bombs thrown in my di-rection, nor was I physical-ly harmed. However, I think the standard for verbal ha-rassment is set by Bayou

Bengal fans.Every fanbase has fans

who talk trash; that’s a giv-en. But when two boys who couldn’t have been more than 10 years old were yell-ing “tiger bait” at me on my way to the stadium, I real-ized what I was getting my-self into.

Judge if you want, but my friends and I left the game in the middle of the third quarter. The initial plan was to avoid traffic, but we ended up on a tour of cam-pus after a few wrong turns walking back to the car.

On the walk, which stretched probably a mile, we were harassed by LSU fans of every kind.

I wasn’t surprised by col-lege students celebrating in the way LSU students do, but I was stunned when I found myself being yelled at by grown men. And guess what they almost all yelled? “Tiger bait.”

Clearly the fanbase doesn’t have anything else

to say to opposing fans. Ei-ther way, it made its point.

A few fans got creative, though, and there was one comment that caught my attention, and I felt crossed the line.

“How’s your tree?” asked one student.

The level of disrespect left me speechless.

Ultimately, the trip made me realize how great Au-burn is.

Here, we may talk trash, but most fans are more in-terested in celebrating our victories than reminding others of their defeat.

Maybe we aren’t known for being one of the hard-est places to play in the na-tion, but we also don’t have people refusing to visit our town because of the way numerous people treated them.

We also may not be 8–0 and No. 1 in the country, but we haven’t had players suspended for failing drug tests and fighting at bars ei-ther.

Maybe I’m a sore loser or making excuses for our 5–3 season, but, at the end of the day, I’d much rather be an Auburn Tiger than any-thing else, because we have class.

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Coach Nell Fortner is busy putting the finishing touches on this year’s wom-en’s basketball team after falling short of the NCAA Tournament last year.

“Last year was somewhat of a disappointment for us after not making the NCAA Tournament after being granted a spot to host it, so these kids are hungry,” Fort-ner said.

She said that disappoint-ment has shown in im-provements on and off the court.

“The team chemistry re-ally determines on how well your team will do that season,” Fortner said. “They

have worked extremely hard during the offseason, and we have a lot of experi-ence coming back.”

Auburn is young, howev-er, with only three return-ing seniors on the team this year: guard Morgan Jen-nings, guard Parrisha Sim-mons and forward/center Chantel Hilliard.

Because of this, Fortner said many players will need to produce.

Sophomore forward Jas-sany Williams gained a lot of experience last year, so Fortner said she expects a good year from her.

Fortner also said she thinks sophomore guard Courtney Strain can take the team to the next level.

“(Strain) doesn’t have the 3-point range that Blanche (Alverson) and Camille (Glymph) do, but she has such a quick release,” Fort-ner said. “I feel good about that experience coming back with that young fresh-man class.”

Freshman guard Hasina Muhammad is a new ad-dition creating buzz in the gym.

The Memphis native av-eraged 17.8 points, 7.4 re-bounds, 2.3 assists, 3.9 blocks and 2.6 steals per game as a high school se-nior.

“Hasina fits in very well,” Hilliard said. “She listens to coach Fortner and every-body else every day. We can

tell her something and she responds very well to it. We can tell her to change her feet in play, and the next time she remembers and does it on her own.”

Two major changes will affect the team the most this season. The first is a new defensive package.

“The first few days of practice we have just worked on getting the fun-damental of the defense down and making sure that we have the technique right,” Alverson said. “We have had a lot of repetition of the plays to make sure that we are comfortable with it.”

Fortner said the defense focuses on putting pressure

on the ball in an attempt to force opponents out of their comfort zone.

The other major change will affect every NCAA women’s basketball team this year. The 3-point line has been moved back a foot to the equivalent of the men’s line.

“If you don’t have those bombers on the team, it will make a difference,” Fortner said. “We have worked hard with our post players dur-ing the offseason, so with the line being moved back and people with the ability to hit that three from that far out, it will open up the inside for us.”

Auburn hosts its only ex-hibition Sunday against

Georgia College and State University at 2 p.m. The Tigers don’t play a regu-lar-season home game un-til Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. against Belmont.

With two weeks remain-ing before taking the court in the Nov. 11 season open-er against Mercer, Fortner said she believes this year’s team may be good enough to make the NCAA Tourna-ment.

“I have never really been a conservative coach in say-ing what we want, but I do believe it is,” Fortner said. “As far as their attitude goes, I believe we can take it to that place, and that is the emphasis—we want to be in that NCAA Tournament.”

Lady Tigers hungry to reach NCAA Tournament in 2011

Graham carrWRITER

The volleyball team hopes to snap a six-game losing streak when it faces Ole Miss in Oxford Friday.

Coach Rick Nold said he feels Auburn (9–13, 3–9 SEC) can build on its last game, in which the team gave No. 24 Kentucky all it could handle before falling 3–2 in five sets.

Ole Miss (6–14, 1–6 SEC) has the worst overall record in the SEC, but Nold said Auburn will not underesti-mate the Rebels.

“Ole Miss is very athletic and a good blocking team,” Nold said. “So it will come down to who does better serving and serve receiv-ing.”

Junior outside hitter Sar-ah Bullock said the losing streak is not one the team wants to continue, but the Tigers have some work to

do if they are going to end it against Ole Miss.

“We really need to work on serving tougher, playing defense better and finishing our kills,” Bullock said.

“There is no one thing we did great against Kentucky, but we need to build off that game.”

S ophomore middle

blocker Courtney McDon-ald said the team’s tough stretch is the result of wor-rying about the team on the other side of the net, rather than their own play.

“Individually we were re-ally good against Kentucky, but when we work as a team, that is when we play our best,” McDonald said.

Nold said this road game will come down to which team most wants to finish out the season on a high note.

“We have got to make sure we keep them out of their system,” Nold said. “While for us, we need to keep ourselves in our sys-tem.”

Volleyball hopes to dig out of losing streak

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Sophomore Courtney McDonald attempts a spike Sunday at home against Kentucky.

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With Halloween fast approach-ing, some families are looking to go car-to-car instead of door-to-door in trunk-or-treats all over Lee County.

Trinity United Methodist and Greater Peace Missionary Baptist churches, however, will go all out with trunk-or-treat at Orangefest 2011.

A trend taking off late last de-cade, trunk-or-treat is when a church group or a community decorates the trunks of their cars and fills them with sweets.

Children show off their cos-tumes and fill their candy bags in what some parents believe to be a safer environment than traveling door-to-door around town.

Opelika’s Trinity United is part-nering with nearby Greater Peace to host its second-annual Orange-fest, which includes a trunk-or-treat Sunday from 4–7 p.m.

Amy McKay, organizer at Trin-ity United, said the churches sim-ply want to invite the community to find fellowship at a free event.

“Orangefest, I would say, is a community outreach,” McKay said. “Kind of a Halloween alter-native for the community and just a way for us to reach out and wel-come them to come to our cam-pus and see what we’re about.”

McKay said everyone hands out candy and prizes from their deco-rated trunk, her favorite last year being one converted into a kara-oke stage.

McKay said while children are welcome to wear costumes if they want, Orangefest is more about fall fellowship than a Halloween

themed party.“It’s more pumpkins and or-

ange,” McKay said, “definitely more fall festival.”

The Auburn Christian Student Center held its own trunk-or-treat devotional Tuesday night.

Mary Brinker-hoff minis-ters to the ACSC with her hus-band Jim, and sh e p l a n n e d t h e i r t r u n k- o r -treat. She said the de-votional al-way s t ake s place the Tuesday before Halloween as a way for students to con-nect with members of the Auburn Church of Christ, but still have time to celebrate Halloween on their own.

“Our main purpose is to pro-mote resident-student relation-ships with the residents at church because the residents are the ones who decorate their trunks and hand out food,” Brinkerhoff said.

In addition to sweets, attend-ees got what every college student loves any time of year: a free meal. Volunteers decorated their cars and served students in the ACSC parking lot.

One trunk had sandwiches, an-other had fruit, chips and drinks and the rest were filled with can-dy. There also was a costume con-test for attendees.

“We usually have 175 students or so that participate,” Brinker-hoff said. “It’s always a very well-attended event. It’s something ev-

erybody really looks for-ward to.”

W h i l e t h e ACSC celebrated fellowship among the congregation,

o r g a n i z e r s of Orangef-est are pre-paring for a big show. The festival and trunk-o r - t r e a t will stretch

across the entire church

campus. “We take up

the whole block from Eighth to Ninth Street,” McKay said. “That whole block

w i l l be activities.” McKay said the churches would

continue to host Orangefest at no cost to visitors as many years as possible to spread their message.

“It’s just sharing the love of Je-sus with the community,” McKay said.

Turnout for last year’s Orange-fest was more than 1,500, McKay said. She said organizers are plan-ning for approximately 2,000 this year.

“It was a lot of fun last year,” McKay said, “a lot of faces that I had never seen. That was won-derful, to see a lot of people on our campus that I had never met be-fore.”

A ghoul’s hand, a popcorn-filled glove with M&M fingertips, is a fun, spooky snack.

Roasted pumpkin seeds are a quick fix and easy to eat on the go.

Fun-size candy is a staple treat of Hal-loween and is great to have on hand in case of surprise trick-or- treaters.

Candy corn is a seasonal favorite everyone loves to munch on.

Halloween cookies are fun to decorate and eat.

» See TRUNK, B6

Raye MayASSOCIATE INTRIGUE EDITOR

This Halloween some are us-ing their creativity to be extra creepy.

Leni Ivanovsky, senior in so-cial work, said she will be dress-ing as a zombie for the third year in a row. Ivanovsky makes her zombie costume every year by ripping up old clothing and wearing makeup and fake blood.

“I think it's kind of like a waste of money to buy your costume,” Ivanovsky said. “Especially for girls, you're just going to dress like a slut anyway. Why not just wear your bra out? It's going to be cheaper, and at least you can re-wear your bra.”

Ivanovsky said it is basical-ly the same price to make a cos-tume as to buy one, and cos-

tumes can always be made more intricate by buying accessories from specialty stores like Par-ty City.

“Most girls are more creative when it comes to making cos-tumes,” Ivanovsky said. “Why are you going to spend like 40 bucks on a ladybug suit? Lady-bugs are not sexy.”

Ward Kennedy, senior in Eng-lish, said he is more impressed with women who make their own costumes.

“As far as respect goes on Hal-loween, I respect a girl a lot more who has made her costume and spent time on it than just buying one of these $50 ones,” he said.

Kennedy said his moth-er made him Indian and cave-

» See COSTUMES, B6

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Leni Ivanosky poses in her handmade zombie costume.

Trunk-or-treat ministers fellowship for community

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man costumes as a child, and he’s hardly ever worn a store-bought costume.

“Since I’ve been in college I’ve usually found things laying around to make a costume with,” Kennedy said. “Last Halloween was the first time I’ve actually bought a costume.”

Kennedy said the store-bought costume was Obi Wan Kenobi from “Star Wars,” and it was a disap-pointment.

“I feel like I should’ve got-ten a bathrobe or some-thing,” Kennedy said. “It’s like the same thing. It was terrible. It was hot. It just wasn’t worth it. I think if you really care about Hal-loween, you might as well just go ahead and make your own costume.”

Kennedy said one of the worst things about store-bought costumes is there are few references to cur-rent events.

“One thing about all

these costumes is that there’s no reference to pop culture,” Kennedy said. “I think that those are the bet-ter costumes. Whenever I see a costume that’s some-thing that happened very recently, I know what it is like immediately.”

Kennedy said the more timely costumes also add humor to Halloween.

Kennedy and Ivanovsky both said it was easier for men to make their own cos-tumes than women.

“All they have to do is put on pants and a shirt and be like, ‘I’m Vince from ‘En-tourage,’’” Ivanovsky said. “Guys can just wear what-ever they want.”

For men, finding a cos-tume is as simple as digging though your closet, Kenne-dy said.

“Last year I wore this jacket and a fedora, and I was Indiana Jones,” Kenne-dy said.

Jessica Issiac, senior in elementary education, said she has always worn home-made costumes.

“My mom always made my costumes as a kid, and I started making my own once I got old enough,” Is-siac said. “I like to be cre-ative and original with my outfits instead of buying cookie-cutter outfits from the stores. Plus it gives me a good excuse to go to Hob-by Lobby.”

Issiac said making your own costume is cheaper than buying from specialty stores, and it isn’t difficult to do.

“Party City costumes cost, what, $35–45 per out-fit plus accessories? I paid about $20 for all the sup-plies this year,” Issiac said. “You just have to find the right inspiration. The hard-est thing I did was fight my sewing machine.”

Issiac said she bought supplies for her costume at Hobby Lobby, the thrift store and donations from friends. She is making a Las Vegas showgirl outfit and has been working on it since September.

Paul Stockman, recent

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“If you see something and you’re just like, ‘I’m not going to make that,’ like an Angry Birds costume or a gorilla suit,” Stockman said. “You’re not going to make that at home. It also de-pends on the price.”

Ivanovsky, Kennedy and Stockman all said that it is worth the time and effort to dress up and enjoy Hallow-een, regardless of one’s age.

“You can do costume parties up until you’re 80, as long as you’re hanging out with other 80-year-olds,” Stockman said. “You’re nev-er too old to dress up.”

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Food & Home B7

Pumpkin Ricotta Mousse Pie

Kerry’s recipe of the week

Ingredients:16 ounces Pumpkin Pie Mix 16 ounces Ricotta cheese1 graham cracker crust 8 ounces whipped top-ping

Directions:In a food processor or blender, combine the pumpkin pie mix and ricotta cheese. Blend un-til combined. Pour into the prepared pie crust. Chill in the fridge for 4 hours. Top with the whipped topping and chill for an additional 2 hours.

Serves: 8

Contributed by Kerry Fannon

Becky HardyASSISTANT INTRIGUE EDITOR

So many ideas, so few pumpkins.

Creativty stretches fur-ther than just carving pumpkins for the fall holi-days.

Decorating pumpkins with paint and other props take them to the next level.

The popular activity of carving pumpkins, howev-er, is not forgotten this Oc-tober on Auburn’s campus.

The College of Archi-tecture, Design and Con-struction is holding its an-nual pumpkin carve Fri-day in the Dudley Court-

yard, where anyone can carve pumpkins and show off their creativity.

Eli Groman, CADC Am-bassador, suggested using reliable tools when carving pumpkins.

“Those little cheesy ones always break. Not fun,” Gro-man said.

Groman has seen his share of talented pumpkin carvings.

“You name it—I’ve seen it,” Groman said. “There was a pretty nice Obama caricature pumpkin last year.”

Groman said traditional pumpkins, like the jack-o-

lantern, are easier to carve.“Purely geometric: two

eyes, a triangle nose and a toothy smile,” Groman said. “It’s just so iconic, easy to visualize and execute for all ages.”

Marie Foshee, sales and trip coordinator at Farmer in the Dell Pumpkin Patch, said there are many holiday ideas involving pumpkins.

Because pumpkins be-gin to rot shortly after carv-ing, painting pumpkins is a cleaner and longer-lasting alternative.

“They don’t last a long time, especially if it’s warm outside,” Foshee said. “May-be two weeks if you carve them. If you paint faces on them, they will last almost forever.”

Pumpkins can also be used for holidays oth-er than Halloween and

Thanksgiving.“My friend paints them

white and paints a snow-man face on them,” Foshee said. “She then stacks them to make the pumpkins look like a snowman.”

Other than decorations, pumpkins can also be used in many traditional fall foods.

“We frequently make tra-ditional pumpkin pies and pumpkin bread,” Bell said. “I have also had a pump-kin-based soup and a fro-zen pumpkin ice cream pie. Many pumpkin recipes can be found online.”

Leonard Bell, professor of

food science, said not all of the pumpkin is edible.

“The edible parts of the pumpkin would be the in-ner flesh and the seeds, both after cooking,” Bell said. “The outer shell and the goopy strings are dis-posed of.”

Since cooking with pumpkin can be tricky, Bell said buying canned pump-kin saves time when pre-paring dishes.

“The most difficult thing about cooking with pump-kin is getting the inner flesh from fresh pumpkins,” Bell said. “It is difficult and time consuming.”

“If you paint faces on them, they will last almost forever.”

—Marie Foshee SALES AND TRIP COORDINATOR,

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Pumpkins good for more than pies


Budget or no budget, decorating with the colors and sights of the season can be done.

“The most important thing to remember when decorating for fall is to use live foliage and plants, not artificial ones,” said Kath-erine Bailey, interior de-signer and owner of Moxii, a decorating shop on Col-lege Street.

Decorating with gourds is a wise investment be-cause they can also be used in delicious recipes.

“Ten to 12 gourds com-bined with fall foliage can become an elegant, but nat-

ural centerpiece or mantle decoration,” Bailey said.

Vases and bowls add to these arrangements and can be inexpensive.

“It’s OK to repurpose a few things within your

home for fall decor,” Bai-ley said. “Vintage vases or milk bottles of all shapes and sizes filled with de-cor from your yard. Sticks, acorns, branches of turning leaves, even goldenrod can be beautiful in a vase.”

Seasonal plants and flowers can be used to make easy, inxpensive ar-rangements.

“Right now the pretti-est things out there are the mums,” said Caleb Med-iros, designer at The Flow-er Store. “They are a very inexpensive flower. Daisies are also a pretty flower right now.”

Mediros said indoor flower arrangements usu-

ally last about a week and a half, while outdoor mums can last for about a month, depending on the mum.

Reds, oranges and yel-lows are the classic fall col-ors, but this year try using a few unique accent colors instead.

“Burnt orange, metal-lic and teal are the popular colors this fall,” Bailey said. “A great way to pull these colors into your home are through throw pillows on your chairs and sofa.”

Don’t skip over small ideas that add a lot to the home. Pull out soaps, cof-fee flavors, linens and more everyday things that repre-sent the season.

Natural autumn sights, colors inspire indoor decorating

RAYE MAY / ASSOCIATE INTRIGUE EDITOR

Plants like goldenrod can be used in arrangements.

“Sticks, acorns, branches of turning leaves, even goldenrod can be beautiful in a vase.”

—Katherine Bailey OWNER OF MOXII

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