Articles written by Sarah Harriage

Symposium teaches women secrets to financial success

wpolley — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400

A guest speaker: explains ways to achieve financial success during “Today’s Decision for Tomorrow’s Money,” a symposium held at The Hotel at Auburn University at Dixon Conference Center. Pete Riley / PHOTO EDITOR

The Auburn Women’s Philanthropy Board hosted the sixth annual spring symposium on “Today’s Decisions for Tomorrow’s Money” Monday in The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Women and men, from college students to the elderly, attended the speeches, which began at 8 a.m. and lasted until 2 p.m.

The focus and theme of the WPB events, held once in the spring and once in the fall, are to teach women financial independence and the spirit of “giving for a quality of life,” according to the organization’s motto.

“WPB, through its educational and philanthropic purpose, seeks to develop leadership potential, achieve independence as financial decision makers and develop and mentor students to do the same,” said Sidney James-Nakhjavan, director of the Women’s Philanthropy Board.

Dave Dennis, the CEO of Contractors Inc. and past member of the New Orleans Federal Reserve Board, spoke on the importance of keeping up with the economy.

Students take advantage of library resources

wpolley — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Rachel Hess: junior in human development and family studies, accesses a computer in the library. Kyle Cooper / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Every day, 4,976 people walk into the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, and 4,981 people make searches on Auburn’s licensed electronic databases.

Annually, Auburn’s library users download 5.23 million full text articles and access the library’s online catalog 2.9 million times.

According to students, the most important factor in all of these statistics is the one-on-one reference desk help, and the reference desk employees love the attention.

“We just like doing what we do,” said Nancy Noe, instruction coordinator, who works the reference desks along with 14 other full-time reference employees, four late-night working grad students and three part-time librarians.

According to Marcia L. Boosinger, associate dean for public services, students and online library users are finding it easier to answer quick questions via internet, which leaves longer and more personal consultation time for students to get help from the reference desk employees.

“Your teachers or parents may not want to help with your paper or finding sources, but we do,” said Robert Buchanan, physical sciences librarian.

T-shirt design winner announced at A-Day

wpolley — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Jessica Simmons: junior in nursing and an employee of Tiger Rags, sports the new All Auburn, All Orange T-shirt as she stocks shelves with more of the winning design. Sales for the All Auburn, All Orange shirts totaled more than 10,000 last year. JD Schein / ASSISTANT PHO

The new “All Auburn, All Orange” 2008-2009 T-shirt design was voted on and presented on the AU-HD screen at Saturday’s A-Day football game.

Almost 5,000 students voted through Thursday at noon on Auburn’s athletics Web site for one of the three designs created by the company Weezabi, which also did last year’s design.

Of the students and fans that voted, 2,202, or 46.5 percent, picked the design featuring pictures of Aubie, Samford, the Auburn University sign in front of Samford and the eagle.

The Auburn Family design was not far behind in the polls with 44.3 percent of the votes.

Some were unaware of the voting on Auburn’s Web site.

“I wish they’d get the word out a little better about voting,” said David Harris, a freshman in chemical engineering. “I didn’t even know about it. But the shirts still look great.”

The All Auburn, All Orange program was established in 2004 to bring together Auburn’s alumni, students, fans and student-athletes using one theme throughout campus-wide events.

Swimmers set for NCAA championship

wpolley — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Poised to Strike: Four Tigers qualified for the NCAA Championships at the James E. Martin Invitational Sunday. The national championship meet is scheduled for March 27-29 in Federal Way, Wash. JD Schein / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

The Auburn men’s swimming and diving team took advantage of a small meet Sunday to send four qualifying swimmers to the NCAAs.

Sunday’s event, the James E. Martin Invitational, was a last-chance meet for swimmers to qualify for the 2008 NCAA Championships.

The University of Florida, Florida A&M, Clemson and Georgia had swimmers attempting to make their times.

In the short course pool, Luke Weniger, a senior, swam an A-cut time of 47:00 for the 100-yard fly. He also earned a B-cut time for 200-yard free with a time of 47:75.

Cesar Cielo, a junior, and NCAAs 2007 Swimmer of the Year, made a fourth A-cut qualifying time of 46:23 for the 200-yard freestyle. The time also ranks him third all-time at Auburn for that event.

Many swimmers who touched in with B-cut qualifying times have a likely chance to compete at the NCAAs.

Michael Silva, a sophomore, made a B-cut qualifying for the 50-yard free with a time of 20:15. Jonathan Hiett, a sophomore, made B-cut for 100-yard breast with a time of 54:62. Andrew Mitchell made a B-cut time of 1:45:66 for 200-yard fly, as well as the 200m free with for a time of 55:39.

Women make Arkansas squeal with 74-57 win

wpolley — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

No. 24 DeWanna Bonner: battles under the boards with No. 15 freshman center Cassie Moore. Pete Riley / PHOTO EDITOR

Auburn’s women’s basketball team reigned victorious over Arkansas with a score of 74-57 Sunday, boasting a 19-10, 7-7 SEC record.

The game marks the second time Auburn has played the Razorbacks this season. As this was their last regular game of the season, they move on to play in the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament in Nashville, Tenn., seeded sixth.

Four women scored in double digits in the game, including Auburn’s forwards Sherell Hobbs, a junior, and freshman Alli Smalley. Together, with their 31 combined points after the half, led the team to victory.

“I think the team really responded during the second half on defense,” said head coach Nell Fortner. “It was good seeing players like Jordan Greenleaf step up.”

Sherell Hobbs, junior guard, was proud of the day’s efforts.

“Today we made a statement,” Hobbs said. “Our main goal was to come out and play all 40 minutes. Against Vanderbilt, I felt we only played 36 minutes, and it lost the game for us. So if we want to keep winning, we need to play hard the whole game.”

DeWanna Bonner, junior guard/forward and a major asset to the strong second half, was also pleased with the performance.

“I knew if we stayed strong and kept the game close, they would wear out,” Bonner said. “My teammates made a lot of big shots. We just came out and kept playing hard.”

Benefits of alcohol remain mysterious

wpolley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

We never know what will be the next healthy or unhealthy food or what may be the next source of cancer.

However, the facts behind one of these unsolved mystery foods could be lifesaving.

Could a glass of red wine a day really benefit the heart health for those especially of our parents’ generation?

Some students are still wary of the myth.