Auburn tops Samford 6-2
Auburn took the lead against Samford with a two-run seventh and capped the game with a three-run ninth inning to beat the Bulldogs 6-2 Tuesday, April 16, in Birmingham.
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Auburn took the lead against Samford with a two-run seventh and capped the game with a three-run ninth inning to beat the Bulldogs 6-2 Tuesday, April 16, in Birmingham.
After sitting on the bench for the first eight innings, catcher Blake Austin found himself at the plate in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to give Auburn a win.
Auburn women's golf finished tied for ninth at the Bryan National Collegiate after posting a score of 30-over 894.
Head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy could only smirk and shake her head when asked what has gotten into junior guard Tyrese Tanner over the last three games.
Junior Tyrese Tanner scored a career-high 29 points and led a dominant second-half performance by Auburn to pull away from UAB 80-57 and advance to the second round of the WNIT.
The No. 14 Auburn women's tennis team defeated LSU, 7-0, extending the team's program-record winning streak to 13 matches.
Auburn Floral Trail will open Monday, March 11, and run through Sunday, April 21. The Floral Trail, sponsored by Auburn Beautification Council and promoted by Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau, is made up of three trails: a North Trail, a South Trail and an optional trail which runs through Auburn University's arboretum. Each trail features different plants, most of which are typically Southern, and allows viewers to take in nature's beauty. "It is the great floral trail that graces Auburn and the Southern heritage that we have, with all the beautiful floral aspects that are native to our area, like the native azaleas and some of the flowers and trees that you see," said Catrina Cook, committee chair of Auburn Beautification Council. The North Trail runs 3.4 miles, and the South Trail runs 10.5 miles. The optional trail runs through Auburn's campus by the arboretum. Brochures with maps of the trails are available on the Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau's website. There will be a starting sign at the beginning of each trail, and signs will be placed along the trails to guide viewers. "We have an optional trail that's outlined as the Auburn University Arboretum Trail, and that's the president's house there, because they have some beautiful blooms," Cook said. "It's actually three trails, but we call them the North and the South, and of course the optional trail is the University Trail, depending on if the streets are open." The trails are accessible to all types of transportation. "You could ride your bike. A lot of routes have bike lanes," said Becky Richardson, parks and recreation director for Auburn. "It's pleasant to walk. A lot of the streets have sidewalks, so people could walk it." Floral trails in the past have drawn many people to the area, and the hope is the same will happen this year. "It's not the biggest event we have by any means, but it's just another opportunity for us to have something to showcase to visitors," said Robyn Bridges, vice president of Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau. "It's just a good time of year to kind of celebrate that renewal and rebirth of the new season." "We have businesses that come into town, we have industry that's here," Cook said. "And it's always something for them to do, to just view Auburn in this beautiful light while things are blooming." Participating in the trail gives a sense of pride to the residents who live along the routes. "We have some other members that have been involved for a while, and one mentioned not long ago that somebody called and asked if their house was going to be on the trail again, because they were going to do some work in their yard if they were going to be on the trail again," Richardson said. "So it's just kind of something that people take a lot of pride in and a lot of interest in." Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau will put photos from the trails on its website. "We do have a great slideshow that will be posted online on our website that you'll see there," Cook said. "I think it provides a great light for Auburn."
Some of the brothers do their studying in the library, some in the living room of the fraternity house and some prefer the peace and quiet of their rooms. Regardless of where they study, it's paying off. Legacy Brotherhood has the highest GPA of all fraternities so far in the spring 2013 semester. Boasting a 3.4 GPA, the 44-member fraternity is living up to the first sentence of its mission statement: "Our Legacy will be high moral character, academic excellence, a willingness to meet and make friends and a pursuit of health and well being." "I think that a major positive of our fraternity having the highest GPA is that it bodes well for our future as an organization," said Taylor Bradford, junior double majoring in finance and business administration and Legacy's treasurer. "It shows that we, like the other fraternities, care about more than just hanging out and having fun." Legacy accomplished this without having to enforce concrete study hours. "When they go through pledgeship, you have to have so many study hours in the library," said Stephen Caton, freshman in biomedical science and Legacy's scholarship chair. "But after you finish with that, we don't have any requirement for study hours, as long as you stay off probation." Legacy's minimum GPA for brothers is 2.3, but it is rare that a brother comes close to it. The fraternity had its first pledge class in fall 2010, and it has seen a steady increase in overall GPA since fall 2011. "Since we've started recording it, we have had a steady increase (in GPA)," said Matt Walk, senior in chemical engineering and Legacy's president. Legacy avoids having to deal with students uncommitted to academics by going after potential new members that will seek to maintain their grades during their time in college. "We look for guys that will represent us well," Walk said. "Academics are a byproduct of the character we look for. We feel like people we want for Legacy will want to strive for good grades." Legacy brothers hope that having the highest GPA on campus will have a positive effect in recruiting and help the brothers when searching for jobs in the future. "I think it helps build our reputation," Caton said. "It's good for recruiting. We can tell guys, 'Hey, we have the best GPA on campus.'" "This accomplishment will help us attract potential new members that are interested in pursuing academic excellence," Bradford said. "It will also help make our current members more attractive to employers. With employers seeing the best and brightest for their organizations, saying that you played a role in obtaining the highest GPA amongst the fraternities at Auburn University gives you a great selling point as a job candidate." Moving forward, Legacy will work to maintain a high GPA to put brothers in a position to succeed. "It's important if brothers are going to succeed in the long run," Walk said. "As a fraternity that's what we want to strive for, is successful people."
Some of the brothers do their studying in the library, some in the living room of the fraternity house and some prefer the peace and quiet of their rooms.
If Stephen Bass looked confident standing under the basket before his attempt at $5,000, it's because he was.
It was like he had done it before.
The Auburn baseball team will try to silence its critics in the 2013 season.
Turnovers were the difference in Auburn's 83-75 loss to Arkansas Wednesday night at Auburn Arena.
Auburn took its first lead since early in the game when Asauhn Dixon-Tatum scored on a putback with four seconds left.
Nestled in the corner of the Haley Center's ninth floor are the offices of the Southern Humanities Review, a quarterly journal published by Auburn University. Founded in 1967 by the Auburn College of Liberal Arts and Southern Humanities Council, Southern Humanities Review publishes works of fiction, poetry, critical essays and book reviews on a variety of topics. "It's considered a prestigious thing for a university to have a journal," said Karen Beckwith, SHR's managing editor, who has been with the journal in some capacity for almost 25 years. "We've had over the years calls and queries from other schools wanting to start one. It's something that is considered to be valuable." Writers typically submit material to be included in the journal. It then goes through a multiple-round process where the editors decide whether the piece should be published. "Anyone can submit to it, and then it goes through several layers of readers," Beckwith said. "The first round of readers rejects the stuff that is obviously bad and simply not ready for publication. Then several of us will get together and discuss stuff that made the first cut." Southern Humanities Review added Skip Horack to its staff last year. Horack is currently in his first year as an English professor at Auburn and fiction editor for SHR. "I'm pretty new to it, but I was certainly aware of it before I came here," Horack said. "It's pretty well-known and well-respected. It has a good reputation throughout the country as a publisher of literary fiction and poetry and criticism." Horack, who has also written two award-winning books - "The Eden Hunter" and "The Southern Cross" -- says working with Southern Humanities Review gives him an opportunity to see what other writers are doing. "You get a real sense of what's out there and what people are doing," Horack said. "It's really interesting coming at it as a writer." Literary review journals battle a stigma that the editors are searching for reasons to turn down submissions, but Horack says it is the opposite at Southern Humanities Review. "With everything that comes in, as soon as I turn to page one, you're hoping it's going to be something you're really going to connect with and want to publish," Horack said. "Who doesn't want to have a great reading experience?" Southern Humanities Review also has student editors, giving them an opportunity to read what other writers from across the country are writing. "I've used this as an experience that whenever we've reacted negatively to a piece, I've taken that as something not to do," said Savannah Harrison, a first-year master's student in creative writing. Students also find seeing what people submit to journals fascinating. "It's useful to see what people are doing, trying to do and sending to journals," said Michelle Hopf, a second-year master's student in creative writing. Southern Humanities Review is available at the university bookstore. People can also submit a subscription form on the journal's website. "You can learn something from anything you read," Horack said. "There's a lot of really great writing out there."
The approvals have been made and the plans are in order for an apartment complex to be built at 319 Bragg Ave. "They'll be rental apartments," said Forrest Cotten, director of planning for the city of Auburn. "This development group intends to maintain ownership, and these'll be rentals. They won't be for purchase." The complex's size will be modest compared to most student housing developments. The group is proposing 86 units in two buildings. The complex will offer two-, three- and four-bedroom units for a bedroom count of more than 300. The apartment is expected to be an upscale complex based on the amenities it's offering, Cotten said. Complex-wide amenities will include a clubhouse, fitness room, pool, lounge area and printing. The community will be gated. Unit amenities include a washer and dryer, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, hardwood floors and high-speed Internet. Barrett Development Group, based in Athens, Ga., is in charge of the development. "Apartments for college students is kind of a niche market," Cotten said. "There are actually a number of different developers nationally that specifically target college communities to build their product in." A date to begin construction has not been set. The completion date for the complex was initially planned for people to be able to rent the apartments in time for the Fall 2013 semester, but that date was delayed because of the market study. "They perform what they call step-up analysis, where they examine different grades of student housing based on rent levels," Cotten said. "Typically you're going to have a certain level of the population that's going to be looking to step up if they can. They felt that in this particular level of student housing there would be step-up demand for this product." The complex initially appeared on the Dec. 18, 2012 council meeting agenda. The item was tabled because Auburn City Council decided Barrett Development Group needed to perform a market study to justify that new housing was needed. The development was approved by the Auburn City Council at its Tuesday, Jan. 22 meeting. The complex is being built adjacent to the newly-opened Family Dollar, which is located on the corner of Bragg Avenue and North Donahue Drive. The management of Family Dollar, which opened on Jan. 10, is hoping the apartment complex will lead to more business. "It's a positive," said Patty Lewis, manager of Family Dollar. "It'll bring in foot traffic."
The University announced Friday, Feb. 1 plans to remove the beloved poisoned oak trees at Toomer's Corner.
Junior guard Chris Denson has been spending a little more time than he'd like in the training room.
The Board of Trustees discussed new graduate and master's certificates and new regulations for the Auburn University Regional Airport at a meeting Friday, Feb. 1 at the Auburn University at Montgomery campus.
Auburn has made plans to remove the poisoned oak trees at Toomer's Corner, the University announced Friday.