The Auburn Plainsman A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID Thursday, January 17, 2013 ThePlainsman.com Vol. 119, Issue 28, 16 Pages CAMPUS / A2 Return to CAMpus Cam Newton returns to finish degree Lance Davis “Happy to see my man Cam tional championship in school SPORTS WRITER back at AU this semester work- history and won the Heisman Cam Newton is back on ing toward his degree. #warea- Trophy after a record-setting campus, and he’s not playing gle” season. around? Director of Auburn me- Newton was drafted first NO PREGNANCY Newton is enrolled at class- dia relations Kirk Sampson overall by the Carolina Pan- POLICY? es at Auburn, AU officials con- said Newton is focusing on his thers in 2011, the NFL team Auburn has no policy firmed to WSFA 12 News’ Sal- studies and trying to be a nor- with which he still plays. He to accomodate ly Pitts. He is working toward mal student. was named Offensive Rookie pregnancies. getting his sociology degree. Newton attended Florida of the Year and was selected to Two students speak Photos of Newton in class and Blinn Community Col- play in the 2012 Pro Bowl. out. made the rounds on social me- lege in Texas before enrolling The Panthers finished 7-9 dia. Head coach Gus Malzahn, at Auburn. During his one- this season with Newton threw COURTESY OF TODD VAN EMST who was Newton’s offensive year stay at Auburn, Newton for 19 touchdowns and 12 in- Cam Newton has returned to Auburn to complete his degree in Soci- COMMUNITY / A5 coordinator in 2010, tweeted, led the team to its second na- terceptions. ology. Newton left in 2011 to pursue his NFL career. Student researches cooling system in NASA aircraft Jessa Pease WRITER Naveenan Thiagarajan’s FORMER RECON flight aboard NASA’s Vomit SNIPER NOW AT Comet gave wings to his ex- EAMC periment when it was judged Mark Drye spent five to be the best at the American years in the marines COURTESY OF ACRE Society for Gravitational and and now he works in The capacity of Acre will be 180 people in a 4800 sq. ft. build- Space Research Conference in Opelika. ing. New Orleans, Saturday, Dec. 1. Thiagarajan, Auburn doc- OUR VIEW / A7 toral student in mechani- Acre adds to fine cal engineering, worked in collaboration with Oregon State University to conduct his experiment at the John- dining downtown son Space Center in Houston, Texas. The research conducted Chandler Jones “This Acre is going to be demonstrates an efficient liq- COMMUNITY REPORTER my little sustainable acre uid cooling system for space Auburn’s David Bancroft downtown,” Bancroft said. electronics where the liquid COURTESY OF NAVEENAN will bring Auburn its new- “I’m going to have a garden is circulated by bubble mo- est fine dining experience on site. I’m going to have tion using surface modifica- Naveenan Thiagarajan, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, with his new Acre Restau- fruit trees and peach trees.” tions, and not consuming any worked with Oregon State students to research a cooling system for IN AUBURN WE space electronics. TRUST? rant. Acre will also host its spacecraft power to cool. The board of Acre, located at 210 E. own Toomer’s Tree to bring “To prepare for the flight, “In its downward motion, “So if I do not design the trustees is close to Glenn Ave., broke ground even more of Auburn to the (Thiagarajan) spent nine you start floating in the air- experiments properly, what appointing a new this week. new Acre. months building a whole ex- craft and that is when you would happen is something member. Is there “Acre Restaurant, we The capacity of Acre will perimental setup,” said Shush- start feeling zero gravity,” could come loose, and it enough diversity on went and bought an acre be 180 people and 4800 sq. il Bhavnani, Thiagarajan’s dis- Bhavnani said. “All the data would be floating around in the board? of land downtown. So we ft. building with two pati- sertation advisor and profes- he collected during that flight the air,” Thiagarajan said. “It named the restaurant os, one facing Glenn and sor. “It was very complicated was presented on his poster in could be disastrous.” Acre,” Bancroft said. another into a cobblestone and it took a lot effort.” New Orleans.” Logan Strid, graduate stu- Bancroft’s distinct style courtyard. After the flight Thiagara- The experiment consist- dent at Oregon State Univer- SPORTS / B1 of cuisine will be the great- The courtyard will face a jan’s spent six months analyz- ed of 80 parabolic arcs in two sity, worked with Thiagara- est appeal to Acre. row of retail shops topped ing the data. days, 40 arcs per day in a two- jan on the project and rode He graduated from Au- by three condos. “Really that poster repre- hour period. The ride was like with him on the Vomit Com- burn in 2006 and began According to Bancroft, sents a year and a half of his a giant roller coaster, with et. Strid and Thiagarajan had working as Executive Chef they are still in the market life,” Bhavnani said. many precautions to take in weekly video conferences of Amsterdam Café. for what those shops will Thiagarajan and his group preparation, Thiagarajan said. where they shared informa- He then moved to the AU hold, but one will be a local of collaborators flew for two Flying the Vomit Comet tion. Club as their Head Chef in coffee shop. days in Houston on NASA’s takes about one year of prep- “He’s really laid-back and 2011. Bancroft is working with aircraft that achieves zero aration at least to prepare the easy to work with, but he’s al- Bancroft will use local the development firm Dil- gravity flying in parabolic experiments because under ways got something in the farm fresh ingredients and worth Development. arcs, or by rising up to 38,000 zero-gravity anything set into back of his mind,” Strid said. will have a seasonal menu feet and plummeting down to motion keeps following the based around his garden. » See ACRE A2 1,500 feet in 20 seconds. same trajectory. » See NASA A2 RECRUITING TRAIL Carl Lawson is one of Auburn’s top recruits for 2012, but who AFD comes under fire after Turner’s demotion else has committed thus far? Chandler Jones to comment on the specifics of The assessment centers at- COMMUNITY REPORTER Turners demotion. tempt to evaluate key perfor- INTRIGUE / B5 As if actually having to fight Turner is being represented mance aspects of being a fire- fire wasn’t enough of a battle, We got a black by Julian McPhillips of McPhil- fighter. The AFD hires an out- Christopher Turner from the “ lips Shinbaum, LLP in Mont- side consultant to run the cen- Auburn Fire Department has president and still gomery. ter and outside personal for filed several Equal Employ- Auburn doesn’t “You’ve got a 22, 23-year- evaluations. ment Opportunity Commis- even look like they old. This man here 47-years- “Those who prepare them- sion charges of alleged racial old, and he’s been there. Gave selves, sought education, who discrimination. up in the ‘70s, let his life,” Dowdell said. “He was have learned the business, Turner has filed complaints alone the 2013. 20-21 when he came, now he’s learned the job and learned of both racial and age discrim- 47. He gave his life to the City of professionally,” Lamar said. —Arthur Dowdell “Either through experience or DOWDELL ination. CITY COUNCILMEMBER Auburn. This is how we reward According to the EEOC of- him. It’s terrible.” certification training and edu- tices. ficial charge of discrimination Dowdell said he met with cation, those people have pro- “We’ve got to change Au- filed by Turner, Turner made perience.” two retired African American gressed much faster in these burn, we gonna have to make claims of discrimination on a Following the original firefighters that support Turn- organizations.” Auburn look like America,” LONG STANDING class-wide basis. Turner says charge, Turner filed three er and his claims. Lamar first worked for the Dowdell said. “ We got a Black TRADITION there has not been an African more additional charges, in- “Any time there’s a situation department in 1980–1984 president and still Auburn How long has American promoted to a su- cluding a seperate charge for like that, because it does in- when he stopped to attend Au- doesn’t even look like they up Auburn been pervisory position in the last the retaliation response to his volve personnel, we can’t com- burn University until 1985. La- in the 70s let alone the 2013. affiliated with oak fifteen years. first complaints. Turner was ment,” said Lee Lamar, chief of mar has worked full time for Students, black and white are trees? Turner claims he felt per- demoted from his position of the Fire Department. the Department and held ev- getting along, they walking to- sonally discriminated when Lieutenant to firefighter and According to Lamar, pro- ery position since then. gether, they going together, younger white employees were experienced a pay cut of $300 motional practices are based Dowdell is demanding and here it is in Auburn we’ve promoted to Lieutenant over a month. out of formal written tests and change. He wants to see Au- got this old cliché of good ole him despite his “extensive ex- The fire department refused assessment centers. burn use different hiring prac- boy system.” Campus A2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, January 17, 2013 DUI ARRESTS IN THE CITY OF AUBURN JAN.