January 12, 2012
Volume 80 No. 15
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Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama
Students commemorate life of freshman Freshman dies after Christmas due to severe burns on body
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See page 2 UNA is working to bring an app to reality on iPhone and Android cell phone systems.
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Members of Kappa Sigma fraternity and administrators at UNA pulled together to host a memorial service Tuesday night for Chad Silcox, a member of Kappa Sigma who passed away during the winter holidays. Silcox was severely burned outside his family home due to a gas explosion while he was burning leaves on Dec. 24. He died at UAB Hospital the day after Christmas. Silcox was remembered by many of his fraternity brothers, as well as administrators, at the candlelight
memorial service. Kappa Sig brothers shared memories of him and sang songs in remembrance of his life. Hunter Daws, a member of Kappa Sigma and close +PIL ;QTKW` friend of Silcox’s, said Silcox loved life, the outdoors and country music. “Chad lived every day to the fullest; he was a no nonsense kind of guy,” he said. “He didn’t sit around. He got out there and did things.”
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photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Staff Photographer
Clifford Stout, Hunter Daws, Anthony Hester and Jordan Brasher light a memorial candle Jan. 10 for Chad Silcox.
Off the beach, onto the field
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Officials are discovering new ways to utilize Kilby Lab School, an elementary institution for students up to 6th grade that also acts as a laboratory environment for UNA students earning a degree. Kilby, which is located across from the Department of Communications on Pine Street, houses more than 140 students and received a subsidy of $218,124 from the university last year. Conversations regarding Kil-
See page 3 Miss UNA contestants get unique opportunity during pageant.
See page 5 Check out UNA junior Allison Ray’s and other student’s New Year’s resolutions.
photo by MALISA MCCLURE I Chief Photographer Bobby Wallace, who returned to UNA last week as the new head football coach, worked as head coach at UNA from 1988-1997 and won three straight national championships during that time.
Wallace plans to reinvent Lions football team See page 5 Feel the beat of the ‘Hip Heart’ as local musicians and artists come together.
See page 9 Get to know new Head Coach Bobby Wallace off the Lions’ football field.
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UNA introduced Bobby Wallace as its new head football coach Jan. 3 with hopes to continue the success he left behind while also building toward the Division I transition. Wallace, 57, went into retirement in 2010 and returned to UNA after spending 10 years as head coach from 1988-97 and winning three straight national championships. He said there wasn’t much that could get him off the beach and out
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Read an exclusive Q&A with Coach Bobby Wallace on page 8. of retirement until the head coach position became available again at UNA. “I spent 10 years here at UNA and the Shoals area and the bottom line is it’s the longest I have lived anywhere in my adult life,” Wallace said. “The friendships and relationships that I built over those 10 years and the success that came with it, it’s
hard to put in words how much UNA means to me.” According to Athletic Director Mark Linder, Wallace was the perfect fit for UNA to help the university transition to Division I athletics. “From the time we started the process and all the phone calls that we took, it was Coach Wallace that knocked all the other candidates out of the ball park,” Linder said. “We are about graduating champions and that is what Coach Wallace is all about.” Wallace said there is a lot of infrastructure that has been added to
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Breaking it down 2010-2011 Kilby Summary Revenue - $1,017,098 Expenses - $1,235,222 UNA subsidy - $218,124 by’s future and whether UNA will continue to fund the laboratory school have been frequent during the last few months among Kilby parents and community members, but UNA officials want to set the record straight. UNA President Bill Cale is not looking to shut Kilby down but is instead forming a committee that will investigate the value of the school and how the university can take advantage of Kilby’s laboratory environment.
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