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Program celebrates MLK legacy John Legend performs to conclude weekend of events By Josh Mullins | Contributing Writer
Film screening WHAT: “Tough Guise 2: The Ongoing Crisis of Violent Masculinity” WHEN: 6:30-8 p.m. WHERE: 301 Ferguson Center
Honors College WHAT: Honors Coffee Hour WHEN: 7-8 p.m. WHERE: Ridgecrest South Lobby
Community music WHAT: Faculty recital, Susan Williams, soprano WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Recital Hall, Moody Music Building
Tony Brown arrested over weekend Police pepper spray freshman cornerback after altercation By Marc Torrence | Sports Editor Alabama freshman cornerback Tony Brown was pepper sprayed, taken to the ground and arrested by Tuscaloosa Police early Sunday morning for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Brown was held on $1,500 bail and later released.
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pepper sprayed, forced to the ground and taken into custody, according to the report. Brown was one of eight freshmen football players who enrolled in January and was rated a five-star prospect by 247Sports. He is also a member of the track and field team. UA Associate Athletics Director for Football Media Relations Jeff Purinton released the following statement: “Coach Saban is aware of the situation and will handle it appropriately once he has a chance to review all of the information.”
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According to a TPD release, police responded to a “loud party and underage drinking” at Campus Way apartments. Brown was part of a group of around 40 people that gathered and followed police after they arrested Chavis Taylor, who is listed as a student in the University’s online directory. According to the report, police warned Brown to back up multiple times, and he “yelled threatening profanity” at them. When an officer grabbed him to take him into custody, he “pulled away” and was then
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Legend then concluded by performing a small selection of songs including “All of Me,” “Ordinary People” and “Green Light,” in the Moody Music Concert Hall. Following his performance, the audience joined hands and sang “We Shall Overcome,” which has become the traditional conclusion for the Legacy Concert. The weekend began with the Legacy Banquet Friday night in Foster Auditorium and featured John Cochran, a University of Alabama graduate and award-winning ABC and NBC correspondent, as the special guest speaker for the evening. Cochran told several personal stories and openly
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Fifty years years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the phrase “Living together in peace” was the centerpiece for the Realizing the Dream program put on by The University of Alabama, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Stillman College and Shelton State Community College. Streets and auditorium seats were filled throughout the weekend as hundreds came out to honor the legacy of Martin
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Luther King Jr. and the honorees that were selected for upholding and living by these same ideals. On Sunday, John Legend, nine-time Grammy winner, actor and philanthropist, headlined the Realizing the Dream concert with a lecture on educational inequality, which he sees as the next major civil rights issue facing the current generation. “You can say that all people are created equal, you can even put [it] into law, but with severe educational disparities, with schools and neighborhoods being neglected while others are getting all of the resources they need, there is no way that we can say that all people get an equal shot at the American dream,” Legend said.
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produced by Samantha, and instead it relies on algorithms to figure out its next move. Ricks said the main appeal of artificial intelligence today is that it is customized to the wants and needs of each person, whether that simply be related ads on a website or a certain voice on a GPS or iPhone. “When you’re interacting with technology, and the technology is designed to please a person, you get your way all the time,” Ricks said. “I think it can certainly feel good because its customized to us.”
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Spike Jonze’s most recent work, “Her,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, is a “boy-meets-operating-system” romance story, with equal parts sci-fi and drama. The film takes place in the not-so-distant future, a place the New York Times says is not reinvented, but is a “modestly embellished” version of the present.
Though Ricks said technology like Samantha is still ahead of us, he said aspects of this technology are a work-in-progress reality. In fact, on his desk and in his lab lie many robots with artificial intelligence capabilities, ranging from navigation to remote sensing abilities. “This was actually a student project,” Ricks said, referring to a robot that navigates mazes. “It will actually find its own way through a maze. Hit a button, hands off and pray.” Ricks said customized technology already exists but simply lacks the original thought
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In the film, Phoenix’s character, Theodore, falls for a computer program named Samantha. Though she is a voice without a body, she is her own artificially intelligent being and evolves rapidly through her experiences, becoming a crutch for the lonely Theodore. “Artificial intelligence in a generic, layman’s term, is when a robot can sense its environment and make decisions to make it able to achieve its task based on its perceptions,” said Kenneth Ricks, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama.
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WRC to screen movie in Ferg The Women’s Resource Center will host a screening of “Tough Guise 2” in the Ferguson Center as part of the White Ribbon Campaign. The screening will be held in Room 301 of the Ferguson Center and will last from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The White Ribbon Campaign is a national movement working to prevent male violence against women. The Women’s Resource Center will host a series of events in upcoming weeks as part of the campaign.
UADM hosts fundraiser at Chipotle The University of Alabama Dance Marathon will attempt to raise more money than Auburn University’s Dance Marathon with multiple efforts throughout the week including a fundraising night at Chipotle Tuesday. “We’re looking at this as our redemption from the Iron Bowl,” Kaitlyn Klootwyk, President of UADM, said in a press release. “We’re hoping to raise more than $50,000 this week. It’s a lot of money, but Auburn set the bar pretty high and we know that the UA and Tuscaloosa communities can beat them.” The Chipotle location on the Strip has agreed to donate 50 percent of profit from food sales between 4 and 7 p.m. Tuesday night. Customers only have to mention UADM to the cashier, and half of the profit will be given to the organization. UADM will also have several tables set up in the Ferguson Center throughout the week and at the Rec Center Thursday. Students will be able to donate using cash, credit cards or Bama Cash. All the money raised by UADM will go directly to Children’s Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham. Although the competition is only for this week, the group will continue raising money until the Dance Marathon event is held March 1. For more information on donating or to register for the dance marathon, visit uadm.ua.edu.
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INTHE NEWS China’s industry exporting air pollution to U.S., study says From MCT Campus China’s export industry is responsible for dirty emissions that are blowing across the Pacific Ocean and contributing to smog in the United States, a new scientific study says. About one-fifth of the pollution China spews into the atmosphere comes from producing goods for export to the United States and other countries, according to the paper by a group of scientists that was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Winds blow pollutants from Chinese power plants and factories across the Pacific in about six days, where they boost levels of smog in the United States. Los Angeles and parts of the eastern U.S. experienced at least one extra day of smog that exceeded federal health standards for ozone in 2006 as a result of emissions from export manufacturing in China, the study found. “Rising emissions produced in China are a key reason global emissions of air pollutants have remained at a high level during 2000-2009 even as emissions produced in the United States, Europe and Japan have
decreased,” the scientists wrote. “Outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States – or, for that matter, many countries in the Northern Hemisphere – from the environmental impacts of air pollution.” Nine scientists in the United States, China and the United Kingdom used data from 2006 to quantify how much of the air pollution reaching the U.S. West Coast from China is from the production goods for export to the United States and other countries. Scientists followed the path of air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides carbon monoxide and black carbon, through the atmosphere to gauge their effects on air quality in the United States. While the United States has reaped some of the benefits of outsourcing – cheaper cellphones, televisions and appliances and big declines in air pollution – rising emissions in China have paralyzed cities there with severe smog. The paper is a reminder that U.S. demand for cheap imports from China has a way of blowing those environmental problems back at us, said Steve Davis, an earth system
scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of the study. “It’s sort of a boomerang effect,” he said. Davis expressed hope that the findings would be used by world governments working to craft international agreements to limit emissions of carbon dioxide that are driving climate change as well as short-lived air pollutants that are responsible for poor air quality around the globe. “We need to move beyond placing blame for who’s creating these emissions and realize that we all have a common interest in reducing the pollution,” Davis said. Since the 1990s, scientists have known that pollution from China is carried across the Pacific by westerly winds and that it worsens air quality along the U.S. West Coast. Those emissions contribute only slightly to U.S. smog levels, which are overwhelmingly caused by local emissions from vehicles, factories and power plants. “We shouldn’t take an alarmist perspective,” Davis said. “Los Angeles air quality is not going to be what it was in the ’70s or ’80s because of this.”
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Honors College proposes new nanotechnology class By Jason Frost | Contributing Writer
Submitted Chris Kavanagh, a UA graduate, is opening a Two Men and a Truck franchise in Roanoke, Va.
UA alumni to expand Two Men and a Truck After years of involvement with the comapny, each alumus is opening his own franchise By Samuel Yang | Staff Reporter The logo for moving company Two Men and a Truck features two stick figures sitting in a truck, but three men from The University of Alabama have taken their opportunities with the company to the next level. Teddy Gryska, a 2004 and soon-to-be 2014 graduate, is planning to open his own franchise in Stafford, Texas, after seeing and hearing positive testimonials about Two Men and a Truck. Gryska originally earned a degree in international business, with a minor in Spanish, and then went to work in his family’s business. “I was kind of thrown into the business world,” Gryska said. Gryska played football for the Crimson Tide and credits the program with helping him develop discipline, teamwork and time management skills. He is now in the last semester of the University’s Executive MBA program. “I really think the MBA program has helped me more than anything,” Gryska said. “A lot of the EMBA program is hands-on application to your business or to a business that somebody in your group is a part of.” Gryska credits Two Men and a Truck’s growth to its positive brand image and points to the cooperation among its employees as helping him expand the company. “It kind of goes back to part of what I love about Two Men and a Truck,” Gryska said “It’s very transparent. Everyone in the system as a whole works together.” The company’s core values include integrity, inclusion and giving back to the community. Chris Kavanagh, who graduated from the University in 2011 and is starting a franchise in Roanoke, Va., said the core values – including “The Grandma Rule” – were part of what made him want to make the leap from employment to ownership. “If you treat your customers like you treat your grandmother, you’re going to get a positive response,” Kavanagh said. “It’s a fantastic system that they’ve built.” Kavanagh, who got a degree in psychology, said he never considered owning his own business until he began working with Two Men and a Truck and apprenticed with an owner. The support he received from his family and colleagues helped him gain confidence.
Business ownership became a dream of mine. And then I sort of just went for it. — Chris Kavanagh
“Business ownership became a dream of mine. And then I sort of just went for it,” Kavanagh said. “I guess the confidence came from all the support in every direction that I have.” Still, he said the psychology degree he earned will be useful to him in his career. “With a psychology degree, I did learn a lot about human behavior and relating and appealing to different personality types and that sort of thing, so I think my degree definitely is helping me with all of the different personalities I have to deal with and communicate with,” Kavanagh said. “I think it’s absolutely a huge help.” Joey Hale, a 1996 UA alumnus, is preparing to open his Potomac, Md., franchise in March. He said the most important effect of his business management degree was that it piqued his interest in business ownership. “It got me wanting to own my own business,” he said. “I knew I wanted to do something like that; I just didn’t know specifically what I wanted to be.” Hale, like Kavanagh and Gryska, will have the power to hire movers for his new franchise – and like Kavanagh and Gryska, he said he sees Two Men and a Truck, which increases its employment in the summer, and college students as a good match. “I’m always looking for good college students,” Hale said. Though strenuous, the work helps students become well rounded, requiring and displaying valuable business knowledge and people skills, Hale said. “Everybody will always be looking for [those skills],” Hale said. “I think college kids make the perfect movers.”
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From curing cancer to cleaning oil spills, nanotechnology is finding applications everywhere, and not just in science fiction. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation through the National Nanotechnology Initiative, a new honors course, UH 120-322, explores existing and potential applications of nanotechnology in a variety of fields, including medicine, engineering and the military, as well as ethical concerns involved in its use. “I had worked with a local engineer, Jonathan Bonner, CFM Group, on plans to build a new, sustainable processing facility funded by President [Barack] Obama’s stimulus funding for the seafood industry in Alabama, using the UN’s concept of sustainability for how the plant could be designed and operated,” Assistant Research Director Karen Boykin said. “This was to be the first of its kind in the nation. The idea was so well received by industry, government, local universities and the general public that we wanted to expand the idea into our educational activities in K-20.” According to the syllabus, the class offers students an introduction into the basic concepts of nanotechnology, allowing them to explore applications in local industries, as well as utilizing resources at the national level through the NSF. The University of Alabama has a longstanding research team that explores nanotechnlogy’s applications with the help of numerous Alabama universities. This class will borrow content from the same educational tools they use. “We will bring authorities in the field,” associate professor of engineering Dan Fonseca said. “As Dr. Boykin can attest, we will invite the associate director from the Alabama’s Center for Nanotechnology Research as well, another leading researcher in the nation. As the course progresses, we will be developing a wider network of guest speakers from all over the world.” The class was founded by four professors: Boykin, Fonseca, psychology department head Rick Houser and chemistry professor Dave Nikles. They began pitching ideas to the National Science Foundation in 2010, their third attempt to secure funding for the course. “This effort represents the first of its nature in the Southeast,” Fonseca said. “There is only one similar initiative in
As a natural science course, this would be aimed at the general student population who would learn about the science underpinning nanotechnology, some emerging applications and the societal impact of nanotechnology. — Dave Nikles
the U.S., which is being taught at Rice, but our initiative deals not only with the societal and technical aspects of nanoscience, but also the financial, ethical, manufacturing and environmental sides of it.” Despite difficulties, they managed to win the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education grant – $200,000 that enables the class to bring in guest speakers and utilize local research facilities, such as the Green Box Facility in Moundville, Ala., and the University’s Central Analytics Facility. “Real-world science concepts from nano bio industries in Alabama are also being presented,” Boykin said. “For example, cutting-edge research is being performed in biotechnology at the Hudson Alpha Institute. One area discussed by Dr. Nikles and Dr. Houser as part of the NUE is the invention of medical kits for the identification of DNA by pharmaceutical companies that can determine if a person is more prone to have certain illnesses.” The class is currently in a testing phase, during which they are working with educators from Purdue University who will determine how well the curriculum fits United Nations guidelines. It is only being offered through the Honors College for 2014. If all goes well, it will be offered as a general science or science elective course within the next few years. “As a natural science course, this would be aimed at the general student population, who would learn about the science underpinning nanotechnology, some emerging applications and the societal impact of nanotechnology,” Nikles said.
NEWSIN BRIEF Campus to host BabyPalooza for parents of infants An exposition and product fair for the parents of infants will be held on Saturday at the Bryant Conference Center. BabyPalooza is a statewide tour with events in Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Huntsville and Birmingham. The Tuscaloosa BabyPalooza will feature several informational exhibits on parenting, maternity and child rearing. The expo will also include interactive entertainment and information for new and expectant parents, as well as displays from Druid County Hospital Health System and the University of Alabama Child Life Services. BabyPalooza will be sponsored by DCH, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Fox 6 News, Clear Channel Radio, Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa Magazine, Tuscmoms. com, Kids Life Magazine, the Bryant Conference Center and Alabama Baby & Child magazine. Attendees can register for the event at BabyPaloozaTour.com or at the door. Admission to the exposition is free. The Tuscaloosa BabyPalooza will be held from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Bryant Conference Center, 240 Paul W. Bryant Drive. For more information, call 205-445-1345.
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COLUMN | MLK DAY
Leaders in civil rights should remain relevant Victor Cuicahua | Staff Columnist
In February, the Harlem Shake craze hit universities all over the United States. Tons of videos hit YouTube chronicling this new phenomenon, so of course the University would want to join. Everything was set into place, but there was one problem: the grounds permit. Also let us not forget the ticketing and threatened expulsion of the organizer. This incident sparked another debate of free speech. What harm exactly would have come from letting the student body do a three-minute dance? Would it paint the school as a party center or a place that encourages student’s creative minds? We can cultivate a community of change on campus. It would be a welcomed change to be on the news because we are the school that let students speak their minds and express their individuality. We are a school that has deep roots with discrimination and prejudice, but with this new year, it’s time for a new look for the University.
We have come a long way here in the U.S. when it comes to race relations. Martin Luther King, Jr. avenues are numerous, and King County in Washington went so far as to abandon its namesake William Rufus King, a senator from Alabama, for Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2005. Barack Obama won the American presidency in 2008 and retained it in 2012, and we even have a black Republican senator from South Carolina in Tim Scott. Latinos w i l l become a majority in California in 2014. The times are shifting, but commercializing and oversimplifying civil rights icons and their struggles needs to stop. King should not be commemorated for his actions of yesterday with idleness and selective amnesia today. Nelson Mandela’s memory should not be appropriated by Rick Santorum in his fight against the Affordable Care Act. Ian Bayne, a GOP congressional candidate, should not say, “In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians.” The misinterpretation of human rights struggles is an affront to the complexity of the issues they fought against – issues that still persist today. While we no longer have public lynchings, Renisha McBride, a black woman, did not expect to be shot in the face when she knocked on the door of a white man in suburban Detroit, seeking help after a car crash. Brisenia Flores, a 9-year-old Latina murdered in Arizona, did not expect to be pleading for her and her father’s life after anti-immigrant fanatics invaded and robbed her home. To paraphrase Lorna Dee Cervantes, I know you don’t believe this. You think this is faddish exaggeration, but it’s easy to ignore me when they are not shooting at you. Justice is not a gift from the affluent to the less fortunate. Frederick Douglas emphasized that power concedes nothing without demand, and Malcolm X vowed to obtain human rights by any means necessary. Everything King, Malcolm, Douglas, Mandela and Parks carried out and believed in was once despised. Everything we now celebrate about them was once rejected, ridiculed and struck fear into the hearts of those in power. Airbrushing and erasing the radicalism of those who fought before us is converting centuries of resistance into a day of rest, a brief paragraph in most textbooks and a myth estranged from actuality. We can turn our noses in disgust at the Jim Crow laws of an earlier time, but we cannot turn our head away from stop-and-frisk policies in New York City that disproportionately affect and criminalize the same victims – communities of color. During the last embers of King’s life, he gave one of his finest speeches in Memphis in support of a sanitation worker’s strike. In that speech, King perfectly captured the fragility of his life, stating, “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” King and others had a dream. It’s up to us to make it a reality.
Amber Patterson is a junior majoring in public relations. Her column runs weekly on Tuesdays.
Victor Cuicahua is a freshman majoring in journalism. His column runs biweekly on Tuesdays.
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COLUMN | TAX POLICY
Raise tax revenue, reduce debt by cutting taxes By Andrew Parks | Staff Columnist Students at The University of Alabama and Americans across the country were no doubt perturbed, annoyed and disgruntled over the government shutdown that took place in October. I can personally recall countless stories from friends whose research projects were put on hold due to cessation of funding, whose parents were furloughed and who found themselves shocked and even a little embarrassed as they watched the people elected to lead our nation fail to proverbially keep the doors open. Even as a conservative, I thought of a government shutdown as a political and logistical nightmare, despite agreeing with the sentiments of Republicans whose actions eventually caused it. Thankfully, the series of continuing resolutions that left our government open to this kind of political showdown-turned-crisis ended last month with a deal that passed our first actual budget in five years. However, while that may have eliminated some of the ramifications of political bickering, it did not address the real problem facing the country. The real problem is that the federal government has run a deficit of roughly $1 trillion (often more) since fiscal year 2009. Why is that a problem? Simply put, in that time, we’ve accumulated more than $6 trillion in debt and reached a debt-to-GDP ratio of roughly 107.9 percent. To put that in perspective, Greece hit austerity and watched its economy fall to pieces when its debt-toGDP ratio reached 148.3 percent, which we could reach within 10 years if something
Andrew Parks isn’t done. Additionally, research from Mehmet Caner of North Carolina State University indicates a compounding detrimental effect on GDP growth rates for every debt-to-GDP ratio point beyond 77 percent, meaning that the very fact that we have such debt slows economic growth. This may at least partially explain our slow recovery from the recession spawned by the 2008 financial collapse. So how do we solve it? This is where much of the contention over the budget issue exists. Conservatives favor budget cuts, believing that government has become too big and that any additional taxes are a strain on an already sluggish economy. Liberals favor increases in revenue by way of tax hikes, believing that it’s better to raise funds for the government than cut its services. Interestingly enough, both sides can have their way. Why? Because tax cuts, believe it or not, actually lead to increases in revenue. It defies reason, right? Cut rates and
increase revenues? That’s not possible. At least, that’s what the Congressional Budget Office said in a report issued over the second wave of Bush-era tax cuts in 2003 when it projected said cuts would lower income tax revenues by $75 billion in 2006. Instead, those revenues increased by $47 billion. Adjusted to FY 2005 dollars to compensate for inflation, the deficit dropped from $402.8 billion in 2003 to $239.6 billion in 2006 and total tax receipts climbed $223.1 billion in the same time period. In fact, that revenue climb that began in 2003 reversed a downward trend in total receipts that began in 2000 and arguably ended the 2001 recession. Moreover, the phenomenon is consistent, and not just in the form of income taxes. A cut in the capital gains tax rate from 28 percent to 20 percent instituted in 1983 brought revenues from $18 billion that same year to $80 billion in 1986 because of the massive increase in investment it engendered. When President Lyndon B. Johnson passed his plan for tax cuts in early 1964, the country enjoyed a drop in unemployment from 5.2 percent to 3.8 percent by 1966 and a 12 percent increase in revenues during the same time period. If those kinds of results could be replicated, college students like us would not only have a better chance of finding a job after graduation, but we’d get to keep more of what we earn from it, too. Republican or Democrat, who wouldn’t like that? Andrew Parks is a junior majoring in political science. His column runs biweekly on Tuesdays.
COLUMN | FIRST AMENDMENT
New year is a chance for University free speech By Amber Patterson | Senior Staff Columnist Last year, the reputation of The University of Alabama took a beating, to say the least. We were plastered across all the major news networks for our racially segregated greek system. The world saw the University painted as an institution that has not moved past its ways of 50 years ago. But it’s a new year, which means a fresh start. It gives the University a chance to become a progressive place that encourages diversity, a characteristic that a university is supposed to have. Recently, the University was placed at the top of the Huffington Post’s 10 worst colleges for free speech. This list was released right before the new year, but it serves as yet another reminder of the University’s shortcomings when it comes to cultivating an environment that fosters independent thinking. We were not alone on this list, but given recent events, we stick out like a sore thumb. As the thought “of course” ran through my mind, I couldn’t help but feel defeated. As a communications major, the First Amendment is something I hold dearly. I can’t
Amber Patterson say that I haven’t noticed how the administration hides behind “ground permits” to tailor the message that they want displayed. The article cited an incident with the Alabama Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Justice and their counter protest against Bama Student Life’s “Genocide Awareness Project.” I know I am not the only who found it strange that it is OK to post gory images in the middle of the Quad, but handing out pamphlets was cause for arrest. This incident placed the University on the list, but it is just one of many.
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Health Career Forum promotes rural medicine By Taylor Manning | Contributing Writer Rural areas of Alabama are facing a significant shortage of primary care physicians, according to a press release issued by The University of Alabama. There is an even greater shortage of minority physicians throughout the nation, particularly black males. In an effort to create a dialogue about these issues, The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences hosted its first annual AfricanAmerican Male Health Career Forum at the Ferguson Center Theater Saturday. The panel was the first of its kind geared specifically for high school students. Minorities are hugely underrepresented in the health care field, event organizer Pamela Payne-Foster, an associate professor in the department of community and rural medicine, said. “Only between 6 and 8 percent of medical students in the nation are African-American,” Foster said. “Of that, about 65 percent Photo Courtesy of Leslie Manning of the applicants are female, and 35 percent are male.” Dr. Rani Whitfield describes his experience as a black Several high schools from the man in medicine at Saturday’s Health Career Forum.
Tuscaloosa area participated in the event, which featured Rani Whitfield as a keynote speaker. Whitfield, also known widely as “Tha Hip Hop Doc,” spoke on his experiences as a young black man making his way through medical school as well as his current practice in Baton Rouge, La. Whitfield is known for his appearances on BET’s “106 and Park,” CNN and PBS. In 2013, Whitfield released “Get on Tha Bus,” a rap album that addresses current mental and health issues. He also created the comic book series, “Tha Hip Hop Doc Presents: The Legion of Health,” which teaches youths the importance of staying healthy. Through music and creative writing, Whitfield debates health challenges among the nation’s youth, including peer pressure, drunken driving and prescription drug abuse. Whitfield confronted these challenges during the forum and even performed a brief rap solo during the question-and-answer session. He also addressed the desperate shortage of health professionals in Alabama’s rural areas. “We’re targeting young
African-American men from the communities where they live so they can go back and help the people that took care of them,” Whitfield said. Attendees also participated in group discussions about “The Pact,” a book written by three black physicians who made a promise to each other to become doctors. Participants also visited “career tables” to learn more about job options in the health care industry. Alabama needs these types of programs, D’Anthony Jackson, a junior at the University of West Alabama, said. Jackson also mentors high school students through his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. “If we can encourage them to go to medical school, we want that to happen now, instead of waiting later when they have already started their major,” Jackson said. Marshall Pritchett, another conference speaker, also applauded the program for demonstrating positive role models to the high-schoolers in attendance. “A lot of African-Americans, especially those in the Black
Belt region of Alabama and especially in lower income places, [are] not seeing black physicians in their communities. It all comes down to what you’re exposed to,” Pritchett said. Pritchett is the only black man in the Rural Medical Scholars program at the University, which encourages medical students to practice in rural areas. “We’re particularly interested in the Black Belt [and] Central Alabama area,” Foster said. “We’ve got some pipeline programs where we have sort of grown our own doctors. We recruit kids from rural areas. We pipe them into medical school and send them back out into rural areas. We’ve done a very good job of putting them in North Alabama and South Alabama, but not as well in the Black Belt.” The College of Community Health Sciences will host the forum on an annual basis in order to address these types of issues and pending funding, Foster said. “The program was pretty fun,” Marcus Martin, a freshman at Paul W. Bryant High School, said. “It was very educational.”
Elect Her prepares women for office By Jessica Smith | Staff Reporter Elect Her: Campus Women Win, a program that trains college women to run for student government and future office, is coming to The University of Alabama Feb. 1. Sydney Page, senior and student coordinator for Elect Her UA, works with the Women’s Resource Center to bring Elect Her to the University during election season to help women run for Student Government Association positions. “We need to get more women in leadership roles throughout the state of Alabama,” Page said. “Women need to be an active part of the decisions that affect their lives and communities. What better way to begin this process of giving back than to get elected and serve in leadership roles than during your college tenure?” Page said The University of Alabama is one of the first institutions to have the program run by the American Association of University Women. AAUW empowers women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. Their nonprofit organization has more than 170,000 members and supporters across the United States.
Kate Farrar, director of AAUW Campus Leadership Programs, said the nation needs women leaders because they help change the conversation. “We want women to see themselves as political leaders on campus, because that makes them more likely to continue on in public office after college,” Farrar said. “The problems facing the country are tremendous, and we can’t just be satisfied with the status quo. Having a diversity of perspectives is crucial to addressing our biggest challenges.” A one-day workshop is set up for women who are interested in running. Page said Elect Her details female involvement in politics from a national, state and campus perspective. From there, they explain why women should run for office from a local to a national level. “We explain the process to what it takes to start a campaign,” Page said. “What is your platform message? How do you raise money? How do you network and things like that?” Page said they bring in a representative from SGA to talk about SGA elections. She said a lot of students don’t know about the paperwork SGA requires, when it is due or how to raise money. The workshop lasts all day and can be a networking opportunity for
the participants as well as the speakers. “We encourage the participants to reach out to the speakers,” Page said. “We have an email group for all the participants, so when they decide to run, they can send out an email to past speakers and participants to ask them to consider voting for them.” Elect Her is working with both the Women’s Resource Center and Running Start, a national organization meant to introduce young women to politics, to help women get into office at the University. “We are thrilled to launch the fourth year of Elect Her trainings. Each year I’m consistently impressed by the college women leaders we meet,” Running Start Executive Director Jessica Grounds said. “Running Start and AAUW are committed not only to equipping college women to lead on their campuses, but also to imparting the message that we need them to consider leading in politics after college. We are addressing the lack of women political leaders head on by telling college women that their country needs their leadership.” The deadline to register for the workshop is Jan. 24. To find out more about the Women’s Resource Center, visit wrc.ua.edu. To register for Elect Her, visit wrc.ua.edu/ehForm.cfm.
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This customized technology can begin to feel like its own person, as dramatized in “Her,” and humans can become emotionally fulfilled by this inhuman being due to what Ross Owens, a second-year master’s student in anthropology, calls the actor-network theory. “The social theory I use is called the actornetwork theory, which basically says that inhuman objects have the exact same social value as human actors,” Owens said. “Especially with smartphones, you can make it have any sound you want, you can make it look a certain way. And actually, this is a very old thing that humans have always held.” A current debate over the production of artificial intelligence weighs the repercussions it could have on cultural and social interactions. Katy Groves, an anthropology professor with a background in psychology, said positives and negatives exist when working with this technology. “Now we can connect with people all over the world very rapidly, so in some ways, it improves our social interaction,” Groves said. “I think the movie was trying to portray that it ‘artificializes’ our interactions so that they are more superficial and less in-depth than interpersonal interaction.” Despite pros and cons, technology is becoming seamlessly immersed into society. According to the Huffington Post, 58 percent of smartphone users don’t go an hour without checking their phones. This is especially true within the 18-to-36 age group, where 68 percent don’t go an hour without checking. Though studies show people are “over-using” their phones, in actuality, most of the technology people use is far more advanced than they’ll ever need. “It happens every time, every day,” Ricks said. “The PCs and computer systems spend more time waiting on us to give them data than they actually spend time working on the data. On a day-to-day basis, your phone can do more than you’re ever asking it to do.” In “Her,” this becomes a crucial plot element, as the operating systems, like Samantha, begin to evolve faster than their human
counterparts. As Fei Hu, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, notes, this marks the break with current reality, because at the present, though humans model machines after themselves, they are still controlled by their creators. “People cannot control humans very well, but people can control machines very well, so that’s why people try to design machines to emulate humans,” Hu said. As humans move toward technology, such as that depicted in “Her,” Hu said they don’t necessarily have to fear robots replacing all human-to-human interaction. “People look around themselves and are disappointed, […] but humans still like humans. That’s why they make phony humans, to have something to control,” Hu said. “Her” depicts all the ups and downs of a normal relationship, even though it is between a man and disembodied computer, all the while emphasizing the difference between mechanical precision and human imperfection. “Humans biggest advantage is that we can make mistakes. We’re not perfect, and because we have mistakes, it’s real; it’s more interesting,” Hu said.
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This indie gem, an honest, heartfelt and funny drama written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, is a film that sticks with you even after its credits stop rolling. As Grace, a 20-something facing her own past, present and future while working at a fostercare facility for troubled teens, Brie Larson (“21 Jump Street”) gives the best female performance of the year with a steely and strong, yet vulnerable turn that’s worthy of an Oscar nomination. Unflinchingly authentic and utterly moving, “Short Term 12” is the best film of the year.
Reuniting for the fifth time, director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio go all out for this viciously funny dark comedy about a 90s stock broker (DiCaprio) and his descent into a world of greed, luxury, drugs, sex and corruption. Running three hours long but never lagging, Scorsese pulls no punches, and DiCaprio carries the film on his shoulders in an award-worthy, career-best performance. A wicked satire of the life and times of the truly shameless, immoral man it depicts, the film helps Scorsese prove once again that he’s still got the golden touch.
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With 2013 in the books, this past year will go down as one of the better years in recent filmmaking. Full of slam-bang blockbusters, raucous comedies and faithful book adaptations, 2013 brought some stellar movies to the big screen. Among the mix, however, five films in particular stand out to me as truly great examples of movie magic and are definitely worth a look at a local theater, on DVD or on Netflix.
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This haunting crime drama from Derek Cianfrance, who reunites with his “Blue Valentine” star Ryan Gosling, is an ambitious work of art. Telling the story of a motorcycle rider (Gosling) who, after turning to robbing banks to provide for his lover (Eva Mendes) and their newborn child, finds himself on a collision course with an ambitious young cop (Bradley Cooper), the film captures its audience with a haunting score, gorgeous cinematography and terrific performances. Told in a three-part format and going beyond the surface of a basic crime drama, Cianfrance provides a final product that enchants and intrigues.
Disney proves that it’s still the best at animation with this refreshing and funny musical. Directed by “Tarzan” co-director Chris Buck and “Wreck-It Ralph” writer Jennifer Lee, the film follows an optimistic princess (voiced by Kristen Bell) who goes on a journey to bring back her sister (Idina Menzel), who has accidentally plunged their summery kingdom into an eternal winter. With a rugged mountain man (Jonathan Groff, “Glee”) and a chatty snowman (Josh Gad) in tow, the journey in “Frozen” is never short of laughs and provides moments of action, drama and suspense.
Set in 1970s New York and reuniting director David O. Russell with his “The Fighter” stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as well as his “Silver Linings Playbook” duo of Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, this zany crime comedy follows a con man (Bale) and his partner/ mistress (Adams), who are pushed into the mafia underbelly by an overly ambitious FBI agent (Cooper) looking to bust politicians and gangsters. The entire cast has a ball, and all members of the central quintet – Bale, Adams, Cooper, Lawrence (a scene-stealer as Bale’s volatile loose-cannon wife) and Russell newcomer Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker”) – are in top form.
Local radio stations provide platform for area musicians By Francie Johnson | Staff Reporter Set your radio to WVUA-FM, also known as 90.7 The Capstone, and you’ll probably hear a few familiar voices gracing the airwaves. Some local radio stations make an effort to showcase music by Tuscaloosa and Alabama-based bands, in addition to broadcasting nationally recognized music. From Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers to Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the girl who sits next to you in math class or the guy who rang up your groceries yesterday, these voices could be anyone. “[Our relationship with local bands] is a fairly friendly relationship,” said Brian Hoff, the assistant music director of WVUA-FM. “It’s very open-ended. There’s no sort of strict guidelines or anything. We kind of just develop friendships, and when their music comes out and we hear about it, we’re glad to play it if it’s any good.” Hoff and music director Matt Okerman talk to music promoters, manage the station’s playlists and, ultimately, decide what music plays on WVUA-FM, the University’s student-operated radio station. WVUA-FM plays one or two local songs per hour, creating a more personal experience for both the station’s staff and its audience, Okerman said. “I feel like it makes it more real; it gives us a real connection,” said Okerman, a freshman majoring in accounting and telecommunication and film. “It’s harder to get in contact with the bigger bands that we play, but the local bands are on a more personal level, where you know the artist and have more of a connection” Jeremy Butler, a TCF professor, hosts “All Things Acoustic,” a segment airing on Alabama Public Radio every Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. Butler said he usually features two or three Alabama-based songs per two-hour show, and he plays a song specifically from Tuscaloosa once every three to four weeks. “I do a folk music show,” Butler said. “Folk
“People want their music to be heard, and we’re a great outlet for that” -Brian Hoff CW | Belle Newby music in general emphasizes people’s roots and their regional experiences. So it makes sense to me that a folk music show in Alabama would also tap into Alabama roots.” Being from Alabama, or even from Tuscaloosa, doesn’t guarantee an artist will get played on “All Things Acoustic.” However, Butler said it doesn’t hurt. “If I know somebody is from Alabama, I’ll give a listen to it when I might not listen to it [otherwise],” Butler said. “So if there’s a local angle on a CD that I happen across, I’ll give it a chance when if it were just somebody from [somewhere else] I’d just pass it by.” Lance Kinney, professor in the advertising and public relations department and host of the Alabama Public Radio show “Bama Bluegrass,” said about 15 to 20 percent of the music he plays has Alabama ties. The show, which airs on Saturdays from 7 to 9 p.m., features a 20 minute gospel section in which most of the Alabamabased music can be heard. “I get bluegrass CDs from Italy; I get bluegrass CDs from Ireland, from Australia,” Kinney said. “But being based in Alabama at The University of Alabama and being a public radio station, I feel obligated to give a good listen and a good platform to Alabama-based musicians.” Playing local music benefits both the station and the artist, Hoff and Okerman said. “Being part of the radio station, we’re all part of this process together,” Hoff, a senior
majoring in public relations, said. “We get a lot of work experience out of working with local bands. And [the artists], on the other hand, get experience having their music played.” When local radio stations play local artists, it’s not only publicity for the stations, but also for the artists as well. Having a song on the radio potentially enables local artists to reach a broader audience than they might have otherwise. Being featured on “Bama Bluegrass” can be especially advantageous for bluegrass artists because not many other outlets for that genre exist. In addition to providing income, these live shows motivate the artists to practice and maintain their skillset, Kinney said. “If [bluegrass musicians] get to the point even that they’ve got enough visibility that they can play once a month, they’re gonna continue to rehearse,” Kinney said. Radio stations and music show hosts use a variety of methods to discover local music. For example, Butler said he discourages CD submissions and instead prefers using local networking and word of mouth to find new music. On the other hand, Kinney encourages his audience to submit CDs as his primary method of discovering local artists. He said he listens to every CD submitted, but he has specific standards for what gets played on the air. “The thing that I’m gonna be looking for when I get music from an Alabama bluegrass band is broadcast quality,” Kinney said. “Is it
well recorded? Is it well produced? Will it sound good when I broadcast it? Because I do get a lot of music that I can’t feature because it’s amateurishly recorded and packaged and it’s just not up to a broadcast kind of quality.” At WVUA-FM, Okerman and Hoff develop relationships with local artists by going to shows, but these relationships can also originate by artists reaching out to the station. Hoff said email is the easiest and most frequently used method of submitting music, but the station receives in-person submissions as well. In order to determine which of these submissions actually become a part of the WVUA-FM’s rotation, Hoff and Okerman look for a variety of elements, including catchiness, distinctiveness and whether the song follows the station’s adult alternative format. In addition to broadcasting local music on the radio, WVUA-FM often features Tuscaloosabased bands in its fundraisers and other events. The station held a benefit concert at the Jupiter last October featuring local bands Motherfunk and The Doctors and the Lawyers. The WVUA staff will also host Tuscapalooza, a music festival-type event featuring local artists, in the spring. “For the most part, from what I’ve experienced [in the past], people were more than happy to line up for it,” Hoff said. “People want their music to be heard, and we’re a great outlet for that.” At Alabama Public Radio, both Kinney and Butler support local artists by informing their audience about upcoming live performances. When local radio stations play local music, both the station and the artist reap the rewards, but Okerman said a third party benefits as well: the audience. “I feel like a lot of people are tired of hearing the same songs over and over on the radio,” Okerman said. “I feel like 90.7 gives them an outlet to hear different music. Just a unique variety of music to listen to, whether that’s local bands or just the variety that we play.”
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Glow Run to benefit resource center By Katherine Metcalf | Contributing Writer Runners will light up the town Feb. 22 when the Glow Run comes to downtown Tuscaloosa to benefit Tuscaloosa’s One Place, a local nonprofit family resource center. The race will start at Jack Warner Parkway in downtown Tuscaloosa at 6 p.m. The cost of the run is $40 per person, and participants can sign up as individuals or in teams. The 3-mile course will have multiple glowing zones filled with dance mixes. Participants are invited to attend the pre- and post-race parties, which will have events such as face painting and Zumba. Many students at the University agree to run in races not only because of the fun atmosphere of interacting with different kinds of people, but also because they enjoy running for a special cause. Jordana Baraad, a freshman majoring in biology and a runner, praised the services that Tuscaloosa’s One Place offers. “Because I am involved with Discovery Buddies, I have seen the great work that the center does for the children in the community,” she said. Baraad said having a fun event for families to experience together is a great way to raise money for such a special organization. “It’s one thing for a charity to directly ask for money from people in the community, but it’s another thing for the community to come as one and support an organization,” she said. Madeline Gibson, a freshman majoring in engineering and another runner at the University, said she likes how races make her more determined to have fun and benefit other organizations. “I like the idea of how the runner gains something for themselves, but also for a charity – that is really special,” she said. To register and find out more information about the race, visit glowrun5k.com.
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Glow Run WHEN: Feb. 22 WHERE: Jack Warner Parkway
CW | Reed O’Mara UA alum Earl Tilford’s recent nonfiction work, “Turning the Tide,” hit bookstores last week. His book portrays the desegregation of The University of Alabama. By Reed O’Mara | Contributing Writer Though Earl Tilford earned his Ph.D. in American and European military history at George Washington University, Tilford still admits that his first love is Southern history, particularly Southern history in regard to his alma mater, The University of Alabama. “I’m from Alabama – got my B.A. and M.A. here, and about 15 years ago, I read a book by Culpepper Clark titled ‘The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama,’ and I decided I wanted to write the sequel to that,” Tilford said. Tilford’s most recent nonfiction work, “Turning the Tide,” hit shelves last week after being Tilford’s focus since 2008. It details the desegregation of the University from June 11, 1963, the day Gov. George Wallace stood to block black students from entering the University all the way to the student riots of the early 1970s. The book is a remembrance of that time on campus, and Tilford said he wrote it in part for the alumni so that they could remember how they were and help others understand the changes to university culture over time. “When I entered the campus in 1964, when the air was clean and sex was dirty, this was an academic, back-water, marginally superior university, known best as a football and a party school. But you got the education you wanted to get,” Tilford said. “The book is written with a lot of love.” Former President of the University Roger Sayers, said though it is a nonfiction historical piece, the work is not as dense as most nonfictions tend to be. Sayers
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said he read the book when it was just a manuscript and cited Tilford’s “congenial, scholarly, even-handed” personality as the source of the book’s readability. He said the book was lucid, with only a few parts being for the “hearty layman,” with no portions “overwhelming [the reader] with sophisticated prose.” “It’s not a football book, but maybe some people will think it is. It’s mostly about students, events and riots. It’s just about how the University changed directions,” Tilford said. “I think history should be readable. There’s so many historians who write for other historians. I’m a retired full professor, retired Air Force officer, retired civil servant – I don’t care about writing for other historians. I want to write for people.” Much of “Turning the Tide” is a social history, focusing on the beginning of the student alliance with President Frank Rose during the 1960s. “I wrote a cultural and institutional history of that period. The main focus became the struggle between President Frank A. Rose, who was a marvelous character, and George Wallace, who was governor – and they detested one another. I could see that in Rose’s personal letters. Now you don’t see that in photographs,” Tilford said. Tilford also detailed the rise of student dissent at the University, particularly from the viewpoints of the Student Government Association and the fraternities and sororities. Sources within the text are from private letters and other historical works and papers, but they are mainly from inperson interviews conducted by Tilford. Sayers, who was a professor during the
time period the book catalogues, attested to its unbiased and straight facts. “I thought he had done a very careful job in terms of his research, and I found everything he said – based on the fact that I lived through much of it – to be very accurate,” Sayers said. “And I think not only accurate, but his interpretation of the impact that these events had, I thought very insightful. And hence I thought, if you’re really interested in the history of the University, particularly in that era, it would be a must-read.” Sayers said “Turning the Tide” will be an important work for alumni who lived during that time because it is a period still weighed upon deeply. Moreover, he said the country as a whole finds works like this important in dispelling mixed feelings about the South. “I think [segregation is] in the consciousness of virtually everyone if they lived through that period, and even if they didn’t. For example, the publicity that attended the sorority issue last fall was pretty widespread news,” Sayers said. “I think there’s a tendency still to associate Alabama with segregation and with still lingering aspects of it. If people find out about that period, they’ll know it’s a different world today than it was in 1963.” In this regard, Sayers said Tilford’s book does its job. The only thing to do now is to wait to see how the public perceives its importance, though Sayers said he is already a fan. “I think it certainly reveals an understanding of the evolution of race relations and the evolution of the university culture over time. And I think that in and of itself is probably quite significant,” Sayers said.
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Traina, Jury look to lead Alabama By Kelly Ward | Staff Reporter coach Alabama softball soft Patrick Murphy Mur sits behind his desk, adm admiring the new batting glo gloves the te team will hav have this season son. Outside, it’s w windy and chilly, but it hasn’t kept the team from practice. Now in its second sea season since winning the Women’ Women’s College World Series, the Alabam Alabama softball team is practicing the same routines. The team takes tw two months off every year, Murphy ssaid. “You know, one of the things I think that’s made ma us successful is we do give rest,” Murphy said. ““Especially in a 56-game season, you CW | Alaina Clark can’t go out all the time, so Pitcher Jackie Traina saw success in her previous seasons, going 42-3 in 2012 and 19-6 in 2013.
mentally and physically you have to take a day off, and I think that’s one of the keys to why we’ve been successful at the very end almost every year, because they’re still fresh.” Last season, the defending national champions went 45-15 on the year but didn’t make it past the NCAA Super Regionals. The Crimson Tide saw its season ended by a Tennessee team that made it to the national championship. Pitcher Jackie Traina went from 42-3 in 2012 to 19-6 in 2013. Murphy said he expects her to have a big senior season this year. Junior Leslie Jury started her career at Alabama 11-4 in 2012 and put up a 18-7 record last season. “What was really neat, this fall, we had a scrimmage,” Murphy said. “It was at night because some of the girls had bad class schedules during the day, so we would go at night a lot of the times, and in the last inning of one of the last
It’s like starting Greg Maddux and then finishing with Randy Johnson. — Patrick Murphy
scrimmages, one of the kids came into the dugout and said, ‘I think Jury’s throwing harder than Jackie,’ and this was at the end of a seven-inning scrimmage so if that’s true, we’re going to have two really good pitchers. I mean, rarely do you have one that throws that hard, but to have two, that’s legit.” Jury and Traina won’t be the only
pitchers in the rotation. Freshman Sydney Littlejohn pitched a complete game in her fall debut, allowing two runs on two hits. “And then Sydney, you know that was – you never know what you’re going to get with a freshman quarterback or a freshman pitcher, and for her to come in and do what she did was impressive, in the games and in scrimmages, it’s just a totally different look than the other two, a lot more spin and kept a lot of people off balance,” Murphy said. Murphy said Littlejohn will be a good addition to the rotation this season. “I think we could see a couple games where, you know, she pitches for four or five and Jackie comes in for two or Leslie comes in for two,” Murphy said. “That would be a really tough combination, too – it’s like starting Greg Maddux and then finishing with Randy Johnson.”
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Frozen Tide claims Iron Cup for 4th consecutive year By Danielle Walker | Staff Reporter After the Alabama football team’s devastating loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl this season, members of the Frozen Tide hockey team knew they needed to bring home the Iron Cup. “This Iron Cup meant a little more just because of the Iron Bowl. We all know how devastating that was,” senior defenseman Ryan Vinson said. “We felt like it was our responsibility to win it for the University.” The Frozen Tide dominated Auburn 9-1, 3-0 and 13-1, in this weekend’s one-sided Iron Cup. Determined to bring the cup back to Tuscaloosa, the Tide started each game strong and never let up on its opponents. In Friday’s game, Alabama scored within the first two minutes of the game. “We scored early and often, and that took all of the morale out of
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Frozen Tide v. Ole Miss WHEN: Friday, 8 p.m. WHERE: Pelham Civic Complex
their team,” sophomore defenseman Andre Morard said. “Then, all we had to do after that was to maintain our big lead.” The Iron Cup, which took place in Pelham, Ala., began in 2010, and the Frozen Tide has won the cup each year. This year’s game attracted more than 3,000 people. The rivalry between the two hockey teams is just as big as the football rivalry and attracts fans from both sides.
“We hate them. They hate us,” Vinson said. Sophomore Bryan Puffer won MVP in this year’s Iron Cup. The No. 2 Frozen Tide still has its eyes set on nationals, and if the team can knock off No. 6 Ole Miss, Georgia and No. 1 Central Florida, those chances look bright. “The outlook for the rest of the year would be winning the SEC championship and the national championship in Miami,” Morard said. “We hold our own destiny for both of those championships.” The team is 1-1 against Ole Miss this season. “I think Ole Miss will give us a better game than what Auburn gave us,” Morard said. The Frozen Tide will face Ole Miss Friday at 8 p.m. and Georgia Saturday at 7 p.m. Both games Photos Courtesy of Mike Jackson will be held at the Pelham Civic The Frozen Tide defeat Auburn in a three-game series in Pelham, Ala. Complex.
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SPORTSIN BRIEF Sunseri to leave, enter NFL Draft Safety Vinnie Sunseri is leaving a year of eligibility with the Crimson Tide on the table to enter the 2014 NFL Draft. The NFL released a list of juniors exiting school early, and Sunseri was one of five Alabama players on the list.
Gymnastics team takes 2nd in Knoxville The Alabama gymnastics team finished second in the Ozone Collegiate Classic in Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday with a score of 196.05, behind Nebraska’s winning score of 196.25. Sophomore Lauren Beers scored a 9.95 on the vault, leading the team to a 49.425 score in the event.
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The Olympics are dividing the world By Benjamin Clark | Contributing Writer With the 2014 Winter Olympics only a few weeks away, the big question once again presents itself: Why do we still hold the Olympic games? The modern Olympics were created as a way to unite the world and allow different cultures to come together in one city. But recently, the Olympics have only served to further divide the world. Every set of games adds another list of scandals and controversies among nations. To make matters worse, there is also the threat of physical violence, such as the bombing at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Ga. Rarely have the games finished without at least one major incident. This year’s games in Sochi, Russia, will most likely be no different. There has been nothing but controversy since the location of the games was announced. The National Olympic Committee of Georgia has been attempting to get the Sochi Games relocated since 2008 because of the conflict-inhabited area in which the events are going to be held. Circassian officials have also argued for a move in location, saying that the games will be held on land that belongs to them. Along with the disputes over location, the Russian government has been under fire by LGBTQ advocacy groups for not allowing the establishment of the Pride House, a pavilion set up to welcome LGBTQ athletes, volunteers and visitors. American and Russian advocacy groups
have urged both visitors and sponsors to boycott the games over Russian policy. Cities bid on the games to create opportunities for their citizens and economy, but, more often than not, it causes more problems than solutions. A perfect example is the Bird’s Nest, the stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies. The structure cost $480 million to build and $11 million a year to maintain, and now it remains empty. Even the artist who designed it refuses to go back inside of the failed project. This is not to say that every Olympic venue has been a bust. The arenas built for the 2012 London Games have been incorporated into the city, used by both professional teams and the public. While many of the structures built for various Olympics serve a purpose long after the games end, the Bird’s Nest is a prime example of why some cities refuse to bid on future games. With so many glaring issues even before the opening ceremonies kick off, it seems that this year’s games will follow the history of past games. So why continue to hold them? As an American, seeing the stars and stripes being lowered behind one of the athletes who has received a medal is comparable to fireworks on the 4th of July. But if giving that up is what we have to do to make the world a better place, it’s time to make that sacrifice. Ending the Olympics isn’t going to stop all of the world’s problems, but it may prevent quite a few from being created.
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Men’s basketball team falls at Missouri The men’s basketball team fell flat in the second half of Saturday’s game at Missouri, ultimately losing 68-47. Freshman forward Shannon Hale led the team with 12 points. The Crimson Tide fell to 8-9 on the season and 2-2 in conference play.
Women’s basketball team loses twice The Alabama women’s basketball team dropped a pair of games over the weekend to SEC foes Auburn and South Carolina. The Tigers defeated Alabama 61-39 in Tuscaloosa Thursday night, while the Gamecocks downed the Crimson Tide 77-51 in Columbia, S.C.
Men’s tennis team sweeps weekend Alabama’s men’s tennis team swept its four-team match, with wins over in-state opponents UAB, Alabama A&M and Troy. The Crimson Tide defeated the Blazers 4-1, the Bulldogs 7-0 and the Trojans 4-0.
Women’s tennis team wins 9 of 10 The women’s tennis team claimed nine of its 10 matches Sunday against Iowa in the Wildcat Winter Classic on the campus of Northwestern University. Overall, the Crimson Tide won 22 matches in the three-day tournament.
Hakansson breaks school record Sophomore Elias Hakansson broke the Alabama indoor and Auburn Invitational meet records in the weight throw with a throw of 20.67 meters (67 feet, 9.75 inches) to win the event. Hakansson exceeded his previous school record by 3 inches. Compiled by Charlie Potter
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shared memories from his childhood and his experiences with racial injustice growing up. “All of those people trying to realize Dr. King’s dream are very important,� William Tubbs, an attendee of the Legacy Banquet, said. “Getting together to realize the dream is really just about getting people together of all creeds and races and realizing that we are all just one people. The sooner we realize this, the better the world will be.� Following Cochran’s address, Melanie Gotz, a senior at the University and a leader in the
recent desegregation of sororities on campus; Cleophus Thomas, a UA alumnus; and Roger Sayers, former president of the University, were all embraced by President Judy Bonner as they received their awards for “Realizing the Dream� and contributing to King’s legacy. Sayers said the series aims to encourage social change through music, inspiring performances and community. “Painfully aware of the state’s history and all of the terrible things that happened, whether it was with Bull Conner or the Freedom Riders, that was part of the reason that we decided to do something proactive in establishing ‘Realizing the Dream.’ Trying to help people improve their attitudes towards one another, and
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you know music is always a good vehicle by which to do that. It kind of soften[s] the rigid views of people,� Sayers said. The festivities came to a close Monday with a march from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School to the Tuscaloosa City Hall MCT Campus in homage to the many marches of John Legend closed the Realizing the Dream program with a performance and talk. the Civil Rights movement.
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Howard holds potential Several true freshmen saw the field for Alabama this season, but none had the physical attributes and ability as tight end O.J. Howard. At 6 feet 6 inches, 237 pounds, Howard is not only imposing in his crimson uniform but possesses the speed of a wide receiver. “He’s one of those guys, when they first get here on campus, you see what he does and you think, ‘Okay, this guy is something special,’” former left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio said. “He’s showing flashes of things that guys who have been here five years can’t do.” Howard was a five-star recruit out of Autauga Academy in Prattville, Ala., and the toprated tight end in the 2013 class, according to Rivals.com and 247Sports.com. In 2013 he recorded 14 catches for 269 yards and two touchdowns for the Crimson Tide. Howard averaged 19.2 yards per catch. “It’s been a good first year. I definitely learned a lot,” Howard said. “Playing tight end, it’s different from when you’re in high school. I really had to learn how to block. I became a better blocker every week. I really improved on that. But next year I want to improve on a little more and become an all-around tight end.” Howard showed glimpses of being that all-around tight end this season, and the most convincing example of that came in the game against LSU on Nov. 9.
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In the second quarter of the game, AJ McCarron hit Howard on a modest slant route, but Howard did more with it than the average tight end. He darted diagonally across the field toward the left pylon and outran the entire LSU secondary for a 52-yard touchdown. Howard showed he has NFLcaliber speed and three years of eligibility to get faster. That speed and size, flanked next to Alabama’s offensive line, gives the Crimson Tide a weapon it has not had in its arsenal for a long time. “To have a tight end like him, that is certainly a threat in the passing game, either vertically, horizontally or play-action passes, is really a tremendous asset for us,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. The LSU game was Howard’s introduction as a future star of college football, and he still hears
about it to this day. “I hear about it a lot. My friends back home always talk about it. They try to tell me that I’m still slow; they make fun of me,” Howard said. “But it was an exciting moment also, and I’ll look at that one and always remember it.” H owa r d is roommates with fellow freshman Derrick Henry, who agrees with Howard’s friends from Prattville, Ala. The freshman running back said the one area Howard needs to work on this offseason is his agility. “I just think he can do more as he runs faster,” Henry said. “He’s got moves. He does it in practice, and it translates to the game.” The speed is obviously there. Now, Howard just needs more catches to be able to break for more 50-yard touchdown runs. With new offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin in town and a new quarterback under center for Alabama next season, Howard will look to be an integral part of this offense. “I think that guy’s going to be an outstanding tight end for us,” Saban said.
CW | Austin Bigoney, Photo Illustration by Sloane Arogeti The Tide benefited from Howard’s speed this season.
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