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Pablos Ramos Ferrer moved to the United States from Ibiza, Spain, when he was 18. Now a student at the University, he is adjusting to life in the South. South
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Since its wide release, “Selma” has inspired a number of debates. Former Congressman Artur Davis and George Wallace, Jr. weighed in on its depiction of Governor George Wallace.
CULTURE | JOBS
Site ranks best cities to find jobs Seattle named best city in WalletHub rankings By Laura Testino | Assistant Culture Editor
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The spring semester began Jan. 7 and several University of Alabama seniors celebrated their last first day of school. This final first day coincides with the start of a new year and to assist recent and upcoming graduates in the job search, WalletHub analyzed 150 of the most populous U.S. cities to produce an article titled, “2015’s B e st and Worst Cities to Find a Job.” I think it’s just The cities important for were analyzed across 16 metstudents to factor rics divided in the realities into two categories: job of what market and socio-economthe job market ic environlooks like ... ment. The city could earn 10 points in the – Travis Railsback – job market category, which included factors like job opportunities, employment growth and monthly median starting salary. The socio-economic environment category, worth five points, included factors like time spent working and commuting, social life and housing affordability. Prioritizing these factors is one of the first steps to the job search, Travis Railsback, executive director for the Career Center, said. Last year, 6,500 students met individually with career consultants at the Career
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THURSDAY January 22, 2015
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39-year-old distance learning student dies Madelaine Sauk Kingsbury, a distance learning student pursuing a Master of Library & Information Studies, died Jan. 12, according to a notification sent by the University. Kingsbury was born April 20, 1975. She will be buried in Pennsylvania, and a
memorial service will be scheduled for a later date. Kingsbury is survived by her mother, Patricia SaukJacobs, of Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
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Bachelor of Science in accounting and Spanish. “I’m from Birmingham, so I wanted to branch out but still stay in the South,” Burgin said. “Nashville ended up being perfect for me. It’s still close to my family, but it’s new and fun.” Maci Arms graduated from the University in May 2014 after completing her major in dance. She moved to New York City, fulfilling a dream she said began when she visited the city at 14. “For me, it was a no-brainer. I was moving to New York City,” Arms said. “It was going to be the place that I’d make my career.” New York City is ranked 90 of 150 cities by WalletHub, and is at the bottom for the number of job opportunities. New York City presents its own set of challenges and may require more sacrifices than other cities in order to find job security, but it is still the new home of many successful University alumni, Railsback said. Arms attended a summer internship with Broadway Dance Center, which allowed her to get a foot in the door and network, she said. Through the internship, Arms was also able to sign with a dance agency, McDonald Selznick Associates, helping her find more auditions. She attended an audition through MSA to be a dancer for Celebrity Cruises Productions and will begin touring the Mediterranean with the cruise in the coming months. “I think it’s just important for students to factor in the realities of what the job market looks like and where the jobs are at, understanding the expectations within a particular organization in terms of moving, and then it is important to factor in personal priorities,“ Railsback said. “If those things are important to you, they’re definitely important to factor into your decision making so that you can be happy and successful in what you choose to do career-wise.”
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JOBS FROM PAGE 1 Center, and more than 16,000 students participated in other Career Center programs. “In addition to career exploration type discussions, [individual appointments are] helping students with their résumés, helping them do mock interviews or prepare for interviews,” Railsback said. “We’re also assisting [students] with job search strategies, during which is sometimes where the topic of the [WalletHub] article comes up, in terms of the process of thinking through where to go and where the job opportunities are.” According to WalletHub, Seattle is the best city to find a job, followed by Des Moines, Iowa; Gilbert, Arizona; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Fremont, California, for the top five spots. “Hot” cities are often determined by the career field and the job growth in the city, Railsback said. Engineering students who would like to work in the petrochemical industry may head to the Gulf Coast, while others may head to Texas due to the economic growth, he said. “Nashville right now has sort of turned into the new Atlanta, in terms of being a desired destination of young professionals,” Railsback said. WalletHub ranks Nashville as No. 50 of the 150 cities, with Atlanta ranked at 51. Kaitlyn Burgin, a graduate student studying accounting, accepted a full-time job with Ernst & Young in Nashville that she will begin in the fall. The job opportunity arose when Burgin interned with the company after graduating from the University in December 2013 with a
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Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Thursday, January 22, 2015
University offers students free math, science tutoring By Alessandra Delrose | Contributing Writer
Tyler Duffey tutors Awai Baptiste at The University of Alabama’s Center for Academic Success. CW / Layton Dudley
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The University of Alabama’s Center for Academic Success allows students in any kind of math or science course to receive free tutoring. Anthony Winston, the manager of Tutorial Services and Supplemental Instruction, said his main goal is to see students succeed in college. “When you go to college, its a completely different situation verses back in high school,” Winston said. “You see a lot of great students fail or make mistakes because they take college like they took high school and that’s not the case.” Winston said one of the main goals for the CAS is to have a place where students feel comfortable to come in with any questions. “I want to clarify to any student out there that you aren’t dumb if you are coming in for help, you are actually just the opposite,” he said. Richard Livingston, the assistant director for the CAS said the center has transformed over the years he has worked there. “The Center started off as a place for teachers to come get assistance themselves and has transformed over the years to what is today,” Livingston said. The CAS is made up of student tutors who are the top of their classes at the University. The students chosen to tutor
at the Center are students who strive academically, Winston said. Jordan Colbert, a senior majoring in finance and economics, has been a student tutor for the past three years. She said she believes one aspect of the program is the ability to get assistance from fellow students such as herself. “I believe in this program students are able to come up and learn from fellow students their age and that not only makes the tutoring process less stressful but also allows a bond to be placed so students are more likely to come back and get help instead of being afraid,” she said. Awai Baptiste, a freshman majoring in international studies, said the program and tutors have helped her a lot with her math work. “This is now my third time coming and its already helped me so much, I even know how to factor now,” Baptiste said. Devin Radloff, a junior majoring in electrical engineering and physics, said he decided to become a tutor to make a difference in student lives. “If you are nervous about a class or think it may be challenging, don’t wait until the last second to come get help,” he said. “We are willing to help you out weeks ahead of time so when the exam comes, you aren’t as nervous or anxious because by that time we will have gotten you prepared.”
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Thursday, January 22, 2015
OPPOSING VIEWS | SELMA
Views differ on George Wallace’s depiction in ‘Selma’ By Patrick Crowley | Opinions Editor
If you haven’t seen “Selma” by now, I encourage you to do so. Whether you were born in
Alabama or are just here for an education, it is incumbent on you to know Alabama’s past, learn from it and create a better future. To that end, The Crimson
White is proud to present two guest columns, originally submitted on AL.com, by Artur Davis, former congressman representing Alabama’s 7th District, and
George Wallace Jr., son of George and Lurleen Wallace. In the spirit of intellectual discourse, reflect upon the movie “Selma” with both columns in mind.
Patrick Crowley is a senior majoring in mathematics, finance and economics. He is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White.
Fact vs. fiction in the movie world George Wallace’s cruelty shapes of ‘Selma’ Alabama to this day By George Wallace Jr. | Guest Columnist
I realize more than anyone the legacy of my father and the feelings he engendered in so many for so long and how he still does today. There was a time in his life when he supported segregation because as he said, “We were taught as children that a segregated society was best for both races, and anything other than that would bring about adverse relations between the races.” He believed that then, as did most Southerners, and his acceptance of segregation was with no sense of ill feeling, malice, or hate toward black people. His conscience eventually led him to believe that the South’s commonly held views on segregation were wrong, and he publicly renounced them. He even visited the Dexter Avenue Baptist church, where Martin Luther King once pastored, and asked the congregation for its forgiveness. I believe my father’s journey toward redemption helped lead the South and, indeed, much of the rest of the nation, along the path to reconciliation. It is important to note that while support for segregation was part of his early life and career, he never advocated violence. He was defiant, charismatic, and energetic in his battle against what he saw as a threat from the central government to seek and control every aspect of our lives, but he was never violent. The narrative pushed by his harshest critics that suggests he ordered the Alabama state troopers and Dallas County deputies to charge the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge is simply untrue. That was the last thing he wanted. In fact, he ordered Col. Al Lingo and Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark to protect the marchers if they crossed the bridge while he contacted President Johnson and requested federal help with their security throughout their 50 mile trek to Montgomery. Unbeknownst to many people at the time, militant groups such as the Minute Men and others had vowed to have snipers in the wood line along Highway 80 to shoot the marchers. Not knowing if the the threats were true or not, my father’s desire was to protect the marchers, not attack them. His great effort to maintain peace at the University of Alabama before his “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” is well documented by critics and supporters alike. He went on statewide television nightly and asked citizens to stay away from the campus while
he raised Constitutional questions on their behalf. If he went to such great lengths to maintain peace at the University, why would he so drastically deviate in Selma? Bob Ingram, a young reporter with the Montgomery Advertiser at the time, was in my father’s office when news of the violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge was received. Ingram wrote that my father was enraged as he stormed around his office and said, “This is the last thing I wanted!” The fact is Lingo and Clark had lost their tempers, disobeyed his orders, and the rest is a painful and tragic part of our nation’s history. I often think of my father’s many calls over the years to Congressman John Lewis, who had been beaten at the bridge, and how during those conversations he expressed sorrow at the violence that occurred at the foot of the bridge. Lewis has publicly acknowledged how deeply emotional my father became as he spoke of the incident. The movie “Selma” suggests that my father ordered troopers to beat participants in a nighttime civil rights march while television cameras were absent, which is pure, unadulterated fiction. Nor do I recall him ever making mention of a “mongrel” race that would result if segregation were ended. The truth and facts simply do not fit the image of my father that Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt wish to promote, so the producers needlessly changed history in order to tell what was an already compelling story in “Selma.” There are those who will never find any redeeming qualities in my father, but he was a multi-faceted man who came to terms with much in his life. His forgiveness of the man who shot him and left him in such pain was a testament to his deep Christian faith. His later work both in office and in retirement to bring people of all races together in brotherhood and understanding is one of his greatest legacies and one we could certainly emulate today. For those who embrace the movie myth and refuse to believe the truth that he never advocated violence, I am reminded of lyrics from Don McLean’s “Vincent,” which say “They would not listen, they’re not listening still, perhaps they never will.” George Wallace, Jr. is the son of two Alabama governors, George and Lurleen Wallace, and has previously held statewide office as state treasurer from 1987 to 1995 and as a member of the Public Service Commission from 1999 to 2007.
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By Artur Davis | Guest Columnist
Jesse Jackson tells a story about former governor George Wallace that has always moved and appalled me at the same time. In the final months of Wallace’s life, Jackson came to Montgomery to see him. At the end of a genuinely warm conversation, where they traded memories of how they had each improbably shaken up American politics, Wallace turned tearful and said he wanted to clear up one piece of history. Wallace maintained that the primary reason he posted troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge was to prevent the original group of Selma marchers from walking into the crosshairs of Klan snipers on the side. Wallace did not address to Jackson why these troopers had to strike down innocents with billy clubs, or to unleash tear gas, to accomplish their “protective” mission. As Jackson likes to end the story, it never seemed to cross Wallace’s mind that he could have just as easily have used force to stifle the Ku Kluxers who were supposedly lying in wait. That option simply didn’t occur to the former governor, not in his description of March 1965, not even in the fading weeks of a life for which he was trying to make amends: what chilling evidence of moral blindness, even from the clarity of the death bed. When I read George Wallace Jr.’s column last night, I thought of that old piece of Wallace revisionism again, with the same mix of emotions. I hardly fault George Jr., whom I have dealt with cordially the few times our paths have crossed, for making his case. He is a son defending a father. But I have to engage the broader argument he makes about the legacy of his father, and what he gets so deeply wrong about the moral climate of Alabama and the South in the mid-’60s. Bluntly put, Governor Wallace circa 1965 was no peacemaker. A peacemaker would have denounced the murder of four children in Birmingham 18 months earlier. There was no thread of peace in his inaugural pledge in 1963 to resist racial equality in the name of people who had once waged a civil war. Nor was George Wallace a principled conservative who was just raising “constitutional questions” about integration or federal overreach. To the contrary, his principle was a crude set of lies: the ugly conviction that a black American is less of a citizen than a white one, and
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that states’ rights meant giving the South free sanction to lock black people in their undignified place until local customs saw fit to change. That is not conservatism, it is unalloyed white racial supremacy. Did Wallace truly have “no sense of ill feeling, malice or hate toward black people,” as his son testifies? I have no idea what was in his heart. But if it was hatefree, he gave as skillful and as energetic a performance of hate as Southern politics has seen in the last century. If it is true that the tactical choices in Selma got away from Wallace, as George Jr. argues, it ought to be remembered that neither Col. Al Lingo nor Sheriff Clark were ever publicly rebuked by the governor. Lingo kept his job as the leader of Alabama’s state troopers. What kind of leader stays silent if Bloody Sunday is something he genuinely abhorred? Of course the redemptive years ought to count in evaluating Wallace’s record (they would count for more if they had been more substance than rhetoric, if Wallace’s last term as governor, secured with black votes, had actually attacked poverty in the Black Belt, or revamped a state tax structure that drains poor people). But George Jr. asks for more than a full accounting, he asks for a reinvention of his father. He offers up an alternative history, one where Wallace was a frustrated wouldbe conciliator who did the best he could; and was just his generation’s version of an anti-Washington conservative populist. The Wallace who rings true is the one Tim Roth (the actor who plays Wallace) evokes in one of “Selma’s” richest scenes: the Oval Office encounter between the unrepentant governor and Lyndon Johnson after Bloody Sunday. Here, Johnson tries to appeal to Wallace’s sense of history by demanding that he look to how America and the South in 1985 would judge their actions in Selma. Wallace responds with a sneer that he did not care what 1985 thought of him. It is the sneer of a man who lived for power in his time, who could have cared less about the future because there were no votes there and whose neglect of his state’s conditions still haunts it. Whatever the state of his soul when he died, his actions suggested that this George Wallace was the real one. And the cruelty of his legacy lives on and warps Alabama to this day. Artur Davis is the former representative from Alabama’s 7th Congressional District.
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OPINIONS Thursday, January 22, 2015 COLUMN | SOCIAL MEDIA
Contrary ideas on social media worth critical engagement, dialogue
ERYNN
Williams Staff Columnist
Life is a learning process; don’t sell yourself short by being too full of yourself. This declaration comes after being constantly assaulted by very radical and close-minded opinions of those on my social media networks. Though my frustrations with the ignorant and rather rude posts that I come across could be eliminated by simply unfriending or unfollowing the people who post them, I choose not to. If I were to unfollow people every time they post something that I do not like or agree with, the result would be a shallow view of the world. I would be surrounded by either solely my own thoughts or the thoughts and ideas of those who think exactly as I do. In doing this, I would take away my opportunity to see things from another perspective, to further
shape my opinions, and to grow more insults. Utilize the opportunity to as a person. communicate your thoughts as a way I am not writing this column to call to grow and help others grow. There out and berate those who choose to has never been a single living perpost ideas opposing to mine. Instead, son who has known all things, and, as I want to send a message to anyone people, we are all continuously learnwith an opinion: While we are all ing every day. Take advantage of the entitled to our opinions and have the opposition around you and explore where those ideas come right to express them, it from. You may end up is not always necessary learning more about a to do so. Be mindful of subject than you already how your messages can There has never knew or even come and will be received. across something totally Granted, it’s neither been a single new to you. yours nor anyone else’s Social media provides job to ensure that no living person who has a great platform for diaone’s feelings are hurt known all things, logue to take place and by whatever you say. However, if your goal and, as people, we should be used for more than a tool for humiliin writing is solely to are all continuously ation or trolling. With insult and not to educate the number of issues or aid in the expansion learning every day. facing many societof minds, maybe you ies today, conversation should take a moment amongst citizens is cruto think about what cial. It would be rather purpose your opinion interesting to see whether or is serving. Dialogue is the foundation of not social media networks could our growth as human beings. Our become new platforms for civic thoughts and opinions have far engagement. As we continue to more value than to be expressed as advance in technology and busy
WHAT I THINK • While we are all entitled to our opinions and have the right to express them, it is not always necessary to do so. • Be mindful of how your messages can and will be received. • Take advantage of the opposition around you and explore where those ideas come from. • Social media provides a great platform for dialogue to take place and should be used as more than a tool for humiliation or trolling.
ourselves in our everyday lives, we may be passing the time of the town hall meeting and entering a time of online forums wherein we can interact and discuss issues with those around us. Erynn Williams is a senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies. Her column runs biweekly.
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Editor | Reed O’Mara Culture@cw.ua.edu Thursday, Janaury 22, 2015
Spanish student moved to US for better education By Stephanie Gaytan | Contributing Writer
Pablo Ramos Ferrer moved to Tennessee by himself when he was 18 years old and knew no one. He finished his senior year in Sewanee but Pablo’s home is Ibiza, Spain, a major port city in the country. He decided to make the move in order to expand his education and to see what the United States had to offer. He learned English as a sophomore in high school and then made the move to America. He is now pursuing a chemical engineering degree and is planning on using his degree to work in northern Europe someday. Why did you come to America and choose to attend the University?
What’s the most different from your home country?
I got really tired of the type of life in Ibiza and wanted a better education. In Ibiza there are no colleges. You have to go to Barcelona or Madrid, but even then college in Spain is very different from what it’s like here. In Spain it is just one building with some classrooms in it. There’s nothing like the big campuses you have here. I chose UA because I had applied to several Southern schools and I liked this one the best.
The school systems in Spain are very different. High school was much harder in Spain. We had eleven subjects per year and had seven classes each day. It’s also funny how time is looked at here. In Spain, if something starts at 4 p.m., no one actually shows up until around 4:30 or so. Here, everyone comes so early.
What do you like and dislike about campus?
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The campus is huge, which I really enjoy. I’m also used to all of the humidity and sun so that wasn’t hard to transition into. I don’t like that drinking is such a big deal here. It is very different here than it is in Spain. Drinking is a much more laid-back topic back home. Here it is taken very seriously.
Was it hard to adjust to the culture here?
It wasn’t too hard to adjust. I do miss my family every now and then, but I know I will have a better job if I stay here. I go visit them when I can. It was hard to not kiss people on the cheek when we say hello and goodbye. What’s the weirdest things Americans do? Americans eat a lot. It’s very constant and the times that Americans eat are different. Back home we have late breakfast, lunch at 4 p.m. and dinner around 10 p.m., but here you eat breakfast very early, have lunch around noon, and then have dinner at 6 or so. It’s strange.
12th annual photography exhibit to be displayed at Bama Theatre By Stephanie Gaytan | Contributing Writer
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The Double Exposure Photography Exhibition is getting ready to take place at the Bama Theatre. This will be the 12th year the exhibition has taken place. The photography competition has junior and adult divisions and is open to photographers in the state of Alabama. Cash prizes, purchase awards and honorable mentions are awarded after the exhibit is up in the gallery, before the reception. Eighty-three pieces were chosen out of over 300 entries, with five final winners in the junior and adult division. Kevin Ledgewood, public relations consultant for The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, works on the exhibit each year. “Artists were allowed to enter up to five works in either category and any photographic media was accepted. Alice Wilson, instructor of photography at Shelton State Community college, judged both the preliminary and final portions of the competition,” Ledgewood said. Emily Higginbotham, a senior majoring in dance, said she is planning on attending the gallery. Her favorite kind of photo art is dance and movement photography, she said. “I am interested in all kinds of photography, as I think they can teach us important aspects such as composition, emotion, et cetera,” Higginbotham said.
Alabamians’ double exposure photography will be on display at this year’s statewide Double Exposure Photography Exhibition at the Bama Theatre. Photo Courtesy of Kevin Ledgewood
“Capturing the moment of such picturesque is such a challenge, but so gratifying when you do it well.” The exhibit is on display at the Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery and Greensboro Room. A closing reception and awards ceremony will be held Feb. 15 from 1 to 2 p.m. The galleries are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and to 4 p.m. The Bama Theatre is located at 600 Greensboro Avenue in downtown Tuscaloosa. For more information follow @tuscarts on Twitter or like “The Arts Council – Bama Theatre – Cultural Arts Center” on Facebook.
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CULTURE Thursday, January 22, 2015
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Defenders of The Universe & Quintessential Octopus
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Band inspired by hometown roots By Kinsey Haynes | Contributing Writer
Defenders of The Universe will make its Tuscaloosa debut at the Green Bar on Thursday night. Photo Courtesy of Wesley Brewer
Birmingham band Defenders of The Universe will make its Tuscaloosa debut Tuesday night. “We are very excited,” said Hunter Whitfield, bass player to the band. From being inspired by bands such as The Black Keys and Muse, to simply taking from the world around them, Defenders of The Universe’s main influence and sound can be attributed to their hometown. “I think [being from Birmingham] shaped us by giving our sound more of a blues touch to our music,”
Whitfield said. The exact origins of the band’s name have been tossed around. Whitfield said the name came from the back of an album he saw on Record Store Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Wesley Brewer, drummer, said he wanted something that would “jump off the tongue and get people ready to rock.” From the beginning, the band constantly evolved its sound. “I am evolving to the next stage,” Brewer said. “Someone once asked me when our next show was. I
I think [being from Birmingham] shaped us by giving our sound more of a blues touch to our music. — Hunter Whitfield —
thought that was cool.” As for what is next for the band, Brewer and Whitfield said they will continue to play shows and plan to meet more “awesome” people.
Tuscaloosa Chipotle locations pull pork from menus By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer
For many Chipotle regulars in the Tuscaloosa area, there will be one fewer option on the menu. The Southwest cuisine-based restaurant has cut carnitas, a seasoned style of braised pork, from the menu in one third of its 1,600 restaurants after a pork supplier was found to have violated Chipotle’s animal welfare standards. Traditionally, diners had the option of chicken, steak, barbacao or carnitas. In 2013 the chain added sofritas, a braised tofu, to their menu as a meat substitute. In an effort to advertise the new product, Chipotle is offering a promotion. Customers who order sofritas on Jan. 26 can bring their receipt back to any Chipotle location through Feb. 28 to receive a free burrito, bowl, salad or order of tacos. Abby Kershek, a freshman majoring in nutrition, said she applauds Chipotle’s dedication to their principals, something not always backed up by a company when it could be bad for their business. “I think it’s really great of Chipotle to follow their own standards, [because now] customers can see that they really do care about where their food comes
from,” she said. The restaurant’s motto, “Food with Integrity,” highlights the company’s focus on ensuring its products come from farms following their welfare standards. According to Chipotle’s website, the company only sources pork that is “being raised outside or in deeply bedded pens, never given antibiotics, and fed a vegetarian diet.” Kershek, who has been a vegetarian for the last three years, said while she doesn’t think animals should be killed, she would rather see them treated under Chipotle’s standards than none at all. “I think that being cage-free and allowed to roam is a better way for them to be treated before being killed,” she said. “They deserve to be happy before death.” After finding their suppliers methods to be in the company’s view unethical, Tiffany Heimbach, a junior majoring in biology and dance and an employee of Chipotle, said the company decided to stop doing business with their supplier. “We found out our suppliers’ meat did not meet our quality standards, and instead of selling carnitas that are not fitting to the stores’ values they decided to not sell them at all,” Heimbach said.
The Chipotle on The Strip stopped serving carnitas due to violated animal welfare standards. CW File
Mark Ortiz, a senior majoring in religious studies and interdisciplinary studies who frequents Chipotle, said his decision to eat there is influenced by the company’s attention to animal welfare. While he supports Chipotle’s strides to provide humanely raised livestock, he said he is skeptical of its power to expand the same welfare standards to other chains. “So long as the Chipotle model of
standard format fast food prevails, I don’t think humane conditions across supply chains will ever be a reality,” he said. “[Chipotle’s] capacity to catalyze change is limited by design.” While this change may be limited, Chipotle has continued to make headlines in the area of animal welfare, with a set of 2013 YouTube videos dealing with the treatment of livestock on farms. Lee House, a junior majoring in biology, said his praise of the restaurant chains lies more with the concept of the quality of the food being sold to the consumer. He said while the recent disappearance of pork from many Chipotle menus, such as the local Chipotle locations on The Strip and in Midtown Village, won’t directly affect his decision to dine there, it is an admirable move by the company. “Does it impact whether I would still eat there or not? No, but I think it’s cool that such a large, successful chain still cares so much about their [food’s] quality,” he said. In a statement released by Chipotle Inc., spokesperson Chris Arnold said to the Associated Press, “It’s hard to say how long [the cuts] will last.” Remedies to the problem, such as using different cuts of meat and suppliers, are currently being explored.
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to have its best possible showing this weekend. “It’s not that it’s an added amount It’s no secret that rivalries run deep in the Southeastern Conference, of pressure, it’s an added amount and while the traditional great gym- of opportunity,” she said. “I know nastics rivalry has been between that once we won two back-to-back The University of Alabama and the national championships, there was University of Georgia, there has been a big ole target on Alabama’s back and everyone wanted to beat us. a shift in the last few years. I think that goes Filling its place for anybody that’s is the competibeen on top and has tion between the the opportunity to Crimson Tide and the I expect to see excellence compete against defending national the team that’s champion, Florida. this weekend. on top.” Combined, the two Last week, the teams have taken — Dana Duckworth — Crimson Tide fell home the last four to Arkansas on the national championroad, despite holding ships, with Florida a lead going into the tying Oklahoma for final rotation of the the title last year. Friday night, the rivalry continues night. Three athletes fell on the beam, as the Alabama gymnastics team a meltdown Duckworth said was takes the floor against the Gators at somewhat unexplainable. “Last week was three amazing 6:30 in Coleman Coliseum. Entering the meet, the Crimson Tide is ranked events, and everything else was No. 1 on the floor exercise and No. 2 mental from that point forward,” she said. “We’ve done nothing but preson the vault. Coach Dana Duckworth said sure this week, put them in great although there is significance in mental state to get the bugs out. I facing the defending champions, it didn’t expect them to be perfect, but is paramount that the team stays we were very disappointed in that focused on what it needs to do balance beam performance and it’s
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Lauren Beers balances on the beam during Alabama’s meet with Arizona. CW / Pete Pajor
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It’ll be a great challenge for us. I think we’ll go in there and try to get the win.” Arkansas, much like Alabama, is No. 1 Kentucky is at the top of the league, still unbeaten at 18-0. The a fast-paced team. It is one of the top Wildcats made quick work of the offenses in the country, ranked sixth in Crimson Tide in Alabama’s last game, the nation in points per game and fourth in assists. Grant’s motto is “94 Feet, Both dispatching it 70-48. Until last week, Arkansas was the Ways,” a testament to the unrelentonly other SEC school entertaining ing speed, defense-first mentality and serious national consideration. The transition threat of his team. Arkansas Razorbacks were ranked as high as coach Mike Anderson masterminded the “Fastest 40 Minutes of No. 19 before falling to Basketball,” a full-court Ole Miss and Tennessee, press, breakneck team sending them out of the that ranks highly in turnnational rankings and I think we’ll go in there over margin and scoring back into the pack of SEC every season. teams attempting to build and try to get the win. offense “I think obviously when a tournament resume. you look at Arkansas, Thursday night, Alabama you’re talking about a has a chance to bounce — Anthony Grant — pressing team, a team that back from its loss to really tries to get out and Kentucky when it travels run off makes, misses, to Fayetteville, Arkansas turnovers,” Grant said. to take on the Razorbacks. “I’ve been impressed watching “We’ve got to make sure we’re doing a Arkansas’ film,” Alabama coach good job on both ends of the floor offenAnthony Grant said. “Obviously, they’re sively, taking care of the ball, attacking, coming off a tough loss at home. I think being unselfish, being efficient with the you look at the body of work over the ball. Defensively, obviously a sense of course of the season. They’ve been urgency transition-wise. They’ve got really good. They’re the highest scoring very good players.” The Razorbacks are led by Bobby team in our league. In their building, obviously, style of play wise, is some- Portis, a 6’11” sophomore forward, thing our guys have to be prepared for. who averages 18 points per game on 58
Knight shows skill in SEC play By Elliott Propes | Staff Reporter
Growing up in Morgan City, Louisiana, Meoshonti Knight developed a love for basketball. Knight played for Central Catholic High School. Knight was short, but she was athletic and became one of the top scoring threats in Class 1A. She was named on the All-State team all four years and scored 2,604 points in her career with an average of 18.9 points per game. Due to this, phone calls began to come in from different colleges around the area. While Knight was in the middle of her volleyball season she had to make one of the most important decisions of her life: where to play basketball in college. Knight narrowed her decision down to Arkansas, Ole Miss, Alabama and Tulane. Now, Knight is one of the top scorers for the Alabama Crimson Tide. As a freshman, Knight has been an asset off the bench this season contributing 8.5 points per game. She has scored double-figures in each of the last three games. Since SEC play began, her scoring average is a stout 11.2 points per game. “Well I just had to put it in my mind mentally that in conference I’m going to have to step up on offense and defense,” she said. Coach Kristy Curry said one of the biggest things Knight has improved is her defense. Knight agreed defense was her biggest adjustment this season. She said defense in high school was not one of her main priorities, because the opposition was not as tough. “I just love the fact that she is very
Freshman Meoshonti Knight is one of the top scorers for the Alabama Crimson Tide. CW / Layton Dudley
coachable,” Curry said. “She has improved, as much as any player in a freshman season that I’ve been a part of as an assistant or head coach in 20 years.” Though Knight is playing well, Alabama lost all five conference games so far. The Crimson Tide has not played at home for a full weekend yet in the SEC. “Well, we are just really looking forward to being home for two games. That’s the first time that has happened in a while. We’ve been on the road for three straight weekends,” Curry said. “Our team has had a chance to grow, and it’s a brand new week. We haven’t had time to feel sorry for ourselves.” Alabama hosts rival Auburn Thursday at 8 p.m. and Vanderbilt Sunday at noon.
The men's basketball team travels to Arkansas Thursday after a loss to Kentucky last Saturday. CW / Pete Pajor
percent shooting and eight rebounds per game, a performance Grant said places him in the top ranks of the SEC. “He’s a really good player,” he said. “I said earlier this week I think he’s one of the leading candidates for player of the year in our league right now with what he’s been able to do. At 6’11” he’s got great size and physicality. It looks
like he’s put on some good weight. He’s got the ability to stretch it to the threepoint line and also post you inside, so we’re going to have to do a great job as a team defensively, trying to limit his opportunities.” Alabama tips off in Fayetteville Thursday at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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Auburn at Alabama
Florida at Alabama
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. CT Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas TV: ESPN2 Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Key Stat: Arkansas has one of the most productive and efficient offenses in the country, averaging 17.9 assists per game.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CT Coleman Coliseum TV: SEC Network Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Key Stat: Auburn is shooting 41 percent from the field this season, the lowest mark in the conference so far.
Tuesday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m. CT Coleman Coliseum TV: ESPN Radio: WFFN 95.3 FM Key Stat: Florida is allowing only 57.7 points per game, the second-best mark in the SEC behind No. 1 ranked Kentucky.
Alabama looks to bounce back from its blowout loss to No. 1 Kentucky when it travels to Fayetteville to take on a team that was ranked No. 19 until last week. Back-to-back losses to Tennessee and Ole Miss have put Arkansas under pressure as it attempts to build a resume as a true SEC contender.
Alabama coach Anthony Grant survived last season’s seat, while Auburn replaced the disappointing Tony Barbee with one of the most accomplished coaches in recent SEC basketball history, former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. For Grant to retain the recruiting momentum he’s built in the state, he’ll have to beat his biggest rival on the court.
Master meets apprentice as Grant’s former boss Billy Donovan leads his Florida Gators into Coleman Coliseum. Normally a national title contender, Florida is on the verge of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009 after a disappointing start to the season. Alabama has never beaten Florida under Grant.
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THE OTHER COOPER By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor
In Bryant-Denny Stadium, the crowd’s roar of “Coooop” meant something specific: Amari Cooper, the most accomplished wide receiver in school history, made a catch – usually for a large gain a frequent example of his overwhelming athleticism, but always a catch. In Coleman Coliseum, the same call could mean a number of things: a steal, a dunk, a breakaway basket, a block, a rebound, even a hustle play diving on the ground for a loose ball. It’s quieter there, the product of a few thousand instead of the 100,000 or more in Bryant-Denny, but in response to senior guard Rodney Cooper, it could mean almost anything. As the third guard in Alabama’s guard-heavy offense, Rodney Cooper can be overlooked in favor of Alabama’s captain Levi Randolph or breakout point guard Ricky Tarrant, but the Hurtsboro, Alabama, native has been Alabama’s savior on more than one occasion this season. When Alabama broke its 16game winless road streak earlier this month, it was Rodney Cooper’s 17 points, five rebounds and five assists that led the Crimson Tide past the Tennessee Volunteers. Now, the senior guard is having the season of his life, shooting 49 percent from the floor, up from 35 percent last season. He’s led the Crimson Tide in scoring five times this season and is the team’s leading three-point shooter. He leads the team in 20-point games, including a career-best 27-point performance against now-No. 9 Iowa State. “Every year, Rodney gets better and better,” Randolph said. “I think that’s one of the focuses of our team-to try to improve and take it one day at a time to try to get better.” Cooper averages 10.6 points per game, good for third on the team behind Randolph and Tarrant. When the conditions are right, he can take over a game, cutting to the basket with authority or raining in shots from beyond the arc, but the senior guard said his game extends far beyond his points total.
“I feel like my game is an all-around game,” Cooper said. “I can pass the ball, shoot the ball and I can also defend as well. [My strengths are] just being an all-around player.” Last season, Cooper led the Crimson Tide in rebounds, pulling down almost five boards a game. At some point, he’s led Alabama in every statistical category except blocks. Alabama coach Anthony Grant said Cooper’s game has come a long way from his freshman year, when he averaged 5 points in 17 minutes per game. “I think obviously, maturity,” Grant said. “I think he’s much more mature in terms of understanding who he is as a player, how to use his skills to impact his team and make the game easier for his teammates and play to his strengths. I think that’s what you want to see in the development of guys as they go through the process from freshman to senior.” Over his four years, Cooper has excelled in no arena like the one he’ll compete in Thursday. In two games at Arkansas’s Bud Walton Arena, Cooper has combined to go 17-28 from the field, 4-9 from three-point range, with 12 rebounds, four assists and 39 points. If Alabama wants to pull away from the SEC contenders that currently trail No. 1 Kentucky, a repeat performance by Cooper Thursday night would help. “They’re an up-tempo team, and they press real well, so we’re going to have to execute our offense,” Cooper said of Arkansas. “We have to make a play instead of running plays.” Cooper came to Alabama as a three-star recruit, one of the top guards in Alabama but ignored on the national level. As his college career comes to a close, Cooper could go from one of the SEC’s most overlooked guards to a crucial piece on an NCAA Tournament team. He just has to keep improving. “It’s just me steadily working, getting in the gym with coaches and helping them progress my game,” Cooper said. “Like I say, just keep working.”
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GYMNASTICSRANKINGS SECSTANDINGS T1. Oklahoma
Kentucky 5-0, 18-0
T1. Florida
Tennessee 4-1, 12-5
3. LSU
LSU 3-2, 14-4
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Georgia 3-2, 12-5
T4. Utah
Texas A&M 3-2, 12-5
6. Nebraska
Florida 3-2, 10-8
7. Alabama
Arkansas 2-2, 13-4
8. UCLA
Alabama 2-2, 12-5
9. Oregon State
Ole Miss 2-3, 11-7
10. Georgia
Auburn 2-3, 10-8
11. Illinois-Champaign
Mississippi State 2-3, 9-9
12. Arkansas
Vanderbilt 1-4, 11-7
13. Penn State
South Carolina 1-4, 10-7
14. Kentucky
Missouri 1-4, 7-11
15. Denver 16. Stanford 17. California 18. Washington 19. Auburn T20. Michigan State T20. Ohio State 22. Arizona T23. Southern Utah T23. Iowa State T25. George Washington T25. New Hampshire
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SUPER SIMS By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter Tensions were high last Friday night as the University of Alabama gymnastics team neared the end of its first road meet of the season against Arkansas. Alabama built a solid lead heading into the final rotation of the night, but things did not begin well on the balance beam. After two falls in three routines, sophomore Aja Sims took her turn on the apparatus that was not kind to her teammates. Sims wasn’t fazed, scoring a 9.9 on her routine. It was her second in as many weeks, this one coming under pressure in a road competition. Sims, an Orlando, Florida, native, said when the pressure hits she looks to her teammates for support. Feeling their confidence in her is enough to curb her nervousness, she said. “When someone falls before me, I definitely get nervous, but when I look at my team and they look back at me and I can see they believe in me, that helps me fully,” she said. “And then I look at my coaches, and they just tell me to do what I have to do, nothing changes. Even though we had a mistake, nothing changes.” No stranger to competing under pressure, Sims took home first place in beam, uneven bars and the all-around in the 2012 Junior Olympic National Championships. In her freshman year she earned all-SEC honors. Her skill is certainly apparent, and coach Dana Duckworth said Sims’ reliability helps to instill confidence in her teammates, with teamwork a theme as the team gets ready to compete in its military appreciation meet this Friday. “Aja is an amazing athlete and even a better person,” Duckworth said. “What’s so wonderful about Aja is whatever you throw at her, whatever you ask of her, she adapts and she overcomes and she does it. It adds strength to the ability to know that she has my back, and that’s what this whole week is about.” Sims said though she is not always vocal, she tries to instill confidence in her teammates on an individual basis. “I’m not as much of the vocal one when it comes to practice,” she said.
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“I’m definitely the one that pulls a person to the side and says, ‘You’ve got this. I’m with you, the team is with you, give it all you got,’ more of that calm leadership. I’m kind of that voice in the back of their heads.” Freshman Mackenzie Brannan said Sims excels at inspiring her teammates and the confidence she carries is contagious. “She’s always happy, she’s always smiling, she’s always very enthusiastic and she always has so much energy when she’s in the gym and when she’s competing,” Brannan said. “She has that calm confidence that makes everyone more reassured in her and in the team.” Though Sims’ 9.9 score on balance beam wasn’t enough for the Crimson Tide to pull out a victory over Arkansas, she said the loss is in the past for the team. This week, she said the team has focused on trusting its training,
“What’s so wonderful about Aja is whatever you throw at her, whatever you ask of her, she adapts and she overcomes and she does it.” something it did not do last week, something that is paramount if the team hopes to defeat the defending national champion as Florida comes to town this Friday. “We definitely were down that we lost, but I think we learned more from the experience than anything,” Sims said. “Now we just have to work on our energy as a team and make sure we keep it high and trust everyone, trust our training, and trust each other.”
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