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SGA plans Defense keys Tide victory internal trip review Group, University say no UA policies violated

By Alan Blinder Managing Editor The Student Government Association president said Friday that he had ordered a review of the organization’s internal operating practices after the group acknowledged it had violated its own spending rules to fund a trip to Pasadena, Calif., earlier this month.

In an emailed statement, SGA President Steven Oliver said the SGA attorney general, Aubrey Coleman, would lead the effort “to make sure we are in full compliance in every endeavor.”

“The students of the University of Alabama can be fully confident that we will continue to operate openly and with full integrity,” Oliver said in the statement. In a new sign of transparency, the SGA posted its Code of Laws on its Web site Sunday.

The Code of Laws prohibits expenditures of more than $1,000 without SGA Senate approval. The Senate, which met Thursday for the first time since November, did not approve the trip, which used more than 2 percent of the SGA’s annual alloca-

tion of state funds from the University.

SGA spokeswoman Anne Elizabeth Davis said Friday that the expenses “did not violate institutional policies and procedures,” a view a University official echoed.

In an emailed statement, Kathleen Cramer, UA senior associate for the vice president of student affairs, said, “Since the students followed state requirements for out-ofstate travel, there was no violation of institutional policy or state law.”

However, a University document describing policies for out-of-state travel specifically states that “Personal travel for side trips is not reimbursed.”

SGA officials said they used a van rented with state funds to travel to the Rose Bowl, the site of the game. The stated purpose of the trip was

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CW| John Michael Simpson Freshman forward Tony Mitchell squares up against a Mississippi State defender during the Tideʼs 62-57 defeat of the No. 23 Bulldogs. Mitchell finished the game with six points and a team-high 12 rebounds.

By Spencer White Assistant Sports Editor

62-57 in front of 12,336 fans at Coleman Coliseum Saturday afternoon.

Alabama (12-7, 2-3) earned With help from an inspired defensive performance and its first SEC victory since the an impressive bounce-back conference road opener against effort by Mikhail Torrance, LSU on Jan. 9 and the victory the Alabama Crimson Tide over the Bulldogs (15-4, 3-1) is captured a crucial early the Tide’s second victory over Southeastern Conference a top-25 squad this season.

“I’m really proud of the effort victory, defeating the No. 23 Mississippi State Bulldogs our guys gave,” Alabama head

point guard leapt out of the gates, knocking down two three-pointers en route to eight points in the first two minutes to push the Tide to an early 12-2 lead with 17:55 left in the first half. Torrance finished the first half with 10 points to lead all scorers at intermission.

“It felt great [to get back on

coach Anthony Grant said.

“This is a great win for us … for us, the thing we’ve talked about is getting better as a team, and this is a step in the right direction for us.”

Torrance made it clear from the get-go that he would not be held to his production from Wednesday night, an uncharacteristic effort resulting in a mere three points. The senior

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PR department rakes in top honor Gubernatorial

By Amanda Bayhi Staff Reporter

PRWeek magazine recently ranked the University’s public relations department as one of the top five PR departments in the nation earlier this month.

Joseph Phelps, professor and chairman of the UA department of advertising and public relations, said this is the second year in a row that the PR department ranked in the top five by the magazine.

Phelps said PRWeek would also be hosting a ceremony in New York City on March 11, where it will announce the winner and give awards to the other top departments.

“It’s wonderful to be ranked in one of the top programs in the country,” Phelps said.

The top universities this year also include, New York University, Brigham Young University, Georgetown University and Howard University.

Phelps said NYU was the top school last year, and he hopes the University has a chance to win this year.

“We’d like to bump them out of that top spot,” Phelps said.

Bruce Berger, member of the board of directors of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, said in an emailed statement that the application process takes a great deal of

work. PRWeek considers the college’s internships, faculty, curriculum, involvement of PR professionals, new media usage and many other facets, Berger said.

In addition, Phelps said the PR department would like to be able to take some of their students to the ceremony.

“We want to take students with us. We just have to identify some funds to make that possible,” Phelps said.

Berger said he attended the awards ceremony last year and really enjoyed the festive atmosphere of it. Berger said more than 1,000 people attended, and there was a lot of anticipation since the win-

ner was not announced until the dinner.

Berger said the recognition from PRWeek would help bring more students and faculty to the University.

Phelps said that the University has affected some of the other top schools in several ways. For example, at least one of Brigham Young’s faculty members graduated from the University, Phelps said.

Berger said the Plank Center funds research and awards programs, bringing recognition to UA. Phelps said he hopes UA will

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By Taylor Holland Staff Reporter On June 1, Alabamians will vote to choose the next Republican candidate for governor of the state. To assist with their selection, voters have a chance to hear one particular candidate speak in person on state issues.

Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore, who announced his candidacy for governor in early June 2009, will be speaking to UA students and faculty on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Ferguson Center.

“I spoke in downtown Tuscaloosa just a few weeks ago,” Moore said. “But I’m excited to be back at the University of Alabama, the home of the 2009 national football champions, speaking to students.”

Moore said he plans to address national issues involving the government, education, ethical issues and the economy, as well as the direction Alabama is heading

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Being a student is sometimes hard enough, but for Micaiah Thomas, being a student is only the beginning.

Originally from Colombia, 20-year-old Thomas grew up around mission work.

About a year ago, Thomas said she felt a calling.

“I’ve always liked mission work,” Thomas said. “I really didn’t feel a call to missions until last year during a worship service when I just felt the Lord call me to ministry in a very

there, she was offered a fulltime position at her current church.

“I start planning a sermon at least a week or so in advance for the coming up Sunday,” she said. “I’ll do studies of books of the Bible or I’ll do a study on — Micaiah Thomas a theme of something. From there, I start to break down the Church of theology of it, and break down clear and powerful way. From Presbyterian illustrations and things to there is when I knew that mis- Hueytown.

She said she became a make it make sense. With that sion work is what I wanted to candidate for the ministry and school work, I’m just really do.”

Along with being a full- at her father’s church where busy.”

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“I really didn’t feel a call to missions until last year during a worship service when I just felt the Lord call me to ministry in very clear and powerful way.

From there is when I knew that mission work is what I wanted to do.”

candidate Roy Moore to speak at UA campus

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and the future of the state, b e fo r e opening the floor to questions from the audience.

Roy Moore Since declaring his candidacy for governor, Moore said he has campaigned across Alabama, voicing the issues that he feels are important topics to address. Moore’s platform includes his support for the rights of states.

“Today, 32 states have joined together to reassert state’s rights. As governor, I will join that effort,” according to Moore’s Web site.

Suzelle Josey, Moore’s spokeswoman, said recent polls show Moore to be leading other candidates by a wide margin.

Moore is widely recognized throughout Alabama for his

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NEWS in brief CAMPUS | Blackburn Institute Accepting Nominations for new student fellows The Blackburn Institute is accepting nominations for new student fellows through Wednesday.

Students interested in becoming Blackburn Fellows must be nominated by a faculty member, dean, administrator, or student affairs staff member at the University. Nominations should be based on the student’s demonstration of leadership and interest in issues facing the state of Alabama and the country at large.

Nominees will be invited to a new member interest session that will focus on the Institute and the rest of the application process. After that session, nominees will have the opportunity to complete an application containing formal essay questions. Students selected from the applications will receive an interview with a panel of advisory board members, fellows, and staff. This panel will select approximately 25 students to be admitted into the Institute.

For more information, please visit www.blackburninstitute.org.

CAMPUS | UAʼs multicultural sorority holds first informational of semester Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. is holding their first informational meeting of the semester in Bidgood 379 at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting will include a presentation about the sorority, how to become a member and the opportunity to ask questions to current members. The sorority is multicultural and represents women who are German, Panamanian, Taiwanese as well as black. The Tau Gamma chapter on campus has expanded its membership total to 35 women and hopes to continue to grow.

CAMPUS | Research conference open to student entries Undergraduate students of all majors are invited to enter the University of Alabama’s annual “Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference” scheduled for April 15 at the Bryant Conference Center. The event gives students opportunity to compete for cash prizes and earn practical experience in defending or performing their work before judges. More than 220 students competed in last spring’s competition. To participate, undergraduate students must register their project by submitting an application form and abstract describing their project by March 8. An online application, along with more details, is posted at www.osp. ua.edu/UndergradResearch.html. For more information, contact Richard Mocarski at 348-7163.

Students angry over SGA expenses

By Will Tucker Staff Reporter In light of the SGA’s acknowledgement that the organization violated its own spending regulations for a community service trip to Pasadena, Calif., a number of students expressed their disapproval over its actions, with some saying the organization should do right by the student body regarding their actions.

“If the student body’s upset about it, I think they should apologize,” said Jeff Tucker, a junior majoring in advertising.

“They should definitely let it be known how they won’t let it happen again.”

Lindsay Davis, a junior majoring in nursing, agreed.

“It needs to be brought to peoples’ attention,” Davis said. “We need to look at why they went over budget. They had to know what they were doing.”

However, others were less understanding about what an SGA official has called “an inadvertent admission.”

“I think it’s messed up,” said

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community service, and all other expenditures – airfare, hotel accommodations, and food stipends – appear to be in accordance with the University’s travel policies.

Although SGA leaders have defended the trip as serviceoriented, Matthew Brown, the SGA coordinator of community outreach, said Sunday he only learned of the event three days

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before it happened.

Brown said he learned about the Pasadena trip from a UA administrator and was never invited to participate in the planning or execution of the project.

“It’s odd that the coordinator of community outreach was never consulted for a community outreach project,” he said.

In addition, Brown said SGA executives had denied funding requests for outreach proposals earlier in the academic year due to a lack of money, whichCollin

Taylor, the SGA’s assistant vice president of external affairs, confirmed in a telephone interview.

In one instance last fall, Brown and Taylor proposed a Tuscaloosa Fall Festival “to promote a stronger sense of community between Tuscaloosa and the students of UA,” according to a letter Brown and Taylor wrote to Oliver.

Brown said James Fowler, vice president of external affairs, denied a request for approximately $5,226.50 in SGA

funds and reportedly told him that the SGA budget was tight.

Brown said Fowler “tentatively offered $1,000.”

Brown said the lack of full funding forced the event’s cancelation.

“It’s hard to be the sponsor of a project when you don’t have any initial funds,” Brown said.

Through Davis, the officials who traveled to California and Oliver declined an interview request. The SGA did not offer responses to additional questions by deadline.

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“We should find out all key things to the situation,” he said.

Some students urged consequences for the incident.

“They should probably see some sort of judicial board,” Tucker said. “Maybe a judicial board of peer students, and let them evaluate the situation.”

“Maybe they should be put on some sort of probation or go before some sort of board,” Davis said. “I mean, I hate to say removal from their position, but what do you do?”

Shaun Cavanaugh, a freshman majoring in computer science, said the punishment should depend on the severity of the violation and what the delegation purchased with the funds.

“I think there should be some form of punishment for it, but I’m not sure what would be appropriate,” Cavanaugh said.

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Michael Cullivan, a sophomore majoring in telecommunications and film major. “They need to learn from this mistake.”

The official purpose of the trip to Pasadena was for the SGA to work alongside student government counterparts from the University of Texas at the Union Station Homeless Services Adult Center as part of a service project prior to the national championship game.

Some students said they doubt the group’s official purpose.

“That was probably just politics,” said Candace Philips, a junior majoring in consumer science. “I think the trip was 70 percent about the football game, if not more, and 30 percent about the actual service project.”

Cullivan suggested the University should investigate the episode.

In addition, some students said they think that the money spent on the trip should be replaced.

“Maybe they should have a fundraiser to get the money back, and donate it to something…just as long as that money is paid back, and worked for, I think it should be fine,” said Rebecca Fil, a freshman majoring in English.

Latoya Hudson, a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in library sciences, agreed.

“I think they should try to get the money back,” Hudson said.

“If it wasn’t money for them to use, they should pay it back.”

Hudson also said the University should implement procedures to ensure such an incident doesn’t happen again.

“They need more faculty supervision to keep tabs on what they do with the money,” Hudson said. “The University should provide them with somebody to give them guidance in finances, to keep problems like this from happening.”

“They should probably see some sort of judicial board. Maybe a judicial board of peer students, and let them evaluate the situation.”

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and State Supreme Court campaigns, as well as his refusal to remove a monument from the state courthouse with the Ten Commandments displayed on it.

In his autobiography, “So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny and The Battle for Religious Freedom,” Moore wrote that the state should be able to legally acknowledge God’s moral principles.

This is not Moore’s first visit to the UA campus. Since Moore’s last visit to campus, he has nearly completed another book, tentatively titled “Under God and Law.” Moore is also president of the Foundation for Moral Law,

“We’re working to provide opportunities to educate voters about the Republican candidates, and Judge Moore’s visit is a great opportunity for students to hear about his platform and learn more about the election.”

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a non-profit law firm, which submits legal briefs in state and federal court cases, including those tried in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Alabama Supreme Court. He also lectures and teaches nationally on the U.S. Constitution.

The speech, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., is sponsored by both the West Alabama Republican Assembly and UA’s College Republicans.

“UA College Republicans is very excited to have gubernatorial candidate Judge Moore come speak to the University,” said UA College Republican secretary Dorothy Griffith.

“We’re working to provide opportunities to educate voters about the Republican candidates, and Judge Moore’s visit is a great opportunity for students to hear about his platform and learn more about the election.”

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said she uses her own experiences from her past to talk about to her congregation, which is made up of typically 12 to 15 people over the age of 55.

“It’s kind of a juxtaposition having this 20-year-old girl coming in to preach and get into a congregation of 55-yearolds,” she said. “Finding common ground has been really interesting and been really neat to build those relationships and figure out what I can learn from them and what they can learn from me.”

Along with planning sermons and doing schoolwork, Thomas is also involved with The Well and Bible study groups at Calvary Baptist Church.

Thomas said she has never second-guessed her calling, but has doubted whether or not she is good at her job.

“I can’t say I’ve ever second guessed it,” she said. “I can say I’ve doubted whether or not I’ve been any good or whether or not I could be doing something else ministry oriented.”

Even though Thomas stays busy, she still makes time for friends and building relationships.

“I do keep up with friends a lot, but specifically through the Calvary Church here,” she said.

“I make it work to where I can grab dinner or lunch.”

Thomas said she doesn’t get

to spend time with friends as often as she likes, but it is still important to her to have those relationships.

As for family, she said hers is more than supportive. Thomas has actually taken on the professions of both of her parents in different ways. Along with preaching like her father, Thomas also teaches English to students at Tuscaloosa County High School. Her mom is a fulltime English as a second language tutor.

Thomas said she thinks that she really is not missing out on the “college life.” She said she is only doing what she wants to do.

“I want to pastor a church, just as I want to read the Bible and pray and serve other people,” she said. “This does not make me a ‘super-Christian’ or self-righteous or even capable of anything that I am doing.

The reason I have the desire to do these things is because God’s grace has changed my desires to be his desires. I am free to do what I want, and it’s just that I now want what God wants because of his grace.”

Thomas said that students shouldn’t wait to graduate to start working toward a passion.

“I feel like too many students feel like they are not capable of doing more. I think that students need to know that at the ages of 18 to 20 whatever, if you want to you can find ways to minister or ways to work or ways to whatever your passion is, and actually do it. I think you can do it now.”

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‘Guarantee’ removed Crews protect wildlife from oil spill

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By Phillip Rawls The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lucy Baxley said she removed all guarantees from promotional literature and contracts for Alabama’s prepaid college tuition plan in 1995 when she was state treasurer because there was no legal obligation in state law.

Six years later, the Legislature changed the law to make that explicit. `“If there is an obligation, it is moral,” Baxley told The Associated Press.

Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan now does not have enough money to cover all future tuition payments. Some participants have filed lawsuits to make sure they get the tuition they expected, and the Legislature is reviewing five different proposals for shoring up the financially troubled plan.

It was launched two decades ago when Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. and then-State Treasurer George Wallace Jr. got the Legislature to approve a bill making Alabama one of the earliest states with a prepaid tuition plan.

The Legislature named the program after Wallace and Folsom and gave the state treasurer the duty of implementing the plan in 1990.

The idea was simple: Parents pay a fixed amount in expectation their child will receive four years of tuition at a state university after graduating from high school. A state board invests the parents’ payments and uses the earnings to pay tuition.

That worked well until tuition rose faster than expected and investments plunged in value.

Now, it could take anywhere for $236 million to $1 billion to meet all obligations, depending on how fast tuition rises and the investments recover.

Wallace’s earliest contracts for PACT and his promotion used the word “guarantee.”

When Baxley succeeded Wallace in 1995, she said she asked the PACT staff if there was a guarantee and the staff told her no.

“I said, ‘Why do we have it in the material?’ They said, ‘We just started off that way.’

“I said, ‘I want us to go through every PACT printed material we have and take out the word ‘guarantee’ because we can’t make it 100 percent sure.’”

Wallace is running for state treasurer again as a Republican on a platform of getting the PACT program on sound footing once more. He disagrees with Baxley’s interpretation of the law. He said the original law made it clear there was an obligation by the state to cover tuition.

DALLAS — Crews worked Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down parts of a major southeast Texas port, state Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said.

Plastic walls known as booms and oil-sucking skimmer boats were used to safeguard a lake that is a crucial breeding ground and a wildlife management area that lost its protective gates when Hurricane Ike roared ashore a year and a half ago, Patterson said.

The U.S. Coast Guard said about 462,000 gallons — or 11,000 barrels — of oil spilled into the water Saturday when an 800-foot tanker headed for an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery in Beaumont collided with a towing vessel pushing two barges near Port Arthur, about 90 miles east of Houston. It was the largest spill in Texas since 1994, but still well shy of one 20 years ago involving Norwegian tanker Mega Borg that leaked 4.3 million gallons of crude oil about 60 miles off Galveston.

The tide lifted the two ships and they separated shortly after midnight Sunday without more oil being spilled, Coast Guard Petty Officer Richard Brahm said.

The crew of the damaged tanker, the Eagle Atome, said the remaining 69,000 of the 80,000 barrels of oil in the ship were pumped out, according to the Coast Guard.

Chief Warrant Officer Lionel Bryant of the Coast Guard said about 45,800 feet of booms were deployed to contain the spill.

“Because of where it happened,

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be ranked number one this year, but that regardless of who the winner will be, it won’t affect the department’s hard work.

“We’re going to keep working, regardless of the ranking, to be the best program,”

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we were able to get teams out there quickly to at least contain it for now,” Bryant said. “But it’s still a tremendously large spill.”

None of the sensitive wildlife areas had been affected, Bryant said. That included Keith Lake, a breeding ground for shrimp and other small fish, and the Murphree Wildlife Management Area, where several endangered species have been spotted.

Bryant said his agency had one report of an oil-covered bird and encouraged residents to report any sightings of affected wildlife.

“It’s too early to claim victory yet,” Bryant said. “Right now, there’s no impact in the marshes and no impact in Keith Lake.”

Coast Guard officials have said the spill was mostly contained in a 2-mile stretch of the Sabine Neches Waterway, which runs along the city of Port Arthur.

The area off-limits to ships was extended 18 miles to the Texas

Gulf Coast in case of a breach or a wind shift that might complicate containment efforts, Bryant said.

The Sabine Neches Waterway is the second-largest in Texas, according to the online Handbook of Texas. Bryant said refineries generally are prepared for a 72-hour shutdown, which would extend into Tuesday. He said it wasn’t known when the waterway would reopen.

The tanker is owned by AET Tankers, a Malaysian company with offices in Houston.

Patterson said AET would pay for most of the cleanup. A spokesman said the company was working with the Coast Guard on cleanup and assessment and referred to Coast Guard officials for further comment.

Exxon Mobil spokesman Kevin Allexon said the company was

monitoring the ship owner’s response and was ready to provide help if necessary. The Irving, Texas-based company said it does not expect the accident to affect operations at its Beaumont refinery.

“Exxon Mobil is very concerned about this unfortunate incident.

The vessels we charter to transport our products meet rigorous safety standards,” the company said in a written statement.

The ship collided with a towing vessel pushing two barges, leaving a 15-foot-by-8-foot hole in the tanker. During the collision, the towing vessel also hit another tanker that was tied to a pier. Brahm said that tanker sustained some damage, but had no leaks.

A National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman said the agency was supporting the Coast Guard investigation but had no further details Sunday.

Phelps said Phelps said the department’s ranking can also help students land jobs after college. Phelps said it could bring the attention of future employers.

“It’s another reason for them to say, ‘You know what?

They have some really good students coming from the University of Alabama. These are the kind of people that we

want to work for us’,” Phelps said.

Phelps said the achievement did not take place over the past year. Rather, she said various faculty and students have contributed to the success of the PR department for many years.

“We’re here now because of the work people have been putting in for the last couple

of decades,” Phelps said.

Singleton said the faculty and staff of C&IS are proud of the department’s achievement.

“Our college is extremely pleased that our APR department has been recognized this way,” Singleton said. “We are looking forward to hearing the results later in the spring.”

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Monday, January 25, 2010 Editor • Jonathan Reed letters@cw.ua.edu

{ YOUR VIEW } What spring sport are you looking forward to the most at the University?

“Iʼd say probably baseball. It seems like one of the more prominent sports at Alabama besides football.

Basketball and the A-game, too, are events Iʼll be going to.”

— Robert Hill, freshman, film

“Baseball, probably. One of the guys on the team went to my church, and heʼs really cool. I donʼt know, theyʼre just really fun.”

— Tara Northington, freshman, psychology

“I like gymnastics. I have to work them for athletic hostessing, and I started watching them, and theyʼre really interesting. I used to dance, so I like that kind of thing.”

— Jessica Ruffin, freshman, public relations

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It seems a little c o u n t e r - i n tu i t ive In short: Allowing that the ability to on-campus student drive more might parking at the help people exercise, Rec Center makes but if driving helps being healthy more people find time to convenient. work out, it makes . sense.

In past years, if you lived on campus, you had to walk or take the bus in order to go to the Student Recreation Center. Now, thanks to a longneeded revision of parking policy, you can drive to your workout any time of the day.

The new policy allowing students with on-campus parking permits to park in any Rec Center parking lot makes it much more convenient to get some exercise. Walking to the Rec may provide a workout by itself, but it can be contingent on the weather. Taking the bus has always been a solid option, but sometimes you can wait a long time for one bus and, depending on where you live on campus, you may have to change buses to get there. The trip often takes far longer than you might expect or want for a jaunt across campus to run on a treadmill.

Granting on-campus students the ability to drive to the Rec opens up an entirely new idea of convenience for students. Students are no longer victim to the whims of CrimsonRide routes, only to traffic and parking availability. Working out at the Rec center can become an activity that does not require several hours of planning. You can stop over on your way to or from class or wherever else you may be going. The possibilities are endless.

The new policy is helpful to students in another way. There is no longer a risk attached to driving to the Rec Center. Too many students have driven there, seen the vast number of empty parking spaces, and taken advantage, only to return to their car to see a parking ticket waiting for them. This kind of parking policy could deter students who may not have the time to walk or wait on the bus, students who are sometimes in need of exercise.

The new policy will also allow students to go to the gym more often during the day, alleviating the crowds who tend to show up at night after ticketing stops for the day. Hopefully, students will be able to take advantage of this new convenience so it can benefit the health of the entire campus. That is, after all, what the Rec Center is there for.

On Thursday, we all learned that several officials in our student government had received SGA funding to participate in a service project crafted around the BCS Championship game in Pasadena, Calif.

Four officials and one representative from the UA Community Service Center received flights, hotel, ground transportation and food costs that totaled over $4,700.

From anyone’s best estimates, the group spent several hours at the Union Station Homeless Services Adult Center serving food alongside representatives from the University of Texas’ student government to much of Pasadena’s homeless population.

In short, our SGA paid five students almost $950 apiece to do a few hours of community service.

No one doubts that the students participating, from both UA and UT, did meaningful work. As I’ve written on this page multiple times, homelessness increases drastically when the economy goes sour. The problem has increased nationwide since 2007, and things aren’t getting much better. We need more students reaching out to the homeless, serving them food, and offering them any help they can give.

But this trip, with its astronomical price tag and not-so-hidden perks, has left many outraged and many more distrustful of their SGA. “I bet a donation of $4,742.95 would have been significantly more beneficial to the Union Station Homeless Shelter than a couple hours worth of volunteer work,” one student said with frustration.

“If they’re all about service (not just sneaking in a way to travel to

Ian Sams the game for free), then it seems like they would want to maximize the amount of funds going into the service project,” another said.

This trip has left a sour taste in many students’ mouths. I know that I, as an SGA Senator, am disappointed and frustrated at the large expenditure and the admitted rules violations by members of SGA’s Executive Council.

It’s even more frustrating to know that students at the University have come to that same executive council requesting funds for local service projects, affecting the homeless, the jobless, elementary school students and other in-need groups right here in Tuscaloosa, and been turned away under the excuse that “there’s no money for it.”

Such brazenly vague and unaccountable responses must no longer be tolerated in our SGA. Over the coming days and weeks, many of us inside of SGA will be working to revamp the way students’ funds are spent, ensuring that expenditures for individual

students’ gain (like complimentary trips to the West Coast for events timed around a big football game) are not easier to make than expenses for major projects or programs that would affect our whole student body or the Tuscaloosa community.

We’ll work to put the SGA budget out there for anyone to see, and we’ll demand that those with oversight of that budget explain any expenditure, big or small, that the SGA makes.

Justice in this situation isn’t just punishment for those involved, though I must say an apology for the misappropriation of funds or the blatant violation of SGA standing rules seems necessary.

But more than punishment, justice is ensuring that the inappropriate actions made once don’t happen again. It’s fixing the system to benefit more people, not just a select few. It’s implementing policies that disallow these sorts of ethics-bending, divisive decisions from ever being made.

We all have a right to be upset about the circumstances surrounding Pasadenagate. We all should demand that justice be served.

And each and every one of us should call upon our SGA to invest in local projects and programs that make our campus and Tuscaloosa communities stronger and to make their expenditures of the students’ funds more transparent and responsible.

I’ll do my part, and I encourage each of you to call, email or visit any SGA official or administrator and ask them to do the same.

Ian Sams is a senior majoring in political science. His column runs weekly on Monday.

Regulating sloth, gluttony

By Wesley Vaughn “Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice you’ve got their strict attention.”

Perhaps John Doe in “Se7en” undertakes his disdain of the seven deadly sins a bit extremely, but he correctly articulates the difficulty of reaching people. Additionally, his mortal regulation of detrimental behaviors seems psychotically sane in an ends, not means, sense.

A quick glance over our country reveals a multitude of widespread deadly transgressions.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 32 percent of children and adolescents are obese or overweight – gluttony. A 2009 Gallup survey reported that almost 50 percent of American adults exercise less than 90 total minutes a week – sloth. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley loses the Massachusetts special election for Senate – stupidity.

Besides the third inoperable vice, the mentioned pair of actual deadly sins has to be considered the easiest to notice and remedy.

Unfortunately, America has yet to demonstrate its willingness to handle the ever-expanding epidemic. Even with the First Lady planting gardens and professional athletes praising fitness, no ad campaign has relieved the American waistline, which will soon stretch from sea to shining sea.

Our caring mother – not big brother – government must wield Doe’s proposed sledgehammer.

Instead of vocally punishing her kids about eating too many sweets or failing to exercise daily, she

needs to initiate constructive punishment and convert her kids from unhealtheism to healtholicism.

Already, politicians around the country have kicked around the idea of imposing higher taxes on unhealthy foods and drinks, namely candy and soft drinks. The right wing and its manic mother mafia can paint it as a tax on groceries as much as they please. If the country could simply control its cravings, we would not need this meddling.

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We hold our government accountable for splurging our tax dollars or breaching the constitution. We proclaim our opinions when Congress squabbles over controversial legislation. Yet, during this entire health care debacle, I highly doubt any enraged citizen considered how he or she could physically help.

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no one else. I wish I could go in for a daily checkup. However, when a 12-pack costs less than $6, the cost of purchase is much less than the social cost. All this would do is hopefully influence a potential customer to try a different, cheaper, healthier choice of drink.

To offset that tax and further enhance the healtholicism movement, I suggest subsidies on the opposite end of the spectrum. The Food and Drug Administration should research quality food products for our quest, and Congress could ideally seek to incentivize the production and selling of the agency’s recommendations.

The same initiative would be applied in the fitness realm.

Implementing tax deductions for owning a gym, a gym membership, or just a Shake Weight would work out.

The habitual and ultimately ineffectual solution to our ills is to blame the government. Sorry, but

ed costs. In reality, the insured’s quality of life is just as important as the policies of insurance companies, though we never quite seem to follow up on this point.

The examples I acknowledged are not draconian. They neither classify as communist nor fascist, so who knows what Fox News could possibly label them as. Most likely the channel would bemoan over the business impact, but there is always a hit on some sector of business when a country advances.

Though many may prefer to stuff their face with the sweet desserts of unhealtheism, the fruits of healtholicism are great. We may not need to ever swing Doe’s theoretical sledgehammer; we just need its threat as a suitable conversion tool.

Wesley Vaughn is a sophomore majoring in public relations and political science. His column runs weekly on Monday.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Prop. 8 violates essential liberty

By Michelle Fuentes In a bold, progressive move last week, Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced her support of the NOH8 Campaign. In this positive statement towards negative liberty, or the freedom from interference, McCain resisted the marginilization of homosexuality.

The NOH8 Campaign is a silent protest and photo project that currently serves as an important grassroots display against the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Like McCain’s picture, NOH8 features photographed celebrities and at-home snapshots of supporters with their mouths taped symbolizing the loss of voice and infringement of rights of the gay and lesbian communities following the passage of “Prop. 8.”

Relying on the state to legitimatize the personal choice of a kinship bond works as a double-edged sword. Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says it is important that all people are able to “lay claim to intelligibility and recongnizability” within a society. That includes the ability to marry another consenting adult.

Most importantly, Bulter shows that failing to pressure the institution of marriage would concede to the state’s monopoly of “resources of recognition” and continue to degrade the quality of many lives by unnecessarily interfering in personal space.

A utopian libertarian society that holds all laws to the highest test of individual liberty would be completely without state sanctified marriage.

Marriage is a religious commitment, not just a legal one. Currently, it exists as a state sanctified sacrament. Sacraments should be kept out of the hands of civil authorities.

Marriage should be kept and celebrated joyously in houses of worship. It should be performed and sanctified only under the specific beliefs and regulations of each religious body, not the government.

In this imaginary utopian society, civil unions, issued to any consenting adults, would be the only necessary legal documentation required to denote kinship and clarify beneficiary needs. Gender need not be a discriminatory factor in allowing two adults to enter a legal contract.

We do not live in a society that actively holds individual liberty under the highest protection and must, therefore, adjust this ideal to a feasible, practical and theoretically acceptable solution for all citizens. It should be done swiftly, especially for the individuals who presently suffer under the state’s undue regulation of personal welfare.

Making positive statements towards negative liberty, such as in Cindy McCain’s photo, is the first step in doing so for the people of California. And, the repealing of Prop 8 and other similar state laws which further advance any state’s regulatory ability in its citizen’s personal lives is the next step.

Michelle Fuentes is a third year doctoral student in political theory.

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By Jason Galloway Sports Editor

If beating the five-time defending national champions last week wasn’t enough of a statement, the No. 3 Alabama gymnastics team made an even bigger one Friday night in front of 13,506 fans in Coleman Coliseum.

The Crimson Tide looked like a team ready to compete for the national championship, posting season highs in all four events and its highest overall score of the year by more than a point to crush No. 7 Arkansas 197.45195.5. “I think you have nights where things just come together,� said Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson. “I think tonight was one of those nights. There are a lot of people that were afraid we were going to let down after Georgia, and I said, ‘I don’t think this group is going to.’ One of our goals was we wanted to make a statement at the beginning of the season.�

After notching a first-rotation score of 49.425 on vault, which was Alabama’s highest score on any event this season, the Tide performed even better on the uneven bars with a 49.475.

The bars score was a season high by more than half a point.

Seven of Alabama’s 12 routines in those first two rotations were scored a 9.9 or better, including a career-high 9.975 on vault

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for seven-time All-American Morgan Dennis. “I think tonight is just the beginning,� Dennis said. “Everything just clicked for us tonight from the first vault that [Geralen Stack-Eaton] did. It was a huge improvement from last week, and I’m just really excited for where this season is going.�

After Alabama had practically won at the halfway point, leading 98.9-97.75 after two rotations, the Tide scored a 49.1 on beam and a 49.45 on floor to pull even further away to the near two-point final margin. “I just think we relaxed and we cleaned things up a little bit,�

Patterson said. “We could have scored the exact same as we did last week, and I would have been happy because the performance was much better.�

A week removed from not performing on bars due to back spasms, Dennis won the allaround with a 39.675. All three Tide all-arounders – Dennis, sophomore Ashley Priess and senior Ricki Lebegern – scored higher than all three Arkansas all-arounders. “I’m glad I was able to perform the way I did to help the team score this really high score this early in the season,� Dennis said. “I think everyone’s performances were just confidence boosters for the whole team, and I think our trust factor has gone up even more.�

Sitting just four-tenths of a point away in season average from top-ranked UCLA before Friday, Alabama’s score of 197.45 could potentially bump the Tide into the No. 1 ranking. “After the meet, we were like, ‘Dang, we are a really good team, and we have a really special group of girls here,’� Priess said. “It clicked tonight; we felt it. It just boosted our confidence even more going into the [rest of] the season, and I think we’re all just beyond excited for what’s to come.�

Alabama now turns its attention to next Saturday’s trimeet at Penn State against the Nittany Lions and Minnesota. It will be the second consecutive season the Tide will compete in a tri-meet at Penn State.

“The fun thing about it is, a lot of these ladies are from the East Coast,� Patterson said, “so when we go to Penn State, we have a nice crowd that comes.

A lot of family and friends, a lot of coaches, people that we know, a lot of alumni come.

So, I think it’s going to be a great meet.�

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women fall in overtime to Arkansas

By Cyrus Ntakirutinka Senior Sports Reporter The University of Alabama women’s basketball team fell to a 9-11 record following a 66-62 overtime loss to Arkansas Sunday.

The Razorbacks fell behind the Crimson Tide to start the game and pulled within a point at half time.

Head coach Wendell Hudson was not pleased with Alabama’s performance in the first half.

“First thing you got to know is that you don’t ever have a game you can take a half off,” Hudson said. “We’re just not at that point in our talent level to take a half out.

And I thought Arkansas did a good job of taking advantage of that. I thought the game was lost in the first half, because we did not play together the way we needed to play together.”

Arkansas scored 28 points off a total of 23 turnovers. The Razorbacks eventually closed the margin from the start of the game by the half thanks to the press defense. Arkansas coach Tom Collen was pleased with his team’s effort on defense.

“I thought our defense was pretty solid in the first half,” Collen said.

“We just missed a lot of open shots, we turned the ball over. We came out in the second half and got a lead. We haven’t played with many leads in the SEC this year. All in all it’s two teams that both needed wins, we may have needed this win more than they did. I think we slowed them down; they couldn’t just get and ram it down our throat.

CW | John Michael Simpson I think it was a big factor because we don’t have a lot of depth, but Senior point guard Dedrea Magee drives down the court during the Tideʼs 66-62 overtime loss Sunday afternoon. Magee sometimes we need to press to finished with six points; four rebounds and four assists.

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track],” Torrance said. “It was a total team effort, everybody contributed.”

The scoring dried up shortly afterward, with the Tide failing to score a basket for more than five minutes of game time.

Fortunately for Alabama, its pressuring defense left the Bulldogs with little breathing room. With minimal damage coming from Mississippi State baskets, JaMychal Green was able to break the scoring slump with a short hook shot, followed by a Charvez Davis jumper that gave the Tide a 16-6 lead with 12:08 left in the first half.

Meanwhile, Mississippi State’s shooting woes never seemed to improve in the first half. The Bulldogs, who entered the contest shooting 40 percent on three-point attempts, the top mark in the SEC, failed to hit a single shot from beyond the arc in the opening half of play. Alabama’s nine personal fouls and extended droughts of scoreless play allowed the Bulldogs to stay within striking distance despite a 29 percent field goal percentage, as the Tide headed into the halftime locker room with a 27-26 lead.

“This team is leading the SEC, I think, with 10 threes a game,” Torrance said. “We just had to go out and take their threes away, and I think we did that today.”

As to be expected in the ebbs and flows of a collegiate basketball game, Mississippi State

began the second half hitting several of the shots it had been missing, sinking three of four baskets in the opening four minutes of the final half to stay close at 35-34 with 15:51 remaining in the contest. However, some quick work by Green, who scored two hard-fought interior baskets, one with a foul that set up an extra free throw, pushed the Tide on a quick 11-0 run that gave the Tide a 46-34 lead with 11:20 remaining, its largest of the contest.

Much of the Tide’s success on the run was due to the outstanding rebounding job by Alabama, who outrebounded the Bulldogs 49-45 in the contest and seven of the 10 possible on the run.

“Coach Grant preaches to us every day about rebounding,” Green said. “A couple weeks ago, he told us we were last place in the SEC in rebounding…we’re trying to make a new name for ourselves.”

The Bulldogs refused to bow down, launching their own 14-0 run that included the first two made three-point basket for the Bulldogs in the contest to gain a 48-46 lead with 7:18 remaining in the game. JaMychal Green quickly answered back, grabbing an offensive rebound before getting fouled and coolly sinking two free throws to tie the score.

“I thought we had lulls there in the second half where we didn’t play the way we needed to play,” Grant said. “They’re a good team, and we knew they were going to make runs.”

After two scoreless minutes

on both sides, Anthony Brock broke the tie in favor of the Tide, draining a three-point basket from the corner baseline to give Alabama a 51-48 lead. Torrance’s fourth threepointer of the contest shortly afterward put the Tide up by seven points with 3:40 remaining.

However, two costly Tide mistakes helped to propel the Bulldogs back into contention. A Tony Mitchell foul from behind the three-point line allowed Mississippi State’s Barry Stewart to sink three free throws, while a Torrance turnover led to a fast-break lay up that helped push the score to within a point, 56-55, with 1:27 left in the game.

Torrance corrected his own mistake, draining two free throws to put the Tide up by three with less than a minute to go. A quick Bulldog basket followed before Brock made his own two free throws to put the Tide up 60-57 with 16 seconds left. With potentially the final possession of the contest, Alabama’s Chris Hines pressured Stewart out-of-bounds, giving the Tide the ball. Two final Green free throws iced the game for Alabama.

“We were able to do the things from a defensive standpoint that gave us a chance,” Grant said. “The guys did a great job of stepping up and making free throws at the end of the game.”

Alabama has a rematch with the Bayou Bengals Wednesday night in Coleman Coliseum.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

energize our kids.”

Alabama played well in the second half led by Tierney Jenkins, who had 18 points and 14 rebounds.

The Tide fought hard to force overtime thanks to a 3-pointer

by Ericka Russell. Things didn’t turn in the Tide’s favor as the Razorbacks went on an 8-0 run to start overtime.

“We used so much energy to fight back and then we were making careless turnovers,” Jenkins said. “That was tough for us. I think we’re a really good team, we showed it against Florida and I really think we should have won tonight, I don’t think we showed it too much in the first half and the first two minutes in overtime. It was the tale of two different teams.

First half we didn’t play that good, second half we played really well making shots and the first minutes of overtime were like the first half again.”

Alabama won the turnover battle forcing 30 turnovers to Arkansas’ 23, but while the Tide forced more they only made 15 points off of them versus the Razorbacks’ 28 points.

“We didn’t convert,” Hudson said. “Anytime a team turns the ball over 30 times, I think we got 15 points off the turnovers, that’s just not enough. That means out of 30 opportunities, you scored seven or eight times at the most. On the other side of that, out of 23 turnovers they got 28 points and that’s the difference in the game. We came back second half and played awfully hard, but if had played that same way in the first half, we would be sitting here talking about Alabama being 2-6 instead of 1-6.”

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WOMEN’S & MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Men take care of New Orleans on Senior Day

By Jordan Bannister Staff Writer

“This was our senior meet, and most of the parents got to come in and watch,” said head The last home match of the coach Eric McIlquham. “They season turned out to be a big got really excited about it, win for the Alabama men’s we were able to put all of the swimming and diving team, seniors in the last relay, and as the Crimson Tide defeat- that was good for them. We had ed the University of New some nice swims, and it was a Orleans 172-119 Saturday at pretty good meet for us. They the Alabama Aquatic Center all had fun.”

Senior Luke Boutwell won after honoring its 19 seniors, both of his events against New including eight men.

Orleans, taking first in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke.

Freshman Reese Shirey got the top spot by less than one second over junior Catalin Cosma in the 200-yard backstroke.

Aaron Fleshner blew away the one-meter diving competition by more than 100 points with the top score of 404.70 and again on the three-meter board with 399.98.

First place in the 200 relay

went to Anestis Arampatzis, Riley Boulden, Jake Reynolds and Alan Axford. Second and third place in the event also went to the Tide, giving the team several important points.

Mark Randall wrapped up the meet for Alabama, taking first place in the 500-yard freestyle at 4:30.59, with Joe Ziegler right behind him by nine seconds, earning the Tide

13 points together.

The senior banquet was held the night after the New Orleans shutout and honored the team’s 19 seniors and their last competition in the Alabama Aquatic Center. The talented senior class includes Randall, Fleshner, Boulden, Drew Finelli, Clint McClendon, Sam Morgan, Kyle Lee and Boutwell.

The Tide’s season is far from

over, and McIlquham said there is not going to be an early goodbye to the powerhouse seniors.

“By no means is this the end of our season,” he said. “We’ve still got a long way to go and a lot of things to accomplish.”

Alabama will travel to Athens, Ga., to take on Georgia and South Carolina Saturday.

It will be the Tide’s last meet before the SEC Championship in February.

Seniors highlight dominant Tide win

By Marilyn Vaughn Staff Writer

The Alabama men’s and women’s swimming and diving meet against the University of New Orleans Saturday afternoon was the Crimson Tide’s last home meet of the season, as well as its Senior Day. Before the 197-83 victory for the women’s team, 19 seniors (11 women) were presented with roses and plaques. With just 33 swimmers on the team, the departing senior class will be taking a third of the team with it.

“You’re right at a third of your team graduating, but on the other side it’s exciting for those girls,” said head coach Eric McIlguham. “All those girls came in together, they’re graduating together, they made a commitment as a group, and that’s something special. They compete for four years at the highest level and graduate; that’s what we’re about. It’s going

to have a big impact, but I got a big recruiting class coming in next year, so the team will go on.”

The senior class had some strong performances with Kacey Weddle winning the 200 butterfly in 2:03.59, Nicole Roberts winning the 200 freestyle in 1:54.60, Allyson Angle winning the 200 backstroke in 2:06.52 and Agustina de Giovanni posting another topfive swim in the country with a 2:12.34 in the 200 breaststroke.

“A lot of the seniors stepped up and had some good swims,” McIlquham said. “We’re in a good place and a good situation. We’re ready to go heading to Georgia and South Carolina next week.”

The women appear to have gained their stride again after its dominant win over New Orleans. This victory comes after a close loss on Jan. 16 to SEC competitor Kentucky.

The women are 1-2 in the SEC and are now 8-2 after the New

Orleans victory.

“We put in a lot of hard work in this year,” said senior Kacey Weddle. “We’ve been looking forward to SECs since day one, and it’s right around the corner, so we’re so excited, and I’m sure that a lot of us are going to do NCAAs this year.”

The Tide had two swimmers score in the final day of NCAAs last season. De Giovanni finished 15th in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:11.03, and sophomore Carrie Dragland finished 15th on the platform with a score of 219.30 points.

Before the Tide can tackle NCAAs, Alabama has the SEC Championship in three weeks, this coming after the Tide’s final regular season meet at Georgia Saturday.

“Our focus is always NCAAs and SECs,” McIlquham said.

CW | Daniel Owen “We got to do one step at a time and make sure we’re The Alabama womenʼs and menʼs swimming and diving seniors are honored before the Crimson peaking at the right place and Tideʼs last home meet in the Alabama Aquatic Center against University of New Orleans on Saturday. Both teams won their respective meets. the right time.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Tide dominates UAB, Southern Miss

By Sydney Branch Staff Writer Competing at home for the first time this spring, the Alabama women’s tennis team dominated UAB and Southern Mississippi with two 6-1 victories in a double header Saturday in Tuscaloosa.

No Crimson Tide player was defeated; the only lost matches were forfeited due to lingering injuries from the fall that Alabama is still dealing with.

“Even though today was a long day, we got some very valuable, much-needed matches,” head coach Jenny Mainz said in a UA news release. “I liked the way we played against Southern Mississippi with our backs against the wall, and it got tight for a while, but we were able to fight our way through. I also thought we got better as the day went on and played with much more conviction and purpose.”

In doubles, the morning began with a triple sweep over UAB. The No. 3 team, consisting of senior Paulina Bigos and junior Merritt Emery, were the first off the court, beating Jennifer Cape and Menanteau Moolman 8-1.

Freshman Alexa Guarachi and senior Alice Tunaru finished

shortly after, defeating Brittany DeFelice and Giorgia Romeo 8-2 in the No. 2 seed.

Sophomore Courtney McLane and freshman Antonia Foehse clinched the sweep for the Tide, defeating Paula Alvarez and Evelien Strijker 8-5 in the No. 1 seed.

In singles, McLane, Guarachi, Emery, Foehse, and Tunaru all defeated UAB opponents in two sets; Paulina Bigos, who faired an injury this fall, retired in the third set since the fate of the dual match was already decided.

The Tide began competition against Southern Mississippi at 3 p.m, with an automatic loss due to a forfeit in singles.

Nevertheless, that forfeit was the only point acquired by the Golden Eagles against the Tide Saturday.

Only entering two doubles teams into the match, Alabama began down 0-1 in competition for the double’s point. The No. 2 doubles team of Guarachi and Tunaru defeated Stephanie Dellocono and Lauren Gutterman in a close 8-6 victory, and the doubles point was clinched with an 8-4 victory in No. 1 doubles by McLane and Foehse.

In singles, McLane, Guarachi,

CW | Bethany Martin Tide freshman Alexa Guarachi returns a shot against Southern Miss. Guarichi was successful in both doubles and singles matches; helping No. 25 Alabama sweep the Golden Eagles Foehse and Tunaru defeated their Golden Eagle opponents, all completing their matches in two sets.

Senior Paulina Bigos won a close contest over Elja van Berlo.

Easily winning the first set 6-3, Bigos experienced some trouble in the second, eventually falling 2-6. The third set remained close, resulting in a super tie break, from which Bigos emerged victorious, taking the super tie

break 10-4 and finishing the day of competition with no earned losses for the team.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Page 8 • Monday, January 25, 2010 Editor • Steven Nalley smnalley@crimson.ua.edu

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TUESDAY • Italian Movie Night: Alston Hall 10, 7 p.m.

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• “Bright Star” presented by the Arts Council’s Bama Art House Film Series: Bama Theatre, 8 p.m.

By Bryan Bofill Staff Writer

How far would you go to save the life of someone you hold dear?

“Extraordinary Measures,” accounts the heroic feats of Dr. Stonehill (Harrison Ford) and John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) as they search for a cure for Pompe disease, which Crowley’s children are afflicted with.

In a nutshell, Pompe disease is a hereditary flaw affecting about 1 in 50,000 people.

Patients lack the ability to make or absorb a vital enzyme to break down sugar. Without this enzyme, sugar begins to build up around the organs, causing them to swell. I’m sure all of this is really fascinating for a pre-med or a biochemistry student, but for the rest of us, it sort of goes over our heads.

You don’t really need to know all this, just as long as you understand that Crowley’s kids are sick, knocking on death’s door, and he’s trying to find a cure before it is too late.

The film is extremely bland and totally directionless.

Brendan Fraser’s performance takes up most of the run time with Harrison Ford stepping in every once in a while for some comedic relief. It tries too hard to be funny, at times making you watch as they spell out the jokes for you. (What? College graduates aren’t paid nearly as much as those with doctorates? I mean, come on, really?)

Still, “ Ext r a o r d i n a r y

‘EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES’ Runtime: 105 minutes MPAA rating: PG Release date: Jan. 22 CW critic’s rating:

Bottom line: While a brave effort to bring to light the hardships of an extremely rare disease, the film is totally bland with lackluster comedy — a huge disappointment.

Measures” does, in fact, have a few upsides. With the health care debate splitting the country, it’s nice to see a film where everyone eventually comes together for a righteous cause.

It also exposes a nasty side to pharmaceutical executives and directors that most are unfamiliar with. Depicted as uncaring and more worried about making a profit than actually advancing our understanding of medicine, these executives come off as hateful and unsympathetic.

“Extraordinary Measures,” as audiences might have already figured out before they took their seats, is very predictable. In fact it is so predictable,

rottentomatoes.com Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser star in “Extraordinary Measures,” in which they try to find a cure for a fictional disease. that you can guess what punch line the characters are going to use before they do.

I know that, in today’s supersensitive society, being handed a PG rating is hard to come by these days. It’s even hard to remember the last time I’ve even seen a G-rated movie besides “WALL-E.” But it’s extremely difficult to understand how a film like this got a rating of PG and not PG-13.

There are a couple S-bombs, BS, and SOB that usually, once uttered, automatically garner

an automatic PG-13 rating.

This isn’t a big deal for me, but I felt like it hindered the film more than helped, and it’s something parents should know going in.

So what is the one star for?

Well, half of the star goes to the semi-inspirational performances by Fraser and Ford, who do have their moments. The other half is for the cast and crew at least trying to bring a meaningful cause to light.

Most audiences will walk away wanting to sign up for

a run to support a disease, which is a great thing, but the cast and crew could have made a much better impact.

Though it was a valiant effort, the film is a total flop. But really, a film about an exceptionally rare disease shouldn’t be on the big screen — it ought to be on the Discovery Health Channel, because there it might get some people interested. In short, don’t waste your money going to this at the theater.

You’d be better off watching something else.

Stars unite to help Haiti in telethon Jennifer Aniston, left, and Daniel Craig work the phone bank at “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” on Friday in Los Angeles.

HOW YOU CAN HELP • Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross’s relief efforts.

• Text YELE to 50150 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean Foundation’s relief efforts. of “Like A Prayer.”

The telethon was broadcast from New York, London, Los Angeles and Haiti, where CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed quake victims and anchored news clips of the tragedy.

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By Nekesa Mumbi Moody The Associated Press NEW YORK — Though the all-star telethon was titled “Hope for Haiti Now,” for most of its two hours, it was filled with tear-jerking, depressing moments, from mournful songs and grim-faced pleas from celebrities to the suffering faces of the quake-battered victims themselves.

It took Haiti’s own native son to lift Friday evening’s despairing tone to one of hope and even revival.

“Enough of this moping, man, let’s rebuild Haiti, let’s show ‘em how we do it where we come from!” Wyclef Jean, the singer and producer, shouted after singing the downbeat “Rivers of Babylon,” with a Haitian flag around his neck.

He segued into the joyful tune “Yele” with an island beat, as musicians danced around him, singing the refrain: “Earthquake, we see the earth shake, but the soul of the Haitian people will never break!”

Jean showcased the resilient spirit of a nation in the midst of catastrophe. On Jan. 12, a powerful earthquake struck the already impoverished country, killing an estimated 200,000 people, displacing many more and reducing much of Haiti to ruins.

The telethon, shown on all the major networks and streamed live on many Web sites, was quickly put together

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The list of participating celebrities rivaled any top awards show: Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt, former President Clinton, Muhammad

Ali, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Halle Berry, and many more. Luminaries like Steven Spielberg worked the phone banks, talking to donors.

“Hey Steven Spielberg, it’s really cool to talk to you,” one woman said to the Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

Some stars like Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood recounted tragic moments from the quake. Most of the musical

performances were downcast, emotional songs. John Legend sang “I Feel Like A Motherless Child.” Kid Rock, Keith Urban and Sheryl Crow sang “Lean On Me.” Beyonce, with Coldplay’s Chris Martin backing her on piano, revised her hit “Halo” with new lyrics: “Haiti we can see your halo, we pray you won’t fade away.”

Madonna provided one of the few upbeat moments with her choir-backed performance

Haitians were able to listen on Radio One Haiti.

The telethon won’t be the last major celebrity effort for Haiti; BET plans to hold its own all-star telethon on Feb. 5. It will also be aired on MTV and VH1.

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