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Swinson touts ethics code, Downtown Express By Melissa Brown Staff Reporter mbrown104@crimson.ua.edu Student Government Association President Stephen Swinson opened his State of the University address Monday night with a blunt assessment of the SGA’s shortcomings last fall. “We stumbled out of the gate this year,” Swinson said. CW | John Michael Simpson “We were imitating our counterparts in Washington rather than standing for the true
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ideals of the SGA. We were letting the student body down, and as a result, we eventually lost the trust and confidence of our fellow students.” Swinson’s address quickly took a turn to the positive though, as he outlined the various ways the SGA has worked to restore student trust in the governing body. Swinson stated that the judicial branch, led by SGA Attorney General David Simpson, was working hard to create a student government
with ethical leadership principles. “The senate’s new ethics code is a product of months of hard work between senators… who were dedicated to transparency and open, honest government,” Swinson said. Michael Robson, a senior majoring in computer science, attended the address and said he found Swinson’s remarks appropriate, considering September’s SGA ethics scandals and the resulting resignation of then-SGA President
Grant Cochran. “I would say the SGA definitely did slip up earlier in the year,” Robson said. “But I do think they’ve recommitted and refocused. It has been good to see the judicial and legislative branches get more power.” Swinson later mentioned his monthly email to the student body that highlights SGA accomplishments. “I realized we were not doing an acceptable job showing the student body that their voices were being heard and that we
were successfully advocating for progress on campus,” Swinson said about the decision to implement the monthly letter. “I want the student body to hold me accountable as their representative, and I want them to know the impact that everyone in this room has made on campus.” For Robson, the recommitment and changes were a step in the right direction, but not far enough.
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Alabama College Republicans sound off on influential primary By Rich Robinson Staff Reporter rarobinson2@crimson.ua.edu With four candidates left in contention for the GOP nomination for president of the United States, Republican voters go to the polls today in the important primary state of Florida. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have been campaigning in the state since the South Carolina primary, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have left to focus on smaller states. The winner-take-all election will yield 50 delegates to the winner, and all signs are pointing to a strong Romney showing
in the Sunshine State. On his New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight. com, former Baseball Prospectus writer Nate Silver places the odds of Romney winning at 97 percent. “If Mr. Gingrich has some slim chance of winning, there’s also the chance that he could lose by 25 or more points,” Silver wrote. “Odds are, instead, that Mr. Romney will win by somewhere in the range of 10 points to 20 points, meaning that many networks are likely to declare him the winner shortly after polls close.” Originally a strong Rick Perry supporter, Joe Mahoney, a junior majoring in political science, now backs the
former Massachusetts governor. “I am looking for the person who can beat Barack Obama in November,” he said, “Because of that, I support Mitt Romney.” Mahoney also believes that Romney has the tenacity to solve the current economic issues that face the nation. Romney’s plans for the economy include maintaining current tax rates on personal income while maintaining the current tax rates on interest, dividends and capital gains. He would also scrap the estate tax if elected president, according to his campaign website.
Everybody knows the best way to stop a vampire in his tracks is a wooden stake through the heart. A silver bullet is the solution for your werewolf trouble. And zombies? Nerf darts are the way to go. At least that’s the way the members of the University of Alabama Humans vs. Zombies Club see it. The group has been protecting the University from zombie attacks since its formation in February 2011. They play a version of the original “Humans vs. Zombies” game, first developed in 2005 at Goucher College in Maryland and currently carried out on college campuses nationwide. The staging area for a UAHVZ campaign is an impressive sight. Club members gather around a picnic table stacked beyond capacity with Nerf blasters of every shape and size imaginable, an armory of vibrant yellow plastic. They shove orange foam ammunition into cartridges, bandoliers, pouches and pockets, swapping stories of the most recent additions to personal arsenals and where to find the best deals on gear.
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The Bama hosts Railroad Earth National Signing Day expert talks recruits By Aldo Amato Contributing writer With two national championships in three years under its belt, the Crimson Tide looks to dominate the football world again on National Signing Day. The Tide currently holds the No. 1 spot on Rivals.com and is looking to add a couple more pieces to what some are calling Alabama’s best recruiting class since 2008. The Crimson White sat down with TideSports. com recruiting analyst Aaron Suttles to discuss this year’s class. Crimson White: First off, let me ask you about the tug of war le this
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For a band, it’s an age-old story: A group of musicians come together and establish a sound. They spend months to years traveling the country and producing songs in search of that one person or performance that’ll guide their musical career. For most, it never happens, but for New Jersey-based Railroad Earth, that journey led to greater things. It all started back in 2001, when members Tim Carbone (violin, vocals), John Skehan (mandolin, vocals), Andy Goessling (guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin, flute, pennywhistle, saxophones and vocals), Carey Harmon (drums, hand percussion) and Andrew Altman (upright bass) spent the summer throwing “picking parties,” as Carbone referred to them, at Goessling’s house.
New Jersey based Railroad Earth will be headlining the Bama Theatre on Wednesday.
Submitted Eventually, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Todd Sheaffer joined one of the sessions. The group played a few of his songs and discovered that, together, they held something different. “We were all like, ‘Hey man, that sounds pretty good,’” Carbone said.
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between Alabama and Florida State over 5-Star Prospect James Winston. With AJ McCarron coming off a strong performance in the BCS National Championship game, what would sway Winston to come to Alabama? Aaron Suttles: I just don’t see it happening. I think the idea of staying close to home would be the only factor, but I think he has his heart set on Florida State. The baseball thing also played a factor in it as well. Florida State has an outstanding baseball program, and there, he can excel at both sports.
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Earth manager Brian Ross proposed the guys start a band. He suggested the name Railroad Earth, taken from the Jack Kerouac poem “October in the Railroad Earth.” The group grew from there.
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ON THE CALENDAR TODAY Where: Second Floor, Ferguson Student Center
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ON THE RADAR Negotiators arriving at deal to stymie Greek debt, stall financial spiral in Europe From MCTcampus Talks between Greece and its private creditors will continue this week, with negotiators on Saturday saying they were near agreement on a voluntary debt swap. Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Saturday met in Athens for a third day with representatives of the private sector, Charles Dallara, the head of the Institution of International Finance, and Jean Lemierre of French bank BNP Paribas SA. “Further progress was made, building on the understandings reached yesterday (Friday) on the key legal and technical issues. We are close to the finalization of a voluntary PSI within the framework expressed publicly earlier this week by Luxembourg Prime
Minister Jean-Claude Juncker in his capacity as chairman of the Eurogroup. We expect to conclude next week as discussions on other issues move forward,” Dallara and Lemierre said in a joint statement. Hopes for a plan to reduce Greece’s debt load had been buoyed after Olli Rehn, the European Union’s economic and monetary affairs commissioner, said a deal will come soon, possibly this weekend. He made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Greece has once again dominated headlines surrounding the eurozone debt crisis as negotiations have dragged on amid fears that even a planned 50 percent writedown of the debt held by banks and private creditors won’t be enough to put the country’s massive debt pile on a sustainable footing.
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Private bond holders agreed last year to accept a 50 percent writedown in the value of their Greek debt holdings through a bond swap. That is expected to knock as much as 100 billion euros ($131.3 billion) off Greece’s debt load. But talks have stalled amid disagreement over the average interest rate bondholders should be paid on the bonds they will receive in return for existing debt. Euro-zone finance ministers earlier this week rejected a proposal by bondholders for a 4 percent coupon rate on the new bonds, pushing instead for a rate nearer 3.5 percent. Officials have argued that a lower rate is necessary to ensure Greece meets its target of cutting its debt as a percentage of gross domestic product to 120 percent, down from 160 percent, by 2020. The Financial Times on Friday, citing people familiar with the proposal,
reported that Dallara and Lemierre could offer interest rates for new bonds that would translate into bigger losses for bondholders but that could be recouped if Greece returns to strong growth. Private creditors hold around 206 billion euros of Greek debt, according to Michala Marcussen, head of global economics at Societe Generale. Assuming a participation rate in the debt swap of 90 percent, a 50 percent writedown would cut Greece’s debt by around 90 billion euros, or 40 percent of GDP. All else being equal, each half-percentage-point reduction in the coupon that private investors accept would cut Greek debt by a further 2.5 percent of GDP, Marcussen said. In Athens, the General Index (GD) fell 2.7 percent on Friday, but the benchmark tracking Greek equities ended the week higher.
ON CAMPUS Deanʼs List and Presidentʼs List announced
Student Affairs Expo to be held at Ferguson Center
The list of students who made the Dean’s List and the President’s list for the Fall 2011 term was officially released this past Monday. A total of 7,267 students made this lists for the semester. Students who make at least a 3.5 GPA are placed on the Dean’s List while students who make a 4.0 are placed on the President’s List. Only full-time students are eligible for the honors. To view the full list, visit uanews.ua.edu
The Division of Student Affairs invites students to the first Student Affairs Expo today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the second floor of the Ferguson Center. Students will learn about the more than 20 departments in the Division of Student Affairs, including University Recreation, the Ferguson Center Student Union and Housing and Residential Communities. Students will also learn how to participate in events, volunteer and get a job on campus. Students who attend the Expo can complete a passport by visiting at least 10 departments’ tables to be eligible for prizes, including a $500 scholarship.
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A month after forming, the bluegrass-rock sextet recorded a five-song untitled demo featuring Sheaffer’s tunes. Ross pushed the album to a number of music festivals. Next thing they knew, they were playing for a crowd of over 10,000 people at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colo. It was their 10th show as the group Railroad Earth. “It happened pretty quickly,” Carbone said. “It’s like we worked our whole lives to become an overnight success, but that’s just how it
worked out.” According to Carbone, the group came onto the scene at just the right time. Entering the jam band circuit with a musical cluster of styles and sounds earned them a spot among some of the top jam bands in the nation as well as thousands of avid fans. The base of their sound is a smooth, American-folk harmony. On top, rich rock mixed with melodic bluegrass, lightbeat jazz and poetic Celtic elements, all of which compliment the tranquility of the
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band’s harmonizing vocals and the intricate imagery of each musical movement. In a word, their sound is “Transamericana,” as Carbone put it, a compilation of each member’s own personal influence. “It’s not just music based upon American folk,” Carbone said. “It’s more than that. It’s Americana, yet its base transcends all of that.” For Earth, no two shows are the same. Each one produces a different take on the same song, a result of their unique relationship as friends and as musicians. “We’re all dialed into the same thing at the same time,” Carbone said. “We use our music as a way to explore, so it works out really well. [Our music] is like conversation taken to a higher art.”
The band will visit Tuscaloosa for the second time in their musical career Wednesday at the Bama Theatre, thanks to Chris Bently and brothers Andrew and Kevin Wilhoite of Grass Roots Productions. After following the band for some time, Bently, Andrew and Kevin headed to Earth’s recent Birmingham show to convince them to perform as the headliner for Grass Roots Productions’ first big event. The band agreed to help Productions’ goal of bringing “good, live music to Tuscaloosa,” as Bently put it. “There’s so many guys who play a variety of instruments in the band,” Andrew said. “Just seeing and hearing the talent they store is truly a great experience. Anyone who’s into music of any fashion is sure to
IF YOU GO ... • What: Railroad Earth and The Black Lillies
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have a great time.” Doors open at 7 p.m. with the opening act, The Black Lillies, starting at 7:30. Railroad Earth will take the stage at 8:30. Tickets are available online at brownpapertickets.com or at the Theatre’s box office.
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Representatives from Mercedes-Benz U.S. International will be on campus Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. in 1013 South Engineering Research Center to share information with students about the company’s upcoming full-time hire of engineering and business students. Those hired will work in the company’s body shop, paint shop, Einfuehrung, assembly and business areas. Mercedes-Benz will share information about its new career program and graduate fellowship. Applications for graduate fellowships will be available at the event. For more information visit coop.eng.ua.edu or contact Naomi Powell at npowell@eng.ua.edu or 348-8549.
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Veterans Center on pace for completion by summer By Jordan Cissell Staff Reporter jrcissell@crimson.ua.edu One of the University of Alabama’s jack-of-all-trade buildings, B.B. Comer Hall, will soon be adding yet another hat to its rack full of responsibilities, with construction of the new Veterans Center in the building’s basement projected for completion by the beginning of the summer semester. “We actually started demolition in November,” said David Blair, director of Veteran and Military Affairs. “The basement’s all gutted out now, and we’ve been approved for the build process, so we’re hoping for the center to be ready to go by the summer session.” Blair said over 850 veterans and dependents of veterans are registered members of the University community. He believes the Veterans
Center is a crucial step in making the necessary services available to students with military backgrounds. The facilities will include a lounge area, administrative offices and a computer lab, Blair said. Sgt. Jordan Carpenter, a junior majoring in environmental science and the vice president of the Campus Veterans Association, said the computer lab will not only serve as a homework resource, but will also provide tools necessary for some veterans to fulfill sustained career obligations. “A lot of us are still in the military reserves, and we still have requirements for our job that are unique,” Carpenter said. “We have to regularly log into a system with special identification cards, and the computers on campus currently don’t have the necessary reader. It takes a long time and is a big hassle without the reader.”
Staff Sgt. Will Suclupe, a recent UA graduate who served as president of the CVA last semester, stressed the importance of the Center’s potential to make assistance services that have previously been available more accessible. “We’ve been calling it a one-stop shop, and that’s really what it is,” he said. “Anything to help ease the transition from military to student life will be available in this new, central location.” Both Suclupe and Carpenter consider veteran students “different than any other group on campus,” one that shares strong bonds and a strong work ethic. “Military students are really an alternative demographic. We’re a diverse group bound by shared experiences,” Carpenter said. “And we make great students – studies show that veterans have higher average GPAs than other students.”
FAST FACTS • Over 850 veterans and dependents of veterans at UA • New center includes lounge area, administrative offices and computer lab •Resources for homework and military-related obligations Carpenter deemed the approaching completion of the Center a major requisite for bringing more members of this unique demographic to the University, a group that will display a measured increase currently and in upcoming years. “There was a swelling of the military from 2001 to 2004, and now a lot of those guys are getting out and coming to school on the G.I. Bill,”
he said. “Every school around the country is experiencing a growth of military students, and our goal is to make the University an attractive place for veterans.” Blair is optimistic about the future of his program and the students it serves. Blair’s department, a division of Student Affairs, is a relatively new one, as he came to the University during the fall semester to head the freshly minted initiative. Originally a one-man operation in the Ferguson Center, he is now planning new hires to staff the Center, including an assistant director and programs director. Suclupe shares Blair’s positive outlook. “The University is definitely heading in the right direction,” he said. “We need to continue to bring veterans to UA and support them when they get here.”
Anti-hazing campaign launched in wake of FAMU death Caroline Murray Staff Reporter cemurray@crimson.ua.edu Pam and Robert Champion Sr., the parents of the Florida A&M University drum major beaten to death in November, were among other advocates endorsing a national anti-hazing campaign on Jan. 17. The campaign focuses on encouraging campuses to recognize and report hazing activity such as that which led to their son’s death. Robert Champion Jr., 26, collapsed and died Nov. 19, and an autopsy showed his death was a result of internal injuries from a beating authorities connected with hazing. Tim Hebson, dean of students at the University of Alabama, said the new campaign would not have a large effect on the way hazing incidents on campus are handled because the University already takes a strong stance against hazing. “UA has always taken hazing seriously, and we will continue
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to educate students on our Code of Conduct, enforce the Code of Conduct and work to impact the environment with a zero tolerance for hazing on our campus,” Hebson said. Hazing allegations are handled through the same judicial process used with any other allegations violations of the Code of Student Conduct, such as drug and alcohol offenses. Todd Borst, director of Student Judicial Affairs, said all reports of
hazing are taken seriously. “We receive reports from individual students, faculty and staff members, victims, law enforcement and self reporting from individuals or groups. We also get reports through our campus Hazing and Harassment Hotline [348-HALT],” Borst said. “Each report is fully investigated.” Hebson said the University works year-round to make students aware of the importance of these reports. “We advertise the 348-Hazing hotline, and Judicial Affairs does programming throughout the year,” Hebson said. “We will continue to make students aware of the need to report hazing.” FAMU’s “Marching 100” band has been placed on indefinite suspension as a result of the events surrounding Champion. Borst said groups are not necessarily suspended at UA for hazing incidents. “We have rarely found it necessary to suspend a group because of hazing,” Borst said. “It’s been our experience that the group is more likely to
work with the University to help find the source of the problems of hazing within the organization, look for ways to find the
individuals involved and institute programs that help them become better aware of hazing and its dangers.”
For more information on the University’s judicial process and to read the Code of Student Conduct, visit ja.ua.edu.
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Despite his support for Romney, Mahoney understands why some people support former House Speaker Gingrich. “Newt Gingrich is somebody who I respect very much,” Mahoney said. “But I don’t think he has the national campaign infrastructure to win a general election.” Despite his support for Romney, Mahoney admits he could be persuaded to pull the lever for Gingrich when the Alabama primary comes up in early March. “I could absolutely change my mind.” Mahoney said. “Newt Gingrich is a man of great ideas. If I were president, I would want him in my administration.” The Alabama College
Republicans decided to not endorse a candidate before an official nominee is decided. Adam Rawlins, a junior majoring in political science and a member of the group, said this was to avoid tensions within their group. “Since individuals within the organization may support one candidate over another, we feel it would be unwise to push a specific candidate,” he said. Rawlins is a Romney supporter because of the candidate’s background and credentials in the private sector. Rawlins also cited the fact that Romney is the most likely to beat President Obama in November as a major reason for his support. “Romney is the most electable candidate, and he has a history as a problem solver, which is exactly what America needs,” Rawlins said. Christian Smitherman, a sophomore double majoring in
political science and psychology, is a Gingrich supporter. “I can trust Newt more,” Smitherman said. “We are down to the bottom of the barrel right now as far as candidates go. It’s more of a last option, but I do think [Gingrich] is the committed conservative in the race.” Smitherman supports Gingrich’s tax plan, which by gradually moving toward a 15 percent flat tax “would allow Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year,” according to his campaign website. Despite his disdain for Romney, he would still support him over President Obama if he were the nominee. The polls will be open to only registered Republicans in Florida from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Alabama Primary will be held on March 13.
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Dr. Saleem Kidwai speaks at “India and the U.S. in 2012: International Issues and Perspectives,” a symposium sponsored by the honors college at the University of Alabama. Kidwai, a professor of American Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, spoke about relations between India and the U.S. and how their mutual interests will lead to further cooperation in the field of counter terrorism. Kidwai also explained how academic institutions like the University of Alabama are in a unique position to aid in the peace talks between Pakistan and India because of the United Statesʼs relatively good relationship with each country.
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January 31, 2012 Editor • SoRelle Wyckoff letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4
{ YOUR VIEW } (Web comments) “Justices might be more willing to behave ethically if there were any threat whatsoever that the Congress would execute its Constitutional authority to impeach them.” – Brad Erthal, in response to “Kagan, Thomas need to recuse themselves”
“Refusing to play by the rules of society and flipping the metaphorical bird to the world by being a ʻrebelʼ isnʼt going to get you anywhere. Learn, yes – but balance that by acknowledging what it takes to get ahead in this world and if you want to go places, then do those things.” – Jeb, in response to “Students should be less competitive”
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Photo courtesy of David Smith By Jake Gray The University of Alabama has never been afraid to allocate resources towards athletics. Head football coach Nick Saban has made headlines numerous times for his lucrative contract offers and extensions. Bryant-Denny Stadium, home of the legendary Crimson Tide football team, nears the top of almost every list of nicest college football stadiums in America. Bryant Hall, home to many UA athletes, is heralded as the bestequipped housing community on campus. It also contains unquestionably the best dining hall, or that was at least the case my freshman year. From Coleman Coliseum to the newly renovated Foster Auditorium, Mal Moore has proven that he is committed to having the best athletic facilities in the country. This raises the question: Why hasn’t he
renovated Sewell-Thomas Stadium? Sewell-Thomas Stadium, more commonly referred to as “The Joe,” is home to the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team. Similar to basketball, Alabama baseball has traditionally been a solid program. However, The Joe is considered by many to be one of the worst college baseball stadiums in the SEC. The press box is too small. There is no box seating area. A video scoreboard wasn’t even put in until 2007. The stadium looks and feels like a high school field. Other than the video scoreboard, the stadium hasn’t received an upgrade since 2001, and even that wasn’t significant. If you look up Sewell-Thomas Stadium on the UA website, it lists indoor batting cages, new bleachers and pitching machines as the main improvements. You didn’t misread that. In an era when programs such as LSU,
Arkansas and South Carolina are building top of the line, multimillion dollar ballparks, Alabama is marketing the addition of pitching machines and metal bleachers they added 11 years ago. If you don’t believe me, take the time to search for other baseball stadiums in the SEC. Then, ask yourself which stadium you would rather play in. The answer is simple, and it is shows a major reason why Alabama struggles to become a national power in collegiate baseball. Recently, we have witnessed the poor baseball facilities cause a casualty to Alabama football. Jameis Winston, considered by many to be the best quarterback in the 2012 high school class, is expected to sign with Florida State University in the near future. The Hueytown native is also considered by many as one of the elite baseball players in the country. Winston has maintained that
he plans on playing both sports in college if he does not enter the Major League Baseball draft. It is well known among recruiting insiders that the drastic facilities difference in Alabama and Florida State played a strong role in Winston’s expected decision to sign with Florida State. Who can blame him? Dick Howser Stadium is notably a better stadium than The Joe. Seminoles fans are also known to pack out a baseball game every now and then, something that hasn’t happened in Tuscaloosa in recent memory. If anything, this could possibly convince Mal Moore to make the upgrade for the sake of the football team. Coach Saban rarely misses top recruits, especially one in his own backyard. Anything going against “The Process” will surely put the wheels in motion towards building a new stadium, right? Regardless of the
reasoning, the Alabama baseball team deserves better. Mal Moore has proven that he is capable of raising the money, and I believe this program has the potential to be great. A new stadium is not too much to ask for with the recent addition of the Bryce properties. Admittedly, Alabama baseball is not at the same level as Alabama football. It is hard to compare anything to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Unfortunately, that acceptance of mediocrity is what slows down so many other athletic programs at this University. If you want a championship-caliber program, you have to treat it like one. Recruits and fans have proven they are fed up with Sewell-Thomas at its current state. It is time for a change, and as Ray Liotta said it, “If you build it, they will come.”
Jake Gray is a senior majoring in journalism and economics. His column runs on Tuesdays.
Obsessions of college students vastly overrated By Michael Patrick The very nature of college seems to encourage students to find something to obsess over. We are constantly encouraged to find our passion, be it in flag football, working in a biology lab with renowned scientists, dedicating your life to creating a genderneutral society or for most of us, watching every episode of “Boy Meets World.” We’re taught to find something we are fervent about and to allow that to foster and develop into something by which we can begin to learn. In the three-and-a-half years that I have been at the Capstone, I have seen a lot of college
obsessions in myself and among friends and classmates. But I do not think any have been as annoying as the obsessions people develop over “Arrested Development” and Ron Paul. Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, has been relatively popular since his first bid at a Republican presidential nomination in 2008. But he has more recently become somewhat of a superstar among college undergraduates. Unnerving amounts of people believe this man is the savior of American politics. I cannot help but see Ron Paul in the same way that I see the characters in “Arrested
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Development” – they do not relate that well to humanity. The writers of “Arrested Development” spent too much time trying to develop their comedy and forgot to make characters that an audience could relate with. Similarly, Ron Paul’s objectivist approach to both economic and social policy lacks the empathy that humans naturally have. I have heard many Paul fans rave about the candidate because he is “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.” Despite the fact that a person cannot be both fiscally conservative and socially liberal, Ron Paul’s stances on social issues prove over and over again to range from objective to
extremely conservative. Admittedly, “Arrested Development” is definitely a smart comedy that follows multilayered plots and jokes, but the series becomes extremely predictable and increasingly less relatable. This mirrors greatly how I see the politics of Ron Paul. I don’t care to hear much more about his gold standard, slash-and-burn approach to government agencies or how he wants to legalize pot. In the same spirit, I don’t want to hear any more never-nude or incest jokes from “Arrested Development.” However, I suppose the biggest thing that Ron Paul and
“Arrested Development” share is that people gawk over them constantly despite the fact that there are better presidential candidates in the running this year and better multilayered comedies on television now. Hopefully people will move past these strange, overrated obsessions and start looking at more well-rounded candidates and comedies. Barack Obama and “Parks and Recreation” beat out Ron Paul and “Arrested Development” any day of the week.
Michael Patrick is a senior majoring in political science. His column runs on Tuesdays.
Help create a nest for T-Town From Creative Campus Since the tornado, Tuscaloosa has been scattered, literally split and dispersed across many towns. We have become accustomed to driving around with heaps of rubble piled along our city’s streets, nagging and pushing at our peripheral. But pause for a moment and imagine this: Post-tornado debris collected and assembled into a giant nest sculpture. Picture a large, brightly painted nest, displayed amidst the tornado damage, providing those affected by the April tornado with a compelling symbol of recovery, comfort, warmth and growth. Soon, you won’t have to picture anything at all. You’ll be able to see it with your own eyes in one of Creative Campus’ latest projects, fittingly titled “The Nest.” For the Nest project, slated to take place in February of this year, University of Alabama sculpture grad student Kelly Shannon will build a larger-thanlife nest sculpture out of tornado debris to be displayed as a symbol of rejuvenation in the midst of the tornado’s recovery zone. With a mission to engage as many students and community
members as possible in creative endeavors of all kinds, Creative Campus believes art can be a powerful mode of recovery. The Nest will literally and symbolically weave together the scattered pieces of the Tuscaloosa community. In February, the assembled nest will be unveiled, but already, the Nest is reaching into the community through art. Alabama students are bringing twigs into local schools, such as Holt Elementary and Tuscaloosa Magnet, to be painted and decorated by the children. When the Nest is created, these smaller, colorful branches will be woven into the larger sculpture, intertwining Tuscaloosa’s youth with the larger community’s healing process. When the Nest is unveiled at an event tentatively scheduled for Feb. 18, the whole community will be welcomed to come and add their own bright brush stroke to the sculpture. But to make this idea a reality, Creative Campus needs your help to pick up the pieces of the city most of us now call home. The Nest offers students a meaningful way to participate in community and personal healing in the aftermath of April’s storm. It provides students with
opportunities to serve and to create in lasting ways. For many of us, the tornado fostered a connection to our city deeper than we could have imagined. The Nest, likewise, can establish a connection with the renewal and recovery of Tuscaloosa through the integration of art into the rebuilding process. Creative Campus is currently working with the Tuscaloosa Area Volunteer Reception Center to collect branches and other tornado debris to use for the sculpture. Before we can make our nest vision a reality, we need real help. We need real arms, real legs and real student involvement. We need volunteers to help clear debris and collect branches on Saturday and Sunday. We invite you to be a part of something larger – a largerthan-life nest, to be precise. If you’re interested in volunteering, please email uanestproject@ gmail.com and/or log onto SLPro to log your hours. The first collection weekend will be on Saturday and Sunday with two shifts, 9 a.m. to noon and noon to 3.
Creative Campus is a studentcentered arts advocacy program at the University of Alabama.
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New engineering complex leads campus renovations Computer renderings of North Bluff Residential Hall (left) and Russell Hall (right).
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A new science and engineering building was completed and ready for engineering students when they returned to campus after winter break, Assistant Vice President for Construction Tim Leopard said. “The new building is an approximately 200,000 square foot science and engineering research center,” Leopard said. “It contains two large lecture demonstration halls, several classrooms and a lot of lab space for engineers. One of the primary elements is a
large combustion lab.” The Engineering Research Center was a $70 million investment for the University but was partially paid for by grants, Leopard said. Chris Courtney, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, said that completion of the new building has made getting to class easier. “As a commuter student, it was inconvenient having to walk around the construction for the most recently completed building on the way to class each day,” Courtney said. “But since that building was opened at the start of this semester, the construction going on now doesn’t really affect me on a day-to-day basis.”
Another facility recently opened is the indoor tennis stadium located by the softball field and Capstone Village, Leopard said. “[The indoor tennis stadium] was in construction for a little under a year, we started last spring,” Leopard said. “[Jan. 20] was the first match in the facility.” Next for the campus is the completion of the East Quad energy plant, Leopard said. “The East Quad energy plant is important because it provides heating and cooling to that side of campus,” Leopard said. “It works in conjunction with the Shelby Plant. A lot of different buildings, including Shelby Hall,
the science and engineering buildings, Russell Hall, Moore Hall, the President’s Mansion and Gordon Palmer, are tied in this but it all works together.” The East Quad energy plant will allow the University to create heated and chilled water more economically than the previous system, Leopard said. “It’s water-cooled water versus air-cooled water,” Leopard said. “The air-cooled is much less efficient than the water-cooled. Most of the air-cooled systems have been disconnected, but we still have some more that haven’t been extended, which will be done over the next summer.” Moreover, two renovation
projects are currently under construction and will be completed in August, Leopard said. “Russell Hall is currently under an exterior renovation to the side of the existing building and will receive an addition on the back that will feature a new 400-seat classroom and four 75-seat classrooms,” Leopard said. “[The] Moore Hall renovation that will be going on and ready in August will feature an elevator shaft to provide accessibility to all four floors of the building, which we didn’t have previously.” To cap off the campus renovations, when students return in August 2012, Rose Towers
dorms will be torn down, and a replacement facility will be ready. “The North Bluff Residential community is currently being built and will open in August 2012,” Leopard said. “The new community will accommodate an equal amount of people as Rose Towers.” Jennifer Alexander, a senior majoring in management and former three-year resident of Rose Towers, said she understands why Rose Towers is being torn down. “They need to tear it down because it is old, but I think that they should have kept the name for the new building they are putting up,” Alexander said.
City awarded federal grant Arrested? No worries, The City of Tuscaloosa receives a check for $16.634 million on Jan 24 in City Hall Council Chamber.
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Tuscaloosa is set to receive a $16.6 million federal grant to assist recovery from the April 27 tornadoes. The storm aid is part of a $55 million statewide allocation by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD annually allocates funds to aid communities affected by presidentially declared disasters. Meredith Lynch, public relations coordinator for Tuscaloosa, said a November 2011 law provided HUD with $400 million for Community Development Block Grants to help assist communities specifically affected by natural disasters. “The $16.6 million appropriation to the City of Tuscaloosa was decided by a formula that calculated the cost of unmet needs in Tuscaloosa since the storms of April 2011,” Lynch said. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham), who announced the grant on Jan. 20, said the grant money is intended for housing and infrastructure, economic development and emergency preparedness. “These cities are in need of funding for economic development and infrastructure renovation as a result of the
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“I feel like its kind of the same old, same old. It’s definitely a little better than the old same old, but it hasn’t improved drastically,” Robson said. “Personally, I’d like to see a bigger overhaul of the existing system, but that requires a lot of really politically involved students, which is hard to find at this University.” In addition to touching on internal changes in the SGA, Swinson outlined several projects and initiatives geared to the entire student body. Swinson stated that the SGA
April tornadoes,” Sewell said in a Tuscaloosa News article last week. “Alabamians are still in desperate need of relief and this funding will assist in their rebuilding and recovery efforts.” Decisions have yet to be made regarding the exact distribution of the funds, but Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox will present a recommendation to the City Council in March, Lynch said. In addition to housing, infrastructure and economic development, the HUD grant can be used for social services, planning and administrative uses. “Mayor Maddox has recognized three primary areas where the funding would be allocated in the tornado recovery zones: housing, infrastructure and leveraging funds to match other federal and social service agency grants,” Lynch said. April’s storms, which killed 52 people in Tuscaloosa County, damaged or destroyed more than 500 business and over 5,000 homes. The HUD grant is welcomed relief aid, as the City of Tuscaloosa has estimated there are still $200 million in unmet needs following the disaster. “This allocation is a tremendous step in our
recovery,” Lynch said. “We are hopeful to receive more government funding to help renew and rebuild the six miles across our city that was damaged or destroyed by the tornado.” Maddox said the grant was a giant step forward in the recovery process but added that it must be measured by the fact that the city has $250 million of unmet needs. “We still have a very long journey ahead of us with very little hopes of sustained funding,” Maddox said. “We have the next three years to spend it, so these projects will not happen all at once. In many ways, there’s going to be things developing over the next year or two with grants, so we’ll make sure we keep some in advance so when those grant opportunities come we can use those dollars to match.” Tuscaloosa was granted the largest portion of the $55 million allocation, with $7.8 million going to Jefferson County and $6.4 million for the city of Birmingham. The remaining funds will be distributed to Alabama counties that also sustained damage. “The state is required to spend 80 percent of this amount in DeKalb, Tuscaloosa, Marion and Jefferson counties,” Lynch said.
aims to surpass $100,000 in scholarship funds by the end of the next fiscal year, utilizing fundraisers like the annual Date Auction and the upcoming Taste of Tuscaloosa to raise money. Swinson also announced that the SGA is introducing a Downtown Express, a project he said he is personally excited about. “Students want to go downtown, but they don’t want to drive and have to deal with parking or other concerns,” he said. “It will be a pilot project for a month, and we have to make sure students go out and try it to make it successful.” The transit system’s start
date has yet to be announced, but Swinson said it is likely to be composed of two transits making five stops on campus, the Strip and downtown. Swinson said a similar project was attempted several years ago, but he believes it will be successful because the culture of the campus has changed. Mark Lail, a junior majoring in economics, agrees with Swinson and believes it is a practical project. “I think it will be a widely used service as an alternative to apartment complex shuttles,” Lail said. “It allows all students the opportunity to safely travel downtown for a night out.”
there’s an app for that By Alyssa Locklar Senior Staff Reporter A Tuscaloosa attorney has developed a smartphone app to keep people from stressing about whom they ought to contact with their one call from a jailhouse. The application, called Busted, allows you to enter your preferred attorney, bail bondsman and three emergency contacts and will notify them of your location and arrest at the push of a button. “We came into a meeting and were discussing my website and how we could make it more interactive,” said Jason Neff, a Tuscaloosa attorney. “I really wanted my DUI clients to be able to get in touch with me quickly because it’s a stressful time, and there is already so much going on. Then we came up with the idea of an app where our clients could push a button and send us a text or email if they needed to notify us. It’s not just my app, but it’s nationwide at this point.” Neff explained that Busted has already exceeded his expectations. The application, which is available on both the Android and iPhone, has already had about two thousand downloads nationwide. “We have had a really great response, especially out in California and New York,” Neff said. “It just so happened that we launched very close to the peak of the Wall Street sit-ins and a lot of people began to
download it.” In addition to the application’s ability to store phone numbers for your preferred contacts, Busted has a GPS feature capable of determining your exact location at the time of your arrest. “Everybody thinks it’s really cool,” Neff said. “The one thing I will say is what a great response I got from my clients’ parents. We show our clients the app and give them the option. The parents love knowing what’s going on with their children and that they will have help with the
push of a button. It also has a function that shows us the GPS coordinates in case they get in trouble or kidnapped. Also, if the case goes to court, I can go back to the exact location and take photographs.” Austin Haskew, an Aeron Agency programmer, felt the GPS feature was the most impressive and valuable part of Busted. “I think the best part about it is that it lets everyone know where you are,” Haskew said. “If you are out of town, it notifies local bail bondsman and lets your contacts know where you are so they know the best way they can help. If you are from Tuscaloosa but you get arrested in New Orleans, contacting a bail bondsman in Tuscaloosa wouldn’t help anything. “I personally built the Android version of Busted. The first thing we do is come up with an idea, and then, we basically figure out what all we want it to do and how to make it happen. The hardest part is sitting down and planning it all out.” Even if people think they have no need for the application, Haskew says it is better to be safe than sorry. “I definitely have it on my phone,” Haskew said. “No one ever plans on getting arrested, at least I hope not, but it does happen from time to time. And when it happens it is better to be prepared than to not be prepared.”
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Ruins of ancient city featured in Moundville Park By Katherine Martin Assistant News Editor klmartincw@gmail.com Just over 15 miles from the University of Alabama campus on the banks of the Black Warrior River, Moundville was once a cosmopolitan city with at least 3,000 Native American inhabitants living within the one-mile fortified wall and an additional 10,000 settled in the outlying land. “When you’re looking at the mounds, you’re really looking at the ruins of an ancient city,” Bill Bomar, director of the park, said. Called “The Big Apple of the 14th century” by National Geographic, Moundville Archeological Park is the second largest mound site in the U.S. and home to 26 mounds of varying sizes. Although thought to be burial mounds by many, Jeremy Davis, a doctoral student who studies the site, said the mounds of Moundville were architectural features built to elevate the home sites for elite people in the village. “There are burials in there,” Davis said. “But there really are none in the big mounds that we know of. The burials that are there are few, and they’re in the smaller ones.” Most of the items found in the mounds are refuge from everyday living, Davis said. Every so often, a team will come across a dedicatory offering, such as three or four pots clustered together in the corner of where a building once stood. “It was like cracking the champagne up against the ship,” Davis
said. Moundville Archeological Park opened to the public during the Great Depression in 1939, Bomar said. Walter B. Jones, the state geologist, recognized the significance of the site and the need to preserve it to prevent erosion. In a time where money was little and the number of individuals in need of jobs was high, Jones was able to set a Civilian Conservation Camp at the site. Members of CCC constructed the orientation building, museum building and roadways throughout the park, Bomar said. The University acquired the park and assumed ownership in 1961 but had long been associated with the park in various ways. “There are special advantages to having a site like this owned and operated by a research university,” Bomar said. “For one, we really echo the University’s mission of education, research and public service because what we have at the heart of what we do here is education and sharing with the public information knowledge based on the research we do here.” Davis, originally from Savannah, Ga., came to the University to study Moundville from his undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia. “This was the place to come if you were interested in the site,” he said. “Also, the relationship the University has with this site is unique. The fact that the University owns this site is unique, so it helps with people
In addition to the annual Native American Festival held each October, the park offers guided tours for school groups and a menu of other services like Native American dance and art, Bomar said. The site also has hiking trails and offers audio tours, a recreated Indian village, a conference center overlooking the Black Warrior that can be rented and 28 campsites. The University’s anthropology department is offering an eightweek field course this summer for students of any major, David said. ANT 269 is a six-hour class that offers a rare opportunity for students to dig at the park. “Moundville’s history is America’s history,” he said. “Why Submitted do we look to Egypt to talk about Photo human past when we have these immersive exhibit that really amazing cultures right here in brought the culture to life,” the southeast like Moundville?” Bomar said. “[We also wanted] to balance that with a presentation of the artifacts that really reflected the sophistication of the Moundville people.” A group of Native American • Where: 13075 advisors, archeologists, folklorMoundville ists, exhibit designers and eduArcheological Park, cators came together nine years Moundville, AL 35474 ago to create a storyline, that of a group arriving at Moundville, • When: park grounds and plan other details of the are open daily from 9 museum, Bomar said. a.m. until dusk, museum Native American artists paintfrom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ed the murals on the walls and created many of the exhibits, • Cost: $6 for students Bomar said. Native American and children, $7 for models were also used for the figures in the exhibits with artists seniors and $8 for adults from New York taking molds of their heads. While burials are present at Moundville, most mounds were built to elevate the home sites for village elites.
like me who want to study it and want to have access to it for excavations.” More than 800 years ago, around 1120 AD, a blended group of Native American tribes settled in the area, Davis said. By 1250 AD, the population peaked and due to political and factional disputes, the abandonment of the site began by 1400 and by the end of the decade, only a small group lived around the largest mound. “In a place where you have a chief who has exclusive claim to that office, a person who has that claim because they are born into it, that’s kind of a contentious thing and a lot of people want that position,” he said. “You can draw a direct parallel to Tudor England and disputes over who is going to have what position,
that same sort of thing happened in Moundville. It happens in every ranked society like that.” Inhabitants came from different tribes, but the specific tribes are unknown because there was no writing system, Bomar said. Possible ancestors of the Moundville people include the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek tribes. The Moundville Archeological Park museum, which underwent $5 million in renovations a few years ago, contains 250 artifacts, including the famous Moundville Duck Bowl, which according to Bomar, is arguably the most important prehistoric artifact found in the United States. “We wanted to adequately tell the story of the ancient Moundville people through an
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Stewart a campus, community fixture over 30 years Sometimes it takes little more than a smiling face behind the cafeteria counter to brighten somebody’s day. Three decades amount to a lot of days to brighten. One face has repeatedly proven it’s up
to the task, and it belongs to Nancy Stewart. “Mamma Nancy,” as Bryant Sports Grille employees and regulars know her, has worked for Bama Dining in various locations and positions for more than 30 years. She is currently the assistant food services director and Bryant location manager.
“I am a Livingston, Ala., native…[who] was seeking a better job opportunity when I first arrived on the UA campus,” she said in an emailed statement. Stewart has certainly taken advantage of the opportunity. She began her University career as a cashier at the Ferguson Center and has
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steadily worked her way up to her current role, with stops along the way in Tutwiler, Paty and Burke. Stewart did more than scoop food onto a plate to get to the level she is today. She feels the true importance of her role at the University lies in her desire to impact students’ lives in deeper, less tangible ways. “What I enjoy most of all about working here on the UA campus is being able to help students when help is needed or maybe even encouraging them to do better,” Stewart said. “Most of all being a mother figure to the students while they are here on campus away from home.” However, Stewart’s passion for care and assistance does not stop at students. Many fellow Bama Dining employees credit her lasting positive influence on their lives and careers. Ed Robertson, residential food service director, said Stewart’s guidance throughout Robertson’s employment has been instrumental in pushing him along the path to his current position. “I was first inspired by Ms. Nancy early on,” Robertson said in an emailed statement. “I saw a dedicated woman work her way up through the company. Once I realized all the things she was doing and
Nancy Stewart the success she was having, I thought surely if I applied myself I could have similar success.” In fact, Stewart prompted Robertson’s first steps up the managerial ladder, putting him in charge of Buffalo Phil’s at Burke when he requested more career responsibility. “Ms. Nancy would check on me each morning, trying not to be obvious that she was checking on me,” Robertson said. “I would share with her certain scenarios I was dealing with, and she would tell me how she handled similar situations. I still use the lessons taught to me by Ms. Nancy to mentor and inspire all the managers
and staff at Bama Dining.” Helping coworkers isn’t quite enough for Stewart, either. Kelsey Faust, marketing programs manager for Bama Dining, said Stewart also maintains an active role in the Tuscaloosa community, especially through her membership in the Alabama Business and Professional Women’s Club. “She loves working with this group because it is all about helping young women and working in the community to help when needed,” Faust said in an emailed statement. “When the tornado came through on April 27, 2011, BPW collected books for schools in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson County.” Thirty years is a long time, and Stewart has observed plenty of changes during her career with the University. In true Alabama fashion, she used football to measure the period. “I had the pleasure to work with one of the greatest coaches of all time, Coach Bear Bryant…and we have another great legend in the making, Coach Saban, who won two national championships in the last three years,” Stewart said. “What more can I ask for than being part of a great institution?”
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By Becky Robinson As Fashion Weeks draw to a close around the globe, it’s time for fashionistas everywhere to take stock of the new looks gracing the runway and how these trends can be translated into everyday ensembles. So, start packing away those heavy winter items because I’m here to tell you the most popular trends that are going to start blooming this spring. First, and perhaps most traditional in nature, is floral. Now, I’m not talking about your grandmother’s floral – there are more interesting and exciting ways to wear this print. The floral you choose can be pastel-toned if you want to opt for a softer look; pastel florals were all the rage at Louis Vuitton. You can achieve this easily with a flowing top, printed shorts or flirty dress in a color and pattern of your liking. If you hate the idea of swathing yourself in Easter egg colors like I do, choose a floral that’s more edgy. Take a darker print or layer your prints to create a unique look. If you’re feeling especially daring, take a page from Anna Sui’s show and go head-to-toe floral. Be cautious and selective with this venture, though. You don’t want to end up looking like a flower shop. Floral not your thing? No problem. Another trend popular this season is graphic, Bauhaus-inspired looks. Once again, you can achieve an artistic edge with a simple graphic tee or with a geometric, color block dress. You can go black and white, but I feel like it’s more fun to go crazy with bright colors, like Proenza Schouler did in their show. Guys can also have fun with this look, as graphic tops seem to be everywhere. To maximize the effect of this style, make sure the designs you choose have sharp, straight lines and are bursting with color. However,
like the floral trend, you should use discretion when going bold. You want to be eye-catching, not an eyesore. A final popular trend on this year’s spring runways is a bit dividing. You’re probably going to either love it or think I’m crazy. What is this polarizing trend, you ask? Animal prints. Not as in leopard print, but prints of actual animals. From birds to cats to aquatic life, the runways were bursting with zoological patterns. It’ll probably prove tricky for the average person to get away with wearing a bird-printed dress, like the ones at Giles. So if you want to follow this trend in a more subtle way, find cute animal accessories. An oversized ring or bold necklace would work wonderfully and can supplement your wardrobe for any season. By this point in the column I feel like I should take into account that I’m writing for college students. It’s doubtful many people could a f f o r d the runway pieces, but that’s not a problem. Many stores, l i ke Ur b a n Outfitters, American Apparel and Anthropologie, offer variations on these styles at fractions of the cost of couture options. Personally, I love Forever 21 because they have nearly every trend you could possibly want at inexpensive prices. Places like Target can even have fun, quirky pieces if
By Isabela Morales Everyone knows the story of Henry VIII and his parade of headless wives, but last weekend, I tried to inject some new life into the old tale by filming “Reformation! The Musical” for Campus MovieFest. The result was probably the worst short film you’ll never see, in which King Hal texts on his iPhone in every shot, and Asian Anne Boleyn gets killed by zombies. Needless to say, no one is winning any awards for that depiction of the Protestant Reformation. But for her novel “Wolf Hall,” English author Hilary Mantel certainly did. The historical epic - and at just short of 700 pages, it really is epic - won the highly prestigious Man Booker Prize and garnered glowing reviews from even the snarkiest of critics (the late great Christopher Hitchens, for example). It’s an honor that none of the perennially popular Tudor bodicerippers can claim and should make readers think not who is the other Boleyn girl, but who is the other king in Henry VIII’s infamous reign. According to Mantel, it’s Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is the man who orchestrates the king’s divorce from his first wife; secures his marriage to second wife Anne Boleyn, and a third, and a fourth; promotes that crazy newfangled Protestantism in England and ultimately dies for his pains (but you know Henry, so fond of his executions). “Wolf Hall” is fiction, but you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. The decades-long scope is truly astonishing, but it’s the painstakingly researched details that make the novel so believable. That and the surprisingly sympathetic characterization of our leading man Cromwell. For most people, that name conjures up hazy images of the notorious second Cromwell, Lord Protector Oliver, who was famous for regicide and cancelling Christmas. Or, for those who paid attention in Western Civ 101, Tom Cromwell is the guy who had elderly monks and
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nuns thrown out on the street and connived for poor, sweet, innocent Thomas More to meet his maker on the scaffold. In “Wolf Hall,” that most ubiquitous of narratives is turned on its head. Hilary Mantel’s pages portray the omni-competent Thomas Cromwell as a selfmade man, an entrepreneur, pitted against self-righteous religious fanatics like More and a whole host of suspicious aristocrats who wonder what a blacksmith’s son is doing running the kingdom. Mantel’s world is a Europe just coming out of the Middle Ages, where reason is supplanting faith, global capitalist economies are developing and egalitarian political ideas are biting at the heels of the Great Chain of Being. Cromwell’s maneuverings through Parliament and court politics read more like a current political thriller than an antiquated period piece. He lives by the motto homo homini lupus, that man is wolf to man—something our leaders today know quite well. And his single line of advice to her only son is just as pragmatic: “Hush,” Cromwell said. “Believe nobody.” Clearly, there’s a reason we count the 16th century as part of the “early modern era.” We can recognize ourselves in the people. Readers might also enjoy: “Parrot and Olivier in America,” by Peter Carey; “The Second Duchess,” by Elizabeth Loupas; and “The Lady in Blue,” by Javier Sierra.
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LIFESTYLES this weekend WEDNESDAY • Railroad Earth: The Bama Theatre 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY • Zionstorm: Rounders 11 p.m. • The Dirty Lungs and The Cancers: The Green Bar 10 p.m. • College Thursday Night: Brown’s Corner 9:30 p.m.
iPad apps worth the price By Will Edwards Staff Reporter wgedwards@crimson.ua.edu With over 140,000 iPad apps in the App Store, students with the Apple tablet are finding ways to incorporate them into their everyday life. Kyn Adams, an employee of the Apple store on campus, says that the iPad is so versatile and great
for class because of its size. “It’s smaller than a computer so it’s portable, but it’s bigger than your phone so you can type on it,” Adams said. There are many apps, which Adams explains are mostly made by third parties and not Apple itself, that try to give students an easier time with studies. Here, we will look at some of the top apps for student use.
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Alarm clock – Already installed If you have an iPad or an iPhone, then it came with this app. Go into your clock and
set the alarm with the most horrifying, jarring tone Apple offers, and you’ll wake up in the morning. It is often the hardest thing to do in college.
If we can get up and get to class, then the rest of the day filled with note taking, flashcard making and studying with ease.
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CourseNotes – 4.99 Taking notes in class is a must during college. Many teachers still do not use PowerPoint, and even those who do often say important
things that don’t appear on the screen. Notebooks and pens still do the job for many, but the CourseNotes app on the iPad is an easy and organized alternative. It takes out
the need for multiple notebooks by keeping classes in separate folders and allows you to keep up with assignments with a to-do list.
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mess to store them in case you need them for the final, but Cramberry puts all of that on your iPad. You can create flashcards and store them without taking up space. It
also tracks how much you’ve studied each card. Reportedly, the best part of Cramberry is its simplicity. It’s not too fancy, and it’s exactly what many need.
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culates your GPA. In case you haven’t taken the iPad plunge yet, it’s also available on the iPhone.
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THURSDAY • Women’s Basketball at Arkansas: 7 p.m.
By Brett Hudson Senior Sports Reporter bbhudson@crimson.ua.edu @Brett_Hudson
Leave it to National Signing Day to make a man’s world revolve around someone else’s fax machine. As big-time recruits announce their decisions, fan bases across the country will stay glued to cameras fixed on their fax machines to watch the signed letters of intent roll in and begin the countdown to those players arriving on campus in August. My message to them: Wipe the drool from your face. If the class coming into your school is going to win a national championship, the big pieces are already on campus. Student-athletes that elect to skip the spring semester of high school or junior college to report early to a major football program in order to enroll early, begin taking
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CW: The Landon Collins commitment has gotten more coverage due to the controversy involving his mother’s discontent than the commitment itself. Why do you believe Collins picked Alabama over LSU?
classes and be eligible for spring practice are, to follow the cliché, the future. The benefits a coaching staff sees from a recruit that comes to school a semester early are remarkable. These recruits get to experience taking college classes before they have to balance it with their first college football season. They get to be around the team and build up the ever-soimportant team chemistry, as well as learn the playbook so their transition to the college game is as smooth as possible. The biggest benefit of being an early enrollee is being eligible for spring practice. These young pups get to be there and soak in the valuable lessons in fundamentals and mindset that coaches tend to instill in their players in spring practice, which puts them a step ahead of the rest of their recruiting classmates when they make their debut appearance on campus.
AS: It takes a kid with a lot of character to leave his home state [Louisiana], and he ultimately felt he fit in Alabama’s system better. His girlfriend is also coming here, and after falling in love with the campus, I think he had already made up his mind. He is a physical specimen, and he’s great against the run, a great hitter. But he needs a little work on his coverage game, and [head coach] Nick
Look at the success that early enrollees have had in recent memory. Auburn’s national championship run in 2010 revolved around an early enrollee, some guy named Newton. Ever heard of him? Early enrollees even made an impact for the Tigers last season, as the eventual winner of their quarterback battle, Clint Moseley, was an early enrollee alongside Newton. The most recent owners of the coveted crystal ball have early enrollees to thank as well. The world’s most frightening Aussie, Jesse Williams, came to the Capstone early from Western Arizona Community College.
Williams started from day one of the Crimson Tide’s national championship run. Two other early enrollees were Trey Depriest and Vinnie Sunseri. Depriest was named Southeastern Conference co-Freshman of the Week for leading the team with 10 tackles in his college football debut against Kent State. Sunseri ended the season eighth in overall tackles with 31 and second in special teams tackles with 11. Alabama’s early enrollees for the Class of 2012 are a stellar bunch, as well, including running back T.J. Yeldon, considered the second-best running back in the country according to rivals.com.
Yeldon was Auburn’s best recruit until he made the switch to the Tide on Dec. 18. Also arriving in Tuscaloosa early with Yeldon are Amari Cooper and Chris Black, considered the sixth and eighth best wide receivers in the country according to rivals. com. Alphonse Taylor also arrived at the Capstone early. He was considered to be the 16th best prospect from the state of Alabama according to rivals.com. So, while you are watching Travell Dixon and Cyrus Jones sign with the Tide from Arizona and Maryland, respectively, thinking you’re seeing the future of Alabama’s next championship run arrive right before your eyes, you probably are. But, let’s not forget that the future of Alabama’s wide receiving corps, Cooper and Black, could be watching the same television you are — at the table right next to you.
Saban can help him fine-tune that area.
Washington D.C. Could he be an instant starter on an already stout defensive line if he chooses to attend Alabama?
is there, Alabama did manage to grab some speedy receivers from the state of Florida. Tell us what they bring to the table.
My message to them: Wipe the drool from your face. If the class coming into your school is going to win a national championship, the big pieces are already on campus.
CW: Wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham has been described as a mix between Randy Moss, Andre Johnson and Plaxico Burress with Desean Jackson speed. Alabama is on his short-list. What are the odds Nick Saban lands him, and would he fit well in the new offensive scheme? AS: I think Bama is out of the running for Dorial. I think if you want to play wide receiver in the offense Nick Saban runs, you have to be able to block. That was a huge part of Julio Jones’ game that was overlooked. With Dorial, he is just a pure receiver, and he is most likely to pick either Arkansas or Missouri, which provides a pass-happy offense that best suits him.
AS: He could. I think he has the talent to. But you really have to be something special to start right away in Saban’s defensive scheme. Alabama has a real good shot in landing him.
AS: Both of them will enroll early, and they go through spring practice, so that is a huge advantage. Amari [Cooper] has a chance to get in there freshman year. Both have great hands and speed, so I see CW: Rivals.com compared both of them making a major Reggie Ragland to former contribution. But be prepared Alabama linebacker Rolando to see Amari Cooper early. McClain. Will the Huntsville native live up to the projected CW: Looking ahead, do you hype, and could he start against see any future first-round NFL draft picks in this year’s class? Michigan?
AS: I just think [Alabama is] so deep at linebacker, and I think it would be tough for any true freshman to start. He has a great lower body and has a high ceiling and could even be better than Rolando. We could see him make a larger contriCW: Eddie Goldman is still up bution next year. for grabs, and Alabama is still in the running for the pow- CW: Although the lack of proerful defensive tackle out of totypical wide receiver height
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AS: That’s a good question. You just never know, but I really like Ryan Anderson. He is close to a Courtney Upshaw type, and if he keeps his mind right, he has all the talent to go to the next level. Brandon Green is also one to look out for. Alabama has the best linebacking class in the country, hands down. Pretty much any of those guys could make it in the pros.
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“Once you’ve gone through a zombie apocalypse, you never go back.” —Brandon Gilliam, freshman majoring in criminal justice
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Today’s hot commodity is “The Rayven,” a fierce-looking number with glow-in-the-dark capabilities, and Target seems to be the consensus top-spot for scoring new weaponry at a reasonable price. Sarah Johnson, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering and the group’s communications director, said she personally owns at least 25 Nerf guns. As serious as the players are about their equipment, they really get down to business when it comes to the mission at hand. “When things start getting heavy up here ahead, we’ll be talking a lot less,” said Forrest Williams, a senior majoring in psychology and philosophy and today’s human team leader. The humans’ objective is to safely transport Williams along the banks of the Black Warrior to a pre-planned objective point. The zombies’ responsibility, naturally, is to eat the brains (read: firmly tag the body) of any human in sight. They leave early to hide behind trees and in ditches along the way. “It’s all about the sneak attack,” said Blake Franklin, a senior majoring in music therapy and one of the zombies for today’s proceedings. Light-hearted equipment talk quickly vanishes as the humans prepare to put their weapons to use, moving cautiously toward the objective,
constantly scanning their surroundings for movement. They don’t have to wait long. Franklin, far nimbler than the stereotypical Hollywood flesheater and bearing the game’s telltale zombie head bandana, comes loping out from a clump of trees for an assault on the party’s rear flank. His attack is short-lived, however, as he is met with a flurry of orange projectiles accompanied by a symphony of mechanical “chkchks.” He is forced to count to 30 before resuming his chase, but more walking dead await the group. By now, the crew has harvested a bountiful crop of perplexed expressions from “civilian” passersby. After all, it’s not every Sunday afternoon one sees 16 college students armed to the teeth with bright yellow rifles combat zombie hordes. The club is careful to respect the space of people walking by, and Williams said most are receptive to the club’s activity. “Most people smile, chuckle and ask what we’re doing, then ask when they can join in,” Williams said. “One time we had this 60-year-old lady ask if she could play with us. So, we handed her a blaster, and she took one shot and decided she was through.” The tireless zombie offensives take their toll on the circle of
humans, their numbers dwindling as they trudge slowly through the trees along the riverbank. Even Williams falls prey to a stealthy lunge and joins the drooling mass of undead. The human phalanx finally breaks, and Brandon Gilliam, a freshman majoring in criminal justice playing for his first time, makes a mad dash for the objective. He beats out several zombies in hot pursuit to become the sole human survivor of today’s game. The crew heads back to the starting point, combing the ground for equipment dropped during the heat of battle. The picnic table is once again heaped with plastic as orange darts and ammo clips are divvied up and returned to their owners. The campus is safe for at least one more afternoon. The club decides to call it a day, but not without making plans to do it all over again two weeks down the road. The club meets to play in various locations at 2 p.m. every other Sunday. Johnson encouraged interested students to contact the group at uahvzc@ gmail.com for more information. “I’m hooked,” Gilliam said. “Once you’ve gone through a zombie apocalypse, you never go back.”
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Gueye another piece to puzzle By Brett Hudson Senior Sports Reporter bbhudson@crimson.ua.edu @Brett_Hudson Coming to the University of Alabama was one of the biggest adjustments imaginable for sophomore center Moussa Gueye. In order to travel to Tuscaloosa from his hometown of Dakar, Senegal, Gueye had to stop in Washington, D.C. and again in Charlotte, N.C., before arriving on campus – a total of 16 hours and 18 minutes to travel the 4,533 miles. However, the seven-foot tall junior college transfer found a tougher challenge when it came to adapting to his surroundings in Tuscaloosa. Gueye came to a town of just over 90,000 people from Dakar, which has that many in just three square miles. Now that Gueye is playing consistently after recovering from a torn ACL, it looks like adjusting to Southeastern Conference basketball is the easiest adjustment he has had to make. “I think with every game, he gets more comfortable,” head coach Anthony Grant said. “With every practice, he gets a little more familiar with what we’re doing. He’s progressing.” Gueye adds a great deal of potential to the Tide, coming into the basketball program as a four-star recruit, according to Rivals.com. His rankings came after Gueye averaged 10.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game in his only season with Land Lake College. “I think he adds size and depth,” redshirt junior guard Andrew Steele said. “He’s just a post presence that lets JaMychal [Green] and them play their more natural position. With his size and the way he can affect us on defense, I think he gives us a big boost.” Gueye allows post players like Green and fresh-
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Kent Gidley/UA Athletics Junior Moussa Gueye defends against Vanderbilt point guard Brad Tinsley during the Jan. 19 game.
UA Athletics man forward Nick Jacobs to play a more traditional power forward role. With Gueye at center, the Tide can turn to him as the big man the offense can run through in order to get Green or Jacobs into a oneon-one situation in the post, where their skill set can be best utilized. “I think he understands
what his role is offensively,” Steele said. “Obviously, coming back from the injury, we have to get him going. But, I think what he does is help us rebound. If he has opportunities to score, we need him to. But I think he’s coming along just fine.” Gueye has seen action in four games this season, Dec. 29
against Jacksonville and, more recently, against Vanderbilt, Kentucky and South Carolina. In those four games, Gueye tallied 10 points but made his impact felt on the defensive end of the floor, being one of the most physical big men Alabama has. Steele said he thinks Gueye’s physicality can take an opposing center or forward out of his game. “In terms of how we try to wear people down defensively, I think that can help, being such a physical presence in the post,” Steele said. “It gives us confidence on the perimeter that we have somebody down there that can back us up if we do have breakdowns.”
The Alabama men’s basketball team ended its fourgame skid on Saturday with a win over Arkansas. The Crimson Tide is now 14-7 overall and 3-4 in the Southeastern Conference. At the beginning of the season, Anthony Grant’s squad looked like a lock to make the NCAA tournament and was well on their way to being a top team in the SEC. I guess that is why they play the games. The Tide currently sits in the middle of the pack in the SEC, and as far as NCAA tournament hopes go, they are a bubble team at best. Alabama has three major problem areas, and all three come on the offensive end. Those problems are their inability to make perimeter shots, lack of offense against zone defenses and no real “go to” player on offense. As a team, Alabama is shooting 27 percent (82 of 304) from the three-point line. The Tide’s best shooter, percentage wise, is Tony Mitchell, at 31 percent (23 of 72). On average, teams shoot around 40 percent from three. Alabama has only shot 40 percent four times all year. Other teams dare Alabama to shoot threes, and they consistently miss from the outside every game. This year’s freshman class was supposed to provide the Tide with multiple knockdown shooters, but they haven’t lived up to the hype. Trevor Lacey and Levi Randolph came in as great shooters, but both are shooting worse than 28 percent from long range. When teams double-team JaMychal Green, Alabama’s perimeter players struggle to deliver outside shots. VCU provided the blueprint on how to stop Alabama earlier this season but came up short and lost. Georgetown took it one step further. They played zone against Alabama
nearly every possession of the game, and the Tide had no answer. But that was 13 games ago. The Tide is well into conference play, and they still have no answer to zone defense. The lack of outside shooting doesn’t help, but Alabama offensive schemes also seem out of whack. Coach Grant has yet to make the proper adjustments, and his team is often dazed and confused on offense. The guards pass the ball around the perimeter before hoisting up a long range shot with no prayer of going in. If they do throw the ball into the post, teams just send double teams, forcing Alabama’s big men to pass the ball back out for more long range misses. Arguably, Alabama’s biggest concern is that they have no true “go to” player on offense. Alabama doesn’t have a player who can consistently get their own shot. Yes, JaMychal Green will get you 20 points and 12 rebounds, but he’ll also score six points and get five rebounds in a game, which leaves you scratching your head. Tony Mitchell lacks effort on a game-to-game basis. His skill set is limited, and he struggles beating his defender off the dribble. The two Trevors are both dynamic, but zone defenses slow their penetration, and neither consistently makes shots from the perimeter. Levi Randolph plays tentatively, and Nick Jacobs just isn’t tall enough to contend with the length of the SEC. With only nine games remaining, Alabama will need to make a serious run to make the NCAA tournament. There is little room for error, and the Tide may have to win out to keep its tournament hopes alive. Remember, the Tide finished last regular season 20-10 and were left out of the big dance.