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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894

Women’s Tennis

3 Alcohol ALLELE

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The No. 7 Alabama Crimson Tide women’s tennis team hosted No. 20 TCU on Saturday and decisively beat them 6-1.

Next up the team travels to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Feb. 6 to play in the ITA National Championships.

University of Pennsylvania’s Patrick McGovern addressed the history of alcohol and its effect on evolution in an ALLELE lecture called “Uncorking the Past” last Thursday.

As 2015 gets going, a variety of video games are being slated for release. A new “Halo” and “Uncharted” along with “Evolve” are among games to look out for in the coming months.

Center Stage 1st student-written play produced by UA theater

By Reed O’Mara and Margaret Wilbourne | CW Staff

Writing has been a crucial element of Laura Coby’s life since she first began writing poetry in elementary school.

“I wrote my first poem in fifth grade, and it was about a tater tot,” she said. “Everything since then has been fantastic.”

Jokes aside, Coby, a junior majoring in English and theatre, is the first undergraduate ever to have SEE COBY PAGE 6

Laura Coby is the first student to have her play produced by UATD. CW / Layton Dudley

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Unlocked hosts forum on race in public schools Panel features writer of ‘Segregation Now’

By Nick Privitera | Contributing Writer

Students and members of the UA community crowded into 1093 Shelby Hall on Thursday night to see the forum “Confronting Reality:

Race in Our Public Schools.”

“I was really excited to see so many students and faculty members and community members who are passionate about our public schools,” said Philip Westbrook, moderator of the event.

The forum hosted a fivespeaker panel. The speakers included Nikole Hannah-

Jones, an award-winning journalist for ProPublica; Nirmala Erevelles, UA professor of educational leadership and foundations of education; Utz McKnight, UA associate professor of political science; Earnestine Tucker, a member of the Tuscaloosa City School Board; and Mary Givens, UA assistant clinical professor

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of education. Each spoke indepth on the issue of racial segregation in Tuscaloosa public schools.

“I think, maybe, we pierced that post-racial bubble for [the audience],” Hannah-Jones said. “I think a lot of younger kids, who have seen a black

I think, maybe, we pierced that post-racial bubble for [the audience].

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The SGA Senate met Thursday evening to discuss a resolution honoring Tuscaloosa native and WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder.

The resolution recognized Wilder for his performance in boxing and representation of Tuscaloosa on a national scale.

“We felt like the University should reach out to him and say thank you for representing us in a proper and professional way,” said Branden

Greenberg, speaker of the Senate.

Wilder will have his recognition sent to him by the University.

No other topics were discussed during the Senate meeting. Senators split up into committees after they adjourned to discuss resolutions for next week. The Senate will meet again next Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Ferguson Forum.

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UA astrophysics professor lectures on research UA associate professor of particle astrophysics Dawn Williams held a public talk in Gallalee Hall on Jan. 29 concerning her latest experiment at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located in the South Pole.

“IceCube is an array of 5,000 sensors spread throughout one cubic kilometer of ice located within walking distance from the geographic South Pole,” she said. “Every time we use a new telescope, we discover something we’ve never seen before.”

Williams said the IceCube experiment has been a great success since its completion in 2010.

IceCube is the second telescope of its kind – its

predecessor, AMANDA, was instituted in the mid-tolate ’90s. IceCube detects neutrinos, small particles coming from within and outside of our solar system, in order to further understand the celestial bodies surrounding Earth.

“The talk was very interesting,” said Mitchell Grushen, a sophomore majoring in finance. “I watched a documentary on Netflix about something like this and thought it was pretty cool.”

The talk was followed with a public observance in the observatory at Gallalee Hall.

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Student group proposes voting reform United Alabama Project, a student organization on campus, recently created a proposal for voting reform at The University of Alabama. The proposal, now completed, is called “A Step in the Democratic Direction: The Partisan Reform Initiative.”

The group designed the initiative in an attempt to address students’ voting grievances, according to an emailed statement from the organization.

The Partisan Reform Initiative, according to the written proposal, is designed to accomplish four goals. The first goal of the group is to legitimize the Machine “via its incorporation as a public, validated entity which is capable of carrying out all of the proper political functions it already employs” and organizing “non-Machine groups into galvanized, unified factions capable of taking meaningful roles in campus politics.”

The second goal is to increase the accountability of campus politics by allowing for greater transparency.

Third, United Alabama Project seeks to encourage more potential candidates and greater voter turnout, and finally the group strives to increase diversity in the SGA “by giving traditionally under-represented

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The proposal is 36 pages in length. Its creation was guided by the executive board, composed of Madelyn Schorr, director of community engagement; Chisolm Allenlundy, executive director; and Andrew Parks, director of political advocacy.

The proposal was created by the executive board in collaboration with Tim Hebson, dean of students; Kelli Knox-Hall, advisor of SGA elections board; J. Norman Baldwin, chairman of the Task Force for Excellence in Equity; Robert Jittrikawiphol, coordinator for student government at The University of California, Berkeley; Kelsey Keny, student body president at The University of Tennessee; Steven Hood, interim vice president of student affairs; Stephen Katsinas, director of the educational policy center; Mary Jolley, director of economic and community affairs; James Tyger, assistant director of student government advising; and Kelly Horwitz, community advocate and member of the Tuscaloosa Accountability Project.

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UA students work in a garden as part of the Gardens 2 Schools program. CW / Layton Dudley

Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania lectures on ancient alcoholic beverages. CW / Hanna Curlette

‘Gardens 2 Schools’ grows Professor studies alcohol, life

By Ben Jackson and Mackenzie Ross | CW Staff

By Elizabeth Elkin | Contributing Writer

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Druid City Garden Project will expand its Gardens 2 Schools program to a new elementary school in the fall of 2015.

The project uses gardens on school property to teach science, math and entrepreneurship to students. Students learn to grow their own food, allowing them easy access to healthy eating options.

“We’re excited to be able to continue impacting more students in Alabama and to be able to spread unique teaching opportunities to a new school,” said Lindsay Turner, executive director of Druid City Garden Project. “There is a direct correlation between people in the program and physical health. We’re excited to take a program that’s already making dramatic results and continue making a difference in Alabama.”

Turner said she has seen positive effects in the classrooms as a result of the project.

“We do a pre-assessment and a postassessment, and they were able to take that data and figure out that not only are we helping students increase test scores in math and language arts, but also we are able to help students try new fruits and vegetables,” she said. “A lot of kids don’t think about trying something new, but when they put so much into growing food like we have, they are more willing to try it.

I feel like a celebrity when I walk into the classroom because the kids are cheering.

They are so excited for garden class.”

Druid City Garden Project currently teaches classes at five area elementary schools, the Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Detention Facility and The University of Alabama. Students at the University can choose between two classes, one of which operates through the Honors College.

“Through organic farming you will get to learn so much about how you grow your own fruits and vegetables without using chemicals,” said Joya Elmore, education coordinator for Druid City Garden Project.

• Druid City Garden Project works in gardens at five elementary schools.

• Two classes at UA, Let’s Grow and Organic Farming, involve lectures and hands-on work in gardens.

“Through a class at the University, you can really build a connection back to food.”

The two classes, Let’s Grow and Organic Farming, involve both lectures and handson work in gardens. Students who take Let’s Grow assist in the facilitation of garden lessons at elementary schools.

“They are spending three hours a week at one of the elementary schools, getting a chance to get outside the campus bubble and become a part of the community they joined when they joined the university,” Elmore said.

Beau Schaeffer, a freshman majoring in microbiology, grew up eating food from his family garden.

“I think having our own garden helped us eat healthier,” he said. “Once you eat something you’ve grown straight out of the ground, you know no one’s tampered with it. They’re fresh. You pick them right out of the ground and put them on your dinner plate. You become more conscious of eating organic foods.”

Elmore said she appreciates the community built around Druid City Garden Project and its programs.

“It is so exciting to be a part of something that I believe in wholeheartedly,” she said.

“I moved here about a year and a half ago, and it has been so wonderful to become a part of the community I live in.”

Druid City Garden Project is accepting applications from elementary schools that wish to be a part of the program. More information can be found on their website, druidcitygardenproject.org.

Thursday night, Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania brought together students, faculty and community members to discuss a seemingly unusual pairing – alcohol and evolution.

The event, called “Uncorking the Past: Fermentation as Earth’s Earliest Energy System and Humankinds First Biotechnology,” was part of the Evolution Working Group’s 10th year of the Alabama Lecture on Life’s Evolution series, or ALLELE. “Dr. Patrick McGovern came to my attention a few years ago when I came across a Smithsonian article,” said Christopher Lynn, a UA anthropology professor and director of the evolutionary studies minor. “I imagine, like many of you, the title ‘beer archeologist’ was captivating to me.”

McGovern, an anthropologist and archaeologist, travels the globe studying the alcoholic beverages of ancient peoples and the significance of fermented products in the evolution of humans.

His work was documented most recently in his book “Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages.”

McGovern’s lecture traced alcohol from its existence as a natural compound found in clouds to its more familiar existence in ripening fruits and grains. Long before humans began enjoying fermented foods, alcohol was a huge part of animal life, McGovern said. He analyzes the development of alcohol from the Stone Age to modern years. During the lecture, he spoke of his experiences recreating ancient alcohols by sampling the chemical compounds of alcohol residues on pottery.

“This is one of the fun parts of my job,” he said. “You can’t really understand ancient beverages unless you’ve tasted modern beverages.”

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McGovern said the body produces energy when it breaks down yeast from alcohol fermentation. Both humans and animals find this appealing and have similar reactions to the mind-altering affects of alcohol. To support his point, he showed a video highlighting the drunken behavior of African animals after consuming fermented fruit.

“We can observe with various fruit trees, animals like monkeys, birds, and even elephants gorging themselves on the high-energy alcohols found in fermenting fruits,” he said. “They even experience the same mind-altering affect that we do as humans.”

McGovern said in the past, people who drank alcohol had more children and lived longer lives. He referred to groups who put medicinal herbs in the alcohol and said it was safer to drink alcohol versus water because the yeast killed all the harmful microorganisms.

“I think we still have a lot more to learn about all the enzymes that are at work and how to measure the impact it’s had on our cultures in terms of language, dance, music and so forth,” he said.

McGovern’s work, learning about ancient beverages, yields more than scientific and historical value. By using chemistry to team up with Dogfish Head Brewery, McGovern helped craft eight “Ancient Ales” – modern beverages crafted using ancient recipes.

The Evolutionary Studies Club helped promote and facilitate the lecture event and Lynn spoke about their Darwin Day Colloquium, which will feature speeches, videos and songs.

“This year, we’re really pushing for evolutionary topics as well as academic topics,” said Taylor Burbach, a senior majoring in anthropology and president of the Evolutionary Studies Club.

McGovern said in the future he hopes to explore the history of fermented drinks in other ancient cultures.

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GUEST COLUMN | REESE PHIFER

Phifer conditions hardly temperate

By Lance Kinney | Guest Columnist

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COLUMN | RACE

Talk about race or perpetuate problem

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Hammontree Staff Columnist

Race is only an issue if you make it an issue. Who said anything about race? You’re the one bringing black and white into the picture. Why does everything have to be about race?

Race shouldn’t even matter. I don’t even see color – I just try to treat everybody the same.

We’ve all heard these lines before.

Whenever a debate emerges on school zoning, incarceration rates, poverty, health care or police brutality, inevitably someone questions why people are trying to make it into a race issue when really it’s about money, culture, family life, politics, etc. Racism is fixed, after all. We have a black president. We have a new Martin Luther King, Jr. monument. The millennial generation is the most diverse and tolerant in American history.

Except racism is not fixed. Just because we have an AfricanAmerican man in the White House doesn’t mean that across the country men and women of color no longer have to fight every day to be considered equal in the eyes of their neighbors and under the law.

Racism and racial inequality sit at the heart of almost every major issue facing our country, from our

overcrowded prisons to our failing coincidence based on neighborhoods. school system to poverty to crime. The way the districts are drawn funWe can’t fix these issues with band- nels white families and many middleaid solutions meant to hide the more class black families across the river unpleasant aspects of society and to Northridge even if they live blocks maintain the status quo. away from Central.

These problems won’t go away if The intent of the rezoning was to we just stop talking about them. No, keep white families from leaving we cannot begin to address any of the school system for the several these issues if we cannot speak open- Tuscaloosa private schools by creatly and critically about race and race ing a school in a predominantly white relations in this country. neighborhood where white students Perhaps nowhere is would not be as much of a the effect of institutionalminority as they are in the ized and ingrained racism system as a whole.

We can’t fix these more obvious and harmThe result is one high ful than in our education school with a diverse issues with bandsystem. While the ‘60s and student body and a high aid solutions ... number of resources and ‘70s saw school systems across the South forced another high school that to integrate, leading to is almost entirely black, the most diverse schools suffering from an extreme anywhere in the country, recent lack of resources and funding, despite court decisions have led to the reseg- being mere minutes away from the regation of our schools over the last affluent historic districts surround20 years. ing the University’s campus.

In Tuscaloosa, the city school sysHow can we face this disparity and tem went from a single integrated say that race is not playing a role? high school for all system students How can we hope to address these to three high schools. Now the three issues if we cannot acknowledge that schools portray a spectrum of diver- diversity benefits all students and sity and achievement. On the high hurts none? end, Northridge High School has the We can’t move forward if we do not closest balance of diversity and offers face our problems head on. We can’t a wide range of AP classes and extra- correct our societal wrongs if we curriculars. Central High School on can’t admit our mistakes. We can’t the other hand is 99 percent black solve racism by ignoring it. So talk and suffers from a lack of resources. about it or else be part of the problem.

The unfortunate truth is that the school board intended for Central Mark Hammontree is a junior majorto be all black. This isn’t a case of ing in secondary education – lancommon-sense school zoning or guage arts. His column runs weekly.

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If you’re cold in Reese Phifer Hall, I’m not surprised – it isn’t being heated.

Reese Phifer is heated and cooled by an antiquated, difficult-to-manage pipe system that can’t respond to rapid changes. By the time the building becomes sufficiently cool, the weather has changed so it needs heat, and vice versa.

The system is either fully on or fully off. The building is either a sauna or a freezer, no matter the weather outside. The rationale is that more of us suffer under heated conditions as compared to non-heated conditions, so the air conditioning system remains active. Some faculty and staff members have space heaters in their offices.

My department brought job candidates to campus last semester. They toured our unheated building. We interviewed them in unheated offices. They presented research in unheated classrooms. They tried to make themselves comfortable in perpetually airconditioned restrooms. I met a potential graduate student in my office last week. We wore overcoats and scarves. Her cold-numbed fingers couldn’t retrieve a business card from my desk.

If you’re coming to Reese Phifer, always bring the following: tank top, goose down parka, sandals and snow boots. You may need all of these on the same day on different floors. I’ve seen colleagues working while wrapped in black blankets – they look like U.S. Supreme Court justices. I can’t imagine this intemperate climate in Rose Administration, the UA System building or coach Nick Saban’s office, but I’m convinced the University accepts Reese Phifer’s intemperate climate.

The University has multimillion-dollar dorms with retail spaces, fresh pastries, Starbucks coffee, smoothie bars and recreation centers.

The University secures bonds to underwrite palatial, multimillion-dollar homes for social clubs. And Reese Phifer isn’t being heated.

The reported $9 million renovation of the Moore Athletic Facility includes iPhone jacks at each locker and a waterfall in the shower.

According to Saban, as reported by al.com on June 17, 2013, “When people come to Alabama, they expect to see the best. We should always strive to have the best. As long as we have the resources and we can provide the best for our student-athletes, that’s what we should do in all sports.” I can see Bryant-Denny Stadium from the window of my unheated office, but I don’t expect the best in in my building. I expect the fourth floor men’s room to be as cold as the latrine of a North Korean labor camp.

I’m unaware of plans to upgrade Reese Phifer’s heating and cooling systems. Maybe the University could put a “retreating executive” on this.

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OPINIONS Monday, February 2, 2015 COLUMN | SGA

SGA needs political parties to become more representative, inclusive CHISOLM

Allenlundy Staff Columnist

The University of Alabama is at a crossroads. The social climate of this university is in perhaps its most dynamic state in at least a century.

Moving forward, the direction we take will have profound impacts on our future – not just for students but for the larger Tuscaloosa community in which the University resides. Last week, the executive board of The United Alabama Project, of which I am a member, publicly released a proposal to reform our current SGA election process to allow for the formation of political parties. In the proposal, we give a proper articulation of the situation in which we currently find ourselves and how such a reform would allow us to move beyond it.

We begin by laying out the problems currently facing the University of Alabama community, particularly its electoral system.

First, it is no secret that the Student Government Association is

historically under-representative of the university it purports to represent. Only two black students have ever been elected to office within the executive branch, and only one other non-white student has accomplished the same feat. Additionally, in the past three election cycles, though women have consistently made up over half of the student population, they have constituted only a quarter of the positions within the executive branch. It’s no secret that marginalized groups often face difficulties in organizing proper representation, and the enactment of a party system would allow these groups to do so much more with ease and legal backing.

Second, SGA elections routinely fail to bring out voters. Though the 2013 election had one of the highest voter turnouts in campus history, not even a third of students actually participated.

This likely has many causes, but perhaps none is more insidious than the possibility these low numbers represent a lack of faith in the electoral system. Partisan reform would not only allow students to identify themselves with certain parties but also encourage candidates to coordinate campaign resources and outreach efforts.

Additionally, there is a consistent

lack of effective and healthy competition in our SGA elections. Given that the University is home to one of the largest National Merit Scholar populations in the country as well as an extensive Honors College, it would be foolish to suspect this is due to a lack of qualified candidates. A party system would make independent coalition building and coordinated campaigning significantly easier.

Finally, there is no way to separate the numerous ills of our university’s political system from the long and unfortunate history it has involving the Machine. Though only so much blame, if any, can be applied to current Machine-affiliated students, it is welldocumented that past Machine activity has contributed meaningfully to the regression of the University’s political climate. A cohesive and legal alternative – which would have the additional benefit of encouraging the Machine to come aboveground – would go a long way in creating a healthier and more diverse campaign season.

Commitment to tradition is perhaps the most important identifier that The University of Alabama can claim.

However, political stagnation, disenfranchisement and corruption simply cannot remain an aspect of that

WHAT I THINK • The Student Government Association is historically under-representative of the university it purports to represent.

• Partisan reform would not only allow students to identify themselves with certain parties but also encourage candidates to coordinate campaign resources and outreach efforts.

• A party system would make independent coalition building and coordinated campaigning significantly easier.

commitment any longer. In this time of seismic shifts within our school, we must renew our ardent quest for fair and just politics to teach students of today and tomorrow their role in a 21st-century democracy. With each class that graduates without that knowledge, we have done a grave disservice, both to them and to our nation as a whole. It is time we turn the page and unite Alabama.

Chisolm Allenlundy is a junior majoring in economics and philosophy. His column runs weekly.

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Book Bonanza for the Black Belt is set to give $1,000 worth of books to five different Black Belt schools.

Jamie Naidoo, a professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, started Book Bonanza for the Black Belt in 2009.

“The books are my way of giving back to our local community and state,” he said. “All books are brand new, high-quality books.”

Eva Randolph, a librarian at Notasulga High School, has previously received books from the program and applied again this year.

“It is a very, very worthwhile cause,” she said. “A lot of libraries, not just [in] the Black Belt, are in dire need of books because the library funds have been cut the last 10 years and there’s not a lot of money for books.”

Naidoo said he focuses on giving to the Black Belt region because schools there are less likely to be able to raise funds for books through book fairs and PTAs. Schools that apply must provide information including school enrollment, grade levels served by the school, number of books currently in the library, number of books per student, average publication date of those books and the types of books the school needs.

Not only are there fewer books per

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their one-act play performed by the University of Alabama theatre and dance program.

Steve Burch, associate professor of theatre and dance, took notice of Coby’s work while she was enrolled in his playwriting course. Her play, “Meet the Bradleys,” was chosen after a production had to be dropped from the original 20142015 season lineup.

“The department was suddenly placed in the position of having to select another [play] for our season,” Burch said. “I had taught playwriting the last semester, and Laura and a handful of others did particularly well. For the first time since I’ve been teaching, I thought some of the plays were good enough to [use].”

Burch said the “stars aligned for the department,” which would go on to choose Coby’s work out of four finalists.

Coby first found out her play was in this pool of finalists last summer.

“I was both terrified and humbled, which was the same sentiment I experienced when it was actually chosen,” she said. “I really admired my classmates’ works, so I was very humbled and excited when mine happened to even be put alongside them.”

The Guntersville, Alabama, native grew up watching musicals with her grandmother, but it wasn’t until Coby was a senior in high school that she said she began to think seriously about theater.

student in Black Belt schools than schools outside of the region, but the books they do have are often out-of-date. The nonfiction collection in these schools over all subject areas had an average copyright date in the 1970s. These books not only provide outdated informational content, they are unappealing to the students, said Sarah Wright, a librarian at J. E. Terry Elementary School. J. E. Terry Elementary School was one of the schools that received books last year.

“The kids love checking them out,” Wright said. “It just makes it more inviting to read. We’ve had old books, and when I say old, I mean old. So these are more related to the kids and on their level.

They absolutely love to read. They’re excited about coming to the library now to check out books.”

Naidoo forms a three-person committee composed of himself, another SLIS faculty member and an SLIS graduate student to choose where the books will be awarded. They divide the available books by the grade levels the schools represent, match the books with the needs listed on the application and try to spread them over as many counties as possible.

“I wish that I could give books to every school that applies,” Naidoo said.

As director of the SLIS Children’s and Young Adult Book Review Collection, Naidoo has access to thousands of books before they are published. The

publishers send the new books to be reviewed by him and his graduate students. They provide their reviews to publishers and post them on their blog, SLIS Crimson Review. This year, nonfiction books were also donated by the University of Alabama Press.

Naidoo has an agreement with the

publishers that he can do whatever he wants with the books at the end of the publishing year. He has chosen to donate them to clear space for the books they will receive throughout the coming year.

Applications to receive books are due Feb. 12 at midnight and selections will be made by Feb. 18.

“I’ve always been loud and animated, and I had fallen in love with a rival high school’s theatre program after they did ‘Pippa,’ which is one of my favorite plays,” she said. “I was just baffled and [remember] thinking, ‘Wow, people my age can do something that well – I’d like to try to do that.’”

Alaina Boukedes, a junior majoring in journalism and theatre, became friends with Coby when the two pledged Alpha Psi Omega, the theatre honor society, during their freshman year. The two also lived together for their sophomore years.

Since meeting, Boukedes said she’s seen the passion Coby has for writing grow and separate her from her peers.

“Laura has always been a very eccentric and eclectic person, and I think she’s really come into that, and that’s come with a lot more intellectual ideas and thoughts,” Boukedes said. “She’s really taken that exciting energy she came into college with and really put it towards her writing.”

After graduating high school, Coby enrolled at The University of Alabama with an interest in both theatre and playwriting. She enrolled in a playwriting class, which is where “Meet the Bradleys” found its start.

“I knew nothing about playwriting, but I just fell in love with it,” she said.

“It’s just so cool getting to see how I put together my own ideas.”

Coby said being an actor herself helped with the process.

“I mean, Shakespeare was an actor turned playwright, and he was the best,” she said. “I take other classes too, but having that acting background, I know an actor can act this [out], so I don’t have

to write it [for them to say].”

Boukedes said the “actability” of Coby’s work comes from her studies as an actress, but also from Coby’s extensive reading and ingrained passion for her creative work.

“I think she’s always had a knack for literature and the arts,” Boukedes said. “She took [Burch’s] playwriting class as a sophomore, and I think that really helped as well because most people who take that course are almost out of college. To have that course at a very young time in her career and to have that to jump off for writing a play is very helpful.”

“Meet the Bradleys” is a work of fiction inspired by a conversation Coby had with her brother on a family trip.

With four characters, the play mimics Coby’s own family and explores human interaction.

“There’s only two characters [out of the four] that are biologically related,” she said. “There’s a point in the play where it’s like an opportunity for four people to sit at a table together and not quite be a family but that have [that] sort of dynamic. I can’t say if that happens or doesn’t.”

Coby, who is working on the play while juggling a full load of classes, said she has found the new dynamic of her schedule to be about balance.

While she said it can be difficult, her enthusiasm for theatre is always her biggest motivator.

“The play was easier when I had a class to go along with it,” she said. “Sometimes something has to get pushed to the back burner because I’m spread so thin, but it’s still an exciting and gratifying time.

I love putting the time into it, and I love pouring myself into it.”

Helping to keep Coby on track while she navigates the unfamiliar roads of having an original work performed is Burch, whom she said serves as a mentor. While she first met Burch in his playwriting class, she has continued to seek his advice and guidance.

“Steve’s the reason I’m able to be able to be here and thriving,” she said. “He has guided me through creative blocks and the professional logistics of writing [as well as giving] moral support.”

Burch agreed he plays several roles as a mentor to Coby. He also said such professor-student interactions are important for young writers.

“She doesn’t limit her discussions to class – we’ll talk one-on-one about things she’s been reading, and the play,” he said. “Laura is full of ideas. She has the best kind of intellect for a student to have, which is an inquiring one. That [interaction] is important, because it’s hard to advise them if we don’t know about that person and the areas they’re interested in.”

While Coby said she is interested in pursuing a career in publishing postgraduation, she said she’s excited to explore the field of producing the play she has written.

“It’s an experience I never expected to have, and it’s so incredible,” she said.

“I’m so floored and so grateful, because I know how many other hard working people there are in the creative field of writing.”

Coby’s play, “Meet the Bradleys,” will debut April 6 at the Allen Bales Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall.

Jamie Naidoo, creator of the Book Bonanza program, gives a collection of new books to Eva Randolph, a librarian for Notasulga High School in Alabama’s Black Belt. Photo Courtesy of Eva Randolph

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Editor | Francie Johnson Culture@cw.ua.edu Monday, February 2, 2015

COLUMN | FILM

Musical movies offer perfect selections for Valentine’s Day date night

By Luke Haynes

Valentine’s Day is around the corner and love is in the air. With this holiday fast approaching, many couples in search of a fun datenight activity will turn to musical movies. While this is a wonderful way to share a special evening with your significant other, movie choice is crucial and there are some hazards to be avoided.

It’s important to note that many of the world’s greatest love stories are in fact tragedies. While the romance in masterpieces such as “West Side Story,” “Les Miserables” and “Moulin Rouge” bring a tear to the eye, their tragic endings bring even more. If not even death scenes could ruin your romantic mood, these movies are perfect.

Even when everyone survives, a lot of Broadway’s sweetest love stories don’t have very lovely endings. A wonderful example of this is Jason Robert Brown’s cult classic “The Last Five Years,” which has a film version premiering in theaters across America this Valentine’s Day. While it is a wonderful story about love, life and all the resulting twists and turns, it’s also very

much a story about heartbreak – the “fairy-tale relationship” featured in the movie is far from successful. “The Last Five Years” isn’t the only musical movie to end with heartbreak, as many favorites such as “The Fantasticks” and “Once” spend the entire movie building up a beautiful romance only to shatter it before the credits roll.

Before you get too depressed, there are also plenty of musical movies to say love conquers all. Cute movies such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Guys and Dolls” not only entertain their viewers with wonderful songs and acting but also feature the satisfying romantic ending all lovebirds crave. If these are a bit too corny for your taste, other movies like “Rent” and “Footloose” provide a somewhat more realistic portrayal of love while still ending on a satisfyingly romantic note.

So this Valentine’s Day when you and your true love are looking for a movie to put you in a romantic mood, know that musicals are a wonderful choice as long as you are careful. As long as there has been romance, there have been heartbreaks, and Broadway portrays both.

There are a variety of romantic movie musicals to choose from this Valentine’s Day. Rotten Tomatoes

Students help at after-school tutoring program

By Margaret Wilbourne | Contributing Writer

Memories of one’s childhood are sometimes marked by the smell of new crayons, the taste of a freshly-opened Capri Sun or the presence of a special mentor. Through the Plum Grove Baptist Church after-school program, UA students are able to help fill these role model positions in the lives of local children.

Emily Bryant, a junior majoring in early childhood education, serves as a program leader for Plum Grove.

“We spend half the time tutoring and half playing games and really just forming personal relationships,” she said.

Bryant became involved last year through Calvary Baptist Church’s college outreach, The Well, which collaborates with Plum Grove for the tutoring program. She now also volunteers in a leadership role, helping to coordinate volunteers.

“A lot of [children’s] parents have to work after their children [finish their day], so there’s really a need for an after-school program,” she said.

“We help to supply the volunteers who work one-on-one and get to know the kids.”

Phyllis Rodgers, the director of the program, said the idea was inspired by Plum Grove’s pastor, who had a specific mission in mind.

Plum Grove Baptist Church and Calvary Baptist Church created an after-school program for kindergarten through eighth grade children in west Tuscaloosa. CW / Layton Dudley

“This was one of our pastor’s visions, to provide an after-school program to Tuscaloosa City Schools, especially the western cluster,” she said. “Being able to able to make a positive difference in their lives is important.”

This positive difference comes not only from tutoring but also from a more personal aspect the program seeks to provide. Callie Mashburn, a junior majoring in chemical

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agrees their role extends far past that of a teacher.

“I’ve always liked teaching, but I would say volunteering is all about being a mentor, too,” Mashburn said.

“You can definitely see a difference in the [children] when you go every week, and how much they care when you’re there.”

Rodgers said as a director, she is dedicated to finding volunteers who aren’t just looking for another resume builder.

“I like to meet with volunteers and talk to see if there’s a– fit, because that’s really important,” she said. “Everyone can’t tutor and can’t work with kids.

We’re looking for people who want to be there and love the children.”

While it may seem difficult to juggle tutoring with the other day-to-day responsibilities of a college student, Mashburn said it’s easy with good scheduling habits and dedication.

“It’s nice because everything is so structured,” she said. “You can just build [going] into your schedule and say, ‘This time is set aside for this.’

[Plum Grove] was something I wanted to do, so I made it work.”

The program, which is in its third year, is held in the gym of the local Plum Grove Baptist Church from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday.

It is open to all students in the area, and serves kindergarten through eighth grade.

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CULTURE

Monday, February 2, 2015

Try seasonal fruit as healthy snack to fight off sickness

By Katie Bedrich | Contributing Writer

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COLUMN | TELEVISION

‘Gilmore Girls’ progressive facade hides unsavory underrepresentation

By Noah Cannon

It seems that people can be tidily placed into two categories these days: either you have a friend who keeps telling you to watch “Gilmore Girls” on Netflix or you are the friend who keeps telling everyone to watch “Gilmore Girls” on Netflix. In recent months of procrastination I have become the latter, swept up in the saccharine, wise-cracking antics of kooky hotel manager Lorelai and her prodigious, dead-eyed daughter Rory.

“Gilmore Girls” premiered on the WB network in 2000, when the WB network still existed, and for the most part it has aged remarkably.

Rory and Lorelai’s dense conversational patter, a trademark of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, has a biting honesty that rings familiar even fifteen years after it was written. Their relationship, a mother and daughter whose bond leans more towards the sisterly, is compelling to see on TV in any year.

But the show’s early-aughts

“Gilmore Girls” tells the story of mother and daughter Lorelai and Rory. Amazon.com

sensibilities reveal their unpleasant side in disappointing ways. If queer people exist in Stars Hollow, they’re certainly not on screen. Sure, the characters use “gay” as a derogatory term and make cracks about drag queens, but LGBT characters aren’t around to defend themselves. Michel,

the infantilized Destiny’s Child- creator Shonda Rhimes took to loving concierge at Lorelai’s inn, is Twitter to express her valid disstereotypically mincing and pouty in appointment. Sherman-Palladino troubling ways, never mind his vis- responded by chastising Rhimes for ceral discomfort when confronted not “[supporting] other women the with gay culture and people. way [she] should.” She then went People of color do not fare much on to use a transphobic slur in the better in “Gilmore Girls.” They are same interview. few and far between in this Kinkade“Gilmore Girls” is often held up as a eque world. Aside from progressive show. How the aforementioned else could you describe Michel, the only chara show about nontradiacter of color is found tional family structure If queer people exist in Lane Kim, Rory’s high school-age Korean-American best in Stars Hollow, they’re whose protagonist holds an friend. Poor Lane is certainly not on screen. affinity for Simone de almost always reduced Beauvoir, right? But to a foil for her cartoonthis progressive facade ishly strict Seventh hides nasty tendenDay Adventist mother, cies towards racism, homophobia who is referred to even by her daughand erasure at the show’s core. The ter as Mrs. Kim and embodies the Tiger Mom trope in cringe-inducing dialogue snaps and crackles, and I’m still loudly talking about the attempts at comic relief.

When Sherman-Palladino’s lat- show at every party I can, but the est show, 2012’s “Bunheads,” failed shortcomings in Gilmore Girls can to include a single non-white actor be difficult for a conscientious fan in its cast, “Grey’s Anatomy” to reconcile.

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CULTURE Monday, February 2, 2015 COLUMN | GAMING

‘Batman,’ ‘Legend of Zelda’ among video games to look for in 2015

By Matthew Wilson

This year looks to be a busy one in the world of gaming with several different titles working to compete for people’s time and attention. Because money is a precious commodity, I’ve taken a look at what games people should keep on their radar for 2015.

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Batman: Arkham Knight

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

PLATFORM: PC, PS4, Xbox One RELEASE DATE: June 2

PLATFORM: PS4 RELEASE DATE: Summer 2015

Concluding the highly successful “Arkham” trilogy, “Arkham Knight” looks to put Batman through his toughest night yet. Still recovering after his run in with the Joker, Batman is forced to defend Gotham from the Scarecrow. “Arkham Knight” boasts new mechanics like the Batmobile allowing players to zip through the streets of Gotham as they hunt down criminals.

Rumored to be released sometime in July, “A Thief’s End” picks up three years after the end of the third game as series protagonist Nathan Drake gets drawn back into the world of treasure hunting. Coming off the critically-acclaimed “The Last of Us,” developer Naughty Dog looks to combine the light-hearted Drake with a darker, more personal story.

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Halo 5: Guardians

Evolve

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“Guardians” looks to be a reinvention of the long-running series. Incorporating a zoomand-aim feature reminiscent of the “Call of Duty” franchise, “Guardians” is more fast-paced and chaotic than past titles. The game will see the return of many series’ trademarks, including the Covenant, but it will be interesting to see how the series’ older features mesh with its newer focus when the game is released later this year.

“Evolve” is a multiplayer-focused spectacle pitting four players as alien hunters against one player playing a constantly evolving alien. The conflict of the game changes as the hunters slowly become the hunted. At the start of the match, the alien is weak and forced to evade the hunters, but the alien can evolve to become stronger. “Evolve” offers a fresh take in a market becoming overrun with first-person shooters.

Returning to the lands of Hyrule, players will once again assume the role of the silent hero Link as he faces off against the forces of darkness. The series’ first venture into the world of high-definition graphics, the game will include cell shading to give the world a specific look. The focus of the game will be on exploration and solving puzzles in a new way.

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SPORTS

Monday, February 2, 2015

The Crimson Tide women’s basketball team fell to the Arkansas Razorbacks 53-42 in Sunday’s game at Foster Auditorium. CW / Layton Dudley

Alabama drops Sunday’s game to Arkansas

By Elliott Propes | Staff Reporter

The Alabama women’s basketball team hosted Arkansas on Sunday after a loss to No. 1 South Carolina Thursday. The Crimson Tide fell to Arkansas 53-42 after failing to come back from an early first-half deficit.

“You have to be able to turn the page, win or lose, and be ready to go the next day and continue to improve,” coach Kristy Curry said. “I don’t think this had anything to do with anybody

other than us.”

The game started slowly. Alabama had a 6-4 lead but then went on a scoreless streak that lasted almost 10 minutes. Alabama missed nine shots in a row until sophomore Ashley Williams sank a jump shot to cut into Arkansas’ lead 13-8. Arkansas held a 24-16 lead at halftime. Both teams shot 30 percent at the half.

“At some point you can’t make plays for them,” Curry said. “They have to step up and make plays. I thought

at all five spots today to start the game that Arkansas was better at all five spots.”

Alabama only had one player score in double figures. Redshirt freshman Karyla Middlebrook finished with 11 points on 4-9 shooting. Alabama shot 32 percent for the game and had 19 turnovers. Arkansas capitalized on the mistakes and converted 17 points off turnovers.

“A lot of those [turnovers] are by our post players which is

puzzling,” Curry said. “We can’t afford six turnovers by our leading scorer [Ashley Williams], and that has been consistent.”

Alabama’s record dropped to 12-12.

The Crimson Tide is now 1-8 in the SEC. Next Alabama will play LSU next Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“We can’t think about the losses,” Middlebrook said. “We have to focus on the next game, and we have to believe that we can win each game that we have left on our schedule.”

COLUMN | TENNIS

Djokovic becoming an all-time great after 8th Slam

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By Elliott Propes

title with a win over Andy Murray.

With the win, Djokovic has become In 2008, a 21-year-old Serbian ten- the best Australian Open player of nis player named Novak Djokovic all time. No other player has reached was coming off of a career year. He the five-title mark. It is time to put reached the top 10 in rankings for Djokovic in the argument as one of the first time of his career in 2007. the best players of all time.

Federer and Rafael Nadal, who are The young player impressed many when he reached the U.S. Open two of the best players ever, overfinal. Though he lost to the all-time shadow Djokovic. They are on top of the list for most Grand great Roger Federer Slam titles with 17 in straight sets, many and 14, respectively. saw the potential he possessed.

With the win, Djokovic has Those numbers make Djokovic’s eight Grand The next Grand Slam become the best Slam titles not look as was the 2008 Australian but in fact Open. Djokovic earned Australian Open player of impressive, this is the sixth-highhimself a No. 3 seed. all time. est number of Grand He reached the semiSlams held. At the age finals and became the of 27, he has plenty of youngest to do so in time to win many other all four Grand Slams.

In the semifinal, Djokovic had a titles. If he were to win just one more, rematch with no. 1 Federer. The he would become only the eighth match was the exact opposite of the player ever to win nine Grand Slams.

Djokovic might have even more one in New York with Djokovic winning in straight sets. He completed Grand Slams if he played in a difthe tournament with a win against ferent era of tennis. Nadal (3) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to capture his Federer (2) have combined to beat Djokovic five times in a Grand Slam first ever Grand Slam title.

The 2008 title would be the first final. Djokovic is a talent who is of five titles Djokovic has won in under-appreciated. His stats after Melbourne, Australia. Early Sunday his career is over will shock people, morning, Djokovic claimed his fifth when so many are focused on Nadal

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If Novak Djokovic were to win just one more, he would become only the eighth player ever to win nine Grand Slams. Tribune News Service

and Federer. For now, Federer and Nadal continue to soak up the spotlight, while one of the best players ever is playing in their wake.

president, kind of believe race isn’t really an issue anymore, and I hope this opened eyes that it is still an ongoing problem.”

The speakers covered several current issues stemming from segregation. Tucker gave an insider’s perspective on the topic as a member of the Tuscaloosa City School Board.

She said there is clear segregation in local public schools and offered her own experiences on the board as evidence.

The speakers brought to light several details about the Tuscaloosa school system. Hannah-Jones said Tuscaloosa ranks in the top 10 of most resegregated school districts in America. Additionally, both HannahJones and Tucker said school board officials made deals to gerrymander the districts, effectively dividing the schools by race.

After the speakers finished their panel, students were given the chance to ask questions pertaining to the discussion.

“It was great,” said Matthew Lisanby, a freshman who attended the forum. “I’ve seen [segregation] first hand. I didn’t realize how widespread it actually is though.”

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Editor | Kelly Ward Sports@cw.ua.edu Monday, February 2, 2015

Tide prepares for new season in new location

By Nolan Imsande | Staff Reporter

With the season opener just around the corner, the Alabama baseball team is looking to solidify its weekend rotation while also getting familiar with most of its returning starting lineup.

Coach Mitch Gaspard’s team will begin play on Feb. 13 with a weekend series against Maryland Eastern Shore. The team will play its home games at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium while Sewell-Thomas Stadium is renovated.

“Looking at the big picture, we’ve been prepared for this,” Gaspard said.

“We knew this travel was going to be part of the year, but also it’s a great opportunity to play in a beautiful ballpark like the Hoover Met.” Gaspard will have to replace starting pitchers Justin Kamplain and Spencer Turnbull, who both signed professional contracts after last season.

Likely candidates are senior left-hander Taylor Guilbeau, sophomore and Hoover native Geoffrey Bramblett and sophomore righty Nick Eicholtz.

The Crimson Tide will also have to replace its top three hitters from last year – Austen Smith, Ben Moore and Wade Wass – all of whom are now playing professionally.

Offensively, the team returns shortstop Mikey White, catcher Will Haynie, second baseman Kyle Overstreet, infielder Chance Vincent and outfielders Casey Hughston and Georgie Salem.

“We lost some good arms and some good bats,” White said. “I think the guys that we have coming back and the guys that we have coming in make up a really talented group.”

The team also has a group of freshmen headlined by pitcher Andrew DiPiazza and infielder Chandler Avant.

DiPiazza is a 6 foot 6 inch right-hander from New Jersey, and Avant is a middle infielder who was ranked as the fifth best prospect in the state of Alabama

by Perfect Game USA. “Chandler Avant has done a real good job for us and certainly could be a leadoff hitter,” Gaspard said.

“He’s done a really good job for us

Catcher Will Haynie fields a ball at the plate in the Alabama baseball team’s intrasquad scrimmage. UA Athletics

offensively up to this point.”

DiPiazza and junior college transfer Will Carter started Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage in Hoover while Bramblett and Guilbeau started in the one Friday.

The bullpen returns righties Jay Shaw and Jake Hubbard and closer Thomas Burrows. It will also receive

other contributions, with freshman lefty Alex Watkins and the pitchers who don’t make the starting rotation.

Injury-wise, the team will be without left-hander Jon Keller, who will miss the entire season after undergoing surgery on his elbow. Keller had a 5-2 record with a 2.97 ERA in 14 appearances and eight starts last year.

Women’s tennis defeats TCU 6-1

By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter

The Alabama men’s tennis team fell to 2-3 after Saturday’s loss to the Seminoles. CW / Layton Dudley

UA men’s tennis falls 4-2 to Florida State at home

By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter

Saturday afternoon was full of close matches, but in the end, Florida State pulled through with a 4-2 win over the Alabama men’s tennis team.

The Roberta Alison Baumgardner Tennis Facility had a full house from start to finish. Momentum started off in the hands of the Crimson Tide as it claimed the doubles point. Coach George Husack said he was happy with how the doubles performed Saturday. He said he saw higher first-serve percentage, higher returns and players moving around a lot while staying aggressive.

During the singles matches, Alabama started to fall behind.

“On the singles end, I think guys are still trying to figure out how to trust all their shots all the time,” Husack said.

“I think on a couple of courts, we didn’t quite stick to our game plan and go after it for the entire duration of the matches.

We let up a little bit on a couple courts.

I thought fitness kind of played a key as well, and [the Seminoles] were solid down the stretch.”

With many ending in three sets, the matches were close until the end. The momentum switched back to Alabama when freshman Danny Kerznerman won his match against Cristian Gonzalez Mendez, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. However, it was not enough and the Seminoles won the other four of the five finished matches.

“On some courts we had to execute better,” Kerznerman said. “I felt like overall it was a really close match. They just played better at the bigger moments.”

With his own match going to three sets, junior Becker O’Shaughnessey fell to Benjamin Lock, whom he defeated earlier in his doubles match. Like Kerznerman, O’Shaughnessey said the team needs to focus on execution. When it comes to long matches like Saturday’s, a high level of intensity is needed from 1-to-6, he said.

“The new system with the no-ad points, [FSU was] just on top of that,” O’Shaughnessey said. “When they had big games to either break or hold, they won those big games, and they converted on it.”

Erin Routliffe was the final Alabama player on the courts, in the third set of a 1-1 match.

Her team was by her side during the final set. The fans grew silent as she served against her Texas Christian University opponent. Routliffe volleyed back and forth but it ultimately came down to the final game.

As swiftly as she won her first set, Routliffe won her final set, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, and ultimately the match. Routliffe’s win secured No. 7 Alabama’s 6-1 victory over the No. 20 TCU on Saturday.

“TCU is a very good team,” Alabama coach Jenny Mainz said. “They just beat Houston convincingly. They beat Texas A&M. Texas A&M is [No.] 11 in the country; they beat them 4-2. I mean they are a very good team. They compete well; they don’t go away. We knew that today was going to be a real test. I’m very pleased with the way I think we stepped up in big moments.”

Alabama (3-0) kicked off Saturday’s match early in the evening, playing after the men’s match. Shortly after starting the match, Alabama secured the doubles point.

Routliffe and Maya Jansen won the first doubles match, and Danielle Spielmann and Emily Zabor won the second, securing the point. Natalia Maynetto and Luicelena Perez lost their doubles match.

Jansen was the first singles player to win. Jansen swept away her competition 6-2, 6-4. Zabor and Perez also won their matches. Zabor won 6-4, 6-1 and Perez won 6-3, 6-2.

Maynetto was the fourth player to win her match. Maynetto closed out her first set quickly but lagged behind in the second set. Down by two points, Maynetto

Danielle Spielmann and Emily Zabor celebrate their doubles match win Saturday. UA Athletics

battled back to send the set into a tiebreaker.

Maynetto kept her composure while trying to take the lead. Seeing her opponent falter, Maynetto took a two-point lead, ultimately winning the match 6-2, 7-6 (7-6) after two sets.

“I was definitely nervous but the first few points were tough,” she said.

“I mean, I could win all. And then after that I noticed that, I don’t know if she was nervous or frustrated but I started to take control more of the points. I got that 3-1 lead. I [kept thinking] I just need this point.”

Spielmann lost her match in three sets 6-4, 4-6, 1-6.

Next, the team will travel to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Feb. 6 for the ITA National Championships. This is the third time Alabama will compete in the indoor championships.