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The newest addition to the Walk of Champions is a bronze statue of football coach Nick Saban. Jeremy Davis was a 2012 UA graduate and sculpted the statue in 2010. Davis was the only student to have created any of the statues.
Tennessee Williams was good friends with Marian Gallaway, the first director of the UA theatre department. Gallaway’s namesake theater will host a tribute to Williams Tuesday night.
The Crimson Tide baseball team will head to Montgomery on Tuesday to face in-state rival Auburn. The team will look to improve on a 7-4 record after losing to Louisiana-Lafayette.
SENIOR SALUTE Men’s basketball team to honor 3 seniors in game against Ole Miss
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3 Then-UA student designed statue of Saban Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, March 3, 2015
By Kristen Ellis | Contributing Writer
Many Alabama fans have seen the statues of Nick Saban and other celebrated coaches on the Walk of Champions, but few know about their creations. Jeremy Davis, who crafted the Saban statue in 2010, is the only person to have created a bronze representation of a coach’s likeness as a student. “It was one of the most challenging and rewarding two and a half months in my short art career,” said Davis, a native of West Blocton who came back to school after a short hiatus to try his hand at new art mediums. “I had never tried sculpting an actual live person before Coach Saban.” Davis was studying sculptural ceramics in The University of Alabama’s art department during the early summer of 2010 when the faculty received an unusual call from the athletic department. Terry Saban wanted to commission a local artist to create the nine-foot statue of her husband that would be displayed on the University’s Walk of Champions. Art professors Daniel Livingston and Craig Wedderspoon supervised the project and first approached Davis with a proposition to be the artist. “They told me on a Thursday evening to come up with some sketches, and that next Friday morning at 8:05 a.m. I was in Coach Saban’s office getting asked by the coach himself if I felt confident translating my sketch into a sculpture,” Davis said. And he was. From that date, Davis said
he jumped into a whirlwind of sketching, sculpting and revising with the Sabans. While still enrolled in classes, he spent between 25 and 35 hours a week on the project, forming a small-scale model from aluminum wire bulked up with paper and plasticine, an oil-based clay that doesn’t dry out. Using plasticine allowed Davis to sculpt the intricate details of Saban’s face with precision and to continuously adapt his rendering of the head coach to accommodate Nick and Terry Saban’s requests. He did the majority of his work in Wedderspoon’s on-campus art studio. Davis was chosen because of his art background. At the time, he was one of the only students in the department of art and art history with extensive work in portraiture and the human form. Livingston said he felt confident in Davis’s ability to craft the sculpture. “Jeremy was a good student and is a talented artist, and it was an absolute joy getting to work with Mrs. and Coach Saban,” he said. A quick glance down the Walk of Champions by Bryant-Denny Stadium reveals a more subtle challenge Davis faced as a new student artist designing the statue. Nick and Terry Saban wanted to embody a distinctively different attitude than that of the other statues, which shows the coaches in more formal, straight stances, wearing suits. Saban’s statue, however, depicts the coach in a “clapping hands” pose. He also
Jeremy Davis, a then-UA student, designed the statue of coach Saban. CW / Katie Shepherd
sports his traditional gameday gear – khakis and a collared shirt. “They wanted him in a teaching moment where he was clapping and urging his players on,” Davis said. “This was ultimately their choice.” A company in Oklahoma called MTM Recognition created all four of the other statues on the Walk of Champions and produced the full-size Saban statue from Davis’s small model. Davis’s opportunity
to be the first student to design one of the statues was mainly the result of Terry Saban’s desire to be actively involved in the creation. She frequently met with Davis to provide feedback and insight into the details of the coach’s face. “Coach Saban was generous enough to let me get some 360 degree shots of him in pose.” Davis said. “Plus, I watched the games on TV and paused it and sketched quite a bit. He was never available for a live sitting, of course.” The artist completed his model by the conclusion of the summer of 2010, and the finished statue was unveiled at the A-Day scrimmage game the following April. Davis said the experience of making the statue as a student brought with it a great pressure to prove himself. He received extensive press coverage in the weeks leading up to the statue’s unveiling. Many said they were impressed with the fact that an undergraduate at the University had been entrusted with such an honor. “It’s cool that instead of paying millions of dollars to get some outside source, we said, ‘Look at the talent we have here on campus. Why don’t we use it?’” said Margaret Stran, assistant director of the University’s adapted athletics program. Davis, who graduated in 2012 with a degree in sculptural ceramics and printmaking, agreed. “I am very thankful for the experiences [I received] while in school at Alabama,” he said. “I learned a great deal about myself and about the art world.”
Moundville Park restarts Panel explores campus safety Saturday programming By Lauren Lane | Staff Reporter
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The University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park resumed its Saturday in the Park program Feb. 28, with the theme of “Past Time Pastimes.” Saturday in the Park began in 2009 and is held during the park’s peak visitation seasons, which are early spring to early summer and during the fall. The event features a series of demonstrations and presentations related to Native Americans, archaeology, natural history, sustainable gardening and more. Most programs, which run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., have hands-on activities for children. While visitors pay admission to enter the park, there is no additional charge for these programs. “This type of program fulfills two parts of UA’s threefold mission: teaching and service,” said Betsy Irwin, the interim director of Moundville Archaeological Park as well as a staff member at UA Museums. As an organizer of the program, Irwin said she loves meeting new people and learning new things. She said she likes to see children’s eyes light up when they learn something new or when they get to make something of their very own to take home with them. “Some of the most respected authorities
Presentations related to Native Americans, archaeology and natural history are on display at the University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park on Saturdays. Photo Courtesy of Betsy Irwin
on Southeastern Indians arts, crafts and technologies as well as in archaeology and history have presented at Saturday in the Park,” she said. The first presentation will be held Saturday, with the topic of “Southeastern Indian Shell Carving,” given by Dan Townsend, who grew up in the Florida Keys and now lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. “It’s all about educating the public and doing away with stereotyping about the Native Peoples or Mound Cultures so rich in the arts. Moundville is one of the seven natural wonders of North America,” Townsend said.
The Honors College held a town hall meeting covering the issue of safety on campus Monday. The panel was made up of Sgt. Vonda Collins of The University of Alabama Police Department, Zoe Storey, peer education programs coordinator for the UA Women and Gender Resource Center; and Beth Howard, coordinator of UA Title IX, an organization that works to create a community free of illegal gender discrimination and sexual violence on campus. The panel addressed a series of issues ranging from UAPD’s relationship with the Alabama Beverage Control Board, how UAPD determines their alerts for UA Alerts, how to report anonymously and the variety of resources on campus for students who are victims of some form of violence. Maria O’Keefe, a senior majoring in history, is a part of the Town Hall program
The Honors College held a town hall meeting about campus safety. CW / Lauren Lane
and chose the topic for Monday’s event. Nicolette Stasiak, a sophomore majoring in nursing, said she was drawn to the town hall for the same reasons. After an officer talked to her sorority’s chapter she became much more aware of this issue. “Living off-campus, I was happy to learn tonight about the steps we can take now,” she said.
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, March 3, 2015
COLUMN | SEXUAL ASSAULT
SGA should help assault victims
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Schorr Staff Columnist
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COLUMN | ELECTIONS
Students have no reason they should not vote JOHN DAVID
Thompson Staff Columnist
Students at The University of Alabama should care more about Student Government Association elections. Voter apathy across America is a problem, and our campus is certainly no exception. The voting process for SGA could not be simpler. It’s so easy, you can do it while in bed. Yet last year, only 30 percent of the student body voted. With candidates’ social media campaigns and editorials in The Crimson White throughout election campaign week, there is simply no excuse for not being informed. The argument that the SGA “does not affect me” or “my vote won’t change anything” is also a flawed argument. The SGA does affect all UA students. The recently proposed Spirit of Alabama Act, which would add a $12.50 fee per semester, should help more students realize this. There are other avenues by which the SGA affects students. For example, they fund grants
for student research, run the Got Meals program and provide need-based scholarships. Also, the final, successful integration of the University can partly be attributed to the Student Government Association. A detailed look at last year’s election results reveals that in SGA elections, every vote does count. Furthermore, it shows just how apathetic the UA electorate is. In particular, the Arts and Sciences senate race had a very narrow margin: just two votes separating the last elected senator from the first un-elected senator. In the School of Social Work, there was a margin of only one vote. Furthermore, while Hamilton Bloom, current SGA president, won 62 percent of votes, he only received 6,378. This year, there are only two contested elections for the Executive Council: president and vice president of student affairs. With only these two positions, it is not hard to research the candidates for both positions and make an informed decision. If these candidates are going to take the time and effort to run, we owe it to them to evaluate the platforms they have presented, and choose which we think is best. Fifty years ago, people died
As students, we are limited in our capacity to make changes on this campus. The SGA is an avenue for changing The University of Alabama. in Selma, Alabama, fighting for their right to vote. As students, part of the way we can honor their legacy is voting in SGA elections, as well as in the general elections. As students, we are limited in our capacity to make changes on this campus. The SGA is an avenue for changing The University of Alabama. Elections give us an opportunity to affect that change, rather than complain about its effectiveness. Throughout the year, students express praise and disgust with the SGA. Election day is the day to make an impact. Take advantage of the opportunity to let your voice be heard and make every vote count. John David Thompson is a sophomore majoring in political science. His column runs weekly.
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SGA should do more to combat sexual assault on campus. On college campuses, one in five women is sexually assaulted and SGA should make combating this epidemic a priority to ensure that all students are safe on campus. Our SGA should partner with the Women and Gender Resource Center to promote the resources the University offers to survivors and raise awareness about sexual assault on our campus. We must let survivors know their experiences matter and we are here for them through whatever form of support they may need. By making this a priority, the SGA is telling the attackers that their acts of violence will not be tolerated. One way to do this is to allocate some of SGA’s funds to help support a student-staffed survivor advocacy program, which would train students to be certified in dealing with issues of sexual assault and give survivors a peer to talk to about their experiences. This program would give survivors on campus the ability to talk to a fellow student rather than someone with authority over them. Some students may feel uncomfortable going to a faculty or administration member because they fear they might not be taken seriously. The peerto-peer counseling gives survivors a safe place to talk to someone their age that has been trained to handle the situation. There is an effective program like this at Ohio University where students apply and, if accepted, they take a four credit hour course. At the end of the course, they are able to assist survivors through the process of reporting and healing. To create a culture on campus where rape and other acts of violence are taken seriously, the SGA can also partner with the Student Health Center and start a rape culture awareness campaign to promote wellness on campus. This fall, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville started a campaign to define consent by hanging up posters all over campus with phrases like “dinner and a movie does not mean yes,” “getting drunk and happy does not mean yes” and “kissing does not mean yes.” “The posters are a visual that students look at and internalize the message,” said Hayley Brundige, news editor of The University of Tennessee’s student newspaper The Daily Beacon. “Hopefully, these posters are helping students understand what consent is.” These are just a few initiatives the SGA could start to support survivors of sexual assault on campus. Madelyn Schorr is a junior majoring in art and anthropology. Her column runs biweekly.
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OPINIONS Tuesday, March 3, 2015 COLUMN | SGA
Students must vote in elections to break the SGA’s cycle of mediocrity
MATTHEW
Bailey Staff Columnist
I’m in my seventh year here and am currently an SGA senator for the law school, so I’ve seen the work and sometimes disgusting actions that have happened inside and outside the SGA and SGA elections. For the most part, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Machine controlled SGA doesn’t really want to do much without being prodded by outside forces. The SGA president is normally elected with one major point as their platform and they attempt to fulfill that, but that’s the extent of what you can typically expect from the senate and SGA Executive Council any given year. Given that tradition of mediocrity, the least you can do is make your voice heard by looking at the candidates and their affiliations and decide who you want to be represented by.
There are several reasons you should at least make the effort to vote. The most recent attempt to help many of the least privileged across campus, through the Spirit of Alabama Act, shows the Machine and SGA executives are extremely resistant to accept change they didn’t introduce. This is to be expected from a campus where the SGA is viewed as useless or not serving the students and when many on campus feel there is no point in running. Despite that perception, it is not something that everyone has to accept as reality. It is absolutely true that it is possible for members of the SGA to push for change on campus. They are the representatives of the student body, and for that reason, many in the campus administration take their input very seriously. The senators and many in the Executive Council will have contacts and input in organizations that can help push their agenda towards the administration as well. The SGA also has power beyond merely words, so your votes do actually make a difference on campus. Most importantly, many campus organizations will look toward the FAC board to fund their many events
and travels. This board, which is directly influenced by the SGA senate and Executive, has the power to determine hundreds of thousands of dollars that will be distributed to student organizations registered on campus. I say that they have that power because the senate this year did not amend the bills submitted by the FAC or question the funding allocations. This is a great deal of power that is not open to many groups on campus, and if many groups across campus choose to not engage with the process, they are potentially giving up a lot. It is true that the SGA, and by extension the Machine, does not make a great attempt to engage a huge variety of groups on campus or encourage voting, but that is to be expected from an organization where the status quo is consistently maintained. It is a cliché every year that campus leaders or writers for The Crimson White ask for individuals to actually pay attention to the SGA elections, but it is for a very good reason that they do so. If large portions of the student body refuse to engage with the SGA, they are only hurting themselves and potentially ruining their
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WHAT I THINK • The SGA will continue to do the bare minimum unless prodded by outside forces. • Students feel as if the SGA is useless or that it doesn’t serve them. • The SGA wields a great deal of power on campus through funding and access to administrators. • Students who choose not to vote or engage with the SGA are giving up a chance to change the largest and most powerful group on campus.
chances to make a change through the largest and most powerful group on campus. Matthew Bailey is a third-year law student and an SGA Law School senator. His column runs biweekly.
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6 Gallaway was friend to Tennessee Williams Editor | Francie Johnson Culture@cw.ua.edu Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Theatre department to host Williams tribute in Marian Gallaway Theatre on Tuesday By Cokie Thompson | Staff Reporter
Tennessee Williams was born 60 miles west of Tuscaloosa in Columbus, Mississippi. His mother almost married a man in Demopolis, 60 miles south of Tuscaloosa. His good friend from graduate school, Marian Gallaway, was the first director of theatre at The University of Alabama. The Southern Literary Trail and the UA department of theatre and dance are celebrating this history Tuesday night with excerpts from a selection of Tennessee Williams’ plays and a discussion of his relationship with Marian Gallaway, including speakers Kenneth Holditch and Ed Williams. Holditch knew Tennessee Williams from the time they spent together in New Orleans, and spoke at his funeral. Ed Williams was a student of Marian Gallaway, and helped found the UA theatre department. The event, titled “Tennessee Williams: The Alabama Tribute” at Gaineswood and the Marian Gallaway Theatre, started with an event Monday night in Demopolis at the ancestral home of Gaius Whitfield. William Gantt, director of The Southern Literary Trail, said they Tennessee Williams was good friends with Marian Gallaway, the first director of theatre at The University of Alabama. Photos Courtesy of William Gantt first planned the event in Demopolis to be about Williams’ mother and her informative and kind of make people they face. Tennessee Williams commented on relationship with Whitfield. Whitfield aware of these connections.” “[Williams] understood the the condition of life and life experienccourted Williams’ mother, Edwina Williams is an oft-revived American character in a way that very es, and the longing and unmet goals Dakin, before Dakin eventually mar- playwright in America, Gannt said. few writers did,” Burch said. “He wrote and unrealistic expectations and unreried Cornelius Williams of Knoxville, “Somebody’s always doing ‘The glorious roles both for women, but also quited love and all those things - those Tennessee’s father. Glass Menagerie’ or ‘A Streetcar men as well. Characters with such themes that we keep finding in literaIn the process of bringing the event Named Desire,’” he said. “Here, we’ve dimension, such depth, that I think one ture,” Teague said. “And he was just a to Tuscaloosa, they discovered the got somebody who was important in of his hallmarks is that we can usually darn good playwright.” relationship with Marian Gallaway. his development as a playwright.” see much of ourselves or the world we Andrea Love, a third-year MFA “Tennessee Williams was kind of Marian Gallaway, known to her stu- know through them.” candidate studying acting, portrays formed by these relationships with dents as “Doc Gallaway,” poured her Burch said Williams is part of Blanche DuBois from “A Streetcar women,” Gantt said. “And Marian heart and soul into the beginnings of America’s DNA. Along with Eugene Named Desire” and Bodey in “A Lovely was one of the first and the theatre program. She O’Neill, Williams made American Sunday for Creve Coeur” in the proone of the most influenworked behind the scenes drama world-class, he said. duction. She said navigating the diftial because she loved herself, making costumes “Williams has been front and center ferences between the characters has theater and she supand wigs to keep the for me, and, as I said, I think virtually been an interesting experience. ported him emotionally department going on a anyone, any American who has acted, “Tennessee Williams is not just a [and] intellectually.” taught, directed, written,” Burch said. playwright,” Love said. “His use of lan[Williams] understood budget of $2,000 a year. Williams and Gallaway “She pushed forward, Burch cited classic performances guage frequently crosses the line into the American first met as graduate stufought the bureaucracy from Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar poetry, and this is a great gift and a dents at The University the University at that Named Desire” and Paul Newman and great challenge for an actor.” character in a way that at of Iowa, where Gallaway time and just did things,” Elizabeth Taylor in “Cat on a Hot Tin Love said the event gives her the very few writers did. Gantt said. costumed him for his role Roof” that all came from Williams’ opportunity to feel out the characin “Henry IV, Part I” in Later in her career, work. He said those performances ters and the work while she is still 1938. Williams used the Gallaway wrote a book influence and affect everyone. relatively inexperienced for a full — Steven Burch — name “Gallaway” for sevsharing her knowledge of “I think it’ll be quite a while before stage production. eral characters, including theatre. Williams wrote Williams’ influence has waned “This type of event is really wonderDorothea Gallaway in “A the foreword about her enough so that it no longer matters,” ful, because it is both entertaining and Lovely Sunday for Creve talent and the importance Burch said. informative, placing these great piecCoeur.” Gallaway claimed Williams of her influence on his life. The UA department of theatre and es in the context in which they were based Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar “Quite possibly I derived more from dance has felt that influence. They written,” she said. Named Desire” on her. this friendship than I did from any of put on one of his plays every couple The event Tuesday night is primarGantt said Gallaway drove Williams the actual courses that I undertook,” of years, but not because of a hard- ily an effort of William Gantt and The to a production of one of his plays in Williams wrote in the foreword. “For and-fast rule. Ed Williams, who has no Southern Literary Trail, but Teague St. Louis. She criticized his work, but Marian Gallaway was one of those relation to Tennessee, was a student said the partnership may continue in Williams was grateful for the feedback. persons who lived and breathed the- of Marian Gallaway’s for many years the future. Gantt said he hopes both events will atre and somehow managed to infect before succeeding her as chairman of “We really believe in The Literary shine a light on these formative rela- her associates with her own religious the theatre department. Trail and what he’s doing for the tionships in the life of one of America’s excitement about it.” Bill Teague, the current depart- humanities, and we will probably conmost celebrated playwrights. Steve Burch, a professor of the- ment chair, said that could be why the tinue to work with him when we can,” “It’s like we’re connecting the atre history at the University, said department has put on virtually the Teague said. “This has been a very dots to these relationships here,” Williams’ works concentrate on the entire Tennessee Williams canon. positive outing, and I can see this kind Gantt said. “We hope it’ll be fun and lives of women and the struggles “I think it was more of the way of continuing.”
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CULTURE Tuesday, March 3, 2015 COLUMN | FILM
Classic Hollywood films still measure up in 2015 By Drew Pendleton
With the summer juggernauts still months away, there are plenty of classic options to consider on streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and iTunes to fit any genre viewers may want to watch. These films that can take viewers into Hollywood’s golden past shouldn’t be passed over because they’re decades old or in black-and-white.
“It Happened One Night” (1934) The screwball comedy is one of Hollywood’s most storied genres, and there may be no better example of it than “It Happened One Night.” One of the only films ever to win all of the top five Oscar awards, Frank Capra’s “Best Picture” winner is piloted by top-notch, Oscar-winning performances from Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable as a runaway heiress and the story-seeking journalist who helps her. A smart and refreshing comedy complete with lovable characters, awkward situations and an unconventional romance, “It Happened One Night” tackles deeper themes – including gender roles, sexuality and social class structure – and makes you laugh for the whole ride. The film just celebrated its 80th birthday (complete with a Criterion Collection rerelease last November), and it still remains one of the most endearing and iconic comedies ever made.
Six years after “It Happened One Night,” the screwball comedy added yet another icon to its résumé: George Cukor’s “The Philadelphia Story.” With a trio of three Hollywood titans – Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart – in the lead roles, this adaptation of the 1939 Broadway play is not your typical romantic comedy. Hepburn stars as a Philadelphia socialite whose wedding weekend is complicated by the arrival of her ex-husband (Grant) and an ambitious reporter (Stewart). The ensemble’s chemistry is sizzling and the acting top-notch, but what really makes the film a classic is its dialogue. The characters throw verbal barbs at each other on more than one occasion, but it’s so expertly played that it remains intelligent, hilarious and sophisticated. Rotten Tomatoes
“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951)
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“The Philadelphia Story” (1940)
Easily the most well-known Tennessee Williams adaptation, “A Streetcar Named Desire” displays one of the best acting showcases in film history against the backdrop of the French Quarter in New Orleans. Playing Blanche DuBois, a Southern belle on the verge of a breakdown, Vivien Leigh took home her second Oscar for her vulnerable and compelling performance. While Kim Hunter and Karl Malden – as Blanche’s sister Stella, and Mitch, a potential suitor, respectively – deliver good performances that also won Oscars, it’s Marlon Brando who comes closest to matching Leigh’s work, delivering a searing performance as Stella’s brutish husband, Stanley. Under the direction of Elia Kazan, who would direct Brando to a “Best Actor” Oscar three years later for “On the Waterfront,” this hypnotic and passionate rendition of Williams’ classic is, in and of itself, a classic.
“Suddenly, Last Summer” (1959)
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“Strangers on a Train” (1951) Alfred Hitchcock, who is still known today as “The Master of Suspense,” has directed several of Hollywood’s biggest Golden Age stars. In “Strangers on a Train,” however, he stuck to lesser-known actors, and wow, does it work. The story is simple: a tennis player (Farley Granger, who had starred in Hitchcock’s “Rope” three years earlier) and a playboy (Robert Walker) meet on a train, where they agree to commit murders for each other. However, when one of them actually goes through with it, a cat-and-mouse game slowly takes shape and the results are chilling. It’s one of Hitchcock’s most visually compelling and unsettling films, and definitely holds its worth alongside other Hitchcock classics like “Psycho” and “Vertigo.” Rotten Tomatoes
“Wait Until Dark” (1967)
Written in 1958, “Suddenly, Last Summer” was originally a one-act play performed alongside “Something Unspoken” in a double-billed work called “Garden District.” When it made it to film, however, it was able to stand on its own by expanding on the original source material. The play – and film – follows a young woman (Elizabeth Taylor) being evaluated by a psychiatrist (Montgomery Clift) for a possible lobotomy after she witnesses her cousin’s murder. Clift does a good job in his role, but the icons come from the performances of Taylor as the young woman and Katharine Hepburn, who gets a rare villainous role as the woman’s aunt and mother of the murdered cousin. This fascinating film lives within an insidious and unsettling mood, but for the acting showcase put on display, it’s worth it.
If you’re an Audrey Hepburn fan, be warned: “Wait Until Dark” is no “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” or “Roman Holiday.” The actress stars here as Suzy Hendrix, a woman recently blinded in a car accident who is terrorized in her apartment by a group of criminals (led by Alan Arkin) searching for a heroinstuffed doll. The intimate scale ramps the tension as high as it can go – the action almost never leaves the apartment – and Hepburn’s Oscar-nominated performance brings the vulnerable yet resilient Suzy to life. A slow-burning thriller culminating in a shocking finale that will send chills down your spine, “Wait Until Dark” is an underrated classic.
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8 Student focuses on societal aspect of fashion CULTURE
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By Luisa Sanchez | Contributing Writer
Kelly Martin, a senior majoring in apparel and textile design, has been interested in fashion from a young age. Photo Courtesy of Kelly Martin
For Kelly Martin, a senior majoring in apparel and textile design, fashion is a transformative form of self expression that encourages others to think outside the box when it comes to clothing and personal style. Martin, a 22-year-old Tuscaloosa native, has been described as “running” the University’s clothing, textiles and interior design department. She said one day she hopes to become a fashion stylist or work at the costume department of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” “I’ve been interested in fashion since I was very young,” Martin said. “I remember in elementary school I was constantly playing dress up and making my friends join in.” Martin said neither of her parents were actually interested in fashion, but since both of them are musicians, she was constantly surrounded by music and the arts, which brought her closer to fashion. For two years, Martin
I remember in elementary school I was constantly playing dress up and making my friends join in. — Kelly Martin — wrote and blogged for College Fashionista, a website that promotes fashion and street style inspiration from other college students in universities across the United States. Last year, Martin interned at Spin Style Agency in Atlanta, which represents fashion stylists and hair and makeup artists. During her time as a summer intern, Martin had the opportunity to spend time on photoshoot sets and work with people who enriched her experience. “I think fashion is important because it represents society during a specific period of time,” she said. “It reflects the state of the economy, what kind of music was popular at the time and what area of the country or world was most influential at the time.”
Michelle Tong, a faculty member in the clothing, textiles and interior design department, said Martin was among the top five students in all facets of her Textiles and Apparel in International Trade course. “Kelly is an excellent student,” Tong said. “She writes well, she is always prepared and she is a great team player.” For Martin, she said the hardest aspect of pursuing a career in fashion is not becoming overwhelmed by the industry’s plethora of big brand names that can feel completely out of reach for newcomers. Martin’s advice for people planning on focusing a career in fashion is to set their own path and keep in mind that there is more than one way to achieve success. “With the rise of bloggers and the popularity of social media like Instagram, there are so many different avenues to take to get where you want to go,” she said. “You never know when an opportunity will pop up, so you have to keep your eyes open.”
COLUMN | MUSIC
Earle’s ‘Terraplane’ places emphasis on Texas-inspired blues music By Jordan Cissell
Texas blues has always run a little contrary in tone to its counterparts in the southeast. The line is by no means a hard and fast one, but generally speaking, the old Mississippi howlers have cultivated a reputation for conveying the anguish, disappointment and frustration of generations of impoverished Delta life, whereas proponents of the Texas sound have traditionally devoted their efforts toward the more upbeat expression of raw, electrified jump and swagger. Steve Earle displays an intuitive understanding of this historical discrepancy throughout his new album “Terraplane,” his ode to the blues of the Lone Star State. The guitar on “The Usual Time” oozes with all kinds of Freddie King-esque muscle and strut. “Baby Baby Baby” kicks off in a slurred flurry of blues harp until the guitar, bass and drums kick in at the eight-second mark in raw, gut-punching unison. Earle peppers his leering growl with a few Buddy
Holly octave hiccups, but it’s permeate each verse shimmer clear he’s going for efficient, like motor oil spilled across rather than polished, delivery. the asphalt of a Wal-Mart “Growl” appears in the preced- parking lot. ing sentence quite literally; The soaring, echo-laced guiEarle ends tar solo on “Go several Go Boots are phrases Back” beauwith a snarl tifully belies reminisdense, Earle’s versatility of inflection is the cent of a churning riff one of the album’s highlights. from which lion waking from a nap. On each track, he warps and itand emerges, Earle’s “Ain’t versatility Nobody’s melds his delivery ... of inflection Daddy Now” is one of opens in the album’s molasses highlights. slide guitar On each track, he warps and that cedes purchase to bouncmelds his delivery to match ing, finger-picked acousthe character of the song’s tic guitar plucks and lively narrator. He opines in a fiddle swoops. slurred drawl on “You’re the “The Tennessee Kid,” a Best Lover That I Ever Had,” spoken-word take on the and he portrays the carefree archetypal Devil-vs.-young’un bachelor in “Ain’t Nobody’s instrumental showdown, buzzDaddy Now” with a nasally, es with ambient guitar hum, two-packs-a-day whine. and slippery fiddle and plunky His band, the Dukes, is in banjo duel for supremacy on tight form, too. The walking “Acquainted with the Wind.” bass and boom-pop boom-pop The strutting stand-up bass drums of “You’re the Best and swinging vocal delivery Lover That I Ever Had” are in from guest Eleanor Whitmore perfect lockstep, and the sub- on “My Baby’s Just As Mean tle, trebly guitar washes that As Me” push the song to the
Steve Earle mimics Bob Dylan and Freddie King on his album “Terraplane.” Amazon.com
border of lounge jazz territory. This record jumps around amongst a bunch of sounds and narrative voices, but the aforementioned Texan dedication to facing down adverse conditions with a laissez-faire nod and a jumping blues beat serves as the songs’ shared thematic tether. “A gambler ain’t got no friends when his luck is down
/ but when he’s riding high they all hang around,” Earle explains over gentle snare brushes on “Gamblin’ Blues.” But his narrator never sounds resigned to his cyclical lot in a life lived by the cards and the dice. He’s just looking ahead to the next deal, and the slim – but ever-present – chance that it’ll bring a straight flush.
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CULTURE Tuesday, March 3, 2015 COLUMN | THEATER
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‘Whose Line’ brings improv to TV By Luke Haynes
Theater takes a lot of preparation. By the time audiences see any given production, hundreds of hours have been poured into it – usually. Other times, the performer has done 30 seconds of character work and the lines are “written” as they fly out of the speakers’ mouths. Such is improvisational theater. Improvisation is basically just spontaneous theater that started out as an acting tool. It was a last resort when something went wrong. It was an exercise used to explore characters and action in the writing or rehearsal process. While it’s still greatly valued and used in these capacities, it has also come to be its own art form, with shows like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” popularizing it. While there are various forms of improv, the most commonly experienced version is “short-form” improv, which takes the shape of improv games. These games generally take around five minutes and consist of pre-defined structures that are then filled in with details that the performers aren’t prepared for. A game might consist of a league of superheroes ready to save the world, but the performers wouldn’t know their powers, catch phrases or crisis until the game begins. In games like these, you know the world will be saved, but the
The popular TV show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” is credited for bringing improvisational theater into the mainstream. Rotten Tomatoes
steps to get there are hysterical. These games seem very simple, but are actually a lot harder than they look. While it might be counter-intuitive, a lot of practice goes into making things up. Frequent performers learn gags that work well for certain games, and also tricks that can be applied to all improv. But without a doubt, the cardinal rule of improv is “have a good time.” In a world where there isn’t time to second guess, the important thing is to let loose and embrace silliness – the only way to improve your improv.
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Three reasons to visit Avenue Pub By Matt Lund
This week’s spotlight falls on Avenue Pub in Temerson Square downtown, and yeah, it’s that good. Freedom-soaked Americana bar food like this needs no introduction, so without further ado, here are three reasons you should become a regular at Avenue Pub:
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Thai Chicken Nachos. A menu favorite, sadly once removed, these nachos are back due to the cries of the hungry masses. These nachos are a fresh and spicy take on the bar staple. Tender chicken bites are melted onto a bed of house-made pita chips with mozzarella cheese. All of that gets drenched in Thai peanut sauce and Sriracha hot chili sauce. Scoop it, spoon it, scrape it, lick it off the plate if you’re so inclined. Be assured, you’ll be glad you ordered them.
Happy Hour Burger. While the kitchen may offer a truly delicious full-sized bacon burger and mouthwatering house specials that vary day to day, the true burger masterpiece on the menu is the happy hour burger. From the glorious hours of 3-6 p.m., you have the capability, no, the privilege, to think about being productive, laugh and go eat this creation instead. For $5 you get a smaller, but still generously-sized burger adorned with lettuce, mayo, red onion, cheese and bacon. Hold on to your pants though, because all of that deliciousness is perched elegantly upon a Sister Schubert’s yeast roll. If you don’t know what a Sister Schubert’s yeast roll is, just form a mental image of Wilford Brimley, of the famous “Diabeetus” commercial, and then imagine all your health concerns getting blown to heck by a five-finger death punch of buttery, fluffy awesomeness. Oh yeah, it comes with fries, and those are awesome too.
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Beer. It’s a pub. They serve really good beer, and providing you’ve reached the legal age, it would be a sacrilege to drink anything else with your burger.
If the phrase “pound some Natties” appeals to you in any way, order a Kolsh or a Hefeweizen. They’re similar to Natties, but a whole lot better. If you usually choke down Budweiser, try an ale or a lager for a fuller flavor. If you generally like to spend the extra dime for Blue Moon or Shock Top, then Saisons are for you. Disclaimer: Be responsible. It’s worth noting that drinking beer doesn’t have to be about getting wasted and fist-pumping to dubstep. Enjoy what you drink. It should taste good; it should be mostly chemical-free and it should be brewed locally.
March 4th-6th, 10-4 (SUPE Store Lobby) Avenue Pub is the kind of place where Ron Swanson would take a lady he fancied to dinner. He would sit at the rich mahogany bar and smile in delight at the board of draft beers. He would pull his date’s chair out for her and wipe Sriracha sauce daintily from his mustache. He would order the burger. And so should you.
10 Baseball team to face Auburn
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By Nolan Imsande | Staff Reporter
After dropping the final two games of a weekend series with Louisiana-Lafayette, Alabama baseball will head to Montgomery for a non-conference game with in-state rival Auburn. The teams will face off Tuesday in the annual Capital City Classic, which takes place at Riverwalk Stadium, the home of the Montgomery Biscuits, the Tampa Bay Rays Double-A affiliate. “This game has gotten bigger and bigger, I think, each year,” coach Mitch Gaspard said. “It’s such a big production by city of Montgomery and they do such a great job with the game. It’s also your first SEC game, even though it is a non-conference game. Both teams are one weekend away from starting SEC play. I think it kind of lets you know where you’re at after a few weekends of non-conference play.” Alabama enters the game with a 7-4 record and is looking to rebound after losing to ULL in the final game of the series 14-2. “We have to be on our game all the time,” junior shortstop Mikey White said. “Whenever you are facing good opponents like that, you have to be on your game or they are going to embarrass you, kind of like Louisiana-Lafayette did this weekend.” Auburn comes into the game with a record of 9-3 having just beat No. 16 Oklahoma State and splitting two games with Jacksonville State
The women’s lacrosse club defeated both Southern Miss and Ole Miss on Saturday by large margins. Photo Courtesy of Caley Curtis
The Crimson Tide will face Auburn in the Capital City Classic on Tuesday. CW / Amellia Armstrong
over the weekend. The Tigers will start hard-throwing sophomore Keegan Thompson. In three starts this season, Thompson is 2-1 with a 3.31 ERA. “He is really good. He was a highly-recruited kid out of high school,” Gaspard said. “He’s got a really big arm, a good three-pitch mix and really good mound presence. He’s a very confident pitcher. We have a lot of respect for him and what he’s done.” Alabama will start junior righthander Jake Hubbard against the Tigers. This will be Hubbard’s
second start of the year. He started game two of a doubleheader with Savannah State last week and pitched six innings while giving up just one run on three hits. Through 11 games, sophomore right fielder Casey Hughston is hitting .556 with nine doubles, two triples and two home runs. Hughston also has 18 RBIs on the year, seven away from last season’s total of 25. After facing Auburn, the Crimson Tide will travel to Mobile for a threegame weekend series with Lipscomb at Hank Aaron Stadium.
COLUMN | BASKETBALL
Rise of mid-majors good for college basketball By Ben Boynton
No. 11 Wichita State beat No. 10 Northern Iowa 74-60 on Saturday in a college basketball match-up of two highly-ranked mid-major schools. Wichita State won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title as a result of the game, illustrating one of the benefits of having such solid mid-major schools in the national spotlight. Northern Iowa had a 16-game winning streak going into the contest against a Shockers squad it defeated in the previous match-up between the teams. It had also risen to the first top-10 ranking in program history. Not since Ali Farokhmanesh’s Northern Iowa team upset a topseeded Kansas in the 2010 NCAA Tournament has Northern Iowa had a national profile, yet it is now one of the top teams in the country. The successes of Northern Iowa and Wichita State are examples of the rise of mid-major schools currently reflected in college basketball. The AP Top 25 currently contains eight programs that are considered mid-majors, including No. 3
The success of mid-majors like Whichita State and Northern Iowa evens the college basketball playing field. Tribune News Service
Gonzaga. Gonzaga is part of a group of mid-major programs including two-time national runner-up Butler and fellow perennial power Wichita State that consistently delivers outstanding seasons. With all of the mid-major schools playing well, the college basketball landscape is altered. It becomes rarer for traditional powers to overlook smaller programs and still win games. This in turn makes college basketball more exciting, and
otherwise unknown schools like Florida Gulf Coast and Mercer can pull off massive tournament upsets of powers like Georgetown and Duke, respectively. Everyone loves an underdog, and mid-majors provide scrappy and overlooked teams for fans to root for. Part of what makes the NCAA Tournament a popular event is that any team can win, regardless of its status or enrollment size. In college football, teams like Florida Atlantic and Western Carolina get blown out by Alabama in games that never seem close. In college basketball, upsets and surprises are much more common. This adds up to a much more enjoyable experience. Fans love rooting for the unheralded senior point guard from a mid-major school who plays every game like it is his last, because with no hope of making it to the NBA, it very well may be. College basketball is better off with strong mid-majors, and with schools like Northern Iowa and Wichita State ranked so high, it doesn’t seem like they are leaving anytime soon.
Lacrosse club builds close ties By Tyler Waldrep | Contributing Writer
Some students at The University of Alabama have found a second family by joining the women’s lacrosse club. Club president Sarah Blackwell said after she joined the team as a freshman, she quickly developed close relationships with everyone in the club. She said those relationships have only grown stronger over the years. “They are some of my best friends that I have made on campus,” she said. “The entire team hangs out a lot outside of this.” Senior Morgan Hunter has played lacrosse for a majority of her life. Hunter said developing close bonds with the rest of her team has always been important to her. Here at Alabama, she said she feels like her team is closer than other teams and groups she has been a part of. “Actually, I came here and started the whole sorority thing and I dropped because I felt my team was more of a family than anything,” Hunter said. Blackwell said the team’s atmosphere is one of the reasons she decided to become an officer. She wanted to help the club grow so the team could realize its full potential, and over the last few years she said the club has experienced consistent growth. That growth has allowed the club to field more competitive teams than in previous years, and that competitiveness is important to the team. Junior Jordan Scorzelli said the club takes pride in the close bonds they have formed with each other, but they still take everything very seriously. “It’s fun to see other universities with your friends, and [you] get to support and represent your school,” she said. Representing the school in lacrosse is important to the club. Blackwell said a majority of the girls who join the team are very passionate about the sport, and girls only miss practice for serious reasons. That dedication is put to the test sometimes, though. Hunter said sometimes it is hard balancing the demands of the club with the demands of school. She said that ultimately the family she found in the club helps her manage her busy life. “I can count on any one of them to be there for me,” she said. “If I didn’t have them, I probably wouldn’t be able to make it.”
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Levi Randolph, left, Dakota Slaughter and Rodney Cooper will play their last home game for the Crimson Tide on Tuesday. CW / Pete Pajor
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comes, he’s prepared when he has the opportunity, he shoots the ball very well in practice. I wasn’t surprised at all when he knocked that three down.” For four years, Slaughter has been on the floor, if not on the court, at every Alabama game, leading bench celebrations, serving as a kind of “hype-man” for the team – appropriate for a player who tweets rap lyrics every morning and once made a music video about the intricacies of inventory management for an accounting class. Against Ole Miss tonight, in what will likely be the seniors’ last game in Coleman Coliseum, Slaughter will see some playing time. He won’t leave Coleman Coliseum with his name in any record books, but Alabama coach Anthony Grant said Slaughter’s four-year commitment to the team can’t be understated. “He’s a young man that came here from Indiana on an academic scholarship,” Grant said. “He played high school football and basketball. He decided that
he wanted to come to Alabama just to go to school. Once he got here, he realized that he missed competitive sports. He decided to come and be a walk-on for us on the basketball team. That’s the time he decided to join us, mid-semester of his freshman year. He’s been an integral part of our team, from just what he provides for us on a daily basis. He has character, leadership and he’s been a tremendous asset to our team.” One of the Alabama basketball team’s seniors is all-business. In most interviews, Rodney Cooper doesn’t have much to say. He leaves that to his longtime teammate Randolph and to Grant. He does his work on the court, where he’s the second-leading scorer and top three-point and free-throw shooter. Last season, he led Alabama in rebounds. On Feb. 17, Cooper was one of the players who powered Alabama’s comeback at rival Auburn. “I feel like it’s a blessing to play here,” Cooper said. “Like Levi said, we just want to leave our legacy here. [We want] to place a footprint on this university. It’s just a blessing to have this opportunity.” Cooper has made much of his opportunity and still has more to go. He passed the 1000-point mark this season and with
12 more points, will pass former player and coach Mark Gottfried for 46th on the all-time scoring list with 1,057 career points. With seven more rebounds, he’ll hit the 500 mark. “For these two guys [Cooper and Randolph], they played together in AAU,” Grant said. “They’ve been really good friends, prior to coming to Alabama. They kind of made the decision to come here together. Coop has been a guy, from day one, who has been an integral part of our team, in terms of playing time and the opportunities to affect winning. As a senior, I think he’s having his best campaign in the four years that he’s been here. I think he’s had an outstanding year for us. I think he has grown as a player, in terms of affecting the games in a lot of ways. He’ll have opportunities, once he’s done here, to keep on playing.” One of Alabama’s seniors is everything people expect from a four-year starter and senior. Levi Randolph is the team’s leading scorer and assist man and second on the team for rebounds and steals. He’s the team captain, the first since Alonzo Gee in 2009. He’s played 130 consecutive games, starting 115 times. He has never missed a game. Off the court, his record is even more
impressive. Randolph graduated from Alabama’s business school early and is working on his master’s degree in marketing. He’s the only Academic All-American in program history. “With Levi, we found out last week that he’s the first Academic All-American for Alabama basketball,” Grant said. “I think it speaks volumes for what he’s been able to accomplish over his four years, not only as a player, but in the classroom. I think he’s only gotten better in his time here. He’s certainly been a tremendously valuable asset to our team, for his entire career.” Cooper and Randolph chose Alabama together, coming from the same AAU team. When they, along with Slaughter, leave Alabama this season, they’ll take the team’s only NCAA tournament experience with them. They’ll leave behind a legacy that both said they hope extends to a reputation off the court. “You’re talking about two guys that are over 1,000-point scorers,” Grant said. “Their impact on our team has been tremendous. I think both of them will have opportunities to continue their careers, once they’re done here.” Alabama tips off against Ole Miss in Coleman Coliseum at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network.