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Alabama reflects on civil rights movement UA holds ceremony for Faith & Politics Institute honoring Hood, Malone
Joe Biden, rights leaders speak in Selma on Supreme Court’s review of 1965 law
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Though Vivian Malone and James Hood walked through the doors of Foster Auditorium nearly 50 years ago in the national spotlight, the glare of The University of Alabama community was all that accompanied them through subsequent doorways. As the first black undergraduates to enroll at the University, they walked into classrooms, dorms and dining halls alone, enduring threats and hatred on campus as the civil rights movement raged on across the South and they worked toward their degrees. On March 1, their courage was memorialized as members of the 13th annual Faith & Politics Institute Civil Rights Pilgrimage, chaired by U.S. Rep. John Lewis, stopped at Foster Auditorium. Vivian Malone’s younger sister, Dr. Sharon Malone, and former Gov. George Wallace’s daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, both spoke about their memories of the fateful Stand in the Schoolhouse Door on June 11, 1963. Sharon Malone told the crowd she has made many trips to the University to commemorate the Stand, but this is the first time without her sister. Vivian Malone died in 2005, and James Hood passed away earlier this year. Sharon Malone said as a little kid, she simply remembers growing up in the shadow of a famous big sister. When asked why she made the decision to pursue an education in such a hostile environment, Vivian told her sister she was inspired by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. “Up until that point, everyone in my family in Alabama had attended segregated schools,” Sharon Malone said. “We are sixth generation Alabamians. My family has been in Alabama almost as long as there has been a state of Alabama. My sister said if she did not have the right to attend The University of Alabama, who did?” Vivian told Sharon that when she walked into her first class, every student got up and left. She stayed, and the professor continued the lecture. “I can only imagine how lonely she was,” Sharon Malone said. “But she stayed the course.” Though Sharon Malone remembers the events from her childhood, she said she views the historical moment differently now that she is the parent of a college-aged daughter. “Even more amazing to me is the courage and faith – and I do mean faith – that my parents must have had to deliver their oldest daughter into the hands of the Justice Department,” she said. “On advice from counsel, my parents were at home. This was before email and cellphones, and they had to wait and hope that all would be well.”
SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Joe Biden and other civil rights leaders decried the Supreme Court’s recent examination of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act at events held to mark the 48th anniversary of the 1965 civil rights march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala. Biden spoke to a crowd in the Wallace State Community College gymnasium for the Martin and Coretta King Unity Brunch. “We have still have work to do … I know you hear that in every speech, in fact from every white politician that talks to you … but I’ve got some bonafides here, folks,” Biden said, speaking on laws that he said would restrict voting access to for black Americans. “As we were preparing to run for re-election, 41 states across this nation passed 180 laws to restrict the right to vote. Look folks, here we are. Forty-eight years after all you did, and we’re still fighting in 2011, 2012 and 2013?” Biden identified the Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder as the latest attempt to undo the civil rights advances that began in 1965 with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into law four months after a mob on the south side of Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, including Alabama State Troopers, beat and severely wounded participants in a 600-member civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. On Sunday, Biden called the incident a moment of clarity for the nation. “I wonder how many people know what the fight was about,” Biden said. “It was about the right to vote. Nothing else.” Biden several times expressed disbelief at the fact that the Supreme Court is even reviewing Section 5 of the law, which requires that jurisdictions in formerly segregated areas must have changes to their voting rules preapproved by the U.S. Attorney General to prevent racial discrimination. “Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act … I even got Strom Thurmond to vote for its reauthorization,” Biden said, naming the senator from South Carolina who conducted the longest-ever filibuster in the Senate in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1957. “Strom Thurmond voted for reauthorization. And yet, it’s being challenged in the Supreme Court of the United States of America as we stand here today.” Attorney General Eric Holder also said it was important the law stay in place in a speech to the public just before the crowd symbolically crossed the bridge, retracing the steps of the civil rights leaders in 1965.
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Alabama’s desegregation leaders recall struggles, eventual victories By Jordan Cissell Staff Reporter “What happened on that day in those doors is a matter of great consequence in the last century of American history,” E. Culpepper Clark said in a presentation to The University of Alabama’s Blackburn Institute on Saturday, Feb. 23. Clark, author of “The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama,” was referring to the
two doors mounted on a platform to his far left, their white paint dulled gray and cracking with age. Fifty years have passed since they played a feature role in former Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s ceremonious Stand in the Schoolhouse Door to block James Hood and Vivian Malone Jones’s integration of the University on June 11, 1963. “No one can think about the Civil Rights Movement without thinking about that
dramatic moment,” Clark said. Nor can one comprehend fully the moment’s significance 50 years later without listening to and learning from the people whose efforts made it happen. “I wasn’t an activist by any means – I wasn’t sitting in at restaurants or anything like that,” Wali Ali Meyer said. “I was just looking to follow truth wherever I could in my own inner life.” SEE DOORS PAGE 3
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Top: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), chairmain of the Faith & Politics Institute, speaks at Malone-Hood Plaza on Friday. Bottom left: The original “Schoolhouse Doors” were on display Friday. Bottom Right: Sharon Malone, sister of the late Vivian Malone Jones and wife of Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in Foster Auditorium.
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Wallace never spoke of Stand to daughter STAND FROM PAGE 1 And while the Malones waited on news of Vivian’s success and safety on that day, another family in Alabama awaited news of the confrontation as well. Peggy Wallace Kennedy was 13 years old, spending the summer day at a lake-side cabin with her mother. Kennedy described to Friday’s crowd how her mother paced up and down the house’s pier, nursing a cigarette, while George Wallace – father, husband and governor – conducted a carefully orchestrated performance in front of national media in Tuscaloosa before being asked to step aside. Kennedy said the day was the death of her mother’s hope for a simple life, and the beginning of the family’s life beneath the shadow of the school house door. “The day was never mentioned again. It was as if it had never happened,” Kennedy said. “There was never an offer of explanation from my father. When the subject was broached, it was brushed aside. Even at the time, it all seemed so illogical. As I grew older, it seemed even more so.” Wallace later apologized for his actions, reaching out to discuss forgiveness with both students, and Kennedy referenced the many positive legacies he left in Alabama. Despite this, she recognized that her father
will live on in the shadow of the school house door. “But still, there is this asterisk of June 11, 1963, that will forever define and denote the character of George Wallace,” Kennedy said. Kennedy said she made her own journey to Tuscaloosa to stand in the spot George Wallace once stood as a testament to change, so that she can give her sons a conversation and explanation for when they ask about their grandfather. “Today I rise and proclaim that for too many Americans, the schoolhouse door of opportunity and equality and freedom remains closed,” she said. “Today I rise to condemn the politics of exclusion that runs rampant in America. For America is at her best when she embraces all of us, protects the least of us and offers her bounty of hope and prosperity to not just some of us.” Though Friday’s event was held to commemorate a vital part of the state’s and The University of Alabama’s history, Kennedy urged the audience to not just remember how far things have come, but to commit to the problems of the future. “There will be no more stands in the school house door, but the insidious underbelly of discrimination still lies like a pall over America,” she said. “Today I rise to ask each of you to stand in the school house door every day – to encourage a child, to comfort a parent, to speak, to walk and to pray for justice for all in our country, in our lifetime.”
Alabama football hires Billy Napier as wide receiver coach CW Staff University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban announced Friday the hiring of Billy Napier as the Tide’s wide receivers coach. Napier takes over for Mike Groh, who was hired by the Chicago Bears. “We are glad to have Billy back on our staff,” Saban said. “He did an outstanding job when he was with us in 2011 and he was the first call we made when this position opened. He is a sharp young coach and he’ll be a great addition working with the wide receivers. We also feel that he will be a tremendous asset to our staff in the recruiting process.” Napier returns to the Crimson Tide staff after
spending the last season as Colorado State’s assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach under head coach Jim McElwain, Alabama’s offensive coordinator from 2008-11. During his year at CSU, Napier helped improve the offense as the team ranked 17th in the nation in red zone scoring. Under Napier’s guidance, the team also cut sacks allowed down by nearly four per game over the second half of the season, while the running game was improved by 65 yards per game over the second half of 2012. Prior to his season with the Rams, Napier served Alabama as an offensive analyst for the 2011 national c hampionship season. “I have a great appreciation for the
University of Alabama and the program Coach Saban runs, especially after spending the 2011 season in Tuscaloosa,” Napier said. “From a professional development standpoint, it was the best year in my coaching career. When you’ve been here and seen it firsthand, you know that you want to try and get back to Alabama if that opportunity ever presents itself. I am excited to be back and appreciate Coach Saban offering me the position. We had a great experience a year ago and we have a lot of great friends here. It is a special place because of the history and tradition, but also because of the people you work with and the fans and supporters of the program.”
Former Alabama golfer claims PGA Tour victory CW Staff Former Alabama golfer Michael Thompson shot a final-round 69 on Sunday to claim his first PGA Tour victory at the 2013 Honda Classic at PGA National. “I am so proud of Michael,” Alabama head golf coach Jay Seawell said after Thompson’s victory. “He has worked so hard and this is a great moment for him and his wife Rachel. He has always represented Alabama golf with class.”
Thompson, a native of Tucson, Ariz., and a current resident of Birmingham, Ala., finished at 9-under-par 271 to edge Geoff Ogliv by two shots. Thompson birdied the final hole with a brilliant long bunker shot that left him with a 3-foot birdie putt to seal the win. “I wanted to just stick to a game plan just like I’ve been saying all week,” Thompson told PGAtour.com. “This week was magical, just find a groove, keep believing.” Thompson was a finalist
at the 2007 U.S. Amateur and the low amateur at the 2008 U.S. Open while playing for Alabama. He then posted his previous-low finish on the PGA Tour at the 2012 U.S. Open, finishing tied for second behind Webb Simpson. Sunday’s win earns Thompson 500 FedEx Cup points and moved him into 11th place in the standings. The win also gets him into next week’s World Golf Championship event in Miami, Fla., on the TPC Blue Monster Course at Doral.
slowly. About 8 percent were not sure. Sixty-one percent of respondents expressed concerned about disappearing wildlife. Depending how the question was phrased, 57 percent to 64 percent of respondents said population growth was having an adverse effect. If widespread wildlife extinctions were unavoidable without slowing human population growth, 60 percent agreed that society has a moral responsibility to address the problem. Respondents didn’t make as clear a connection between population and climate change, reflecting the decades-old debate over population growth versus consumption. Although 57 percent of respondents agreed that population growth is making climate change
worse, only 46 percent said they think having more people will make it harder to solve, and 34 percent said the number of people will make no difference. Asked about natural resources, 48 percent said they think the average American consumes too much. The view split sharply along party lines, with 62 percent of Democrats saying the average American consumes too much, compared with 29 percent of Republicans. Independents fell in the middle at 49 percent. The survey of 657 registered voters was conducted Feb. 22-24 by Public Policy Polling, a Raleigh, N.C., company that takes the pulse of voters for Democratic candidates and Democratic-leaning clients. It has a margin of error of 3.9 percent.
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Population growth is threat to other species, poll respondents say MCT Campus LOS ANGELES—Nearly two-thirds of American voters believe that human population growth is driving other animal species to extinction and that if the situation gets worse, society has a “moral responsibility to address the problem,” according to new national public opinion poll. A slightly lower percentage of those polled – 59 percent – believes that population growth is an important environmental issue and 54 percent believe that stabilizing the population will help protect the environment. The survey was conducted on behalf of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, which unlike other e nv i r o n m e n t a l groups has targeted population growth as part of its
campaign to save wildlife species from extinction. The center has handed out more than half a million condoms at music concerts, farmers markets, churches and college campuses with labels featuring drawings of endangered species and playful, even humorous, messages such as, “Wrap with care, save the polar bear.” The organization hired a polling companyto show other environmental groups that their fears about alienating the public by bringing up population matters are overblown, said Kieran Suckling, the center’s executive director. When the center broke the near-silence on population growth with its condom campaign, other environmental leaders “reacted with a mix of worry and horror that we were going to experience a
huge backlash and drag them into it,” he said. Instead, Suckling said the campaign has swelled its membership – now about 500,000 – and donations and energized 5,000 volunteers who pass out prophylactics. He said a common response is, “Thank God, someone is talking about this critical issue.” The poll results, he said, show such views are mainstream. In the survey, the pollsters explained that the world population hit 7 billion last year and is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of the century. Given those facts, 50 percemt of people reached by telephone said they think the world population is growing too fast, while 38 percent said population growth was on the right pace and 4 percent thought it was growing too
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By Sarah Elizabeth Tooker Staff Reporter Beginning as early as 1989, women have held a slight majority to men in total enrollment figures on campus, according to report from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. However, gender disparities among UA majors remain. Greg Singleton, director of engineering student services, said engineering has historically been a field dominated by white men, but recent initiatives to increase the enrollment of women and minorities have shown promising results.
“Industry has demanded diversity and inclusion in the workplace,” Singleton said. “UA alone has seen a dramatic increase in engineering female enrollment from 308 in 2003 to 711 in fall 2012.” Nevertheless, men still continue to dominate the University’s engineering school with 711 women to 2,849 men, roughly 20 percent to 80 percent, Singleton said. “At UA, engineering fields such as chemical and metallurgical have seen the closest balance of female to male ratio,” he said. Across campus at the Capstone College of Nursing, Rebekah Welch, director of
the college of nursing student services, said as of fall 2012, nursing had 1,499 undergraduates enrolled, 128 men and 1,371 women. “The percentage of undergrad males has risen each academic year since 2010,” Welch said. “For the 2012-13 academic year, approximately 12 percent of our undergraduates were males, and for the 2011-12 academic year, approximately 10 percent of our undergrad population were males.” Another college that typically holds more women, the College of Communication and Information Sciences, continues to live up to this
trend with 755 men and 1,665 women in the fall class. These figures represent an approximate 31 to 69 percent men to women ratio. Mary Ann Bradley, registrar for the College of C&IS, said this trend really has not changed much and appears to hold true nationally. “It’s always been more female than male,” Bradley said. “The goal is to recruit outstanding students, whether they be male or female.” Within this college, the largest gender disparity occurs in the public relations major with 700 women and only 135 men. The telecommunication and film
department holds the closest match between the two genders with 324 women and 269 men, Bradley said. In the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, men remain the majority to women in all departments, excluding marketing. “To declare a major in C&BA, a student needs a 2.5, but for students who don’t meet this requirement, they can declare a general business major with 2.0,” Daniel Maguire, registrar for the college, said. “It was created at the behest of the administration as a safety net.” The fact there are more
men in the general business major, a 221 to 88 ratio, plays into the stereotype that women are smarter than men, Maguire said. The largest disparity in this college is found in the finance major with 230 men and 88 women. Maguire said he would be interested in running a gender report in the future for his college. “It might even make a good Ph.D project to track those trends of gender discrepancies in career fields and see how majors stack up to that,” he said. “You always hear correlation is not causation, but it would be cool to do.”
TCF professor: Netflix binge watching motivated by suspense By Tori Linville Contributing Writer After they finish classes for the day, many students drop their backpacks, kick off their shoes, sit back and watch episode after episode of their favorite television show for the next several hours on Netflix. The increasingly common act of “binge watching” is one with which many college students are familiar. Binge watching occurs when viewers watch multiple episodes of a show in the same day. Websites such as Netflix, where viewers enjoy more than 1 billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, help make TV more convenient for those catching up on their favorite shows or watching movies. The online subscription network exploded in popularity during 2010, reaching 20 million viewers, and currently has 33 million viewers in 40 different
countries, according to the Netflix website. Kayte Childers, a junior majoring in secondary education, said the convenient ability to watch episodes one after the other contributes to her binge watching. “I can’t control myself most of the time; I don’t even think about it. It’s so nice to be able to click ‘next episode’ and know what’s going to happen without having to wait,” Childers said. “I hate having to wait a week when an episode ends so suspenseful.” Netflix has started releasing new TV shows by the season instead of weekly episodes. The latest show, “House of Cards,” a Netflix original series, allowed viewers access to all 13 episodes immediately. Childers said she believes binge watching is the only way to watch online TV and loves the uninterrupted convenience that is provided. Though some
binge watchers are known to multitask during their shows, Childers finds it hard to focus on anything else. Shuhua Zhou, a telecommunication and film professor, said added binge watching doesn’t just interfere with daily routines, it can also be detrimental to the viewer’s eyes. “Anytime there is ‘binge’ involved, it is not good. Binge implies excess. When it is excessive, it is not good to the brain and hardly beneficial to the body,” Zhou said. “Binge watching probably has more to do with suspense: TV series love to leave the audience hanging in a cliff at the end of an episode, so they will come back to watch the following episode. We as human beings love certainty, and if there is something we don’t know the answer to or don’t know what will happen, we feel a ‘psychological discomfort,’ and
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Mr. Meredith back in. They’re letting him back in.’ “Everybody had this idea that black people were content in their current position, and that it was all the liberals and the radicals that were causing trouble and stirring up stuff that didn’t need to be stirred up. But for the first time, I really realized that these were people just like myself, and there was the sad, powerful realization that they had these inner aspirations that they were being forced to hide from other people.” When Art Dunning arrived on campus in 1966, his aspirations were clear. “I had two goals in coming to the University,” he said. “One, I was here to study anthropology. Two, I was here to make this a state university. I was going to make this truly The University of Alabama.” Dunning, a professor and senior research fellow in the University’s Education Policy Center and co-chair of the committee heading this year’s Through the Doors integration anniversary program, served two years in Taiwan with the U.S. Air Force before matriculating to the University. Dunning said his years of military service drastically shaped his perspectives on race, education and politics. “The Jim Crowe caste system of the American South at that time, for people like me it was suffocating, absolutely suffocating. My time in Taiwan gave me a chance to feel what it was like to not have my every movement circumscribed by my racial identity,” Dunning said. “I identified myself as an American because that’s what I was called and how I was known abroad. “When I came back to Alabama and the South, I recognized and embraced – I reclaimed – my Southern heritage. When I left, Southern was white. When I came back, Southern meant people of all stripes.” Dunning was one of what he approximates to be 10-15 African-American students at the University during his undergraduate years. “My very first day of class, I walked into the classroom and immediately six to eight people got up from their chairs and walked out,” he said. “I was a junior here before anyone here even sat in the chair directly next to me.” So Dunning went to them. In the 1966 fall semester, Dunning and others approached Frank Rose, the University’s president at the time, with a list of suggestions to make campus more inviting for black students. When naysayers argued against integration of Crimson Tide athletic squads with claims that black football players would not possess enough intelligence to succeed as students as well as athletes, Dunning and four of his friends walked on at Paul “Bear” Bryant’s spring practices.
Like Dunning, Elayne Savage wasn’t on campus in June 1963. Though she had graduated from the University and moved away from Tuscaloosa before Wallace’s infamous stand, she directly contributed to June 11’s historical relevance – as well as the day’s nonviolent progression and conclusion. Clark said “because of John L. Blackburn’s efforts, our students were the most prepared students for integration of any campus in the South.” In the months leading up to the University’s integration, Blackburn, the Dean of Men at the time and the namesake of the Institute mentioned above, began recruiting 30-odd student leaders to develop and coordinate grassroots-level, interpersonal campaigns to ensure the campus’ peaceful transition. Savage, known as Layni Raskin during her time at the University, was one of Blackburn’s student diplomats. “So much of that is a blur; it was all so long ago, and I wasn’t as deeply involved as some other people,” Savage said. “But what impresses me to this day is how incredibly detail-based everything was.” For Savage, involvement with Blackburn’s effort played as significant a role in her own integration to the campus community as it did that of Hood and Malone Jones. “I was such a mess when I arrived on campus in 1959. Just a few years earlier my mom and grandmother had been killed in a plane crash. Then my dad remarried, and my senior year of high school I moved across the country. I was still pretty dazed from it all when I came to Tuscaloosa,” Savage wrote in notes for a 2010 Blackburn tribute event speech. “Mostly I felt ‘different’ from my peers. I doubt if Dean Blackburn was aware of my history. I didn’t talk about it to folks. Yet he intuitively was understanding, caring, kind and patient. I felt accepted and validated by him at a time when I really needed some kindnesses. And I’m grateful.” Like Meyer, Savage’s involvement in the integration effort raised her profile with the Klan, prompting scare tactics like the breaking and entering of her sorority house. “It was kind of a scary time. We weren’t afraid of Wallace. He was huffing and puffing, but we knew he was going to back down. But you had that whole element of the unknown,” Savage said. “We couldn’t know what was going to happen, it was such uncharted territory.” Fifty years later, Meyer feels unfilled space still exists in which people can and should move toward more compassion and understanding. “We’ve made and we are making progress, but we all still cope on some inner level with these artificial boundaries,” he said. “We need to eat together, pray together. We need to dance together. We need to talk to each other.”
Former UA students reflect on integration DOORS FROM PAGE 1 Meyer followed his truth directly into an active role in the University’s integration. As the editor of The Crimson White his junior year, Meyer, who then went by Melvin, published an editorial written by editorial assistant Robbie Roberts denouncing the University of Mississippi’s efforts to block James Meredith’s enrollment. Printed at the top of page 4 in the Sep. 27, 1962 issue of The Crimson White, the anonymous column said, “Every time the rights of one citizen anywhere are harmed, every citizen is harmed … We lost something American in Oxford this week, and every American citizen is the less for it.” “I liked the way it was written, and it seemed to coincide with my moral sense of what was right,” Meyer said. “It was something I was willing to take a stand for.” Following the editorial’s publication, The Crimson White received “hundreds and hundreds of totally racist hate letters to the editor,” most including remarks attacking Meyer’s Jewish heritage. But even after Klu Klux Klan members burned a cross on the lawn of his fraternity house, Meyer said he never seriously feared for his own safety. “When the heat came down, I didn’t really mind, but it inconvenienced my friends and family,” Meyer said. University administration arranged for armed guards to accompany Meyer throughout the entirety of his day, and the University archives contain several envelopes stuffed to the brim with daily reports from October through December 1962 conveying just how thoroughly the agents inserted themselves into Meyer’s regular routine. One report, dated Saturday, Oct. 10, 1962, and filed by an Operative Number 24, reads, “Operatives arrived at Subject’s house at 10 p.m. We went upstairs and got Subject at 12 p.m. We, all, left Subject’s house at 12:35 p.m. and went to the game. We took Subject and his friends in at Gate #9. They sat in the student section at about the 40-yard line. Everything went well during the game.” In another report from Dec. 10, also filed by Operative Number 24, Meyer “had LaBrenda [LuQuire] all hugged up” as he left his apartment with friends at 9:55 p.m. Meyer said he didn’t fully realize the significance of the integration effort until some time later when he was back home in Starkville, Miss., picking up his mother’s laundry from the black washerwoman across town. “I didn’t know this lady at all, and she came running to me outside of the house with tears in her eyes saying, ‘Mr. Melvin, Mr. Melvin, they’re going to let
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Tuscaloosa still moving steadily toward improvement By SoRelle Wyckoff Senior Staff Columnist The walls around The University of Alabama are imaginary, but at times, they block the view of the Tuscaloosa community. Sometimes, we simply forget there is more to this town than the University. It’s selfish, and I even fall prey to the thought despite living in Tuscaloosa for five years of elementary and middle school. But in truth, the University is only a portion of what makes up this town. It’s both refreshing and respectful to let down the drawbridge and be a citizen rather than a student in Tuscaloosa. The crisp weather has pulled me outside the past few weekends, and I have been continually thankful of the effort to rebuild and refine public outdoor spaces in Tuscaloosa. There are two parks within walking distance from me and more dotted all over Tuscaloosa. The sidewalks to get to those parks are losing their cracks to new, clean slabs of concrete. Both the sight and safety of these new walkways are useful and appreciated.
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My favorite park is the Tuscaloosa River Walk along the Black Warrior River. It has been expanded all the way to the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, and there is freshly paved sidewalk and a new playscape. I constantly see runners, dog walkers, young children and families using this beautiful area to spend time outdoors and with each other. And the Amphitheater has proved to be the addition to the town that it promised. There have been musical guests of solid proportions, drawing crowds from not only the Tuscaloosa community, but the surrounding area as well. My mother always said Tuscaloosa reminded her of Austin, Texas, when she lived there in the 1970s; and not to brag, but I’m from there as well, and that’s
one heck of a compliment. I’m obvi- his leadership, with decisions that ously biased about my hometown, are fair and easy to get behind. This past weekend I was able to but in truth, there are fair comparisons to be made, and positive. see just how much our town has Much of Austin’s economy was moved forward, in both tangible and is connected to the University, and emotional ways. The inaulike Tuscaloosa’s; parks and rec- gural Tuscaloosa Half Marathon reational areas are priorities in snaked through Rosedale, Forest city planning; local businesses are Lake and Alberta, symbolically ending at the Amphitheater. many and well supported. And despite the large size and Mayor Maddox even ran the race himself. population of Austin, Along the route, there is a focus on comfamilies stood on their munity. We are proud lawns to cheer on runAustonians, dedicated ners, and organizato “keeping it weird.” It’s both refreshing and tions held up signs That focus on commurespectful to let down and waved pom-poms. nity is without a doubt the drawbridge and be They yelled “Roll present in Tuscaloosa, a citizen rather than a Tide” and acted as especially as of late. student in Tuscaloosa. personal cheerleadWhen making comers. Every neighborparisons between hood and corner was Joplin, Mo., and represented. This Tuscaloosa’s rebuilding efforts last year I was skeptical motivated me to the last mile. Seeing these people, of all of the future of Tuscaloosa. And while some concerns remain, I ages and colors and sex, up early Saturday morning in the cold have been pleasantly incorrect. The return to normalcy may to cheer on runners they didn’t have been slow, but now that a even know was the most beautiful foundation has been created, recovery I’ve seen yet. Tuscaloosa has been moving steadily toward improvement after SoRelle Wyckoff is a senior majorimprovement. Mayor Walt Maddox ing in history and journalism. Her seems to be aware and detailed in column runs weekly on Mondays.
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Recent arrests, raids raise questions on enforcement By Hannah Waid Staff Columnist
Our campus has seen some interesting activity over the past few weeks. From the arrest of four football players for robbery and alleged assault to the 74-person drug bust to the Harlem Shake dance video disruption, campus officials and police have become more involved in recent affairs. But should students be concerned about their rights and well-being? This first incident involving several football players seemed to cause two reactions. First, many people began to seriously question their safety on campus, especially during late hours. As if safety was not already a prominent issue on campus with all the recent gun violence, now students may worry about being knocked unconscious and mugged at night. The second reaction I have noticed deals with the question of disciplinary action towards student athletes. I heard many
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people ask about the players’ status on the team as well as their status on campus. Students often noted the players’ athletic abilities, some having high recruit rankings, and wondered if that would play a part in lessening their punishment. While they were suspended form the team, the circumstances surrounding their leaving campus remain unclear. Another shocking event that has sparked conversation has been the arrest of 74 people for drug charges, 61 of the 74 being University of Alabama students. These people were arrested in
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dorms and apartments after an unexpected late-night raid by police. After the initial shock of the large number, the question soon turned to what would be done with these students. Suspension? Expulsion? Some students have even recently suggested rehabilitation centers rather than jail time. The last, but probably most comical, event, was the shutdown of the Harlem Shake video being filmed on the back steps of Gorgas Library. And although it was easy to laugh at police and University officials shutting down a dance video, it brought into question the rights of students. The student in charge of orchestrating the event was ticketed and even feared suspension or expulsion. When all three of these events are compared to each other, their outcomes become critical. How will the University’s treatment of drug charges compare with its treatment of assault. Could the student who innocently organized a YouTube video sensation
be expelled while others with more offensive charges face suspension? As a third party outside of all three of these situations, the one most likely to affect me is the alleged assault charges and robbery incident. The drug charges were the decisions of those students and most directly affected themselves. The students involved in the dance video were participating in a seemingly harmless social gathering. But the charges of alleged assault and robbery pose the possibility of violence and harm towards others, which is a possibility that I would not look forward to welcoming back on campus. The difference is between being an innocent victim to an alleged assault and robbery, versus making the choice to be a participant in drug activity. It will be interesting to see how the University handles these diverse cases. Hannah Waid is a junior majoring in English. Her column runs biweekly.
Today marks the centennial of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration as president of the United States. This moment is espeTray Smith cially relevant, coming less than two months after Barack Obama’s inauguration to a second term and one week before we at the Capstone will elect our own SGA president. What do Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and our SGA have in common? Wilson, widely considered America’s first progressive president, is Obama’s early ideological predecessor. Their shared conviction in the superior decision-making capability of government experts led to the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Trade Commission under Wilson and spurred Obama to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That’s a thick alphabet soup of federal agencies, but all of them rely on experts to make decisions about things like interest rates and Medicare benefits while remaining immune from political accountability. Unlike Obama, Wilson carried the state of Alabama with 70 percent of the vote. How did Wilson, a staunch advocate for big-government progressivism, do so well in a state Obama lost by 20 percent 100 years later? Wilson, like many early progressives and many Alabama voters at that time, was a segregationist. Upon taking office, he resegregated the federal workforce. As a governor, he signed a law that established a board to regulate the reproduction rights of “defective” members of society. Fourteen days after Wilson was sworn in, on March 18, 1913, The Crimson White reported on the Skull’s initiation ceremony. “The ‘Skulls’ is the oldest interfraternity society at the University, having grown from the old chapter of T.N.E. that was once at the University,” the CW reported. “The initiation of the Skulls is somewhat public in its nature.” The article described a parade including a “jauntily attired” Lister Hill, who was wearing a “part dress suit, part pajama effect that was most stunning.” Hill went on to establish the SGA and is widely considered responsible for laying the foundation of the modern-campus Machine. Somehow, the public parade tradition was lost, but maybe in the future, Machine members will re-embrace their founding father and walk down University Boulevard in “part dress suit, part pajama” effects. It’s really a shame they took those festivities underground. Hill eventually served as a Democrat in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. He was a champion of the New Deal and supported the Great Society, but opposed the Civil Rights Act and the Supreme Court ruling desegregating schools. Eventually, the progressive left divorced itself from the racism at its roots, and, through a long ideological realignment, somehow managed to establish itself as the protector of racial equality. However, the early progressives’ enthusiasm for government programs and expert decision-making hasn’t been lost among their contemporary heirs. Obama decided expert evaluations and decisions were a more effective way to control health care costs than patient freedom and choice when he pushed the Affordable Care Act into law; the young Hill decided a small group of elite students would pick a better SGA president than a messy democratic brawl. Both decisions were manifestations of their progressive thinking. Alabama students, on the whole, reject that progressivism, having supported Mitt Romney overwhelmingly in the fall in opposition to Obama’s entitlement state. Yet, we continue the tradition early, ugly, racist progressivism spawned on our campus, dutifully electing the Machine candidate each spring with rare exception. One of the most conservative student bodies in the country thus far ironically maintains for itself a leftwing political structure developed in the progressive era, by a future progressive senator, immediately following the election of our first progressive president. The premise of the Machine, that elite experts should control decision-making, is the same premise used to justify the elite bureaucrats who increasingly control environmental, education, energy, health, financial and consumer safety policy. It’s the same way the Soviet Union operated and the Iron Curtain fell over 20 years ago. Thankfully, at the federal level, we have Republicans to fight against elite bureaucratic overreach. With so many Republicans on our campus, maybe someday one of them will start a similar movement here.
Tray Smith is a senior majoring in political science and journalism. His column runs weekly.
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Ferg Post Office to undergo new management in July Beginning July 1, the Ferguson Center Post Office will be managed by the UA Campus Mail department, Tony Johnson, executive director of logistics and support services, said. The current post office location in the Ferguson Center will be remodeled and all Campus Mail functions will continue to work from this location, Johnson
said. “Campus Mail will handle student mail and packages, mailboxes, departmental mail and all other mailing options that are currently available with USPS,” Johnson said. “In addition, computers will be available for students to go online to ship items by UPS or FedEx. These packages will be accepted at the Campus Mail counter.” Nicholas Caluda, a sophomore majoring in English, said he has noticed a decline in the level of
service at the post office during his time at the University. “I use the post office on an almost-daily basis,” Caluda said. “The service, though now good, was much better a few semesters ago. At the beginning of last semester, it was a nightmare trying to get a package with waits upwards of two hours long as the norm for several weeks.” Caluda said he thinks the management change is a response to staffing problems.
UH program equips pre-med students, connects community By Kyle Dennan Staff Reporter An honors class at The University of Alabama provides pre-med students with handson experience in clinical settings and helps them develop as future physicians. The UH Medicine and Community Program allows students to work at a hypertension clinic in Marion, Ala., hosts guest speakers on a wide range of topics in medicine, and allows students to develop their own health-related project. The program is classified as an independent study through the Honors College. “The program takes pre-med students in the Honors College and provides those students with direction in developing a set of medical skills,” Paul Strickland, a senior majoring in political science and one of the student directors of the program, said. “More importantly, it provides them with understanding about the issues in medicine, especially the role of the physician in the community.” Hannah Zahedi, a sophomore majoring in biology and art his-
tory, said she feels the program helped her have a more comprehensive pre-med education. “Going down to the clinic has given a human component to what I’m learning in class,” she said. “In a lot of the pre-med stuff we do in school, you just say ‘the patient, the patient…’ You kind of lose the more personal component.” In addition to reaching out to a typically older population of patients with hypertension, students in the course teach about nutrition and other health issues at Albert Turner Senior Elementary School in Marion. Annie Lenox, a junior majoring in biology and another student director of the course, said this is related to the focus of the program’s community outreach. “We focus a lot on primary care,” she said. “We’re focusing on prevention as a way to make people healthier.” Lenox has contributed to these prevention efforts through her participation in the course. “I was in the hypertension clinic, and this man came in who had never been to the clinic, had never been diagnosed with high
blood pressure, but he was worried,” Lenox said. After taking the man’s blood pressure several times to ensure the high reading she was getting was not due to her own error, Lenox said she became concerned the high reading was not due to her inexperience – it was because the man had a potentially serious health problem. “We sent him to the doctor that’s across the street and told him, ‘You have to get this checked out,’” she said. Zahedi said her interactions with patients have also been very rewarding, particularly one with a cheerful older woman. “When she left, she gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and said she would come back next week to see me,” Zahedi said. “You’re going to go down there and have a good day. It’s always made me really happy to meet people that I wouldn’t usually have the opportunity to interact with.” Applications for the program are due March 3 at midnight. For more information, students can email uamedicineandcommunity@gmail.com.
“I think this [change] really has more to do with the understaffing of clerks, though, than any poor service from the employees themselves,” he said. “As long as I can still receive mail and packages in a timely fashion, I don’t particularly care who’s running it. It’s better than having to drive miles away or go all the way to the Strip every time I’d need to get mail. Whether or not it will be a good change remains to be seen.” Johnson said current Campus Mail employees will assume some of the similar job functions of current USPS employees. Any new positions will be posted online, and the normal hiring process will be followed in filling UA positions. Mindy Russo, a sophomore majoring in biology and anthropology, said she does not
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Brooke Searcy, a Junior majoring in marketing checks her PO box Thursday afternoon. think it is necessary for the post office to change management. “The post office usually has a pretty long line, but there are certain times where I can get in and go quickly,” Russo
said. “I felt as though they were understaffed. If they hired more employees, it would have solved the problem. Overall, I don’t see why they can’t still use USPS.”
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A professor from the UA psychology department was recently awarded the 2013 Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Development for his research of psychopaths and the psychopathic personality. Martin Sellbom, an assistant professor of psychology and law, received the award from the American Psychology-Law Society for his research on psychopathy. Sellbom has been working at The University of Alabama since 2009. “Part of my work that probably led to this award is my contribution to the study of the psychopathic personality,” Sellbom said. “I also study personality disorders more broadly, especially how well psychologists assess personality disorders.” The award was given by the AP-LS in conjunction with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and recognizes early career excellence and contributions to the field of
psychology and law. Sellbom will be giving the Saleem Shah Address at the AP-LS Annual Conference in Portland, Ore., on March 9. Sellbom described psychopathy as a personality disorder in which individuals have few moral or social ties. “The best way to describe psychopaths is as societal predators that manipulate and exploit other people in order to serve their own selfish goals. They’re calloused, cold-hearted and they lack remorse for their actions,” Sellbom said. “They abuse people in order to achieve the goals they have in front of them.” Psychopathy also has societal implications. The personality disorder can make individuals a danger to themselves and others. “Psychopathy tends to be associated with high-crime rates. When psychopaths are let out of prison, they have much higher re-offense rates than non-psychopathic offenders, especially violent
re-offense rates. They also have higher rates of addictions, like substance abuse or alcohol abuse,” Sellbom said. “In relationships, psychopaths don’t really form close attachments, but they’re very good at mimicking emotions and essentially exploit other individuals in relationships.” Because of its extreme nature, psychopathy is sometimes portrayed in the movies and television shows. “One of my favorite examples of psychopathy in movies is Daniel Craig’s portrayal of James Bond. There you have someone who has a long list of psychopathic characteristics,” Sellbom said. “He’s fearless and doesn’t work very well in relationships. He’s not necessarily out to hurt others, but he inevitably does because of his personality style.” Jaime Anderson, a secondyear graduate student in the psychology department, said she believes the media portrayal of psychopathy can lead to a skewed idea of it and other
mental disorders. “I think that the media portrayal of media psychopathy can give a wrong impression to society. I think that particularly in the legal system, when jurors already [see] these impressions that are not correct, it’s hard to get away from that,” Anderson said. “So any mental illness where the media portrayal is not particularly accurate, skews people’s impressions.” Sellbom also runs the University’s Personality, P syc h o p at h o l o g y, and Measurement Lab. Rachel Rock, a third-year graduate student in the psychology department, works in the lab and said she came to the University specifically to work with Sellbom. “Applying to clinical psychology Ph.D programs is a little bit different than applying to law school or other types of graduate programs, in that you apply to work with a professor whose research interests are similar to your own,” Rock said.
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Creative Campus hosts careers in art fair Wednesday By Kyle Dennan Staff Reporter On Wednesday, March 6, Creative Campus and the Career Center will host an event to address the specific needs of students pursuing careers in the arts. “A huge number of majors on campus lend themselves to non-traditional career paths, and those students are often overlooked when it comes to professional training because people associate being a professional with wearing a suit and tie, and often creative jobs don’t look quite the same way,” Emma Fick, an intern
with Creative Campus, said. The Creative Career Fair will emphasize the ways in which students in the arts can prepare themselves for an unconventional career path. “It’s also more difficult to give advice because there is no single answer, no single path, whereas most disciplines have a discrete number of professional options, so priming students for the professional world is much easier,” Fick said. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, there are 2.1 million artists working in the United States, and there
are approximately 321,000 peo- Fair will provide students ple working in arts nonprof- with some of those skill sets its, according to the Center and get students real answers for Civil Society from real Studies at creative profesJohns Hopkins sionals.” University. Fick Many such Those pursuing creative said those wishp r o f e s s i o nals careers require a range of ing to join their will advise stuadaptable skill sets they can ranks need dents, including draw from as they carve guidance. Ann Powers, their own unique path. “Those purNational Public suing creative Radio music —Emma Frick careers require critic and cora range of respondent, adaptable skill Rick Asherson, sets they can executive board draw from as they carve their member of the Alabama own unique path,” she said. Blues Project, Sandy Wolfe, “We hope the Creative Career Tuscaloosa Arts Council
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director, John Miller, attorney, poet and professor of New College LifeTrack and Chloe • What: Creative Career Collins, executive director of the Sidewalk Film Festival in Fair Birmingham, Ala. Students will have an • When: March 6, 6-8 opportunity to choose between p.m. one of four professional development workshops: Crafting a • Where: Heritage Room Creative Résumé, Delivering an Effective Elevator Speech, in the Ferguson Center Budgeting for a Sustainable Arts Lifestyle and Choosing the Right Career for Your Personality. The Creative Career Fair Creative professionals will also discuss their careers and will take place on March 6 the necessary skill sets to from 6-8 p.m. in the Heritage work in creative occupations. Room of the Ferguson Center.
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people like trees for a number of reasons, some for shade and canopy, some for the color and others still like something to climb and play on. “Trees provide beauty, clean air and places for birds, squirrels and other critters to live. I often hear people say that’s what they miss the most in the recovery zone,” she said. “Unfortunately, that’s what will take the longest to return. But both the City and its residents are committed to making Tuscaloosa the best and most beautiful city it can be, and that plan includes trees.” Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuscaloosa is excited about being declared as a 2013 Tree City. “This declaration indicates that we live in a community that is concerned with its environment,” Maddox said. “We want to present a City that makes our citizens proud.” Maddox said the city of
“Let me be very clear. We are not yet at the point where the most vital part of the Voting Rights Act, Section 5, can be declared unneccessary,” he said. Holder is the defendant in the suit before the Supreme Court now, in which Shelby County, Ala., argues the requirement for preapproval of voting rule changes is unconstitutionally burdensome to jurisdictions
Tuscaloosa is taking several measures to help preserve its trees. “The City of Tuscaloosa lost many trees in the April 2011 tornado,” Maddox said. “The Tuscaloosa Tree Commission, along with Alabama Power and Druid City Canopy Coalition, will host its annual tree giveaway Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum.” During this time, the tree commission will distribute more than 3,800 bare root tree seedlings and also a number of small potted saplings of several varieties. “The City of Tuscaloosa partnered with The University of Alabama’s Arboretum after the storm,” Maddox said. “UA’s Arboretum allowed the city to store donated trees in its facility. We not only want to preserve the trees we have, but also plant.”
trying to undermine the vote. We got the right to vote in 1819, ‘65 and then came something we knew nothing of – gerrymandering, how they draw the lines.” that haven’t had de jure segreBiden arrived in a motorgation since the 1960s. cade and spoke after Holder Speaking before the vice to the crowd massed on Water president at the Unity Brunch, Street in Selma at 2 p.m., reitthe Rev. Jesse Jackson offered erating many of his earlier the day’s harshest critique of points, then led the thousands the argument. of people across the bridge for “We’re one vote away the symbolic recreation of the from oblivion,” he said of 1965 march. Many in the crowd the Supreme Court. “One carried signs and banners supvote between us and radical porting various causes and retrogression … the pro-seg- dispersed after crossing the regationist forces never stop Alabama River.
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The color green has taken on a new meaning since the April 27, 2011 tornado. When an EF4 tornado tore through Tuscaloosa destroying not only the lives of people, but Mother Nature herself. Since this tragedy, people have recovered, jobs are up and running, but plant life is struggling. However, on Saturday, Feb. 23, Rob Kemp, of the Druid City Canopy Coalition, designated Tuscaloosa as a 2013 Tree City. Gene Ford, architectural historian, said prior to the tornado, there were many lush areas in Tuscaloosa. “Prior to the tornado, parts of Tuscaloosa including Garden Downs, Hillcrest, and the Highlands were rich in landscape and the trees provided shade for the environment,” Ford said. “I have worked on this district before and after the tornado. It provided streams of conformity and closure. Landscape and architecture are complements to our environment.” Deidre Stalnaker, public relations coordinator, said
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Page 7 Editor | Lauren Ferguson culture@cw.ua.edu Monday, March 4, 2013
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‘The Lottery’ provides unsettling look at New York By Matt Ford
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“The Lottery” documents the bleak nature of New York public schools.
In order for a student to receive a quality education, he or she better be lucky enough to win the lottery. That is the situation in Harlem, N.Y., and the issue covered in Madeleine Sackler’s “The Lottery.” Friday evening, during a student organization conference I attended at Harvard University, the directors of the program screened the documentary film for those who had never seen it. Since the conference discussed socioeconomic status frequently throughout the weekend, the staff chose the movie to accurately convey the severity of failing school systems around the country. While the 2010 film is dated, it is still every bit as relevant in 2013. I had never heard of the film before, and found the insight it gives on the charter school system in Harlem is both fascinating and horrifying. “The Lottery” was, in a word, heartbreaking. It focuses on four families in Harlem and the Bronx who live in a low socioeconomic bracket, and each
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The lottery system, while necessary because of the ratio of demand to supply, is a sad and unjust method of selecting students for admission.
of the families has a young, preschool level child whose parents are hoping to win the charter school admission lottery. Because the failing public schools in Harlem are so lackluster in education, these children’s parents hope their child’s name will be called to join one of the Success Academy Charter Schools, the charter school system in Harlem. The three schools that make up the system have a 100 percent pass rate on standard reading level exams, in stark contrast to the public schools’ percentages ranging from 10 to 33. These children want to be educated, to learn and grow, and yet the government’s current system to provide them with a proper education is failing. One teacher in the film who taught in the public school
system and at Harlem Success Academy said the charter school’s students all read at or above grade level, while the fifth graders she taught in public school were, for the most part, reading on a far lower level. The lottery system, while necessary because of the ratio of demand to supply, is a sad and unjust method of selecting students for admission. Names of lucky students are called in a ceremony reminiscent of a reverse “Hunger Games,” and those select few students are set on a track for college graduation and success. Meanwhile, the unlucky children whose names were never voiced in the ceremony are left to endure the failing public school systems. At one point in the documentary, a teacher says that city officials
look at how many students are entering the public schools in Harlem to anticipate future jail space needed. The schools drain hope, and fate alone ordains the chosen few students who get to escape it for a quality education. The film connected with me on a personal level. The film follows a deaf, single mother as she tries to enroll her child in Harlem Success Academy. Since I have a deaf sister with a family of her own, it was heartbreaking to watch the struggles of her family as she tried to give her daughter the best education possible. The other parents’ situations are no less dire, from extreme poverty to broken homes, and each story can connect with audiences. I won’t reveal if any of the children win the lottery in the interest of avoiding spoilers, but the film, while depressing at times, is absolutely worth watching. “The Lottery” provides a picture of our society’s current education system in a light of truth, however unsettling that may be, and should be in every student’s Netflix queue.
For one freshman, concerts a ‘learning experience’ Molly Deaver has attended more than 80 concerts with parents since age 11, estimates cost at $5,000 By Abbey Crain Staff Reporter Molly Deaver, a freshman majoring in international studies, lost track of how many concerts she’s been to, but estimates around 80. Thankfully for her wallet, her rock-obsessed mother funds her hobby as long as she gets to tag along. Deaver began her foray into musical obsession by way of her Pearl Jam-enthusiast parents. As a child, Deaver fell asleep to duets of her mother singing along with Eddie Vedder.
“I grew up with parents that were really interested in music and liked going to concerts themselves, so [I became interested] at an early age and as I got older, it just stuck with me,” Deaver said. When Deaver was 11, her family decided to make a vacation out of a Pearl Jam concert in Hawaii, the farthest she’s been for any concert. Now, Deaver sticks to the Southeast for the majority of her concert experiences. Since her childhood, Deaver has slowly developed a passion for rock in all forms.
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In my experience, whenever I go see a concert, I say I’m going to a concert with 3,999 of my greatest friends because you all have that one thing in common. You feel really connected to everyone around you. Every experience you’ve ever had with that song, you’re thinking about. — Molly Deaver
“I really like rock,” Deaver said. “Like anything from the softer stuff like Death Cab for Cutie to screamo like Bring Me the Horizon and a lot of things in between like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.” As Molly Deaver’s music tastes broadened, so did her mother’s, Tracy Deaver’s. “I really got involved listening to her stuff,” Tracy Deaver said. “Once we started traveling together we developed more of a friend relationship than a mother-daughter relationship. I think she feels like I understand
a lot of things she likes. There are times when I’m still the mother because I worry about her safety, but I feel like its really just brought us a lot closer.” Molly Deaver’s friends are impressed by the Deaver women’s relationship. “It’s great,” Molly Deaver said. “You might think a teenage girl and her mom might not have that much in common, but it’s definitely something we really have in common. A lot of my friends like the same music I do, so when they come over she can really relate to the things we’re
interested in.” Molly Deaver’s favorite part of concert going is singing along with the band and meeting other fans. “In my experience, whenever I go see a concert, I say I’m going to a concert with 3,999 of my greatest friends because you all have that one thing in common. You feel really connected to everyone around you. Every experience you’ve ever had with that song, you’re thinking about,” Deaver said. One of the Deavers’ fondest concert memory involves Flogging Molly circa 2007. “We went to see Flogging Molly in Atlanta in 2007,” Tracy Deaver said. “We took her there and the crowd got kind of wild. She was pretty small and police pulled her around the front of the barricade and let her stand of the front side to watch the show by the stage.”
With her mother’s guidance over the years, Molly Deaver got to meet the lead singer of Wilco, Jeff Tweety, see Pearl Jam in Las Vegas, Nev., and will see them again in Chicago, Ill., at Wrigley Field this summer. Tracy Deaver estimates the cost of their concert excursions is around $5,000, but chalks the monetary cost up to valuable learning experiences. “I think it just gives her a different perspective on things,” Tracy Deaver said. “In many of these cases we’ve gotten to travel, maybe to places she would have never gotten to go. We don’t take traditional vacations; we’ve never been to Disney World.” Molly Deaver has only been to one concert in Tuscaloosa, Taking Back Sunday two years ago. She said she thinks Tuscaloosa has lots of good concerts, but wishes more people she liked came here.
UA professor links accents to Civil War History department curator says poverty, ancestry affected speech By Angeleah Coker Contributing Writer
one to the other. Cody Hall, a UA student majoring in history, speaks He stretches the vowels in with an accent that may be certain words he pronounces vanishing from the American like a child pulls taffy until it vernacular. Southern dialects breaks. Unlike taffy, his words are disappearing as areas of don’t break. They flow from Alabama become more urban, especially in the college community. To lose the accent is to lose part of Southern culture, but it could also draw an end to the stereotype of unsophisticated Southerners. Hall said he feels pressured to keep his accent in check, with more and more students coming to Alabama from across the United States. “Subconsciously, all humans do that,” he said. “They want to be a part of the environment they’re in.” Hall allows his accent to thicken while hunting with his buddies from home, but it wanes while speaking to fellow students. He said the stereotype of Southern stupidity prompts him to act differently in certain social groups. The stereotype for Southerners is an effect of the American Civil War, said Professor David Durham, curator of archival collections in The University of Alabama’s department of history. After the Civil War entrenched the South in poverty, Northerners began to look upon Southerners as stupid D and ignorant. Before the war,
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the South was vibrant and productive. It had money, which supplied a better education and the opportunity to experience different cultures through travel, thus influencing a more sophisticated way of speaking, Durham said. “If you say you’re from the South, or you say you’re from Alabama, the assumption is that you’re less educated and less sophisticated, because you are immediately identified by your speech,” he said. Durham said speech in the South resonates from ancestry. Hall, from Ralph, Ala., descends from the Scotch-Irish. Natives from North England, Scotland and Ireland dispersed into the South during the four major migrations from Great Britain to the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. People from East Anglia migrated primarily to Massachusetts. Durham said the conflicts between these two cultures transferred in the migration and may be one of the causes of the Civil War. Durham supports the theory provided in “Albion’s Seed” by David Hackett Fischer.
According to “Seed,” Southern and Northern accents stem from the cultures of Great Britain. Durham also supports Clarence Cason’s theory in “Ninety Degrees in the Shade.” Cason said the climate and sweltering heat caused speech to slow. Charles Joiner’s “creolization” theory was the idea of mixing the black and white cultures of the South to produce one culture of music, food, religion and language. The mix of races and classes at the University offers new social circles where students pick up other dialects. Hall housed two roommates from the North his freshman year. He said after living with them for a year, his drawl diminished. When accents intermingle for an extended period of time, one can affect the other. Rick Bragg, the Clarence Cason professor of writing in the University’s department of journalism, said it’s all cultural, social and economic. “Accents are created in the same way the landscape is,” Bragg said. “They’re kind of worn into us.”
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Six-piece local band’s album to include graphic novel By Ryan Phillips Contributing Writer Chances are if you frequent the Strip, you may already be familiar with a local band whose name decorates the bathrooms and walls of local live-music hotspots. The Organic Androids, a Tuscaloosa-based band, are a fairly new fixture in the Tuscaloosa music scene. Currently a six-piece group, the band incorporates different musical styles in an effort to craft a fresh sound that transcends genres. The Organic Androids blend rap,
progressive rock and everything in between and have already toured the West Alabama area for the last year. After playing venues such as Bo’s Bar in Tuscaloosa and The Bottle Tree in Birmingham, the band has seen a following grow. “We have tried to establish a strong underground movement and get the word out,” drummer Grant Bramlett said. “It’s great. We love getting our name out there so people will look us up or come to a show.” The publicity generated via band advertising and vigilante advertising on the part of fans is something the band is glad to
see. After several gigs around Tuscaloosa, the group is eager to bring their multifaceted sound to new listeners. “If somebody knows our name after seeing it in a bathroom or bar, they may be more tempted to want to see us and find out what we are about,” bassist Drew Shelnutt said. As a six-piece band, The Organic Androids attribute their sound to the equal contribution of material from band members and the fusion of musical backgrounds. “We try to take our musical styles, and it’s like feeding it into a machine,”
singer-songwriter Jeremy Moulder said. “We each put our individual style into the machine and what comes out is The Organic Androids. You take six different puzzle pieces, put them together, and it makes for an awesome thing.” The band is currently working on an independently produced full-length album that will attempt to bridge the gap that separates music from visual art. A graphic novel designed by the band’s artistic director John “Squash” Williamson will accompany the debut concept album. The graphic novel will be an artistic statement of
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The six-piece band, The Organic Androids, blend rap, progressive rock and everything in between. purpose, and the goal is to give fans a more interactive experience with the music and lyrics. “We don’t force anything,” Moulder said. “There is always material.”
Along with an extensive list of original songs, The Organic Androids also attempt to incorporate covers and melodies designed to get the crowd up and moving.
COLUMN | FASHION
Men can spice up wardrobe with button down, dark jeans, statement jacket By Abbey Crain In past fashion columns, I feel as though I may have left out a significant percentage of the UA population (50 percent), all of those bearing that precious Y chromosome. Admittedly, I don’t have much experience dressing males, but I can sure tell you what looks good and what doesn’t, like Sperrys and those shorts that leave little to the imagination after riding up sitting in the tiny lecture hall seats. I honestly don’t believe boys
Three UA students featured on runways FASHION FROM PAGE 1
“Seeing my stuff on stage was amazing,” Druce said. “I thought for sure I was going to cry because I usually do. I wasn’t really expecting to make the top, so I was really surprised.” Druce was chosen along with two other UA students, Stephanie Nunez and Claudia
when they say they don’t care what they look like. You don’t? Then explain the plethora of Aztec print Patagonia halfzips that popped up atop male chests after Christmas. That’s more than just function, you chose the fashion-forward print over the plain olive green and you know it. Now that I’ve addressed men’s secret affinity for fashion, you can now come to terms with the necessity of style and succumb to fashion’s inherent control over the universe. Rule No. 1 in boy fashion:
Your shoes should mature with your age. Sperry’s are for 14-year-olds and should have walked out of your wardrobe the same time you cut your flippy Bieber-esque locks. Think of a time where you thought girls’ sex appeal was directly proportional to whether or not they’ve had their braces removed. I understand, Sperrys are comfortable and ‘functional for water sports’ so save them for boat outings, not class. You don’t look professional and you lose two maturity points when you wear them with white
socks. Just no. Opt for a more age-appropriate shoe. Really, any brown leather or suede slip-on will do, because I know it might kill boys around here to sport a lace-up oxford. Secret: girls swoon over oxfords. Rule No. 2: Every man should own a denim button down. Be it emblazoned with that ever-covetable horse riding polo player or snagged for $2 at a thrift store, this genderless fashion staple can be worn with virtually everything. Dress it up with chinos and a tie or dress it
down thrown over your favorite T-shirt and jeans. Fact: Denim on denim is no longer taboo. Rule No. 3: Dark jeans. Trade in your faded, possibly faux distressed, American Eagle favorites for something a little more grown up. In the end it will be cheaper. Dark jeans from Express, and even Old Navy has some righteous washes, can serve you well in a number of situations. Dress them up with a blazer (I’ll get to that in a second) or down with whatever you boys wear to class. T-shirts, I know, I just think you
should mix it up every once in a while. Rule No. 4: every man needs a statement jacket. You may not be the statement-making lad I seem to be referring to, but I promise a fun coat, blazer, or jacket can bump up any drab ensemble. Try a leather number for all you daring dudes or a camel blazer to pair with your newly purchased dark jeans. The possibilities are endless. Outerwear is a perfect way to insert a little personality, be it color, texture or cut, into your wardrobe.
Gonzalez, to show their designs alongside internationally famed fashion designers. “We don’t have many opportunities [to show] in the South,” Druce said. “Something like this is giving us up-and-comers an opportunity to be seen and for people to know about us. What else would I do if they didn’t have these smaller ones? It’s really giving us an amazing opportunity.” McKinley, who showcased his menswear line complete with neon and sequin accents,
praised Birmingham, Ala., for nurturing local talent and putting on a successful event. “Not everyone has the opportunity to pick up and leave the place that they’re at, but they still need an outlet to perform and do what they love to do, so I think that it’s great for Birmingham to have such passion and people behind an amazing project,” McKinley said. “It’s definitely on a level that’s working its way up, so it’s great to be involved in something like that and come
here and showcase something that might not necessarily be what something designers down here do, but something that’s happening on a global scale.” Anthony Ryan Auld, winner of “Project Runway All Stars” Season 2, showcased his streamline futuristic designs Friday. Auld is an LSU graduate and plans on returning to Baton Rouge, La., to open his home base. “We live our lives around clothing,” Auld said. “That’s
why I think these fashion weeks are important and I really try to take the time to go to as many as I can and I’m invited to. People tell me, ‘you’re going to have to move to New York or L.A. to be the next so-and-so,’ and I don’t like being told what to do or what I can and cannot do, so right there there’s the challenge already.” Druce interned last summer at Mood Fabrics in New York City and said she saw the “Project Runway” designers scouring the store for fabrics
but never got to speak with them. She explained how great it was to finally meet them this week. “It’s crazy,” Druce said. “Anthony is from the South and showed at Fashion Week New Orleans, which I’m showing at next month and he made it really big, so it just shows I can do that, too.” Although Druce did not win the emerging designers competition, she said she was happy to be a part of Birmingham Fashion Week.
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Tide closes season with losing streak By Caroline Gazzara Staff Reporter
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Daisha Simmons (0) takes a jumpshot against a Missouri defender.
The Alabama women’s basketball team closed out the season with an 88-64 loss to Missouri on senior day in Foster Auditorium, the team’s 10th consecutive loss. Sunday’s loss left the Tide 12-17 overall (2-14 SEC). Despite the continuous losing streak the team faced, the Tide finished the season to the best of its abilities. Coach Wendell Hudson said, though they are doing well in practice, it’s not showing up during the game. “You have to give Missouri a lot of credit because they can shoot the basketball,” Hudson said. “They have proven that in a lot of games, especially in the last five games in the SEC. Watching [Missouri] play is the way you would like to play.
We were passing the ball and taking the shots but just not making them.” Alabama started off the game strong, scoring the first goals of the half. During the first six minutes of the half, the lead changed five times. The constant back-and-forth seemed to fuel the Tide but after the first timeout the urge to win wasn’t apparent anymore. In spite of how the game started, by the end of the half, the Tide was trailing Missouri 41-23. “We had a difficult time getting through the screens,” senior Meghan Perkins said. During the first half alone, sophomore Daisha Simmons scored 13 points against the Tigers and scored 4 more during the second half. Normal score leader junior Shafontaye Meyers was unable to score
during the first half and only scored 8 points during the second. Perkins contributed 6 points in the first half. Missouri started off the second half scoring first but the Tide slowly started to creep up the scoreboard scoring 9 points in three minutes. The Tigers continued to dominate during the second half. “It’s really frustrating to continue to lose because we work on it every day,” Perkins said. “As a team, of course you want to do better but we need to find a way to get together right now.” Alabama let many players have play time, including freshman Emily Davis and senior Jessica Merritt. Merritt scored 8 points during the second half. As the clock ticked on, the Tide appeared to be tired and
less focused. Missouri pounced on Alabama’s weakness, scoring 17 points in the last seven minutes of the game. “From our standpoint, shooting the basketball has been an awful thing for us right now,” Hudson said. “We haven’t shot the ball really well. We played well but losing is contagious.” The Tide’s notable players were junior Jasmine Robinson and freshman Nikki Hegstetter. Robinson scored 11 points during the game while Hegstetter scored 6 points. Alabama ended the game with a shooting average of 32.8 percent. The Tide had a 32.1 percent 3-pointer average and a 84.6 free throw percent average as well. The Tide will go onto the SEC playoffs on Wednesday in Duluth, Ga., to play Mississippi State.
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After tournament victories, softball team to face first ranked team Wednesday By Zac Al-Khateeb The University of Alabama softball team added another impressive string of victories to its résumé over the weekend by beating the St. John’s Red Storm and the Iowa State Cyclones twice in the Easton Classic Tournament. For the No. 1 Tide, it was
simply another day at the office. Alabama was head and shoulders above their opponents and beat them handily. The Tide beat Iowa State by scores of 13-4 and 6-0, and beat St. John’s 9-1 and 12-4. With the four wins, Alabama improved to 22-0 on the season. Granted, the two teams were nothing to write home
about, but Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy has said every opponent Alabama faces is dangerous. And while that may not always be the case, it may help explain why Alabama is so successful. The team continuously plays up to its own standards, which is usually more than enough to beat its opponent.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Women’s tennis team downs Mississippi, continues winning streak CW Staff The fifth-ranked Alabama women’s tennis team overcame a 3-0 deficit to defeat Mississippi, 4-3, at the Gillom Sports Center on Friday to open Southeastern Conference play. The Crimson Tide now stands at 9-1 on the season and 1-0 in the league while the Rebels dip to 2-5 overall and 0-1 against conference opponents. Mississippi led 1-0 following doubles after winning on courts two and three. Alabama’s fourth-ranked duo
of Alexa Guarachi and Mary Anne Macfarlane cruised to an 8-3 victory on court one before the Rebels claimed the 8-5 win on court two and 8-4 victory on court three. Because the match was moved indoors, only three singles matches were able to be played at a time. Mississippi would win all three first sets in tiebreakers and would eventually take the matches on courts one and two for the 3-0 lead. Despite dropping her first set, Maya Jansen would come back to put the Tide on the
board with a 6-7,(2), 6-3, 6-4 win on court three. From there, Emily Zabor cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory on court five before Antonia Foehse pulled through with a 6-4, 7-6,(4) win at the four spot, leaving the deciding point on court six. Natalia Maynetto would deliver the clinching victory for Alabama, posting a 6-2, 6-4 win. The Tide remains on the road for its second match of the weekend when it takes on Mississippi State on Sunday in Starkville, Miss. The match is slated to begin at 1 p.m. CT.
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Senior Alexis Paine breaks 3rd UA record in women’s pole vault CW Staff University of Alabama senior Alexis Paine set a school record in the women’s pole vault Saturday afternoon at the Virginia Tech Qualifier in Blacksburg, Va., improving her chances for qualifying for next week’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Paine, from Mobile, Ala., broke the school record in the event for the third time this season by clearing 13 feet, 11 inches (4.24 meters) on her second attempt at that height. The clearance not only marked an improvement of 2 1/2 inches over her previous personalbest and school record of 13-8 1/2, but also hallmarked a gutsy performance. “Alexis is vaulting with tremendous confidence and it is showing each week,” head coach Dan Waters said. “This
likely gets her in the meet. The way she is performing now, anything is possible. Really proud of her and the job our pole vault coach, Brad Smith, has done.” Paine came to the meet needing to clear that height to realistically qualify for the NCAA meet, so she passed on the first five heights contested in the event. She then cleared the height on her second try. It ended up being her only clearance of the day as she later missed on three attempts at 14-1 3/4 (4.31 meters). By then Paine had done what she had set out to do for the day. Paine finished third in the event behind Heather Hamilton, who was competing unattached, and cleared 14-1 3/4, and South Carolina’s Petra Olsen, who joined Paine in clearing 13-11 but was ahead of her in the standings due to
fewer missed attempts over the course of the competition. The standings were not the point on Saturday, though, as Paine’s new qualifying mark was the goal heading in. A 2012 All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Paine is hoping for a chance to add to her résumé one more time during this indoor season. Now, Paine must await results of other meets to see where she stacks up when the rank order list is finalized early next week. Paine has improved her personal best in the pole vault this season by more than 6 inches, having first set the UA record on Jan. 26 at the Indiana Relays with a clearance of 13-5 1/4. She surpassed that standard last weekend on the way to winning the SEC Indoor title with a 13-8 1/2 clearance.
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Freshman Hakansson breaks school record in men’s weight throw CW Staff Alabama freshman Elias Hakansson broke the school record in the weight throw Friday night at the LSU Indoor Invitational in Baton Rouge, La. The Halmstad, Sweden, native won the event by more than four feet with a best effort of 67 feet, 6 1/2 inches (20.28 meters). Hakansson’s winning throw bettered his previous school record by exactly 9 inches, a toss of 66-9 1/4 that he made back on Feb. 9 in Lincoln, Neb., at the Mark Colligan Memorial.
“Elias had a fantastic series with all of his legal throws over 20 meters,” said UA assistant coach Doug Reynolds, who oversees the Crimson Tide throwers. “It sets him up well for the outdoor hammer throw. He has really shown his potential this indoor season. It will be a close call as to whether or not he gets in [to the NCAA meet], but I am extremely pleased with how he is progressing. And that’s our goal, to be consistently improving. I couldn’t be prouder of him.” Hakansson’s six-attempt
series was the best of his career to this point. After fouling on his first attempt, Hakansson unleashed five consecutive throws of more than 20 meters highlighted by his record effort on his third attempt of the series. Now Hakansson, the only Alabama athlete competing in the meet that served as a “last chance” qualifying competition, will await the determination of the field of competitors for next weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships, to be held next Friday and Saturday, March 8-9, in Fayetteville, Ark.
But the fact remains that most of Alabama’s opponents are simply not talented enough to hang with the Tide. Sure, they might make the game interesting for a few innings, but Alabama always pulls out the win, and in impressive fashion more often than not. But while Murphy treats every opponent like they have the ability to beat Alabama, that rings particularly true this week. That’s because the Tide will play one of the most talented softball teams in the nation when it plays the No. 4 Florida Gators at home. The Gators have their own impressive record, bringing in a 22-1 record to the matchup. And like Alabama, they have playmakers who can change the course of the game in a
single play. For instance, Florida’s ace pitcher, Alyssa Bache, has given up a .85 ERA in five starts and seven game appearances this season. Alabama’s Jackie Traina has given up a .64 ERA in nine starts and 10 game appearances. The Gators also have an impressive lineup at the plate, and have a batter – Kelsey Stewart – who has an impressive .422 batting average. And while Alabama’s success at the plate greatly eclipses Florida’s – the Tide has six batters who average over .400 – the fact remains that the Gators pose a serious threat at the plate. The Gators also have the added intangible factor of having big-game experience. The Gators have beaten the Arizona Wildcats, the Oregon
Ducks and the California Golden Bears. Arizona was ranked 13th at the time Florida beat them, while Oregon was fifth and California third. Alabama has, not played a ranked team this season, essentially making Florida a measuring stick for the Tide. This game will show if Alabama truly has the talent to beat other top-ranked teams in the nation. Both Murphy and the players have mentioned they know how important this game is for the team. They seem to have the right mindset heading into the game and know full well the threat the Gators pose. Although the Tide seems to have the statistical advantage, this marks the first team that truly poses a threat to Alabama.
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Tide’s win avoids weekend sweep By Kevin Connell Staff Reporter After two straight games of struggling at the plate, the Alabama baseball team’s bats came to life Sunday afternoon with a 12-6 victory over the Tulane Green Wave. The Crimson Tide improved to 8-3 on the season with the win. After beginning the season 6-0, Sunday’s win spared the Tide from getting swept for the first time all season. Alabama swept VMI and took two out of three against Florida Atlantic in their first two series of 2013. “The biggest thing today was the win,” Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard said after Sunday’s win. “We needed to get a win this weekend and after really struggling on the offensive end in the first two games it was nice to get some flow in the lineup.” In game one, the Tide was shutout for the first time all season in a 4-0 loss. Tulane sophomore pitcher Tony Rizzotti (2-1) dominated the Tide in seven scoreless innings, throwing 10 strikeouts and allowing only five hits and a walk in the win. Things didn’t get much better Saturday afternoon in
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We wanted to avoid the sweep, so we came out here with a chip on our shoulders. — Ben Moore
game two for the Tide, where it again struggled to get into a rhythm at the plate in a 6-2 defeat. But Sunday’s game revealed a side of Alabama that has not been seen all season. Tide batters pounded the Tulane pitching staff with 12 runs on 10 hits, including the first two extra base hits off of back-to-back doubles in the sixth inning from freshman shortstop Mikey White and sophomore right fielder Ben Moore. “I think after the last two days, [where] we kind of struggled, we made up our minds that we didn’t want to struggle a third day in a row,” Moore said. “We wanted to avoid the sweep, so we came out here with a chip on our shoulders.” Freshman right-hander Ray Castillo (2-0) was credited for the win after coming on
in relief for sophomore starter Spencer Turnbull in the fifth inning. Castillo retired 13 of the 14 batters he faced, including nine straight after entering the game. The lone hit he allowed in 4 1/3 innings pitched was a solo home run to right field from sophomore designated hitter Richard Carthon in the eighth inning. “I thought Ray Castillo did a really good job again out of the bullpen for us,” Gaspard said. Castillo threw six of the 40 strikeouts the Tide threw as a team in the series. Senior right-hander Charley Sullivan led the team with 12 in the first game of the series on Friday. It looked like Sunday’s game was going to a repeat of the first two games of the series after sophomore righthander Spencer Turnbull gave up three straight singles in the first inning. Turnbull
settled down after that, and the Tide escaped the inning allowing only one run. After a couple of innings of minimal action, the Tide took the lead for the first time all series with a four-run fourth inning to make it a 4-1 game. The Green Wave quickly responded in the following inning to make it a 5-4 game giving the appearance that this just wasn’t the Tide’s series. But a six-run sixth inning led by White and Moore’s doubles put the Tide ahead for good at 10-5 en route to the win. Freshman second baseman Kyle Overstreet and junior first baseman Austen Smith both recorded two hits and three RBIs with Moore chipping in two more RBIs and scoring two runs. After a rough start to the series, Smith put it all into perspective. “You have your ups and downs in baseball, so it’s a roller coaster sport; you never know what you’re going to get,” he said. The Tide plays next Tuesday in the Capital City Classic at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Ala., against rival Auburn. The first pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.
CW | Alaina Clark
Alabama finishes 1-2 against Tulane with a 12-6 win on Sunday.
MEN’S TENNIS
Tide drops 1st two conference matches against Rebels, Bulldogs
CW | Cameron Hamner
David Vieyra, a sophomore, returns the ball in his singles match against Mississippi State opponent Zach White. By Andrew Clare Contributing Writer The Alabama men’s tennis team started Southeastern Conference play this past weekend and lost its first two conference matches. The No. 13 Ole Miss Rebels defeated the Crimson Tide 4-3. Alabama then lost to the No. 10 Mississippi State Bulldogs 4-2 Sunday. “We had two very exciting
matches,” head coach George Husack said. “The teams that we lost to have been playing at a high level for much longer than we have. For us to compete the way we did in these matches there is a lot to leave with.” In the Mississippi State match, the Tide won two of its three doubles matches. Winning the majority of the doubles matches gave the Tide a 1-0 lead headed into
the singles portion of the match. Alabama’s top doubles team is made up of senior Jarryd Botha and David Vieyra. Botha and Vieyra defeated their opponents from Mississippi State 8-5. Junior Daniil Proskura and freshman Becker O’Shaughnessey are the Tide’s second doubles team and beat their Mississippi State opponents 8-6. “It was a huge doubles point today,” Botha said. “We came out with lots of energy and lots of focus and we really took it to them and played a really good doubles point.” Alabama only needed to win three of the six singles matches to the overall team match. The Tide lost the first three singles matches and trailed the Bulldogs 3-1. Alabama made a late surge but fell short losing to Mississippi State 4-2. Botha was the only one able to win in singles as he won in three sets 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. “I thought it was a good match for me,” Botha said. “I started off really well, there were a few ups and downs in the second set but eventually I maintained focus and kept on playing to my best efforts and came out with a win.” The late comeback by the Tide was led by Vieyra, who lost his first set but then came back and won his second to force a third set. The
overall match came down to Vieyra’s match. In the third set Vieyra was tied with his opponent and went into a tiebreaker where he fell short losing 7-5 in the tiebreaker. O’Shaughnessey came back in his match, too. He lost his first set, won his second set but because Vieyra lost, the match was stopped in
the third set, clinching the Bulldogs’ win. “I was impressed in the way they responded late in singles,” Husack said. “We were getting our butts kicked early and we turned it around late.” The Tide’s next match is on the road against the Arkansas Razorbacks March 8. Botha said that if the team
continues to compete and fight until the end like it did in its last two matches, it will be successful. “It shows in our results that we are getting really close to big wins,” Botha said. “I think we’ve got to carry on that mentality on to the court, and I think we’ve got a great future ahead of us.”
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Gymnastics team defeats UCLA in top-10 matchup By Caroline Gazzara Staff Reporter The Alabama gymnastics team defeated the UCLA Bruins 197.075 to 196.375 in Coleman Coliseum Friday. The Crimson Tide, No. 4 nationally, started off strong in the first event, leading the Bruins 49.5 to 49.275. Alabama started on the vault and UCLA on the uneven bars. Sophomore Kaitlyn Clark and junior Diandra Milliner both scored 9.9. “Tonight was a great meet for us,” senior Ashley Priess said. “We did a really great job tonight with improvements on
stuck landing and cleaning up form and handstands. We just need to continue to progress and work on those different areas and it’s going to pay off in the end.” The second event proved to be challenging for the Tide, who trailed at the end of the second. Most of the gymnasts received average scores, but junior Sarah DeMeo fell twice during her set. The Tide dropped her score, an 8.65. “[Sarah] is a competitor; she’s experienced so she knows exactly how to come back,” junior Kim Jacob said. “She definitely stepped it up.”
Alabama took charge of the last two events, leaving UCLA in the dust. Priess scored her career high of 9.925 on the beam. The third rotation helped Alabama gain the momentum it needed. UCLA’s routines didn’t produce high enough scores due to their dance-like choreography. Alabama’s beam scores ensured that though the team had faltered during the uneven bars, it was not out of the meet completely. The Tide relied heavily on freshmen Carly Sims and Lauren Beers during the meet. The two are normally
back-ups for Alabama, but both produced averages that helped the Tide win. At the end of the third rotation Alabama led 147.625 to 147.225. Alabama’s last performe, Milliner, ended the rotation with a fired-up performance that scored her a 9.95. Alabama ended the event leading UCLA 197.075 to 196.375. Jacob made the highest allaround score with a 39.425, making this her fourth time taking home the all-around honor. The Tide will travel to LSU on March 8 to face the No. 5 Tigers.
CW | Shannon Auvil
The No. 4 Alabama gymnastics team defeated the No. 6 UCLA Bruins 197.075-196.375 March 1 in Coleman Coliseum.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Men’s basketball team falls to Florida in Gainesville Saturday CW Staff The Alabama men’s basketball team fell to No. 6 Florida 64-52 Saturday afternoon in Gainesville, Fla. Alabama is now 19-10 overall and 11-5 in Southeastern Conference play. The score was close throughout. Alabama opened the second half on a 14-4 run and led by as many as 8 points, 45-37, with just over 12 minutes remaining. However, Florida ended the game on a 25-7 run to secure the win. “It’s always going to be a 40-minute game,” head coach Anthony Grant said. “We wanted to stay the course, not play too fast or play too slow, and that helped us to get the lead;
but a team as good as Florida will know how to respond to that.” The Tide outscored Florida 37-30 in the paint. The Gators won the game from the freethrow line, where it held a sizeable advantage over the Tide, shooting 22-of-26 from the line compared to Alabama’s 4-of-10. “Things went their way,” Grant said. “We wanted to get to the free-throw line but that did not happen.” Junior guard Trevor Releford led the Tide with 12 points, giving him 1,208 points for his career and making him 35th on UA’s all-time scoring list. He also tallied four assists. Sophomore forward Nick Jacobs and sophomore guard Trevor Lacey both
had 11 points and 5 rebounds. Florida forward Erik Murphy led all players with 15 points and 8 rebounds while Casey Prather had 10 points and 9 rebounds off the bench. “This is not something that can discourage us,” Grant said. “We just have to move forward. We still have the chance to get a top-four seed (in the SEC Tournament). We just need to be prepared to enter into another hostile environment at Ole Miss.” Alabama plays again Tuesday, March 5 in Oxford, Miss., against Ole Miss. The game will be televised by ESPNU and the radio broadcast will be carried on the Crimson Tide Sports Network.