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Cochran, T-Town toasts to Sunday sales Hogan face off in debate

By William Evans Senior Staff Reporter wjevans@crimson.ua.edu Students gathered in the Ferguson Center Ballroom on Sunday evening to listen to Student Government Association presidential candidates Coresa Nancy Hogan and Grant Cochran discuss their platforms.

Prospective SGA senators campaigning for office were available for students to approach prior to the presidential debate sponsored by the Residence Hall Association.

In his opening statement, Cochran said, if elected, he could use his experience as this year’s vice president of external affairs to address student concerns as SGA president.

“It is my goal to keep students informed of how their SGA is serving them,” he said.

He plans to post bi-weekly videos on the SGA website that summarize the accomplishments of the SGA during that timeframe, encourage student organizations to invite SGA senators to their meetings and increase student employment, he said.

In her opening statement, Hogan said she wants to focus on uniting the campus body.

“We need to quit talking about uniting this campus and actually do it,” she said.

As this year’s president of the Black Student Union, she said she has worked to bridge gaps among student groups and has coordinated projects that benefited the student body.

In response to tuition hikes, Cochran said he would communicate with the administration to relay the concerns of students to the University.

“I will voice the concern that tuition is rising at an exponential rate,” he said.

In response, Hogan said she would work through the SGA to raise student scholarships to counter the effect of tuition escalation.

To alleviate traffic congestion on campus, Hogan said she would make the alternatives to commuter traffic, such as the CrimsonRide, more effective.

Cochran said he has worked with parking and transportation services for the past two years to address parking concerns and has

See DEBATE, page 6

By Alex Cohen Staff Reporter accohen@bama.ua.edu This Sunday began like any other end to a weekend.

I stumbled out of bed, immediately regretting a few of Saturday’s decisions while contemplating Sunday’s usual means of procrastination. Typically, I resort to Facebook, laundry or the NBA, but I sensed another option — freshly purchased alcohol.

12:30 p.m.

CW | Drew Hoover

I sat down at Wilhagan’s with two friends equally eager to participate in the sanctioned Funday. A waitress came by to take our drink orders. I was nervous. After all, I was about to help make Tuscaloosa history. I decided on a Bloody Mary; my friends

TOP: Egan’s patrons celebrate with dance and drink.

ABOVE: Phillip Walker and Spencer Mobley enjoy drinks at Innisfree on Sunday. Mobley and Walker are second year law students at the University.

RIGHT: Innisfree advertises Tuscaloosa’s seventh day alcohol sales. had mimosas.

I looked around and noticed virtually everyone — mostly

nonstudents – had a drink. They

See ALCOHOL, page 8

Tide finishes undefeated at home Alabama players celebrate their 6557 victory over Georgia on Saturday.

The win completed the Tides perfect home record of 16-0 in Coleman Coliseum.

By Jason Galloway Sports Editor crimsonwhitesports@gmail.com After the Alabama basketball team’s 65-57 victory over Georgia on Saturday, the Crimson Tide players congregated at midcourt in Coleman Coliseum and began a dance-off.

The Jumbotron captured the players pulling off all kinds of dance moves, celebrating their perfect 16-0 record at home this season. After finishing a television post-game interview, head coach Anthony Grant took a microphone and addressed the sold-out crowd, thanking them for their support throughout the season.

“Our fans have been tremendous,” Grant said after the game. “We wouldn’t be where we are at right now without the support and the enthusiasm that is in this building.

I can tell you even [Saturday] there were times when the energy was provided by the fans, and that’s been the case all season for us.”

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Online survey seeks ideas for campus blueprint

By Stephen Walker Contributing Writer The University’s Office of Financial Affairs is giving students and other members of the UA community an opportunity to provide insight and suggestions on how to make campus more effective and student friendly.

Students, faculty and others who wish to participate are invited to contribute through an online survey to the 2012 Master Plan, a blueprint for the construction and improvement of every physical aspect of campus from dormitories and bicycle lanes to parking lots

and shrubbery.

“The UA Board of Trustees requires a new master plan, or an update of the current plan, every five years,” University Planner and Designer Dan Wolfe said.

Since the last update in 2007, the University has changed drastically in numerous ways.

“Much has been accomplished since the UA Board of Trustees adopted the 2007 Campus Master Plan Update,” the Financial Affairs website states. “Enrollment has increased significantly, new student housing has been added, classrooms and

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It was the 16th time in school history the Tide has finished the season perfectly at home, but it was the first time Alabama has accomplished the feat since the 2001-02 season.

The atmosphere in Coleman has done more than just make it a tough place for opponents to play. Big-time recruits Levi Randolph and Rodney Cooper – both already committed to Alabama – stood right beside the dance-off at midcourt after Saturday’s game. “I can’t tell you how much it means in terms of what we’re trying to build and the program we want to establish here,�

Grant said. “The environment that’s been created in here is tremendous – our students, our supporters, everybody. It

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Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Smith Hall, room 205. “We expect him to provide insight on the current revolutions in the Middle East with an eye to US foreign policy history,� David Beito, a UA history professor, said. “We also expect him to delve into regional movements for political, social and cultural independence.

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Before Saturday, some had questioned Alabama’s strength of schedule at home. The argument was that the only difficult game for the Tide in Coleman was Kentucky in early January, a team that has struggled on the road this season. But Saturday’s win against Georgia added another win against an NCAAtournament caliber team. “It was a huge win,� junior forward JaMychal Green said. “To finish out the season undefeated at home is always a good feel-

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Saturday was extra special for four Tide players, as the team’s seniors got to finish their careers with 17 straight home victories dating back to last season.

Especially for senior Charvez Davis, who shot 5-of-10 from 3-point range after struggling in the Tide’s past two games. “It feels great,� Davis said. “I wanted to end it like this on a good note, so I’m proud of myself for that. I have to give my team credit because they were looking out for me and kept believing in me, so I take my hat off to them.�

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Students give up coffee for philanthropy

By Stephen Walker Contributing Writer Each morning, a crowd of sleep-deprived students line up at Starbucks in the Ferguson Center to get their morning “cup of joe.” The long line of customers that seems to persist throughout the day reveals something about the UA student body: They love their coffee.

The Mocha Club is a community of people who have pledged to give up two mochas each month, a savings of about $7, and donate the money instead to human aid programs in Africa, the Mocha Club website states.

Mocha Club is a national non-profit organization that was started to give students a way to make an impact among impoverished people in Africa.

The average student may not think twice of spending $7 or more on a visit to their favorite coffee shop, a ticket at the movie theatre or a meal at Fresh Foods. For many Africans living in poverty, however, $7 can mean the difference between life and death.

“Seven dollars in Africa can sustain life for one person living with AIDS, provide clean water to seven Africans for one year or save one person’s life from malaria,” the website states.

Participants in the club can specify which of five causes they would like their monthly donation to support.

“The different projects they offer are Education, Child Mothers and Women at Risk, HIV/AIDS and Healthcare, Clean Water and Orphan Care

SURVEY

“We will not scale back the Master Plan because of the economy. However, it may take a little longer to implement all aspects of the plan if the economy does not rebound as quickly as expected.”

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research facilities have been built and renovated, Foster Auditorium has been restored and additions have been completed to Bryant-Denny Stadium.”

However, unprecedented growth over the past five years in both student enrollment and campus size creates new challenges that must be addressed by an updated Master Plan.

When the Master Plan was last updated in 2007, enrollment stood at 24,933 students, approximately 5,000 less than current levels, according to ua.edu. Additionally, since the 2007 update, the University has enlarged the overall campus size with the acquisition of the 168acre Bryce Hospital property.

To accommodate this growth and plan for even higher levels of enrollment in the future, careful planning and strategic design are needed.

An essential part of putting together an effective Master Plan is finding out what people think about the present campus,

and Vulnerable Children,” UA campus representative Tara Northington said.

“Mocha Club is totally an affordable way for many college students to become connected to Africa without having thousands of dollars to travel or give,” she said.

Northington said she became interested in the club after learning about it from another student at Get On Board Day. Interest turned into involvement after a broken hip from horseback riding gave her a good amount of time to browse the Internet and learn more about the club, she said.

The national Mocha Club organization began in 2005 and has since saved and improved the lives of numerous Africans.

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— Dan Wolfe what issues people think the University will face over the next five years and which aspects of campus deserve the most attention, the online survey states.

The survey consists mostly of open-ended questions so participants can express how they feel about the issues facing the University and provide suggestions on how to deal with them.

“All comments and survey data received will be considered as the plan is crafted,” Wolfe said. “After the draft plan is formulated this summer we will again go back to the campus community, in the fall, to be sure we have heard correctly and responded accordingly.”

Individual ideas for improving the campus may be submitted directly to Wolfe through a link on the Office of Financial Affairs website.

“I will personally review all

comments and make sure they are sent to our consultants for their review and consideration,” he said.

After all ideas have been heard and the new Master Plan is complete, it will be available online so those interested can review, comment on and provide further feedback about it, he said.

In spite of budget cuts and some loss of funding, the 2012 Master Plan will not reflect smaller scale plans for the campus.

“We will not scale back the Master Plan because of the economy,” Wolfe said. “However, it may take a little longer to implement all aspects of the plan if the economy does not rebound as quickly as expected.”

Students may participate in the survey by visiting uafacilities.ua.edu and clicking the Campus Master Plan link.

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were donated by participants across the country to the Mocha Club to fund projects in Africa, according to the organization’s website. The club strives to maintain low costs and overhead so that the maximum amount of money possible can go directly to the projects.

“Right now the Mocha Club is working on something called ‘FashionABLE,’ selling scarves that are handmade by women in Ethiopia to rescue them from the sex industry and giving women a new self respect for themselves through providing them with an honest living for their families,” Northington said.

Sixteen new water wells have been built in Sudan, providing clean drinking water to thousands, she said. Although these wells are built to supply

FAST FACTS • Mocha club members give up two mochas each month and donate that $7 to aid in Africa • $7 can provide a year of clean water for seven Africans • For more information, visit www.themochaclub.com the needs of 500 people, many wells are being used by 1,000 or more due to lack of clean water.

Mocha Club also provides assistance to the large number of orphans in various countries in Africa.

“We have orphan care projects in Sudan, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe where we provide the children with safe

housing, protection and complete care - food, education, spiritual direction, medical attention and vocational training,” the website states.

Northington said she would like to spread the message of Mocha Club to greek houses and other student organizations. More information about Mocha Club can be found at themochaclub.com.

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Monday, March 7, 2011 Editor • Tray Smith letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4

{ YOUR VIEW } CW Poll Are you going to vote in next week’s SGA election?

YES 69% 134 Votes

NO 31% 60 Votes

Total Voters: 194

Cochran, Hogan on equal footing MCT Campus

SGA election affords vote for unity

By John Brinkerhoff Throughout this semester, publicized tensions across campus have revealed a glaring lack of unity among UA students. Our difficulties range from the serious to the ridiculous, but whether it is racial slurs being hurled at minorities or a national championship that forced a choice between SEC loyalty and the hatred of a rival, it is clear that the Capstone is perceived as a community of groups that are constantly at odds. While some of these perceptions are backed by legitimate concerns and need to be recognized, others lack substance and only serve to hold this university back.

If we judge by the rhetoric that surrounded Kendra Key’s SGA presidential run two years ago and the confusion concerning the SGA administration’s trip to Pasadena last year, then our student government would appear to be the epitome of this division. In fact, when it comes to the programs that the SGA creates, it seems as if critics care more about the group affiliation of the author than the actual program itself.

For example, following the creation of the High Tide Club, The Crimson White published a column titled “High-dy Tide-y Dumb Almighty” that labeled the entire program a “half-hearted effort” that would be important in “keeping students away from wandering into the greek student section.”

The column ignored the fact that one of the High Tide Club’s two senate sponsors was a nongreek senator, but in reality, that aspect should not matter. When

The SGA has the potential to become a unifying figure that works to engage the entire student body. In order to become that force, those involved with the SGA need to be united by their love of the University of Alabama; however, that process must start with the students. we evaluate the effectiveness of a campus program, we shouldn’t care whether the author was an Alpha Gam, a Malleteer or a proud attendee of the Kami-Con convention.

Instead, the focus should be placed on a program’s purpose and results. The High Tide Club was not a greek versus independent showdown, but rather, a wildly successful program that not only met its maximum capacity before the first game, but also raised thousands of dollars in student scholarships.

This rhetoric of division does not accurately represent the SGA. Obviously, I understand that there are many deep-seeded internal problems within SGA processes, especially elections.

However, using a single ink to cast a negative dye across all the leaders that strive to make campus better is unwarranted.

In refusing to objectively analyze the merit of a program because of its creators, we force upon others the negative labels that continue to rupture our campus community.

The true divisions within the SGA do not revolve around a person’s views on khakis or cargos.

They are seen between those who use their positions to move this campus forward and those who want to gain influence in order to advance personal interests.

With this in mind, students must realize that simply voting is not enough. We must understand why we are voting for a specific person. When a ballot is cast, it should be done to ensure that positions are awarded based upon tangible merits as opposed to intangible affiliations.

The SGA has the potential to become a unifying figure that works to engage the entire student body. In order to become that force, those involved with the SGA need to be united by their love of the University of Alabama; however, that process must start with the students.

Tomorrow, I ask you to not only vote, but also to vote with a sense of purpose. This upcoming SGA election is our opportunity to demonstrate a willingness to look past group association and reaffirm our commitment to advancing the Capstone by choosing leaders who will be ethical, objective and diligent in upholding the University’s ideals and serving the student body. If we cannot be united in this process, then we can never hope to heal any of the other painful divisions on campus.

John Brinkerhoff is a sophomore majoring in political science and communication studies. His column runs biweekly on Mondays.

When students In short: Both vote for SGA president tomorrow, they candidates are will not just pick a qualified, but person. They will pick represent an idea. different ideas.

Both Grant Cochran and Nancy Hogan have great strengths and talents, but their qualifications are different and appeal to different groups of students.

Cochran has spent three years in the SGA. He has experience managing a variety of projects and initiatives. As Vice President for External Affairs this past year, he has brought in a diverse staff and developed a broad portfolio. If he is elected, he will be able to immediately begin addressing important issues, because he has already been working on them.

Coresa Nancy Hogan, on the other hand, has only spent two months in the SGA, as senior advisor to the president. However, in her time at the Capstone, she has served on seven executive boards, and is currently the president of the Black Student Union. If elected, she would have an enormous opportunity to transform the face of The University and engage disenfranchised and disparate student groups.

Cochran would be able to develop and manage SGA projects; Hogan would be able to finally give the student body a sense of unity and identity.

At the end of the day, the decision therefore comes down to what students care more about: having an SGA president who is prepared and ready, or having a transformer who would make news immediately simply for running against the current system and winning.

We regret the current state of campus politics. The lack of competition in executive races, the hurdles facing women and minorities, and the disconnect some students feel toward involvement all prevent the student body from reaching its full potential.

However, we are not convinced that being part of the campus political establishment alone disqualifies a candidate to be SGA president. Despite how concerning the system that produces most of our SGA leaders may be, good people can occasionally emerge from it and be successful. During his time in SGA, Cochran has been a part of the effort to make the SGA more diverse.

We are not convinced experience alone qualifies someone to become SGA president. It is a lot easier to accumulate SGA experience when provided with the support of entrenched powerbrokers. Hogan’s work with other groups has made her more prepared to address their concerns.

Therefore, we believe either candidate would serve the student body well. However, we also believe it is important that students begin thinking about these issues, and cast their vote for the individual who best fits their idea of a good SGA president: someone with a long and distinguished record of service in student government, or someone with great potential to change campus culture.

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SGA PRESIDENTIAL RACE

This Week’s Question: Did you miss stickers and chalk during this year’s SGA campaign?

EDITORIAL BOARD Victor Luckerson Editor Jonathan Reed Managing Editor Tray Smith Opinions Editor Adam Greene Chief Copy Editor

WE WELCOME YOUR OPINIONS Letters to the editor must be less than 300 words and guest columns less than 800.

Send submissions to letters@ cw.ua.edu. Submissions must include the author’s name, year, major and daytime phone number. Phone numbers are for verification and will not be published.

Students should also include their year in school and major. For more information, call 348-6144. The CW reserves the right to edit all submissions.

Hogan: Ready for efficency and Cochran: Keep moving forward in student-led change the right direction My name is Coresa Nancy Hogan, and I am running to be your next SGA president. Over the last month, I’ve had the opportunity to listen to the concerns of students from every corner of campus. It is obvious that we are all ready for real change here at UA. My campaign is centered on three main pillars.

The first relates to eliminating waste within the SGA. With Governor Bentley’s recent announcement of a major cut in the state education budget, I believe the SGA should provide more opportunities to help students who are struggling financially. If elected, I will not take an executive salary, and I will make sure that the money is put back into the SGA budget toward scholarships and FAC funding.

The second pillar to my platform is to find innovative solutions for our growing campus. As the University continues to expand, we must make sure that our resources and facilities are adequately keeping up with that growth. I want to work with the IT Department to make sure we have enough IP addresses or sufficient alternative solutions to keep ResNet connections strong. I will also work with the administration to find some feasible solutions to our parking crisis. These solutions

will help to improve the quality of life for every student on our campus.

The final pillar of my platform, and the one I am most passionate about, is to truly unite this campus. For too long, our campus has stood divided into various factions. I believe it is time to move forward toward a UA community in which every student feels comfortable. We must stop looking back and move forward toward a united University of Alabama.

The contrasts in this election could not be clearer. One candidate’s campaign is all about “I” and “me” while one candidate’s campaign focuses on “us” and “we.” One candidate’s campaign is built around underground meetings, while the other candidate supports open door policies. One candidate wants to put the SGA above the students, while the other candidate wants to make the SGA about the students.

I humbly ask for your vote and your support. Your vote will decide the future of our SGA. It is your vote and your vote alone.

Coresa Nancy Hogan is a junior majoring in accounting and fashion retailing. She is a candidate for SGA president.

Over the past three years, I have witnessed the extraordinary talent and leadership of our student body by working with students through the SGA. Some of the best projects I have been a part of, like expanding access to parking at the Student Recreation Center and launching the Women’s Political Initiative, have been successful because students from both within and outside of the SGA worked together to improve student life. I am running for SGA president so that we can continue to harness that energy and passion to address the issues students are concerned about.

I began serving in SGA as a freshman on the First Year Council. That experience is fortunate, since that program has been restructured and will now be under the president. Bringing freshman into the SGA and allowing them to play a role in projects is important; however, the FYC can also be utilized as a valuable tool to reach out to and engage the entire freshmen class. We must begin engaging students early if we are going to expose them to all of the many opportunities at UA and crumble the walls that currently divide our campus.

My goals for the SGA are clear: better communicating initiatives, instituting accountability, maintaining transparency, building diversity and enhancing the integrity of our academic programs.

These are the same issues I have worked

on for three years in SGA. While we have made incredible progress, our work is not done.

Our work is not done until students struggling under financial distress can find direct opportunities for student employment online.

Our work is not done until we ensure the Financial Affairs Committee has the resources necessary to support a growing number of student organizations.

Our work is not done until students see the SGA as a true governing body, and we make SGA more inclusive than it has ever been.

Our work is not done until we make SGA accessible to all students through scheduled office hours, video addresses,and organizational invitation forms. Through student engagement, we can identify and address student concerns more effectively.

This election is about contrasts.

My campaign stands for new, feasible ideas to foster growth and unity within the SGA and the entire student body.

Unification is our goal, and unyielding progress is our method. We have come too far to revert back to tired arguments of years past. We must not let this election reopen old divisions. I humbly ask for your support Tuesday.

Grant Cochran is a junior majoring in biochemistry. He is a candidate for SGA president.

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Old Money/New Money an age-old conflict in pro basketball

By Tyler Rigdon

Following last week’s controversial article concerning old money and new money on our campus, I would like to state that I do believe in the divide. It is a divide that has deepened as of late. However, it is all out-of-state due to Alabama’s inefficiency at bringing in professional sports.

It is a divide that has split the NBA into two distinct groups.

Confrontation is at hand.

These two sides are set for battle. With bounce passes that cut like knives and dunks that can deface any poor soul, the old money/new money divide has gained notorious teams on both sides. While one side is looking toward retirement and the other looking past high school, the

NBA and its fans stand in awe.

Old money, such as the Lakers, Spurs and Celtics, are listed as favorites year after year. Their production usually comes from rehabilitated knees and old-fashioned techniques. They speak of times when they played against the likes of John Stockton and Michael Jordan. In those days, they had to walk to the arena, uphill both ways. The end of their tenure is fast approaching.

They’ll most likely retire within the next five years, only to come back, play two years for the Raptors, and further stain their careers.

Fans of old money teams have more often than not always been fans of those teams. These fans speak of team experience and live in past championships.

Watching old money teams play the sport is about as exciting as watching sea urchins procreate.

I would rather watch Nicholas Cage act than Tim Duncan bank shots.

For some basketball godforsaken reason, they are at the top at the end of the year. This then means my sports choices are spring baseball or the 1974 rematch of the same damn Lakers and Celtics team. I am just hoping it’s Sunday so I can aimlessly watch three hours of left turns instead.

New money, such as the Heat, Thunder and Knicks, have newly acquired talent that has catapulted them to the top. Their production comes from youth and finesse. They rely on highlight-reel dunks, alley-oops, and

trick shots to overcome their opponents. They speak of the time when they went to college for one year (or just high school) and averaged 30-plus points a game while taking their team to the Final Four, only to leave and piss off a whole fan base.

Their tenure has no end in sight.

They’ll most likely grow and develop into old money and continue this whole ‘Circle of Life’ with less appealing characters.

Ironically, most people hate new money teams as well. They claim this hatred is due to the selfishness of the players and disrespect for the game. This can be seen through the formation of “super-teams” for the purpose of “nuclear basketball.”

Also, hosting your own selection show in order to tell the world

where you plan on taking your talents is usually looked upon as selfish.

The love for the game that has been documented by old money and shown through their predecessors is not evident with new money. It’s as though they took the love for the game and contorted it into self-interest, similar to the way MTV takes love and lets soulless individuals such as Flava Flav and Tila Tequila own it.

One area that was left out of the campus struggle for power between old and new money was a certain section titled “No Money.” Well, No Money has its own particular place in the NBA. The Kings, Raptors and Nets all fall under the title. All there is to know about no money is that

they are terrible. They most likely will not rise to power in our lifetimes. Watching them play is about as attractive as Nicholas Cage if he were cast as the leading role in Black Swan.

The sides are ready. As you recline in your dorm, apartment, or living room as the playoffs approach, notice the differences between old money and new money. Do not hope for compromise. Do not hope for conformity. Only hope for heightened tension and hatred. After you hope for those things, sit back and enjoy, and may Blake Griffin have mercy on your soul.

Tyler Rigdon is a sophomore majoring in chemical engineering. His column runs biweekly on Mondays.

Quieter SGA campaigns less devisive, offer opportunities for collaboration

By Tray Smith

For a campus famous for intense SGA elections, the current campaign, like the one that preceded it, has been fairly quiet. The Elections Board has banned chalking and stickers, once essential outlets for candidates. Facebook groups, which had become useful campaign tools, are less prevalent because no one really understands how Facebook groups work anymore.

Dale Peterson is coming to campus to host a debate tonight, the highlight of which will be Dale Peterson.

While there is something to be said for more engaging elections, the recent trend towards low-key campaigning is not necessarily a bad thing. It coincides with changes in our campus culture and significant recent improvements made within the SGA. Less divisive elections help create a less divisive student government and make it easier to bring a diverse group of student leaders together to work on projects after elected officers are inaugurated. Instead of being a

lightning rod that polarizes students into two distinct camps, the SGA is evolving into an organization that helps facilitate student involvement and leadership across campus.

The First Year Council, for instance, brings freshmen into the SGA and allows them to play a role in shaping initiatives and policies. It has the stated purpose of training students for future SGA service; however, many former FYC members have ended up in leadership positions in a variety of student organizations not related to the SGA. FYC allows these students to network and develop their leadership skills, which they can later use in a variety of ways.

The student organization seating process established last fall was much less controversial than in years past and is a good example of the SGA using its resources to help other groups offer their membership a better college experience.

The world is moving away from hierarchical leadership systems and toward collaboration. Our campus is no different. Whereas student leaders

once vied for seven positions on SGA Executive Council, there is now a large group of students involved through other venues.

The SGA no longer sits atop the student involvement pyramid, but instead comprises the partial nucleus of a very large cell of student organizations, committees and projects. It has a critically important role but is not the sole outlet for student involvement. More students now have the opportunity to participate in campus affairs, but integrating their ideas and contributions presents some challenges.

While the SGA could once affect a lot of different programs on its own, going forward, it will be most effective when it works with other groups. The National Society of Black Engineers, for instance, recently cosponsored the SGA Date Auction, which gathered a record amount of money for student scholarships.

Instead of hosting the Date Auction alone, the SGA reached out, included a different student organization, and thus engaged more students in its activities.

Such partnerships set a great

model for future endeavors.

The SGA also has a great opportunity to take advantage of this vertical collaboration and positively impact campus. Its history, prestige and resources make it the best vehicle to bring student leaders together under an overarching mission to help equalize opportunities for students and give them a more enriching collegiate experience.

For instance, the current administration includes NPHC president Teddy Phillips, who serves as director of engagement, alongside other officials with a wealth of SGA experience from across the campus political spectrum.

When you vote for SGA president on Tuesday, remember, regardless of whom you select and who emerges as the winner, there are multiple opportunities for you to get involved going forward. The new SGA administration is going to need your ideas and participation, and we have finally laid the foundations for a campus culture in which various student leaders work together and hold one another accountable. While I am sure there will

be more divisive campaigns in the future, the current situation gives us an opportunity to continue bridging long-lasting divides and work toward build-

ing a better campus for all.

Tray Smith is the opinions editor of The Crimson White. His column runs on Monday.

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Sunday sales latest step in Cold Stone, relaxing state’s alcohol laws greeks join for

By Amanda Sams Senior Staff Reporter alsams1@crimson.ua.edu

Before alcohol was voted legal to sell on Sundays on Feb. 22, the alcohol aisles in stores such as Target and Publix were roped off every Sunday in accordance with the Alabama Blue Laws. Blue Laws originated hundreds of years ago during the colonial period in observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States’ website, prohibitionrepeal.com.

After Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933, each state created its own system of alcoholic beverage control, according to the Distilled Spirits Council. Alabama is one of 18 “control states,” meaning that the state maintains a monopoly as the sole wholesaler of spirits within its borders and also acts as the retailer of bottled spirits sold in its state stores. “Licensed states,” on the other hand, make up the majority of the nation. These states operate on a three-tier system that requires alcohol producers to sell their products to a state licensed wholesaler who in turn sells the product to a state-licensed retailer.

Since 2002, 14 states have authorized Sunday spirits sales, bringing the total to 36.

Today, 14 states ban the sales of distilled spirits on Sunday.

The Alabama Department of Archives and History website said prohibition has long been an issue in the state. “The Bone Dry” law was enacted in 1915 because prohibition forc-

es controlled the state legislature. Consequently, Alabama was a dry state before federal Prohibition was ratified in 1920.

“Residents generally believed that the Noble Experiment would improve health, increase safety, reduce violence, raise public morality and create a better environment for young people,” David J. Hanson, professor emeritus of sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam wrote on his website, ‘Alcohol Problems and Solutions.’ “However, it quickly became apparent that Prohibition was not having the desired outcomes. In the first year of the new law, Alabama became the leading state in the country in the number of illegal moonshine stills found.”

Hanson has researched the subject of alcohol and drinking for more than 40 years, received alcohol research grants from federal and state agencies, published more than two dozen chapters in books on alcohol, prepared articles for several encyclopedias and published two books on alcohol.

A plot to “exterminate” all Prohibition enforcement officers operating in the northern part of the state was discovered after the death of one officer and the wounding of two others, according to Hanson.

He said Prohibition promoted abusive drinking and deprived the state of needed revenue while concurrently causing increased expenses for taxpayers.

“Nevertheless, much temperance sentiment remains many decades after Repeal,”

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FAST FACTS • So convinced were they that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on the eve of Prohibition (1920-1933), some towns actually sold their jails.

By Brittney Knox Staff Reporter bsknox@crimson.ua.edu Cold Stone Creamery has partnered with a senior public relations campaigns course to bring the greek community the “Get Chill for your Phil” event, an ongoing contest for organizations to raise money for their philanthropies.

Beginning March 4 and running until April 1, members of greek organizations are encouraged to visit Cold Stone Creamery to raise money for their philanthropy. On each visit, the members will fill out a slip to specify which chapter they represent.

“As a component of the course, we try to find a client in Tuscaloosa for the students to implement an actual campaign,” said Eyun-Jung Ki, associate professor of public relations.

On April 1, the top three fraternities and top three sororities will be entered into a timed ice cream eating contest to be held April 4, and the winner will receive a cash donation to benefit their philanthropy.

Ki said Cold Stone agreed to work with the public relations course and offered the students an actual budget to work with in order for them to gain real world experience as public relations representatives.

“Before the campaign begins, the students select a targeted audience and implement primary research,” she said. “This is done in order to know your audience that you are trying to capture.”

Ki said Cold Stone is working with three teams for this campaign. The audiences targeted members of the greek community, residents

• New York City alone had about 30,000 speakeasies.

• In Los Angeles, a jury that had heard a bootlegging case was itself put on trial after it drank the evidence.

• Notorious bootlegger Al Capone made $60 million dollars per year while the average industrial worker earned less than $1,000 per year. *Information obtained from the Distilled Spirits Council of United States at discus.org Hanson writes. “Anti-alcohol attitudes are reflected in high taxes on alcohol and restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday, the second busiest shopping day of the week. Perhaps in the 21st century residents will finally finish the job of Repeal and end all vestiges of that failed experiment in social engineering known as Prohibition.”

Additionally, the Alabama Blue Laws imposes restrictions on home brewing, container size and breweries. “Free the Hops,” an organization also known as “Alabamians for Specialty Beer,” said on their website that the 16 oz. container size limit makes it impossible to sell many specialty beers that are often 20 oz. Also, brewpubs must be located in a “historic building” to operate.

Doug Nelson, owner of The Houndstooth Sports Bar on The Strip, said he is definitely in favor of the ban being lifted.

“We’re very supportive because it’s an extra day to be open,” he said. “I’ve been in this business over 20 years, and we have never had Sunday sales so it’s kind of venturing into the unknown as to whether or not

it will be profitable.”

Tuscaloosa City Councilwoman Cynthia Lee Almond agreed that moving to seven-day sales will be beneficial.

“The benefits of having seven-day sales is the purported increase in sales tax generated, and therefore more money goes to the city for spending on roads, sewer, police, fire, etc,” Almond said. “We are also told by the convention industry that more conventions will host their event in a city that has seven-day sales, and some major restaurant chains will only locate in a town that has seven-day sales.”

Almond said that the Alabama State Constitution stipulates a local amendment must be passed to allow Tuscaloosa and other similarly sized cities to vote on sevenday sales and the council had to obtain permission from the Alabama Legislature.

“We really have not debated this issue as a council,” Almond said. “We were unanimous in our repeated asking of our local state legislative delegation for permission for the public to vote on the issue.”

DEBATE

“If we’re going to grow our numbers, then we need to make sure our technology is up to date,” she said.

Cochran said he would work to eliminate the traffic congestion that will undoubtedly result from enrollment increases, but he still sees the growth in enrollment as a positive action.

“The growth of the University is an indispensable asset to maintaining the University’s leadership role in the Southeast,” he said.

For student organization seating in Bryant-Denny Stadium, Hogan said a bias still exists in the application process despite the current SGA administration’s efforts to make the application process fairer than before.

Cochran said he has been involved in the diversification of student organization seating and can therefore better manage the allocation of seating to student groups in a fair manner.

Regarding the importance of the SGA to the student body, Cochran said the most

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opened the Student Recreation Center parking to any student with a campus parking pass.

Hogan said she would abstain from financial compensation as SGA president because of the current economic recession.

Cochran said he would do the same if students demanded it.

“If it is the consensus of the student body for me not to take a salary, then I will do the same,” he said.

Concerning University President Robert Witt’s goal to expand the student body to 35,000, Hogan said ResNet connectivity and other University resources should be able to accommodate for growth.

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significant function of the SGA is its nature as a liaison between the students and the administration.

In response, Hogan said she would address the alienation she said students feel from the SGA. “When I came here my freshman year, I was that student who felt very disconnected from the SGA,” she said. “There are a lot of students who don’t know what their SGA can do for them. I’ve walked in their shoes.”

In his closing statement, Cochran said he would eliminate student disconnects with the SGA and thereby unify the campus body.

“Unity is my goal,” he said. “I want all of you to join me in pursuit of unification.”

In her closing statement, Hogan said the SGA has sustained a tradition of alienating segments of the student body.

“For far too long, the SGA has left numerous students behind,” she said. “Every year it alienates thousands of students and leaves them behind.”

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The other campaigns for Cold Stone Creamery will benefit the UA wheelchair basketball teams. The first event, called “Sinless Splurge,” will be held Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m.

Customers will receive a 25 percent discount on all their purchases. There will also be live music.

The second event will be a 5K race called “Cold Stone’s Eat ‘N Run Relay,” and will be held March 26 at noon.

Participants will sign up in pairs with a designated eater and runner and will pay $20 to enter as a team.

Mollie Dunn, a senior majoring in public relations and one of the students working on the event, said working with Cold Stone is a very useful experience for their senior course.

“It calls for us to utilize all of our skills, such as writing press releases and putting media kits together,” she said.

She said one of the things Cold Stone and the greek community have in common is that they both value charity.

“I think the shared value is important and it is great to combine the two [organizations],” she said.

Glenn Dodd, owner of Cold Stone Creamery on The Strip, said Cold Stone is very involved with helping the community. He said he has enjoyed working with the students in the course.

“We continue to contribute to the community by offering groups to come in and be our crew for a night and a percentage of the sales go to that group,” he said.

Dodd said he hopes the students learn what works in a positive way and how to put on a successful campaign.

The presidential candidates relied upon platitudes, such as a value for unity, that do not attack the core issues students encounter, said Chris Izor, a junior majoring in English.

“Unity is such an amorphous idea that it’s easy to blame things on disunity,” he said. “We often use trivial issues to criticize our campus or to talk about progress that needs to be made, but all these trivial matters come from a flawed approach to student involvement.”

The meet-and-greet of SGA senate candidates prior to the presidential debate compensated for the candidates’ inability to chalk on campus sidewalks due to a revision of campaigning guidelines, said Gray West, a sophomore majoring in theatre and advertising.

The two Presidential candidates will square off again tonight in a debate hosted by the Honors College Assembly in the North Zone of Bryant-Denny Stadium at 7 p.m. Dale Peterson will be the moderator.

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Professors torn on Facebook use for education

By Bobby Atkinson Contributing Writer With so many students using the social networking website Facebook, it should come as no surprise that the website has begun to be used in the education field.

Educators are using it in new and innovative ways to connect with and educate students. English Professor Jennifer Drouin uses students’ affinity for the website in a creative way: creating mock Facebook profiles about key characters in the Shakespearean play “Measure for Measure.� “Students study each character’s perspective on the events of the play in a careful scene-by-scene analysis,�

Drouin said, “but they get to write in the contempo-

rary language in the style of status updates.�

The assignment, Drouin said, has been successful. “Based on what they have said in their end-of-semester course evaluations, I would say that students have reacted positively to this exercise,� she said.

Aside from using the website’s features as a model for an assignment, educators using Facebook for communication has become commonplace. “I’ve definitely noticed professors using Facebook,� said Garrett Dennis, a junior majoring in political science. “In most of my classes, the professor will mention that we can find them on Facebook.�

However, with so much personal information that one provides on his or her

Facebook profile, there could be some issues with studentteacher Facebook friendships. Assistant Director of the Faculty Resource Center Marilyn Staffo said professors should be wary about too much Facebook exposure. “Facebook should always be optional for students, so that a student is not required to share their Facebook information with the instructor or others in the class,� she said. “I recommend that faculty not become Facebook friends with students when they have them in their class.�

Staffo said the increased access Facebook can provide could be overwhelming for both students and faculty members. Rather than becoming Facebook friends with their students, Staffo said professors could use the website

in other ways to connect with their students. “[Professors] can create a class group where users who want information on the group site can ‘like’ the group,� she said.

Professors, however, are not all as open to the Facebook revolution. Photojournalism professor Daniel Meissner made a point to note that increased use of Facebook for educational purposes could conflict with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which requires student consent for disclosing educational information. “When teachers use Facebook for anything other than to plan events and such, they could begin to contend with the privacy rights of FERPA,� he said.

Staffo echoed Meissner’s

Facebook should always be optional for students, so that a student is not required to share their Facebook information with the instructor or others in the class. I recommend that faculty not become Facebook friends with students when they have them in their class. —Marilyn Staffo fears and warned that Facebook users should be careful. “Users of Facebook should be concerned about security today and in the future,�

Staffo said.

Outside of teachers using it to connect, Facebook’s growing dominance on college campuses has led to many different departments themselves creating websites to connect with students.

Many of these departmen-

tal Facebook pages are run by students. Matt Weider, a student who runs the Office of Information Technology page, said although the page is young, it could be a great asset for the department. “The page’s purpose is to reach out to students, faculty and staff to give them information and news on technology around campus,� Weider said. “The page provides useful information about the department.�

Citizens ask UA for direct answer on strip mine

By Katherine Martin Staff Reporter klmartin@crimson.ua.edu On Feb. 16, the Black Warrior Riverkeeper organization sent an open letter to the University asking for a response about plans to lease land and mineral rights for coal mining operations on the Black Warrior River.

The location on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior where Shepherd Bend, LLC, has permits to begin mining is adjacent to one of Birmingham Water Work’s major water intakes, said Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke.

Of the 1,773 acres of land that could be mined, Brooke said, the University owns the majority of the property. In order to start mining, the company has to lease the property from the UA system.

Cathy Andreen, director of Media Relations, said the University’s position has not changed on the issue, and the administration does not plan to respond to the letter. “The University has no current plans to sell or lease the land and has not been approached about selling or leasing the land,� Andreen said.

Caitlin McClusky, president of University of Alabama Environmental Council said the same response has been given by the University throughout the year.

Both B r o o ke and M c C l u s ky said the University should be giving a

“The whole purpose of the letter was to elicit a yes or no. We know that’s their position, but what we’re saying is that it’s time for them to take a stand on the issue regardless of whether or not they’ve been contacted or they contacted anyone or if there are plans in place.� — Nelson Brooke straightforward answer. “The whole purpose of the letter was to elicit a yes or no,� Brooke said. “We know that’s their position, but what we’re saying is that it’s time for them to take a stand on the issue regardless of whether or not they’ve been contacted or they contacted anyone or if there are plans in place. “There’s nothing stopping the University of Alabama from stepping out in front of the issue and doing the right thing and announcing that they will not do so when the time comes.�

McClusky said the University should consider doing a complete study of how the mine would affect the community and the water. “Honestly, the permits have been issued,� she said. “All they’re waiting on is a yes or a no from the trustees.�

Brooke said when the permit was issued, it wasn’t taken into account that the water supplied drinking water.

The levels of sediment and heavy metal that could come from the coal mine discharge may be so toxic that the water

would no longer be capable of being treated for drinking at all, Brooke said. “Beyond being forthright with the public,� Brooke said, “we think it would be great for the University not only to denounce plans for strip mining there but do something to protect the land.�

Brooke said the most critical thing that can be done to protect the drinking water supply is watershed protection, which protects the land from all forms of development.

Brooke suggested the University could use the land for a park, archaeological reserve or even sell it to the

Birmingham Water Works board. “Now, those other options aren’t going to bring them oodles of money, but it’s hard to put a price on doing the right thing, especially when it has a potential effect on hundreds of thousands of people’s drinking water,� he said.

McClusky said the UAEC has been working throughout the year to gain recognition for the cause.

The organization has created boycott postcards made by the artist Amos Kennedy that students can sign saying they will refuse to utilize some services the University has to offer, McClusky said. “We feel that if the University is going to treat itself like a business, then students can do the same thing,� she said.

The UAEC has also sent out a faculty petition and has a general petition on their website, ua.edu/uaec.

Throughout the month of March, the UAEC will have a table in the Ferguson Center with more information about Shepherd Bend, as well as

postcards and the petitions.

They are also planning another opposition rally for the end of April.

McClusky said the University’s decision shows its status on sustainability.

“I would like for everyone to realize sustainability is a very important aspect of a university campus and our University should be striving for it,� she said. “This mine is definitely not a part of that.�

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Bars see decent turnout for first Sunday

By Taylor Holland Senior Staff Reporter tlholland1@crimson.ua.edu

Restaurants and bars across Tuscaloosa found themselves doing something out of the ordinary on Sunday – serving alcohol.

Tyler Bigbie, co-owner of 1831, said he had been hesitant for much of the week about whether or not to open the bar on Sunday, as he was uncertain of how many customers would be out.

“We didn’t decide to open for Sunday sales until Thursday,” Bigbie said. “I think people are just getting their feelers

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I think people are just getting their feelers out in terms of the new law. But we’ve had people here since 3 p.m., at most about 30 people in here at once.

We’ve had a pretty decent crowd, a lot of locals.

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out in terms of the new law.

But we’ve had people here since 3 p.m., at most about 30 people in here at once. We’ve had a pretty decent crowd, a lot of locals.”

To attract more customers to come out on Sundays, Bigbie said the bar is going

to begin doing themes each week.

“Some Sundays we’re going to have cookouts, and we’re going to have themes like Mardi Gras,” he said. “I suspect more and more people will start coming out as they get used to this.”

consecrating some special occasion. As it turns out, they were.

“We’ve had this celebration planned for a week or so,” said

Adam Harrington, a graduate student studying biology. “I’m from Louisiana, so I’ve always had this opportunity.”

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Cameron Kennedy, owner of Kennedy’s Bar, said business had been steady throughout the day.

“It’s been about like it is on a standard week day, maybe a little better,” Kennedy said.

“This law is brand new, so we really weren’t expecting a huge crowd to come out today.

After people are done feeling out the law, we’re expecting business to start booming, especially once the new amphitheatre opens. That will help out a lot as far as weekend numbers go.”

Houndstooth security guard Andrew Prior said the bar had a decent first day of Sunday

“I like to have a good time every day — Bang Bang! When am I supposed to sleep now?”

— Chris Roberts

had already experienced the joys of Sunday alcohol sales.

“Coming from Spain, I was shocked to hear about the restrictions on alcohol here,” said Fernando Nunoz, a biology scientist. “I’m happy Americans have become less uptight.”

I eventually found someone having a new experience.

“I always crave nachos on Sunday,” said Allison Payne, a recent graduate of the University. “Today they come with a healthy dose of Bloody Mary.”

1:30 p.m.

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sales, but as of 5:30 p.m., the bar’s numbers were a little less than expected.

“It would be one thing if the weather would have been nice,” Prior said. “But it wasn’t very nice of a day.

For us, most of our business comes from people who like to come out and sit on the patio, and not many people want to do that on a day like this.”

Prior said he expects business to improve as the weeks move on.

“Really, once the weather improves, people will want to go out on Sundays and come and sit on the patio,” Prior said. “We’ve had a mediocre

After our Wilhagan’s stop, we decided to eat at FIVE. The atmosphere was great: a cool jazz band, nice crowd and lively bar. I guess I was a little surprised. So was the owner.

“Leading up to today, [restaurant owners] didn’t know what to expect,” said Cris Eddings, co-owner of Chuck’s

Fish and FIVE. “But I’m pleased with the turnout. It’s pretty apparent that people were ready for this.”

He was right. People were winding down from church; couples were trying out brunch dates; students were recovering from the night before.

“This is definitely raising my spirits for the week to come,” said Danielle Castagna, a junior majoring in fashion retail. “Sunday movies have been replaced by mimosas – it’s a great day.”

I left after a tasty breakfast burger and a few beers.

Buzzed on Sunday. Small feat for me, big one for Tuscaloosa.

7:10 p.m.

After a break to sober up a bit, I decided to see what nightlife would be like on Sunday.

I turned down 4th Street and immediately found a parking space. This was a lit-

first day but are expecting much better once it’s nice.

Business here has a lot to do with the weather.”

On Feb. 22, Tuscaloosa voters overwhelmingly voted to overturn Tuscaloosa’s previously existing Sunday alcohol sales law by way of an 8,873 to 2,504 vote. Local establishments are now permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays from noon until 9:30 p.m.

Kennedy said he was glad the law had been passed and that his bar will always be open on Sundays.

“We’ll be out here and stay open as long as they let us,” Kennedy said.

tle disheartening, but my spirits were lifted when I saw the crowd at Coppertop. The joint was jumpin’. Greeted by a $3 pitcher, I moseyed my way toward the pool table when a different game caught my eye – Flip Cup! Donned in colorcoordinated jerseys, teams of students were celebrating the evening with competition.

“I love Flip Cup because my team’s kicking a--,” said Justin Austin, a junior majoring in health studies. “There’s nothing not to love about Sunday Funday.”

Chauncey Woodard, an offduty bouncer at Coppertop, said his day off now has a new element.

“It’s good to finally have a chance to be sociable on Sundays,” Woodard said.

“Flip Cup makes it that much more fun.”

7:50 p.m.

Egan’s offered the liveliest crowd of my night. Students and nonstudents alike jammed to sounds of local band Baak Gwai. People assumed my handy-dandy notebook was a pretentious prop to store girls’ phone numbers. But once I explained my journalistic intentions, I ceased being creepy.

Stacey Leigh, a junior majoring in public relations, probably summed up the evening best.

“I’m just drunk, man,” Leigh said.

By then, she and I had something in common. After another beer, I stumbled toward the band to discover the musicians’ perspective.

“We have people looking for shows on Sunday all the time,” said Adam Pate, bassist for Baak Gwai and band-booker at Egan’s. “Its awesome to be able to give them a place for a show.”

Grateful for the tunes, I left Egan’s in search of cheaper liquor.

8:30 p.m.

I found a vodka tonic at the Bear Trap but not much of a crowd. It’s too bad the sudden cold front halted the rooftop festivities.

“The weather killed us tonight; it was really bad timing,” said Will Bingham, bar manager of Bear Trap.

“We’re looking forward to the warmth of football season.”

He was right to have high expectations for the fall.

Sunday now offers another day of victory celebrations for fun-loving football fans, not to mention another lucrative day for local establishments.

8:50 p.m.

There was a decent-sized crowd at Gallettes. Here, the notebook scored me shots instead of weird glances.

Chris Roberts, a junior majoring in marketing, was kind enough to send me one.

“I like to have a good time every day — Bang Bang!”

Roberts said. “When am I supposed to sleep now?”

Sleep? The idea hadn’t crossed my mind until then.

9:30 p.m.

As I walked the StRaIgHt line to the Office of Student Media, I couldn’t help being grateful. My Sunday was certainly a fun day thanks to the citizens of my favorite college town.

Thank you, voters.

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Students suit up for battle in sumo wrestling competition on the Quad

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CW |John Michael Simpson

UA alumnus photographs Tuscaloosa events Smith took photographs of the Universityʼs first ever Quidditch on the Quad, which was held in November.

By Hannah Marcum Contributing Writer

If you’ve ever been to Egan’s, there’s a chance you’ve been blinded by the flash of local photographer David Smith’s camera.

“I discovered when I bounced the light off of Egan’s low ceilings, it had a great effect,” Smith said.

The Pinson native said he started hanging out at the local bar while he was enrolled at the University, and, unlike most venues, they allowed him to use his flash.

“If you want to hear good, original live music, you’re going to start there,” he said.

“They got used to being blinded by me and would just say, ‘Oh there’s David again.’”

Smith, who graduated in 2004 with a degree in telecommunication and film, is the owner of DSmithImages. He photographs various live bands and events around Tuscaloosa; in fact, he can be found shooting almost anything that draws a crowd.

“I have no musical ability, so it’s just my way of contributing,” he said.

Smith said if a band doesn’t

Photo Courtesty of David A. Smith/DSmihave good stage presence and doesn’t connect with their audience, it can be a mind-numbing experience to shoot.

“You can’t hear photos,” he said. “I’m looking for energy, personality.”

Smith’s friends founded Well That’s Cool, a Tuscaloosabased website, and he photographs their events and helps with logistics, ideas and writes jokes for their tapings.

“I started going to the tapings,” he said, “and I would always have the camera out.”

Smith has shot events such as Well That’s Cool’s celebration of “The Big Lebowski”, the annual Brews Cruise and the

Asses of Fire Chili Cook-off.

Smith said Well That’s Cool is formed from a group of people who, like himself, have decided to stay in Tuscaloosa to build something.

“They do fantastic things and bring a lot of stuff to town,” he said. “They are trying to create a sense of community.”

Smith also posts to a photo blog on the Tuscaloosa News website.

“Anytime I do a show at Egan’s or a bar around town, I’ll upload a sample gallery,” he said. “It’s great because the bands are getting exposure on the News’ website.”

The photographer has shot

everything from sweet 16 parties to Creative Campus’ Quidditch on the Quad event last semester.

“I’m always on the lookout for things like that,” he said. “I didn’t know what to expect but I had a lot of fun.”

Smith said he applied his experience in shooting high school and Alabama football while shooting Quidditch on the Quad.

“If there’s an event out there that I know of, I’m probably going to go out and do my best,” he said.

Smith has photographed events such as Pixelcon, boxer Deontay Wilder’s first fight in Tuscaloosa and the Shepherd’s Bend protests, but he said the bulk of his income comes from shooting weddings and engagements.

“For the longest time, I never wanted to do weddings because I was afraid to screw them up,” he said. Now, though, Smith has a lucrative wedding business with a busy spring season ahead of him.

His most recent wedding was that of Auburn football alumnus Courtney Taylor.

“I try to build on giving the customer exactly what they

want,” he said. “It all goes back to customer service.”

Smith said he is looking forward to events happening around Tuscaloosa soon, like Suds of the South at Wilhagan’s and another Brews Cruise.

“Ultimately I want to be the first person someone calls when they need a photographer,” he said. “I want to have every weekend booked.”

You can catch Smith shooting happenings around town or check out his website at dsmithimages.com.

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‘The Adjustment Bureau’; wonderful tangle of fate and love

By Jordan Berry

‘THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU’

“So now I’m goin’ back again, I got to get to her somehow […]

We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.”

- Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”

“The Adjustment Bureau” is like one giant visual representation of Dylan’s song; that is, it’s art done right.

We are treated with a wholly poignant film with just the right amount of intellectual teasings. Instead of bogging us down with the details of just how the Bureau works, its members, for the most part, don’t take themselves too seriously.

Many have criticized this, insisting that given the film’s short running time, writer/ director George Nolfi should have provided more explanation of the story’s sci-fi threads.

I think this is the beauty of the film, though.

We are treated to an easily digestible story dealing with the various implications of both sides of the free will issue.

However, we are spared the pseudo-philosophy that bogs down films like “Dark City.”

It’s not that these issues aren’t interesting. But they can get in the way of our characters, which ultimately move the story along. “The Adjustment Bureau” thankfully does not fall victim to this.

Runtime: 99 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13 Release date: March 4 CW critic’s rating:

Bottom line: Despite rottentomatoes.com “Adjustment Bureau,” starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, received a 3.5 out of 4 star rating from the CW film columnist.

Matt Damon stars as David Norris, a rising politician running for a seat in the United States Senate. When he loses an early lead, he meets a mysterious woman (Emily Blunt) while rehearsing his concession speech in the hotel bathroom. Their chemistry is immediate, and after sharing

have. He meets the mysterious woman again by chance. She introduces herself as Elise and gives David her phone number.

Thus begins the scramble of the Bureau to get things back on track. They tell David he must never see Elise again. When he ignores their requests, they start taking drastic measures to ensure that David and Elise remain apart.

Of course, as David struga kiss, David is inspired and gles to be with her, Elise feels delivers a very honest, well- betrayed by David’s lack of stability in their relationship. One received speech.

One morning, an agent of of the Bureau’s agents finally the Bureau fails to make an convinces David to move on “adjustment” on David. Rather from Elise, and eleven months than David spilling his coffee later David is running for and being late for work, David Senate and Elise is engaged to gets a glimpse of the future the another.

David finally decides he canBureau does not want him to

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not have a life without her.

In the face of overwhelming odds, he decides to forsake his predetermined path and risk everything to be with her.

This sounds like the kind of high-stakes storytelling that produces very moving results, but only if the leads are believable. Damon and Blunt hit a home run with their performances. Nothing ever feels forced, which is important for whatever payoff we get in the end.

I applaud the film’s commitment to telling its story with the tone it does. Some may view it as over-the-top, but the film grounds itself in its emotional core. This is vital.

Even if the film avoided the criticisms of its sci-fi sce-

grumblings over an under-explained plot, “The Adjustment Bureau” is a well-crafted and extremely moving piece of art.

nario, we would be faced with another serious charge: so what? Because the film places its characters and their story first, we know why it all matters.

“The Adjustment Bureau” is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick (“Total Recall,” “Minority Report” and “Blade Runner”), yet it is a film that remains more hopeful than these others. Instead of getting caught up in the trappings of various philosophical conundrums, the film gets tangled in its most human aspect: love.

We can’t help but get ourselves tangled up as well.

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THE DIFFERENCE

TEAM STATS

BY THE NUMBERS

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| Alabama has scored higher than 197 in four straight meets.

9.95

Vault Bars Beam Floor Overall

Alabama 49.425 49.275 49.25 49.125 197.075

Michigan 49.275 48.425 49.2 49.425 196.325

Two Michigan gymnasts faltered on bars, making the Wolverines count a 9.125 toward their score.

Meanwhile, the Tide landed six solid routines on the event. Take away the bars scores and Michigan is on top.

| Freshman Diandra Milliner scored a nearperfect 9.95 on vault against Michigan, a career-high.

KEY MOMENT

GYMNAST OF THE MEET

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| Alabama has scored a 49.25 or better on vault seven times in its last eight meets. The Tide’s 49.425 marked the third time this season it has scored better than 49.4 on the event.

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| Junior Geralen Stack-Eaton has performed 12 straight routines without scoring lower than a 9.875.

1

| Alabama has one more home game this season, against

LSU this Friday. LSU was the last team to beat the Tide in Coleman Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2009.

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| Alabama has no more trips outside of Alabama until the NCAA Championships. The SEC Championships will be in Birmingham, and the Tide is hosting Regionals in Tuscaloosa this year.

SPORTS in brief Tide softball goes 4-1 over weekend From staff reports The Alabama softball team suffered its first loss of the season to No. 17 LouisianaLafayette on Friday but picked up four more wins over the weekend to improve to 20-1 on the season.

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doubleheader on Friday.

Freshman Jackie Traina improved to 6-0 on the mound in the first game, a 4-1 win over Notre Dame, and sophomore Kayla Braud went 4-for-4 at the plate.

With two in total, Braud was the only Tide player to get a hit in the second game of the double header, a 1-0 loss to Louisiana-Lafayette, while senior Kelsi Dunne suffered her first loss of the season despite striking out 12 and allowing just one run on four hits.

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Freshman Sarah DeMeo and junior Geralen Stack-Eaton hit back-to-back 9.9’s on beam to end the meet and clinch the victory.

QUOTE OF THE MEET “I thought we worked really hard tonight, and our team was real blue collar. I told the ladies to not even look at the scores because it was the performance that counted, and we had some amazing performances.”

— Head coach Sarah Patterson

doubleheader on Saturday, beating Fordham 3-1 on a walkoff, two-run home run from junior Amanda Locke before blowing out No. 13 Oregon 10-0.

Braud’s 28-game hitting streak, which dated back to last season, ended in the second game against Oregon.

The Tide closed out the weekend with a 4-0 win over Virginia on Sunday. Traina improved to 8-0 after allowing just two hits and striking out seven. She also hit her 10th home run of the season and drove in all four Alabama runs.

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SOC COMING SOON TO THE STRIP

Tide exorcises NWS Daemons

By Tony Tsoukalas Assistant Sports Editor ajtsoukalas@crimson.ua.edu The Alabama baseball team completed a weekend sweep of Northwestern State on Sunday, beating the Daemons 9-0.

The Crimson Tide was aided by a strong effort on the mound by starting pitcher Tucker Hawley, who threw a complete-game shutout, giving up only three hits while striking out nine batters.

“Tucker Hawley was outstanding today,” head coach Mitch Gaspard said.

“Sometimes it takes one guy to get out there and get us going. [Nathan] Kilcrease did that with a great start last night, and Tucker took the lead from Nathan. He went out and was really dominant.”

The start was an enormous improvement from Hawley’s last start against Central Florida, when he gave up six runs over three innings.

“Last weekend, the tempo was off and we tried to work on it all week and tried to clean it up a little bit,” Hawley said. “I just worked with it all weekend with [assistant coach Dax Norris] and Dax got me right in the bullpen.”

The Tide was desperate for a turnaround after dropping four straight prior to the weekend.

“Last weekend, that was a tough weekend,” junior Jon Kelton said. “As a team, I think we had kind of lost a little bit of confidence, but this is a good team and we are going to continue to get better. To get three wins this weekend, I think that was really important.”

Left fielder Austen Smith was key for the Tide, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Kelton had an equally impressive day

CW | Margo Smith Jared Reaves follows through on his swing in the Tide’s victory over Northwestern State Sunday afternoon. at the plate, going 3-for-4 with an RBI double that gave the Tide its first run of the game.

Kelton’s big day is a positive sign for the Tide, as it appeared that Kelton, who came into the day batting only .100, is breaking out of his early-season woes at the plate.

“That’s baseball,” Kelton said.

“There is nothing I can’t do or haven’t done, but when you press you don’t play well. I have been tight and I have been pressing and I finally just relaxed. It felt good. That first at-bat [the RBI double] felt good confidence wise.”

Kelton’s double scored the first of four runs the Tide earned in the second inning. After that, Alabama did not look back, scoring a run in the third and two in the fourth to give the Tide a commanding 7-0 lead.

“We definitely attacked at

the plate,” third baseman Brett Booth said. “We weren’t sitting back waiting for something to happen. All nine batters went up there to compete and get after somebody.”

Shortstop Jared Reaves continued his torrid start to the season, getting on base five times in the game, with three walks and two singles. Reaves is currently batting .447 and also leads the team in RBIs with 16.

The Tide has a busy week ahead, as the team is set to host Troy on Tuesday before meeting Georgia in a non-conference game in Lawrenceville, Ga. The team will look to continue its recent success, as the Tide gets closer to SEC play.

“I think right now we have got to build on the little bit of momentum we have,” Gaspard said. “We are starting to show more solid play.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Saturday win caps perfect home season PLAYER OF THE GAME

By Jason Galloway Sports Editor crimwonwhitesports@gmail.com

Charvez Davis

ALABAMA 65 GEORGIA 57

Davis came into the game coming off two poor shooting games in two Alabama losses.

Saturday, his three-point shooting kept Georgia from making a second-half run. The senior scored 17 points (5-of-10 from behind the arc) and dished out four assists,

BY THE NUMBERS

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| Since the Southeastern Conference expanded in 1992, no team has had 12 or more conference wins and been left out of the NCAA tournament. Alabama got its 12th against Georgia.

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| Charvez Davis hit five 3-pointers (5-for-10) Saturday after making just one in 16 tries in the Tide’s last two games, both losses.

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| Alabama got 20 of its 65 points off 16 Georgia turnovers.

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THE DIFFERENCE

feated home record marks the 16th time in school history the Crimson Tide has finished the season without losing at home.

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KEY MOMENT

| After turning the ball

over four times in the first

| The Tide’s tournament five minutes of Saturday’s

chances have suffered from playing in a weak SEC West, but with Saturday’s win, Alabama is 4-2 against the SEC East this season.

The five Georgia starters turned the ball over 16 times, and Alabama took advantage, scoring 20 points (almost a third of its total) off those turnovers. Meanwhile, the Tide had a season-low eight turnovers.

| Alabama’s unde-

game, Alabama only committed four turnovers the rest of the game. The eight total turnovers were a season-low.

After finishing the season undefeated at home, the Tide players began dancing at midcourt before Anthony Grant CW | Jonathan Norris took the microphone and Junior JaMychal Green shoots over a Georgia defender Saturday at Coleman Coliseum. Green thanked all the fans for their led the Tide with 19 points in of the Tides 65-57 win over Georgia. support throughout the year.

QUOTE OF THE GAME “Once Charvez gets hot from the outside, he can stroke them all day. So it really opened up the floor for us offensively, and we could really force them to get outside the zone and play man-to-man..”

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Bama falls to Georgia in SEC opener

By Brett Hudson Contributing Writer The Alabama women’s tennis team, coming off of a 7-2 nonconference performance, and 3-2 against ranked teams, fell to the No. 13 Georgia Bulldogs 4-3 on Sunday.

Despite starting off Southeastern Conference play with a loss, head coach Jenny Mainz said she was very proud of her Crimson Tide team.

“We were in this match from the beginning,” Mainz said. “We played well enough to win and I’m proud of our effort, our energy and our attitude. But the bottom line is, when it came time to make things happen, Georgia stepped up and took it from us.

They’re a great team and they really took it to us when it mattered most.”

Early in the match in doubles play, it looked as if Alabama would be the team making the big plays.

For the Bulldogs, junior Chelsea Gullickson and freshman Kate Fuller beat Alabama’s sophomore Alexa Guarachi and junior Courtney McLane, 8-4.

Alabama’s star freshman Mary Anne MacFarlane and her partner, sophomore Antonia Foehse, responded with an 8-2 victory.

A tight match between Alabama’s freshman Alex Clay and junior Taylor Lindsey and Georgia’s freshmen Lilly Kimbell and Maho Kowase decided which team would get the doubles point. Clay and Lindsey found themselves down 4-7, but they put together five straight games, eventually escaping with a hard-fought 9-7 victory.

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ABOVE: Sophomore Alexa Guarachi (right) serves the ball against

Georiga Sunday as her doubles teammate, Courtney McLane (left) waits for the return.

RIGHT: Junior Courtney McLane serves the ball to the University of Georgia team during Women’s Tennis Doubles Sunday.

“We just really took momentum after [an unforced error from Kowase],” Clay said.

“After that we just kept talking to each other in between points, telling each other that we could do this.”

Moving forward to singles play, it was the Bulldogs that made the majority of the big plays. Goergia’s defending NCAA singles national champion Gullickson won a highly-contested first set, 7-5. The second set, however, was controlled by Gullickson, who looked highly polished on her way to winning the second set 6-2 and defeating Alabama’s MacFarlane. “[Gullickson] just played

really well,” MacFarlane said.

“She just took the momentum and ran away with it. There wasn’t much that I could do about it.”

The Tide’s effort showcased in the Gullickson-MacFarlane and the Foehse-Kimbell match was valiant; both matches went to deuce in every game.

Clay showed no signs of fatigue after the marathon doubles match, making quick work of freshman Alexandra Anghelescu, 6-1, 6-2.

“We both grew up in Georgia, so I played her in high school,” Clay said. “I just got ready for a fight. I took control of the first few points and kept going.”

As for McLane, she shook off her doubles defeat and fashioned a major upset over Georgia’s Nadja Gilchrist.

Gilchrist came into the match ranked 11th in the region and 59th in the nation, compared to McLane’s 116th national ranking.

“Courtney really stepped up

her game today,” Mainz said.

“We had a very good chance to beat a great team in this match, and we’re going to get more opportunities,” Mainz said. “We get another good opportunity at Florida on Friday at 5 p.m.”

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