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By Andy McWhorter | Assistant News Editor Vice President-elect for Student Affairs Stephen Keller has been accused of violating election rules by accepting and distributing fliers on election day without reporting them to the Elections Board. Elliot Spillers, former candidate for vice pesident for student affairs, filed a complaint with the Elections Board on Wednesday after WVUA-FM reported that Keller had received and distributed the fliers. “He did say that he was given them the day of the election, he was given these campaign fliers,” Spillers said. “Also, Rich Robinson asked them, ‘Will they be accounted for on your financial disclosure form?,’ and he said ‘No, they will not be.’ But he did pass them out, meaning they were part of his campaigning.” The Student Government Elections Manual stipulates that candidates must submit three financial disclosure forms Submitted over the course of their campaign veriStephen Keller fying all donations received by the specified date. The final financial disclosure form was due Monday, March 10, the day before elections. Keller confirmed in an emailed statement that he received the fliers as an in-kind donation on election day and that he and his campaign staff passed some of them out. However, Keller said he does not believe his actions constitute a violation of election rules, pointing to ambiguity in the elections manual. “The elections manual does not specifically state what to do with expenditures made on Election Day because the final financial disclosure form is due at 5 p.m. the night before,” Keller said. “So, first thing in the morning on Wednesday I emailed [Convener of Elections Board] Kelli Knox-Hall to amend my financial disclosure form to include the in-kind donation I received on Election Day.” Madalyn Vaughn, co-chair of the Elections Board, said candidates should not receive any donations SEE SGA PAGE 5
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Photo Illustration by Hannah Glenn an Austin Bigoney, Photos by Austin Bigoney and CW File Advertisements specific to students’ social media activity serve as a reminder of the accessibility of third-party companies and provide insight into how personal information is stored and shared publicly.
UA students cede privacy online Experts warn millenials no information is private on web By Francie Johnson | Staff Reporter As the first generation to grow up with Internet access, the current college-age crop of millenials has received countless warnings about protecting themselves online. Nothing is private on the Internet, and once something is online, it is there forever. Even with these warnings in mind, some students still find it hard to imagine just how many strangers have laid eyes
on their Facebook profile pictures, how many people have Google-searched their names and how many companies have been quietly collecting information. Some simply choose not to think about it, file that knowledge away in the backs of their minds and continue using the Internet as if it’s a personal space. However, on the Internet, personal space doesn’t exist. “I think, psychologically, you have a sense that when you’re behind a keyboard or behind a screen, it’s not the same thing as standing directly in front of people,” said Dylan McLemore, an instructor of media law in the communication studies department. “But if you have a public
account and you post a photo of you smoking a bong, that’s honestly no different than lighting it up in front of, potentially, everyone in the world.” Randall Huffaker, an instructor in the communication studies department, teaches a social media class every semester. He said although most students realize the permanence of content posted online, they often underestimate just how public their information really is. “That’s what always shocks me is that they seem to be completely surprised,” Huffaker said. “They’re trusting. Most SEE PRIVACY PAGE 5
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White’s home run claims series Crimson Tide baseball team clinches 3-game set against Kentucky Wildcats By Kevin Connell | Staff Reporter
CW | Austin Bigoney Alabama rallied to win after a 7-2 defeat in the first game of the doubleheader Saturday.
Another series, another walk-off win for the Alabama baseball team. For the third time in four weekend home series, Alabama clinched a three-game set with a walk-off winner, this time off a two-run home run from sophomore shortstop Mikey White. The homer led to a 5-3 victory in the second game of a doubleheader against No. 20 Kentucky on Saturday. “It’s big,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. “These are the ones that, momentum-wise, that can really carry you for a while.” The Crimson Tide (12-6, 2-1 SEC) struggled to string hits together Saturday in a 7-2 loss in the first game of
the doubleheader against the Wildcats (14-6, 1-2 SEC), but found life in the final at bats in the second game. First, in the bottom of the ninth inning, trailing 3-1 with two outs, senior first baseman Austen Smith hit a two-run home run over the left field wall on the first pitch he saw to send the game to extra innings. Then, in the bottom of the 10th, White duplicated what Smith had already done with a two-run, first-pitch blast of his own to left field to lift Alabama to victory on the opening weekend of SEC play. White said he knew exactly what he was going up against in Kentucky pitcher Spencer Jack after facing the junior right-hander in the first game earlier in the day. “I knew that he threw a lot of fastballs, so I was trying to get a fastball and put a good swing on it and maybe drop something in the gap, so that [Daniel SEE BASEBALL PAGE 5
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