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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894 One-Act Plays
3 Teach for America
10 Women’s Tennis
Two one-act plays written by UA students will debut Monday. These plays deal with such issues as abortion and race, and those involved say they will bridge the usual gap between the shows’ casts and their audiences.
After Teach for America’s three-year contract with the Tuscaloosa School System, the corps will not be returning to help the city’s high schoolers with science, math and technology.
No. 12 Alabama women’s tennis swept Auburn 4-0 on Saturday in the annual “Power of Pink” match. The Crimson Tide improves to 14-6 overall and 6-5 in conference play.
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ESPN says Johnson to coach at UA Avery Johnson verbally commits to coach Tide By Kelly Ward | Sports Editor
Alabama has reached a verbal agreement with former NBA coach Avery Johnson to coach men’s basketball, according to ESPN reports. Johnson, a New Orleans native, played for 16 years in the NBA. He was a point guard on the 1999 San Antonio Spurs championship team and went on to coach the Dallas M ave r i c k s from 2005 to 2008, leading the team to an NBA Finals appearance in 2006. The M ave r i c k s lost to the Heat in six Avery Johnson games. That Tribune News Service year he was named the NBA coach of the year. Dallas reached 60 wins twice while he coached there. From 2010 to 2012, he coached the Brooklyn Nets, formerly the New Jersey Nets. Since then, he has worked as an ESPN analyst. His son, Avery Johnson, Jr., is currently a freshman guard at Texas A&M. Alabama has been without a coach since March 15 after Anthony Grant was fired. Grant spent six seasons at Alabama and compiled a 117-85 record. John Brannen was named the interim head coach and led the Crimson Tide to two games into the National Invitation Tournament. Alabama lost in the second round 73-66 at Miami. The Crimson White reached out to Alabama Athletics to confirm but has not received a response.
The gymnastics team claimed its 30th regional title, securing its 33rd consecutive trip to the NCAA Championship. UA Athletics, Photo Illustration by Sloane Arogeti
Reigning at Regionals Alabama gymnastics wins regional, heads to NCAAs By Kayla Montgomery | Assistant Sports Editor
In just one night’s work, the Alabama gymnastics team claimed its 30th
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regional title, secured its 33rd consecutive trip to the NCAA Championship and extended its winning streak over Auburn to 114 meets. Before the final rotation of the Auburn regional even took place, the Crimson Tide clinched its title with a team score of 197.575. With the win, Alabama advances to
the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, beginning competition April 17. "We are so honored to be moving forward to Fort Worth for an opportunity to compete for a national SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 8
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Men’s golf finishes tied for second at Mason Rudolph The No. 23-ranked men’s golf team finished tied for second in Sunday’s final round of the Mason Rudolph Championship in Nashville. As a team, the Crimson Tide shot an 857 (287-283-287). The finish marked Alabama’s sixth top-five finish in nine tournaments this year. With a final round 4-under 67, Tom Lovelady tied for fourth overall with a 54-hole total of 3-under
210. His final round 67 was a spring season low on his way to a third top-five finish of the year. Two other Alabama athletes also finished in the top 10, as Dru Love finished tied for sixth and Robby Shelton finished tied for eighth. Compiled by Kayla Montgomery
Distance medley relay wins on Saturday at Florida Relays Alabama women’s track’s distance medley relay team recorded performances that rank among the alltime best in school history in the final day of competition at the Pepsi Florida Relays on the campus of the University of Florida. The Alabama quartet of juniors Meropi Panagiotou and Kimberley Ficenec and freshmen Veronica Lyle and Emily Edwards ran 11:25.50 in the distance medley relay to defeat a total of eight other teams, including SEC competitors Mississippi
State and Georgia. Four other events also ranked in Alabama’s all-time top 10 on Saturday – the men’s triple jump (Jeremiah Green, 53 feet even, No. 6 in UA history), the men’s 4x400-meter relay (3:05.66, eighth in UA history), the women’s shot put (Candicea Bernard, 51-5½, 10th) and the women’s triple jump (Merilyn Uudmae, 41-6½, ninth). Compiled by Kayla Montgomery
Alabama softball takes series over Kentucky In the series rubber match, No. 6 Alabama softball took a 2-0 shutout win over No. 14 Kentucky. The Wildcats beat the Crimson Tide 2-1 in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader. In the second game Saturday, Alabama broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh with a three-run home run from junior Haylie McCleney. Marisa Runyon made it 7-3 with a solo home run later that inning. The four runs were enough to take the second game 7-3.
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On Sunday, Alabama freshman right-hander Alexis Osorio (12-5) struck out 10 and allowed two hits in the complete game shutout. Sophomore Chandler Dare hit a two-run single in the top of the sixth inning to break the scoreless tie. Alabama (29-9) plays at UAB (24-10) on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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3 Teach for America contract at Central to end Editor | Rachel Brown Newsdesk@cw.ua.edu Monday, April 6, 2015
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For the past 25 years, Teach For America has placed teachers from a variety of educational institutions, demographic backgrounds and professions in highneeds schools across the country. Now Tuscaloosa City Schools will no longer receive Teach For America corps members. The superintendent’s office and the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education chose to bring Teach For America corps members to the city schools in 2012 after seeing the need for more teachers, primarily in mathematics and science. The original contract planned for 25 Teach For America corps members to stay for two years. That contract is up, and the board of education has no plans to renew it, according to the superintendent’s office. “We did contract with them for three years,” said Mike Daria, assistant superintendent for Tuscaloosa City Schools. “We did have several really good experiences with Teach For America, but that contract and agreement came to an end. And at this point, there’s no immediate action to renew that.” Daria said they have been analyzing staffing needs for the coming years and they do not have the same need for teachers as they did in 2012. He said they will possibly renew the contract in the future if the need for more teachers arises. Clarence Sutton, principal of Central High School, has worked with seven corps members since 2012 and credits them with helping improve the school. He also said they are many of the students’
Although Central High School has worked with seven Teach for America corps members since 2012, Tuscaloosa City Schools will no longer receive new corps members. CW / Amy Sullivan
favorite teachers. “The energy they bring is doing extra,” Sutton said. “All of them had clubs they wanted to sponsor. All of them did outside activities with students, and I think that’s the most refreshing piece is having that spark of innovation that they brought to the table.” While the TFA members at Central High School teach a variety of subjects, they mainly focus on science, technology, engineering and math. Prior to receiving TFA corps members, Central had lost two math teachers and a science teacher and although many of the TFA members were not from the education field, Sutton said he appreciates the STEM-related backgrounds they brought to their positions.
Khadijah Abdullah, executive director of Teach For America – Alabama, said they recruit professionals and recent graduates to teach a variety of subjects based on a specific school district’s needs, and teachers for STEM-related subjects are in the highest demand. “American students lag far behind their international peers in science, technology, engineering and math,” Abdullah said. “Currently, the United States ranks 25th in math and 17th in science among developed nations. Teach For America is addressing the urgent need to improve math and science education.” In addition to recruiting and training individuals in STEM subjects, TFA has partnered with organizations such as 100Kin10 to increase the number of STEM
teachers in the education field. Despite the coming removal of TFA members from Tuscaloosa City Schools, the organization continues to grow both in the state of Alabama and across the nation. Since bringing TFA to Alabama in 2010, over 160 teachers have worked in 11 partnering districts. Abdullah said over 44,000 people applied to work for Teach For America this year, which is double the applicants in 2007. Each year, numerous students from The University of Alabama choose to work for Teach For America, and nearly 200 UA graduates are either currently working for TFA or have in the past. “Teach For America also has found that maximizing diversity supports its effort to attract the country’s top talent,” Abdullah said. “Among the new corps members, nearly 56 percent identify as people of color, including 42 percent who identify as African-American, 30 percent who are the first in their family to attend college, and 33 percent who are graduate students or professionals.” Beyond the educational and demographic backgrounds of the corps members, Sutton said he supports the program because of the work ethic of the TFA teachers and the impact they have made on Central High School. “I just like that they really understand the service component of teaching, and it’s bigger than the classroom,” he said. “You really have the opportunity to model and affect other people, and they have that belief. And that’s really exciting to me.”
UA partners with AU, MSU on water resources By Heather Buchanan | Assistant News Editor
Sports may divide schools in the Southeastern Conference, but one of Earth’s most basic resources has brought together three Southern institutions. On March 12, Mississippi State University officially signed into a partnership with The University of Alabama and Auburn University to collaborate on water resource issues. Bennett Bearden, director of The University of Alabama’s Water Policy and Law Institute, said the initiative will bring together the strengths of each of the schools’ long-term research programs. “It forms the approach we need, because most research on water needs to be interdisciplinary in order to be effective,” he said. Bearden said the agreement, which is the first of its kind among these three schools, will utilize research from each university. Each of the schools does water-related research independently, he said, but now they can combine their efforts. “Areas of research that we have identified for collaborative and cooperative opportunities are water policy and law, agricultural water issues and
agribusiness issues, economic development, environmental issues, watershed management, water quantity and water quality issues, ecosystems management, capacity building, integrated water resources, river basin management and sustainable water development,” he said. Bearden said Mississippi State and Auburn, schools with strong agriculture programs, will provide valuable research on agricultural water issues. With the only state-supported law school in Alabama, The University of Alabama will contribute information on water policy and law. Bearden said the agreement came from the administrative level of each university – specifically, the vice presidents for research and economic development. Concerns for water resources, some shared between the states, was a driving factor in forming the collaborative agreement. “Our two states have tremendous common interests and challenges that we face in water quality and quantity,” said David Shaw, vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University. “No one institution can bring all of the strengths and capabilities that are needed for these complex issues, so a partnership between our universities is an
excellent means of bringing a diversity of talents together.” Bearden said the water centers at each university will play a big role in the combined research efforts, but they hope to include many other players on each campus. Under the leadership of the vice presidents for research and economic development, Bearden said the water centers will work with professors who do waterrelated research as well as the students working in their labs. Mary Wallace Pitts, instructor in the UA department of geography and coordinator for the local North River Watershed group, has experience in watershed programs and water resources. “Tuscaloosa is fortunate to have such an excellent water supply as Lake Tuscaloosa, but we have to continue to educate and manage it properly to ensure that clean, cheap water is available into the future,” she said. “Water is the most critical resource and ensuring water supply for a community is the most significant issue that any community faces. Alternatives exist for every other commodity that we use – this is not true for water.” Bearden said the first step since the agreement was signed last month is for the vice presidents to meet and
Officials from Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama met March 12 in Starkville, Mississippi, to finalize an agreement to collaborate on water resource issues. Photo Courtesy of Kevin Hudson
outline plans for the collaborative projects. After the overall plans are set, professors and water center personnel from the three campuses will meet to discuss the completion of the projects. Bearden said they also plan to address water resource issues on a local, state, national and even international scale. One of the first projects he predicts will involve researching the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a man-made river connecting the Tennessee River to the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River junction near Demopolis. The river runs through both Mississippi and Alabama, making it a concern for both states.
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Editor | Patrick Crowley Letters@cw.ua.edu Monday, April 6, 2015
COLUMN | FRIENDSHIPS
College friendships should be treasured MARK
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COLUMN | INVOLVEMENT
Students should not spread themselves too thin JOHN DAVID
Thompson Staff Columnist
When I was preparing to begin my first semester of college, I remember one piece of advice nearly everyone told me: make sure you get involved. While I think that was wonderful advice, I wish I had been cautioned more about the risks of becoming over-involved: getting burned out, not having enough time to focus on academics, not having enough time to relax and most importantly not being able to fully commit myself to anything. Now more than ever, many college students try to be as involved as possible, working to cram as many activities and memberships into their resumes as possible in the hopes of getting the best job or admission into a top graduate program after college. With so much involvement combined with the time students must commit to their studies, there is the risk of not fulfilling our commitments. During my time at The University of Alabama, one of the most frustrating challenges has been an inability to get enough students to come to meetings and accomplish tasks within organizations because they are so involved. Giving back to the community is
important. However, if you try to do too much, you may find that impossible. When applying for membership in student organizations, do some serious consideration. Do I truly have the time to commit to this position? Am I genuinely interested? It’s also beneficial to reflect on your involvement from year to year and decide if you need to reduce what is on your schedule. There are many negatives to not being fully able to commit yourself to an organization, but arguably the most important is that other group members suffer. With so many students being extremely involved, scheduling can be nearly impossible. When interviewing for jobs or graduate programs, if you’ve only been to a few meetings, it could be difficult to explain an organization’s purpose, why you were involved or even justify the organization's importance. Rarely is college a time of healthy lifestyle choices and effective time management. In fact, for many of us it’s just the opposite. Therefore, it’s important to build personal time into your schedule for sleep, exercise and catching up where you’ve fallen behind. In Forbes, David Ballard advises people who are experiencing burnout (exhaustion, poor performance, unhappiness, etc.) to “truly think about what you’ll do to relax, and designate time for it.” For undergraduates planning to do graduate work, it is especially important to avoid burning out. With technology increasingly
becoming an invasive force, taking time to “unplug” should not be underestimated. A survey by the American Psychological Association had the following conclusion: “More than one-third of employed Americans said communication technology increases their workload (36 percent) and makes it more difficult to stop thinking about work (34 percent) and take a break from work (35 percent).” Interestingly, younger workers from 18 to 35 years old reported that technology causes work-life conflict much more than their older cohorts. We reap numerous benefits from technology, but it is important to take the necessary steps to make sure it is only a tool to improve our lives. In terms of being involved, it is far better to fully commit yourself to a few organizations that you are passionate about. According to educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman, “It's important to be well lopsided rather than well rounded. That enables you to focus on what you're good at." If you narrow your focus, interviews and essays will be much easier because you have taken the time to deeply explore yourself and your passions. Take the time to invest in yourself and your interests. Find your passion, and be who you were meant to be. That is what will make you successful. John David Thompson is a sophomore majoring in political science. His column runs weekly.
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We are now less than a month away from the end of the spring semester--just four weeks away from the end of exams, and for seniors, graduation. Thankfully, I’m just a junior, still holding on to another year of college, staving off the incessant invasion of “real life.” Still, I’ve been forced to become more conscious of just how quickly my time here at the University is passing by. When May rolls into Tuscaloosa, another group of close friends and classmates will be packing their belongings and leaving for new cities and higher pursuits. This was of course the case last year and the year before. We all have friends who we’ve had to say goodbye to just as we were really getting to know them. Even from kindergarten, we’ve all had people come into our lives, only to move away or graduate or even just of all of a sudden get busy. That’s the nature of friendships; some last while some naturally fade. Too often though, we lose out on fostering relationships with others because of all the distractions and responsibilities that accompany college life. As we get closer and closer to graduation, our time to spend with friends disappears. Sure, GPAs, extracurriculars and internships are important and worthwhile just as papers, projects and tests shouldn’t be ignored. College students have a lot going on, and when there’s not enough time to go around for reading 100 pages in a night, studying for a midterm and planning a student organization forum, something has to get cut. Of course, it’s still possible to grow friendships while taking care of all our responsibilities, and it’s through our involvements that we meet new people. Still, it’s already April and I find myself wishing I had more time, not only with friends graduating this May, but also with the ones who will graduate with me next year and those who will still be here when I leave. So, my advice to freshmen as you finish your first year is this: waste not. Things are only going to get busier from here on out. Time is only going to go by more quickly. Classes are going to get harder, commitments more demanding. You’re going to meet many more people, and just as quickly, new friends will graduate and move on. Spend the rest of your time here pouring everything you can into the friendships you make. Take spontaneous trips for ice cream. Go bowling. Play board games. Play drinking games. Talk about serious things, and talk about nothing. A good friend can have a greater effect on your life than any grade you make or any plaque you get with your name on it. And when friends do graduate and move away, do everything you can to keep in touch. Go visit on a weekend or over spring break, and pester them to come back to Tuscaloosa. Good friends can be hard to come by, and college is the best time to cultivate these friendships. But the hourglass has already been tipped and the sand is running out. Mark Hammontree is a junior majoring in secondary education – language arts. His column runs weekly.
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OPINIONS Monday, April 6, 2015 COLUMN | SUMMER
Summer vacation provides students opportunity for solitude, growth CHISOLM
Allenlundy Staff Columnist
Because this is my last column for the year, I feel it’s appropriate to say something that’s relevant to the end of the academic year. This will be my third summer while in college, and I have begun to notice a consistent pattern forming, stretching back even to high school. Though there’s no mistake I have grown and learned an incredible amount while in school, the vast majority of the growth and learning I have experienced has come to me during the summer months. I can attribute this to several factors, but there are two in particular I think are worth taking away and applying. First, at least in my experience, summer is a much-needed hiatus from constant, nearly endless interaction with other people. I say this without any suggestion that such interaction is negative or unwanted. On the contrary, I am consistently learning an incredible amount from others, even and sometimes especially those from whom I least expect
it. However, what often gets lost in this a first priority, though it quite often is. daily interaction is the importance of For those of us who have the privilege of solitude. When we are alone is when we not taking classes during the summer, gather the events of our lives and syn- we are reminded how little our narrow thesize them into something that can be focus on school impacts our growth reflected upon. Even the most extrovert- and development as creative and indeed and people-loving of us must take pendent thinkers. As someone whose time to consider our lives distaste for lectures and and our relationship with homework in which I have the rest of the world apart little personally invested from it. Often school allows in has only grown expous no such leisure, as we nentially over time, I can We live and grow are constantly caught up confidently say that the in the hustle and bustle outside of school is throughout the entire world of group projects, extramany times more interestcurricular activities and ing, impacting and necesyear ... socializing. Though all of sary to our happiness than these are necessary for anything we can receive wellness, they can crowd in a classroom. Just as out the time we must have endless human interacto ourselves to simply ponder where we tion can stifle growth, so can endless are in our lives. schoolwork and studying. The second factor that I have come to I point these things out to make the internalize is the importance of remov- case for changing the current state of ing oneself from schoolwork. No doubt, affairs. We should not force ourselves we are in college for a reason, and a to endure a daily routine that we do not large part of that reason is to gain “book enjoy simply in the hopes that there is smarts.” That said, an insidious byprod- a light at the end of the tunnel – espeuct of the incessant focus and emphasis cially if all that light amounts to is more on studying and getting the grades is profoundly uninteresting work and that we, or at least I, can quickly forget people, but for money. We must take how irrelevant this type of learning is it upon ourselves to make time for the to so much of our lives. It should not be things that we need to maximize our
wellness. That means periodically getting away from friends, peers, colleagues and co-workers and doing something on our own. Codependence is neither healthy nor a particularly attractive trait in people, and we should not feel insecure removing ourselves from our social circles in order to spend time alone and personally reflect. Likewise, while I am not advocating a wholesale abandonment of our academics (though I’m not not advocating it either), we must remind ourselves how little difference our GPA makes in the entirety of our lives. Our human wellness is many, many times more essential to happiness than how well we do on any given test. The summer break from the academic year always reminds me of these truths, but they need not do so. It shouldn’t be the case that I or anyone else only experiences pleasant solitude and freedom from the stress of school during these short months. We live and grow throughout the entire year, not just during May, June and July. Going into finals, we would do well to remember that. Have a fantastic summer, and it’s been a pleasure writing for you all. Chisolm Allenlundy is a junior majoring in philosophy and economics. His column runs weekly.
6 Honor societies recognize inductees Friday NEWS
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By Katie Shepherd | Assistant News Editor
Members of University of Alabama honor societies were recognized Friday during the annual Honors Day Tapping on the Mound ceremony, a long-standing University tradition. The Tapping on the Mound ceremony, a tradition at the University since the early 1900s, serves to both recognize new honor society members and provide an opportunity for the Coordinating Council of Honor Societies to present their annual awards for outstanding students, faculty and staff. The Mortar Board, a national honor society dedicated to recognizing college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service, tapped 74 new members at Friday’s ceremony. Allison Montgomery, a senior majoring in biology and president of the Mortar Board, introduced the new inductees. She said she is proud of the accomplishments of the group and she is honored to introduce the new inductees. “Truly, it is an organization of leaders,” she said. The Mortar Board also awarded honorary memberships to Steven Hood, interim vice president for student affairs; Gorman Houston, an instructor in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration; and Tonya Nelson, director of communication for the
Honors College. The Blue Key Honor Society, an organization that recognizes outstanding college seniors, also inducted its new members at Friday’s ceremony. Kindle Williams, a junior majoring in chemical engineering and chemistry, said she was excited to be inducted into the Blue Key Honor Society and it was an honor to be a part of the Tapping on the Mound ceremony along with some of the University’s best and brightest. “I’m just excited to be around all the great people out here,” she said. “I love hearing about all of the things that people are doing on campus, and it means a lot to be recognized.” Rachel Herrington, a junior majoring in nursing who was also inducted into the Blue Key Honor Society, said she was surprised and honored to be recognized for her hard work and contributions to campus through the tapping ceremony. “I’m very honored,” she said. “I wasn’t expecting it, but it is rewarding to see the work I did in the last three years being rewarded in my last year.” Emily Meineke, the president of the University’s Iota Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, introduced the new members of the organization. Jamie Bowman, a senior majoring in English and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, said she was excited to be
Allison Montgomery, a senior majoring in biology and president of the Mortar Board, introduces new inductees during the annual Honors Day Tapping on the Mound ceremony on Friday. CW / Layton Dudley
able to participate in the ceremony. She said it was an especially great event for her because when she was tapped at last year’s ceremony, it was in the Moody Music Building instead of on the Quad due to weather. “It’s a long-held tradition at the
Capstone, so it’s great to have it on the Quad instead of Moody like last year,” she said. “It’s a continuation of a great tradition at the University.” Robert Pendley, a senior majoring in political science and president of the Anderson Society, led the recognition of the organization’s 25 new inductees and its seven honorary memberships, which were given to faculty and graduating seniors. In addition to inductions, the Tapping on the Mound ceremony featured various awards and recognitions, including the Outstanding Student Awards, given annually to exemplary freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students and transfer students. The Outstanding Freshmen award, chosen by Omicron Delta Kappa, was given to Rosie Lamberth and Joseph Nelson. The Outstanding Sophomore award, sponsored by the Anderson Society, was given to Erica Boden. The Outstanding Junior award, sponsored by the Mortar Board, was given to Benjamin Burkeen. The Outstanding Senior award, sponsored by Alpha Lambda Delta, was given to Laura Freeman. For the Outstanding Transfer Student award, Tau Sigma chose Orion Recke and Kara Parks, and for the Outstanding Graduate Student award, the UA Graduate Student Association chose Sarah Austin.
University Medical Center expanding evening hours By Nick Privitera | Contributing Writer
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Starting Monday, University Medical Center will expand its usual evening hours of Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 8 p.m. to include Monday evening hours during the same time. The decision to add another day was made after staff at the medical center witnessed the large quantities of people making use of the Tuesday and Thursday evening hours. “It is part of the college’s mission to make health care more available and accessible in the community,” said Leslie Zganjar, director of communications for the College of Community Health Sciences. “A lot of times it’s hard for people to get away from work to see the doctor, so this is a way to help provide access to care at times that might be more convenient.” Zganjar said the decision to expand hours was easy when one saw how many people were at the University Medical Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “The clinic on Tuesday and Thursday evenings was just packed,” she said. The expansion of hours also allows doctors completing their residency a chance to see more patients. “I believe having extended hours for our patients on an additional day during the week is an advantageous move,” said Jason Clemons, a resident at the
The University Medical Center has extended its hours. CW File
medical center. “Availability to our patients is a very important aspect of medical care access. The extended hours do carry the additional need for medical staff to support these hours, but this need can and is being met by our incredible health care team.” With 45 current residents working at the University Medical Center, the evening hour needs of the Tuscaloosa community can be met. The University Medical Center is currently open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. In addition to those daily hours, the University Medical Center is open on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The University Medical Center is located at 850 5th Avenue East on the University of Alabama campus, and patients can make an appointment by calling the UMC at 348-1770. For more information on the University Medical Center and the services it offers, visit umc.ua.edu.
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Madonna exposes heart behind music with new ‘Rebel Heart’ album By Noah Huguley
Madonna's newest album, "Rebel Heart," has proven to be her most invigorating set of music in a decade. Amazon.com
Last year, the world got to hear a new Madonna album: the demo tracks to “Rebel Heart.” Just this past month, however, it was released in its final form. Peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 behind the soundtrack to the breakout TV hit “Empire,” this may be a sign that Madonna’s work is irrelevant to the current music industry. Nonetheless, many of her best records never topped the chart, and her empire still stands today. She’s performed during the past two Grammy Awards ceremonies, her past two tours have been two of the highest-grossing tours by female artists ever and she’s still got the controversial viewpoints, naturally. So what can one say about the music itself – getting to the “Rebel Heart” of the matter? It’s a beast of an album. With 14 tracks on the standard edition alone, a listener may be tempted just to make a playlist of her past songs about heartbreak, rebellion and love – and there’d be plenty of great options in that case. But regardless of the fillers like “HeartBreakCity,” the Kylie Minogue-esque “Hold Tight” and the cowbell-ified “Body Shop,” this record has proven to be her most invigorating set of music in a decade. She hit the nail on the head with today’s slang, with the tongue-in-cheek “Holy Water,” the Nicki Minaj collaboration “Bitch I’m Madonna,” and the Kanye-co-produced
COLUMN | FILM
Movies should honor, not exploit By Drew Pendleton
The Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi in 2012 and the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 are among the most notable events to take place in the 21st century. Each event impacted thousands of people across the country and the globe. But a simple factor binds all of these events together: all have either already been adapted to film or have cinematic adaptations on the way. While the war movie has been a common genre of film since its inception, maybe the most crowning example of a post-war adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” a 1979 opus that adapts Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness” during the end of the Vietnam War. Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” made in 1998, does the same for World War II, albeit based on an original script, so it figures that a worldwide event would be a perfect fit for the big screen. But as much as these films included action and suspense, they never shied away or disrespected the everlasting effects or losses associated with war. They didn’t turn them into slam-bang blockbusters; they left that up to the fans to decide. While adaptations of events like these can’t be entirely absent of action, they should be treated with respect. Paul Greengrass’ “United 93,” made five years after the titular plane crashed in Pennsylvania after a passenger uprising
Paul Greengrass directed “United 93,” addressing the titular plane crashed in Pennsylvania during the Sept. 11 attacks. Rotten Tomatoes
during the Sept. 11 attacks, is a perfect example. While we know how it’s going to turn out in the end, it doesn’t become a full-blown action movie. Its characters are human, and it pays respect to those who lost their lives that day while also functioning as a thriller. There are no added subplots like the romance in Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor;” there’s just the story that needs to be told. There’s faith to be had in the filmmakers at work on these films. Casey Affleck and Mark Wahlberg both have Boston Marathon films in development; Wahlberg also has a Deepwater Horizon film in development with “Lost Survivor” director Peter Berg; and Michael Bay has “13 Hours,” which takes place during the Benghazi conflict, in pre-production. All events had tremendous impacts, and they need to be treated with respect. When these films hit the screens, we’ll be able to tell if that mission has been completed.
“Illuminati.” She can still work from the bedroom (check bonus tracks “S.E.X.” or “Best Night”) to the dance floor (“Unapologetic Bitch” and lead single “Living for Love”). She proves the pop ballad is here to stay with her single “Ghosttown,” a highlight of the apocalyptic-themed tracks on the album. Her most captivating songs, however, are the most self-referential and the most mysterious. In her most recent material, Madonna has become much more vocal about her career. This record continues the trend with the listener getting the artist’s own point of view on her career with “Veni Vidi Vici,” rife with namechecks of her own hits, as well as the inspirational bonus track “Rebel Heart.” As far as mystery, Madonna goes for minor-chord moods not unlike album cuts of Beyonce’s self-titled album. The uptempo “Iconic,” featuring Chance the Rapper and a spoken intro by Mike Tyson, showcases Madonna’s third-person lyrics reaching for anthemic yet “iconic” proportions. The ballad “Wash All Over Me” recalls the sonic landscape of Tears for Fears over a slow piano and militaristic drum beat. Madonna’s longevity in music is a recurring subject of the album. She elaborates on several metaphors of survival, apocalypse and uncertainty. This proves most endearing in “Joan of Arc,” the best ballad on the album and the proof behind the heart in “Rebel Heart.”
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MONDAY April 6, 2015
Gymnastics secured the regional win after No. 2 seed Auburn finished .675 behind Alabama. UA Athletics
Gymnastics extends streak over Auburn to 114 meets GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 1
championship," coach Dana Duckworth said. "It was a complete and total team effort. We focused on one thing at a time. We focused on the word this week: unbreakable. Tonight in the locker room we said, ‘let's have unbreakable joy, unbreakable belief and unbreakable love’ and I feel like that is exactly what they did, one routine at a time, and it worked out in our favor." The Tigers will also advance to the NCAA Championship from the regional meet that consisted of No. 1 seed Alabama, No. 2 seed Auburn, No. 3 seed Minnesota, George Washington, Iowa and Maryland. The Tigers secured the second spot with a team score of 196.9. “I feel like we did great,” junior Lauren Beers said. “Obviously we had a couple of things here and there that could be better, but as a team, we took it one routine at a time and focused on what we needed to do next. I think that really showed in how we performed tonight.” The Crimson Tide opened the meet on the uneven bars. Led by a 9.925 from Kaitlyn Clark and a 9.9 from Aja Sims, Alabama posted a 49.35 on the apparatus. On the second rotation of the meet, the Crimson Tide posted a 49.5 on the balance beam, its second highest-score of the season, led by 9.9s from Clark, Keely McNeer and Aja Sims. After its bye rotation, a pair of 9.9s from Carley Sims and Beers pushed the Crimson Tide to a 49.3 on the floor exercise. In its fifth rotation of the night, Alabama scored a 49.425 on the vault.
Although the Crimson Tide was slotted for a bye on the sixth and final rotation, the team clinched its 11th-straight regional before that rotation began. “The scores were tight tonight for every team, but we just went out there not focused on scores and what’s going on out there and just knowing that we had to do the best gymnastics that we could do,” Beers said. “I think we really did that. We took it one routine at a time and it paid off.” On the night, the Crimson Tide took the top spot on every apparatus and two of the top three spots in the all-around competition. Mackenzie Brannan’s career-best 9.925 tied Minnesota’s Lindsay Mable for first on the vault, Clark took first place in the uneven bars, Beers secured the top spot on balance beam and Beers and Carley Sims tied Mable at the top spot of the floor exercise. In the all-around competition, Beers took the top spot with a 39.575, while Clark’s 39.550 took third. “We were all about belief, love and joy tonight, and just that unbreakable bond really held us together,” Aja Sims said. “That’s what we were focusing on and it really showed on the floor.” Throughout the season, Alabama has adopted the mantra of “protect the legacy,” and Duckworth said Beers, McNeer and Aja Sims embody the work ethic that has allowed the program to continue achieving success. “I want to brag a little bit,” Duckworth said. “I feel like these three women, and all of them, but these three women, every time they do a routine in the gym, they’re competing for a national championship. That’s the routine they’re doing week in and week out, so I think that’s why the consistency has been there, and I’m very proud of them.”
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CULTURE Monday, April 6, 2015 COLUMN | THEATER
Two-handers bring challenges to stage By Luke Haynes
When people think of Broadway shows, they tend to imagine larger-than-life spectacles with enormous sets, huge orchestras and rows upon rows of chorus members. However, while this does describe many Broadway shows, there are certainly some theatrical triumphs that are just as impressive without all the pomp. In fact, there are several treasures of the stage that move their audiences to laughter and tears with only two actors. These two-person plays, or two-handers as they are sometimes called, bring with them new challenges and advantages that you won’t find in ordinary, large-cast plays. Two-handers have found considerable success in musical theater with Jason Robert Brown’s cult classic “The Last Five Years” (which recently received a movie adaptation) and the less well received, though more highly recommended by this columnist, “The Story of My Life” and “John & Jen.” These melodic masterpieces prove that it only takes two to create the most powerful aspect of any show: a relationship. Whether it’s a relationship of passionate lovers, childhood Amazon.com friends or bickering siblings, the relationships in these musicals go through the best of times and the worst of times to show the importance and dangers of mutual dependency. While these tuneful two-handers found loving receptions from musical enthusiasts, their repetitive nature and lack of diversity make them a “niche product” that often doesn’t appeal to broad audiences. Additionally, the small cast and lack of recognition means they rarely get produced on an amateur level, so unless they get a movie adaptation like “The Last Five Years,” they rarely become household names. Straight plays also have plenty of two-handers in their ranks such as Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” and David Mamet’s “Oleanna.” Not only did these plays achieve critical acclaim, but they also found their way into the textbooks of theater students everywhere on account of their clearly-defined characters, circumstances and conflicts. More recently, there have been more additions to this line of two-handers such as Nick Payne’s “Constellations” which is currently playing on Broadway and John Nara’s adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” which will soon be making its world premiere here at The University of Alabama. Like its predecessor, “White Elephants” spends its entirety exploring one very important relationship and works to convince its audience that nothing in the world exists except for the two lives they see before them. Whether the casts consist of a small army or a simple duo, theater creates a world where nothing outside matters, and for that they deserve a hand – or two.
Student-written plays “Meet the Bradleys” and “Hills Like White Elephants” are the featured one-act plays in Monday night’s performances. CW / Danielle Parker
One-act plays to debut Monday By Matthew Wilson | Staff Reporter
Theater has changed over the years. It’s grown from small, nomadic groups of performers traveling from town to town to sold-out shows. “Student One Acts” revisits this smaller, more intimate relationship between the performers and the audience. “Student One Acts,” a show put on by the University of Alabama department of theatre, will debut two student-written one-act plays Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Allen Bales Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall. “It’s kind of how theater used to be,” actress Lacy Claire Whitten said. “There wouldn’t be a conventional stage, and audiences would be able to see the actors putting on makeup, getting into character. There’s not as many boundaries. The audience is really involved.” Whitten, a sophomore majoring in theatre, and Keeley McMurray, a freshman majoring in theatre and English, are performing in the plays “Meet The Bradleys” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” Set in 1920s Spain, the Ernest Hemingway adaptation “Hills Like White Elephants,” written by University graduate John Nara, follows a conversation between Girl (played by McMurray) and another character, Man, who tries to convince her to get an abortion. McMurray said playing the part has been challenging yet rewarding. “It’s basically the point of no return in their relationship,” she said. “It’s very much built on subtext – not necessarily what is said but what is meant.” While the play is a straight adaptation, McMurray said Nara and director Raines Carr put their own ideas into the play. One of the contemporary twists added to the story is making the couple interracial. “That adds another interesting dynamic to it,” McMurray said. “We’ve chosen not to acknowledge
that in the script – to present it as a normal couple having a conversation. If you’re thinking in a ‘20s mindset, lynching is revived in the ‘20s. My character getting pregnant by him would be very taboo. It’s very open for interpretation – the previous life they had.” Whitten stars as Mary, a hotel manager who has a complex relationship with an overbearing guest named Deb in “Meet the Bradleys,” written by Laura Coby, a junior majoring in English and theatre. Whitten described the play, directed by David Bolus, as being both funny and heartbreaking. Whitten said it’s been interesting exploring the play’s dynamic of relationships and mental health. Both McMurray and Whitten said their directors had unconventional ways of rehearsing. McMurray performed her scene in a crowded public restaurant in order to get a feel for the awkwardness. Whitten said she didn’t have conventional rehearsals until last week, and instead the cast would have crafts night where they improvised as their characters. “I, as my character, did water colors,” she said. “There were some interesting things we found out about our own characters that we wouldn’t know by reading the script.” Whitten said knowing the writers adds another element to the play because she gets to see their personalities shine through the script. She said Nara has a dark humor but in person is really soft and teddy bear-like. “It’s like being able to see how your friends’ minds work on paper,” she said. “Deb calls Mary ‘gal pal’ throughout the play, which is like nails on the chalkboard for her, but that’s so something Laura would say.” Having student-written plays allows for more creative freedom, McMurray said, because it’s more
of a community effort. If the department did a normal play, they would have to get the rights and special permission if they wanted to make changes. The performance is also challenging for the actors because it is a new show. Since these characters had never been developed before, Whitten said she didn’t have an original cast to base her performance off of. They are the original cast. Rather than seeing the performance as two separate plays, both actresses said the stories blend together and form one complex performance. Whitten said the set change in the middle acts as a mini act in itself because the actors are staying in character. McMurray said the play breaks the fourth wall between the actors and the audience. She said the minimalistic set invokes an inviting and intimate relationship between them. “It’s basically like you’re in a big attic and there’s random furniture pieces and trinkets,” she said. “Every night we create the set for the audience out of these miscellaneous pieces.” Each of the performers prepares for their roles in different ways. Whitten said she tries to get into a very meticulous mindset, aware of how objects are structured in her environment and refusing help from others. She said Sarah Jane Peters, the actress who plays Deb, will be in the audience talking to people before the performance. McMurray said she’s more excited than nervous for her first show at the University. She said she wants to make a place for herself in the program and the show has been a learning experience for her. “I got the opportunity to learn from everybody else,” she said. “I think college theater is kind of a different ball game. It’s been a great experience to be in this show with all these seasoned actors.”
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Monday, April 6, 2015
The Crimson Tide set the record for longest recorded time for an Alabama baseball game this weekend during a 16-inning loss to LSU. UA Athletics
UA baseball swept for first time this season By Nolan Imsande | Staff Reporter
The Alabama baseball team battled for as long as it could on Thursday night, but No. 3 LSU was too much to handle. The Crimson Tide completed three different comebacks in the 16-inning affair but could not rally for a fourth after LSU put up three runs in the 16th to win 8-5. The game, which lasted five hours and 25 minutes, set the record for longest recorded time for an Alabama baseball game. “I tell them I’m proud of the way they played,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard
said. “I thought they played their [tails] off all night. It’s baseball, you know there’s a few inches here and there on both sides. I thought both teams competed like crazy all night.” Alabama jumped to an early 1-0 lead in the first inning after shortstop Mikey White laced a home run to left. That score held until the ninth inning when LSU plated two runs. Alabama tied the game in the bottom half of the inning after Georgie Salem tripled and White drove him with a sacrifice fly. Each team scored two apiece in the 11th and then traded runs in the 13th to even the score at five. LSU scored
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for most of the game until back-to-back RBI singles by Wilhite and freshman Cody Henry. Junior Will Carter started the game for Alabama and struck out a career-high six in 6.1 innings of work. In Saturday’s series finale, the Crimson Tide stranded 14 base runners on the way to a 13-inning, 6-4 loss. Geoffrey Bramblett started the game and went five innings. He was replaced by Ray Castillo, who pitched 5.2 innings while giving up no runs and striking out five. With three consecutive losses, Alabama is now 15-15 and 4-8 in the SEC.
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three runs in the 16th off of Crimson Tide reliever J.C. Wilhite to go up 8-5. Alabama brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the 16th but couldn’t produce any runs. “We play that kind of baseball and we keep doing that and we are going to win a lot of games moving forward,” Gaspard said. “There was a whole lot more good than certainly bad tonight. You just had to lose a game in however many innings that went, especially when we had some opportunities to win.” Alabama dropped Friday’s game 6-2. The Crimson Tide struggled to figure out LSU starting pitcher Alex Lange
It wasn’t a matter of if Alabama women’s tennis was going to beat Auburn, just a matter of when. On Saturday, the Crimson Tide swept Auburn 4-0. “I thought we came out with a good energy today, a good spirit,” Alabama coach Jenny Mainz said. “We were ready to play. We were ready to compete.” No. 12 Alabama started off with two wins (8-1 and 8-4) in doubles to take the doubles point. The third doubles match was suspended when Alabama won the point. Natalia Maynetto took the first singles match, winning 6-1, 6-0. Maya Jansen battled her way back in the first set to a tiebreaker. Down 6-1 in the tiebreaker, Jansen took eight straight points to win the first set. She then cruised to a 6-1 second-set win and gave Alabama a 3-0 lead. “I got down 6-1 pretty quickly, and I saw that Erin [Routliffe] was breezing through her tiebreaker, and I just was like, ‘I’m just going to fight every single point and try and make this as hard as it can be for her to close out this set’ and ended up coming away winning it,” Jansen said. She wasn’t the only Alabama player battling through a tiebreaker. Routliffe came back from a first-set deficit to force a tiebreaker, which she won easily, before taking the second set 6-1. “I was just focusing on playing my
The women’s tennis team defeated Auburn 4-0 this weekend. CW / Layton Dudley
game, not letting her dictate the points,” Routliffe said. “I think that was probably the number one thing I did today was just dictating play and just playing my way, trying to be aggressive and trying to just play, like, my tennis.” Alabama wore pink for its annual “Power of Pink” match. Spectators wore pink T-shirts and the pep band was also in attendance. “How fortunate are we to play in front of a great crowd, and I thought the crowd came out today for the cause, and that’s to fight breast cancer,” Mainz said. With the win, Alabama improves to 14-6 overall and 6-5 in SEC play. The Crimson Tide closes out its regular season at home hosting Arkansas and Missouri over the weekend.
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12 Bo Scarbrough sustains knee injury Friday Editor | Kelly Ward Sports@cw.ua.edu Monday, April 6, 2015
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A long week for the Alabama football program continued during Friday’s spring scrimmage when freshman Bo Scarbrough was carted off the field. Since last Saturday, Alabama has dealt with three player arrests, dismissals of two of the arrested players, a torn ACL to wide receiver Cam Sims and now a knee injury to Scarbrough. While the extent of the injury has not yet been announced, Scarbrough tweeted Sunday night he will have surgery Monday morning. His knee injury was a hit to a position group that was already somewhat thin. Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake are the only running backs on the Alabama roster with in-game carries. “Bo was doing pretty well but we have had a lot of injuries, suspensions and lost some people at that position,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “What seemed like a pretty strong position for us depth-wise has gotten a little thin.” Drake missed most of last year after sustaining a leg injury against Ole Miss but has participated in all of the team’s spring practices and is expected to be ready when the season starts. “Kenyan has been able to do everything,” Saban said. “I can’t say that he is 100 percent but I think that the big thing we are trying to do is get him all the reps we can get him but not bang him around too much. Once we get through the spring,
WHAT TO KNOW • Alabama took the field for its first scrimmage on Saturday. The Crimson Tide wore helmets and full pads while practicing under a sunny, clear Tuscaloosa sky. • Former Alabama star and current San Diego Chargers offensive lineman D.J. Fluker was in attendance. • Quarterback Cooper Bateman wore an all-white jersey during drills before the scrimmage and worked exclusively with the wide receivers. Bateman has worked there multiple times this spring already. • Tight end Ty Flournoy-Smith made a nice one-handed grab during the media-viewing period. Flournoy-Smith had four catches for 18 yards last year and caught a touchdown against Texas A&M.
Tight end Michael Nysewander makes a catch during Friday’s scrimmage in Bryant-Denny Stadium. CW / Layton Dudley
he will have a significant amount of time to get some rest and get better conditioned.” The running back position that was seen as a strength for the team last season has been significantly depleted this year. In January, former four-star Altee Tenpenny decided to transfer after two seasons
in Tuscaloosa. Just last week, Tyren Jones was dismissed from the team after being arrested on marijuana possession charges. Jones was already suspended at the time of the arrest and was dismissed the same day as his arrest. Along with defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor, Jones became the
second player dismissed from the program in just three days. Taylor was arrested on domestic violence charges Saturday night and dismissed on Sunday afternoon. Alabama does have help on the way in the form of the No. 2 overall running back recruit Damien Harris. The five-star Kentucky native picked Alabama over Kentucky and Ohio State. He is expected to enroll and join the team over the summer.
Men’s tennis splits last at-home conference matches By Terrin Waack | Staff Reporter
The Alabama men’s tennis team split its last at-home matches this weekend. It defeated South Carolina on Friday, 4-1. Then, on Sunday, the score was reversed when the Crimson Tide lost to Georgia, 1-4. Alabama is now 15-15 overall and 3-8 in the SEC. Friday was a big win for the Crimson Tide, having lost to South Carolina the past four years. Its last win was during the 2011 season. “It was a pretty indescribable moment,” senior Stuart Kenyon said. “We’ve played them four times and it was really just a big goal of mine to beat them.” Not only was Kenyon given the opportunity with his team to achieve that goal, he played a large part in the outcome as well. He, along with doubles partner Sean Donohue, clinched the doubles point against South Carolina’s Thomas Mayronne and Sam Swank. Kenyon also clinched the overall match after his comeback in singles against
The Alabama men's tennis team is now 15-15 overall and 3-8 in the SEC after splitting a pair of matches over the weekend. CW / Layton Dudley
Thiago Pinheiro. “It was really remarkable and amazing,” Kenyon said. “Really just
the best feeling in the world.” On Sunday, the team started with momentum after claiming the doubles point. However, during the singles matches, the momentum switched over to the Bulldogs. “It seemed like some guys were off, and some guys obviously played better than others,” sophomore Nikko Madregallejo said. “They made less errors [Sunday] than we did on most of the courts, and that was the difference.” Coach George Husack said the team was outplayed by Georgia. With the last three matches going into all three sets, he said he noticed Georgia getting annoyed and tired. “At 3:45 p.m., Georgia didn’t expect to lose the doubles point, and [it] didn’t expect to have a long battle in singles,” he said. “I think at that point – which, I told the team this – when you see blood, you have to go after it.” Husack said the team needs to be like sharks during those times. Although its season isn’t over, Alabama’s at-home matches have
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come to an end. Sunday was senior night as the two seniors, Kenyon and Andrew Goodwin, took the court for their last matches. “I couldn’t really ask for anything more,” Kenyon said. “I’m very proud of the whole team, especially [Goodwin] with doubles. I’m also just proud of myself.” Kenyon said it’s a weird feeling knowing this was his last at-home match, yet at the same time, he knows the season isn’t over and he still has more tennis to play. “It’s not done; we want the season to go into May,” Husack said. “The guys might be tired and school might be winding down, but this is when we have to kick it into high gear.”