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Saban said he felt better about Crimson Tide’s overall performance on Saturday By Kevin Connell Staff Reporter The Crimson Tide played final scrimmage at BryantDenny Stadium Saturday in its preparation for next weekend’s A-Day game, and head coach Nick Saban said n the defensive side of other than correctable problems on the ball, the team played well. d energy and enthusi“I think that the guys had good ll,” Saban said. “Some asm today [and] played really well,” ave that, it probably, of the guys that maybe didn’t have t’s something that we maybe showed it a little bit. That’s really need to get more consistentt at.” ban said he was feelSaban ing much better about his team’s overall perforI thought the offensive line ce compared to the mance played pretty well. We had first scrimmage but wantsome receivers step up and o see the team improve ed to make some plays. We didn’t and discover the role they ld take on next season. would have a lot of dropped balls. We really wanted to “We look at this scrimmage as — Nick Saban to gett a more game-like siton. We really wanted uation. the players to try to define who they wanted to be as a team,” he said. rly pleased with the Saban said he was particularly Crimson Tide’s entire offensive unit, which allowed no mage. turnovers in the situational scrimmage. od things in the scrim“There [were] a lot of really good d. “I thought we really mage, mostly offensively,” he said. rback] AJ [McCarron] did a good job offensively. [Quarterback] had a really good day; we ran the ball effectively. I d pretty well. We had thought the offensive line played some receivers step up and make some plays. We didn’t have a lot of dropped balls.”
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Amari Cooper catches a pass on Saturday for the offense, which had no turnovers in Saturday’s situational scrimmage.
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Attendance low at UA’s provost interviews Lack of student interest frustrating to committee By Kyle Dennan Staff Reporter Despite efforts of the provost search committee to include student input, University of Alabama students are disinterested in the process of selecting the next senior academic administrator at the Capstone. “Each of the interview schedules includes meeting times with the leaders of student organizations,” Sara Barger, dean of the Capstone College of Nursing and the chair of the provost search committee, said. “You know how many students we had show up when we interviewed Dr. Francko? Zero.” Dave Francko is the current dean of the Graduate School at
the University and the only UA important that leaders of student candidate for the provost posi- organizations attend scheduled tion. Barger said student input is events with the various candivital to the process of selecting a dates for provost – she wants the new provost, and she is concerned candidates to see the caliber of they might not be represented students at the University. in the selection of “I’m really proud whoever fills this of our students,” important position. she said. “I think “I would hate for we have got some of When the students don’t the students to not the brightest, most show up, basically their voice have an opportuniarticulate students is lost, and it is an important ty to participate in anywhere, and it voice to [the] search the process. Every bothers me that committee. single person that candidates don’t has any contact have an opportuni— Sara Barger with any of the canty to see that.” didates is asked to Among those submit an evaluainvited to meet tion form,” she said. with the provost “When the students don’t show candidates were members of the up, basically their voice is lost, current Student Government and it is an important voice to Association, including President [the] search committee.” Jimmy Taylor. She also said gathering student input was not the only reason it is SEE PROVOST PAGE 2
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Provost candidate Dave Francko presents to the selection committee, faculty and students April 9 at the Ferguson Center.
Since returning to Tuscaloosa from spring break, students have found it plagued with high amounts of pollen, which have brought allergy season into full force. While pollen’s arrival in the spring Generally, pollen levels is always expected, seem to be running about areas of Alabama, including Tuscaloosa, 25 percent higher than avhave remained in the erage for this time of year. high percentile of pollen forecasts (levels — James Spann between 9.7 and 12.0) consistently for the past several weeks, much higher than last year. James Spann, head meteorologist for ABC 33/40, explained that a long winter contributed to this year’s high pollen counts. “[In Alabama] we had an unusually cold and wet February and March. Because temperatures were well below average, and it rained frequently, the pollen we typically see in March was delayed until April. And, it all basically came out at once,” Spann said. “Generally, pollen levels seem to be running about 25 percent higher than average for this time of year.” Kristen Bolden, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film, said she doesn’t believe the pollen levels are any higher this year than in the past. “It may be a little more, but it doesn’t seem to be any more than in the past four years that I’ve been in Tuscaloosa,” Bolden said. “It hasn’t affected my allergies as much, which leads me to believe that it isn’t any more than usual. I can grab a tissue or two in the morning, then by 10:30 I am usually recovered and used to it.” However, other students have not been as fortunate when it comes to this allergy season.
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SGA missed meeting with provost prospect PROVOST FROM PAGE 1 Leela Foley, director of media relations for Taylor, said SGA did not have a presence at Francko’s interview due to a miscommunication during the administration transition following the recent SGA elections. Foley said the SGA is working to address this oversight and will have a presence in the interviews of candidates visiting the University in the future. “Fortunately, Dr. Frankco is an internal candidate, so we are setting up a meeting with him immediately and there will be SGA representatives attending the interviews of all
future candidates,” she said. “We want to make sure student concerns are considered during this search.” Students who are not in leadership positions will also have an opportunity to interact with provost candidates at presentations given by each as part of the interview process. In addition to Francko, the committee is considering three other candidates: Pam Whitten of Michigan State University, Gordon Emslie of Western Kentucky University, and Kimberly Espy of the University of Oregon. They will be presenting on April 19, 23 and 30, respectively. Whitten’s presentation will take place in Room 309 of the Ferguson Center, and the others will present in the Heritage Room. Students are encouraged to attend.
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teaching, students benefit By Ellen Coogan Contributing Writer The University of Alabama is known for its athletic teams, but that same coordination and cooperation necessary for sporting success can be harnessed in the classroom, as well. A variety of team-teaching techniques are employed by professors. To assist with his research in Philosophy of Time, Scott Hestevold, chair of the philosophy department, audited one of physics professor Patrick LeClair’s Modern Physics classes. After sustained discussion outside of class, the two professors decided to teach a course together over the material where the disciplines overlap. They spent a summer planning the course, and in spring 2012, Physics and Metaphysics was born. “In team-teaching with someone else, especially from another discipline, much more planning is involved because we have to coordinate what philosophers have to say with what physicists have to say about space, for example,” Hestevold said. “So, it takes some extensive planning to produce the structure for the course. We have to coordinate not only the structure of the course well ahead of time, but once the course is underway, we have to coordinate the exam schedule, the textbook assignments for the next class, and so on.” Besides the extra planning required, courses that combine vastly different subjects require extra attention in other ways. “If a team-taught course is cross-listed and the teachers are from radically different disciplines, like philosophy and physics, you will get students who are well-versed in physics and students who are wellversed in philosophy, but the philosophers may not know the physics and the physicists won’t know the philosophy,” Hestevold said. “So, the two instructors have to work very hard to make their individual disciplines accessible to the students from the other discipline. This is a special challenge.” To make sure neither Hestevold nor LeClair got too technical for students of the opposite discipline to understand, each professor made sure to attend class when the
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other was teaching and raised his hand every time he got a little lost. “Also, I think for anyone thinking about team-teaching, it is important to find someone you work well with, someone who has the same approach to testing, the same approach to how much assistance to give to students, the same sort of approach to class format. If approaches to pedagogy are too different, it’s going to be a very trying semester,” Hestevold said. Luckily, this did not pose any problems for the two, Hestevold said. “It turned out LeClair and I just saw eye-to-eye on class format, pedagogy, assessment – it was a breeze. We never had a single disagreement about any substantive matter regarding the course. We just absolutely waltzed together,” Hestevold said. Other times, professors coordinate to guest lecture on topics in other classes related to their particular specialty. For instance, biology professor Kim Caldwell moonlights for several subjects in her husband Guy Caldwell’s Honors biology classes. “I hope that many students benefited from the combined teaching experience. I have been doing this with my hubby for about 12 years. Each year a few students tell me directly that my lectures were useful and provided a different perspective to his class,” Kim Caldwell said. Like Hestevold and LeClair, the Caldwells have had little difficulty in coordinating the strategy. “In my specific example where I taught a small portion of his class, there was not any difficulty because there was a clear delineation of topics. In our case, I was ‘called to duty’ for cell division, meiosis, and genetics. These chapters are finite in Honors biology, so we knew precisely when I would lecture in the class,” Kim
Caldwell said. Caldwell also swaps lectures with Katrina Ramonell, biology professor, each year. “Students are the beneficiaries when they are able to learn material from faculty members that have greater knowledge from particular topics,” Caldwell said. Yet another form of teamteaching is employed in introductory logic classes. Before this system was adopted, the introductory logic courses would routinely fail 50 to 60 percent of the students, regardless of who taught it. Since Chase Wrenn, philosophy professor, pioneered the new system, the failure rate is less than 10 percent, closer to 5 percent, without compromising the rigor of the course, Hestevold said. “The use of computers and a team of TAs, coupled with a professor who’s always on hand, has revolutionized the teaching of introductory logic,” Hestevold said. Students work independently using a computer program, while a team of two to three TAs and a professor circles the classroom. With the raising of a hand, a student gets help immediately from one of the TAs or the professor. “We definitely worked well together. We attended biweekly staff meetings, and those were really helpful. We got to know one another, dealt with logistics, and worked through practice problems,” Hannah Hicks, former logic TA and a senior majoring in philosophy and religious studies, said. Hicks said she feels students benefit from this arrangement. “Some students told me that they felt comfortable asking me and the other TAs questions that they wouldn’t ask the professor,” Hicks said. “When students realize that we were students just like them one or two semesters previously, they seem very at ease approaching us. In some ways, the TA system eliminates the filter that arises from some students’ discomfort in speaking to professors or their worry that a question they have might be dumb. Even if a TA can’t answer a question or give a student the help she needs, the TA is able to find someone who can, so I think this system’s greatest strength is in opening lines of communication.”
Office of Veteran and Military Affairs hosts Purple Up! Day By Tori Linville Contributing Writer More than 2 million people in the United States serve in the nation’s military and many have families and children who are also impacted through their service. On Monday, the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs is encouraging people to wear purple and participate in its Purple Up! Day as a way to show support and thank military children for their sacrifices that come with having military family members. Purple Up! Day will be held in the basement of B.B. Comer Hall from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, celebrating UA students who are military dependents and from 4 to 7 p.m. in honor of veteran and service members at the University and their families. Purple is known to symbolize all branches of the military – and therefore all military children – because it’s the combination of Army green, Marine red and Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force blue. With April being Month of the Military Child, Operation Military Kids is holding Purple Up! events throughout the month to show support for military children of the nation. Military kids and their families
will be able to play games, participate in different activities and win prizes. Alex Karagas, coordinator of the University’s Office of VMA, said Purple Up! Day is meant to let the University know that there are close to 1,500 children of veterans and service members on campus, which includes survivors of those who have passed away. “We want the University to honor and recognize them, and it’s our way of celebrating those students and showing the large number of those students that UA has and that they have a place in our office; we do all the same services for our dependents as we do for our service and veteran members,” Karagas said. Sumo suits, free food, giveaways and other fun attractions have been arranged for the Purple Up! Day to show the student dependents that the Office of VMA has a place for them. “Bouncy houses” and a duck pond have been lined up for younger kids, Karagas said. Zach Boyd, a junior majoring in finance and the president of the Campus Veteran’s Association, said student dependents can benefit from the Purple Up! Day. “I think the dependents’ day
is very important, and one of my goals when I became president is that I wanted to increase our numbers and dependents are part of those numbers,” Boyd said. “I want them to feel like this is as much as their home as it is to veterans, because we’re all pretty much part of the same family and I want that to stick in their minds.” The University brings the military dependents together on campus through the Office of VMA by showing military dependent students around and connecting them with other students who can empathize with their situations, Boyd said. Sara Cummings, a sophomore majoring in journalism and a communications student worker within the Office of VMA, said why the Purple Up! Day is a platform for student dependents, veterans and their families. “The event is about showing support for student veterans and military families and kids and that’s where the whole purple comes from,” Cummings said. “So even if people can’t come to the event, wearing purple still shows that you’re supporting military families and our student veterans.”
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Consider the issue, not the language Much has been made of the graphic displays being used by Bama Students for Life. As an undergraduate, I was president of a pro-life student group at another institution. Our group chose not to use the same images. However, I am fairly ambivalent to the message-spreading tactics of specific student groups, so long as their methods are legal. That’s because it isn’t the method that matters most. These pictures are disturbing because the procedure is disturbing. It is the procedure itself that matters. The conversation needs to shift back to abortion itself. The Editorial Board has asked Bama Students for Life to “commit to accuracy in their rhetoric.” The Board must do the same. The Board’s assessment of the nature of abortion is fundamentally wrong. In their editorial of April 10, “Consider Language,” they refer to abortion repeatedly as a “medical procedure.” Abortion is not medicine. Medicine deals with alleviating diseases and injuries. Abortion ends a pregnancy, but a pregnancy is neither a disease nor an injury. Pregnancy is a normal bodily process for the purpose of nourishing nascent human life, and a foreseeable consequence of sexual activity. Calling abortion medicine ignores these crucial facts about pregnancy. If abortion is not medicine, then what is it? Abortion is the intentional ending of an as-yet-unborn human life. This definition is justified. The pregnancy had a beginning, and this is its termination. Such termination is certainly not accidental. The subject of the pregnancy must be human, since the child in the womb has, from the moment of conception, unique human DNA. Finally, it must be a life. The child is certainly not dead, and in fact has developing organ systems independent of its mother. Thus, abortion is wrong because of what it is. Intentionally ending a human life in any situation other than self-defense is wrong regardless of where it happens. Knowing that, the only compassionate response is to care for women and children in terrible situations where abortion is tempting, and to work to end the practice of legal abortion.
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Without speech, graduation just ‘ants on parade’ By SoRelle Wyckoff Senior Staff Columnist A few weeks ago, my parents mailed me a book titled “What Now?” by Ann Patchett. Based on a commencement speech Patchett gave at Sarah Lawrence College, it’s addressed to graduating college students. It’s a short read, no more than 90 pages, with big font and some pictures. And most importantly, the message is a source of comfort for those of us who are worried about, well, what now? I’m not going to give anything away, but the thesis is along the lines of: Everything is going to be okay. And what a beautiful thing to hear at graduation. But at The University of Alabama, graduating students won’t hear that message. They won’t hear any message. For the last five years, our university has deprived its students of a commencement speaker. They attribute the reason to “keep the attention on the students,” and timing, due to a growing amount of students. As always with The
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University of Alabama, they reach for high numbers, and then when they get them in body count, they don’t know what to do with it. This causes a game of catch-up, rather than proper preparation. I too, see the importance in allowing every student to walk across the stage to shake hands with the dean and president. But after sitting and waiting for hours, I would be more than willing to listen to a 10-minute speech; in fact, I’d be honored. In 2007, the crowd booed the commencement speaker off the stage after he unfavorably mentioned the nation’s involvement in the Iraq war – which, while embarrassing,
is unlikely to happen again. I University should be both think it’s safe to assume our symbolic and educational student body has matured – the culminating point of a through its growth to a point great achievement. where it can hold its tongues. My hope for our school in The options available for the future is that they start a commencement speaker to treat it as a place of educaat a university this large tion, rather than a business. would be examples of admi- Instead of focusing on the ration to many students. The quantity, focus on the quality. chance to hear Our comsomeone who mencement represents will be long, Our last lecture before we leave the successes as there the safe haven of college into a and happiare many ness that can of us, but far greater unknown has been be achieved right now stripped away for the “sake of post-college it is noththe student.” That doesn’t make is enlightening more sense. ing and excitthan ants ing. Before on parade. 2008, students Include one heard words of advice from last life lesson from a place renowned politicians, actors that has taught us so much and business leaders. Surely already. their words were wise and But for now, I will rely applicable to the graduating on read words from a small body before them. book: “Sometimes the best We are being denied this we can hope for is to be essential message. Our last graceful and brave in all the lecture before we leave the faces of all the changes that safe haven of college into will surely come.” a far greater unknown has been stripped away for the SoRelle Wyckoff is a senior “sake of the student.” That majoring in history and jourdoesn’t make sense. nalism. Her column runs Our final experience at the weekly on Mondays.
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“ These pictures are disturbing because the procedure is disturbing. It is the procedure itself that matters. The conversation needs to shift back to abortion itself.
Why do the members of Bama Students for Life feel that abortion is genocide? Because the only reason we can end these lives is because they exist in the womb rather than outside it. This geographical exception to society’s typical view of intentional deaths is terribly unjust. Additionally, the deaths of the unborn are by no means rare. According to the Guttmaccher Institute (previously affiliated with Planned Parenthood), approximately one in four pregnancies in the U.S. ends in abortion. That is an unfathomable number of lives lost, and is the primary driver for pro-life work across the country, including that of Bama Students for Life. The same statistic says something equally terrible about the plight of women in this nation. Overwhelmingly, women choose abortion because they feel they cannot take care of the child. Abortion has been hailed as an answer and a blessing. It is no answer. It is the curse of women who feel they have no choice, and who are so often pressured by parents or boyfriends to end an unintended pregnancy. Women should be given real answers and real support. Real support comes from pregnancy centers, churches, individuals and agencies that provide meaningful social services. Women deserve to have their dignity honored, but abortion provides no such honor. Define this issue not by the methods being used to spread the message, but by the abortion procedure itself. Focus on the nature of the procedure and the effects of abortion on women, children and society at large. That focus proves abortion too devastating to be ignored.
Mark Harris is a law student and MBA student. He was formerly the president of Eagles for Life at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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BSFL’s images necessary to change culture If you look at past social injustices, including slavery and the Holocaust, graphic images were used to convey the humanity of the victims as well as the injustice of the crime. In the same way, Bama Student’s For Life used images from past genocides to parallel the current genocide, abortion, in our country. The complaints students have about the gruesome images of abortion are understandable. These pictures are bloody and unsettling to look at, which is why we must look at them. These pictures show the truth – the truth that abortion is the legal murder of an innocent preborn person. At the moment of conception, a genetically unique person comes into existence. Denying the right to life to preborn humans is simply discrimination based on their size, level of development, environment and degree of dependency.
A person, regardless if he or she is wanted or unwanted, rich or poor, or conceived in love or through violence, is still a person – their value is independent of these factors. Since Roe v. Wade, over 55 million babies have been aborted in the U.S. What does 55 million even look like? How many future Albert Einsteins, Mother Teresas or Ludwig van Beethovens have been killed as a result of legal abortion? I also find myself asking, what kind of culture would drive women to kill their babies? I do not see women as murderers but as victims who are often coerced by their family or boyfriend or spouse to terminate the pregnancy. The pro-life movement is not about hurting women, but it is about protecting the dignity and rights of all humans. The most important and fundamental issue of abortion is that denying preborn people the right
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to life is morally wrong in the same way that murder is wrong. In killing a person, one is denying that person of their future life. In the same way, killing a preborn child is denying that child of his or her future life outside the womb. Until our culture comes to recognize the sanctity of human life from womb to tomb, the pro-life movement will not stop defending the vulnerable and voiceless. We will be vilified for our convictions just as past social justice reformers like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were. It is not enough for pro-lifers to be indifferent; we must take immediate action to speak out against the largest humanitarian crisis in history. As Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” Ruth Bishop is a freshman majoring in biology and Spanish.
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Oustanding Baylor center should play in WNBA, not be Cuban’s show pony By Amber Patterson Staff Columnist
players in the NBA; yes, the male National Basketball Association. All this attenOver the past month, the tion caused Dallas Mavericks world of sports has seen more owner Mark Cuban to action than usual. Baseball offer Griner a spot on season has begun, the NCAA his team in the 2013 NBA men’s and women’s tournadraft. At first I thought it ments are wrapping up and was a joke, but reading furthe NBA playoffs are just ther into it, Cuban might right around the corner. have been serious. Griner With all these happenings in was also serious when she Amber Patterson accepted the offer. sports come their fair share of scandals and controverMy first thought to this sies. We have all heard the surrounding Brittney Griner, new was pure absurdity. If stories surrounding the center for Baylor University. Griner were to play in the Griner is not just a reg- NBA, would that not defeat rumors about the Auburn 2011 Championship football ular center in women’s the purpose of the WNBA and team and the startling video college basketball; this be a slap in the face to those of former Rutgers coach 6-foot-8-inch powerhouse who fought for the WNBA to Mike Rice’s treatment of his has gained national atten- even exist through Title IX? players that eventually led tion for her dynamic There would be so many post play and defense. other measures that would to his termination. The story that garnered Many have compared her have to be taken. Griner my attention is the story play and use of her size to would need her own separate
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If Griner were to play in the NBA, would that not defeat the purpose of the WNBA and be a slap in the face to those who fought for the WNBA to even exist through Title IX?
locker room and doctor, possibly. Also, the scrutiny that would surround this decision would make it become more about her being a woman in the NBA and not how she can play with these powerful men. There is not a doubt that Griner has the talent to compete with these men, but her domination in the WNBA would be better for her career and give her talent the spotlight it deserves, because
that is what it all comes down to. Those who are for Griner’s entrance into the NBA say she puts others at a disadvantage in the WNBA. But is that not the point of competition? Is it not to overcome the disadvantages to win games? If Griner is allowed into the NBA, then that would open the door for men to play in the WNBA. Of course this is probably not ideal for any man, but
the door would have to be opened. This debate doesn’t come down to a feminist movement; we must remember this is a promising athlete’s career at stake. There is also the dilemma of size. Griner may be 6-foot8, but she would definitely have to gain muscle mass and strength to play with athletes like Dwight Howard and other notable centers in the NBA. Griner is a great player, one that I personally enjoy watching. I would love to continue to watch her in the WNBA, not as a show pony for the NBA and their experiment.
Amber Patterson is a sophomore majoring in public relations. Her column runs weekly on Wednesdays.
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Charter schools in Alabama would help improve broken educational system By Regan Williams Staff Columnist There has been a lot of debate on education in the state legislature this year. Largely, it has been centered on the Alabama Accountability Act and the vouchers it provides for private schools. While important, these vouchers are not the only creative avenues for education reform. The state needs to have a discussion on charter schools, which have the potential to help all students of the state of Alabama, and not just a few. Charter schools are publicly funded schools that do not have the same stringent regulation that public schools have. They receive money based on each student they
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have. These schools typically do admission based on applications, only taking the best students. They also can focus on specific study areas, but also have the ability to have classes that public schools do not, which gives them more options. A student is not forced to join a charter school, but they get the opportunity
to apply. The obvious benefit of charter schools is their potential to help smart kids in poorer areas. Obviously, it is not a cure for all educational woes, but it is a start. These kids are stuck in this broken system and while we have yet to find a way to fix the problem, we can at least give some of these kids a way out and with it, the possibility of a future. These kids will have the opportunity to go to these charter schools and actually get a good education. With that education they can also have a better chance of going to college and be able to get their family out of the broken system. Charter schools will help keep the better schools in check. Currently in many of
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These kids will have the opportunity to go to these charter schools and actually get a good education. With that education they can also have a better chance of going to college and be able to get their family out of the broken system.
Alabama’s top high schools, more money is allocated for sports than for academic programs. Now imagine if a charter school offered the same academic program that a student wanted, such as a debate team or the IB program, and the public school was not funding the program, the student could opt to attend a charter school. If public schools want to keep these students, they will
need to fund these programs. This means that all students win as they could be a part of these academic programs. Finally, the state would receive more grant money if they had charter schools. We are one of nine states that do not allow charter schools. There is real federal money for large education grants that one of the stipulations is that the state must have charter schools that we are
automatically ineligible for. The funding received from having charter schools could help some of the poorer schools by giving them more funding, which could assist them in becoming better schools. We need to act now. We need to tell our representatives that charter schools can help fix education in this state. I am tired of being behind the rest of the country in education, and this could be a small step forward. Yes, I realize it is small, but every journey must begin with a step. Let’s make this step charter schools.
Regan Williams is a junior majoring in political science and communication studies. His column runs biweekly.
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Colleges trying 4-year graduation contract model By Samuel Yang Contributing Writer When it comes to The University of Alabama’s push to preserve the traditional four-year college completion, DegreeWorks is just one tool in its arsenal. “I think we’ve already tried, as far as administratively goes, to use advisors on campus to push the ‘Finish in Four’ plan,” pre-health advisor Denise Gonzalez said. “Getting our advisors literate and excited about using DegreeWorks was a huge step in that direction.” Other than DegreeWorks, there are also Finish in Four plans provided by each department, mandated advising and individual four-year plans. Nationally, some schools are implementing four-year guarantees, which contractually commits students to graduating in four years. Gonzalez said the big question behind the many policy models is one of responsibility – whether the blame falls on
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Students who are interested in being [immediately] employable need to take stock of how competitive they are at graduation. — Roy Gregg
the student or the institution when a student does not graduate in four years. “With an institution as big as UA, that’s going to be hard to decide. Deciding whom the responsibility falls to would probably be the big step,” she said. “It’s going to be about choosing a model.” Roy Gregg, director of cooperative education and the professional practice program, said an institution’s attractiveness often hinges on the number of individual options it offers to students, something that requires taking into account each student’s different academic capabilities. This includes relationships with employers, he said, especially
for students who are concerned with their overall portfolios. “I think universities, and particularly ours, are giving students as many options for where they want to go and how they want to get there,” he said. “Each individual student has to determine why he or she is going to college. The outcomes are different.” Gregg advised engineering students who were pursuing graduate school or different post-undergraduate directions to “graduate as quickly as possible.” Otherwise, the engineering job market often values skill sets more than graduation time, he said. “Students who are interested in being [immediately] employable need to take stock of how competitive they are at graduation,” he said. Lee Patterson, a sixth-year senior studying metallurgical engineering, advises students to “do it all in one run, unless [there’s something else] you’re really passionate about.” Patterson took two years off
after his freshman year to take a religious mission trip. “I don’t regret it, but it did have negative consequences as far as my education and finance goes,” he said. “For any reasons other than religious reasons, it wasn’t worth it. I was paying for it, and I wasn’t guaranteed any of my scholarships when I came back.” Patterson said a four-year guarantee would have greatly affected his undergraduate planning-related decisions, dating back to even selecting a college. He also suggested programs that would allow trips like the one he took to count toward credit – a kind of “religious co-op.” He had heard of other institutions with strict policies aimed at enforcing the four-year graduation rate. The four-year guarantee, he said, seemed like a good approach, because it offered incentives instead of punishment. “I guess it’s a step in the same direction in a better way,” he said. “I do think [four-year
graduation] is something the school should enforce.” Ultimately, the future rise of four-year guarantees would not surprise him, especially given trends in university growth. He said the program could be a “good fit” at the University, since it could even help students who were mostly on track, but had minor concerns about summer classes or December graduation. “Programs like this that help streamline the influx and outflow of students are going to become more relevant,” he said. “I don’t think it would be a dramatic lifestyle change for the majority of the student populate. I feel like if it was implemented, it would be mainstream.” Gonzalez said four-year guarantees would be an interesting experiment, though she felt some versions of the guarantee would not noticeably impact graduation rates, especially among the pre-health students she advises, whom she said are very driven. In addition, she
said some departments might find their co-op and internship programs suffering, like the criminal justice internship program recently axed to promote timely graduation. “Those who are going to graduate in four years are going to continue to do so,” she said. “I think [the four-year guarantee] would be the extra mile.” Ultimately, the verdict on the four-year path may not be too unlike the college planning process itself. It’s somewhat of a waiting game. “It’s still feasible,” she said. “I think we hold on to [the four-year plan] because 50 percent of students are still doing it. We’re trying to see if it’s a matter of students aren’t pushing themselves or if there is a new model. I think we’re in that stage of trying to see if five years is the new norm of four years can be preserved. I think we’re all hoping it’s the latter. I see a lot of kids for whom it’d be feasible to do it in three years.”
Students choose to pursue post-baccalaureate programs By Sarah Robinson Contributing Writer
University of Mississippi graduate Leah Cayson initially had plans to explore the work world immediately after earning her bachelor’s degree in journalism, but things changed when she was diagnosed with epilepsy in May 2012. “It was easier to stay closer to home and figure out my health problems instead of jumping into the work world,” Cayson said. In April 2012, Cayson started searching graduate programs and signed up for the General Record Examination, which is a standardized test often required for entrance
into graduate programs. She applied and was admitted for The University of Alabama’s one-year master’s program in community journalism. Cayson’s enrollment contributes to the increasing number of people joining postbaccalaureate programs. Postbaccalaureate enrollment has increased every year since 1983, reaching 2.9 million students in 2010, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Blake Bedsole, the director of graduate recruitment at the University, suggested students interested in graduate school should prepare early, maybe their junior or senior year. Nichole Christian, a junior
majoring in psychology, has already decided to apply for a graduate program at Argosy University, where she plans to earn her doctorate in psychology. “I made my decision based on which University offers the PsyD in clinical psychology, but also on the cost of living in the area,” Christian said. “I have already been looking at apartments in areas just outside of Atlanta, so I can get a basic idea of what the cost of living would be. I graduate in December 2013, so that gives me at least seven months to work full time as well and put away money toward paying bills and rent when I move to Atlanta. I have also been looking at job oppor-
tunities in the area so I can per week studying for a continue to support myself graduate course may be much financially.” more intense and longer than Bedsole said whatever a stuuniversities usudent would have ally offer various done for an If you are interested, there forms of finanundergraduate,” is no harm in trying. There is cial support for Bedsole said. their programs. “As a graduate no harm in doing everything The University student, you are you can to apply. of Alabama not just reading offers scholarand regurgitat— Blake Bedsole ships, assistanting facts. You ships and felare expected to lowships as their synthesize a lot three main sources for aid. In of information and contribute addition, Bedsole said students to that research base. It’s a lot should prepare for the signifi- more reading a lot more writcant change in work load from ing that students need to preundergraduate to graduate pare for, especially during the degree programs. first semester.” “The average time spent Cayson echoed this senti-
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ment, saying graduate students must stay more organized and on top of their coursework. “You can’t wait until last minute,” said Cayson, who writes down every assignment she will have on her calendar at the beginning of the semester. “You have to be able to discuss. You have to be able to understand what you read, to process it and execute it in a way that they know that you understand it.” Despite the challenges graduate students may face, Bedsole still encouraged students to pursue their desired levels of education. “If you are interested, there is no harm in trying,” Bedsole said. “There is no harm in doing everything you can to apply.”
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Relay for Life raises $49 thousand for research By Ellen Coogan Contributing Writer
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Relay For Life was held at Sam Bailey Track & Field Stadium Friday.
From 6 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday, students walked to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Through emails and fundraisers, the UA Relay For Life teams collectively raised $49,889.77 for the American Cancer Society. Executive director Laura Lantrip said that about twice as many people attended Relay For Life this year than last year. “We were very surprised to have such a great turnout, but we had such a good turnout at team captain meetings, and the team captains said their teams were excited,” Lantrip said. “All these people care so much to give up a Friday night to celebrate life. It’s remarkable.” New College team captain, Emily Coffman, said although she had a smaller team this
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All these people care so much to give up a Friday night to celebrate life. It’s remarkable. — Laura Lantrip
year, she was pleased with the $700 they raised. “It’s a good cause,” Coffman said. “I’m happy see a good turnout, especially since college kids can be lazy.” The Athletic Training Students Association won the event, raising $6,517. Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, which raised $4,150, and Delta Zeta sorority, which raised $4,045, came in second and third place. “It seems like everyone is getting into it and having a good time; the competition’s intense,” Lantrip said.
With themed laps and games like capture the flag, the night was full of fun events for participants to pass the time between dusk and dawn. Sidney Anne McGough of the Athletic Training Students Association team participated in whipped cream twister, shoving her hands in feet in pans of dyed whipped cream and trying to stay balanced in crazy contortions. “It was really fun. It was messy and slippery, and there were a lot of people in a small space,” McGough said. Lantrip said she attributes the success of the event to the dedication of the Relay committee. “We’re very pleased that they cared so much about it, and made it a priority even when they have school and other engagements,” Lantrip said.
Alabama theatre department brings ‘Show Boat’ to campus By Kristen Feyt Contributing Writer Last week, The University of Alabama’s theatre department left Tuscaloosa to feature its rendition of the musical, “Show Boat” at the Mobile Civic Center Theater. The production featured a cast of 43 actors as well as 12 orchestra members. Originally based on a novel by Edna Ferber, “Show Boat” tells the tale of three generations of show folk who work aboard a floating theater named “The Cotton Blossom.” The show carries various themes throughout each scene such as love, racial issues and the inevitable reality of growing older. Premiering in 1927, “Show Boat” became a very influential
show in 20th century theater. “It’s considered to be the first real American musical theatre piece,” Bill Teague, chair of the department of theatre and dance, said. “It was written in 1927 and prior to then, all of the shows had been reviews and burlesques. This is the first show that took a story, a real honest to goodness story, and had music written for it. This sort of created the musical theatre genre that we’re used to today.” To portray the changing time periods, the actors have multiple costume changes throughout the various acts and scenes. The costumes were selected to help enhance the characters’ personalities, as well as being historically accurate to make
the musical’s setting become more realistic to its audiences. “We began fittings early in the semester,” Donna Meester, costume designer for the musical, said. “At that point, the actors got their first look and feel regarding what they would be like on stage. They also found out if they would be styling their own hair or wearing a wig, or wigs, which also has an impact on how they feel as a character.” Along with using costumes to enhance the time period of the show, the actors also had to go through a process of connecting with their characters and the emotions that they portray throughout the show. ‘Show Boat’ has allowed me to embrace and fall in love with this classical musical theatre
style,” said Jessica May, a senior majoring in musical theatre, who plays the part of Magnolia Hawks. “The story is so honest and simple, but there is a lot of emotional struggle every character goes through,” May said. “I get to go through first feelings of love, a first kiss, a wedding, having a child, being abandoned by my husband and reconciling with him all in one night. It’s been an challenging but amazing experience.” The cast rehearsed in Tuscaloosa but had to make final adjustments during rehearsals down in Mobile. Bill Teague said with the return back to campus, the musical is being restaged to fit in a smaller space.
“We had a couple of days of rehearsal in Mobile to finish the show there, and then open out of town, and then bring it back here then have a run here in Tuscaloosa,” Teague said. “It was all very new, so we we’re making adjustments and corrections right up until the last moment down there, still kind of tweaking the show. We expanded it to fit the stage in Mobile, and now we’re going to have to shrink it back down to fit our stage here.” Traveling to Mobile gave the cast the opportunity to perform on a larger stage in a theatre that seats almost 2,000 people. The new space also enabled them to experience a new and unfamiliar audience. “Performing at the theatre in
Mobile was an incredible experience,” May said. “Knowing it was such a large space, I expected to have to make my performance larger and louder to compensate, but because the space was so live, we were actually able to pull back slightly in places and still be heard and read. I was expecting it to be a challenge, but I felt it ending up being really freeing.” “Show Boat” will be performing in the Marion Gallaway Theatre on April 15 through the 20 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the Gallaway Theatre box office or online. Tickets are $12 for students, $15 for faculty, staff and senior citizens and $18 for adults.
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English honor society Sigma Tau Delta wins awards By Jessica Smith Contributing Writer The University of Alabama chapter of Sigma Tau Delta The International English Honor Society, recently received a number of awards at its national convention in Portland, Ore. Joey Gamble, a junior majoring in English and vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, received the E. Nelson James Junior Scholarship individual award. Students in their junior year who exemplify academic and community achievement
Students must juggle appointments, school ILLNESS FROM PAGE 1 After her first surgery, Ahmed went through two weeklong radiation treatments. Ahmed will be completing her third radiation treatment this summer, and she hopes it will be her last. “It makes me so excited to know that I’m almost there,” Ahmed said. “I can’t wait and I look forward to being cancer free.” Cancer isn’t the only chronic illness plauging UA students. Jillian Koresko, a sophomore majoring in public relations, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract, at the beginning of her freshman year of high school. “Living [with] Crohn’s is never easy, but for some it’s worse than others,” Koresko said. “Luckily for me I have a mild to moderate case … One of my friends from home has a very severe case and actually had to wait an extra year just to be cleared by her doctor to go to college.” Koresko has to monitor what she can eat every day because the disease makes it difficult and painful for certain foods to pass through.
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are eligible to apply for this scholarship. “I am extremely honored to have been selected by the scholarship committee to receive this award,” Gamble
“I am not allowed to eat any sort of raw vegetable, seeds, nuts, popcorn or salads,” Koresko said. “Some days I would give anything for a Caesar salad.” In addition to the diet plan, Koresko receives IV infusions of a drug called Remicade (Infleximab) every eight weeks and takes iron pills. Koresko said living with Crohn’s requires a lot of doctors visits and scheduling. “Especially being in college, you have to make sure that your appointments don’t interfere with classes or other activities,” Koresko said. “I kept asking, ‘Why me?’ but now I understand this is something that I can deal with, and as long as I do the things I’m supposed to do, I can still be a normal human being.” Koresko said she finds her strength to make it through everything from her family and friends. “They see me through the bad days and the good and always keep me on track,” Koresko said. “They literally will drop anything for me if something happens.” Morgan Embry, a junior majoring in dance, was also diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after suffering from four kidney infections last year. She also has asthma. “I missed a lot of class, fun events and had lost weight
said. “I know that my application would not have been successful without the amazing support of the English department.” On a group level, the UA chapter was a co-winner for the Outstanding Chapter in the Nation. This is the first time they have won this award since 1988. Additionally, more than 24 UA students were accepted as conference presenters based on either their critical or creative works. Carl Miller, the faculty representative, organized full funding for all of these
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I kept asking, ‘Why me?’ but now I understand this is something that I can deal with, and as long as I do the things I’m supposed to do, I can still be a normal human being. — Jillian Koresko
because I would go through phases where I just couldn’t eat,” Embry said. “Once I was diagnosed, I found out the times when I couldn’t eat were called flare ups and I was sick all the time because Crohn’s is a form of autoimmune disease.” Excepting a few high-stress moments, Embry has been in remission since about October and has not been sick other than asthma-triggered allergic relations to seasonal changes, cigarette smoke and the heaters in all the buildings on campus. “This year was definitely a struggle, because this season change occurred in the midst of rehearsals for The Freese Collection, which was an especially stamina-demanding dance work,” Embry said. “It is hard to dance continuously through an hour [of] dance work while unable to obtain a deep breath.” Since being in college, Embry said it has been hard to go out with friends to bars and restaurants later at night. “I find myself coughing and
mit an essay stating what kind of events and membership achievements, such as internships and literary journals, our chapter had accomplished.” Sigma Tau Delta is an international English honor society aiming to promote a mastery of written expression, to encourage worthwhile reading and to foster a spirit of fellowship among its members. Nadia Barksdale, a senior majoring in English, said she joined Sigma Tau Delta on a whim and ended up being an active member. “It’s been a good way to get my chest feeling tight when I in touch with the bright and am surrounded by cigarette interesting English communismoke for too long,” Embry said. “I don’t feel that I am missing out though. I always prefer hanging out with people at each other’s houses anyway.” Sarah Altschuler, a freshman majoring in education, has a combination of Crohn’s and Celiac disease. “One of the major challenges I have found is having to supply my own food, because as much as the University tries, it’s hard for them to provide options that meet my dietary restrictions, not to mention, it’s expensive,” Altschuler said. Altschuler finds it challenging to maintain her weight without losing it. “I can’t eat many foods with fats, and I naturally have a fast metabolism,” Altschuler said. “It’s also really hard when it seems like everyone around you is trying to do the opposite or going on spring break diets together.” Like Ahmed, Altschuler said her sorority sisters help her get through every day. “They look at me for who I am and not for what I look like,” Altschuler said. “Because of my size, a lot of people who don’t know my struggles form assumptions about me, but my sisters know the challenges and obstacles that I have and are constantly supporting me students to attend the national convention. Shea Stripling, a senior majoring in English and president of Sigma Tau Delta, was in charge of submitting the group’s application for the Outstanding Chapter award. The essay was written to argue why the University’s chapter deserved the award. There are more than 800 active national chapters. “Outstanding Chapter is awarded to four chapters out of several national chapters,” Stripling said. “We had to sub-
ty,” Barksdale said. “I was able to get an internship in New York City, and I owe them for that opportunity.” According to their website, Sigma Tau Delta is open to majors in English, English or Language Arts Education, English/New College, and to minors in English and Creative Writing. Applicants must have completed 12 hours in English courses and have a 3.3 GPA in English and a 3.0 overall. For more information on Sigma Tau Delta, students can contact faculty advisor Carl Miller at cfmiller1@as.ua.edu or current president Shea Stripling at lsstripling@crimson.ua.edu.
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Students navigate the art of class registration Many students plan ahead for class registration with help of advisors, DegreeWorks, various websites By Tori Linville Contributing Writer Students across The University of Alabama campus are worrying again about what classes to take and how to schedule them perfectly. The reality is that picking classes can be an art or a science, and it all depends on the major for a class combination to be efficient. Majors like English have wide ranges of classes that are available with guidelines of requirements, but majors such as engineering have classes laid out for their students to follow. Wendy McMillian, director of academic advising with the College of Arts and Sciences, explained how the college helps its students through class selection and registration. “In Arts and Sciences, we’ve moved to a model where all first-year students must be advised through the main Arts and Sciences Student Services
Center, and the professional advisors then help the students as they are exploring possible majors and talk to them about requirements and what their four-year plan may look like,” McMillian said. “Once that first year is up, hopefully that student is ready to transition to a faculty advisor in their major department; we remain the big picture people for them and continue to work with them on their degree as a whole.” Sciences are generally more structured than majors like political science, which affects the way students pick and choose their classes, McMillian said. “If there are majors like psychology – psychology requires [that] the two natural sciences come from a combination of biology, chemistry or physics, so that’s a science requirement for psychology majors. English majors are required to have four semesters or the equivalent of two years of a
foreign language,” McMillian said. “Those are kinds of things that our advisors are talking to students about; if a student thinks they want to major in English and they find out they have to do a foreign language and it just makes them cringe and they don’t want to do it, then an English major is probably not the best fit for them.” Though the core education classes provide a little bit of wiggle room for some, others aren’t so lucky. Nursing majors have little leeway for change within their class selections. Katara Wilson, academic advisor and mentoring and recruitment coordinator for the RN Mobility Program, explained a nursing major’s selection room for classes. “For our students, taking core classes is a very regimental schedule; our students are divided into two groups, lower and upper division, and the lower division students are those completing core classes
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I’ve learned to have back up classes and different classes in case they are full. It can be very frustrating when classes are full, especially when that class is essential to have in order to graduate. — Hillary Bell
in preparation to apply for the actual upper division, which is when they’re taking the nursing courses,” Wilson said. “For example, most have to have 12 hours of a history and social or behavioral science, so those are pretty much set up for them. They do have a choice in their history course, but they have to take Human Development 101 and Psychology 101, and they have to take chemistry for their eight hours of natural science.” Online services also have some influence on class selection. Sites like ratemyprofessor.com, a go-to website for some students, list many different UA professors and their ratings. Other sites include
koofers.com, which gives students access to past exams, class notes along with their professor ratings. Hillary Bell, a junior majoring in communicative disorders, said she chooses classes and uses ratemyprofessor.com to help her. “When I go to choose classes, I have already figured out which classes, including the section and teacher, that I’m going to sign up for, and that way I can go to ratemyprofessor. com and check which teacher would work best for me,” Bell said. “When I do this and the section that I need is full, it will often throw off my entire schedule. Now I’ve learned
to have back up classes and different classes in case they are full. It can be very frustrating when classes are full, especially when that class is essential to have in order to graduate, and it always ends up working out after I register for classes.” Because communicative disorders is not a large major, Bell has noticed there is usually only one section number for the classes she’s required to take for the major, but that hasn’t stopped her from figuring out her game plan. “I now don’t get upset if I do not get a class. I know it may open up, or I could go talk to the professor to see if I could get in,” she said. “I don’t worry about which classes I need to take because of having such a great advisor and having Degreeworks. It’s a learning experience registering for classes, and the only way to get better with it is doing it is experience and doing it multiple times so that you know what to expect.”
Guest lecture to focus on ethnic, racial diversity Mireya Loza will speak Monday on Mexican immigration as part of a WWII-era guest worker program By Ben Clark Contributing Writer The University of Alabama will welcome Mireya Loza, a professor from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Monday to give a lecture titled “I was a Bracero: Indigeneity, Race, and the Bracero Program” at 6:30 p.m. in Gorgas Library. The lecture is part of the Smithsonian Institute exhibit, “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964,” which is being displayed in the J. Wray and Joan Billingsley
largest guest worker program in the history of the United States. It began as a way to fulfill labor The key aspect of celebratshortages during World War II ing desegregation is how in the agriculture and railroad it opened the doors to all industries, but quickly expanded across the entire United Americans. States. — Lynne Adrian By the program’s end in 1964, an estimated 4.6 million workers had been involved in the program. The program’s name, Pearce Foyer of Gorgas until Bracero, is a Spanish term April 28. meaning “strong-arm.” “My lecture will focus particIn Loza’s lecture, she will discuss the Braceros, Hispanic ularly on the ethnic and racial workers who were a part of the diversity within communities
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that participated in the Bracero Program,” Loza said. “I hope students that attend will take away a greater understanding of the program and a more complicated vision of Mexican immigration to the United States.” The Bracero Program exhibit and events are part of “Through the Doors,” the yearlong event dedicated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of Alabama’s campus and the commitment of the University to change over the past 50 years and in the future.
Lynne Adrian, chair of the American studies department, said she believes events such as the Bracero Program are an important part of “Through the Doors.” “The key aspect of celebrating desegregation is how it opened the doors to all Americans and allowed all of our residents to use their full talents to reach their potential and help develop the U.S. as a whole,” Adrian said. “Understanding the Bracero Program and the participants helps us to expand our understanding of all Americans.”
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Book Arts student displays work in Ferg By Francie Johnson Contributing Writer Artists find inspiration from a variety of sources. For Suzanne Sawyer, a soon-to-be graduate of The University of Alabama’s Book Arts Program, inspiration can strike simply from walking through campus. “My ideas often come very unexpectedly,” Sawyer said. “I might see something, such as the mistletoe that hangs in the trees next to Woods Quad, and get inspired to make something.” Sawyer is about to complete her third and final year toward earning her master of fine arts degree in the Book Arts Program. For her undergraduate education, she attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in art education and a bachelor’s degree in social work. Sawyer started the Book Arts Program in 2010 with fellow third-year Book Arts student Amy LeePard, who is both her colleague and friend. “In Suzanne’s work, I think the energy of her art is fueled by the integrity and authenticity that she brings to her process,” LeePard said. “It is an integrity and authenticity that permeates both her life and her art. She is really committed to speaking her truth and listening to the truth in others, and I think that really comes through in her work.” LeePard said Sawyer’s dedication to her art and all of the hard work put into creating it is evident in the pieces themselves. “For Suzanne, having integrity means working hard, taking risks and listening deeply
to what is resolved and what recently after she arrived at still needs work,” LeePard the University. The title for said. “I’ve never seen her walk the studio was inspired by the away from something simply Old Crow Medicine Show song, because it was difficult or hold “Down Home Girl,” originally on to something because it recorded by Alvin Robinson took a lot of effort to get there. in 1964. I think the aesthetic value Through her art, Sawyer and the fine craftsmanship explores the different ways of her work come out of that humans relate to one another, commitment.” focusing on the themes of idenA collection of Sawyer’s tity, duality and anonymity. work, including sculptures, “Particularly, I am interested prints and an artist’s book, is on in how we are known by others display at the Ferguson Center and ourselves, how we perceive Art Gallery as part of an exhi- one another, or even how we bition titled “A Burlap Bloom.” might wish to remain unknown The title of the exhibition, also or disguised,” Sawyer said. the title of the artist’s book, was “Authenticity is key for me – I inspired by a line am interested in from a poem by how authenticIn Suzanne’s work, I think Eder J. Williams ity or the lack McKnight, feathereof manithe energy of her art is tured in the fests in relationfueled by the integrity and book. ships.” authenticity that she brings Sawyer said In order to to her process. her work was explore these inspired by the a sp e c t s of —Amy Leepard Gee’s Bend quilhuman relationters, descenships, Sawyer dants of former relies on a colAfrican-American slaves who lection of personal symbols developed their own quilting that often manifest themselves style using remnants of cloth- in her art. ing. Although their quilts “Each symbol is related to a are recognized throughout memory or relational concept the world for their abstract- in my own history -- a mark art qualities, the quilts were of my identity -- but the symoriginally created out of neces- bols are not necessarily readsity rather than for artistic ily accessible for the viewer, purposes. so I remain anonymous to “I was inspired by the some degree,” Sawyer said. “If resourcefulness of the Gee’s I share the meaning behind Bend quilters and the strength some of the symbols, such as of spirit and hope inherent issues of fertility, wanting to be in keeping one’s hands busy known and being marked for and one’s mind focused on life by an experience, they are something higher, whether it universal concepts.” be beauty or craft and whether Sawyer said these symbols out of necessity or aesthetic are often influenced by nature pleasure,” Sawyer said. and can include things like Sawyer owns her own art pea pods, forsythia and other studio, Down Home Girl Studio, plant forms. She has recently which she founded in 2010, been experimenting with using
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‘A Burlap Bloom’, a Book Arts exhibition by Suzanne Sawyer, will be on display in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery until April 28. mistletoe as a symbol in her work. “Mistletoe represents a duality that I find interesting,” Sawyer said. “When it is hung over a doorway at Christmas, a couple can kiss under it. In that sense, it’s romantic and sweet. On the flip side, the plant itself is a parasite – it embeds itself in the branches of a tree and
takes its nutrients from the tree. It sheds new light on the tradition of hanging mistletoe over the doorway.” Sawyer said her childhood also plays a role in inspiring her artwork. “I am deeply influenced by my experiences growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,” Sawyer said.
“References to that region and the concept of home are demonstrated regularly in my work.” Sawyer’s exhibition, “A Burlap Bloom,” will be on display in the Ferguson Center Art Gallery until April 28. For more information on Suzanne Sawyer or Down Home Girl Studio, visit downhomegirlstudio.com
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New organization aims to aid abused children By Deanne Winslett Staff Reporter University of Alabama sophomore Stephanie Ray knew she wanted to provide aid for local abused children, so she came up with a plan to start a student organization to do just that. Her program, Good Alabama, aims to offer support, mentorship, resources and meals to abused children in local areas. “Good Alabama is an organization that kind of developed into a student organization,� Ray said. “Good Alabama’s goal is to basically just really be there and be positive enforcement for the kids.� Since Good Alabama began in March, they have been working to grow to meet the needs of the children. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, members go through extensive training to prepare them for interacting with the children in the mentorship setting. “We don’t want to be an
organization that just drops off donations,� Ray said. “We’re trying to immerse ourselves and become trustworthy to the area and the shelters. We want to make sure we get a good couple of days a week to spend time with the kids.� Another part of Good Alabama’s mission is to go cook with the kids and provide them with at least one organic meal a week. This is to ensure they are getting crucial nutrients, which can sometimes be difficult to obtain in these situations, Ray said. “We’re trying to make sure that they get good nutrients at least once a week, which is of course is not ideal, but it’s a start,� she said. Ray said she hopes she can extend Good Alabama beyond The University of Alabama. She wants to see the program at other universities and eventually in other states, she said. “I think it’s important that people can see that good things
are happening,� Ray said. Her efforts have been recognized by other members of the Good Alabama group, who say that they feel inspired by Ray’s drive. Marina Roberts, a junior majoring in accounting, helped in the early stages of Good Alabama’s development by offering advice and suggesting potential resources. “I believe that Good Alabama is right now building a sort of foundation that will later enable it to make a truly significant impact in the Tuscaloosa community,� Roberts said. Roberts said the effort Ray puts into the program is significant. “What Stephanie is doing is trying to set up a network of resources and support that she can use to empower the abused children with whom she wants to work,� Roberts said. “I think she recognizes a lot of the barriers that these children will face, and she wants to take on those challenges and bring
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Good Alabama fundraised at the Druid City Arts Festival in downtown Tuscaloosa April 6. The student organization serves local abused children with mentorship and donations. those barriers down.� Before Good Alabama, Roberts said she was not aware of how extensive the issue of child abuse is within the local areas. “My experience with Good
Alabama has helped me to recognize how huge the problem of child abuse is in this community, but it has also taught me how capable we all are of taking action to address that issue,� Roberts said.
Good Alabama is working continuously to plan events and fundraising to further its cause. For more information on the group and their upcoming projects, visit them online at facebook.com/good.alabama.9.
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Remake of shamelessly gory ‘Evil Dead’ fails to improve upon 1981 version By Dana Woodruff The newly released “Evil Dead� has earned itself quite a reputation with its movie poster claiming to be “the most terrifying film you will ever experience,� setting the bar pretty high and making it one
of the most anticipated movies of the year. The actual outcome, however, was sub par and less than satisfactory, making it entirely undeserving of such high praise. To begin, the characters were flat and boring, lacking any sort of dynamic
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personalities. Take Mia, for example, the angsty main character with a heroin addiction. Or David, the archetypal “absent older brother� who was never there for her. The characters’ relationships with one another are predictable and somewhat one-dimensional, which certainly doesn’t add to the overall quality of the movie. Of course the film begins with a creepy cabin in the woods – why not? Enter five young adults, prepared to spend the weekend in said cabin in order to stage an intervention to help Mia overcome her heroin addiction. To briefly summarize, they stumble across an ancient book of evil and accidentally summon nearby demons from the woods surrounding them.
Mia, suffering from withdrawal, angrily storms away from the cabin and attempts to leave, but ends up getting “raped� by sinister trees that appear to be alive. As if this scene wasn’t ridiculous enough already, Mia’s body now harbors a bloodthirsty demon that has possessed her soul. But wait! The demonic spirit is contagious. The movie continues with each of her friends being picked off one by one, until only a single person is left standing to fight for survival. While it may seem like a decent plot, looks can be deceiving. This movie was painfully predictable, but its saving grace was the abundance of blood and gore. There were
scenes of characters vomiting blood and fluid, arms being severed and knives and nail guns being used as weapons. There was blood squirting everywhere, unseen forces attacking people, souls being possessed, and injured victims crawling around on the dirty cabin floor. And of course, there was the traditional creepy cellar filled with the gruesome evidence of witchcraft. Just when the scenes started to pick up in intensity, they were humbled yet again by mediocrity. In this case, the mediocrity was brought on by the cheesy out-of-place lines dropped casually into threats made by the demon-possessed teens. For example, as David’s girlfriend is shutting the
cellar door to trap demonMia so she will stop wreaking havoc, demon-Mia looks up at her with crooked eyes and rasps, “I can smell your filthy soul.� Needless to say, I laughed out loud in the theater. Maybe the director’s intention was to provoke laughter – I mean, most of the film had been pretty off-kilter thus far – but it was just such an awkward line for a so-called horror movie. In its defense, “Evil Dead� was a remake of the 1981 original, so the main storyline was essentially already there, leaving little room for improvement and originality. But there are just some movies that should never be recreated because the originals were painful enough in all their shameless glory.
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Overstreet brings offensive power, defensive finesse By Charlie Potter Staff Reporter The University of Alabama baseball team’s roster is full of talented freshmen. But the play of one first-year player has given the Crimson Tide a boost on offense and defense. Second baseman Kyle Overstreet has stepped into the starting lineup and provided a spark at the plate. He said all the credit goes to his teammates and the work they have put into this season.
“I’m just trying to do the best I can for the team and put it in play,” Overstreet said. “Good things are happening right now.” Overstreet, who hails from Boaz, Ala., boasts a .276 batting average and a .359 on-base percentage this season. He has only struck out 11 times. Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard said Overstreet’s offensive success has led the Tide to several victories throughout the year, as he has driven in 24 runs this season. “He really is [playing well],”
Gaspard said. “I was looking at his numbers today, and I want to say over his last 15-16 games, he’s hitting about .350 now. But even prior, when he was scuffling a little bit hitting .190, I think he was leading the team in RBIs. When he gets in those RBI spots, he delivers his best at bats in those situations.” He is especially dangerous in two-out situations. Against Alcorn State Tuesday, Overstreet brought runners home on two separate occasions, leading to a 3-2 win.
But Overstreet’s success in his first year at the Capstone has not been limited to his play on offense. He and shortstop Mikey White have given Alabama a deadly double-play combination on defense. So far, the talented freshman has turned 34 double plays, with a lot of baseball left on the schedule. He is currently ranked second in the Southeastern Conference in double plays turned. The chemistry between he and White has made turning two look as easy as tying up a
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Rebels sweep series over Crimson Tide By CW Staff Tanner Mathis delivered a bases-loaded walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the No. 18 Mississippi Rebels to a 4-3 Southeastern Conference win over No. 22 Alabama on Sunday afternoon at Swayze Field. The Rebels completed the series sweep with the win, as the Crimson Tide drops to 22-16 overall and 8-7 in SEC play. Mississippi improves to 26-10 overall and 7-8 in conference play. The Rebels got a single from Anthony Mistone to open the 11th, then a bunt single by Cameron Dishon put runners on first and second with no outs. Ray Castillo walked Preston Overbey to load the bases, then after Castillo struck out Will Jamison, Mathis singled to left field on the first pitch to drive in the game-winning run. Castillo threw 4.1 innings in relief of Spencer Turnbull and suffered his first loss of the season to drop to 2-1 on the
year. Mississippi reliever Brett Huber threw a scoreless 11th inning to pick up the victory to improve to 3-1 on the year. The Tide finished the day with 10 hits but left a total of 13 runners on base in the game, including nine in scoring position. Austen Smith led Alabama with three hits, and Kenny Roberts and Georgie Salem had two hits each. Andrew Miller had a double, an RBI and scored a run, and Chance Vincent had an RBI single that put the Tide ahead in the eighth inning. Neither starter factored into the decision, as Turnbull threw six innings, allowing 2 runs on 6 hits with 4 walks and 3 strikeouts. Mississippi starter, Sam Smith lasted just 4.2 innings, allowing no runs on 4 hits with 2 walks and a strikeout. Mississippi finished the day with 12 hits as Mathis was 2-for4 and Mistone was 2-for-5 with two RBIs. The Rebels jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one inning, scoring on RBI singles by Austin
Anderson and Mistone. The run-scoring single by Anderson snapped Turnbull’s scoreless innings streak at 29.2. Alabama had opportunities to score in the second, third and fifth innings. In the second, the Tide left the bases loaded, then with runners on the corners in the third when Booth grounded into an inning-ending double play, and in the fifth, Moore popped up to second to end the inning with runners on second and third. Alabama finally got on the scoreboard in the seventh inning. After Miller doubled to open the inning, he moved to third on a single by Salem with one out. Roberts followed with an RBI ground out to third to allow Miller to score. The Crimson Tide tied the game at 2-2 in the eighth inning when Miller had a sacrifice fly to right field with the bases loaded that was deep enough to allow Brett Booth to score from third. Booth reached on a throwing error by Mississippi
shortstop Jake Overbey to open the inning. After Kyle Overstreet advanced to third on the Miller fly ball, nine-hole hitter Vincent delivered a twoout RBI single up the middle to plate Overstreet, giving the Tide a 3-2 lead in the eighth. After the Tide took their first lead of the series, the Rebels answered in the bottom of the inning when Mistone delivered a two-out RBI single off Castillo to tie the score at 3-3. The Rebels had runners on the corners with two outs in the ninth, but Overstreet made a nice back-handed play and flipped to White at second to get the final out of the inning and send the game into extra innings. Alabama’s best chance to score in extra innings came in the 11th when they had runners on the corners with two outs, but Booth flied out to right field to end the threat. Alabama returns to SewellThomas Stadium Tuesday night when it hosts UAB at 6:05 p.m.
pair of cleats. Overstreet said his serious attitude toward the game has helped him succeed on the diamond. “I’m just trying to stay with my approach,” Overstreet said. “I’ve been working hard, trying to stay with it. It’s been working so far.” Overstreet was the No. 7 prospect in Alabama and the top
prospect at second base. He was also a 2012 preseason Southeast All-Region first team selection by Perfect Game USA. His career has only begun, but Overstreet seems to have a bright future ahead of him with the Tide. “He’s a good offensive player, and now you’re starting to see it night in and night out,” Gaspard said.
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WOMEN’S GOLF
SEC championship held close to home for Tide Mic Potter, team happy with course selection, knowledge of Greystone gives Alabama an advantage By Caroline Gazzara Staff Reporter As the season comes to an end, the University of Alabama women’s golf team must now turn its focus to the postseason and the SEC Championships. With only a few days left to prepare before heading to Birmingham, Ala., the Tide needs to bring its A-game and make every shot count. The Tide has had a productive spring season, winning three of four tournaments, not including its most recent tournament at ASU. Alabama staged a comeback in all three tournament victories. For the first time in conference history, the
championships will be held on neutral ground at Greystone Golf Course in Birmingham, Ala. Fortunately for the Tide, most of the team has played at Greystone previously. Coach Mic Potter said though Alabama has played at Greystone before, other SEC teams might not be as happy about the Tide’s course knowledge advantage. “I think other SEC schools don’t like the fact that we are close and have played there up until this fall,” Potter said. “We have a little bit of course knowledge advantage just because it’s one of the places that has been very kind to us in the past by allowing us to come over and play before Nationals.” Schools such as Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina are all vying for the chance to win this competition. Auburn won the championship last year. However, the Tide has many advantages besides playing close to home. Junior Hannah Collier calls Greystone home. “It’s really exciting [to be playing at home] but also a little nerve racking because there’s going to be a lot of people I know watching,” Collier said. “But I am really excited to be going back to my home turf. I’m really lucky that [Greystone] was the site chosen.” Alabama may have a tiny advantage over the rest of the conference, but the real test has been playing outside
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It’s always competitive and it can change from one day to the next. You just have to be on top. I think it helps strengthen our games playing in the SEC. If you can compete in the SEC, you can compete nationally. — Hannah Collier
of the conference. Most of the season is played against out-of-conference schools. The Tide gets its success out of conference by playing against some of the best teams in conference. “Playing in the SEC is awesome because there are so many good teams,” Collier said. “It’s always competitive and it can change from one day to the next. You just have to be on top. I think it helps strengthen our games playing in the SEC. If you can
compete in the SEC, you can compete nationally.” Senior Jennifer Kirby has played all four years for Alabama and said constantly competing and winning almost every tournament possible has helped prepare the team for the upcoming tournament. “The fact that we have won everything you could win has given us a lot of experience,” Kirby said. “In my time here we’ve won normal tournaments, SEC championships,
regionals and nationals. You gain knowledge on what to avoid and what to work on when competing. If anything, it builds confidence. If you did it once, you can do it again.” Potter said he and his team are very confident going into the championships. Potter said he plans on keeping the focus and drive on Alabama and letting the other schools do what they do. “What it comes down to is who is peaking at the right time and how the golf course suits particular teams,” Potter said. “Since February, we’ve gotten better every week. We can’t control what any other team does, but we can control what progress we make.”
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Professional athletes coming out would be biggest step yet for gay rights
By Nick Sellers
Brendon Ayanbadejo, a 10-year veteran of the National Football League, was released by the Baltimore Ravens April 3. Having spent much of his pro career on special teams, the 36-year-old nevertheless made three Pro Bowls and was an important leader in the locker room. What he’s doing off the field, however, will leave a far more reaching legacy than anything he’s ever done on it. Ayanbadejo is the leader of Athlete Ally, a group that advocates for the acceptance of homosexual athletes. Earlier this month, he made a bold claim that four active NFL players were
“strongly considering” com- same-sex marriage. Three ing out as gay, which has never states voted to allow gay marbeen done in the riage in 2012. history of proThe National fessional sports. Hockey League In fact, not one has recently No matter how much the professional partnered with country’s attitudes have athlete has ever the You Can changed on homosexuality, come out as gay Play Project, while active in a marriage the first professional athlete his or her sport. the New York to come out will face a difAya n b a d e j o Times calls “the ficult task. Progress has its said it’s about most comprefair share of doubters. time we let hensive meathem. sure by a major It’s now 2013, men’s league in where Fortune support of gay 500 CEOs risk rights.” losing shareholders to proEverything seems to be tect policies of diversity falling in place, with profesand acceptance (Starbucks) sional sports being one of the and President Obama him- last unadvanced frontiers for self comes out in support of openly gay members
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of our society. History shows us that sports usually lend a helping hand to progress. One notable instance occurred in this very state and is now immortalized in Alabama and college football folklore. Bear Bryant’s all-white 1970 team was preparing to face the USC Trojans at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala. The Trojans featured a black running back, Sam Cunningham, and for a region of the country still getting over Jim Crow, this was somewhat of an occasion. After Cunningham pummeled Bama’s defense for 135 yards and two touchdowns, legend has it that Bryant fetched him from the locker room after
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McCarron led the way offensively, completing 23 of 28 passes for 318 yards and five touchdowns. Wide receiver Amari Cooper had six catches for 108 yards and four touchdowns. On the ground, running back T.J. Yeldon led all rushers with 101 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries. Early enrollee Derrick Henry had the most carries on the team with 17 for 79 yards. Defensively, the Tide worked with what Saban called a “banged up” group that included linebacker Xzavier Dickson, who was held out of the scrimmage at the last minute with a bruised knee.
“We had a lot of new guys in a lot of places,” Saban said. “I don’t think we tackled real well … We definitely have a lot of things that we can correct on that side of the ball.” Linebacker Denzel Devall led the team with six tackles and one sack. Cornerback Deion Belue had five tackles and one sack. Despite the defense not having its best day, Saban was quick to point out that all of the team’s mistakes – defense, offense or special teams – are all relatively easy fixes. “I don’t think anything that happened out there is not something that can’t be corrected,” he said.
week’s scrimmage, was fully dressed out and rode on a stationary bike on the field. • LB C.J. Mosley, RB Jalston Fowler, RB Dee Hart and WR DeAndrew White all continued to don the black, non-contact jerseys. • NG Wilson Love, who sustained a concussion last Monday, was not present at the scrimmage. • CB John Fulton (toe) ran and worked individually with a coach. WR Kevin Norwood (toe) walked up and down the bleachers. Both have yet to fully participate in practice this spring due to their injuries. • The team will visit President Barack Obama and the White House on Monday Scrimmage Notes: for the third time in four • LB Trey DePriest, who will years to honor the team’s BCS miss the rest of spring with a National Championship vicfractured foot sustained in last tory over Notre Dame.
are a few differences, and the present issue of homosexuality in sports will affect the whole nation instead of just the Deep South, but the wider issues bear much of the same burden. No matter how much the country’s attitudes have changed on homosexuality, the first professional athlete to come out will face a difficult task. Progress has its fair share of doubters. It could be messy, and there will be backlash. However, as one of the most significant cultural forces in our society, professional sports have an obligation to lead the way in tolerance. We have the responsibility to accept it.
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The Crimson Tide hits the field of Bryant-Denny Saturday for its second scrimmage.
Saban calls defense “banged up” group
the game and brought him to the Alabama locker room. Ignoring any disapproving remarks or stares, Bryant said something radical and controversial for the time: “Gentlemen, this is a football player.” That gesture is widely cited by Alabama football historians and fans as one of the most important forces to convince the state that black players should be given a chance to be coached by the Bear. Attitudes shifted, and the rest is history. It’s now decades later, and sports have the potential to have that same effect on social progress as when Bear Bryant arranged that matchup with USC. There
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Tide women tennis team falls to Georgia, ends season 18-4 By Andrew Clare Contributing Writer The Alabama women’s tennis team fell to the Georgia Bulldogs 4-0 Sunday in the team’s final regular season match of the year at the Roberta Alison Baumgardner Indoor Tennis Facility. With the loss, the Crimson Tide finished the regular season with an 18-4 overall record, 10-3 in Southeastern Conference play. Head coach Jenny Mainz said Alabama has fought until the very end all season and it continued to do so against Georgia. “We have competed well all year and all season,” Mainz said. “I thought we competed well today against Georgia. Credit to them for the win.” Alabama wasn’t able to win any of the three doubles matches and trailed Georgia 1-0 early. Heading into the singles matches, Alabama needed to
win four of the six matches to win the overall team match against the No. 4 Bulldogs. The Tide came out early in the singles matches as sophomore Emily Zabor, freshmen Maya Jansen and Natalia Maynetto all won their first set. Zabor won her first set 6-3, Jansen won 6-4 and Maynetto won 6-3. Despite the early push in the singles matches, the Tide wasn’t able to win any Georgia went on to win 4-0. Mainz said the team needed to step up and take control of the match early if it wanted to win. “At the end of the day, when it counted the most, they stepped up and took it from us,” Mainz said. “Today was a day we were going to have establish ourselves early and step up and take it from them, and we didn’t do that.” Senior Alexa Guarachi said the team plans on using the loss as momentum headed into the Southeastern Conference
Tournament. “We can use this as motivation,” Guarachi said. “They came after us and we need to come after them, we just need to go out there next time with the mentality that we’re going to compete with every point.” Despite the loss, Mainz said there is a lot the Tide can take away from this match heading into the postseason. “This is another lesson learned for us and a lot for us to learn,” Mainz said. “We have to start fast and finish strong, we are playing together and playing hard but we have to believe and we will.” Mainz said the team played hard throughout the whole match and competed well with one of the best teams in the country. “I think we gave a great effort. I’m very proud of this team,” Mainz said. “I think we did some things really well and I can’t be more proud the way we represented The University of Alabama.”
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The Crimson Tide drops to No. 4 Georgia 4-0 to end the regular season.
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Women’s golf team rallies to win PING/ASU Invitational Sunday By CW Staff The No. 2 Alabama women’s golf team caught fire in Sunday’s final round of the PING/ASU Invitational with a season-low 11-under 277 to overcome a four-shot deficit and win by nine strokes on the par-72, 6,233-yard Karsten Golf Course. The Crimson Tide, which trailed No. 3 Duke by four shots entering the round, finished at 19-under-par 845 for the 9-shot win over the Blue Devils. It was the fifth win of the season and a schoolrecord third straight for Alabama. The 11-under 277 tied the second lowest round
in school history while the 19-under-par total of 845 was the second lowest total in school history. Emma Talley, a freshman from Princeton, Ky., earned the first tournament win of her career with a 9-under-par total of 207, which was also a career best. She fired rounds of 68, 69 and 70 to edge UCLA’s Erynne Lee and UC-Davis’ Demi Runas by two shots. Junior Stephanie Meadow fired her second consecutive 3-under-par 69 to post a tie for eighth place at 4-under-par 212. Senior Jennifer Kirby led all Crimson Tide players with a 5-under-par 67 to finish tied for 10th at 3-under-par 213.
Junior Hannah Collier carded a 1-under 71 in round three to count as Alabama’s fourth score. She finished tied for 31st at 3-over 219. Sophomore Daniela Lendl shot even-par 72 in Sunday’s final round to post a tie for 22nd at even-par 216, which is a career best. Arizona and Stanford finished tied for third at 2-under 862 while No. 1 Southern California tied with host Arizona State for fifth at 1-under 863. The Crimson Tide will return home for the SEC Championship at Greystone Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Ala., April 19-21.
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