TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2014 VOLUME 120 ISSUE 115 Serving The University of Alabama since 1894
CULTURE | MUSIC
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Publisher gets varying cut Record label gets 70% 90.3 cents
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CW | Hannah Glenn and Belle Newby *Information obtained from entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties The majority of money spent on streaming and purchasing music online rarely makes its way back to the artists due to various fees.
Musicians struggle from streaming Independent artists affected by free online music industry By Francie Johnson | Staff Reporter Imagine you’re a musician playing in a cramped, dimly lit dive bar. Suddenly, a man walks up to you, says he’s with a major record label and offers you a record deal. Fast forward a few years, and you’ve got
a chart-topping album, your songs play on radio stations nationwide, and you sip champagne while swimming in a pool of hundred dollar bills. Now, imagine you’re a musician in that same dimly lit bar. A man walks up to you and offers you that exact same record deal. You create that same chart-topping album, and your songs are all still all over the radio – but you never see a dime. You can’t pay your bills. You go bankrupt.
TODAYON CAMPUS Campus art WHAT: “Katherine Bradford: The Golden Age of Exploration” Exhibition WHEN: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall
MFA exhibition WHAT: “How Things Are, How Things Were” Virginia Eckinger MFA Exhibition WHEN: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. WHERE: Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall
The truth is, having a hit single and selling millions of albums doesn’t necessarily guarantee financial security for an artist. In fact, the majority of that money never reaches the artist at all. “A lot of people don’t realize that if it sounds too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” said Evan Brooks, a senior majoring in financial planning and lead singer of local band The Doctors and The Lawyers. “You have to learn that [on] your first day
of being a musician, because if you don’t, you’re gonna get screwed over time and time again.” As independent musicians, The Doctors and The Lawyers sell their music through CD Baby, an aggregator that distributes music to download, and streaming services such as iTunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, Amazon and more. SEE STREAMING PAGE 9
CULTURE | TAX RETURNS
UA students spend, save tax returns Professionals advise saving funds for financial cushion By Alexandra Ellsworth | Staff Reporter With tax season coming to a close, students may find themselves with extra cash burning in their pockets. While most part-time jobs might not produce a high return on taxes, students could be faced with a decision on their tax returns: spend or save? Jan Brakefield, a professor in the department of consumer sciences, said she
You never know when an emergency will happen ... — Jan Brakefield recommends students save what they get back from their taxes. “Don’t blow it,” she said. “It’s going to be different depending on each situation, but if a student doesn’t already have an emergency fund set up, I recommend that
they get one.” Brakefield said it is important to have at least three to six months’ worth of living expenses saved up. “If a student is still relatively dependent on his or her parents, then they may have a smaller emergency fund then say a student who is completely financially independent,” she said. “It’s a good idea to have that cushion in place, though, because you never know when an emergency will happen, and money back from a tax return is a great time to set that up.” SEE TAXES PAGE 9
NEWS | TIDE TALKS
Campus lecture WHAT: “The Boeing 787: Changing the Game” WHEN: 2-3:15 p.m. WHERE: 1013 South Engineering Research Center
Tide Talks to host final event of semester Four students to talk at 7th installment of speaker series By Greg Ward | Contributing Writer
WRC rally WHAT: Take Back the Night march and rally WHEN: 6-7:30 p.m WHERE: Denny Chimes
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Tide Talks, the TED-inspired, student-led speaker series, will wrap up the semester on Friday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. in Russell Hall Auditorium. The seventh installment of Tide Talks will have four speakers talk about various hot topics on campus and in today’s world. Kevin Pabst, the newly selected
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PLAN TO GO WHAT: Tide Talks WHEN: Friday, April 25, 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Russell Hall Auditorium president of Tide Talks, said he is excited about the program and what he thinks the series does for students on campus. “Tide Talks is a student-led speaker series that seeks to bring together the most
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inspiring students who represent unique parts of the University and give them a platform to share their revolutionary ideas on how to impact change on campus,” Pabst said. The speakers lined up for the event – Mark Ortiz, Alex Waits, Hannah Stephens and David Phelps – come from all areas of campus. Although the event starts at 6:30 p.m., Pabst said he encourages students to arrive closer to 6 p.m., as there will be a SEE SPEAKERS PAGE 9
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Boeing VP discusses new plane Dianne Chong, vice president of materials, manufacturing, structures and support for the Boeing Engineering, Operations and Technology organization, will deliver a lecture at 2 p.m. on Tuesday on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner airplane. The lecture will be held in the South Engineering Research Center Room 1013. The 787 is Boeing’s most fuel-efficient plane and is the first major airliner to use primarily composite materials in its construction. The plane made its first flight in October 2011. Chong is in charge of development and support of manufacturing processes and program integration for the Boeing Enterprise. Previously, she served as director of materials and process technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Compiled by Andy McWhorter
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CIS screens China documentary On Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at 30 Alston Hall, Capstone International Center and Capstone International Services will host a screening of a documentary titled “Imported from China.” This documentary, which sheds light on how Americans are viewed through Chinese eyes, follows Chinese students who are working to find their place within U.S. colleges. It tackles both the turbulence of U.S.-China relations while also exploring the cultural boundaries of college life in America. There will be an open discussion following the viewing of the film. For more information, contact Capstone International Services at 348-5402. Compiled by Katie Shepherd
CW | Lindsey Leonard A group of music majors who attend Church of the Highlands meet with their friends every Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. in Moody Music Building for a night of worship.
AIMS hosts dinner, presentations The Alabama Information Management Society will host a dinner and presentations from many of the MIS Program’s corporate partners Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. This program will help to both recruit students for future internships and full-time positions and inform students about changing trends and opportunities within the Information Management community. This event will be hosted at 159 Russell Hall. Business professional dress is required. For more information, contact Deana Watkins at 3485525. Compiled by Katie Shepherd
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TODAY WHAT: ‘Katherine Bradford: The Golden Age of Exploration’ Exhibition WHEN: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall WHAT: ‘How Things Are, How Things Were’ - Virginia Eckinger MFA Exhibition WHEN: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. WHERE: Sella-Granata Art Gallery, Woods Hall
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WHAT: Campus SaVE: What You Need to Know WHEN: 10 a.m. – Noon WHERE: Student Activities Center, Rec Center
WHAT: Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference WHEN: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. WHERE: Bryant Conference Center
WHAT: Moving Beyond Pity and Inspiration: Disability as a Social Justice Issue WHEN: 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m WHERE: 313 Graves Hall
WHAT: SUPe Store Crimson vs. Crimson Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. WHERE: Ferguson Center Plaza WHAT: Blend Days Lunch WHEN: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Ferguson Center Dining Area
WHAT: Memory Techniques Workshop WHEN: 4-5 p.m. WHERE: 230 Osband Hall
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WHAT WE REQUESTED: List of applicants considered for vice chancellor of government relations, email correspondence between Judy Bonner and Robert Witt correlated to ‘vice chancellor for government relations’ and ‘Jo Bonner’ between April 1 and July 31, 2013. WHO REQUESTED IT: Lauren Ferguson FROM WHOM WE REQUESTED IT: Kellee Reinhart, vice chancellor for System Relations WHEN WE REQUESTED IT: Feb. 10, 2014 STATUS: March 5, 2014, response from Reinhart: “There are no public records that are responsive to your request. I can confirm that Congressman Bonner was interviewed on May 3, 2013.” WHAT WE REQUESTED: Documents pertaining to the murder investigation of Paula Lee Ellis, including the names of investigating officers; incident reports; police reports; correspondence regarding the investigation between UAPD and the Tuscaloosa Police Department, Northport Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation; any correspondence regarding the conveyance of evidence and any photographs related to the investigation. WHO REQUESTED IT: Lauren Ferguson FROM WHOM WE REQUESTED IT: UA Media Relations on behalf of UAPD WHEN WE REQUESTED IT: March 18, 2014 STATUS: April 14, 2014 response from Deborah Lane: “UA has reviewed your March 18 request regarding the murder investigation of Paula Lee Ellis. We have no documents that are responsive to your request.”
IN THENEWS MTV Movie Awards honor past, future From MCT Campus The MTV Movie Awards handed top prizes to “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” on Sunday night, naming the dystopian thriller best movie and handing honors for best male and female performances to Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence. But as is often the case at the annual ceremony, upcoming movies carried the most interest, as a number of big releases received key promotional pushes. “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “The Amazing SpiderMan 2,” two of the most anticipated titles in the forthcoming wave of superhero movies, unveiled new commercials, as did “Transformers: Age of Extinction” – and that film’s star, Mark Wahlberg, received MTV’s Generation Award. He worked in a reference to the movie in his speech while also poking fun at what he saw as the award’s significance. “I know what this really means. Many people have gotten this award before,” he said. “And you know what they all had in common? None of them were invited back. … This is the ‘too … old to come back award.’” The show, hosted by a lightly seen Conan O’Brien from the Nokia Theatre, is as much a gauge of the popularity of new movies as it is a celebration of past work. Many winners and presenters had something to hawk, and the crowd’s reaction to those come-ons could be telling. Perhaps the most anticipated of the summer films isn’t a branded action-adventure but a drama, the Shailene Woodley-Ansel Elgort romance “The Fault in Our Stars,” which hits theaters in June. MTV took numerous opportunities to pump the film, with Woodley and Elgort presenting a clip and the show’s director frequently cutting to the stars, to the delight of the crowd. Elgort also was on the red carpet before the ceremony flogging the movie, telling the Los Angeles Times that “we put a lot of heart and soul into it.” Awards given to 2013 releases also can serve a promotional purpose, as it did for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” whose follow-up, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” hits theaters in November. Orlando Bloom’s presence as a presenter and as a winner (for best fight in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”) also served as reminder for his upcoming holiday movie, the third installment in that series. In the press tent, Bloom said he “was lucky enough to play Legolas again after 10 years” and also slipped in that “the new ‘Hobbit’ can only be better” due to its further “orc versus elf, dwarf versus the dragon” battles.
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Submitted The Alabama Forensics Council finished in the top 10 at a competition held in Arizona.
UA Forensics Council brings home tournament victories Take Back the Night shines
Submitted The Women’s Resource Center will host its annual rally Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Denny Chimes.
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Last week, the members of the Alabama Forensics Council returned home from a weeklong trip to Arizona with another top 10 finish at the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament. The team of around 24 students competed in individual competitions in a wide range of categories, from drama interpretation to extemporaneous speaking. Points from the individual performances contributed toward the team total, which landed the University’s team in the ninth spot nationally among the 83 schools attending the competition. Katerina Peña, a senior team member, said the team’s performance this year was special because each member contributed toward the point totals, even if they didn’t all reach the final round in their events. “People congratulate usually just the people that broke, but it really is a big deal that this year actually, everyone on the team participated towards our points,” Peña said. “Prelim points add up to make a big difference.” Students could compete in any of 12 events, including impromptu speaking, extemporaneous speaking and poetry interpretation. Peña said breaking past the preliminary rounds at the national competition is an extremely hard and often narrowly achieved feat. “One of the events, prose interpretation, there were over 180 students participating in it, I believe, and when quarterfinals drop, only 24 advance,” Peña said. “So, 180 to 24. It is a very tough thing. It’s a big deal when you break at nationals.” Collin Metcalf, a senior on the team, won first
place in extemporaneous speaking, third place in impromptu speaking and 10th place overall speaker at the competition. Metcalf said when it was finally announced that he won first place in extemporaneous speaking, an event in which he had placed in the top 10 but outside of the top three twice before, he felt a mixture of emotions. “I’ve been in the final round of extemporaneous speaking at AFA three out of my four years,” Metcalf said. “My freshman year, I placed sixth, and my junior year, I placed fourth, so when it got down to the last three, I really started to get nervous. I had already beaten my previous best, but my heart was still racing for the possibility of the championship. The moment they called out Farrah’s [the second place finisher] name, I entered this state of meditative-like peace. I knew I had finally reached the peak I had been climbing toward my entire speech career, and it felt right.” The Alabama Forensics Council was founded in 1946 and has won multiple championships at different regional and national competitions since its founding, including 13 AFA-NIET national championships. The AFC travels as a team to different tournaments and events almost every weekend, Metcalf said, and the hard work he and his teammates have put in over their time at the University has paid off in more ways than one. “This year’s results were a culmination of four years of nonstop dedication to an activity I love,” Metcalf said. “While most students are spending their weekends partying, we warm the seat of a 12-passenger van on our way to wake up at 5 a.m., giving speeches all day to people literally paid to critique us. Objectively speaking, it’s asinine. But realistically, it has been the single most beneficial experience of my life.”
light on domestic violence By Emmalee Molay | Contributing Writer The Women’s Resource Center will host its annual Take Back the Night rally to end violence against women at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Denny Chimes. Students and faculty will gather not only to march and chant, but to bring awareness to interpersonal violence, hear stories from survivors and speakers and learn how they can break stereotypes and myths related to sexual assault. Wanda Burton, peer education coordinator for the WRC, said the main goal of the program is to actively protest with as many people as possible and teach people how to be active bystanders. “I think that it is important to speak to those people who have been assaulted but have not disclosed or reported it,” she said. “It’s to let them know that this was not their fault and that it happens to a lot of other people.” Burton said she hopes attendees will gain the tools necessary to help them be more involved in assault situations and that more people will become aware of their surroundings and know how to help others in need. Jessi Hitchins, assistant director for the WRC, said the march is all about making women and others feel comfortable no matter what situation they are in. “We should be safe in any scenario,”
Hitchins said. “So we don’t have to worry about who we are walking next to or what time of the day it is.” Hitchins said the symbolic meaning of Take Back the Night is to change what people think about the meaning of night, particularly the fact that most think of it as a time when someone is likely to be attacked. She said she is most looking forward to being involved in the chant, since she doesn’t always get the opportunity to be that outspoken. “That for me is always really important because it’s loud, and it’s very specific and it’s calling out what we demand,” Hitchins said. This year’s keynote speaker will be Matt Gregory, associate dean and director of student advocacy & accountability at LSU, who will touch on the role of men in sexual violence. His lecture is titled “Male Advocacy Against Sexual Violence: The Tale of the Iron Man.” There will also be a reading of “Poem to a Survivor” by Christine Black, a UA graduate in the creative writing MFA program. “We always try to have a performance piece or some type of creative space,” Burton said. “For some people, they want the facts. Other people need to hear a story from a survivor, and it speaks to people on a very personal level.” In case of rain, Take Back the Night will be relocated to Smith Hall.
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COLUMN | SGA
UA needs active, engaged campus By Rich Robinson | Staff Columnist Allow me a mulligan, a trip down the rabbit hole of over-serious campus politics for just a second. But first, a disclaimer: Students at The University of Alabama have infinitely more rights and privileges than those who dot the lands of despotic regimes and failed states. It’s hard to compare the crackdown of a Quad rendition of a silly web meme to Tiananmen Square or to the outrages that have recently menaced Venezuela, Egypt and Turkey. A silly policy regarding grounds use is not the same as the Russian government (led by a former KGB agent) Rich Robinson destroying a free and independent press through thuggery, intimidation pass a slam-dunk of a resolution from and a hijacked judicial branch. A deeply Katie Smith calling for increased inteflawed and fully underwhelming elec- gration of the Greek system. But it’s not all bad news. We’ve seen tions process is not comparable to the flagrant disregard for democratic ideals a proliferation of citizen activism rock that Robert Mugabe has in Zimbabwe this campus in ways big and small. From the vibrant and smartly (who lost the first round focused SODEL group to of voting in the 2008 the flashes of brilliance presidential election but from UA Stands in the used violence to force fall, students are starthis leading opponent Student media has been forced to ing to organize in greatout of the race) or that Viktor Yanukovych had stand up and serve as a more active er numbers and find a in Ukraine by jailing his participant in adjudicating wrongs in more collective voice. While stronger leadermain rival. In the end, the public sphere of campus. ship needs to be cultiwe have tremendous vated among the indeavenues to advance, pendent ranks of the grow and develop in relUniversity, this developative peace and security. ment is still promising. Now about that rabbit hole. A month has passed since the SGA So is the thriving student media of the election, which saw the status quo codi- Capstone. In the void of regular protests fied for another year. Voter turnout was or a muscular student government, stuanemic, and the campaign was boring dent media has been forced to stand up and lacked substance. A candidate who and serve as a more active participant admitted to elections fraud was allowed in adjudicating wrongs in the public to stay in office with a slap on the wrist, sphere of campus. This paper is the best example of that and the previous SGA Senate refused to
reality, as its coverage of continued segregation in the Greek system has led to real reforms that have bettered our University by fighting the blight of quiet racism. For the first time in many years, student radio is also serving as a source of public accountability. WVUA-FM’s Capstone News Now led the charge to investigate allegations in the elections and is committed to uncovering corruption across campus. Other groups outside of mainstream campus media are clambering for dialogue like Mallet TV. This is a good sign of things to come, as is the continued existence of the United Alabama Project – the closest thing to an NGO that this campus has. In the meantime, Hamilton Bloom has the potential to be a good leader in the vein of Matt Calderone – a Machine politician with crossover appeal. Bloom’s first real expenditure of political capital was to push through a watered down version of Smith’s resolution, a good first step to be sure. But for real and long-lasting change to come, we need to embrace and foster the development of outside-the-box thinkers. For equal opportunity to truly envelop campus, we need a more active and engaged electorate and civil society. For true change to come, we need to recruit people who want to build and create a new reality on campus. We need to stop asking about what the University will do for us and find the way we can make Alabama better. You are remembered in life for your contributions, not your apathy. Make your college experience something worth remembering. It’s just boring otherwise. Rich Robinson is a junior majoring in telecommunication and film. He is also the news director for WVUA-FM.
It’s just a couple of weeks after opening day in Major League Baseball, and it’s hard not to feel the romance of the game. It’s a time when hopes haven’t yet been crushed, when we still think that the Braves might do something beyond their own division. With the upcoming renovation of the on-campus stadium, it’s a good time to examine our relationship with this leisurely sport. Baseball fans have been lamenting the End of the Game ever since Paris beaned Achilles with a fastball in the heel – which, admittedly, was in retaliation for the latter’s unsportsmanlike conduct toward the opposing catcher, Hector. (Remember, as former commissioner Bart Giamatti used to say, baseball is Greek tragedy, every runner a Ulysses trying to make it home.) But by definition the end is surely closer now. Baseball is supposed to be a leisurely game (for which others pause for fans to stretch and sing?). Unlike other sports, it isn’t ruled by the clock. As George Carlin observes, “Baseball has no time limit: We don’t know when it’s gonna end … Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we’ve got to go to sudden death.” Innings are governed by the game, shaped only by the action of the players – a reminder to the time-controlled fan that the wristwatch (or iPhone) need not rule everything. There are other ways of knowing when things should be, and to be cognizant of innings is to be reminded also of the days and seasons that used to govern. Baseball reminding us of our pastoral heritage is only natural for a game that became popular in the early-20th century, when industry was expanding and Americans were leaving their farms behind. Baseball was a reminder of its fans’ already-passing heritage. To say that the game is leisurely, though, is not to say that it doesn’t require thought. To return to the Greeks, a leisure activity was one performed for its own sake: philosophy, play, prayer. So when George Will comments that the game is played at a “relentless” pace, with “barely enough time between pitches for all the thinking that is required,” his account is perfectly in accord with the spectator’s leisure. Unfortunately, to connect the game with this higher calling is to understand its demise. As political theorist Diana Schaub reflects, “Real leisure takes one out of time and self … It’s no wonder that baseball – along with religion and philosophy – is endangered in our profoundly this-worldly, un-contemplative time.” And that’s the problem: Baseball as it exists today, even on campus, is increasingly un-leisurely. Though the recent addition of Patterson Plaza behind right field at SewellThomas has helped (as any reader of the Symposium knows, alcohol aids leisurely pursuit), there’s much still that’s problematic. With the jumbotron scoreboard constantly flashing and making noise, the nearly incessant music and the distracting games and moments of trivia, it’s hard to remember that we have escaped to the ball field for leisure, for something our iPhones cannot provide. Fortunately, with the renovation of Sewell-Thomas, the University has a chance to send us back to something closer to the field of our dreams. Here are some suggestions: First, go for a classic atmosphere. Play on the romance of the game, its inherent nostalgia. Second, replace the electronic scoreboard with a manual one. I’m betting there are some willing students who’d love to run it. And third, cut the music (except the organ) and the constant gimmicks and games. Allow us time to reflect on what we’ve seen, to correct our score cards and to relax in the atmosphere of our friends without bombarding our senses. Despite its downhill trajectory since the Greeks played it on the shores of Troy, baseball gives us hope for times to come by reminding us of times past. As George Will has noted, “The philosopher in us is consoled by the thought that, although ours is an age of dizzying flux, baseball retains a healthy Luddite hostility to modernity.” May it be so at Alabama. Barrett Bowdre is a first-year law student.
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2013 adjustments to Code of Student Conduct worth publicizing By Noah Cannon | Staff Columnist While scrolling through Twitter on Monday, I was surprised to learn from a friend’s tweet that the UA Code of Student Conduct was significantly updated in 2013. The somewhat belated news was included in this week’s edition of Dialog, the UA faculty and staff newsletter. Students, it seems, would be decidedly unlikely to know about the updates to the Code of Student Conduct unless one is an avid reader of Dialog or unless, in my case, one stumbles upon the news on Twitter. I’m disheartened that this news wasn’t communicated to students effectively, especially considering the important nature of the updates. The updated code contains more nuanced wording regarding hazing, harassment and sexual
misconduct, among other issues. applaud the Office of Student Conduct for Specifically regarding sexual consent, the including this information, but I confess updated code contains impressively clear myself disappointed in the University’s and precise language. overall hush-hush attitude where sexual “Consent to a sexual act harassment and consent are is not freely given if there concerned. This kind of eduis no clear verbal consent cation needs to happen at given, if the individual is not every level on and off camable to give proper consent, I confess myself disappointed in pus with the vocal adminor if consent is obtained by the University’s overall hush-hush istrative support needed to force, threats, deception, ensure its effectiveness. attitude where sexual harassment or coercion. A lack of resisSteps forward are being and consent are concerned. tance does not grant conmade, to be sure. Recently, sent. Previous consent does the UAct web page providnot grant consent to future ed clear, specific informasexual acts.” tion about reporting chanThis is necessary, life-savnels for discrimination and ing information that needs sexual violence. The page to be disseminated far beyond a quiet launched quietly, however, and its origin is update to the code of student conduct. I somewhat ambiguous. While UAct is cer-
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tainly a valuable resource, it still lacks a proactive, educational element to prevent sexual harassment rather than report it after the fact. I urge high-level UA administrators to end the trend of addressing sexual violence quietly and instead talk about the issue openly and without mincing words. Education on consent and sexual harassment needs to happen before students set foot on campus, similar to the way AlcoholEdu functions. Students are already talking about sexual violence and the need for more resources and support on our campus. We now need administration to join the conversation. Noah Cannon is a junior majoring in telecommunication and film. His column runs biweekly.
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Lack of funding threatens Amtrak train station By Samuel Yang | Staff Reporter When Diane Salls, president of the Ceres Garden Club of Northport, moved to Tuscaloosa more than 50 years ago, she would pass the Greensboro Avenue train depot and think to herself that a town of Tuscaloosa’s caliber needed a better train station. The problem was the train depot is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation, not the City of Tuscaloosa. After decades of driving by the station, Salls decided to take matters into her own hands. “I wrote letters,” she said. “I got my garden club to write letter after letter after letter until finally we were asked ‘please do not write any more letters.’” Salls and the Garden Club sent letters up the chain of command until she started hearing back. In 2012, after working with local companies and Norfolk Southern to bring in everything from fresh paint to flower beds to benches to a flagpole, the Tuscaloosa Train Station was re-dedicated in a public ceremony with Mayor Walt Maddox and City Councilman Harrison Taylor in attendance. “We did what we could. So many of the things we used there were given to us because we’re just a small little garden club,” Salls said. “But we are powerful women that can fight for what we want, and we got out there, and we wrote our letters, and we made our telephone calls, and we went to council meetings.” Salls heard the call again in March when
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*Information obtained from amtrak.com Joseph Boardman, Amtrak’s president and CEO, stopped by and encouraged citizens to contact their elected officials. Otherwise, a lack of federal funds could threaten to close Tuscaloosa’s Amtrak stop. Salls said tourism and gameday traffic make the stop an asset to the Tuscaloosa community. She personally uses it to travel with her husband to New Orleans and loves meeting people on the journey. “We cannot afford to lose our train station,”
CW | Emily Young and Belle Newby she said. “We’ve got to fight for them keeping our stop here.” Councilman Harrison Taylor of District 2, where the station is located, said although the news surrounding Amtrak’s most recent visit implied possible losses, the real story was one of future potential. Amtrak’s president, he said, noted nationwide growth in ridership numbers. “[The visit] was encouraging,” Taylor said. “Everything sounded positive and looked posi-
tive, so we feel positive about it.” Taylor said the station is important to Tuscaloosa because it creates a first impression for visitors. As a result, he said, parties from the mayor to the citizens are working toward upgrades and development. “They’re onboard with us. We’re all working together to do what we can do, and we will do something to it to make our citizens pleased with it,” Taylor said. “If we can find the funding, it will be done.” Part of that process, he said, could involve purchasing the station to access the federal funds necessary for renovation. The result would be significant for his district, he said. “We want to be a part of our renovation. My district is in one of the oldest parts of Tuscaloosa. We want to make sure as we go in there and remodel and repair and decorate,” Taylor said. “That’s going to be a big part of our celebration as we finish it up. The train station is back.” Currently, the Amtrak stop in Tuscaloosa is part of the Crescent Route, which stops in New Orleans. Sarah Haas, a senior from Bay St. Louis, Miss., took the train home her freshman year, before the station was renovated. Though she said the station at the time was unsatisfactory, and the limited schedule made it difficult to continuously use it, she said the experience itself was enjoyable. “A lot of people just don’t know about it. We’re not used to taking trains. We don’t really think about it like you do a plane or a car,” she said.
Outdoor Rec partners with HERO bamboo bike sellers By Samuel Yang | Staff Reporter When a resident of Greensboro, Ala., told Pam Dorr, executive director of Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization, that there was too much bamboo in her area, it was a complaint. And it would have been only a complaint if HERO had not been learning to build bamboo bikes for residents of the Black Belt region. HERO was founded in 1994 with the vision of being a comprehensive community development agency for Hale County and neighboring counties in the Black Belt region of Alabama. It started out providing various social services before adding housing resources in 2004. In 2009, it expanded to include economic development projects, starting with the PieLab, a twist on the traditional café. The next step in their plan was
HERObike, a new kind of bike shop. HERObike now offers retail services – selling handmade bamboo bikes and bike kits, including supplies necessary for customers wanting to construct their own bike frame – in addition to hosting weekend workshops, where visitors can make their own bike. “I think having a green manufacturing small business can really help a small town,” Dorr said. “Instead of waiting for a business to come, we can create our own, given what we have, which is a lot of bamboo.” The organization’s newest style of bike is the Semester Bike. A hand-woven bamboo bike weighing less than two pounds is in the pipeline, as well as a bamboo skateboard. “We like building bikes, we like riding bikes, and I think we want others to feel the same
passion we do for our bike lines,” Dorr said. Dorr said the next step for HERObike, as it reaches its 20th year, is becoming profitable and sustainable. “[At HERO], we really see ourselves being a leader in the next 20 years,” she said. Adam Fowler, a UA graduate student and HERObike employee, said the key to HERObike is the people. While bamboo bikes are not particular to HERObike, Fowler said, the business is competitively priced and well regarded. In addition, the human experience offered by workshops accents the things Greensboro has to offer as a community, Fowler said. “People comment on how it’s a unique experience to come in the shop for a few days and come out at the end of the week with a bicycle frame.
That’s incredible,” Fowler said. “They comment on how the town has a lot of unique things going for it. We’re one of the anchors for the uniqueness for the area.” While many people have to travel to Greensboro, UA students can spend $5 to rent one of the Outdoor Rec’s new fleet of HERObikes for a day. Justin Vaught, manager of the Outdoor Rec bike shop, said the bikes are perfect for a day trip around campus with friends and family. “They don’t have the complexity of your 21-speed bike, or whatever, which makes them almost more fun to ride. They basically simplify the whole biking process,” Vaught said. “I think that allows you to pay a lot more attention to your surroundings and get a feel for where you are. They’re geared really well for the University.”
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Wikimedia Commons Dumpster divers look for unwanted items such as discarded food and furniture. In some areas, the act can warrant a small fine or police confrontation.
‘Freeganism,’ Dumpster diving growing trends Tara Massouleh | Staff Reporter It’s a sunny, cool afternoon in April 2013. The sun passes directly overhead in the San Francisco fog as Bryan Buckley walks back to his temporary room off Mission Street after a long run at the Golden Gate Bridge, when all of a sudden he notices the smell of freshly grilled meat wafting through the air. After a quick survey of his surroundings, he spots it – a perfectly seasoned, untouched pork chop sitting on the top of a trashcan. He reaches down, picks up the pork chop and takes a generous bite. Buckley, who graduated from The University of Alabama in 2010, is neither homeless nor destitute, although he assumed the owners of the abandoned pork chop probably intended for the leftover meat to find a homeless person. Buckley’s decision to nab the pork chop was simply a display of one of the many facets of the increasingly popular freeganist lifestyle. According to freegan.info, the unofficial reigning organization of the freegan world, “freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.” Although the word is a play on “veganism” and “free,” most freegans eat animals and products produced by animals. The main restriction in the diet of a freegan is that food comes entirely from waste reclamation, more commonly known as Dumpster diving. Although Buckley considers himself more of an “opportunistic diver” than a freegan, he said he fully supports the lifestyle as an effective way to help reduce the 38 million tons of food waste recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency annually in the United States. Even with the 38 million tons of food waste produced by Americans each year, the EPA estimates 50 million Americans go without enough food each year. According to the National Resources Defense Council, the average American wastes about 20 pounds of food each month, adding up to $165 billion in food waste for the entire nation each year.
“Diving for free, tasty food that would otherwise go to waste seems absolutely rational to me,” Buckley said. “There is a lot of throwing out of perfectly edible food, and someone should instead be eating that food.” Freeganism, which began around the mid-’90s as an offset of the multiple antiglobalization and environmental movements of the time, has grown steadily since then and now boasts hundreds of communities not only across the nation, but also across the world. Freegan.info offers a Dumpster directory detailing the best businesses for Dumpster diving in more than 20 U.S. cities. In addition, fallingfruit.org and dumpstermap.com offer interactive maps where users can submit their most-frequented Dumpsters. There’s even a Trashwiki, where Dumpster divers and freegans worldwide can post any trash-related articles plus tips on the best places to score food and other salvageable goods. Buckley’s best Dumpster diving experience came from a tip he received via a Reddit Dumpster diving page. A grocery store in his neighborhood was closing, and the store had a “coincidental” failure of their freezers, meaning they would be throwing away all frozen foods. Buckley said he knew he couldn’t pass up the opportunity. “I drove up and opened the Dumpster, and it was the jackpot,” he said. “The entire Dumpster was filled with frozen foods. I grabbed as much food as I thought my freezer would hold, mostly breakfast burritos, naan-wiches, while munching on some melting but still solid Snicker’s Ice Cream Bars. The retail value of my score from that dive was around $150 and lasted about a month.” Joanna Leung, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, had her first foray in Dumpster diving when visiting her sister at Olin College of Engineering in Boston. “My sister, her friends and I were all biking around the neighborhood, and we ended up going to Trader Joe’s, Dunkin’ Donuts and a bagel store,” she said. “There were gates outside the Dumpsters, but they’re not locked. It’s technically trespassing, I guess, but it’s trash anyways. My sister
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went into the Dumpsters, and I just took what she got out of there. We only had our backpacks, so we just filled them up.” Although she enjoyed the experience, Leung said he has yet to try her hand in Dumpster diving here in Tuscaloosa. “I would if there were places,” she said. “I haven’t really tried to in Tuscaloosa. I don’t really think it’s a thing here.” Although when associated with freeganism, Dumpster diving is generally thought of as recovering discarded food items, many people and college students in particular have begun taking advantage of Dumpster diving for obtaining other goods. Leung said her sister has scored furniture, appliances and even old computers through diving in Dumpsters near student housing at the end of the semester. Buckley said he thinks many college students get their first taste of Dumpster diving by collecting unwanted items from other students who throw away perfectly usable items at the end of the semester simply because they do not want to move them out of their dorms or apartments. “All students should definitely dive around the end of the semester to put to use some unwanted furniture or goods that would otherwise end up at landfills,” he said. “Just watch out for and research some of the stuff that ends up not being very frugal, like having bed bugs.” In regard to the legality of Dumpster diving, the rules are a little more complicated. As stipulated by the 1988 Supreme Court case California v. Greenwood, once an individual throws something out, it becomes part of the public domain and is readily accessible to the anyone, including animals, children, scavengers and snoops. However, if the Dumpster in question is located against a building or inside a fenced enclosure, especially one that is marked with a “No Trespassing” sign, police are liable to question, ticket or arrest those Dumpster diving. Buckley said to avoid getting in trouble with the law, there are common rules everyone should follow when Dumpster diving. These guidelines include leaving the Dumpster and its surrounding area as clean as you found it and only taking what you can use.
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The Chive promotes charity, positive acts By Reed O’Mara | Staff Reporter When Olivia Hodges is finishing up a late night bartending at The Houndstooth on the Strip, she unlocks her phone and begins to let the stress of bartending for college students melt away. She’s not checking traditional social media apps like Twitter, but is instead getting a laugh by opening up The Chive. “It’s a feel-good website, and it restores faith in humanity sometimes,” Hodges said. “We get angry a lot at work because it’s easy for things to get a little hectic towards the end of the night, and if you can just sit down and go ‘ha’ in 20-minute giggle intervals, it’ll get you through the day.” Hodges and her fellow bartender Casey Butler said they have been Chivers (or Chivette for Hodges) for almost three years and have seen the app and the website grow tremendously since joining. “[The Chive] started out just doing advertising to make money, then they started Random Acts of Kindness. They’re not sure how it started, but they’re really all about that now,” Butler said. Part of The Chive is galleries under different headlines with a diverse range of topics. From “Monday Motivation” to “Daily Afternoon Randomness” to “Cat Saturday,” the posts are meant to be uplifting and give a laugh. Though the app is what Butler describes as a “good way to waste time,” it also serves more of a philanthropic purpose than that. “Random Acts of Kindness” can range from people posting pictures of $100 tips for their waiters when the bill was only $5 to extensive fundraisers. In one instance, The Chive set a goal of $50,000 to help a wheelchair-bound Chivette fix her twostory apartment to be more accessible that eventually raised $450,000 and helped build the Chivette a new house. The Houndstooth will host a Chive Meetup on April 26, with a first-time cover charge going to the Wounded Warrior Project. The bar has had The Chive’s beer since it was brought to the South and will be selling it at the event. The black lager is a recent staple for The Chive and has sold out almost everywhere it’s been. “People are driving hundreds of miles to buy a six pack of beer. It gives you that full taste, but the beer itself is not heavy,” Butler said. “There’s been a huge explosion in here lately, and people are always asking about the meetup. If you’re not gonna spend $5 on this beer to help a solider, I’ll guilt trip you.” The Chive is also popular among students, and there is a Tuscaloosa Chive Facebook group along with an Alabama state group. Meetups are held around the country as well as internationally. Byron Solomon, a freshman majoring in history and journalism, said he has been to meetups in Rammstein, Germany, Virginia Beach and Boston, Ma. The Chive is popular among the U.S. military, and coming from a military family, Solomon said he found out about The Chive while
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on a base. “It’s probably the greatest site in the world,” Solomon said. “It wasn’t intended to be a social networking site exactly, but that’s what it’s escalated into. It’s a place you use to ward off boredom, and now it’s turning into a community of people where you can get together and have a good time.” Another association with The Chive is actor Bill Murray, who attends Chive events and serves as a kind of mascot for the site. Some recognizable Chive T-shirts feature Murray’s face or bear the site’s motto, “Keep Calm and Chive On,” or KCCO. “KCCO is just a loaded statement for me. It means to keep going strong and to remember other people,” Solomon said. “Bill Murray is our mascot/role model. He’s such a great, humane person.” One aspect of The Chive that tends to ward off new members, particularly female members, is that some of the galleries, like “Girls With Tattoos” or “Mind the Gap,” are made up of pictures of women, oftentimes revealingly dressed. Solomon said these galleries are not necessarily what they appear to be. “It’s not like rap songs, where they make women seem like an object. It glorifies the beauty of women more than it objectifies them,” Solomon said. Hodges, a Chivette herself, said she understands why women are put off by these particular galleries but said beyond those, the site is inspirational and a good, outlet. “I think it’s easy for girls to dismiss it because of that, and it’s an immediate shut down,” Hodges said, “but it represents more than that. I always ask girls, ‘Well, what about Random Acts of Kindness?’ and most of the time they haven’t made it that far.” From social meetups to charity fundraisers, Solomon said The Chive is more than an app or website. “Whenever I first looked at The Chive, I was very skeptical because of all the things they have on there, like women, like that it was some man site like Spike TV, but then I really got into it and saw this is something more,” Solomon said. “It’s a social networking site without being a social network, and don’t knock it till you try it.”
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Students take to Tinder for relationships, dating By Reed O’Mara | Staff Reporter Tess Severin, a University of Alabama sophomore from Illinois majoring in finance, is an active member of Alpha Kappa Psi. Rhys Butler, her boyfriend, is a junior studying telecommunication and film who speaks with a Southern accent. The two met having no mutual friends on Facebook or similar backgrounds, and yet they’re going on their fourth month of dating. Severin and Butler met officially on Tinder, a relationship app that matches information from one’s Facebook profile with GPS so people can find others of the same age within a certain mile radius. After seeing the profile and profile picture of a user in the area, the viewer can swipe left to see other pictures or right to “like” the profile. If both parties swipe right, the two are matched and can start messaging each other. “It’s like an ego-booster, kind of. Plus, it’s fun,” Butler said. “You get to talk to random people, and random people talk to you. I mean, I just had it cause everyone else had it, too. I originally wasn’t planning on meeting up with anyone in real life.” After having seen each other in Rounders Bar one night, Severin and Butler matched on Tinder and began talking. After about a week, they met at Starbucks, both nervous and unsure what to expect, they said, and both attesting to having some “‘Catfish’ worries,” referencing the MTV show. “It’s a little strange,” Severin said. “I didn’t know what he looked like, and I was kind of worried he wouldn’t look like his pictures, and then I wouldn’t want to be there anymore.” The main benefit of an app like Tinder is its immediacy and lack of pressure associated with walking up to someone in a bar setting. Christopher Lynn, a biological anthropologist who teaches an anthropology of sex course at the University, said he predicts apps like Tinder, and its LGBTQ equivalent Grindr, will only multiply and become more advanced. “Both dating apps and online dating have the advantage of not seeing the people you’re interacting with, which gives people, I think, the opportunity to both be bolder and more manipulative in ways they might be reticent to do face-toface, for better and worse,” Lynn said. According to a March 13 Tech Crunch article, in January 2013, there were 1 million matches on Tinder, and by December 2013 there were at least 500 million. In March 2014, it announced 1 billion matches. Despite its recent uptick, Tinder continues to
carry the stigma of an app used solely for hookups. Severin and Butler said they often try to come up with different versions of how they met to avoid telling people they met online. “Tinder has a name to it, like, ‘You guys are dating because you hooked up,’ and that’s not true,” Butler said. Lynn said positive or not, Tinder opens up a venue for interactions on a convenient and massive scale, connecting individuals with similar wants. For those who want to hook up, Tinder feeds that drive by letting individuals meet outside of their friend groups so they can hook up once without running into their match again. “It really hones in on that biological drive,” Lynn said. “That’s in a huge sense why folks are out there in bars, and it sort of cuts through the chaff who’s out here to actually pick someone up and who’s out here to hang out with their friends.” Lynn said the app does have a dark side, in that it has the potential to lead to emotional wounds and aggressive behavior. “The biggest downfall I found from looking online is how cruel people can be with that type of barrier between them and having an interaction with someone,” Lynn said. “It’s hurtful to people that have issues anyway, to see rejection of them advertised so descriptively or explicitly as opposed to not being talked to.” Apps like Tinder are often labeled as stepping stones toward a world in which technology has too much of a hold over one’s social life. “In the olden days, you didn’t have cellphones or social media to connect with people and had to actually talk to people and meet them, but nowadays, there’s this social thing where we just don’t know how to do that anymore,” Butler said. Lynn said he views the technology of social media differently, in that he sees ways to connect as simply ways to connect, feeding markets of all kinds of individuals with a diverse set of needs. “We’re diverse. We have lots of different people out there and have all this pressure on us growing up – I know, I felt it – to meet people,” Lynn said. “There are venues for meeting people, like bars and things like this. When people first started online dating, it was a bit tricky. People were ashamed of it, but the more venues for meeting other people that proliferate, the better. The more people there are, the more I find it difficult to find people, especially if you’ve moved like a college student. Thirty-thousand people is a lot of people to wade through.”
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Sonic Frontiers ends with Dawn of Midi performance By Elayne Smith | Contributing Writer Dawn of Midi will play in Alabama for the first time Thursday as The Sonic Frontiers’ last concert of the year in the new performing arts building, Bryant-Jordan Hall – formerly the old chapel by Bryce Hospital. Dawn of Midi is an acoustic band with a stand-up bass, piano and drums. The name “midi” comes from “musical instrument digital interface.” The band’s bassist, Aakaash Israni, said the name was almost a joke, as they don’t use anything digital but create an electronic sound from acoustic instruments. “When you see us, it seems to look like a different thing than it sounds like,” Israni said. “A lot of people see the stand-up bass, the piano and drums and think of jazz. The music we play is very rhythmic and repetitive, the way percussion or electronic music may sound.” The band members said they played tennis together before music. They met in 2006 and became friends during graduate school at Cal Art in Los Angeles, Calif. They were all interested in music and began improvising together. Israni said their music is almost hypnotic and not only puts the audience in a trance, but themselves as well. “From the beginning, the reason we went this direction is because it caused a strange sensation of almost a hypnotic, confusing sort of feeling on our own brains,” he said. “Bringing that to the public and hearing that causes people to feel their brain to feel lost and confused in a really pleasant way. I think that bringing that to concerts and all of these
Photo Courtesy of Aakaash Israni Dawn of Midi, an acoustic band, recreates an electronic sound with a stand-up bass, piano and drums. The name “Midi” comes from “musical instrument digital interface.” shows, that’s the fun thing. It’s like bringing some kind of strange trans-ritual or something around the world with you.” Dawn of Midi will perform their latest album “Dysnomia.” Each song morphs into the next creating a continuous 46–minute performance. With no vocals, the band drew inspiration from African rhythms. Israni said the instruments don’t sound the way they’re supposed to, and it can be hard to know which instrument is playing. “It’s like a tapestry or some kind of fabric of rhythms, and every part is a sort of dialogue of a part, so any one person may not be doing something extraordinary by himself but in
relation to the other two parts, an interesting sort of dialogue keeps on morphing and shifting and taking place,” Irani said. “Any time you can sort of impart a sense of wonder, I think that’s the most any art form can aspire to.” This will be the last concert Sonic Frontiers holds this school year. Andrew Dewar, an assistant professor in New College, co-director of Creative Campus and founder of the Sonic Frontiers concert series, said they wanted the last concert to embody Sonic Frontiers’ theme of providing experimental music. “Dawn of Midi reinvents the piano, bass and drums trio with their innovative, danceable, polyrhythmic music,” Dewar said. “Their music
is a great example of the idea of ‘crossover’ without the watering down of ideas that phenomenon usually implies.” Sonic Frontiers had a very diverse season this year, and Dewar said they broadened their aesthetic scope even more this year. The series has stabilized in the number of concerts it offers, and Dewar said he thinks the program has finally become a staple to the community. “People continue to be curious and interested in hearing music that is unique and is pushing boundaries,” Dewar said. “I think the Sonic Frontiers series has finally become a recognizable part of the cultural scene in Tuscaloosa. People know that if they attend a Sonic Frontiers event, they will hear something fresh, creative and unique in a friendly and welcoming environment.” Next year, Sonic Frontiers will presenting one event a semester. The group received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to bring saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton for a week-long residency next February. In the fall, Dewar said he hopes to bring his San Francisco-based quartet to play its album, based on drawings by Pete Schulte, a University of Alabama art professor. “It is a huge honor to host one of American music’s major figures to premiere new work and produce one of the largest retrospectives of his music ever staged in the U.S., and as result, we are focusing most of our energy and planning on that large-scale project,” Dewar said. “In the six years I have been at The University of Alabama, I have never performed my own compositions in Tuscaloosa, so I think it’s about time.”
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Apps can help students stay on track with fitness, health goals By Katherine Metcalf It’s not big news that apps have become the go-to technology source for all kinds of information and games. But some students may not know the prevalence of apps in the realm of fitness and health. Personal workout plans, weight-loss plans and food journals are only three examples of the different types of apps provided to people at little to no cost. Cellphones have become the new sources of health and fitness information, so now no one can say they cannot afford to work out. Apps can guide students through their health and wellness journeys and are ideal because they are quick, easy and cost nothing.
Here are my top three health and fitness apps for fitness fanatics and weekend warriors to download or purchase. The first app that is all the rage is Hot5.com. Hot5.com contains a variety of core, yoga and cardio workouts that are all about five–minutes long or shorter. There is a wide range for different kinds of workouts, and the workouts only contain a maximum of five moves. Hot5.com workouts are also used for post-workout stretching or strength training for the busy exerciser. Myfitnesspal is the second health and wellness app students should download and use to track their fitness and dietary goals. Myfitnesspal serves as a food and physical activity
tracker where users put in their daily food intake and exercise to see if they met their goals for the specific day. One reason I love this app is because it is personalized to fit everyone’s needs. A plethora of food and exercise tips can be found on the app when users get their calorie and fitness goals for the week. Healthyout helps when eating out. Ordering at restaurants can be tough if consumers do not know the nutrition facts of many of the foods on the menu. With this app, users can type in the restaurant they are eating at and their meal to get nutrition facts. Another advantage of this app is it gives a list of the healthiest meals on the menu of that specific restaurant.
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Thrift, discount stores provide savings By Bianca Martin When shopping for new clothes, I have a constant struggle determining how much money I am willing to spend. After all, college is expensive, gas is expensive, and I prefer my clothes not to be. In the past few months, I have almost completely abandoned the mall so taken my shopping to better deals: thrift shops and discount stores. Yes, there are plenty of misconceptions about these types of stores that drive people away. People say clothes from thrift stores are dirty and outdated. They say they cannot fathom wearing clothes that someone else has worn. But if you just wash the clothes before you wear them, there is no reason to fear farfetched germs. If you search hard enough, you can find a stylish item, or maybe you will turn into a fashion pioneer and find an old trend to bring back. Thrift stores can be hit-or-miss situations. But if you are willing
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CD Baby charges artists a one-time fee of $49 per album or $12.95 per single (plus an additional fee to obtain a UPC barcode) and takes 9 percent of every music sale. In exchange, the artists can distribute both physical and digital copies of their music through a variety of music stores, download sites and streaming sites worldwide. On iTunes, each of The Doctors and The Lawyers’ songs sells for 99 cents. After iTunes takes its 30-percent cut and CD Baby takes its 9-percent cut, the band pockets about 60 cents per song in royalties. This might not sound like much, but in the music industry, that number is exceptionally high – most recording artists with publishing contracts and major record deals make fewer than 10 cents per song. “With music production, even digitally, you’ve got to pay a sound engineer, you’ve got to pay a producer. You have to pay a house band to come in and record, you have to pay for studio time. You have to pay for mastering,” Jason Patton, manager of Oz Music, said. “Even if you do digital distribution only, there’s still a lot of costs associated with making an album. It’s not a cheap process.” To earn a substantial income from royalties, artists have to sell large quantities of music – often millions of albums. Indie artists may pocket more money per
to search through the many racks and piles, you may find a diamond in the rough. Thrift stores, such as America’s Thrift Store off Skyland Boulevard, carry a wide variety of clothes for men and women and are perfect for themed events and everyday wear. If you know how to sew and you love to alter clothes to make them more original, a thrift store is your sanctuary. The clothes there are great to practice altering on, especially since they cost so much less. You can easily learn how to take an outdated top and make it trendy. If thrift stores are not your thing, there are other options for discount clothing. If you enjoy popular brands and want up-to-date fashion for cheap, discount stores such as Ross and T.J. Maxx may be the perfect match for you. These stores can be much easier to navigate than thrift stores and have more recent fashions. Another useful discount store is Plato’s Closet on McFarland
song, but their total profits from royalties number of paying subscribers to streaming pale in comparison to those of big-name art- services increased by 40 percent in 2013. Since ists. Without a record deal, it’s nearly impos- Spotify bases its monthly royalty payments sible for an indie artist to sell enough music on its total monthly revenue, an increase in for those 60-cents-per-song royalties to really paid subscribers could eventually lead to an increase in Spotify’s royalties. add up. However, while music streaming has risen “We can’t [make a significant amount of money from royalties], that’s for sure,” Blaine in popularity, music sales have decreased. Duncan of local band Blaine Duncan and the According to Billboard’s music tracking serLookers said. “We just don’t have that signifi- vice Nielsen SoundScan, total album sales cant of numbers who listen to us daily. We see across all formats fell by 8 percent in 2013. Music streaming sites royalties climb up on occasion, make it possible to listen usually from Spotify plays. to music for free, but they That’s not a lot, though.” solely responsible for A few cents per song may I guess eventually you can aren’t this decline in music sales. not sound like much, but on music streaming services like get to a point where you can In the early 2000s, file sharservices like Napster and Spotify, Pandora and iTunes stop touring and still sell mu- ing Limewire lead to the rise Radio, even that would be sic, but it takes a long time. of illegal music downloads, a luxury. The exact figure which made paying for music changes depending on the unnecessary. month and on the individual — Evan Brooks Spotify claims to decrease artist’s recording contract, illegal music downloads by but artists typically earn giving fans a legal way to just hundredths of a cent per listen to music for free while stream on Spotify. “They’ve given you a legal way to listen still paying royalties to the artist. However, to music for free and say, ‘Screw the artist,’” for indie artists who don’t rack up millions of Brooks said. “It sucks. I accept it. I’m not fine streams per month, these royalties might as with it, but I accept it. It’s just the world we well be nothing. “We’ve never looked at our Spotify as far as live in.” Spotify earns its revenue from the $9.99 how much money it’s bringing in, because it’s montly fee paid by subscribers, as well as just not,” Brooks said. For indie artists and major-label artists from the ads listened to by non-subscribers. According to the International Federation alike, the vast majority of their income comes of the Phonographic Industry, the global from touring.
is considering doing something a little more fun with her return. “I may get a cat,” she said. “But if I don’t, the money will go into my savTAXES FROM PAGE 1 ings account.” Zezulka’s tax return increased from If a student does have a sav- last year, and she said she is excited to ings account already in place, then have the extra savings and to be able Brakefield said she thinks it can also to treat herself with it. She said this is be good to look at what aspects of a the first year she has had to budget her student’s life need to be improved. She money. said, for example, if a student needs a “I opened my first personal savnew laptop, putting tax-return money ings account and am regularly putting toward it may be an efficient use of money into that to help pay for school,” funds. she said. “I am not much of a planner, Students should be thoughtful and so it’s been hard. I am trying to use as smart about their spending, Brakefield little of my finical aid money as possisaid. ble to lessen the debt after graduation.” “What is not a good idea is a weekend Keith Edwards, a senior majoring at the beach or a new designer outfit in public relations and political scithat may be worn only once,” she said. ence, said he has tried to compromise “Recognizing that b e twe e n sp e n d it is important to be ing and saving. financially responThe majority of his sible now really goes return, which totaled a long way in the just under $1,000, future. Saving money will go toward the and budgeting spendsecurity deposit on ing will give you a lot an apartment in New more confidence.” Jersey, where he will Students had mixed be moving for a job responses about after graduation. plans for their extra “I would say save savings, though. as much as you can, — Jan Brakefi eld Lila Saylor, a junior but I also don’t see a majoring in civil problem spending a engineering, said she little,” Edwards said. plans to save hers. “I took about $100 out “I use the money I make from co- to spend on things that I didn’t really oping to save and pay for the next need, but the rest is in savings.” semester,” she said. “I just plan on putNot all students receive as much back ting my tax return toward that to help as Edwards, though. For some students, pay for school and living expenses next the total on their return could even be year.” under $10, as it was for Cheston Istok. Because Saylor makes a significant Istok, a senior majoring in political sciamount in a concentrated amount of ence, received $6 back on his return. time, she said she has to budget how “Yeah, I didn’t get much back this she uses her money when she is back year, so I will probably do something on campus. fun with it,” Istok said. “I may go try “I wish I could do something cool out Taco Mama or go to Chipotle.” like go to another country with it, but Istok said he will just put the $6 into it’s just not practical,” she said. “I try his weekly budget for food. He said he to stick to a budget, but it’s definitely sees tax returns as treats. hard, especially when I hang out with “I see it as separate from what I usupeople who don’t have to budget.” ally put toward my savings, so even if I Lauren Zezulka, a first-year gradu- had gotten more back, I would probably ate student in criminal justice, said she still spend it,” he said.
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“Artists today just have a different task in front of them,” Brooks said. “They have to tour all the time. They have to be playing shows four or five nights a week. I guess eventually you can get to a point where you can stop touring and still sell music, but it takes a long time.” For new artists, the main function of music streaming – and even music sales, to an extent – has shifted from making money to simply gaining exposure. “I use Spotify often – I even have the full subscription on my phone,” Duncan said. “It’s great for me to check out bands or albums initially to see if I want to invest any time with the band – like seeing them live, or any money on their music – like buying the record on vinyl.” Patton said these streaming services provide an easily accessible avenue for listeners to discover new music. “I don’t think it will ever replace physical products, but I think it’s a great tool for listening to new music,” Patton said. “It’s a much more convenient thing to stream something than to go down to a store.” Despite music streaming’s growing popularity, Brooks shares the opinion that streaming will never fully replace music purchasing. “I like vinyl,” Brooks said. “I like giant pictures and artwork, and I can see the words, and there’s just something about how it sounds on a record player. There will still be people that enjoy having that physical copy in their hands. There will still be people who go to the store and buy it.”
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CW | Austin Bigoney Tide Talks, a student-led speaker series, will conclude the year Friday, April 25 with four speakers.
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number of fun opportunities available in the lobby before the event starts. Tide Talks speakers get to choose their own topics, just like TED Talks. “There is no one set topic per Tide Talks event.” Pabst said. “Rather, each speaker selects their own topic, and we try to bring together four distinct and unique presentations to have very different ideas present in one night.” Caroline Fredericks, director of social media, said a program like Tide Talks is a vital part of campus life, and it gives students a voice. “Tide Talks aims to share student ideas that cover
culture, technology, science be returning.” and campus issues,” Fredericks Based on the buzz that Tide said. “Any topic that is signifi- Talks has generated around cant to a student on campus is campus, it has done exactly significant to Tide Talks.” what Pabst said he wanted it Drew Cicero, a sophomore to do. majoring in marketing, said he “The main thing we want has attended several of Tide students to take away from Talks and has enjoyed the this event is discussion,” he broad range of said. “We hope topics covered. that the talks “I enjoyed the don’t end once the The main thing we want differing topics. doors close and students to take away the night is over; The talks covered everything from we want the revofrom this event is Turkey to genetlutionary ideas discussion. ics, allowing the presented at our audience memevent to contin— Kevin Pabst bers to always ue to grow and be intrigued spread through and involved social media, with the program,” Cicero online activity and, most said. “Between sports and importantly, through converpolitics, they’ll hit two of sations. We hope our audience my favorite topics. My expe- members take these ideas and rience was excellent the realize the change they can first time, so I’ll definitely bring for themselves.”
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BASEBALL
Baseball team looks to continue recent success By Kevin Connell | Staff Reporter The Crimson Tide continued its late-inning dramatics this season with a walk-off double from freshman Casey Hughston in a seriesclinching 4-3 victory over Auburn at Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Sunday. It was the fifth time this season Alabama has won a game on the final at bat after Wade Wass, Mikey White and Hunter Webb did it earlier this season. All five walk-offs have come in five of the six home weekend series, with three coming against the last three Southeastern Conference opponents it has hosted. The lone home weekend series without a walk-off this season came against Mississippi Valley State. In addition to its five walk-off victories, Alabama has also won two road games this season in the ninth inning. The Crimson Tide defeated Auburn 4-3 in the Capital City Classic in Montgomery on March 5 when an Auburn throwing error to first allowed a runner to score, and Texas A&M 6-4 in College Station on April 5 off an RBI double from Webb. The number of last-inning wins
PLAN TO GO WHAT: Baseball vs. Jackson State WHEN: 6:05 p.m. WHERE: Sewell- Thomas Stadium this season has led Alabama to believe that it can win any time the game comes down to a final at bat. “We’ve been there so many times now at this point in the season that we’re not afraid to be in that situation,” freshman closer Thomas Burrows said. “We’re pretty confident there that we have guys throughout the lineup that can get it done.” The Crimson Tide will host Jackson State on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. Attendance marks: Sewell-Thomas Stadium, the home of the Alabama baseball team, set two top-10 home attendance records in this weekend’s series over Auburn. In Friday’s 2-1 loss, Alabama had the 10th-largest crowd in SewellThomas Stadium history with a crowd of 6,069. That total was then
pushed back to 11th all-time after Alabama had the seventh-largest crowd with 6,142 fans at Saturday’s 4-1 win. Over the course of the three-game series, Alabama drew 16,679 fans to the stadium. “The fans were tremendous and really impacted the weekend with as many people as we played in front of,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. “I know again we all appreciate that all so much.” Injury update: Senior first baseman Austen Smith had X-rays on his wrist Monday after he was hit by a pitch during an at-bat in the seventh inning in Saturday’s win over Auburn. Smith remained in the game for the final two innings Saturday but did not play in Sunday’s series finale. Smith currently ranks fifth in the SEC in batting average (.355), seventh in slugging percentage (.536), fourth in on-base percentage (.445) and 12th in RBIs (26). Last Thursday, he was named to the 50-man midseason Golden Spikes Award watch list, an award presented annually by USA Baseball to the top amateur baseball player in the United States.
UA Athletics The Alabama baseball team won its series over Auburn with a walk-off double, its fifth walk-off hit this season.
COLUMN | ATHLETES
Aging athletes have potential to be valuable assets to sports world By Benjamin Clark On Monday, former Olympian Michael Phelps surprised everyone when he announced he was going to end his retirement and begin working toward the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The swimmer has won 22 total medals for the United States in three Olympic Games, with 18 of those being gold. Phelps is believed to be reuniting with fellow Olympians Ryan Lochte and Katie Ledecky at his first event back in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24. He will be 29 years old in June and 31 when the summer games take place. While that would be considered old for an athlete to compete at that level, if anyone could make the return, it would be Phelps.
If he returns and wins, the days of athletes being cast aside because of their age may be long gone.. Phelps holds the record for most gold medals in a single Olympic Games, winning eight total at the 2008 games in Beijing, but he retired on top of the sport, trying to leave before he started to lose his edge. If he does make the full return and qualify for the 2016 games, it could signify
a change in how the age of athletes affects their performance. If he returns and wins, the days of athletes being cast aside because of their age may be long gone. Every day, athletes are pushing the boundaries on what they are physically able to do, thanks to the progress in both medicine and training. This should really play a greater role when athletes of all sports are approaching the later years of their contracts. Much like Phelps, if the athlete is still performing at a high level, it shouldn’t matter what the birth certificate says. This is not to say that an older athlete should still get the same contract a kid coming out of college should get, but executives should pay more attention to an athlete’s success before replacing them with a newer
model. Too often athletes try to beat the front office to the punch and retire before they can be forced out. It really shouldn’t be like that. It’s understandable that teams want to always look toward the future, but they also can’t forget the past. Players that shaped franchises shouldn’t be tossed aside for the next big thing, especially when they are still playing at a high level. Athletes should work toward contracts that give them more control in the back end of their careers. It would protect them from being punished for something they cannot control. Otherwise, there are going to be more athletes like Brett Favre and Phelps out there who realize they still have what it takes and get back in the game.
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FOOTBALL
Henry seeks to carry momentum By Charlie Potter | Sports Editor
2013 STATISTICS
Derrick Henry has been in the spotlight since his breakout performance in the Sugar ATTEMPTS: 35 Bowl. NET GAIN: 382 yards The hype surrounding the rising sophoAVERAGE: 10.9 yards per carry more running back could not get any bigger, and what’s worse – or better, in Alabama’s TOUCHDOWNS: 3 case – is that in the Crimson Tide’s preparaLONGEST RUN: 80 yards tion for its annual spring game, Henry seems to have carried that momentum from New “A lot of people are scared to tackle Orleans, La., with him back to Tuscaloosa. him,” rising junior linebacker Reggie “Derrick Henry has had a fabulous Ragland said. spring,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. Henry smiled when he heard Ragland’s “He picked up right where he left off at bowl flattering comments, as he experienced that practice last year. He works really hard. against Oklahoma. He runs really hard. He plays with a lot of “During the Oklahoma game, I could toughness.” tell that they didn’t want to tackle me,” That toughness was on full display in the Henry said. “I just kept the mindset of Crimson Tide’s 45-31 loss to Oklahoma in the being physical and keep running hard so Sugar Bowl. Henry bulldozed over defend- everything will open up. I got some yards, ers, leaving them in his wake and I was able to get some as he rushed for 100 yards on touchdowns.” eight carries and one rushing His physicality is apparent, touchdown. He also caught but he also exhibited his abilone pass for 61 yards and a ity to cut and avoid defenders score. in Alabama’s bowl game. Still, As he carved up the he is known as bruising runOklahoma defense, specner, something Fowler said he tators were left with their can appreciate. jaws on the floor. Before the “He’s running a lot harder, game even ended, the legend trying to run people over out of Derrick Henry started to there,” Fowler said. “He’s spread across social media at a big bull out there. Kind of — Jalston Fowler an alarming pace, and soon took from my role, and I like after, he was the hottest topic it.” in college football. This spring, Henry has But his teammates said they were expect- received reps behind T.J. Yeldon and in front ing that kind of performance from the of Kenyan Drake, and will see an increased moment he stepped onto campus. role in the offense this coming season. But “It didn’t surprise me,” rising senior run- fans that saw his talent in the Sugar Bowl ning back Jalston Fowler said. “He worked want to know why he is not the No. 1 guy in his butt off. The kid is always working, I Alabama’s backfield, which also happens to mean always. Whether he’s getting extra be one of Henry’s aspirations. work in or lifting weights, he’s doing some“That’s one of my goals, but right now I’m thing extra because he wants to be great. just focused on getting better and becoming That’s what I like about him.” a complete player so I can have that opporThe 6-foot-3-inch, 238-pound back tow- tunity to be on the field more than I did last ers over most defenders, or at least meets year,” Henry said. “My main focus is getting them eye-to-eye, which is uncommon for better, becoming a complete back and being tailbacks. His size is what gives Henry a dis- a better student of the game so I can help tinct advantage over opposing defenses. this team win.”
Whether he’s getting extra work in or lifting weights, he’s doing something extra because he wants to be great.
CW | Austin Bigoney Derrick Henry, a rising sophomore running back, said he hopes to improve on his momentum from last year and gain more opportunities on the field.
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CLUB SPORTS | WATER POLO
SPORTSIN BRIEF West Virginia kickoff time announced Alabama’s 2014 season opener against West Virginia in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game will begin at 2:30 p.m. CST, West Virginia announced Saturday. The game will be televised on ABC on Saturday, Aug. 30. So far, this is the only game with a set kickoff time on the Crimson Tide’s 2014 schedule.
Baseball team ranked No. 8 The Crimson Tide baseball team earned itself a top-10 ranking in two college baseball polls after the team claimed two wins over in-state rival Auburn over the weekend. Alabama jumped to No. 8 nationally in both Baseball America’s and Collegiate Baseball’s weekly rankings. The Tide also moved up to No. 11 in PerfectGame.org’s top 25. However, the Crimson Tide fell in the USA Today coaches’ poll, dropping from No. 16 to No. 19.
Photo Courtesy of Danielle Walker The University of Alabama club water polo team practices at the Aquatic Center.
Water polo club team sees growth By Danielle Walker | Staff Reporter In the South, especially at The University of Alabama, few people know much about the sport of water polo. Freshman Nathan Neglio described the game as a mix between basketball, wrestling and soccer, where you tread water for the duration of the game, trying to score as many points as possible. Despite having little knowledge of the sport, seniors Sean Mendez and Sam Lipari brought the University’s water polo club back to campus in 2010. Mendez said the team barely had enough players to compete in its first tournament, where it lost every game. The team has grown over the past four years, however, and it is composed of almost all out-of-state students. “The year before I joined, we had one tournament, and we went 0-4,” club president and junior Joe Courson said. “We didn’t have a goal or proper equipment. It was just some PVC pipe on kick boards. So, we’ve come a decent way.” The club practices Monday through Thursday at the UA Aquatic Center under the guidance of head coach Ed Reed, who volunteers his time to help the club gain new skills. “We’re actually fortunate enough to be coached by Ed Reed,” Courson said. “He used to be the women’s varsity water polo coach at Brown University. We’re fortunate to have one of the head authorities of water polo
volunteering for our club team. He donates his time, and we’re super lucky.” Reed was also the assistant coach for the 1996 Men’s Olympic team, and Neglio said he is the head of refereeing at the Collegiate Water Polo Association, where he trains the referees and reviews calls from national tournaments. The team currently competes only in the spring, traveling all over the Southeast to meet teams from the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference. “Next year if everything goes as planned we will be in the CWPA,” junior Jordan Stephenson said. “At that point, we’ll be entered in a more formal season that will take place mainly in the fall. There will be a couple tournaments that would be regular season games, which would then determine more of a national type of tournament.” Since its losing 2010 season, the water polo club has seen success in recent years and especially in this season’s tournaments. In its tournament last weekend at the University of Georgia, the team went 1-1 with an 12-7 loss to Georgia and a 11-6 win against South Carolina. It also finished third in the Auburn Invitational Tournament at the beginning of March. “It’s our best finish in our four years as a club, so that’s a pretty big improvement,” Courson said. He said the water polo team looks forward to continuing to grow on campus with its recent success.
Kamplain named Pitcher of the Week Junior left-handed pitcher Justin Kamplain has been named the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday. In his only appearance last week, Kamplain earned the win after throwing 8.2 innings in a 4-1 victory over Auburn on Saturday. He boasts a 3-2 record with a 3.57 ERA. Kamplain also leads the team and is ranked sixth in the SEC with 51 strikeouts in 53 innings of play. He has held opposing batters to a .201 batting average, which is the ninth best in the SEC.
Perez named Co-Player of the Week Alabama junior Luicelena Perez has been named the SEC Co-Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. Perez helped lead the Crimson Tide to the program’s first SEC regularseason Championship, as she provided the clinching victory in the team’s 4-3 win over No. 8 Georgia. This is the second weekly award for Perez this season.
Jacob, Whitsett earn scholarships Alabama gymnast Kim Jacob and golfer Cory Whitsett, who have both been a part of NCAA Championship teams and won NCAA Elite 89 Awards, have earned SEC Postgraduate Scholarships and are finalists for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Postgraduate Scholarships, the league announced Monday. The McWhorter Scholarship has been presented to the SEC’s top male and female scholar-athletes since 1986, and the SEC will name the 2014 recipients May 6. Compiled by Charlie Potter
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Crimson Tide looks to revamp defensive line By Kevin Connell | Staff Reporter For any number of reasons, Alabama lost its way in 2013. Could it have stemmed from a lack of maturity? Or did complacency simply settle in during perhaps the most notorious two-game stretch of Nick Saban’s Alabama coaching career, one where the Crimson Tide suffered back-to-back losses against Auburn and Oklahoma to end the season? Or maybe it was at least partially due to a defensive line that statistically had its worst season in Saban’s seven years at the University. Saban said the latter is certainly one explanation for last season’s disastrous end-of-season collapse. “I think they got a long way to go,” Saban said. “I’m not satisfied with the way any of them are playing, if you want to know the truth about it. They’ve got to be more aggressive, physical, play with better leverage, hold the point better, rush the passer better. I didn’t think that last year was one of our best years up front.” Though Alabama’s defensive lines in Saban’s base 3-4 defensive scheme are generally more responsible for freeing up space for other teammates to make plays than making the plays themselves, the unit’s statistical production came nowhere close to meeting standards last season. Defensively, Alabama ranked 80th and 86th in sacks (22) and tackles for loss (69) nationally in 2013. In the two proceeding seasons, 2011 and 2012, the Crimson Tide finished no worse than 30th in both statistical categories. That performance can, in some ways, be attributed to why Saban wants to return this year’s team to 2007 Alabama, his inaugural season with the Crimson Tide. “I said back in the beginning [of spring] that we’re starting over in terms of starting a new program and going back to re-emphasize the basic fundamental things that we thought made the program successful to start with,” Saban said. Along with the return to basics comes Alabama’s new defensive line coach, Bo Davis, who returns to the program that he previously held the same role in 2007-2010 under Saban. The goal is for the unit to rush the passer better, and a new mentality with Davis as coach could make that happen, redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Dalvin Tomlinson said. “His coaching style is more aggressive, hands-on,” said Tomlinson, who has shown promise despite only playing in one game in his UA career due to two separate knee injuries during his first two years on campus.
“We just play more faster and aggressive and do less reading before we take off. Now it’s just like the way we play we’re more fast-paced, so we get to the quarterback quicker.” In his previous coaching stint at Alabama, Davis, who replaces Chris Rumph after three seasons at Texas, helped guide the Crimson Tide to three straight top-5 finishes nationally in total defense before his departure. Among the former defensive linemen he previously coached at Alabama are current NFL players Wallace Gilberry, Marcell Dareus and Terrence Cody, as well as Brandon Ivory, a holdover from Davis’ defensive line unit in 2010, who is a returning starter and senior this season. “I had coach Bo Davis my freshman year,” said Ivory, a nose tackle. “He’s a pretty good coach. Making sure everybody gets reps and makes sure they’re participating in practice doing what they got to do to get better.” One of those players receiving reps is A’Shawn Robinson, who as a true freshman in 2013 had a teamhigh 5.5 sacks and was second on the team with eight tackles for loss. But even he hasn’t been immune to Saban’s criticism of the unit this spring. “A’Shawn Robinson is a guy that has a lot of ability, but I think we need to get him in shape, and he’s got to play with better focus and intensity down in and down out to be more consistent,” Saban said. Other players returning include sophomore Jonathan Allen, who, along with Robinson, could compete for a starting job at defensive end; backup nose tackle Darren Lake, who is out for the spring after having surgery on a torn pectoral muscle but is expected to return by the summer; and sophomores Korren Kirven and Dee Liner. On top of that, junior college transfers D.J. Pettway and Jarran Reed joined the team this spring, and incoming freshmen Da’Shawn Hand, Josh Frazier, Johnny Dwight and O.J. Smith are all set to arrive this fall. Still, Saban said that depth isn’t all that it “appears” to be, especially with last season’s starting defensive ends Jeoffrey Pagan and Ed Stinson gone this season. “We lost two starters there, is that right?” Saban said. “What does ‘appear’ mean? It just means you’ve dreamed about it and it’s there? On paper? What it looks like on paper? We’ve never seen these guys play or seen them take on an SEC lineman. But it appears.” Tomlinson, though, said he and the rest of the defensive line have not taken offense to his coach’s condemnation, but instead have used it as an incentive. “We’ve been having our ups and downs, but throughout spring I think we’re going to come together as a great defensive line and be a great defensive line all the way across the front of the line,” he said.
CW | Austin Bigoney The defensive line practices to improve upon last year’s statistics, the worst in Saban’s seven years at Alabama.