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National op-ed Please don’t stop the music opens debate on April 27 recovery Students to host dance marathon for charity By Alexandra Ellsworth Senior Staff Reporter amellsworth@crimson.ua.edu

Maddox calls WSJ editorial misleading By Stephen N. Dethrage Assistant News Editor sndethrage@crimson.ua.edu A Wall Street Journal column claiming the tornado recovery effort in Joplin has been more effective than the one in Tuscaloosa has sparked a debate between Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox and the UA professor who wrote the article. The piece, titled “Tornado Recovery: How Joplin is Beating Tuscaloosa,” cast Joplin as a city “letting local businesses lead the revival” and Tuscaloosa as a community “imposing top-down rules and waiting for FEMA.” Maddox released a letter Monday morning that said the column, written by Daniel J. Smith and David Beito, a UA history professor, contained several factual errors about the recovery processes in the two cities devastated in storms last year. “A lot of the problem is that it’s very hard for [Smith] to get information out of the city, and get consistent information, but the information he does have indicates that

Joplin is building more rapidly than we are, that there are more permits being issued there,” Beito said in an interview Monday. “If you drive through Tuscaloosa you can see that. It’s about as obvious as it can be. It’s getting hard now for people to just explain that away.” Maddox, in an interview Monday, said he embraced conversation and constructive criticism of the city’s recovery plans, but questioned the responsibility of submitting the op-ed for print before the pair was certain their facts were completely accurate. “The debate of our differences is valid,” Maddox said. “Misleading statistics are not.” The Wall Street Journal story stated that eight in 10 businesses affected by Joplin’s May tornado have reopened, but less than half of affected Tuscaloosa businesses have applied for building permits. However, in Maddox’s response letter, he clarified that 92 percent of commercial structures damaged have received repair permits and 34 percent of destroyed commercial structures have received new construction permits. Rather than continue to focus on

University of Alabama students are bringing a dance party to campus for the first time. The Dance Marathon is a fundraiser that will benefit Children’s Hospital and support the Children’s Miracle Network. “It has been quite a journey,” said Alexandra Rhett, president of the Dance Marathon committee, who has been working for the last three years to get the event started. “But it has been well worth it.” The Dance Marathon will be Friday from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. The marathon will only last eight hours, much less than the typical 24 hours most schools do, but Rhett said this was because students may

Allison Franklin said. “It’s all about standing for those who can’t and raising money for the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. There will be a three-on-three basketball tournament, dodgeball, a rave and tons of games and relays we can do with the kids. Not to mention, guys, there will be a ton of girls.” In addition to those events, at the top of every hour participants can learn part of a line dance and listen to a success story of one of the children. Every hour will be themed and activities will correspond with the themes. Franklin said she loved how personal the philanthropy is and the impact it has on people. “Throughout the process of fundraising and spreading awareness of the event, every member of the committee has met people who either have direct experience with Children’s Miracle Network or the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham,” Franklin said. SEE DANCE PAGE 6

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Brothers Street Eats leaves after two months By Ashley Chaffin Lifestyles Editor alchaffin@gmail.com Brothers Street Eats pulled up to the Quad to serve lunch for the first time on Feb. 12. On April 13, they served their last meal on campus. According to Bama Dining, they served an average of 60 to 70 customers a day, but they will no longer be allowed to serve on the Quad following complaints that their generator was too loud and disrupted classes in Graves Hall. The University Grounds Department approached the owners of Brothers Street Eats, Craig Williams and Jordon Warren, about the complaints for the first time April 5. At that time, the generator was on the side of the trailer closest to Graves Hall. April 9, they set up the generator closer to the Quad and pulled Warren’s truck up to

find standing for 24-plus hours daunting. “We want to make a good impression on students,” she said. “We want them to want more, not less.” Their chief challenge for the Dance Marathon committee has been raising awareness. “The biggest thing for our goal has been trying to get people to know what it is,” said Katie Klootwyk, public relations and recruitment committee member. “People hear of it and are like, ‘I don’t dance,’ but really you spend very little time dancing. We want to get people hooked on it.” Contrary to the dance marathons of the 1920s and 1930s, which were tests of endurance where participants danced the entire time, participants will not have to dance the entire eight-hour period. “Something most students don’t realize is that this event actually has nothing to do with dancing,” committee member

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Brothers Street Eats operated around Tuscaloosa before moving to campus. block the sound from the building. However, officials said this wouldn’t work as a solution because it was still too loud on the Quad side. “UA Auxiliary Services made every effort to solve the noise problem,” said Kristina Hopton-Jones, director of University Dining Service. “We priced the generator for rent and purchase, we helped them design a sound barrier and we explored

tying into the electricity on the Quad. All solutions were too expensive for the eight days of service we had left in the academic year.” Before coming to campus, Brothers Street Eats took all the necessary steps to get its ground use permit, a process that took about a month. The SEE BROTHERS PAGE 10

The BCS National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide will travel to the White House Thursday in celebration of the team’s 14th national championship and successful 2011-2012 season. President Barack Obama will recognize the team’s efforts both on and off the field during the presentation, which will take place at 1:20 p.m. The trip to the nation’s capital is the team’s second in three years. “I think it’s safe to say that the Tide is back,” Obama said during their March 2010 visit. “There’s no question that this team is here in large part because of what Coach [Nick] Saban has done.” The team is expected to bring Obama a gift, similar to their previous trip to the White House when they gave him Alabama memorabilia, including a jersey and helmet. Last June when the Auburn Tigers visited the White House, Obama

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congratulated them on “winning their first national title since before I was born,” and spoke about the team’s commitment to helping Alabamians recover in the wake of the recent tornadoes that affected much of the state. “Even though one of the toughesthit areas by the storm was the home of the Crimson Tide, this team knew what we all know in situations like this, which is we’re all on the same team,” Obama said, according to a White House release. “We’re all Americans first and foremost, and we’ve got an obligation to support each other in times of need.”

Sororities to compete in Sigma Chi Derby Days revival between sororities this week. In 2010, the members of Sigma Chi began to notice an increasingly low turnout to the annual event, which propelled a transBy Mazie Bryant formation to the system. Staff Reporter “In the past, we used to have mrbryant@crimson.ua.edu Derby Days every year, but After instating a two-year hia- there were smaller and smaller tus, the University of Alabama groups attending,” said Alex chapter of the Sigma Chi fra- Dinges, the Sigma Chi Derby ternity will revive its philan- Days chairman. “We decided to thropic Derby Days competition make it more special by having

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it every other year to bring out more people and make it a more exclusive event.” “We’re all really excited about it, especially the sophomores and freshmen who have never experienced Derby Days before,” said Matt Ford, a sophomore Sigma Chi. “The last time I saw it I was a rushee in high school, so it’s great to finally be participating in it as a college student.”

Each day of the week includes contests between members of each sorority who are judged on predetermined criteria, such as creativity and spirit. The various competitions include the decoration of the Sigma Chi house and Rounders bar, volleyball, tug-of-war, a beauty pageant, hat-stealing war, karaoke and dance.

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Google Inc. is facing a $25,000 fine for impeding a Federal Communications Commission investigation into the tech giant’s data-collection practices. The world’s largest Internet search engine came under fire two years ago when it was revealed that its popular but controversial street-mapping program — in which Google’s cars snap photos of homes, intersections and other neighborhood features — was also picking up sensitive information from home wireless networks, including emails, passwords and Internet usage history. After initially denying any wrongdoing, Google admitted in a May 2010 blog post that “quite simply, it was a mistake.” The FCC, which filed its

25-page report Friday, said despite Google’s apology and assertions that it did not intend to use the so-called payload data, the company has since “apparently willfully and repeatedly violated commission orders” during the probe, launched in late 2010. “For many months, Google deliberately impeded and delayed the bureau’s investigation by failing to respond to requests for material information and to provide certifications and verifications of its responses,” the report said. The agency also noted that the Mountain View, Calif., company had refused to identify the employees involved. For Google, which last week reported first-quarter revenue of $10.65 billion, the $25,000 fine amounts to what the tech

behemoth makes in about 18.5 seconds. In its report, the FCC said “given the totality of the circumstances of this case and our precedent in other failureto-respond cases,” it found the $25,000 fine to be appropriate. Despite the penalty, the FCC said the data collection, which occurred from May 2007 to May 2010, was technically legal because the information was unencrypted. A Google spokeswoman said Sunday that the company would be filing a response but declined to comment on whether it would contest the fine. “We disagree with the FCC’s characterization of our cooperation in their investigation,” she said. Internet analyst Ray Valdes of research firm Gartner Inc. called the $25,000 fine

“surprisingly small” but said the penalty would at least draw attention to privacy challenges in an increasingly digital world. “I think here the primary impact is a symbolic impact,” he said. “It’s a persistent issue, not just with Google but with a lot of technology companies.” In a recent statewide poll, the vast majority of Californians said they were worried about the data collected by smartphone and Internet companies, and most said they distrust even firms known for having tens of millions of daily users, such as Facebook. Google’s Street View has received widespread criticism from the start, especially in Europe. Although many note the project’s usefulness, such as helping drivers visualize the place they’re going before

getting behind the wheel or enabling users to virtually visit a place like the Amazon, Google’s cameras have also reportedly caught people urinating, picking up prostitutes and walking around naked. Two years ago, a separate inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into the Street View project closed without the agency taking action against Google. In its May 2010 blog post, Google told users that as soon as it became aware that it was mistakenly collecting payload data, it segregated the data on its network, “which we then disconnected to make it inaccessible.” The company has promised to delete the data; it has yet to do so because regulators still want to review it.

ON CAMPUS National Championship Coaches’ Trophy shattered An A-Day accident Saturday afternoon left the crystal football commemorating Alabama’s most recent national championship shattered. The Tuscaloosa News reported that a player’s father tripped and fell into a display table that

held the Coaches’ Trophy in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility, knocking it over and breaking it into pieces. A university spokesman said the process of replacing the $30,000 trophy has already begun.

Registration deadline for UA Day of Service today Students and others who are interested in participating in the UA Day of Service on Saturday can register as a volunteer by visiting www.ua.edu/features/service/dayofservice.html. UA Remembers: A Day of Service will be held April 21 as a time to remember the first anniversary of the April 27, 2011, tornado by bringing UA and the community together to serve others. Volunteers will meet on campus the morning of April 21 and be transported to one of three work sites located along the path of the tornado. From 9 a.m.

to 1 p.m., volunteers will clean and beautify tornadodamaged areas. Afterwards, volunteers will return to UA for a brief program and lunch. The UA Day of Service begins a week of events and remembrances that will culminate in the city of Tuscaloosa’s memorial service on April 27. For more information on volunteering or making a donation, visit dayofservice. ua.edu. Questions should be submitted to dayofservice@ ua.edu. The deadline to sign up for the UA Day of Service is today, April 17.

Pomegranate Foundation seeks writing about tornado The Pomegranate Foundation in conjunction with Slash Pine Press is seeking writing that captures the spirit of the Tuscaloosa, Holt, Alberta and University communities during and after the April 27 tornadoes. The editors of Slash Pine Press will select 20 submitted pieces to represent the Tuscaloosa area and these pieces will be immortalized in the Community Space to be constructed and opened this summer at the Jaycee Park in Alberta City. Journals, essays, poems, reflections and all other

forms of writing from all ages that represent Tuscaloosa’s sense of community and spirit in the face of the April 27 tragedies are welsome. Pieces should be less than 100 words and, if a piece is selected, it may be necessary to make minor edits or formal changes to fit available spaces. For more information about the Pomegranate Foundation and their projects, please visit www.pomegranatefoundation.org. For information on Slash Pine Press and related projects, visit www. slashpinepress.com.

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University students ‘Cover the Night’ for Kony 2012 By Rich Robinson Staff Reporter rarobinson2@crimson.ua.edu More than 100 million people have watched the Kony 2012 video on YouTube and Vimeo since it was posted on March 5. Invisible Children, the group behind the video, has urged its supporters to take to the streets and “Cover the Night” on April 20 in an effort to make Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony “famous.” Some Alabama students are planning to do just that on Friday night. Leigh Anderson, a senior

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majoring in public relations and restaurant and hospitality management, is the executive director of the unofficial UA Kony 2012 chapter and is helping orga-

nize its April 20 operation. Anderson was inspired by the video to get involved with the effort and strongly supports the movement. “I believe in this movement because this man is killing and abducting children, and there’s a special place in my heart for children,” Anderson said. Kony has been on the International Criminal Court’s most wanted list since 2005 and is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes during his prolonged paramilitary campaign against the Ugandan government.

Michael Deibert, a journalist and visiting fellow at Coventry University in England, has extensive knowledge of Central African political matters and is the author of the forthcoming book, “Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair.” Deibert does not support Kony 2012. “Given the long history of human rights abuses of both the Ugandan and Congolese military, given the lack of safeguards to protect civilians from the reprisals that have inevitably followed the unsuccessful attempts

to capture Kony in the past and given the questionable electoral legitimacy of both the Museveni government in Uganda and the Kabila government in Congo, I think the course advocated by Invisible Children is a highly irresponsible one,” Deibert said. Deibert also said students who want to support positive change in central Africa would do better to support local grassroots organizations such as Human Rights Focus in Northern Uganda and Voix des Sans-Voix in Congo. Kony 2012 has been perceived by many as a youth driven movement and criticized for its style

of activism. Addie Horn of Invisible Children acknowledged this perception. “Invisible Children would not be where it is today if it wasn’t for our high school and college supporters who have continued to show support throughout the last eight years,” Horn said. On the night of April 20, the group will be set up on the patio of Buffalo Phil’s and will be supplying posters and tape for everyone who wants them; although, they are encouraging people to bring their own supplies as well.

WRC to host ‘Take Back Holocaust survivor tells his story the Night’ rally and vigil By Adrienne Burch Staff Reporter aeburch2@crimson.ua.edu The University of Alabama Women’s Resource Center will host “Take Back the Night,” an international rally aimed to support the end of violence against women, tonight at 6 p.m. on the Ferguson Plaza. The month of April is national Sexual Assault Awareness Month and UA’s Women’s Resource Center has been hosting events throughout the month to raise awareness across campus. Students and volunteers at the WRC have also sported teal-colored ribbons to show their support. “Take Back the Night” is the culmination of these events as an international rally aimed at unifying the UA community to stop violence against women. “Take Back the Night” began in Europe in 1976 with women who attended the Tribuna on Crimes Against Women. The rally has travelled across the globe, coming to the U.S. in 1978 and then to UA in 1986. The event is sponsored by Verizon Wireless, Pepsi,

A l ab a m a Pa n h e l l e n i c Association, Alpha Chi Omega, Judicial Affairs and the department of race and gender studies. “We are proud to work with the Women’s Resource Center to bring about awareness of abuse on campus throughout Alabama,” said Caran Smith, Verizon Wireless public relations manager for the Alabama/ Georgia Region. Wendy Murphy, nationally recognized keynote speaker from Boston Law School, will address the crowd as a personal survivor of sexual assault. A survivor from Shelton State community college will give a vocal performance as well. There will be a rally walk around the Quad at 6 p.m. and then a candlelight vigil at the end. “We are hoping that people will have a better understanding of sexual abuse, and they will be able to help someone if they know someone in an abusive situation,” said Chatiara Salandy, member of the leadership council at the WRC. For more information, contact the UA Women’s Resource Center at 205-348-5040.

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Though Max Herzel has been telling the story for more than a decade, he’s still not comfortable with it. “I feel like I have to,” Herzel said. “There is an inner voice that tells me to do it, so the new generation will know about.” Herzel, a Holocaust survivor, recounted his memories to UA students at Monday night’s “We Remember the Holocaust” event. The event is a celebration of Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrated on April 19. “You children are our next generation, you must maintain this commemoration of lives lost — otherwise it will be forgotten,” he said. Born in Belgium in 1930, Herzel was the son of Oscar, a diamond cutter, and Nachama, a seamstress. He was 10 years old when the Germans invaded, and his family took refuge in southern France. France was invaded soon after, and the family was moved to the Rivesaltes internment camp,

a pipeline into concentration camps. Oscar Herzel bribed workers to smuggle the family out. Herzel, his older brother Harry, and Oscar walked through the camp gates as their mother stayed behind — collateral until Oscar could complete the payment. “Our father told us to disperse, we couldn’t travel together,” Herzel said. “We looked like a bunch of beggars to be honest.” The Herzel family ended up in Marseilles, but Oscar and Harry were arrested and sent to a work camp. Nachama attempted suicide and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Max Herzel was 12 years old. “There I was, lonely in a big confusing world,” Herzel said. “Within hours, I was placed in a Jewish home for religious children. That’s the first time I had left my parents. I remember, vividly, crying all night long.” As French police began round-ups and deportations from the orphanages in 1944, the organization that had placed Herzel began smuggling Jewish children over

the Swiss border and into Christian homes. Herzel was eventually placed in a rural village in the Alps, where he worked and lived with a Christian family. Herzel eventually left his adoptive family and reunited with his brother and mother. Oscar Herzel, having survived a death march from Auschwitz, died in the Buchenwald camp just six weeks shy of liberation. His story is not a comfortable one to tell, Herzel said, but he believes it is important for students to hear first hand. Ben Flax, a freshman and organizer of the event, said it is important because students are the last generation to hear these memories firsthand. “By taking on their stories, we take on their past,” Flax said. “These stories are something very important that must never be forgotten.” Monday night’s event included participation in “Unto Every Person There is a Name,” the worldwide practice of reading aloud the names of all 11 million Holocaust victims. “We received the honor of reading 60 of the names. All were under the age of 10 when

they died,” Flax said. “This is done worldwide to ensure that all 11 million are remembered with the respect they deserve.” Ruth Siegler, another Holocaust survivor and Birmingham resident, attended the event as well. Siegler recently published her story, a book titled “My Father’s Blessing.” “I wrote this for my children and grandchildren, so they could have the history from where I came from,” Siegler said. And though Herzel spoke Monday to teach students about the past, he also hopes to make them aware of the present. “There are revisionists, Holocaust deniers. These people are waiting for us Holocaust survivors to die,” Herzel said. “I want you students to be aware of their movement.” Siegler, like Herzel, hopes to share her story — and her evidence. “The story has to be told. People deny it, but I have proof. I have papers from where I was liberated,” she said, and gestured to her left forearm. “And I have the number.”

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As many of you already know, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees named former University of Alabama president Dr. Robert Witt as chancellor over the systems’ three universities. Colleagues and members of the UA System’s board of trustees lauded Dr. Witt and his reign as president, citing substantial growth in enrollment and a heavy emphasis on marketing. During his tenure in this position, the University of Alabama became the most selective institution in the state, which now accepts just over 50 percent of applicants. During the search for a new University president, the board of trustees needs to refocus its priorities from physical growth and development to mental growth and development, especially for women at the University. We need a president who is going to work to ensure that women who graduate from the University are equally ambitious as the men beside them, which currently is not the case. And this is not just a problem at the University of Alabama. It’s an issue everywhere. Women have represented the majority of college graduates in this country for almost 30 years now, and they still haven’t managed to clutch a substantial number of positions of power.

This represents something wrong with the way institutions are educating women. Women make up roughly 52 percent of the student body at the University; however, that reality is not represented in the highest positions in the Student Government Association. In fact, this past election cycle only one woman was elected to an executive position within student government, and that position was executive secretary, despite two other highly qualified women seeking positions within the organization. This isn’t just an issue with the Machine, though. It is part of the culture here at the University of Alabama. The Blackburn Institute, which is traditionally lauded as a beacon for progress, hasn’t seen a woman hold the position of student chair in five years. That’s half of a decade where women have been absent from the most important discussions. We need a University president who is going to see an end to this discrepancy between

what should be and what is. We need a president who recognizes that talking about equality and equality are not the same thing. In the text “Half the Sky,” Nichols Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn make the claim that the biggest moral challenge of the 19th century was slavery, the 20th century was totalitarianism, and this century is oppression of women. In order for the oppression of women to end during our lifetimes, we must see more involvement from women in positions of power providing a voice in those bigger discussions. There is no reason the University of Alabama cannot be a shining example for institutions across the world for women equality, and now is the perfect time to capitalize on this opportunity. We need to select a president that is dedicated to re-educating faculty, staff and students about the power and importance of strong, ambitious women. We need someone who is going to address this culture of inequality and cultivate a place where women and men don’t just talk about equality, but instead live it. Michael Patrick is a senior majoring in political science. His column runs weekly on Tuesday.

I had an interesting conversation in my honors seminar today. The professor asked our class of 12 if we considered ourselves “liberal.” After looking around the table, most of us nodded our heads in affirmation. We considered ourselves open-minded individuals, we don’t automatically ascribe to our parents’ political views and, personally, I don’t see a problem with sharing prosperity to boost the government. And besides, at this campus, that word is thrown around so often that it’s not hard to be labeled one at some point in your college career. How foolish of us to define ourselves in front of a political theory professor. And soon enough, words like “socialist,” “conservative” and even “communist” floated around as we grasped for definitions of our political alignment. Our professor was quick to the whiteboard, redefining words we so confidently used in description; and, as usual, I realized I was wrong. Popular culture, the media, the evolution of words and whatever else have morphed these words into connotations for a type of person and belief system. These words are then used to separate people and groups, who then turn and face their paralleled enemy (liberal is to conservative as Democrat is to Republican). But why? Perhaps it is a ploy, as my professor hinted at. A ploy to create divisions when really, we are not all that different; we’re all American, we all have the same unified goal of bettering America. The America we live in today has been labeled the most divided American public our history has seen. We can debate on anything and everything, no matter how irrelevant it is to the functionality of our government. And when people are supplied words to define their differences in beliefs, whether they really have anything to do with the government, this only creates greater separation among us. Categorizing people by their political beliefs is a dangerous game to play when you don’t know what all the words mean. Unfortunately, I’m not a political theory professor, nor do I completely grasp the concepts, but I only wish I could explain to you what was explained to me and my classmates. But, what I can easily translate is that the words you hear on CNN or FOX to describe our political celebrities and characters aren’t really correct, which is only another testament to why you shouldn’t believe everything you hear. Instead of focusing on words that define, perhaps we should drop those words that do nothing more than divide. Instead, we should look to focus on the methods to improve and grow, void of the idea source’s political affiliation. They’re just words. It’s not a chair because you call it one; it’s a chair because you sit in it. So, what makes a liberal a liberal? If your definition is because they are not something else, that’s not really a definition at all, that’s a label placed to make descriptions convenient and Type-As content. And sure, maybe this is an existential personal identity crisis (oh no, what do I define myself on Facebook?), but whether it’s because of incorrectly defined words, our culture is focusing far too much on the differences between Americans than the fact that we are all Americans. SoRelle Wyckoff is the opinions editor of The Crimson White.

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Passive, meet aggressive By Cheyenne Paiva Let me preface this column with the darling passiveaggressive bite I’ve gathered since living in Ridgecrest West as a freshman. For the safety and protection of myself from my ex-roommate and definitely — let me repeat, DEFINITELY—not because she deserves this level of respect, rather than change her name in this article, I simply won’t mention it at all. It started with a dirty dish. Then another one. Then another and another and another one until finally, barely three weeks into spring semester, our sink overflowed with dishes and utensils that should have lain dry in their proper kitchen cubbies. Who knew this would happen? Oh, wait. I did. This was the story of my freshman year, rising but never falling in hysteria as my roommate jammed on a guitar she clearly could not play and experimented with her vocal range in the shower — all at hours normally reserved for sleep and, mind you, silence. Sure, I might have been a little too thankful for the lock on my door to publicly complain about her antics a year later, but freshman or not, it doesn’t take old age to understand the importance of being considerate. However, what it does take is enough introspection and observance of the failures that skip hand-in-hand with thoughtlessness. Far removed from my west-coast home and forced to spend a year living with people I didn’t know, I had no choice but to accept the mystery of my living conditions until I found out what, or rather whom, I had signed

up for. No problem there; none at all. I’m generally quiet and mindful enough to sneak past potentially sticky situations; though, I quickly found out my first run with a roomie would turn just as rotten as the dying banana I found in her lavish cupboard after our monthlong winter break. It could have been worse — or could it? Alcoholics and hopeless romantics exhibit attributes extreme enough for obvious and definite solutions to exist, but roommates like mine simply carry out life the way they always have without ever realizing their gross inability to be polite. So, how do you counter someone who doesn’t realize they need to be countered? How do you deal with a person blind to her absurdity? I’ll tell you exactly what not to do. Don’t turn your room inside out trying to find a Sharpie. Don’t mercilessly rip open a pack of Post-Its and don’t write so many versions of passive-aggressive notes that you can’t pick which one to stick above your roommate’s monster pile of dishes in the kitchen sink. That was my strategy. It was also the cruelest, guiltiest and most entitled I’ve ever felt in my life. Some call it an easy way out, which isn’t completely untrue, but to be honest, I’m simply too much of a peoplepleaser to express discontent straight to someone’s face. Hence this column. Passive and Aggressive — surely a married couple if I’ve even known one and better yet, the kind whose friends all think should be divorced. Both rejected by Assertiveness, they drunkenly tied the knot in Vegas, and now, 19 years later, they still haven’t found

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enough sense to reverse that dreadfully awful idea. They stuck it out for the kid, and folks, I’m that poor kid. Keep me in mind as I disown the traits that raised me. Submission spells disaster, and belligerence certainly wouldn’t improve a tussle like mine, so why on earth does a combination of the two even exist as a battle option? Does it work? I suppose, although I don’t know how successful it was that I only got my roommate to finally wash her dishes mere hours before Tuscaloosa issued its “boil water alert” that fated day last April.

In retrospect, I owe my roommate as much of an apology as she owes me. For every problem she (somehow) unknowingly sparked in my life, I did us no favors by refusing to address her directly. All those notes and catty attempts to communicate without actually speaking to each other (I’ll let you imagine the vicious comments we left one another towards the end of the year) accomplished absolutely nothing. If anything, my passiveaggressive tendencies further damaged the relationship the minute I figured out how much she enjoyed the sight of soap

scum. Is there a lesson to be learned? I suppose if your behavior ever falls under a category defined by two opposites chained with a dash, don’t further regress and do something like write a newspaper article epitomizing that very definition. I’m clearly still learning, but I do know this: If there’s one thing as ridiculous as oblivious disregard, it’s the idea of passive-aggression as a suitable response. Cheyenne Paiva is a sophomore majoring in biology.

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Radio club broadcast to commemorate storm victims By Helen Buckley Contributing Writer The Tuscaloosa Amateur Radio Club will be operating a special event station on April 28 in remembrance of the 53 people that died as a result of the April 27 tornado. The station will be active on April 28 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and will be operating from the top of the western parking deck at the DCH Regional Medical Center.

TARC is a local radio club consisting of more than 70 members that focuses on promoting radio and preserving the â&#x20AC;&#x153;magic of radio.â&#x20AC;? The club also works to provide education about radio and offers its members a forum through which to expand their hobby. TARC also focuses on providing public service to the Tuscaloosa community, through special event stations like the one that will take place on April 28.

selves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on April 26, Alberta, Forest Lake and Rosedale were not living up to their maximum potential. If we had been content to return to that status quo, JUMP FROM PAGE 1 we would have ensured that we Rather than continue to would fail them again in years focus on where the numbers to come.â&#x20AC;? were pulled from, both Beito Beito argued that the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Maddox opted to examine delay to rebuild in favor of a the bigger pictures of Joplinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s detailed plan for the future recovery plan compared to doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow for owners of Tuscaloosaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. small businesses to rebuild â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see this as a difference in philosophy, and a lot of people say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;well, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I disagree Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m struck by the here and with that,â&#x20AC;? Beito said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our now, and I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a treurban planning philosophy mendous amount of unfairness right now is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to in the here and now. remake Tuscaloosa, and in 25 years itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just going to blow your â&#x20AC;&#x201D; David Beito mind, but for me, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m struck by the here and now, and I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tremendous amount in a timely manner, if at all. of unfairness in the here and Aiming to attract big retailers now.â&#x20AC;? and zoning for a more urban Maddox agreed there was Tuscaloosa in the distant future a difference in philosophy leaves many local entreprebut said it was imperative for neurs in limbo. the city to focus on its future Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong, Beito said, to leave and to anticipate the issues those citizens without a way to Tuscaloosa will face in five and rebuild as part of a plan to build 10 years. Without that foresight, a better Tuscaloosa that ultiMaddox said, the rebuilt city mately may have no place for will fail to be what its citizens them. deserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are people who desâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very important that the perately want to rebuild,â&#x20AC;? Beito city looks to the long term,â&#x20AC;? said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joplin has reacted to the Maddox said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of us have situation by saying you were asked our politicians to look affected, you invested your beyond our next election resources to build these busicycle before, and in this case nesses, you paid taxes to the Tuscaloosa is clearly doing city over all these years, and we that. want to help you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest with ourJoplinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, though, is not

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The upcoming special event broadcast will consist of two stations; one will be in voice mode and the other in digital (radio teletype). The voice frequency will be 14.270 and 7.20MHz, and the call sign is W4XI. In addition to remembrance of the victims of the tornado, the station hopes to provide camaraderie between those who participate. The eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location overlooks the path of the tornado in order to emphasize the Tuscaloosaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Maddox said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the citizens of Joplin want, I respect, but I also respect what the citizens of Tuscaloosa want. A majority of citizens wanted a long-term strategic view, and as their representatives, as someone that works for them, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to make sure that we stay true to their promise of tomorrow.â&#x20AC;? The biggest difference in the processes of the two cities, Beito said, is the value of input from citizens and business owners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crux of our point is that Joplin relied much more heavily on getting input and involvement from the businesses that were directly affected,â&#x20AC;? Beito said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference. We relied more on outside consultants and the Tuscaloosa Forward Plan, and the people behind the vision of the plan.â&#x20AC;? However, Maddox said almost 3,000 citizens have participated in dozens of open meetings in the city since the tornado, and more than 70,000 users visited a site set up as a virtual town hall to allow citizens to contribute ideas to the recovery process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we have been doing was driven by our citizens,â&#x20AC;? Maddox said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have listened, we have processed and we have done our best to create a consensus for a strategic vision moving forward. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to create something that will be met with unanimous support, but all of us want to rebuild in a way that honors all those that lost so much.â&#x20AC;?

effect of the EF4 tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa. Members from TARC will set up the broadcast and remain in service all day so that people will have an opportunity to call in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically we are just going to be on the radio,â&#x20AC;? said Joel Black, editor of TARCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamsayâ&#x20AC;? newsletter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Throw a call sign out, and people can contact us from all over the United States. A lot of times you even get folks

in foreign countries. People from all over the world will be able to call in.â&#x20AC;? Students interested in the broadcast are invited to call in, or join the members of TARC on top of the western parking deck at DCH. This broadcast provides students, as well as the entire UA community an opportunity to show respect and remembrance for the victims of the tornado, as well as participate in a special

event broadcast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCH regional hospital is helping us with the location and the public is invited. Our purpose is to make contacts around the U.S. and remember those who passed on April 27,â&#x20AC;? said David Drummond, an officer for TARC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those who want to stop by and show their support are more than welcome. This is also an opportunity for students to see and understand what amateur radio does.â&#x20AC;?

Melanoma linked to tanning By Jasmine Cannon Senior Staff Reporter jmcannon@crimson.ua.edu The number of melanoma cases in young adults has risen over the years, and health professionals say tanning-bed use is one of the main contributing factors. USA Today recently reported on this issue with the latest findings from the Mayo Clinic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The incidence of cutaneous melanoma among young adults is rapidly increasing, especially among women,â&#x20AC;? the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings concluded. The results also said those at high risk for obtaining the disease should be monitored. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not surprised about the increasing melanoma rates,â&#x20AC;? said Mallory Mitchell, a junior majoring in secondary education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems like there are more people going to the tanning bed now

than ever. Even a lot of guys are going. So, it does not surprise me that more people are receiving harmful effects from it.â&#x20AC;? While much of the blame for the rise in skin cancer is being directed toward tanning bed companies, they maintain the jury is still out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no consensus among researchers regarding the relationship between melanoma skin cancer and UV exposure either from the sun or a sunbed,â&#x20AC;? John Overstreet, the executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, told USA Today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I expect more from the Mayo Clinic. There is no direct link from their report to tanning beds.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that tanning beds should be regulated or reprimanded for their product,â&#x20AC;? said Molly Mitchell, a junior majoring in telecommunication and film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are clear warnings about

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Nurses offer free screening Marketing group to hold By Dontavius Wade Contributing Writer The Capstone chapter of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing will host its inaugural men’s health screening during the Alabama vs. Vanderbilt baseball game this Saturday. The chapter, which was established in October 2011, is the first chapter in the state of Alabama. Dr. Anthony Roberson, associate professor at the College of Nursing and director of Practice and Community Partnerships, said the group plans to set up a tent before the game and do screenings throughout the game. Roberson, who is also the president of the local chapter, said even though the event is focused on men’s health, women are also welcome to come. The free event, which is run by faculty, students and local nurses, will screen for many

Dance marathon set for Friday DANCE FROM PAGE 1 “One man told me that the Children’s Miracle Network helped save his grandson’s life. Not to mention the strength and love of life these children have is so inspirational.” Some of the children and their families will also be present at the event. “It’s truly moving,” Rhett said. “It is not a nameless, faceless

different health issues such as blood pressure, lung capacity, sun damage, body mass index, cholesterol and Glucose, Roberson said. Justin Wilson, a junior majoring in political science, said he is glad that the chapter is hosting the event. “I think it is a great thing what the men’s chapter is doing,” Wilson said. “It encourages young men to be more concerned about their health.” Wilson, who does not have healthcare insurance at the moment, said he would be attending the event because his most recent checkup was two years ago. Connor Johnson, a freshman majoring in biology, said he was also excited about the event and even planned to attend. Johnson’s father passed away four years ago from heart disease. His father’s passing inspired Johnson to pursue his

dream of becoming a cardiologist. “My dad was one of those people who was prideful and didn’t always check his health,” Johnson said. “This event is here for a good reason, and I am glad to attend it.” There will also be free giveaways and coupons for various restaurants in the Tuscaloosa area.

organization based somewhere out in Los Angeles. It is the Children’s Hospital, and you get to meet these children who you are helping.” Because of her connection with Children’s Hospital and its patients, Rhett said she hopes the event will be a success. “The reason we want this to be successful is because we are so passionate about it,” she said. “I feel like I am part of this hospital. You automatically become part of this family, and that is pretty moving.” The goal for raising money

this year is $10,000, but Rhett said it is not really about the money. The main problem they have run into is that the name is not established. “We want it to be established,” she said. “This year is not so much about the money as it is about getting the name out there, so that next year we can raise more money. But every penny counts, and the hospital appreciates it more than anything. So, it’s about the money, but it’s also about raising awareness. You just have to start somewhere.”

IF YOU GO ... • What: American Assembly for Men in Nursing’s men’s health screening

• Where: Alabama vs. Vanderbilt baseball game

• When: Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m.

fundraiser at Red Shed By Ashanka Kumari Staff Reporter akkumari@crimson.ua.edu The University of Alabama Sales and Marketing Association will hold a fundraiser to send a child with muscular dystrophy to a Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp, said Kelsey Kurth, chief operating officer of SMA. The event will begin at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday at The Red Shed located on The Strip, Kurth said. The event is open to anyone 19 years of age and older. “Children with Muscular Dystrophy face difficulty every day because of this disease, and what we’re trying to do is help send a few kids to camp, so that they can have the same fun summer camp experience that most kids get to enjoy,” said Brandon Poley, upcoming president of SMA. “We want students to come out and enjoy themselves but also raise some money to send these children to summer camp.” The event will feature a live music performance by Daniel Crane and drink specials with no cover charge, Kurth said. Fifty percent of the money raised from shots sold will go to the philanthropy, and there will be donation jars throughout the bar as well as a prize raffle including a charter

fishing trip for 10, a free manicure and pedicure and gift cards to Zoe’s and Yogurt Mountain. SMA is a student-run organization that focuses on professional development and community contribution, according to the organization’s website. Each year, SMA hosts events designed to help its members grow both personally and professionally, as well as providing each member a chance to give back to the community. “In SMA, our goal is to give back to our community and invest in those around us,” Poley said. “We have been raising money for MDA this entire semester and will be awarding Sales Program Scholarships worth $250 to the four students that raise the most money.” Although this is the first time SMA is holding this fundraiser, SMA works to raise money to benefit one nonprofit organization each year, said Joe Calamusa, director of the sales program. “It costs $800 to send one child to Muscular Dystrophy Association’s summer camp,” Calamusa said. “This event will be a normal student social experience in a laid-back, relaxed atmosphere infused with the extra added benefit that each student’s presence and money they spend will

help children with Muscular Dystrophy.” The summer camp will be held at Lake Martin and is a chance for children with muscular dystrophy to be around other children who are like them, Kurth said. “This camp will give parents of children with muscular dystrophy a break because children with muscular dystrophy take extra care,” Kurth said. “We really hope a big group will come out and help us raise money to help these children go to summer camp.” For more information about SMA or the UA Sales Program, visit cba.ua.edu/sales/sma.

IF YOU GO ... • What: Sales and Marketing Association fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association • Where: The Red Shed

• When: Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. • Cost: No cover

Take Back the Night March & Rally

Tuesday, April 17th 6:00pm @ Ferg Plaza Rain location: Ferg Theater

Keynote Speaker: Wendy Murphy Professor, New England Law

Join us for a march around the Quad as we proudly reclaim our bodies, homes, streets, and lives! Be part of the March, Rally, and Candlelight Vigil to commemorate the strength of sexual assualt survivors. Call 205.348.5040 for more information.

Sponsored by: Women’s Resource Center, Verizon Wireless, Alabama Panhellenic Association, Dean of Students, Student Judicial Affairs, Dorbin Association, & LadyFest Deep South

GSU poses non-conference threat to Tide By Morgan Upton smupton@crimson.ua.edu @Morgan_U After a convincing sweep over South Carolina, the No. 2 Alabama softball team plays Georgia State tonight at 6 p.m. Alabama will face its first nonconference opponent since March 25, when it defeated Longwood. With a series against conference-foe Georgia in Athens this weekend, it could be easy for the Crimson Tide team to look ahead. Senior Amanda Locke said that’s one thing the Tide will make sure it doesn’t do. “It’s one game at a time,” Locke said. “Every time we play, it’s one game. It’s never let’s look forward to Georgia, or Florida or Arkansas. It’s never any of that. “Every different game, every pitch. One inning at a time; one pitch at a time. We’re looking forward to Georgia State. They’re a great team. They’ve got great pitchers and great hitting. We’re just going to go out there and give them our

best game.” The Panthers’ four pitchers have a combined 2.33 ERA and have given up just 27 home runs on the season. Head coach Patrick Murphy said with a 31-12 overall record, Georgia State isn’t going to be an easy game. One or two runs decided five of the Panthers’ 12 losses. “They beat Georgia Tech already,” Murphy said. “It’s definitely a good nonconference opponent. Kind of gives us a little bit of a break in conference play.” The Panthers come to Tuscaloosa with a three game win streak and have lost only one of its last 12 games. The Tide has a little over 48 hours to turn around from Sunday’s game against South Carolina to tonight’s game against Georgia State. “It’s a quick turnaround, but it’s something we have to deal with,” sophomore Kaila Hunt said. “We just have to come out and play Alabama softball.” With a 40-2 overall record, 17-2 in the SEC and No. 2 in

the polls, the Alabama softball of 2012 has been a force to be reckoned with. With six seniors and five freshmen on the team, leadership has been a big part of the Tide’s season. From top to bottom Alabama is, simply put, stacked. Alabama’s dominance in games starts immediately. The Tide has outscored opponents 81-10 in the first inning and 57-15 in the second inning. Thirteen of the Tide’s games have been decided in six innings or less. Three games have included grand slams. Jennifer Fenton had one against DePaul, Danae Hays against Mississippi State and Locke’s grand slam against South Carolina. Hunt leads the team with home runs, with 16 on the year and Locke has 10. But Alabama’s dominance doesn’t come solely from its CW | John Michael Simpson offensive power. With a 1.33 ERA sophomore Jackie Traina Senior Jennifer Fenton slides into second base against South Carolina is 26-0 on the season. The win over South Carolina Sunday school-record. including three SEC series, but was Traina’s 28th consecutive Despite that, Alabama still the most important one comes game decision, giving her the has eleven games remaining, tonight against Georgia State.

Alabama will try to find answers for its shortcomings before it faces another brutal Southeastern Conference weekend in hosting Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday and Wednesday night, with first pitch set for 6:05 both nights. Alabama, having just been swept by the No. 5 LSU Tigers last weekend, currently holds a trend of letting the result of the midweek game transfer to the weekend series. On March 20, Alabama lost

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to Troy 9-0 on a midweek meeting, then went on to lose the following series to Ole Miss two games to one. The next midweek game was an Alabama win over South Alabama, resulting in a home sweep of the then-No. 23 Auburn Tigers. Last week, Alabama lost its midweek game 9-1 to UAB at home, and then was swept over the weekend by LSU. The Crimson Tide has a good opportunity to get on the right side of the midweek decisions this week, as the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils have seen serious struggles this season. The Delta Devils

will come into the two-game series with an 8-27 record, 7-10 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The Delta Devils have also struggled on the road, entering Tuesday’s game with a 4-17 mark in games away from Itta Bena, Miss. The best batter the Delta Devils will bring to Tuscaloosa is Joseph Germaine, batting .305 with a slugging percentage of .386 and nine doubles. If Germaine were playing for Alabama, this would put him fourth on the team in batting average. His slugging percentage ranking would drop from first to fourth, as well. The Delta Devils have

struggled at the mound as well, with their best starting pitcher compiling a 2-5 record in nine starts with a 5.08 ERA. The Mississippi Valley State pitching staff averages a 6.13 ERA and allows opponents to hit a combined .313 batting average. Alabama hopes to enjoy an advantage in starting pitching, as Case Nixon will likely start one of the two games. Nixon has a lower ERA than all pitchers on the Delta Devils pitching staff, a 3.97, and has held opponents to eight extra-base hits. No pitcher for Mississippi Valley State has allowed fewer than 10 extra-base hits.

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UA professor’s play to show in New York this summer By Alexandra Ellsworth Senior Staff Reporter University of Alabama professor Seth Panitch’s play, “Hell: Paradise Found,” will hit the stage in New York City for two weeks starting July 10. Panitch believes hell may in fact hold the most interesting people, and his play examines what the afterlife would be like if this were true. “This is actually a rewrite of a production I did in Los Angeles some time ago, and the Los Angeles production was very successful,” said Panitch, the head of the Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts acting programs at UA. “I was never able to take it to New York because other projects got in the way, and, also, once you have lived with a play for four months you really feel like

putting it to bed, but it has been asleep for about 10 years, so I feel comfortable taking the covers off again.” “Hell: Paradise Found” will run for two weeks at the 59E59 Theater. There will be a Tuscaloosa preview in the Allen Bales Theatre July 2 through 4 before the show moves Off-Broadway. Panitch said the play was not a religious play but instead examines the way society demonizes human beings who are different from the social norm in a comedic way. “Yeah, Hitler would be down there and Mussolini would be down there, but Shakespeare would be down, and James Dean would be down there, and Elvis would be down there and Sinatra would be down there,” he said. “And the question is, under those circumstances,

who gets into heaven? Probably, under those constructs, people you wouldn’t want to have a drink with, people you wouldn’t want to hang out with because they’d probably be pretty boring and uninteresting.” Panitch said taking the covers off his old play was like seeing an old friend who has improved with age. He made some changes to his original work, but he also left some things the way they were. He found his inspiration for the play in an article about Shakespeare. “I had been doing a lot of work on Shakespeare, and I remembered reading this article about how people at the time thought that what he was writing was evil and that he’d be sent to hell because of it,” Panitch said. “It sort of reminded me of the fact that every-

for myself and also do for the students and help them have a great showcase in a full length play Off-Broadway in New York at a very reputable theatre, I thought what a great experience for the kids.” Projects like this will give students a structured opportunity to be in front of the kinds of agents and casting directors—and even professional audiences— that they are going to have to act in front of. “A lot of their friends come see them act [on campus], and that is what I call a cheap date,” Panitch said. “They are going to like them and laugh with them anyways.” Peyton Conley, a graduate student, will be playing several

roles in the play, and he said this opportunity will be the perfect stepping stone for him. “We have a wide variety of people in the company, and it has been a great experience all around,” Conley said. “I am moving to New York in the fall with some friends, and it will be good to be seen and build some credit in New York.” “It is my greatest joy, if it is a successful project, to have those kids out there in front of that audience and to look back and remember this as their first New York show,” Panitch said. “When you are in New York, and you are performing, it really does feel like you are near the heart of where theater lives.”

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Kelly Clarkson, The Fray set to play the Amp From staff reports Red Mountain Entertainment announced another act made famous by “American Idol” will headline a show at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre this fall. Kelly Clarkson, who won the inaugural season of the show, will play the venue on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. Clarkson’s show at the Amphitheatre will be the second to last stop on her tour, which features co-headliner The Fray and special guest Carolina Liar. The tour will promote both headliners’ new albums, Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger” and The Fray’s “Scars and Stories.” Since her debut album in 2003, Clarkson has released

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LIFESTYLES this weekend TODAY • Chicago: Gallaway Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY • Chicago: Gallaway Theatre, 7:30 p.m. • Singin’, Swingin’ and Bob: Moody Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.

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Event raises money in honor of Harrison DERBY FROM PAGE 1 Sister Hazel, CBDB, the Steven Padilla Band, Big Gigantic and Otis Day & The Knights are scheduled to perform throughout the week. “Derby Days is a great way to get all the sororities on campus involved,” Dinges said. “It’s always nice to have a little competition, in my opinion, and it’s fun to bring everyone together for a good cause.” The sororities that rank in the top four positions for each event will receive points, and the sorority with the most points at the end of the week will receive $1,000 toward its organization’s philanthropy. “I have never experienced Derby Days before, and everyone talks about how much fun it is,” said Laura Keator, a member of Chi Omega. “Being able to win money for our philanthropy is very

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five studio albums and won two Grammys. Her most recent album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 100 Charts and has been certified gold. “Scars and Stories,” which was released in 2011, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 100 Charts and is The Fray’s third studio album. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre box office, online at ticketmaster. com or by calling 800-745-3000. Tickets are for all reserved seats and will cost $37.25, $61.75 or $77.25, depending on the seats. These prices are for box office prices only, and fees will vary depending on other forms of purchase.

rewarding, and it feels good knowing that we can make a difference through our involvement during the week.” Continuing the tradition of being a charitable fundraiser, the 2012 Derby Days competition proceeds will be donated to the Ashley Harrison Memorial Scholarship, an award given in honor of Ashley Harrison, a member of UA’s chapter of Phi Mu who died during the April 27, 2011 tornado. Sigma Chi will devote all of its attention to the cause, selecting Carson Tinker, a UA football player, as the honorary judge for the 2012 Derby Days due to his relationship with Harrison. “We always donate money to a charity during Derby Days, but this year we had an opportunity to donate to an organization that hit more close to home,” Dinges said. “If we could have done something for all of the tornado victims, we would. But, a bunch of our members were close to Ashley, and after speaking to her parents, we knew what we needed to do.”

restaurant also had its trailer and generator, which is a Powerhouse 9000, inspected. “They were aware of the fact that we had to have a generator before hand,” Williams said. “We had University officials from multiple departments come and inspect the food trailer before we opened up our first week.” Brothers Street Eats began serving on campus this semester as a trial run of how a food truck would work for Bama Dining on campus. HoptonJones said the testing period worked for Bama Dining because they were able to determine if they should invest in a food truck long-term without having to make the huge financial investment. “Bama Dining is wanting to create a mobile food atmosphere within the campus,” Williams said. “We were

fortunate enough to be approached by them to be a part of this.” During their time on campus Williams and Warren thought they enjoyed success and had a good reception from the students and professors. Warren said many professors were regulars at the truck, which was parked in a location only served by Brothers and Subway. Many students and professors who work on the right side of Graves Hall, closest to where the food truck was, said they could not hear the food truck from their offices or classrooms, but at least two professors disagreed. “It was very distracting,” said Cynthia Sunal, a professor of education who works on the second floor of Graves Hall. “I couldn’t hold meetings in [my office] or conferences with students. I could hear it in the classroom next door, also.” Sunal said she could recognize Brothers Street Eats’ attempts to muffle the sound over the previous week, but

that it was still too loud to be outside an office building. Jamie Blanks, a sophomore majoring in finance who works in a computer lab on the first floor of Graves Hall, said she has never heard the sounds from the generator from where she works and is sad to see them go. “I got tired of going to Subway everyday. It was nice to go right outside instead of having to walk all the way across the Quad to Lloyd,” Blanks said. “I enjoyed it. I didn’t realize it was asked to leave.” For Warren and Williams, they were happy to form a partnership with the University they graduated from and plan to continue looking for solutions for the noise problem. “It was almost like we came full circle with being able to go back,” Warren said. “I know we were running a business, but it almost felt like we were giving back at the same time because we were supplying a need for students that we were able to relate to.”

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