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NEWS | FOOTBALL

Lacy, Barron join charity paintball tournament but this time no touchdowns will be scored. The former players will compete in the second annual Chris Rogers Charity Paintball Tournament

By Adrienne Burch at Central High School.

Assistant News Editor The tournament starts at Mark Ingram, Trent 5 p.m., following the A-Day Richardson, Terrence Cody game.

Ingram, Richardson and and several other former Crimson Tide stars will hit the Cody will be joined by Eddie field in Tuscaloosa Saturday, Lacy, Marcell Dareus, Mark

Event began in honor of Chris Rogers’ mom

Barron and Dee Milliner at the tournament.

Rogers, who played for the Tide from 2005-2009, said he was inspired to start this tournament after his mom won a battle with breast cancer five years ago.

“You never know about life,” Rogers said. “I wanted to do something special to honor my mom.”

Rogers said he also knew his former teammates who have gone on to play in the NFL would like to have a chance to give back to the community if they could find time to do it.

The proceeds from the event go to Roger’s nonprofit organization TAP, which provides facilities to help mentor at-risk youth in the community and helps them develop leadership

skills. A portion of the money raised will also go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama in Birmingham, Ala., in honor of his mother.

The former Tide nose tackle, known as Mt. Cody, said it means a lot to be able to come back to Tuscaloosa and be a part of something that gives back to the community.

“To come back and do some-

thing like this is special,” Cody said. “It was always a big thing for Coach Saban that even though we have an opportunity to go big, there was always one thing he wanted us to do, and that was to give back to the people that got us there.”

Cody said he is looking forward to meeting the fans.

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The market will have demonstrations to teach attendants how to make natural cleanBy Courtney Stinson ing products and show ways to Staff Reporter clean using baking soda instead Homegrown Alabama will kick of harsh chemicals as a way to off its season with a demonstra- keep the theme of sustainability. tion of how to clean in an eco- Customers are also welcome to bring items from around their friendly way and a “stuff swap.”

The student-led group that home that they would like to hosts a weekly local farmers trade with others as part of a market is hosting the event in “stuff swap.” conjunction with the University’s SEE HOMEGROWN PAGE 9 Sustainability Day Thursday

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When it’s all said and done, we’re just excited that we get to be a small part of the University’s history and tradition.

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Homegrown Alabama is a student-led farmers market that sets up on campus Thursday starting in April.

— Sarah Patterson

NEWS | FOOTBALL

Student ticket process differs with institutions Some SEC schools use football ticket lottery

By Adrienne Burch and Ashley Tripp CW Staff From Saturday nights in Death Valley to A&M’s 12th man, SEC student sections have established themselves as some of the best in the country. However, the way students get their tickets and seats to cheer on their beloved teams varies from school to school.

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certain date, and freshmen are able to purchase partial season packages, according to the Student Ticket Eligibility Requirements. However, students at other schools face different criteria.

Chris Kessling, a junior majoring in psychology at the University of Florida, said not every student is guaranteed football tickets because of UF’s student season football ticket lottery.

“With our lottery for season tickets, most people don’t get tickets their freshman year, but then they get them their next three years,” Kessling said.

“Mostly freshmen are the ones left out.”

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Sarah and David Patterson celebrate with gymnast Kristin Sterner during a 2002 tournament.

By Marquavius Burnett Sports Editor During a rare competition-free week this spring, David Patterson becomes a storyteller and comedian.

David, his wife and head gymnastics coach, Sarah, and assistant coaches Bryan Raschilla and Dana Duckworth are all gathered reminiscing about their time together and sharing stories.

The conversation switches to talk of Sarah’s assistant coaches potentially becoming head coaches one day and the possibility of David bolting for another school is thrown

around. That’s when David brings up a touchy subject.

“Seriously, I’ve always thought of what it would take to make the Alabama-Auburn rivalry better,” David said with a smile on his face.

“Both of our kids had left home when that job became open last time. I should have applied for the Auburn job and really stepped up the rivalry.”

Everyone laughs except Sarah.

Even though she knows he’s joking, Sarah shoots David the look – eyes squinted and head slightly tilted. It’s the look a man fears when delivered by a woman of significance in his life.

She holds the stare for 10 seconds that feel like 10 minutes before smiling and saying, “he wasn’t going anywhere.”

Neither of the two have plans of going anywhere, and that is what makes their situation special.

“When it’s a team like David and I have, it’s great because he could have been a coach at any program in the country, but it just so happened that we are married, and neither of us were going to leave the other,” Sarah said. “That’s what makes us great.”

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have an experience like this,” Rogers said. “To be able to have real conversations with these players is a once-in-aPAINTBALL FROM PAGE 1 lifetime thing.”

There are currently 10 teams “For a lot of fans it’s a dream from local businesses and come true to be able to meet organizations signed up for the us,” Cody said. “Who knows, tournament. The cost to regyou might meet a lot of good ister a team is $300. However, people and end up being good anyone can come watch the friends with them.” event for $5.

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Humble beginnings Gymnasts have come and gone since the summer of 1978, but the one constant in UA’s program has been the Patterson family. Originally, Sarah was hired out of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania as an assistant coach while she was still in school, but things changed around the time she was set to graduate. Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant offered her the head coaching job and a salary of $5,000.

She was told she could have one assistant, and she immediately thought of David. The two formed a friendship while working in Huntsville, Ala., for a summer, and she knew David was still in school at Alabama.

All Sarah could offer David

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kelly green, which has become the color of gun violence remembrance.

As votes of “yea” and “nay” sounded around them from the Senate floor below, a few looked hopeful, and a few looked anxious. Most were emotionless.

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ure came as a crushing disappointment to many working for their loved ones and for the prevention of future shootings.

Carlee Soto, sister of Newtown, Conn., victim and teacher Vicki Soto, stood outside the gallery with tears in her eyes. She and Erica Lafferty, whose mother, Dawn Hochsprung, was principal of Sandy Hook Elementary and was killed, wore green T-shirts that read “Team Vicki Soto” with a flamingo in the center — because Vicki loved flamingos.

Lafferty said reactions from some lawmakers she’s spoken with have been unsympathetic; they told her reform couldn’t have prevented the Newtown shootings.

Christian Heyne is a legislative assistant at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. His mother was shot and killed in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in 2005; his father

survived multiple gunshots. The tragedy turned him into a gun reform advocate.

He said he was angry and frustrated after the vote. The senators had one job, he said: to protect American lives.

“It brings us to tears,” he said.

Roxanna Green is the mother of Tucson shooting victim Christina-Taylor Green, who was 9 years old when she was killed at a constituent event with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was also shot, in 2011.

Green pulled out memorabilia after the vote, pointing out her daughter in a photograph and on a poster.

“I can’t believe we’ve come to this,” she said.

She said she’ll never have her daughter back but that she’ll continue to fight until reforms are made.

“We’re in this to the end,” she said. “It’s not going to stop us.”

one of them would say, ‘Mom, dad, you’re doing it again,’ and we’d say, ‘What is it?’ And they’d say ‘You’re talking about gymnastics.’

“We had to be really careful and focus on what their activities were during dinner and then maybe talk about practice or recruiting after our time with them. It’s easier to slip into the mode of working more now that the kids are gone.”

The two have built a life and a program together over the years. While most couples are allowed to get a break from each other when they go to work, the Pattersons are always around each other. Only twice in their coaching careers has one been without the other – once when Sarah was on bed rest while pregnant with their youngest daughter, Jordan, and the other when David went through chemotherapy for kidney cancer.

The key for the Pattersons’ success in their personal lives is the lack of conflict, David said.

“Everybody around us thinks we’re weird because we don’t fight,” David said. “Almost on everything gymnastics-wise, I can walk across the gym to say

something to her, and she’ll say what I was thinking. Same with her; I know what she’s going to say before she says it. We’re very in tune with each other and we always agreed on how to raise our kids. That’s not to say we don’t disagree on some things, but we never really have fought.”

Their personalities balance each other out. Sarah is outspoken. She accepts the speaking engagements and serves as the face of the program.

“Both of my parents are incredible motivators, but they do it in different ways,” Jessie Patterson Jones said. “Mom is the one you can go to for advice that will get you somewhere.

When I want professional advice or don’t know how to handle a situation, my mom is the first person I call because odds are she’s experienced it.”

David is admittedly the reserved, behind-the-scenes type. He keeps the family on track.

“When we were younger and both doing it all the time, he was very good about saying we have to stop,” Sarah said. “He’d say, ‘You spoke two times this week, three times last week. It’s

time to run down the speaking engagements.’ He was much better at saying ‘no’ than I was.

So he put me on restriction from time to time.”

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was a $500 scholarship the athletic department had left over from the women’s basketball team. But in 1978, $500 was a lot of money for a student.

“Literally, I signed a scholarship that said women’s basketball scholarship on it,” David recalls. “That’s how I got the money.”

Four years later, the two wed at Trinity Church in Tuscaloosa.

“It was marrying my best friend, the man of my dreams and the person who worked for me,” Sarah said.

Throughout the years, it has been gymnastics all the time in the Patterson household. So much so that their daughters Jessie Patterson Jones and Jordan would play a game to see if they could catch their parents discussing work at the dinner table, Jessie says.

“When the kids were there,” David recalls, “we might be in the middle of dinner and

votes short of the 60 needed for passage, people began to file out. Then, a shout from Patricia Masich, a survivor of a mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011, echoed through the chamber — “Shame on you!”

After months of waiting and speaking to lawmakers, the fail-

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Sustaining success When Sarah was hired, she became the University’s fifth gymnastics coach in five years, with the program on the verge of being canceled. Alabama won seven meets that first season.

Since the team made its first trip in 1983, Alabama has made 31 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances, including this season, which is the second longest streak in the history of collegiate gymnastics.

Alabama is just one of four teams in collegiate gymnastics history to win an NCAA championship.

Now, the Pattersons have an opportunity to win their seventh national championship and third consecutive. This season is the 25th anniversary of their first national title.

“It was validation that you can coach the entire person, not just the athlete and have success,” Sarah says of their first championship. “To me, it put a stamp on our philosophy.”

The philosophy has remained the same over the years: Develop the whole person, not just the gymnast, and the scores will take care of themselves.

If the scores go their way at this year’s nationals, the Pattersons’ legacy will continue to blossom.

“When it’s all said and done, we’re just excited that we get to be a small part of the University’s history and tradition,” Sarah said.

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By Benjamin Clark Contributing Writer This Saturday, fans may spot a familiar face pacing the sidelines during the annual A-Day game, but this time, Mark Ingram Jr. will be here to do much more than just support his former team.

Ingram, who won Alabama’s only Heisman Trophy during their national championship season in 2009 will be in Tuscaloosa to launch his new campaign, “I Still Roll!” which is part of a program of initiatives that he will lead, designed to help both disadvantaged kids and to also give back to communities.

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The running back, who is now playing in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, has partnered with Reaching the Goal Promotions to begin a series of programs directly involved with his own personal struggles.

“I’ve always looked forward to giving back to the community and giving back to the youth in anyway that I can, and when the opportunity presented itself to partner with United Way and to develop these T-shirts and give back to the youth, it really caught my attention,” Ingram said. “We’re just taking it one step at a time.”

Friday from 6 - 8 p.m. the United Way of West Alabama

will host the official announcement of “I Still Roll!” at the Innisfree Irish Pub. Along with the announcement, Ingram will launch the sale of the “I Still Roll!” T-shirts. For every customer that claims an affiliation with the University, $1 of that sale will go to Alabama scholarship funds. They will be available to purchase at Innisfree on both Friday and Saturday, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Ingram and United Way of West Alabama will also meet to discuss the potential of creating a partnership that would blossom into more events to help the community.

Jackie Wuska, chief executive officer and president of

United Way of West Alabama would like to see the partnership form for these events.

“We are excited about the possibility of developing a partnership with Mark Ingram to promote education, income stability and health issues across West Alabama,” Wuska said.

Tracie Isaac, vice president of Reaching the Goal Promotions, Ingram and United Way will meet to potentially form a partnership for events.

“We are looking at developing something like a youth fitness and wellness day, where kids and their families will come together and the kids will have workshops where they will talk about health and fitness,” Isaac said. “[Ingram]

would like to do a demonstration or a workout session to experience activities that will keep you fit.”

Isaac also said Ingram is working towards a program that would assist children who have incarcerated parents. The programs would be specific to each child’s needs, whether it be a mentor, family services or something else entirely.

Ingram’s own father is currently serving time in prison for money laundering and fraud, and Isaac said it has been a source of his passion for helping these kids. Ingram, who had asthma as a child, also uses his platform to share what he has learned about treating this disorder, and how he has

not let his personal struggles hold him back.

“Going through the struggles that I have been through, it has just built me to be a stronger man,” Ingram said. “I never used my struggles as a negative… they are just positive energy and motivation to be the best I could be, on and off the field.”

For these programs, the message he hopes kids will receive is also one of the main goals of “I Still Roll!”

“I just hope that they learn that whatever they want to do, they can accomplish it.”

Ingram said. “No matter what it is in life, never let anybody tell them that there is something they can’t do.”

SGA asks for donations for veterans

By Ellen Coogan Contributing Writer To give back to those who have served our country, the Student Government Association is asking students to donate their old textbooks to student veterans through its “Textbooks for Troops” initiative.

Students can bring books they have finished using to either the SGA office or the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs behind B.B. Comer. Sorority houses will also have bins for collection now through May 1.

From there, the books will be sorted and veterans will be able to check out a book they need for a class and return it once they are done using it, so others may use it again.

“The great thing about this program is that there is no wait,” said Dawit Solomon, a senior majoring in criminal justice and director of Veteran and Military Affairs. “If you need it

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It is a direct line from student to student.”

The program was adopted last semester.

“We had a great turnout for a first-time program. Fifty textbooks were donated and they were utilized immediately by our student veterans, dependents and survivors. With the help of the student body we are hoping to triple that number,”

Solomon said.

Will Pylant, SGA executive vice president, said partnering with Alabama Panhellenic Association to offer two Panhellenic points per book is a new strategy they hope will bring in more books this semester.

“Textbooks for Troops is vitally important to our student veterans and dependents,” David Blair, director of the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, said. “Many of our students struggle daily to make ends meet and this program will lift a financial burden for these students in need. This program is especially important to those students who have extinguished their G.I. Bill benefits and are trying to complete their degree requirements. It is an honor to see the UA family step up and give back to these soldiers and their families. It truly means a great deal to these students and the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs.”

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Don’t let orgazational differences divide, isolate you

Mazie Bryant

By Mazie Bryant Staff Columnist I am what one may call a mutt, a hybrid, a crossbreed. I am a mix of two distinctly separate definitions of a University student.

More so, I am a member of a subset on campus that is far too small.

I am greek, but I am also a loyal and dedicated staff member of The Crimson White.

When I arrived to The University of Alabama campus in the Fall of 2010, I, like most

freshman, became overwhelmed by the possibilities that college life had to offer me.

Based on hometown and high school tradition, I signed myself up for sorority recruitment - a decision I almost immediately questioned. I had an idea in my head of the “typical” sorority girl, all dolled up, armin-arm with a fraternity boy on the way to a Crimson Tide football game. I saw the pictures on Facebook of high school friends past. There was a Greek Life look. It was an image I both admired and feared.

But I trusted my mom’s advice: “You’ll never know what it’s like until you try it.”

She was right. I joined Chi Omega sorority.

Although I did not enjoy every minute of getting there and believe some of the traditions to be out of date, I still value what the opportunity gave me. I was encouraged to keep my grades up and not to fall into the college slump. I have made the most incredible friends I could have asked for. I learned to value the characteristics in others that I myself do not hold. And most importantly, I

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Often, it seems as though our definitions are mere stretches to impose limitations.

discovered the most successful person is a well-rounded one.

However, as I began to see my future in journalism, I leaned on the University’s student newspaper. The Crimson White caused a similar sensation to that of my sorority recruitment: admiration and fear.

In fact, much of the two processes of becoming a member in both organizations were oddly similar. Although I questioned my motives of joining the CW at first, I discovered real-life applications to what I learned in class, became great friends with a tight knit group, realized the value in others’ differences and focused on creating a well-rounded skill set.

The University of Alabama — and human nature in general,

I think - vigorously attempts to define and classify people.

It is a method of forming connections and handling truths.

However, we often fail to see the overpowering unity between the opposing classifications.

Often, it seems as though our definitions are mere stretches to impose limitations.

I do not believe my connection to The Crimson White impedes my sorority membership, and I do not believe my greek affiliation impedes my dedication to finding and exposing the truth.

The only way The University of Alabama will make any headway towards progressive and meaningful change is if we stop dividing ourselves, forcing organizational or political boundaries onto our identities. We are individual people, and our affiliations do not control our beliefs. We must never forget to think outside our limitations.

Mazie Bryant is a junior majoring in journalism. She has been chosen as the editor-in-chief of The Crimson White for the 2013-2014 school year.

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High-stakes testing must end, we are more than scores

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tests throughout the semester. shallow assessment of intellect.

The test will last one hour You wish you’d been given a and it will cover five chapters. project, a presentation, a It’s only 25 percent of your tangible anything that was prograde. No big deal. There’ll be duced from a semester’s worth of three other tests just like it. You work. no longer question how sevTime has made you numb to all eral hundred pages of material the bizarre learning strategies can be tested in an hour. The you partake in. In calculus, your answer is homework is graded by i r r e l eva n t . an online robot called You must “WebAssign,” in which still take the you work integrals and test. differentials until your The test paper is mess of scratch You expect to learn somewent well, or work. The robot is thing by sliding a yellow so you say. courteous enough to highlighter over a paraSomehow give you several graph of text. you felt attempts and motiintelligent, vate you with bubbling in vapid hints. You relent the multipleto the robot’s demands. choice quesNever before did tions expertlearning feel this ly, recalling facts you heard in superficial. You expect to class, saw on a PowerPoint or learn something by slidread in the book. But now that ing a yellow highlighter over you reflect back on it, you feel a paragraph of text. You silly. You feel silly that your name drop in short education is composed of such a answer questions.

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By Tarif Haque Staff Columnist You are a number, sitting amid other numbers, some higher, some lower. In a fleeting moment of barbaric clarity, you remind yourself that humans are animals, and as an animal, you will face competition.

Thank God you live in a society that values competition! You will be ranked and filed, pasted with a number that quantifies how much you’ve learned. The main mode to achieve a high number is to do well on a few big

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make cute flashcards. You memorize and regurgitate.

You’ve done it all. Testing has made you this way.

You want to do and make beautiful things one day, but you’ve been told you need the ambition to conform to the system as it stands: a collection of high-stakes exams taken in sittings rarely longer than two hours. It’s the way it’s done around here, and you know an op-ed in the student newspaper isn’t going to change that.

“The system’s far from perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got,” a teacher reminds you on your way out of class one day. You shrug in agreement, walk across the Quad, and peer out into the world that continues to turn, praying that a change will come.

Tarif Haque is a sophomore majoring in computer science.

His column runs biweekly on Thursdays.

Freshmen students could be moved to the upperdeck next year and block seating attendance could be monitored quarterly with photographs, according to comments from UA President Judy Bonner reported in Tuesday’s issue of The Crimson White. Implementing those simple recommendations could have a transformative impact on the student football game experience.

Moving freshmen to the upper-deck makes sense. The University has had trouble filling the student section in the upper-deck before, so dedicating it to freshmen would allow us to utilize existing space much more efficiently. On the other hand, freshmen still get to enjoy their first football season as UA students in Bryant-Denny Stadium, and may even get the opportunity to attend more games.

Utilizing space in the upper-deck for freshmen leaves more room in the lower bowl for Tray Smith everyone else, making it much more likely that upperclassmen will pack the remaining seats. It could also reduce wait times outside the gate and make it less likely for upperclassmen to be redirected to the upper-deck.

Once freshmen are moved to the upper-deck, addressing the second issue, block seating, becomes much easier. If freshmen are no longer sitting with their student organizations, then the number of seats devoted to block seating could be reduced or the number of student organizations accommodated by block seating could be increased.

Monitoring attendance in block seating will also hold organizations with reserved blocks accountable for the way they are using their privileges.

Reducing the number of unused seats in the student section would not be as imperative if our football team was not heading into next season as an early favorite after winning two consecutive national championships.

Now, we have students with seating privileges they aren’t taking advantage of, and even more students who want to take advantage of those privileges but can’t. We need to correct the imbalance.

Nick Saban has brought us a new era of Alabama football, and it is time for new student seating policies that acknowledge the realities of our growing student body, take advantage of our renewed success on the field, and make efficient use of the stadium expansion, which is only two seasons old. President Bonner’s suggestions are a huge step in the right direction.

Personally, I would prefer for block seating to be eliminated entirely. There really isn’t any fair way to reserve seats for certain groups, and even if there was, the Student Government Association would be incapable of implementing it.

For the past three years, I have sat in block seating during every game I attended, because that is where my friends sit. I never understood what I did to deserve those privileges, though, or why other students had to stand outside of the gate for hours to get a good seat while I could breeze in 45 minutes before kick-off.

All students pay the same amount for tickets, and ideally we should all be treated the same way inside the stadium. Game Days are our best opportunity to unite as a student body, yet we stubbornly insist on erecting our divisions in Bryant-Denny. Block seating is allocated by the SGA, so it is not surprising that the blocks are largely filled with white male greeks. It is 21st century segregation, but we seem to have convinced ourselves it’s okay, or at least tolerable.

While the SGA has made progress improving the block seating system in recent years, especially under presidents James Fowler and Matt Calderone, the large degree of autonomy the student government has been given to oversee the blocks leaves future administrations relatively free to abandon recent reforms. Our football team is simply too good for us to allow parts of the stadium to again be sectioned off by secretive students pretending to be connected to Skull and Bones.

The system must continue to become more open and equitable.

An issue as simple as block seating really should not be that difficult to solve, but it is hard to take entitlements away from groups that have come to expect them. Like angry seniors scared someone may take their Medicare scooter away, students who have come to expect block seating are wary of any policy changes.

If we can’t yet get rid of it, though, at least we can make sure the people who have come to expect reserved seats are using them.

The fact that the UA president is talking about the issue in public is in itself a huge sign of progress. Block seating, and student football seating in general, is an issue that has merited the administration’s attention for years, but only a few administrators have actually tried to address it. That Dr. Bonner is now answering questions about student seating in front of student groups suggest a much greater willingness to tackle these problems and create a much better Gameday experience.

Tray Smith is a senior majoring in political science and journalism. His column runs weekly on Thursdays.

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No more hurting people: We must come together, not tear each other apart

the victims of senseless, appalling actions.

On Monday, our nation was struck by yet another horrific tragedy as an unidentified assailant detonated two makeshift bombs in the large crowds of spectators near the last straight of the Boston Marathon.

The sounds, scenes and stories from these acts of terror have touched the very American core once more, as citizens – regardMaxton Thoman less of their placement throughout the geographic United States – sent

By Maxton Thoman their love, prayers and support to Staff Columnist the city of Boston.

In a way reminiscent to the terrorNo more hurting people. ist attacks of 9/11, to the Sandy Hook So read a sign created by 8-yearElementary tragedy, to the Aurora old Martin Richard just one year Theater shootings and to countless ago, blue and proudly decoratother recent American wounds, the ed, with one more word visibly world slowed and tuned in as, one by apparent. one, reports came flooding in.

Peace.

Primary reports indicated only A year later, he and two others several injuries, prompting news will be laid to rest in said peace, analysts and political consultants in

the media to unintentionally downplay the situation by noting “how much worse it could have been.”

Today, with three reported deaths as a result of these shrapnel inducing devices, and almost 150 related injuries to boot, I quietly hoped that these media-affiliated broadcasters would be eating their words.

Then, I caught myself. I had actually hoped that.

What’s interesting about situations like this – where fear surmounts and national heartache remains evident – is that while the authorities search for those responsible, individuals always search for a personal scapegoat or punching bag.

I’m no different – I focused on the media. Admittedly, when CNN and other newsrooms wrongly reported that an arrest had been made in this case, I made an audible growl.

But others have attacked President Obama, calling him “weak” for not immediately

condemning the actions as acts of terror while still others returned immediately to their somewhat racist roots of hatred against the Middle East and the religion of Islam.

WordNetDaily columnist Erik Rush, for instance, tweeted quite publicly, “Everybody do the National Security Ankle Grab! Let’s bring more Saudis in without screening them! C’mon! #bostonmarathon.”

It’s a normal coping mechanism, searching for someone to blame, stemming from the normal human necessity for exact definition and knowledge. The unknown scares us.

Regardless, this and the partisan bickering coming out of this tragedy must stop.

For one minute, all camps need to set aside their agendas. No more talk of gun control, of immigration, of religious extremism.

You see, strength doesn’t necessarily mean not showing weakness, but weakness will always mean not

showing your strengths.

This is the challenge that has been laid before us, at our feet, at the hands of a travesty.

It’s a challenge not to refrain from publicizing our emotion or pain, but to display our collective strengths as an American people.

If we don’t join together as we did in the aftermath of 9/11 as a communal body in the pursuit of peace, our weaknesses will continue to show but, more importantly, our strengths will be lost.

Let’s take a minute and remember what Martin said. Halt your offensive words, put aside you differences and come together again as brothers and sisters. Come together again as Americans. Come together again as humans.

No more hurting people. Peace.

Maxton Thoman is a freshman majoring in biology. His column runs weekly on Mondays.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In response to ‘Examine Language’ As a member of Bama Students for Life, I would like to address the issues of rhetoric and respect.

The Crimson White’s editorial asking BSFL to “examine our language” was released after The CW had read BSFL’s press release. How many CW staff members saw the display and came and spoke to one of the apologists at the display? If it is the case that no member of the staff came to the display prior to writing about it, then The CW should not tell us to “examine our language” when they did not examine the full context.

Over the past several days, I have seen many posts about avoiding the display and about how our rhetoric is flawed. If any of these people had come to our display and actually discussed the issue with us,

they should understand why we have deliberately chosen those precise words.

Standing at the display with pamphlets about why we use the term “genocide,” I had many good and fair discussions with passers-by. Many who were originally disgusted with us later stated they were shocked at how calm and rational we apologists were. They thought we’d be ignorant Christian extremists brimming with hate.

Instead, we compassionately explained our view using science and philosophy.

We received an extraordinary amount of disrespect for our activity this week.

I’ve been cussed at, flipped off, yelled at and scolded by those passing and by some on social media who never even came to talk to us. I expected this. What I didn’t expect was

the amount of people who told us how disrespectful, angry, and hateful we were…. when they were the ones cursing us.

Show to me the apologist at the display who was angry. Point out the BSFLer who cursed at you. Call forward the pro-lifer who did not treat you with respect at the Genocide Awareness Project.

If you have any qualms about BSFL’s actions and words this week but did not come to the GAP display and talk to one of us, then you have not properly informed yourself and thus cannot accurately describe the level of intelligence or compassion of a BSFLer. But go ahead and write about it. You have free speech.

Amy Hase is a freshman majoring in psychology.

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UA graduate reaches summit of Mt. Everest

By Morgan Reames Contributing Writer As graduation approaches, most undergrads decide to begin searching for jobs or focusing on graduate school.

For Chris Cannizzaro, climbing the world’s largest mountain seemed much more appealing.

When his friend Andrew Hillery suggested the idea of scaling mountains during his senior year at The University of Alabama, Cannizzaro was hooked.

He and Hillery moved to California after graduation and prepared for their expeditions. Cannizzaro said to train for the climb, he ran outside and worked on his core strength.

“I did standard gym stuff, like push-ups, pull-ups and stair master,” Cannizaro said. “You just have to make sure you’re in all-around good shape.”

Before tackling the beast of Mt. Everest, Cannizzaro climbed the Cascade Range in Washington, along with Mt. Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas,

in 2010.

“After I climbed Aconcagua I knew I was ready,” Cannizzaro said.

Mt. Everest stands at 29,028 feet tall, and is located between Nepal and China in the Himalayas. In April 2011, Cannizzaro began his journey with team of six and a veteran climbing guide.

Sherpas also accompanied the climbers, which are members of Tibetan people of east Nepal who serve as expert guides of the Himalayas.

Travis Taylor, a freshman majoring in electrical engineering, said he can’t imagine the amount of time invested in mountain climbing.

“I’m sure it’s enjoyable and challenging, but I prefer a short, quick struggle like rock climbing,” Taylor said.

While reaching the summit took about 24 hours, the entire trip lasted about 45 days. Cannizzaro said summiting the peak isn’t a straight shot.

“There are a total of six camps before you get to the summit,” Cannizzaro said.

“You have to go up a little

bit, then down a little bit, then back up. It’s just a lot of back and forth just getting your body adjusted.”

Cannizzaro said the hardest day was summit day.

They left the camp around 9 a.m., hiked for four hours, then rested at the next camp for five to six hours.

“You can’t sleep there, just rest, get some water and noodles in you, then you’re off to the summit,” Cannizzaro said.

Nearing the summit, Cannizzaro began to face difficulties. His goggles had malfunctioned and began fogging up, slowly freezing his eyeballs.

“I couldn’t see, and my Sherpa left me because he thought I was going to die,” Cannizzaro said. “He left with my oxygen and I only had an hour left.”

When scaling the mountain climbers receive three oxygen tanks, two on the way up and one for the way down, with four hours of oxygen per tank. Before losing his vision, Canizzarro noticed his partner, John Delaney, not moving. He had devel-

oped cerebral edema, which is a severe and often fatal form of altitude sickness that includes the swelling of the brain tissue.

“I was like, dude you gotta move, but he wouldn’t respond,” Cannizzaro said.

“He had lost consciousness, so we had to leave him up there.”

The area of the Everest known as the death zone is located at about 26,000 feet near the peak. This is where the amount of oxygen can’t sustain human life and extended time in this zone results in deterioration of body functions, loss of consciousness and eventually death.

According to a report in the National Post, about 235 people have died attempting to make the climb since 1922.

“You don’t know how hard it is to walk past someone and just leave them on the mountain,” Canizzaro said.

“The bodies are still up there, you see the reality.”

Blinded and slowly running out of oxygen on his way back down, Cannizzaro said his veteran guide,

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Chris Cannizzaro, who almost died conquering Everest, is looking to tackle another ‘big climb’ by August of this year.

Noel Hanna, saved his life by switching oxygen tanks with him. After the dangerous summit, life continues to be crazy, Cannizzaro said, with finals approaching and his next climb in Alaska in two weeks. He currently attends law school at Loyola

University and plans to make another big climb, hopefully by next August.

“I never got that euphoric feeling when I reached the summit,” Cannizzaro said.

“There was no ‘I just climbed Mount Everest.’ I was just happy to still be alive.”

ALLELE lecture on literary Darwinism Thursday

By Jessica Smith Contributing Writer The last lecture in the Alabama’s Lecture on Life’s Evolution Series, or ALLELE, will be held Thursday night in the Biology Building auditorium.

Joseph Carroll, professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a leading scholar on the connection between social science and literary study, will visit The University of Alabama to give the lecture “The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism.”

Christopher Lynn, faculty

advisor for the series, said Carroll’s lecture would end this year’s series as a prelude to the next.

“We chose Dr. Carroll because one of the goals of our ALLELE and Evolutionary Studies program are to demonstrate the broad applicability of evolutionary principles across the natural, social and applied sciences and humanities,” Lynn said.

In his lecture, Carroll will discuss literary Darwinism, which is a school of thought that integrates literary study with evolutionary social science. Carroll said aseries of scientific

developments in the past two cen- principles to literature & turies, including Darwin’s theory literary analysis and has literally of natural selection, have provid- written the book on the topic.” ed the foundaThe 2012tion for literary 2013 ALLELE The ALLELE lecture series serves Darwinism. series is supto combat ignorance about evo“A l t h o u g h ported by UA’s there are now College of Arts lution by bringing well-known several scholand Sciences; scholars from many different ars who would the Honors disciplines to the University. call what they College; Blount do literary Undergraduate —Kelsey Herndon Darwinism, it Initiative; New is a recent and College; educanovel applicational studies tion of evolutionary theory,” Lynn in psychology, research methsaid. “Dr. Carroll was among odology and counseling; and the first to apply Darwinian the departments of anthropology,

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biological sciences, chemistry, communicative disorders, English, gender and race studies, geological sciences, history, philosophy, psychology and telecommunications and film.

Kelsey Herndon, a graduate teaching assistant to Lynn, said ALLELE highlights the steps the University is taking to combat the stereotype of Alabamians as being completely clueless of evolutionary theory.

“The ALLELE lecture series serves to combat ignorance about evolution by bringing well-known scholars from many different disciplines to the University,”

Herndon said.

The ALLELE lecture series is part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

IF YOU GO...

• What: ALLELE Lecture • Where: Biology Building Auditorium • When: 7:30 p.m.

App for following sports created by Crimson Tide fans

By Justin Heck Contributing Writer As graduation approaches, many sports fans at The University of Alabama will be leaving Tuscaloosa. To help keep the Tuscaloosa community alive past graduation, Kash Razzaghi and his team at Fancred have created a sportsfocused social media app.

“The reason behind the creation of Fancred was essentially to allow fans to have better conversations and create a community of sportswriters, teams and other fans,” Razzaghi said. “I grew up in Starkville, Miss. Most of us grew up in the South and then went to school elsewhere. I felt a disconnect from the SEC. I’ve met fans from The University of Alabama that I would never have met outside of Fancred.

It’s a really great way to connect with students, alumni and fans from other schools.”

Fancred differs from other forms of social media in that it is solely dedicated to sports.

Razzaghi said the focus of the app helps users connect with an audience that cares about sports as much as they do.

“With Fancred, you know

what you’re getting into when you open the app,” Razzaghi said. “You know what to expect because its sports focused.

When I log onto Twitter, I follow politicians, news stations, celebrities and more. Most of my friends are having kids.

They’re posting pictures of their babies and what they ate for lunch. If you’re a sports fan, you want that nugget of information about your teams, and you want to be able to connect with other people who care about the same things.”

Landon Howell, Alabamanative and Fancred head of strategy and content, said the Alabama fan base has been a valuable resource in developing the app.

“I grew up in Jasper in the heart of Crimson Tide country,” Howell said. “I grew up going to Alabama games and I had friends who played for Alabama. We started working on Fancred when Auburn won its national championship.

Then the next year, Alabama won its second national championship in three years. My friends from Birmingham were a primary source to help understand how the app could work. They were experiencing

the app in its most extreme form, having conversations about both good and bad. We were also able to see how fans of other teams responded after a successful season.”

Currently, users can only register for Fancred through a Facebook account.

“We want to make sure that we have real fans with first and last names,” Razzaghi said. “A problem with forums is that people can hide behind a pseudonym and say whatever they would like. It’s the quickest and easiest way to authenticate that you’re a real person. In a future update, we will allow email registration as well.”

Howell said the Fancred community has been civil and excited to participate in a sports community.

“We haven’t had to remove one user on Fancred in the five weeks since we started,” Howell said. “Compare that to a message board or comments on Youtube. We’ve managed to create a community where people are excited and want to see it grow.”

In order to create an incentive to meaningfully participate in the Fancred communi-

ty, each user is given a Fancred score. Through frequent activity and a growing following, a user’s score increases.

“By using a Fancred score, users can measure how active they are as sports fans and how people respond to what you say,” Razzaghi said. “They can also verify if you should or shouldn’t listen to someone else because a Fancred score gauges if someone is credible enough. A higher score says you’re not there to just spread rumors. If you’re a guy who posts every six months and you’re just there to start trouble, your Fancred score reflects that. It encourages people to post interesting things, not just ‘Bama sucks’ or ‘Auburn sucks.’”

According to the Fancred website, “increasing your Fancred is as simple as being a sports fan. Share your sports takes, check-in to games, participate in conversations, read and post articles about your teams, and build a following.

The more active you are and the more others engage with your posts, the higher your Fancred will rise.”

Other schools in the SEC, like Mississippi State

UA Engineering, A&S open new workshop

By Morgan Reames Contributing Writer A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held on Friday to celebrate the opening of a new foundry at the Capstone. The new metal casting workshop will serve as a collaboration place for both the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.

“I am really excited about the opportunities the new foundry will present for our students,” Charles Karr, dean of the College of Engineering, said.

The foundry is about 5,000

gross square feet and contains three Inductotherm furnaces for melting cast-iron, steel and alloys.

“First of all, we have a long history of doing exciting foundry work in the College of Engineering,” Karr said.

“Unfortunately, our former foundry came offline as we were making room for the North Engineering Research Center, the fourth building in the Shelby and Engineering and Science Quad.”

The ribbon cutting ceremony and dedication will be held at 1 p.m. between Hardaway Hall and the Bureau of Mines

building on campus.

“I am very pleased that we were able to construct our new facility because our students really get a leg up on other graduates from across the country due to their experiences in our foundry,” Karr said.

The University of Alabama is one of only 20 schools certified by the Foundry Educational Foundation is the United States.

“It’s great that after all the rebuilding these two departments will have a building to share,” Hunter Hardin, a junior in the College of Arts

and Sciences, said.

The foundry also contains a withdrawal furnace from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for melting and casting metals under a vacuum.

“I am very supportive of the idea of having a jointuse foundry,” Karr said. “I believe strongly that the art students will learn from our engineering students, and I have no doubt that the learning will flow the other way as well. Having spaces like this that allow for our students to enhance their creativity is a real plus for the College of Engineering.”

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I’ve met fans from The University of Alabama that I would never have met outside of Fancred.

— Kash Razzaghi

University, have started using Fancred to connect with sports fans and students.

“The athletic director from Mississippi State is on Fancred,” Razzaghi said. “He’s also on Twitter. He’s been using Fancred as a way to ask students questions and keep them updated on things like the stadium expansion. He’s seen much more of a response on Fancred than on Twitter, even though he has exponentially more followers on Twitter,

because he’s reaching an audience that is specifically interested in sports.”

Now based in Boston, Fancred operates with a small team of seven people and been growing quickly since the app went live on the iTunes store five weeks ago. While it is currently only available on iOS devices, Fancred is building an Android app that is expected to release this year. More information can be found at fancred.com.

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Lavender Graduation to honor LGBTQ students

By Judah Martin Contributing Writer Though not as recognizable as a characteristic of the LGBTQ population as the proverbial rainbow, Alex Davenport, a graduate student in American studies, said the color lavender is of equal significance to them.

Once used as a slur directed at effeminate men, the word “lavender” has been reclaimed by the community as a symbol of pride when three graduate students at the University of Michigan hosted the first lavender graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students.

This year Davenport organized the third annual Lavender Graduation ceremony at the Capstone.

Davenport said the ceremony looks like any typical graduation - faculty and students participate, a keynote speaker and student speaker address the audience, and awards are given to students who have made significant contributions to the community.

“Lavender Graduation is an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and allied students,” Davenport said. “Our speakers specifically discuss what being a sexual minority or at-risk population in college means and how those experiences shouldn’t go unrecognized as our students celebrate graduation, the culmination of multiple years of hard work.”

The keynote speaker for the event is is Minnie Bruce Pratt, an award-winning poet, LGBTQ activist and UA graduate.

“Lavender Graduation presents an opportunity for students to celebrate their accomplishments and reflect on their time as members of the LGBTQA+ community at UA,” said Noah Cannon, a student worker for UA Safe Zone Alliance. “We’re thrilled to see Lavender Graduation continue to grow and become a part of LGBTQA+ tradition at UA.” UA Spectrum Vice President Lauren Jacobs will walk in this year’s lavender graduation. She said the event is an important finale to her experience at the Capstone.

“I am so glad that we have a

Lavender Graduation ceremony on this campus,” Jacobs said.

“To me it demonstrates the strength of our community by reaffirming the contributions of students whose full identities aren’t always given attention in our overall campus lives.”

Davenport said the planning committee for the ceremony expects more than 30 graduates in this year’s class.

“We live in a culture that normalizes traditional ideas about sexuality and gender in such a way that LGBTQ+ people can become invisible,” Jacobs said. “Lavender Graduation gives visibility to outstanding students while allowing them to be their full selves without fear of mockery, harassment or misunderstanding; but, more

Business school offers new specialization

By Sarah Elizabeth Tooker Staff Reporter The business school will offer a services marketing specialization beginning this fall, making The University of Alabama campus one of only a handful of these programs in the nation.

Associate professor David Mothersbaugh, who created the program at the University, said his work started after the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration implemented a strategic planning process assessing what areas of the college were strong or may need improvement.

“One area we were really doing well in was the sales program,” Mothersbaugh said. “When we went out and researched the job market, we found about 80 percent of the U.S. economy is service or service-related, and when we talked to corporate organizations, they indicated in fact they could

use people who were trained to develop and manage world-class service teams.”

Mothersbaugh said services are intangible performances and activities like insurance or the non-food component of a restaurant or the delivery of an experience, so the student demand for this program has been high.

“Managing the customer experience is a very service related topic,” he said. “And a lot of times services offer a challenge because it’s like a theater where you have to teach your employees how to deep act to convey emotions that seem authentic.”

This specialization is a threeclass sequence, Mothersbaugh said, that is geared toward a student who wants to manage teams of people, deliver premier services, manage customer relationships or even work with other areas of an organization such as sales.

“It’s a good complement to

a lot of different majors both inside and outside of the business school,” he said. “Outside of the business school, we are partnering with the fashion retailing group, so I look forward to working with them.”

The soft launch of the program was this semester, but it’s fully approved now, and the program will roll out this fall, Mothersbaugh said.

“We just hired a fully dedicated professor to this program, Tom Baker, who is from Clemson, and we just got approval to hire a full-time director for the program,” he said. “This will be an industry-based person who can develop the program to its fullest and create partnerships with corporations to match students up and bring them together.”

Diane Johnson, head of the management and marketing department, said this new specialization was a huge opportunity for her department and will complement its highly successful sales program.

“Our dean, Dr. Hardin, challenged the college when he took over as dean two years ago to create programs that were innovative, rigorous and relevant,” she said. “The services specialization meets all three of those keys.”

Johnson said the courses will be challenging, but they will provide students with the knowledge, skills and abilities they’ll need to fill the jobs in this area.

One student, Morgen Jensen, a junior majoring in marketing, said the services marketing specialization appealed to her because she knew it would add more value to her degree and make her a better candidate for future professional positions.

“The material covered in class goes above and beyond just showing students how to be better service providers,” Jensen said. “It teaches us how to provide the best customer experience possible while maintaining a well-run service organization.”

than that, it’s truly about the special nature of this community. We have a really great, supportive and downright loving LGBTQ+ community of this campus, and we don’t take it for granted.”

Davenport said Lavender Graduation is a chance to make a lasting impact on graduating LGBTQ students.

“I hope that students see how proud we are of not only of their academic accomplishments but of their individual accomplishments as well,” Davenport said.

“I hope Lavender Graduation

gives students the sense that great work is being done but that there is still much to accomplish in regards to LGBTQ+ issues at the Capstone.”

Lavender Graduation will be held Monday, at 7:30 pm in the Woodis-McDonald Auditorium (Graves 118).

To register for Lavender Graduation, students can visit spectrum.ua.edu/graduation.

The event is open to students graduating in the spring, summer or fall of 2013 with an undergraduate, graduate, or law degree.

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By Ashley Tripp | Staff Reporter

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My mom kept saying there was nothing to be ashamed of, but I thought differently.

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— Essie Charles

CW | Ashley Tripp

Football tickets in SEC cost up to $200 TICKETS FROM PAGE 1 Janine Sikes, assistant vice president of media relations at UF, said there are more students than there are student football tickets available.

“So no, not all students receive football tickets,” Sikes said.

Seating capacity of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is 90,000 and 22,500 are allotted to students.

There are 50,000 students at UF, Sikes said.

UF students are prioritized for the lottery based on their number of credit hours, much like the post-season ticket lottery at The University of Alabama.

“Students who have earned 90 or more UF credit hours have the best chance of winning the

Homegrown features local, in-season food HOMEGROWN FROM PAGE 1 “We wanted to show people how they could be more eco-friendly in their cleaning, because a lot of cleaning products are really harsh on the environment, and that was something we wanted to endorse at the sustainability market,” Heather Lightsey, Homegrown Alabama events coordinator, said.

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or Essie Inge Charles, the struggles of being a teen mom began inside a crowded country home in Springville, Ala. “I remember having the rats nibble at our toes during the nights as I could peak through the tiny cracks in the ceiling and look at the stars,” Charles said.

Charles, a housekeeper at Alabama’s Gamma Phi Beta sorority house, became a mother at 17 years old in 1973 when she gave birth to her first son, William, whom she named after her father.

“My mom kept saying that there was nothing to be ashamed of, but I thought differently,” Charles said.

“We had to be put on welfare and had to move into a HUD house the following year.”

Charles continued her education for a year longer, but she eventually dropped out before graduating high school.

“I stopped school, because I needed to take care of my baby,” Charles said. “My mom helped out as much as she could financially by applying for disability and food stamps. The father of my child would always be working the garbage truck. He only gave me some money on the weekends.”

When Charles quit school, she lost not only her continued education, but also the money she drew from social security checks she received after her father passed away.

“So long as I was in school, I would receive the social security checks,” Charles said. “Since those checks weren’t coming in anymore, there was no income. There were some nights when all we would eat was mayonnaise sandwiches.”

William Inge, Charles’s oldest son, said that like all families, they faced good and bad times.

“We didn’t get everything we wanted, but somehow my mother always made a way,” Inge said. “Even though she faced many obstacles, she still found a way to give and

Cutline help others. I’m so inspired by her in weed on and off. I fell into the wrong “Jesus showed me that I was pure in many ways. She reminds me to put crowd.” his eyes and loved me no matter how God first.”

Her mother was fully aware of her many men I had slept with. My life Charles still desired to be educat- daughter’s choice of lifestyle, and was changed a year after I had my ed. Like an answered prayer, Charles Charles said her mother always told third son … God started providing in met Raymond Austin, a 24-year-old her, ‘Ain’t nothin’ gon’ win but right, ways I never thought would happen.”

English teacher from Miles College. and right will follow you.’

Working jobs at KFC and Shoney’s Raymond saw her struggles offered “I remember right as I was about Inn, Charles bought her first apartto help further her education. to go out to the clubs, my mom would ment in Eastern Square in 1982. This “Raymond suggested I look into pop the Bible out and read a verse was the first time she lived on her taking the GED test,” Charles said. to me,” Charles said. “I would have own with her three sons. It was also “After agreeing, he drove me to Rose those words ringing in my head the the same year she met her future Administration and paid for my test. whole night. I thought my mom was husband, Clarence Charles.

I passed and within months I was trying to run my life, but she saw The couple started dating in back in school … The checks start- something that I didn’t see at that December 1982. Two months later, ed coming back. During that time, I time, and that was hardships.”

Clarence proposed and the two said, started dating Raymond, and he took At 23, she gave birth to her second ‘I do,’ on April 9, 1983. me dancing. Back then, “It ain’t the perfect I knew how to drop it marriage, but we’re like it’s hot.” still together,” Clarence Charles relied on Charles said. “We’re still her mother for most together in spite of all of her transportation I felt alone and left out, just like in high school. I the hardships we’ve been and care. However, her through, and only by the mother had to suddenly started rebelling by partying and smoking weed grace of God.” spend a moth in New There were times duron and off. I fell into the wrong crowd.

York to care for one of ing their marriage when her children, and her Clarence’s plumbing — Essie Charles absence threatened to business was slow, but set Charles back.

Clarence said he was “Raymond stepped up always able to manage and drove me to school,” with the help of God. Charles said. “On days With a lack of transwhen he wasn’t able, portation, Essie and her I would have to walk about four to son, Derek Inge. husband depended on family and five miles carrying my books and my “I thought I was in love, but it friends, even neighbors to commute 2-year-old over my shoulders.” turns out the father of my child was across town.

Charles received $104 every month cheating on me with my neighbor,” “Sometimes I got dropped off at as long as she remained in school. Charles said. the clinic with the kids for their docShe applied for the Federal Work In 1979, Charles, along with her tor’s appointments and would have Study Program and worked part- two sons and mother, left Springville, to walk back, because either my ride time as a file clerk. After two years Ala., to start a new journey where couldn’t come back or they were of pre-requisite classes, she was her sister lived. running late,” Essie Charles said. accepted into Stillman College, but Along with this new location came “However, God made a way for my never enrolled. the birth of her third son, Thaddeus family, and in 1992 we were finally Charles’s relationship with Inge. able to afford our first car.”

Raymond ended in her early twen“I still didn’t know any better,” Even with success came setbacks. ties. Rejected, she soon found herself Charles said. “I fell for the first guy She recently suffered from a slipped struggling with the same, familiar that showed me respect.” disc. emotions she felt as a 17-year-old A year later, Charles was in a rela“I suffered the most severe pain girl. tionship. This relationship was with I had in years,” Essie Charles said.

“I felt alone and left out, just like in someone she called savior.

“There were times when I felt like it high school,” Charles said. “I started “I formed a personal relationship was going to get the best of me.” rebelling by partying and smoking with Jesus Christ,” Charles said.

The pain was so bad, she could

barely function.

“It hurt trying to get up and sit down,” Essie Charles said.

“Sometimes I became so angry, but would immediately change my attitude and ask God to forgive me.”

Right after Essie had a nerve block, the pain worsened, but she forced herself to continue working as a housekeeper.

“I just couldn’t sit around and do nothing,” Essie Charles said. “I had my job to think about, because I was the only housekeeper and had that obligation. That door would probably stay open for so long. I just couldn’t give up … I was determined to get back to my health. I had to take care of my family, because they needed me.”

Clarence would be the only provider paying for the house and grocery bills if Essie stayed to heal at home.

She could only pay for half of the treatment prescribed and still owed $250 in medical bills.

“I didn’t have that at the moment, but the nurse called me back and said DCH was going to take care of it.

I looked up and praised God in that moment,” Essie Charles said.

Gradually, she returned back to her happy, singing self.

“There ain’t nothing like being able to do things for yourself,” she said.

One of Essie’s desires is to fulfill the work God has called her to do by preaching God’s word and loving others.

“He has placed in my heart the love, care and concern for other people in spite of how they are, how they might treat me or look down on me,” Essie Charles said. “I still have to love them because God is love.”

At 58 years old, she continues working as a housekeeper to help support her family.

“I’m not looking to still be working when I become 65 or more unless God sees fit to keep me working,” Essie Charles said. “God is able. I’m indebted to God. No amount of hardships are difficult for him.”

lottery. These credits are those that each student has accumulated while attending the University of Florida, not credits transferred from another school,” according the UF ticketing website.

Kessling said UF’s football tickets cost $15 per game. The University of Alabama recently raised their student ticket prices to $10, a $5 increase from last year.

Students at the University of South Carolina, however, get free tickets to home football games, but they earn these tickets based off a loyalty points system.

“We get free tickets as students, but it’s based on a lottery system,” Erin McGivern, a sophomore majoring in visual communication at USC said. “We also get ‘points’ for attending other sports games, like basketball, basketball, etc.

The more points you have, the

better chances you have of getting a ticket.”

According to the USC student ticket distribution policy, “Loyalty Points” are awarded based on attendance at home football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball games, which is tracked via handheld scanners at the student entrances at Williams-Brice Stadium, The Colonial Life Arena and Carolina Stadium.

Students are awarded two loyalty points for attending a non-SEC football game, one loyalty point for attending an SEC football game and one extra loyalty point for entering the stadium more than an hour before kickoff. One loyalty point is deducted if a student claims a ticket for an SEC football game but does not attend the game without cancelling the ticket prior to kickoff, and two points are deducted if the game is nonSEC.

“If you’re lucky, you will get a student section ticket, but recently a lot of students have been placed in the upper deck sections simply because we just have so many students,” McGivern said. “You can buy a ticket if you really want to go to the game and didn’t get one in the lottery, but most people just give up at that point since they’re so expensive.”

Texas A&M University offers students the largest percentage of student seats in a collegiate stadium, with more than 30,000 tickets given to students, according to the Aggie Athletics website. They offer students an all-sports ticketing option that costs $350 and includes prepaid admission to all regular season home events for every sports, or students can purchase the football-only option for $200. They also offer three-game football packages for $100.

The University of Georgia recently announced they are cutting 2,054 student seats and reallocating them to their Young Alumni group, leaving only 15,856 seats open to students.

However, they will still sell the same number of student tickets because they are accounting for the fact that their will be a significant number of students who will not show up to games but who bought tickets.

Abby Bergquist, a sophomore majoring in public relations at UGA, said students typically still get tickets if they want them.

“Pretty much anyone gets a full season now,” Bergquist said.

Berquist also said UGA has blocked seating for students, like The University of Alabama.

“Our football stadium also has blocked seating for students, and then there is a greek section as well that the fraternities will rent out,” she

said.

Ole Miss is one of the SEC schools that does not have block seating.

Maggie Pitts, a sophomore majoring in special education at Ole Miss, said students can sit anywhere in their allocated sections.

“The students have the right and center areas of the south end zone and the rest is for other fans,” Pitts said.

The University of Florida does have block seating, and Kessling said it consists of mostly fraternities and sororities.

“But CRU and a few other organizations [use block seating] as well,” he said.

UF also has weekly block meetings on the Monday before the home game where the block chairperson adds or subtract students from the block, according to the UF ticket website.

Homegrown Alabama is currently in a transitional phase, so customers will be seeing some old and new vendors.

Burnette Farms, Red Bud Botanicals, Left Hand Soap Company and Sunny Seedlings will all be present during the first weeks of the market. New vendors this season include Belle Meadow Farms, selling organically grown produce, and a new egg vendor which will alternate with the current egg vendor.

Market manager Mo Fiorella said the market will be a little

smaller than usual because it is still early in the season, and it is working in a tighter space due to its new parking lot. However, she said there will still be the same amount of variety at the market, such as popular items like produce, goat cheese and strawberries.

“We are always flexible to meet the needs of customers and the attendance of our customers,” she said.

Fiorella said the market tries to be convenient for faculty and students, eliminating reasons to not buy local.

“It’s really convenient because it’s right there, and you can get everything that you need, lots of vegetables,” Fiorella said. “We’re trying to get rid of all the excuses people have not to go to farmers’ markets.”

In addition to the kickoff event, Homegrown Alabama has themed markets the first Thursday of every month. May 2 it will be hosting an herb festival where they will feature herb-themed recipes. In June, it will host a tomato festival and a melon-themed market in

August. Later in the summer, it plans to host a welcome-back barbecue for students to learn about the market and how they can get involved.

In her first year of working with Homegrown Alabama, Lightsey, a junior majoring in restaurant and hospitality management, has learned about the importance of promoting sustainability through events like Sustainability Day as a way of maintaining a clean, healthy earth and reducing the distance from farm to table as a way of reducing the

amount of processing food goes through before it reaches the consumer.

“We’re going to be in our parents’ place in 30 years, so it’s up to our generation to make sure we take good care of the planet, to keep it as clean and as healthy as we can,” she said.

There will also be face painting, children’s activities and live music at the event.

For more information about Homegrown Alabama or to get involved, visit homegrownalabama.ua.edu or contact homegrownalabama@gmail.com.

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Spectrum to host 4th annual ‘Sashay, UA’ drag show

By Chandler Wright Assistant News Editor Spectrum, The University of Alabama’s campus group for LGBTQ students and allies, will be hosting their fourth annual “Sashay, UA� Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Ferg Theatre. “‘Sashay, UA’ consists of drag performances by both UA students and local performers, as well as spoken word and musical acts by UA students,� Noah Cannon, president of Spectrum, said.

Cannon said tickets are $5, and proceeds will be used for local AIDS outreach.

“The drag show is always an entertaining, high-energy event that benefits a great cause,�

Cannon said. “One-hundred percent of ticket sales and tips from the show go directly to West Alabama AIDS Outreach, a fantastic organization right here in Tuscaloosa.�

Kaylyn Johnson, political chair of Spectrum, is directing the event and said there will be a variety of acts and participants, both students and friends of The University of Alabama. “It’s always most interesting to see the wide variety of performances that we get.

Although we call it our charity drag show, and many of the acts are drag performances, we really treat it as a variety show and allow many different types of performances,� Johnson said. “In addition, people who may not be heavily involved with Spectrum often perform, so it’s exciting to see fresh faces.�

Johnson also said it’s a good opportunity for students to de-stress in the midst of finals preparations. “Students should attend because it’s a great way to laugh and de-stress before Dead Week, and the proceeds go to West Alabama Aids Outreach,

which supports people living with HIV/AIDS in our very own community,� Johnson said. “There are always a variety of events happening on campus, but it is rare that you get to see so many student voices showcased at once in a free-form way. Performers can basically do whatever they want, and even though each act is limited to around five minutes, they can perform in multiple acts.�

In addition to be a fun time for students, Johnson said the event demonstrates the support the LGBTQ community has on campus. “I look forward to this event

every year, because looking out at the audience and seeing so many people, many of whom are people I don’t know and haven’t seen at Spectrum events, gives such a sense of community and belonging,� Johnson said. “It really makes me feel like UA supports the queer community and is willing to come out to show us that.�

Admission is $5, and tickets can be purchased at the door or at Spectrum’s table tomorrow or Friday. Anyone interSubmitted ested in performing should email Kaylyn Johnson at Ginger Snap, a local drag queen, kajohnson5@crimson.ua.edu who has previously performed at Sashay, UA

by Friday.

Students weigh pros, cons of taking summer classes at UA, Shelton State

By Sadie Hardt Contributing Writer Sloane Thomasson is going to save $7,300 by the end of this summer because she is taking classes at Shelton State Community College instead of at The University of Alabama.

Every year students opt to take summer classes to get ahead in school or catch up on credits. But one thing students should take into consideration is where to take those classes.

Thomasson, a UA sophomore, knew she wanted to take classes over the summer, but didn’t know what the difference was in where she took them. “I had always heard people talking about taking classes at Shelton, but I really didn’t

understand why they would do that when they go to Alabama,�

Thomasson said.

Each year about 800 of the 4,000 students that take summer classes at Shelton State University are UA transient students, said Nellie Christian from Human Resources at Shelton State. She said there are only a few major differences in the two institutions, and they come down to details like cost, size of classes, location and availability of classes. “Once we figured out the difference in tuition, we didn’t think twice about where to take summer school,� Thomasson said. “I’m really lazy, so I’m not looking forward to having to get out of bed earlier, but I’m taking 10 hours, and each of those

hours adds up. So I think it’ll be worth it.�

At Shelton State, if you are an Alabama resident, one credit hour costs $128 while at The University of Alabama it is $395 per credit hour. But, if you are not a resident of Alabama, to take one credit hour at Shelton is $237 while at The University of Alabama it is $965.

While some students prioritize cost, others have a higher priority on class selection and potential hours to take. North Carolina-native Caroline Tolson thinks there are better reasons to take her summer classes at Alabama than at Shelton. “I won’t have to commute to school, so I won’t have to worry about traffic or pay for extra gas,� Tolson said. “I won’t have

to figure out a new system, and I won’t have to worry about figuring out transferring my credits.�

Students taking summer classes at Alabama also have the luxury of picking from three different sessions and up to 3,999 courses, Michael George, university registrar, said.

At Shelton State, students may take classes for two sessions with about 600 course choices, Christian said. “I know it’s a lot cheaper to take classes at Shelton, but I have a lot more class options at UA, and I don’t want to have to take a class I don’t want to just because it’s cheaper,� Tolson said.

While there are many differences in the ways the two institutions run summer school,

Christian said the overall experience is not that different. “They are both in the same town, so the opportunity to get involved in the student life in Tuscaloosa is the same,�

Christian said. “The opportunity to catch up or get ahead remains

the same at either institution, especially with the ability to transfer courses from college to college, and the quality of education is the same - both institutions strive to prepare their students to face the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.�

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Winter guard places 6th at World Championships

By Ashanka Kumari Chief Copy Editor Many students have a safe place or person they can talk to when they need to escape. For 21 University of Alabama women, Alta Marea fills that role.

Although it may sound like a religious group, Alta Marea is actually the University’s winter guard. Translated from Italian, the name Alta Marea means “high tide,” Steve Simpson, director of Alta Marea, said.

Alta Marea is comprised of a smaller group of women from the Million Dollar Band’s fall color guard and represent a variety of majors across campus, Simpson said.

“They first have to be a member of the MDB and from that, there is a separate audition and evaluation of those who are interested in pursuing membership in [Alta Marea],” he said.

“It is honestly something that is not for everyone. It is a specialized ensemble that requires dance and equipment skills that everyone might not have or be interested in pursuing. They also have to balance academics while doing this; it’s very time consuming.”

Recently, Alta Marea’s performance of its 2013 show “Shall We Gather” resulted in a sixth place ranking in the independent open class at Winter Guard International World Championships in Dayton, Ohio.

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Alta Marea placed sixth in the Independent Open class at the Winter Guard International World Championships in Dayton, Ohio last week.

“It is such a blessing to march with Alta Marea,” said Ciara Daniel, a junior majoring in restaurant and hospitality management and a third-year member of the group. “We may not be the best in our class, but it is an honor to know that we were great enough to make finals at world championships each year, which most guards do not have the opportunity to do.

“We gave everything we had at championships and had a near flawless run and no score can represent the pure joy we felt coming off the floor. We

strive to be the best we can be and to say that you are sixth in the world is pretty awesome.”

Winter guard differs greatly from what students typically see from the MDB color guard in the fall, said Katie Rushdi, a senior majoring in business management and fourth-year member of the group. “[Winter guard] is a lot more artistic, has a lot more dance movement involved and really features what our members are capable of doing,” Rushdi said.

“Because we have no band to hide behind, our performances

become a lot more personal during winter guard.”

Winter guard also takes place entirely indoors, which means members do not have to deal with elements such as wind or rain during rehearsals. The intensity of work, though, leaves more room for accidents and injuries.

“This season was also a little more difficult in terms of injuries than in the past few season,” Rushdi said. “Many people don’t realize how much of a physical activity [winter guard] is, but this season alone we’ve had at

least three major back injuries, a pretty serious wrist injury, numerous sprained ankles and two broken feet.”

Rushdi was one of two members who suffered a broken foot and performed in a boot for part of the season, Simpson said.

“Shall We Gather” featured the music of the hymn “Shall We Gather at the River,” said Rebecca Blackmon, a sophomore majoring in exercise and sports science and second-year member of the group.

“We do one show throughout the season, usually somewhere between four and five minutes long,” Blackmon said. “We compete indoors in gymnasiums and to a song soundtrack, unlike fall color guard.”

Blackmon said the guard rehearses 20 hours a week during weeks they do not have a competition and 30-40 hours on weeks when they do.

Along with placing sixth in the WGI World Championships, Alta Marea also competed and placed first in four different Southern Association for Performance Arts events, including the SAPA championships. They also competed in a WGI Regional, WGI Mideast Championships and in the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit.

“Competition days are crazy for Alta Marea,” Blackmon said.

“We meet at a charter bus in the Moody [Music Building] parking lot around 8 or 9 a.m. From here

we go to rehearsal for two hours to get warmed up and fix a few last minute things. Then we hit the road to wherever we’re competing.”

Once they get to a competition location, the members have to get dressed in their performance attire and do a group stretch with their choreographer Adam Dalton, a UA doctoral candidate in musical arts for conducting. Blackmon said the winter guard receives eight minutes for a body warm-up and eight minutes for an equipment warm-up before it is time to perform.

“I always get super nervous during the transition time from warm-up to the gym,” Blackmon said. “Once we get on the floor and start performing, though, it all goes away and all I can think about is doing my job as a member.”

When she performs in front of people, Rushdi said she experiences an inexplicable adrenaline rush.

“That moment when I come off the floor knowing I did everything I could to help my team is just an incredible feeling,” Rushdi said. “I am thankful for all the wonderful experiences and friends I have gained by participating in winter guard at Alabama. At the end of the competition day, all of the hard work and dedication has paid off, and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”

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UA alumna finds success in fashion, stays connected

By Abbey Crain Staff Reporter UA alumna Janet Gurwitch exemplifies the pinnacle of success in the business of fashion, and after working as senior vice president of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus, she still finds time to stay in touch with the College of Human Environmental Sciences and attend football games on campus.

After graduating in 1974, Gurwitch began working at Foley’s department store in Houston, Texas, and left as senior vice president after 17 years. She went on to work at Neiman Marcus as the second woman ever to hold the position of senior vice president. “[Working at Neiman] was a game changer because, first of all, Neiman Marcus was in the luxury tier,” Gurwitch said. “That’s the fist time I was exposed to global business – I was in Europe about nine weeks a year. It opened up my world in a major way.”

Gurwitch traveled across the globe for fashion events and was once invited to Kensington Palace by Princess Diana to honor 10 American retailers.

At 40, Gurwitch saw a niche for what she called “the flawless face” and started her own company, Laura Mercier. Now, Gurwitch works with Castanea buying and selling brands like Urban Decay.

“Today, I feel the opportunities are so much greater for young women,” Gurwitch said.

“The glass ceiling’s been chipped away at.”

At the Capstone, Gurwitch was vice president of the Association of Women Students, a title she used to procure funds for women’s athletic teams per Coach Bryant.

“Coach Bryant gave her exactly what she asked for,” Milla Boschung, dean of the College of

Human Environmental Sciences, HES, we help you achieve your said. “It was wonderful that she goals as a student and then as felt so passionate about the a professional we like to stay in ability of female students to touch and have you serve as a participate, that she went to mentor.” coach Bryant, that absolutely Both professors, Boschung was a legend then, that he is and Parker, stress the impornow.” tance of faculty-student relationSue Parker, a teacher in the ships on a deeper mentor level.

College of HES when Gurwitch “I think [Gurwitch] realized was a student, noted her drive in the opportunities and she was the school setting. Parker said mature and realized what she she thinks Gurwitch is one of would be able to accomplish and the most successful women to I think looking at her success, graduate from it first of has to The University of do with the indiAlabama. vidual and then I enjoyed [the fashion busi“She believed that individual ness]. I was good at it and in herself,” taking opportuI enjoyed it. I got a lot of Parker said. “She nities from those had a goal, she around them,” joy out of the intellectual had a passion and Parker said. challenge of business and I she was willing to Gurwitch still do. work hard.” established the Gurwitch Gurwitch-Greene — Janet Gurwitch cultivated relafund, a scholartionships with ship for fashion UA faculty that retail students, helped jump-start her career and sometimes speaks at onand maintained those relation- campus events like entrepreships long after graduation. neurship week.

“I had a professor named “I’m always a Southern girl Wilma Greene who was very, at heart and I love Alabama,” very key to everything I’ve done Gurwitch said. “I feel very fortuin college,” Gurwitch said. “She nate I was exposed to the right taught retailing. Not that many people while I was there.” women students at that time In her talks with college were serious about their careers groups, Gurwitch encourages and I was, and she could see that students to get involved in a and she was very helping in get- business they love and “make ting me great interviews and the career work for you.” helping me prepare.”

“I enjoyed [the fashion busiGurwitch continued to keep ness],” Gurwitch said. “I was in touch with Greene until her good at it and I enjoyed it. I got death in 2008. She spoke at her a lot of joy out of the intellectual funeral in Tuscaloosa at the challenge of business and I still request of the family. do.”

Boschung said Gurwitch is a Boschung said the HES great example of using resourc- department is thankful for es, like influential faculty, while Gurwitch completing what she in college and then giving back calls the “crimson life cycle,” resources after graduation. giving back both as a mentor “In the college of HES, we and with scholarships. pride ourselves on maintaining “I think that it’s very imporrelationships with graduates tant for all students to stay in and we say it’s the life cycle touch with faculty because we approach, the crimson life cycle,” really have a presence world Boschung said. “You come into wide,” Boschung said.

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Band England in 1819 to play at Jemison Mansion New Orleans-based band returns to Tuscaloosa for 2nd time following a performance at Chloe’s Cup

By Kristen Feyt Staff Reporter

of political power as well as his advocacy for liberty.

The band decided to use the • What: England in name of the poem more so for the imagery of a distant time 1819 period than the literal content of the work.

• When: Sunday, April “We were just flipping 21 at 5 p.m. through a poetry book,” Andrew Callaway, singer and • Where: The Jemison pianist for the band, said. “We didn’t like it as much for the Mansion content of the poem as much as the name. It’s kind of a faraway place in a faraway time. At that interesting to get to know my time we were making this spadad a lot better. We’ve gotten cious atmospheric indie rock, closer through the band.” so it fit what we were going for.”

The name, England in 1819, England in 1819 writes and is coined from a sonnet of the composes their own original same name originally written music with a chamber rock and

by Percy Shelley. The work por- indie-style sound. The band trays the poet’s denouncement incorporates non-traditional

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After a February performance at Chloe’s Cup, the band England in 1819, based out of New Orleans, La., will be coming back to Tuscaloosa for a second time.

England in 1819 began as a collaborative project between two brothers, Dan and Andrew Callaway, and their father, Liam Callaway.

Growing up in a musically talented family lead to the initial creation of the band.

“My brother and I have always been close,” Dan Callaway, who plays the electric organ and French horn for the band, said.

“We’ve always been friends; it’s really natural. It’s kind of

instruments into their music Bertie,” and “Alma.” The band such as an electric organ, as is currently working on its third well as instruments such as the album, which will feature a difFrench horn. ferent type of sound and mood “I usually describe it as in comparison to its previous electro-ambient songs. indie music,” “Our music Dan Callaway kind of shiftI think the things I’m singing said. “We used to ed,” Andrew about are really overarching call it something Callaway said. called chamber “It’s really hard about happiness and perrock, because to compare the spective on life and how we it had several new song with all deal with all of this stuff. instruments. the old stuff. I Now it’s a little love our song — Andrew Callaway more electronic.

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hope to create a connection with their audiences, as well as to inspire happiness and an appreciation for life within the contents of their music and performances.

“I think the things I’m singing about are really overarching about happiness and perspective on life and how we all deal with all of this stuff,” Andrew Callaway said. “I hope people are inspired to be happy in life, and maybe appreciate everything in [the] world and what it is. I hope people feel appreciative with whatever their world is.”

England in 1819 will be performing at The Jemison Mansion on Sunday, April 21, at 5:00 p.m. There will be a $5 cover fee for the performance.

Tailgating gets easier with these 4 traditional pre-game drinks

By Lauren Ferguson Culture Editor Whether it’s A-Day or a Saturday in the fall, tailgating is one of the most anticipated activities before and after home football games. From setting up the tents in advance to playing corn hole and catching up with old friends, the social event is a favorite of many. But no tailgate is complete without a staple of traditional pre-game drink specials. From the famous Yellow Hammer to a morning-game Bloody Mary, here’s a list of fun drinks worth trying.

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Bloody Mary

The famous drink that originated at Gallette’s bar on the Strip continues to be the gameday choice of drink. Its fruity flavor and strong content keeps customers coming back every Saturday. While the bar keeps its recipe top secret, many tailgates recreate their own version for friends and family.

In the South, tea – and sweet tea in particular – is abundant. It’s no surprise Southern football fans would chose to turn this favorite drink into an adult beverage for gameday, although it can be served as nonalcoholic as well.

For all of those early-morning kickoffs, a Bloody Mary is the perfect refreshing choice for a morning tailgate or aftergame drink. While it’s suggested you enjoy a tomato-based flavor, this drink is a good, relatively easy option for those who can’t stomach the super-sweet punches or mixed drinks.

Ingredients:

1 part vodka 1 part amaretto 2 parts orange juice 2 parts pineapple juice

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1 part bourbon 2 parts iced tea 2 parts lemonade

Ingredients:

1 container low-sodium vegetable juice, chilled 1 tablespoon freshly ground pepper 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon hot sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning 1/2 cup vodka (optional), chilled Celery sticks (optional)

Bama Bombs If you prefer something with a little more kick, Bama Bombs are worth the taste and are the simplest recipe of the four. The recipe details just a jar of maraschino cherries marinating with plain or vanillaflavored vodka, and the amount of time varies. Some say a couple days before the game is best, others prepare these drinks on A-Day for fall football games.

Ingredients:

1 jar of maraschino cherries (half of the juice drained) Vodka or vanilla vodka

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For both in- and out-of-state students looking to find a different Alabama experience, the state boasts a variety of hidden gems just a few hours drive from Tuscaloosa. Whether it’s coconut pie from the Bright Star or touring a home designed by a legendary architect, Alabama is home to an assortment culturally diverse places.

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Located in the northwest corner of Alabama, Florence is home to the architectural masterpiece the Rosenbaum House. Built in 1939 for the newlywed couple Stanley and Mildred Rosebaum, the house features Wright’s “Usonian style” and provided low-cost housing for middleincome families. The house is now used as a museum and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for seniors and students.

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The Bright Star restaurant has been serving customers specialties like gumbo, pies and greek-style seafood since 1907. In its early days, the restaurant moved twice before settling in its current space in 1914. The era of the time is captured in the high ceilings, mirrored and marble walls and tiled floors, all of which remain today. The restaurant is famous for items like their coconut pie and fried chicken. They are open every day for lunch and dinner, and the bar is open 3:30 - 4:30 every day.

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This little shop in downtown Greensboro sells pies, but with a mission.

They have a philosophy that if people come in for pie, they’ll stay for conversation and leave empowered to bring about social change. Pie Lab donates all profits to a charity (H.E.R.O.), which provides a housing and disaster resources and empowers Greensboro citizens in business ventures. The “lab” also offers items like quiches, pizza and fried chicken in addition to pie.

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A small county rich in history and culture, the Monroe County Heritage Museum maintains six historic sites within the county. One of the most well known sites is the Old Courthouse Museum, famous as the model courthouse depicted in the trial of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Additional sites operated by the group include the Alabama River Museum, Rikard’s Mill Historical Park and Old Bethany Baptist Church.

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The historic antebellum home built in the late 1820s is now home to a fine dining restaurant for locals and visitors. One of the oldest buildings in the area, the Gaines Ridge Dinner Club has been serving fine cuisine since 1985. The restaurant is open to the public three days a week and can be rented out for weddings, private parties and other events. Dining hours are Thursday through Sunday, 5:30 - 9 p.m.

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UA junior’s work with NASA lands her co-op in Houston, Texas

By Anna Waters | Lead Designer

or University of Alabama junior Liz Bowman, a job working for NASA in Houston, Texas is only one small step in her journey to make the giant leap to the final frontier.

After landing an internship at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a spot in the co-op program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Bowman has already accomplished what many of her peers dream of.

After all, she’s only 19.

“It makes you realize that if you work towards your dream, it can happen,” Bowman said. “I got to the point where I would look up at the moon, and everybody would say, ‘Oh, the moon’s so pretty,’ but I don’t see it like that. I see it as a destination, somewhere I feel like I could go one day.”

As an intern at Marshall Space Flight Center, Bowman is building a simulator for the water recovery system of NASA’s deep space habitat using a touch screen taller than she is. Bowman said the simulator could improve system configuration and make maintenance procedures simpler, decreasing the possibility of human error.

“If the deep habitat goes into space, we just want to make sure that the astronauts have a really easy time and don’t make a lot of mistakes,” she said. “You know, we might have saved somebody by just changing some things around.”

Bowman admitted opportunities were hard to come by in her hometown of Rainsville, Ala., which sits on top of Sand Mountain and boasts a population of less than 5,000 people. However, this only led her to seek opportunities through her own means. She attributed much of her academic success to a dual

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“In my graduating class, there were less than 100 people,” Bowman said.

“My main goal is to eventually become an astronaut, and coming from a small town, nobody really gets out of it. People see that you have big dreams, and they laugh at them.”

Nevertheless, Rainsville’s proximity to Marshall Space Flight Center allowed Bowman to attend space camp several times, strengthening her desire for extraterrestrial exploration.

“Her Christmas presents and birthday presents went toward space camps,” Bowman’s father, Chris Bowman said.

“We never pushed her in that direction. It was something she always really wanted to do.”

Liz’s mentor at NASA, Charlie Dischinger, is the human factors engineering team lead in Huntsville. He praised her self-confidence and personal initiative.

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The space center is almost 800 miles away from her family in Alabama, but her dream destination, the moon, orbits the earth from 238,900 miles away, 300 times longer than the trip from Rainsville to Houston. Liz said her dedication is to the space program, so comparatively the move to Texas may end up being a relatively short trip from home.

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Returning upperclassmen discuss study abroad

By Alexandra Ellsworth Staff Reporter

Last year, The University of Alabama sent more than 1,000 students on study abroad programs around the world.

Some of those students went on adventures for only the summer, some for a semester and some preferred even longer – an entire academic year or more.

Brian Kraus was one of those students. He spent his sophomore year in Chengdu, China.

Kraus, a junior majoring in physics and math, always planned to study abroad, but said he had no idea how long he wanted.

“I thought I would go for a semester or maybe a summer or something but found that I could do way more than that, and I wanted more,” he said.

Because he studied abroad in China for a year and then did a summer internship in Moldova, Kraus was out of the country for a year and half. He said he feels like he was out of the country longer than his time at the University, even though his time at the University outweighs his time overseas. He recommends going abroad for a full academic year.

“The first semester you learn some of the basics, and then the second semester you are able to get so much more involved,” Kraus said. “For example, my first semester I was there I was in a dorm with other American students, which was fine. We had fun, and we met a lot of

Chinese students. But the second semester I lived with some Chinese friends I had met. If I hadn’t gone for two semesters, I never would have been able to do that.”

Because each student is different, the UA Study Abroad office does not recommend one way of studying over another.

“I think that students have different goals and ideas about what they want to gain from a study, service-learning or internship abroad,” said Amy Linden, study abroad advisor for the Study Abroad office. “If a student is able to go abroad for an entire academic year and the program suits academic and personal goals, then the longterm program can be very beneficial. However, for students who are only able to go abroad on a short-term program, there is still a great deal that can be gained from the experience.”

Jessie O’Brien, a junior majoring in restaurant and hotel management, got a taste of studying abroad through a shorter six-week program with the University and decided to go for a full semester afterward. O’Brien studied abroad in Italy for six weeks in the summer of 2012 and is currently in Australia.

“When I went to Italy, I thought that would be it,” she said. “Just a one-semester summer program, but my parents said I needed to [go for a full semester].”

O’Brien is glad that she listened and is thankful for

parents who supported her being away from home.

“My dad is from Chicago, and right after college he went to Ireland for a year and traveled all in Europe, and he wanted that for me,” she said. “And my mom didn’t get to do that, and she wanted that for me. I got really blessed that I got parents that were like, ‘Jessie, go.’ This one in Australia, I got much more out of it. I am really on my own and making a life.”

Kraus said although his parents supported him studying abroad for a year, they worried about him, and even though he is used to being away from home, it was still hard to be so far away at times.

“I especially missed [my parents] after I decided to spend my Christmas break in China, too,” he said. “To me, it’s easier to be apart from them since I’m an out-of-state student and rarely go home anyway.”

However, Kraus said he could understand how that would be harder for some students who are used to making the trip home more frequently. He still encourages students not to rule out studying abroad, though.

“If your family isn’t open to you studying abroad and you’re still interested in going, it may help to explain details of the program you intend to go through,” he said. “The more they’re involved in learning about your trip, the better they’ll feel about it.”

If money is a concern, Kraus and O’Brien encourage other

students to weigh their options before deciding studying abroad is not an option. Kraus said he was able to apply his National Merit scholarship to his program in China, and O’Brien was able to get a scholarship through her program in Australia.

“It’s really expensive, and I know that a lot of people don’t have that opportunity,” O’Brien said. “But I know a friend who is studying abroad now and got loans, and he has some kind of scholarship with Alabama and was able to use some of that for the program. There really are ways to make it happen. I think if you really want it, you can make it happen.”

Because an experience abroad can be so different from a typical class schedule at the University, returning to school can be challenging for students.

“Coming back to UA was really wonderful in some ways and challenging in others,” Kraus said. “I was so glad to have my stable group of friends back, and I loved having a ‘home’ again. However, academic readjustment was hard, seeing as I hadn’t had a math or science course in the whole year I was gone.”

Kraus said being present at the University for four years has benefits as well.

“I definitely am jealous of some students for the full four years they have at Alabama,” he said. “I still feel like a stranger sometimes in the South and having an extra continuous

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But Kraus said he would not trade his experiences or time spent in China for any of those things.

“It is so worth it,” he said. “I think I gained a lot of the ability to make decisions more independently. You get to know another culture so well and see what you take advantage of about your own culture. I learned what motivated me, and that is something you don’t

learn in class but is so necessary for the real world.”

O’Brien also said that her time spent abroad has been a worthwhile experience.

“I would say I feel like the people that I meet, and I am just by myself, literally thrown out there,” she said. “And I think you learn so much about yourself through the people that you meet and the experience that you have. What I really feel like I am learning now is the good memories I get to take back, the people I meet, the places I go and just being exposed to all these amazing things in the world, that if I was in one place, I would never even know, and that is so sad that I would have missed out on that.”

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For exhibit, professor had Industry’s competitive side brings new students ‘create dialogue’ video game technologies to spotlight

By Margaret Wilbourne Contributing Writer

The exhibit “Call and Response,” on display from April 17 to May 10, features student work responding to various art pieces in the Paul R. Jones collection.

“In music, call and response refers to a compositional tactic where one line of music, perhaps a bit of melody, is played in direct response to another,” Christopher Jordan, assistant professor of art, photography and digital media, said. “This implies a dialog, a conversation.”

Jordan, who teaches ART 328, an advanced digital photography course, has led his students to delve into this interactive concept using photographs rather than music.

“This is the second time I’ve had my digital photography class work with the Paul R. Jones collection,” Jordan said. “The students were asked to choose a particular piece and begin to form a creative dialog with it. The real juice of this project is the creative looking, pondering, imagining. Some of this involved researching what is

known about the piece and the artist, for context and to inform their understanding.

The second part involved creative work, making art in some way inspired by, or in response to, their adopted piece.”

Natalie Culberson, a senior majoring in fine arts with concentrations in photography and digital media, is one of Jordan’s students. Culberson said she certainly felt a call to the photograph with which she chose to work.

“I chose my piece based on an immediate reaction,” Culberson said. “I was intrigued by the moment of reflection that the subject was caught in and wanted an opportunity to explore that moment.”

The students were responsible for creating two to three responses to the photograph they were working with, each of which had to be photographs.

“I created responses that were complimentary to the original piece by mimicking elements that were found in the original piece in my responses,” Culberson said.

While there was no overlying theme encouraged among

the responses, Jordan pointed out there was still a unifying quality within the works.

“If there is a central theme, it would have to do with how the creative, art-making process is truly about conversation – calling and responding repeatedly with ourselves and our surroundings,” he said.

Jordan said he hopes both his students and exhibit viewers take away something from examining the works in the exhibit.

“I really think there is value, for [everyone], to look closely at an artwork that inspires, and ask questions,” Jordan said. “What is it exactly that is grabbing my attention here? Is it the subject matter? Or maybe it’s the aesthetic beauty of an artwork?”

The Call and Response exhibit will be on display at the Sella-Granata Art Gallery from April 17 through May 10.

The Sella-Granata Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. An open reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday, April 18, from 5 to 7 p.m., where the students will be available to speak about their work.

By Nathan Proctor Though a far cry from the sporting world Americans are familiar with, an onset of new technologies and burgeoning communities may soon thrust e-sports directly into the public spotlight. Whether the more conventional fighting and strategy games, shooters or the rising genre of MOBA, the competitive aspects of modern games are being brought out via online streams, massive tournaments and worldwide power struggles.

From arcade and pinball tournaments in the 1980s and on, to the establishment of North America’s professional e-sports organization in 2002, Major League Gaming, e-sports have existed within the gaming community of the United States. These kinds of organizations have provided an avenue for gamers to test their mettle against each other in a formal competitive format and bring an ounce of credence to the childhood dreamjob of “professional video game player.”

Today the industry has blossomed into a market valued

at over hundreds of billions of dollars and broken back into the mainstream to stay. With a massive install base, though split across platforms, a fair percentage of what would be considered “hardcore gamers,” and the massive infrastructure already in place to support multi-player functionality, the groundwork has certainly been laid for large-scale e-sport gaming.

This said, expectations may have to be tempered. South Korea, the undisputed capitol of modern e-sports, and its premier game “StarCraft” have shown what gaming would look like on the scale of our American professional sports leagues. Premier matches are televised, top players are superstars making six-figures, and water-cooler talk revolves around Zerg rushes and builds over touchdowns and interceptions. For a variety of geographical and cultural circumstances, “StarCraft,” or any other game in the foreseeable future, won’t become America’s new pastime, just as American football won’t be overtaking Seoul.

A mass of Americans grows up, not only watching the

major leagues and sports within the country, but playing them. A mix of familiarity and nostalgia well prepare us to be your everyday sports fan.

This experience is unquestionably replicated in our youth’s current upbringing. Beyond this, gaming has an advantage in that, while very few football fans are throwing on a helmet and pads every week, gamers are of all demographics and abilities. This low barrier of entry is of course advantageous, but also brings a certain aspect of volatility as well, where everyone can be an armchair quarterback, and much of the discussion around e-sports takes place behind internet anonymity.

It’s clear from the past few years that the communities behind online games have blown up, behind the strength of advanced and user-friendly infrastructures and the rise of streaming platforms such as twitch.tv. As these avenues continue to expand and the audience for games sinks deeper into the mainstream, there may be a rising competitor for airtime and poster space in the coming years.

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‘Eclectic’ British quartet Alt-J differs from folk, electronica-heavy genres NOW HIRING

By Amy Marino Convinced all up-and-coming music sounds the same?

I was too. It’s easy to get discouraged when it seems the latest artists have taken one of two routes: the pop/electronica/synthesized route or the folk/independent/ string band route. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with either of the routes; I have favorite artists who fit into each category.

The quality is great, but the variety – not so much.

Just when I thought there was no hope, Alt-J showed up.

I think it is safe to say there is no current artist who has a sound anything like theirs.

The band knew they would be set apart in their sound from the beginning and made sure to name themselves accordingly. The name Alt-J actually refers to the triangular Latin symbol delta. On a Mac computer, the delta can be typed by holding down the Alt key and J key simultaneously.

Clever, eh? In the band’s bio, in reference to the delta, band member Gwil Sainsbury says, “In mathematical equations, it’s used to show change.” A change indeed, Alt-J. Alt-J is a quartet comprised of UK natives and Leeds University graduates Joe Newman (vocals), Gwil Sainsbury (guitarist/bassist), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards) and Thom Green (drums). After an incredible debut album release in May 2012 (five years after band formation) entitled “An Awesome Wave,” Alt-J’s transcending sound quickly traveled overseas to America and has permeated radio stations, music magazines, an Academy Award-winning movie soundtrack, acclaimed

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Alt-J, when pressed on a Mac Computer makes a delta sign. music venues and iPods all Reason blog, was birthed out over. of inspiration from a gripping So, what makes Alt-J’s scene in the movie “Léon: The sound so different? In short, Professional” starring Natalie Alt-J manages to pull off a Portman. sound with a wide spectrum Although there are many of musical influences. I would random facts and background definitely categorize them as bits that make Alt-J awesome experimental. You name it, and intriguing, nothing will they have got it: folk, rock, give a feel for them more than hip-hop (beats), indie, pop checking them out for yourand electronica paired with self. I know I am not alone intelligent and bare-all lyrics. when I say listening to “An Plus, Newman’s voice is noth- Awesome Wave” on repeat ing short of eerily beautiful. has yet to get old.

Sound kind of weird yet? I In encouragement for you will not deny their weirdness, to listen, I could not agree but weird in the best respect more with Hannah Grace possible.

VanCleave, a junior majorExpanding on Alt-J’s lyr- ing in public relations, who ics, there are many songs summed it up perfectly. that reference other pieces “Their weird, eclectic of art, “Breezeblocks” and sound grabs your attention “Matilda” being two of them. and makes you want to dig “Breezeblocks” references deeper,” she said. “You get so Maurice Sendak’s famous wrapped up in the songs and “Where the Wild Things the beat, and everything just Are” with the lines “Please seems right.” don’t go, I’ll eat you whole.”

Give them a listen, and tri“Matilda,” according to angles will quickly become Newman from Rhyme and your favorite shape.

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Tide reflects on championship, tragedy while in D.C.

By Charlie Potter Staff Reporter The Crimson Tide football team visited the White House and President Barack Obama Monday to commemorate Alabama’s 15th national championship.

Junior wide receiver/defensive back Christion Jones said the acknowledgement from the White House is special to him and his teammates.

“Going out and to look at our accomplishments and being

able to meet President Obama was a great deal for us,” Jones said. “It’s always a great deal for a team who has won a national championship to be able to do things like that.”

This is the third time in four years the Tide has made the trip to Washington, D.C., and for some players, this is their third visit.

Senior linebacker Tana Patrick experienced traveling to the nation’s capital for a third time on Monday. He said he thought Obama recognized him

from his previous visits.

“He looked at me like he remembered me,” Patrick said.

“It made me feel pretty good.”

While in Washington, the team went to the Smithsonian Institution and observed the artifacts and exhibits the museum had to offer.

Senior linebacker C.J. Mosley said the team was welcomed by a familiar sight at the entrance of the museum.

“When you first walk in, there’s a big elephant,” Mosley said. “That was pretty

interesting to see.”

But the celebration of another national championship did not last long for the president.

Later that afternoon, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 100 others, according to reports. Obama was forced to address the nation after the horrible incident.

Mosley said it was quite the turnaround from what he and his teammates saw from the president while they were on

the White House lawn.

“Less than 24 hours ago he was all smiles, and we were having a good time, and then something like that happens,” Mosley said. “But I guess he just has to do his job, and you’ve just got to pray for those people and everybody in Boston.”

Despite the bad news from Boston, the Tide had a safe and successful trip to the White House. Obama said he would not be surprised to see this team back again before he leaves office.

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Mosley said he hoped to return to Washington next year, because the trip is one he appreciates more as he gets older.

“It was a great experience again, just to accomplish winning a championship, back-toback, and visit the president two times in a row,” Mosley said. “It was a great deal for a lot of players, and some of the players got to see him for the first time. Once we get older, that’s something we better look back on and appreciate much more.”

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Though multi-talented, Alabama is a football school Mary Anne Macfarlane

By Kevin Connell As we wind down on the school year, one thing we might notice are the daily college tours that lead prospective students all over The University of Alabama campus.

Some of these students may already know the campus like the back of their hand, having visited the school on numerous occasions growing up in the state.

These are the students who not only have a general idea of the layout of the campus but know the pride one gets when someone gives them a “Roll Tide!” as well.

The other block of students is the outof-staters, coming from all different corners of the country. Most of this group is probably visiting the campus for the first time, with no idea about where things are or where they are going.

But if you put these students on the spot and asked them one thing they do already know about the school, what do you think they are going to say?

Yes, it’s football. Everyone knows the Alabama football team has won three out of the last four BCS National Championship games. Everyone knows

Alabama has one of the most passionate fan bases in sports. Everyone knows that Alabama is a “football school.”

None of that is new to anyone. They’re always going to be No. 1 in the hearts of the fans, and nothing will ever change that.

There is nothing necessarily wrong with this, but I have a bit of a problem with it. Alabama is more than just a football school. It is a gymnastics school, softball school and a golf school, too.

The Crimson Tide won three national championships last spring in gymnastics, softball and women’s golf. They even came within a stroke of winning a national championship in men’s golf as well.

Yes, Alabama fans noticed, and surely they all thought it was an impressive feat by the school, but I’m not convinced they realize just how impressive it was.

Some Division I schools have never won a national championship in any sport, and Alabama won three in one season.

So why does it seem that so many fans are unable to see this? Has football captured all our hearts, leaving no room for any other sport to squeeze in?

Even some of the more popular sports, such as men’s basketball and baseball, don’t interest the fans like you think they would.

At several men’s basketball games this year, there were entire sections with virtually no fans in it for one of the top teams in the Southeastern Conference.

The same applies for the baseball program, which have moved into the top-half in a very competitive SEC, following a last-place finish in the conference a year ago.

I’ve concluded that no matter what any of these non-football teams do here, they will never capture the full attention of all the students, faculty and alumni like the football team does.

No one is partying out on the Strip after a national championship victory in gymnastics, softball or golf like after an Alabama football win. Quite honestly, I’m not convinced a national championship in men’s basketball or baseball would spur a mass celebration either.

From the first national championship in 1925 to the most recent in 2013, Alabama is, and always will be, a football school.

earns a spot on the SEC Community Service Team CW Staff

Alabama junior Mary Anne Macfarlane was named to the 2013 Southeastern Conference Women’s Tennis Community Service Team, the league announced this week.

Macfarlane, from Ogden, Utah, is making her second-straight appearance on the team for her efforts both on campus and in the community. She has been active in Read Across America, Project Angel Tree and USTA/ITA Campus Kids’ Days. Additionally, Macfarlane took part in the athletic department’s Halloween Extravaganza and its Power of Pink events, helping to raise awareness for breast cancer.

The SEC sponsors community services teams in all of its 21 sports, highlighting student-athletes from the league who give back to their community in superior efforts.

Stuart Kenyon Named to SEC Community Service Team for Men’s Tennis.

Alabama sophomore Stuart Kenyon was named to the 2013 SEC Community Service Team for men’s tennis, the league announced this week.

Kenyon, from Houston, Texas, is a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and has taken part in several service efforts throughout the community including reading to elementary school students and volunteering at tennis clinics. On campus, he has assisted with the athletic department’s Halloween Extravaganza as well as various USTA/ITA Campus Kids’ Days.

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Winning doesn’t take care of everything, Tiger, especially when you cheat

By Nick Sellers Tiger Woods’ controversial Nike advertisement in which he proclaimed, “winning takes care of everything,” is now old news.

It’s made the rounds, pundits have discussed it, and the outrage has died down for the most part.

Much of the indignation came from those who remember when his world came crashing down in November 2009, when he wrecked his car in the earlymorning hours after an argument with his then-wife. She

had just discovered that he’d been involved in over 120 affairs since being married to the Swedish model Elin Nordegren.

The incident still shows its ramifications on Tiger’s game, as he still hasn’t won a Major Championship since his marital issues.

So, one can see why a few people in Woods’ life, most notably family and friends he hurt by his actions, would take issue with the advertisement. However, during the 2013 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., we saw just how much Tiger actu-

ally believes in that statement.

To give some perspective, before the tournament, Tiger was considered the strong favorite to win the green jacket given to the tournament’s winner. Coming off a hot streak of recent PGA victories, his recently regained No. 1 world ranking and his stellar putting, the man- crushes on him by golf “experts” was almost too much to bear. Even the commercial preview for the event, usually showing the previous year’s winner set to cheesy

music, instead portrayed Tiger slipping on his last green jacket eight years ago.

Woods played well the first two rounds, sitting at or just outside the lead. Many were saying how they were just waiting on Tiger to pull away from the field. A crucial error on the 15th hole in the second round, however, would prove to be fatal.

Tiger committed an illegal drop, which constituted a 2-stroke penalty. Attention was brought to Augusta officials by a television viewer, and they took action. Although Tiger

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attempted a comeback after the setback, it was too much to overcome, and he finished fourth.

Initially, he tweeted he didn’t know it was a rules violation, and everyone started feeling sorry for the guy. Then, later in an interview, he admitted that he was fully aware he dropped the ball two yards from where it landed. Soon after that admission, he recanted.

This just goes to show that Tiger is truly obsessed with winning any way he can, even if it includes cheating. Imagine if Tiger had won. None of us

would probably know of his “mistake.”

It all makes sense when you consider what he could have gained from the win. In short, his former glory. On top of his new No. 1 ranking, he had just announced he was in a relationship with skier Lindsey Vonn. A Master’s win would have completed his comeback.

Is he so desperate to fix a reputation that will never be the same?

So sure, Tiger, maybe winning takes care of everything, but it doesn’t mean anything to us if you cheat to get there.

BASEBALL

Track and Field team to travel Crimson Tide baseball team to host to Baton Rouge for Alumni meet LSU Tigers for 3-game weekend series

By Caroline Gazzara Staff Reporter The Alabama track and field team will travel to Baton Rouge, La., this weekend to compete in the LSU Alumni Gold meet.

Alabama will race against top powerhouses LSU and Texas A&M. Previously, the Crimson Tide bested many times at the Spec Towns Invitational in Ga., which includes setting the world’s fastest 100-meter dash

by Diondre Batson. Batson was named SEC Athlete of the Week Tuesday for his 10.06-second win.

Batson’s accomplishments come during a slew of improvements by the Tide. Freshman long jumper Callie Ives and senior pole-vaulter Alexis Paine also beat previous school records, both placing third in their events. Coach Dan Waters said his team has a solid nucleus and is now getting into the groove of things.

“We have a lot of young athletes that are still figuring [everything] out, but some of the older athletes are pretty well-established to everything,” Waters said. “We’re now getting into the groove and tracking everything. We don’t want to get off track this weekend.”

Waters said the team is using the LSU meet as a “precursor to the SECs,” which will be held in Missouri in two weeks. The hot, muggy temperatures of Baton Rouge will help prepare the team for the conference championships.

“We try to run most of the people in some of the events they will be racing in the SECs,” Waters said. “This will be a fantastic competition. There will be some very stiff competition, and we will be very much tested this weekend.”

Ives, who is No. 10 in the nation, said the upcoming meet will be fun and competitive.

Ives, along with most of her team, has competed against

both LSU and Texas A&M before.

“I’ve competed against these girls indoor in other meets, so it will be another meet where I can go in and do what I need to do,” Ives said. “If I come out on top, that will be great, and if not, I’ve got the SECs.” LSU and Texas A&M may be the top dogs in the country, but Waters is confident that the competition will be evenly matched. Waters said the men’s 4x100’s and the high jumpers will be the most challenging.

Alabama will also face other conference and non-conference schools over the weekend.

As of now, the Tide is still improving and trying to master each technique before the SECs. The LSU meet should set the stage for the conference championships as well as regionals and the NCAAs. Alabama will have one more meet before going into the post season.

By Kevin Connell Staff Reporter The Alabama baseball team will host the No. 3 LSU Tigers beginning this Friday in its thirdstraight weekend series against a ranked Southeastern Conference opponent. First pitches are set for Friday at 6:35 p.m., Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:05 p.m.

The Crimson Tide (23-16, 8-7 SEC) enters the series having lost five of its last six SEC games, including a three-game sweep

by No. 18 Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss., last weekend. In both of those three-game series, the Tide struggled to string productive at bats together with just a combined 20 and 17 hits, respectively, against then No. 9 Arkansas followed by the Rebels.

But that changed after Alabama’s 11-hit performance in Tuesday’s 7-4 win over UAB. Led by sophomore Ben Moore’s three-RBI night, Alabama scored two runs in the first inning to give the Tide the early lead that it has missed in its recent outings.

“The theme was we had to get started earlier,” senior Brett Booth said. “The past few weeks we had gotten started pretty slow, and we couldn’t get any momentum going. It really lets everybody kind of sit back and kind of relax and start swinging the bats a little better.”

Alabama will need to see similar production from a number of players in the lineup to compete with LSU this weekend, Gaspard said.

“This weekend it’s going to take multiple guys being good and delivering those big hits,” he said. “I think we’ll have opportunities again, and this is a weekend when you’re playing a good team like LSU where you have to deliver when you get in those spots.”

The Tigers (34-3, 13-2 SEC), who currently sit in first place in the SEC West, have five everyday starters in their lineup hitting better than .300, including two players hitting over .420. On the mound, LSU will likely start three pitchers, who, in their 27

combined starts this season, have allowed just 52 hits.

To counter both the Tigers’ impressive hitting and strong pitching staff, Alabama may look to keep its shuffled lineup intact from Tuesday’s game against UAB. In that game, five regular Tide starters moved to a new position in the field, and senior Kenny Roberts and freshman Georgie Salem swapped the first two spots in the lineup.

Gaspard said he’ll wait and see until the time comes about what lineup he decides to use in the three-game series against LSU. “I think we’ll go with the lineup we feel best suits who we’re facing,” he said. “I think we have the right guys out there. It just comes down to having productive at bats and obviously [being] able to defend the field.”

Senior right-hander Charley Sullivan (3-3, 3.06 ERA), sophomore lefty Jon Keller (3-5, 3.55 ERA) and sophomore right-hander Spencer Turnbull (4-1, 2.30 ERA) will all likely start on the mound in that order for Alabama.

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SOFTBALL

Bulls star point guard owes team championship

By Nick Sellers Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

Tear it, and you’ll need surgery.

If you play sports and you tear it, you’ll need surgery and lots of physical therapy. More often than not athletes need reconstructive surgery, especially if they have a complete tear.

But will someone please tell me what is going on with Derrick Rose?

The Chicago Bulls’ star point guard tore his left ACL in the closing minutes of last season’s first playoff game against the Philadelphia 76ers. Surgery was performed in early May, with the doctors predicting an eight- to 12-month recovery time.

Rose didn’t return for the season opener, and nobody expected him to. As the only player besides LeBron James to have won the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award in the past five years, the Bulls

understandably wanted to protect their investment.

As the months wore on, Rose was assimilated more and more into the Bulls’ everyday routine. In an October 2012 interview with the Chicago Tribune, he admitted that he “[couldn’t] wait to get back on the court.”

Every time a new development happened, such as him doing cutting drills or participating in shootarounds, crude videos of the activity would end up online and speculation on his return would run rampant.

In mid-February, Rose participated in a five-on-five scrimmage for the first time since his injury. The fever pitch reached an all-time high. Finally, on March 8, team doctors cleared the Bulls’ superstar to play in an actual professional game.

That event was more than a month ago.

When pressed, Rose explained that he didn’t feel entirely comfortable dunking

off his left foot, and only until then will he be mentally ready to play in a game. Not until he’s 110 percent, he told everyone.

Someone needs to tell Rose there’s a lot more to basketball than dunking, especially for a 6-foot-3-inch point guard.

And that raises another point, which is that Rose admits he won’t come back until he’s “mentally ready.” It’s a rare breed of a MVP to withhold himself from competition because of a lack of cerebral fortitude. The longer he waits to return to the hardwood, the greater the pressure and expectations will be to do well, and common sense says that will be of no benefit to Rose’s mental toughness. The best way to boost his confidence?

Play garbage minutes in a blowout of the Charlotte Bobcats in his home arena. The crowd will go nuts.

The fact remains, however, that Derrick Rose will not

play in an NBA game this season. For fans of basketball, it’s a shame that he didn’t feel he was in a position to contribute to his team. The Bulls are slated to be a five-seed and face the Brooklyn Nets in the first round. Without Rose, however, the organization is strongly indicating that it’s given up on a championship this year. Coach Tom Thibodeau, who’s had Rose’s back all year, will give his usual crafted answers about how the team still expects to compete for a title, but we can all read between the lines.

Going forward, consider the case of Kobe Bryant. The oncein-a generation stud recently tore his Achilles’ and will need several months of rehab. Kobe plays banged-up all the time, but at 34, he is 10 years older than Rose. That prompted a reporter to ask him if his career was over, a question Kobe had the perfect answer for: “Are you kidding me?”

MEN’S GOLF

Men’s golf team prepares for SEC Championships

By Bryan Bergman Contributing Writer

This weekend, the No. 2 Alabama men’s golf team will attempt to defend their conference title at the SEC championships at Seaside Golf Course in Sea Island, Ga. The Tide won the SEC Championship last season, eventually finishing as national runner-up behind Texas. This season, the team comes into the championships with wins in their last three tournaments, and head coach Jay Seawell said his team doesn’t think about anything that happened last season.

“We don’t sit around and talk about it,” Sewell said. “It was a great memory, but this

year has its own weight, and we just worry about today.”

The Tide will face stiff competition at Sea Island. Seven SEC teams are ranked in Golfweek’s Top 25, including No. 11 Florida, No. 13 Georgia and No. 16 Arkansas. Junior Cory Whitsett said he doesn’t think about the competing teams.

“We don’t really worry about it,” Whitsett said. “Our biggest competition is probably ourselves, just doing the things we need to do to win.”

Whitsett, ranked No. 5 in the country, has done a lot of winning recently. Firstplace finishes in the team’s last two tournaments, the Aggie Invitational and Linger

Longer Invitational, earned him Golfweek and SEC Player of the Week honors the past two weeks. Whitsett had a disappointing fall, but he said he has shown a lot of improvement over the season.

“I’ve worked on my mental game, tried to stay sharp and believe in myself in everything I do, every shot I hit on the golf course,” Whitsett said. “That’s really what’s changed everything for me.”

In addition to Whitsett, the team includes two other players ranked in Golfweek’s Top Ten: No. 7 Bobby Wyatt and No. 8 Justin Thomas. Thomas, then a freshman, won the individual medal at the SEC Championship last season,

on his way to winning two National Player of the Year awards and consensus firstteam All-American honors.

However, other than his victory at the Schenkel Invitational, Thomas only has one other top-10 finish this spring.

“Last year was obviously a lot better. I feel like I haven’t had a very solid year,” Thomas said. “I’ve been a lot more inconsistent, but I can’t complain as long as we’re winning tournaments. I don’t care if I finish 50th as long as we get that national championship.”

The SEC Championship tees off Friday from Sea Island and continues through the weekend.

Crimson Tide to take on Bulldogs in SEC home matchup

By Alexis Paine Staff Reporter The University of Alabama softball team enters the home stretch of regular-season play as it hosts Southeastern Conference opponent Mississippi State.

The Tide bettered its win total Tuesday night against the Southern Mississippi Eagles, bringing its record to 38-6 this season. Head coach Patrick Murphy said the Tide had a great night offensively with a total of nine hits on the evening.

Murphy said the Tide’s huge 11-0 win over the Eagles would carry momentum into this weekend’s series as well as the rest of the regular season.

“They’ve got some good pitchers at Mississippi State,” Murphy said. “We only have three more weekends, nine regular season games left and it’s down to the nitty gritty.”

Prior to the game against the Eagles, Murphy gave his players three days to rest their arms and come back strong for the remainder of the season. Pitcher Jacky Traina had not pitched for more than a week before pitching the last inning to finish out the game against the Eagles.

Murphy said he hoped Traina’s rest would allow her to come out strong against the Bulldogs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Bulldogs head coach Vann Stuedeman is no stranger to the Tide’s game. She served 11 years as an assistant coach under Murphy at Alabama. Tide seniors spent two years with her before she received the job at Mississippi State.

“She was here for half of my career,” senior Kayla Braud said.

“I know her very, very well, and she’s a great pitching coach, and

she’s going to have a great team with Mississippi State. It’s going to be a great rivalry. You know you want to win against any SEC team, but I think it’s going to be a great weekend.”

Murphy said the series against his former colleague will be no different for him than any other SEC matchup this year. The Tide played against Stuedeman for the first time last year, winning the three-game series in regular play and defeated the Bulldogs again in the first round of SEC Championship play.

“The first time is the hardest, and then after that, it’s like any other game,” Murphy said. “You’re competitors.

She’s a competitior, and it’s about the two teams, not about the coaches.”

Braud said she thinks the Tide is on an incline as it looks to improve with every game it plays. She said the team is working hard every day and is headed in the right direction. The senior still sees room for improvement in the Tide’s game.

“I think we need to do a better job of making adjustments,” Braud said. “We’re going to face better pitching and better teams in SEC competitions. We’re going to have to be able to make adjustments in the game.”

The Bulldogs enter the weekend series with a 6-9 record in SEC play. The Tide’s opponent is also coming off a large 13-1 win over the Samford University Bulldogs on Tuesday night.

Game action starts Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Rhoads Stadium. The series will continue Saturday and Sunday as the Tide closes out its 10-game homestand.

Next up, the Tide will take on the Louisiana State University Tigers in Baton Rouge, La.

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Grant adds two experienced players to roster CW Staff Alabama menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team head coach Anthony Grant announced the addition of two veteran players to the Crimson Tide roster next season. Guard Ricky Tarrant, a two-time allconference performer from Tulane University, and junior college standout Algie Key have signed on to continue their careers at the Capstone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very excited to have Ricky and Algie join our program,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They both have the character, work ethic and talent that we look for in our student-athletes. What also impressed me about these young men is they really wanted to be a part of what we are building here at The University of Alabama. They will be a great addition to our basketball program and university community.â&#x20AC;?

Tarrant will come to Tuscaloosa after two successful seasons with the Green Wave, as the Pleasant Grove, Ala., native earned Conference USA Freshman of the Year and First Team honors in 2012 and second

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team all-conference accolades this past season. He will have to sit out the 2013-14 campaign due to NCAA transfer rules and will have two years of eligibility remaining with the Crimson Tide beginning with the 2014-15 campaign.

As a sophomore at Tulane, Tarrant started all 35 contests and averaged 15.7 points, 3.6 assists, 2.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 35.3 minutes per game. He led the team in assists, steals and free-throw percentage (81.1 percent) and ranked second on the team in scoring, threes made (71), field goals made (156) and attempted (419) and total points scored (550).

The 6-2, 190-pound combo guard burst onto the college basketball scene during the 2011-12 season, when he started all 31 contests as a true freshman and averaged 14.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals a game.

During his two seasons in New Orleans, Tarrant started all 66 games and combined to account for 1,013 points, 51 double-figure-scoring games, 20 career 20-plus-point games and scored 30 or more points on three occasions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ricky brings experience and a proven track record of success,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His speed, strength and play-making ability make him a very difficult matchup from the guard spot.â&#x20AC;?

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Talley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know there was a chance I could do that, but I was really excited and glad that I won.

Alabama will face tough competition in the SEC championships, including No. 5 Arkansas, No. 7 Florida and No. 9 Vanderbilt. In their last meetings, the Razorbacks finished fifth as Alabama won the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, while the Gators finished third as Alabama came from behind to win the Gator Invitational.

Potter said he worries more about his own team than any others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Florida is highly ranked.

Arkansas is a good, young team, but for us, the competition is always us,â&#x20AC;? Potter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we win or lose, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually either we played well or we beat ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

This tournament will be a homecoming of sorts for junior Hannah Collier, a Birmingham, Ala., native who is a member of Greystone Country Club. Collier has been taking every chance she can get to travel home and

practice on the course, which she hopes will give her an advantage over the other SEC players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the only one in the SEC that got to play there the past year,â&#x20AC;?

Collier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many great courses around the Southeast, so I got pretty lucky that Greystone ended up being the choice.â&#x20AC;?

Collierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season has been marked by inconsistent play, with finishes ranging from ninth to 35th. Potter said good rounds from her are important for the Tideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She might have a bad round occasionally,â&#x20AC;? Potter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a wild card for us. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting to play more consistently now than she had at the beginning of the year, and the better she is, the better we are.â&#x20AC;?

For her part, Collier said that she agrees with her coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assessment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a little inconsistent, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start coming together,â&#x20AC;? Collier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I finished out pretty good my last two rounds, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping I can keep that going into this week.â&#x20AC;?

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