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How should colleges deal Students sound off on Saban statue with suicide? UA, Cornell take different approaches By Amanda Sams Senior Staff Reporter alsams1@crimson.ua.edu

Former UA student Lindsey Sherrill has learned more about suicide recently than she ever cared to know. In the two months since her husband’s death, Sherrill has struggled to cope without the one person she said she “misses unbelievably.” “It was a shock to everybody, because that was not his demeanor,” she said. “That was not the type of person he was. Behind closed doors, depression was something we dealt with, but he didn’t want to be perceived as a depressed person or someone who had problems and didn’t know how to deal with it.” Sherrill described depression as a selfish disease that

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PLACES TO SEEK HELP • UA Counseling Center, 205-348-3863 • Off-campus counseling options available: — Tuscaloosa Christian Counseling 519 Energy Center Blvd. Energy Center Ofﬁce Park, Ste. 1101 Northport, AL 35473, 205-752-7557 — 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)- 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

BP spill effects still being seen Students perform a ﬂash mob in the Ferguson Center on Wednesday to demonstrate the effect that the BP oil spill had on the environment.

“I think the design is deﬁnitely interesting and certainly not what I expected. However, I think anyone who has seen Saban on the sidelines knows that the statue’s posture is a near perfect depiction of the man in action.” — Robyn Serum graduate student, political science “I do think it captured Saban’s persona, energy, and enthusiasm very well! While it captured the energy of coach Saban, it stands in stark contrast to the stoic tone set by the other statues.” — Landon Lee Nichols, Jr., junior, Spanish “I think it looks great! It’s also really cool that a student designed it.” — Margaret Bishop junior, public relations and communication studies “It shouldn’t matter what it looks like... At least he has one!” — Devin Shears junior, biology “I like it, but I just don’t think it matches the others.” — Devin Grissom sophomore, public relations

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By Jennie Kushner Senior Staff Reporter jfkushner@bama.ua.edu

Yesterday marked the oneyear anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest oil spills in history. The impact of the spill continues to affect those who live and work on the Gulf Coast, even though the well was capped in July. Elizabeth Gravlee, a junior from Fairhope, Ala., said the spill affected the Gulf Coast economy including the real estate, tourism, seafood and le this

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SGA leaders discuss block seating for next season By Taylor Holland Senior Staff Reporter tlholland1@crimson.ua.edu

CW | Drew Hoover A severe thunderstorm on Tuesday night knocked down a large branch from a tree next to Gorgas House.

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Rain wasn’t the only thing falling in Wednesday’s morning downpour. A tree by the Gorgas House and one in the vicinity of Paty Residence Hall fell due to the weather, according to UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen. “The grounds department’s tree crew is already clearing up those trees and other large branches that are down on campus,” Andreen said Wednesday. Some small new trees were knocked down at the softball complex and will need to be

retail industries within the past year. Gravlee’s parents’ businesses were directly impacted from the oil spill because they both rely on business from tourists. In the past year, she said there were not as many customers. “I think everyone is starting to forget about the oil spill because there are not any visible effects now,” Gravlee said. “However, we will probably still see effects from the spill years down the road.” Gravlee said Gulf Coast

“I like the statue, but it doesn’t ﬁt with the other statues. The other statues are poised and formally dressed while Nick Saban is hunched over, gesturing and is dressed casually in a Nike shirt.” — Libby Page senior, public relations

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“His head is huge and his shoes are huge! That’s his typical stance, though.” — Kristen Maiorano, senior, interior design

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With less than two weeks remaining in the spring 2011 semester, Student Government Association members are still working on plans for student organization seating at next year’s Crimson Tide home football games. Seth Morrow, SGA communications director, said the SGA is in the process of outlining the application timeline for student organization seating at this time. “We do understand that the football

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speare,” a round table led by Professor Kevid Crawford

Where: 301 Morgan Hall When: 3 - 4:30 p.m.

What: Huxford Symphony

Orchestra, University Singers, and University Chorus presents Mozart’s Requiem and Britten’s Cantata misericordium

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Moody Concert

Monologues: Erase the Stigma

What: Nurturing Nature, M.A. Thesis Exhibition by Amy Feger

Where: 109 Woods Hall Sella-Grenata Art Gallery

When: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. What: Healing the Wounded Heart Exhibit

Where: Crossroads Community Lounge Ferguson Student Center

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When: 7 p.m. What: Movie Screening: Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History

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The Retreat wins housing award

Session to aid sexual assault, domestic violence victims The Women’s Resource Center is hosting a Harbor Training session today from 2-4 p.m. The session is designed to allow faculty, staff and graduate students to further their knowledge about resources available to sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking victims. Participants will gain insight to the issues of interpersonal violence, as well as be made aware of the resources available to those in need.

Sustained Dialogue to raise awareness of mental illness Sustained Dialogue will present Mental Health Monologues for the first time ever Thursday, April 21. Mental Health Monologues collects anonymous essays from students about their struggles with mental illnesses, and then the essays are performed by actors during a staged performance. Sustained Dialogue aims to raise awareness about students with mental illness and eliminate the stigma surrounding it. The performance

will be held in Lloyd Hall Room 38. Refreshments will be provided afterward.

resources department by calling 348-9700 or emailing hrdevelopment@ua.edu.

Human resources to hold teamwork workshop

Tickets to The Realm still available

A t e a mwo r k - b u i l d i n g workshop will be held Thursday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in Rose Administration. During the interactive session, participants will go through activities designed to allow them to experience multiple facets of teambuilding. To register, visit hr.ua. edu or contact the human

The Realm, a theatrical dance performance that incorporates stereoscopic 3D, will have two performances tonight, one at 5:30 and one at 8 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium. Tickets are $15 for students or $20 general admission, and they can be bought online at ua.tix.com or at the Theatre Box Office in Rowand Johnson Hall. The performance is being organized by the department of theatre and dance.

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restaked, Andreen said. Despite the damage, Andreen said she knew of no reported injuries. The University did not cancel or postpone classes due to the weather, although some students said they felt some type of precaution should have been taken. Clayton Holland, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, was caught in the climax of the storm while walking to class from Riverside. “It was pretty scary. It seemed dangerous,” Holland said. “I had an umbrella and it turned inside out and almost blew away. I looked up in the sky and saw huge sticks of lightning.” Holland said he checked his phone multiple times for an email from media relations regarding the weather. He was shocked to have not received one. “Last week we had a tornado,

CW | Drew Hoover A severe thunderstorm on Tuesday night knocked down a large branch from a tree next to Gorgas House. the week before we almost had a tornado,” Holland said. “You would think the University wouldn’t take this weather lightly.” Sarah Anderson, a junior majoring in fashion retail, was driving to the Student Recreation Center around 9 a.m. Thursday. Although she was planning on working out,

the weather postponed it. “I was scared driving to the Rec center; I could barely see anything in front of me,” Anderson said. “When I got there I saw several students sitting in their cars with their windshield wipers on. The rain and lighting was so bad everyone was scared to get out of the car.”

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Riverkeeper speaks against Shepherd Bend mine By William Evans Senior Staff Reporter wjevans@crimson.ua.edu

The potential for Shepherd Bend, LLC to place a strip mine on University property next to the Black Warrior River continues to draw opposition from students and concerned citizens. The University of Alabama Environmental Council, an environmentalist student group, invited Black Warrior Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke to speak Wednesday evening in Lloyd Hall about the damage coal mining can have on the state’s rivers. Stretching 300 miles in length, the Black Warrior River has much to lose in terms of the quality of its drinking water and its habitat from coal mining activities, such as wastewater discharge, Brooke said. The proposed coal mine would

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season starts only nine days after classes begin, so we are working to create a timeline that allows every student organization an opportunity to apply,” Morrow said. “If this means that the application needs to become available during the summer, then we will move in that direction and publicize it widely.” Morrow said any student organization registered with the SOURCE can apply for student organization seating. “We encourage all interested student organizations to apply,” he said. “If we are going to move toward becoming an actual UA community, it is imperative that student organizations apply.” Morrow said the criteria for groups who plan on applying remain under consideration, as the SGA is making every effort to open up the seating area to all student organizations. “We want to create criteria that place all organizations on an equal playing field regardless of size or experiences,” he said. “The Student Organization Seating Committee will be

be situated across the river from a major drinking water intake for the Birmingham Water Works Board, which supplies drinking water for about 200,000 people, he said. Chemicals deposited into the water supply can have consequences for the long-term health of those who consume the pollutants, Brooke said. “A fair amount of exposure can cause some problems,” he said. “What’s scary about it is that it plays out over time.” State agencies tasked with regulating the permits granted to coal mining businesses have been negligent, he said. “There’s a track record of the state issuing very weak permits,” he said. The Alabama Surface Mining Commission issued in October 2010 a permit to Shepherd Bend, LLC to mine 286 acres, the majority of which is owned

by the University of Alabama System. Without the consent of the UA System and other property holders, Shepherd Bend, LLC will be able to mine only 34 of the 286 acres, according to a Black Warrior Riverkeeper newsletter. In addition to the permit issued by ASMC, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management issued a wastewater discharge permit to Shepherd Bend, LLC in July 2008, which is being appealed by the Black Warrior Riverkeeper. “We fight [ADEM] more than we fight polluters,” Brooke said. “They rubber-stamp permits regularly with very little review.” The UA System has not declared a position about leasing or selling its property to Shepherd Bend, LLC and has said that the coal mining company has not approached the

responsible for reviewing applications. Since we are still in the process of interviewing directors, that committee has yet to be established.” Last year, the committee accepted all 34 organizations that applied for student organization seating blocks. Such groups included the Honors College Assembly, Alpha Phi Alpha and Air Force ROTC – all newcomers to organizational seating. Sarah Hughes, incoming president of HCA, said the organization would definitely be applying for student organization seating again this year. “We had a great turnout from HCA students last season,” Hughes said. “They seemed to really enjoy sitting in the end zone and [being] involved in the games. We had so many students who wanted to sit in the HCA section that we had to come up with a system to distribute wristbands to those interested in attending. I think the system worked well, and I’m looking forward to reapplying again.” First reports from students sitting in the new, larger student organization seating sections were mainly positive after last

year’s home opener against San Jose State. “Organizations have taken it upon themselves to self-regulate who sits in their assigned section,” Stephen Swinson, SGA vice president of student affairs, said after the game. “Overall, we felt Student Organization Seating was a success at the San Jose State game.” The student organization seating sections shifted west for last year’s home games, as groups found themselves sitting in sections S-4 through S-8. Morrow said he hopes the SGA will be ready to send an email to the presidents of all student organizations outlining the important criteria they will need to begin gathering for the application process before the semester ends. Important information that the student organization seating committee looks at includes members’ GPA, on- and off-campus involvement and community service, among other categories, he said. “We are excited to continue to work with student organizations to create an inclusive process that represents all students,” Morrow said.

University to request the land, according to Cathy Andreen, director of media relations. The UA System did send out bids in 2007 for responsible coal mining companies who would be interested in University property, Brooke said. Caitlin McClusky, president of UAEC, said UAEC has been gathering student pledges for a boycott of University services if the University allows Shepherd Bend, LLC to mine on its property. The boycott encourages students to refrain from paying for certain services such as University parking, meal plans or on-campus living. More than $1 million would be taken away from the University if the boycott is implemented with the loyalty of the students who have pledged, McClusky said. “I think it makes a statement

CW | Drew Hoover Nelson Brooke speaks at a presentation on the effects of coal mining on Alabama’s environment in Lloyd Auditorium on Wednesday. that if the University is going to treat itself like a business, the students should begin treating it like a business,” she said. Mallory Flowers, vice president of UAEC, said the boycott intends to win the attention of

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OPINIONS

All of human existence is in the struggle By John Davis

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Political bubble of an SGA president

Thursday, April 21, 2011 Editor • Tray Smith letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4

{ YOUR VIEW } DOES GYMNASTICS COACH SARAH PATTERSON DESERVE A STATUE? Yes, she does deserve all that. However, her program loses over $1mil a year in funds. They donʼt generate profit — @A_C_Thompson Andrew Thompson, senior, youth and adolescent development

I definitely think so! Right in the front of Coleman Coliseum by an area set aside for Grantʼs soon to come.

By James Fowler Our university is undoubtedly one of the greatest in the Southeast and in the nation. Most students have an outstanding experience at the University – and most of those experiences take place with others just like themselves. Far too many go through college in a bubble. Now out of office for two weeks, and with about 60 extra hours in my week, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my college experience. I’m glad to have this opportunity to share the perspective of a “hasbeen” SGA President. When I came to Alabama I knew that I wanted to join a fraternity. Somehow I was able to convince the DKE fraternity to let me in — even though I’m not from Mobile. For my first semester of college, I stayed in the DKE bubble. I met a handful of people outside of the fraternity, but for the most part, I didn’t see a need to meet anyone else. Second semester was a different story. I realized then that I wanted to devote myself to SGA. The harder I worked, the better off I could leave this campus, and that was absolutely my passion — leaving this place better than I found it. But in order to continue this SGA work that I loved so much, I knew I must tirelessly devote myself to a lifestyle of politics.

Coach Patterson is well deserving of a statue, especially coaching at the same school for as long as she has, sheʼs the gymnastics equivalent of Joe Paterno! — William Tremlett, freshman, general health/ pre-med

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them and their experiences. From that point forward, I made it my crusade to be the voice for those who didn’t have a seat at the table of leadership. When was the last time you talked to someone of another race? Or spent Friday night with someone brand new? When was the last time you made yourself available to be approached by someone different than you? Quietly going through college in your comfort zone is, ironically, dangerous. It puts the University community in danger of needless divisions, certain groups in danger of disenfranchisement, and students in danger of foolishly believing that they are somehow inherently superior. Don’t make my mistakes. Don’t allow your sense of security, fear of the unknown or even political ambitions to prevent you from knowing students outside your bubble. I challenge you to work every day to overcome divisions, explore new situations and contribute your passion to our campus. Most importantly, wherever you find yourself, find the marginalized, those who have no voice, and commit yourself to being their advocate. James Fowler is a senior majoring in business and political science. He was the 97th SGA President.

Gallettes, and other essentials By Meg McCrummen

— @_i_heather_ Heather Estes, graduate student, civil engineering

I had the best of intentions, but at any level, politics are politics. The political bubble was even smaller than the original DKE bubble. I’m so grateful for the close friends who kept me grounded; for the most part, though, when others were at Gallettes to have a good time, I was at that bar to work — shaking hands and kissing babies. Needless to say, I was always trying to move up that political ladder. I guess you can say it paid off, right? Sure, but hear this: that whole time I was missing the point entirely. I am thankful for “Pasadenagate.” Yes, I said it, I am thankful that it happened. (Don’t smile too much, Alan Blinder.) It was then that I began to learn so much about the things that mattered — things that I had been missing for so long. There were parts of our campus I didn’t even know existed. Divisions persist on campus because groups don’t understand one another, and that lack of understanding comes from lack of exposure. As a result of the Pasadena incident, I began to interact with whole new groups of students. In spending time with independents, minority students, international students, LGBTQ students and so many others, I was shocked to discover all that I had in common with these new friends. I began to understand

I’ve often said that I would rock college if it weren’t for class. But despite my best efforts, the fact remains that I have learned a great deal from four years at the University. For example, I have learned that BlackBerrys cannot swim, and that Quick Grill is inevitable. I’ve learned that the ticket man is totally immune to logic (also pleading, bribing and weeping). More importantly, I have learned that conversation is powerful, because people have a deep need to know that their concerns – their stories – are valid; that life is lived not in absolutes but in the confusing and ambiguous gray areas; that persisting outside the Lord’s will is empty; and that sworn enemies sometimes make the best friends. This is only the beginning. Outside the classroom, the culture at The University of Alabama teaches a host of lessons. I am astounded by what I assumed, as a freshman, was normal. It seemed normal that every sorority I considered, while all integrated nationally, was (is) lily-white. I didn’t question a political system that accepted coercion, and I wasn’t bothered that minorities and women are scarce in the upper levels of SGA administration. I imagined everyone took multiple friends to the hospital for alcohol poisoning and figured binge drinking was a given. In what world are these things acceptable in 2011? Hear this: I love the University perhaps more than you can imagine, and every aspect of my experience, from greek life to SGA to Honors College, has been magnificent. The University of Alabama is an incredible place, and we are so fortunate to make

this beautiful campus our home. Here we enjoy everything from ESPN Gameday to “Romeo and Juliet,” from an Alzheimer’s conference to Gallettes. We are growing in size and prestige, and I imagine that I will not recognize campus in six years – and that is thrilling. But my heart breaks for those who never realize that segregation, coercion and excess are not normal. When we accept, or even tolerate these, then our time at the University has taught some terrifying lessons. Our classmates may graduate believing that exposure to a different culture is undesirable, or at least unnecessary. Our pledge sisters may graduate without developing opinions or ever thinking for themselves. Our best friends may graduate believing that the rules don’t apply as long your friends can keep you out of trouble – or that a one-party democracy is not, in fact, an inherent contradiction. What we learn now, we take with us always, and it will affect how you perform your job, how you make decisions, how you spend your time and what you teach your children. But it is about a lot more than you. It usually is. Your life is touching the lives of others, for better or for worse. Take cheating, for instance. It is not just misrepresenting how capable you are, but it is also devaluing the degree of every other UA graduate. Larger than that, though, these lessons affect our state and our future, because the students who learn these lessons in college go on to be lawmakers, businesspeople and community leaders. In the past few weeks, I have likened my years at The Capstone to King Arthur’s Camelot – one brief shining moment when wrongs were righted, when legendary personalities led with

brilliant insight. In the last few years, leaders that I am honored to call friends have acted in their own circles of influence with wisdom and courage. They are the game changers, the servant leaders, the heroes and the heroines. But now it’s your turn, and I am audaciously optimistic about the future. I only hope that you will fight the dangers of apathy in yourself and in your friends as you wrestle with the life-altering questions of purpose, injustice and collaboration. It is in the heat of these struggles that the essence of who you are will be formed. Our campus needs you to develop a passion that is more powerful than apathy, self-interest or band-aid fixes. We fail, a lot. I believe, though, that we are called to examine ourselves critically, to challenge each other to sacrificial service, to believe with conviction, to lead with compassion and creativity, and ultimately to transcend our present circumstance. And so we pour ourselves out, day after day, for what is another sleepless night next to a conversation that could awaken campus? Do not stop pursuing your own, excellent contribution to The University of Alabama, and know that our magnum opus is not a solo composition. When we worry less about credit and more about outcome, less about criticism and more about truth, then we rise to our most noble instincts. We must hold out our ideals like lanterns and acknowledge that the whole is far greater than the sum of our parts. May we embody the very image of what we dream our world to be, and may we wake up to a future reality of men and women who live by service, honor and integrity. Meg McCrummen is a senior majoring in history and French.

This past weekend, I found myself in the low country – Savannah, Georgia, to be specific. My brother and I were driving into town, and we stopped at a gas station halfway between Dublin and Savannah to rest and refuel before the final leg of our journey. As our trusty rear-wheel drive sled drank up another 20 gallons of fuel, I noticed in the corner of the lot an old sedan for sale. With a few moments to kill and an insatiable infatuation for all things automotive, I approached it. It turned out to be a 1967 Mercedes 250S for sale for a mere $900. At this point, I must explain two things: first, when I was born, my parents drove me home from the hospital in a 1985 Mercedes 500SEL, so the manufacturer is very near and dear to my heart. Second, I am enamored with old cars, to the point that my own car actually pre-dates my birth. This car had been around for 44 years – through Vietnam, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, even Sept. 11. Memories had been made in this car for more than twice my lifetime, and here it was for sale. What was particularly interesting about this car, though, was the piece of paper taped to the passenger window. It listed the year, model, price and all the usual things one would expect to find, but then it continued. “There are safer cars out there for sale,” it read. “Cars with thick slab like steel pillars cocooning you from the outside world. Cars with seven airbags. Cars with airbags for your knees. They have fancy GPSs that will tell you where you should go; they have systems that will brake for you, before you even notice that the car in front of you is slowing down. “This Mercedes has none of these things.” By this point my own car had filled up, but I couldn’t just walk away. “And those other cars, their horns make cute little beeping noises, so considerate to not be rude. They don’t have horns that sound with the arrogance and fury of some long dead Mongol warlord. They don’t come with apocalyptic snow tires, all spikes and brutal tread. You cannot fix those cars on the side of the road, using a wrench as a hammer. “Those cars will never force you to think, never allow you to exercise your own ingenuity. In those cars you can’t stand up illegally through the sunroof from the back seat, and watch the moon with the cool night air blowing through your hair.” This had ceased being a car pitch; this was more than a spec sheet. This past Monday The Crimson White ran an article about the suicide rate at the University of Alabama. It struck rather close to home because over the last year and a half, I’ve been personally affected by two students taking their own lives. As I was reading over this sheet of paper attached to a 44-year-old car parked at a gas station I couldn’t help but think about these students and what was going through their mind in their last moments. An odd association, I know, but these thoughts tend to creep up in the most unexpected places. I continued to read: “Richard Nixon once said ‘Human existence is in the struggle.’ You could buy a car that will try and hide you from all the dangers of the world, but it won’t save you; all the alarms, all the airbags and the low sodium lattes in the world won’t save you. Some day you will die. But at least you can die with the wind in your hair.” This last part reverberated with me. It made me wonder what these deceased students would say about their own existence. It made me wonder what exactly it was that they viewed as insurmountable. It made me wonder, yet I also did not want to know the answer. I did not want to know the answer because I knew I would not understand. Human existence is in the unpredictability of life; not knowing what’s around the corner. Life can be tough and sometimes it can seem like there’s no way out, and maybe that’s how these students felt. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from maintaining an old car, it’s that there is always a solution. Maybe that was what this car, this old Mercedes in a gas station parking lot in the middle of nowhere, was trying to drive home: No matter what, there is always a way out. There is always a solution. “Alternatively, it would make a good parts car.” John Davis is a junior majoring in modern existence. His column runs on Thursdays.

Make UA more bike friendly By Anna Turkett

There are many options for getting around on campus, and they all have their challenges — parking, long wait times for buses, trying to get from ten Hoor to Galalee in ten minutes. But bikes offer the speed one needs for a huge campus without the trouble of parking. However, many places are a hassle when you’re on a bike. The Ferguson Center is the hub for student activities but is incredibly inconvenient to traverse on a bike. The stairs are your only option since bikes are banned from the wheelchair ramp and parking deck walkover. But many people aren’t strong enough to haul their bikes up the steps. There are no bike racks on the bottom level of the Ferg, causing many people to lock their bikes to lamps or benches. I suggest that the University install two small bike ramps on either side of the stairs, just large enough for the tires, so that cyclists may walk their bikes up. In addition, the University should stop allowing vehicles to park in the bike lanes, an offense which carries a fee of a hundred dollars. It’s either dangerous and punishable or it’s not; it doesn’t matter if it’s a delivery truck or a private vehicle, both of these block the bike lane and therefore neither of them should be allowed to park there. The bike lanes on the transit-only road in front of Carmichael are often so blocked with trucks and UA vehicles that they are unusable. It frustrates me that the university is willing to prioritize the convenience of a Pepsi truck over my safety. Hopefully they will soon recognize bikes as a valid form of transportation and act accordingly. Anna Turkett is a freshman in New College.

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Survey gauges student service involvement By Jennie Kushner Senior Staff Reporter jfkushner@bama.ua.edu The Community Service Center is asking students to participate in its first annual Civic Engagement Survey. Wahnee Sherman, CSC director, said the point of the ongoing survey is to analyze student involvement with community service, service learning and engagement. The survey was sent out by the assessment office earlier this month and will close after finals. Thus far, about 1,500 students have completed it. “I think it will be great to see what areas students are most interested in and what areas students have been engaged in,” Sherman said.

“There may be areas that students have done service in that we weren’t aware of, so [the survey] will allow us to adjust what we are offering.” Sherman said the survey asks students about types of service, service-related groups and specific areas of community involvement and political involvement in the community. “I think that our students are engaged with the community, whether that is through service learning courses that they are in, churches, community organizations or though things that the CSC offers,” Sherman said. “I think there is always room for improvement and more to be done, but I think as a whole our students are pretty engaged.”

Sherman said it is difficult to compare the University of Alabama with other schools in the Southeastern Conference, but she said she feels UA students have built a foundation for service. “I know that the students who come here from high school, a very large percentage of them had done service in high school,” she said. “In general, this is a generation that has been more engaged in service in high school and college than, say, my generation of students,” Sherman said. “Because of the quality of students at the University of Alabama, there is an increased level of involvement and giving back.” Once the data is analyzed, Sherman said the informa-

I think that our students are engaged with the community, whether that is through service learning courses that they are in, churches, community organizations or though things that the CSC offers. — Wahnee Sherman

tion may be posted on the CSC website. Despite sending out the survey, Sherman said it is difficult to gauge the exact number of students active in service. “If students are not registering their hours, if they are doing service in the community and not through us or if they are involved in a service learning class, that number

Hammock ban aims to protect trees By William Evans Senior Staff Reporter wjevans@crimson.ua.edu

Some people at the University envision the Quad as the heart of the campus’ scenic beauty. To preserve the trees that make up this urban forest that stretches from Gorgas Library to University Boulevard, the University forbids students from tethering hammocks to its trees. The Quad’s welcoming atmosphere for leisure activities cannot accommodate hammocks, because of their potential to erode the protective layer of bark on the trees, said Duane

Lamb, assistant vice president of Grounds and Facilities. The rope lines used to lift the hammocks are responsible for threatening the health of the bark, Lamb said. “Hammock wires burn the bark off of the tree, which opens the tree much like a wound on a scab,” he said. Grounds and Facilities has had to remove several trees around Denny Chimes because hammock wires had eaten into their bark, making them vulnerable to disease and decay, he said. Sustaining the health of the trees is integral to the campus beautification initiative

launched by the University to make the campus more appealing to current and prospective students. Some of the oaks along University Boulevard were planted after World War II and give historic value to the Quad, which could be erased by the damage hammock wires induce on the trees, Lamb said. Tasked with bringing the University’s landscaping to a higher aesthetic quality, Lamb participated in instituting the University’s tree care and maintenance policy in January 2010, which targets tree abuse. “Misuse of any and all trees is prohibited,” according to

the policy. “Examples of abuse include, but are not limited to climbing, use of ropes, wire, hammocks, slack lines, zip lines, nails, tape and signage, etc. All these issues cause stress, scarring and, often broken branches, which can lead to disease and death of an otherwise healthy tree and therefore is prohibited.” No chemicals are used to protect the trees from weather, insect or environmental damage, he said, but Grounds and Facilities does bed the trunk of the trees with mulch to create a barrier for retaining moisture, reducing erosion and providing nutrients.

can be hard to get at,” she said. Students who have already participated in the survey encourage their peers to do so. Shellie Adams, a sophomore majoring in political science, has been active in the community since her high school days and said she would like to see more involvement from students on campus.

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“I have grown up being taught to help others,” she said. “I currently volunteer with my church and I have done some things through the CSC. I think this survey is a great way to gauge numbers so we can see what areas do need improvement on campus.” Chris Rice, a junior majoring in marketing, said he’s interested to see the results from the survey. “I think it’s great that the CSC is looking to better themselves by sending out this type of survey,” Rice said. “I think they do a great job now, but with actual numbers, they will be able to get more involvement from students once they see what their needs are.”

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Employers to recruit at ﬁnal career fair By Ashanka Kumari Contributing Writer The University of Alabama Career Center will host the final career fair of the school year today in the Ferguson Center Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Various employers representing local and national companies will be actively recruiting students for open positions. Mary Lowrey, Career Center assistant director, said career consultants from the UA Career Center along with several volunteers from Student Affairs will operate practice stations called “Prep Steps” for students going into the career fair in the ballroom. “After hearing employers say that students need to work on soft skills including handshake, eye-contact and delivery of a 30-second introduction, we decided to offer practice stations,” Lowrey said. Although this is the first time the career center has offered “Prep Steps,” they piloted a similar program at the recent Education Interview day, Lowrey said. “Employers gave very positive feedback so we knew we

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residents have tried to move on from the spill and hope everything will be back to normal soon. “I am curious to see if the tourism will pick up during the upcoming summer months,” she said. John Wathen, the Hurricane Creekkeeper, recently won an award for the blog he started after visiting Mobile right after the oil rig sank. Wathen said since there was a lot of news coming in quickly, he kept the blog to help him remember everything and save links. “To be honest, I didn’t feel like we were being told the truth,” Wathen said. “I created

wanted the effort to continue with our larger career fairs,” she said. The goal of “Prep Steps,” Lowrey said, is to send every career fair attendee into the ballroom professionally dressed and prepared to demonstrate soft skills. Students who research the employers in advance will make a much better impression when they talk with the recruiters, Lowrey said. “Recruiters expect students to know the basics about their organizations, and they will think more favorably of a student who can talk about specifics as opposed to a student who approaches them and asks, ‘What does your company do?’” she said. “We talk about these skills throughout the year and engage students in practice, but we realize not every student has been to the Career Center or to one of our presentations,” Lowrey said. Brandon Bowen, manager of Employer Relations, said the companies at this career fair are not necessarily the same companies that came to the fall event. “We’ve got some variety the BP Slick blog in order to catalog the news as it came in as an archive and supplement it with my own reports, photographs and videos.” Matthew Jenny, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences, said the extent of the effects to the Gulf of Mexico are still being studied and scientists are still trying to determine the oil’s impact on the ecosystem. However, Jenny said, scientists are confident that the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem will recover from the spill in time. “Every ecosystem is different, and therefore the effects of an oil spill will be different for every ecosystem,” Jenny said. “While a specific time frame cannot be determined, I think there is a good chance of full recovery within the next

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that maybe [students] haven’t had the chance to meet before even if they’ve attended career fairs,” Bowen said. An expected 55-60 companies will be represented at this event. “Everything from engineering to business, arts and sciences and everything in between,” Bowen said. A list of the companies expected to be at the career fair can be found at career.ua.edu/ employers/calendar.cfm. “We encourage all students to attend to meet employers they may want to target later on or to begin networking, which is a key strategy in looking for a job and learning about opportunities,” Lowrey said. decade.” Wathen, who just visited the coast last weekend, said right now, 99 percent of the Gulf is open for fishing and has supposedly tested safe for consumption, but the fishermen won’t eat their catch. Wathen said the effects of the spill are still evident along the coast. “There’s oil in the shrimp, there’s oil in the crabs,” Wathen said. “We’ve got dolphins washing up on our beaches in unprecedented numbers with unprecedented lesions on their skin. This is not normal.” Doctors are also starting to see sick people with lesions on their skin, Wathen said. They are being treated for Staph infection, but the antibiotics aren’t working. Wathen said these lesions are coming from a genetically engineered bacterium that has been released in the Gulf to consume the oil. “If you think about oil and human beings,” Wathen said, “we’re both carbon-based features on the earth, and if it eats carbon, it eats us as well. Getting in the Gulf right now, in my personal opinion, is not a wise thing to do whether you can see oil or not.” However, Jenny said no bacteria were released into the Gulf to eat the oil. “There are naturally occurring bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico that are capable of efficiently degrading the oil, and they have been there for about as long as the Gulf has existed,” Jenny said. “They have no detrimental effects on animals or humans.” Jenny said the Gulf is safe for swimming because most of the inshore oil along the coast is likely buried in sediment and

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College of Education to screen ﬁlm on bullying By Brett Saunders Contributing Writer The College of Education will host a viewing of “Bullied,” a documentary created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization fighting hate crimes and helping those who are victims of hate crimes. Teaching Tolerance is a project of the SPLC that attacks bullying in schools by finding ways to end the conflicts while aiding the students affected by bullying. The screening of “Bullied” will be held in Graves Hall Room 118 tonight at 6 and is expected to run until 8 p.m. The event is open to both students and members of the Tuscaloosa community, and it is a free event. “It is troubling what students who get bullied go through—it is horrible,” said Alexander Parks, who is pursing a doctorate degree in education. The documentary follows the story of a student in school who eventually files a lawsuit against the district and school officials. His action creates a decision that public school officials must protect all students from bullying, including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual

or transgender. “This is a way to get people to come together to watch the documentary,” Parks said. “Panelists will respond to the movie and have ideas for solving the bullying problems.” The panelists present at the documentary will be Principal of Hillcrest Middle School C’Kimba Hobbs; Anthony Harris, a teacher at Bryant High School; Josh Burford, coordinator of student development programming at the University; and Joyce Stallworth, senior associate dean of the College of Education. “We consider bullying a very important and serious topic,” Stallworth said. “Our students particularly must understand why bullying happens and how to prevent it.” Nationally, bullying is becoming more of an issue in schools, she said. Bullying can arise through different avenues – through in-school situations, but also through cell phones, video games and the Internet. “Bullying happens for a plethora of different reasons, [like] not knowing conflict resolution, but it is impor-

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tant for people to know the differences in bullying and knowing how to resolve issues before they lead to bullying,” Stallworth said. Immediately after the documentary, the panelists will share their thoughts about the documentary, then open the discussion to questions. Following the discussion portion, refreshments will be served and seven children’s and young adult books about bullying will be raffled off. “We are hosting this event to address the issues of bullying in schools and to start the dialogue about how to eradicate it in Tuscaloosa and Alabama,” Parks said. More information about the event can be found at events. ua.edu. In this July 12, 2010 image from video made available by BP PLC, oil ﬂows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. AP

will continue to degrade. Gravlee said she thinks the Gulf is safe for swimming and also fishing and other activities. Olivia Bensinger, a member of the University of Alabama Environmental Council, said right now, students need to have the right information about the spill. “We need to start putting out an effort to make BP pay for the rest of the clean up and for them to stop using toxic dispersants,” Bensinger said. “The clean up workers are getting sick, not just from the oil, but from the chemicals used to clean it. We just need to stay strong against BP and not forget the people that are still fighting for their lives today.” Bensinger said she would not recommend students going to help with the clean up effort because regulations are not

being followed and people are getting sick. Instead, she said students should continue to keep pressure on those responsible. Like Bensinger, Wathen said accountability is an absolute must. In addition to accountability, Wathen said there needs to be total transparency with all aspects of information. “The American public needs to have immediate access to all information coming out of the Gulf of Mexico so we can make educated decisions in the nation’s breadbasket about whether to take a vacation and subject our grandchildren to what could be a toxic cocktail,” he said. Wathen also encouraged people to start voting their environmental conscience instead of voting the same way as their parents.

Just because Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi are historically red states, Wathen said there is no reason they should remain that way if the existing political structure allows disasters like the BP spill to happen. “I’m not a Republican, and I’m not a Democrat,” Wathen said. “I am an American who votes for the person who hurts me the very least.” Most importantly on the anniversary of the BP oil spill, Bensinger said it is important to remember the eleven brave men who lost their lives on the oilrig. “I would like students to remember this day as mournful for the lives lost, but not in an apathetic way,” she said. “This anniversary should call people to action. There are still people being affected, and on this day we need to remember them.”

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Alabama Heritage celebrates 25 years By Brittney Knox Staff Reporter bsknox@crimson.ua.edu

Those who work closely with Alabama Heritage Magazine will attend a celebration dinner in honor of the 25th anniversary of the magazine tonight in Smith Hall. “We just released our 100th issue, and this celebration is to commemorate the fact the magazine is still surviving and thriving,” said Donna Baker, editor of Alabama Heritage. She said during the ‘90s when the University was experiencing

a number of budget cuts, they thought the magazine might not survive. “After donations from the community and corporate sponsors, we were able to continue publishing,” she said. Hank Lazer, associate provost for Academic Affairs, serves as the administrator to whom the magazine reports and said he would not miss this celebration event. “This celebration marks the strength, endurance and importance of this magazine to publish the history and culture of the state of Alabama,” he said.

Alabama Heritage has won several awards throughout the years including the bronze medal award in the CASE National Competition for Special Interest Magazines in 2005 and the grand award for the CASE District III Advancement Awards, Other Magazines, in 2004. Alabama Heritage is a quarterly history magazine that was first published during the summer of 1986. Recently the 100th issue was released with Booker T. Washington on the cover. The issues of the magazine seek to explore Alabama’s history and culture with articles

Engineers face rough waters at competition By Jasmine Cannon Contributing Writer

A team of six engineering students from the University’s engineering department recently participated in the Society of Automotive Engineering Baja competition. The team traveled to Cullman, Ala., Thursday through Friday to compete against about 100 other teams. The team completely designed and built a Baja car that was judged and then tested in a series of challenges on land and water. The competition is divided into two sections—static and dynamic. During the static part of the competition, the team is judged on design and presentation. According to team captain Sterlin Cochran, the purpose for SAE competitions is to build a prototype all-terrain vehicle for a company that may want to manufacture them for sale. There is a cost report and design report for each team’s vehicle.

There are tests of acceleration, land maneuverability and suspension and traction in the dynamic category. After judging, the team had to add an extra frame to the car. Having to make this addition did not allow the team to participate in all of the events, which affected the team’s final score. “[We had to add an extra bar] because we did some calculations wrong,” Cochran said. “When they checked at competition to make sure we were in the rules, we weren’t and we didn’t realize it. We had to add [the bar] at competition, which is why we really didn’t do so well. We added [the bar] and we missed a bunch of events.” Austin Bowling, another team member, said they spent all day Saturday fixing the car. “If we hadn’t done that we would’ve had all day to compete in the preliminary events and things would’ve gone a lot differently,” he said. The team also faced some trouble with the car’s throt-

tle cable and intake, so the team could not finish many of the events because of breakdowns. “We were prepared,” freshman Ryne Hill said. “We did everything we had to do. If it wasn’t for the frame mishap, we probably would’ve had a more successful time. I still enjoyed it, and it was fun. Even though we didn’t do that well at competition, I still learned a ton.” The toughest part of the competition came when it was time to participate in the water endurance race. The car’s foam addition at the bottom tore off, causing the car and driver to flip while in the water and also flooded the car’s engine. “We had a nice design and a nice car, but we just had a few problems with it,” freshman Chris Zinder said. Bowling said the team did well, but they are weak in water events. Last year, the water events took place later in the competition and not at the beginning. Though the team faced some strongholds, Bama Racing came out ranked No. 42. A team from the University of Central Florida took first place. Two teams from UAB finished in the top 10, while Auburn placed 25th. The team will be back in action May 26 when they head to Kansas to compete in the next Baja SAE competition. “We have a good car and we’re ready for Kansas,” Pennington said. “I think we’ll do well at Kansas. Last year, we did really well and we have high expectation for this year as well. We’re expecting a top 10 finish.”

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about the people, places and events that helped shape Alabama and the South. The magazine is published by the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Baker said during her time at the magazine, they have been able to bring the University of Alabama at Birmingham on as a third co-publisher. “With this extra support, we have been able to increase the size of the magazine,” she said. “It offers better honorariums to

writers, which has allowed us to recruit some really great scholars.” She said they were also able to convince Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama to place the magazine in every public and private school in the state. “This has enriched our educational contribution in ways that will compound for generations to come,” she said. Lazer has served as administrator for the magazine for about 15 years and said the event tonight also celebrates the beautiful design work of the magazine.

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not often reported,” said Mark Nelson, vice president of Student Continued from page 1 Affairs at the University. “These things build a clearer picture of leads people to commit suicide, where we stand with regard to leaving loved ones to pick up the national averages. Having said pieces. that, even one incident is too “One thing someone needs to many, and we are actively seekconsider before they make the ing new and better ways to help decision to [commit suicide] is they our students.” are not the only ones suffering,” Sherrill said. “They’re not alone. Cornell Promotes I suffered right along with my husband, and I am still suffering. Suicide Awareness Depression convinced my husband that suicide was the only way to At Cornell University, six stuhave peace. It robbed me of a future dents reportedly committed family with him.” suicide in 2010, including four Lindsey said she tried her best to publicized incidents in which the help her husband, another UA stu- student jumped from a bridge on dent, but eventually his depression campus into the gorges below, worsened to the point where he said Gregory Eells, associate needed a professional. He sought director of counseling and psyhelp from the University Student chological services at Cornell. Health Center Psychiatry Clinic. “In the last 10 years, we have “As far as the University goes, taken a very public approach,” there needs to be more counsel- Eells said. “We have nine counors,” Sherrill said. “When my selors on campus for students at husband was really struggling, he all times and build programs to had to wait a week to get in with raise awareness. the Student Health Center psychia“We took a comprehensive trist.” approach,” Eells said. “Fences She said he had a three-week were put on the bridges along follow up appointment, which got the gorges right away. We hired canceled because of the snow in one of the foremost suicide preFebruary. vention experts in the country. “When he called to reschedule There were many, many stories his appointment, the front desk in the Cornell Daily Sun. We told him nothing was available hired more counselors.” until March 31,” Sherrill said. Eells said the administration “Only after the psychiatrist heard is very visible about the issue of about the serious side effects he suicide at Cornell. was experiencing with his medica“Vice President Susan tion did they get him in the next Murphy created a heartfelt day. He kind of had to push it to get video right away, acknowledgin anyway. ing the loss in our commu“Depression doesn’t wait for the nity, which she posted online,” doctor to squeeze you in,” she said. Eells said. “It rapidly spread Cathy Andreen, director of UA to Facebook and Twitter. The Media Relations said the center’s president wrote an op/ed colPsychiatry Clinic has three psychi- umn for our student newspaper, atrists on staff. ‘The Way Forward.’ “Emergencies are seen as “Clinically, the more you quickly as possible, usually same acknowledge that you have a day,” Andreen said. “Students problem, the less at risk you who are in distress should call the are,” Eells said. “Eighty-five perCounseling Center or the Student cent of people who commit suiHealth Center and request to be cide never sought help.” seen immediately.” Eells said there is no such The Student Health Center was thing as a “suicide school.” He contacted Wednesday but did not said one out of every 10,000 stureturn the call by deadline. dents kill themselves every year, The Crimson White has learned somewhere in the United States, of four suspected suicides since and that these statistics are pretDecember, but UA officials caution ty consistent. He also said the against making judgments over myth that talking about suicide how the University’s suicide rate or asking someone if they feel compares to other universities. suicidal will encourage suicide “Averages can sometimes be attempts is simply not true. deceptive due to standard devia“The more open you are, the tions and margins of error that are more attention you get on the problem,” he said. “A downside is the fear of hurting admissions and recruitment or gaining the reputation of a suicide school, maybe. However, we’ve found the open approach to be most helpful for students.” There are currently 28 counselors and psychiatrists serving the student body of about 21,000 at Cornell, according to their counseling center website. Alabama, with a student population of 30,000 has the equivalent of 9.4 full-time counseling staff members with three support staff positions and five trainees, Andreen said. Auburn University has a staff with six psychologists plus the director as full-time employees, serving 25,000 students, according to

In addition to serving students on campus, the magazine assists students in grades K-12 around the state who want to research more about Alabama’s history. Smith Hall may be the perfect place for their celebration as it chronicles history, just in a different form. It also houses a time capsule to be opened in the next century. “The capsule that is in Smith Hall has a copy of Alabama Heritage in it,” she said. Alabama Heritage operates from the historic Kilgore House on the University campus. Auburn officials.

UA’s Suicide Prevention Efforts

The University of Alabama Counseling Center offers services for students suffering from issues such as depression. “One of the most important services our counseling center provides is outreach to students,” Nelson said. “So often students are afraid to seek help. The outreach efforts of the counseling center provide specific, intentional programming to help alleviate some of the most pressing and emotional issues students face.” Lee Keyes, executive director of the UA Counseling Center, said that generally, the warning signs a suicide attempt may be imminent include: history of previous attempts (the strongest),currently talking or thinking about suicide, abusing alcohol or drugs and, in college students, experiencing recent losses or relationship problems. However, he said circumstances are unique in each case, and every student contemplating suicide may not exhibit each of these signs. “Once a student opens up to receiving help, whether it’s here or any other mental health provider, there is usually a rapid and positive response to treatment, sometimes within days and weeks,” Keyes said. “Suicide is not an inevitable consequence of depression.” Mary Sellers Shaw, a freshman majoring in English, said suicide prevention and awareness needs to be more visible. “I think the University could definitely work on its suicide prevention efforts,” Shaw said. “The University needs to make providing a safe and healthy environment for students its TOP priority and that will stem from checking in on students once they get here and increasing education about other services on campus.” Keyes, however, said that while the Counseling Center is always interested in improving its outreach in this area for students, as in any area of mental health service, the University does offer suicide prevention programs for students. “We do believe in suicide reduction prevention activities,” Keyes said. “We have a full week devoted to it every October. Last fall, we collaborated with the American Foundation for Suicide Information to provide information both electronically and in paper form across campus.” However, considering her husband’s death, Lindsey Sherrill said she doesn’t think the issue of suicide is talked about nearly enough at the University. “The issue of suicide is taboo here; it’s out of sight, out of mind,” she said. “The University is a very prideful University whether anyone is willing to admit it or not. For students’ sake and individuals like my husband, for their sake, the University needs to swallow that pride. Let’s really make it about the students.”

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MEN’S TENNIS

By Jordan Bannister Sports Reporter jmbannister@crimson.ua.edu The Crimson Tide men’s tennis team heads to Gainesville, Fla., to take on No. 33 LSU for the second time this season in the first round of the Southeastern Conference championships. The first showdown in Baton Rouge, La., ended in a 5-2 loss for the Tide, as heckling fans got the best of Alabama’s frame of mind. “I think it’s very fortunate, the way the seeding worked out, that we get to face LSU,” head coach Billy Pate said. “There were two matches where I knew that the guys wanted a rematch and that’s with Vanderbilt and LSU. Those two, we really let go. We felt like if we had just won both of those we would already be in the tournament. Even if we’d won one of them, as it stands, we could have put ourselves in a better position to enter the tournament. LSU is a good opportunity and it’s a team that we feel like we can beat if we play well.” The Tide’s current standing depends on this game against the Tigers for its entry into the top 8 of the Southeastern Conference Championship bracket. Alabama must put together a win or its season will be over. “I think we’re all ready,” sophomore Jarryd Botha said. “We’re pretty pumped. Last

time was a really close match, and I think we got a bit unlucky. This time we’re going to come out firing. It’s more of a mental performance than a physical one for us.” The most recent fall to No. 20 Auburn took no toll on the Tide’s spirit, either. “It’s been a frustrating season for us, but the good news is that we have another chance to get back in this thing,” Pate said. “If we can get this win and sneak into the tournament, I think we could be a very dangerous team. “We switched the whole lineup. It’s a clean slate. Sometimes when you mix it up like this, it creates a lot of new energy, and it’s definitely going to be a more balanced lineup. Realistically, LSU is very good at No. 1 doubles and we definitely should have beat them at 2. We really should have won that match without the doubles point last time, but we’ve got a really good chance this time around.” Pate has placed Vikram Reddy and Daniil Proskura in the No. 1 spot and Ricky Doverspike and Michael Thompson at No. 2, with Botha and his partner Trey Walston closing up No. 3. With the recent lineup shuffle, the Tide men found just the new chemistry Pate was hoping for and even utilized some energy from the past. “[Doverspike and Thompson] haven’t played together this year, but in the past two years

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SPORTS this week CW | Jonathan Norris Senior Trey Walston returns a ball against UAB on April 13. The Crimson Tide needs to win at the SEC Championships this weekend to keep its NCAA Tournament hopes alive. they’ve been very successful,” Pate said. “Trey and Jarryd played together last year, so that’s a more familiar team as well.” Another curveball to face this weekend will be the weath-

er conditions on the court. It is said to be well into the 90s and the sun’s reverberation off the court can bring the temperature up by at least 10 more degrees. “Hydration is going to be

key,” Pate said. “We’ll bring ice buckets onto the court and we’ve already told the guys to start preparing their bodies for that weather.” The heated rematch starts today at 11 a.m.

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Team ﬁnishes strong in UTEP, Mt. SAC By Mike Albanese Contributing Writer In a split-squad effort, the men’s track and field squad recorded impressive performances at both the UTEP Invitational in El Paso, Texas and the Mt. SAC Relays on the campus of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif., April 15-16. The Crimson Tide split into two groups for the events. Sprinters and jumpers attended the UTEP Invitational and distance runners competed in the Mt. SAC Relays. “What we wanted to accomplish was to put some marks on the board, to let people know we had a pretty good program, and we did that,” head coach Harvey Glance said. The highlights of the meets were sophomore Kirani James’ performance in El Paso, Texas and senior Fred Samoei’s performance in California. James placed first in the 200-meter, with a time of 20.41. His time was recorded as the third fastest 200-meter time in the NCAA this season and was faster than Churandry Martina, who finished second in the 2008 Olympics. At the Mt. SAC Relays, Samoei stole the show with one of the fastest 800 meter times in the world this season.

Placing second with a time of 1:45:52, he recorded the second fastest time in Alabama history and the fifth fastest time in the world this season. Back in Texas, the 400meter witnessed two Tide performers finish in the top 10. In fourth place, freshman Dwayne Extol posted a time of 47.56 and coming in seventh, junior Bobby Onyeukwo finished with a time of 48.18. “Our two best athletes did what they were supposed to do,” Glance said. “The rest of the team did a great job moving up the NCAA Regionals marks…. I’m real proud of all these guys.” Freshman Kamal Fuller added to his impressive first year at Alabama with a firstplace finish in the 100-meter hurdles. The 4x100-meter relay squad, consisting of freshman Shaun Gaiser, James, Extol and Fuller, came in second with a time of 40.81, and the 4x400-meter relays squad made up of Extol, James, Onyeukwo and sophomore Joel Lynch earned the top spot at 3:09:18. In the field events, the Tide recorded three top-five finishes. Freshman Jonathan Reid finished fourth in the high jump at 6-9.75 and senior Michael Hughes came in first

in the pole vault at 16-3.25. The long jump saw Fuller jump to a third-place finish with a score of 24-6.50. Rounding out the Mt. SAC Relays, senior Julius Bor placed ninth in the 1,500meter Olympic Development Elite Selection with a time of 3:43:90. Coming off the heels of an impressive showing in Texas, the Tide will have an off-week before heading to the prestigious Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa from April 28-30. “We feel we’re in pretty good shape in where we need to be with relays and individual events,” Glance said. “Drake is going to just be gravy for what we do.” As well as performing in the Drake Relays, Glance will be honored while in Iowa, where he will be inducted into the Coaches Hall of Fame. “That is really going to be a highlight for me and the team.” As the Tide set their sights on the Drake Relays, the team is confident in what they do, especially after battling through a tough SEC schedule. Excluding Vanderbilt University, who doesn’t have a men’s program, nine of 11 SEC teams are ranked in the top 25 in the country. “We know that we’re one

of the top five or six teams in our conference and that’s saying a lot, especially with the depth of this conference,” Glance said. “Our conference is always like a mini NCAA Championship. But we do

what we do and I think we’ll be very competitive.” After the Drake Relays, the Tide will begin its preparation for the SEC Outdoor Championships in Athens, Ga., May 12-15.

THURSDAY • Men’s tennis vs LSU: 11 a.m., Gainsville, Fla.

FRIDAY • Women’s tennis vs Vanderbilt/ Mississippi State: 6 p.m., Knoxville, Tenn. • Softball vs Florida: 4 p.m., Gainsville, Fla. • Baseball vs Florida: 6 p.m., Gainsville, Fla.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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Top 25 athletes | No. 3 BUD CAULEY, golf

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Cauley sets par for success Samoei looking By Miranda Murphy Contributing Writer

Junior Bud Cauley leads Alabama men’s golf not only in the rankings, but also with his determination to succeed at his sport. “He loves the game of golf,” head coach Jay Seawell said. “I knew that if we wanted to build a national championship-type program here, I had to get the best players. He fit what we wanted to do, and I think Alabama has been as great a fit for him as he has been for us.” Cauley comes in as The Crimson White’s No. 3 athlete on campus. He has earned many awards while attending the University. Recently, he was declared a semifinalist for the Hogan Award for the second time. Last year, he was named a finalist for the award. Cauley is a two-time firstteam Golfweek All-American and also a two-time secondteam PING All-American. He is also a two-time first-team All-SEC selection and was selected for the All-Nicklaus Team. In 2009, he was named the Southeastern Conference’s Freshman of the Year and was chosen to be part of the United States Walker Cup Team. Seawell said he feels Cauley’s greatest accomplishment so far was being selected for the Walker Cup team. “It’s a list of who’s who among great golf players,” Seawell said. “A lot of great professionals have been on that team.” Cauley has won one tournament this year at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate, which totals to four tournament wins during his collegiate career with the Tide. Cauley has finished in the top 10 six times this year so far. His stroke average is currently 70.48, and he is currently ranked No. 6, according

Junior Bud Cauley follows through on a drive. On top of being nominated for the Hogan award for two straight years, The Crimson White has named him its No. 3 athlete. UA Athletics

to Golfweek/Sagarin rankings. Cauley said he believes his first tournament win during the spring season of his freshman year at the U.S. Collegiate Championship helped him to calm down and focus on his skill. “I got my feet wet, and it made me comfortable,” Cauley said. “I had played a lot of events before college, but it’s always nice to be successful at

the level you’re at. I’ve played really well since I got that first win under my belt.” Cauley said he hopes his younger teammates and other golfers can see him as a leader. “He’s real quiet, but his teammates recognize the work he puts in and his commitment to the game,” Seawell said. “I think that is where his leadership is.” Seawell said he believes

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Cauley has a bright future and will be able to go professional. “Ever since I started to play golf when I was six, it’s always been my dream to turn professional,” Cauley said. “I like to go out, play golf and practice every day. It’s always at the back of my mind and it’s something that I’m working towards.” Cauley said he is still looking forward to accomplishing goals that he has set for himself while at the University. “I’m hoping for a win at the national championships in June,” Cauley said. “I’m just going to keep my fingers crossed for that.”

to ﬁnish strong By Brett Hudson Contributing Writer

The Alabama men’s track and field team, only about three and a half weeks removed from the Southeastern Conference Championship meet in Athens, Ga., is looking forward to creating another finish like last semester in the indoor track season. The Crimson Tide will look to senior Fred Samoei to continue improving his results like he has all season long, and be at his best when the Tide needs him the most. “My training has been great so far,” Samoei said. “We haven’t done too much speed work yet. We’ve done a lot of endurance, but now we are starting to add speed stuff and focus on that.” The outdoor season has been a fruitful one for Samoei and the Tide, as the team saw success in both the UTEP Invitational and the Mt. SAC Relays. Samoei’s performance at Mt. SAC was especially impressive. “I thought [Samoei’s performance at Mt. SAC] was a tremendous performance, considering he was dealing with some upper respiratory problems,” distance coach Joe Walker said. “But we thought we’d just fly him there and take him day-byday and see what he could do.” Samoei’s gutsy outing spoke volumes to Walker. “I think that’s one of the signs of a great athlete,” Walker said. “When he can go out and perform like that when everything’s not perfect, it gives us hope that he will really step up when

things are perfect for him.” Most of the indoor season was as close to perfect as possible for the Tide. Samoei was no exception. He concluded the indoor season with an 800m national championship, posting a time of 1:48:33 and winning the race by only four one-hundredths of a second. Walker said he couldn’t say enough about the impact of that national championship on Samoei. “Winning that national championship was like a mental breakthrough for him,” Walker said. “He has always been physically capable. He’s at that stage now where he kind of refuses to lose.” Moving forward from the national championship toward championship season in the outdoor portion of the track and field year, the Tide is looking forward to seeing Samoei replicate his performance level in the outdoor season. “The last three races of last season, I think [Samoei] ran his three best races,” Walker said. Samoei is hopefully starting a trend through the team with his clutch performance during championship season. “We do a good job of being ready when it really counts,” Walker said. While fans are looking for Alabama to produce results in the coming championship season, Walker is keeping the Tide in perspective. “NCAAs are a full 7-8 weeks away,” Walker said. “We don’t like to look too far ahead of ourselves because if we do that we lose track of what this sport is all about. We just come out everyday and work on getting better, bit by bit every day.” Alabama and Samoei will look to show off their most recent improvements at the Mississippi Open in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday. UA Athletics| Ben Adams Senior Fred Samoei runs at the Alabama Relays earlier this year. Samoei has had a great season, including winning the national indoor championship in the 800 meters.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

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Tide bound for SEC Championships By Jordan Bannister Sports Reporter jmbannister@crimson.ua.edu

The ITA-ranked No. 23 Alabama womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team is set to compete in the Southeastern Conference Championship on April 22 in Knoxville, Tenn. Seeded in the No. 4 spot, the team has been granted a firstround bye. The Crimson Tide will face the winner of the No. 19 Vanderbilt vs. unranked Mississippi State match held on April 21 at 8 a.m., Central Time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play Vanderbilt first round,â&#x20AC;? head coach Jenny Mainz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be tough and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be ready for us. Not that they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready for us the first time,

The distance that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come since January has been incredible. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to be mentally sharp, and I feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well prepared. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jenny Mainz

but they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as hungry as they will be now.â&#x20AC;? Vanderbilt swept the Bulldogs 7-0 in the early half of the season, and if the Commodores can put MSU away again, they will advance to play the Tide in the second round. Alabama defeated Vanderbilt in late March 4-3, adding the second of eight wins in its recent streak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We talk about the progression of the season a lot,â&#x20AC;? Mainz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The distance that

weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come since January has been incredible. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to be mentally sharp, and I feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well prepared. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we have to play outside of ourselves in any way this weekend. We just have to continue to do the things that we do well.â&#x20AC;? Alabama has not been ranked this high in the region since 1993. The team most recently earned an impressive sweep over unranked SEC rival Auburn, 7-0.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was nice to come out and work for that last win,â&#x20AC;? Mary Anne Macfarlane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going to build up momentum for the SEC championships. This conference tournament will be a whole new experience and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very excited.â&#x20AC;? Tide freshmen Alex Clay and Macfarlane will be competing on the regional level for the first time in their collegiate careers and from a coaching standpoint, Mainz is confident that the young contenders will be able to hold their ground this weekend against the upperclassmen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our freshmen are very ready and the testament is the season weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had,â&#x20AC;? Mainz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played a very high strength schedule and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played the top of the SEC and you see those same teams in the top 10 in the country. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve both played the top part of the lineup, Alex at No. 3 doubles with Taylor [Lindsey] and Mary Anne Macfarlane, playing at No. 1, has really kind of found her stride. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken a few on the chin, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very impressive that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shown resilience and really came back in the past three weeks.â&#x20AC;? Mainz has also picked up a new motivational tool for the team to utilize for the remainder of the season. Her new goal for the Tide is to take each match as it comes and to remind each athlete that one point can be the game changer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put one good day on top of another good day, on top of another,â&#x20AC;? Mainz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went out to Toni when she was struggling on Saturday and just did my hand gesture, one fist on top of the other, and told her just to put one solid point on top another and not to concern herself with the outcome. I feel like thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a good job of as a team. Nothing changes, it just builds.â&#x20AC;?

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Slash Pine Press hosts bike hike this weekend By Stephanie Brumfield Assistant Lifestyles Editor snbrumfield@crimson.ua.edu As the semester is coming to an end for students, it is also coming to an end for the internrun Slash Pine Press, which will host its final event of the semester on Saturday morning. Just a few weekends ago, Slash Pine hosted its third annual writers festival, which brought in writers from as far away as Seattle, Wash. and St. Augustine, Fla. This weekend, Slash Pine is hosting a more informal event – a “downtown bike hike” that will begin at Edelweiss Bakery and Café, move to Capitol Park and end at Green Bar.

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Vivian Givhan, a Slash Pine intern and a sophomore majoring in English, said the bike hike isn’t as orchestrated as the festival was, and it’s more of a fun culmination of the semester’s work. “I’m looking forward to being able to grab a cup of coffee and a pastry and being able to talk with people,” she said. “Unlike the festival, there will be more interaction and less running from location to location. There also won’t be as much of a separation between the writer and the audience.” Nor will there be separate readings for readers of different age groups or professional levels. Slash Pine interns, other undergraduate students,

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English department faculty, creative writing graduate students and even a few out-of-towners will read their works side-byside throughout the bike hike. “Part of the beauty of it is that it’s such a mix. It’s nice to have some undergraduates and some faculty members reading at the same event,” Givhan said. For Jake Smith, a junior in New College and third-semester intern with Slash Pine, the bike hike will be one of the last events he will attend as an intern. Compared to other events hosted by Slash Pine, Smith said this one “doesn’t have as much of a hubbub about it,” which is both good and bad. “We won’t reach as many people, but it’s more relaxed

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and more about people wanting to hang out,” he said. “It’s just a bunch of people of different age groups, professional levels and backgrounds getting together because they like to read and write.” Both Smith and Givhan will read during the hike, and both expect there to be a mixture of people walking and riding bikes. “I’m going to walk,” Givhan said, “but I know some people will ride bikes [to Edelweiss] from where they live.” Smith said he wouldn’t be surprised if some people biked to Edelweiss to “scope it out,” but then walked between locations. Sarah Seaton, another Slash Pine intern, said the event is great because it is outdoors. “When you share your work in a space that is outdoors and a space that is outside your everyday environment, it evokes a different emotion,” she said. “It’s all about the idea of space.” Though Slash Pine has a preliminary list of people interested in reading at the event, Givhan said people can probably volunteer to read on the day of the hike, especially since the readers won’t have set locations for their readings. Readers and listeners will meet at Edelweiss, which is located near the intersection of 4th Street and 23rd Avenue around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 23. Hikers can meet and greet each other over coffee and pastries before walking (or biking) to Capitol Park, where the first reading will start around 11:30. Then, hikers will make their way to the Green Bar for another reading, which will start around 2 p.m. For more information about Slash Pine, visit slashpinepress.com.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Group holds staged reading of ‘Hamlet’ By Kelsey Stein Lifestyles Editor kmstein@crimson.ua.edu To go or not to go? Improbable Fictions will present a staged reading of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” tonight at 7:30 in Farrah Hall Room 214. The event is free and open to the public. Pre-show music will begin at 7 p.m., and the reading will run about two hours and 20 minutes with an intermission. Nic Helms, a graduate student studying English literature, started Improbable Fictions in March 2010 with a reading of “Twelfth Night.” Since then, the group has also performed “Much Ado About Nothing,” “King Lear” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” “Theatre offers something that neither books nor films can give you – characters that live and breathe on a stage only a few feet away,” Helms said. “Shakespeare’s characters are some of the best.” For staged readings, the turnaround is quick. The cast held its first rehearsal last Sunday. They do wear costumes for the performance, but they do not have to memorize their lines. “Staged readings exist halfway between the written page and the theatre stage,” Helms said. “When you watch a staged reading, you can’t just sit back and let the actors do all the work. You have to use your imagination as well. That sort of audience involvement makes staged readings a collaborative, engaging medium.” Staged readings challenge the actors to entertain their audience with limited use of props while reading lines off a page. “We use a bit of stage com-

bat, but only enough to suggest the sort of action you’d see in a full production,” Helms said. “Sometimes the suggestion of violence, the hint of horror, is more compelling than the real thing.” Actors in the show include faculty members, students and others from the Tuscaloosa community. “It’s tough to stage a ‘Hamlet’ without a Hamlet,” Helms said. “Fortunately, David Bolus, [a senior majoring in theatre],was interested in performing for one of Improbable Fictions’ staged readings. His Hamlet is not to be missed.” David Ainsworth, an English professor, will also play one of the main roles in the play, that of King Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle. He participated in Improbable Fictions’ readings of “King Lear” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” after seeing the group’s first reading. The main difference between a play and a staged reading is that the actors are reading off scripts, he said. “It’s not rehearsed in the same way that those other productions are,” he said. “There’s more of a spontaneity.” Ainsworth said students are usually the main audience for the readings. “It’s more accessible and informal,” he said. “An intimate performance of Shakespeare is better than watching it on the big screen or on DVD, and the space we’re performing in puts us very close to the audience.” For more a full cast list for “Hamlet,” information about Improbable Fictions and announcements about the group’s future productions, visit improbablefictions.wordpress.com or visit the group’s Facebook page.

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How to get the royal look for a summer wedding By Jordan Staggs

Kate—I mean Catherine— and William are not the only happy couple tying the knot this season. In fact, we all know what’s coming. Your best friend. Your cousin. That person from high school you haven’t spoken to since then but who sends you an invite and you feel obligated to go…. Summer is wedding season, and there’s no way around it. Then there’s the age-old dilemma. What to wear? Well, there’s really only one major rule, and I’m going to throw it at you simply: No white. Do you really want to be that guest? I don’t think so. So, here are a few quick tips for girls and guys on how to look nice and put-together at any ceremony.

1. Prints and ﬂorals are all the rage for dresses.

DewPoint release party rescheduled for today

The University’s newest literary journal, DewPoint, is hosting its first-ever release party tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. on the Gorgas House lawn. Though originally scheduled for Monday, April 4 at 5:30 and cancelled because of bad weather, the release party will take on the same form as was originally planned, changing only in location and time. Michael Martone, professor of creative writing, will kick-off the release party by reading selections from a collection of stories called “Four for a Quarter,” which is set to release in the fall. After that, undergraduate students who were published in the journal will be invited to read. During the readings, refreshments will be served, and those planning to attend are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs to the “picnic-style” event. DewPoint is sponsored by the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta and aims to publish the best creative and critical works produced by undergraduate students attending the University. Copies of the journal will be available for $10. In the case of bad weather the event will be held in 301 Morgan Hall. For more information, contact the DewPoint staff at uadewpoint@gmail.com.

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I know what you’re thinking. In the words of Miranda Priestly, “Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking.” But seriously, you can’t go wrong with a bold print that stands out but doesn’t hurt the eyes of your fellow guests. A pretty dress at a decent length—I know it’s hot outside, but keep it classy—is pretty much one-stop shopping. Pair with just a couple pieces of jewelry and heels, flats or even sandals, and you’re good to go.

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N contest – we’ve got to go with Greg on this one. Fairley’s tweets are mostly @replies, compared to Greg’s recent congratulaNo latitions to the UA gymnastics team and updates on what he’s doing post-football.

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@RealWizKhalifa Bio: Taylor Gang/Rostrum Records Followers: 1,614,216 Tweets: 19,557 Sample tweet: “hang nails are from hell”

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RRapping skills aside, Wiz Khalifa wins in the Twitterverse. While Weezy tweets almost exclusively about the city where he’s playayiing, Wiz tweets about weed, working, weed, shows and weed. Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is.

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Verdict: Barack Obama

Not only did Barack defeat Sarah Palin in the 2008 election, but he’s also victorious on Twitter. While he tweets about upcoming town halls and his plans for the country’s fiscal policy, she uses her tweets to hate on liberals. Bonus points to Barry for knowing how to spell.

The Ugly Tusk

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Verdict: The Ugly Tusk

The Capstonian

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Only 31 tweets, Capstonian? It seems like the Ugly Tusk wins by just being more devoted to sharing its snarkiness with the world, even if its tweets are primarily links to blog posts.