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Former Alabama, NFL fullback faces future with degenerative nerve disease By Kevin Connell | Staff Reporter
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hen Kevin Turner was 5 years old, he began his first season of organized football. Twenty-six seasons later at age 30, Kevin Turner would play his last season of organized football. Turner, a former University of Alabama and NFL fullback, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that attacks the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control muscle action. The disease is better known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. For Turner, ALS has taken most of his ability to use his arms and hands. “There’s very few things I can do with my hands,” Turner said. “I can’t eat by myself. I can’t take my pants off, can’t put them on. Can’t get dressed, can’t brush my teeth. It’s hard on someone who’s very independent.” The rest of his body is slowly deteriorating. Speech continues to worsen and swallowing becomes more and more of a strenuous task. Until last August, Turner needed a ventilator to help him breathe. He underwent a surgical procedure on his diaphragm that allows him to breathe on his own for the next two to three years. SEE TURNER PAGE 9
Photo Illustration by Austin Bigoney; Photo Courtesy of the Corolla Fullback Kevin Turner carries three would-be tacklers along for a ride as he trucks forward for a few more of the team’s 390 rushing yards against Vanderbilt in 1991.
TODAYON CAMPUS Campus exhibit WHAT: Healing the Wounded Heart Exhibit WHEN: All day WHERE: South Lawn Office Building
WHAT: WellBAMA Health Screenings WHEN: 7:30 – 11 a.m. WHERE: RISE Conference Room
By Taylor Manning | Staff Reporter
Campus art WHAT: Katherine Bradford: “The Golden Age of Exploration” WHEN: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall
Local food WHAT: Taco Tuesday WHEN: 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Jim ‘N Nick’s
Campus lecture WHAT: “The State of Global Biodiversity” WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Moody Concert Hall
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Scientist to visit campus UA honors prestigious Pulitzer Prize winner to alum at symposium lecture on biodiversity
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WHAT: Alabama Information Management Society meeting WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: 159 Russell Hall
NEWS | BIODIVERSITY
Scientists, authors and renowned scholars from around the country will gather this week at The University of Alabama to discuss the future of biodiversity during “Edward O. Wilson Week,” a three-day symposium honoring the world’s leading experts in the field. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and founder of sociobiology theory, is also one of the University’s most recognized alumni. “I cannot think of any other living biologist who is deserving of such recognition,” said Piotr Naskrecki, a resident research associate who works in the department of entomology at Harvard University. “If you look at his career and just look at the milestones, there’s enough major accomplishments to fill an entire generation of life, not just a single person’s life.” The one-time symposium features a packed schedule of book signings, speaker presentations, panel discussions and briefings on current research, culminating in a special tribute to Wilson from conservation and environmental
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groups throughout Alabama. Wilson, research professor emeritus at Harvard University, said the event will also serve as a launching point for his latest book, “A Window on Eternity.” The book traces the re-evolution of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, which was nearly destroyed by civil war. Naskrecki, a long-time associate of Wilson’s at Harvard, collaborated on the book by photographing several of the park’s living species. Unlike Wilson’s 29 previously published books, this one includes extensive wildlife photographs. “They’re superb,” Wilson said. “We don’t appreciate how good they are. To find those particular creatures and get them in the right spot is enormously difficult. This is not just a book of ideas, which is what I usually write. It’s a book extolling on a part of the environment, which should be experienced by sight, and even sound if possible, as much as by words.” Naskrecki is currently teaching a class in Mozambique and will be unable to attend the event, but he SEE WILSON PAGE 9
By Austin Frederick | Contributing Writer
Sitting in the Tuscaloosa Cultural Arts Center last Thursday, Edward O. Wilson recalled a story about a massive spider. “I was out on a path, and there was a giant tarantula on the path,” Wilson said. “Tarantulas look like big, hairy, sluggish creatures. I wanted to get it off the path and I thought if I just nudged it, it would move off the path. I tapped it, and it turned around faster than the eye could see, and it had its two fangs reared and ready to strike. And I thought to myself, ‘There is so much about animals that we don’t know.’” A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, biologist and UA alumnus, Wilson comes from a humble background and remains humble in spite of his overwhelming achievements. Hailing from Birmingham, he was forced to give up things like studying birds and animals when he was blinded in one eye in a fishing accident. He decided to
CW | Anna Waters Edward O. Wilson turn his attention to a species he could study through a microscope: insects. In high school, Wilson discovered the first fire ant colony in the United States. He graduated with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Alabama and received his doctorate from Harvard University. Since then, Wilson has published 29 books including “Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and The Diversity of Life,” which was voted SEE SYMPOSIUM PAGE 9
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Student-athletes win awards Senior golfers Cory Whitsett and Stephanie Meadow were named the winners of the Paul W. Bryant Award on Monday. The award is given annually to the top male and female student-athletes. Whitsett has won the Elite 89 Award twice and has been named a 2013 Capital One Academic All-American, a threetime All-American, a Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar and the 2013 SEC Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Meadow is a three-time WGCA All-American Scholar, a 2013 Capital One Academic All-American, the 2013 SEC Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a three-time First Team All-American. The men’s and women’s tennis teams were honored as the teams with the highest grade-point averages.
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Club to present reading night The UA Creative Writing Club will present its annual reading Wednesday night. The club consists of high school students from the Tuscaloosa area who have worked with creative writing MFA students and English professor Robin Behn this semester. The club is in its 10th year and is supported by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Tuscaloosa Arts Council, The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences and the English department. In June, the University will hold its annual Creative Writing Camp for high school students. The reading will take place from 5 to 6:15 p.m. in Morgan Hall 301. A reception will follow where student work can be viewed.
CW | Austin Bigoney Students take advantage of spring weather by playing Kan-Jam on the Quad, attempting to throw a disc into a small slot at the opposite end of the playing field.
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WellBama to offer free screenings WellBama is offering free health screenings for faculty and staff Tuesday from 7:30 to 11 a.m. The screenings include blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, body weight and height, as well as health coaching. Faculty and staff who attend the screenings have the chance to receive a $200 Visa gift card. Screenings will take place in the Stallings Center. Register online at wellness.ua.edu. Compiled by Emily Williams
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TODAY WHAT: “Healing the Wounded Heart” Exhibit WHEN: All Day WHERE: South Lawn Office Building WHAT: WellBAMA Health Screening WHEN: 7:30-11 a.m. WHERE: RISE Conference Room WHAT: Taco Tuesday WHEN: 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Jim ‘N Nick’s
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WHAT: Teal Ribbon Campaign WHEN: All Day WHERE: South Lawn Office Building
WHAT: Free Speech and Hearing Screening WHEN: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. WHERE: Old Capstone Medical Center
WHAT: Katherine Bradford: “The Golden Age of Exploration” WHEN: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall
WHAT: Blend Days Lunch WHEN: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Ferguson Dining Area
WHAT: Stress Free Daze WHEN: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. WHERE: The Quad
WHAT: Homegrown Alabama Farmers Market WHEN: 3-6 p.m. WHERE: Canterbury Episcopal Chapel
WHAT: Creative Writing Club Reading WHEN: 5-6:15 p.m. WHERE: 301 Morgan Hall
WHAT: Xpress Night WHEN: 6:30-9 p.m. WHERE: Ferguson Center Starbucks
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Chicken and Biscuits Pepperoni Pizza Ginger Honey Glazed Carrots Four Bean Herb Vinaigrette Salad Garden Burger
OPENRECORDS REQUESTS “Every citizen has a right to inspect and take a copy of any public writing of this state, except as otherwise expressly provided by statute.” From statute 36.12.40 of the Code of Alabama
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WHAT WE REQUESTED: List of applicants considered for vice chancellor of government relations, email correspondence between Judy Bonner and Robert Witt correlated to ‘vice chancellor for government relations’ and ‘Jo Bonner’ between April 1 and July 31, 2013. WHO REQUESTED IT: Lauren Ferguson FROM WHOM WE REQUESTED IT: Kellee Reinhart, vice chancellor for System Relations WHEN WE REQUESTED IT: Feb. 10, 2014 STATUS: March 5, 2014, response from Reinhart: “There are no public records that are responsive to your request. I can confirm that Congressman Bonner was interviewed on May 3, 2013.” WHAT WE REQUESTED: Documents pertaining to the murder investigation of Paula Lee Ellis, including the names of investigating officers; incident reports; police reports; correspondence regarding the investigation between UAPD and the Tuscaloosa Police Department, Northport Police Department, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation; any correspondence regarding the conveyance of evidence and any photographs related to the investigation. WHO REQUESTED IT: Lauren Ferguson FROM WHOM WE REQUESTED IT: UA Media Relations on behalf of UAPD WHEN WE REQUESTED IT: March 18, 2014 STATUS: April 14, 2014 response from Deborah Lane: “UA has reviewed your March 18 request regarding the murder investigation of Paula Lee Ellis. We have no documents that are responsive to your request.”
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IN THENEWS Teen survives stowing away on flight From MCT Campus Authorities say a 16-year-old Santa Clara boy is “lucky to be alive” after he ran away from home, clandestinely scaled a fence at Mineta San Jose International Airport and hid inside the wheel well of a plane flying from California to Hawaii in a case that has raised immediate questions about airport security beyond the terminals. Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said the airport’s security program “meets and exceeds all federal requirements” and works closely with the Transportation Security Administration and the San Jose Police Department. “No security program is 100 percent,” Barnes said. “We’re continuing to review video to determine where in fact he was able to scale the section of fence line, how he was able to proceed onto a ramp and get himself into the wheel well of that aircraft.” Barnes said the boy, under “cover of darkness,” climbed a perimeter fence sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. He then walked or ran across the airport ramp and got inside the wheel well of Hawaiian Airlines flight 45 that left San Jose at 7:55 a.m. and landed 5 1/2 hours later at Kahului Airport in Maui. That the boy survived literally puts him in rarefied air, as several similar stowaways in the past have died from frigid temperatures, lack of oxygen or being ejected from the plane as the landing gear is lowered. The last known person to survive as a stowaway in a flight that long was Fidel Maruhi, who in 2000 also hitched a ride in a wheel well from Tahiti to Los Angeles, a seven-plus-hour and 4,000-mile trip where the temperature dropped to nearly minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit. In August, a 13- or 14-year-old boy in Nigeria survived a 35-minute trip in the wheel well of a domestic flight after stowing away. Authorities credited the flight’s short duration and altitude of about 25,000. The Santa Clara teen was questioned by the FBI after being discovered on the tarmac at the Maui airport Sunday morning with no identification, Simon said. “Doesn’t even remember the flight,” FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu told The Associated Press on Sunday night. “Kid’s lucky to be alive.” The boy had run away from his family after an argument, Simon said. The boy was released to child protective services and not charged with a crime, and TSA alerted the boy’s parents. San Jose police said “the incident will be reviewed to determine if charges will be filed.”
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Street names honor significant Tuscaloosa figures By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter People drive down Warner, Wallace, McFarland and Greensboro all the time, but most never stop to consider where the names on the street signs came from. Some of the street names in Tuscaloosa are named after extremely well known figures like Paul Bryant, Wallace Wade and Gene Stallings. But even some of the less recognizable names pay tribute to figures who made an impact on the city of Tuscaloosa and the state of Alabama. For example, Lurleen Wallace Boulevard is named after Lurleen Wallace, the state’s first and only female governor. In the 1960s, Alabama was the only state in the South to have a female governor. “Her legacy is really in part because she was governor but a lot of people don’t know that,” Laura M. Sojka, a political science doctoral candidate whose research focuses on the life of Lurleen Wallace said. “You think of Lurleen Wallace Boulevard or you think Lake Lurleen and you think, ‘Oh, it’s just the governor’s wife.’” Lurleen Wallace, who grew up in Greene County, was born in Tuscaloosa County. She ran for office following her husband George Wallace’s first term, because of state laws that prohibited governors from serving two terms in a row. She was elected in 1966 and served just over a year and a half in office before dying of cervical cancer in 1968. “There’s that dichotomy of, ‘Oh she was just a puppet, she was a stupid woman,’ all that stuff,” Sojka said. “She was also a politician, but we frame her as a wife. There is that kind of contradiction when you think of southern womanhood and ‘a woman should be in the home,’ when you think of the 1960s and all the constraints on women and what was expected socially.” Sojka said Lurleen ran as Mrs. George C. Wallace to make it clear to Alabama voters that she supported
her husband’s platform. “In a lot of ways she certainly was a proxy,” Sojka said. “She openly admitted she didn’t have an interest in politics. She said she did it because it was important for George, and she wanted to help the state of Alabama. At the same time, she ran, she got elected, she served in office. The fact that she won and served speaks for itself.” While Lurleen was elected as an extension of her husband, she made a name for herself supporting causes that were important to her as well. “She was really big into state parks, which is part of the reason we have Lake Lurleen,” Sojka said. “It was an initiative of hers in terms of beautification and improving the lives of Alabamians.” Lurleen also worked to improve mental health laws and was involved with Bryce Hospital. However, Sojka said, Lurleen wasn’t an entirely sympathetic governor, and in many ways continued her husband’s infamous legacy. “The implicit assumption is there with improving the lives of Alabamians; she meant a certain type of Alabamians,” Sojka said. “Because she also really fought integration at the federal level.” Sojka said history has not been favorable toward Lurleen Wallace. While there are many books written about the legacy and infamy of George, there are just three written about Lurleen – one of which is a children’s book. Sojka said writers and historians within the state of Alabama are much more favorable toward Lurleen than those outside the state. Another famous Tuscaloosa street pays tribute to local businessman, philanthropist and art collector Jack Warner. Warner’s family was prominent in the paper business throughout the South. “Mr. Warner’s grandfather was the gentleman that patented the squarebottomed paperback and created the machine to make it,” Katherine
Richter, director of the Tuscaloosa Preservation Society said. “The family industry of wood, pulp and paper developed from that. It used to be called Gulf States Paper. It’s now called The Westervelt Company. Mr. Warner was executive of the company for many years and in that time built up his American art collection and opened the museum.” The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, formerly the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, is located on the campus of the Westervelt Company on Jack Warner Parkway. Warner’s collection includes works of late 19th-century American artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Edward Hicks. Richter used to work at the Westervelt-Warner Museum of Art and knew Warner personally for many years. “Mr. Warner is really nice,” she said. “He’s a sweet, sweet man. He turns 97 this year, and he’s still as active as he can be.” Richter said the Warner family has always been involved in local philanthropy and are active members of the First Presbyterian Church. “His family was very involved in getting Queen City Pool started,” Richter said. “He had a brother, David Warner, who died by drowning. Then the family opened the community pool for Tuscaloosa so that kids could learn how to swim.” The Warner name can be found other places around Tuscaloosa. The Mildred Westervelt-Warner Transportation Museum is named after Warner’s mother. “He’s a pretty major player in Tuscaloosa history,” Ian Crawford, director of the Jemison Mansion said. Crawford said the streets of Tuscaloosa were not always named after famous residents. He said there was a time when street names were much more practical. Jack Warner Parkway used to be called River Road, because it ran the length of the Black
Photo Courtesy of Hoole Special Collections Library Jack Warner (far right) stands with colleagues at the Alabama Business Hall of Fame induction on Sep. 14, 1976. Warrior River. Crawford said River Road used to be one of the city’s main industrial districts. “If you look at a map of Tuscaloosa, the original city is laid out parallel and perpendicular to the river, and the city ended at what is now called Queen City Boulevard, but it used to be called East Margin,” Crawford said. He said most of the streets were originally named in the 1820s and 1830s. Names like Cotton Street reflected the major industries in town. “Queen City itself is named because at the intersection of what was East Margin and South Margin, or Crescent Street, which we now call 15th Street, they built the Cincinnati and New Orleans Railroad. Cincinnati is known as the Queen City, and New Orleans is known as the Crescent City,” he said. Crawford said streets like 1st, 2nd and 3rd used to be named after Presidents Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
“You also have Market Street, which is now known as Greensboro,” Crawford said. “That’s where the markets were. Later it was colloquially known as Millionaire’s Way, because that’s where all the planters had built their homes.” Crawford said the University was originally intended to be an entirely separate community not connected to downtown or the West. University Boulevard was known as Broad Street up to the University campus and Huntsville Road on the other side of campus. Over the decades, the University, the city of Tuscaloosa and their streets have grown together. Downtown and campus are today connected not only by University Boulevard, but also by Paul Bryant Boulevard. Other streets carry the names of people from the University, the city and the state as a whole, all of whom made a big enough impact during their lives to be memorialized in asphalt and concrete.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
COLUMN | SENIOR FAREWELL
11 years at the Capstone By Michelle Fuentes
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Find more than contentment By Lauren Ferguson | Managing Editor I hate to be that girl. You know, the one who devotes her entire senior column to the college newspaper, but I’m going to do it. Hear me out, please. When I first arrived on campus four years ago, I was naïve and sheltered. I might have had an elitist mentality, thinking I deserved to attend a pricier, more prestigious school. (Whatever.) And I might have thought I wasn’t meant for sorority life. (Well, I pledged.) And I might have thought that all of my college days would be spent in a drunken daze of Wine Wednesdays, full social calendars and a pending marriage in the far – but still not too distant – future. (I’m laughing right now.) I took advantage of my first year by joining a sorority, multiple clubs and honor societies, all the while collecting varying friend groups. But nothing quite clicked. I joined The Crimson White. But, it didn’t click either. (I know, shocking.) They didn’t even want me as a freshman – it took an entire semester of hounding the lifestyles editor with emails before she agreed to take me under her wing. Even then, I struggled to learn how to write event previews that didn’t make my editors cringe. Never did it cross my mind that maybe, one day, I’d like to move up. I was content. Who were these people anyway? Some mysterious upperclassmen who were best friends with their “coworkers” and enjoyed staying in the newsroom past midnight. What kind of
Lauren Ferguson college student does that? Not me. Or so I thought. Four years later, here I am – much wiser than I was freshman year and, more importantly, much more driven. While I can’t say I’ve found my life’s purpose at the ripe age of 22, The University of Alabama and The Crimson White have given me the foundation of who I am and who I want to be. I’m now what you call one of those “Ceedub people.” You know, the previously mentioned deranged college student who spends more hours at the office than in classes and studying combined and still wants to get drinks with her coworkers. (Really, they’re friends.) Unfortunately, this type of dedication is lacking among many students. Having “huge life plans” post graduation is perfectly acceptable, but what about your time here on campus? I can’t imagine how empty the past four years would have been without finding this
niche on campus. It’s not bad to want the typical college experience – whatever that may be. However, my challenge to UA students is to extend beyond their comfort zone and find something that drives them to better themselves as people and to better this University. Alabama prides itself on recruiting the brightest and best academically, but that’s not the only quality that builds a strong college community. Students must be driven to excel beyond textbooks and parties. That’s the only way our campus will see progress. Too many opportunities slip by simply because students are too apathetic or too content to explore who they are as individuals and where their passions lie. I know the past four years did not follow my original college plan, and I’m thankful. I’m thankful for all of The Crimson White editors, past and present, who saw my potential even when I didn’t. If my time here at the Capstone has taught me anything, it’s that I love being a journalist, I love the Crimson White community and I’m leaving here as a much different person. To all my non-journalism friends (you know who you are), thank you. Thank you for listening to me talk, rant and brag about The Crimson White, something that extends beyond just an organization, for the past few years. Y’all are the best. Lauren Ferguson was the managing editor of The Crimson White.
Like so many other students who will proudly walk across The University of Alabama graduation stage, I am thrilled to take my next steps, reflective on the experience of our individual formative journeys and a little terrified to leave this place. Facebook.com After 11 academic Michelle Fuentes years and nearly as many summers at the Capstone, I will graduate in August and, finally, be Dr. Fuentes. While there is still some writing and revising to complete my dissertation, I can assure you (and my anxious family) that I will, in fact, finish by the June deadline to cross the graduation stage in August. (My brother and sister-in-law are working on teaching their toddler to call me “Dr. Aunt Michelle.”) In the fall, I will be teaching and living in a new academic community at a beautiful boarding school in a picturesque lakeside village in Indiana. While a little apprehensive about the forthcoming winter weather, my horse, Yvette, and I are ready to take on the new challenge of creating a new home, making new friends and starting a career rooted in meaningful work preparing high school students to set out on their own journeys toward higher education. It is going to be a brilliant adventure. I arrived at the Capstone in August of 2003, bright-eyed, very excited and full of “Roll Tide” spirit direct from California. My first year, and this was prior to the heavy recruiting that now happens in California, I wore crimson no fewer than three days a week to ensure that I was doing my part to support our Crimson Tide family. My freshman year roommates and I had a dedicated “spirit wall” in our suite in the Blount Living Learning Center, complete with shakers and the fight song lyrics. Like finding my first best friend in my Bama Bound orientation roommate, Alabama has been and continues to be a place where I experience so many formative firsts. In fact, I dare to say that this place is designed to create firsts for us, the students. Like a good country song, this holy ground is where I drank my first beer, pulled my first all-nighter, found best friends, experienced euphoric joy and met profound grief. This is the place where I learned how to rock out to country music and how to balance my checkbook. I fell in love and thought it was an all-consuming forever love. This is where I found, for the first time, that it wasn’t. I was taught to organize and lead others to accomplish goals as a team. I expanded my immediate family for the first time and committed myself to a leggy equine brunette named Yvette. I saw difference, racism, sexism, speciesism and empowered students working, in the best way we knew, for positive change. For the first time, I found my voice and raised my fist for justice in peaceful protest and turned radical thoughts into coherent academic theories. I watched my first students grapple with really tough questions and fell in love with the looks on their faces when they discovered their own answers. All of these firsts make up so much of me that I don’t know where Alabama ends and I begin. The past 11 years have created the most beautiful entanglement, forming and shaping me into an individual I couldn’t have dreamt of in 2003. For this, I am forever thankful to the thousands of professionals, staff members and students who make this place and this space for growth possible. Thank you for preparing me and so many of my peers for our next adventures. Michelle Fuentes will graduate in August with her Ph. D. in political theory. She serves as the community director of the Blount Living-Learning Center and as a Blount junior fellow.
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Alabama is not just OK By Genie Smith | Blackburn Chair Since the fifth grade, I had attended a small private school in Birmingham that cultivated and groomed students to go off to the Ivy Leagues. Many students never even considered any school in the state of Alabama, and if they applied to The University of Alabama, it was the back up to the back up. So, the expectation for me was to follow suit. Consequently, The University of Alabama was never the college I planned to attend – my skepticism being completely unfounded. I vividly remember the moment that I came to terms with the fact that this would be the place where I would spend the “best four years of my life.” I can still recall the day I finally convinced myself to tell my college counselor that I would be attending Alabama. Her pitying response being:
Submitted Genie Smith “Well … that’s OK.” Yes, this campus has its shortcomings, just as any does; however, people continue to underestimate the opportunity and potential that runs ubiquitous across this campus. Alabama is a place where people can scrape by and still come out holding a diploma,
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and it’s a place where people can truly soar. It’s a place where people can choose an unchallenging course load, and it’s a place where people can opt for unbelievable rigor. This dichotomy fuels the misconception that Alabama is “just OK,” and it’s what I believed for a long time. Today, after four years spent on this campus, I know full and well that IT IS OK. In fact, it’s more than OK. The University of Alabama is exceptional. I realized this my first day on campus, and I’ve continued to realize it more and more every day since. Alabama is where I was meant to be, and I can confidently say there is nowhere else I would have rather spent my college career. During my time here, I have discovered that the opportunities presented to UA students are boundless. My personal experience here has been
incomparable, and it’s been shaped by a myriad of events: joining a sorority, serving as a Culverhouse Ambassador for the business school, mentoring second to fifth graders through an arts exploration program, shadowing professionals, serving as student chair of the Blackburn Institute, interning with a notable company, participating in the Business Honors Program, attending Alabama football games and, of course, taking Dr. Lonnie Strickland for GBA 490. The summer after my freshman year, I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and by sophomore year, I had sprawled myself out across campus to get involved with multiple organizations. By junior and senior year, I had developed meaningful relationships with many of my advisors and professors – something I didn’t expect to be able to do so easily at such a large
institution. Alabama is not “just OK.” The University of Alabama is unparalleled and gives rise to outstanding individuals. The University of Alabama may not have been what I thought I wanted, but it ended up being so much more. My narrow-minded high school misconceptions were wildly proved wrong, and my expectations were far exceeded. While at Alabama, this is one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned: Never let others’ perceptions determine your decisions or individual opinions. It is here where I learned to understand for myself, think for myself and listen to myself. I owe this growth all to The University of Alabama – the school I’m proud to call home and proud to call mine. Genie Smith was the student chair of the Blackburn Institute.
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COLUMN | SENIOR FAREWELL
COLUMN | SENIOR FAREWELL
UA is a better place with Embrace greatness, not comfort the Mallet Assembly By Claire Chretien | Bama Students for Life President
By Marina Roberts | Mallet Assembly President When I came here as a freshman, I was invited to an event at Mallet my first weekend of college. Having no connections to speak of, I was eager to investigate the mysterious Mallet Assembly, and I decided to go. That spontaneous decision has changed the course of my life and has impacted my identity in a way that I have much difficulty putting into words in a brief article for The CW. What followed that first encounter has been four years of friendships with people who, as the University’s only black SGA president and Malleteer Cleo Thomas once remarked, are just as intelligent as me but with the complete opposite opinions. Those opinions are borne out of the remarkably diverse backgrounds and life experiences of the members of Mallet – people who grew up in the historic district of downtown Mobile, in a poor neighborhood in Montgomery or in an expat community in Egypt. People who grew up in a multiracial family, have experienced what it’s like to be hungry and homeless or who have been isolated from their families for being transgender. I’ve met people who hope to win an Oscar, who hope to colonize Mars during our lifetime, who hope to dismantle the systems of oppression that hold so many of us down. I’ve made friends (more than one) who told me that, had they not stumbled into the Assembly when they did, they would have committed suicide. I’ve met people who called me out on my assumptions and ignorance and broadened my limited perspective. During the last four years, I have had countless nights staying up until 3 a.m. arguing about whether or not the end of “Breaking Bad” was good, discussing extremely nostalgic video game soundtracks or talking about the shortcomings of Occupy Wall Street with people who were actually there. I have gotten into impassioned four-hour debates about gender politics. I have laughed until I cried at the shenanigans we have gotten into. I have gotten into way too many fights, and I have been forgiven probably more times than I deserve.
Marina Roberts But Mallet has a way of recognizing the flaws in everyone and looking past that to see the good. For many of us, this is the first place where we have had the agency to explore our identities and to be whatever we authentically are without apology. We can be certain that no matter what we are, Mallet is a family that accepts and empowers and, I daresay, it is even a family that loves. We will love your weirdly fanatical obsession with “Jackie Chan Adventures.” We will love your insistence that World Wrestling Entertainment is the last great performance art. We will love your terrible dancing, your unlabeled gender identity or your anger at the general lack of justice in the world. And I promise, we will laugh at you, very hard, especially when you do something goofy. Of everything I’ve achieved in college, being a Malleteer is hands down what I take the most pride in. I carry as memories some of the happiest moments of my life here and the strongest relationships I have started as conversations with a stranger in our drawing room. So if you’re curious about us, take it from me – you don’t want to graduate and have “not joining Mallet” at the top of your list of regrets. Mallet is a home away from home that none of us expected to find here, but all of us are unbelievably lucky that we did. Marina Roberts was the second female president of the Mallet Assembly.
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I graduated from high school a staunch abortion supporter, unaware of how radically my life would change thanks to a simple willingness to consider new ideas and information. Confronted with the reality of the science of embryology and what it reveals about the child in the womb – that she is fully human and fully a member of the human family – my worldview dramatically shifted. My first few months of college were confusing as I grappled with this realization. Moments of weakness and confusion are also moments of curiosity, seeking and hope. The painful admission that I had been wrong about abortion and other significant matters prompted me to re-evaluate my worldview. One of Pope Benedict XVI’s most famous sayings is, roughly translated, “The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” Society offers us countless empty promises for fulfillment, many of which bring temporary pleasure or false happiness but all of which leave us heartbroken and yearning for something better. Most people don’t like confrontation and conflict, but the history of social reform has proven they’re necessary for change. Many students prefer to go about their lives unaware of or apathetic to the horrible injustice of abortion. Spending much of my time at The University of Alabama challenging the status quo and bringing to light the gruesome reality of abortion alongside other pro-life students wasn’t comfortable, but comfort isn’t important. The truth is. The world doesn’t need any more spineless cowards. It doesn’t need any more advocates for political correctness and sham social justice causes. It needs militant, ferocious defenders of our weakest, most vulnerable and innocent brothers and sisters. People sometimes say to me, “I think it’s great that you stand up for what you believe in.” This bothers me. We must first discern whether what we believe is logical and just; only then can we take a stand. There’s nothing good about the fact that I used to stand up for my beliefs when I supported abortion; I was denying science and promoting murder.
Claire Chretien Embracing the greatness to which each individual is called means recognizing how disordered the world’s promises are and saying yes to true joy. Society tells so many lies, like that shallow physical relationships are gratifying, using others as a means to an end is somehow “love,” and that there is no objective right or wrong. The “comfort” against which Pope Benedict XVI cautioned is rooted in a lack of love. Love, which is willing good for another, called Bama Students for Life to bring Genocide Awareness Project to campus in order to show our peers the inhumanity of abortion and the humanity of abortion’s millions and millions of victims. It may seem strange to call showing images of abortion victims “loving.” But if we truly love someone, we cannot lie or hide the truth from him or her. People need to know what abortion is and what abortion does. Only then can we have a real conversation about abortion that causes cultural change. Recognizing in love the inherent dignity and value of every human has consequences: opposition from unexpected places, chilled or lost friendships, censorship from the University. I don’t care. There’s beauty in being liberated from the mind-numbing, noisy distractions in which the world engulfs us. There’s beauty in the mercy that pro-life people showed to me when I joined the revolution. There’s beauty in re-examining our beliefs with minds open to new information. There’s beauty in the blazing glory of the truth, when we finally find it. Claire Chretien was the President of Bama Students for Life.
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Graduates adjust to financial independence By Samuel Yang | Staff Reporter Whether it’s Dining Dollars or student loans, money and college are never far apart, but graduation can often open a new financial door for students. When students graduate, they are often faced with substantial student loans paired with low starting salaries, high rents or other costs associated with starting out in the real world. For many, money is tight. Patrick Taylor graduated from The University of Alabama last year and moved to Birmingham. While at the University, he worked 20 to 30 hours a week. Taylor said since moving to Birmingham to work a full-time job, he has had both higher expenses and a higher income. “I pay for rent all on my own now, but it’s a lot easier because I can work a lot more,” Taylor said. “I have to pay a little bit of student loans. The majority of my money pretty much goes to rent or gets put in my savings account.” Taylor said his new lifestyle, however, is teaching him new skills. “My dad was recently like, ‘Hey, you need to start looking at car insurance,’” he said. “My roommates and I had to set up our utilities and things like that, which I didn’t have to do previously.” Though Taylor said his income has increased and he no longer worries about being able to get gas or grab dinner at a drivethru the way he did in college, he said he has stuck to a simple budget and lifestyle in preparation for the future. He encourages sticking to a college budget if possible, even if extra income becomes available. Taylor said he is currently saving up with the intention of going on a long-term mission trip and graduate school. “I’m a simple person, so I don’t need a lot to make me happy or keep me content, which is kind of a blessing,” he said. “All of that extra income that I have has become savings instead of wasted income.” Stephanie Halligan, a personal finance professional, said the habits and plans students develop while still in college can affect their finances once they graduate. Halligan is the editor of The Empowered Dollar, a blog with financial advice and information, as well as her own story of living on minimum wage while battling credit card debt and $30,000 in student loans. She said it can be difficult to develop financial “life skills” in college, but students should save as much as possible and map out a dream scenario for life after college. “Where are you living? What are you doing? What’s your lifestyle like? Then take your best shot at guessing how much that’ll cost each month,” Halligan said. “That magic number equals your independence. And that’s the one thing that’ll help keep you motivated when you’re tempted to spend all your cash the last few months of senior year.” Taylor Duncan graduated from the University in Fall 2012 and currently attends The University of Alabama School of Dentistry. Newly married, Duncan moved to Birmingham with his wife and said he now deals with a home loan and student loans and is
Flikr.com Seniors must learn to budget for themselves upon graduation, accouting for new bills such as student loan payments. learning how his current budget fits into a larger financial plan. “We also are learning how common things like a broken heater/air conditioner, leaky faucets, worn out car tires and bad brake pads can affect your monthly budget,” Duncan said. “It was surprising to us how much we needed monthly or yearly just to cover these unforeseeable things.” While at the University, Duncan had two different checking accounts — one for his parents’ contributions and one for what he was paying for. “We based this on trust, and the housing/food/gas account was controlled by my parents,” Duncan said. “There was also an understanding that they would provide these things for four years. I ended up saving most of my spending money.” As a result, Duncan said, he and his wife Kelley were able to kick off married life without borrowing anything besides their home loan. “Our habits of saving have also carried over after college and are important to us,” Duncan said. “Kelley and I budget for all of our expenses based on her salary and my student loans. We still both receive help from our parents, but it is through random acts of kindness on their part. We make a point to not ask for anything specifically and to be as independent as possible.” Duncan said working during the summer helped to lay the foundation and taught him to understand the value of a dollar. He said he advises making and sticking to a budget. “Your finances will change after you graduate, but your spending or saving habits will probably carry over,” Duncan
said. “It would be good to see if you needed to make some changes to your habits before you graduate, rather than realizing you don’t have enough money for an oil change three months after graduation.” Some students are getting a taste of both worlds while still in college. Amber Thomas, a senior majoring in elementary education, lives at home in Tuscaloosa and has worked a job at American Christian Academy for four years. She said she foresees 20 years of paying back student loans but is confident in her future because of her mother, who she said has set an example and offered help. Since her mother works at night, Thomas said living at home is like living alone at times, allowing her to gain independence and household skills. She said she advises students to keep seeking out scholarships even after their college career starts to help offset potential loans or personal expenses. “There are tons of them out there, and I feel like I could have easily gotten some help with paying for school,” she said. Halligan said being conscientious of your spending can give you more options when you’re out in the real world. While it’s tempting to spend money during senior year, Halligan said, that same money will be useful immediately after graduation. “Think of it this way: A few hundred dollars can buy you an extra month of not moving back home with your parents,” Halligan said. “The more you have in your bank account, the more time you’ll buy yourself to look for a good job and start living your own life.”
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Avanti member supports charity By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter Avanti leader Sam Foster and parent ambassador Madeline Folsom raised more than $1,500 to support the Foothills Alliance through the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop service project this year. The Avanti team regualrly attends the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop. While at the conference, members particiapte in workshops that teach them to grow as student orientation leaders and develop service projects for the community. Foster, a sophomore majoring in marketing, raised more than $1,500 to support the Foothills Alliance, a charity in South Carolina that provides supplies and support for victims of sexual violence and child abuse. He worked on the project in coordination with Fasom. Foster said he used the money to buy the Foothills Alliance two new desktop computers. Foster and Madeline Folsom, a junior majoring in human development and family studies, worked together to collect supplies like books and clothes from organizations around campus. They had fundraisers at
local restaurants to raise additional money, which they put toward the purchase of the desktops. “We really wanted to make it the biggest community service project that the Avanti and Parent Orientation programs have ever done,” Folsom said. “We feel like it wasn’t given enough effort in previous years so we wanted to work really hard on it.” The SROW service project functions like a friendly competition among the Southern schools that participate. Foster and Folsom’s team ended up winning the competition by 19,000 points. “The way the whole community service project works is they assign points to each item that you’re supposed to bring in,” Foster said. “It got to the point where we had enough money left over that we decided it would be more helpful instead of just buying a bunch of little things to see if they had any big things they needed. They told us that they needed a couple more computers.” Foster and Folsom served on the community service committees for their respective orientation organizations. Foster said he began planning the Foothills Alliance
fundraiser in August and raised money through March. “Sam just got really passionate about working with non-profits and serving and getting the team involved with community service,” said Jerri Middleton, coordinator of orientation and special programs. “He’s very passionate about serving and getting other people excited about serving and thinking about things bigger than themselves.” Foster was an Avanti last year and now works as a student coordinator of recruitment events. Middleton said he works around three hours a week in the Avanti office and helps out wherever he can in his free time. “He is very much a servant leader,” Middleton said. “He is very good at one-onone conversations and mentoring in smaller groups or individually. He’s very sweet and kind-hearted and a very strong leader.” Foster will be working with Avanti again this summer and is already planning more service projects for his team, specifically with Head Start in Alberta, Ala., and other projects around Tuscaloosa.
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UA students travel to Italy with new summer program By Heather Buchanan | Contributing Writer This May, seven students will travel to Italy to learn about Renaissance mathematicians as part of a new UA in Italy study abroad program. In its inaugural year, the three-week program titled “Discovering Mathematicians of the Renaissance” will take students to cities including Rome, Florence, Pisa and Venice. Pam Derrick, director of learning communities, is program director for UA in Italy. “This program was created to provide an experience that integrates numerous academic disciplines in an experiential setting,” Derrick said. “I am thrilled for the students who are participating in this trip. Dr. Bowen will create new and imaginative ways for them to earn about Italian culture, math and themselves.” Larry Bowen, a professor in the department of mathematics, will travel with the group abroad and teach a three-hour general studies course. The idea for Bowen’s course came from several of his own personal interests. “Because I teach mathematics, a course related to math was an obvious choice,” he said. “I also wanted to take advantage of teaching in a foreign location. Putting
those two things together with some pre-existing interests of my own, I decided to focus on mathematicians of the Renaissance.” The mathematicians that students will study were not necessarily classified as such when they were alive. Bowen explained that sometimes they would hold titles such as bookkeeper or accountant, but were actually mathematicians. Students will uncover these hidden scholars as part of their studies this May. “I used the term ‘discovering’ in the course title simply as a way of acknowledging that a lot of Renaissance mathematics was done by people who might not have considered themselves primarily mathematicians,” Bowen said. The group will spend the majority of their time in Florence, but will enjoy several days in Rome and Venice and even a day in Pisa. These locations were chosen to provide a relevant backdrop for the course. “Florence is ground zero for studying Renaissance mathematicians,” Bowen said. “For instance, while there, we will tour the Museo Galileo and we’ll use our visit to the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore as an introduction to Filippo Brunelleschi, who designed and built the famous dome of the church. I’ll use our visit to Pisa to introduce Leonardo
of Pisa – better known to us as Fibonacci. Fibonacci was a pre-Renaissance mathematician but his work, especially his book, Liber Abaci, was extremely influential among mathematicians of the Renaissance period.” Scott Barnes, a post-graduate student with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunication and film and A/V production, is keeping his expectations for the program’s first trip relatively open. “I have very few expectations for what is coming in Italy,” Barnes said. “I like to keep myself open in any experience I may have. I know the study abroad program has many things planned for us including some of the typical things one would expect to do, and that will be exciting, but I am hoping to find a nice hole-in-the-wall restaurant with fantastic food and a big personality.” Alex Jones, a sophomore majoring in anthropology, said he wants to use this trip to increase his global awareness as a budding anthropologist. “As an anthropology major, it would really give me better insight into the field to get out of the country, to see completely different cultures,” Jones said. For more information about study abroad programs at The University of Alabama, visit studyabroad.ua.edu.
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CW | Shelby Akin Local artists and vendors come together every Thursday from 3-6 p.m. on the lawn of Canterbery Chapel for Homegrown Alabama, a student-organized farmers market.
Homegrown Alabama returns with new vendors By Emmalee Molay | Contributing Writer Homegrown Alabama may look like the average college campus farmers market, but it is aiming to be much more than that, organizers said. The student-led group behind the weekly farmers market at The University of Alabama targets farmers and vendors from around the area to participate every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. The market, which accepts Bama Cash, is located on the lawn of Canterbury Chapel on Hackberry Lane between Bryant Drive and University Boulevard, and begins in the spring and runs through the summer until October. Dabney Powell, co-manager for Homegrown Alabama and a junior majoring in student nutrition, said she is very passionate about the project, which has been running since 2005. “All of our vendors are local farmers, and by shopping at the farmers market you’re supporting them and that gives them the opportunity to do more marketing and keep money in the Tuscaloosa economy,” Powell said. “And you’re supporting local farming practices.” Powell will serve her first full year as co-manager and said the more groups involved that come to support the market, the more vendors and community customers will unite within the University program. “Our market goal is to reach out to the student
population,” Powell said. “We are hoping to have more involvement with other student groups in the fall. It doesn’t have to be anything food related.” The market already includes products from both farmers and local artists and artisans. One vendor who participates in Homegrown Alabama is not a farmer but the seller of homemade products. Soapy Jones has been selling her handmade soap products from the Left Hand Soap Co. at the market for two years, although she has been crafting the product for 14 years. “I think they’ve done an excellent job of educating the general community and the University student community about local produce, local goods and local companies,” Jones said. “Also, the importance of focusing your money with fellow community members and buying such ingredients, and therefore having a healthier diet.” Jones said she has always had a great experience with the market and is looking forward to another year promoting her soaps to students, faculty and community members. “I think it had allowed us to reach people we wouldn’t have reached otherwise,” Jones said. “Every year the University brings in new students and new faculty and staff, and every year because we work with Homegrown Alabama, we are excited to keep doing it. We always have a lot of fun, and really it’s a win-win all the way.”
Trey Harrison, a UA student who devotes his free time on Thursdays as a volunteer at the market, said Homegrown Alabama is a great way to connect students with the community. “The on-campus market is a way for students to be exposed to fresh produce and resources that are available locally without going through the national chain stores,” Harrison said. “Additionally, it puts you in contact with more tradesmen in the fact that not all of them are farmers. It benefits the students and vendors.” Harrison said he enjoys the market because of the wide variety of fresh produce. He also hinted at a new aspect of the market that will be available this year. “One vendor that is coming will be selling free–range chickens that he has farmed,” Harrison said. “That is our new big thing that we haven’t had in the past.” Powell said people should come to the market because it allows people to know where their food is coming from. “It’s more sustainable because it doesn’t have to travel however many miles to get to your plate,” Powell said. She also said the environment is more enjoyable because a large and diverse group of people shop at the market. “It’s more fun than shopping at the grocery store, and it’s cool that you get to interact and meet with the people who have grown what you are going to eat,” Powell said. “It’s an easy way to meet new people that have different qualities and a quick way to make new friends.”
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COLUMN | FILM
Cannes Film Festival showcases offbeat films By Drew Pendleton Every May in the southern French city of Cannes, the stars align for one of the world’s largest, oldest, most storied film festivals. Since 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has played host to some of the world’s greatest directors in the race for its elusive top prize, the Palme d’Or. Based on the list released this past week, this year’s festival will follow Cannes’ famed trend but with a twist: several Hollywood stars will take new roles, diverting from their usual fares and set to surprise audiences everywhere. The 2014 edition of Cannes will open May 14 with the premiere of “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman as American starlet Grace Kelly, who went on to become the princess of Monaco. Like last year’s opener, the dazzlingly visual “The Great Gatsby,” “Grace of Monaco” was originally slated to open last December, before being pushed back due to tension between the studio and director. The 10 days of showings that follow will bring together films from all over the world to the Promenade de la Croisette, but the star power present should make for an intriguing competition. Following in the steps of 2009 festival opener “Up” and screening out of competition is the anticipated “How to Train Your Dragon 2.” While an animated film may seem out of place, fans of the first film will no doubt be anxious to see how its sequel is
received when it premieres. Screening in the Un Certain Regard section – the festival’s second-tier competition – is Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, the fantasy “Lost River.” Gosling is no stranger to Cannes; his collaborations with Nicolas Winding Refn, the neo-noir “Drive” and boxing gangster drama “Only God Forgives” director, both premiered at the festival. While Gosling does not appear in the film, he directs a stellar cast of various talents – including “Drive” co-star Christina Hendricks and former “Doctor Who” star Matt Smith – from his own script, about a single mother whose son finds the gateway to a mysterious underwater utopian society. Meanwhile, in competition, the range of premieres will finally bring some of 2014’s most anticipated films to the big screen. “Twilight” stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart both star in competing films for the Palme d’Or: Pattinson performs as a limo driver who befriends a pyromaniac (Mia Wasikowska) with family issues in David Cronenberg’s eerie-looking “Maps to the Stars,” and Stewart stars as the devoted assistant to an aging starlet (Juliette Binoche) who retreats to the Swiss Alps after losing a role to a young upstart (Chloe Moretz) in the no doubt “All About Eve”-inspired “Clouds of Sils Maria” by Olivier Assayas. French starlet Marion Cotillard, who has
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an Oscar to her name for “La Vie en Rose,” stars in the intriguing drama “Two Days, One Night” from brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Dardennes have won two Palme d’Or awards in the past, and their collaboration with Cotillard – who plays a woman forced to convince her coworkers to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job – could put them in the running for a third. Also depicting a race against time is Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman,” an adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s novel, starring Jones as a claim jumper helping a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) escort three women to a mental hospital in 19th-century Nebraska. If any film at Cannes smells like Oscar bait, “The Homesman” would be it. The film everyone will be watching has the strangest casting of all: Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher,” a true story starring Steve Carell as a millionaire with paranoid schizophrenia who shot and killed an Olympic wrestler (played here by Mark Ruffalo) on his estate in the 1990s. Miller, who previously directed the acclaimed “Capote” and “Moneyball,” is no stranger to drama. The surprise, however, is Carell’s casting. Although he’s touched on drama before with “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Dan in Real Life,” this is Carell’s first truly dark, dramatic role that could be either a smash hit or massive bomb. Based on the short teaser trailer that hit the web earlier in 2013, it looks like he nailed it.
just because we had helmets on and there’s no bleeding or pain. We thought we were fine.” Turner said he estimates that, in total, he probably received between 25 to 30 concussions during his football career, with the possibility of up to 100. That doesn’t include sub-concussive hits, which is brain trauma that doesn’t rise to the level of causing concussion-like symptoms, thus making them impossible to diagnose on the sideline.
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In August 2010, just three months after Turner’s diagnosis, researchers at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy linked ALS to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease of the brain that causes dementia, mood swings, memory loss and depression. Research conducted by the CTSE showed that ALS is eight to 10 times more likely to be diagnosed in NFL players than it is in the average citizen, making CTE a plausible cause. Dr. Ann McKee, a co-director of CTSE and the neuropathologist who has found CTE in the brains of more than 50 former athletes, made the connection when she found toxic proteins in the spines of three former athletes – two football players and one boxer – who had ALS and CTE. The proteins were an unusual find in that she had not seen them in earlier studies on non-ALS athletes who had CTE or average citizens who died of ALS with no signs of CTE. “What we’re finding is people with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Some of them are suffering from the degenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy that is causing their brain to essentially rot, even after they stop getting hit in the head for the rest of their lives,” said Chris Nowinski, one of the two other co-directors of CSTE and a former WWE wrestler. Nowinski said there’s no minimum amount of concussions – the most obvious example of brain trauma – that someone must have to get CTE; rather, longevity is what counts. “The strongest correlations are length of career, especially with boxers,” he said. “There’s a lot of risk factors that we simply don’t understand, but what we’re Turner confident of is that no one has ever gotten this disease who does not have a history of extraordinary brain trauma.” Turner, who played fullback, said he believes that the brain trauma he received while playing football all those years is what ultimately caused his ALS. Both he and Nowinski believe he has CTE. “If I knew I was going to have ALS when I was 40, I wouldn’t have played,” Turner said. “But if I would have been presented with all the facts, I think I would have not only played differently, but I would have probably retired two years earlier.” A native of Prattville, Ala., and a current resident of Birmingham, Turner said he recalls two occasions during his days in the NFL with the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles where he was knocked out with a concussion during a game but still finished playing in the game. “When I was playing, we thought that when you kind of got yourself oriented that you’re fine. And you go ahead, keep playing,” he said. “I was ignorant to the seriousness of banging your head around
Turner started the Kevin Turner Foundation in December 2010 to raise awareness and money for ALS and, because of his involvement in research that links CTE to ALS, awareness about the seriousness of concussions and brain trauma across all sports at every level. Since its inception, the foundation has raised around $500,000. The money has played a small role in research conducted by CSTE, which is moving closer toward finding a way to diagnose CTE while a person is still living, among other things, Nowinski said. Turner said he hopes to continue to make contributions with the $5 million settlement that he is set to receive from the NFL. He and nearly 4,500 other former NFL players sued the league for $765 million for allegedly concealing information regarding the dangers of concussions. The former players won the lawsuit on Aug. 29. Turner said he realizes that one of the best methods for athletes fighting ALS is to avoid harm’s way in the first place. Along with receiving proper care in the event of a concussion, he said the game he so dearly loved playing as a boy should not be played until the ninth grade. McKee said the developing brain goes through a multitude of changes between the ages of 6 and 14. Turner said this makes it an unsuitable time to play football with so much potential for brain trauma. His son, Cole, is 10 and no longer allowed to play football until he reaches high school, while his oldest son, Nolan, 16, concluded his sophomore season at Vestavia Hills High School last fall. Turner’s father, Raymond, said he wishes he would have known not to start at such an early age. “It’s a hard decision to make; we all love football,” Raymond said. “We’re not trying to kill football by no means, but we’d be a lot smarter about the things we do. If a kid gets knocked out, he’d come out and go back in. Little different from what they do now. They keep you out, check you over. You used to come out, and if you could see a couple of fingers, you’d be back in the game. “I’d be a lot more observant now and see that he got taken care of a little better.” Turner will donate his brain to CTSE after passing, where it will be studied by McKee and Nowinski, he said. Thousands of brains are needed to expand upon their findings. As more cases are studied, Turner said he believes that, along with gene therapy and stem cells, a cure for ALS will be found by the end of this decade. It’s a day he hopes to live to see, he said. Until then, he will use his hands in ways that remain unaffected by his disease. “Hopefully, I’m still lending a hand to someone else who needs it,” he said.
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praised its mission of evaluating and celebrating biodiversity. “Biodiversity comprises and creates the world around us,” he said. “It’s every living element in the world put together and each of these elements interacting with each other. Without biodiversity, we humans would not be able to exist. We are part of biodiversity, and we depend on it.” Another highlight of the event is Wilson’s keynote address, which will examine the state of global biodiversity. Other topics of discussion will include a look at Alabama’s own biodiversity, marine microbes and evolutionary innovations in extreme environments and the relationship between ecology
and evolution. Rebecca Florence, director of college relations in the College of Arts and Sciences, helped coordinate the event. “It’s always a distinct pleasure to have Dr. Wilson come to The University of Alabama,” Florence said. “Not only is he loved and respected worldwide, but he is one of the nicest gentlemen in the world. We’re delighted to have him here, and we’re looking forward to a long and informative week during the symposium.” The symposium will run from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at various locations on campus. The event requires advanced registration and a $10 minimum admission fee. Wilson’s special plenary address at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall is free and open to the public. For a complete schedule, visit biodiversity.ua.edu.
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authorities in the field. That part is excellent,” Wilson said. “I gave my awards to the University but didn’t expect them to be used like this. I’m very proud of SYMPOSIUM FROM PAGE 1 them. I thought they would just be stored on as the most important book on ani- somewhere because I needed to put them mal behavior in history, and received the somewhere. I didn’t want to pass them on Pulitzer Prize for his books “On Human to someone and then have them show up Nature” and “The Ants.” Another popu- on eBay, so I thought giving them to the lation book of Wilson’s, “Consilience,” University would be a logical gift.” Although he showed a love for the state discusses some methods that have been used to unite the sciences and of Alabama, Wilson wasn’t shy about his might in the future unite them with the opinion on Alabama’s past exclusion of evolution education in public school syshumanities. “It’s essentially about the unity of tems throughout the state. “My fellow Alabamians are just the knowledge and how they are all related and how they are all related to the human- most wonderful people in the world,” he ities and the term he makes up for that said. “They are progressing rapidly, and they will turn this state into one of the is Consilience,” Adam premier states within Beg, a senior majoring the coming years. But on in biology, said. the evolution issue, they Wilson is also the are behaving stupidly.” founder of the theory Wilson said although of sociobiology, which he could not have foreargues that human and seen his successes, he evolutionary forces thinks ambitious people shape animal behavshouldn’t be so surior. Beg recalled a talk prised when they work Wilson gave on campus — Edward O. Wilson for something for their last here when visiting entire lives. Tuscaloosa. “Ambitious people “He talked about always hit for the fence,” how altruism can be a he said. “If you’ve been genetic thing,” Beg said. “You would think that altruism wouldn’t working to hit for the fence for your benefit you genetically unless you were entire life, and you finally do it, why a human, but he was talking about how should you be surprised?” Before the technological age, Wilson it all relates to the constructs between other animals and how it is seen in early made most of his discoveries with nothing more than a microscope. Although man.” Wilson has also recently written anoth- other theories are changing with the er book called “A Window on Eternity” onset of new technology, Wilson said his that discusses Mozambique’s Gorongosa have largely stayed the same. “My theories haven’t changed because National Park, which was destroyed, of technology,” Wilson said. “I think it’s restored and continues to evolve. “It’s not just a book of ideas, which I just prolonged them with new evidence. usually write about, it should be experi- It’s provided us a way to see things and enced by sight and even sound if it were analyze things that have not been analyzed yet.” possible,” Wilson said. Wilson is retired and currently lives Wilson is currently involved with three-day biodiversity symposium at The with his wife Irene in Lexington, Mass. University of Alabama held in his honor. He will give a special plenary address at In conjunction with this, he graciously 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Moody Music donated all of his awards, which are on Building Concert Hall in conjunction display at the Tuscaloosa Cultural Arts with the biodiversity symposium. The event is free and open to the public. For Center in downtown Tuscaloosa. “We are doing this biodiversity more information and a complete schedsymposium with some of the top ule, visit biodiversity.ua.edu.
“Ambitious people always hit for the fence.”
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Stress eating can be common, unnecessary during finals week By Tara Massouleh
CW | Austin Bigoney As gradution approaches for UA seniors, many are choosing how to spend their final days.
Seniors share plans for final night in Tuscaloosa By Hannah Widener | Contributing Writer For many students the last night before graduation flies by without a second thought, but for others, it is one final moment to spend with friends and truly celebrate the end of an era. Kyle Zimmerman, a senior majoring in political science, said the decision between spending time with family and friends has been tough. With many of his friends in the U.S. Air Force ROTC going off in different directions after college, this will be his last night to see all of them before they part ways. “I’ll miss the community and having things so close together, where if I need help on a test or just need a friend, I can call them up and they’ll be there in five minutes,” he said. “I know I’ll have a little bit of that later on because the Air Force is a tight-knit group of people, but it’s just not going to be the same.” Zimmerman, a Prattville, Ala., native, said he will return to Tuscaloosa to visit his brother and a couple of his
old friends. Events such as A-Day, homecoming and football games are what will bring him back, he said. Saturday tailgates on the Quad are what Zimmerman will miss most. “My favorite memory would have to be this past fall hanging out with my friends at the tailgate on Saturdays,” he said. “It was always the one day where friends and family would get together. I know it was about football, but it was really more about friendship.” While graduation is a time of great happiness and pride, it is also be a time of “lasts” for many UA students. Kevin Duque, a senior majoring in business, said he wants to spend as much time as possible with friends before he takes the summer off to travel before dental school. “During the day, I’m going to play a soccer game with my friends one last time before we all go our separate ways,” he said. “We’re in a tournament right now, but I want to make sure I hang out with everybody before I leave. At night I plan on sleeping over with my friends and just talking and watching a movie before we all go to bed.”
Tiara Dees, a graduate student in marketing and management, said she has plans to do things a little differently by spending time with family rather than friends for her second graduation. She plans to stay in and play video games with her family just as she would on any normal night, she said. Post-graduation, Dees will be joining many other UA graduates in the job hunt. She said she has found many job leads including one at Headless Chicken Games, a small game development company in Costa Rica. While Dees has learned many lessons from studying at the University that will help her later in life, one of the biggest lessons she said she has learned is perseverance. “The biggest lesson I have taken away from college is that I can do anything I set my mind to,” she said. “I have been a self-supporting student since my undergrad, and getting through college has been a challenge for me in many ways. College taught me to work harder than I ever have before as well as to continue to strive for my goals and dreams.”
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when we’re worrying about a million things at once, and every day that goes by is just 24 more hours of studying time to be lost. Yes, it’s the end of April, which means we’re probably sporting rain boots and umbrellas while walking to class and spending every spare moment with our heads down in the basement of Gorgas. April means finals and the end of the spring semester are just around the corner. With every night spent either studying for finals or relishing in our final days of college freedom before many of us return home for the summer comes another opportunity for a latenight run to Checkers or a systematic cleaning of the entire content of your quickly-dwindling pantry supply of junk food. We’re talking cheese puffs, chocolate bars, Easy Mac, Little Debbie snack cakes and every other stereotypical unhealthy food that comes to mind. During dead week and finals week, or realistically any week that comes after spring break, eating healthy is probably one of the last things on everybody’s mind. Sure, we have summer to worry about in terms of how we look, but most of us will probably spend our days running errands as interns in offices, working at our hometown restaurants or vegging out on the couch to reruns of “Laguna Beach.” Well, at least that’s what I have planned. So in reality, there’s no sense of urgency to stay in shape or get in shape for summer, especially when the stress of school is beckoning us to clean out a pint of Ben and Jerry’s while we futilely struggle to memorize entire text books. Despite the temptation to cancel out all the hard work we got in between New Year’s and spring break, it’s probably not worth it for a few
blissful nights of all-you-can-eat Krispy Kreme donuts. So to help us all keep on through the homestretch without completely disregarding every healthy eating guideline we’ve ever had funneled through our brains, there are just a couple tips we can keep in mind to avoid the infamous evil known as stress-eating. One way to avoid eating unhealthy food, but while still getting the satisfaction of eating something when we’re in for the long haul amidst a pile of books is to trade unhealthy foods for healthy foods with the same qualities. For example, if you’re really craving something cold and sweet (yes, ice cream), you can trade out a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough for yogurt or fresh berries with whipped cream. It’s not exactly the same, but the difference in calories isn’t exactly minimal either. If you feel like you want to inhale an entire family-sized bag of Doritos, it might be best to crack open a bag of pistachios or another nut instead. You get the same crunchiness and saltiness of a chip, but with more protein and good fat. Another way to avoid stress-eating is to trade out the act of eating for another activity. When we eat out of stress, it’s often because we want an escape or even just a distraction from what we’re doing. Instead of opening up the refrigerator door for an easy distraction, try turning on the TV or even calling one of your friends for a short chat – anything to take your mind off wanting to eat. Ultimately, when it comes to finals week, all bets are probably off. There’s no telling how many times we’ll be tempted to relive the glory of freshman year’s unlimited meal swipes at Late Night Lakeside, or see how long the line at Taco Bell will be at 2 a.m., but there are a few precautions we can all take so stress-eating doesn’t get the best of us.
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Senior finds creative niche at UA By Reed O’Mara | Staff Reporter
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When assistant professor Nathan Parker assigned self-portraits to his advanced creative writing class, he said he knew he could expect something different from Will Gillette. What he didn’t expect was his long-limbed student to bringing in a plastic trash bag. “So my 12 students all brought in something really interesting. Will just happened to be going last,” Parker said. “Will’s self-portrait was out of the building, so he goes out and comes back in, and he’s got this huge black overflowing trash bag. It’d been his trash he’d collected for the whole week just at his house, but he’d cut these slits all through the sides. So you see some crusty Hungry Howies boxes, stained with grease, all kinds of trash. He holds it up and says, ‘Here’s my self-portrait.’” Gillette, a senior majoring in English, is set to graduate from the University in May. Along with his English major, he has a focus in creative writing and is a member of the Blount Undergraduate Initiative. Gillette comes from the town of Gardendale, Ala., a town he reassures is as Southern as it sounds. “It’s about 30 minutes north of Birmingham. It’s a small city,” Gillette said. “When you enter there’s a sign that says ‘Welcome to Gardendale,’ subtitled, ‘Nice people live here.’ There’s a church that has 4,000 people, which is half of the population, and that’s where I grew up going to.” Since his move to Tuscaloosa, Gillette said he has found an avenue for his creativity in writing and, more specifically, in spoken word, a branch of poetry that extends to onstage performances. Gillette described spoken word as the halfway point between Emily Dickinson’s poetry and Tupac. Much of Gillette’s writing pertains to growing up in a small Southern town and the problems within the church and his school. “[Writing] is like a compulsion for me,” CW | Austin Bigoney Gillette said. “Aside from my spoken word poem [about the church], I have this weird story about God grabbing me by the hair and Satan grabbing my teeth, and my eyes are up in heaven, and everything I see in heaven I speak and is 752-7649 spoken in hell. Some of [my work] is religious, 349-0050 but you write what you know, and my upbringing was grounded in biblical terms.” 349-0907 Gillette’s ability in spoken word is no surprise to Parker, who said he was immediately struck by Gillette’s voice when they first met and thought Gillette would be great on the radio. “If you think of the things that rub you the right way about a person, there are all sorts of things. I would say with Will there’s something about the sound of his voice,” Parker said. “If
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Heat up summer with bestsellers By Deanne Winslett | Assistant Culture Editor
Glenn Greenwald
Donna Tartt
Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel
Nickolas Butler
As The University of Alabama rolls into the summer semester, the bestseller list is heating up with new releases. Books for beach bumming and poolside lounging are popping up at bookstores across the nation, and the titles are appropriate for the soon-to-be-overworked intern looking for a pre-departure escape. If you’re looking for a summer literary getaway or trying to exercise your mind during the long break, this summer’s releases just might be perfect for you.
No Place to Hide:
The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
Katja Millay
Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
Bark: Stories
Lorrie Moore
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
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“Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel” By Nickolas Butler
“Bark: Stories” By Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 978-1250039811 Named an Amazon Best Book of the Month for March 2014, Nickolas Butler’s “Shotgun Lovesongs” follows the lives of four friends from Little Wing, Wis. They take their separate paths in life as they grow into men - some stay in town while others venture to new places. They are brought together again in Little Wing several years later for a wedding. They’re no longer young boys, and they aren’t green to the world and its stresses. As they’re brought together once more, they are forced to face the reality of the lives they lead and the livelihood - or lack thereof - of their camaraderie. Butler’s novel uses his characters’ lives to discuss love and friendship from an adult perspective, and this novel is perfect for the homesick summer intern who just wants to go home and catch up with childhood best friends, but has far too many responsibilities.
ISBN: 978-0307594136 Lorrie Moore’s “Bark: Stories” is a compilation of eight separate stories, with each addressing time and the impression it leaves on all of us. While that may sound depressing and not at all like the type of book you’d want with you on your summer vacation, Moore discusses her theme with a narrative that is rich and funny. She mixes the perfect amount of hilarity and seriousness together to create a book that is approachable and compelling. Moore’s book is ideal for the soon-to-be graduate planning a trip to Europe, or anywhere abroad. With eight stories in one book, you won’t get bored while you’re perusing the pages on your long flight. The novel addresses several coming-of-age issues that graduates can relate to, helping you get some perspective on what post-grad life might be like, for better or worse.
“No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” By Glenn Greenwald
“The Goldfinch” By Donna Tartt
ISBN: 978-1627790734 If you’re heading off to Washington, D.C., for the summer, Glenn Greenwald’s “No Place to Hide” can help you brush up on your current events before you enter the capital. When Greenwald adventures to Hong Kong to meet a mysterious anonymous source, he doesn’t really know what he is getting himself into. His source turns out to be then-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who reveals to Greenwald details of the NSA’s overeach, sparking debate and anger from millions of Americans. In “No Place to Hide,” Greenwald goes into detail about the day he first met Snowden and everything that followed. He offers a candid view of the reporting that went into his article for The Guardian and analyzes the NSA and the media. This book is great for the collegiate politician or anyone interested in political studies and current events.
ISBN: 978-0316055437 Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Goldfinch” narrates the life of Theo Decker. After his mother is killed in an accident and his father essentially abandons him when he is 13 years old, the young Theo is forced to move in with a wealthy friend’s family. While living with this family, Theo becomes enamored with a painting that reminds him of his deceased mother. The novel follows Theo as he matures into a grown man. He becomes increasingly involved in the local art scene, and as he explores further into the underground art world, he finds himself in a dangerous position. Tartt’s novel, while haunting, is good for the collegiate student who feels lost, whether because of extreme homesickness or uncertainty of the future. Students of all levels can relate to Theo’s struggles as he clings to hope and searches for his identity in “The Goldfinch.”
“Wheel of Time” series By Robert Jordan
“The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel” By Katja Millay
ISBN: 978-0812511819 If your summer plans revolve around binge-watching Netflix shows on the couch, consider binge-reading sci-fi/fantasy author Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series instead. The 14-book saga is certainly a commitment, with each novel averaging about 500 pages. Jordan passed away while writing the series, but he already completed several manuscripts for the remaining books at the time of his death in 2007. He left notes so that another author could finish the series, and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson was brought in to do the job. The “Wheel of Time” series vividly depicts fantasy worlds and combines different mythological beliefs from various parts of the world. It may be quite a commitment, but if you’re looking to adventure to new worlds without actually ever having to leave the couch, then Jordan’s saga is the ideal fit for you.
ISBN: 978-1476730943 Katja Millay’s “The Sea of Tranquility” is not the typical love story. Nastya Kashnikov decides to move to a new town after experiencing a great personal tragedy several years earlier. She wants to break out of the shadows that she’s lived in for so long, and she’s hoping a new town will help her get a fresh start. She meets Josh Bennett, a 17-year-old boy who has seen everyone he’s ever loved or been close to die. Both harbor dark pasts, and Millay brings them together in a romance novel that is more realistic than fairytale. Millay’s “The Sea of Tranquility” will resonate with anyone going into the summer who has just experienced a tough break up or trying to begin the summer with a second chance. Amazon.com
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
SOFTBALL
Softball team concludes nonconference schedule By Kelly Ward | Assistant Sports Editor In each of its three games last week, the No. 6 Alabama softball team attracted crowds in the thousands. Even when Alabama suffered a disappointing 6-2 loss last Wednesday to Auburn at Lagoon Park in Montgomery, the atmosphere was great, coach Patrick Murphy said. “They had over 3,000 people, and the only disappointing thing was we didn’t play very well,” Murphy said. “The facility was great. The crowd was great. I mean, everything about it, they ran it really smoothly. We just didn’t hit very well. We didn’t get a good starting pitching performance from [junior] Leslie [Jury], so other than that it was a good night, but not a good result.” In Chapel Hill, N.C., the Crimson Tide helped set attendance records twice. The first came during Friday’s 6-4 win over Georgia Southern when 1,863 fans came. The next game against North Carolina brought
in 2,048 people. “North Carolina was incredible with over 2,000 people that just packed their park, and it’s playing like a regional game, which is kind of what we want at the end of the year,” Murphy said. The two victories on Friday ended Alabama’s three-game losing streak, its longest since the 2013 season. The games also provided playing time to players who hadn’t seen the field very often this season. Freshman Marisa Runyon, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., native, blasted her first home run of her career, a two-run shot to give Alabama a 4-2 lead over Georgia Southern. “It was a big hit for us against Georgia Southern in front of a lot of [her] friends and family over at North Carolina,” Murphy said. Sophomore Kallie Case had four hits in the two games Friday, going 3-for-3 against Georgia Southern. Junior Jadyn Spencer also notched four hits for the day, including a home run in each game. Freshman Sydney Littlejohn earned her
UA Athletics The No. 6 Alabama softball team will play at Southern Miss in its last nonconference game. second save of the season after coming in to pitch three innings of relief against North Carolina. She allowed one hit against UNC. Littlejohn also pitched 1 2/3 innings of relief Wednesday against Auburn when she struck out three of the five batters she faced. “Sydney Littlejohn pitched really well again all week long,” Murphy said. “That was another good positive. We got different people starts. We’re down to the home stretch. This is the last non-conference game
of the year, so we need to finish strong with that part of the season.” The Crimson Tide (39-8) will travel to Southern Miss (22-24) on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. game. Alabama is 5-2 all-time against the Golden Eagles. “[It’s] just another opportunity to see some good pitching, some live pitching. It’s an away game, so I’m sure they’re going to have a good crowd. Hopefully the weather is going to be good,” Murphy said.
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Baseball team looks to even season series vs. Southern Miss By Kevin Connell | Staff Reporter
UA Athletics No. 8 Alabama will face Southern Miss in the 100th meeting between the schools. The Tide is 72-27 all-time against the Golden Eagles.
There are only a few schools that have routinely given Alabama baseball coach Mitch Gaspard’s teams trouble over his 10-year head coaching career. One of those schools is Southern Miss, a team that Alabama will play for the second time this season, and the 100th time in school history, Tuesday night at 6:05 p.m. at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. “I think with both teams, with both coaching staffs, certainly respect one another,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. “I think that playing them every year, it’s almost like that in-state rivalry game. We’ve played them so many years in a row that we know them, they know us, kind of one of those series. It’s really been back and forth.” For Gaspard, this will be the 12th time he has faced Southern Miss (24-17, 13-5 C-USA), the first meeting dating back to 2004 when he was the coach at Northwestern State. His overall record against the Golden Eagles is 4-7 and 4-3 since he took over at Alabama in 2008. The Crimson Tide’s most recent meeting against Southern Miss was a 2-1 defeat in Hattiesburg, Miss., in February during a time in which, Gaspard said, his team was not hitting well. Now, anchored by the return of senior first baseman Austen Smith to the lineup last weekend at Tennessee, Gaspard said he believes the offense is in a much better place than it was during the teams’ first meeting this season.
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PLAN TO GO WHAT: Baseball vs. Southern Miss WHERE: Sewell-Thomas Stadium WHEN: 6:05 p.m. RECORDS: Alabama 28-12, 12-6 SEC; Southern Miss 24-17, 13-5C-USA RADIO: 99.1 FM “I think our lineup right now, we’ve got multiple guys swinging the bat really well, which is producing a lot more runs than we have in the past, so I like where we’re at offensively,” Gaspard said of his team, which is batting .326 over the last week. Still, even as a mid-week, nonconference game, Gaspard said Alabama (28-12, 12-6 SEC) is not overlooking Southern Miss, despite an upcoming stretch of four SEC weekend series against ranked opponents. “Southern Miss has been playing really good baseball as of late, so it’s a very important midweek game for us, as all of them are, but an opponent that we really respect,” he said. “We always have really good ballgames with Southern Miss, both at home and at their place, so we’re expecting a real battle, a real challenge Tuesday night.”
SPORTSIN BRIEF Men’s basketball signs prospect Alabama men’s basketball inked Jeff Garrett, a forward originally from Gadsden, Ala. Garrett played the 2013-14 season at Oldsmar Christian School in Oldsmar, Fla. He is considered a three-star prospect by 247sports.com and joins a recruiting class that has been ranked as high as No. 21 in the nation. As a senior, Garrett averaged 18.3 points, 10.1 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 blocks per game. He was a third-team all-state selection by the Florida High School Athletic Association. Compiled by Kelly Ward
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Boston Marathon shows nation’s strength By Caroline Gazzara Almost a week ago, America saw the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. Yesterday, Boston held its annual marathon, and for the first time since 1983, an American won the men’s race. Meb Keflezighi won the race, with a time of 2:08:37, bringing back the medal to America. On the women’s side of the race, Kenyan Rita Jeptoo won for the second time with a time of 2:18:57. Though the race is about unity and having a good time, Keflezighi’s act of nationalism comes at a perfect time in our lives. Over the past year, we have seen bombings, shootings, stabbings, hostages and attacks on our troops. We rarely see anything good happen in our country. We’re to the point now where we’re so desensitized to violence that it takes a lot to shock us. And yesterday, we saw Boston come back. We saw Boston regroup and reorganize. We saw Boston make a stronger marathon. Every participant who ran yesterday took part in something amazing. Similar to what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, the
community and the nation came together to remember and get stronger. The difference is that Boston surrounded itself around a marathon. Approximately 36,000 runners took part in the marathon. And before the race even began, letters flooded in asking the committee to let runners run because they needed to run. In those letters, the authors said they knew they weren’t the greatest runners, nor could they most likely even finish the marathon, but they needed to run for those who were affected by the bombings last year. It’s that sense of nationalism that keeps our country going. Not to say that I approve of all the horrible things our country goes through, but I believe the human spirit can prevail through anything. We are stronger than we look, and yesterday’s demonstration proves it. This year’s Boston Marathon won’t change the past, but it will give peace to those who were injured or died last year. Our country needed something to move forward and get back into a more uplifting spirit going into the summer months, and this was just the ticket.
We are stronger than we look, and yesterday’s demonstration proves it.
Gymnastics team earns honors Alabama led the nation with seven gymnasts earning 13 All-American honors after the 2014 NCAA Championships. The program now has a total of 302 by 66 different gymnasts. Three seniors earned fi rst-team honors. Kim Jacob, the 2014 NCAA All-Around Champion, led the Crimson Tide and the nation with four First-Team All-American honors out of a possible five. She earned first-team honors on the uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and all-around. In her career, she amassed 11 All-American honors. Diandra Milliner and Sarah DeMeo earned fi rst-team accolades on the fl oor exercise and the beam, respectively. Compiled by Kelly Ward
Burrows receives SEC accolade Closer Thomas Burrows was named the SEC Freshman of the Week. Last week, he picked up three saves in three consecutive games. Burrows pitched 4 1/3 innings, gave up one hit and struck out six. It is his second SEC Freshman of the Week accolade. Compiled by Kelly Ward
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Inclement weather impacts Rec field usability By Danielle Walker | Staff Reporter Without practice, athletes have less opportunity to improve–something every athlete knows. Intramural and club sports at The University of Alabama are often faced with this dilemma. The recreation fields that are allotted for student and club sport use are at the mercy of the weather, sometimes resulting in fewer practices for club teams. “We work with Champion Sports Medicine and the athletic training staff on safety, and if there’s standing water or anything like that, we can’t allow for play to happen,” Darrell Hargreaves, assistant director for Intramural and Club Sports, said. “We try to keep fields as open as possible. We realize how important practice is for all of our clubs.” Men’s lacrosse club president Craig Landru said the recreation fields are in a location that has poor drainage, making the fields unusable with even the smallest amount of rain. Heavy rain and standing water are the main reasons the recreation fields may close, and even if the fields are somewhat usable, Hargreaves said they would be closed to keep the fields in good condition. “I think that there’s not really anything we can do about it. Practicing on a really wet field is bad for the field itself. It tears up the grass,” senior Caitlin Reilly, president of the women’s rugby team, said. At the beginning of the club team’s season, a winter storm rolled through Tuscaloosa, shutting the University down. Hargreaves said when the University shuts down operations, the recreation fields shut down as well. This left many teams without practice for up to three weeks before their first games of the season. The women’s lacrosse team experienced losses due to the lack of practice. “Our team has raw talent and knowledge of the plays through film study, but the lack of practice was very evident in our first loss against Georgia,” junior Sarah Sanderson said. “Being a new team and playing the hardest team in our league without three weeks’ worth of practice
definitely was a major factor in the outcome.” The missed practice showed for the men’s lacrosse team too. “For the first few games this season, we had practices canceled for the days leading up to our games, and it showed tremendously when playing against a team that was able to have all their practices beforehand,” senior Craig Landru said. When the recreation fields are closed, the Student Recreation Center offers indoor alternatives to the club teams. Teams can come in and use the weights or track, do a simulated walkthrough in the gym or reserve the meeting space to review film. Clubs take advantage of these alternatives, but due to a lack of sufficient space, some clubs have to cancel any sort of practice altogether. “Currently, the Rec offers the use of the Student Activities Center,” Reilly said. “The only problem with that is that only one club can use it at a time, and you need to reserve it as soon as you get the cancellation email.” Sanderson and her teammates said they are also frustrated with the lack of alternatives available. The lacrosse team is not allowed to bring its equipment into the gym, leaving it with the option to watch film or lift weights. “The frustration with the cancellations actually has nothing to do with the cancellation itself,” Sanderson said. “But the lack of an alternative place to play is the killer. It’s incredible how many resources the school has, yet barely any is spent towards the hundreds of people dedicating their free time to a sport that isn’t Division I yet. The athletes still go out there wearing the Alabama uniform with every intention of representing all that Alabama stands for, which is domination.” Landru suggested that the Rec Center invest in a turf field, which can be used in all weather conditions. “We will have discussions when we take over certain areas of Bryce, and on the campus master plan, there’s certain dedicated stuff for University Recreation fields, and that might be an option a little later,” Hargreaves said.
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