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The Alabama Shakes kicked off a rush of critical enthuThe Alabama Shakes ride a 2011 siasm. In 2012, they proved critics right wave of success into summer when their record “Boys & Girls” sold in high numbers, national and international tours quickly sold out, and the band made By Nathan Proctor appearances on the late night circuit on Staff Reporter “Conan” and “The Late Show with David nsproctor@crimson.ua.edu Letterman.” Bo Hicks of Wellthatscool.com recalled Bred out of the musically-rich Muscle Shoals tradition found in Northern his first exposure to the Shakes being in Alabama, a local 5-piece launched them- the fall of 2010 when, on a whim, he went to selves from playing small parties at Egan’s Egan’s Bar. After being struck by this first and being that band found at your local show and seeing them again, his friend record store, to becoming big names on Lee Baines III of The Dexateens and Lee the bills for Bonnaroo, The Hangout and Baines III and the Glory Fires suggested Lollapallooza. They place as No. 8 and No. the Shakes play the Wellthatscool Brews 3 on US and UK music charts respectively. Cruise, a three-hour boat ride down the The Alabama Shakes, from Athens, Black Warrior River featuring local bands Ala., formed in 2009 and have been pro- on the ship’s deck. ducing a bluesy style of southern rock SEE SHAKES PAGE 2 since. Their four-song EP in September
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Holt teens learn to use their voice Professor helps youth join the conversation By Mazie Bryant Staff Reporter mrbryant@crimson.ua.edu
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Students pack Graves for Bragg Author, professor gives ‘Last Lecture’ By Stephen N. Dethrage Assistant News Editor sndethrage@crimson.ua.edu Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and journalism professor Rick Bragg told a packed room in Graves Hall about the power of story, which he said was the best way to change the world. Bragg was honored by the University’s graduate program as the speaker at their annual Last Lecture series, for which a professor on campus is nominated by their students to give on stage the lecture they would present if they knew it was the last time they’d be able to speak to a group of students. Bragg’s lecture, called “So They Don’t Forget,” focused on his career as a storyteller and the power that people in that field could wield. “I believe that I have one er • Plea s
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value here, and that value is to teach writing in a way that brings injustice, cruelty, thoughtlessness, meanness and stupidity to light,” Bragg said. “I do not teach that as the point of a sword, I don’t teach it to encourage people to go after the wrongdoers, I teach it to get people to write about life’s victims. The best writing is about people in trouble, and that’s what we talk about a lot in class.” He said the title of his lecture came from one of the defining moments of his career: He was in New Orleans covering a high murder rate in the city during that time. There, as he apologized for the questions he had to ask a mother whose son was killed by a stray bullet, the woman told him something that stuck with him for the rest of his career in journalism.
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When Dr. Jeff Parker was added to an email list for the Holt Community Partnership three years ago, he figured it was just purely by accident. Now, he realizes it was destined to happen. The mission of the nonprofit organization to provoke a positive identity of the Holt community struck Parker, an associate professor of psychology at the University. He decided to attend one of the community forums and was impressed by the active leaders who were personally invested in
revitalizing the image of the pletely ironic. These teenagers town. who were being ignored were Ever since, Holt has had soon going to be the adults Parker’s heart. within the community.” Parker teaches a psychology After the storms of last April, Parker, who worked as seminar class at the University a search and rescue volun- which fosters positive youth development teer in Holt, and focuses noticed that on the young many teenag[Teenagers] believe that adults of Holt. ers in the comproblems can be solved if After these postmunity were disaster obserserving the enough people hear about vations, he realrecovery needs those problems and work ized his class of their commutogether. had the opportunity. However, nity to give the a week later, — Lisa Dorr youth a voice in they no longer the process of had a role in the recovery. recovery efforts. “There’s this traditional “There was no place for the teenagers in the com- equation that says that teenmunity discussions after the agers today are cantankerous tornado,” he said. “There were — that they wear the wrong no teen perspectives being clothes, hang out in the wrong represented. I found this com- places,” Parker said. “Many
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adults see them as lost souls or potential delinquents. But I don’t agree with that. I am trying to turn that equation on its head.” “The great advantage of teenagers and college students is that they are so tremendously idealistic,” said Lisa Dorr, an associate professor of history at UA. “They believe that problems can be solved if enough people hear about those problems and work together. “It is a terrible cliché, but they represent the future. Acknowledging that teens have a stake in their communities, listening to their points of view and giving them a way to be involved can help guarantee that they stay engaged and active in their communities all their lives.”
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championships, 13-straight NCAA tournament appearances and seven Women’s College World Series appearances. But, there is one thing Murphy doesn’t have on that By Morgan Upton list: a national championSports Reporter ship. smupton@crimson.ua.edu Since losing to Florida for @Morgan_U a spot in the 2011 championPatrick Murphy has been ship series, this is the season with the Crimson Tide soft- softball fans have looked to ball program since its incep- for the Tide to make it over tion in 1997. Since taking its World Series hump. With six seniors on the over as head coach in 1999, Murphy’s biography reads team and sophomore Jackie similarly to an Alabama foot- Traina as the ace pitcher, Alabama has amassed a 42-4 ball pregame video. Murphy has led Alabama overall record and a 19-3 conUA Athletics to three Southeastern ference record. Jadyn Spencer of the Crimson Tide tags a player out during the April Conference tournament championships, three SEC SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 14 15 South Carolina game.
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Hoping for a federal student loan to help pay for college? Beware, because the interest rates are set to double July 1 unless Congress and the White House find a way to avoid another looming political standoff. The White House is pushing for an extension of the current interest rate of 3.4 percent. Without it, the rate will climb to 6.8 percent for more than 7 million students across the country, and the average loan recipient would be another $1,000 in debt, according to White House spokesman Matt Lehrich. “We must keep rates low so more Americans get a fair shot, a more affordable education and a clear path to the middle class,” Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said Monday in a conference call with reporters. The Obama administration also released a state-by-state
list of how many students would be affected by the interest rate change, which would apply to federal Stafford loans for undergraduates. In Missouri, for example, the impact would be felt by more than 161,000 students who take out federal college loans each year; in Kansas, about 78,000 students. President Barack Obama will take his student loan campaign on the road with stops Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Wednesday at the University of Iowa. The presumptive Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, issued a statement Monday expressing support for maintaining the current interest rate. “Given the bleak job prospects that young Americans coming out of college face today, I encourage Congress to temporarily extend the current low
rate on subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans,” Romney said. “I also hope the president and Congress can pass the extension responsibly, that offsets its cost in a way that doesn’t harm the job prospects of young Americans.” A bill to maintain the current rate, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Joe Courtney of Connecticut, has 126 Democratic co-sponsors but no Republicans. Republican Rep. John Kline, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement: “We must now choose between allowing interest rates to rise or piling billions of dollars on the backs of taxpayers. I have serious concerns about any proposal that simply kicks the can down the road. ... My colleagues and I are exploring options in hopes of finding a responsible solution that serves borrowers and taxpayers equally well.”
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Adam Hill and Brooke Howell will showcase their sculpture, ceramics and graphic design artwork April 30 through May 11 at Harrison Galleries in downtown Tuscaloosa. The two seniors will graduate in May with bachelor’s degrees in studio art. The opening reception for “Connect” will be held May 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Harrison Galleries, 2315 University Blvd. For more information, contact Brooke Howell at behowell@crimson.ua.edu.
Slash Pine Press is accepting writing of less than 100 words that captures the spirit of the Tuscaloosa, Holt, Alberta City and University communities during and after the April 27 tornadoes. The editors of Slash Pine Press will select a cross-section of 20 submitted pieces to represent the Tuscaloosa area. Submissions should be sent to slashpinepress@gmail.com. For more information, go to www.slashpinepress.com.
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Parker looks to teens to help Holt HOLT FROM PAGE 1 Parker’s past classes have hosted a basketball tournament and transformed a wall into a community landmark in Holt. However, this year’s class of 23 students focused on turning the ideas of students from Holt High School and Davis Emerson Middle School into feasible realities. Working directly with them every step of the way, the class of UA undergraduates empowered the teenagers to organize, research, fund, create and publicize an event that served as a showcase and culmination of their own ideas. They equipped the young citizens with the knowledge, skills and meaning to accomplish each step of the process. From April 18 to 20, students from Holt area schools attended the event, titled Winds of Change, in the auditorium of Holt High School and actively participated in surveys, interactive exhibits and youth-led discussions. Winds of Change encompassed seven divisions of student visions for their commu-
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Bragg: ‘You forget if it’s not written down’ BRAGG FROM PAGE 1 “She told me, ‘People forgets if it ain’t written down,’ and it’s never been any more complicated than that for me,” Bragg said. “If this were the last thing I got to say to people who will write and who will tell stories and who will point cameras at people, or who just walk around living, I’d say you forget if it’s not written down.” Bragg also addressed the tragedy that Tuscaloosa has faced in the last year and the Pulitzer Prize that the Tuscaloosa News earned for covering it. “I have written about misery and killing and dying in so many countries and so many places that I don’t even want to think about it anymore, but we have gone through a bad time here,” Bragg said. “The sky changed forever, or maybe, just the way we look at it.” He said the newspaper deserved the recognition they’ve received, and he is proud to live in Tuscaloosa because of it, but, as a recipient of more than 50 significant literary awards during his career, he said they didn’t mean everything. “Long after that award has lost its luster, the stories behind it will endure and prevail,” Bragg said. “I just believe that you change this world with
stories. You make people care with stories. You make the world around us better by telling stories effectively, thoughtfully and maybe even beautifully. That’s all I’ve got.” Before Bragg was introduced, the eight members of the Last Lecture selection committee, all students, said Bragg was selected from a pool of more than 250 nominations and was ultimately picked from a group of eight finalists, including the director of the Million Dollar Band, Kenneth Ozzello, and UA Vice Provost Hank Lazer, who teaches in the English department. Brian Bristow, an MBA student and one of the members of the selection committee, also served in that capacity during the senior year of his time as an undergraduate at the University. He said the choice to nominate Bragg did not come easily, but he felt it was the right one. “Given the quality of the nominations we received and all the research we did, realizing how impressive he was as a speaker and a professor, and how he’s made such a profound impact on the campus, when we realized the impact he could have, we knew he would be a great speaker,” Bristow said. Bragg spoke to about 500 people in a crowded room in Graves Hall. Those who could not find a seat stood or sat wherever they could find an empty space on the floor.
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Alabama out-of-state enrollment rising each year By Tray Smith Contributing Writer When the University of Alabama class of 2012 first arrived on campus in the fall of 2008, 63 percent of its members were from the state of Alabama. Most of the members of the class of 2015, which arrived on campus last fall, are not. Slightly more than 50 percent of the students who walked on campus as freshman at the beginning of the academic year were from other states or foreign countries. The increasingly large percentage of out-of-state students attending Alabama has set the University apart from other Southeastern Conference schools. At the University of
Mississippi, 55 percent of freshmen are out-of-state students, according to university spokesman Mitchell Diggs. Ole Miss is the only public college in the conference with a higher percentage of out-of-state freshmen than Alabama. “I think that bringing out-ofstate students provides different and new perspectives,” said A.J. Collins, a junior majoring in economics and political science from Virginia. Collins is the president of the Honors College Ambassadors, which works to recruit high-achieving students from across the country. “Having students with a variety of geographic diversity will allow us to come up with new ideas with people from different parts of our country working
together,” he said. According to the common data set most universities report annually, Auburn comes in third among public schools in the conference, with an out-of-state freshman class of 44 percent. At the other end of the spectrum, only four percent of freshmen at the University of Florida are outof-state this year. At Vanderbilt, the only private university in the SEC, 89 percent of the freshman class is out-ofstate. Out-of-state students bring the University more than new perspectives, though, as they pay much higher tuition rates than in-state students. For Spring 2012, tuition for out-of-state students is $10,950, over two-and-a-half times the $4,300 in-state students pay.
Higher numbers of higherpaying students has helped the University absorb the impact of stagnant appropriations from the state. State appropriations made up 29 percent of the University’s revenue in 2003, but now, they make up only 20 percent. The same trend is occurring across the United States. Tuition grew from 16 percent of revenue at public universities in 1999 to 26 percent in 2009, a Government Accountability Office report released in January found. Colleges have looked to tuition dollars for revenue as state appropriations have been cut and income from endowments and private gifts have declined, the report found. But many out-of-state students are able to reduce their tuition
with scholarship money. “Paying full tuition as an outof-state student is really out of the question for most people, and it was for me as well,” said Colby Leopard, a junior majoring in public relations from North Carolina. Leopard has helped recruit out-of-state students through the Student Alumni Association. “When it comes to recruitment, the advantage Alabama has is that it has money to offer,” Leopard said. Out-of-state high school seniors who apply to Alabama by Dec. 1 of their freshman year, have a GPA of 3.5 and score a 30 on the ACT receive a scholarship equal to two-thirds of tuition over four years. Applicants with an ACT score of 32 or higher receive full
tuition. The same scholarships are available to National Merit Semifinalist, and National Merit Finalists also receive four years of on-campus housing and an iPad. But Leopard said the University offers students other benefits that make it more attractive than other large state universities. “It also goes back to things like the dorms. I know that the dorms here are not something that a lot of out-of-state students would find in their own states,” he said. He also said the University gives students easy access to professionals in different research areas and has maintained a family atmosphere despite its growth. “You’re still going to feel at home,” he said.
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Receiving honors on behalf of my family
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Editor • SoRelle Wyckoff letters@cw.ua.edu Page 4
{ YOUR VIEW } What did you think about Rick Braggʼs “Last Lecture”? “I laughed and got sad and had goose bumps and clapped a lot. Frankly, it was such an enjoyment, Iʼm sad for those that didnʼt get to hear Rick Braggʼs storytelling.” — Riley Frances Boone, senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies with a focus in interior design
“I really enjoyed it. I think Bragg gets to a lot of people. The way he speaks is effective. He talks about really important things but is able to hold your attention. Heʼs super entertaining.” — Keelan Marlowe, junior majoring in journalism
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Before my mother died in February last year she said to me, “I know you’re destined to great things with your life. Just don’t go off and forget about your momma.” And I remember those words like a city remembers a tornado. They were devastating and important. Devastating because it made me realize they were all counting on me for something, and important because they reminded me about how this whole process in college has been wholly reliant on the sacrifices they were all willing to make. During my sophomore year, my parents announced to my sister and me that they would be splitting up. This decision blindsided me and cast us into a world filled with chaos beyond our wildest dreams. Soon after they made this announcement, my mother moved out of the home we’d lived in for 10 years and into an apartment. And I say apartment quite liberally here. The place was actually a shack with walls made of plywood and no insulation. My mother was disabled and wasn’t able to work, and her transition to this place was tragically juxtaposed to my own move into Ridgecrest South. Who was I to deserve the University’s most luxurious dorms when the place my mother lived didn’t even have real walls? I decided to go home for
weeks I would eat only one package of ramen noodles a day and sometimes I would just go without because I realized the amazing sacrifices they were all making for me to be here and do the things that I wanted to do. Some of these events, no doubt, probably would have happened anyway regardless of where I was or what I was doing. But I was here. And I was learning about Plato, Machiavelli and human rights, but more importantly, I was also learning that life has an implacable way of moving on regardless of your crushed dreams or broken hearts. And I saw that even in the toughest times my family was willing to make amazing sacrifices for my education. I write this not because I feel that I have some great wisdom to bestow upon the underclassmen here at UA, but because I think it’s important to realize that you cannot honor me without honoring my mother and my family. So as the University of Alabama honors my colleagues and me in the graduating class of 2012 on May 5, I want to congratulate and thank my mom, my dad, my sister, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. We did it. Congratulations.
the summer after sophomore year, and despite being embarrassed through and through of this place my mother was living, I chose to stay with her. When I got home that summer, I found out that money had gotten so tight back in Marbury that she was relying on food stamps to be able to feed my sisters and her. And then, I immediately felt guilty for all the time I spent complaining about Lakeside’s dining options. But even though money was scarce, my mother paid for the gas for me to drive to and from the congressman’s office in Montgomery who I was interning for that summer. I told her how it was necessary and important, and realizing how pertinent I felt this opportunity was, she made sacrifices so that I could do it. After I returned to the Capstone the following fall, my dad’s hours were being cut at work so I tried not to Michael Patrick is a senior burden them with my need majoring in political science. for financial assistance. For This is his final column.
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Farewell Alabama, I am proud to call you my alma mater By David Simpson While caught in the ease of a final semester’s course load and the protracted perfection of this spring’s weather, I have often stopped to reflect. Sunday was one of those afternoons. While I sat in the cool breeze and watched a painted sky melt mockingbird songs into the cricket chorus of the night, my thoughts wandered freely through memory. I have many defining experiences here: playing in the Million Dollar Band, giving Capstone tours, taking Dr. Hoover’s class on public finance or Dr. McKnight’s Blount class on race, serving in the Student Government Association, receiving the kindness of those who helped
my memories of Alabama centered on the almost religious journeys to Legion Field and Bryant-Denny Stadium. Each season, through humid heat and frigid sleet, I hoped, “Will this be the year Alabama wins a national championship?” However, my undergraduate stint has matured my relationship with the University. Experiences here have challenged my views and unlocked perspectives, set bars and asserted the dare to overcome, left me in disbelief and opened a new depth of respect and understanding for those around me. Above all, my collegiate David Simpson molding process has been after my home was hit by the impacted by my experiences in the Blackburn Institute, tornado. There was once a time when a leadership development
organization that focuses on issues facing Alabama. In Blackburn, I have had the opportunity to travel across Alabama and compare everyday issues with what I have learned in the classroom. As the state expects over $300 million in additional cuts to the general budget next year, I am saddened by the knowledge that our decisions are pigeonholed by the most poorly written constitution. In Norman Mclean’s novella “A River Runs Through It,” he describes his coming of age through the lens of fly-fishing in Montana. Ultimately, his life story merges in the headwaters with all others and is propelled in to the future by the collective waters of the American Experience.
As an Alabamian, the proper eyewear is football. For me, the University of Alabama has connected my personal narrative from the history of our state’s past (both good and bad) to the hope of its full potential. For us all, there is a process, and one day, the work exerted on life’s gridiron will result in a championship for the citizens of our state. My part in this process began here at the University of Alabama. Mother, I am calling you to listen to my vow of love for as I say farewell to my time on campus, I am proud to call you my alma mater.
David Simpson is the outgoing SGA Attorney General and student chair of the Blackburn Institute.
Step outside comfort zone, and be confident in your actions By Grant Cochran
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For multiple reasons, I told myself I wouldn’t write a farewell column. For starters, I’m not going anywhere. As I indicated in my last column, I will be bringing my talents back to the Capstone for one more final year in furthering my education. I honestly think the concept of a farewell column is somewhat played out. I lack the accomplishments to fondly boast of the trials and tribulations that I embraced as an undergraduate. Alternatively, I probably lack the writing skills to make sense of what the past four years have truly meant to me. I suppose the best way to describe myself would be a hack campus politico, terrible fraternity officer and mediocre writer. While I actually do give myself more credit than that, I learned very early on in college to not take myself too seriously. My good friend Ashley Getwan quoted her grandfather in her own farewell column yesterday. He said, “At the end of the day, relationships matter.” While I didn’t become conscious of it until recently, relationships are truly what define me. I have never lain awake in bed stressing about a paper or test (my professors can attest to that). However, I have spent countless hours worrying about my friends’ well being. In 30 years, I highly doubt I will remember what meaningless problem I debated in Room 28 at the DKE house. I will, however, value the relationships I made with those people for the rest of life. I still do not understand how we managed to disguise a Maxim party as a philanthropy cookout, but it was an excellent job nonetheless. I doubt I will remember the final score to any of Alabama’s games during my college career. However, I am confident I will be able to tell you exactly where I was and who I was with when Terrence Cody blocked Tennessee’s field goal in 2009. I have even realized today how trivial Student Government Association elections have become to me. There was a time when it truly mattered to me who was in charge of our student government. I have since realized it is all a simple game with few concrete results. While my jaded outlook may come off as crass, I have learned that the biggest thing I gained from my experience in campus politics is the relationships I made — no, not the “fratty” networking kind of relationships, but actual, human friendships. There are great, genuine people working in that office (greek and independent), and I wish more people acknowledged that. I’m not going to sit here and tell everyone that I don’t have any regrets in college. I probably should have eaten better, drank less and studied more. I probably shouldn’t have procrastinated my way through two separate colleges. I wish I had branched out more, and I should probably submit this column to my editor before they print without me. Before I end this year, I want to thank everyone for the encouragement in my column. You would be surprised how much a “like” on Facebook can mean to a writer. I never would have thought I would have my own spot every Tuesday in The Crimson White my freshman year, and it truly has been a treat. Thanks for a great four years, UA, and I’m coming back for more.
Through all the conversations I’ve had, speeches I’ve given and letters I’ve written, this is by far the toughest. Certainly when reading this, there will be those who will revert back to the events of September 2011 and feel the need to relentlessly inquire as to those questions left unanswered, though they weren’t without resounding speculation. Undoubtedly, there are also those that will completely disregard this letter, and I am content with that. My message is simple, and it goes to every Grant Cochran freshman, senior and anyone who dreams of a life worth living: At the end of the day,
have no regrets. Now, those words may seem frivolous coming from a 22-yearold soon-to-be college graduate, but I beckon you to hear me out. I came to UA from an indigent region in Mississippi not unlike Alabama’s Black Belt, and like many out-of-state students, I chose UA because of scholarship offers. Many today may search through CW archives and classify me as the white fraternity guy who accepted Machine support. The funny part is that I had no intention of joining greek life when I came to UA, and I still have a vivid memory of walking with a friend down University Boulevard, wondering what the
heck “Beta Theta Pi” was. If I could meet the wideeyed freshman that I once was, bursting with ambition to begin medical research and dreams of curing cancer, I’m not entirely sure he would recognize me at all. And I love it. I can look back on where I was four years prior to now, knowing that because my goals have changed and I have become the person I am, I never denied opportunity when it came knocking. Every experience will shape your attitude and your future. It is certain, as I’ve learned, that you’ll never know who you are until you know who you aren’t.
At the end of the day, do you want to lay your head down to sleep, saying, “I wish I would have?” or “I wonder what would have happened if?” Step outside your comfort zone. Meet people. Learn things. Get knocked down. Remember that the things you don’t say are just as imperative as the things you do say. One day, you’ll look back on where you are now and wonder who you were, and you’ll know that you took full advantage of each moment. You must simply try to, at the end of the day, have no regrets. Grant Cochran is a former SGA president.
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Life behind the camera and the lessons taught for when no one is watching By Drew Hoover Dear everyone who reads or looks at The Crimson White, My name is Drew Hoover, and this is undoubtedly the first and last article of mine to appear in the CW that you will ever read and/or ignore. For three of my undergraduate years, I have taken photos for the CW, and this experience has enriched my time at UA more than any academic program. I have talked to and taken pictures of a lot of you, and thankfully, none of you has ever successfully punched me. Now, I am a senior, and that means I get to bestow my wis-
graduate ‘studies.’ Since this really great opportunities is the CW, I’ll stick to things I to take great photos and Be Consistent learned as a photojournalist. really bungled some others. Do you know what you There is always room for Showing up is half the call a photojournalist withimprovement. battle. out a camera? A reporter. I resolved to take my camera It is difficult to find a more “Hey Drew, we need you to pretty much everywhere I go, compelling subject than Mark take photos of this lecture” is and I’ve done a pretty good Ingram stiff-arming a cor- something I have heard a lot job of that. As a result, I had nerback off of his feet. My throughout my career. But, my equipment with me on freshman year, I got to take showing up to events and lis- April 27 and was able to do my pictures of Mark Ingram tening to people talk is a sur- job when it mattered most. scoring touchdowns, and prisingly valuable experience. because Mark was awesome, Just getting out and covering Always have a backup my photos were awesome, assignments regularly has plan. and so, I thought I was awe- yielded unforeseen benefits, When did I use my backup some. I was wrong. I started like ending up with an extenDrew Hoover “reading my press clippings,” sive portfolio, making that battery? When Tuscaloosa dom on you, even if my only so to speak, and I closed my business contact or having had no electricity for a credibility comes from sur- mind to how I could improve. your work noticed by someone week. When did I use my viving four years of under- As a result, I missed some who gives you an internship. extra memory cards? When
Alabama went into overtime against LSU on Nov. 5. When did I use my backup camera? I didn’t. I totally got burned for not having a backup camera.
Remember that being alive is pretty cool.
I learned this from April 27. I spent a lot of time taking photos of the damage. Wading — literally — through several miles of tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa gave me a perspective that is difficult to explain with words. All I can say is that sometimes just surviving is pretty great. Drew Hoover was the photo editor of The Crimson White.
What my time at The Crimson White showed me about life and success By Jonathan Reed I don’t remember when I learned the greatest lesson about writing. It may have been in an intro to journalism class freshman year. It may have been inside the crumbling pink walls of my high school humanities class. I may have read it in a book or seen it on TV. It doesn’t matter. All I remember is three words: Show, don’t tell. Those three words turn an angry rant into an opinion column that matters. They turn a boring retelling into something that can change some small part of the world. But those words aren’t just about writing. They’re words to live by. In the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to get a job after college. A degree in journalism and political science isn’t the same as the degree in bio-
Jonathan Reed medical engineering from a prestigious private school my best friend back in Ohio has. No company is going to throw $75,000 at me after graduation, hoping I can help them cure cancer. My degree doesn’t tell potential employers who I am and what I can do. All it says is that I went to class enough not to fail and that I can write a paper on tax policy well
enough to get by. No, that slip of paper I’ll get next month doesn’t say who I am. I have to show people who I am. I have to show them what I can do. That’s a beautiful thing. Your college career should be about a lot more than what shows up on your academic transcript. What I’ve accomplished in these last four years isn’t just about grades and graduation, and that should never be the only thing to care about in college. Your time here is for building relationships, starting conversations and getting out of your comfort zone to meet people you never would have met if you stayed in the library studying. More importantly, college is about doing great things while you have the chance. It’s perhaps the only part of your life when you have the time and energy to set an almost unreachable goal and push yourself to accomplish it. Regardless of if you’re a jour-
nalism student that wants to make a documentary, an engineering student who wants to build an airplane or a business student who wants to open a bar, don’t ever turn down a dream. Don’t do it for the recognition, though. Do it for yourself. Nobody gets awards worth winning because they tried to win them. Sure, there are lots of awards and societies out there for people who just want to collect those lines on a resume, but doing work for something superficial will never be fulfilling. Do everything you do for yourself. Do it to help others. If you can get through life like that, you’ll get recognition that matters. The Ramones changed the world of music, but they only won one Grammy for their work. It was a lifetime achievement award. I can’t even count the musicians who have won more but never made a listener think, “This is
something different.” The Ramones never had to tell the world how important they were with a Grammy acceptance speech. They showed them. I’ve been lucky enough to work with amazing people in the last four years here at The Crimson White. I’ve worked with people who did work because they knew it was the right thing to do. Last year, our staff completely changed the attitude at this publication, and we did it by producing an extraordinary product every day. Even when they were done with their work and many were done with school, last year’s staff was the key in our coverage of the tornado last April. This year, we’ve battled countless daily struggles and what seemed like weekly crises to put out a product that builds on the enormous success of last year. There are too many people who have shaped my time here
to thank all of them, but I have to start with Kelsey Stein. I would have lost my mind long ago if it weren’t for her keeping me focused and calm. I’d like to thank the people who had enough faith in me to give me fantastic opportunities — Paul Thompson, Corey Craft, Alan Blinder, Amanda Peterson and Victor Luckerson. There are too many coworkers who’ve helped me through all this to name all of them, but this paper wouldn’t have happened in the last two years without the dedication of Taylor Holland, Stephen Dethrage, Will Tucker, Brandee Easter, Emily Johnson, Drew Hoover, Kyle Carey, John Davis and countless others. You’ve taught me a lot, CW. We’ll show the world what we’ve learned. We don’t need to tell them. Jonathan Reed was the managing editor of The Crimson White from 2010-2012.
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Commencement Student groups talk candidates continues streak without speaker By Rich Robinson Staff Reporter rarobinson2@crimson.ua.edu
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might not have the chance to encounter otherwise. Vanna Jarrett, a senior who will graduate next December, President Barack Obama, said she believes it is time UA Steve Carell, former Secretary reinstated commencement of State Condoleezza Rice, Mitt speakers, as they add prestige to Romney and the ceremonies. Soledad O’Brien “I would love all have one thing to have one, perI would love to have one, in common – all sonally,” Jarrett are lined up to personally. I think it would said. “I think address college it would be an be an honor to not only graduates across honor to not only receive a diploma from one the nation at receive a diploma of the most respected univercommencement from one of the sities, but to have it be given ceremonies in the most respected by a respected speaker. coming weeks. universities, but Birmingham to have it be given — Vanna Jarrett native Rice will by a respected take the stage speaker.” at Southern College stuMethodist University, while dents at some schools conduct President Obama will address write-in campaigns to attract students at the small Barnard speakers, an option senior Cassie College in New York. Feres thinks the University Remember elementary-school should embrace. staple Bill Nye the Science Guy? “Students should have the He’ll be speaking at Harvey choice. We have paid our way Mudd College. the last four years,” Feres said in The University of Alabama is regards to student involvement. not without its own impressive “Other than the University givlist of commencement speakers: ing us our diploma, give us some UA graduate and actress Sela celebrity action over here. I think Ward addressed students in students would love to hear the 2005, and in previous years U.S. words of a celebrity, especially ambassadors, business leaders one who may have come far on and renowned administrators graduation day.” spoke. For senior political science But in 2007, when former major Jared Cornutt, listening to EBSCO president of the board wise words from an established James T. Stephens took the figure might be the perfect way stage and began talking about to end his collegiate career. the nation’s involvement in the “I personally would love to Iraq war, students booed him off have a prominent, well-known the stage mid-speech. speaker come visit us at graduUA grads haven’t heard a com- ation,” Cornutt said. “I believe mencement speaker since. someone who has experienced Some students, though, feel success in life would be a great that a college graduation cer- way to leave the Capstone and emony is the perfect time to hear offer good advice as we enter the from a respected individual they work world.”
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With Mitt Romney as the presumptive Republican nominee, the 2012 presidential election seems to be ready for primetime. And despite the fact that Romney has yet to officially clinch the nomination, the general election has begun in earnest for many University of Alabama students. With the backdrop of a CBS News/New York Times poll that showed President Barack Obama and Romney with 46 percent each nationwide, student involvement will be very important to the outcome of the election. Regan Williams, the chairman of the UA College Republicans, is a Romney supporter despite his opposition to the former Governor’s health care initiative in Massachusetts that imposed an individual mandate on health care insurance for residents of the state. “At the end of the day, I believe that he will be a good candidate,” Williams said. “I do not support his old health care, but it’s not the same as ObamaCare. Any kind of health care is better than that.” “ObamaCare” is the controversial nickname for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health care reform measure. The law calls for a major overhaul of the private health insurance industry and calls for an individual mandate similar to what Romney supported in Massachusetts. The law is currently under review from the Supreme Court, and a decision is expected before the election. Williams said that Romney is more moderate, and that’s what the Republican Party needs right now. “We don’t need a hyperconservative Sarah Palin,”
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Williams said. While he supports Romney Connors beat out her father, now, that was not always the former state party chairman case. Williams worked on the Marty Connors, to serve as a delegate to the Pawl e n ty, convention. She Perry and said her victory Gingrich But my response to that is what was due to her c a mp a i g n people constantly forget. Ronald position on the before givReagan was a Democrat before he ballot, which ing his was a Republican. People change was higher than support to her father’s Romney. their minds, its just part of human thanks to her Williams nature. first name and also said her gender. he under— Regan Williams “He thought stands the it might be fun concern that many Republicans have for me to run against him, about Romney’s perceived flip- and at the time, it was a joke, flopping on issues and previ- but I did end up beating him,” Connors said. ous pro-choice stance. Connors has been a Romney “But my response to that is what people constantly for- supporter since his first run get,” Williams said. “Ronald for President during the 2008 Reagan was a Democrat before election. She credits his busihe was a Republican. People ness background as the reason change their minds, its just for her support. “He is a businessman, so part of human nature.” Stephanie Petelos, vice chair he has experience making a of the College Republicans, business work, which on a said Romney is the only candi- larger scale is our economy,” Connors said. “If you have that date that could beat Obama. “I don’t like to just vote kind of experience, then it’s a against something, I like to good thing and gives you a one vote for something, and he has up.” Cody Jones, the outgoing the experience and ethical values to run the country,” said chairman of the UA Democrats, believes Obama does not stand Petelos of Romney. Caitlin Connors, the cur- much of a chance in Alabama. rent secretary of College Jones will not even be votRepublicans, will be a delegate ing for him due to what Jones for Romney at the Republican perceives as a lack of support the White House has for the convention in Tampa.
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state party. “Although, I can’t bring myself to vote for him, I can bring myself to send him some great people from the state of Alabama both in Congress and in state and local governments,” Jones said. He will also be writing in a Democrat for president, possibly Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Robert Christl is the incoming chairman of the UA Democrats and strongly supports Obama for reelection. “I think he’s tried really hard to reach out to Republicans, and their lack of enthusiasm about any of his proposals is entirely from a political perspective,” Christl said. Christl agreed with Jones that Obama would probably not win the state of Alabama but said the UA Democrats would be working to elect Democrats in down ballot races like Congressional elections. Director of External Affairs for the UA Democrats Connor Cook also supports Obama and is not a big fan of Romney. “I don’t like Mitt Romney just because of the fact that he thinks that the people voting in this election are more ignorant than they are,” Cook said. “If you look at some of the things that he says in public, they are just damnable with a little bit of research. I just don’t believe anything Mitt says.”
By Abbey Crain Contributing Writer With a degree from the Culinary Institute of America and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, marathon runner Erica Hopper was not satisfied with the quality of storebought energy bars. Her health and fitness lifestyle inspired her to create her own brand of energy bars, Simple Bites Gourmet, that are gluten, dairy and preservative free. Hopper began running after her father’s heart attack her junior year of high school. She ran her first marathon in 2006, in Knoxville, Tenn., and has run 14 since then. While studying nutrition at the University of Tennessee, she began waiting tables at a restaurant in addition to her frequent exercise. “I was running so much, and I was waiting tables and needed energy,” Hopper said. “I was looking at the nutrition facts of energy bars, and they really weren’t all that healthy. I could probably make some-
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thing similar and make it bet- have a degree in nutrition, I know what the human body ter.” Hopper began experiment- needs.” With the help of her cousin, ing with ingredients to make different flavors for her ener- a graphic design major who gy bars. All of her ingredients assisted with the bar’s packare natural and contain agave aging, Hopper makes the nectar instead of sugar, as bars at home and sells them well as antioxidant-rich sun- through word of mouth and flower oil. The bars have a her Etsy web store. “I would love if they would nut-butter base including peaend up in local nuts, almonds running and and cashews health food and are flashops,” Hopper vored with said. “Places like dried blueber[The energy bars] don’t Whole Foods and ries or pineaphave any chemical or gritty Earth Fair, the ple, chocolate taste and since I have a debigger health and unsweetgree in nutrition I know what food chains.” ened cocothe human body needs. In regards to nut. Hopper her future plans, said her bars — Erica Hopper Hopper hopes to are packed develop an allwith protein natural organic and carbs for baby food. She people on-thebelieves living a go and are approximately 75-percent healthy life starts at a young age, and a picky eater is not a organic. “I think what makes them healthy eater. “It is important to feed our better flavor-wise is that they just taste better,” Hopper said. kids everything that they “They don’t have any chemi- need to expand their palate cal or gritty taste and since I at a young age, so they aren’t picky eaters when they’re older,” Hopper said. “I’m pretty passionate about childhood health, so doing food geared toward children is my next step.” Photo by Miko Kulovitz Hopper graduated last May Erica Hopper created Simple Bites Gormet as a healthy brand of from UT and started her busi- energy bars. ness just six months later. Encouragement from friends goals,” Hopper said. “Healthy stores within the next couple and family inspired her to fur- food doesn’t have to be dif- of months. “I will never change my ther her pursuit in manufac- ficult or bland and everyone can have fun and be healthy.” passion for the way they’re turing healthy energy bars. Hopper hopes to spread her made,” Hopper said. “The “I think if anyone has a goal like this never say no to your- brand and have her all-natu- integrity of the product will self, always reach for your ral energy bars in select retail remain the same.”
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TODAY • Documenting Justice: Bama Theatre, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY • Beats Antique: The Jupiter, 8 p.m.
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Beats Antique brings ‘electro-gypsy’ show to bar By Sophia Jones Contributing Writer The band Beats Antique will bring their unique combination of Middle-Eastern music, bluesy folk, electronic and marching band music to the Jupiter Bar and Grill Wednesday. The band combines diverse cultures and media to create a one-of-a-kind sound. Best known for the songs “Revival” and “Egyptic,” Beats Antique self-produces and composes all of their music. “When I first heard the Beats Antique music, I was taken aback,” said Charlotte Perry, a sophomore majoring in nursing. “It was like this group just created this explosion of electronics, hip-hop, funk, exotic, classical and
string music and dropped it on me.” The musical alliance of producers David Satori, Tommy Cappel and Zoe Jakes makes up Beats Antique. The trio, based out of Oakland, Calif., merges the musical genres down tempo, dub step, glitch and live tronica to get an “electro-gypsy” sound. “Experiencing a Beats Antique performance is unlike going to any other concert,” said Alyssa Breen, a sophomore majoring in elementary education, of seeing the band play at the 2011 Austin City Limits Festival. “Everyone in the audience was entranced by the dancing and the sound. The crowd was moving the entire time.” Beats Antique uses live instrumentation, seductive
performance and modern music and mash up remixes technology to meld a mul- instead of being the traditiontitude of elements into one al DJ. Then, we add a bunch show. of instruments “Our improto the mix, and visational skills it all comes we use when together very When I first heard the Beats we go up in smoothly for Antique music, I was taken front of a crowd everyone to aback,” said Charlotte Perry, a are what set enjoy.” sophomore majoring in nursus apart from S a t o r i , other acts,” Cappel and ing. “It was like this group just said Tommy Ja ke s c recreated this explosion of elecCappel in a at e d B e at s tronics, hip-hop, funk, exotic, 2011 interview Antique three classical and string music and with TheUntz. years ago and dropped it on me. com, an elechave released tronic music two albums, — Charlotte Perry, sophomore website. “I feel with a third, majoring in nursing like we catch titled “Blind people because Threshold,” on we incorporate the way. a number of different styles, With extensive backand we don’t bind ourselves grounds in multicultural into a box. We like to make music production, Satori and
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Cappel used their classical training and travels to exotic locations such as Bali, West Africa and Serbia to inspire their music. Jakes adds another dimension to the group through belly dancing. She serves as the multi-cultural and dance counterpart to Beats Antique’s sound and performances. Having served in two major dance troupes, Miles Copeland’s Belly Dance Superstars and Rachel Brice’s Indigo Belly Dance Company, Jakes is experienced in ballet and other contemporary dance. On top of the groups bumping bass lines, blaring instrumentals and Jakes’ belly dancing, Antique Beats hope to soon add videos choreo-
graphed to their music during live sets. Beats Antique played the Hangout Music Festival and Bonnaroo in 2011 and will perform sets at the Coachella, Wakarusa and Sasquatch festivals this year. Jupiter Bar and Grill is ages 19 and up and starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $16 and available online at ticketmaster.com.
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Exercise, eating well can help you keep your head during stress-filled finals By Tricia Vaughan Yet again, we students come face-to-face with the studysession-packed dead week followed by the oh-so-dreaded final exams, on top of the everyday stress we already cope with. Dead week and finals are as enjoyable as changing a crying baby’s diaper: It’s difficult, mandatory and stinks like hell. When put in such situations, stress levels can reach an alltime high, which can adversely affect one’s health. Blood pressure and pulse rates escalate, the immune system plummets, muscles become tense, the digestive systems falters (constipation is no laughing matter, my friends) and sleep is disturbed. Basically, nothing good comes from too much stress. Here are some simple and healthy ways to manage it:
Get some sleep Exercise for at least 20 minutes a day There’s a memorable quote from Elle Woods in the movie “Legally Blonde” that comes to mind whenever I think of exercise’s mental health benefits. “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy,” she said. “Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.” Elle Woods couldn’t be more right when it comes to endorphins. They are moodboosting hormones released during physical activity. Leave the library and take a study break to walk around campus when the pressure of finals starts to get to you. Going for a walk outside when it’s sunny is an extra plus.
There’s a reason why Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street is so mean: He lives in a garbage can, and there’s no way to sleep well in a garbage can. Save all innocent bystanders from a lash-out and get at least seven hours of sleep each night. Also, sleep is shown to help retain new information, so getting plenty of shut-eye helps when studying for a big exam.
“Everything is alright if I just breathe.”
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Many dieters see them as the devil, but carbohydrates are actually very important and great for times of stress. Carbs help the body produce serotonin, a hormone that creates a feel-good mentality, in an all-natural way. Complex carbs such as whole grain bread or cereal are great for boosting a downtrodden Meditate and take deep attitude. Try oatmeal with old-fashioned rolled oats for breaths breakfast or a sandwich with Deep breathing decreases whole grain bread at lunch. heart rate, relaxes constricted muscles and gives you a Keep caffeine, alcohol moment to let your mind coland other drug conlect itself. Take a few deep sumption to a minimum breaths when you feel tense. Imagine Michelle Branch These tend to only enhance singing “Breathe” to you.
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Exercising is especially important during finals week. stress and make you even more irritable. A glass of wine never hurts, but getting wasted will only make the next day worse with a hang-
over. Practice all of the above, and relax. Believe it or not, we will survive. Good luck with finals everyone!
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Documenting Justice films to premiere at the Bama “AL 116” by Dara Ewing and Kellie Gentry Residents in and around Gainesville consider life in Sumter County.
“We Are Coming Back” by Dana Rizor and DJ Jackson A neighborhood devastated by a tornado recounts its past while considering its future.
“A Dying Breed” by Seema Kumar and Lauren Marsh As poultry growers face increasing pressure from all sides, two farmers discuss how much everything has changed.
“Undocumented” by Mary Sellers Shaw and Carlos Estrada Two illegal immigrants reflect on the impact Alabama’s HB56 has had on them, their families and their identity.
“State of Confusion” by Mischa Lewis and Jamie Woodham Bryce Johnson spent 14 years in prison. Now he reflects on his life inside and out.
“Same People” by Rebecca Howard and Fifi Wang Communities in the Black Belt hold onto a past identity through segregated dual school systems.
“The Bridge” by Xavier Burgin and Greg Houser As mental health care changes, the Peer Bridger program offers a unique new model.
Message in a bottle leads to students’ chance to teach
Jessica Ruffin Contributing Writer
A message in a bottle became more than just a plot for a romantic movie for UA graduate geography students one day in March. Students were participating in a winter cleanup of a lake with professor Mary Wallace Pitts, and one of them found a bottle with a note inside it from a third grade class. The letter asked the person who found it to visit Mrs. Scott’s third grade class in Berry. However, Pitts said there was a slight problem with that request — Scott was retired and the student who wrote the letter has now graduated from college. “It was really neat because part of what we’re trying to do is educate the kids that everything we do affects water quality,” Pitts said. “This bottle was a perfect way to show them that because this bottle came from their school.” In order to educate schools in Alabama and the rest of the community about water
resources, Pitts will assist have pre-registered for this with the Lake Tuscaloosa- free event. North River Waterfest event “They will be guided this weekend. The Waterfest through a series of educationwill consist of two events: the al hands-on components and Watershed Festival on Friday, have an opportunity to learn May 4, and the Lake Nicol directly from a number of cleanup on Saturday, May 5. local, state and federal agenPitts, who cies.” serves as the Pitts said coordinator for she hoped the the North River people in the The festival is a one-day Wat e r s h e d Tuscaloosa and event geared towards school Management North River children who live in the Plan, is excited communities North River Watershed and to be able to would learn members of the public who spread awarefrom the event live in the watershed or who ness and knowlmore about edge ab o u t water quality get their drinking water from drinking water and how to proLake Tuscaloosa.” in the area with tect their own the festival on drinking water. — Mary Wallace Pitts May 4. S c o t t “The festival Sanderford, is a one-day who is also event geared towards school working to put on the event, children who live in the North believes this knowledge is River Watershed and mem- crucial for everyone in the bers of the public who live community to know. “If you live, worship, shop, in the watershed or who get their drinking water from go to work or school, eat or Lake Tuscaloosa,” Pitts said. play anywhere in the greater “Groups of school children Tuscaloosa area, then there is from various area schools a good chance that the qual-
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ity of our water resources is affecting your quality of life,” Sanderford said. Sanderford also encouraged people from the community to help out with the cleanup on the following day. “This is the fourth year we have had the cleanup,” Sanderford said. “Previously, we have had 500-plus volunteers, and participants clean out more than 50,000 pounds of debris from Lake Tuscaloosa.” Participants will be provided with all equipment excluding boats, which they will have to bring themselves. They will also be fed lunch and be given a T-shirt following the clean up. Sanderford also said that because Alabama Outdoors has teamed up with the UA Outdoor Recreation Program, participants would be able to paddle their own kayaks and canoes or learn how to do so from on-site instructors. However, according to Sanderford, there is another incentive to participating in either of the weekend’s
events. “Registered participants in the Watershed Festival and lake cleanup will have opportunity to enter a raffle for great prizes such as a framed Basil Ede print, a football signed by Coach Saban and gift cards from Athlete’s Foot,” Sanderford said, adding that other retailers will be offering prizes as well. Elizabeth Smith, a junior
majoring in public relations, said she was interested to learn about an event that is specifically catered to water quality education. “The quality of water in the Tuscaloosa area is so important because it literally affects everyone,” Smith said. “I think it’s great that an event is being put on specifically to showcase the importance of water quality.”
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CVA to host inaugural Veterans Banquet at Hotel Capstone By Judah Martin Contributing Writer The University of Alabama Campus Veterans Association celebrates the veterans of Tuscaloosa and the University at its inaugural Veteran’s Banquet on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Hotel Capstone Ballroom. Although the event is open to all who wish to attend, the banquet is intended to honor the accomplishments of Tuscaloosa’s veterans and their dependents. The event will also pay homage to some of the faculty who contributed to the Veteran’s Association. The veteran’s banquet, which has been in the
planning process for about was killed in Afghanistan in two months, is possible 2010. An award will also be because of a partnership given to the dependent child among the Campus Veteran’s or spouse of a veteran as well Association, the Office of as to an outstanding faculty Veteran and member. Military Affairs “We have and the Student quite a few G ove r n m e n t dependents We want to give these Association. of ve t e r awards to celebrate the acActivities at ans on camcomplishments of our comthe banquet pus,” Jordan munity and to recognize the will include a C a r p e n t e r, presentation of president of faculty who support us.” awards and a the Campus group of speakVe t e r a n s — Jordan Carpenter ers. The CVA Association, will present the explained. “We Mark Forester want to give M e m o r i a l these awards award to an outstanding vet- to celebrate the accomplisheran in honor of Forester, who ments of our community and
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to recognize the faculty who support us. In the future, we would probably like to highlight faculty who are veterans as well.” The banquet will feature speeches from Sen. Bill Holtzclaw, the Chairman of Military Affairs, Commissioner Jeff Brown and several other veterans and retired military officers from the community. Registration for the banquet is now closed because 200 people are already expected to attend, which is the event’s maximum capacity. Those who would still like to attend are encouraged to contact David Blair, director of the Office of Veteran and Military
Affairs. Dress code for the event is described as semi-formal, and prices for students will start at $10 and non-students will be charged $20, but prices may vary depending on the requested table size. The SGA contributed by paying for the first 40 students who registered for the banquet. “This is an opportunity for veterans to come together,” Blair said. “It gives them an opportunity to intermingle with other veterans from campus and make connections with faculty and staff members who are also veterans. We have a couple of fraternities that will be there as well.” “[The banquet] is intended
to celebrate the accomplishments of our community,” Carpenter added. “[The CVA] had some events like this in the past, but nothing to this scale, so we are calling it the ‘first annual’ banquet.” The CVA, an organization founded in by Ashkan Bayatpour in 2009, seeks to assist student veterans who are transitioning from military to college life. Since its inception, the CVA has been active in a range of activities including veterans’ affairs as well as tornado relief. On May 19, the organization will travel to Haleyville to participate in the Mark Forester Price of Freedom Run to honor the fallen veteran.
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Maggie’s Diner provides Tuscaloosa with authentic ‘meat-and-three’ option By Avery Driggers Unless my advisors and DegreeWorks have led me astray, I will be graduating this May after four fantastic years at the University of Alabama. In food terms, that means roughly 312 meal plans used, $2,100 Dining Dollars spent and 702 Frosties devoured. I’ve eaten a lot of food while at UA — some good, some bad and some with too much icing. But it’s not with Wendy’s or Bama Dining locations that my fondest food memories lie. It’s with Maggie’s Diner, my favorite restaurant in Tuscaloosa. Over 15th Street and through the Lurleens, you will find Maggie’s, a meat-andthree that has big portions, questionable hygiene and the best lunch in Tuscaloosa. Tucked away in an old brick building next to the train tracks, Maggie’s is a lunchtime favorite for locals looking for some good home cookin’, hold the frills.
Alabama Shakes’ star is rising fast SHAKES FROM PAGE 1 Hicks was excited by the band’s energetic performance, and remembered their potential managers at Red Light Management from New York state coming down to check out the band; not long after the show, they were signed. Hicks later asked the group to come play his birthday party at Egan’s last October. The band, already beginning to pick up heat from across the country, agreed. Then this March, after becoming an internationally known group, the Shakes agreed to headline Wellthatscool’s Tuscaloosa Get
A straightforward menu hangs on the wall behind the servers scooping up hefty portions of their food. Only open for five hours a day, people pack into the small diner, and the order line frequently wraps around the cafeteriastyle buffet. Maggie’s offers all of the usual meat-and-three options, as well as some truly down-home dishes like pig’s feet and chittlins. And with several hungry diners queuing up behind you, you need to be quick on your feet when ordering. No loitering, no dawdling and no secondguessing. The sweet potatoes are divine. Cooked in large chunks, they are honey-sweet, tender and float on a bed of thick, sticky sauce. The turnips are expertly seasoned, the meatloaf moist and substantial and the complementary griddlecakes sweet and buttery. A meal at Maggie’s is best ended with one of their massive honey buns. About the
size of a human head, the honey buns look like a gut bomb. But after tearing off a pinch, the buns prove to be surprisingly light. Delicately drizzled with icing, they are sweet but not too sweet. Even when the lunch break is nearly over, customers dawdle around chatting and picking at their plates with
Up tornado relief concert. “It shows that they want to give back to one of the communities that gave to them first,” Hicks said. “We gave them that initial nourishment, and now, they’re making it and giving back.” NPR music critic and University of Alabama New College adjunct faculty member Ann Powers followed the Shakes’ rise from an early suggestion from a friend that they were the “most Ann Powers band he’d ever heard.” Now, Powers works as the Shakes’ lawyer from Birmingham. Upon finally catching the Shakes in concert last fall when they opened for the Shoalsborn Drive-By Truckers, she wasn’t let down. “I was just astounded by the
audience response,” Powers said. “I’ve seen so many bands and so many opening acts struggle to keep the attention of anyone in the crowd. They had the attention of everyone that night.” Powers said their tendency to pick up passionate fans was not purely derived from their soulful sound, but also from the connections they form with their audiences and the visible interplay between the band’s growing talents. “I think they’re the kind of band that you immediately root for,” Powers said. “There’s an immediacy about what they do, a strong emotion about what they do and a lot of joy in what they do.” Powers listed their distinct sound and the rich
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I think they’re the kind of band that you immediately root for. There’s an immediacy about what they do, a strong emotion about what they do and a lot of joy in what they do. — Ann Powers fundamentals of their classic roots as keys to their success that up-and-coming bands should take note of. She also admitted, though, that the Shakes quick rise and wide fan base is unusual. “In 20 plus years of writing on music, there are very few stories I can compare to this one,” Powers said. Olivia Hodge, a freshman majoring in journalism,
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first caught on to the Shakes through the AltNation station on Sirius/XM radio, which played the band’s single “Hold On” from their “Boys & Girls” album. Intrigued by the group, Hodge hoped to catch them during their visit to Tuscaloosa during the Druid City Arts Festival but was pulled out of town. Later, while visiting a friend’s family in Atlanta over Easter weekend, Hodge drove out to Athens, to see the Shakes at a sold out show in the historic Georgia Theater. “It was such a long drive but so worth it,” Hodge said. “They were incredible live.” Blaine Duncan of Blaine Duncan & and the Lookers from Tuscaloosa and Doc Dailey of Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil
from Muscle Shoals commented on the musical community which has supported them and given birth to rising bands like the Shakes. “[Other bands] are extremely kind, welcoming, trying to do shows and working together in many ways,” Duncan said. He added that the Internet and the growth of Facebook band pages have given the state’s community room to grow and communicate. Daily acknowledged that the overall scene has changed over the years. “When I first started playing live shows, there just weren’t many places to do it,” Dailey said. “It’s a night and day difference from 10 year ago or even five years ago up until now.”
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After my celebration (yes, I celebrated), I couldn’t help but ask: How is it possible? How is it that one school can have success in so many sports simultaneously? It’s no secret Alabama athletics is fueled financially by football, or at least 99 percent of it. It takes money to win in athletics in any sport. It takes money to buy your team the best equipment to get the edge there. It takes money to fly around the country and get the best recruits for your sport, and it takes money to have the facilities to attract them there. With only one sport on campus making enough money to support nearly all of the 18 sports on campus, how is this type of widespread success possible? I think it’s several things. I think the campus helps. For those of you older students, the junior and seniors that have been able to purchase road football tickets and have
traveled around the SEC, it is clear to see that Alabama has the best campus in the conference. The Quad dwarfs the Grove at Ole Miss, both in size and overall effectiveness in providing an outdoor hub for students. Some of it has to be Athletic Director Mal Moore. I realize hiring Mike Price and Mike Shula did not work out well (putting it nicely), but hiring Nick Saban has sent waves of positive energy throughout Alabama athletics. And the other coaches love it. Gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson couldn’t wait to “give [Coach Saban] a big hug around the neck.” Softball coach Patrick Murphy references the football program often when talking about the success of his program. So, really, I guess it’s just the Alabama way that helps Alabama do so well in athletics across the board. Roll Tide, right?
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SPORTS
Priess caps comeback season with national title By Marc Torrence Sports Reporter marctorrence@gmail.com @marctorrence
Page 14 • Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Editor • Marquavius Burnett crimsonwhitesports@ gmail.com
SPORTS this week
TUESDAY • Baseball vs Samford: 6 p.m. @ Samford
WEDNESDAY • Softball vs Troy: 6 p.m.
THURSDAY •Track and Field, Cross Country: Drake Relays @ Des Moines, Iowa
Ashley Priess couldn’t have asked for a better ending to her senior season. Priess stepped up on the balance beam at the NCAA championships with all eyes on her. The Florida Gators had finished on the floor, and she needed a 9.875 to secure Alabama’s second-straight national championship. She came through and then some, posting a 9.95 and ensuring herself a place in Alabama’s record books. But Priess’ story began long before her final routine as an Alabama gymnast. In 2011, Priess sat on the sidelines after surgery on both of her ankles and could only watch as her teammates took home the national championship. “This is the young woman that sat in the stands last year with two busted ankles, that wasn’t on the floor with us, one of our best team members, best gymnast we’ve ever had, and she was sitting in the stands,” head coach Sarah Patterson said. “It was humbling for her because we
won the championship without her. And then to have her step in … I couldn’t be more proud of that moment.” “Sitting in the stands last year at nationals was a really difficult, bittersweet, yet humbling experience for me,” Priess said. “So, this whole year has just been a miracle and a blessing in so many ways.” Her year started with a bang. Competing against Georgia in the first meet of the season, Priess was the last one on the floor for the Tide and had to hit to win the match, which she did. “When [assistant coach David Patterson] and I were making up the lineup at the end, I said if it comes down to the end, I want Priess to anchor us on floor,” head coach Sarah Patterson said at the time. “I wanted her experience. I wanted her competitiveness, and I knew she would win it for us.” As the season wore on, the task for Patterson became not worrying about whether Priess would be back to full strength, but rather managing her health throughout the course of a long season. The life of gymnasts can be grueling, so it was critical
Softball team ready for championship run SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 1 Many, including Chad Haynie, the voice of Alabama softball, have noticed its dominating performance this year. Haynie said Traina might be the difference maker for this year’s team. “To me, the most important thing in softball from the two times I’ve been out in Oklahoma City and the two I watched on TV, is having the one dominant pitcher. “People could s ay Alabama has had that in the past with Stephanie Van Brakle or Kelsi Dunne, but I don’t think they had the
supporting staff around Van Brakle to do it, and Dunne, with the exception of the 2010 SEC tournament, never really had that killer mindset to go out there and dominate in the Women’s College World Series.” Traina has appeared in 31 of the Tide’s games. With a 27-1 record, Traina’s line includes a 1.56 ERA and 229 strikeouts. Haynie said it’s Traina’s unshakeable demeanor that gives her an edge. “If you look at last year, closing out games, she came in and she doesn’t let who’s in
that such an important piece of Alabama’s lineup not be hindered. “Any time you have that magnitude of a surgery, she was disappointed,” Patterson said. “I think it was humbling for her. Then as she started getting back, to me it was a management job in terms of keeping her healthy.” The season wore on and Priess only seemed to get better. She and fellow senior Geralen Stack-Eaton anchored the Tide’s lineup night in and night out, often competing in all four events. And so, there was Priess on the last rotation of the last night of the NCAA Championships with the fate of Alabama’s 2012 season on her routine. “All I can control is what I’m going to do on beam,” Priess said. “So, that was the only thing in my thought process.” “When she did that beam routine last night, I don’t know whether we’re going to win or finish second, but to see her handle that,” Patterson said, “I’m standing UA Athletics at the end of the beam, and Ashley Priess scored a 9.875 on the balance beam Sunday to lead that brought tears to my eyes the Crimson Tide gymnastics team to a second-straight National because I know how much Championship. that meant to her.”
the batter’s box or what jersey they’re wearing have any affect on her pitching performance,” Haynie said. “That’s my biggest thought on why this is Alabama’s year.” But Traina isn’t the only star on the team. Alabama had four players on the preseason All-SEC team: Kayla Braud, Cassie Reilly-Boccia, Amanda Locke and, of course, Traina. Reilly-Boccia is also a finalist in the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in softball, awarded to the most outstanding Division I senior student-athlete. The Alabama senior class has had its share of accolades, and Haynie said having that supporting cast is what completes the 2012 team. “Obviously, you’ll have Traina here for two more
years, but you also have a group of six seniors who are huge in the field,” he said. “Reilly-Boccia is the best defensive first basemen in the country. “Jennifer Fenton is having an All-American campaign. Someone asked me before the season if I could pick one person to be an All-American on this team that would give Alabama a national championship, I said Jennifer Fenton. Her getting on and doing it in the two-hole, she’s really cut down on her strike count this year. She has been huge.” Alabama has eight regular season games remaining before postseason play begins, including a home series against Florida. If Alabama can win that
series, Haynie said she thinks this will be the Tide’s year. “I think Alabama will win that series, and if they do, I would be very surprised if we don’t see Alabama and California in the championship series because when they’re playing on their A-game, I think they’re pretty clearly the two best teams in the country. “What happens in that series, who knows, because Cal’s a great team. We saw that last year, it was a 1-0 great game in Oklahoma City that Alabama won and I think that confidence might be the edge, having the win from last year to give Alabama enough to win in Oklahoma City. If they get there, they have the team to do it.”