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Chance for a Championship

The Alabama softball team celebrates a post-season win on their way back to the Women’s College World Series. CW / Austin Bigoney

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Softball downs Nebraska 2-1, Softball returns for 9th trip to Women’s College World Series clinches World Series berth Senior Jaclyn Traina powers Crimson Tide into last eight By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor The margin of victory was the same. The total amount of errors was the same. Beyond that, Thursday night and Friday afternoon’s NCAA Super Regional games against the Nebraska Cornhuskers couldn’t have been more different. A walk-off home run from freshman Peyton Grantham won the first game of the series 6-5 for the Crimson Tide. Less than 18 hours later, Alabama rode a shutdown start from senior pitcher Jaclyn Traina and two first inning runs to a 2-1 victory, clinching a

berth in the Women’s College World Series. “We knew that it was going to be a battle and it definitely was,” Alabama coach Patrick Murphy said. “I’m so proud of [Traina] because she has gutted out so many performances over the year.” As slow as Alabama started Thursday night, the Crimson Tide did the opposite Friday afternoon. The Crimson Tide jumped out to an early 2-run lead supplied by catcher Molly Fichtner and designated player Marisa Runyon’s RBIs before any Cornhusker had touched a bat. The Huskers halved that lead in the bottom of the second on designated player Austen Urness’s RBI.

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Alabama returns for the ﬁrst time since 2012 Championship By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor Alabama softball has a motto: “Preparation breeds confidence.” With the team heading back to their ninth Women’s College World Series in program history, Alabama coach Patrick Murphy said his team’s preparation will be more important now than ever. That mantra has been well received by sophomore center-fielder Haylie McCleney. “We’ve done it all year. We’ve prepared for every team that we’ve played,” McCleney said. “We went over their lineup today

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defensively. … The preparation that our coaches give to us is one of the things that makes us so successful and allows us to get this far in the tournament. The work they put in rubs off on us.” Murphy has been in softball for 25 years but said this tournament field is one of the most competitive he’s seen. “I asked the team before practice, ‘Can we beat all seven teams?’ And everybody said ‘Yes.’ Then I said, ‘Can all seven teams beat us?’ The answer is yes,” Murphy said. “I think this is probably the most wide open field we’ve had. There’s been parity across the country all season long.” Alabama will open World Series play

Guy Bailey is no stranger to being the president of a university, but his newest job will feature its own expanded set of challenges and opportunities. On May 20, Bailey was formally named the first president of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, a new university that will combine UT Pan American and UT Brownsville and open for students in 2015. A University of Alabama alumnus, Bailey served as UA president for 57 days in 2012 after four years as the president of Texas Tech University, his late wife’s alma mater. While his new job returns him to Texas, Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, executive director of public affairs for the University of Texas System Board of Regents, said this job opportunity will differ from his prior role. “We needed a leader with great experience,”

LaCoste-Caputo said. “We needed someone who would be charismatic, who would unite this region behind one institution. It’s a huge, huge job.” Bailey was previously in the UT system as a provost at UT San Antonio. His time in Texas showed his love of the area and familiarity with its operations, LaCoste-Caputo said, but his work at other Guy Bailey. Submitted institutions also indicated his aptitude. She said he built many programs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was chancellor. Leo Morton, SEE BAILEY PAGE 15

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Moundville to hold anniversary UA’s Moundville Archaeological Park will host a Saturday in the Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 31. As part of celebrations in honor of the Jones Archaeological Museum’s 75th anniversary, the event will be Alabama Birding-Trail themed and include an interactive Raptor Show at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. It is free after park admission.

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UA hosts Alabama National The UA Department of Art and Art History’s first annual Alabama National is open for submissions from artists ages 18 and older. A juried competition, will result in an exhibition in Woods Hall in the fall. Robert Sherer, an Alabama native, will be the juror. Entries must be submitted by July 14. Information can be found at art. uaedu/site/alabama-national. Compiled by Samuel Yang.

Sweet Summer festival Thursday Homegrown Alabama, a non-profit and student-led UA group, will host the Sweet Summer: Honey and Cheese Festival on the lawn of Canterbury Episcopal Chapel on May 29 from 3 to 6 p.m. Recipe samples, live music, activities for kids and items like posters, tote bags and t-shirts will be available for sale. In addition, there will be a farmers market selling meats, vegetables, household items and more. Cash, checks, debit cards, Bama Cash and EBT/SNAP benefits will be accepted. Compiled by Samuel Yang.

Druid City Opera Workshop open The Druid City Opera Workshop’s annual performance will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Bryant-Jordan Hall. Twenty two workshop performers, chosen from 100 applicants, will perform opera scenes and arias in a free event open to the public. Performers have been attending a weeklong intensive program. More information can be found at music.ua.edu/departments/opera. Compiled by Samuel Yang.

Students enjoy warm weather on the quad as summer comes to The University of Alabama. CW / Hanna Curlette

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President Barack Obama unveiled his path out of America’s longest war Tuesday, pledging to end combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of the year and using a small U.S. force temporarily to train the Afghans to fight al-Qaida. “We’re finishing the job we started,” Obama said at the White House. “America’s combat mission will be over by the end of this year … We will no longer patrol Afghan cities or towns, mountains or valleys. That is a task for the Afghan people.” The U.S. will end its 13-year combat mission as scheduled by the end of this year, Obama said. A force of 9,800 will remain for another year in an advisory capacity to train Afghan security forces and support counterterrorism operations. Those numbers would be reduced by half by the end of 2015 and winnowed down to a “normal embassy presence” – similar to the U.S. role in Iraq – by the end of 2016. The residual forces will stay only if Afghanistan’s government agrees to sign a bilateral security agreement with the U.S., Obama said. Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai has refused to do so, but Obama said the two candidates competing in a June 14 runoff election to succeed Karzai – Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai – have each indicated they’d sign the agreement promptly. The announcement came two days after Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan to visit with U.S. troops, saying that for many it would be their last tour of duty in the country. Obama – who once called Afghanistan a “war of necessity” – acknowledged public fatigue with the war, saying that the U.S. has been engaged in its longest war

“longer than many Americans expected.” But he said the U.S. had “struck significant blows” against al-Qaida, eliminated Osama bin Laden and prevented Afghanistan from being used to launch attacks against the U.S. He acknowledged “Afghanistan will not be a perfect place,” but he argued it’s not the United States’ role to make it perfect. “The future of Afghanistan must be decided by Afghans,” Obama said. “What the United States can do is secure our interests and help give the Afghans a chance, an opportunity, to seek a long overdue and hard-earned peace.” He said the country would continue to receive financial and development assistance, as well as diplomatic support. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, welcomed Obama’s decision to keep a training and counter-terrorism force in Afghanistan, saying that “quitting just short of the goal line” is the biggest challenge for the U.S. “The proposed missions are worthy of support, and I hope moving forward that the president will make a strong, robust case to the American people,” Boehner said. But others questioned whether the limited number of troops would be enough to help fledgling Afghan security forces push back against insurgent groups, especially in the second year. U.S. military officials have warned that the U.S. needs to keep between 8,000 and 12,000 troops to train Afghan forces if it wants to maintain the progress it has made. “All in all it doesn’t really come across as a coherent plan as much as a polite way of leaving without really taking risks,” said Anthony Cordesman, a former senior defense official now with the Washingtonbased Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cordesman, who warned the plan “creates an extremely high risk of failure,”

also criticized the White House for setting a time line for leaving, saying it has “almost given the opposition an almost ideal opportunity to wait it out.” Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire also criticized the plan. “The president’s decision to set an arbitrary date for the full withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is a monumental mistake and a triumph of politics over strategy,” they said in a joint statement. “This is a short-sighted decision that will make it harder to end the war in Afghanistan responsibly.” Obama, who will deliver a broader foreign policy address Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy, called it “time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” He said closing out the two wars will allow the U.S. to redirect its efforts to combat terrorism in other parts of the region. “This is how wars end in the 21st century,” Obama said. “Not through signing ceremonies, but through decisive blows against our adversaries, transitions to elected governments, security forces who are trained to take the lead and, ultimately, full responsibility.” White House officials said the remaining troops would be stationed across Afghanistan and would work with Afghan security forces as well as NATO allies and partners. By the close of 2015, the 9,800 troops would be reduced roughly by half and would be consolidated in Kabul and at Bagram Airfield, which Obama visited Sunday. By the end of 2016, the U.S. would have only a security assistance component at the embassy in Kabul.

Controversy continues in Ukraine president. Dozens of armed insurgents of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic stormed the airport terminal, closed it to The Ukrainian army said Tuesday it had evicted armed passenger traffic and then sent in a truckload of reinforcements. separatists from the international airport in Donetsk after a The military waited 10 hours to respond, then flew combat jets 24-hour gun battle, but the government in Kiev warned of a new over the scene before mounting a helicopter assault and air threat as truckloads of armed Russian volunteers reportedly attacks against the insurgents. crossed the border. No details of the raids have been released, including Donetsk Mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko said 48 people were government casualties, but according to an initial account, only killed, including two civilians, in the fighting at Sergei Prokofiev one government soldier was wounded. Also unknown is the fate International Airport. and whereabouts of the 200 or more insurgents who took part in The pro-Russian rebels said they had suffered more than 50 the assault. fatalities, many of them the result of an army attack on a truck U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said Tuesday that the militants evacuating wounded. A government spokesman said the incident who took part in the attack on the airport had come across the was under investigation. border from Russia. Shots still were being fired near the airport Tuesday afternoon, In the Luhansk region, whose People’s Republic is linked to the and it wasn’t clear when the facility would reopen. If the Ukraine Donetsk People’s Republic through a union called Novorossiya, military has cleared the facility of insurgents, it would mark a rare Ukrainian border guards intercepted several carloads of militants success for a force that has failed to dislodge separatists in who attempted to cross illegally from Russia. One gunmen was eastern Ukraine. captured but several escaped, the state border service said. The unity of Ukraine is riding on how the government handles At another location, an enormous number of armed militants the separatist uprising in the east, the latest installment of which appear to have crossed in early Tuesday. The Ukraine Foreign began at 3 a.m. Monday, just hours after the conclusion of national Ministry said it was protesting Russia’s failure to take action elections that installed candy billionaire Petro Poroshenko as against 40 truckloads of militants who entered near Astakhovo.

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SUMMER CAMPS | EQUESTRIAN

NEWSIN BRIEF COB to continue in fall Continuous Open Bidding, an informal process allowing female students to pledge Panhellenic sororities, concluded for The University of Alabama on the last day of classes for the 2014 Spring semester. Katie Tuell, director of recruitment, said the process increased accessibility and minority representation within the system. ”In spring 2014, the Panhellenic community had 320 women who identified as a minority and 21 who identified as African American,” she said. “Furthermore, all 18 Panhellenic sororities have minority members, and 15 have African American members.” COB was instituted to facilitate opportunity for interested women. The process can only be used during the academic year and will resume Aug. 17, following Fall Formal Recruitment. “Our vision for 2014 Fall Formal Recruitment is one of access and opportunity. Through continued programming and initiatives like Sustained Dialogue and the intentional recruitment of a diverse group of prospective members, the Alabama Panhellenic Association hopes to create a welcoming and inclusive Panhellenic community,” Tuell said. “To ensure a fair selection process, representatives from the various international organizations will be onsite during the formal recruitment process to oversee the membership selection process and ensure adherence to local and/or international non-discrimination policies as well as those of The University of Alabama.” Compiled by Samuel Yang 525 GREENSBORO AVE. DOWNTOWN 752-6931 www.TheShirtShop.biz

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Starting in July, the UA Equestrian Team will be teaching weekly lessons to young riders. Photo coutesy of the Equestrian Team

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The UA Equestrian Team is hosting an Elite Equitation Camp for girls 16 to 18 years old from Monday, June 23 to Friday, June 27. UA Equestrian Team coach Heather McCall also organizes the summer programs. “The camp will be very intense from 7 a.m. till 6 p.m. doing riding lessons in the morning and doing either Pilates or some strength and conditioning classes in the afternoon, and we’ll be going over video reviews of their riding in the morning,” McCall said. “They’ll be working toward the end of the week doing a scrimmage and will be split up into two teams and assigned a pattern that they’ll have to compete on at the end of the week. It is a great example of how we compete in college.” The girls attending camp will take part in the college experience by living in the residence halls, eating at campus dining halls and using the University Recreation Center for workouts and classes. In July, McCall will be teaching weekly lessons to riders ages 12 and older. “The public lessons will be hour-long lessons twice a week for three weeks. We will

basically be divided up into different levels. There will be anywhere from five to eight people in the class,” she said. “We will just be working on, as a whole, everyone’s individual goals. McCall wants to offer these lessons yearly, and she hopes they will be able to expand through the entirety of summer, from May to August. She said the programs were created not only to keep the University’s horses fit during the summer but also to grow Tuscaloosa’s local equestrian culture and to recruit riders. “We are really excited to extend an opportunity to the public to be able to take riding lessons and ride with me as I coach this team. It is really a unique experience,” McCall said. “[For both the classes and the camp], we have campers signed up from across the nation.” Kristi Payne, a University Relations writer, is an equestrian herself. She said she gives all the credit to McCall. “A lot of people believe that equestrian programs can instill really solid qualities, especially in young girls working with horses,” Payne said. “It teaches you discipline and respect for other living beings. It can

give people a really good outlet to interact with animals and come away with a lot of positive qualities from it.” Some of the current students on the UA Equestrian Team are volunteering for the camp. Ashton Somers, a sophomore majoring in nursing, is a member of the team and will be working with the girls during the camp. “The girls will basically experience what we experience as a team and as a college rider. They’ll do workouts and meet with a sports psychologist,” Somers said. “On Friday, we have a scrimmage. It’s like how we do our college shows. It gives [the girls] a great opportunity to get their name out there.” McCall hopes this camp will help the UA Equestrian Team grow to include a western team in addition to the current huntseat team. She also hopes that one day the University will have its own facility. Sign up is online, and registration is limited. Registration closes June 1. Some riding experience is required. For more information visit alabamaequestrian.com and urec.sa.ua.edu/scequestrian.cfm.

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COLUMN | WELCOME

Different voices on campus welcome at The Crimson White By Patrick Crowley

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COLUMN | WEATHER

Some tips for weathering hurricane season By Sarah Cunningham Come June 1, the 2014 Hurricane Season begins. Although it is forecasted to be a mild season due to the El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon and relatively cool water temperatures, it only takes one major hurricane to detrimentally impact both coastal and inland communities – causing destruction to property, the crippling economic burden of rebuilding and loss of life. In preparation for the upcoming hurricane season, it is imperative that people understand the shortcomings of the hurricane categorization scale, as well as the underestimated hazards associated with hurricanes. These hazards include the impact of storm surge, inland flooding and death by falling trees. It’s no secret that the Saffir-Simpson scale misses the mark when it comes to hurricane hazard communication. Categorizing a hurricane into one of five possibilities – when in fact no two storms have ever been the same – could quite possibly be the definition of insanity. This is especially the case when the Saffir-Simpson scale bases a hurricane’s intensity on wind speed and ultimately off-shore characteristics. These characteristics immediately change the moment a storm begins to make landfall and dynamically reacts with a unique landscape and coastal profile. Therefore, off-shore wind speed is generally not enough information to profile a storm’s characteristics or level of intensity. This may lead you to ask the question:

For every one inch of rainfall, the lethality of a storm increases by 28 percent. If the Saffir-Simpson scale is not enough, how then do I prepare for a hurricane? The answer to this question differs depending on whether you live on the coast or inland. On the coast, one of the most underestimated hurricane hazards is storm surge. Along with the Saffir-Simpson scale, there are a couple of storm factors a person must take into account when making evacuation/hurricane preparedness decisions. These two factors are storm size and speed. A very large, slow-moving storm is the worst kind of hurricane with regard to the impact of storm surge. This kind of storm pushes a much larger volume of water, and, depending upon the location of landfall, storm surge can be not only extremely high but also extremely penetrative – reaching farther inland than expected. On the contrary, a small, fast-moving storm

will have a smaller storm surge. This can be seen with Hurricane Charlie, which made landfall in Florida as a small but fast Category 4 storm. Its storm surge ranged from six to eight feet – this is laughable in comparison to Hurricane Ike, a Category 2 storm, which produced a 20-foot storm surge. The difference was storm size, speed and shape of the coastline at landfall. Inland, the Saffir-Simpson scale no longer applies. At this point, the storm will have lost power and start to deteriorate, causing destructive rainfall, wind gusts, and tornadoes. It is very important to remember that hurricanes affect the inland just as much as the coast and generally raise the death toll. According to Jeffery Czajkowski’s 2011 research, most inland fatalities were caused by freshwater drowning, and that for every one inch of rainfall, the lethality of a storm increases by 28 percent. On top of deaths due to drowning from inland flooding, a surprising number of people perish from toppling trees. This is a hazard for which warnings are rarely issued, but definitely a danger one should keep in mind around wind-damaged trees. So this hurricane season, make sure you keep a watchful eye on the Tropics and make the necessary preparations – regardless of whether you live on the coast or inland. It just may save your life. Sarah Cunningham is a junior majoring in environmental science.

My name is Patrick Crowley and I have the exhausting challenge as the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White to generate conversation on campus through a selection of diverse opinions from all reaches of campus. On a campus as large as The University of Alabama’s, where the amount of unique individuals engenders a multitude of diverse and differing opinions, I will Patrick Crowley struggle mightily to present every opinion. Yet, the opinions I do choose to present will be those relevant to students on campus and pushes you, the reader, to challenge their currently held beliefs and ideals. Since all students on campus are here for an education and heightened intelligence, it is important to remember what F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “The sign of an educated man is one who can hold two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time and continue to function.” To this end, the opinions page will be an open battlefield for all to wage intellectual battles. What it will not be is a page for personal and uninformed vendettas against any individual or organization on campus. The opinions page of any newspaper serves a forum for discussion for every member of society so we can all be more informed about the society and world we inhabit. Just like any Joe on the street can submit a letter to the New York Times, so too can any individual on campus submit a letter to The Crimson White. One new feature of the opinions page will be columns produced by a variety of faculty members – this is as much their campus as it is students’ – because far too often students view professors as only teachers and not writers, thinkers and human beings capable of producing more than an informative PowerPoint and grading boring papers. Of course, if a student does not like the current conversation occurring on campus or on the pages of The Crimson White, submit a letter to me and try to change the conversation. It is a far better thing to write a letter that the public can determine as valid or truthful than to hide in the dark shooting volleys at people who you disagree with. Furthermore, for anyone who thinks they can write better and discuss a better issue than an opinion that was published, I greatly encourage you to quit talking and start writing against or for the opinion – talk is cheap, but writing is rich. I must caveat by stating that not all well-written and informed letters will be published. The totality of great thinkers who could produce excellent opinion columns greatly exceed the number of available column spots. I eagerly look forward to being able to present excellent opinion columns on a multitude of issues from a myriad of views. I end by leaving you with a challenge to form an opinion piece of your own and submit it to letters@cw.ua.edu.

One new feature of the opinions page will be columns produced by a variety of faculty members.

Patrick Crowley is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White. He is a senior majoring in mathematics, finance and economics.

COLUMN | VACATION

Unplug, unwind and make the most of your non-exotic vacation By Carolyn Dukes I am writing to you from a Costa Rican beach with white sand in places that will not be mentioned. The cabana boy brings me another Baccalaurean delight just as I finish the first of many margaritas. My steamy summer novel is almost as hot as that tourist two towels over. This is the ideal way to spend a summer day … if only it were true. In reality, I sit in my parent’s backyard, my feet submerged in the semi-murky water of a kiddie pool. A rain cloud blocks the sun just in time to spoil any chance of a tan. That cabana boy? It’s really my mom peering over my shoulder wondering whether or not I will do anything productive today. And the steamy tourist is my little brother constantly texting all of his minions in his social media world. We often think we need to go to extravagant places we have never been to in order

have a decent vacation and break. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy seeing yummy French men in Florence, tasting fresh pasta in Rome and sipping this years’ best chardonnay in Napa. But I have also come to know that the best times are in the most simple locations. Our world constantly bombards our senses. Texts. Reminders. Calendars. Tweets. Facebook. Calls. Emails. Commercials. While we are more “productive” and “connected,” we have become more remote from ourselves. In all honesty, all that is needed is a place where there are no electronic screens, no social media updates every six seconds and no constant hum of an air conditioner. We all need fresh air and open sky. No need for a crisp sea breeze or lodging in a Spanish speaking country. Just air, sky and some time absent from the constant bombardment of electronic communication our world has become so accustomed

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In all honesty, all that is needed is a place where there are no electronic screens, no social media updates every six seconds and no constant hum of an air conditioner. to. Time to breathe, time to just sit, time to not think about anything else other than being wholly where I am. No text from my friends, no Spanish Word of the Day notifications, no communication from anywhere other than what was right in

front of me. Just me. I don’t get to go on a “real” vacation this summer, so this time spent in my perfectly imperfect backyard is my vacation time. But I am content. So whether you are spending your summer interning at a fancy company, taking classes at the local community college or working full time to save up for that big senior trip, just take some time to enjoy where you are. Take some time and disconnect. Stop wishing you were in Costa Rica and just be 100 percent in the moment of where you are. Because you don’t want to look back and just remember a summer of wishing for what you didn’t have. Rather, remember a summer where you enjoyed every day to the fullest. And to those of you who did or will take a great vacation … well, aren’t you special. Carolyn Dukes is a sophomore majoring in secondary education and Spanish.

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Bass ﬁshermen place 2nd in regional qualiﬁer By Emily Williams | Staff Reporter Two members of the bass fishing club team finished second in the Fishing League Worldwide Southeast Regional Qualifier in Guntersville, Alabama, on May 17. Charles Hurst and Logan Shaddix became the University’s third pair to qualify for the upcoming FLW Invitational. The FLW College Southeast Invitational will be held on Lake Chickamauga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oct. 18 to 19. In order to qualify, a boat must finish in the top 15 at one of three invitationals held throughout the spring. In February, Keith Kirkley and Frank Appaluccio finished sixth at the first qualifier in Bainbridge, Georgia. In March, Payton McGuinnis and John Davis, team president, finished 12th in Appling, Georgia, to qualify the second boat.

“It is a pretty big deal to qualify three different boats for the Invitational in October, and it’s the first time we’ve ever done that as a team,” Davis said. “The Invitational will be our chance to qualify for the 2015 FLW College National Championship next spring.” Regionals in college fishing are not tournaments, he said. They are technically called “regional qualifiers,” and teams fish in regionals in order to qualify for championships and invitationals. “In every other college sport that functions similarly, you compete in open or local events to qualify for regionals,” Davis said. “But fishing and traveling to tournaments is so expensive that the smaller local level events are skipped, and we go straight to regionals.” Hurst said it has been a phenomenal season so far, and he has high expectations for the rest of the year. “With these showings and other

respectable finishes in various tournaments, Alabama is the place to be for competitive fishing this year,” Hurst said. The bass fishing club team was founded in 2006 by Jeff Aul and Hank Weldon and currently has 20 members. The team sends several boats to each competition, with a twoperson pair in each boat. Davis said there are collegiate fishing tournaments all year in the Southeast, but most of the tournaments take place in the spring. Most recently, Kirkley and Appaluccio finished in the top 10 at the ACA open tournament on Pickwick Lake in Florence, Alabama, from May 22 to 23. They finished seventh with a two-day total of 40.88 lbs out of 160 boats from the US and Canada. The team’s next event is the College BASS Wild Card in which they hope to qualify for the championship on Lake Chatuge in Young Harris, Georgia, from Charles Hurst and Logan Shaddix are the University’s third pair to qualify for the FLW Invitational. Submitted July 31 to Aug. 2.

Cooper exhibit opens in Black Belt By Samuel Yang | News Editor

Honors College artist-in-residence Chip Cooper’s gallery “The Black Belt: Photography of Chip Cooper” is part of the 57 Miles initiative. Photo courtesy of Chip Cooper

Chip Cooper, artist-in-residence at the Honors College, has published a photography book about Cuba. But the same things that drew him to the guarded island nation – the mystery, for one – have also drawn him to the Black Belt of Alabama for the past 30 years. “It’s been one of my passions to photograph in the Black Belt,” he said. “[The Black Belt has] been a source of inspiration to me.” The Honors College hosted a gallery opening in Marion, Alabama, May 22 that featured 51 of his Black Belt photographs as its inaugural exhibit. “It’s like an ode to an area,” he said. “The Black Belt is intriguing to me because there’s so much down there to photograph.” The photographs in the exhibit cover a wide range of subjects, Cooper said. “Nothing fits together, yet everything fits together. The theme is eclectic and that’s what the Black Belt is,” he said. “That’s what I’m drawn to.” The gallery opening is part of the 57 Miles partnership between the Honors College and Perry County. Davis Jackson, Honors College Student Services intern and graduate student, said the Honors

College has been working in the Black Belt since 2009. “With the exception of the 2011 interim session following the [April 27, 2011] tornado, the Fellows have spent each May working with community members in Marion in the areas of economic development, education, community engagement and health care,” he said. “The projects first and foremost directly correspond to expressed community needs.” Jackson said the 57 Miles initiative extended opportunities in the Black Belt to all Honors students, not just Fellows. “The Black Belt is an incredible place to further your education beyond the classroom. Students have the opportunity to learn firsthand some of the largest issues facing or state, nation and world in a place that is less than an hour away,” he said. “These experiences take the more theoretical pursuits that we explore in a classroom setting and provide context and application.” The photography exhibit, he said, truly belongs to the Black Belt community, and he hopes to see it become a place of meeting and celebration. Jackson said he hopes students will visit both the exhibit and the region. Cooper said the gallery’s design and

quality rivals spaces found in New York City. Now the Black Belt has not only a piece of high quality arts and culture but also one that is currently dedicated to showcasing itself. He has been going to the Black Belt for six years, photographing everything from cemeteries to quilters at Gee’s Bend. “I think part of [the value of going to the Black Belt] is [that] if you try to judge your world by what happens on campus, you’ve shortsighted yourself,” he said. Cooper is also an artist-in-residence in Fototeca de Cuba in Havana, Cuba. Like the Black Belt, he said, Cuba is a place of mystery. As a photographer, Cooper said he enjoys being out of his comfort zone and taking an extra-hard look at things that have been passed over. Sometimes when his drive for photography and his need for a break collide, he takes a trip to the Black Belt. “I like to shoot so I’ll just go down to the Black Belt. … [I’ll] take a right, a left, a right and get lost,” he said. “And wherever I end up, I take photographs.” “The Black Belt: Photography of Chip Cooper” will be on permanent display for the next year. Contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 334-683-9622 to schedule a visit.

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Interim offers variety of Horwitz appeals to state Supreme Court unconventional classes By Brett Dunn | Contributing Writer

By Andy McWhorter | Production Editor Kelly Horwitz, former representative for District 4 on the Tuscaloosa Board of Education and the losing candidate in last fall’s school board elections, recently filed an appellant brief with the Supreme Court of Alabama contesting Judge James Roberts’ dismissal of her case against Cason Kirby. Roberts dismissed the contest in November 2013 after finding that there were not enough potentially illegal votes to change the results of the election. Kirby, Horwitz’s opponent in the election, was sworn in on Nov. 4, 2013, and currently represents District 4 on the Board of Education. According to an October 2013 Crimson White article, Horwitz contested the election results after widespread allegations of voter fraud and bribery, particularly within the UA Greek community. Kirby won the election by a margin of 87, with 416 votes to Horwitz’s 329. In her challenge of the election results, she contested 397 votes, 392 of which were cast by University of Alabama students. Horwitz alleged that voters had registered under addresses that were not their own and were bribed to vote with promises of free drinks and other incentives. After reviewing affidavits from the 397 contested voters, Roberts dismissed the case, saying that there were no more than 70 potentially illegal votes, 17 short of the number needed to change the election results. Horwitz filed a motion to “Alter, Amend or Vacate” shortly after the dismissal. In her brief to the Supreme Court of Alabama, Horwitz argues that Roberts erred at

Kelly Horowitz. Submitted multiple points during the case. According to the brief, Roberts erred by finding that university students were automatically domiciled in District 4, failing to address 62 illegal votes in his final decision, limiting testimony to affidavits instead of live testimony, finding that a bribe must be explicitly conditioned on voting for a particular candidate to be considered misconduct and forbidding her from taking depositions. Horwitz said she does not know how Roberts arrived at his final 70 vote tally. “That’s not a number that we are able to reconcile with what we presented,” she said. “Just on residency alone, we arrived at that number. “I thought it was important to have some clarity with respect to election practices for the sake of future local elections.” Todd Campbell, an associate attorney for Kirby, said he believes Roberts was correct in his initial dismissal. “We’ve done a thorough review of all the evidence, which includes a significant number of affidavits submitted by the voters which was directly addressing the domicile issues, and we believe the testimony from those affidavits

shows that there were a number of students that were properly domiciled in District 4,” he said. Campbell said they are asking the Supreme Court to affirm the trial court’s initial decision. “We disagree with all arguments made by Kelly Horwitz and have briefed them in great detail,” he said. “Whether the Supreme Court finds maybe a different number here and there based on a different allocation, we don’t think any kind of difference would affect the outcome of how Judge Roberts decided the case.” Robert Prince, an attorney who intervened on behalf of a number of Greek organizations during the election contest, was approached for comment by The Crimson White but did not respond by press time. According to the office of Julia Jordan Weller, clerk for the Supreme Court of Alabama, no other briefs have been filed since Horwitz’s appellant brief on April 29. Campbell said the deadline for additional briefs was Tuesday, May 20, but that they requested seven days of additional time. Campbell said Tuesday afternoon that they plan to file their responsive brief by that evening. An online edition of this story will be updated when that brief becomes available. After Kirby’s brief is filed, Horwitz and Kirby will both have several opportunities to respond through additional brief. Horwitz said her attorneys have not requested oral arguments in this case. “I’d say by the end of June, all of the briefing should be complete,” Horwitz said. There is no set deadline for the Supreme Court to reach a decision in this case.

The week after spring semester is often the time when students return home for the summer. For some, however, it is the beginning of three more weeks of class during the May interim. Interim classes usually meet Monday through Friday for approximately three hours a day. The classes are often creative or experimental and are offered by nearly all of the schools. The University describes interim classes as “an excellent opportunity for students to learn through research, independent study, experiential learning or travel.” Brandon Dixon, a professor of computer science, taught a course in mobile applications development and used the interim as a trial period for the class. “The students got a lot out of it. They were very productive,” Dixon said. “The structure of interim classes helps students be more focused on their work because they are essentially immersed in the topic.” Brian Elmore, a senior majoring in secondary education, took his first interim course this year. He took History of Games, a special topic course in history which examined the nature of various games, from ancient games to modern computer and video games. Elmore said

Interim classes are often creative. CW File he was intrigued by the name of the course and decided to take it. Classes during the interim period tend to be designed specifically for the interim, but classes offered during the normal fall and spring semesters are also offered in a condensed form. Interim classes can also be independent research or projects designed by students. Michael Bruce, a professor of telecommunication and film, taught a special topic course in sports information that was created and designed for the interim. “It’s a good way to teach some topics,” Bruce said. “They become very involved because the content is constantly in front of them for three weeks straight.”

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As part of the competition, each team had to design and build a robot. These robots had to complete an obstacle course that mimicked conditions of the moon or planets such as Mars. Submitted

UA engineers champions in NASA competition Team placed 1st overall in national engineering championship for the 2nd time in three years By Josh Sigler | Contributing Writer In 2009, NASA created an event called the Robotic Mining National Championship. Engineering students from The University of Alabama have competed as a team in the event every year since its creation. The team won first place overall for the second time in three years on May 23. Kenneth Ricks, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering as well as the faculty adviser for the team, said he believed this was a huge victory for the University, the team and the engineering program. “These students deserve all of the publicity possible,” Ricks said. “It may not be football, but it is a national championship in a competition against many big name engineering schools around the country.” Each astrobotics team must design and build a robot which can make its way through an obstacle course that mimics the conditions of the moon or a planet such as Mars. In the span of 10 minutes, the robot must then be able to mine soil, bring the

We have been called by the judges a model of what the competition should be. — Alex Stapp

soil back through the obstacle course and deposit the soil. Alex Stapp, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering and a team

member, said the judges had high praise for the UA team. “We have been called by the judges a model of what the competition should be,” he said. In the past three years, the team has won second place once and first place twice, an achievement Stapp said is an example of the team’s continued commitment to excellence. “This isn’t just something we’ve been able to do once,” he said. “It’s something we can replicate over and over because we have a plan for success.” The competition is a week-long event, and the judges’ decision is based on six different categories. The University’s team was able to clinch first place overall by placing high in nearly every category, including first place in the tech paper category, the oral presentation category and the team spirit category. “We had a really big night,” Ricks said. “No one has ever won four first place awards before.” One of the things that has made the

University’s team so successful is that the team designs and builds a brand new robot every year, rather than improve on previous designs. What made this year’s model different was the fact that it was completely autonomous. While most of the other 36 teams that made it to the competition guided their robots by remote control, the UA team was the first to design a robot that could guide itself through the course entirely on its own. The next step for the team is the world competition this summer in Hawaii. While the dates and times for the event are not yet set, it will take place in an area with conditions similar to Earth’s moon and Mars – the side of the Mauna Kea volcano. Michael Carswell, a team member and graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, said the group plans to build on its success in the years to come. “We are constantly looking for students, and particularly incoming freshmen, to work on the team all four years and extend the life of the team,” he said.

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The Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Reunion concert has been a tradition since 1975. Submitted

Cavaliers join UA jazz ensemble for concert By Francie Johnson | Culture Editor Maybe it’s the bright lights, maybe it’s the feeling of all those eyes on you or maybe it’s something else entirely, but many performers will say there’s no feeling quite like being on stage. For Merle Lemley, pianist and keyboardist for the Alabama Cavaliers, one moment stands out above the rest. “When the director walks to the podium and the band begins to play, the audience begins to applaud as they realize that we are playing ‘Stars Fell on Alabama,’” she said. “People who have attended year after year have told me that it’s their favorite moment.” The Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Reunion Concert, which will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building concert hall, has been an annual tradition for the Alabama Cavalier Alumni Association ever since 1975. Every year, the Cavaliers and the University of Alabama Jazz Ensemble come together in celebration and support of jazz music and the University’s Jazz Program. The Alabama Cavaliers formed in 1929 under the name “The Capstone Orchestra.” After spending the summer of 1933 performing at the Cavalier Hotel Beach Club at Virginia Beach, the group adopted the hotel’s name and continued performing throughout the Southeast. Now, in addition to performing annually at the reunion concert, the group acts as a fundraising organization for the University of Alabama Jazz Program. “Being a Cavalier is just fun,” Lemley said. “Of course, the favorite part of the fun is playing with them. They are excellent musicians. We have school teachers, doctors, lawyers and many other occupations, but we come together to play music.” In 1969, Steve Sample, a former Cavalier, founded the University of Alabama Jazz Ensemble. Unlike the Cavaliers, the Jazz Ensemble eventually became interwoven in the school’s curriculum. After Sample retired as director in 1992, he was succeeded by Tom Wolfe and then by current director Chris Kozak.

PLAN TO GO WHAT: Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Reunion Concert WHEN: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Moody Music Building

Th are excellent musicians. We have They school teachers, doctors, lawyers and many other occupations, but we come together to play music.

— Merle Lemley Lemley attended The University of Alabama from 1975 to 1976 when she received her Master’s Degree in Music Education. She found herself back in the classroom 15 years later after enrolling in the University’s music therapy program. Just a few months into her music therapy classes, Lemley stumbled upon the Jazz Ensemble. “One day, I stopped by the jazz room and chatted with the director,” Lemley said. “He needed a pianist, so I became a member of the Jazz Ensemble. Soon after that, I realized that was what I wanted to do.” Despite a rich background in music, she said her quiet personality sometimes makes it challenging for her to convey the emotion in jazz music. “No music is more emotional than jazz,” she said. “Jazz is a conversation, always interesting and emotionally charged. Creating these moments and sounds along with other people is always exciting. It’s just fun, but we need to practice and strive for excellence for it to be real.” “The Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Reunion concert will benefit both the musicians and the Tuscaloosa community as a whole,” said Courtney Fair, marketing support assistant of the University of Alabama School of Music. “It will be great for [the Jazz Ensemble] to play with the Cavaliers,” she said. “Some of the Cavaliers are professional musicians, and I think it would be great for the aspiring instrumentalists to learn from them. It would [also] give Tuscaloosa a great outlet for jazz music because you never really hear jazz music played around Tuscaloosa.” The Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Reunion Concert will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building concert hall. Admission is free.

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For some of you, summer means venturing off to exciting places and participating in a variety of new experiences. For me, it just means that I finally have time to watch all of my must-see Netflix movies (not that I wasn’t watching Netflix during the school year anyway – but now I can do so without having to pull all-nighters to finish schoolwork afterwards). Here’s a list of some of the best movies Netflix has to offer, according to yours truly.

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Off,” “Dirty Dancing” – I could continue. In my opinion, everyone’s laptop needs John Cusack holding a stereo over his head and looking sad.

“Stuck In Love” I had never even heard of this movie before a friend recommended it to me, but it is definitely worth a watch. Written and directed by Josh Boone, “Stuck in Love” documents a year in the life of the fictitious Borgens family. Novelist Bill Borgens and his daughter Sam and son Rusty navigate a series of complicated relationships, both family and otherwise. Without giving too much away, I’ll just say that this was the first movie in a while to make me cry – and this is coming from someone who shed not a single tear after watching “The Notebook” or “Marley and Me.”

In my opinion, everyone’s laptop needs John Cusack holding a stereo over his head and looking sad.

“Pulp Fiction” is one of my all-time favorite movies, so imagine my excitement when I discovered that not only is “Pulp Fiction” available on Netflix, but about seven other Tarantino films are as well. I’ve already watched both volumes of “Kill Bill,” and “Reservoir Dogs” is next up on my list. I’m ashamed at how few Tarantino movies I’ve seen thus far, but trust me, that will soon change.

‘80s Movies If ‘80s movies are your thing – and by the way, we can’t be friends if they aren’t – Netflix has a wide variety to choose from. “The Breakfast Club, “ “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day

“Clueless” A movie so iconic that Iggy Azalea based a music video off of it, “Clueless” follows the life of Cher Horowitz, your typical blonde, rich Valley girl, as she decides to befriend new girl Tai Frasier. Though she seems shallow on the outside, you can’t help but fall in love with Cher’s kind heart and endearing personality. Plus, this movie has no shortage of quotable lines. As if.

By Jordan Cissell Before we get all caught up in discussing how this record sounds (‘cause anytime the Neil Young aesthetic is presented for consideration, heated disagreement will inevitably ensue), it seems prudent to establish one foundational tenet upon which we may indubitably proceed: “A Letter Home” is the most Neil Young-y album Neil Young could have possibly released in the year 2014. The man most notorious for the idiosyncrasy of his reedy, high-pitched whine has also spent his 45-odd-year career cultivating a well-deserved reputation for the consistent inconsistency of his gargantuan musical output (this is his 35th solo studio album, not to mention a handful of live recordings and archival releases). You’ve sung along to the country-tinged majesty of “Heart of Gold” whenever Dad left the car radio on the classic rock station, and you’ve braced for the face-smacking wall of six-string crunch in the feverish guitar epic “Down by the River.” But Young’s WTFinducing forays into 1950s rockabilly (1983’s “Everybody’s Rockin’”), Kraftwerk-inspired electronica (1982’s “Trans”) and half-hour stretches of unbroken, indistinguishable feedback noise (1991’s “Arc”) seem to pop up once (or thrice) every few years, just to keep the body guessing. Now, in the midst of a dogged two-year campaign spent talk-show hyping and Kickstarter fundraising for his new, high-resolution Pono music player system, and just more than a week after a Michael Jackson hologram’s performance at the Billboard Music Awards was broadcast simultaneously to home television sets across the nation, Neil releases a covers collection recorded with three-fourths sized guitar in a telephone booth (a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph direct-to-vinyl recording setup at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, Tennessee – quite literally the size of a phone booth) that sounds just as speakerphone-in-the-men’s-room-y as you are thinking it sounds. Make that two statements we can agree upon: Neil quite clearly recorded and released “A Letter Home” because it’s exactly what he

wanted to do. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. On Willie Nelson’s “Crazy,” Young replaces a verse with an imperfectly winsome whistle, and the recording booth’s low-fi limitations wither Neil’s voice to a powerful distillation of an old timer’s longing and regret as his gentle guitar strums irregularly shift forward and backward in the sound mix, depending on the instrument’s proximity at any particular moment to the setup’s one microphone. It’s a charming tribute to the song that earned Willie his first taste of songwriting notoriety way back in 1961. Not so for Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” in which Jack White’s backup vocals and piano barely come through, and Young’s harmonica overloads the recording in a piercing screech. Your time spent listening to these versions of Tim Hardin’s “Reason to Believe” and Ivory Joe Hunter’s “Since I Met You Baby” could be better spent checking out the originals, but Young delivers a haunting take on Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown.” Monotonous guitar plucks replace the textural, slow-build synthesizers of the 1985 original, and Young’s whimper refuses to offer the refuge of any change in dynamics, repeating the chorus with shrill resignation until it clutches at the compulsory force of spectral mantra. Young and White’s quirky inflections intertwine beautifully for the high, lonesome chorus of the Everly Brothers’ “I Wonder If I Care As Much,” and Young’s interpretation of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain” quivers with misty-eyed yearning. Perhaps the record’s most poignant moment comes at 0:47 of Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.” There’s a total pause, the only sound an ambient crackle and hum as Young’s voice and guitar cede center stage to the Voiceo-Graph’s mechanisms and acoustics. Only Neil will ever know for sure whether the hiccup is deliberate or a mistake. But it’s not a break in the music. It’s a brief respite, a halfsecond of human hesitation that pierces the low-fidelity obstructions separating audience and performer for a hominal instant of vulnerable immediacy.

NEWSIN BRIEF Styx and Foreigner tour comes to amphitheater Styx and Foreigner, along with special guest and former Eagles guitarist and songwriter Don Felder, will perform at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Thursday as part of their “The Soundtrack of Summer” three-month U.S. tour. “As longtime friends, we’re happy to join Styx and Don Felder for the ultimate soundtrack of summer,” Foreigner founding member and lead guitarist Mick Jones said in an emailed press release. “Our combined songs are some of America’s favorite summer anthems, and we’re excited to be bringing them to our fans across the country.” The tour kicked off May 16 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and it ends on July 27 in Santa Barbara, California, with Tuscaloosa being the ninth stop on a list of more than 30 cities. Don Felder will be the first act to take the stage, followed by Foreigner, and, finally, Styx. The concert will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m., and tickets range from $20-$75, not including service charges. Compiled by Francie Johnson

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Alabama provides summer fun By Hayley Sanderson | Contributing Writer

School is out and summer is here, which means it’s time for some warm-weather fun. There are plenty of fun things to do in Alabama during the summer, but if you are having trouble finding something to do then we’ve compiled a list of five places and events to check out.

1. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center

If you are interested in exploring the world of space and looking for something to do indoors, then The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville is the place for you. There are many different rocket exhibits, an IMAX theater and the Mars Grill, which is the perfect place to get something to eat after a long day of fun. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center is open seven days a week, so drop by and explore the world of space. Where to stay: The Embassy Suites Huntsville Hotel and Spa is located in the city center near plenty of restaurants and activities, and it even has its own restaurant. Embassy Suites also houses a spa, indoor swimming pool, free breakfast and a game room.

4. W.C. Handy Music Festival This musical festival, which hits the stage in Florence, Alabama, from July 18 to July 27, is hosted by the Music Preservation Society and is dedicated to W.C. Handy. Tourists travel from all over the U.S. to attend this festival. It has also been named in the Alabama Top 20 Events, so head on over to Florence and see what the W.C. Handy Music Festival is all about. Where to stay: The Hampton Inn and Suites is located at the center of downtown Florence and has an indoor swimming pool, gym, breakfast area, and more.

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2. Dauphin Island Dauphin Island, located south of Mobile Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, has many attractions, including Fort Gaines, Audubon Bird Sanctuary, the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island Campground and the beautiful beaches. So whether you want to catch some sun on the beach or study marine life in the Sea Lab, Dauphin Island is a guaranteed good time. Where to stay: The Gulf Breeze Motel, located right on the shore, is an option if you want a nice place to stay for a low price.

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3. The Steel City Jazz Festival The Steel City Jazz Festival will make its debut this summer at Linn Park in Birmingham from June 5–7. The music lineup ranges from WAR and Will Downing all the way to Fourplay and Jessy J. There will also be food and arts and crafts, so head out to the Steel City Jazz Festival and enjoy yourself. Where to stay: The Sheraton Birmingham is less than half a mile from Linn Park, which is walking distance to the festival. This hotel also has a gym, sports bar and grille, indoor pool, room service and more.

This festival is a one-dayonly event located in Brewton, Alabama. It will be held on Saturday, June 21 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and it features arts and crafts, a car show, live entertainment, a children’s section and, of course, lots of blueberries. Where to stay: The Ramada Brewton Hotel offers free breakfast, a pool, Internet access and more. Staying here is a bargain, so if you head to Brewton, the Ramada Hotel is a must.

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Jansen, Routliffe win NCAA Doubles Championship By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter For the first time in program history, the University of Alabama women’s tennis team will bring home a national championship after sophomore Maya Jansen and freshman Erin Routliffe won the NCAA Doubles Championship Monday. “It felt amazing,” Jansen said. “I think it’s a tribute to everyone that’s been in this program before, but obviously it feels great. Bringing home our first one, I think it’s really something special.” The pair won in two straight sets, 6-1, 6-0. “Honestly, I’ve cried. I’ve got a lot of tears,” coach Jenny Mainz said. “It’s emotional for many reasons. I think for it to happen to Jansen and Routliffe, they are two very deserving players. They’ve worked so hard and I think they believed they could do it together. I think Jansen and Routliffe should be commended just for how far they’ve come through the course of the season.” In the 17 years Mainz has been at the helm of the program, she has brought Alabama up from the lowest ranks in the SEC to No. 2 in the country. Now that the Crimson Tide has won its first National Doubles Championship, Alabama can aspire to win the complete NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship. Before Alabama can look ahead to next season to return for the trophy, the Crimson Tide will revel in its feat. Both Jansen and Mainz said they are still in shock from the victory. “I honestly can’t describe it,” Jansen said. “It hasn’t really hit me on how it feels, but it feels good. I know it’s part of our whole team’s effort. We wouldn’t be where we are without our teammates along with us. So it just feels great, I can’t really describe it.” This was the first year for Jansen

ItI hhasn’t really hit me on how it feels, but it feels good. — Maya Jansen

and Routliffe to be doubles partners. e surgery last fall, Jansen, who had knee eason before comwas out for the fall season ing season. Mainz ing back for the spring said the two clicked well together, comer on the court. plementing each other ason, Jansen said Now in the off-season, ll be relaxing and most of the team will k on their individtaking time to work ual game. For her personally, Jansen lasses and relaxis taking summer classes ing. She is, however, still enjoying her accomplishment. ,” Jansen said. “It feels amazing,” mazing to see “Honestly, it feels amazing all your hard work paying off r. I know throughout the year. e had a when I came in we st year good program, but last ard to we really worked hard xteen get to the Sweet Sixteen and we managed to do that. This year, we set new goals, but, honestly, I think it’s the team’s hard work that has helped accomplish our goals.”

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MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis team falls short of post-season By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter The No. 35 Alabama men’s tennis team finished their season May 22 after a run in the NCAA tournament in both singles and doubles. This was the second consecutive year the Crimson Tide was represented in both singles and doubles in the NCAA Tournament. Although the team as a whole did not advance to the tournament, senior captain Daniil Proskura advanced to the tournament in singles play, and doubles pair Proskura and junior Becker O’Shaughnessey advanced as well. The Crimson Tide fell just short of the team portion of the NCAA tournament as a 4-1 loss to South Carolina in the SEC Championship put the team at 14-15 overall. This made the team ineligible for the tournament, as rules state a team must have a .500 record or better to qualify for the post-season. Alabama coach George Husack said while the team was disappointed to miss the tournament, there was a lesson to be learned in the importance of capitalizing on opportunities when they’re given. “They were disappointed to be so close and have some great wins during the season, but I also know that you only get so many makeup exams during the course of the year,” he said. “I think what they’re going to take away is that

they’re motivated to be even more prepared and ready to grab opportunities next year and not just think that they’re going to keep coming all the time.” Looking to take advantage of his opportunities, Proskura advanced to the round of 32 after a 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 win in the first round of the singles portion of the tournament over Clemson’s Hunter Harrington. Proskura then faced South Carolina’s Andrew Adams and ended his singles career at the University, falling to Adams 6-3, 6-4, posting a 20-7 overall singles record this season and 76 overall career wins. Doubles pair Proskura and O’Shaughnessey also ended their career partnership Thursday with a close 7-6(5), 6-4 loss to Cal in the doubles round of 32. The duo won 12 matches together throughout the season, including five against nationally-ranked opponents, and were named ITA All-Americans. O’Shaughnessey said being named all-Americans was a great honor, especially since the pair didn’t form until later into the season, and the loss in the tournament was sharper simply because it was the duo’s last match together. “We got paired up late in the season, and we didn’t know how well we were going to do, and in the last three or four matches we picked up some really good wins,” O’Shaughnessey said. “Going in we had a lot of confidence and were playing really well and were excited. It was tough

The Alabama men’s tennis team’s championship hopes slipped away after a 14-15 season. UA Atheletics though because that was [Proskura’s] last college match. It was an honor to play with him because he’s had the best four years of probably any college player in the school.”

WOMEN’S GOLF

Women’s golf team ﬁnishes NCAA tournament in top 10 By Caroline Gazzara | Staff Reporter

A final-round surge pushed the Crimson Tide into ninth place, down two from their 2013 finish. UA Athletics

Falling short of what could have been a repeat of the 2012 NCAA Championship, the women’s golf team placed ninth in the NCAA Championship last week at the Tulsa Country Club, Oklahoma. Although the Crimson Tide didn’t come out on top, coach Mic Potter said he was far from disappointed. “Overall, I think the season was interesting,” Potter said. “Our positives are that we have a lot of young players who got a lot of experience which will really help us going forward. This year we said one of our real benefits was to put a lot of different lineups together and give a lot of people the chance to play. And we were able to do that.” Alabama struggled throughout most of the Championship. Before going into the final round of the tournament, the Crimson Tide was ranked 12th. A final round rally boosted Alabama into the top 10. Alabama finished the Championship at 41-over-par 1,161. “They know that their job is everyday to go out

and play shots at the best of their ability,” Potter said. “They continued to do that.” Senior Stephanie Meadow ended her collegiate career 1-under-par 279, breaking the school record for the lowest 72-hole score. Meadow will be going professional now that her college career has ended. Sophomores Janie Jackson and Emma Talley shot even-par 70s on the last day. Talley, who has been to the championship twice in her collegiate career, echoed her coach’s sentiments. “Obviously, we wanted to do a little bit better than we did, but at the same time I think it was a good learning experience for the whole team in general,” she said. “Our team has a lot to work on for next year, and we have a couple new players coming in, so I think we’re just really excited about next year.” Of the new players coming in, No. 1 ranked Nicole Morales and No. 3 ranked Lakareber Abe will join the Crimson Tide in the fall. Morales and Abe will round out the seven-player team for the 2014-15 season.

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Alabama to face Sooners in Women’s College World Series WORLD SERIES FROM PAGE 1

Sophomore Haylie McCleney has been the Crimson Tide’s spark at the plate and in the field. CW / Hanna Curlette (top, right), Austin Bigoney (bottom)

against the Oklahoma Sooners, a familiar foe for the Crimson Tide. Alabama defeated Oklahoma in the 2012 final to claim the program’s only National Championship. The Sooners are a historic program in their own right, and the reigning national champions. “They’re going for the fourth straight time,” Murphy said. “That’s two different pitchers now with Keilani Ricketts and this Kelsey Stevens kid. I think that’s the mark of a great program, when you can get there with a different pitcher. … I think they’re well coached. They hit the ball. They average seven runs a game. They have the best home run hitter in the country in Lauren Chamberlain, and we’ve got to treat her like Barry Bonds.” Junior, Chamberlain, has 72 career home runs and tied for 10th in NCAA history. Even if Alabama can quiet Oklahoma’s bats, they’ll face another unfamiliar obstacle: quieting Oklahoma’s crowd. “It’s like playing a home game for them,” Murphy said. “It’s 20 minutes away. The casual fan that comes every single year

from the Oklahoma area, they’re going to cheer for Oklahoma. When Oklahoma isn’t there, I think they usually cheer for us.” The last time the Crimson Tide appeared in the Women’s College World Series, they won the whole series. Much of the 2012 season’s success came down to then-sophomore ace Jaclyn Traina, now a senior. Fellow senior Kaila Hunt said the team’s experience from that season will only help the Crimson Tide as they chase the program’s second title. “I would definitely say that we have some similarities,” Hunt said. “We have that experience up the middle. There’s three seniors that play up the middle of the infield. To have Jackie on the mound, I think it does give us that much more experience, because Jackie was a sophomore when we won it, so having her have that experience and being in the fire, it does help us.” Murphy has taken Alabama to nine Women’s College World Series since 2000, but the 16-year coach said the luster of the National Championship never wears off. “It never gets old,” Murphy said. “This is like Christmas morning. The best time of the year is right now.” Alabama will take the field against the Oklahoma Sooners at 8:30 p.m. Central Time at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.

Alabama defeats Cornhuskers to qualify for Championships

The two runs in the first, she made them stand up.” Despite taking the loss, Nebraska’s Tatum Edwards went the distance, conceding no RECAP FROM PAGE 1 earned runs and walking only one batter of the 30 she faced. That was the end of the scoring for either “There were a lot of people who didn’t team. From then on, the game became a think we would do what we did here,” pitcher’s duel. Edwards said. “I know we lost, but our losses “It definitely put the momentum on our prove that we have fight. We continued to side,” Traina said. “I was like, ‘That’s it. battle, regardless of who were are and who That’s all they’re gonna have.’ I just made we are playing. My whole entire career, I’ve sure I was doing it for my team. [The runs] been on a fighting team. I feel like I’ve always drove me to do it.” brought my fight, whatever game I’ve been Nebraska picked up Friday afternoon playing. I knew we were going to come in where they’d left off less than here and do great things. 20 hours before: committing I know it didn’t end in our errors. None of Alabama’s favor, but we still did good runs were earned, and both things and showed what we scorers – Kaila Hunt and are about.” Jadyn Spencer – advanced to Alabama will carry a 50-11 scoring position on errors. record to its ninth Women’s “You’re just hoping you College World Series where don’t waste all those opporthey’ll open against the tunities,” Murphy said. “The University of Oklahoma. Last one rally was all [we needed] time Alabama made the trip, — Tatum Edwards with two outs.” the team won the National Senior Jaclyn Traina Championship after defeatpitched a complete game – ing the Sooners in the final, three innings deeper than she made it into largely on the strength of Traina’s arm. Thursday night’s 12-inning win – when she Seeing as this season is her last, she said it conceded five earned runs and threw 100 was the team’s goal all along to make it back pitches to 20 batters. Alabama’s ace con- to Oklahoma City. ceded only three hits and one earned run en “This is what we wanted,” Traina said. route to her 23rd win of the season. “We made a decision at the beginning of the “She was much better than yesterday,” year that we are going to get where we want Murphy said. “I think everybody here saw to be. Before the game, we had a lot of emothat, but you just never know. You’re fac- tions. I talked to some of the seniors, and we ing the same team and you just don’t who were in the locker room saying, ‘This is our is going to make the better adjustments. … last time that we’re going to play at Rhoads They were behind on [Traina] a little bit. I Stadium. We are going to leave it all out know her ball was moving a lot more today. there.’ It’s a really special time for us.”

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TRACK & FIELD

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The Alabama baseball team watches the announcement of the NCAA Regional selections. UA Athletics

Baseball team to compete in NCAA regional By Sean Landry | Assistant Sports Editor

Athletes compete in various track and field events at the John Mitchell Relays in March. CW / Austin Bigoney

Track enters the home stretch By Kayla Montgomery | Staff Reporter Nearly three dozen athletes from the Alabama track and field teams will represent the Crimson Tide at the NCAA East Region Preliminary at Hodges Stadium at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 29 to 31. The team will send 16 individuals from the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, 14 from the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team and four relay teams. The top 12 finishers from this meet, along with the top 12 finishers from the West Region, will advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships to be held June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon. Alabama coach Dan Waters said he expects his team to fare well at the competition, but there is also a lot to learn from being present at such a meet, regardless of the outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each individual has his or her own specific goals in mind, and the ultimate goal is obviously to advance to the NCAAs,â&#x20AC;? Waters said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In many ways, the region meet is like the conference meet in that you can gain a lot from simply being there, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a positive thing for our program to have nearly three dozen athletes there to compete. I expect us to come out and execute the technical training that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on all year. If we do that and compete as hard as we possibly can, then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do well.â&#x20AC;? Competition at the regional meet begins Thursday at noon with the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hammer throw, which will feature UA athlete Nia Barnes. Barnes, who competed in the regional meet last year as well, said this year she is approaching the competition more focused, and most importantly, more relaxed than last year. She said the mental aspect of the meet is crucial, especially in an event such as hammer throw, where centimeters will decide who advances in the post-season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The regional meet is all a mental game, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 48 people all trying to get to one place, and only 12 go,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a game of who is prepared and focused the most, because if you focus on executing your event then you will

do what you have been all season.â&#x20AC;? Despite the mental aspect of the competition, senior sprinter Akeem Haynes said it is important to keep rhythm and routine the same in preparation for the regional competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This meet is more of a playoff, elimination type,â&#x20AC;? Haynes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing really changes. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done all the work to prepare, so now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more just executing, letting the body get as fresh as possible and performing on our race day.â&#x20AC;? Previously, the Crimson Tide competed in SEC Championships, which were held from May 15 to 18 in Lexington, Kentucky, where Waters said that he feels his team had a good showing overall and gained valuable experience in the competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We certainly had some good things happen in each of the disciplines,â&#x20AC;? Waters said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some impressive personal records set throughout the weekend in all areas. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased of the way we finished strong on Sunday.â&#x20AC;? He also said performances by individual racers as well as best times from a relay team left a positive mark at the end of the meet which will carry across the upcoming post-season competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finishing a meet well like that can help set the tone for your next meet, which is important,â&#x20AC;? Waters said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as a bad experience at conference meets, because any experience you gain there is positive. We certainly had some positive things happen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an individual championship, a new PR or a wealth of teachable moments and experiences to take home.â&#x20AC;?

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another vote of confidence. While university presidents are often tasked with presenting a grand vision, she said the grand vision for UT-RGV has already happened. Bailey will face the challenges of building a 21st century university, complete with headquarters and mascots, from existing resources. “There’s a ton on his to-do list,” she said. “There are a ton of logistical, very real things to tackle right from the get-go.” Since there will be overlaps in existing jobs at UTPA and UTB, there is a level of uncertainty, but LaCoste-Caputo said UT-RGV is about expansion, not retraction. In his meetings with the universities, Bailey said he was already looking at UT-RGV’s workforce. “[He said], ‘You are the workforce,’” LaCoste-Caputo said. “[The transition]

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