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ON CAMPUS UA students visit Costa Rica A group of honors students recently visited Costa Rica as the culmination of a course focused on Latin American culture. Going through the on-campus service-learning program, Alabama Action Abroad, and in partnership with Costa Rica Outward Bound School, a group of nine students set out for the small indigenous village of Amübri, Costa Rica. The course´s purpose was to learn about the culture of the Bribri people while volunteering their services in the areas of youth and community development. Chair of Plank Center dies Betsy Plank, chair of The University of Alabama’s Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations and the “First Lady” of public relations, died Sunday, May 23, in Chicago. She was 86. Plank’s career spanned more than 60 years and is a litany of firsts. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Public Relations Society of America and the first to receive three of PRSA’s top individual awards: the Gold Anvil Award in 1977 for being the outstanding U.S. professional; the 1989 Paul M. Lund Public Service Award for exemplary civic and community work; and the first Patrick Jackson Award for distinguished service to PRSA in 2001. Sale of Bryce Hospital to UA completed On May 26 Gov. Bob Riley and President Robert Witt signed the agreement for the University to buy the Bryce Hospital property. The property will cost $77.5 million, as appraised by the Department of Mental Health’s advisory board of trustees. An additional $10 million will be spent on cleanup and preservation.
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TODAY What: The 4th Annual Conference on Obesity and Health is designed to link communities with health professionals through presentations about solutions to the problem of obesity. Others who believe they will benefit from the education sessions and networking opportunities are also welcome to attend. Where: Bryant Conference Center When: All day What: The Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa’s free Shakespeare in the park, presents for its 8th season Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. Tickets are free and it is recommended that attendees bring blankets or chairs and bug spray. In the case of inclement weather, the performance will take place indoors at the Allen Bales Theatre. Where: The Park at Manderson Land- ing When: 7:30 -9 p.m.
FRIDAY What: The 25th Annual Putnam Coun- ty Spelling Bee When: June 4-July 2, Tuesday-Sunday at 8 p.m. Where: George C. Meyer Performing Arts Center, Gulf Shores, Ala. MONDAY What: Professional Development Se- ries I: Quality Service and Professional Image. In addition to defining quality service, this course will direct participants through activities designed to help them identify customers, respond to their needs, and enhance their satisfaction. Where: Rose Administration G54 When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
What: The student-led organization Homegrown Alabama will host its weekly farmer’s market. Where: Canterbury Episcopal Church When: 3-6 p.m.
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attacks. “The AEA is headed by two leaders of the Democratic Party,” he said. “They did not want me to win because I’m the strongest Republican against Ron Sparks.” Byrne struck a defiant tone Tuesday after his strong performance with primary voters. “I fought with them when I was chairman of the two-year college system to remove corruption from that system, and they know that if I get into office as governor then I will continue to fight to improve education and fight corruption.” Byrne also remained consistent in his belief that evolution should continue to be taught in public educational institutions. “Evolution is the most widely accepted scientific explanation for the origin of life,” he said. “That does not mean that people are not free to bring their own understanding of origins of life which may come from their faith or other scientific theories in to play. But certainly we should be teaching evolution as the main scientific theory behind the origin of life.” Coming in first place and avoiding the recount will give Byrne an advantage in the runoff election, he said. “It sends a signal to a lot of different people, who may have voted for another candidate that didn’t make it, that a lot of people support me or support the principles on which I stand,” he said. “I think it will help us attract more people to our position in the runoff.” Byrne also said he doesn’t care
whether he faces Bentley or James in the Republican runoff. “It really doesn’t matter to me. I know both of them. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. We’re sitting here working on our campaign for the runoff,” he said in a telephone interview. “It’s not going to change our message at all. It may change a tactic here and there, but it’s not going to have a major impact on our campaign.” Bentley, who left his District 63 seat in the state legislature to run for governor, was the surprise of the night, overcoming a substantial fundraising disadvantage and name recognition concerns. The Tuscaloosa legislator credited his strong performance to positive campaigning and his opponents fighting one another. Bentley ran a campaign focused on unemployment and promised that, if elected, he would serve without pay until Alabama reaches full employment. James, the son of former Alabama Governor Fob James, also had a strong resurgence in recent months, despite poorer performance in earlier polls. James gained national media attention for a television advertisement on the subject of driver’s license testing. In the ad, James says that if he is governor, driver’s tests will be given in English only. The ads struck a nerve across Alabama, and drew contemptuous rebukes from national media outlets such as The New York Times. Still, the controversial ads energized a campaign that may still make the GOP runoff.
GOLF Continued from page 7 Kirby said rather than focusing on her individual record, she instead focused on its impact on the future of the team. “It means that the team is getting stronger,” she said. “The freshmen coming in will be better from playing next to the best.” The team felt something in the air concerning their fortunes in the tournament, Kirby said. “Even after the first few rounds of the NCAA Tournament, we knew we could win if we had the composure,” she said. “Even with Purdue [the 2010 NCAA Champions], we knew we could beat them if we had the mental toughness. We are good enough, and it will come eventually.”
Kirby is currently attempting to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open. Regarding the future outlook of the team, Potter said he has confidence in the program for the upcoming years. “I don’t see any reason for the program not to be as good or better in future years,” he said. “Recruiting continues to go well. Hopefully, we can recruit even better players to replace those who have graduated.” With the continued coaching, solid play by upperclassmen and the hopeful emergence of incoming freshmen, the Alabama women’s golf program will keep working towards the national championship title.
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widely considered to be the favorite heading into election night. “This is not the speech I had planned to give tonight,” he offered in his concession. Davis’ campaign had garnered a great deal of attention from both local and national media. But his downfall with Democratic voters may have been in November 2009, when he was the only black congressman to vote against President Barack Obama’s health care reform package. Sparks pointed to Davis’ health care vote as a factor in the campaign. “It certainly played a role,” Sparks said. “I don’t know how big of a role, but there were a number of people in that district that I heard from that it was an important issue.” Also complicating Davis’ pathway to victory in Alabama’s Democratic primary was his decision to shun endorsements from major black political groups. Those groups, including the Alabama Democratic Conference and Alabama New South Coalition, endorsed Sparks instead. Regardless, Sparks said he does not believe race played any role in the Democratic primary. “There is really no place for race in a campaign, and we certainly didn’t do anything in our campaign to inject race into it,” he said. “There certainly were some folks that tried, but we just kept focused and kept moving forward.” Sparks ran on the main issue of legalizing gambling in Alabama, stressing that legalizing, taxing and regulating gambling would significantly aid many of Alabama’s needs,
from medical care funding to improving schools. Sparks also said he has no problem using a wedge issue, like gambling, in the general election. “I don’t think any time you give the people of Alabama an opportunity to have a voice on a critical issue you could go wrong,” he said. “People need to understand that we’re broke. The money that Barack Obama has sent to Alabama, the $2 billion, is gone. If we don’t find a revenue stream to come into this state, then education is going to be in trouble, Medicaid is going to be in trouble. “Gambling in this state has been legal for many years, the problem with this particular issue is that we haven’t taxed it, we haven’t regulated it and we don’t have a gaming commission.” Sparks credits telephone campaigning for overcoming the huge fundraising disparity between himself and Davis and looks to rely heavily on the tactic for the general election. “We were relentless,” he said. “It’s something I don’t particularly like to do, but we have to do it, because it’s part of the process, and people started buying into our campaign. Fortunately we were able to raise enough money to get our message out, and we are appreciative of that. That is what we’ve got to do now, go back to the phone and start asking people to invest in our campaign.” Sparks will face Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne or Tim James in the Gubernatorial general election November 2.
BOYS Continued from page 1 “The best part of this opportunity is developing friendships with guys here and growing as an individual,” Stansky said. The opportunity to meet others drew Cole Rickles of New Hope High School in Huntsville, Ala., to Boys State. “ Mycounselor approached me about participating and I decided that meeting other people was worth the trip,” he said.
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3 Thursday, June 3, 2010
Bama student studies in the barrios of Madrid
By Karissa Bursch
of sitting out on the porch of a house different traditions and priorities and published in my country.
come from. Still, I wouldn’t give it up
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party chatting with friends on a pasts.
I realized we are a very different for anything in the world.
muggy Tuscaloosa night.
I could see that part as I came to nation, with, for example, our focus I am still in Madrid and will be
Editor’s Note: “Where in the world” The next second I’m amazed by class 15 minutes late and still beat my on time and individualism, and we moving to Barcelona for the summer.
is a summer series giving UA stu- yet another cultural difference. I’m professor by another 15 minutes. Or appear strange through the eyes of
I will head back to Tuscaloosa in
dents studying abroad an oppor-
watching my Spanish when I waited to meet some friends at my peers.
August. I am so excited about coming
tunity to write about their summer
friends fail their 1 p.m. and they didn’t show up until Being here has invoked in me a back and finally being in the home-
advenetures in their own words.
classes and 1:40 p.m., apologizing for being “a lit- sense of pride, of enlightenment and, land after seven long months.
laugh and tle bit late.” Or when I realized there at times, even of shame about where I
The streets filled with hun-
s a y , wasn’t one clock on the entire campus
dreds of fans pounding home-
“Well I of the university I’m visiting here.
made drums, bodies com-
didn’t I first noticed while trying to run
pletely painted, waving flags,
go to errands around 2 or 3 p.m that every
beers in hand, screaming
class shop was closed for the siesta.
uproariously. The SWAT
a n y - As different as Spain has seemed to
team and police officers lined
w a y, me at times, it helped me reach anoth-
the streets watching the sea
I ’ l l er important conclusion about my own
of people with resignation. As
j u s t country and culture.
the roar of the crowd swelled, I could feel a “Roll Tide” forming
WORLD
t r y I took an international journalism a g a i n class this semester. I was the only
in my own throat. But this wasn’t an Alabama cham-
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n e x t American in the class of all Spaniards. year, it’s no One of the first lectures of the
pionship: this was an Atlético soccer
big deal,” and class was about President Obama’s
game victory on a Wednesday night in
thinking of the arti- first year as president with a focus
Madrid, thousands of miles away from cles I’ve written about stress, exams on health care. In a fit of patriotic
Tuscaloosa.
and the counseling center (not to men- passion, I prepared myself to defend
My time studying in Spain has been tion my own mid-term and final exam my country and my president against
like that—an odd mix of can’t-put-my- panic attacks).
whatever condescending things my
finger-on-it familiarity and slap-me-in- This was by far the most important professor had in store.
the-face differences.
thing I could have learned: we’re all I was completely and pleasantly
One second I’m realizing that life just kids out there, trying to make our surprised. My professor merely began
across the entire Atlantic Ocean isn’t way in the world. It doesn’t matter explaining a few things so the stu-
that different. I’m with a group of where we come from or what we look dents in the class would have a better
Spaniards drinking a few beers on a like.
understanding of the environment in
Friday night in a plaza, laughing at And at the same time you can’t for- which Obama was working.
the same old jokes, and I’m reminded get that we were all taught different I had never learned about my coun- KarissaBursch,aseniormajoringinpublicrelationsandSpani
sh,standsin
things. We try through the eyes of a foreigner frontofvolcanoesontheislandofLanzaroteintheIslasCana rias,whichare
Shouldn’t the perfect job just drop into your lap all have teaching from books not written or Spainsʼ islandsoffthecoastofAfrica.ShewillreturntoTus caloosainAugust.
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tions set by banks. “Our goal is to prove micro- finance works in the South,” Bailey said. “A good example of how limited [loans are] is that we met with one lady who wants to open a thrift store. All she needs is $2,500. She’s had her business plan for three years, but can’t get a loan.” Though the Black Belt is often overlooked, Appelbaum said, it has a rich culture.
pus. Only an hour away from Tuscaloosa, students can maintain the connections they made. Many of the students plan to go back to Marion to sing karaoke and visit the town they so bonded with, Miller said. “The vision of the Black Belt Experience is to continually build relationships with Marion citizens,” she said. “We want to be a presence in the Marion community for years to come.
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OPINIONS
The radical Gospel
By Michael McDowell
Thursday,June3,2010
As an evangelical Christian, I have heard
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about the Gospel my entire life. However, it was not until my freshman year at the University
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that I received a firm grasp on the Gospel and its nature. The “Bible Belt” has retained the rhetoric of its Christian fathers, but it has not
retained the original meaning and intent of the
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Gospel. I see this as an infinitely harmful trend. In the beginning, God created man in his own image. Man was in perfect communion with
God and found his value in him. When God cre-
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ated man, he said that it was good. After Adam and Eve sinned, man fell out of this perfect com-
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munion with God. When I read the teachings of Jesus and the writings of his disciples, I see a gospel that was
preached with conviction and with love. To
understand why a Christian should share and
spread the Gospel by both word and deed, one
must understand what the Gospel of Jesus real-
ly is.
Some have responded to the Gospel by ask-
ing, “Why should I care about this ‘Gospel’? You
can believe what you believe and I will believe
what I believe.”
The Gospel is much larger than a story or a
historical account. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is
simply this: although man is dead in sin, there
is hope for a restoration of communion with
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woman and child due to sin. Romans 3 tells us that “No one is righteous, no, not one.” “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great
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lowthroughontheir promisesafter Novem- berʼsresultsarein.”
dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ,” for those who have believed in the work of Christ on the cross (Ephesians 2:4-5). Why is the Gospel called “the good news?”
The Gospel is good news because God placed
— Ben Loggins, junior, political science major.
his wrath on Jesus Christ as he hung on a cross rather than on me! When I placed my trust in his work on the cross rather than in myself, God
counted me as righteous.
Because God has shown me grace, or unmer-
ited favor, I am freed to live a life of love and sac-
rifice. Why? God showed me love and compas-
sion when I was poor and needy. I had money
and success, but my soul was needy. I was dead, but God made me alive! I deserved condemnation, but God gave me eternal life. Now, when I look upon those who are hungry and needy in this world, I have compassion for them. They have just as much value and worth as I do, as they too were created in the image of God. God is compassionate towards the needs of the poor. In Job 34, God says that “he hears the cries of the afflicted.” Psalm 140 says that “the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.” The Lord carries this justice through his people. God speaks about his concern for the needy in Psalms 22:36, 68:10, 82:3 and 113:7 in order that we may grasp the need to help the afflicted. However, we need a holistic view of the Gospel. God not only cares about the physical needs of a person, but he is more concerned that he or she is reconciled into a right relationship with himself. During his earthly ministry, Jesus advised, “Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.” The message of the Gospel is infinitely more valuable and needed than money or even food. In our world, people find their worth and happiness in money, sex, success, family, religion and health. However, the only way for a person to obtain true peace, joy and fulfillment is to experience communion with God the Father through Jesus Christ. Therefore, true social justice treats a person holistically. In seeing a homeless and hungry person, we are reminded of an infinitely greater need that exists with each person, a need to find his or her sustenance in a relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ. If you are a Bible-believing follower of Christ, I urge you to live a life of radical sacrifice and radical abandonment of the things of this world. See and savor the bread that does not perish and drink deeply of the living water offered by Jesus. We have a privilege to carry this bread and water to the needy and afflicted. Don’t waste your life! Michael McDowell is a junior majoring incommunication.
A tale of two parties By Tray Smith Twenty years from now, when Alabama Democrats look back and ask when, exactly, they became irrelevant in Alabama politics, they will find their answer in Tuesday’s primary results. Given the choice between a Harvard educated lawyer and an uninspiring product of the state’s Democratic machine, Democratic voters chose the transparently self-serving Ron Sparks. Sparks, who seems to believe all of Alabama’s problems can be solved by legalized gambling, will not be governor. He will, however, become the very public face of the deficiencies within the Alabama Democratic Party and the special interests controlling it. The defining question for voters in the general election is not whether they should vote for Sparks or not, but why he is even a candidate. His large margin of victory over congressman Artur Davis indicates astonishingly poor judgment on behalf of Democratic primary voters. The voters, however, were acting at the recommendations of the Democratic leadership. Davis is detested by Democratic powerbrokers in Montgomery. They feared he would be hard for them to control in the governor’s seat. Even black political leaders like Joe Reed threw their weight behind Sparks, simply because Davis refused to play their games. That Democratic primary voters played along with the machine bosses is a sad reflection on the state of the party. Having a voter base incapable of making rational choices is the most severe problem confronting any political party. Of course, the Democratic Party of Alabama faces other challenges. This is a very red state, and 2010 is shaping up to be a very Republican year. The Democratic candidate was likely to lose regardless of the primary outcome. Yet, with Davis, Democratic voters could have done something bold and historic. They could have given Republicans a reason to at least consider supporting their nominee. Remember, in 1998, Alabama elected Democrat Don Siegelman over the bumbling Republican incumbent Fob James. Siegelman lost reelection in 2002 by only 0.23 percent. So it is, or was, possible for Alabama to elect a Democrat to the Governor’s Mansion. Indeed, for nearly a century, political races in Alabama were decided almost exclusively in the Democratic primary. Some counties still have no Republican elected officials. In several counties, however, Republicans have offered themselves up for local office in an attempt to break the Democratic hold on school boards and county commissions. Increasingly, Alabama is moving in a direction where most races will be decided in the Republican primary. Ron Sparks’ candidacy will acerbate that trend. The outcome of the Democratic primary is all the more appalling when contrasted with the results of the Republican race. Republicans, like Democrats, had the opportunity to choose an extremely bright candidate with a compelling vision for the state. That candidate, Bradley Byrne, won, although he will have to compete in a runoff election later this summer. Byrne’s victory was a thankful repudiation of lowest common denominator politics represented by GOP candidate Tim James. James, who received substantial media attention for a campaign ad calling for English-only driver license exams, will now make the runoff only if a recount puts him ahead of Robert Bentley. That is unlikely, however, as James is currently in third place. Republicans can take pride that James floundered. They also can take pride that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore finished with only 19 percent of the vote, a distant fourth. James and Moore represent the most unseemly factions of the GOP, and they were rejected for it. In the end, substance won, which is good for Alabama, because the state needs a substantive conversation about how to address its most pressing challenges. Too bad the Democratic Party won’t be able to have a proactive role in that debate. Tray Smith is the Opinions Editor of The Crimson White.
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James didn’t make sense to Alabama voters
By Austin Gaddis The Tim James gubernatorial campaign was an embarrassment to Alabama. I’ve been interested in local, state and national politics for as long as I can remember and there are few politicians I actually consider dangerous. Tim James, like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, is one of them. After a close primary race with Bradley Byrne and Robert Bentley, Tim James was (hopefully) unable to gain enough votes to secure a place in the July run-off election. That outcome will be a relief to many Alabama voters who fear that
James would have a good chance of winning the runoff vote. Tim James is disturbing as a potential governor for three reasons. First, of all the tough issues facing our state, such as job creation, the budget, corruption in Montgomery, the need for an education lottery and the lack of funding for our public schools, Tim James chose the multi-language drivers test as the subject for his main commercial. Really, Mr. James? For the average voter, the only thing they could associate with Tim James’ gubernatorial campaign was his commercial on this topic.
He never released a detailed plan to fix a major issue that faces our state. Second, due to the national and worldwide attention of his “English-only” agenda, Tim James has hurt Alabama’s reputation as being a tolerant state that wants to bring in businesses from around the world. To foreign car companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai that have invested billions of dollars in our great state, this commercial was a slap in the face. The negative publicity Alabama received from media outlets could hurt our potential to convince other foreign industries to invest in this state by establishing a business
here. Which could hurt Alabama’s potential to create jobs. Finally, Tim James claimed in his commercial that offering the driver test only in English would save money. Honestly, how much money do you think is being spent to offer that test in different languages? Not much. Not to mention that we would lose federal subsidies for not offering the test in the multi-language format we now have in place. So in the end, Alabama would lose money. I realize that Tim James’s campaign was probably trying to advertise to the less politically versed crowd with this commercial — which is fine. What he failed to
realize is that, while this commercial may have worked fifty years ago, Alabamians just did not want to be seen as prejudiced towards legal immigrants who primarily speak another language. The bottom line is that Tim James’ message of intolerance simply could not be tolerated by the people of this state. Alabama Republicans stood up as one on June 1st and said, “No, Tim James, you didn’t make sense to me.” Austin Gaddis is a sophomore majoring in public relations and communication studies.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
UA should become a “Critiquing University”
By Marshall Houston For the past four years, nearly 50 students have had free reign to question and critique the state’s, and in some cases the world’s, most complicated and difficult issues – those of social justice or injustice. This past April, the Bama Theatre displayed this year’s crop of Documenting Justice critiques and cultural explorations. The opening film explored what it means to have true community in today’s increasingly fast-paced society. While the ten members of “Common Ground” found emotional satisfaction by relying on one another for communal success, I couldn’t
help but question the long-term future of the commune. When old age finally takes the community to the grave, who will be left to carry on its spirit? Their escape is temporary in a larger societal context, yet on an individual level, they appear to have found some level of satisfaction unattainable in a larger city. The film forced me to reconsider my notions of community and ultimately my judgments as an outsider to their community. The following four films continued the critical exploration of Alabama: examining Wilcox County’s physician shortage, neighborly interaction in Tuscaloosa, juveniles serving prison sentences of life with-
out parole and the emotions of coming of age in a small town. For these ten students and the students before them, myself included, this experience of thoughtful dialogue about justice was both an opportunity and an obligation. As the thousand-plus attendees can attest, the power of social critique through film offers a possibility for a better campus and state by creating a venue for intellectual discourse. Although Documenting Justice shows us one example of University students who give a voice to the voiceless or who shine light on the darkest recesses of our past, the University must offer more students the opportunity to grow
as thoughtful critics in an environment that truly needs them. Far too often, the education process is one of memorization, devoid of the intellectual wrestling that fosters growth. To create an atmosphere of open discussion and thoughtful critique, a whole-hearted commitment from administrators, faculty, student leaders and community members will be required. A half-hearted focus to create more “chances” and “opportunities” of this nature will not alone be successful. Deliberate action, strategic focus and encouragement must be coupled with these attempts so that more students will be critically aware. Documenting Justice directly
leads to a more thoughtful and engaged citizenry, and initiatives in the same mold can help to make our University a “Critiquing University” – a university that is fundamentally a place for the free exchange of ideas, all ideas, and thoughtful dialogue issues that often make us uncomfortable. When this University refocuses on this goal, or if it ever does, students will be empowered and our campus, community and state will be positioned to create a moral and just society. Marshall Houston is a junior majoring in economics and English.
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SOFTBALL Tide loses 5-4 in Tuscaloosa Super Regionals
By Cyrus Ntakirutinka Contributing Writer The University of Alabama softball team’s season ended on Sunday after the Tide dropped the series-ending game against Hawaii in the NCAA Super Regional 5-4. Hawaii won the game thanks to a two-run walk-off home run by Jenna Rodriguez in the bottom of the seventh inning to secure a spot in the NCAA Women’s World Series. Head coach Partick Murphy after the game said he felt Hawaii earned the win. “I want to say congrats to Hawaii,” Murphy said. “That is awesome for them and their program. I know Bob [Coolen] has been at it there for a long time. They are going to do a great job at the World Series, so congrats to them. They played really well today.” Hawaii’s Rodriguez gave Alabama trouble as she accounted for all five runs, starting with a three-run home run in the first inning to give the Rainbow Wahine a 3-0 lead. Tide pitcher Kelsi Dunne battled Hawaii well, recording 16 strikeouts and allowing 5 hits with 2 walks. “They have great hitters,” Dunne said. “They lead the nation in home runs. Every single one of them fought out there. They made me work hard. That’s what good teams do. They make other pitchers work hard. They are
dangerous. Congratulations to them.” Alabama got on the scoreboard for the first time in the top of the fourth inning after a solo shot by Charlotte Morgan to cut to the lead to 3-1. Despite the home run, Hawaii’s Kaia Parnaby kept giving Tide batters trouble at the plate. “I thought she slowed down from [Saturday],” Murphy said. “We were hitting a lot of pop-ups. That isn’t like us. Check swings led to poor at bats. Our girls might have been anxious. I thought we were going to get on a roll after Charlotte’s home run, but then we had a couple of not very good at bats. We usually keep the inning going, but we had a couple of stalls that hurt us.” The Tide saw little progress until the top of the fifth inning, when the batters began to put the pressure on Parnaby. With Keima Davis at second after Morgan was walked, Whitney Larsen hit a three-run home run to give Alabama a 4-3 lead. “It wouldn’t have been possible if the people in front of me hadn’t gotten on base,” Larsen said. “My teammates just put me in a good position on that at bat. She threw a pitch down the middle. I don’t know if she made a mistake, but I just tried to make solid contact. I wanted to put it in play first and foremost, and luckily it went over the fence.” While the loss keeps Alabama from another chance at the World Series this year, the Tide’s season is still one
CW | Alex Gilbert Kelsi Dunne pitches in game three of the NCAA Tuscaloosa Super Regionals against Hawaii. She ended the game recording 16 strikeouts and allowing 5 hits with 2
Murphy cherishes. With the amount of young talent on the squad, the coach has a reason to be optimistic. “I think we definitely overachieved,” Murphy said. “We won 28 in a row with seven new people in different positions. We had a whole new line-up. They worked extremely hard. This was one of the best teams we have had in terms of
likability. There are some teams at the end of the year that you are just counting the days, but we never took that outlook with them. “We are going to really miss the three seniors. There really isn’t anyone on that team that I would trade. You usually don’t say that after a year. It’s rare. They are just great kids.”
BASEBALL Tide falls in SEC Championship game to LSU Tigers
By Jordan Eichenblatt Contributing Writer Two weeks ago, the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team was fighting for the eighth and final spot in the SEC Tournament. After a sweep of Tennessee, the Tide was in and at the seventh seed. The Tide took its seventh seed placing and had an early game to start the SEC Tournament at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., where they faced in-state rival and No. 2 seed Auburn. First-year head coach Mitch Gaspard was celebrating his 45th birthday that day. Gaspard received a present from righthanded pitcher Jimmy Nelson, who pitched his third consecutive complete game, and the Tide defeated the Tigers 7-1. The Tide then moved on to face Ole Miss. They were held scoreless until the fifth inning when Josh Rutledge hit an RBI single. From there, local Hoover native Ross Wilson took over, landing 3 hits and reaching base in all of his five plate appearances. The Tide
defeated Ole Miss 6-3. “Playing in Hoover helps a lit- tle bit,” Wilson said, “but it’s the postseason, so you always want to step up your game. Hopefully I’ve done that so far.” After a day off, the Tide faced nationally ranked Florida. Lefthanded pitcher Adam Morgan held the Gators to two runs as Jake Smith powered the Tide on the offensive side with a tworun RBI, capping off a 5-2 victory over the Gators and earning a spot in the SEC Championship, where the Tide would face LSU, the defending SEC and National Champions. “This is what we work for,” Gaspard said. He’s the first coach to lead the Tide to a championship appearance in a first year as head coach. The Tide got off to a rocky start when LSU catcher Matt Gauder hit a two-run RBI. One inning later, LSU third baseman Mike Mahtook hit a home run, putting the Tigers up 3-0. Then Wilson made a diving catch to stop LSU in the top of the fourth and hit an RBI in the bottom of the fourth to make
the score 3-1. In the 5th inning, the weath- er came down hard forcing an 82-minute rain delay. After the delay, in the seventh inning, right fielder Jon Kelton stole second and third, and Andrew Miller drove Kelton in, making the score 3-2. In the bottom of the eighth, Smith hit a curve ball into right field, driving one run in, and tying the game at 3-3. With the momentum and the crowd behind the Tide, Smith took the mound getting all three batters out. With the bottom of the ninth coming up, the grounds crew was pulling out the tarp again. Over an hour later, the ninth inning resumed. “We really wanted to play through,” Smith said. “We had
the momentum on our side.” The Tide could not carry the momentum in the bottom of the ninth as LSU Pitcher Anthony Renaudo quickly got three outs. In the 10th inning, Wilson was walked. He immediately stole second, and then an LSU error helped him steal third during the same play. With Wilson in position for the winning run, Smith stepped up to the plate and blasted the first pitch into right field. At the last second the wind took it hard right becoming foul. Two pitches later, Smith struck out. In the top of the 11th, LSU pinch-runner Matt Furer had a single, and Tyler Hanover drove Furer in on a RBI, making the score 4-3. After two quick outs the Tide
had its chance to win the game, but Renaudo struck out all three batters, giving LSU their third consecutive SEC Championship. Although the Tide bullpen couldn’t come though for this game, they made a big difference in the past two weeks. “The starting pitchers have been great,” Gaspard said. “And when they are great your team has confidence. This time of year you need confidence to win, but you really need a handful of great starting pitchers with good defense, and we have that. “Although we would have liked to have won today, our team will walk away with a lot of confidence and will take it into whatever regional we end up in.”
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Center, cracked jokes to each other, and some would be playing in Atlanta. Joining Alabama
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win, and I think we’ve got a pitching staff that’s at the top of their game right now.” The double-elimination regional begins Friday at 2 p.m., when Alabama plays Elon and Georgia Tech plays Mercer Friday at 6 p.m. The losers of Friday’s games will play Saturday at 2 p.m., and the winners of Friday’s games will square off Saturday at 6 p.m. If the Tide gets past Elon, history will be on the Tide’s side whether the opponent is Mercer or Georgia Tech. Alabama owns an 18-6-1 record against Mercer and the teams have not squared off on the diamond since 1998. Alabama is 30-28-1 all-time against Georgia Tech and the two teams have not met since the 1996 Olive Garden Classic in Kissimmee, Fla. Alabama won that game 7-2.
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“I thought we had a good group of players, and by the end of the season, they began to complement each other,” he said. Potter said he believes his team was successful because they know their goals as well as their potential. “We have a core group of players who have bought into what the coaches wanted to do,” he said. “The girls work hard, both on the field and in class, and that is important to the success of the team.” The team also had success at the individual level. Alabama finished with three players in the top 15: freshman Jennifer Kirby tied for 7th, sophomore Brooke Pancake took 12th, and junior Camilla
Lennarth tied for 13th. Kirby’s 7th place finish is the best indi- vidual performance in school history, five spots better than the previous best. This is coupled with her overall tournament score of a 4-under-par 284, yet another Alabama record. Kirby said she wasn’t really nervous about the NCAA Tournament. “We prepared well, which took away the nerves,” she said. “We had played in big tournaments before which took the edge off mentally. We had also played all the teams before this, so there was nothing new.” See GOLF, page 2
LIFESTYLES
Film series brings Cannes, Sundance to Bama
By Jordan Staggs
Allgood said the idea for a film series
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Tickets are available in season packages at $40 for regular adults and $30 for students and can be purchased online at brownpapertickets.com. Individual tickets will be available prior to screenings for $7 for general admission, $6 per student and $5 per senior or Arts Council members. “You really can’t beat those prices, compared to around $8.50 at the big theaters,” Allgood said. “And our popcorn is better.” The bar and lounge area of the Bama Theatre will open at 7:00 p.m. each Tuesday before the movies and will correlate drink specials with each film. “Last time we had a Swedish film, so we did vodka drink specials,” Allgood said. “Or British or Japanese and so on. It adds a little extra atmosphere to the night.” A small committee including
Allgood and UA professor Andy Grace were responsible for choosing the 2010 summer lineup, and Allgood said he is very excited about all of the films. “We think they’re really high quality films,” he said. “They’re all very recent.” The films were chosen because of their excellent reception at festivals such as Cannes and Sundance, or reviews in publications such as The New Yorker. Some Tuscaloosa residents also put in their two cents by making suggestions to Allgood and his committee. “Greenberg was suggested to us by a few people, and it was on a list we had made,” Allgood said. Other films suggested or recommended to the committee that made it into the series include “The Secret of the Kells” (June 15), “The Ghost Writer” (June 22) and “The White Ribbon” (June 29).
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By Stephen Smith Contributing Writer Kentuck Art Night will bring in the summer with a celebration and display of the work of aspiring artists. The event, which kicks off at 5 p.m. in downtown Northport, marks the debut of a show that will continue until June 26. The Kentuck Art Center is featuring the work of Katy DeMent, who is also known as “The Paper Lady.” She was named Best of Show Artist at the 2009 Kentuck Festival, which was named Alabama’s most authentic American Experience by Time Magazine, according to the Kentuck website. “What I like about Kentuck is the variety of work they bring to Tuscaloosa,” said Michael Martone, a former board member of the Kentuck Museum Association and a professor at the University. “They are always striving to do something new, and they approach art as something the entire community can be a part of, not as a removed activity.” Having been a papermaker for more than 20 years, Katy DeMent uses only paper to create the pieces in her collection. Her work is found in galleries and museums worldwide and has been featured on HGTV’s “Crafters Coast to Coast”. She has a variety of 2-D and 3-D work including paper clothing, interactive shadow boxes and wall sconces. The recent works of Kentuck Full Moon artist Emily Tipps will be on display as
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