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Since the expansion of the South End Zone in 2010, the workload to keep Bryant-Denny well-manicured continues to grow.
Grounds crews log long hours of maintenance
on Saturdays, the expansion to the South End Zone in 2010 has become the biggest menace to the turf. When the 9,683 additional seats By Benjamin Clark were added, the stadium became Contributing Writer completely enclosed. While the Bryant-Denny Stadium may be additional seating is great for fans, known as the home of the repeat- the increased shade proves probing national champions and the lematic for the grass inside the stomping grounds of future hall- stadium. Scott Urbantke, director of of-famers and NFL stars, but the grass isn’t always greener for the athletic grounds and outdoor facilities, and his crews work Crimson Tide. Aside from 300-pound line- year-round to help keep the field men stomping across the field healthy. That includes working
tirelessly in between home games. “[In between games] it takes approximately 160 man hours to paint, perhaps another 120 hours for mowing, fertilizer, repairs and general repairs,” Urbantke said. The 2010 expansion has only furthered this workload. Because of the loss of sunlight and circulation from the new seating, sod has been brought in to help maintain the field. At the end of each June, big rolls of 419 Bermuda turf are brought in
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Rights group asks UA to Druid City Brewing to host recognize free speech grand opening for tap room Students demand 1st Amendment rights By Andy McWhorter Staff Reporter In response to threats of arrest toward counterprotesters at a Bama Students for Life’s protest on the Quad in April, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sent a letter to The University of Alabama May 22 asking the school to recognize that students’ First Amendment rights had been violated and to change its grounds use policy. Peter Bonilla, director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at FIRE, said members of the Alabama Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Justice were threatened with arrest for distributing literature without a grounds use permit. “The police informed the students who were distributing the fliers as part of the AASRJ that they weren’t allowed to be giving out fliers er • Plea s
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without a permit, that they had to apply for a permit with the UA administration and that they could be arrested if they were doing so as part of a group activity again,” Bonilla said. Members of AASRJ did not find out about Bama Students for Life’s impending Genocide Awareness Project until two days before the event itself. The grounds use policy states that permits need at least 10 business days in order to be processed. In certain cases, permits can be processed in three days, Bonilla said. At the time of its counter-protest, AASRJ was informed there would not be time for their grounds use permit application to be processed. Bonilla said threatening students with arrest for distributing literature represents a clear violation of First Amendment rights. “I think a handful of students, whether in their individual capacities or as part of one of The University of Alabama’s many campus
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Members of Bama Students for Life demonstrated graphic imagery with permission in March. organizations, when it’s a matter of a handful of students peacefully giving out fliers on the public area of the campus, that is simply a free speech activity that should never require obtaining a permit from the SEE FIRE PAGE 3
Druid City Brewing, Tuscaloosa’s only brewing company, will be having a grand opening for their new tap room. Bo Hicks, co-owner of Druid City Brewing said he wanted to showcase their operation and love for Tuscaloosa. “We’ve been lucky to be welcomed with open arms by everyone from the people who like our beer, the city government, the state – everyone has been super awesome to us,” Hicks said. Hicks and co-owner Elliot Roberts, who have been operating Druid City Brewing since November 2012, did not want to enter the bar business, but instead to allow people to see what their establishment has to offer and to check out their 20-plus retail partners around town.
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The tap room features DCB specialities such as Lamplighter India Pale Ale, and Druid City Wheat. Hicks describes the tap room as a no-nonsense room of Tuscaloosa-based music posters. Roberts said the room doesn’t have a theme, but it’s a fun place. “There’s no real ‘theme’ per se,” Roberts said. “But it’s a very cozy room, where you can hang out with friends and sample our beers.”
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from Bent Oak Farms, a sod provider from Foley, Ala. Bent Oak, which specializes in athletic fields, has also supplied the turf for the Atlanta Braves and past Super Bowls. The process, which costs $300,000, has proven to be very effective in keeping the field healthy and ready for the fall. However, providing new sod hasn’t solved all the problems the field faces. While there is no way to recreate sunlight, Urbantke has found success in creating circulation around the field. In 2010, four Turfbreeze fans were brought onto the field to help provide additional airflow to the grass. “The Turf breeze fans have created a more favorable environment by creating air movement over the grass canopy. This improves the transpiration rate of the grass, which drives the growth cycle within the plant. I can see and feel the difference in the growth and recovery of the grass. The grass blade has a more upright, more turgid look,” Urbantke said. All this extra time and maintenance may seem unnecessary in an age where artificial turf has become very popular, but it is actually cheaper to maintain the real version rather than the fake. Artificial turf is more expensive to install, groom and maintain than the living version and often has to be replaced sooner than the 10-year lifespan that most are promised to have. More importantly, most players believe it is safer to play on real turf than artificial. “Players usually feel that the surface is more forgiving, cooler and less likely to cause injury. A player who plants a foot to make a cut is in danger of injury if he is hit at that time,” Urbantke said. “With natural grass, the hope is that the grass tears [divots] at the interface of the shoe and the grass surface rather than resulting in some type of ankle or knee injury.” While improvements have been made in newer generations of artificial grass and to athletic shoes and cleats, the staff at the University wants to provide the safest field for the Crimson Tide to continue winning each season.
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PHILADELPHIA — Christopher Gray couldn’t even afford college application fees, let alone tuition. His single mother was out of work, and there were two siblings to think about, then ages 2 and 3. But with a passion for entrepreneurship, the Birmingham, Ala., student dreamed of attending a college in the Northeast so he could be close to New York City and other major business centers. “So the onus was really on me. I had to deal with it myself,” recalled Gray, now 21 and a rising junior at Drexel University. For three months, he holed up in the local library – he didn’t have a computer at home – and searched out and applied for more than 70 college scholarships. Gray, an A-B student in high school who had served in leadership roles and started his own nonprofit company, had astounding success. He received 34 scholarships worth $1.3 million – enough to get his bachelor’s, his master’s, and his doctorate, plus cover his living expenses with some left over to invest. Now, Gray – since dubbed “the Million Dollar Scholar” – has found a way to help other teens find scholarship money. He and two associates have developed a mobile app called Scholly — shorthand for
“scholarships” — for both the iPhone and Android. The app has been available for only about a month, but several thousand downloads have sold. Gray and his colleagues decided to keep the price at 99 cents because their intent is more public service than profit. All proceeds at this point are going back into the company, said Nick Pirollo, 23, one of Gray’s partners. As a student at a magnet high school in Birmingham, Gray distinguished himself early on. He graduated with a 3.9 GPA while leading the local Bible club and running his nonprofit, Genesis, which organized volunteer opportunities for students. Gray’s biggest coup was the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which covers tuition and room and board from a bachelor’s to a doctorate. A $20,000 scholarship from Coca-Cola followed, and fortuitously put him in touch with Bryson Alef, a rising senior at Amherst College, his other partner on the Scholly app. He also received a $20,000 Horatio Alger Scholarship and the $10,000 Axa Achievement Scholarship. Smaller awards came from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Lowe’s. And they just kept coming. “My mom was elated. I did a little jumping around,” Gray said.
LOS ANGELES — Worried about student safety amid the political violence in Egypt, the University of California has suspended its fall semester program in Cairo, officials said Monday. The move affects 22 students who had signed up to study advanced Arabic and other classes at the American University in Cairo, said Ines DeRomana, director of Ala., health, safety and emergency response for the UC Education Abroad Program. Those students can enroll instead in UC programs in Jordan, Turkey, Morocco and Israel that also offer Arabic classes, she said. The move comes a few days after the safe evacuation of 10 UC students from a UC Davissponsored summer program in Egypt and the worsening of violence in the wake of the military coup that pushed president Mohammed Morsi from power. Eight of those UC students and the instructor’s son have come back to the United States; one student has traveled to Turkey and another to France, said Zachary Frieders, associate director of UC Davis’ education abroad center. The instructor, Noha Radwan of UC Davis’s comparative literature department, is staying on for now in Cairo, which is her native city. The students were not in
immediate danger in Egypt, but officials were worried about transportation logistics if the situation suddenly worsened, Frieders said. UC administrators have not decided whether to revive the Cairo program for the spring 2014 semester. “We will reassess the security situation later on and determine what will happen with the spring,” said DeRomana, whose office is based at UC Santa Barbara. Many other American colleges and exchange groups have ended their summer programs in Egypt and are considering similar steps for the fall, according to Sharon Witherell, a spokeswoman for the Institute of International Education, an organization that promotes overseas studies. Similar cancellations occurred in 2011 when thenpresident Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in Egypt after massive protests. A study by DeRomana’s group showed that about 1,100 American college students studied in 2012 in Egypt, down about 40 percent from the year before. Some students stayed away from what seemed like an unstable place, and some schools ended programs, Witherell said. Besides UC, other schools that suspended their fall 2013 programs include Georgetown University and Michigan State.
College Football Live makes 1st trip to SEC Media Days, kicks off football season CW Staff College Football Live has landed in Hoover, Ala. The ESPN networks’ preview of the 2013-14 college football season will kick off with coverage of SEC Media Days from the Wynfrey Hotel July 16-18, as the College Football Live set will be in the hotel for the first time. The 30-minute show will air daily at 2 p.m. CT; on Tuesday and Wednesday the show will air on ESPN, but on Thursday, the final day of the event, it will be televised on ESPNU. College Football Live host Joe Tessitore and ESPNU host Dari Nowkhah will lead
discussions from the ESPN set, along with familiar analysts like David Pollack, Andre Ware, Tom Luginbill, Brock Huard and Matt Stinchcomb. Joe Schad, Brett McMurphy and Cara Capuano will handle additional reporting. Newly acquired SEC network analyst and ESPN audio host Paul Finebaum will conduct live reports at the event for the first time as a member of the ESPN family. Finebaum will get his first taste of working for ESPN after his rise to fame in the South for his sports radio show that has spanned over the last two decades. Additional content plans
consist of interviews with the 14 SEC head coaches and numerous players from the DirecTV bus, live look-ins from SportsCenter and daily comprehensive specials on
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By Karly Weigel Contributing Writer An exhibit showcasing photographs taken during former Gov. George Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door recently reopened as part of The University of Alabama’s “Through The Doors” series. The yearlong series commemorates the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of the University in June 1963. Originally located in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections
Library during February 2007, the exhibit is now on the second floor of Gorgas Library in the Pearce Foyer. Students, faculty and community members can enjoy the exhibit until August 2. The images highlight the world’s press coverage of “Segregation’s Last Stand” at the University. The exhibit is a collection of photographs of 32 international newsmen. In total, 324 newsmen were present, including 201 newsmen from out of state. The photographs of the report-
ers and media representatives were taken by Camille Elebash, a Tuscaloosa native. She published the photographs in Graphic, a Tuscaloosa weekly newspaper owned by her and her husband. Mary Bess Paluzzi, associate dean for special collections of University of Alabama Libraries, said the overall impression reporters were left with after visiting the University was positive. “The press corps would leave Alabama with a positive
impression of the University administration and student body. June 11, 1963, was a well planned event for the press corps,” Paluzzi said. Aside from various photographs of the 32 photographers, a copy of the newspaper from Graphic is on display. Inside the article, UA President Frank A. Rose offers his appreciation for the peaceful conduct students and staff demonstrated June 11, 1963. The photographs show CW | Austin Bigoney people sharing single cups of As part of “Through The Doors,” an exhibit will display photos of the water on the hot day. worldwide coverage of the University’s desegregation until Aug. 2.
FIRE asks for UA to review, alter policies
Genocide Awareness Project was to create and foster a campus dialogue about abortion. So we welcome counter-protesters and people with differing opinions to come and talk to us about abortion.” Bonilla said FIRE would first like to see the University admit its grounds use policy was improperly applied. FIRE and AASRJ also requested the University change its grounds use policy so incidents like the one in April do not occur again. Bonilla and Johnson both said there was certain instances where preclearance would be justified, such as when large displays, security or other logistical concerns would need to be taken into account. Chretien said she felt Bama Students for Life were subjected to an unnecessary degree of scrutiny when applying for their grounds use permit. “It seemed silly to me that we needed to jump through all of these hoops just for a simple protest,” Chretien said. “I think that AASRJ president Samaria Johnson said it well when she said that the grounds use policy doesn’t necessarily allow for organic protest to happen very well.”
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University to do so,” Bonilla said. Cathy Andreen, director of the Office of Media Relations, said the grounds use policy is intended to deal with the growing demand for the use of space on campus. Samaria Johnson, president of AASRJ, said student organizations need to be able to respond to events like GAP without having to go through a permit process in advance. “If something like the GAP happens, there shouldn’t be a reason why students and student organizations can’t respond without a permit,” Johnson said. Claire Chretien, president of Bama Students for Life, said the organization intended to create dialogue with other students through the displays and was not upset when counterprotesters began handing out fliers. “Bama Students for Life always welcomes a dialogue about abortion,” Chretien said. “The reason that we hosted
Johnson said AASRJ would like to see several changes to the grounds use policy, including eliminating the waiting period if no conflicts exist, posting permit applications and approvals to an accessible public notice board, establishing what types of events need a permit, and eliminating the permit requirement for protests that are in response to alreadyexisting events. While she did not specifically mention AASRJ or the event, Andreen did state the University regularly reviews the grounds use policy. Although the University’s response has been limited, Bonilla said FIRE will not let the matter be overlooked. “We certainly won’t just go away once the press around this dies down,” Bonilla said. Johnson said AASRJ will consider filing a lawsuit against the University if their concerns are not addressed in the near future. “My officers and members discussed taking the case to the ACLU, which we will if the University administration doesn’t respond before some time in mid-September,” Johnson said. While FIRE itself does not
litigate against universities, it has assisted individuals and organizations with similar suits in the past. “I think The University of Alabama should be well aware that FIRE has helped coordinate a number of challenges to university policies on free speech grounds, and we have an overwhelmingly successful track record,” Bonilla said. Bonilla also said FIRE is not taking a particular stand on the abortion debate, but that it seeks to defend the free speech rights of all students, faculty and organizations on campuses around the country. Both groups involved with the April protests said they can put their differences aside to defend the First Amendment rights of all students at the University. “It’s less about the Alabama Alliance and more about how student organizations are treated on campus and how students are allowed to express themselves,” Johnson said. Even the president of Bama Students for Life supports the opposing groups’ attempts to have the policy changed. “We stand by the AASRJ, and we’re glad FIRE is standing up for students free speech rights,” Chretien said.
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Parking permit revenue should be used effectively By Mackenzie Brown Online Editor The University once again raised the cost of parking permits on campus. This shouldn’t be news to many students who have already bought their permit for the 2013-14 school year, but most of us already knew the price would increase. Just as tuition increases annually, so do parking permits. I bought a commuter pass Tuesday and paid $245 for it. For on-campus residents, the cost is $300. I fluctuate on my position on parking. My first thought is obvious: Permits are too expensive. The Crimson White reported in January that parking services grossed roughly $7 million annually, with $5 million from permit sales alone. That’s a lot of money, but the department is selfsufficient, paying for all responsibilities, including road maintenance. In addition, the department is responsible for building parking lots and decks. That includes the new 750-space
parking deck under construction next to Riverside. They work hard to provide students with adequate parking by using the means provided to them to generate revenue. At the same time, why are they self-sufficient? Why don’t they get money from the state or the University? Tuition just increased again this year, but transportation services will not see any of this money? Why not? If they were budgeted some of this money, then maybe I wouldn’t have to pay so much for a permit – a permit, I might add, that drastically surpasses the $60 price tag of the parking permit my brother purchased at Auburn University. But transportation services shouldn’t be let off the hook because they have to pay their own way. If we as students are paying such a significant amount of money, I want to know that they are using it properly. I want to know that they aren’t wasting it. For instance, is a 2013 Ford F-150 crew cab with a long bed really necessary for ticket issuers? Why wouldn’t a 2005 F-150 work? Why do
you need a truck for one person? Why don’t you drive a Prius? Or a golf cart? A golf cart would work just fine for someone whose job is to drive around and make frequent stops to issue a ticket. Maybe they wouldn’t have to issue as many tickets if it didn’t cost them a fortune to keep fuel in that truck. Also, if you haven’t noticed, the department has been working to repaint what appears to be every single line on campus. I am constantly seeing roads or sections of parking lots closed off so the University’s little paint cart can repaint a slightly off-white line to be a shiny, bright white. I know it’s a small detail compared to the other millions invested within the department, but is it necessary? Every dollar counts, and I would imagine more than a few dollars are going toward this project. Having complained about the department like every student on campus, I feel that it is also important to consider how lucky we are. Auburn’s cheap parking permits come at a cost.
During his freshman year, my brother’s car was parked roughly one mile from his dorm. During football weekends, he had to move his car even farther away or else it would be towed. My car was parked across the street my freshman year. Plus, our university allowed me to have a car my freshman year. That’s more than many can say. Chris D’Esposito, the assistant director of transportation services, tells The Crimson White on a regular basis that parking is adequate for the number of students on campus. I believe him because I’ve checked. He does say, however, that parking might not be where we want it to be, but there is parking on campus. We give the University a lot of money. That’s obvious, but it’s not going to change. As long as I’m a student at this university, I’m going to have to pay whatever they want me to pay. I just want to know that it is being used effectively. Mackenzie Brown is the Online Editor of The Crimson White.
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Dear Dwight Howard: cut theatrics, just play ball By Amber Patterson Staff Columnist The NBA has a new player that everyone loves to hate. He has single-handedly gotten rid of two coaches and sparked numerous fights with one of the top athletes in the game. This 6-foot-11-inch player has been a one-man wrecking ball ever since he reluctantly put on a purple and gold jersey. I am pretty sure by now we all know to whom I am referring : Dwight Howard. NBA free agency has begun, and Howard has been the main focus. He announced recently that he would land in Houston. Prior to that, though, he had the sports world captured by his blatant disregard for the path of destruction that he left in his wake to the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. Howard was a contributing factor to one of the Lakers’ worst seasons in a long time.
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He never could get on board with the coaching style, even though it has been speculated he had a hand in getting the original coach for the season, Mike Brown ,terminated. The franchise seemingly bent over backwards to make him happy. What Howard gave them in exchange: constant complaints about injuries and low numbers in rebounding (which is supposed to be his strong point). Also, he never fully meshed with the Lakers’ golden boy, Kobe Bryant. The two stars have
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had public fights through the media, and it has been made clear that they truly do not favor one another. After all of this, Howard has turned the beginning of the free agency period into a lottery. He isn’t the first to do this of course; Lebron James captivated the nation with “The Decision” before going to the Miami Heat and winning two championships. The difference between the two is that James was a proven leader; he carried the Cleveland Cavaliers on his back to the playoffs. Howard is just a proven problem player who cannot share the spotlight. This is shown in his choice to land in Houston, which houses a team that has not seen the playoffs since 2008. He could have easily went to Dallas and continued to build on an already solid team, but instead, he decided to go somewhere where he could easily become the franchise
player. By doing this, it shows Howard did not belong on the Lakers in the first place, with an already established star. The Dwight Howard free agency “Sweepstakes,” as it has been named, sheds light on the business behind the sport. Like in all business, it comes down to the bottom line: profit. Howard is a great player and has the potential to make good amount of money for himself and a team, but is he worth the hassle in the long run? From a public relations standpoint Howard’s antics are overshadowing his natural ability as a good player. Now that he has finally landed somewhere, it would be in his best interest to make this work by cutting out the complaining and the temper tantrums and just playing the game. Being the player everyone loves to hate gets old real fast. Amber Patterson is a junior majoring in public relations.
I’m writing in response to “Sexual justice a civil rights issue, regardless of politics, gender, sexual orientation,” by Joey Gamble. Mr. Gamble expressed his opposition to a Texas bill that would ban abortion after a developing human fetus has reached 20 weeks gestation. At 20 weeks old, pain receptors are present throughout an unborn child’s entire body. The fact that unborn children can feel excruciating pain as they are dismembered during late-term abortions was the basis for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that Congress recently passed. Fetal pain is not the only issue that the Texas bill addresses. The push to regulate abortion facilities is a direct reaction to the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, whose squalid “clinic” conditions went unnoticed by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health for 17 years – the testimony of two Delaware Planned Parenthood nurses who blew the whistle on their employer for performing “meat-market style, assembly-line abortions” and the deaths of Tonya Reaves and Jennifer Morbelli, the latter of whom was 33 weeks pregnant when an elective late-term abortion killed her and her daughter. Mr. Gamble wrote, “SB5 also places a heavy burden on abortion providers to be licensed as ‘ambulatory surgery centers,’ a designation afforded to health care facilities that provide only out-patient surgical procedures such as colonoscopies and knee replacements.” It’s worth noting that abortions performed later in pregnancy are surgical. Medication abortions – “the abortion pill” – are typically only administered to mothers who are nine weeks pregnant or less. Classifying abortion facilities as ambulatory surgical centers means that they must have wider hallways so that gurneys can be wheeled down them in the event that a botched abortion and means a woman needs to be taken to the hospital immediately. Wider hallways and doors through which a gurney could be pushed certainly would’ve helped Birmingham abortion facility New Woman All Women Jan. 21, 2012, when it sent three abortion patients to the hospital. One of these patients had to be handlifted down stairs into a trash-filled alley. The Alabama Department of Public Health subsequently issued a 76-page deficiency report about the abortion business. The widespread abuses of the abortion industry show that Gosnell is not alone. The abortion lobby and its allies like Mr. Gamble have no interest in laws holding abortion facilities to necessary medical standards, even though such standards would provide greater protection for women undergoing abortions. Supporting “women’s health” is not synonymous with actively fighting laws that would’ve
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stopped Gosnell. Such laws would stop abortionists like Douglas Karpen of Texas, whose employees just came forward contending that Karpen regularly commits infanticide by twisting off the heads of babies born alive following failed abortions. Th e m a j o r i ty of Americans oppose lateterm abortion. In January, Gallup found that 80 percent of Americans think that third-trimester abortions should be illegal and 64 percent think that secondtrimester abortions should be illegal. America’s abortion laws are some of the loosest in the world, along with North Korea, China and Canada. Even liberal European countries restrict abortion after 12 weeks. Mr. Gamble wrote that the writers of SB5 “view pregnant women – regardless of the way in which they were impregnated – not as human beings with all the civil rights associated with that status, but as mere shells carrying a human being inside them.” Women’s rights are important; of course women are more than “mere shells.” However, we can’t forget the human rights of the unborn children – or fetuses, if you prefer that term, which is Latin for “little one” or “offspring” – who are temporarily housed in their mothers’ wombs for nine months. The most astounding part of Mr. Gamble’s piece was his assertion, “If you are not actively fighting for sexual justice in this country, then you are complicit in the systematic attempt to declare an entire group of human beings as less than human.” Mr. Gamble, if you’re not actively fighting for justice for all people – including unborn children – then you are complicit in the systematic attempt to declare an entire group of human beings less than human. Since you oppose protecting babies five months from conception, at what point should we grant them human rights? At nine months? The day before birth? Right after birth, as if eight inches down the birth canal magically transforms a “clump of cells” into a human being worthy of rights? It’s highly insulting to encourage women to deny the biological realities of motherhood or tell us that we have a right to murder our children in the name of “civil rights.” Mr. Gamble’s claim that “sexual justice is at the very core of who we are as a nation” is ludicrous. Every human being’s right to life is at the very core of who we are as a nation.
Claire Chretien is the President of Bama Students for Life.
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City sponsors housing task force to evaluate student developments By Andy McWhorter Staff Reporter With enrollment growing every year at The University of Alabama, so too does the student housing market. Alongside new business developments in the downtown and McFarland Boulevard areas, new student housing developments have cropped up across town. In response to the growth in these new housing developments, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox issued an executive order to form a student housing task force. “The recent boom of new student housing developments has produced a great deal of questions and concerns from all corners of our community,” Maddox said in a press release accompanying the executive order. “It’s critical the city receive and review comprehensive data and input from experts to examine it thoroughly.” Deidre Stalnaker, communications director for the city of Tuscaloosa, said city officials are concerned that the growth in housing developments will be unsustainable in the future. While student enrollment at The University of Alabama has grown in recent years, city officials worry that enrollment might dip in the future. “We just want to make sure that we can sustain those developments,” Stalnaker said. “There’s sort of a roller coaster, usually, with universities and enrollment, sort of these peaks and valleys. Right now, we’re at a peak. It could keep going. But at some point, it’s going to level off, and it could even dip.” Julie Elmore, assistant director of off-campus and greek housing at The University of Alabama’s division of housing and residential communities, said the task force could
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While a new city task force will primarily be looking at the growth in new developments, some students are concerned that existing student housing is not given the attention it deserves, resulting in overlooked issues such as black mold, pictured above in Point-oView Apartments on Jack Warner Parkway. address the concern that housing developments are being permitted without regard to the current and future housing supply in Tuscaloosa. “I think the perception some people may have is that Tuscaloosa is building more and more student housing without considering the current supply and properties that have not broken ground yet,” Elmore said. What the city wants to avoid, said Stalnaker, is having too many vacant buildings around Tuscaloosa’s neighborhoods. “The risk is that the market becomes oversaturated with student housing, and when there’s not people there who
can rent it, it becomes a vacant building, which is not good for the person running it. It’s not good for the neighborhood,” Stalnaker said. Elmore said she does not know what the future holds for the enrollment numbers for The University of Alabama, Stillman College or Shelton State. While the task force will primarily be looking at the growth in new developments, some students are concerned that existing student housing complexes are not being given the attention they deserve. Brian Collin, a Ph.D. candidate in educational psychology at the University, said he has found black mold
in his home at Point-o-View Apartments on Jack Warner Parkway. “It’s disgusting,” Collin said. “I found mold pretty much everywhere. All around the kitchen, on the walls, on the window sill. Pretty much everywhere.” Collin, who is allergic to mold, said he and other tenants have experienced poor health because of the conditions at his apartment building. “I’ve been sick in the past year more often than I had been in my entire life,” Collin said. “Pretty much everyone in this unit has been getting sick.” Collin said Point-o-View’s the management, which is owned by Pritchett-Moore Rentals, has refused to address his concerns. “[The landlord] basically told me he wasn’t going to clean the place up,” Collin said. “I was pretty upset about it.” A representative of PritchettMoore Rentals declined to comment on Collin’s case. While the details of the task force’s membership and schedule have not been finalized, the mayor requested in his executive order that their findings be presented to him no later than Nov. 5. “No timeline really has been established for that,” Stalnaker said. “I know the mayor is asking for the findings and recommendations to be presented on Nov. 5, so they’ll just have to work back from that.” Stalnaker said the task force’s findings will not have a direct policy impact, but will primarily be used to inform decisions by the mayor and city council on housing developments in the future. “This is just to serve as a research project that [city council] can use when deciding on these proposed developments,” Stalnaker said.
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The UA system is planning to move from its existing headquarters on Queen City Avenue (above) to its new home at the corner of 5th Avenue and University Boulevard by next spring.
UA system to move to new home near DCH By Christopher Kowalski Contributing Writer Construction recently began on a building on the eastern side of The University of Alabama campus and will provide a new home to the various offices of The University of Alabama System and the UA Board of Trustees. The new building, part of a project started in 2011, is situated a short distance from Druid City Hospital and the University Rec Center at the intersection of University Boulevard and 5th Avenue and will be called Sidney McDonald Hall when completed. McDonald, a businessman from Arab, Ala., attended the University and graduated from the College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1961. He went on to preside over a long-distance telephone carrier and served as president of the UA Board of Trustees during the 1990s. A donation of $3.5 million from McDonald to the University helped finance the $13.2 million project, currently under construction by J.T. Harrison Construction
Company Inc. of Tuscaloosa. While reluctant at first to accept the naming of the building after himself, McDonald agreed at the urging of family and friends. The new building will consolidate the various offices of the chancellor and Board of Trustees from scattered buildings across campus and place them into one single building. “We haven’t had a new building in 40-plus years. This current building was built before there was even a chancellor,” Kellee Reinhart, Vice Chancellor for System Relations, said. The project, Reinhart said, was brought about by the need to have a more efficient office to oversee the growth of schools within the UA system. “It’s going to help the growth of our students,” Reinhart said. “This will enable us to all be together under one roof, and it will enhance collaboration and efficiency for not just us, but all three of the campuses.” The UA system expects to have the building completely finished by next spring with staff members moved in soon after.
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Bid Day numbers have increased each year setting national records and drawing large crowds to sorority row.
As rush numbers grow, parking not a problem Sorority recruitment numbers continue to climb at University
UA says parking will not be an issue during 2013 recruitment
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As the new school year approaches, sororities at The University of Alabama are gearing up for new member selection during the fall rush week. Kat Gillan, director of greek affairs at the University, said a total of 2,100 students are expected to participate in fall recruitment, and while UA rush week may appear to be a tradition set in stone, it actually varies in procedure among different greek systems. “While rush, recruitment and membership intake all refer to the process by which IFC fraternities, Panhellenic sororities, as well as NPHC and the UGC multi-cultural greek organizations take new members, the processes look and feel different,” Gillan said. The number of registered participants in recruitment has steadily increased in the past 10 years, with the exception of 2009 when numbers did not increase. Last year, the number of girls participating in rush week was around 2,000, and this year the count is expected to be even higher. “Recruitment, which begins on Aug. 9 with Convocation and
ends on Aug. 17 with Bid Day, is a nine-day process that allows prospective members the opportunity to meet women in the UA Panhellenic community,” Gillan said. “The prospective members visit their homes, hear about their philanthropic endeavors, as well as learn what being a member of sorority means to them.” During the selection process, each organization has a set of criteria that they look for when choosing a new member. “All sororities have a set of values that are cornerstones of their organizations,” Gillan said. Gillan said sororities at other schools are also governed by the National Panhellenic Conference, which dictates rush procedure. She said the NPC sets forth guidelines about the structure of recruitment, when potential members can be recruited, when membership bids can be offered, the number of new members a sorority can offer bids to during each recruitment period and chapter size. At Auburn University, recruitment begins Aug. 12 for 17 sororities, and Jill Moore, director of greek life at Auburn, said more than 1,000 rush
FAST FACTS • Convocation: Aug. 9 • Bid Day: Aug. 17 • Total number expected: More than 2,000
participants are expected in 2013. “We typically have 1,100 to 1,200 women participate in recruitment each year,” she said. “We anticipate having about that many this year as well.” Like the main UA sorority system, Auburn’s is also governed by the same national organization, said Moore, but the similarities between the two rival universities are apparent. “The Panhellenics at both schools are subject to the regulations of the National PanHellenic [Council],” she said. “So recruitment on both campuses have many similarities with one another as well as other schools that have early fall formal recruitment. The timing and numbers might differ, but the process is outlined by NPC.”
Although the number of participants in sorority recruitment will be at an all-time high, University of Alabama administrators are not concerned about parking problems when the more than 2,000 girls descend on the University’s campus. Kat Gillan, director of greek affairs at the University, said cooperation between the sororities and the administration allows all involved in recruitment relatively stress-free parking during rush week. “The Alabama Panhellenic Association has a wonderful working relationship with parking and transportation services,” Gillan said. “We work together year round to try and alleviate any parking issues that arise during the recruitment process. There are designated parking areas for advisors, chapter members and residents.” Ronnie Robertson, UA director of traffic services, confirmed parking during rush week would not be an issue for participants who have acquired their appropriate parking passes. “Sorority recruitment will start before classes begin, which will allow for more useable parking
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Sorority members and potential new members line sorority row awaiting their next event. spaces in that area,” Robertson said. “In the past, the University has been able to accommodate the vehicles associated with this event, and we anticipate we will be able to do so again this year. Students with parking permits are allowed to park in their zone, which includes the Barnwell and Tutwiler parking lots.” Robertson said the heaviest traffic will occur at the end of rush week, when more students have begun to arrive on campus. As more students begin to move into their dorms and apartments, parking availability will most likely be affected. “Traffic is usually heavy the last day,” Robertson said.
“Students should walk or take the Crimson Ride and not try to drive in the sorority area. No parking will be allowed on Magnolia Drive during Recruitment Week. Colonial Drive will be closed starting at noon on Friday, Aug. 16, and remain closed Saturday, Aug. 17, until recruitment is finished.” Robertson also said all greek and non-greek students would have substantial parking during rush week in Barnwell and Tutwiler for students zoned for those areas. Students who have commuter permits and visitors can park in the West Commuter parking lots off Campus Drive during recruitment week.
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Parking permits increase in price relative to classification
By Ryan Phillips Contributing Writer In the wake of news that The University of Alabama will be raising its tuition for the upcoming school year, last week the University announced the price of parking permits would also be raised for all parking locations. Ronnie Robertson, UA director of traffic services, said the price increase will be relative to the classification of the permit. There will be a $10 increase for perimeter permits, while commuter, residential and faculty/ staff permits will increase by $20 and reserve permits will increase by $30. Robertson also said the price increase would be instituted in order to fund UA Parking Services, a branch of the University that is forced to fund itself through the money generated from the sale of parking permits. “Parking Services is an auxiliary service, which basically means that we do not receive any state funding,” Robertson said. “All the revenue we receive is funneled back into the University to pay for parking deck debt, parking deck maintenance, road debt service, construction, replacement and repair, parking lot construction, replacement and repair, signs
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Carl Pinkert, Auburn vice president for research, chosen to take on same title at Alabama, replaces Joe Benson as of November By Mark Hammontree News Editor
universities before arriving at Auburn. He has authored or coThe University of Alabama authored more than 135 pubannounced Carl A. Pinkert lished articles and received will replace Joe Benson as the Doerenkamp-Zbinden vice president for research Prize in Animal Research effective Nov. 1. in 1997. Pinkert is currently the Pinkert attended Colorado vice president for research State University for his bachat Auburn University, elor’s degree and received where he was originally his doctorate from the hired as an associate dean University, of Georgia. for research and graduBenson, who is currentate studies for Auburn’s ly serving as the interim College of Veterinary provost for the University, Medicine. Pinkert worked plans to step down in and taught at multiple November in order to pursue
research projects. Benson became the vice president for research in 2007 and has since seen the increase of submitted research proposals from 519 in 2007 to 792 in 2012. The amount of funds received in grants and contract awards has also risen by close to $20 million under Benson. In an email to students and faculty, UA President Judy Bonner expressed her pleasure at Pinkert’s acceptance of the position and also expressed her gratitude for Benson’s work.
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for campus, buses for transit, equipment, road/parking stripping and salaries for Parking Services staff.” Parking on campus has become an issue at many universities around the country, and in several instances, administrations have been accused of over-selling parking permits; however, Robertson said it is often a misinterpretation of permit numbers that there are too many parking passes in circulation for not enough spaces. “Since students attend classes at different times each day, parking lot capacities vary during the day,” Robertson said. “As a result, we use demand management tools when calculating permit sales for particular parking lots. We attempt to maximize the lot use, which allows as many customers as possible to park close to their building choice.” Robertson said the growing student body would not present an unmanageable problem for UA Parking Services. “We expect the number to be similar to this year’s number,” Robertson said. “In February, we had 23,169 active permits for students, faculty and staff on campus.” Despite Robertson’s assurances, students around campus are concerned over the increased price of parking passes after
increases were announced on the price of tuition as well. David Perry, a senior majoring in political science and history, said the constant remodeling was most likely behind students being saddled with more costs. “I’m not happy about it, just because the price of everything seems to always go up,” Perry said. “Every year there is a new addition to everything, and I am always hearing about new building projects and wondering where the money is coming from.” Perry said while he is not as financially stressed as other students, he still has to cover some expenses and increased prices around campus present problems to students on a budget. Along with parking permits, Perry pointed to other ways that the University has raised prices that leave students with empty pockets. “I think it is all kind of relative to the same thing. If they raise the price of one thing, they are going to raise another,” Perry said. “If the University raises football ticket prices, then they raise parking and then they raise tuition. Books are also a racket, because they sell them to you for $100 a pop, then buy them back for $10 – its all about getting money; at the end of the day, that’s it.”
Brewbaker to act as interim dean of UA School of Law, will replace Randall By Mark Hammontree News Editor William Brewbaker began his duties as acting interim dean of The University of Alabama School of Law July 1. Brewbaker will act as dean until a search committee has found a permanent candidate to replace Kenneth Randall, who was the dean of the School of Law for 20 years. Randall reportedly stepped down from the position in order to pursue work in the private sector. Brewbaker has been a member of the UA School of Law faculty since 1993. After graduating from Vanderbilt University with his bachelor’s degree and earning his J.D. at the University of Virginia, Brewbaker practiced law in Birmingham for six years. He earned his LL.M from Duke University. In addition, James Leonard will serve as the interim vice dean of the UA School of Law.
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Alabama Blues Project offers kids music lessons By Megan Miller Staff Reporter
into being both an afterschool program and a weeklong summer camp, which will take place July 15-19. “Our mission is to promote Alabama blues heritage and preserve it,” said Cara Lynn Teague, the program director for Alabama Blues Project. “It started in one small room at the Boys and Girls Club, teaching guitar, drums, harmonica and singing, and now we have almost 60 kids
Local schools will be gettting a little blues added to their summer repetoire thanks to the Alabama Blues Project. Started in 1998, the program aims to pass on blues music and history to future generations. The Blues Project started as an afterschool program and has since transitioned
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“They write songs in addition to learning as much as they can on their own particular instrument,” Teague said. “It helps with selfesteem and team building.” Molly McQuitty, a senior majoring in public relations, is currently working as an intern at the Blues Project, and the Summer Blues Camp will be her first time working with the children. “I’m excited to see how it’s going to be with the children at camp,” McQuitty said. “I’ll help with information or theory. I’ll explain to the children what they’re doing, and the instructor will show them.” McQuitty said she was drawn to the internship because it combined her love of music and interest in
One of the most important factors in maintaining a healthy lifestyle is ensuring we are well rested enough to perform our daily demands. The necessary hours of sleep varies throughout life’s stages, with adults needing about eight hours of sleep per night, teenagers requiring about nine hours of sleep and infants, who are rapidly developing, needing about 16 hours of rest daily. However, many college students put sleep on the back burner in order to accomplish school work, jobs and social activities. But what they may not realize, is how much harm they are causing their bodies. Sleep is important for many
reasons, including keeping our memories sharp, strengthening our immune systems, preventing chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and combating depression. In addition to sleep deprivation, many adults suffer from other sleep disorders that interfere with adequate rest, like insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy and sleep walking. Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder and causes sufferers to lie awake at night for hours before falling into a restless night’s sleep. This disorder may be caused by a number of poor habits including drinking coffee and consuming caffeine-rich foods in the late afternoons and evenings, going
to sleep at different times each night, smoking or eating heavily before bed and sleeping with the lights or television on. Additionally, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and sleep walking are potentially dangerous sleep disorders. Sleep apnea sufferers experience multiple times during sleep in which they stop breathing. This disorder is commonly associated with men, overweight people, those over the age of 65 and children with enlarged tonsils. Narcoleptics experience extreme sleepiness during the day and may find it hard to get through the day without a nap, even if they’ve had enough sleep the night before. They also may experience dreaming
during naps, loss of muscle control triggered by intense emotion, hallucinations associated with falling asleep or waking up, and sleep paralysis. Narcoleptics most commonly experience uncontrollable episodes of sleep throughout the day that can interrupt the person’s daily routine tremendously. Whether you are experiencing symptoms of sleep deprivation or suffering from a sleep disorder, it’s clear that getting the right amount of rest is important, especially for college students. Many students do not realize the toll lack of sleep takes on our bodies. Little things like being frequently ill, dozing off during class or work, and mood swings can be influenced by lack of a good night’s sleep.
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Director and choreographer Stacy Allen said the play has something everyone can relate to such as love, growing up and just moving into adulthood. “I really wanted to bring a fresh perspective but yet keep it realist in terms of the environment that the playwright intended,� Allen said. “It deals with our obsession with celebrity, and in today’s age, we are completely obsessed with celebrity.� Other than just the cast, the production crew had a lot to bring to the show. Jerell Bowden, shop foreman, is in charge of building the sets and setting up as well as the lights and sounds of the overall production. Bowden has seen the play in its entirety and said “the cast is easily a 10.� “If you want to see an energetic show with lots of young talent, this is the one to see,� Bowden said.
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character Conrad Birdie. His name stems from country music star Conway Twitty. “Bye Bye Birdie� follows different people and shows how they are affected by Birdie being drafted, including his songwriter Albert Peterson. Peterson is stuck trying to gain fortune in order to marry his girlfriend Rosie and is convinced that getting Conrad to kiss a young fan on “The Ed Sullivan Show� before departing would do the trick. Even though the play was written in 1960, it has some modern themes that audience members of all ages can enjoy and relate to. With classic tunes such as “Put On A Happy Face� and “One Last Kiss,� the show is likely to get audiences singing along. Daniel Velasquez, a UA freshman majoring in musical theater who plays the lead role of Conrad Birdie, promised an energetic show. “It’s high energy. It’s hilarious and entertaining,� Velasquez said. “The music is classic. Most people will come into the show and be like, ‘Oh, that’s where this song is from.’�
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Local store torn down after 67 years FAST FACTS • Built: 1946 • Family-owned: 19461997 • Demolished: 2013
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The corner of 8th Avenue and Bryant Drive previously served as home to The Corner Store, a favorite stop for locals. The building was demolished this summer by the University for future campus construction.
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The store has been everything from a quick stop convenience store to lunch date favorite. For many alumni, the store held fond memories. By Allie Ellsworth and Becky Robinson CW Staff University of Alabama students and Tuscaloosa residents have said goodbye to 67 years of history housed on the corners of Bryant Drive and 8th Avenue, known appropriately as The Corner Store. Built in 1946, The Corner Store was a place for students to
go for snacks, shopping or to hang out, and it is the latest in the University’s series of demolitions. Virginia Underwood, daughter of original owner John Puryear, said she has fond memories of working and visiting the store during her time as an undergraduate at the University. “The Corner [Store] was a small store that evolved over
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the years,” Underwood said. “We would be whatever the students needed us to be. I remember when we started carrying Zippo lighters and pipes. It doesn’t seem like a big deal now, but it was back then.” Eventually, Underwood said the store also started selling beer because of student demand. “Whatever students needed or wanted, that is what we put on our want list,” Underwood said. “Students came to the Corner to buy books and hang out. We had the soda fountain and later we added small booths and a jukebox. Students could come and get lunch or meet their dates. A lot of people met the person they married there. They would come back on a gameday and visit and tell us all about how they met, and what this place meant to them. There are lots of memories tied to the Corner.” Cathy Andreen, director of the Office of Media Relations, said the University acquired The Corner Store in 2007. “The building located at 801 Bryant Drive was
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In the early 1980s, Underwood and her husband, Hugh, bought the Corner from her parents and ran it 24/7 until 1997, when it was sold outside of the family. “It was very difficult to sell it outside the family,” Virginia Underwood said. “It was very personal. It was a neighborhood store and it had been in all of our lives for so long. I did shed a tear. A lot of people worked there over the years.” In its 67 years, one of the many students The Corner Store served was 1956 graduate Leon Hamiter. “[The store] was a close place where we could get food and drinks without going way
away,” Hamiter said. “It was only two blocks from where I lived. So it was very convenient on the way to class.” Like many UA alumni, Hamiter said he is sad to see the building go. “I think it would have been appropriate to keep [the store] as a keepsake business for the area,” Hamiter said. “Of course they’ve taken over so many other properties in the area it might not be feasible.” The “they” Hamiter refers to is the University, which, since the beginning of 2013 ,has demolished a number of iconic sites including the former Office of Student Media next to Reese Phifer Hall and the historic Kilgore House. “It affects the history from the standpoint of people used it, enjoyed it, knew it,” Hamiter said. “It was sort of a landmark for the University.” Tom Land, an institutional records analyst with Hoole Special Collections, said he also remembers frequenting The Corner Store during his time as a UA student. “When I was in school, everybody would go down to the store and get something quick,” Land said. “The issue is that more stuff is being torn down that is a part of history.” Virginia Underwood said she was upset by the store being torn down but understood the University’s need for development. “It’s progress,” she said. “But I know there are a lot of people who are not real happy about it. … I feel like a part of me is really gone now.”
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Bars around town serve up drink specials weekly By Becky Robinson | Culture Editor If you’re looking for somewhere to enjoy a warm Southern night without breaking your wallet on drinks, then look no further. Many Tuscaloosa bars offer can’t-beat drink specials most nights of the week.
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Located next to the federal courthouse on University Boulevard, Innisfree has great drink specials Monday-Wednesday. On each of these days, Innisfree has $1 glasses of wine, $2 wells and $3 “Sabanades,” the bar’s original fruity, gameday cocktail with lime, grenadine, pineapple juice and gin. Patrons can also get $4 Bud Light or Miller Lite pitchers.
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Situated in the heart of Temerson Square, Rhythm & Brews has $1.50 domestics and $2 wells Monday-Saturday with $7.50 signature double shots. Additionally, on Thursday, kick back with the local bands and enjoy $1 Miller Lites.
Also in Temerson Square, Wilhagen’s gives bar goers specials on beer and fun. Monday, take half off a pool game, or join Wilhagen’s for poker night Tuesday at 7 p.m. Starting Wednesday at 7 p.m., get $2 pints, or go to trivia night on Thursday at 8 p.m. Friday is “new beer day,” while Saturday is the “manager’s special.” Wilhagen’s also offers a $5 High Gravity beer of the week for patrons to enjoy.
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1831 1831 offers numerous drink specials every day of the week. Sunday, kick back with $1 16-ounce Natty Lights, $1 wells, $2 Bud Lights or $3 Bud Light pitchers. Monday has $1 wells and $1 mondos, while Tuesday serves up $2 wells, $2 Bud Selects and $2 specialty shots. On Wednesday, go south of the border with $2 tequila shots, $2 Coronas or $3 margaritas. Thursdays, 1831 offers $2 32-ounce beers, and on Friday and Saturday, there are $3 pitchers and $2 16-ounce Natty Lights.
Gnemi’s Top Shelf Tavern Tucked on 23rd Street, Gnemi’s offers a different drink special every night. On Mondays there are $2 domestics and $3 Jagerbombs, while Tuesday serves up $2.50 well shots and $1 off imports. Wednesday there are $2 domestics and $3 wells and on Thursday, patrons can knock $1 off all draft pints. On Friday and Saturday, Gnemi’s offers $2 PBRs and $2 Rolling Rock tall boys.
Moe’s Original BBQ Down the block from Innisfree is a favorite local barbecue joint. In addition to drink specials MondayFriday, Moe’s also offers specials on its tasty food. On Monday, Moe’s has 25-cent wings and $6 pitchers starting after 9 p.m. Tuesday, bar goers can drink up $4 vodka doubles, $3 bushwakers and $1 kamikazes. On Wednesday, order 8 of Moe’s ribs and two tall boys for $10, with $6 pitchers starting after 9 p.m.
Vine offers video lovers new ways to create By Reggie Allen Contributing Writer Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets are being flooded with one of the newest forms of social sharing – six-second videos otherwise known as “Vines.” With everything from quirky parodies to personal updates, Vines have brought a new medium to social media apps. But Vine faces some competition. The application still lacks privacy settings, and Instagram just unveiled a new video-sharing app. Unlike Instagram, the video recording app does not have a way to for users to choose who can and cannot view their videos. Anyone on the app has access to any given individual’s content. Chandra Clark, a professor in The University of Alabama’s telecommunication and film
department, said nothing is private on the Internet regardless of privacy settings. After showing a class an FBI office in Birmingham, Ala., the FBI later assured her that anything put online is a security risk. Clark said the best way to ensure privacy does not become an issue is to double check with anyone who may be featured in your video, photo or update. “It’s hard for the laws to keep up with the growth of social media, but my suggestion is to always ask for permission or inform someone before you post on any form of social media if it is not something that only includes you,” Clark said. “The impact of an unwanted video of someone is pretty scary in today’s time.” Clark said Vine, as well any social media, addresses their forms of policy, but it is up to
the user to decide what they feel is appropriate enough to upload. Clark’s advice is to not limit who can see what you post, but what you post. Some students have taken notice and found ways to use the video sharing app in professional ways. Katie Howard, a junior majoring in public relations and French, started using Vine in April for more than recreational uses. She used the app to market events such as The Black Warrior Film Festival. Howard, who is also an intern with Creative Campus, said while this form or creative advertising is incredibly successful, the impact of using Vine to promote things will die out, just like chalking the campus. In addition, she said the app is more compatible than Facebook and Twitter.
“It’s one thing to post text, another to attach a picture and quite another to post a video – especially a Vine clip that is one six-second burst of energy,” Howard said. Aside from promoting oneself, Vine also provides a way for fans to connect with celebrities, brands and artists. Many celebrities who have used Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to communicate with their fan base have now adopted the Vine app. Howard said Vine allows celebrities to not only promote their brands, but also make a deeper connection with their fans. “People using social media outlets, such as Twitter and Facebook, want to connect with these celebrities on a deeper level – why else follow them in the first place?” Howard said. “When celebrities and brands create such things as Vines, they allow us these connections, even when they’re such small video segments. For example, if you follow Beyoncé on Twitter, you know you’ll get statuses of her tour dates and public appearances, but what you’re really wanting is behind the scenes pictures of her tour and a Vine of her practicing ‘Single Ladies’ in a bathroom mirror.”
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City Fest lot excavation tells story of Tuscaloosa’s past By Taiza Troutman Contributing Writer The City Fest lot, located on University Boulevard, continues to reveal its major significance in the background and history of the city of Tuscaloosa’s early development after recent discoveries of artifacts on the property. “We are able to examine artifacts that include bottles, ceramics, fauna remains, buttons, pocketknives, pipes and iron tools,” said Brandon Thompson, UA cultural resource specialist and project director for the site. “These cultural materials tell us how people were living, what they were eating and how they were interacting. We are also able to see difference and changes in architectural engineering in structural foundation remnants.” Matthew Gage, director of the University’s Office of Archaeological Research, further explained the importance of the site. “The Bank of the State site is significant based on a number of criteria
that have to do with both historical figures and the development of our city,” Gage said. Gage also said the team has found a number of artifacts including an “initial historic settlement above the shoals of the Black Warrior and remains of one of the first houses built in Tuscaloosa circa 1816.” It is unusual that a project of this magnitude is carried out, but because of federal requirements, the department was able to go ahead with its study. The work of the UA archaeology department on projects such as this is vital not only to preserving and exploring Tuscaloosa’s history, but Alabama’s history as well. “Excavations of this scale and within an urban setting are rare,” Thompson said. “Because of the federal requirements in place, the excavations at the Bank of the State site provided incredible insight into the rich history of Tuscaloosa. We are able to see the development and growth of the city from the early 19th century, through the Civil War [and] to the middle of the 20th century.”
The UA Archaeology Department had an important role in maintaining Tuscaloosa and Alabama’s cultural history as well. “Today, The University of Alabama’s Office of Archaeological Research assists the state in meeting its obligations under federal law by maintaining the State Archaeological Site File, providing curatorial facilities, maintaining the documents generated as part of National Historic Preservation Act projects, providing cultural resources research and services, and training the next generation of preservationists and archaeologists,” Gage said. This project will be the last one conducted at this particular site because the lot will be the future location of a hotel. Regardless of the project’s purpose, archeology remains an important field for some, especially in a city with as much historical significance as Tuscaloosa. “Archaeology is the only means we have to understand much of our history and prehistory,” Gage said. “Without
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The excavation site, nestled in the heart of downtown, is surrounded by development on all sides. Natives likely chose the location for its proximity to the river.
written records, we have no other way seeking to learn about our past, we of learning about prehistoric peoples come to understand and appreciate or historic sites. Archaeology and who we are and develop a strong sense preservation go hand-in-hand. By of community.”
Local tap room will offer specialty beers DRUID FROM PAGE 1 The bar used in the tap room was built by Dexateens member Elliot McPherson. A longtime friend of Hicks, McPherson agreed to build the bar when he was told Hicks would be opening a tap room. The tap room will consist of Druid City Brewing specialties, including Lamplighter India Pale Ale, Druid City Pale Ale and Druid City Wheat, which will sell for $5-6 each. Hicks said aside from having food, the grand opening will be just like another day at the tap room. “It’ll hopefully be just a day for people to come by and try a beer and learn where they can buy it,” he said. Hicks said they might hold a few tours of the brewery. Due to Druid City Brewing’s limited hours, tours of the brewery and tap room are completely impromptu, but Hicks said if there is someone available in the
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Druid City Brewing brews, packs, and serves locally bringing new flavor to Tuscaloosa. tap room, they would gladly offer a tour. Roberts said their ideal clientele are those who love beer, and he hopes they can provide that beer to their customers. “We opened the tap room to hopefully allow the folks of Tuscaloosa — and visitors to our fine city — to be able to get to come by and see the facility,” Roberts said. “And
hopefully have a chance to meet the brewers and hang out for a bit.” Druid City Brewing is located at 607 14th St in the Parkview Center next to Oz Music and Mr. Chen’s. The grand opening will be Thursday, and the tap room will normally be open Thursdays and Fridays from 4-8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 2-8 p.m.
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Local farmers bring taste of farm to town By Trey Richardson | Contributing Writer
A growing food trend, the Farm to Table movement, is taking hold on the Tuscaloosa community. Fortunately for Tuscaloosa residents, the area is rich with local food options, as farmers haul their harvest to local markets each and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The markets give “foodies” an opportunity to interact with the farmers who raised or grew their products while giving the local agricultural economy a boost.
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he Homegrown Alabama Market is run by University of Alabama students and meets at the Canterbury Chapel lawn on Hackberry Lane. Created in 2005, Homegrown Alabama strives to promote the buying of local goods. It partners with Bama Dining and the greek organizations to put fresh goods on the table for students, who can use Bama Cash to buy produce. It also holds workshops and seminars for prospective farmers as well as to inform the community of the benefits of buying local. The Homegrown Alabama market meets every Thursday from 3-6 p.m.
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he River Market opened in May 2012. Vendors set up ripe, red tomatoes and famous Chilton County peaches. Men sit propped up against the door, playing the banjo as you walk in, and fresh-squeezed lemonade is for sale to help battle the heat. Additionally, local bakers, artists and craftsmen gather here to sell their fresh-baked yeast rolls, homemade jams and jellies and hand-carved cutting boards. Popular summer foods include tomatoes, fresh shrimp and Chilton County peaches. The River Market is open every Tuesday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon.
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ot far outside the city of Tuscaloosa is the Northport Farmers Market, located one mile west of Kentuck Park. Featuring seasonal fruits and vegetables, it also offer grass-fed beef, whole hog sausage and cage-free eggs. The market is open every Tuesday and Saturday year-round from 6 a.m. to noon and Thursdays in the summer.
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Markets in Tuscaloosa and Northport, Ala., provide both students and locals the opportunity to buy locoally grown, seasonal fruits and vegetables as well as grass-fed beef and cage-free eggs.
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Alabama boasts 3 of Top 5 games of 2012; awaits fan vote for results By Charlie Potter | Sports Editor The team that finished atop the college football world last season was also a part of three of the most memorable games of the year. Three of The University of Alabama’s closest games have been selected as three of the five best games of the 2012-13 season, ESPN announced Monday. An ESPN statistics and information team, led by the University’s own Brad Edwards, ranked the Top 25 games of 2012 and will begin an 11-day marathon on ESPNU of the list of games. But fans will have the opportunity to select the order of the Top 5 through a SportsNation poll on ESPN.com. Alabama and LSU top the list, being mentioned three separate times. ESPNU will air the fans’ choices of No. 5 and 4 on Saturday, July 27, and No. 3-1 on Sunday, July 28. If the polls stay the same until that point, Alabama fans can sit back and enjoy an evening full of Crimson Tide football and the team’s path toward its 15th national championship – but the Texas A&M game might be a good time to take a nap or grab something to eat.
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The Crimson Tide’s thrilling come-from-behind victory over Georgia in the SEC Championship Game currently sits atop the poll. Alabama defeated the Bulldogs 32-28 Dec. 1 in the Georgia Dome, earning a trip to the BCS National Championship Game.
Alabama’s only loss of the year at the hands of Texas A&M is not far behind in second place. The Aggies upset the Crimson Tide 29-24 Nov. 10 in Tuscaloosa.
Alabama’s last-second win over LSU Nov. 3 ranks third in the poll. Alabama defeated LSU Tigers 21-17 in Baton Rouge.
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Crimson Tide, Manziel headline SEC Media Days By Charlie Potter Sports Editor
be asked about the status of their programs and how they plan on turning things around in 2013-14. Of all the new head coaches, Malzahn is the only one with any SEC experience under his belt. In 2006, Malzahn was the offensive coordinator at Arkansas, and from 2009-11 he held the same position at Auburn, helping the Tigers win the 2010 BCS National Championship. Now he returns to the plains to lead Auburn out of the abyss it found itself in last season.
SEC Media Days will be held July 16-18 in Hoover, Ala., at the Wynfrey Hotel. All 14 coaches in the Southeastern Conference, along with two players from each team, a change from last year’s alotted number of three players, will meet the media over the three-day span. This event marks the unofficial kickoff of the 2013 preseason for college football. But what are the biggest storylines around the league heading into SEC Media Days? Here, Alabama’s reign we look at the four biggest topics The Crimson Tide has won that will be undoubtedly run into three of the last four national the ground next week. championships, so it comes as no surprise that everyone wants to Four new head coaches talk to Saban and the players he’ll Arkansas’ Bret Bielema, bring with him from Tuscaloosa. Auburn’s Gus Malzahn, The four new head coaches Kentucky’s Mark Stoops and will have big crowds around Tennessee’s Butch Jones will be them wherever they go, but none bombarded by the press more of them will compare to the mob than any of the other 10 coaches of people that will flock to Saban – except Nick Saban. They will when he gets behind a micro-
What’s next for Johnny Manziel? He beat Alabama. He won the Heisman Trophy. He has done everything imaginable this offseason, but everyone wants more of Johnny Football. The big question for Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin and Manziel will be, “How do the Aggies duplicate the monster season it produced in 2012 in the team’s second year in the SEC?” Defenses have no doubt been tirelessly scheming how to slow down the Aggies’ high-octane offense in 2013, but Sumlin and company will keep their game CW | Austin Bigoney plan close to the vest. Manziel will have to work harder for his Former tight end Michael Williams signs autographs following interyards this season and keep his views last year. head up. Every team has circled phone; he is the rock star of SEC the bush of accomplishing their game against Texas A&M, a three-peat. Saban’s iconic and there’s a giant target painted Media Days. He will be asked about two process answer will suf- on Manziel’s chest. big matchups to begin the sea- fice, but everyone knows Can the lower-tier teams son in Virginia Tech and Texas if Alabama starts the seakeep it up? A&M and just about every son 2-0, it will again be the Vanderbilt finished the 2012 question that beats around favorite to win it all.
season with nine wins, finishing the season on a seven-game winning streak. Ole Miss shocked the world by pulling in a Top 5 recruiting class. But can these bottom-of-the-barrel teams continue the upward climb in 2013? Vanderbilt had one of its best seasons in the program’s history last year, but the Commodores lost their quarterback in Jordan Rodgers and 1,000-yard rusher Zac Stacy to the NFL Draft. Can head coach James Franklin continue to shock the SEC from Nashville, Tenn.? Ole Miss calls the toughest division in all of college football home, and the competition in the SEC West isn’t getting any easier with two new hungry head coaches. Can players like Robert Nkemdiche, Laremy Tunsil and Laquon Treadwell volt the Rebels past the elite teams in its conference? These questions and more will be asked at the Wynfrey Hotel next week.
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Alabama baseball players thrive in national summer leagues By CW Staff Fourteen players from the current Alabama baseball team continue to play in five different leagues across the United States this summer. Six players are playing in the prestigious Cape Cod League, four are in the Northwoods League, two are in the Texas Collegiate League, one is playing in the New England Collegiate League and one is in the Florida Collegiate League. The six players in the Cape Cod League are Ben Moore, Keaton Haack, Spencer Turnbull, Kyle Overstreet, Jon Keller and Justin Kamplain. Moore is hitting .254 with 1 home run and 11 RBIs in 18 games for the Harwich Mariners. Moore has been playing in right
field and had a breakout game July 3 – he went 4-for-4 with a home run, 3 RBIs and 2 runs scored against Brewster. Haack has made three appearances for the Mariners, all as a starter. He has a 0-2 record with a 4.26 ERA in 12.2 innings pitched, while striking out 8 and walking 10. Turnbull has made three appearances with two starts for the Wareham Gatemen, posting a 0-1 record with a 6.13 ERA. He has allowed 13 hits, walked 7 and struck out 2 batters in 7.1 innings. Gold Glove second baseman Overstreet is hitting .167, with 2 doubles, 2 RBIs and a run scored in 17 games for the Brewster Whitecaps. Kamplain is 1-1 in four appearances and three starts for
Brewster. Kamplain has 20 strikeouts in 21 innings pitched, while allowing three earned runs with a 1.28 ERA. On June 19, Kamplain and fellow UA teammate Jon Keller combined to shutout the Hyannis Harbor Hawks. Kamplain blanked the Harbor Hawks for the first six innings before Keller closed the door with three scoreless innings in relief. For the summer season, Keller has appeared in six games with two starts and has a 0-1 record with a 3.17 ERA. With a late arrival to the Cape, Mikey White of the Wareham Gatemen had a .250 batting average with 2 doubles and 3 RBIs in nine games, before returning to Tuscaloosa July 6. The four players in the Northwoods League are Georgie
Salem, Ryan Blanchard, Mathew Goodson and Daniel Cucjen. Of the four players competing in the Northwoods League, outfielders Georgie Salem and Ryan Blanchard continue to have a good summer season for the Alexandria Blue Anchors. Salem leads the team with a .384 batting average, with 2 home runs, 11 RBIs, 18 runs scored and 10 stolen bases; he owns the third best batting average in the Northwoods League. Blanchard is hitting .347 with 3 home runs and is fourth on the team with 17 RBIs. He also has 6 doubles, 14 runs and 6 stolen bases. After redshirting the 2013 season at Alabama, Mathew Goodson is hitting .229 with 3 home runs and 15 RBIs in 26 games for the Battle Creek
Bombers. Goodson also has six doubles and 11 runs scored. Daniel Cucjen is also a member of the Bombers and has a .188 average with 4 RBIs in 27 games. In the Texas Collegiate League, Chance Vincent continues to have a good summer for the Acadiana Cane Cutters. After posting 7 hits in 10 at-bats in two games against the Victoria Generals, Vincent is hitting .323 in 25 games this summer. He has a home run, 7 doubles, 14 RBIs and 16 runs scored, while striking out 12 times in 96 at-bats. Also in the Texas Collegiate League, UA redshirt Colton Freeman has been spending most of his playing time in the outfield for the Cane Cutters and is hitting .290 with 5 RBIs and 7
runs scored. Mike Oczypok has made two starts for the Winter Park Diamond Dawgs of the Florida Collegiate League, posting a 0-1 record with a 1.80 ERA in five innings. Mitch Greer threw a total of 14.1 innings, making five appearances and three starts for Winter Park. Greer had a 0-1 record with a 5.65 ERA, before leaving the team in early July with shoulder stiffness. Alabama lefty Taylor Guilbeau is also spending his summer in the Northeast, playing for the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate League. Guilbeau has three appearances and two starts, posting a 1-0 record with a 1.38 ERA in 13 innings.
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Releford participates in Young Brad Stevens possible perfect LeBron James’ skills clinic match for Boston Celtics’ new roster
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Releford consistently makes impact performances for the Tide, landing him an opportunity among the 20 best college players. By Nick Sellers Staff Reporter
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Currently, there are 12 players under contract on NBA rosters around the country who are older than the association’s newest head coach, Brad Stevens. However appropriate it may be that the league’s greenest coach is indeed coach of the shamrocked Boston Celtics, it is not the only thing that makes sense about the gutsy hire. General Manager Danny Ainge, a former Celtic, got the timing perfect with the pickup of Stevens. With the departure of Garnett and Paul Pierce, along with Ray Allen taking his talents to South Beach in 2012, the Celtics’ roster will shift its focus entirely to eightyear point guard Rajon Rondo. The relative influx of youth will be right up Stevens’ alley as the youngest coach in the NBA. One benefit Stevens has from being a raw coach with a young roster is that he can mold his tender stars into the players he wants them to be, which is essential if his system
is to succeed in the NBA. Stevens’ way of coaching basketball centers on halfcourt basketball, lateral ball movement and solid defense – textbook “team basketball�, if the notion still exists. He could not have implemented that coaching style with the Celtics’ previous rosters, championship roster though it was. Pierce, who had been with the franchise longer than Stevens had been in coaching, would not have cooperated. Though the Celtics’ personnel may have mellowed out as of late, Stevens still has to contend with authentic bad boy Rajon Rondo. In the weeks since former coach Doc Rivers left to tutor Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers, rumors have swirled that Rondo drove his former mentor out of town with an expletive fired at Doc in a team meeting. Other players intervened to keep the altercation from getting physical. Yes, Rondo has been notorious for his numerous suspensions and antics on the court. But many of those instances stemmed from Rondo’s idea that he had to fight almost
every time an opposing player fouled a teammate. That teammate was usually Garnett. Garnett is gone. If you’ve noticed a trend here, it’s that Garnett leaving helped pave the way for Stevens and his mild-mannered demeanor, which also may quell Rondo’s fiery personality. One factor that isn’t on Stevens’ side is history. Of the last 13 coaches hired directly from college to the NBA, only two achieved winning records with the team that hired them. Many lasted fewer than three seasons in the professional ranks before returning to college. Add on the fact that the average tenure of an NBA coach is 2.3 years, and it would suggest that Ainge won’t give Stevens much time to prove himself. These facts, coupled with his youth, put a pretty sizable chip on Stevens’ shoulder. That’s nothing new for Stevens, however. For the former Applebee’s server and pharmaceutical salesman, who later broke the college record for wins in his first three seasons, it might be just right.
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